That fits one-at-a-time recruiting, but it doesn't fit how people actually share things. A link in a Slack channel, a Discord message, a conference slide, a README, a blog post, an email signature — in all of those I don't know the addresses ahead of time, and I don't want to collect them just to type them back into a CLI one at a time. The 20-pending-invite cap noted in #1376 makes broadcast recruiting a non-starter on the email path regardless.

The result is that the CLI-first way to say "come join swamp" is to tell people to go to swamp-club.com themselves, which drops the attribution the whole invite/recruit incentive system is built on.

Proposed solution

A long-lived, reusable invite URL tied to the operative — not to an invitee.

swamp invite link
https://swamp-club.com/join/<slug>

Anyone who opens it lands on signup, and completing signup credits the inviter exactly as an email invite does today (recruit attribution, First Rule badge when they reach Tier 5).

Properties that matter:

Long-lived by default. No expiry, no redemption cap. That's the point — the link has to still work when someone finds the README a year later.
Stable / idempotent. Re-running the command returns the same link rather than minting a new one, so a previously-shared URL never silently dies.
Revocable. swamp invite link --revoke kills the slug; re-minting yields a fresh one. Already-accepted signups are unaffected.
--json for scripting.

Anti-abuse is a server-side policy question rather than a CLI one: because the link is unbounded, swamp-club may want the same fraud/rate limiting it applies to email invites, and credit already being deferred to Tier 5 does most of that work. The CLI just needs to surface whatever the server decides.

Alternatives considered

swamp invite <email> (#1376) — right primitive, wrong shape. Requires knowing addresses up front and is capped at 20 pending invites.
#1207 — mentions "generate an invitation link (or send an email)", but frames it per-invitee. This request is specifically the reusable, not-email-keyed case, and I'd expect it to reuse whatever acceptance path #1207/#1376 land on rather than duplicate it.
"Just go sign up at swamp-club.com" — works, but discards inviter attribution entirely, which is the entire incentive design.
A swamp serve token in a URL — wrong layer. Those grant access to one serve instance and default to a 30-day life; this is platform onboarding.

Scope

swamp-club: a /join/<slug> route, slug storage + inviter attribution, reusing the existing invite-acceptance path.
swamp CLI: swamp invite link [--revoke] [--json], sharing the credential and origin resolution that swamp invite <email> (#1376) would use.

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03Sludge Pulse

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Model lookup misreports EMFILE (too many open files) as a broken definition file and dumps a raw stacktrace

Client shows 'Authentication failed' when actually rate-limited

Workers retry forever on permanent auth failures instead of backing off

Docs: add swamp access group list-idp to access commands reference

serve telemetry identity warnings are diagnostic but not actionable — say how to fix them

swamp quest: drop the heartbeat field the server no longer sends

--grant-reload auto does not detect filesystem changes — blind to ConfigMap updates

Server token definitions are not durable across pod restarts

WebSocket auth rate limiter blocks legitimate users when sharing IP with a failing client

Add native Bedrock Knowledge Base Retrieve support

GC expired OAuth server tokens and control plane secrets

migrate-index silently drops entries with shallow paths — all of workflows-evaluated/ and any root-level file

Cluster health snapshots with SSE streaming for swamp serve

Add swamp access group list-idp to enumerate IdP groups seen by the server

Grants directory loader skips symlinks — breaks Kubernetes ConfigMap mounts

Daemon telemetry flush: stop() can skip its final flush when a timer drain is already in flight

Support --grants-dir for loading grants from a directory

Docs: `swamp compile` subcommand doesn't exist

Guard the projector's full rewrites against the fail-open lease (ADV-6 from #1575/#1576)

Projector write amplification: board_totals/owner_devices full rewrites are owners × runs/day

Profile candidateIds prune costs a full ledger scan to build itself — 42.88M rows for one keyed read

Leaderboard phase 3: owner-grain board_totals so a cache miss is survivable at 10B

swamp serve is telemetry-dark: scheduled workflow runs never reach /ingest, and the daemon never flushes

CLI has never sent insert_id: retried telemetry batches are double-counted into cli_daily, inflating XP in an append-only ledger

Catalog backfill reconciles against the local cache, not the datastore

Extension bundle cache not invalidated when an imported sibling module changes (entry-file fingerprint only)

swamp serve: data.query fails permanently with "UNIQUE constraint failed: catalog.*" — one duplicate catalog 5-tuple aborts every catalog rebuild

dailyHistory range pushdown — deferred from #1576, and the measurement says why

score-rollup projector runs N× per cadence — the run gate is per-replica memory, not shared state

Docs: manual never mentions telemetry, and the serve/scheduling pages imply automated runs are visible when they are not

Explore: CLI binary update integrity lacks independent verification

Leaderboard phase 2: take score_grants off the board read path — read today from score_daily

Explore: reconcile quality rubric's dormant provenance factor

Explore: pull-time signature verification for extensions

Explore: transparency-log integration (Rekor) for extension signatures

Explore: publish-time artifact signing for extensions (cosign keyless)

Profile day drill-down returns 0 entries at the 5s ClickHouse ceiling for every operative

A ledger read failure still renders as 'no activity': loadProfileScore swallows to an empty standing behind HTTP 200

reconcile_from_disk_bench.ts fails deno check (stale DenoRuntime stub)

Improve multi-word search query handling and guidance

Retire the genesis_public flag and delete the dead cutover transcription scaffolding

Leaderboard phase 1: cache the board read and bust it on tier crossings (no schema change)

Catalog backfill deletes rows for any model whose data names are numeric

Docs: document catalog completeness check and --repair in doctor reference

Leaderboard board windows re-anchor on wall-clock while the rest of the view is frozen at asOf

Decision: move per-event grant MVs to day-grain — ledger is on track for ~1.5B score_grants / ~4B quest_grants

Leaderboard phase 5: score-rollup-projector write cost at 10B — ~430M rows scanned per 60s tick

Epic: /leaderboard and /u/{username} do not survive 10B events — measured audit + phased plan

Datastore-managed configuration for multi-instance serve deployments

Ghosts on the leaderboard 500

swamp command doesn't check cwd

swamp auth login process fails when run remotely

serve boot OOM: findAllGlobalSince loads all workflow runs as full aggregates during reconciliation

extension search: channel-filtered results carry null version fields, and multiple --channel values collapse instead of unioning

s3-datastore: localHasAllRemoteEntries uses bare rel instead of localRelPath, always returns false in namespaced mode

datastoreSetupExtension migrates .swamp/ to cache root instead of namespace directory

swamp serve writes outputs/ outside the bound namespace — silently never persisted to the remote datastore

s3-datastore: bulk pull writes to cache root instead of the namespace, wedging push and arming a full-datastore delete

git: add pull, fetch --tags, and cherry-pick methods

Workflow runs with wide dataArtifact fan-out (~400/run) OOM both workflow history get and swamp serve boot, crash-looping the scheduler; rollback doesn't help (state-triggered, not release-triggered)

Show user:<name> instead of user:<id> in grant list output

Reusable long-lived invite link: one URL to bring people into the swamp

Exclude swamp internal model types from model list output

Skill docs use invalid two-argument 'vault get' form

access token mint prints an invalid retrieval command (vault get, not vault read-secret)

serve reload and model edit timeout over --server in Kubernetes

swamp auth whoami should report paid tier and trial status

Use whoami entitlement to explain private-extension push refusals

Document --restricted-commands flag for swamp serve

vault put: pass tags through to extension provider CreateSecret/setSecret calls

Docs: update manual for 23 new --server commands

Update VaultProvider interface in @systeminit/swamp-testing to support optional tags in put()

Docs: document --grants-file flag for swamp serve

Docs: document --server support for serve reload

Docs: add --tag flag to vault put reference

Docs: update manual for --detach-runs deprecation and HA auto-detection

Document the Codex plugin in swamp docs

Add --server support to CLI commands missing it

Document the swamp Claude Code plugin in the swamp documentation