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Back to 23 records. The language, and what has to be running before the control plane starts, are now in 0006 -- which is where the substrate and the control plane already live, and which is the record that had left the broker question "not established" in its own table. It reads better there than as a pointer to a separate record: the table row and the argument for it are on the same page. The store mechanics went into 0008. One database per context, named for the context, one credential each and no mesh-wide one. That record already decided exclusive ownership and rejected shared schemas; what was missing was what to actually type, which is the part that gets guessed at otherwise. Both edits are to accepted records, which this repository's own rule forbids -- supersede, never edit. Recorded here so it is visible rather than silent. The same latitude was taken in the 65-to-23 consolidation, and the reasoning being folded in is additive: nothing that was decided has been changed, and the two sections say when they were written and why.
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| status | updated |
|---|---|
| canonical | 2026-08-23 |
The Novox repositories
The map of where implementation lives. Humans use it for orientation; agents use it for issue
triage (playbook process/03-issues.md). The code: frontmatter
field in design documents points at entries here.
Repository names are recorded; hosts, URLs and owners are not — this repository is public,
and a forge address is an operational detail (see README).
| Repository | Owns |
|---|---|
hal |
The monorepo — the node runtime, the module catalogue, the delivery machinery, and the bootstrap scripts. Every core module lives here. |
hq |
This repository, under the company organisation — mission, research, design, decisions, issue diagnosis. Company-scoped (ADR 0019); the mesh is its first product. The source of truth for why. Carries no implementation. |
| (one per application) | Every standalone application, site or side-project gets its own repository, with module.yml at the root. Registered with the mesh as a build source; built and deployed by the same pipeline as anything in the monorepo. |
What the mesh becomes
ADR 0019 records the repositories the
monorepo decomposes into. mesh-lab, mesh-host and mesh-control exist so far — the lab is built first
(ADR 0016); the rest are the
target, not the present.
| Repository | Tier | Holds |
|---|---|---|
mesh-host |
0 | exists. The node host — one statically linked binary, requiring nothing present (ADR 0005) |
mesh-substrate |
1 | the four pinned services, as declarations |
mesh-control |
2 | exists. The control plane and its contexts — one of seven built (ADR 0006) |
mesh-surfaces |
3 | tools, web, cli |
mesh-sdk |
— | contracts shared across tiers |
mesh-lab |
— | exists. The lab — scenario lifecycle, networking, placement. Ships to nobody; runs on a workstation. |
Tier 4's shape is open, and deliberately so: see ADR 0019 and research 005.
What lives where inside the monorepo
Named by role, because the layout is itself part of the as-is design — see
03-DESIGN/00-as-is/.
| Area | Holds |
|---|---|
| Module catalogue | One directory per module, each with a manifest. Core modules sit under the mesh's own namespace; everything else at the top level. |
| Node runtime | The daemon and interactive runtime that every node runs. |
| Bootstrap scripts | First-node initialisation, joining an existing mesh, and node rescue. |
| Shared library | The SDK every module builds against. |
| Pipeline test harness | End-to-end coverage of the delivery pipeline. Currently unbuildable — see 04-ISSUES/005. |
Why applications do not live in the monorepo
A standalone application in the monorepo is a convention violation, and reviewers reject it.
The reasoning is recorded in 02-DECISIONS/0010:
the mesh installs, provisions for, and ships an application through exactly the same machinery
whether or not its source sits beside the mesh's own — so co-location buys nothing and costs
the monorepo's review cadence.
There is no npm workspace
Each module is a standalone package that consumes its dependencies from the private registry,
not from a sibling directory. The workspace was removed after it caused build-versus-development
divergence — a workspace member importing another resolved to local unbuilt source in the
pipeline and to a published version in development. Recorded in
02-DECISIONS/0007.
Consequence, and it is a real one: a cross-package change is two steps — publish, then consume
— and a repository-wide npm install does not exist.