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atlas 7d09776742 swarm UI: an alerts page, read by the controller with a Viewer Grafana token from bao
swarm-bao-grafana-controller-token, on the host that runs Grafana, logs in
to Grafana's API over its socket as the built-in admin (the password
swarm-bao-grafana-admin minted, #5138) and keeps a `swarm-controller`
service account that is an enabled Viewer. It mints a token for that
account and writes it to bao at
swarm/controller/swarm-controller/grafana/token under Grafana's leaf. A
ten-minute timer runs it again. The unit keeps a stored token Grafana
accepts. If Grafana refuses the stored token with 401, or bao holds
none, the unit deletes every token of the account and mints a new one.
Grafana's grant gains create/read/update on that leaf, and the
controller's gains read.

swarm-controller serves GET /api/alerts from Grafana's
/api/prometheus/grafana/api/v1/alerts. It reads the token from bao,
keeps it in memory, and re-reads bao once on a 401. The HTTP client has
5s connect and 15s request timeouts. Any failure is a 503 that names its
cause. swarm-ui gets an /alerts page listing them, built the same way as
the hives page.

This is option (c) on #5129, the operator's choice.
2026-10-15 15:16:21 +02:00

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# 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.deploy.swarm-controller.enable`, which is
deliberately **not** derived from
`services.hyperhive.deploy.hive-controller.enable`: turning it on is a statement
about swarm topology, not about whether this host runs a hive.
## What it does
The swarm's control plane. The swarm UI and `swarmctl` are its clients.
- **Hive directory** — serves `swarm.hives` (`GET /api/hives`) and what each
hive last published about itself (`GET /api/hives/status`).
- **Agent roster and wanted state** — every agent the swarm knows
(`GET /api/agents`, `/api/agents/status`), and the state it declares for
each one on its hive (`up`/`offline`/`paused`/`destroyed`,
`PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/state`).
- **Job graph** — a `hive-jobq` scheduler, served at `GET /api/jobq/graph`.
Every provisioning step below runs as a node in it.
- **Agent creation** — `POST /api/agents` queues the SSO identity (through
`swarm-authelia-bridge`), forge user, config repo, store identity, forge
token and matrix account, declares the agent `paused`, then sends its hive
a deploy message.
- **Agent credentials** — at start and every five minutes it re-checks every
agent's forge token and matrix account, and renews store certificates and
queue secrets as they age.
- **Linked external accounts** — an operator-supplied matrix, forge or
GitHub account for one agent, stored in the swarm secret store
(`PUT /api/hives/{hive}/agents/{agent}/matrix-accounts/{account}`,
`.../forge-accounts/{label}`, `.../github-account`); distinct from the agent's own swarm-minted
accounts above. `GET .../linked-accounts` lists them, plus the agent's own
`main` matrix account, by kind, name and host, never with a credential.
Each of the three also takes a `DELETE`; matrix's also takes
`?revoke=true`, which logs the stored token out at its homeserver first and
leaves the account in place if that fails.
- **Config PR status** — each agent's open config-repo PR, cached from forge
webhooks (`GET /api/config-prs`, `/api/agents/{name}/config-pr`).
- **Swarm-wide forge objects and webhooks** →
[`docs/swarm/README.md`](../docs/swarm/README.md#swarm-wide-forge-objects).
- **Scheduled prompts** — named prompts for one or more agents, kept in
the `schedule-definitions` KV bucket and written into each agent's key of
`agent-schedules`, both of which this daemon alone writes
(`GET`/`POST /api/schedules`, `PATCH`/`DELETE /api/schedules/{id}`); each
agent fires them itself → [`docs/swarm/schedules.md`](../docs/swarm/schedules.md).
- **Inference settings** — each agent's model, effort, subagent models and
cap on concurrently running subagents, one key per agent in the
`agent-inference` KV bucket, which this daemon
alone writes (`GET`/`PUT`/`DELETE /api/agents/{name}/inference`); each
agent applies them itself. `GET` also answers the model and effort the
agent last reported in its turn-state header, kept in memory →
[`docs/swarm/inference.md`](../docs/swarm/inference.md).
- **Resource caps** — each agent's CPU and memory cap, one key per agent in
the `agent-limits` KV bucket, which this daemon alone writes
(`GET`/`PUT`/`DELETE /api/agents/{name}/limits`); the hive running the
agent reads it, and each cap replaces the hive's own answer for that field →
[`docs/scheduler/coordinator.md`](../docs/scheduler/coordinator.md#container-resource-limits).
- **Review classifier** — try-outs from the swarm UI and reviews on review
requests, and the newest 100 finished runs, one document in the
`review-classifier-runs` KV bucket, which this daemon alone writes
(`POST /api/review-classifier/try-out`, `GET /api/review-classifier/try-out/{id}`,
`GET /api/review-classifier/rules`, `GET /api/review-classifier/runs`), and
the try-out page's branch for a PR, pushed as the classifier's forge account
(`POST /api/review-classifier/open-pr`) →
[`docs/swarm/review-classifier.md`](../docs/swarm/review-classifier.md).
- **Review classifier settings** — the classifier's runtime, model, effort and how
many requested reviews run at once, one document in the
`review-classifier-settings` KV bucket, which this daemon alone reads and
writes (`GET`/`PUT /api/review-classifier/settings`) →
[`docs/swarm/review-classifier.md`](../docs/swarm/review-classifier.md#swarm-level-settings).
- **Relays** — each agent's terminal and turn-state header as SSE, agent
icons, the cross-repo issue report, and the UI's quick links.
- **Alerts** — the swarm Grafana's current alerts (`GET /api/alerts`), read
at request time with a Viewer service-account token from the secret store
→ [`docs/swarm/secrets.md`](../docs/swarm/secrets.md).
It reads its configuration once at startup, from the environment the nix module
sets. It persists `webhook-secret` and `operator-matrix-admins.json` in its
state directory.
The job graph lives in memory; hive status and wanted state live in the swarm
queue, so both survive a restart.
## 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.deploy.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.