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Every configurable thing on a node is a module, the home included, and a module is whatever it declares (0173, extending 0040). A node varies a module only through a setting rendered into the file or a kept region, never an edit (0174, extending 0011; issue 168 first). One tool runtime per node serves every module's tools on the host side, never in a container; the console is its serving mode, renamed node-tools (0175, extending 0150; 0047/0150/0152 carry dated notes). The login shell is a node seat held by one shell module with `execute` as its contract (0176). A unit may be user-scoped and the service manager is a node seat held by systemd (0177). To-be 37 is handed off in-progress to mesh-host, mesh-controller, mesh-tools and mesh-catalog, with the build in order: the account on every node, the runtime, zsh, systemd, then the graphical stack. To-be 29 keeps ~/.ssh and points at 37; 33 §6 and 34 are amended; the glossary gains node tools, bundle, kept region, installed/holding, and retires flavor.
01-RESEARCH
Investigations that have not yet hardened into design.
Structure
Each effort lives in NNN-descriptive-name/ and must contain 00-overview.md, carrying its
state in YAML frontmatter and a prose summary below it:
---
status: active | graduated | abandoned
initiated: YYYY-MM-DD
touches: [] # design docs, subsystems or areas the effort bears on
became: [] # required when status is terminal — what it turned into
---
The prose says what is being investigated, why, and what it touches. It does not restate the status — status lives in one place, and two places is one too many.
Further documents in the same folder hold the work itself: notes, evidence, option analyses, draft designs.
Lifecycle
| status | Meaning |
|---|---|
active |
Investigation in progress. |
graduated |
Checked against 00-META, decided in 02-DECISIONS/, and specified in 03-DESIGN — see became:. |
abandoned |
Stopped or superseded. Nothing is deleted. |
An effort graduates by producing a decision record and a 03-DESIGN entry. It is abandoned
in place — never deleted. What was rejected, and why, is the more expensive half to
rediscover.
Starting and closing efforts is playbook territory:
00-META/process/01-research.md and
02-graduation.md.
Rules
- Markdown only. Do not skip or reuse a sequence number.
- Evidence, not assertion. An effort that measured nothing has not finished.
- Research describes real observations but never identifies the mesh it observed. The shape of a finding survives anonymisation intact.