On 2026-11-10 a seat contract and an event's subject that differed from design 47
surfaced only in develop, and the checker twice dropped a check still running when
its pull request merged. The prepare now compares every seat contract the milestone
touches with its design lines, each difference a design question before develop;
and a merged change with no verdict is reported as unchecked, never as passed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KK8HD1gufnqyFxMFdW
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 glossary gets the entry in the Delivery domain with the records that decide it, and retires the noun in
hq's prose on a Not line; the verb stays. Where "judge" named something else, the design now uses that
thing's word: the node-engine's look at health, an account or the network; the composition check built from
a change; the claude-code module's judgement tool. Five issue narratives keep the word of their day.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KJNrH5EgFXMKKYSrig
The line said the checker refuses an older commit of the same branch; that refusal was removed as a fault of the check
(issue 1585). Found pinning the registry milestone, where mesh-sdk and mesh-contracts import each other.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KJNrH5EgFXMKKYSrig
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.
The three milestones of the controller leaving build and delivery were prose only, so no
reader of the table saw the running work; 1209 and 971 were listed in two milestones
against ADR 0493 §2.
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.
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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