Review of hq #254: a hand edit is written back on the look that finds it, and a key that
decides what runs is never taken over; the guard and the condition cover settings.local.json,
plugins and plugin installs; after a node's first adoption an unrendered file is moved to the
copies; autoMode is a permission rule; the named leftovers, the owned and excluded entries,
pending requests with the exact nox line, and the agent's existing corrections as first lessons.
Research 040 measured the homes on four nodes: a skill retired a week ago on all four, the
operator's rules on one, nothing raised. The module now owns every configuration file under
the agent's home, excludes the program's working state by name, and raises agent-home-drift
on a hand edit; a fourth scope carries the operator's personal rules to every node; an agent
proposes a lesson when corrected and the operator accepts it at the terminal or on a warrant.
To-be 36 §10 and to-be 40 WP7–WP10 say what is built; ADR 0216 and 0243 gain notes.
The catalogue's #125 stayed held 28 hours after ADR 0270 went live. The record covers a held merge when a
later delivered walk sent its module everywhere, as the machine steps say; a build held back for a person
and sent on the operator's word travels by a backlog walk, which gives one step per machine and whose end
mesh-delivery read for nothing. Report, diagnosis located in mesh-delivery, the fix in mesh-catalog #163,
and a progressive insight on ADR 0270's one-machine consequence, which this widens.
An ordinary line meets the generic verb's reading forms and never a
terminal-only command (node account and node agent-account by ADR 0266,
token, operator, a secret's export); a terminal line drops ADR 0266's
served mark, so it reads as the terminal. How it is checked says the
withholding tests search base64 too and fail when what they guard goes,
and the control-node refusal is tested through the acts.
- §3: the node-engine vouches and decides nothing; deadline first, other
namespaces refused, each account bounded and answered busy; the subject
is the machine's own in the writers table.
- §4: phase 1 refuses the agent account (phase 2 answers it); an ordinary
settings line takes the settings verb's path; the controller's module is
assigned at the terminal only, so the terminal does not follow assign;
'no wider than today' holds only while its two measured facts hold.
- §5: every line is a call, followed to its answer; 'nothing ran' only of
a line nobody took, otherwise 'not known' with the call; the answer is
its asker's alone.
- §7: after the four merge, the operator assigns mesh-cli to every node.
- How it is checked: each claim with its test or measurement, the
MESH_VERB refusal in mesh-cli named a courtesy, and the sudo and
agent-account facts read on the control-node today.
The record said a merge needs a person; the forge requires no approval and
the merge tool merges once the checks pass, so nothing enforces the
operator's yes. What still remains now says so, and that the restart fix
counts from when the controller first saw the search pending. Item 10 and
routes A and B describe the follow-ups of the review of 2026-10-09.
The records send the operator to "the controller's terminal", and on the
control-node `mesh-controller` is not a command: the controller is a mesh
process with its own account and environment, and nothing puts anything on
PATH. The record proposes mesh-cli, a module on every node whose program
asks the node-engine over a local socket; the node-engine vouches for the
account from the kernel and asks the controller on its node's own subject;
the controller runs the line as the terminal only for the operator's account
where no agent can be that account. The glossary gains mesh-cli, nox (its
zsh alias) and the controller's terminal.
Item 10 said two minutes; the engine's bound is 15, with a two-minute limit
inside it still to settle. What still remains now names a build from another
repository registering a module (mesh-controller 174), the forge's tools
changing its protection (mesh-catalog 153), and the urgent condition every
engine restart raises (mesh-controller 175).
The routes found around the agent account since the record was written are
closed on main (the store's reader, places and served keys, what every session
obeys, execute withheld on the control node); the record names them, drops the
store gap it said kept the boundary from holding, and says plainly what still
remains, first the login shell's execute on the other nodes. To-be 36 §9 gains
the prerequisites and the order the parts go out in.
The re-review closed the command verb to reads, moved enrolment to the
controller's terminal, widened what the node-engine judges, and found the
store's reader able to read every secret; say each, and that the boundary is
not in force until the store is fixed.
The review found ways round the record: a verb that set the accounts, root
following a link below a home, a tool reading any path as the operator, a
restore written beside the agent's files, a stale verdict passing. Record each
bound, the exact ways judged and not judged, the guard on every tool and its
record's limits, and a rollout order the guard does not block.
The operator chose this remedy for ADR 0259 section 8: an agent there could
become root through the operator account's sudo and docker group, and read the
tool runner's credential. Record the node fact, the node-engine's judgement
the self-check reads, the guard, and how a session starts; issue 333 holds
the measured symptom and to-be 36 the design.
The operator accepted both on 2026-10-09. Design 47's state table gains covered and what ends a held
delivery by itself, and its group the wait for a composed check and the lift; design 45's signals table
gains S17 and its planned bus step says the wait is told at once. The glossary's delivery entry names its
six final states.
Decision 1 named S6 for a failed new-module build; S6 is a lost build ask. Such a build is said by one
line in the controller's log until its module is assigned. A module on one machine never gets a 'rest'
step, so covered never reaches it. The forge module's tests run in the catalogue's TypeScript check, #151.
Merge order on a protected trunk is kept only as the first filter; the forge's compare, through a new
read-only tool, decides whether a later merge contains a held one. A merge held without a passing check is
covered only by a later delivery whose own check passed. Covered says a later merge that contains it was
delivered, not that the change runs: a revert in between stays possible. A delivery that only adds a module
is delivered whatever its build does, and covered wins over go when a person's walk fails between two
readings. The glossary gains covered beside superseded and delivered.
ADR 0271 names the bus upgrade as the mesh call and says S17 clears once the step sent the new bus.
Issues 319 and 316: fifteen held deliveries asked a person a question with no right answer, and stop,
the only way out, records a delivered change as an error. ADR 0270 delivers a merge that moves nothing at
once, adds the final state covered for a merge a later delivered walk of the same trunk carried, and lifts
a group hold once its composed check passed.
Issue 336: a send held for the bus's planned step raised nothing for 28 minutes. ADR 0271 adds row S17,
said at the first refusal for the operator with the verb, keeps S3 from calling it lateness, and has the
delivery plan say before the merge that a person's bus upgrade follows.
Each issue's diagnosis says what the fix does and how to verify it once delivered.
The operator accepted ADR 0269 on 2026-10-09. ADR 0118 gets the dated note the README asks for where a
later record narrows its mechanism. The node-engine's to-be design names the decision and says what it
changes, which the cycle check requires of an accepted record.
Third review: a person's stopping a unit the mesh also held stopped leaves no trace, so it is started
again on removal; the home server's restored weekly timer would start a scrub of about 46 hours at once.
A masked or since-changed unit is left alone, and a failed restore waits.
Unassigning the zfs module would leave the home server's pool with no scrub schedule: ADR 0118 never
starts a unit on the way out, so the distribution's timer the module held stopped would stay stopped.
The host now records what it declared beside what it found, and gives back only what the mesh's own
declaration stopped.
The operator's decision of 2026-10-09: execute runs any command as an
account that can become root without a person, so the control-node stops
offering it now, and every node marks it as needing approval once the
mark exists. To-be 41 gains WP7 for the seat and the shell module.
A merge to a shared repository moved every module that read it, in a gated
tier each (issue 338). The operator's rule maps a change onto the artifacts
whose build source it touches and adds only modules with a build dependency
on a changed artifact; sharing a repository is no dependency. Supersedes in
part ADR 0162 decision 1 (the packages kind) and ADR 0238 decision 3 (whole
repository and context reads); adds build source to the glossary.
jochen
jschoubben
mesh-admin