mesh/merge-gate checking again: the gate refused `unknown` because the controller judged with a node-engine validator pinned before mesh-host #117; mesh-co…
mesh/repo-check checking again: the gate refused `unknown` because the controller judged with a node-engine validator pinned before mesh-host #117; mesh-co…
Every directory and archive resource carries `unknown`: move-out for a home folder whose program writes nothing there (the node-engine, delivered in mesh-host #117, moves the rest to ~/.local/state/mesh-moved/<module>/ with a list), module for ~/.ssh and ~/.claude, program elsewhere; `knows` keeps what a program or the operator relies on (powerlevel10k's compiled files, i3's scripts and the asus/g14 drop-ins, dunst's slack rule, betterbird's records, node-env's forge credential, issue 1033). Two shared folders are no longer declared. Each module's README says it. checks/owned holds every manifest to it; checks/sshdir stays while main's merge check runs it (issue 1035). Tests that pin a manifest follow the new key only. Reviewed in three rounds.
The desk's prompt named only the module and the secret's key, so the operator
asking for one of mesh-mail's mail-credential-* accounts could not tell which
one. node-launcher.secret (modules/rofi) now shows the controller's optional
what as its own line under the module and secret names, escaped as text so
the catalogue's words never reach the prompt as markup; omitted as before
when none is declared. mesh-mail's mail-credential-* family now declares that
line with the long-form own-secrets shape the controller's manifest parser
reads (novox/hq issue 789 part b; part a landed in mesh-controller).
The controller's secret-ask verb opens the launcher's hidden prompt from anywhere on the mesh, so the
operator must know whose ask they are typing into. The prompt takes an optional asked_by, the
controller's word on the bus's caller held to a name's characters and spaces, and says it; a sentence,
markup or a line break is refused, so the prompt's words stay the launcher's.
The review of 2026-10-09 (M4): the prompt and its message were the caller's free text, so whoever could
ask the verb could put any words before the operator. The verb now takes the module, the secret and the
machine, checked as names, and writes the prompt here, saying the mesh's controller asks — which the bus
makes true, denying the verb to every other principal (mesh-controller #156). prompt and message are refused.
rofi, clipmenu, feh, i3status-rust and the laptop's model module wrote files into i3's config.d,
naming no dependency on the window manager. They now contribute their lines; i3 places them under a
line naming each module, and config.d is the operator's alone. The catalogue-wide test composes the
contributions as the controller does and checks the whole with i3 -C.
Places the seat's dmenu-compatible command, the launcher and power menu, its
themes in the decided faces, and its key bindings as an i3 drop-in; Go tools
menu, applications, themes and run.
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