026 filed; 025 corrected; the image store is a module

Three corrections, two of them to things I wrote today.

026 is the serious one. Four modules mounted fourteen host paths nothing
declared — the mail spool, the databases, the object store's data. The
runtime creates those as root, so owner and mode go unapplied, and the
rule that keeps a directory holding data the mesh did not put there is
written in terms of declared directories. It reached the configuration
and missed the data. The cause was carrying compose files across: a
container shape that can express one gets filled in like one.

025 claimed nothing turns a tag into a digest. That is false, and the
answer was designed and built before I wrote it. A module names an
artifact, not an image, and `kind: upstream` mirrors somebody else's
image into the mesh's own registry, pinned by the digest it lands with.
The two-document split the issue described as the shape of a fix is the
design. Pinning twelve images by hand was treating the symptom, and left
them pointing at a public registry rather than the mesh's.

And the image store was written up as something the mesh does. It is an
ordinary module — considered for the substrate and removed, because the
test is whether the control plane needs it before its first instruction,
not whether it can grant itself one. So somebody's own registry is the
same module as the mesh's.
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**A live listing returned credentials in plaintext.** Not a coverage question, but the reason
sealing is worth its inconvenience.
**An image store is a module, and was written up here as something the mesh does.** It was
considered for the substrate and removed, because the test is not *can it grant itself one* —
nearly anything passes that — but whether the control plane needs it before it can give its first
instruction. It does not. So a registry somebody runs for their own images is the same module as
the one the mesh runs for its own: it offers a place to push, and claims that role once per
machine.
**A rule was enforced only at the far end.** A module may not declare an action, and the host
refused one correctly — but the control plane accepted it into the catalogue, resolved it and
pushed it, so the refusal arrived on a machine with nothing tying it back to the manifest. The