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atlas f778122f5a matrix: mint the appservice sender token in the matrix container
A swarm runs one homeserver and a homeserver has one appservice sender
account, so "mint it once" is a property of the thing being minted
rather than something a lock has to enforce. That is what makes this
account the one to move first: no trigger route, no controller change
and no agent list — a boot-time oneshot beside tuwunel is the whole
mechanism.

`swarm-matrix-minter` runs inside `containers.hive-matrix`, which
already holds the appservice token: the rendered registration is bound
in read-only because that is how tuwunel is handed it. What the
container lacked was an identity of its own, so this adds one — a leaf
from the store's CA with a grant of exactly one path, not the hive's
leaf, which reads every secret in the store.

Both ends of the credential ship here. The minter reads the path it
publishes to before it touches the homeserver, and returning on a
non-empty read IS the "only once"; `hive-c0re`'s `ensure_hive_user`
reads the same path, authenticating with the hive name already in
`HYPERHIVE_HIVE_NAME`. The existing mint-then-`M_USER_IN_USE`-login
ladder stays as the fallback for a store that is empty, unconfigured or
unreachable, which is every swarm deployed before this — so nothing
needs backfilling and nothing breaks if the rest of the sequence never
lands.

The credential is not an admin credential, and is not named like one.
It is the access token of the appservice registration's own
`sender_localpart` — `@hive:<server_name>`, an account the homeserver
creates for itself when it loads the registration. The store path is
`swarm/services/matrix/sender-token`, the host path is
`matrix/access-token`, and the homeserver no longer runs an
`admin_execute` promotion for that account at boot. Everything the hive
provisions with it — the Space, the chat room, their hierarchy and join
rules, the invites — rides on being the creator of those rooms at power
level 100, not on homeserver admin; there is no Synapse admin API here
to need, tuwunel has none.

Two operations do need an admin *sender* and therefore stop working:
`hivectl matrix promote-user` and `hivectl matrix reset-password`, both
`!admin …` messages into `#admins:<server>`, plus the password-reset
recovery path that an agent with a lost password file falls back to.
They are swarm-level operations and are left failing loudly rather than
served by an over-privileged token every other call site would also
carry. The sweep's own admin-rights check and self-repair go with them:
an account that is deliberately not an admin has nothing to check.

`ephemeral = false` stays, and hive root can still read the container's
filesystem. Accepted: what this buys is identity separation — no hive
*process* holds or reads the appservice token — not physical isolation.

Refs #4345
2026-09-20 22:07:16 +02:00
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src matrix: mint the appservice sender token in the matrix container 2026-09-20 22:07:16 +02:00
Cargo.toml hivectl: migrate dag_progress to hive-jobq-wire's generic GraphNode 2026-08-03 20:35:24 +02:00
README.md refactor(hive-c0re): drop the request_init_config tool and InitConfig approval 2026-09-14 19:03:44 +02:00

hivectl

The operator-facing host CLI. A thin client for the hive-c0re daemon — speaks the host admin socket protocol (hive-host-sock) and does not link the daemon crate. Container lifecycle, the approval queue, and provisioning verbs all forward to the daemon and need it running; a few (wg/peer-config, choom) work off local host state instead.

When to use it

Reach for this crate when adding an operator-run host command — agents talk to the daemon over their own MCP tool surface (hive-agent-mcp), not this binary. hivectl is what a human operator (or a host-side script) runs.

Shape

One module per subcommand family; main.rs is just the clap parse + dispatch:

  • agents.rs — container lifecycle (start/stop/create/kill/rebuild/restart/…).
  • approvals.rs — the config/spawn/meta-input approval queue.
  • dag_progress.rs — rebuild-queue progress rendering.
  • power.rs — restart/start/stop at the container level.
  • choom.rs — drop into an interactive claude session in a container.
  • forge.rs, matrix.rs, github.rs, gateway.rs — per-integration account/token provisioning.
  • wg.rs — WireGuard mesh helpers.
  • subvol.rs — btrfs state-subvolume ops.
  • quota.rs, util.rs, completions.rs, open.rs — shared helpers, shell completions, browser-open.

Full verb reference: docs/tools/hivectl.md.