The operator replaced the instruction on implementing a design on
2026-11-11 about 21:48 CET: the lead answers each question met while
building in one line against the principles, and only one no principle
settles goes on, to the operator when it changes what they see or how
they work, removes data or needs their terminal, otherwise to the design
writer as a design line. Playbooks 02, 07 and 08, the glossary's design
question, AGENTS.md, the code reviewer and the drawn overview still said
only the operator or the design writer answers; they now say the rule.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfGKaxw984XyAPfLm4h
In milestone 47/G's develop the lead answered over 100 questions, most of
them a design line meeting the code: a form the code cannot take, or a part
assumed built that was not. The prepare had read the design alone. The
operator, 2026-11-11 about 23:45 CET: the prepare reads the code each design
line lands in as well, and lists every such place before any developer
starts; the lead answers each in one line against the principles.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfGKaxw984XyAPfLm4h
The operator answered D-12, D-13 and D-19 at the terminal, and ruled on 2026-11-11 that a question touching nothing
the operator sees, no permission and no data kept is answered as a design line by the design writer and read by the
reviewers by architectural domain. The new part file G-10 carries those answers and the internal-form ones (§456 to
§479), the earlier lines point to them, and playbooks 02, 07 and 08 and the glossary say who answers a design
question now. The questions that touch who may call or what the operator sees are left for the operator.
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
The operator, 2026-11-09: a list of requirements shapes the research, so every
option is weighed against requirements the operator has corrected first.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i
Research 085 graduated into eleven records where it answered two questions:
the rule 'one record per choice that could be reversed on its own' made
every design choice a record of its own.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFSnn24M3GcqttoU7i
mesh/check pass 2b9e6b256b4b on f312e7cd0ea6 | carried from 1747485cb351 | unit 39 run, 0 kept, 1 skipped | integration 39 run, 0 kept, 1 skipped | co…
Each layer (research, decisions, survey, review) checked the layer before
it and none read the running code, so effects of the controller's removed
jobs surfaced only after delivery. Playbook 07's prepare step now writes,
per context file, what exists today, every effect and reader of what is
removed or moved, and each one's fate with its test; the review refuses
work without it. Playbook 08 reads its area the same way, briefly.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
Build capacity is the mesh's scarcest resource: a try before and after the review plus a check per fix round on an open pull request spent it several times per release.
Release 6 deletes delivery plans, batches, the merge window and tiers, so
design 47's sections that described them as current are rewritten to the
assigner's seven rules, the controller's signed compositions per node, the
node agent, credentials on a done build, the switch as release 5's last plan,
the hand path by mesh-compose and a want, and the view's delivered, moving,
settled and stuck events. The glossary gains composition and restates want,
declaration, send and apply; the playbooks follow a delivery by the view and
the have keys and call no plans, plan, push or what-if.
Design 63 turns the mail page into the operator's list with Owly beside it (ADR 0515
to 0519), in six milestones with their issues; its reference mockup is kept beside it,
its data invented. Playbook 10 says how a page is designed before it is built: mockups
with fixed data, the operator picks, the pick is the reference. The as-is of the mail
modules now describes mail reading as delivered, the glossary gains design 63's words,
design 59's milestone 4 is marked replaced, and AGENTS.md allows a design's mockup.
Issues 1855 and 1856.
mesh/merge-gate head 9a74de0bd64f merged into trunk 77d4a8a39e1f — pass: group feat/quiet-deliveries composed: every machine composes with the change as it…
The operator, 2026-10-22: a milestone is a milestone; which module reaches the machines first is what the delivery plan is for. The prepare step still lists every part a change reaches, as issues of the same milestone; an order the plan cannot keep is an issue of the build and delivery system.
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