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jschoubben cb1954e7b5 Accept 0024, and rewrite the work breakdown around what is actually being done
**0024 accepted.** Model access was decided, built, and proven in the
lab, and two design documents rest on it; only the status had never
moved. The gate is green again.

**The work breakdown rewritten.** It planned a decomposition of the
existing system in place — extract contexts, declared features, shrink
the shared library. That is not the work. A replacement is being built
beside it, and only the old Phase 0 survived contact with reality, so
the one document meant to say what happens next was describing a system
being retired.

Now ordered by what "modules move across one at a time until the old
registry is off" actually requires:

- Phase 0 is marked done against the twenty-two lab assertions, **and
  carries its own limitation**: every module exercised was written to
  test the mechanism, so the vocabulary was shaped by its own fixtures.
- Phase 1 is the vocabulary gaps found by asking what real modules
  need — an object-store provision, a session as a licence consumer, a
  network shape with ordering, public certificate issuance.
- Phase 2 is one module, then a week of running it, because the point of
  going first is to find what Phase 1 missed.
- Phase 3 picks modules that each prove something the first did not; the
  mail system is last because it is the one that may send work back into
  the declaration language.
- Phase 4 is switching the registry off, named as a phase so it is not
  mistaken for the goal.

Keeps the rules of engagement unchanged — they were about how work is
done, not what it is — with one addition: stop and ask before anything
that touches a machine outside the lab.

Adds a section on keeping the list true, since the document it replaces
was wrong for weeks and nothing said so. A claim here is counted, not
reasoned, and a phase is done when the lab says so.
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03-DESIGN / 01-to-be

The mesh being built toward. Every statement here traces to a record in 02-DECISIONS/; nothing arrives by drafting.

A document here describes an intention. What currently runs is in 00-as-is/, and the two are never merged — when something ships, the as-is document is written and this one's status becomes implemented.

Document Covers Rests on
00-work-breakdown.md How modules move across one at a time, until the old registry can be switched off ADR 0001, ADR 0016
01-end-to-end-testing.md The lab: a real mesh a change can be run against before it reaches nodes ADR 0016, 0029
02-scenario-declaration.md What a scenario declares — the underlay, and what to place on it ADR 0016
03-scenario-lifecycle.md What happens to a scenario — raise, snapshot, restore, move, destroy ADR 0016
04-lab-installation.md Getting the lab onto a clean machine, and why it verifies capability rather than installation ADR 0010
05-the-node-host.md Tier 0 — the one thing installed by hand, and the only thing that changes a machine ADR 0005
06-the-control-plane.md Tier 2 — what the term means, and the test for what belongs in it ADR 0005
07-the-substrate.md Tier 1 — what the control plane consumes and cannot grant itself ADR 0004, 0048
08-connectivity.md One context in full — overlay, resolution, exposure, filtering, certificates ADR 0007, 0050, 0051, 0055
09-the-node-lifecycle.md How a machine becomes a node, stays one, and stops being one ADR 0004, 0051
10-delivery.md Modules, the three edges, and how a change becomes a running thing ADR 0010, 0064, 0065
11-a-board.md What a person sees of the mesh, and why it is read from what runs ADR 0008, ADR 0001
12-a-module-repository.md A module repository, and what builds it ADR 0009, ADR 0010, ADR 0005
13-credentials-and-their-rotation.md Credentials, and moving them without a consumer holding one the provider does not know about ADR 0001, ADR 0009
14-model-access.md Model access as a provision, and what a licence is bound to ADR 0024, ADR 0009
15-the-agent-session.md One mechanism started twice — a node's session and the mesh's ADR 0004, ADR 0026

Not yet written

  • The remaining six contexts. ADR 0006 settles the list at seven; connectivity is the first written in full (08) and the other six do not exist yet. The work breakdown says in what order they are needed.
  • Domain grouping outside the core. Not needed. ADR 0009 is superseded by ADR 0009: there is no domain module to group into, so there is no domain list to settle. Relationships are edges, and grouping is a tag and a query.