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atlas f817e27d4c subagent daemon: report a killed session as killed, not idle
A subagent whose claude process died on a signal — the kernel's OOM
killer, a stopped unit, an `interrupt` — was indistinguishable from one
that finished its turn: its entry left the `running` map, `status` fell
through to "a session exists on disk" and answered `idle`, and the
end-of-turn todo said the subagent had "finished". The usual next move
on that reading is `continue`, which resumes work that was cut mid-turn
with nothing having recorded that it was cut.

The driver already preserves how the child ended — `RunningClaude::wait`
returns `Error::Exit` carrying the `ExitStatus`, whose `signal()` is the
whole answer — so this reads it rather than having to recover it:
`classify_end` turns the outcome into `Complete` / `Killed { signal }` /
`Failed`, and `State::finish_turn` remembers a kill against the name
(cleared by the next confirmed spawn under it).

What an agent sees as a result:

- `status` reports the session killed, naming the signal, instead of idle;
- the todo the daemon pushes without being asked says the subagent was
  KILLED mid-turn rather than that it finished;
- `continue` still resumes such a session, but its reply says the
  previous turn was killed, so no caller carries on from cut-off work
  believing it was complete.

Refs #4326
2026-09-13 14:58:45 +02:00
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bash.md hive-sh4re, docs: fix the two docs argus flagged on ToolGroup::Execution 2026-09-11 19:01:31 +02:00
forge-cli.md docs: regenerate forge-cli.md for the --limit/--tail opt-in swap 2026-09-11 19:13:30 +02:00
forge.md docs: use pr status's positional form in the two remaining --pr examples 2026-09-11 17:27:49 +02:00
hivectl-cli.md hivectl, docs: choom is not root-only, and set-limits takes no agent name 2026-09-11 19:11:13 +02:00
hivectl.md hivectl, docs: choom is not root-only, and set-limits takes no agent name 2026-09-11 19:11:13 +02:00
lifecycle.md prompts+docs: the lifecycle tools reach the whole subtree, not just direct children 2026-09-11 15:23:50 +02:00
matrix.md docs/matrix: name the [acct:<name>] prefix a multi-account agent receives 2026-09-11 18:19:22 +02:00
README.md prompts+docs: the lifecycle tools reach the whole subtree, not just direct children 2026-09-11 15:23:50 +02:00
scheduling.md scheduling.md: drop the list_schedules prose, keep the approval-scope fix 2026-09-11 18:43:10 +02:00
subagent.md subagent daemon: report a killed session as killed, not idle 2026-09-13 14:58:45 +02:00
swarmctl-cli.md docs: clear the remaining error-level vale lints 2026-09-09 22:55:28 +02:00

Tools

hivectl is your tool — the operator's own host CLI. Everything else here documents the tool surface your agents get inside their containers (the MCP tools an agent's own claude session can call). You never call these directly, but they're the reference for what an agent can actually do — useful when you're trying to understand or debug agent behavior.

For the operator

  • hivectl — the curated guide: provisioning forge and matrix accounts, gateway htpasswd management, container lifecycle shortcuts, interactive agent shell access.
  • hivectl-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI.

For the swarm operator

  • swarmctl-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for swarmctl, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI the same way hivectl-cli.md is. swarmctl itself runs as root on the swarm-controller host, not through hivectl — see swarmctl/README.md for why. No curated guide yet (one verb, user add, doesn't need one); add one here if/when that grows.

What your agents can do

  • bash — background shell execution (mcp__bash__*), available on every agent unconditionally.
  • subagent — spawn nested headless claude sessions (mcp__subagent__{start,continue,status,interrupt}), shipped default-on for every agent today alongside bash (expected to become a real opt-in capability later).
  • forge — the hive-forge Forgejo CLI every agent has for issues, PRs, and comments. Not an MCP tool — a binary agents shell out to instead of ad-hoc curl.
  • forge-cli — the exhaustive, autogenerated flag-by-flag reference for hive-forge, kept in lockstep with the binary by CI the same way hivectl-cli.md is.
  • lifecycle — kill/start/restart/update for the agents in a caller's own subtree, plus the approval-gated config-change tools.
  • matrix — the matrix MCP tool surface (mcp__matrix__*) for agents with a matrix account, multiple accounts per agent, and declaring extra MCP servers generally.
  • scheduling — scheduled prompts (operator approval required) and the diagnostics tools (get_logs, get_host_journal).