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atlas f1445b4c8b swarm-bao: give each hive-cert consumer its own bao identity
Four units read one path each out of the store, and all four logged in
holding `deploy.bao.clientCertFile` — the hive's own leaf. Bao identifies
a principal by the subject of the certificate it presents, so four
readers behind one certificate were ONE principal, and the only grant
expressible was the union of what the four need: read on
`swarm/agents/*`, `swarm/hives/<hive>/*` and `swarm/services/*`. The unit
fetching Grafana's OIDC client secret could fetch every agent credential
in the swarm; the one fetching this hive's matrix token could fetch
Grafana's. Least privilege was not misconfigured here, it was
unrepresentable.

Each now holds a leaf, a cert-auth role and a policy of its own, and each
policy is the single `secret/data/…` path that unit's own script names —
spelled to the leaf, not to a prefix, the way matrix-ctl's already is.
Following the four exemplars in-tree rather than building a mechanism:
`signLeaf` mints the leaves, `swarm-bao.nix` writes the roles from the
bootstrap token, the consumers name their own pair.

Two of the four are written PER HIVE and two are not, which is the shape
of the paths rather than a preference. A matrix appservice token and a
queue credential live under `swarm/hives/<name>/` and every hive runs a
reader for its own, so one role for all of them would have to be granted
`hives/*` — letting one hive read another's, a reach no hive has today.
An OIDC client secret lives under `swarm/services/<client-id>/` and a
swarm registers each exactly once, so one role each is enough. The
per-hive subjects are `<prefix>-<hive>` and swarm.nix reserves every
composed spelling as a hive name, so a hive cannot be named into another
hive's role.

The shared leaf stays: hive-c0re still passes it into its container, the
`bao` CLI wrapper still defaults to it, and the three
`glue-*-bao-identity.nix` files derive the PKI directory from it.

module-eval-bao-grants gains a negative arm per principal — each pins the
three stanzas the hive's leaf carried and the two wildcards a later
widening would reach for, so a policy that grows fails here rather than
in a store. Plus the consuming side: repointing a unit back at the hive's
leaf would evaluate, deploy and log in, and silently restore the union.

A hive that reads a store on another machine now places one leaf per
principal instead of one shared by four. That cost is the point, and
docs/swarm/secrets.md lists the pairs.
2026-09-23 10:11:42 +02:00
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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 swarm-bao: give each hive-cert consumer its own bao identity 2026-09-23 10:11:42 +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 swarm-bao: give each hive-cert consumer its own bao identity 2026-09-23 10:11:42 +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