hive-c0re
The unprivileged host daemon (runs as hive-core). Owns the sqlite
broker, the reminder queue, the generic job-DAG
queue, container lifecycle, gateway vhost wiring, forge/matrix config
reconciliation, per-container stats, and the axum operator dashboard.
Largest crate in the workspace — bin-only, no separate lib.
When to use it
Host-level, cross-container orchestration: spawning/rebuilding/
destroying agent containers, dashboard-visible
state, wiring each agent's gateway vhost and reconciling its forge
config-repo access and matrix room membership. The accounts themselves
are swarm-controller's (docs/integrations/forge.md). Agent-side
behavior (turn loop, MCP tools) lives in hive-agent/hive-agent-mcp
instead — this daemon only talks to agents over the socket wire types
in hive-sh4re.
Shape
Cohesive clusters live in directory submodules, each re-exported at
the crate root (crate::broker::… keeps resolving regardless of which
subdirectory a module actually lives in). One line each — read the
module's own //! doc-comment for real detail, don't expect this file
to track it:
dashboard/— the operator dashboard (containers, schedules, logs, topology).job_queue/— the job-DAG queue + desired-state reconciliation (docs/scheduler/coordinator.md).lifecycle/—nixos-containerlifecycle + per-agent config flake generation.stores/— sqlite-backed stores (broker, queues, audit, power).workers/— background sweeps (crash watch, autoupdate, knowledge sync).agent_config/— per-agent registries (permissions, resource limits, topology).stats/— dashboard metrics aggregation + OTEL export.socket_server/— the unix-socket request server for the per-agent sockets.forge/— optional Forgejo wiring (docs/integrations/forge.md).coordinator.rs— top-level wiring forserve.meta.rs,migrate.rs— the meta flake + schema/state migrations.matrix.rs,gateway_nginx.rs,priv_client.rs— matrix provisioning, gateway vhosts, and thehive-privclient respectively.
See the top-level AGENTS.md/docs/ index for the full reading-path
map.