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Every manifest in the system being replaced was read and every key counted, then set against what the new one can express. Three findings worth more than the table. **The most-used key was already covered and I expected a gap.** Depending on another module — 65 manifests, the commonest thing any of them says — is a requirement naming a module, which already means that module rather than anything providing the name. **The largest real gap is tool servers: 56 modules, over half.** A module can already run one; what is missing is anything saying it offers tools. That is plausibly a provision rather than new vocabulary, which would need nothing added — not yet decided, and recorded as undecided. **The gap most worth closing is health, at seven modules.** The mesh knows a container is running, which is not whether it answers, and this project has paid for that distinction twice. An action with a verify is exactly the right shape and may not arrive over the link, so a module cannot declare one. Two things are missing deliberately and say so: stage hooks, because the link may not carry an action and a module needing setup ships a program; and flavours, retired in favour of claims. Config merging is missing and should stay missing. A mechanism that understands TOML gets asked for YAML, then INI, which is how the thing being replaced became unholdable. Also records what the survey found that is not about coverage: manifests that had stopped matching what was actually brokered, one fact derived in two places giving two answers, and a live listing returning credentials in plaintext.
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;
connectivityis 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.