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atlas d547ae58e6 docs: describe the flat container list, not a dormant tree
mara's ruling on the review: documentation describes functionality as
is. The dashboard doc carried a "Topology tree" section marked dormant,
still spelling out the indent lanes, joints and continuation bars the
renderer paints — for a renderer that, with no parent field to walk,
puts every container at depth 0 and emits no prefix column at all. A
section labelled dormant is still a section describing a feature the
code does not have.

Each one now states what the page renders today: SW4RM's C0NTAINERS is
a flat alphabetical list, one row per container, no indent and no glyph;
the tree section says nothing nests and names the code that decides so;
the selection bar lists the bulk actions it has, without a note about
the M0V3 picker it doesn't (agent-hierarchy.md's removal table is where
that record belongs).

Two more the -U15 context sweep turned up outside that section, neither
naming a removed identifier so neither reachable by grep: approvals.md
told an agent to clone "the child's" config repo, and hivectl.md sold
`agent restart` as a way round "the agent hierarchy".
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agent-lifecycle docs: describe the flat container list, not a dormant tree 2026-09-21 22:56:56 +02:00
crates check-issue-refs: catch full forge issue URLs too, drop internal links from docs entirely 2026-09-09 21:15:28 +02:00
getting-started docs: retire the agent hierarchy from every page that described it 2026-09-21 22:08:47 +02:00
integrations matrix: one sender account and one sender token per hive 2026-09-20 22:07:16 +02:00
networking docs: suppress reviewed write-good.Passive false positives 2026-09-20 16:24:11 +02:00
process docs+comments: say what changed instead of tagging the tracker item 2026-09-21 22:43:16 +02:00
scheduler docs: retire the agent hierarchy from every page that described it 2026-09-21 22:08:47 +02:00
swarm docs: clear the vale errors the queue-credential prose introduced 2026-09-21 20:38:55 +02:00
tools docs: describe the flat container list, not a dormant tree 2026-09-21 22:56:56 +02:00
trust-boundary matrix: one sender account and one sender token per hive 2026-09-20 22:07:16 +02:00
turn-loop docs: retire the agent hierarchy from every page that described it 2026-09-21 22:08:47 +02:00
web-ui docs: describe the flat container list, not a dormant tree 2026-09-21 22:56:56 +02:00
README.md docs: retire the agent hierarchy from every page that described it 2026-09-21 22:08:47 +02:00

hyperhive docs

Depth reference for hyperhive — the substrate, not the pitch (that's the top-level README / website). Every page here stands alone; pick the one matching your task rather than reading top to bottom. For the autogenerated NixOS options reference (every services.hyperhive.* / hyperhive.* option, host and agent), see the options site instead — this tree is prose, that one's generated straight from the module declarations.

Getting started

  • Bringing a fresh hive online?getting-started/setup.md (first-run hivectl bootstrap).
  • What does the dashboard look like, and how do I use it?web-ui/ — the operator-facing starting point; its own sub-pages (shape, dashboard, agent, css-vars, terminal-rendering) go deeper into implementation.
  • What tools does an agent (or the operator) have available?tools/hivectl (yours) plus every agent's MCP tool surface (bash, forge, lifecycle, matrix, scheduling).

Agent lifecycle

Trust boundary & security

Accounts & integrations

  • How do per-agent forge accounts work? What does forge_notify poll, and how does it format wake messages?integrations/forge.md (the hive's own Forgejo); tools/forge.md for the hive-forge CLI verbs agents actually call.
  • How does the matrix-tuwunel container work? Multiple accounts per agent?integrations/matrix.md (the homeserver); tools/matrix.md for the MCP tool surface and services.hyperhive.agent.matrixAccounts.
  • How do I give an agent a GitHub account (gh + git push)? how's the PAT injected?integrations/github.md (operator content up top; the gh/git-push + notification-poller mechanics are in a collapsed "Implementation" section at the bottom).
  • What's /knowledge? How does the hive-wide knowledge repo sync, and how do I contribute a document?integrations/knowledge.md.
  • What does hivectl do? Provisioning, gateway users, container shells?tools/hivectl.md (the curated guide); tools/hivectl-cli.md for the exhaustive, autogenerated flag reference.

Networking & swarms

  • What nginx vhosts does the gateway serve? How does matrix discovery work?networking/gateway.md.
  • How does DNS resolution work in agent containers? What's the bridge network for?networking/network.md.
  • How do I connect two hives into a swarm?swarm/ (peer hives, TLS trust).
  • Where do agent snapshots go? How does the swarm's btrfs receive endpoint authenticate a pushing hive?networking/snapshot-store.md.
  • Who mints each credential, who reads it, and how does it rotate — and where's that shape headed?swarm/credentials.md (current state, target state, and the progressive-enhancement rule); swarm/secrets.md for where each file lives today.

Scheduler, CI, observability

  • what's the job queue, as a general idea (not hive-c0re specifics)?scheduler/jobq.md — operator-facing, no implementation detail.
  • How does the rebuild queue work? What are the concrete step kinds, queue sources, scheduler internals?scheduler/coordinator.md.
  • How does the CI runner work? What's the autoregistration flow?scheduler/ci.md.
  • How do I export Claude Code metrics (tokens, cost, tool calls) to Prometheus/Grafana?scheduler/observability.md.

Crate reference

  • What does a specific Rust crate do, on its own terms?crates/ — every workspace crate's own README.md, one level up from source; the crate itself is still the source of truth, this is just a walkable mirror.

Process & conventions