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Design 33 in progress against ADR 0154 (the twelve verbs, the prerequisites built); design 35 for the records module under ADR 0153, extending 0025; as-is 07 rewritten to a mesh that keeps no store; as-is 12 and 13 updated; issue 006 built and waiting on its live check.
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layer: to-be
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status: in-progress
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code: [mesh-catalog modules/records]
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updated: 2026-09-30
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decisions:
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- 02-DECISIONS/0153-the-record-is-read-by-a-module-and-the-console-lists-it.md
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- 02-DECISIONS/0025-the-design-record-is-read-not-copied.md
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- 02-DECISIONS/0112-a-module-definition-names-no-node-mesh-or-path.md
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# 35 — Reading the record
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**The design record, answered from a checkout the mesh keeps, at the commit it read.** A module,
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`records`, holds a working copy of a repository of markdown — this one, for this mesh — and answers
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where a phrase appears, what a document says, what a folder holds and where the copy stands. The
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console lists those answers beside every other tool
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([ADR 0153](../../02-DECISIONS/0153-the-record-is-read-by-a-module-and-the-console-lists-it.md)).
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## 1. What it keeps, and why that is not a copy
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A git checkout, cloned from the forge that holds the `git` seat, brought up to date on every merge the
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forge announces and every ten minutes besides. The bytes are the repository's; nothing is derived
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from them and stored. What [ADR 0025](../../02-DECISIONS/0025-the-design-record-is-read-not-copied.md)
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refused was a second store that is *searched* while the first is *edited*, drifting silently. A
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checkout cannot drift; it can lag, and the lag is in every answer as the commit it was read at and
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in `records_status` as when it was last brought up to date.
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The checkout is reset to the origin on every sync, never merged: it is the mesh's, so a local change
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is nobody's.
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## 2. What it answers
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| tool | answers |
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| `records_search` | every place a phrase appears, as written and case-insensitively: document, line, the nearest heading above it; bounded, and says when it was |
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| `records_read` | one document, whole, or its first part with a note when very long |
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| `records_list` | what a folder holds: sub-folders and documents |
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| `records_status` | repository, forge, commit and its date, last sync, document count, last error |
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| `records_sync` | bring the checkout up to date now |
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No ranking and no summary, on purpose: a record is found by its own words, and the reasoning is in
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the document, not in the tool.
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## 3. What it is told, and what it refuses to guess
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Three things, none from a manifest ([ADR 0112](../../02-DECISIONS/0112-a-module-definition-names-no-node-mesh-or-path.md)):
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the directory its checkout lives in (a resource the mesh gives it), the forge's address (the `git`
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provision's binding, written into a file as `scheme://host:port`), and the repository's path on the
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forge (a **setting**, `{"repository": "<owner>/<name>"}`). Without the third it serves no tools and its
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log says so. Public repositories only; it holds no credential.
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## 4. How it is found
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The console asks every module what it serves and lists `records_search` with a description that says
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when to call it — *search the literal words of a symptom or a term before forming a hypothesis*. That
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is 0025's second half in today's mesh: there is no store to be beside, and an agent choosing from a
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tool list is the search.
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## 5. Where it runs
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Anywhere a node has the forge in reach; one assignment is enough, and a second on another machine is
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harmless. The mesh session of design 15, when it exists, calls this rather than reading for itself.
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## How it is checked
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| Check | Defends |
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| a phrase in one document of a repository the test makes comes back from that document, with the commit; a second commit on the origin is pulled and the next answer names it | ADR 0025's check, ADR 0153 |
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| a path outside the checkout is refused; an empty search is refused | the reader reads the repository and nothing else |
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| a sync against an unreachable origin leaves the checkout standing and says why | silence and success never look alike |
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| live: through the console, `records_search` for a phrase that appears only in a design document here returns it | issue 006's closing check |
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## What this does not settle
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- Ranking or meaning. A search that understands a question is the session's job, not the reader's.
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- A private repository. That is a credential the module would have to hold, and a decision about
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what may read what.
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## References
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- [ADR 0153](../../02-DECISIONS/0153-the-record-is-read-by-a-module-and-the-console-lists-it.md)
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- [ADR 0025](../../02-DECISIONS/0025-the-design-record-is-read-not-copied.md)
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- [34 — The console](34-the-console.md) — what lists it
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- [issue 006](../../04-ISSUES/006-hq-is-not-indexed-into-the-knowledge-base/00-report.md)
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