ADR 0159: a tool call names the machine, every answer says which answered, a holder's runtime serves its seat's verbs; issue 182; designs 33 and 34

03-DESIGN/01-to-be/34-the-console.md

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 layer: to-be
 status: implemented
 code: [mesh-catalog, mesh-tools, mesh-controller]
-updated: 2026-09-30
+updated: 2026-10-01
 decisions:
+  - 02-DECISIONS/0159-a-tool-call-names-the-machine-and-a-holder-serves-its-seats-verbs.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0152-the-operators-surface-is-a-module-the-console.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0132-a-seat-carries-the-tools-its-holder-must-serve.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0095-the-control-plane-is-the-way-to-ask-a-module.md
@@ -64,6 +65,12 @@ once a request nothing serves, so a module that is not running costs nothing and
 as not answering, rather than silently absent — *silence and success must never look alike*. The list is
 kept for a short while and refreshed, so an agent asking on every turn does not fan out on every turn.
 
+**Every module tool takes the machine to ask** (*2026-10-01*, [ADR 0159](../../02-DECISIONS/0159-a-tool-call-names-the-machine-and-a-holder-serves-its-seats-verbs.md)):
+an optional `node` the console lists on each one, puts into the subject and never hands to the module,
+for a module that runs on several machines; without it whichever instance answers first does, and the
+console appends *answered by <machine>* to every answer. A seat's verb takes none; the seat's scope
+decides.
+
 **A tool that was not listed can still be called.** Listing is discovery; calling is the grant. An agent
 that knows a tool's name asks for it by `<module>.<tool>` and the module answers or the bus says why not.