At 2026-11-02 22:55:58 the provisioner's first pass after a new membership read
part of the picture, took the modules missing from it as handing nothing, set
21 route keys of running web apps retiring and asked the operator to remove
them; 3 s later the next pass put every plan back. Only 3 asks reached the
router; the other 18 were refused yet counted asked. Third of its kind (937,
1332), so the kind is fixed, not the instance.
Quick fix: wait for the watched reads' first load before any pass.
Thorough fix, chosen because the kind recurred three times and its obvious
answer would cut running apps off their routes:
- no pass judges before placement, wants, haves, the indexer's modules and the
published compositions have loaded once; a read error fails the pass
instead of reading as empty;
- while a module's composition is not published at its build, no key on that
node turns retiring and no plan is removed; a placed module with no known
build is held, not counted as handing nothing;
- a key whose consumer still has a want or a have on the node and no plan read
in this pass is left as it is;
- a pass that would retire most of a node's consumers at once (more than 3, or
more than half and at least 2) retires and asks nothing and says it as a
fault through provisioner_health (runtime-health, so a condition names the
likely cause); provisioner_compose retire-many is the operator's word that
such a removal is meant;
- at most 3 asks stand open (the router's bound per asker); the rest wait and
are raised as one ends, and an ask the router holds no record of a minute on
is raised again.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
The node-engine alone composes (ADR 0593 §6, §8), so the provisioner stops
composing with frombus and fromruntime and reads each module's plan from
composed-<node> (read as mesh-host.composed): at its want, or the build its
have runs, and at the indexer's newest build, so a key ahead of its want
still carries its plan entry. A refused or not yet published composition
holds the module with its last plan kept. The golden test proves the plans
and provisions are today's, captured from the composing holder before the
change. It no longer reads the builds or the resolved values.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
mesh/delivery-group group fix/held-module-and-assigner-contract rejected: composed together: the checker's verdict at the members' heads (c82f18b5e6bb): integr…
mesh/check failed: integration: mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers.TestTheHealersWholeActOnTheBusAndBrake: never: the would-act written | b8ce4f0c0ac5 on 3…
The sweep of 2026-10-30 20:10: <node>.claude-code.gitea-read and <node>.mesh-build-node.npm-package-registry failed on
all four nodes with "gitea does not serve": gitea's provider helper answers only forge-account and refuses every other
bind into gitea.bound, and the provisioner took any entry of a module declaring `bound` as the outcome. And
novox.gitea.route, novox.keycloak.route and <node>.claude-code.mcp-endpoint stood asked: route-proxy and node-tools keep
entries the manifest did not read.
Quick fix: add route-proxy.bound and node-tools.bound to the reads. Thorough fix: judge each offer by who answers it
(answered-by: helper reads the entries, any other offer of a module that names a helper is judged by its have), and say
on gitea's forge-account that the helper answers it. Chose both: the reads alone leave gitea's two provisions failed.
novox since 15:36 (nats's built manifest) and ace since 15:37 (baserow's config.json) had no plans at all, so the
vault refused every secret their clients asked. The holder now composes with frombus.PlansHeld: a module whose build
or plan refuses is held, its why kept in the new state refused and read by provisioner_plans, its last plan and its
provisions left as they were, and every other module on the node composed and written. Pins mesh-sdk 59311407.
mesh/delivery-group group feat/774-l3-reland rejected: composed together: the checker's verdict at the members' heads (b48c90fea31f): integration: mesh-self-ch…
mesh/check failed: integration: mesh-self-check/cmd/mesh-self-check.TestTheSelfCheckWholeRunsOnTheBus: the run answered {Run:doctor-1793351737-1 At:20…
One commit with exactly the tree of the reviewed head 35b4509c0a, on main 12c2574c9d, so two compiled programs added and removed on the branch leave no trace in history (issue 1577).
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.
jschoubben
mesh-tools