The operator could not read the mesh's notifications: they were the summary meant
for an agent, with ids, commits, keys and verbs, in UTC. The condition now carries
a headline, an explanation and a resolved line beside its summary.
Issue 247 left adding the operator's account to a daemon's group a sudo step by hand. Decide that
a module declares it with the user resource's groups, that the mesh gives back only what it added,
and that the node-engine says relogin needed; amend to-be 41 with WP6 and resolve the issue.
The build seat ran the merge-check.sh in the change's head, so a branch older
than the script, or one that gutted it, merged untested; and the media
catalogue did not require mesh/repo-check at all. Located, fixed on branches,
replayed as R310; the protection change awaits the operator.
A group of the controller, the node-engine and the lab, each ready, was
refused as a cycle: built by put the controller's member first, engine
before controller the node-engine's. ADR 0249 ranks the rules (declared,
then built by and version skew, then engine before controller) and
supersedes ADR 0239's sentence that made a declared order against an
inferred one a cycle; design 47 says the precedence. Resolved by
mesh-controller #134 and mesh-catalog #119, replay R309 (mesh-lab #64).
The branch building ADR 0169 carried a fix making a node's declaration
consumer as it enrols. The controller already asserts every node's
consumer before each send, and the self-check's healer asserts a missing
one again, so the fix is dropped rather than merged and the record says
why. The installer now places the bus's accounts at genesis.
Two incidents in two days had one shape: a change took effect that nobody saw first (issues 241
and 304). Three guards where the change is made — a settings layer read before it is replaced, a
push that says what it will change, a running module's data move acknowledged — each silent when
nothing is at stake. Accepted by the operator on 2026-10-08.
To-be 44 is in progress in mesh-controller (feat/no-change-takes-effect-unseen), migration 0078,
fitted onto what the controller does since: a whole-mesh push that says so and leaves a machine
waiting for a gate, a person's push that says what it recreates (ADR 0242), a named push's cascade.
The decision index is generated (ADR 0248), so no line is added to its README.
301: S15 counted the operator's pushes of recorded builds, the word ADR 0242
asks for, as repairs and wanted a healer for three causes. 302: the lab's
replays register was never compiled before a merge, because its check ran in
the TypeScript toolchain. To-be 45 §7 and §9 say how each is now decided and
checked.
Research 033 measured the laptop's VPN client and the mesh overwriting each
other's resolver file in nine of nine sessions, each time cutting off one
kind of name. The operator chose a resolver module on a node seat of its
own, installed only where something requires split-dns, with the VPN
client's module carrying the adapter. Graduates research 033 into to-be 50,
and amends connectivity §2, to-be 48 §10, the seats and the glossary.
The controller that merged (mesh-controller #116) dropped the staged seat and
marked both verbs optional, stored in the seat's row and read back optional.
words.py matched a retired word only when nothing followed it, so the
plural of every retired word passed. The pattern now takes s or es on the
last word; 14 uses in 9 documents are reworded, two of them 'the hosts'
for the node-engines.
Design 33 said a seat's verbs change additively, and section 3 made each
one a condition of holding, so a verb added in the controller and served
from the catalogue could land in neither order. It happened three times on
2026-10-07. Section 7 now says the three steps and how each is checked.
The agent reached machines over ssh because search never found the verbs by the commands it knew.
Records the three rules (generated instead-of table, search by replaced command, the shell guard
with the operator's recorded override) and how each is checked; to-be 36 names it.
ADR 0244 sorts the mesh's concepts into ten domains (ADR 0006's contexts
carry over as domains), keeps machine and node as distinct words, and
makes the glossary the authority with every retired word on its
replacement's Not: line. To-be 49 draws the domains; the glossary is
reorganised by them, its two contradictions removed and the missing
words added. words.py now fails on a retired word in running prose and
on a word defined twice, so the rule is enforced rather than believed;
the 63 documents it failed on are reworded here, and research 034 is
kept as the record of the words it studied.
The gate judged a module by what the mesh sees from outside, so a crash loop and an
eleven-hour silent web app passed it. Graduates research 032 on the operator's word.
mesh/merge-gate pass: the change touches no module of the mesh's graph
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
A walk mesh-delivery never lets go waited for ever with nothing open; the
controller now says it itself (S16), and the delivery's own stalls are its
conditions too (D14, H2 through close).
A build registered before its turn is carried by the next send to its
machines, so a published delivery asks nothing until its walk starts; the
rows the build needed (appeared, adopted, held on no walk, held then go)
and Phase B's verbs-without-probe are now said.
mesh/merge-gate pass: the change touches no module of the mesh's graph
One owner for one commit's journey, so 'did my change go out' is answered by
one module instead of five records joined by hand; delivery groups make the
cross-repository order the mesh enforces instead of the person merging.
Turning the merge check on for every repository showed it asked the wrong questions: a
repository chose whether it was checked, the gate mapped a change onto modules its own
way, the shared-code rule rebuilt 103 modules for a root script, and nothing kept a
commit off the trunk from becoming a module's version. Records the operator's decisions,
narrows ADR 0237 decision 4, revises to-be 45 §9 and Phase 5 and to-be 30, closes issue
280's left-open, and gives this repository its own merge-check.sh.
The operator approved Phase 5. Decides what the design left open: the build seat runs the
merge check, the facts live in the artifact store, the merge gate composes the mesh as it is
and with the change and judges only what the change adds, a replay lives where its incident
is, and the controller's tests run a bus of their own at the mesh's release. A core issue now
resolves only with a replay or a stated reason, checked by cycle.py.
Planned bus upgrades and rotations after one leak raised healer-wanted,
because the exemption was keyed on two causes. Progressive insight: the
exemption is read from the verb table; the decisions stand.
The 103-module rebuild ADR 0236 put down to the build agent came from a file of the catalogue's
reference module, read as shared because its definition was not in the merge. Records the issue,
corrects ADR 0236's open question as a progressive insight (the tiering was right; the build agent
never widens a plan) and amends to-be 30's rule for what a merge changed.
The coordinator's review: at the switch to roll, every send would carry the old default's
backlog unjudged. Measured: 88 of the 103 rebuilt modules were byte-identical, and no
build waited on any machine.
Phase 4 of to-be 45, started by the operator: the core's health as probes, a gate on
every plan's first machine, the rollback there once per build, the witness's contract
with the host, the bus as a step a person starts, and — with those in place — rolling
out as the default, keeping record where a module says why. 47 pushes by hand in one
day are what it ends.
Record the single-sample flaw found across the probes and watchdogs, and
the summaries that carried addresses and paths past the operator channel's
content rule; amend to-be 45 §4 with the two-look rule and the summary rule.
Resolves ADR 0233's flagged item (the bus's streams copied as live files) as
a progressive insight pointing here. The bus module's own account is granted
the snapshot API and nothing else; restore builds a new store beside the live
one for a person to swap in. To-be 43 gains the bus's section and its restore
steps; design 25 and to-be 45 point to it.
Nothing large is walked; the first night's size on the home server is measured and stated, the
previews are left out, the platform database is dumped, and the bus's live copy is flagged.
The operator's direction after issue 273: what data a module keeps, how precious it is and how it
is protected is said once, in the manifest, and backups, sticky bindings, retirement on unassign
and the self-check's watch are derived from it. Amends to-be 18, 32, 43 and 45.
The operator found four gaps that would bite on first use: a lost phone
locked the mesh's only person out, an operator message had no addressee,
asks could not name the specifics they need, and the operator was a
holder's flag. Each is now a rule with its check and its build phase.
Research 028 graduates: the mesh needs to ask as well as tell, over
channels that are seats rather than code inside one notifier, and an
action a person must approve cannot rest on a desk click an agent can
forge. TOTP verified by the controller is the proof; a key stays optional.
Amends to-be 45 section 5 as ADR 0227 left it to.
Two modules existed only to say one thing each: networking required mesh-wireguard and nothing else,
and public-acme pointed the one proxy at Let's Encrypt. dhcpcd and cloudflare-dns are assigned
nowhere. Retire all four, keeping every machine's network and every certificate as they are.
jochen
mesh-admin