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hyperhive/docs/swarm/claude-login.md
atlas d5de1e4943 swarm UI: log an agent into claude from its card; the credentials go to bao and the agent picks them up
A new swarm service, `swarm-claude-login`, in its own container on the host
that sets `deploy.claude-login.enable` (defaulted on by `allSwarmServices`
where the host has the minter's store leaf, like the review classifier).

- swarm-ui: an agent card showing "login needed" gets a "log in" button.
  Its dialog starts the login, shows the URL claude printed, and takes the
  pasted code.
- swarm-controller: `POST/DELETE /api/agents/{name}/claude-login` and
  `POST /api/agents/{name}/claude-login/code`, behind the swarm UI's
  authelia-gated `/api/`, relay the steps to the minter as requests on
  `$SWARM.claude-login.request`.
- swarm-claude-login: runs `claude auth login` over piped stdio with HOME
  and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in a per-login scratch dir, scrapes the first
  https URL, writes the code to stdin, and stores the `.credentials.json`
  at `swarm/agents/<agent>/claude-credentials` with a KV v2 write, a new
  version over any earlier one. The scratch dir goes on every exit path; a
  login waits 15 minutes for its code.
- hive-agent: while parked in `wait_for_login`, reads that leaf every 30 s
  under the agent's own cert and installs it only when its KV version is
  newer than the one recorded in `<harness>/claude-credentials-version`.
  An equal or older version is never put back, because claude rotates the
  refresh token and the stored copy is stale after the first refresh.
- swarm-secret-client: `claude_login` paths and `SecretStore::read_versioned`.
- Credentials: a `claude-login` store leaf minted by glue-bao-tls, a
  `swarm-claude-login` policy (create/update on
  `swarm/agents/+/claude-credentials`, read on its own queue client
  secret), an authelia machine client, and a `--claude-login-client`
  grant in the queue's auth-callout responder. The unit runs as a static
  system user.

The hive's own web-UI login is unchanged.

Refs #5268
2026-10-15 13:26:29 +02:00

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Claude login from the swarm UI

An operator logs an agent in to claude from the agent's card in the swarm UI. No hive is in the path: the login runs in the swarm's swarm-claude-login service, the credentials go to the agent's own leaf in the secret store, and the agent's harness installs them from there.

Where it runs and how it's enabled: services.md.

What happens on a login

  1. The agent publishes needs_login in its turn-state header, and its card shows login needed with a log in button.
  2. log in opens a dialog, which calls POST /api/agents/<agent>/claude-login. swarm-controller relays the start as a request on the queue subject $SWARM.claude-login.request.
  3. The minter runs claude auth login with HOME and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in a fresh scratch directory, over plain stdio pipes, and answers with the first https:// URL it prints. The dialog shows that URL.
  4. The operator opens the URL, signs in to the agent's own claude account, and pastes the code the page shows into the dialog, which posts it to POST /api/agents/<agent>/claude-login/code.
  5. The minter writes the code to claude's stdin and waits for it to exit. It stores the .credentials.json claude wrote at swarm/agents/<agent>/claude-credentials (field value), as a new version over any stored before, and removes the scratch directory.
  6. The agent's harness, while it waits for a login, reads that leaf every 30 seconds under the agent's own certificate. When the stored version is newer than the one it installed last, it writes the file to ~/.claude/.credentials.json, records the version, and resumes its turn loop as it does after a login from the agent's web UI.

A started login waits 15 minutes for its code, then the minter stops it. Starting another login for the same agent replaces the running one. Each step has a minute to finish; a refused code fails the login, and the dialog shows what claude printed.

Why the harness takes only a newer version

claude rotates the refresh token in .credentials.json as it uses the session, and the agent can't write the store. After the first refresh the stored copy is stale. A harness that installed it whenever the bytes differed would replace the agent's live session with a stale copy and log the agent out. The harness therefore compares the store's KV version with the last version it installed (claude-credentials-version under the harness dir):

  • it installs a newer version, that is, a new login;
  • it leaves an equal or older version alone, even when the agent needs a login again, so it never puts back a session that has gone bad;
  • it reads nothing while the agent has a session.

Credentials

Principal Grant
swarm-claude-login, in its container create, update on swarm/agents/+/claude-credentials; read on swarm/services/<minter client id>/oidc/client
the agent, under its own certificate read on its own swarm/agents/<agent>/*, which covers the leaf

The minter has no read on the leaf and nothing else under an agent. Every hive's policy reads swarm/agents/*, so every hive can read every agent's claude session, as it can read the GitHub token.

What stays

The agent's own web UI login (/login) still works, unchanged. It goes away once the operator has confirmed the swarm login works.