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.
The review of 2026-10-09 (H4). The desk ran in the operator's runtime, where agents run; it now runs as
the account desk-channel, as telegram does. A link's code is shown only on a named machine whose notifier
said in the last five minutes that it is not paused, and is sent secret, so the notifier keeps it out of
the history every caller of the verbs reads; while no such machine exists the desk says it cannot send,
and the router starts no link.
The review of 2026-10-09 (H4): a link's code shown on the desk stayed in dunst's history, which
node-notifier.history serves to every caller of the mesh's verbs, agents among them; and a code sent to a
paused notifier is held and shown later, to whoever is then at the screen. send now takes secret (transient,
category mesh.secret) and transient; the dunstrc's rules keep both out of the history, and history leaves out
any that got there. The pause, read from dunst itself, is said as the event paused at start, on change and
every two minutes, for the desk to read.
The review of 2026-10-09 (M4): another holder of the token can change a message's words and leave its
buttons, so the operator taps Release under words that say something else. Each message's words are now
kept as a digest, per chat and message, and a tap on a message whose words differ, or that this channel
never showed, is refused on the phone and never said to the router.
The README says, as the operator directed (H5), that an approval from Telegram is meaningful only where
agents run under their own account without sudo, without the operator's X display, and with Telegram
Desktop's data readable by the operator alone; until then, approve from the phone.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds messenger, sudo → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compo…
The build seat runs the suite as root, where every file the test makes is root's, so "a file not made by
root" was root's and unlinked (the forge's repo-check of 2026-10-09). The owner is now faked as another
account for the refusal and as root for the act; the test fails as before under unshare -r without this.
A word kept from a moment ago, not free, refused an ask taken just after root became free again, and
the asker keeps a refusal until something changes. Taking an ask asks the controller fresh, still
before the work is taken (the lab's proof found it).
N1-router: another account's /start offered the desk an unlink of the operator's account in its first
hour, and a desk click, which a program on the desk machine can forge, unlinked it and barred it for a
day, again and again. An unlink at the desk in the first hour now bars nothing: any account, the
operator's too, links again at once with a code from the desk; the day's bar stays for an account
removed by its own approval or by root, and root's allow-link lifts any bar. The words say which.
Lows: the controller's root-free word is asked before the work is taken (it waited up to 10 s inside
it) and the answer is judged with that fresh word; inside the work only a recent word is read, and a
failed ask drops the old one. An answer whose effect the content rule withholds is not offered.
mesh-sdk moves to 16984aa. Each test failed before its fix.
The review of 2026-10-09: the router read the absence of an agent-root condition as a pass, and its minute
hung on a break-glass file, taking the work it already held. An approval now rests on the controller's
verb root-free, asked live for the router's machine and the channel's, failing closed on every other
answer, and a stale word on the kinds promises no verified sender. Break-glass runs in the minute, says
on every channel what root did, and ends the router's own open questions. An ask offering an approval is
answered only where it could be approved; a message says who asks, what each answer does and what expiry
does. The router's own asks bind the account they are about; a link is checked against one per kind as it
is made; an unlinked account does not come back by a code within a day; a fresh link is unlinked from the
desk; no link begins while the desk cannot show its code, and a code is marked secret on every path. Links
are bounded per account in the router's state; a warrant's message id cannot be foreseen. Moves to
mesh-sdk 76902998 (canonical digests).
The review of 2026-10-09: an unknown account and sudo that could not be asked were answered not root, and
only NOPASSWD on ALL counted, though NOPASSWD on systemctl, tee, bash or pacman reaches root as surely,
and a password the person typed is kept by sudo for minutes. Any rule now counts, as the node-engine's
own judge of an agent account does (ADR 0266); what cannot be judged fails the answer. The bundle built
in the module's directory is removed and ignored.
The lab's proof showed an ask whose approval was held back (an agent could become root where the
channel runs) folded into a burst's digest with a condition, and its one remaining answer, Decline,
lost with it. A message carrying an ask's answer now always goes alone.
The lab's proof showed a stranger's refused tap said as "That answer was not taken" on the operator's
own chat (the router sends to the linked account), where it reads as the operator's own answer refused.
It now says which account tried, that nothing was done, and what it may mean.
A warrant now carries the digest of the ask exactly as the router took it, so its asker acts only for
the ask the person was shown, with what each option binds. The router refuses an ask whose approving
option binds nothing (the SDK's Check). Its own unlink and relink asks bind the act they perform, and
it performs that act only on a warrant for that ask. mesh-sdk moves to d4077b4.
A build the controller held back for a person reaches its machines by a backlog walk on the
operator's word, which credits the delivery that published the build one step per machine and
never the walk's own "every machine running it". Its last record keeps no gate, only the machines
it is done on, so the credited steps stayed judging for ever, and `covered` read only the aggregate
steps, so the held merge had no end but a person's wrong act (the catalogue's #125, held 28 hours
after hq ADR 0270 went live).
A finished backlog walk now passes the steps it carried on the machines it is done on; `carries`
counts a module as sent everywhere when a passed step stands on every machine the held delivery's
plan sends it to; and a walk that carried a step still judging is asked for by its id, since one
that ended before the holder's restart may be older than the ended walks the controller lists
back. Three tests fail before and pass after.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-cli → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
So a secret reaches the controller's terminal without standing on a command line:
mesh-cli secret accept <node> <module> <name> --from - < file. A terminal is never read, more than the
bound is refused before anything is asked, and nothing carried is printed. mesh-sdk moves to f047d0a.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds dnsmasq, docker, netcheck → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; 2 wait(s) for a person; every machine composes with the chan…
- The dnsmasq watch restarts only a unit that runs, without waiting for
its start; a unit stopped, starting or failed is held and said (C2).
- dnsmasq_resolve asks only an address the resolver listens on (C3).
- Tests for the watch loop keeping its budget, a watch that wrote nothing
or stopped looking, and a unit not running (C4).
- A restart is remembered as said only once emitted, restarts made before
the bundle started are said, and whether one helped is said (C5).
- docker_events reads the runtime's whole buffer: complete when it is not
full or reaches past the window, never a quiet machine read as lost (C6).
- netcheck: refused read with errors.Is; tests for addresses and ports,
and for a container named as docker knows it.
bind-dynamic closes every listener whose interface a re-read of the
machine's addresses did not find, and a re-read during a bridge teardown
fails (dnsmasq 2.93 network.c:832-875, reproduced in a network namespace:
53 releases in 120 parallel teardowns). bind-interfaces never closes a
listener; a drop-in makes the unit wait for the private address and retry
a start that found it missing.
On 2026-10-09 the control node's route-proxy failed every lookup against 10.10.0.1 alone for twenty
minutes while the machine's file listed both mesh resolvers; its copy lives under the runtime's
root-only directory and no tool read it. docker_resolv_conf reads /etc/resolv.conf as the container
sees it through the runtime's archive (docker cp, no exec), parses it, and says whether it lists the
same resolvers as the machine.
During the 2026-10-09 outage the control node's resolver stayed active while it no longer listened on
its private address, and nothing on the mesh could ask that address a question or show which sockets
were bound. netcheck_dns takes server (and tcp) to ask one resolver alone and say its response code;
netcheck_listening reads the kernel's socket tables, as ss -lunt does, with the owning program where
the tool's account may see it and a sentence where it may not.
docker_events asked for three hours across the 2026-10-09 resolver outage on the control node answered
zero events: the runtime keeps only its last ~256 events in memory, and health-check execs filled them
with the last ten minutes. The answer now carries held, oldest_held and complete, and a history line
when the window reaches further back than what the runtime still holds. The type filter moves into the
tool, since the history's start is only known from all of it.
On 2026-10-09 the control node's dnsmasq stayed active and running, its
journal silent, and refused every question on its private address for
twenty minutes; nothing in the module looked past the unit.
The module is now Go (its TypeScript tools were never served): a root
watch asks the machine's own name on every listen address over UDP and
TCP every 15s, restarts the unit after two failing looks (2 min apart,
3 an hour), and says whether that helped. dnsmasq_health is the watch
process's declared check, so a restart that did not help becomes the
module's unhealthy condition; the service is judged by its unit.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds nfs-server, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of …
- mesh-cli pins the SDK at its tag now that go/v0.1.9 exists, instead of a
pseudo-version of the branch it was cut from.
- mesh-delivery's stalled line for a head the forge never announced
carries the pull request's number, which the controller's condition
names in its headline.
After merging #159 (issue 347): every /repos/<owner>/<name> the client builds
now takes its owner and name through one helper, whether they came from a
caller or from the forge's answer; the open-pulls fixture's shas are commits.
The confirmation review of 2026-10-09 found the dedicated tools building paths
from caller text: a branch named .. became DELETE /repos/o/r/ (the repository),
a file path ../../../../version reached /api/v1/version, and a sha with
?sudo= set a status as any user. Each caller-supplied segment now goes through
one helper refusing empty, . and .. and / ? # %; a sha must be a commit; and
the client judges every path once more as it sends it: no dot or empty
segment, encoded or not, and only the allow-listed query keys.
The confirmation review asked for the delivery domain's own vocabulary
instead of a provider standing. A gitea health check would need a `tools`
list (turning gitea's tools into seat verbs), a check of another kind
beside it, and would hold the forge's own deliveries at the first-node
gate; so the delivery's owner says it, with the word it already has.
- gitea_open_pulls (gitea): every open pull request from the forge itself,
with what its base requires and the statuses its head has.
- mesh-delivery asks it every five minutes and keeps its own first-seen
time per head (the forge's update time moves on every comment). A head
on a base requiring mesh/merge-gate OR mesh/repo-check (hq requires only
the second) with neither for ten minutes is a `stalled` line in state
`unannounced`, which the controller raises as delivery.<id>.stalled (D14);
H2 has nothing to close. Once announced it is a delivery of its own.
- The gitea-side watcher and its provider standing are gone.
The confirmation review of 2026-10-09 measured GET /user?sudo=… answer the
operator's own account: the query went to the forge unjudged, and the tools'
token is the site administrator's, so any caller could act as any user.
gitea_api now sends only allow-listed query keys and refuses sudo in any case,
and a review that approves or requests changes is the operator's.
jschoubben
jochen
mesh-admin