ReadTreeManifest reads predefined.json and each templated module's templates (WithTemplatesFrom), and the test reads
the root's health-undeclared through Kept: none was listed, so a change to them reused a stale verdict. No other
marker's package reads manifests through ReadTreeManifest beyond what it lists. Review finding F1 on ba49a7f0.
47 packages carried the marker and were never kept: about 2000 tests per level ran on every check, whatever it
changed. The marker now lists, as paths or globs from the repository's root (? before a path whose absence is read),
what the package's tests read outside it; the digest hashes those files with the package's own non-Go files. A marker
that lists nothing, names an unclean path, or a line that matches nothing keeps today's never-kept digest.
The 46 markers list their reads; checks/deps and checks/trunk lose theirs (their tests read only temporary
directories). Digest form 6.
Quick fix of issue 1936, chosen by the operator 2026-10-26 21:56; the thorough fix (the Go test log's files kept with
each verdict) stays on the issue.
mesh/check checking 851e8782d569 on da29f77b1081 | novox/mesh-catalog#505 in group feat/1126-nodes-compose
One commit for the branch feat/1126-nodes-compose of mesh-catalog: its 15 commits squashed so its history does not carry two compiled programs committed by mistake and removed later, mesh-config (5.5 MB) and checks/placement (6.2 MB) (issue 1577). The tree equals the former head 2db56067. The operator allowed this rewrite of the feature branch on 2026-10-26.
mesh/check failed: integration: meshbuildgo/cmd/mesh-build-go… | 0f768bc97b65 on 3bec357968da | judged by the candidate's mesh-build-go at 4046f8f8652e
mesh/check failed: unit: git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/chec… | b60077850dfb on 3bec357968da | judged by the candidate's mesh-build-go at 47bcc1b5810e
mesh/check failed: g14: novox/mesh-catalog#464: checks/health/go.mod names mesh-sdk a9560890ee26, which is neither on mesh-sdk's trunk nor the group's…
mesh/check failed: g14: fetch of novox/mesh-catalog#464: build_go_fetch on g14: the step g14.mvl3o921790ccf failed: go mod verify in checks/config: ch…
mesh/repo-check head e0bf87c2e3da merged into trunk ef1e98f8678c — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
mesh/merge-gate head e0bf87c2e3da merged into trunk ef1e98f8678c — pass: group fix/1873-system-state-dirs composed: every machine composes with the change …
mesh/check failed: unit: i3/cmd/i3-tools.TestTheMainFileAndEveryModulesContributionLoadTogether: manifest_test.go:247: expected the launcher, clipboar…
The systemd and postgres modules' state directories said place ".", which is
/var/lib/systemd and /var/lib/postgres: directories the systemd and postgresql
packages own (root 0755; postgres 0700). The node-engine took both before issue
339's rule and gave them to the operator's account, 0700, on every machine; postgres's
grants directory, placed by default, lay inside /var/lib/postgres too.
What each module keeps moves to a directory of its own, "data", placed "mesh"
(/var/lib/mesh/systemd, /var/lib/mesh/postgres): the unlink record, and postgres's
own secrets (the same values: the vault keys them by name), consumers.json and
grants. The store's data stays /var/lib/mesh-store, untouched.
The node-engine keeps no found owner or mode for a directory, and forgets one no
longer declared as it stands; it sets the declared owner and mode on a directory it
recorded at the same path under the same id. So for this delivery "state" names
the package's directory with the package's owner and mode, and the engine gives it
back; the next change drops "state". The postgres container is recreated, its
secret's volume moving.
checks/owned/system-known keeps systemd state and postgres state, declared for
this delivery only; postgres's consumers and grants leave the list.
mesh/merge-gate head 098c6d3ec70f merged into trunk 2f05e70734cd — pass: builds pacman → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with …
mesh/repo-check head 098c6d3ec70f merged into trunk 2f05e70734cd — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
mesh/check failed: unit: clipmenu/cmd/clipmenu-tools.TestTheLauncherWaitsQuietlyWhileAnotherClipmenudHoldsTheLock: manifest_test.go:199: the launcher …
pacman's state directory said place ".", which resolves to /var/lib/pacman: the
package manager's database directory. The node-engine used it as found and
reported it unhealthy on every machine, and wrote keeper.json into it. It is now
the mesh's directory for the module (place "mesh", /var/lib/mesh/pacman), as
docker's is; keeper.json, the keeper's bus secret and the root helper's socket
follow through ${dir:state}.
checks/owned rule 5 refuses a directory that is, lies in or holds a /var/lib
directory a system package owns (checks/owned/system, read from shanks through
pacman_owns and tmpfiles.d), and any resource inside one. systemd and postgres
collide today and are listed in checks/owned/system-known under issue 1873; that
list only shrinks.
mesh/repo-check head a3b51a9d9a02 merged into trunk db67a0e55ec3 — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
A module is for any mesh; the check reads the list of names at the root and the covered modules, and the kernel module's fixtures now say what they show.
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.
mesh/merge-gate head 05e6b583e2e3 merged into trunk ce56b491cffd — pass: builds ssh-client → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes w…
mesh/repo-check head 05e6b583e2e3 merged into trunk ce56b491cffd — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
The sweep from issue 1017 moved known_hosts2, rc and environment, which ssh
and sshd read by default, and moved a link to a folder of keys, breaking every
login through it. It could move a file a tool was still writing. When ~/.local
was on another file system, every sweep failed at its first move and left an
empty folder each round, seen only in the journal. Its list was written after
the moves with errors ignored.
Now those files and linked key folders stay; a link whose target, or the folder
it names, cannot be checked is left and named; a copy of authorized_keys is
moved at any depth; a path changed in the last minute, at any depth, waits for
the next sweep; a retired folder on another file system fails the sweep before
anything is made; the list names each move before it is made; and each sweep's
outcome is kept for ssh_client_check, which shows a failed sweep as a problem.
A key's first line is read only so far.
The catalogue's new checks/sshdir refuses any manifest but ssh-client naming a
path under ~/.ssh (ADR 0415 §6). The README cites §7 for config.d.
Declares mail-store and mail-webclient (held once for the mesh) and mail-notifier
(held once per machine, needing node-notifier) per ADR 0378 as amended by ADR 0379.
Claims mail-store and serves its four verbs through the same handlers as the
existing mail_* tools. Moves the event shape (EventKey, Changes) into its own
file, mailevent.go, so mesh-mail-notifier (issue 800 part B) can carry a
byte-identical copy. Adds checks/mailstore, refusing any manifest but mesh-mail's
own that claims mail-store (ADR 0378 §3), wired into merge-check.sh.
mesh/repo-check head eb4280637906 merged into trunk 53e51864969f — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
grafana's client logged in with a token setting ahead of the vault's admin password,
and its runtime config let a layer set token. The token setting is now ignored and
said, token is protected, and the vault's password comes first.
checks/secrets/known could gain a line hiding a newly unprotected key. merge-check.sh
now judges it against the trunk's copy at the merge base, and refuses an added line.
mesh/repo-check head fe2040c65ea2 merged into trunk 53e51864969f — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
A setting outranked the vault: baserow, grafana, letta and unifi merged a layer's
password over the ${secret:...} in their runtime config, and the gitea,
home-assistant, icecast, influxdb, mailu and nextcloud clients read the settings
file before the vault's file. A secret in a setting cannot be rotated and is read
back by the settings verb.
The four files now keep their password protected, so the controller refuses a
setting of it. The six clients ignore a secret in the settings file and say so
once, by key and never with the value; icecast reads its admin password from the
vault's file. checks/secrets refuses a mergeable file whose secret a layer could
replace; searxng's nested server.secret_key is listed as known until the
controller protects a nested key.
mesh/repo-check pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh, merge-check-typescript.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull r…
A module whose dependencies could not be fetched was said NOT TESTED and the
repository check passed, so a merge on it would have landed untested code.
The build seat clones the SDK beside every check already: a forge requirement
the module cache lacks is now taken from that clone through a go.mod of its
own, and a module that still cannot be built fails the check by name and why.
A TypeScript module whose dependencies the toolchain lacks fails the same way.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds claude-code, claude-licence-manager, restic, sudo → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the chan…
mesh/repo-check pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; it…
The managed settings apply to every account's claude, so a key-helper script under the
agent's home would run as the operator, and through sudo as root: the command is now
carried whole in the root-owned managed settings and reads the key only as the agent.
The helper reads only a regular file, bounded, without blocking, and a request it does
not answer fails in time instead of holding every later one; a directory entry it
answers that is not a name is refused. The guard's record is matched on its binary in
the query, a half-named agent account is not taken as the operator's, the kept API key
stays until the agent's home holds one, restic refuses to restore beside a directory
others may write, and the agent-home check cleans a path before judging it.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds claude-code, claude-licence-manager, restic, sudo → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the chan…
mesh/repo-check pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; it…
mesh/delivery covered after its failure: a later walk that contains it was delivered: plan-1792148283013560219 (novox/mesh-catalog at 3db85a0d into main,…
A condition told the operator to type the node-engine's binary at the machine, and nothing held the catalogue's texts to ADR 0272. The words check gains retired-lines — the controller's and the node-engine's commands, copied from hq's words.py --list lines, which compares it — and refuses one in any string a module's tools can show or any manifest description. The vault's and the route adapter's texts now say the nox line.
The node-engine writes those as root after checking the path, and the agent
account owns its home and could swap a link in between (hq ADR 0266). No
module does it today; this keeps a future one from opening the gap.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds asus-zephyrus-g14, i3status-rust, power → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it d…
mesh/repo-check fail: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the change's judges the pull requests after it merges; it…
The SDK hands the current value over before Watch returns, and the follower had no
entry for it yet, so the first value was dropped. A silent watch is now told from an
expired key and watched again rather than polled, each write takes its own temporary
file, drop-in directories are no module's, and an entry added to the path check's lists
is refused unless its line says why.
A watch that died left the block silent, a removed block kept its value, and a value
frozen at its source looked fresh because its file was new. The follower now rereads a
silent value and says so, drops removed blocks, and dates each file by the reading's
own time. The path check takes /etc and /usr/local/lib in, ignores what a container sees
inside itself, and lists the five findings standing today, which may only go.
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