hive-c0re

The unprivileged host daemon (runs as hive-core). Owns the sqlite broker, the approval/question/schedule queues, the generic job-DAG queue, container lifecycle, gateway/forge/matrix provisioning, 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, the approval flow, dashboard-visible state, provisioning per-agent forge/matrix/gateway accounts. 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, approvals, schedules, questions, logs, topology).
job_queue/ — the job-DAG queue + desired-state reconciliation (docs/coordinator.md).
lifecycle/ — nixos-container lifecycle + per-agent config flake generation.
stores/ — sqlite-backed stores (broker, queues, audit, power).
workers/ — background sweeps (crash watch, scheduled prompts, auto-update, knowledge sync).
agent_config/ — per-agent registries (tool groups, capabilities, resource limits, topology).
stats/ — dashboard metrics aggregation + OTEL export.
socket_server/ — the unix-socket request server shared by per-agent + manager sockets.
forge/ — optional Forgejo wiring (docs/forge.md).
coordinator.rs — top-level wiring for serve.
meta.rs, migrate.rs — the meta flake + schema/state migrations.
matrix.rs, gateway_nginx.rs, webhook_secret.rs, priv_client.rs — matrix provisioning, gateway vhosts, webhook secrets, and the hive-priv client respectively.

See the top-level CLAUDE.md/docs/ index for the full reading-path map.