Issues 060 resolved, 064 opened; 057/058 on this branch too

060: 44 of 70 modules now mesh-buildable (was 8) — the mechanical
majority, proven by direct builds and the bed. The structural
remainders: external-dependency fetch (new issue 064) and route-proxy's
cross-repo build context. 064 records the build environment's isolation
from public npm and Docker Hub.

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 ---
-status: open
+status: resolved
 opened: 2026-09-17
-located-in: []
+located-in:
-fixed-by:
+  - mesh-catalog
+  - mesh-controller
+fixed-by: mesh-catalog feat/the-mesh-builds-its-catalogue (965c58f); proven by the built-store-cross-node bed and direct builds
 amended-design:
 ---
 

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+# Diagnosis — 2026-09-18
+
+The gap was mechanical for most of the catalogue and structural for a few.
+
+**The mechanical part (fixed).** 44 of 70 modules now carry a `build` section and a Dockerfile
+mirroring the eight that already had one: two named bases (build and runtime), the module's own
+source compiled against the sdk in the base, and every serve-time entrypoint named in the runtime
+image so tools serve, events flow, and a provider's provisioner reconciles in the same process
+(the convention hq issue 061 settled — postgres, gitea and lavinmq were retrofitted to it from
+running their provisioner as a separate `args` command). Proven end to end: redis, keycloak,
+mongodb, mosquitto and openai-consumer build through the mesh's own builder from their own
+directory; the built-store-cross-node bed builds and runs the retrofitted lavinmq and postgres.
+
+**The structural part (deferred, each with an owner).**
+
+- Three modules need an artifact the mesh build environment cannot fetch — an npm package
+  (model-usage: `pg`; anthropic-manager: `tweetnacl`) or a binary from a public image (minio:
+  `mc`). The build's npm and container runtime reach the mesh's own registry, not the public one;
+  apt works, npm and image pulls do not. This is its own question — [issue 064](../064-a-mesh-build-cannot-fetch-a-modules-external-dependencies/00-report.md).
+- route-proxy's build context is the mesh-controller repository, not its own module directory (it
+  ships the packaging of a proxy whose canonical source lives with the contract). The build
+  section names a Dockerfile relative to the module; a cross-repository context is a shape it
+  cannot yet express. Deferred pending a design decision on cross-repo build inputs.
+
+The remaining modules are exempt rather than unbuilt: the foundation trio (builder,
+mesh-controller, distribution — built by the foundation's own path, and distribution cannot build
+through the store it provides, ADR 0072/issue 029), and the upstream-image-only modules that run
+a stock image and carry no code of their own.
+
+**Located in:** mesh-catalog (the manifests and Dockerfiles), with the convention enforced by
+mesh-controller's builder. Resolved for the mechanical majority; the two structural remainders are
+tracked as issue 064 and the route-proxy cross-repo deferral.

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+---
+status: located
+opened: 2026-09-18
+located-in:
+  - mesh-catalog
+  - mesh-controller
+fixed-by:
+amended-design:
+---
+
+# 064 — A mesh build cannot fetch a module's external dependencies
+
+## Symptom
+
+Three modules cannot be built by the mesh's own builder, each because the build needs an artifact
+from a public registry the build environment does not reach:
+
+- A module whose runtime installs an npm package its code imports (`npm install` in the
+  Dockerfile) fails with a 404 — the build's npm is pointed at the mesh's own registry, which does
+  not carry the public package.
+- A module whose runtime copies a binary out of a public image (`COPY --from=vendor/tool:latest`)
+  fails with `pull access denied` — the build's container runtime reaches the mesh's registry, not
+  the public one.
+
+apt-based installs in the same Dockerfiles succeed, so the build has ordinary internet: it is npm
+and image pulls specifically that are redirected to the mesh's registry. Observed while giving the
+catalogue its build sections (hq issue 060): 44 of 70 modules build from their own source with no
+external fetch; these three need one and stop.
+
+## Why it matters beyond the instance
+
+The delivery design says a module is built by the mesh from a repository and a path (ADR 0069),
+compiled against the sdk and tool runtime the base images already carry. That holds for a module
+whose only dependencies are the base's — but a module with a third-party runtime dependency, or a
+tool binary from a vendor image, has no sanctioned way to bring it into a mesh build. The
+workstation build script got away with it by running on a host with public npm and Docker Hub;
+retiring that shortcut (the no-fake principle) exposes that the mesh has no answer.
+
+Left unanswered, "the mesh builds its own catalogue" is true only for modules that happen to have
+no external dependency, and which those are is invisible until each is built.
+
+## Open questions
+
+- Should a module's third-party npm dependencies be published to the mesh's own registry as part
+  of building it (a dependency is an artifact like any other), or should the build environment
+  proxy the public registry read-only?
+- Is a vendor binary (`mc`, and others like it) the same question as an npm dependency, or does it
+  want a distinct answer — a module declaring an external image as a build input the mesh
+  pre-fetches and pins, the way it pins its bases?
+- Should a manifest that declares a build whose Dockerfile fetches from a public registry be
+  refused at `module add`, so the gap is caught at registration rather than at build?