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status: located
opened: 2026-10-03
located-in:
  - mesh-controller
fixed-by:
amended-design:
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# 216 — A tools bundle nothing says to load is built, recorded, and never delivered

## What was observed

2026-10-03, seven modules moved their tools from a container to a bundle. Each built, each build was
recorded, and the machines that run them reported current — with none of the bundles on them. The
composer delivers a bundle only when the runtime loads something from it, and that is derived from
the module's `tools` list when the artifact names no `loads`; these modules had neither.

## Why it matters beyond this instance

Every step reported success: the build, the registration, the push, the machine's apply. The tools
were simply absent, and the old container was gone. A rule the composer applies silently is a rule
nobody learns until the tools are missing.

## Diagnosis

Owner mesh-controller (the catalogue's registration check). **Fix direction:** a bundle that nothing
loads, runs or unpacks — no `loads`, no `tools` list on its module, no resource naming it — is refused
at registration, naming the field that would deliver it. A test: such a manifest is refused; adding
`loads` admits it.