---
layer: as-is
status: implemented
code: [mesh-catalog modules/records, mesh-catalog modules/mesh-console]
updated: 2026-09-30
decisions:
  - 02-DECISIONS/0025-the-design-record-is-read-not-copied.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0153-the-record-is-read-by-a-module-and-the-console-lists-it.md
  - 02-DECISIONS/0152-the-operators-surface-is-a-module-the-console.md
---

# Knowledge

**The mesh keeps no knowledge store.** What it knows is what its modules answer, and the way a person
or an agent asks is the console's tool list on the machine they sit at
([13 — The console](13-the-console.md)). This document used to describe two stores; it is rewritten
because neither exists from the mesh's side, and an as-is document that describes what is gone is a
brochure.

## What was here, and where it went

Until the cut-over of 2026-09-28 the predecessor ran two stores: an operational memory of notes
indexed on symptoms, and a structured archive of governed documents with a librarian approving
promotion. Both were reached through the predecessor's tool server over the bus the mesh removed
([issue 147](../../04-ISSUES/147-the-operators-tools-still-dial-the-bus-that-was-removed/00-report.md)).
Nothing in the mesh reaches them now, and nothing in the mesh has replaced them: there is no note
store, no archive, no librarian, and the lessons of the last days were written into this repository by
hand. That is a gap, and it is stated here rather than papered over. What replaces a symptom-indexed
memory, if anything does, is undecided.

## The record

**The design record is read where it is written.** Since 2026-09-30 a module, `records`, keeps a
checkout of this repository from the forge — cloned from the `git` seat, reset to the origin on every
merge the forge announces and every ten minutes — and answers over the bus: where a phrase appears as
written, one document whole, what a folder holds, and where the checkout stands, each naming the
commit it read. Which repository it reads is a setting on its assignment; the module names no mesh.

It is listed by the console beside every other tool, with a description that says to search the
literal words of a symptom before forming a hypothesis. That is what
[ADR 0025](../../02-DECISIONS/0025-the-design-record-is-read-not-copied.md) meant by *beside
everything else*, in a mesh with no store to be beside
([ADR 0153](../../02-DECISIONS/0153-the-record-is-read-by-a-module-and-the-console-lists-it.md)).

Nothing is copied. A checkout lags the source by seconds after an announced merge and by minutes
otherwise, and says so.

## The constitution

[`00-META/how-we-build.md`](../../00-META/how-we-build.md) is the source of the mesh constitution
([ADR 0021](../../02-DECISIONS/0021-hq-is-the-source-of-the-constitution.md)). The page it used to be
synchronised into lived in the predecessor's archive and is unreachable; the constitution today is
read from this repository, through the same module, and playbook 05's sync has nothing to write to.

## Where this repository sits

A third thing beside two that are gone, which makes it the first: the one governed record the mesh
has, public, read by a module the mesh assigns, and edited nowhere else.