The operator would not read the Telegram ask for ADR 0343: thirty plain lines, every clause on one, no bold,
no summary. A settings proposal was the same wall of text, its values masked so the approval was blind.
- messenger: an ask's message is the asker's headline and explanation alone; who asked and when, what each
answer does, the expiry, where else it is answered and the asker's Details travel as the message's note
(asks.Message.Note). Answered, the message is one line, "You chose Approve at 16:06 on Telegram ·
<headline>". An explanation that does not read at a glance (asks.Glance) is shown and logged. On a kind
that proves who answers, an ask's values are shown whole (asks.Ask.Whole), held to the secret rule alone
(from the earlier work on issue 383, #178).
- telegram: every message in HTML, never reworded: the title bold, a key line monospace, the note apart in
a collapsed blockquote; markup escaped. A tap is compared by its words, whitespace aside, and a message
shown before is still compared by the digest it was kept under.
- desk-channel: the note follows the body.
- mesh-knowledge: a record that needs the operator carries a brief (headline, summary, at most three
points), the 30th per-record rule; its ask shows the brief and never the clauses. An ask made before is
composed again as it was asked (form), so its warrant still holds.
- claude-code: an instructions proposal's explanation is one summary line (the proposer's, or the
module's), its text in the Details; a question's context is at most 300 characters and its recommendation
one point. Older proposals and questions keep their form.
The SDK is pinned at mesh-sdk 9588871 (fix/639-an-ask-reads-at-a-glance), which adds Message.Note and
asks.Glance.
mesh/merge-gate head e4e0ce761901 merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
mesh/repo-check head e4e0ce761901 merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
The refusal test failed on a loaded build agent: Propose returned on hearing the
refusal before HeardEnd had written the discard, so a reader right after saw
nothing decided. The question path keeps the same order.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
A refusal heard on the decided subject is kept as heard, and a record of a person's choice found later is
still taken, so an ask the router's queue offered again is not lost in silence. A heard end must match the
proposal's ask; the wait stops reading at its deadline; the heard ends are forgotten when Propose returns.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
A module that only asks is issued no channel kinds, so the empty list was read as 'no channel proves its
sender' and every proposal was refused on the live mesh with Telegram linked. The router judges; Propose
waits for its word, and a refusal heard on the decided subject discards the proposal on every node.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/merge-gate fail: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; a manifest the change touches fails the module check: claude-code uses the…
An @ after any whitespace or punctuation, invisible and control characters, and top headings are refused;
every node judges a proposal record as the module would have made it before applying an approval, never
applies one older than its section's last change, never takes an unreadable record for an empty one, and
keys a node section by its nodes. The controller records the warrant from the router's word alone.
mesh/merge-gate fail: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; a manifest the change touches fails the module check: claude-code uses the…
Shared instructions were the terminal's alone since hq issue 340, because the tool runner cannot tell an
agent from the operator. The operator channel now proves who answered, so an agent may propose a section;
each node proves the router's warrant against the exact text itself and keeps what it approved in its own
file, so nothing written to the bus becomes active.
jochen