The seats are called mesh-module-assigner and mesh-node-enroller in mesh-cli, claude-code, the checks, mesh-config, mesh-vault, conditions, self-check and the provisioner client (ADR 0634 §9; K-21; issue 1966)

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commit 9fafbcfd58
34 changed files with 93 additions and 93 deletions
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import (
// seats' contract and the modules' manifests say them.
func meshForTheGuard() GuardData {
defined := []seats.Seat{
{Name: "mesh-placement", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []seats.Verb{
{Name: "mesh-module-assigner", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []seats.Verb{
{Name: "placement", Description: "Read placement: one node's key.", Replaces: []string{"hostnamectl", "uptime"}}}},
{Name: "node-service-manager", Scope: "node", Serves: []seats.Verb{
{Name: "status", Description: "One unit as the service manager sees it now: its states.", Replaces: []string{"systemctl status", "systemctl is-active"}},
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ func TestSSHToAMeshMachineIsRefusedNamingTheTool(t *testing.T) {
"ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no 10.10.0.1 docker ps -a": "anchor/docker.docker_list",
"ssh anchor docker logs --tail 100 nats": "anchor/docker.docker_logs",
"ssh laptop docker logs x": "anchor/docker.docker_logs",
"ssh a uptime": "mesh-placement.placement",
"ssh a uptime": "mesh-module-assigner.placement",
"cd /tmp && ssh anchor journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"sudo -u root ssh anchor journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"timeout 10 ssh anchor journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"env LANG=C ssh anchor journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"bash -c 'ssh anchor journalctl -u x'": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
`echo "$(ssh anchor journalctl -n 5)" | tail`: "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"for n in anchor laptop; do ssh $n uptime; done; ssh anchor uptime": "mesh-placement.placement",
"for n in anchor laptop; do ssh $n uptime; done; ssh anchor uptime": "mesh-module-assigner.placement",
"ssh -J anchor 203.0.113.9 journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"ssh via-anchor journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
"ssh nas.lan journalctl": "anchor/node-service-manager.journal",
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func (b aBus) Get(read, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) {
// someSeats are two seats as the seats' contract says them: one held once for the mesh, one on every machine.
func someSeats() []seats.Seat {
return []seats.Seat{
{Name: "mesh-placement", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []seats.Verb{
{Name: "mesh-module-assigner", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []seats.Verb{
{Name: "placement", Description: "Read placement: one node's key.", Replaces: []string{"hostnamectl", "uptime"}},
{Name: "propose", Description: "Propose a change."}}},
{Name: "node-service-manager", Scope: "node", Serves: []seats.Verb{
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func someSeats() []seats.Seat {
}
// aMesh is two machines, anchor (with a public domain) and laptop, docker and zsh placed on anchor, docker's manifest
// saying what its tool replaces, as the seat mesh-placement and the indexer keep them on the bus.
// saying what its tool replaces, as the seat mesh-module-assigner and the indexer keep them on the bus.
func aMesh(t *testing.T) aBus {
t.Helper()
b := aBus{PlacementRead: {}, ModulesRead: {}, ManifestsRead: {}}
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func TestTheMeshsToolsAreReadFromTheBus(t *testing.T) {
for _, r := range m.Replacements {
addresses = append(addresses, r.Address)
}
if got := strings.Join(addresses, ","); got != "mesh-placement.placement,node-service-manager.status,node-service-manager.journal,docker.docker_logs" {
if got := strings.Join(addresses, ","); got != "mesh-module-assigner.placement,node-service-manager.status,node-service-manager.journal,docker.docker_logs" {
t.Errorf("replacements: %s", got)
}
if len(m.Machines) != 2 || strings.Join(m.Machines[0].Domains, ",") != "anchor.internal,anchor.example" ||
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ func TestTheInsteadOfTableIsGeneratedFromTheRecords(t *testing.T) {
for _, want := range []string{
"| `<node>/node-service-manager.` | `status` — `systemctl status`, `systemctl is-active` · `journal` — `journalctl` |",
"| `<node>/docker.` | `docker_logs` — `docker logs` |",
"| `mesh-placement.` | `placement` — `hostnamectl`, `uptime` |",
"| `mesh-module-assigner.` | `placement` — `hostnamectl`, `uptime` |",
"Never `ssh` to a mesh machine",
} {
if !strings.Contains(table, want) {
@@ -128,14 +128,14 @@ func TestTheInsteadOfTableIsGeneratedFromTheRecords(t *testing.T) {
}
}
if strings.Index(table, "node-service-manager.") > strings.Index(table, "docker.") ||
strings.Index(table, "docker.") > strings.Index(table, "`mesh-placement.`") {
strings.Index(table, "docker.") > strings.Index(table, "`mesh-module-assigner.`") {
t.Errorf("not the machines' seats, then modules, then the mesh's:\n%s", table)
}
// What the guard here named most comes first: its row, and in its row its verb.
m.Refused = map[string]int{"node-service-manager.journal": 3, "mesh-placement.placement": 1}
m.Refused = map[string]int{"node-service-manager.journal": 3, "mesh-module-assigner.placement": 1}
ranked := InsteadOf(&m)
if !strings.Contains(ranked, "| `<node>/node-service-manager.` | `journal` — `journalctl` · `status`") ||
strings.Index(ranked, "`mesh-placement.`") > strings.Index(ranked, "`<node>/docker.`") {
strings.Index(ranked, "`mesh-module-assigner.`") > strings.Index(ranked, "`<node>/docker.`") {
t.Errorf("not ranked by the guard's record:\n%s", ranked)
}
m.Refused = nil
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ func TestTheMeshsToolsAreKeptOnlyWhenTheyChange(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// Where a module runs is read from the seat mesh-placement's placement (issue 1126 B13), never the controller's answer.
// Where a module runs is read from the seat mesh-module-assigner's placement (issue 1126 B13), never the controller's answer.
func TestTheMachinesRunningAModuleAreReadFromPlacement(t *testing.T) {
b := aMesh(t)
if got, err := NodesRunning(b, "zsh"); err != nil || strings.Join(got, ",") != "anchor" {
@@ -9,5 +9,5 @@ func instructionsText(node, role string) string {
node +
"`\n- **Role:** " +
role +
"\n- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the placement seat (`mesh-placement.placement`),\n or `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine`. Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.\n\n## How a session on this mesh works\n\nThe console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named `mesh`. It offers five tools, and\neverything else is an address you find and call through them:\n\n- `mesh_search` — words in, matching addresses out. `mesh_describe` — one address's arguments.\n- `mesh_call` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is `<seat>.<verb>` (the mesh's own seats\n include `mesh-placement`, `mesh-delivery`, `mesh-config` and `mesh-conditions`);\n a module on a machine is `<node>/<module>.<tool>`.\n- `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.\n\n- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the\n literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's `records_search`, then\n `records_read`.\n- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the seats' verbs or the catalog.\n- **A licence** through the `anthropic-licence-manager` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials\n file by hand, never print or ask for a token.\n\n## Hard rules\n\n- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalog that owns it, never on disk. If\n unsure, `<node>/node-engine.composition` for the module says what the mesh writes there.\n- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.\n- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.\n- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.\n- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.\n\n## Conventions\n\n- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.\n- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.\n- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.\n"
"\n- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the placement seat (`mesh-module-assigner.placement`),\n or `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine`. Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.\n\n## How a session on this mesh works\n\nThe console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named `mesh`. It offers five tools, and\neverything else is an address you find and call through them:\n\n- `mesh_search` — words in, matching addresses out. `mesh_describe` — one address's arguments.\n- `mesh_call` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is `<seat>.<verb>` (the mesh's own seats\n include `mesh-module-assigner`, `mesh-delivery`, `mesh-config` and `mesh-conditions`);\n a module on a machine is `<node>/<module>.<tool>`.\n- `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.\n\n- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the\n literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's `records_search`, then\n `records_read`.\n- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the seats' verbs or the catalog.\n- **A licence** through the `anthropic-licence-manager` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials\n file by hand, never print or ask for a token.\n\n## Hard rules\n\n- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalog that owns it, never on disk. If\n unsure, `<node>/node-engine.composition` for the module says what the mesh writes there.\n- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.\n- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.\n- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.\n- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.\n\n## Conventions\n\n- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.\n- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.\n- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.\n"
}
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package main
// Read from the bus at start and every few minutes (issue 1126 B13; the controller that answered this before is
// not placed, novox/hq ADR 0590): the seats' verbs from the seats' contract (mesh-contracts), the modules'
// own tools from the manifests the indexer keeps (`mesh-delivery-indexer.modules` and `.manifests`), and the
// machines and where each module runs from the seat mesh-placement's `placement`. Kept in the module's state so
// machines and where each module runs from the seat mesh-module-assigner's `placement`. Kept in the module's state so
// a render never waits for the bus, and rendered whenever it changes. Nothing here is written by hand: a verb
// that gains a `replaces` is in the next render's table and the guard's next refusal.
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ type ModuleTools struct {
Replaces map[string][]string
}
// placements is every node's placement, from the seat mesh-placement's state.
// placements is every node's placement, from the seat mesh-module-assigner's state.
func placements(st States) (map[string]delivery.Placement, error) {
keys, err := st.Keys(PlacementRead)
if err != nil {
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
"withKey": {
"managed-mcp.json": "{\n \"mcpServers\": {\n \"anton\": {\n \"type\": \"stdio\",\n \"command\": \"node\",\n \"args\": [\n \"/a/b.js\"\n ],\n \"env\": {}\n },\n \"docs\": {\n \"type\": \"stdio\",\n \"command\": \"docs-mcp\",\n \"args\": [\n \"--x\"\n ]\n },\n \"mesh\": {\n \"type\": \"http\",\n \"url\": \"http://127.0.0.1:4270/mcp\"\n },\n \"search\": {\n \"type\": \"http\",\n \"url\": \"https://s.example/mcp\"\n }\n }\n}\n",
"managed-settings.json": "{\n \"attribution\": {\n \"commit\": \"\",\n \"pr\": \"\"\n },\n \"allowAllClaudeAiMcps\": true,\n \"apiKeyHelper\": \"/state/api-key-helper\"\n}\n",
"CLAUDE.md": "# This machine is a node of a Novox mesh\n\nWritten by the mesh's `claude-code` module. Edit the module's settings or the catalog, never this file:\nit is rewritten whenever the module renders.\n\n## Who this node is\n\n- **Node:** `workstation`\n- **Role:** the laptop\n- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the placement seat (`mesh-placement.placement`),\n or `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine`. Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.\n\n## How a session on this mesh works\n\nThe console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named `mesh`. It offers five tools, and\neverything else is an address you find and call through them:\n\n- `mesh_search` — words in, matching addresses out. `mesh_describe` — one address's arguments.\n- `mesh_call` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is `<seat>.<verb>` (the mesh's own seats\n include `mesh-placement`, `mesh-delivery`, `mesh-config` and `mesh-conditions`);\n a module on a machine is `<node>/<module>.<tool>`.\n- `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.\n\n- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the\n literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's `records_search`, then\n `records_read`.\n- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the seats' verbs or the catalog.\n- **A licence** through the `anthropic-licence-manager` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials\n file by hand, never print or ask for a token.\n\n## Hard rules\n\n- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalog that owns it, never on disk. If\n unsure, `<node>/node-engine.composition` for the module says what the mesh writes there.\n- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.\n- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.\n- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.\n- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.\n\n## Conventions\n\n- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.\n- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.\n- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.\n"
"CLAUDE.md": "# This machine is a node of a Novox mesh\n\nWritten by the mesh's `claude-code` module. Edit the module's settings or the catalog, never this file:\nit is rewritten whenever the module renders.\n\n## Who this node is\n\n- **Node:** `workstation`\n- **Role:** the laptop\n- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the placement seat (`mesh-module-assigner.placement`),\n or `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine`. Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.\n\n## How a session on this mesh works\n\nThe console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named `mesh`. It offers five tools, and\neverything else is an address you find and call through them:\n\n- `mesh_search` — words in, matching addresses out. `mesh_describe` — one address's arguments.\n- `mesh_call` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is `<seat>.<verb>` (the mesh's own seats\n include `mesh-module-assigner`, `mesh-delivery`, `mesh-config` and `mesh-conditions`);\n a module on a machine is `<node>/<module>.<tool>`.\n- `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.\n\n- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the\n literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's `records_search`, then\n `records_read`.\n- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the seats' verbs or the catalog.\n- **A licence** through the `anthropic-licence-manager` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials\n file by hand, never print or ask for a token.\n\n## Hard rules\n\n- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalog that owns it, never on disk. If\n unsure, `<node>/node-engine.composition` for the module says what the mesh writes there.\n- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.\n- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.\n- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.\n- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.\n\n## Conventions\n\n- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.\n- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.\n- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.\n"
},
"plain": {
"managed-mcp.json": "{\n \"mcpServers\": {\n \"mesh\": {\n \"type\": \"http\",\n \"url\": \"http://127.0.0.1:4270/mcp\"\n }\n }\n}\n",
"managed-settings.json": "{\n \"attribution\": {\n \"commit\": \"\",\n \"pr\": \"\"\n },\n \"allowAllClaudeAiMcps\": true\n}\n",
"CLAUDE.md": "# This machine is a node of a Novox mesh\n\nWritten by the mesh's `claude-code` module. Edit the module's settings or the catalog, never this file:\nit is rewritten whenever the module renders.\n\n## Who this node is\n\n- **Node:** `workstation`\n- **Role:** not stated — set it in this module's settings for the node\n- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the placement seat (`mesh-placement.placement`),\n or `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine`. Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.\n\n## How a session on this mesh works\n\nThe console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named `mesh`. It offers five tools, and\neverything else is an address you find and call through them:\n\n- `mesh_search` — words in, matching addresses out. `mesh_describe` — one address's arguments.\n- `mesh_call` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is `<seat>.<verb>` (the mesh's own seats\n include `mesh-placement`, `mesh-delivery`, `mesh-config` and `mesh-conditions`);\n a module on a machine is `<node>/<module>.<tool>`.\n- `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.\n\n- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the\n literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's `records_search`, then\n `records_read`.\n- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the seats' verbs or the catalog.\n- **A licence** through the `anthropic-licence-manager` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials\n file by hand, never print or ask for a token.\n\n## Hard rules\n\n- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalog that owns it, never on disk. If\n unsure, `<node>/node-engine.composition` for the module says what the mesh writes there.\n- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.\n- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.\n- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.\n- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.\n\n## Conventions\n\n- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.\n- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.\n- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.\n"
"CLAUDE.md": "# This machine is a node of a Novox mesh\n\nWritten by the mesh's `claude-code` module. Edit the module's settings or the catalog, never this file:\nit is rewritten whenever the module renders.\n\n## Who this node is\n\n- **Node:** `workstation`\n- **Role:** not stated — set it in this module's settings for the node\n- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the placement seat (`mesh-module-assigner.placement`),\n or `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine`. Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.\n\n## How a session on this mesh works\n\nThe console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named `mesh`. It offers five tools, and\neverything else is an address you find and call through them:\n\n- `mesh_search` — words in, matching addresses out. `mesh_describe` — one address's arguments.\n- `mesh_call` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is `<seat>.<verb>` (the mesh's own seats\n include `mesh-module-assigner`, `mesh-delivery`, `mesh-config` and `mesh-conditions`);\n a module on a machine is `<node>/<module>.<tool>`.\n- `mesh_overview` and `mesh_machine` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.\n\n- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the\n literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's `records_search`, then\n `records_read`.\n- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the seats' verbs or the catalog.\n- **A licence** through the `anthropic-licence-manager` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials\n file by hand, never print or ask for a token.\n\n## Hard rules\n\n- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalog that owns it, never on disk. If\n unsure, `<node>/node-engine.composition` for the module says what the mesh writes there.\n- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.\n- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.\n- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.\n- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.\n\n## Conventions\n\n- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.\n- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.\n- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.\n"
}
}