Two of the four surfaces the report named already carried it — the host
has reported Held since ADR 0100, and node show reads the machine's own
list with an `as of` beside it. Recorded as checked rather than assumed.
Two did not. The apply line counted what it applied and said nothing
about the difference; status read the mesh's take-time listing, so a
module assigned after it showed nothing at all.
Both now say it, and the part that carries the weight: a hold suppresses
"all doing what they were told, all heard from, running what the mesh
would send them". That sentence was true for the whole outage, and acting
on it is what stopped the predecessor's proxy. Being adopted still does
not suppress it — a mode somebody chose is not a half-finished action.
Status does not call a hold a fault, deliberately. It is correct
behaviour, and a reader trained to see red for something the mesh did
right stops reading.
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 | wontfixopened:YYYY-MM-DDlocated-in:[]# owning repo(s) or module(s), filled by diagnosisfixed-by:# pull request or commit reference, filled at resolutionamended-design:# design doc path, when the root cause was a design gap---
Rules
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