ADR 0122: the predecessor is ending, and its broker goes with it

ADR 0119 rejected giving the old broker a retirement condition and said why: "its
clients are not only the predecessor's, so the retirement condition describes a day
that will not come". The operator has said that day is coming — the predecessor is
deprecated, some of it still running, none of it being migrated, left to stop rather
than moved.

Recorded because three documents reason from the premise it overturns. Design 25 §5's
"no day anything is waiting for", §9's "the predecessor's clients never notice", and
design 28's closing note that the predecessor's world does not need to move.

**And it needs no new machinery, which is 0119 being paid off rather than revised.**
Because that record made the broker an ordinary provider rather than a compatibility
module, ending it is unassigning a provider whose provision nothing requires — something
the module system has done since it existed. So step 5.3 finishes instead of trailing
off, and the transitional double announcement of a build outcome has a date.

The consequence worth planning around: the predecessor's own mesh talks over that
broker, so shutting it down ends the tooling that reaches this installation's machines
from a workstation. The rollout is driven from the node, or driven before the broker
stops. That is a sequencing constraint on 5.2, not an afterthought.

What survives is `amqp` as a provision: a module that genuinely needs an AMQP broker can
still be given one. What retires is this broker's role as the predecessor's.

03-DESIGN/01-to-be/25-the-bus-on-nats.md

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ decisions:
   - 02-DECISIONS/0083-one-push-leaves-the-mesh-consistent.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0039-what-the-sdk-holds-and-refuses.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0121-a-seat-carries-the-protocol-of-its-role.md
+  - 02-DECISIONS/0122-the-predecessor-is-ending-and-its-broker-goes-with-it.md
 ---
 
 # 25. The bus on NATS
@@ -311,6 +312,15 @@ foundation, never raised at genesis, installed when something wants it and absen
 that does not. There is no retirement condition, because the day its last client disappears is
 not a day anything is waiting for.
 
+**Revised 2026-09-27** ([ADR 0122](../../02-DECISIONS/0122-the-predecessor-is-ending-and-its-broker-goes-with-it.md)):
+**that day is coming.** The predecessor is deprecated — some of it still running, none of it being
+migrated, left to stop rather than moved — so the broker retires once nothing requires `amqp`. Still no
+retirement *condition* and no end-date machinery: a provision with no consumers has its provider
+unassigned, which is the ordinary mechanism and is ADR 0119 being paid off rather than revised. What
+also goes with it is the tooling that reaches this installation's machines remotely, because the
+predecessor's own mesh talks over that broker — so the rollout is driven from the node, or before the
+broker stops.
+
 What is deprecated is AMQP as **the mesh's transport**, which is this whole document. The rule
 that remains is about direction rather than software: *inter-module communication goes over the
 bus.* A module may hold a broker, a database or a cache for itself; it may not use one as a

03-DESIGN/01-to-be/28-building-the-bus.md

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ decisions:
   - 02-DECISIONS/0079-the-foundation-seats-are-named-after-their-servers.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0100-a-node-in-use-is-adopted-before-it-is-converged.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0039-what-the-sdk-holds-and-refuses.md
+  - 02-DECISIONS/0122-the-predecessor-is-ending-and-its-broker-goes-with-it.md
 ---
 
 # 28. Building the bus
@@ -657,8 +658,20 @@ reserves them for after the move, and a flow built ahead of its design would be
       > *change* anything — pushes, tool calls, new provisioning — until it is finished or undone. That
       > is worth knowing before rather than after, and it is why the operator's "as long as my services
       > keep running" is a reasonable position rather than a gamble.
-- [ ] 5.3 the mesh's own accounts removed from the deprecated broker: after the rollout nothing
-      of the mesh speaks to it, and an account nothing uses is one nobody rotates
+- [ ] 5.3 the mesh's own accounts removed from the deprecated broker, and then the broker itself:
+      after the rollout nothing of the mesh speaks to it, and an account nothing uses is one nobody
+      rotates. **It finishes now** ([ADR 0122](../../02-DECISIONS/0122-the-predecessor-is-ending-and-its-broker-goes-with-it.md)):
+      the predecessor is deprecated rather than kept, so once its remnants have stopped the module is
+      unassigned and the port is free. No retirement machinery — a provision with no consumers has its
+      provider unassigned, which is ADR 0119 being paid off rather than revised.
+
+      Retiring with it: the build outcome's second announcement under the module's own name, which
+      exists only so a catalogue deployed before the rename and one deployed after both hear it.
+
+      > **The remote tooling goes with it too.** The predecessor's own mesh talks over that broker, so
+      > shutting it down ends the path that reaches this installation's machines from a workstation.
+      > The rollout has to be driven from the node, or driven before the broker stops — which is a
+      > sequencing constraint on 5.2 and not an afterthought.
 
 > **5.4 is gone, and was wrong from ADR 0119 onward.** It read "the deprecated broker retires
 > when its condition holds — no client connected for the period the operator sets", which is
@@ -685,8 +698,10 @@ itself moves once, at the end, on one day.
 - **Observation** — research 017's, after the move, by its own design.
 - **Leaf nodes** — design 25 §11 keeps this out of scope and says so; a leaf per machine is a later
   question, noted so it is not forgotten.
-- **The predecessor's world.** It is AMQP, it cannot move, and it does not need to: its broker is
-  the compatibility module until its last client is gone.
+- **The predecessor's world.** It is AMQP and it is not moving —
+  [ADR 0122](../../02-DECISIONS/0122-the-predecessor-is-ending-and-its-broker-goes-with-it.md): it is
+  deprecated, some of it is still running, and it is being left to stop rather than migrated. Its
+  broker goes with it, unassigned like any provider whose provision nothing requires.
 
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