hive-agent-sock
What's common across the in-container "agent plugins" — the matrix / bash /
subagent MCP daemons and forge_notify today, plus any user-configured MCP
server declared in an agent's agent.nix. Three things live here:
Wire types for the in-agent socket
The socket the hive-agent harness serves inside the container to those
local producers. Any producer can dial it and push its own todos with an
arbitrary subsystem marker — the wire format doesn't restrict the set.
Unlike the host-served sockets, this one never leaves the container.
- the loose-ends-v2 todo op family
- the harness-local reminder op family
More in-agent request families may show up over time — the socket is deliberately named for the agent, not for the todos.
Why in-container: the harness owns the todo + reminder stores locally and
signals its own turn loop directly, so hive-c0re isn't in either path: no
broker round-trip, no long-poll, no marker files. That locality is the
point — it's also what lets these stores travel with the agent for hive
portability.
Don't confuse this with hive-core-agent-sock: that crate is the
host-served core↔agent protocol on /run/hive/mcp.sock (the harness
talking out to hive-c0re). This socket is purely intra-container.
extra_mcp: the services.hyperhive.agent.extraMcpServers spec
Not a socket protocol — a shared config type. Parses
/etc/hyperhive/extra-mcp.json (the nix-rendered
services.hyperhive.agent.extraMcpServers option) and renders each
entry into the shape claude expects in a
--mcp-config blob. Shared by hive-agent (the main session's servers) and
hive-subagent-mcp (the subagent-eligible subset, gated on
availableToSubagents) — both already depend on this crate for the socket
types above, so a new plugin-facing shared type belongs here rather than in
a crate of its own.
run_cgroup: one cgroup per run
hive-bash-mcp puts each bash task in <unit>/tasks/<id>/ and
hive-subagent-mcp each subagent run in <unit>/runs/<name>-<n>/, both with
memory.oom.group=1, so the OOM killer takes one whole run and leaves the
daemon alone. Both daemons are delegated their cgroup with Delegate=memory pids and DelegateSubgroup=daemon (nix/agent-modules/mcp.nix); outside such
a unit the module logs one warning and runs stay in the daemon's cgroup.