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The registry milestone now moves the Delivery domain out of mesh-sdk, creates a contracts module per domain it moves and the first domain SDK, defines 25 seats whole with their states, reads the seat list from the bus and renames two seats. Design 26's *Where a seat's code goes* is what the review and the developer read to place every new name, so it must say this before develop starts. - design 26: definitions carry states; the 25 seats by contracts module; the seat list from the bus; the two renames; the domain SDK and a module's own package; the transfer in the Delivery domain's SDK; checks per ADR 0634 §10 and ADR 0635 §6 - design 20, playbook 06: the homes of shared code, the first that fits - design 47: the seat mesh-module-assigner - glossary: domain SDK added; seat-set package retired; mesh-module-assigner, mesh-wants, mesh-node-enroller and the-private-network in their domains - preparer and code reviewer definitions: the homes, without the retired word Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KJNrH5EgFXMKKYSrig
00-META
The northern star. What the mesh is, the environment it runs in, and what changes when it works — plus the engineering practice that holds across everything Novox builds. Every research effort and design decision is checked against this folder.
| File / folder | Purpose |
|---|---|
mission.md |
Vision, mission, and the values that decide arguments |
context.md |
The environment — conditions, not aspirations |
effect.md |
What is different when the work is done |
how-we-build.md |
The rules that hold across the mesh, each one earned. The source of the mesh constitution — the governed page the mesh injects into design sessions is derived from it. |
glossary.md |
One name per thing — the authority on vocabulary, and the words that were retired |
repos.md |
Where implementation lives, and what each repository owns |
process/ |
The playbooks — how work moves through this repository, for engineers and agents alike |
Rules
- Markdown only, but for the checks and one drawn overview of the playbooks (
process/playbooks.html). - Stable by nature. Changes here reflect a genuine shift in intent, not iteration. The one
exception is
how-we-build.md, which changes whenever a rule is earned — and only through its amendment process. - Research and design must be traceable back to what is written here.
- Instance-agnostic. These documents describe the mesh as a concept. No machine names, no counts, no topology.
On the architecture overview in the code repository
The code repository carries an architecture overview predating this folder. It is a useful
description of how the mesh works, and its content now lives — anonymised and checked against
the implementation — in 03-DESIGN/00-as-is/. GENESIS answers why;
that document answered how, which is the design layer's job.
It had also drifted from the implementation in ways worth recording, since both were found by comparing it against the code rather than by anyone noticing:
- It described the pipeline as having a separate builder process and a build stage that packages. Neither was true after 2026-08-04; the documents stayed stale until 2026-08-06 (ADR 0010).
- It listed the mesh as spanning a fixed number of named machines, which is exactly the content this repository cannot carry.
It also lists "symlinks, not copies" as a key design principle, and that is a genuine contradiction rather than a stale detail. The mesh's stated intent is that it creates no symlinks at all — the rule is not merely "only the installer may link", and a founding document elevating linking to a principle points the opposite way from where this is going.
What exists today is that the installer owns and reconciles every link
(ADR 0012) — an as-is fact, recorded in
03-DESIGN/00-as-is/05-runtime-and-installation.md.
Centralising who may link narrowed the incident class; it did not close it. The intent is to
remove the mechanism, recorded as ADR 0012.
A founding document contradicting the direction of travel is precisely the failure this folder exists to prevent.