anthropic-consumer: its usage runs in the node's runtime, and its apply is a scheduled process (hq ADR 0198)

Both containers go with the Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory. apply needs no bus and runs every five minutes as a process on the machine at the host paths the container mounted. usage emitted by spawning the runtime image's own emit command with the module's credential, which exists nowhere now, so it is loaded by the node's runtime instead: it emits through the SDK as this module and reads on the cadence the schedule gave it, once at start and every five minutes. That is the one code change.
openai-consumer: its apply is a scheduled process (hq ADR 0198)
2026-10-04 00:37:49 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 00:36:58 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 00:36:40 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 00:36:17 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 00:35:30 +02:00 · 2026-10-04 00:34:57 +02:00
46 changed files with 545 additions and 1603 deletions
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# anthropic-consumer's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/anthropic-consumer
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc apply/index.ts usage/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist /app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist
-# No serve-time entrypoints: every container of this module names its command (`run` on a
-# schedule), so nothing here serves — deliberately no MESH_TOOL_MODULES.
@@ -14,19 +14,10 @@
  "secrets": {
    "model-access": "${dir:state}/access-token"
  },
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "emits": [
    "usage.session"
  ],
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -46,66 +37,39 @@
    },
    {
      "id": "apply",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-anthropic-consumer-apply",
-      "network": "host",
+      "type": "process",
+      "name": "anthropic-consumer-apply",
+      "artifact": "code",
+      "run": [
+        "node",
+        "apply/index.js"
+      ],
      "schedule": "*/5 * * * *",
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist/apply/index.js"
-      ],
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:state}:/run/state"
-      ],
      "env": {
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "/run/state/access-token",
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "/run/state/model.json",
-        "MESH_CLAUDE_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "/run/state/claude/.credentials.json",
-        "MESH_CLAUDE_IDENTITY_FILE": "/run/state/claude/.claude.json"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "usage",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-anthropic-consumer-usage",
-      "network": "host",
-      "schedule": "*/5 * * * *",
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist/usage/index.js"
-      ],
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:state}:/run/state"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_CLAUDE_PROJECTS_DIR": "/run/state/claude/projects",
-        "MESH_ANTHROPIC_USAGE_OUT": "/run/state/out/session-usage.json",
-        "MESH_TOOLS_MAIN": "/app/dist/main.js"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "${dir:state}/access-token",
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "${dir:state}/model.json",
+        "MESH_CLAUDE_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "${dir:state}/claude/.credentials.json",
+        "MESH_CLAUDE_IDENTITY_FILE": "${dir:state}/claude/.claude.json"
+      }
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "apply/index.js",
+          "usage/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "usage/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_PROJECTS_DIR": "${dir:state}/claude/projects",
+          "MESH_ANTHROPIC_USAGE_OUT": "${dir:state}/out/session-usage.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -3,12 +3,15 @@
 // per session. The consumer IS the (node,module) session's fixed binding, so no per-message account
 // attribution is done — just the totals (port map "don't-map" #3).
 //
-// Runs as `mesh-tools run` (no broker), so events are emitted best-effort via the sibling mesh-tools
-// `emit` primitive; the totals are also written to a file so the reading is observable without one.
+// Runs in the node's runtime (novox/hq ADR 0198), every five minutes, so events are emitted through
+// the runtime as this module; the totals are also written to a file so the reading is observable
+// without one.

 import { readdirSync, statSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, renameSync, mkdirSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join, dirname } from "node:path";

+import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+
 import { readSessionFile, type SessionUsage } from "../transcript.js";

 /** The vendor-neutral usage row ADR 0054 fixes — the shape the model-usage store upserts. Kept local
@@ -116,22 +119,20 @@ function atomicWrite(path: string, content: string): void {
  renameSync(tmp, path);
 }

-/** Emit best-effort via the sibling mesh-tools `emit`, which wires a broker a run step has none. */
+/** Emit best-effort through the runtime: a reading that could not be announced is still in the file. */
 async function emitUsage(body: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<void> {
-  const main = process.env.MESH_TOOLS_MAIN ?? "/app/dist/main.js";
-  const { spawn } = await import("node:child_process");
-  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
-    const child = spawn(
-      process.execPath,
-      [main, "emit", "usage.session", JSON.stringify(body)],
-      { stdio: "inherit" },
-    );
-    child.on("exit", () => resolve());
-    child.on("error", (err) => {
+  try {
+    await emit("usage.session", body);
+  } catch (err) {
    console.error(`[anthropic-consumer] could not emit usage: ${err}`);
-      resolve();
-    });
-  });
+  }
 }

-await main();
+// The cadence the scheduled container had: once at start, then every five minutes. Not awaited, so the
+// runtime's handshake is answered while a long first reading is still under way.
+const EVERY_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000;
+const tick = (): void => {
+  void main().catch((err) => console.error(`[anthropic-consumer] usage reading failed: ${err}`));
+};
+tick();
+setInterval(tick, EVERY_MS);
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# audit-logger's runtime: the shared runtime image, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The toolkit is in the base image, so
-# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout — which is what lets the mesh build this from a
-# repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that happens to have
-# the siblings laid out beside it.
-
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in.
-# They are different images on purpose — the first carries a compiler and the second must not, or
-# every running container would carry one it never invokes. The mesh answers both with the copies it
-# holds, because a fingerprint written here would name one particular copy and no other mesh has it
-# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults, so a build
-# nobody told stops here and says which module to build first.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the toolkit it will run against.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/audit-logger
-COPY . .
-# The compiler is invoked by its real path rather than through node_modules/.bin, whose entries are
-# symlinks to a launcher that requires its library relatively — resolved away when the base image
-# was assembled.
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc audit.ts index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/audit-logger/dist /app/modules/audit-logger/dist
-# **Served, not run.** This subscribes on import, and the serve mode binds the broker before it
-# imports anything — `run` exists for a step that works offline and exits, and would leave this
-# with nothing to subscribe to.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/audit-logger/dist/index.js
@@ -5,27 +5,21 @@
  "consumes": [
    "**"
  ],
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:state}/broker"
-  },
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "AUDIT_LOG": "${dir:trail}/audit.log"
+        }
      }
    ]
  },
@@ -40,21 +34,6 @@
      "id": "trail",
      "type": "directory",
      "mode": "0700"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "run",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-audit-logger",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:trail}:/trail"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "AUDIT_LOG": "/trail/audit.log"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "capabilities": [
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# cloudflare-dns's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/cloudflare-dns
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist /app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -18,20 +18,13 @@
    "public-dns": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
  },
  "own-secrets": {
-    "token": "${dir:state}/token",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    "token": "${dir:state}/token"
  },
  "emits": [
    "record.created",
    "record.removed"
  ],
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -50,48 +43,30 @@
      "merge": "json",
      "content": "{}",
      "mode": "0600"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-cloudflare-dns",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:/grants",
-        "${dir:state}/token:/run/secrets/token:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/token",
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "/var/lib/cloudflare-dns/grants/mesh.json"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "capabilities": [
    "container-runtime"
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN_FILE": "${dir:state}/token",
+          "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# gitea's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled provisioner, tools and event
-# consumer.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
-# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout — which is what lets the mesh build this from a
-# repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that happens to have
-# the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in.
-# They are different images on purpose — the first carries a compiler and the second must not, or
-# every running container would carry one it never invokes. The mesh answers both with the copies it
-# holds, because a fingerprint written here would name one particular copy and no other mesh has it
-# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults, so a build
-# nobody told stops here and says which module to build first.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/gitea
-COPY . .
-# The compiler is invoked by its real path rather than through node_modules/.bin, whose entries are
-# symlinks to a launcher that requires its library relatively — resolved away when the base image
-# was assembled.
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts token.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-# **No apt packages.** gitea's provisioner talks to the forge over HTTP (the gitea REST API), not
-# through a CLI the way postgres drives psql — so the runtime base holds everything this needs.
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/gitea/dist /app/modules/gitea/dist
-# What a tool host should load from this module: its event consumer and its tools, which are
-# separate entrypoints because they are loaded by different things. The provisioner is the third,
-# and is not listed here — the declaration names it in the container's `args`, because it is what
-# this module's own container runs. One image, because they are one module and share a client.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/gitea/dist/index.js,/app/modules/gitea/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/gitea/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -85,9 +85,6 @@
      "scope": "mesh"
    }
  ],
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "id": "mesh-state",
@@ -180,32 +177,6 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "{}\n",
      "merge": "json"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-gitea",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro",
-        "${dir:runtime-state}:/run/state"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_GITEA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
-        "MESH_GITEA_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-        "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin",
-        "MESH_GITEA_STATE_DIR": "/run/state",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/npm.json"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime",
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ]
    }
  ],
  "provides": [
@@ -219,23 +190,29 @@
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_GITEA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
+          "MESH_GITEA_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+          "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
+          "MESH_GITEA_STATE_DIR": "${dir:runtime-state}",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/npm.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  },
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# grafana's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/grafana
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/grafana/dist /app/modules/grafana/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/grafana/dist/index.js,/app/modules/grafana/dist/tools/index.js
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
    "alert.firing"
  ],
  "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "container-runtime"
@@ -112,25 +111,6 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "{\n  \"user\": \"admin\",\n  \"password\": \"${secret:admin}\"\n}\n",
      "merge": "json"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-grafana",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_GRAFANA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
-        "MESH_GRAFANA_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "requires": [
@@ -162,23 +142,23 @@
    "influxdb-api": "${dir:mesh-state}/influxdb-api"
  },
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_GRAFANA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
+          "MESH_GRAFANA_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# home-assistant's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/home-assistant
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisions/hass.ts provisions/probe.ts provisions/connections.ts provisions/mesh.ts provisions/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/home-assistant/dist /app/modules/home-assistant/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/home-assistant/dist/index.js,/app/modules/home-assistant/dist/tools/index.js
-# NOT dist/provisions/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the
-# `provisions` container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run
-# inside the serving sidecar too, and exit it.
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
    "state.changed"
  ],
  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker",
    "token": "${dir:mesh-state}/token"
  },
  "listens": [
@@ -80,55 +79,27 @@
      "merge": "json"
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-home-assistant",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/token:/run/secrets/token:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}",
-        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/token",
-        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      "id": "provisions-env",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/provisions.env",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "content": "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}\nMESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE=${dir:mesh-state}/token\nMESH_PROVISIONS_DIR=${dir:state}\nMESH_WRITTEN_DIR=${dir:written}\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "provisions",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-home-assistant-provisions",
-      "network": "host",
-      "run-once": true,
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/token:/run/secrets/token:ro",
-        "${dir:written}:/var/lib/home-assistant-provisions",
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.json:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.secret:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.json:/run/provisions/sonarr-api.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.secret:/run/provisions/sonarr-api.secret:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.json:/run/provisions/radarr-api.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.secret:/run/provisions/radarr-api.secret:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.json:/run/provisions/lidarr-api.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.secret:/run/provisions/lidarr-api.secret:ro"
+      "type": "process",
+      "name": "home-assistant-provisions",
+      "artifact": "code",
+      "run": [
+        "node",
+        "provisions/index.js"
      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}",
-        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/token",
-        "MESH_PROVISIONS_DIR": "/run/provisions",
-        "MESH_WRITTEN_DIR": "/var/lib/home-assistant-provisions"
-      },
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/home-assistant/dist/provisions/index.js"
+      "run-once": true,
+      "env-file": [
+        "${dir:state}/provisions.env"
      ],
      "restart-on": [
+        "provisions-env",
        "bound-mqtt-topic",
        "secret-mqtt-topic",
        "bound-sonarr-api",
@@ -137,8 +108,7 @@
        "secret-radarr-api",
        "bound-lidarr-api",
        "secret-lidarr-api"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      ]
    }
  ],
  "requires": [
@@ -173,23 +143,25 @@
    "lidarr-api": "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.secret"
  },
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisions/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}",
+          "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/token",
+          "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# icecast's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/icecast
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/icecast/dist /app/modules/icecast/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/icecast/dist/index.js,/app/modules/icecast/dist/tools/index.js
@@ -28,9 +28,6 @@
    "stream.started",
    "stream.stopped"
  ],
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "listens": [
    {
      "name": "stream",
@@ -95,45 +92,26 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "{}\n",
      "merge": "json"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-icecast",
-      "network": "icecast",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_ICECAST_URL": "http://icecast:8000",
-        "MESH_ICECAST_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_ICECAST_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8000}",
+          "MESH_ICECAST_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# influxdb's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/influxdb
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts grants.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/influxdb/dist /app/modules/influxdb/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/influxdb/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/influxdb/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
    "container-runtime"
  ],
  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker",
    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
    "admin-token": "${dir:state}/admin-token.secret"
  },
@@ -100,29 +99,6 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "{}\n",
      "merge": "json"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-influxdb",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/admin-token.secret:/run/secrets/admin-token:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_INFLUXDB_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8086}",
-        "MESH_INFLUXDB_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_INFLUXDB_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin-token",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "requires": [
@@ -135,23 +111,25 @@
    }
  },
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_INFLUXDB_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8086}",
+          "MESH_INFLUXDB_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_INFLUXDB_TOKEN_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin-token.secret",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# keycloak's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
-# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
-# resolved away.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/keycloak
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts oidc.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/keycloak/dist /app/modules/keycloak/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
-# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
-# ran no provisioner at all.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/keycloak/dist/index.js,/app/modules/keycloak/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/keycloak/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@
    "oidc-client": "${dir:grants}"
  },
  "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret"
  },
  "resources": [
    {
@@ -144,49 +143,30 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "{}\n",
      "merge": "json"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-keycloak",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_KEYCLOAK_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}",
-        "MESH_KEYCLOAK_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_KEYCLOAK_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}",
+          "MESH_KEYCLOAK_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-# lab's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's code, and the toolchain the lab's suite
-# builds the mesh with (novox/hq ADR 0172). It reaches the machine's virtualisation and container
-# runtime through their sockets, so what it raises is what a hand run on this machine raises.
-#
-# Every download is pinned by its checksum: an image that builds the mesh is the last place to take
-# whatever an upstream serves today.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/lab
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc tools/index.ts tools/runs.ts --rootDir . \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-RUN apt-get update \
- && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git make ca-certificates curl python3 file iproute2 sudo \
- && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-RUN curl -fsSL -o /tmp/go.tgz https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz \
- && echo "d0f743b33e8d8945e6b1f432edd15785c70507121d6e2a723b21285eddf8b57b  /tmp/go.tgz" | sha256sum -c - \
- && tar -C /usr/local -xzf /tmp/go.tgz && rm /tmp/go.tgz
-RUN curl -fsSL -o /usr/local/bin/incus https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/download/v7.5.1/bin.linux.incus.x86_64 \
- && echo "7bd6223b369f4d693fcde695bd8549a73b5b3d403735329212483702aa22c179  /usr/local/bin/incus" | sha256sum -c - \
- && chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/incus
-RUN curl -fsSL -o /tmp/docker.tgz https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-28.5.2.tgz \
- && echo "ea90cfd12e1eeb12aa1c971741adb8bd4ed88e2a574eaac13f5029a1dbc6300d  /tmp/docker.tgz" | sha256sum -c - \
- && tar -C /tmp -xzf /tmp/docker.tgz docker/docker && mv /tmp/docker/docker /usr/local/bin/docker && rm -rf /tmp/docker /tmp/docker.tgz
-ENV PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/lab/dist /app/modules/lab/dist
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/lab/dist/tools/index.js
@@ -5,16 +5,7 @@
    "container-runtime",
    "virtualisation"
  ],
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -35,47 +26,67 @@
      "content": "MESH_LAB_FORGE=${setting:forge}\n"
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-lab",
-      "network": "host",
-      "env-file": [
-        "${dir:state}/lab.env"
-      ],
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:work}:${dir:work}",
-        "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock",
-        "/var/lib/incus/unix.socket:/var/lib/incus/unix.socket"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_LAB_WORK": "${dir:work}"
+      "id": "git",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "git"
    },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-env"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+    {
+      "id": "make",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "make"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "python",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "python"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "file",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "file"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "iproute2",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "iproute2"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sudo",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "sudo"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "npm",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "npm"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "go",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "go"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "incus",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "incus"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_LAB_WORK": "${dir:work}",
+          "MESH_LAB_ENV_FILE": "${dir:state}/lab.env"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -2,18 +2,23 @@
 // lab is assigned to, and only there: a bed raises virtual machines on that machine's virtualisation.

 import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import { listRuns, readStatus, REPOSITORIES, running, start, stop, tail } from "./runs.js";

 export function getLabTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): ToolDefinition[] {
  const work = env.MESH_LAB_WORK ?? "/var/lib/mesh-lab-runs";
-  const forge = (env.MESH_LAB_FORGE ?? "").replace(/\/+$/, "");
+  // The forge is an operator's setting, which reaches a file and never a bundle's words (novox/hq
+  // ADR 0192): read from the env-file the mesh fills, at each call, so a changed setting is used
+  // without restarting the runtime. MESH_LAB_FORGE itself still wins, for a hand-run instance.
+  const forgeOf = (): string => (env.MESH_LAB_FORGE ?? wordIn(env.MESH_LAB_ENV_FILE, "MESH_LAB_FORGE")).replace(/\/+$/, "");
  return [
    {
      name: "lab_check",
      description: "Whether this machine can run the lab's beds: the lab's own check, against the forge's main branch.",
      input: {},
      run: async () => {
+        const forge = forgeOf();
        if (!forge) return { ok: false, output: "the lab's forge is not set: settings for lab, {\"forge\": \"<url>\"}" };
        const dir = `${work}/check`;
        spawnSync("rm", ["-rf", dir]);
@@ -38,6 +43,7 @@ export function getLabTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): ToolDefinition[] {
        },
      },
      run: async (args) => {
+        const forge = forgeOf();
        if (!forge) return { started: false, reason: "the lab's forge is not set: settings for lab, {\"forge\": \"<url>\"}" };
        const tests = String(args.tests ?? "").split(",").map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
        if (tests.length === 0) return { started: false, reason: "name at least one bed test file" };
@@ -83,4 +89,20 @@ export function getLabTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): ToolDefinition[] {
  ];
 }

+/** One word from an env-file (`KEY=value` lines), or "" when the file or the word is absent. */
+export function wordIn(file: string | undefined, word: string): string {
+  if (!file) return "";
+  let text: string;
+  try {
+    text = readFileSync(file, "utf8");
+  } catch {
+    return "";
+  }
+  for (const line of text.split("\n")) {
+    const at = line.indexOf("=");
+    if (at > 0 && line.slice(0, at).trim() === word) return line.slice(at + 1).trim();
+  }
+  return "";
+}
+
 registerModuleTools("lab", (env) => getLabTools(env));
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# mailu's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
-# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
-# resolved away.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/mailu
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/mailu/dist /app/modules/mailu/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
-# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
-# ran no provisioner at all.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mailu/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mailu/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/mailu/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -135,11 +135,15 @@
      "protocol": "tcp",
      "from": "mesh",
      "why": "automx: mail client autoconfiguration; the autoconfig, autodiscover and automx names are route grants reaching it here"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "admin-api",
+      "port": 8080,
+      "protocol": "tcp",
+      "from": "machine",
+      "why": "the admin API, which this module's own code reaches on loopback from the node's runtime now that it runs outside the mailu network"
    }
  ],
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "resources": [
    {
      "id": "mesh-state",
@@ -305,6 +309,9 @@
      "name": "mailu-admin",
      "image": "ghcr.io/mailu/admin@sha256:6dbfdadc4a9590dcb7652357b505200115b689b74008653bbf369e4599a3be5a",
      "network": "mailu",
+      "ports": [
+        "8080"
+      ],
      "env-file": [
        "${dir:state}/mailu.env",
        "${dir:state}/secret.env",
@@ -473,31 +480,6 @@
      "content": "{}\n",
      "merge": "json"
    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-mailu",
-      "network": "mailu",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/api-token.secret:/run/secrets/api-token:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_MAILU_URL": "http://mailu-admin:8080/api/v1",
-        "MESH_MAILU_API_KEY_FILE": "/run/secrets/api-token",
-        "MESH_MAILU_IMAP_CONTAINER": "mailu-imap",
-        "MESH_MAILU_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
-    },
    {
      "id": "automx",
      "type": "container",
@@ -517,16 +499,6 @@
  ],
  "build": {
    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      },
      {
        "arg": "PYTHON_BASE",
        "image": "python@sha256:25f3cfeaceca14921366af4d1240b56457ef46273bdb508c7b0e8f469f6fd228"
@@ -534,9 +506,26 @@
    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_MAILU_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}/api/v1",
+          "MESH_MAILU_API_KEY_FILE": "${dir:state}/api-token.secret",
+          "MESH_MAILU_IMAP_CONTAINER": "mailu-imap",
+          "MESH_MAILU_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+        }
      },
      {
        "name": "automx",
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# mesh-vault's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled provisioner, tools and event
-# consumer. The same shape as postgres's, minus the client the database needs: mesh-vault reaches no
-# server, because what it provides is a value the mesh already delivered to its node.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
-# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout (novox/hq ADR 0069). Two bases, named rather than
-# pinned — the image this is COMPILED in and the image it RUNS in — answered by the mesh from
-# `build.on` in module.json (novox/hq issue 044).
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/vault
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/vault/dist /app/modules/vault/dist
-# The entrypoints a tool host loads from this module: its event consumer, its tools and its
-# provisioner — one image, one process, one broker account (novox/hq ADR 0052).
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/vault/dist/index.js,/app/modules/vault/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/vault/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -27,16 +27,7 @@
    "secret": "${dir:grants}"
  },
  "keeps": "/var/lib/mesh-vault/root",
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -57,45 +48,29 @@
      "id": "root",
      "type": "directory",
      "mode": "0700"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-vault",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
-        "${dir:ledger}:${dir:ledger}",
-        "${dir:root}:${dir:root}:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-        "MESH_VAULT_LEDGER": "${dir:ledger}",
-        "MESH_VAULT_ROOT": "${dir:root}"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+          "MESH_VAULT_LEDGER": "${dir:ledger}",
+          "MESH_VAULT_ROOT": "${dir:root}"
+        }
      }
    ]
  },
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# minio's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-ARG MC_CLI
-
-# Named so the final stage's COPY --from can reference a stage, not an ARG — the legacy builder
-# this host still runs doesn't expand ARGs inside COPY --from, only inside FROM.
-FROM ${MC_CLI} AS mccli
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
-# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
-# resolved away.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/minio
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/minio/dist /app/modules/minio/dist
-# The provisioner shells out to mc to actually create buckets and service accounts on the running
-# minio server — mc itself was never in this runtime image, only in minio's own. Silently retried
-# "spawn mc ENOENT" forever: a requirement was granted at the control-plane level without ever
-# materializing the credential on minio. /usr/bin/mc there is a symlink to the real binary, mcli —
-# both copied so the symlink resolves.
-COPY --from=mccli /usr/bin/mcli /usr/bin/mcli
-COPY --from=mccli /usr/bin/mc /usr/bin/mc
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/minio/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/minio/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -59,16 +59,9 @@
    "s3-bucket": "${dir:grants}"
  },
  "own-secrets": {
-    "root": "${dir:state}/root.secret",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    "root": "${dir:state}/root.secret"
  },
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -127,48 +120,34 @@
      }
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-minio",
-      "network": "minio-net",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT": "http://minio:9000",
-        "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER": "meshroot",
-        "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
-        "MESH_MINIO_REGION": "eu-west",
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      "id": "client",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "minio-client"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "MC_CLI",
-        "image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:9000}",
+          "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER": "meshroot",
+          "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/root.secret",
+          "MESH_MINIO_REGION": "eu-west",
+          "MESH_MINIO_MC_BIN": "mcli",
+          "MESH_MINIO_MC_CONFIG": "${dir:state}/mc",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# mosquitto's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/mosquitto
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc topics.ts client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts bootstrap/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-# mosquitto's client and bootstrap drive `mosquitto_ctrl`; the apt package carries it with its
-# shared libraries — the musl binary from the eclipse image would not load on this glibc base.
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends mosquitto \
- && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/mosquitto/dist /app/modules/mosquitto/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@
    "mqtt-topic": "${dir:grants}"
  },
  "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin"
  },
  "listens": [
    {
@@ -89,25 +88,28 @@
      "name": "mosquitto"
    },
    {
-      "id": "bootstrap",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mosquitto-bootstrap",
-      "run-once": true,
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:data}:/mosquitto/data",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/admin:/run/secrets/admin:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT": "mosquitto:1883",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin",
-        "MESH_DYNSEC_FILE": "/mosquitto/data/dynamic-security.json"
+      "id": "bootstrap-env",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/bootstrap.env",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "content": "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT=127.0.0.1:${port:1883}\nMESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER=mesh-admin\nMESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE=${dir:mesh-state}/admin\nMESH_DYNSEC_FILE=${dir:data}/dynamic-security.json\n"
    },
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/bootstrap/index.js"
+    {
+      "id": "bootstrap",
+      "type": "process",
+      "name": "mosquitto-bootstrap",
+      "artifact": "code",
+      "run": [
+        "node",
+        "bootstrap/index.js"
      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      "run-once": true,
+      "env-file": [
+        "${dir:state}/bootstrap.env"
+      ],
+      "restart-on": [
+        "bootstrap-env"
+      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "server",
@@ -125,43 +127,34 @@
      ]
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-mosquitto",
-      "network": "mosquitto",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/admin:/run/secrets/admin:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT": "mosquitto:1883",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      "id": "client",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "mosquitto"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js",
+          "bootstrap/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT": "127.0.0.1:${port:1883}",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# nextcloud's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-ARG DOCKER_CLI
-
-# Named so the final stage's COPY --from can reference a stage, not an ARG — the legacy builder
-# this host still runs doesn't expand ARGs inside COPY --from, only inside FROM.
-FROM ${DOCKER_CLI} AS dockercli
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
-# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
-# resolved away.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/nextcloud
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/nextcloud/dist /app/modules/nextcloud/dist
-# occ runs inside nextcloud's own container, reached over the mounted docker socket — which needs
-# the docker CLI itself present here, not only the socket. Copied from Docker's own official client
-# image rather than apt-installed, so this stays the one binary and nothing else (no daemon, no
-# systemd unit, no package manager tree pulled in for it).
-COPY --from=dockercli /usr/local/bin/docker /usr/local/bin/docker
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
-# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
-# ran no provisioner at all.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/nextcloud/dist/index.js,/app/modules/nextcloud/dist/tools/index.js
@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@
    "share.created"
  ],
  "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret"
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "container-runtime"
@@ -94,53 +93,28 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "{}\n",
      "merge": "json"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-nextcloud",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro",
-        "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:80}",
-        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "DOCKER_CLI",
-        "image": "docker@sha256:018edbc908e08fcc9dbf029c812c34251e9b4719e6f71ca0e5eae2a987d014ca"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:80}",
+          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-# nodered's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/nodered
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts mqtt/probe.ts mqtt/connection.ts mqtt/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/nodered/dist /app/modules/nodered/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/nodered/dist/tools/index.js
-# NOT dist/mqtt/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the `mqtt`
-# container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run inside the
-# serving sidecar too, and exit it.
@@ -12,8 +12,7 @@
    "api-token": {
      "path": "${dir:mesh-state}/api-token",
      "taken": "at-start"
-    },
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+    }
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "container-runtime"
@@ -101,53 +100,31 @@
      "content": "{\n  \"token\": \"${secret:api-token}\"\n}\n"
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-nodered",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
-        "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
-      },
-      "restart-on": [
-        "runtime-config"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      "id": "mqtt-env",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/mqtt.env",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "content": "MESH_NODERED_URL=http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}\nMESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE=${dir:mesh-state}/config.json\nMESH_PROVISIONS_DIR=${dir:state}\nMESH_WRITTEN_DIR=${dir:written}\n"
    },
    {
      "id": "mqtt",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-nodered-mqtt",
-      "network": "host",
-      "run-once": true,
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:written}:/var/lib/nodered-provisions",
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.json:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.secret:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/settings.json:/run/provisions/settings.json:ro"
+      "type": "process",
+      "name": "nodered-mqtt",
+      "artifact": "code",
+      "run": [
+        "node",
+        "mqtt/index.js"
      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
-        "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_PROVISIONS_DIR": "/run/provisions",
-        "MESH_WRITTEN_DIR": "/var/lib/nodered-provisions"
-      },
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/nodered/dist/mqtt/index.js"
+      "run-once": true,
+      "env-file": [
+        "${dir:state}/mqtt.env"
      ],
      "restart-on": [
+        "mqtt-env",
        "bound-mqtt-topic",
        "secret-mqtt-topic",
        "settings"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      ]
    }
  ],
  "requires": [
@@ -173,23 +150,22 @@
    "mqtt-topic": "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret"
  },
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "mqtt/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
+          "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# openai-consumer's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/openai-consumer
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc apply/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/openai-consumer/dist /app/modules/openai-consumer/dist
-# No serve-time entrypoints: every container of this module names its command (`run` on a
-# schedule), so nothing here serves — deliberately no MESH_TOOL_MODULES.
@@ -28,44 +28,31 @@
    },
    {
      "id": "apply",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-openai-consumer-apply",
-      "network": "host",
+      "type": "process",
+      "name": "openai-consumer-apply",
+      "artifact": "code",
+      "run": [
+        "node",
+        "apply/index.js"
+      ],
      "schedule": "*/5 * * * *",
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/openai-consumer/dist/apply/index.js"
-      ],
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:state}:/run/state"
-      ],
      "env": {
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "/run/state/api-key",
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "/run/state/model.json",
-        "MESH_OPENAI_ENV_FILE": "/run/state/config/openai.env",
-        "MESH_OPENAI_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "/run/state/config/auth.json"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "${dir:state}/api-key",
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "${dir:state}/model.json",
+        "MESH_OPENAI_ENV_FILE": "${dir:state}/config/openai.env",
+        "MESH_OPENAI_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "${dir:state}/config/auth.json"
+      }
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "apply/index.js"
+        ]
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-# postgres's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled provisioner, tools and
-# event consumer.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
-# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout — which is what lets the mesh build this from a
-# repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that happens to have
-# the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in.
-# They are different images on purpose — the first carries a compiler and the second must not, or
-# every running container would carry one it never invokes. The mesh answers both with the copies it
-# holds, because a fingerprint written here would name one particular copy and no other mesh has it
-# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults, so a build
-# nobody told stops here and says which module to build first.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/postgres
-COPY . .
-# The compiler is invoked by its real path rather than through node_modules/.bin, whose entries are
-# symlinks to a launcher that requires its library relatively — resolved away when the base image
-# was assembled.
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-# **This module talks to its database through psql, so psql has to be here.** The client is how
-# postgres's provisioner runs DDL — it does not carry a driver — and the runtime base holds only
-# what every module needs.
-RUN apt-get update \
-      && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends postgresql-client \
-      && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/postgres/dist /app/modules/postgres/dist
-# What a tool host should load from this module: its event consumer and its tools, which are
-# separate entrypoints because they are loaded by different things. The provisioner is the third,
-# and is not listed here — the declaration names it in the container's `args`, because it is what
-# this module's own container runs. One image, because they are one module and share a client.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/postgres/dist/index.js,/app/modules/postgres/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/postgres/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -53,16 +53,9 @@
  },
  "own-secrets": {
    "superuser": "${dir:state}/superuser.secret",
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker",
    "reader": "${dir:state}/reader.secret"
  },
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -99,45 +92,33 @@
      ]
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-postgres",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/superuser.secret:/run/secrets/superuser:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/reader.secret:/run/secrets/reader:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES": "postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:${port:5432}/postgres?sslmode=disable",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/superuser",
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-        "MESH_POSTGRES_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/reader"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
+      "id": "client",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "postgresql-libs"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES": "postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:${port:5432}/postgres?sslmode=disable",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/superuser.secret",
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+          "MESH_POSTGRES_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/reader.secret"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# records' runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled reader and its tools.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
-# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout (novox/hq ADR 0069).
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in
-# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/records
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc records.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-# **A module may need something the base image does not carry.** The reader keeps a checkout of the
-# repository it reads (novox/hq ADR 0153) — a git working copy, kept current, not a derived copy — and
-# the base image has no git. Certificates too, because the origin may be reached over TLS.
-RUN apt-get update \
-      && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git ca-certificates \
-      && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/records/dist /app/modules/records/dist
-# Both entrypoints, loaded in serve mode: the consumer that pulls on a merge, and the tools.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/records/dist/index.js,/app/modules/records/dist/tools/index.js
@@ -11,9 +11,6 @@
  "binds": {
    "git": "${dir:mesh-state}/git.json"
  },
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "consumes": [
    "gitea.pull.merged"
  ],
@@ -53,47 +50,30 @@
      "content": "${bound:git:scheme}://${bound:git:at}:${bound:git:port}\n"
    },
    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "records",
-      "network": "host",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/origin:/run/config/origin:ro",
-        "${dir:checkout}:${dir:checkout}"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECORDS_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_RECORDS_ORIGIN_FILE": "/run/config/origin",
-        "MESH_RECORDS_DIR": "${dir:checkout}"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime",
-      "restart-on": [
-        "config",
-        "origin"
-      ]
+      "id": "git",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "git"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_RECORDS_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
+          "MESH_RECORDS_ORIGIN_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/origin",
+          "MESH_RECORDS_DIR": "${dir:checkout}"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# redis's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
-# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
-# resolved away.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/redis
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/redis/dist /app/modules/redis/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
-# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
-# ran no provisioner at all.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/redis/dist/index.js,/app/modules/redis/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/redis/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -35,9 +35,6 @@
  "secrets": {
    "secret": "${dir:state}/default.secret"
  },
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "listens": [
    {
      "name": "cache",
@@ -48,12 +45,6 @@
    }
  ],
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -103,44 +94,29 @@
      "restart-on": [
        "server-conf"
      ]
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-redis",
-      "network": "redis",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:/var/lib/redis-module/grants:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/default.secret:/run/secrets/default:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "/var/lib/redis-module/grants/mesh.json",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_REDIS": "redis:6379",
-        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/default"
-      },
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "index.js",
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_REDIS": "127.0.0.1:${port:6379}",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/default.secret"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# route-adapter's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-WORKDIR /app/modules/route-adapter
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc adapter.ts index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/route-adapter/dist /app/modules/route-adapter/dist
-# **No MESH_TOOL_MODULES, deliberately.** This module serves no tool and consumes no event: it is a
-# step the host runs to completion, named by the container's `args` as `mesh-tools run …`. Setting a
-# serve-time entrypoint here would give the image a second way to be started — one that connects to
-# the broker and never exits.
@@ -47,23 +47,18 @@
    },
    {
      "id": "adapt",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-route-adapter",
-      "artifact": "runtime",
-      "run-once": true,
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:routes-dir}/mesh.json:${dir:routes-dir}/mesh.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${access:dynamic}:/services/traefik/dynamic"
+      "type": "process",
+      "name": "route-adapter",
+      "artifact": "code",
+      "run": [
+        "node",
+        "index.js"
      ],
+      "run-once": true,
      "env": {
        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:routes-dir}/mesh.json",
-        "MESH_ROUTE_ADAPTER_CONFIG": "/run/config/config.json"
+        "MESH_ROUTE_ADAPTER_CONFIG": "${dir:state}/config.json"
      },
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/route-adapter/dist/index.js"
-      ],
      "restart-on": [
        "received-route",
        "config"
@@ -71,23 +66,14 @@
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "index.js"
+        ]
      }
    ]
  }
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# umami's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
-#
-# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
-# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
-# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
-# happens to have the siblings.
-#
-# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
-# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
-ARG BUILD_BASE
-ARG RUNTIME_BASE
-
-FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
-# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
-# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
-# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
-# resolved away.
-WORKDIR /app/modules/umami
-COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
-      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
-
-FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
-COPY --from=build /app/modules/umami/dist /app/modules/umami/dist
-# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
-# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
-# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
-# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
-# ran no provisioner at all.
-ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/umami/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/umami/dist/provisioner/index.js
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@
  "grants": {
    "analytics": "${dir:grants}"
  },
-  "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
-  },
  "listens": [
    {
      "name": "web",
@@ -57,12 +54,6 @@
    }
  ],
  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "mesh"
-    },
    {
      "id": "state",
      "type": "directory",
@@ -81,13 +72,6 @@
      "mode": "0600",
      "content": "DATABASE_URL=postgresql://${bound:postgres-database:as}:${secret:postgres-database}@${bound:postgres-database:at}:${bound:postgres-database:port}/${bound:postgres-database:as}\nDATABASE_TYPE=postgresql\nAPP_SECRET=${secret:app-secret}\n"
    },
-    {
-      "id": "provisioner-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/provisioner.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "MESH_PROVISION_UMAMI_URL=http://umami:3000\nGRANTS=${dir:grants}\n"
-    },
    {
      "id": "net",
      "type": "network",
@@ -106,46 +90,27 @@
        "3000"
      ],
      "secrets-in-environment": "a Next.js/Prisma application: DATABASE_URL and APP_SECRET are read from the environment only; not convertible"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "runtime",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-umami",
-      "network": "umami",
-      "volumes": [
-        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}",
-        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-        "MESH_UMAMI_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin"
-      },
-      "env-file": [
-        "${dir:state}/provisioner.env"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
    }
  ],
  "build": {
-    "on": [
-      {
-        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "build"
-      },
-      {
-        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
-        "module": "mesh-tools",
-        "artifact": "runtime"
-      }
-    ],
    "artifacts": [
      {
-        "name": "runtime",
-        "kind": "image",
-        "from": "Dockerfile"
+        "name": "code",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js",
+          "provisioner/index.js"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+          "MESH_UMAMI_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
+          "MESH_PROVISION_UMAMI_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}"
+        }
      }
    ]
  }
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
jochen	4aacea5453	anthropic-consumer: its usage runs in the node's runtime, and its apply is a scheduled process (hq ADR 0198) Both containers go with the Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory. apply needs no bus and runs every five minutes as a process on the machine at the host paths the container mounted. usage emitted by spawning the runtime image's own emit command with the module's credential, which exists nowhere now, so it is loaded by the node's runtime instead: it emits through the SDK as this module and reads on the cadence the schedule gave it, once at start and every five minutes. That is the one code change.	2026-10-04 00:37:49 +02:00
jochen	faf532c579	openai-consumer: its apply is a scheduled process (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-openai-consumer-apply container goes with its Dockerfile and build bases. The same entrypoint runs every five minutes as a process on the machine, reading the binding and writing the credentials at the host paths the container used to mount.	2026-10-04 00:36:58 +02:00
jochen	e0722804e7	route-adapter: its step is a run-once process (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-route-adapter container goes with its Dockerfile and build bases. The step runs node on the bundle as a run-once process, reading what the mesh contributed and its config where the mesh writes them and writing the proxy's dynamic directory at the path the container used to mount; it still runs again when a route or its config changes.	2026-10-04 00:36:40 +02:00
jochen	1c864e4506	lab: its tools run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-lab container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory. What the image installed — git, make, python, file, iproute2, sudo, npm, go and the incus client — are packages of the machine, and docker and incus are reached through their sockets as the runtime's account. The forge is an operator's setting, which reaches a file and never a bundle's words, so the tools read it from the env-file the mesh already fills, at each call; that is the one code change.	2026-10-04 00:36:17 +02:00
jochen	6d5b6b5333	mailu: its handlers, tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-mailu container goes with its Dockerfile, the mesh-tools build bases and its bus credential; automx keeps its own image. The code reached the admin API by its name on the mailu network, which a process on the machine cannot, so the admin container publishes 8080 to this machine only and the bundle reaches it on loopback at that port. Mail is still read through docker exec into mailu-imap, so the runtime's account needs the docker socket as nextcloud's does.	2026-10-04 00:35:30 +02:00
jochen	6696445e61	records: its consumer and tools run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The records container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential. The checkout, the config file and the origin file are read where the mesh writes them, and git comes from the machine's git package instead of the image's apt layer.	2026-10-04 00:34:57 +02:00
jochen	e189b743bd	mesh-vault: its handlers, tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-vault container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory; its env was already host paths, so it becomes the bundle's words unchanged.	2026-10-04 00:34:25 +02:00
jochen	eaa9de4a94	gitea: its watcher, tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-gitea container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential; its env becomes the bundle's words with mount targets folded back to host paths: the config file, the admin password and the kept-token state directory are read where the mesh writes them.	2026-10-04 00:34:00 +02:00
jochen	1bcfddb492	audit-logger: its handler runs in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-audit-logger container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential: its one entrypoint is a load of one bundle, which subscribes to every event through the runtime and writes the trail at the host path the container used to mount.	2026-10-04 00:32:59 +02:00
jochen	f79199777d	minio: its tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-minio container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory. The client reaches minio on the published port, runs the minio-client package's mcli instead of the image's mc, and keeps mc's config, which holds the root alias, in the module's own state directory rather than a shared /tmp.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	b9d0884335	nextcloud: its handlers and tools run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-nextcloud container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential. occ still runs through docker exec, now with the host's own docker CLI and socket.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	6a6d5747a3	nodered: the runtime serves its tools, and its mqtt step is a run-once process (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-nodered container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential. The mqtt step runs node on the bundle and reads the binding and settings files where the mesh writes them, from an env-file the mesh fills because a process's env is not given ${port:…}.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	b19c4a2593	home-assistant: the runtime serves its code, and its provisions step is a run-once process (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-home-assistant container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential. The provisions step runs node on the bundle and reads the binding files where the mesh writes them, from an env-file the mesh fills because a process's env is not given ${port:…}. It still runs again when a binding it reads changes.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	a934e2a69f	icecast: its handlers and tools run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-icecast container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential. The bundle reaches icecast on the port this machine published rather than the container network's name.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	af346f6066	grafana: its handlers and tools run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-grafana container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential; its env becomes the bundle's words with mount targets folded back to host paths.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	7b0cfceb68	cloudflare-dns: its tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-cloudflare-dns container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory. MESH_RECEIVES now names the grants directory itself; the container's value pointed at a path nothing was mounted on.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	26021865c1	umami: its tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-umami container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and state directory. The provisioner's env-file only told it umami's container-network address, so it becomes a word on the published port and the file goes.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	7440b8d009	keycloak: its handlers, tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-keycloak container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential; its env becomes the bundle's words with mount targets folded back to host paths.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	0cb67e856f	influxdb: its tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-influxdb container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential; its env becomes the bundle's words with mount targets folded back to host paths.	2026-10-03 23:33:51 +02:00
jochen	038a0a25ce	mosquitto: the runtime serves its code, and its bootstrap is a run-once process (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-mosquitto container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential. mosquitto_ctrl comes from the mosquitto package, and the bootstrap step runs node on the bundle, reading the broker's published port from an env-file the mesh fills, because a process's env is not given ${port:…}.	2026-10-03 23:33:50 +02:00
jochen	1b27ce319a	redis: its handlers, tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-redis container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases, bus credential and the state directory only that credential lived in. The bundle reaches redis on the port this machine published rather than the container network's name.	2026-10-03 23:33:50 +02:00
jochen	7563569c8a	postgres: its handlers, tools and provisioner run in the node's runtime (hq ADR 0198) The mesh-postgres container goes with its Dockerfile, build bases and bus credential: its three entrypoints are loads of one bundle, given their words as host paths, and psql comes from postgresql-libs instead of the image's apt layer. The seat word is dropped, since a bundle's words cannot carry one and the client treats it as optional.	2026-10-03 23:33:50 +02:00