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jschoubben 3f00d3b413 026 filed; 025 corrected; the image store is a module
Three corrections, two of them to things I wrote today.

026 is the serious one. Four modules mounted fourteen host paths nothing
declared — the mail spool, the databases, the object store's data. The
runtime creates those as root, so owner and mode go unapplied, and the
rule that keeps a directory holding data the mesh did not put there is
written in terms of declared directories. It reached the configuration
and missed the data. The cause was carrying compose files across: a
container shape that can express one gets filled in like one.

025 claimed nothing turns a tag into a digest. That is false, and the
answer was designed and built before I wrote it. A module names an
artifact, not an image, and `kind: upstream` mirrors somebody else's
image into the mesh's own registry, pinned by the digest it lands with.
The two-document split the issue described as the shape of a fix is the
design. Pinning twelve images by hand was treating the symptom, and left
them pointing at a public registry rather than the mesh's.

And the image store was written up as something the mesh does. It is an
ordinary module — considered for the substrate and removed, because the
test is whether the control plane needs it before its first instruction,
not whether it can grant itself one. So somebody's own registry is the
same module as the mesh's.
2026-09-01 16:10:13 +02:00
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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
16-module-coverage.md What a module must be able to say, measured against 127 that exist ADR 0009, ADR 0005

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.