Agent config knobs
Optional per-agent knobs the meta flake wires into the container from
services.hyperhive.agents.<name>, read at boot or per turn by the harness.
Absent means the default. (The claude spawn + compaction themselves live in
claude-invocation.)
Reference docs (hyperhive.docs.enable)
hyperhive.docs.enable = true; # default: false (true for the manager agent)
Makes the hyperhive docs/ tree available inside the container at a nix
store path read from $HIVE_DOCS_DIR, and injects a single pointer
sentence into the agent's system prompt so it knows the docs exist and
where to find them. The tree is served by claude --add-dir so the full
markdown is readable during every turn.
Enabled by default only for the root/manager agent (nix/templates/ruth.nix). Any
agent can opt in by adding the line above to its agent.nix.
The docs/ source is a narrow flake input (hyperhive-docs) tracked
separately from the main hyperhive flake so editing docs re-locks only
that input — not every agent's container gets rebuilt on a doc-only change.
Agent icon
hyperhive.icon = ./icon.svg; # default: null (falls back to shared hyperhive logo)
Path to an SVG file used as this agent's visual identity — shown in
the per-agent page header, as the page favicon, and uploaded to the
agent's Forgejo profile avatar (via the forge-avatar-sync boot
unit) and Matrix profile avatar (set by hive-matrix-daemon over its
live Client). Commit the SVG next to agent.nix in the config repo
and reference it as a relative path.
When null (the default), the agent falls back to the shared
hyperhive branding mark. The harness serves whichever icon is active
at GET /icon on the per-agent web port.
user.passwordlessSudo
hyperhive.user.passwordlessSudo = true; # default
Grants the per-agent unix user passwordless sudo (NOPASSWD: ALL).
Enabled by default so claude's shell tools work for operations that
need root inside the container (systemctl, package managers in dev
shells, etc.) — the same privilege surface the previous root-user shape
had, now elevated explicitly rather than implicitly.
Set to false for agents that should be strictly unprivileged.
Any tool invocation that needs root then fails loudly with the standard
sudo rejection rather than silently succeeding — easier to audit.
hyperhive.user.uid, hyperhive.user.gid, and
hyperhive.user.name are the companion options; see
docs/agent-hierarchy.md — "Harness systemd unit shape" for the full
user.* surface.
Dashboard links
hyperhive.dashboardLinks = [
{ label = "Stats"; icon = "📊"; url = "http://localhost:9001/stats"; }
{ label = "Scratchpad"; url = "http://localhost:8080"; }
];
Declares extra navigation links that appear on the agent's dashboard card and in the per-agent page header alongside the built-in forge / config / container links. Each entry has:
| Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
label |
yes | Display text shown in the icon strip tooltip and meta-nav. |
url |
yes | Absolute URL — may include a different port (the dashboard renders it as a plain anchor). |
icon |
no | Emoji or short glyph prefix. Defaults to empty string. |
The list is written to <state>/hyperhive-dashboard-links.json by a
one-shot systemd unit at container boot. hive-c0re reads the file on
each container-view snapshot and attaches the links to the agent card
(kind = External) without any code change. Omitting the option
(default empty) produces no extra links.
Custom static files
hyperhive.frontend.extraFiles = {
"games/bitburner" = {
source = ./bitburner-dist; # path relative to agent.nix
# target defaults to attribute name: "games/bitburner"
};
"my-page" = {
source = ./my-page.html;
target = "my-page.html"; # explicit override
};
};
Layers additional files over the default per-agent web UI dist. Each attribute defines one overlay entry:
source— a Nix path (file or directory) copied into the merged static tree. Evaluated at nix build time; the resulting derivation is pointed at byHIVE_STATIC_DIR.target— destination path within the merged tree, used as both the served URL prefix (/<target>/…) and the on-disk layout. Defaults to the attribute name. Forward slashes create nested layouts ("games/bitburner"serves at/games/bitburner/…).
Constraints: target must start with an alphanumeric or _ and
contain only alphanumerics, _, ., /, -. .. segments are
rejected by a config assertion. The merge step refuses to overwrite
files already present in the default dist — pick a target name that
does not collide with existing paths (static/, index.html, etc.).
The default dist ships at hyperhive.frontend.dist (the
hyperhive-frontend package output, read-only). To replace the
entire UI rather than layer on top, override frontend.dist directly.
Connectivity overrides
Two hyperhive.forge.* / hyperhive.matrix.* options override where
the per-agent daemons connect. Both rarely need changing on a standard
single-host deploy, but are useful for multi-hive or custom-network
setups.
hyperhive.forge.url = "http://localhost:3000"; # default
hyperhive.matrix.url = "http://localhost:8008"; # default
hyperhive.forge.url — base URL of the Forgejo instance. Used by
a one-shot boot unit (tea-login) that writes ~/.config/tea/config.yml
directly from the agent's forge-token, so tea and hive-forge
work without an interactive auth step. The unit is a no-op when
forge-token is absent. Override when the agent should connect to a
Forgejo on a different host or port (e.g. a swarm peer's forge).
Validated: must be an http:// or https:// URL or the empty string.
hyperhive.matrix.url — homeserver URL used by
hive-matrix-daemon when connecting via the matrix-sdk. Default
(localhost:8008) is overridden by hive-c0re at deploy time to the
gateway-routed matrix.<domain> URL so isolated agents can reach the
homeserver. Override per-agent when an agent should talk to a
different homeserver — for example a remote hive's tuwunel reached
over a VPN, or an external Matrix server for a federation-only agent.
Claude Code plugins
The harness installs Claude Code plugins before the serve loop opens.
Two per-agent agent.nix options control this:
hyperhive.claudeMarketplaces = [ "anthropics/claude-plugins-official" ]; # default
hyperhive.claudePlugins = [ "formatter@my-marketplace" ]; # default: []
hyperhive.claudePluginsAutoUpdate = false; # default
claudeMarketplaces— list of marketplace sources passed toclaude plugin marketplace add <source>. The official Anthropic marketplace is pre-configured by default; override or extend to add custom marketplaces. Idempotent — re-adding an existing source is a no-op.claudePlugins— list of plugin specs passed toclaude plugin install <spec>. Empty by default. Each spec is installed on every boot (installis expected to be idempotent); failures log a warning but do not abort boot.claudePluginsAutoUpdate— whentrue, runsclaude plugin marketplace updatebefore installing plugins to pull the latest index. Disabled by default to keep boot times short and plugin versions pinned.
cargo.shortMessages
hyperhive.cargo.shortMessages = true; # default
When enabled (the default), the harness injects a cargo shell
function into /etc/hyperhive/bash-env.sh that transparently appends
--message-format short to compile subcommands (build, check,
clippy, test, run, doc, bench, install, rustc, fix).
This suppresses the per-crate progress lines that flood the response
window, leaving only warnings and errors.
The function handles +toolchain selectors (cargo +nightly build)
and passes through cleanly when --message-format is already present.
Non-compile subcommands (new, add, third-party cargo-*) are
left untouched.
Set to false for agents that parse cargo's JSON output
programmatically and do not pass --message-format json themselves.