Give claude-code's runtime its forge credential file, and say a credential it cannot place as a condition (issue 774)

The file gitea-read.secret was declared with no owner, so it was root's at 0600; claude-code's tools run in the
node's runtime as the operator's account and could not read it ("permission denied", ~870 times a machine), said
only in the journal. A file a bundle reads is the runtime account's only when a word of the bundle names it
(catalogue givenTo); this one was found through MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_STATE alone.

Quick fix: name the file with the bundle word MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_FORGE, which the reader now uses. Thorough fix: the
same, plus a failure to place the credential raises a warning condition of the module on the operator-channel seat,
once per reason, cleared when it places again. Chose thorough: the fault ran unseen for days. A change of the
credential now restarts the node's runtime, as for every file a bundle word names.
claude-code's mesh-sdk pin moves to 2da0de75 (main's), the first with asks.Condition.
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commit 7531c3257d
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@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import (
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
)
// ForgeProvision is the provision whose credential this is, and the file this module's manifest has it delivered to.
@@ -32,7 +34,59 @@ const (
forgeSecret = "gitea-read.secret"
)
func (p Paths) forgeSecret() string { return filepath.Join(p.State, forgeSecret) }
func (p Paths) forgeSecret() string {
if p.Forge != "" {
return p.Forge
}
return filepath.Join(p.State, forgeSecret)
}
// ForgeHealth is what this module says to the operator of its forge credential (the sweep of 2026-10-30, issue 774:
// the file was root's, 0600, and the runtime, the operator's account, could not read it; said only in the journal,
// some 870 times a machine). raised is the reason last raised, "" when none.
type ForgeHealth struct {
Node string
raised string
looked bool
}
// forgeConditionKey is the condition's key: its last part is its kind.
func (f *ForgeHealth) key() string { return "claude-code.machine." + f.Node + ".forge-credential" }
// Look is the condition to say after one placing of the credential, nil when nothing changed: raised on a failure, again
// when its reason changes, cleared when it places again; on the first look a success clears what a run before raised.
func (f *ForgeHealth) Look(err error) *asks.Condition {
first := !f.looked
f.looked = true
subject := asks.Scope{Scope: "machine", ID: f.Node, Machine: f.Node}
if err == nil {
if f.raised == "" && !first {
return nil
}
f.raised = ""
return &asks.Condition{Key: f.key(), Subject: subject, State: asks.StateCleared}
}
why := err.Error()
if why == f.raised {
return nil
}
f.raised = why
needs := "read claude-code's journal on " + f.Node + " and the owner of its forge credential file"
return &asks.Condition{Key: f.key(), Severity: asks.SeverityWarning, State: asks.StateRaised, Subject: subject,
Headline: "Agents on " + f.Node + " cannot use the forge credential",
Summary: why, Needs: needs,
Explanation: asks.NeedsYou + needs + ". " + sentence(why) + " Until it is placed, an agent there cannot " +
"clone or fetch the mesh's private repositories.",
Resolved: "The forge's read credential is placed again on " + f.Node + "."}
}
func sentence(s string) string {
s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
if s == "" || strings.HasSuffix(s, ".") {
return s
}
return strings.ToUpper(s[:1]) + s[1:] + "."
}
// forgeCredentials is where the agent's git reads the credential: under the agent's home, in a directory of the
// mesh's own.