The operator's agent is a module: three records and to-be 36 for the claude-code successor

The predecessor's agent module was retired and its six files stayed on both workstations telling
every session to use tools that no longer exist. Before a successor module is written, the design
needs the decisions it rests on and nothing in the record stated them:

- ADR 0169 (reconstructed) records what the controller shipped on 2026-09-27 without a record: the
  operator account is a node fact stated by the operator, the home is derived unless stated, a
  resource may be placed under it owned by the account, and a node with no account refuses one.
- ADR 0170 generalises to-be 29 §3's found-vs-owned boundary to every directory under a home: the
  module owns the directory and the files it places, writes into the tool's own files for its few
  keys, never declares a credential's content, and holds everything else as found — a predecessor's
  leftovers included, which the operator removes once.
- ADR 0171 draws the licence line the operator asked to have drawn rather than assumed: the mesh
  binds and delivers (to-be 14 and 15 stand), the module alone writes the credential file, refresh
  stays central (ADR 0050), a switch is the binding changed through a controller seat verb asked
  for via the console, and the token-carrying shell helper is retired. The controller learns
  nothing about the agent; that is what "no part" means.

To-be 36 is the module's design: the ownership map per path, the fate of the six predecessor
files, what the three instruction documents say, the licence tools and skill, the console as a
node-scoped provision, the package gap stated honestly, and the order of the build. To-be 14, 29
and 34 carry dated notes; the glossary gains "operator account".
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@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ module's credential and listens on loopback. It has no state, no provision, no s
the bus, which it gets the way every module does: a credential the mesh minted for `<node>.mesh-console`,
sealed to the machine, delivered as the module's own secret.
*2026-10-02:* it gains one provision, at node scope — the MCP endpoint on loopback, serving the port
the machine gave it — so that a module whose software must be told where the console is requires that
and is coupled to an endpoint rather than to a module's name
([ADR 0027](../../02-DECISIONS/0027-a-provision-names-what-the-consumer-is-coupled-to.md)). The first
consumer is the operator's agent, [36 — The operator's agent on a machine](36-the-operators-agent-on-a-machine.md) §6;
a machine without the console refuses such a module by name. Nothing else above changes: no seat, no
state, no tools of its own.
Its manifest says three things nothing else in the catalogue says together:
- `invokes: ["*"]` — it calls every tool on the mesh, and the bus grants exactly that publish side;