The operator, 2026-11-11 about 21:30 CET: a living list of principles; the lead answers each question against it
and does not register every detail. Adds 00-META/principles.md, the lead-answers file G-20 with A-1, and lets the
developer take a lead answer from it.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ
Four developers of design 47's milestone G ran out of context on 2026-11-11 after one or two subtasks: the
milestone part and the main file they were told to read whole come to about 580 KB.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ
Milestone 47/G was prepared and developed from a 430 KB design by agents told to
start from the knowledge base and judge what was not mesh-shaped. The prepare wrote
its own findings and about 40 rulings by two leads, seven of which went against the
records or the design, and 29 questions the design never answered surfaced only in
develop.
The playbooks now make the milestone's part of its design the only input to the
prepare, develop and the code review: the prepare outputs a build map per
repository and the design questions; the operator answers each and the answer is
written into the design before develop starts; every commit cites the design lines
it builds and the review judges it against them. A design is a main file and one
part per milestone, within a size an agent reads whole. Also: one lead per
milestone, a contract's users start from its commit, one writer per file, one
sibling placement, and agents stop between subtasks, never inside one.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KK8HD1gufnqyFxMFdW
The first amendment left the step table, the review's reading of integration
tests, step 3 and playbook 08 saying the opposite. The run is now once per head
reported, the touched packages and their importers in the module, by name where
the importers are many, and never a whole module or level, within the operator's
rule of 2026-10-18. The live seat list is read again when a head is reported.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ
Issue 1966's fix group showed two gaps in how a developer checks: an integration
test the change broke went unseen because only the untagged suite ran, and a stale
seat list made the local manifest validator refuse what the running one accepts.
The developer definition and playbook 07's develop step now run the touched
packages' integration tests against an embedded bus, the whole of mesh-sdk, and
the validator against the live seat list and a fresh catalog trunk, and stop at
two thirds of the context with a handover in the prepare file. The glossary gains
transport fault (ADR 0664 §1, ADR 0668 §1) and kept call (ADR 0668).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ
Without SendMessage, milestone G's developers could report only at their end, so a seat definition the
others wait on could not be handed over mid-way.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ
mesh/check failed: mesh-build-go: the change's manifests cannot be judged: the seat list is not read (the seat list is … | b6b657917ed6 on aaad9daa69bb
mesh/check being carried to 304d17b5612c on d1e2059dab3f | from 331e5707922b
The review of hq #517 noted that the checker always passes the predefined key list (the change's when it alters it,
else the trunk's), while the text said only "when the change alters it" (issue 1585).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KG7AfSdh6FP8VrBqCn
mesh/check being carried to 749249466f8c on 331e5707922b | from 6b8b6b08e39a
Built at mesh-delivery's trunk unless the change alters the validator; raw
manifests in the two cases change and trunk; every manifest whose verdict
differs is reported, an unchanged one included (ADR 0579 §2).
Issue 1585.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KG7AfSdh6FP8VrBqCn
The take-in group's first check failed after a full build on a manifest the
validator refused (an indexer's own stream outside the bus's forms); no local
run had validated the changed manifests. The developer now runs the manifest
validator as the checker does and reports each verdict; the reviewer asks for it.
Issue 1585.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KG7AfSdh6FP8VrBqCn
mesh/check pass 69f95f551d19 on d4ae72782336 | unit 39 run, 0 kept, 1 skipped | integration 39 run, 0 kept, 1 skipped | composition passed in 17s on 4…
A small fix's lead placed a seat's type in mesh-sdk by its own handover (issue 1748), against design 26;
the developer built the handover and the reviewer checked against it, so it passed review and its check.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KJNrH5EgFXMKKYSrig
Design 25 § 12.3 now says how the bus module's process really receives a person's
request (its own state requests, the warrant verified by the process itself), the
process account with keeps it holds beside the snapshot account, and that
mesh-broker's events go on the shared stream like every seat's, with the 30-day
history its own stream. Design 26 gains where a seat's code goes: a package per seat,
the seat-set package in mesh-contracts, the seven client packages and the
seat-neutral parts transfer; design 20 and playbook 06 tell a module's author the
same, and the glossary gains client package and seat-set package. mesh-developer
stops at two thirds of its context, as the milestone's agents learned.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KJNrH5EgFXMKKYSrig
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