The operator, 2026-10-15: the smaller model is as good as free against the weekly allowance, so the
limit that matters is how many agents the lead can settle and follow (three to five); subagents on the
larger model stay at two at most and as rare as possible.
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A reviewer that does not know its round keeps finding the next smaller thing: one decision record went
through nine rounds on 2026-10-15, each spending the operator's shared weekly allowance. The operator
asked for three to five rounds, the round told to the reviewer, and the allowance in every report.
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Five agents at once, each stopping on an undecided design question and restarting, spent a
week's allowance in a night. Also write down the lessons of feature 57: never land on a red
check, a new manifest word lands with the controller that reads it, and review the tree that
is pushed.
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A push starts the forge's checks, which build the modules and run every
test for up to a quarter of an hour, so a review finding fixed after the
push costs another full run (the operator, 2026-10-14).
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A finished issue's agent is gone, so left in fixing it goes stale; the lead
takes it over until the feature is delivered. One repository is one
delivery, not a group; readiness comes from depends-on links (review
comment 12466).
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Feature 57 was first worked as a pull request per issue into protected
branches and lost most of a day waiting on merge checks. Record the issue
as the unit, a review and checks once at the end, landing by fast-forward
under a lock, and the lessons met on the way.
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mesh/repo-check pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; it…
ADR 0290 rule 9: once the import is checked record by record, hq keeps no copy.
The records and efforts are removed; every link or path to them reads "ADR NNNN" or
"research NNN"; a design's decisions: lists "ADR NNNN". 02-DECISIONS keeps a pointer
README with the reading order's six topics, which the knowledge base reads through the
records module; 01-RESEARCH keeps a pointer README. The checks drop the rules that
judged records (the knowledge base holds each at propose; checks/README.md says where)
and refuse a record written here again. Playbooks 01 and 02 and the skills write and
read records with the knowledge base's verbs.
A bed run from .work/<slug>/mesh-lab derives mesh-tools and mesh-sdk by
sibling path and fails at once when the directory holds only the touched
repos. Detached worktrees on main, never symlinks.
Settles the design repository now that the self-upgrade build is on main:
- Records the two decisions that shipped without a record — ADR 0077 (the
controller/foundation/node vocabulary) and ADR 0078 (the store and broker are
ordinary modules); accepts ADR 0075 and 0076, which shipped work rests on.
- Fills issue 051's amended-design and wires ADR 0078 into 07-the-foundation.
- Sweeps the repo rename (mesh-control -> mesh-controller) into the mutable docs
now that the forge repo is renamed; updates the glossary note and repos.md.
- Fixes the six broken links from the design-doc renames, indexes the glossary,
regenerates the decisions reading order.
Both checks (records.py, index.py) are green. Statuses stay honest: the build is
on main and lab-proven but not deployed as the production mesh, so the to-be docs
remain in-progress and the as-is layer (the hal mesh) is unchanged — graduation
to implemented + as-is belongs to deployment, not merge.
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