hyperhive/TODO.md

Hyperhive TODOs

Architecture / Features

• Shared space for all agents to access documents/files without manager routing
• Private git forge agents can push to and create new repos in
• Move bind mounts in agents to /agents/<name>/state so path for agent = path for manager
• Broadcast messaging: allow sending messages with recipient "*" to all agents; deliver with hint "this was a broadcast and may not need any action from you"
• Multi-agent restart coordination: when rebuilding all agents, manager should start first so it can coordinate post-restart confusion (notify agents, suppress unnecessary retries, etc)
• Shared docs/skills repo (RO): a single repo on the hive forge that every agent has read-only access to — common references, prompts, runbooks, "skills" the operator wants every agent to inherit without baking into the system prompt or /shared. Implementation likely: seed an org-shared/docs repo on first hive-forge boot, grant every per-agent user a read membership in the org. Agents git clone it (or use the API) to read; only the manager + operator can push.
• Loose-ends tracker + get_open_threads tool: hive-c0re already knows about pending approvals + unanswered questions; soon will also know about open PRs on hive-forge. Aggregate these into a per-agent "open threads" view (e.g. [{kind: "approval", id: 7, summary: "spawn alice"}, {kind: "question", id: 12, asker: "alice", summary: "deploy now?"}]). New MCP tool mcp__hyperhive__get_open_threads returns the list so an agent can see what's still pending against it without rebuilding context from inbox history. Manager's version includes hive-wide threads. Also surface this list on the per-agent web UI so the operator can see at a glance what each agent has hanging open — same data source as the MCP tool, just rendered into the existing per-agent dashboard page (next to inbox view / model chip / etc).

Reminder Tool

• Per-agent reminder limits (burst capacity, rate limiting)
• Scheduler shutdown: add graceful shutdown signal when coordinator is destroyed (currently runs forever)
• DB lock contention: under high reminder volume, the broker's Mutex<Connection> serializes every delivery transaction. Consider batching multiple deliveries into one tx, or moving reminders onto a separate sqlite connection.

Dashboard

• UI for agent-to-agent questions (follow-up to the ask rename): now that agents can ask(to: <agent>) each other, surface those threads in the per-agent dashboard view. Replace the existing read/unread tabs with THREE filters: unread, from: <agent>, to: <agent>. The to: filter makes agent-targeted questions visible so the operator can see at a glance "alice has 3 questions outstanding from bob" and intervene if a thread is stuck. Same UI is useful for general inbox filtering too. Data lives in the existing operator_questions table (with the new target column) + the broker inbox; no new schema needed. Also expose a "respond" affordance so the operator can override-answer a peer question when an agent is offline / stuck (the answerer-auth check in OperatorQuestions::answer already permits the operator on any target).
• Clickable file paths in message bodies: agents drop pointer strings like /agents/<name>/state/foo.md constantly (it's the whole 1 KiB-cap escape hatch). Right now they're plain text — operator has to copy-paste into a terminal to peek. Detect path-shaped tokens (start with /agents/, /shared/, /state/, or absolute /var/lib/hyperhive/...) in rendered message bodies + question text + answer text + helper-event payloads, render as clickable links that hit a new /api/state-file?path=… dashboard endpoint. Endpoint serves the file as text (with a strict allow-list — only paths under /var/lib/hyperhive/agents/*/state/, /var/lib/hyperhive/shared/, never anything else), syntax-highlighting where it makes sense, falling back to download for binaries. Reuses the existing <details> collapse pattern so inline preview doesn't blow up the message-flow stream.
• UI for pending reminders: show pending/queued reminders in dashboard, allow operator to view/debug/cancel
• Per-agent reminder status (pending, delivered)
• Reminder query interface for debugging
• Display reminder delivery errors (failed sends, mark failures)
• Phase 6 leftovers — event-covered endpoints (/approve, /deny, /answer-question, /cancel-question, /request-spawn) now return 200 (f559441); the matching forms carry data-no-refresh so the post-submit /api/state refetch is skipped (the SSE event delivers the update). Container-lifecycle endpoints (/restart, /destroy, /kill, /rebuild, /start, /api/{cancel,compact,model,new-session}, /meta-update, /purge-tombstone) still need a ContainerListChanged event before their redirects can drop — ContainerView is currently sourced from external nixos-container list, so the 5s poll continues to drive that section.

Bugs

• Post-rebuild system-message missed wake: at 09:13:14 the dashboard showed system → damocles container rebuilt as ✓ delivered, but the agent harness never ran a turn for it (no claude invocation, no operator-visible activity). A subsequent recv() from inside the agent returned (empty), confirming the message was popped + marked delivered server-side — yet drove no turn. Most likely cause: the agent_server serve_agent_stdio task is up and answering MCP/socket calls, but the hive-ag3nt::serve long-poll loop that drives drive_turn either died silently during rebuild or never restarted. Investigate: (a) does hive-ag3nt's serve loop survive nixos-container update cleanly, or does its tokio runtime get torn down mid-loop? (b) is there an early-exit path on a transient socket error during rebuild that drops the serve task without notifying the manager? (c) compare timeline with manager's own post-rebuild wake to see if this is rebuilt-agents-only or universal. Could be related to the recv_blocking fix in e423d57 if the rebuild restarts the broker mid-subscribe.