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4 changed files with 22 additions and 6 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 topic: what runs on it
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-10-01
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ extends: 02-DECISIONS/0046-a-module-configuration-is-its-assignments-not-its-man
 # 164. A setting is declared with its default, its meaning and what changing it costs
 > **Accepted 2026-10-10, partly built.** The default half is live in ADR 0262's spelling. The type, the
 > meaning, the file a setting lands in, its cost and the refusal of an undeclared key are not built yet;
 > tracked by issue 398.
 > **The mechanism changed — 2026-10-08, by [ADR 0262](0262-a-preference-has-a-default-in-its-manifest-and-the-operators-own-value-has-none.md).** The default half of this record is
 > built, in its own spelling: a manifest's `settings` gives a preference its `default` and `why`, and fills
 > `${setting:<key>}` with it. The rest stays proposed here: the type, the meaning, the target file, the cost
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 topic: what runs on it
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-10-01
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ extends: 02-DECISIONS/0161-what-deserves-a-seat.md
 # 165. `container-runtime` is what a machine can run; that a runtime is running is its holder's health
 > **Accepted 2026-10-10, not yet built.** The capability is still detected by asking a runtime, and a
 > container is not yet refused on a machine whose runtime seat is unheld; tracked by issue 398.
 ## Context
 A capability is a requirement a module places on a machine, detected by the host and renewed with
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 topic: what runs on it
-status: proposed
+status: accepted
 date: 2026-10-01
 deciders: jochen
 reconstructed: false
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ extends: 02-DECISIONS/0161-what-deserves-a-seat.md
 # 166. The container runtime is a node seat, and the host creates containers through its holder
 > **Accepted 2026-10-10, partly built.** The seat exists and `docker` holds it on every machine, and the
 > runtime's file is that module's alone (issue 190). The seat's verbs and events, and the node-engine
 > creating containers through the holder's socket, are not built yet; tracked by issue 398.
 ## Context
 Every container the mesh runs on a machine is created by the host, which looks for a runtime
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layer: to-be
 status: in-progress
 code: [mesh-catalog, mesh-controller, mesh-host]
-updated: 2026-10-08
+updated: 2026-10-10
 decisions:
  - 02-DECISIONS/0215-the-machines-message-bus-is-a-node-seat-and-is-never-restarted-live.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0173-the-operators-machine-is-the-meshs-and-a-module-is-what-it-declares.md
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ decisions:
  - 02-DECISIONS/0210-a-tools-configuration-is-its-seat-holders-and-every-other-module-extends-it-through-the-seat.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0255-the-bar-takes-blocks-as-data-from-the-module-that-knows-the-hardware-placed-where-the-machine-has-it.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0260-a-bar-block-shows-a-value-its-module-keeps-on-the-bus-and-no-module-reads-anothers-files.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0164-a-setting-is-declared-with-its-default-its-meaning-and-what-changing-it-costs.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0165-container-runtime-is-what-a-machine-can-run-and-a-running-runtime-is-its-holders-health.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0166-the-container-runtime-is-a-node-seat-and-the-host-creates-containers-through-its-holder.md
 ---
 # 42. The machines' modules, in order
@@ -79,8 +82,10 @@ every module that declares a service, a package or a container depends on them b
 They go on every machine before the rest, and once they have, an unmet dependency is refused rather
 than reported.
-`kernel` is last because a mistake in it costs a boot. `docker` stays a module without the runtime seat
+`kernel` is last because a mistake in it costs a boot. `docker` holds the runtime seat
-until ADRs 0165 and 0166 are accepted.
+([ADR 0166](../../02-DECISIONS/0166-the-container-runtime-is-a-node-seat-and-the-host-creates-containers-through-its-holder.md)), with its settings declared as
 [ADR 0164](../../02-DECISIONS/0164-a-setting-is-declared-with-its-default-its-meaning-and-what-changing-it-costs.md) decides and the capability detected as
 [ADR 0165](../../02-DECISIONS/0165-container-runtime-is-what-a-machine-can-run-and-a-running-runtime-is-its-holders-health.md) decides; what of the three is not built yet is tracked by issue 398.
 **Added 2026-10-04.** Two more modules for every machine:
 - `power` holds `node-power` ([ADR 0211](../../02-DECISIONS/0211-a-machines-power-is-a-node-seat-its-moments-take-contributions-and-its-states-are-events.md)). Other modules contribute code for