An identity is `mesh_<node>_<slug-or-name>` and a backend keeps 20 characters
(an S3 access key). Overflow makes a module unresolvable, and this catalogue
was finding it one module at a time, on a raise: route-proxy on novox is 22,
home-assistant on ace is 23. Two found by hand where a sweep would have found
eighteen.
So the whole catalogue was swept instead, against the longest node name the
mesh actually has (`shanks`, six characters) rather than against the node each
module happens to sit on today — a module is assigned somewhere, and where is
not a property of the manifest. That leaves eight characters for the identity
source, and eighteen modules were over it.
Slugs added, chosen to stay greppable in a provider's user list:
anthropic-consumer claude openai-consumer openai
anthropic-manager anthmgr portainer portain
audit-logger audit public-acme pubacme
bookshelf books qbittorrent qbt
cloudflare-dns cfdns resolv-conf resolv
confluence confl resolved-split-dns splitdns
home-assistant hass route-proxy rproxy
invoicing invoice verdaccio verdacc
mosquitto mosq
nextcloud ncloud
A slug changes the login the mesh mints, so a module already provisioned under
its full name is re-minted under the slug and its old login withdrawn — which
is the provisioner's ordinary business, but it is a change, not a no-op.
Checked with the real parser: every one of the 66 manifests through
`catalogue.ParseManifest`, and every module's `CheckIdentity` against all four
node names. 0 problems, where the same check over the parent commit reports 44.
The six modules that run a mesh-<mod> tool-runtime sidecar read an app
credential from an env var the manifest never provided, so the sidecar
crash-looped in the whole-mesh dry-run (e.g. "no Plex token — set
MESH_PLEX_TOKEN"). These are operator-set app secrets, so deliver them the
same way cloudflare-dns delivers its API token: an own-secret file mounted
read-only, with a MESH_<APP>_*_FILE env pointing at the mount, and the
runtime code preferring that file (falling back to the existing env so
nothing regresses).
- plex: own-secret token -> /run/secrets/token, MESH_PLEX_TOKEN_FILE
- bazarr: own-secret api-key -> /run/secrets/api-key, MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY_FILE
- ombi: own-secret api-key -> /run/secrets/api-key, MESH_OMBI_API_KEY_FILE
- home-assistant: own-secret token -> /run/secrets/token, MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE
- nzbget: own-secret password -> /run/secrets/password, MESH_NZBGET_PASSWORD_FILE (URL stays plain env)
- qbittorrent: own-secret password -> /run/secrets/password, MESH_QBITTORRENT_PASSWORD_FILE (URL stays plain env)
The operator now completes each with `secret accept <node> <module> <name> --from <file>`.
tsc passes for all six.
04-ISSUES/036: eight media modules each declared the shared library and
download directories under /services/media/* as their own `directory`
resources. Six of them owning one path is the collision the resolver
refuses — so the stack's only sensible assignment, all on one machine
sharing one filesystem, would be refused the first time two landed
together.
The media library is the operator's, owned by no module (novox/hq
ADR 0051). Move every /services/media/* path from an owned `directory`
resource to an `accesses` entry: the mesh mounts it and owns nothing —
does not create, chown, reconcile or remove it — and several modules may
access one path with no conflict. Each module's own config and mesh-state
directories stay owned resources.
Modes are least-privilege: plex reads the libraries it streams; the
managers and download clients get read-write on what they import and
write; bazarr writes subtitles into the libraries (read-write) and only
reads the download spool. The container volume mounts are unchanged.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
Give each settings-config runtime a mergeable config file with its own id
(runtime-config) — the previous "config" collided with modules that already own a
config directory, so ten runtimes mounted a config file no resource declared. Point
each runtime's restart-on at it, so a settings change recreates the runtime and it
re-reads the new value (needs the mesh-host container restart-on fix on
issue/009-container-restart-on). Proven: runtime-restart-on-config e2e green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
Nineteen modules gain a broker-bound runtime container that serves the module's
tools under its own scoped account: bazarr, gitea, grafana, home-assistant,
icecast, influxdb, jackett, keycloak, mailu, nextcloud, nodered, nzbget, ombi,
photos, portainer, qbittorrent, searxng, tautulli, verdaccio.
Config is the assignment's, not the manifest's (ADR 0051): each client's fromEnv
overlays a settings-merged config file (MESH_<M>_CONFIG_FILE) over its env
fallbacks, so URL and credentials come from `settings set`, with the URL defaulting
to the server on the node. nextcloud and mailu also mount the docker socket for
their exec-based tools.
Proven in the mesh-lab: assigned-grafana green — settings deliver the URL and token,
the runtime reads the merged config and serves grafana's tools under the scoped
account, with nothing in the manifest. Two gaps this surfaced are filed as hq
issues 008 (a provider runtime's seal key) and 009 (a settings change does not
restart a container runtime).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
The review found broker own-secret paths drifting: mostly /var/lib/<module>/
broker, but grafana/redis/icecast/nextcloud carried a '-module' suffix to dodge
a collision with the service's own /var/lib/<name> data, and photos sat under
/etc. Normalized to one collision-free namespace a service never owns:
/var/lib/mesh/<module>/broker, with a mesh-state directory resource for the
parent, across 24 modules. audit-logger is grandfathered (lab-proven, referenced
by the assigned test, and it has no service to collide with). All 33 manifests
parse; no client hardcoded a path, so nothing in code moved.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
nzbget (usenet, JSON-RPC) and qbittorrent (torrents, WebUI API with manual SID
session). Tools: status, queue/torrents, add, pause/resume, delete. Both poll
and emit module.<app>.download.added and module.<app>.download.completed — the
key plex consumes to rescan; completion is keyed off real success (nzbget
history SUCCESS, qbittorrent progress reaching 1), not mere queue disappearance,
so a failed or deleted item is not reported as done. Typecheck; manifests parse.
Each module becomes modules/<name>/ holding module.json, with room for
the rest of what a module is — its tools, health checks, provisioning,
lifecycle — which the conversion from hal still has to bring across.
The flat <name>.json was only the resource-declaration half.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
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