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A mesh raised from bare metal built six modules and its catalogue reported three: exactly those built after it began running. Missing were the shared base, the store, and the catalogue itself. The hole is never random. On a fresh mesh the modules built before the catalogue are by necessity the ones it needed in order to exist, so the foundation is always what is absent, on every mesh, at the moment the graph is first populated. It breaks the question the catalogue is for: build edges hang off the base, so a catalogue with no record of it answers 'what must be rebuilt' confidently and wrongly. And nothing reports the gap, because a catalogue cannot know what it was never told — this was found by comparing its answer against what the mesh had just been watched doing. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
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.