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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. |
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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-runhivectlbootstrap). - 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
- How do config changes flow from manager to operator to container? →
agent-lifecycle/approvals.md(approval kinds, approval state machine,flake.lockvalidation). - What state survives destroy / purge / restart? →
agent-lifecycle/persistence.md. - Who can do what to whom — the agent roster and privilege? →
agent-lifecycle/agent-hierarchy.md. - How does claude get its prompt, and what tools does it have? →
turn-loop/— the loop, binary shape, turn outcomes; sub-pages:claude-invocation,config,mcp.
Trust boundary & security
- What's the operator/agent trust boundary? What's a capability? →
trust-boundary/boundary.md. - Agent trust model, prompt-injection threat model, credential
isolation? →
trust-boundary/security.md.
Accounts & integrations
- How do per-agent forge accounts work? What does
forge_notifypoll, and how does it format wake messages? →integrations/forge.md(the hive's own Forgejo);tools/forge.mdfor thehive-forgeCLI verbs agents actually call. - How does the matrix-tuwunel container work? Multiple accounts per
agent? →
integrations/matrix.md(the homeserver);tools/matrix.mdfor the MCP tool surface andservices.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; thegh/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
hivectldo? Provisioning, gateway users, container shells? →tools/hivectl.md(the curated guide);tools/hivectl-cli.mdfor 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 receiveendpoint 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.mdfor 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 ownREADME.md, one level up from source; the crate itself is still the source of truth, this is just a walkable mirror.
Process & conventions
- Naming, commit style, wire protocol, the
data-asyncpattern? →process/conventions.md. - Why does the nspawn flag look like that? →
process/gotchas.md(bind mounts, conf flags, other NixOS/nspawn quirks). - What does a PR review verdict actually gate? →
process/pr-review-gate.md.