car-hunter #2 was approved and its commit status refused 403: mesh-tools only read the
repositories of a user. It is now a write collaborator on each repository the indexer's
modules state names (watched over the bus: at the start and on each registration), read
back and said as gitea.repo.writable; the operator's other repositories stay read-only.
gitea_grant_write and gitea_unwritable_repos do and show it by hand; gitea_commit_statuses
answers merge.writes.
mesh-catalog #495 gave read on every repository to the tools' account alone. The build modules
fetch over ssh as nox-builder (the forge-account provider's builders account, ADR 0466 §3), so
ace's and g14's fetch of jschoubben/car-hunter and jschoubben/snake still failed; the machines'
agents (nox-agent, ADR 0410 §1) could not read them either.
- gitea: readall.ts grants every account of one list, meshAccounts in tools-account.ts (mesh-tools,
nox-builder, nox-agent; a Go test holds the two Go names to internal/forgeaccount's constants),
on the same start pass, forge events and tools. gitea_unreadable_repos answers per account and
names the accounts the forge does not hold yet; gitea_grant_read takes accounts as well as
repositories. An absent account is asked nothing; the start pass runs again ten minutes apart
until every account was there once.
- mesh-build-go, mesh-build-node, mesh-build-image: pin mesh-sdk ff81bdf8 (fix/fetch-reads-all),
whose forgekey.Said keeps git's words past the bare "error:" line: the mirror's line said only
"git -C: error:". Their own git reasons (ls-files, ls-remote, rev-parse, repack) go through it too.
mesh/check pass 68dfca105794 on 3bec357968da | unit 4443 run, 0 kept, 15 skipped | integration 4483 run, 0 kept, 23 skipped | over bound: unit, integr…
The operator, 2026-10-23: "disable the gitea branch protection reset thing". setUpToolsAccount (run at every token mint) called ensureMainMerges regardless; it now does so only when the setting is true.
The forge's required status was a second copy of the gate mesh-delivery and
the merge tool already keep; a stuck status writer held it too (issues 1886,
1891) and only a hand change at the forge let a fix merge. Main keeps no push,
the tools' merge whitelist and no administrator override. The merge tool
judges mesh/check whether or not the branch requires it, and on a branch that
requires none merges only a head the operator's Approve names. The protection
tool loses its status argument.
The review finishes before the push and its record is a Reviewed-by line in the
description, so the mark repeated what the push meant. mesh-delivery asks the
operator when a pull request's checks pass, keeps an ask through a trunk move
by asking the check again at once, and hands the merge tool the approved heads,
which replace the forge review of each sibling.
mesh/merge-gate head 48f0662fdea2 merged into trunk 5ce2d07c7f47 — pass: builds gitea → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it di…
mesh/repo-check head 48f0662fdea2 merged into trunk 5ce2d07c7f47 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
The tools' token reached everything the administrator may do, so their boundary rested on their own guards.
The gitea module now makes a plain account, mesh-tools, with the admin login, gives it write on code, issues
and pull requests of every novox repository through one team, and mints the tools' token for it; the admin's
old token goes only after the new one is kept. The Go forge bundle sends that token, never the admin login.
The forge shows protection rules only to a repository administrator, so every check reads a branch's
protection from the branch. mesh-admin stays a ready author, so marks made before the move keep counting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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