Two accepted decisions collide, and testing found it rather than review. 0046 pins images by digest and has the host refuse anything unpinned. The lab places images by exporting them from the workstation, because a sealed scenario cannot reach a registry -- and that loses the digest, since a repo digest only exists for an image a registry served. Measured: the load says 'Loaded image ID:' rather than 'Loaded image:', and the image lands dangling. So a tag is refused by the host and a digest is unusable in the lab. There is currently no declaration the lab can raise that exercises the container shape, which matters because the container shape IS the substrate -- every bootstrap step past the runtime is one. The resolution is a registry inside the scenario, and that is not a workaround: 0048 already names an OCI registry as substrate and every node after the first pulls from the mesh's own. It also removes the lab's export-and-push mechanism rather than repairing it. 0046 now carries a pointer, since its own consequence is where the collision was predicted -- half of it is closed and the other half turned out to be harder than 'not solved here' suggested.
04-ISSUES
The front door for "something is wrong" at the level of the mesh's design or governance. Diagnosis happens here, where the whole mesh is in view; the fix lands in the owning code repository.
What belongs here
| Belongs here | Belongs in the knowledge base |
|---|---|
| The design permits a failure to be silent | How to fix one occurrence of it |
| A documented rule is enforced by nothing | A command that works around it |
| A stated invariant is false in practice | A node-specific quirk |
| The owner is unknown and finding it needs the whole mesh in view | Symptom → fix, once the answer is known |
The knowledge base already holds the operational record and is indexed on symptoms. This folder is not a second copy of it. An issue here is a question HQ must answer; an entry there is an incident someone must clear. An issue whose answer is a general lesson belongs in both.
Structure
NNN-short-name/
00-report.md the symptom as observed, with the evidence; status in frontmatter
01-diagnosis.md the investigation trail, dated, including what was ruled out
Frontmatter, on 00-report.md
---
status: open | diagnosing | located | resolved | wontfix
opened: YYYY-MM-DD
located-in: [] # owning repo(s) or module(s), filled by diagnosis
fixed-by: # pull request or commit reference, filled at resolution
amended-design: # design doc path, when the root cause was a design gap
---
Rules
- Anyone may open an issue. No localisation is required to report one.
- The full flow is playbook
00-META/process/03-issues.md. - Closed issues are never deleted — they are the mesh's symptom-to-component memory.
wontfixis legitimate and requires a sentence saying why.