A build edge, a core library that is a domain, and 0063 corrected
Three things from walking a real dev cycle through 0063, all of which Jochen caught by pushing on where I had glossed. 0064 -- a build edge is a third kind. Research 011 established presence and instantiation, and both are RUNTIME edges: they answer what a module needs in order to run. Delivery needs a different question -- what has to be rebuilt when this changes -- and that relationship is fixed inside an artifact rather than negotiated when it runs. So the graph as designed could not drive delivery, which is the real reason 0063 was not approvable. It is derived rather than declared, read from what a module actually imports, because a declared list and the imports it describes drift and the imports are the true ones. The runtime edges stay declared, and that asymmetry is not an inconsistency: a runtime edge is an intention somebody has, a build edge is a fact about code that exists. It also makes design quality measurable. A module with many inbound build edges is one whose every change is expensive, and the current shared library is exactly that -- nobody could see it because nothing drew the edges. 0065 -- the core library is the mesh's domain. Jochen disagreed with 0030's "types, not behaviour" and was right: that guard is aimed at the wrong thing. A library everything depends on is a hub whether it holds types or code, and the fan-in is what makes a change expensive. So types ship with the module that owns them -- trading one wide edge for several narrow ones -- and the core library holds what is true of the mesh regardless of context, which research 011 already found: a module, a node, an assignment. The test is "would this still mean the same thing in a context that had never heard of the one it came from". A node does; a pipeline stage does not. Domain-driven is the point rather than the label: "who else might want this" always answers yes, which is how the current one grew. And it changes the check for the better. "The build output contains no runtime code" would have enforced a rule now withdrawn. Inbound build edges is a measurement rather than a prohibition, and it is visible while a hub is forming rather than after. 0063 revised on both counts, plus a third: I had written "the lab judges it" as though that were a step. A lab run takes tens of seconds, occupies a VM, and fails for environmental reasons -- and a shared-library change produces dozens. One expensive non-deterministic gate fails both ways, and neither failure looks like itself. Verdicts are now tiered, and a run that failed environmentally is explicitly not a verdict. 0063 also now carries what must exist before it can be implemented, rather than leaving that to be discovered.
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# 011 — The module graph
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> **A third edge was found after this graduated.** This effort established *presence* and
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> *instantiation*, and both are **runtime** edges — they answer *what does this need in order to
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> run*. Delivery needs a different question answered — *what has to be rebuilt when this changes*
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> — and that is a **build** edge, fixed inside an artifact rather than negotiated when it runs.
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> Recorded by [ADR 0064](../../02-DECISIONS/0064-a-build-edge-is-a-third-kind.md), which also
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> notes what this effort's three entities turn out to be good for
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> ([ADR 0065](../../02-DECISIONS/0065-the-core-library-is-the-meshs-domain.md)).
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## What is being investigated
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Whether the catalogue's missing structure is a **graph** — modules declaring what they need,
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