mesh/merge-gate head 93d58f3740a0 merged into trunk 5cd608ba8898 — pass: builds fail2ban → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wit…
mesh/repo-check head 93d58f3740a0 merged into trunk 5cd608ba8898 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
An agent polling the forge from the operator's home got that home banned for a day and then four
weeks, and nothing in the house reached the control-node. Every jail spared only private ranges.
The mesh-wide setting own-addresses reaches the machine as a mergeable file whose own content is
the empty list, so the module composes while it is unset. A new watch process (root) writes its
entries into a list every jail's base ignoreip names as file:, which fail2ban reloads without a
restart; it checks every jail names that list and keeps each failure a jail ignored because of it
for a day. The new fail2ban_health tool judges the watch, so the controller raises a warning
naming node, jail, address and count. The ban verb refuses an address on the setting or on the
jail's ignore list before the daemon is asked.
mesh/merge-gate head 2f5e97030a5c merged into trunk bc3b59227f46 — pass: builds mesh-delivery → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change …
mesh/repo-check head 2f5e97030a5c merged into trunk bc3b59227f46 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
A walk that moved nothing because every module's recorded build source held none of the changed files now
says so per module (delivery.unchanged). Such a merge moves nothing (ADR 0270 §1): it is delivered, naming
the modules, not stopped 20 minutes later with the operator asked about a change already on every machine.
A module the walk neither built nor said unchanged still stops it (issue 474).
mesh/repo-check head eb4280637906 merged into trunk 53e51864969f — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
grafana's client logged in with a token setting ahead of the vault's admin password,
and its runtime config let a layer set token. The token setting is now ignored and
said, token is protected, and the vault's password comes first.
checks/secrets/known could gain a line hiding a newly unprotected key. merge-check.sh
now judges it against the trunk's copy at the merge base, and refuses an added line.
mesh/repo-check head fe2040c65ea2 merged into trunk 53e51864969f — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
A setting outranked the vault: baserow, grafana, letta and unifi merged a layer's
password over the ${secret:...} in their runtime config, and the gitea,
home-assistant, icecast, influxdb, mailu and nextcloud clients read the settings
file before the vault's file. A secret in a setting cannot be rotated and is read
back by the settings verb.
The four files now keep their password protected, so the controller refuses a
setting of it. The six clients ignore a secret in the settings file and say so
once, by key and never with the value; icecast reads its admin password from the
vault's file. checks/secrets refuses a mergeable file whose secret a layer could
replace; searxng's nested server.secret_key is listed as known until the
controller protects a nested key.
mesh/merge-gate head e0bc919d4945 merged into trunk f88e3452f8b8 — pass: builds build-agent → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
mesh/repo-check head e0bc919d4945 merged into trunk f88e3452f8b8 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
mesh/delivery covered: a later merge that contains it was delivered: novox/mesh-catalog@2f5e97030a5c (merged as 5cd608ba into main, walk plan-17918799551…
build-agent's npm-package-registry becomes optional, so genesis's step 13 is no
longer refused with 'nothing provides npm-package-registry'. Until gitea is
assigned, the agent on genesis's node reads the genesis-package-registry
own-secret the installer seals at the packages step; it is issued outside the
mesh, so no other machine is given one. The binding and its credential are
composed only while bound (ADR 0330 §6), and no file names them otherwise.
mesh/merge-gate head c9a711c259ed merged into trunk 827b89dbf109 — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 2 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head c9a711c259ed merged into trunk 827b89dbf109 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
writeAccountLists checked only for a running Betterbird and wrote without a sync;
it now waits for the profile's lock too and writes atomically. readLayer read any
answer that was not JSON as an empty layer, and a proposal replaces the layer
whole, so a changed wording would have dropped accounts; it now refuses. The
README says the rollout order that leaves no node on Betterbird's defaults.
mesh/merge-gate head 1835f0efad0f merged into trunk 39e7a06e6293 — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 2 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head 1835f0efad0f merged into trunk 39e7a06e6293 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
The module owned only the accounts' server fields, so identities, signatures,
calendars, address books, filters and tags could differ between desktop nodes
unseen, and the operator's own preferences were shipped in the catalogue.
prefs becomes one entry per preference (a node's layer overrides one key) and the
defaults file keeps no value of the operator's; identities, calendars,
address-books, filters and tags become settings, adopted like accounts, filters
owned whole per account, and what Betterbird rewrites written only while it is
closed. New tools list each kind, derive the layers from every desktop node and
propose one at a time, and show drift; every answer passes a credential check.
mesh/merge-gate head 84911b94f3be merged into trunk 8f80cd471634 — pass: builds lab → shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did…
mesh/repo-check head 84911b94f3be merged into trunk 8f80cd471634 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
mesh-host now carries one genesis bundle, foundation-first-node.lock; the -nats one the
lab's runs named is deleted, so every run would have raised from a file that is gone.
mesh/merge-gate head 4193eacec459 merged into trunk 39e7a06e6293 — pass: builds grafana, home-assistant → ace; no bus step; every machine composes with the…
mesh/repo-check head 4193eacec459 merged into trunk 39e7a06e6293 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
grafana runs without influxdb and home-assistant without the Servarr apps or a broker, yet a mesh
without them could not assign either. Their requirements are now optional: bound when a provider
runs, absent otherwise, with nothing installed for them. grafana's data source and its credential are
delivered only while influxdb-api is bound, into directories it mounts, so an absent file never
becomes a directory docker made in its place.
mesh/merge-gate head c4eebce598cb merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
mesh/repo-check head c4eebce598cb merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Freeing the slot two minutes after asking could let a backlogged router still show
the question after the session read it as ended, and let a third question in. The
seat's queue offers work again after an error and the router drops a cancel of an
ask it has not recorded, so a cancel cannot take it back; once expired, the router
refuses it if taken late. The slot test now uses a stale revision, so a plain
write in place of the compare-and-set fails it.
mesh/merge-gate head 14999f1d3ecb merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
mesh/repo-check head 14999f1d3ecb merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
A question was kept on the bus before the router judged its words, so a token in
it reached a bucket every node reads: every word, the options' too, is now held
to the secret shapes and invisible characters before anything is kept, and a
refused question keeps none of its words. The cap was check-then-create and
failed open: each open question now holds one of two slot keys taken by create
or compare-and-set, refusing when a slot cannot be read. A question the router
never recorded frees its slot after two minutes instead of at expiry. by is
required; wording matches ADR 0332.
mesh/merge-gate head e4e0ce761901 merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
mesh/repo-check head e4e0ce761901 merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
The refusal test failed on a loaded build agent: Propose returned on hearing the
refusal before HeardEnd had written the discard, so a reader right after saw
nothing decided. The question path keeps the same order.
mesh/merge-gate head 9446bec2f969 merged into trunk 9c9a76d220f8 — pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
A session that needs a decision could only ask in a terminal the operator may
not watch. claude_code_ask raises the question under this module's name at the
level approve, so only a channel that proves who answered carries it;
claude_code_answer reads the chosen option back by its key from the router's own
record, held to the question kept in the new questions state.
mesh/merge-gate head d09dbe33ac0f merged into trunk ac2d4dc46f4c — pass: builds build-agent, route-proxy → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every mach…
mesh/repo-check head d09dbe33ac0f merged into trunk ac2d4dc46f4c — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Neither server declared health, so each walk that moved them waited out the
60 s grace on every machine. The build agent is ready when 'mesh-builder ready'
says it took its build work; the route proxy when its http port accepts.
mesh/merge-gate head 005f802504fc merged into trunk eb5f33f2b475 — pass: builds mesh-delivery, mesh-issues → novox; no bus step; every machine composes wit…
mesh/repo-check head 005f802504fc merged into trunk eb5f33f2b475 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
mesh/merge-gate head c4b4bac757c5 merged into trunk 0863ec2a059d — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head c4b4bac757c5 merged into trunk 0863ec2a059d — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Betterbird keeps the active theme in its add-on database, and extensions.activeThemeID only mirrors it.
So clearing the preference changed nothing, and the drift report then hid that. The theme is now read
from extensions.json against default-theme@mozilla.org. Another theme is drift, and its remedy is the
add-on manager: config_apply never clears it and keep refuses it.
A credential's, an account's or a server's name in the defaults file is refused by code: it is never
answered or cleared, and the check names it. Apply also refuses while the profile's lock is there, and
syncs prefs.js before the rename. A saved default of a built-in preference is no longer drift.
A module that installs Betterbird but leaves every node to its own settings does not set Betterbird up.
The operator approved the configuration on 2026-10-12, and it now ships in three layers. The policy
locks what must never differ: telemetry, add-on updates, the vendor's notices and the start page. A
defaults file carries the laptop's setup, so a fresh node gets it untouched. The setting prefs stays a
node's exceptions.
A default loses to a value the profile saved. betterbird_config shows that drift, betterbird_check
reports it, and betterbird_config_apply clears it while Betterbird is quit. keep proposes a node layer
instead of writing user.js. betterbird_prefs now reads Betterbird's real defaults from omni.ja, and
withholds of mailnews.* only what names an account. The default-client ask is decided from its own
policy entry, not from the first thing the policy lacks.
mesh/merge-gate head 01d2ff7a46bc merged into trunk 2fe5601397ae — pass: builds gitea → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it di…
mesh/repo-check head 01d2ff7a46bc merged into trunk 2fe5601397ae — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
The merge tool deletes the branch after merging; the forge then reads head.ref as refs/pull/<n>/head and only
head.label names the branch. pull.merged carried the pull ref, so the controller found no group for the merge,
cut mesh-catalog #251's walk at once and walked it before mesh-controller #271's, against the group's order.
mesh/merge-gate head 961e57f7e403 merged into trunk 22071dabfc7b — pass: builds gitea → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it di…
mesh/repo-check head 961e57f7e403 merged into trunk 22071dabfc7b — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
A pass read only the 20 most recently updated open pull requests of a
repository, so a new head beyond them went unannounced and its merge check
never started (novox/hq issue 579). Pages stop at the floor; a sweep reads all.
mesh/merge-gate head 481e44cdaa29 merged into trunk 23ea0f431faf — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head 481e44cdaa29 merged into trunk 23ea0f431faf — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Betterbird's own default asks at every start with a window to become the default for mail, news, feeds and
calendar files. The policy locks mail.shell.checkDefaultClient off, which wins over a profile's own value, and
betterbird_check says when a node would still ask.
mesh/merge-gate head 2f55adc57c60 merged into trunk 43a9155d5afe — pass: builds betterbird, keycloak, searxng → ace; no bus step; 3 wait(s) for a person; e…
mesh/repo-check head 2f55adc57c60 merged into trunk 43a9155d5afe — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Every setting reached every mergeable file: searxng's endpoints landed in
its settings.yml, keycloak's issuer in its tools' config, betterbird's
prefs would land in its accounts file. Each file now names the keys it
reads, so the controller lays only those over it and calls the rest
stray. Merge only after the controller that knows takes-settings
(mesh-controller #272) has walked: an older one hands the field to the
node-engine, which refuses it.
The merge tool's pending bypassed the merge check's one writer from the tools'
bundle (issue 456); it is now served beside it. A verdict no build judges names
the announced base head, so the merge tool no longer refuses it for ever. A
late verdict keeps its account, a trunk is read again in each head's turn so a
fresh verdict is not put out of date, and a delivered member counts when a
rebased member's group is composed again (novox/hq ADR 0323).
A merge check's verdict now names the trunk commit it judged (novox/hq ADR
0323, issue 341), but the forge kept it green after another merge moved the
trunk, the merge tool merged on it, and mesh-delivery kept the delivery ready.
The forge's holder puts both statuses of every open pull request into a moved
trunk back to pending with the reason and runs nothing; the merge tool compares
the verdict's trunk commit with the trunk's head, asks the check once and never
merges by itself; mesh-delivery sends a ready delivery back to proposed, counts
only a verdict for the trunk's head, and composes a group again for a rebased
member instead of holding it.
mesh/delivery-group group fix/403-fix-time checking: composed check out of date: novox/mesh-controller@7ca5a45ecc5a was judged against trunk ?, the trunk is no…
The forge refuses an approval of one's own pull request, so the independent
reviews are comment reviews opening with "Verdict: approve at <sha>"; read
only APPROVED, the review phase was never measured. A fix whose start was
read back from the log was fixed before fix times were measured: it is kept
and shown, never warned on. A carried value at fixing after one at diagnosing
starts at its worker's active (the move), not its since (the diagnosis).
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-delivery, mesh-issues → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
hq ADR 0313: the operator's five minutes start when an agent moves the issue
to fixing, not at the merge. mesh-delivery says on each transition, and in
checks, when the pull request opened, when it merged and the class of what it
moves. mesh-issues keeps the first move to fixing, the fix time with its four
phases once the last fix is delivered, serves fix-times, and says
issue-tracker.fix.<class>.over-budget on the operator's channel, cleared by the
next fix of that class within budget.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of …
The shared-server check refused an adopted account for its own alias, and
counted Owl's, local folders' and feeds' identities as users of the default
server, though they never send by SMTP. The controller now judges an
upstream pin's host like any name, so each pin declares its vendor.
The user.js answer carried declared addresses and hosts (ADR 0316 §16). An
adopted identity's outgoing server may be shared with an account the module
does not own, whose sending the declared values would change at every start:
refused with the remedy, since ADR 0317 §2 leaves the identity's server and
the lists as they are; a recorded adoption follows the identity's current
server. Owl installed by policy cannot be removed, so a newer Owl than the
pin is a fact whose remedy is moving the pin.
A module that cannot set Betterbird up is of little use (the operator,
2026-10-12). The module now declares the community package absent and
unpacks the pinned upstream release where that package had it, so the same
profile opens; places the enterprise policy that turns Betterbird's updater
off and force-installs Owl from the xpi the mesh pinned by its vendor's
digest (never in a repository); and takes the operator's accounts from the
trusted setting accounts, without any password or token: an account the
profile already holds is adopted under its own keys, a new one is created
under the module's mesh_ keys, an ambiguous one is refused with the remedy,
and the account lists are only written into. betterbird_accounts says the
profile's accounts by count and proposes the setting built from them for the
operator's Approve. Every new build waits for the operator's push. The
reminder test is visibly a test (MESH TEST band, event name) and its
description says it opens a window on the operator's screen.
A fresh profile has never checked for updates, so Betterbird checked at the
test's start, found a newer build published and opened its About window on the
operator's screen instead of leaving the reminder to show. The test's own
preferences now also come last in its user.js, so nothing declared or carried
overrides them.
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