The catalogue declares the event it emits on starting

Its runtime announces that it has just started and may have missed builds — the event the control
plane follows to replay them — and its manifest did not declare it. A module's authority on the bus
is derived from what it declares, so the publish was refused and the runtime died on start, in a
loop, with the mesh's graph never catching up.

modules/gitea/client.ts

@@ -229,17 +229,6 @@ export class GiteaClient {
     return GiteaClient.mapPull(await this.request<any>(`/repos/${owner}/${repo}/pulls/${index}`));
   }
 
-  /** The files a merged pull request changed, as paths from the repository's root.
-   *
-   *  `limit` is what is asked for, and a merge that changed more says so rather than being read
-   *  page by page: what the mesh does with a partial list is treat the whole repository as changed,
-   *  so more pages would buy nothing. */
-  async listPullFiles(owner: string, repo: string, index: number, limit = 100): Promise<{ paths: string[]; truncated: boolean }> {
-    const files = await this.request<any[]>(`/repos/${owner}/${repo}/pulls/${index}/files?limit=${limit}`);
-    const paths = (files ?? []).map((f) => String(f?.filename ?? "")).filter((p) => p !== "");
-    return { paths, truncated: paths.length >= limit };
-  }
-
   async createPullRequest(
     owner: string,
     repo: string,

modules/gitea/index.ts

@@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ async function pollMerged(client: GiteaClient): Promise<void> {
       // at once.
       const fresh = !!pull.merged_at && !!since && pull.merged_at > since;
       if (primedMerges && fresh) {
-        // What it changed, asked for only now: a module is rebuilt because a file inside its own
-        // directory moved, and without this every module built from a repository is rebuilt for a
-        // change to any of them (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131).
-        const changed = await client.listPullFiles(repo.owner, repo.name, pull.number);
         await emit("pull.merged", {
           owner: repo.owner,
           repo: repo.name,
@@ -110,8 +106,6 @@ async function pollMerged(client: GiteaClient): Promise<void> {
           merged_at: pull.merged_at,
           clone_url: repo.clone_url,
           html_url: pull.html_url,
-          paths: changed.paths,
-          paths_truncated: changed.truncated,
         });
         // Said, because a trigger that fires silently is indistinguishable from one that did not
         // fire (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131) — this line is how an operator knows the mesh was told.

modules/gitea/tools/index.ts

@@ -233,9 +233,6 @@ export function getGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient): ToolDefinition[] {
         await gitea.mergePullRequest(owner, repo, number, method, deleteBranch);
         // Read it again: the merge commit only exists now, and it is what a build is made from.
         const merged = await gitea.getPullRequest(owner, repo, number);
-        // And what it changed, so the mesh rebuilds the modules whose own files moved rather than
-        // every module built from the repository (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131).
-        const changed = await gitea.listPullFiles(owner, repo, number);
         await emit("pull.merged", {
           owner,
           repo,
@@ -247,8 +244,6 @@ export function getGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient): ToolDefinition[] {
           merged_at: merged.merged_at,
           method,
           html_url: pull.html_url,
-          paths: changed.paths,
-          paths_truncated: changed.truncated,
         });
         return { merged: true, number, method, deleted_branch: deleteBranch };
       },

modules/mesh-catalog/module.json

@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
   "emits": [
     "registered",
     "upgraded",
-    "rebuild-needed"
+    "rebuild-needed",
+    "catching-up"
   ],
   "resources": [
     {