**0024 accepted.** Model access was decided, built, and proven in the
lab, and two design documents rest on it; only the status had never
moved. The gate is green again.
**The work breakdown rewritten.** It planned a decomposition of the
existing system in place — extract contexts, declared features, shrink
the shared library. That is not the work. A replacement is being built
beside it, and only the old Phase 0 survived contact with reality, so
the one document meant to say what happens next was describing a system
being retired.
Now ordered by what "modules move across one at a time until the old
registry is off" actually requires:
- Phase 0 is marked done against the twenty-two lab assertions, **and
carries its own limitation**: every module exercised was written to
test the mechanism, so the vocabulary was shaped by its own fixtures.
- Phase 1 is the vocabulary gaps found by asking what real modules
need — an object-store provision, a session as a licence consumer, a
network shape with ordering, public certificate issuance.
- Phase 2 is one module, then a week of running it, because the point of
going first is to find what Phase 1 missed.
- Phase 3 picks modules that each prove something the first did not; the
mail system is last because it is the one that may send work back into
the declaration language.
- Phase 4 is switching the registry off, named as a phase so it is not
mistaken for the goal.
Keeps the rules of engagement unchanged — they were about how work is
done, not what it is — with one addition: stop and ask before anything
that touches a machine outside the lab.
Adds a section on keeping the list true, since the document it replaces
was wrong for weeks and nothing said so. A claim here is counted, not
reasoned, and a phase is done when the lab says so.
A new requirement, and it is mostly a shape the mesh already has. A
module that needs to think requires model-access; several vendors and a
locally-run model are several modules providing it; choosing is assigning
the one you want. A model the mesh runs itself needs nothing new at all —
it is a mesh-scoped provision on the node with the hardware, credential
included.
A licence is a named thing because the whole point is saying which one a
given consumer uses, and the names are the operator's. Many to many, so
not a claim: two machines sharing an account is ordinary, not a
collision.
Four gaps, written as gaps rather than design:
- a provider that is on no node, reached over the public internet, which
the reachability rule must not refuse
- a secret the mesh is GIVEN rather than mints. Every credential it
handles today it generated and discarded; an API key arrives from a
person, and accepting one must still discard the plaintext
- a consumer that is not a machine. Which licence a worker uses is a
binding to an agent, and the provisions model has no consumer identity
other than a node
- switching on exhaustion is a reaction to something observed, not a
declaration. It belongs with observability, changing a binding — saying
so is what stops the declaration language growing a conditional
The existing auto-refresh and switching is not being replaced because it
was wrong. It is being rebuilt because it lives somewhere that cannot
express the rest.
jschoubben