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atlas 4573865745 feat(#3255): register the swarm-wide forge hooks against the controller
The endpoint landed inert: nothing pointed at it, so the only way to see
it work was to mint an HMAC by hand. Register the two swarm-wide hooks
at startup so a real forge event produces a journal line.

Registered ALONGSIDE the per-hive hooks, not instead of them. Every hive
keeps receiving and acting on its own deliveries; the controller gets a
copy and logs it. Moving the registration is a later step and has to be:
fan-out swarm->hive does not exist yet, so a hook moved now would point
at a receiver that forwards nowhere, silently on both sides.

Deliberately no stale-hook deletion arm, unlike the two per-hive
registrars this otherwise mirrors: theirs delete hooks matching their own
path with a foreign base, and the hives' hooks are not stale.

The route prefix is what keeps this safe. Both hive-side registrars
delete any hook ending in /webhook/knowledge or /webhook/config-pr with a
different base, so a swarm hook under those paths would be deleted by
every hive on every boot. Serving them under /webhook/forge/ avoids it,
and a test pins it -- there is nothing else that can.

SWARM_CONTROLLER_PUBLIC_URL is set only where the swarm vhost is served,
because a hook whose target_url nothing answers is worse than no hook.
2026-08-18 12:28:09 +02:00
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src feat(#3255): register the swarm-wide forge hooks against the controller 2026-08-18 12:28:09 +02:00
Cargo.toml feat(#3255): receive swarm-wide forge webhooks in the controller 2026-08-18 12:28:09 +02:00
README.md docs(gateway): describe what is, not what changed 2026-08-11 18:09:51 +02:00

swarm-controller

The swarm-level daemon. Where hive-c0re owns the agents on one host, this owns what is true across hives — so a swarm runs one of them and most hives leave it off.

Opt-in per host via services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.enable, which is deliberately not derived from services.hyperhive.enable: turning it on is a statement about swarm topology, not about whether hyperhive is installed.

What it does today

Serves one /health endpoint and holds no state.

That is the whole intent of the first slice. The point is to make the unit real — service user, runtime and state directories, socket, nginx reachability — so the swarm-level surfaces that follow have somewhere to land. Inventing those surfaces before they are agreed would bake in a shape nobody chose. See #3066 and the hyperhive.swarm consolidation epic.

Why a unix socket, not a port

The hive-gateway's nginx is the only intended client and reaches the socket through a bind-mount. A listener that is never bound to an address cannot be reached from off-host by mistake.

The socket path is services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.socketPath, default /run/swarm-controller/controller.sock, exported to the process as SWARM_CONTROLLER_SOCKET.

⚠️ The socket's directory is its access control

The socket is 0666. It has to be: nginx runs as a different user and connect(2) needs write. This matches how hive-c0re publishes the per-agent sockets, and rests on the same argument — "the bind source dir is per-agent on host so blast radius is unchanged."

What keeps that safe is that the directory holds one socket. So:

Never point socketPath at a directory that carries anything else. /run/hyperhive above all — it holds host.sock, the host admin socket. Pointing nginx at that directory to reach this socket would put the admin socket within its reach too.

nginx is a host service, so nothing narrows what it can reach except the directory itself — that is the whole of the access control. A unit test pins the default path so a tidying edit fails instead of reviewing cleanly.

RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes and the daemon's stale-socket unlink on start are a pair: preserving the directory without the unlink means bind fails with EADDRINUSE after a restart.

Packaging

Built by the workspace derivation and extracted as its own package (nix build .#swarm-controller). Deliberately not in nix/packages' daemonBins — that list is the core stack and drives the bundle services.hyperhive.c0re.package points at, so folding this in would put a swarm-scoped service into every hive's closure.