ADR 0070 has the init builder clone the source and does not say from where, and
ADR 0067 had rejected building at genesis partly because the forge runs on the
mesh being rebuilt. That objection binds only when those are the same mesh, which
is true exactly once.
So genesis clones from a mesh by name, and if that mesh is lost the name moves to
another that holds a copy — recovery is a name pointing elsewhere rather than a
backup being restored, and every installation adds somewhere it could point.
It names a commit and checks what it got, because the forge a mesh installs from
is the trust anchor for everything that mesh will run. On 2026-09-11 that forge
was running a cryptominer and tampering with git operations in flight; nothing was
altered, but a mesh installing during those hours could not have known that.
What relationship a mesh keeps afterwards is left open and named, so that whoever
writes the init builder does not settle it by accident: a snapshot and then
independence, or a continuing upstream for core modules.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
