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jschoubben fbf5b1d04b A session's memory is its own, and it is not declared
Settles the question 15 left open: the mesh session holds its own
memory in the mesh root, rather than assembling a view over the node
sessions. Memory follows the rule the rest of the design already uses —
the context root is the whole of what makes one session a different
agent, and memory is part of what makes it that agent.

The control-plane node is what makes this load-bearing rather than
tidy. Two sessions share that machine; if memory belonged to the
machine instead of the root they would share it too, and the mesh's
recollection would be indistinguishable from that node's own — the
collision 0026 exists to avoid, arriving through the back door.

Also corrects an error made writing it up: memory is NOT declared
state. The engram and tools are — the mesh says what they are and the
host writes them (0011). Memory is written by the session itself and
declared by nobody, so a mechanism that regenerates the root wholesale
would erase it on the next heartbeat, silently, while reporting
success. The root is not uniformly managed and which parts are has to
be explicit.
2026-08-31 16:41:06 +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 the decomposition gets built, in what order, and where a human must look ADR 0001
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.