A dropped proposal or a stale reservation stayed proposed forever: there was
no way to say the operator decided against it. knowledge-base.withdraw takes
a reserved or proposed record to withdrawn as a new version naming why, ends
a waiting operator's ask and clears a pending review in the same version,
and refuses an already accepted, superseded or withdrawn record. The number
stays spent either way.
The old Withdraw (the background job for reservations never proposed) is
renamed WithdrawStale to make room for the new, caller-driven WithdrawRecord.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-issues, mesh-knowledge, records → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 co…
Once the records leave hq (issue 426), records_decisions would answer every topic empty, reserve would read 0
and hand out 0001 from a counter not started, and import would say it created nothing as a success. reserve now
starts and raises its counters above mesh-knowledge's knowledge_highest, the floor alone starting one (with a
warning) when it is silent and nothing spent with neither.
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