WBS: a person's account is done; the client is not blocked by step 3

2026-09-27 00:18:05 +02:00
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@@ -360,9 +360,16 @@ it, and the beds that need a mesh living on NATS can finally run.
 - [ ] 4.2 a build source's change reaches the builder over the bus, and the build that follows is
      the one the change asked for
 - [ ] 4.3 an installation completes over the bus, with the same outcome as the path it replaces
- [ ] 4.4 a person's client: the account, the client that speaks the bus, and the tool surface over
-      it (design 25 §7) — a module's tool invoked from another node and from a person, refused from
-      an account that may not
+- [~] 4.4 a person's client — **the account is done**: a person is not a module and holds no
+      seat, so their authority is a list of tools (or `*` for an administrator) and nothing else.
+      Held to four properties, each a way of being wrong that would not announce itself: nothing
+      but tools, so a person cannot claim a module said something; no ack subject, because
+      authority over a consumer that does not exist is authority nobody audits; no ability to
+      answer, because a person who can answer a request is impersonating a module on a bus where
+      anyone may serve a tool; and two people do not share an inbox.
+
+      Still to build: the client program itself — the command line and the MCP surface over it.
+      It needs nothing from the consume side, so it is not blocked by step 3.
 - [ ] 4.5 reports and catch-up: a node that was unreachable catches up rather than losing them

 **Done when.** Each converted flow is proved against the behaviour it replaced, and the full genesis