Both agent-facing tools go away end to end, with no replacement. This is an intentional capability removal: agents can no longer enumerate their own subtree, and can no longer queue a meta-flake input bump. The system prompt and docs/tools/lifecycle.md land in this same commit on purpose. A tool named in the prompt but absent from the server makes agents confidently call something that doesn't exist, and the failure then surfaces far from its cause. Removed: - MCP registrations and bodies (hive-agent-mcp), plus the now-unused UpdateMetaInputsArgs. - Wire variants Request::ListDescendants, Request::RequestUpdateMetaInputs and Response::Containers, plus ContainerInfo, whose only consumer was that response. - hive-c0re's handle_list_descendants (its whole module) and handle_request_update_meta_inputs, the two dispatch arms, and the require_group(agent, "approvals", ...) gate on the meta-inputs verb. - The stream_enrich emoji entry and argument formatter. - docs/tools/lifecycle.md (both tools it documented are gone), its two referrers, the tool-group tables and the agent-hierarchy prose. Tool groups are kept, deliberately. ToolGroup::Lifecycle listed exactly one tool and now lists none — it is vestigial, but the variant stays so existing meta/capabilities.json grants still parse; retiring it is a separate decision. ToolGroup::Approvals also listed exactly one tool, but the group is NOT dead: check_can_cancel_approval still gates cancel_loose_end's approval-cancel arm on it server-side. ApprovalKind::UpdateMetaInputs stays too. Nothing in production code produces it any more, but pre-existing approval rows may still carry it, and the operator's own path to a meta update is unaffected — the dashboard's POST /api/meta-update inserts the meta_update job directly, bypassing approvals entirely. The two format_ack tests in hive-agent-mcp that named request_update_meta_inputs were only using it as a label string while exercising the generic OkWarn/Ok renderer, so they are retargeted to a surviving tool rather than deleted. Note hive-c0re's priv_client::list_containers is a different thing (the host-side privileged container listing behind hive-priv) and is untouched. Closes #4591
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# Tools
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`hivectl` is _your_ tool — the operator's own host CLI. Everything
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else here documents the tool surface your **agents** get inside their
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containers (the MCP tools an agent's own claude session can call).
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You never call these directly, but they're the reference for what an
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agent can actually do — useful when you're trying to understand or
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debug agent behavior.
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## For the operator
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- **[hivectl](hivectl.md)** — the curated guide: provisioning forge
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and matrix accounts, gateway htpasswd management, container
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lifecycle shortcuts, interactive agent shell access.
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- **[hivectl-cli](hivectl-cli.md)** — the exhaustive, autogenerated
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flag-by-flag reference, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI.
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## For the swarm operator
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- **[swarmctl-cli](swarmctl-cli.md)** — the exhaustive, autogenerated
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flag-by-flag reference for `swarmctl`, kept in lockstep with the
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binary by CI the same way `hivectl-cli.md` is. `swarmctl` itself
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runs as root on the swarm-controller host, not through `hivectl` —
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see `swarmctl/README.md` for why. Two verb families today: `user`
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(authelia's subject store, edited in place) and `agent create`
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(queues the swarm-controller's creation job graph). No curated guide
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yet; add one here if/when that grows.
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## What your agents can do
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- **[bash](bash.md)** — background shell execution (`mcp__bash__*`),
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available on every agent unconditionally.
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- **[subagent](subagent.md)** — spawn nested headless claude sessions
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(`mcp__subagent__{start,continue,status,interrupt}`), shipped
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default-on for every agent today alongside `bash` (expected to become a
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real opt-in capability later).
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- **[forge](forge.md)** — the `hive-forge` Forgejo CLI every agent has
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for issues, PRs, and comments. Not an MCP tool — a binary agents
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shell out to instead of ad-hoc curl.
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- **[forge-cli](forge-cli.md)** — the exhaustive, autogenerated
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flag-by-flag reference for `hive-forge`, kept in lockstep with the
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binary by CI the same way `hivectl-cli.md` is.
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- **[matrix](matrix.md)** — the matrix MCP tool surface
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(`mcp__matrix__*`) for agents with a matrix account, multiple
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accounts per agent, and declaring extra MCP servers generally.
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- **[scheduling](scheduling.md)** — scheduled prompts (operator
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approval required) and the `get_host_journal` diagnostics tool.
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