CAT-RD10: the deprecated mesh-catalog module reads none of the indexer's state; it registers builds without manifests, said once (ruling U4)

modules/mesh-catalog/heard.ts

@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ export interface Built {
 export const BUILDER = "mesh-delivery-builder";
 export const BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL = "builder_builds_since";
 export const BUILDS_STATE = "mesh-delivery-builder.builds";
-export const MANIFESTS_STATE = "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests";
 
 /** One entry of the builder's log, an ended build (mesh-sdk delivery.BuildLogEntry). */
 export interface LogEntry {

modules/mesh-catalog/index.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { invokeTool } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import { state } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/state";
 import { Graph } from "./store.js";
 import {
-  answerOf, builtFrom, placeable, BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, BUILDS_STATE, MANIFESTS_STATE,
+  answerOf, builtFrom, placeable, BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, BUILDS_STATE,
   type Built, type BuildsSince, type LogEntry,
 } from "./heard.js";
 
@@ -94,11 +94,19 @@ let caughtUp = false;
 let asking: Promise<void> | undefined;
 let askAgain = false;
 
-const manifestOf = async (digest: string | undefined): Promise<unknown> => {
-  if (!digest) return {};
-  const held = await state<{ manifest?: string }>(MANIFESTS_STATE).get(digest);
-  if (!held?.value.manifest) return {};
-  return JSON.parse(held.value.manifest);
+/**
+ * **The indexer's manifests are no longer read** (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1, ruling U4): the module graph is the indexer's since
+ * ADR 0604, and this deprecated module's graph feeds nothing (no module consumes what it announces, and the seat
+ * `mesh-catalog` is the indexer's). Nothing replaces the read: a build is registered with an empty manifest, said once, until
+ * the module is retired.
+ */
+let manifestsSaid = false;
+const manifestOf = async (_digest: string | undefined): Promise<unknown> => {
+  if (!manifestsSaid) {
+    manifestsSaid = true;
+    console.error("mesh-catalog: deprecated; builds are registered without their manifests (the indexer's manifests are not read, ADR 0615)");
+  }
+  return {};
 };
 
 const takeIn = async (e: LogEntry, replay: boolean): Promise<void> => {

modules/mesh-catalog/module.json

@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@
     "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_builds_since"
   ],
   "reads": [
-    "mesh-delivery-builder.builds",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests"
+    "mesh-delivery-builder.builds"
   ]
 }

modules/mesh-catalog/test/heard.test.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { test } from "node:test";
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 
-import { answerOf, builtFrom, placeable, BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, BUILDS_STATE, MANIFESTS_STATE } from "../heard.js";
+import { answerOf, builtFrom, placeable, BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, BUILDS_STATE } from "../heard.js";
 
 // A walk's build as the build seat says it (mesh-controller's link.BuildResult), here mailu's of novox/hq issue 712.
 const walkBuild = {
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ test("the catalogue takes builds from the builder's log, and hears no controller
   const manifest = JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL("../module.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
   assert.deepEqual(manifest.consumes, []);
   assert.ok(manifest.invokes.includes(`${BUILDER}.${BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL}`), "the builder's tool is not invoked");
-  for (const read of [BUILDS_STATE, MANIFESTS_STATE]) assert.ok(manifest.reads.includes(read), `${read} is not read`);
+  // ADR 0615 §1, ruling U4: the indexer's manifests are not read (the module is deprecated and feeds nothing).
+  assert.deepEqual(manifest.reads, [BUILDS_STATE]);
   // A log entry is placed as a build: done with its manifest, made and against; failed passed over; queued not taken in.
   const entry = { event: "build.ended", module: "mailu", fp: "fp1", repository: walkBuild.repository, directory: "modules/mailu",
     commit: walkBuild.commit, ref: "main", at: "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", outcome: "done", manifest: "ab", against: ["img@sha256:1"],