K3: pin gitea to mesh-sdk 104533e8, the group's final SDK head after S1 and S2 (ADR 0500 §2)

The catalogue's paths check (ADR 0260) reads every file of a module but its documentation and tests, and
the verbatim manifest names claude-code's own paths; as a constant in a _test.go file it stays a real
capture without being taken for one module reaching into another's state.

checks/locks/go.mod

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/checks/locks
+
+go 1.22

checks/locks/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+// Command locks refuses a TypeScript module that names packages beyond the SDK in its package.json and commits no
+// package-lock.json (novox/hq ADR 0469 §5, issue 1868): the Node build module installs a module's own packages only
+// from its committed lock, so such a module is refused by the builder and could not be delivered.
+//
+//	go run . <catalogue root>
+//
+// Exits 1 on a finding. The packages that count are those the build module counts (mesh-build-node fetch.go
+// ownDependencies): the `dependencies` beyond the SDK, typescript and the @types packages.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Finding is one module refused: it names Packages beyond the SDK and has no lock file.
+type Finding struct {
+	Module   string
+	Packages []string
+}
+
+// Check reads every module under root/modules that builds a TypeScript artifact.
+func Check(root string) ([]Finding, error) {
+	manifests, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(root, "modules", "*", "module.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	sort.Strings(manifests)
+	var out []Finding
+	for _, path := range manifests {
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		var m struct {
+			Module string `json:"module"`
+			Build  struct {
+				Artifacts []struct {
+					Language string `json:"language"`
+				} `json:"artifacts"`
+			} `json:"build"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
+		}
+		typescript := false
+		for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+			typescript = typescript || a.Language == "typescript"
+		}
+		if !typescript {
+			continue
+		}
+		dir := filepath.Dir(path)
+		pkgRaw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, "package.json"))
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		var pkg struct {
+			Dependencies map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"dependencies"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(pkgRaw, &pkg); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: package.json: %w", m.Module, err)
+		}
+		var names []string
+		for n := range pkg.Dependencies {
+			if n != "@novox/mesh-sdk" && n != "typescript" && !strings.HasPrefix(n, "@types/") {
+				names = append(names, n)
+			}
+		}
+		if len(names) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "package-lock.json")); err != nil {
+			sort.Strings(names)
+			out = append(out, Finding{Module: m.Module, Packages: names})
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func main() {
+	root := "."
+	if len(os.Args) > 1 {
+		root = os.Args[1]
+	}
+	found, err := Check(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	for _, f := range found {
+		fmt.Printf("%s names packages beyond the SDK (%s) and has no package-lock.json: commit one made by the build module's toolchain (novox/hq ADR 0469 §5)\n", f.Module, strings.Join(f.Packages, ", "))
+	}
+	if len(found) > 0 {
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	fmt.Println("locks: every TypeScript module that names packages beyond the SDK commits its lock")
+}

checks/locks/main_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// module writes modules/<name> with a TypeScript artifact, the package.json given ("" for none) and, when lock, a lock.
+func module(t *testing.T, root, name, language, pkg string, lock bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := filepath.Join(root, "modules", name)
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	write := func(file, body string) {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, file), []byte(body), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	write("module.json", `{"module":"`+name+`","build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"tools","kind":"bundle","language":"`+language+`","from":"index.ts"}]}}`)
+	if pkg != "" {
+		write("package.json", pkg)
+	}
+	if lock {
+		write("package-lock.json", "{}")
+	}
+}
+
+const sdkOnly = `{"dependencies":{"@novox/mesh-sdk":"^0.1.1"},"devDependencies":{"typescript":"^5","@types/node":"^22"}}`
+const withPg = `{"dependencies":{"@novox/mesh-sdk":"^0.1.1","pg":"^8","@types/pg":"^8"}}`
+
+func TestAModuleNamingOnlyTheSDKNeedsNoLock(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	module(t, root, "plain", "typescript", sdkOnly, false)
+	module(t, root, "none", "typescript", "", false)
+	got, err := Check(root)
+	if err != nil || len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%v %v", got, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAModuleNamingMorePackagesWithoutALockIsRefusedNamingThem(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	module(t, root, "db", "typescript", withPg, false)
+	module(t, root, "db-locked", "typescript", withPg, true)
+	got, err := Check(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if want := []Finding{{Module: "db", Packages: []string{"pg"}}}; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
+		t.Fatalf("got %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAModuleThatIsNotTypeScriptIsNotJudged(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	module(t, root, "go", "go", withPg, false)
+	if got, err := Check(root); err != nil || len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%v %v", got, err)
+	}
+}

merge-check.sh

@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ set -eu
 (cd checks/imagebuild && go test -count=1 . && go run . ../..)
 # The image's place (novox/hq ADR 0487 §1): every image builds from a Dockerfile in its own module's directory.
 (cd checks/imageplace && go test -count=1 . && go run . ../..)
+# The Node lock files (novox/hq ADR 0469 §5, issue 1868): a TypeScript module that names packages beyond the SDK commits its lock.
+(cd checks/locks && go test -count=1 . && go run . ../..)
 # The agent's home (novox/hq ADR 0266): no archive, and no file written into, under it.
 (cd checks/agenthome && go test -count=1 . && go run . ../..)
 # The mail-store seat (novox/hq ADR 0378 §3): only mesh-mail may claim it.

modules/clipmenu/cmd/clipmenu-tools/manifest_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
 	"context"
 	"net"
 	"os"
@@ -170,20 +171,33 @@ func TestTheLauncherWaitsQuietlyWhileAnotherClipmenudHoldsTheLock(t *testing.T)
 	store := dir + "/cm/clipmenu.6.op"
 	os.MkdirAll(store, 0o700)
 	lock := store + "/session_lock"
-	// the older clipmenud: it holds the lock the way clipmenud does, until it is killed
-	holder := exec.Command("flock", "-x", "-n", lock, "sleep", "60")
+	// the older clipmenud: it holds the lock the way clipmenud does, until it is killed. It says "held" once it has the
+	// lock, so the test goes on only when the lock is held for certain: a holder that is slow to start (the checker
+	// runs thousands of tests at once) must not let the launcher find the lock free (issue 1814).
+	holder := exec.Command("flock", "-x", "-n", lock, "sh", "-c", "echo held; exec sleep 60")
 	holder.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
+	held, err := holder.StdoutPipe()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	if err := holder.Start(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	// flock's child shares the lock, so the whole group goes
 	release := func() { syscall.Kill(-holder.Process.Pid, syscall.SIGKILL); holder.Wait() }
 	defer release()
-	for i := 0; i < 50; i++ {
-		if probe := exec.Command("flock", "-n", lock, "true"); probe.Run() != nil {
-			break
+	said := make(chan string, 1)
+	go func() {
+		line, _ := bufio.NewReader(held).ReadString('\n')
+		said <- strings.TrimSpace(line)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case line := <-said:
+		if line != "held" {
+			t.Fatalf("the older clipmenud did not take the lock: %q", line)
 		}
-		time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
+	case <-time.After(30 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("the older clipmenud did not take the lock within 30 s")
 	}
 	var out syncBuffer
 	cmd := exec.Command("sh", file)

modules/gitea/README.md

@@ -22,16 +22,18 @@ Every new head of an open pull request is announced as `pull.updated`, once, and
   minutes, or when the search fails.
 - **A pull request nobody checks is said — by the delivery's owner, not here.** `gitea_open_pulls` answers every
   open pull request from the forge itself, with the statuses its base requires and the ones its head has. The
-  `mesh-delivery` module asks it every five minutes, and a head on a base requiring `mesh/merge-gate` or
-  `mesh/repo-check` with neither for ten minutes since it first saw it so is a delivery held past its bound
+  delivery gate asks it every five minutes, and a head on a base requiring `mesh/check` (or hq's
+  `mesh/repo-check`) with none of them for ten minutes since it first saw it so is a delivery held past its bound
   (`delivery.<id>.stalled`, state `unannounced`), which the controller raises like any other (issue 347).
   Each of the head's statuses comes with its state and when it was set, so a head whose check started and never
   answered — a required check pending, or never set beside one that is — is said as a stalled line in the state
   `unanswered` once that has lasted the delivery table's bound for a check asked and not answered, an hour, counted
   from its first sight and again only when a check is asked anew (issue 438).
 - **How to see it work.** A pull request opened more than a minute after its branch was pushed — this fix's own
-  was one, and the announcer it fixes never saw it — has `mesh/merge-gate` pending within a pass of the next sweep
-  at the latest, and `mesh-controller.conditions` names none for it.
+  was one, and the announcer it fixes never saw it — is announced within a pass of the next sweep at the latest, its
+  `mesh/check` is the checker's to set, and `mesh-controller.conditions` names none for it. (Since issue 1301 this
+  module writes `mesh/merge-gate` only where a base still requires it, and none does once the forge requires
+  `mesh/check`.)
 - **A pull request or issue number that is not one is refused** before the forge is asked: a tool called with a
   misnamed argument sent `pulls/NaN`.
 
@@ -154,15 +156,19 @@ listed repository:
   naming the description, and a `merge-check.sh` declaring `# mesh-check-toolchain: go` that vets and runs the unit
   tests, then the integration tests (`-tags integration`), of every Go module in the tree, and says so and passes on
   a tree with none. The rule is then narrowed to main's rule of ADR 0398 §2 (no push, only `mesh-tools` merges),
-  requiring `mesh/repo-check` and `mesh/merge-gate`, and only then is the repository moved into the organisation.
+  requiring `mesh/check` (ADR 0447 §1, issue 1301), and only then is the repository moved into the organisation.
   There main's rule is read back and put right once more (the step `rule-after-move`): the forge drops from a merge
   list a user without access to the repository, and under the setup account `mesh-tools` has none;
 - one found still under the setup account is finished: the steps it lacks are done, main is never written twice;
-- one in the organisation is only put right: main's rule narrowed, a missing one of the two statuses added and every
-  status already there kept.
+- one in the organisation is only put right: main's rule narrowed, `mesh/check` required in place of
+  `mesh/merge-gate` and `mesh/repo-check`, and every other status already there kept. A main that requires
+  `mesh/repo-check` without `mesh/merge-gate` is judged by its own script alone (hq, ADR 0503 §5, until issue 1296)
+  and keeps it; `mesh/check` is never dropped.
 
-A step the forge refuses stops that repository, and the others go on. A repository taken out of the value is never
-asked about: nothing is deleted, renamed, moved out or unprotected. The pass keeps what it did per repository in
+Every other repository of the organisation whose main requires `mesh/merge-gate` has the two old statuses swapped
+for `mesh/check`, and only its statuses (issue 1301): the switch reaches every repository the merge gate judged, with
+no list kept by hand. A step the forge refuses stops that repository, and the others go on. Beyond that swap, a
+repository taken out of the value is never changed: nothing is deleted, renamed, moved out or unprotected. The pass keeps what it did per repository in
 `repositories-outcome.json`.
 
 **How a refusal is seen.** `repositories sync` is a run-once process, declared as the module's last resource, so

modules/gitea/client.ts

@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ export class GiteaClient {
    *  **A listing the forge cut is no listing** (it says `truncated` on a page with nothing more to read, or the pages
    *  run past a bound): the call fails naming the repository and the commit, never answering the directories it did
    *  see, since a directory left out would be taken for one without a module. Reads only. */
-  async commitTrees(owner: string, repo: string, sha: string): Promise<{ root: string; trees: Record<string, string> }> {
+  async commitTrees(owner: string, repo: string, sha: string, paths?: Record<string, string[]>): Promise<{ root: string; trees: Record<string, string>; paths?: Record<string, Record<string, string>> }> {
     const base = `${repoPath(owner, repo)}/git/trees/${commitSegment(sha)}?recursive=true`;
     const cut = (why: string) => new Error(`the forge's tree listing of ${owner}/${repo} at ${sha} was cut (${why}); no trees are answered from a part`);
     const entries: any[] = [];
@@ -560,7 +560,22 @@ export class GiteaClient {
       if (!tree) throw new Error(`the forge's tree listing of ${owner}/${repo} at ${sha} holds ${e.path} but not the tree of ${dir}`);
       trees[dir] = tree;
     }
-    return { root, trees };
+    if (paths === undefined) return { root, trees };
+    // **Named paths** (novox/hq ADR 0499 §3, issue 1758): each asked path's git object id at the commit, a file's or a
+    // directory's, from the same listing, by directory and by path relative to it. A path the listing lacks fails
+    // naming both, and nothing is answered in part.
+    const objectOf = new Map<string, string>();
+    for (const e of entries) if (typeof e?.path === "string" && (e.type === "tree" || e.type === "blob")) objectOf.set(e.path, String(e.sha));
+    const named: Record<string, Record<string, string>> = {};
+    for (const [dir, list] of Object.entries(paths)) {
+      named[dir] = {};
+      for (const p of list) {
+        const id = objectOf.get(dir === "" ? p : `${dir}/${p}`);
+        if (!id) throw new Error(`the path ${p} of ${dir === "" ? "the repository root" : dir} is not in ${owner}/${repo} at ${sha}`);
+        named[dir][p] = id;
+      }
+    }
+    return { root, trees, paths: named };
   }
 
   /** Whether a repository holds a file at a commit: true, false for a 404, thrown when the forge cannot say. */

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/check_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The tests of issue 1301 (ADR 0447 §1, §5; ADR 0503 §3, §5; lead decisions L4 and L11): main requires `mesh/check`
+// alone in place of `mesh/merge-gate` and `mesh/repo-check`; a main that requires `mesh/repo-check` without
+// `mesh/merge-gate` (hq) keeps it; every repository of the organisation whose main requires `mesh/merge-gate` is
+// switched, listed in the value or not; no other status is dropped.
+
+func narrowedRule(contexts ...any) map[string]any {
+	return map[string]any{
+		"enable_push": false, "enable_push_whitelist": false, "push_whitelist_usernames": []any{},
+		"enable_merge_whitelist": true, "merge_whitelist_usernames": []any{tools},
+		"enable_status_check": true, "status_check_contexts": contexts,
+		"block_admin_merge_override": true,
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S1: a listed repository whose main requires the two old statuses is put right to `mesh/check` in their place,
+// every other status kept; a second pass changes nothing.
+func TestListedRepositorySwapsTheTwoStatusesForCheck(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	repo := f.add("novox/mesh-delivery", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check", "other/x")}, "main")
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	o := run(t, s, Value{"mesh-delivery": {}})
+	got := strs(repo.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"])
+	if strings.Join(got, ",") != "other/x,mesh/check" {
+		t.Errorf("main requires %v, want other/x and mesh/check", got)
+	}
+	if r := result(o, "mesh-delivery"); r.Did != DidPutRight {
+		t.Errorf("outcome %+v, want put right", r)
+	}
+	before := len(f.writes())
+	run(t, s, Value{"mesh-delivery": {}})
+	if w := f.writes(); len(w) != before {
+		t.Errorf("a second pass wrote %v", w[before:])
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S1: a repository the program makes requires `mesh/check` alone from its first rule in the organisation on.
+func TestNewRepositoryRequiresCheckAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	run(t, s, Value{"fresh": {Description: "d"}})
+	rule := f.repos["novox/fresh"].Rules[mainRule]
+	if got := strs(rule["status_check_contexts"]); rule["enable_status_check"] != true || strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("a new repository's main requires %v, want %s alone", got, CheckStatus)
+	}
+	if readme := f.repos["novox/fresh"].Files["README.md"]; !strings.Contains(readme, CheckStatus) ||
+		strings.Contains(readme, "mesh/merge-gate") || strings.Contains(readme, "mesh/repo-check") {
+		t.Errorf("the README names the statuses of before: %q", readme)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S1: mesh/check is never dropped, and a rule that requires it beside a retired status loses the retired one.
+func TestCheckIsKeptAndARetiredStatusBesideItGoes(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	both := f.add("novox/both", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/check", "mesh/repo-check")}, "main")
+	right := f.add("novox/right", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/check")}, "main")
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	o := run(t, s, Value{"both": {}, "right": {}})
+	if got := strs(both.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("both requires %v, want %s alone", got, CheckStatus)
+	}
+	if got := strs(right.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("right requires %v", got)
+	}
+	if result(o, "right").Did != DidUnchanged || result(o, "both").Did != DidPutRight {
+		t.Errorf("outcome %+v", o)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S1: a listed repository whose main requires nothing is given mesh/check, not the old two.
+func TestListedRuleRequiringNothingGetsCheck(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	none := f.add("novox/none", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {"enable_push": false}}, "main")
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	run(t, s, Value{"none": {}})
+	if got := strs(none.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("none requires %v, want %s", got, CheckStatus)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S2 (ADR 0503 §5): a main that requires mesh/repo-check without mesh/merge-gate is judged by its own script
+// alone (hq): it keeps mesh/repo-check and is not given mesh/check, listed or not.
+func TestOwnCheckAloneIsKept(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	hq := f.add("novox/hq", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/repo-check")}, "main")
+	lab := f.add("novox/mesh-lab", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/repo-check")}, "main")
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	o := run(t, s, Value{"hq": {}})
+	for name, repo := range map[string]*fRepo{"hq": hq, "mesh-lab": lab} {
+		if got := strs(repo.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != "mesh/repo-check" {
+			t.Errorf("%s requires %v, want mesh/repo-check alone", name, got)
+		}
+	}
+	if result(o, "hq").Did != DidUnchanged {
+		t.Errorf("hq outcome %+v, want unchanged", result(o, "hq"))
+	}
+	for _, w := range f.writes() {
+		t.Errorf("a repository judged by its own check alone was written: %s", w)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S3 (L4, L11): a repository the value does not list whose main requires mesh/merge-gate has the two old
+// statuses swapped for mesh/check, and only its statuses: nothing else of its rule is sent. One that requires
+// neither, or mesh/repo-check alone, is not written to.
+func TestUnlistedRepositoryRequiringTheGateIsSwitched(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	catalog := f.add("novox/mesh-catalog", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {
+		"enable_push": true, "enable_status_check": true, "status_check_contexts": []any{"mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"},
+	}}, "main")
+	toolsGo := f.add("novox/mesh-tools-go", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/merge-gate")}, "main")
+	f.add("novox/plain", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {"enable_push": false}}, "main")
+	f.add("novox/hq", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/repo-check")}, "main")
+	f.add("novox/norule", nil, "main")
+	f.add("mesh-admin/elsewhere", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/merge-gate")}, "main")
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	o := run(t, s, Value{})
+
+	if got := strs(catalog.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("mesh-catalog requires %v, want %s", got, CheckStatus)
+	}
+	if catalog.Rules[mainRule]["enable_push"] != true {
+		t.Errorf("an unlisted repository's rule was narrowed beyond its statuses: %v", catalog.Rules[mainRule])
+	}
+	if got := strs(toolsGo.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("mesh-tools-go requires %v, want %s", got, CheckStatus)
+	}
+	want := []string{
+		"PATCH /api/v1/repos/novox/mesh-catalog/branch_protections/main",
+		"PATCH /api/v1/repos/novox/mesh-tools-go/branch_protections/main",
+	}
+	if got := f.writes(); strings.Join(got, "\n") != strings.Join(want, "\n") {
+		t.Errorf("writes:\n%s\nwant:\n%s", strings.Join(got, "\n"), strings.Join(want, "\n"))
+	}
+	for _, n := range []string{"mesh-catalog", "mesh-tools-go"} {
+		if r := result(o, n); r.Did != DidPutRight {
+			t.Errorf("%s outcome %+v, want put right", n, r)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, n := range []string{"plain", "hq", "norule", "elsewhere"} {
+		if r := result(o, n); r.Name != "" {
+			t.Errorf("%s is in the outcome though nothing was done: %+v", n, r)
+		}
+	}
+	before := len(f.writes())
+	run(t, s, Value{})
+	if w := f.writes(); len(w) != before {
+		t.Errorf("a second pass wrote %v", w[before:])
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S3: the organisation's repositories are read page by page, so one past the first page is switched too.
+func TestUnlistedRepositoriesAreReadPastTheFirstPage(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	f.pageSize = 2
+	for _, n := range []string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"} {
+		f.add("novox/"+n, map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check")}, "main")
+	}
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	run(t, s, Value{})
+	for _, n := range []string{"a", "b", "c", "d", "e"} {
+		if got := strs(f.repos["novox/"+n].Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(got, ",") != CheckStatus {
+			t.Errorf("%s requires %v", n, got)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S3: a refused swap is said with the repository and its step, and the pass goes on to the next.
+func TestRefusedSwapIsSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	f.add("novox/a", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/merge-gate")}, "main")
+	f.add("novox/b", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: narrowedRule("mesh/merge-gate")}, "main")
+	f.refuse = func(method, path string) (int, string) {
+		if method == "PATCH" && strings.Contains(path, "/novox/a/") {
+			return 403, "no"
+		}
+		return 0, ""
+	}
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	o := run(t, s, Value{})
+	if r := result(o, "a"); r.Did != DidRefused || r.Step != StepSwap {
+		t.Errorf("a: %+v, want refused at %s", r, StepSwap)
+	}
+	if r := result(o, "b"); r.Did != DidPutRight {
+		t.Errorf("b: %+v, want put right", r)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1301-S3: the organisation's list refused is said, and the listed repositories are still done.
+func TestOrganisationListRefusedIsSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFake()
+	f.refuse = func(method, path string) (int, string) {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(path, "/api/v1/orgs/") {
+			return 500, "down"
+		}
+		return 0, ""
+	}
+	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
+	o := run(t, s, Value{"x": {}})
+	if result(o, "x").Did != DidMade {
+		t.Errorf("x: %+v", result(o, "x"))
+	}
+	refusedList := false
+	for _, r := range o.Refused() {
+		refusedList = refusedList || r.Step == StepList
+	}
+	if !refusedList {
+		t.Errorf("the refused list is not in the outcome: %+v", o)
+	}
+}

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/fake_test.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
 	"sort"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
@@ -43,6 +44,8 @@ type fakeForge struct {
 	calls []string          // "METHOD /path"
 	// refuse answers a call with a status and a message when it returns a status above zero.
 	refuse func(method, path string) (int, string)
+	// pageSize is how many repositories one page of the organisation's list holds; 50 when zero.
+	pageSize int
 }
 
 func newFake() *fakeForge { return &fakeForge{repos: map[string]*fRepo{}} }
@@ -84,6 +87,7 @@ var (
 	branchPath = regexp.MustCompile(`^/api/v1/repos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/branches/([^/]+)$`)
 	filesPath  = regexp.MustCompile(`^/api/v1/repos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/contents$`)
 	movePath   = regexp.MustCompile(`^/api/v1/repos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/transfer$`)
+	orgRepos   = regexp.MustCompile(`^/api/v1/orgs/([^/]+)/repos$`)
 )
 
 func strs(v any) []string {
@@ -167,6 +171,31 @@ func (f *fakeForge) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 	switch {
 	case p == "/api/v1/version":
 		reply(200, map[string]string{"version": "1.27"})
+	case orgRepos.MatchString(p) && r.Method == http.MethodGet:
+		owner := orgRepos.FindStringSubmatch(p)[1]
+		var names []string
+		for full := range f.repos {
+			if o, n, _ := strings.Cut(full, "/"); o == owner {
+				names = append(names, n)
+			}
+		}
+		sort.Strings(names)
+		size := f.pageSize
+		if size == 0 {
+			size = 50
+		}
+		if l, _ := strconv.Atoi(r.URL.Query().Get("limit")); l > 0 && l < size {
+			size = l
+		}
+		page, _ := strconv.Atoi(r.URL.Query().Get("page"))
+		if page < 1 {
+			page = 1
+		}
+		out := []map[string]any{}
+		for i := (page - 1) * size; i < len(names) && i < page*size; i++ {
+			out = append(out, map[string]any{"name": names[i], "full_name": owner + "/" + names[i]})
+		}
+		reply(200, out)
 	case p == "/api/v1/user/repos" && r.Method == http.MethodPost:
 		name := fmt.Sprint(in["name"])
 		if f.repos[admin+"/"+name] != nil {
@@ -312,12 +341,3 @@ func result(o Outcome, name string) Result {
 	}
 	return Result{}
 }
-
-func has(list []string, want string) bool {
-	for _, s := range list {
-		if s == want {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/first.go

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import "strings"
 const MergeCheck = `#!/bin/sh
 # mesh-check-toolchain: go
 #
-# This repository's own check, mesh/repo-check (novox/hq ADR 0238 §4), written with its first commit (ADR 0428 §4):
+# This repository's own check (novox/hq ADR 0238 §4), run by the checker within mesh/check (ADR 0447), written with its first commit (ADR 0428 §4):
 # every Go module in the tree is vetted, its unit tests run, and then its integration tests (-tags integration).
 # A tree with no Go module has nothing to test, and the check says so and passes.
 set -eu
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func FirstCommit(name string, r Repo) map[string]string {
 	}
 	readme := "# " + name + "\n\n" + purpose + "\n\n" +
 		"Made by the mesh from the gitea module's config value `repositories` (novox/hq ADR 0428). Main takes no push: " +
-		"a change reaches it by a pull request whose `mesh/repo-check` (this repository's `merge-check.sh`) and " +
-		"`mesh/merge-gate` passed.\n"
+		"a change reaches it by a pull request whose `mesh/check` passed: the checker's verdict on its head merged onto " +
+		"main, this repository's `merge-check.sh` among its tests (novox/hq ADR 0447).\n"
 	return map[string]string{"README.md": readme, "merge-check.sh": MergeCheck}
 }

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/main.go

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 // again whenever the value changes: it reads the file the mesh renders from that value and, with the setup login,
 // makes every listed repository that does not exist under that login's own account, protects its main, writes
 // main's first commit, narrows main's rule and only then moves it into the organisation; one that exists only has
-// its main rule put right. A repository the value does not list is never touched. It keeps what it did, per
+// its main rule put right, requiring mesh/check in place of the two statuses it replaces (issue 1301). A repository
+// the value does not list is touched only to swap those two for mesh/check when its main requires mesh/merge-gate. It keeps what it did, per
 // repository, in the outcome file, says each change on stdout in one line and never a secret, and exits 1 when a
 // step was refused, its last stderr lines naming each (outcome.go Report): the node-engine's gate on a run-once
 // step (ADR 0136) reports it and runs it again on every apply until it passes.

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/override_test.go

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ func TestNewRepositoryRefusesTheAdministratorsOverride(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // 1141/AC2: a narrowed main rule that still lets an administrator override is not right: it is put right, its
-// statuses kept, and a second pass changes nothing.
+// statuses kept (the two old ones as mesh/check, issue 1301), and a second pass changes nothing.
 func TestNarrowedRuleLettingTheAdministratorOverrideIsPutRight(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake()
 	repo := f.add("novox/mesh-delivery", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {
@@ -33,10 +33,8 @@ func TestNarrowedRuleLettingTheAdministratorOverrideIsPutRight(t *testing.T) {
 	if rule["block_admin_merge_override"] != true {
 		t.Errorf("the administrator's override is still allowed: %v", rule)
 	}
-	for _, c := range []string{"mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check", "other/x"} {
-		if !has(strs(rule["status_check_contexts"]), c) {
-			t.Errorf("a status was dropped: %v", rule["status_check_contexts"])
-		}
+	if c := strs(rule["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(c, ",") != "other/x,mesh/check" {
+		t.Errorf("statuses %v, want other/x kept and mesh/check for the two it replaces (issue 1301)", c)
 	}
 	if r := result(o, "mesh-delivery"); r.Did != DidPutRight {
 		t.Errorf("outcome %+v, want put right", r)

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/repositories.go

@@ -26,9 +26,47 @@ const (
 	MainBranch = "main"
 )
 
-// RequiredStatuses are what main requires in every listed repository from its first commit (ADR 0428 §5): the
-// repository's own check and the module graph's gate. A status already on the rule is kept beside them.
-var RequiredStatuses = []string{"mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"}
+// CheckStatus is the one status main requires (ADR 0447 §1, issue 1301): the checker's verdict on a pull request's
+// head merged onto its trunk's head. It replaces GateStatus and OwnCheckStatus, and is never dropped.
+const CheckStatus = "mesh/check"
+
+// GateStatus and OwnCheckStatus are the two statuses CheckStatus replaces: the controller's merge gate and the
+// repository's own merge-check.sh (ADR 0238 §4, ADR 0428 §5 before ADR 0447 §1).
+const (
+	GateStatus     = "mesh/merge-gate"
+	OwnCheckStatus = "mesh/repo-check"
+)
+
+// wanted is what a main rule requiring have should require: have with GateStatus and OwnCheckStatus replaced by
+// CheckStatus, every other status kept in its order (ADR 0447 §1). A rule requiring OwnCheckStatus with neither
+// GateStatus nor CheckStatus is judged by its own script alone, as hq is until issue 1296 settles how hq is
+// checked (ADR 0503 §5): the checker writes no status there (ADR 0484 §8), so it is left as it is. This reads the
+// rule, not a list of names (lead decision L11 of R4e).
+func wanted(have []string) []string {
+	if !has(have, GateStatus) && !has(have, CheckStatus) && has(have, OwnCheckStatus) {
+		return have
+	}
+	out := []string{}
+	for _, s := range have {
+		if s != GateStatus && s != OwnCheckStatus && s != CheckStatus {
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return append(out, CheckStatus)
+}
+
+func has(list []string, want string) bool {
+	for _, s := range list {
+		if s == want {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func sameList(a, b []string) bool {
+	return strings.Join(a, "\x00") == strings.Join(b, "\x00")
+}
 
 // The steps of one repository, as an outcome names a refused one (ADR 0428 §6).
 const (
@@ -42,6 +80,10 @@ const (
 	// StepRuleAfterMove reads main's rule back once the repository is in the organisation and puts it right: the
 	// forge drops from a merge whitelist a user without access, and under the setup account the tools' have none.
 	StepRuleAfterMove = "rule-after-move"
+	// StepList reads the organisation's repositories, for those the value does not list (issue 1301).
+	StepList = "list"
+	// StepSwap swaps the two old statuses for CheckStatus on a repository the value does not list (issue 1301).
+	StepSwap = "swap"
 )
 
 // What a pass did with one repository.
@@ -157,9 +199,73 @@ func (s *Syncer) Sync(ctx context.Context, v Value) (Outcome, error) {
 		}
 		out.Repositories = append(out.Repositories, r)
 	}
+	for _, r := range s.switchUnlisted(ctx, v) {
+		if r.Did == DidRefused {
+			s.say("refused: %s/%s at the step %s: %s", s.Org, r.Name, r.Step, r.Said)
+		} else {
+			s.say("%s: %s/%s (%s in place of %s and %s)", r.Did, s.Org, r.Name, CheckStatus, GateStatus, OwnCheckStatus)
+		}
+		out.Repositories = append(out.Repositories, r)
+	}
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+// orgPage is how many repositories one read of the organisation's list asks for.
+const orgPage = 50
+
+// switchUnlisted swaps the two old statuses for CheckStatus on main's rule of every repository of the organisation
+// the value does not list whose main requires GateStatus (issue 1301, lead decisions L4 and L11 of R4e): the
+// repositories the merge gate judges are switched in the delivery that has the checker write mesh/check (ADR 0447
+// §5), with no list kept by hand. Only the statuses of a rule covering main are sent; nothing else of a rule the
+// value does not hold is changed (ADR 0428 §7 for all of it but the statuses the mesh itself requires). A main that
+// does not require GateStatus gets no call. It answers only what it did: a repository switched, or refused.
+func (s *Syncer) switchUnlisted(ctx context.Context, v Value) []Result {
+	var names []string
+	for page := 1; ; page++ {
+		var repos []struct {
+			Name string `json:"name"`
+		}
+		q := "?limit=" + fmt.Sprint(orgPage) + "&page=" + fmt.Sprint(page)
+		if err := s.Forge.GetJSON(ctx, "/api/v1/orgs/"+url.PathEscape(s.Org)+"/repos"+q, &repos); err != nil {
+			return []Result{refused("(the organisation's repositories)", StepList, err)}
+		}
+		for _, r := range repos {
+			if _, listed := v[r.Name]; !listed && r.Name != "" {
+				names = append(names, r.Name)
+			}
+		}
+		if len(repos) == 0 || page > 1000 {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(names)
+	var out []Result
+	for _, n := range names {
+		rules, err := s.rules(ctx, s.Org, n)
+		if err != nil {
+			out = append(out, refused(n, StepRead, err))
+			continue
+		}
+		var did *Result
+		for _, r := range rules {
+			if ok, _ := path.Match(ruleName(r), MainBranch); !ok || !has(required(r), GateStatus) {
+				continue
+			}
+			body := map[string]any{"enable_status_check": true, "status_check_contexts": wanted(required(r))}
+			if err := s.Forge.SendJSON(ctx, http.MethodPatch,
+				repoAPI(s.Org, n)+"/branch_protections/"+url.PathEscape(ruleName(r)), body, nil); err != nil {
+				did = &Result{Name: n, Did: DidRefused, Step: StepSwap, Said: err.Error()}
+				break
+			}
+			did = &Result{Name: n, Did: DidPutRight}
+		}
+		if did != nil {
+			out = append(out, *did)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // waitForForge is cmd/agent-teams' (teams.go waitForForge): the forge starting with the module answers late.
 func (s *Syncer) waitForForge(ctx context.Context) error {
 	deadline := time.Now().Add(s.WaitFor)
@@ -309,7 +415,7 @@ func strList(v any) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
-// statuses is what a rule requires, with RequiredStatuses added and none dropped.
+// statuses is what the rules require together, as wanted makes it.
 func statuses(rules ...rule) []string {
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
 	var out []string
@@ -320,16 +426,19 @@ func statuses(rules ...rule) []string {
 		}
 	}
 	for _, r := range rules {
-		if r != nil && r["enable_status_check"] == true {
-			for _, s := range strList(r["status_check_contexts"]) {
-				add(s)
-			}
+		for _, s := range required(r) {
+			add(s)
 		}
 	}
-	for _, s := range RequiredStatuses {
-		add(s)
+	return wanted(out)
+}
+
+// required is what a rule requires: its statuses when it checks them, else none.
+func required(r rule) []string {
+	if r == nil || r["enable_status_check"] != true {
+		return nil
 	}
-	return out
+	return strList(r["status_check_contexts"])
 }
 
 // narrowed is main's rule of ADR 0398 §2 (protection.ts mainRuleBody): no push, only the tools' account merges,
@@ -344,7 +453,7 @@ func narrowed(r rule, toolsAccount string, also ...rule) map[string]any {
 	}
 }
 
-// isRight says whether a rule already is narrowed and requires both statuses.
+// isRight says whether a rule already is narrowed and requires what wanted makes of it.
 func isRight(r rule, toolsAccount string) bool {
 	if r["enable_push"] != false || r["enable_push_whitelist"] == true || r["enable_merge_whitelist"] != true {
 		return false
@@ -352,26 +461,15 @@ func isRight(r rule, toolsAccount string) bool {
 	if m := strList(r["merge_whitelist_usernames"]); len(m) != 1 || m[0] != toolsAccount {
 		return false
 	}
-	return r["enable_status_check"] == true && hasAll(strList(r["status_check_contexts"])) &&
+	have := strList(r["status_check_contexts"])
+	return r["enable_status_check"] == true && len(have) > 0 && sameList(have, wanted(have)) &&
 		r["block_admin_merge_override"] == true
 }
 
-func hasAll(have []string) bool {
-	for _, want := range RequiredStatuses {
-		found := false
-		for _, h := range have {
-			found = found || h == want
-		}
-		if !found {
-			return false
-		}
-	}
-	return true
-}
-
-// putRight makes main's rule in an organisation's repository the narrowed one, keeping every status it requires.
+// putRight makes main's rule in an organisation's repository the narrowed one, keeping every status it requires but
+// the two CheckStatus replaces (ADR 0447 §1).
 // A repository with no rule named main gets one, carrying what a glob rule covering main asks (client.ts
-// ensureMainMerges, issue 948). It never takes a status away and never unprotects (ADR 0428 §5, §7).
+// ensureMainMerges, issue 948). It takes away no other status and never unprotects (ADR 0428 §5, §7).
 func (s *Syncer) putRight(ctx context.Context, owner, name string) (bool, error) {
 	rules, err := s.rules(ctx, owner, name)
 	if err != nil {

modules/gitea/cmd/repositories/repositories_test.go

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ import (
 const mainRule = "main"
 
 // 1124/AC2: a listed repository that does not exist is made under the setup account, given main's rule letting that
-// login alone push, given its first commit, narrowed to no push and the tools' merge requiring mesh/repo-check (and
-// mesh/merge-gate, 1124/AC5), and only then moved into the organisation. Nothing reaches the organisation before the
+// login alone push, given its first commit, narrowed to no push and the tools' merge requiring mesh/check (1124/AC5
+// as issue 1301 changes it), and only then moved into the organisation. Nothing reaches the organisation before the
 // narrowed rule, and nothing else is pushed to main.
 func TestNewRepositoryIsMadeInOrder(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake()
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ func TestNewRepositoryIsMadeInOrder(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("main's merge whitelist is not the tools' account alone: %v", rule)
 	}
 	checks := strs(rule["status_check_contexts"])
-	if rule["enable_status_check"] != true || !has(checks, "mesh/repo-check") || !has(checks, "mesh/merge-gate") {
-		t.Errorf("main does not require mesh/repo-check and mesh/merge-gate (1124/AC5): %v", rule)
+	if rule["enable_status_check"] != true || strings.Join(checks, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("main does not require mesh/check alone (1124/AC5, issue 1301): %v", rule)
 	}
 	if r := result(o, "mesh-delivery"); r.Did != DidMade || r.Step != "" {
 		t.Errorf("outcome %+v, want made", r)
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func TestNewRepositoryIsMadeInOrder(t *testing.T) {
 
 // 1124/AC2: the forge drops from a merge whitelist a user without access to the repository, and under the setup
 // account the tools' account has none; so once the repository is in the organisation its main rule is read back and
-// put right: the tools' account the only one that merges, both statuses required.
+// put right: the tools' account the only one that merges, mesh/check required.
 func TestOrganisationRuleListsTheToolsAfterTheMove(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake()
 	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ func TestOrganisationRuleListsTheToolsAfterTheMove(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("after the move main takes a push: %v", rule)
 	}
 	checks := strs(rule["status_check_contexts"])
-	if rule["enable_status_check"] != true || !has(checks, "mesh/repo-check") || !has(checks, "mesh/merge-gate") {
-		t.Errorf("after the move main does not require both statuses: %v", rule)
+	if rule["enable_status_check"] != true || strings.Join(checks, ",") != CheckStatus {
+		t.Errorf("after the move main does not require mesh/check alone: %v", rule)
 	}
 	if r := result(o, "mesh-delivery"); r.Did != DidMade {
 		t.Errorf("outcome %+v, want made", r)
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ func TestAdminRuleLetsTheSetupLoginAlonePush(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // 1124/AC3: a listed repository that exists in the organisation is not made again, only its main rule put right;
-// a rule still letting the setup login push is narrowed, its statuses kept (1124/AC5).
+// a rule still letting the setup login push is narrowed, its statuses kept but the two mesh/check replaces (1124/AC5,
+// issue 1301).
 func TestExistingOrganisationRepositoryIsOnlyPutRight(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake()
 	hq := f.add("novox/hq", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {
@@ -157,14 +158,11 @@ func TestExistingOrganisationRepositoryIsOnlyPutRight(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("hq's rule not narrowed: %v", rule)
 	}
 	checks := strs(rule["status_check_contexts"])
-	for _, c := range []string{"other/x", "mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"} {
-		if !has(checks, c) {
-			t.Errorf("hq's rule lacks %s: %v", c, checks)
-		}
+	if strings.Join(checks, ",") != "other/x,mesh/check" {
+		t.Errorf("hq's rule requires %v, want other/x and mesh/check", checks)
 	}
 	made := bare.Rules[mainRule]
-	if made == nil || made["enable_push"] != false || !has(strs(made["status_check_contexts"]), "mesh/repo-check") ||
-		!has(strs(made["status_check_contexts"]), "mesh/merge-gate") {
+	if made == nil || made["enable_push"] != false || strings.Join(strs(made["status_check_contexts"]), ",") != CheckStatus {
 		t.Errorf("bare's rule: %v", made)
 	}
 	if hq.Commits != 0 || bare.Commits != 0 {
@@ -214,8 +212,8 @@ func TestRepositoryUnderTheSetupAccountIsFinished(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// 1124/AC5: putting a rule right adds a missing one of mesh/repo-check and mesh/merge-gate and keeps every status
-// already there; no pass drops one.
+// 1124/AC5 as issue 1301 changes it: putting a rule right adds mesh/check when the rule requires mesh/merge-gate,
+// and keeps every other status there; a rule requiring mesh/repo-check alone keeps it (ADR 0503 §5).
 func TestStatusesAreAddedAndNeverDropped(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake()
 	only := f.add("novox/only", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {
@@ -224,15 +222,15 @@ func TestStatusesAreAddedAndNeverDropped(t *testing.T) {
 	}}, "main")
 	more := f.add("novox/more", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {
 		"enable_push": false, "enable_merge_whitelist": true, "merge_whitelist_usernames": []any{tools},
-		"enable_status_check": true, "status_check_contexts": []any{"mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check", "mesh/delivery"},
+		"enable_status_check": true, "status_check_contexts": []any{"mesh/delivery", "mesh/check"},
 		"block_admin_merge_override": true, // right since issue 1141
 	}}, "main")
 	s, _ := syncer(t, f)
 	o := run(t, s, Value{"only": {}, "more": {}})
-	if c := strs(only.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); !has(c, "mesh/merge-gate") || !has(c, "mesh/repo-check") {
+	if c := strs(only.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); strings.Join(c, ",") != "mesh/repo-check" {
 		t.Errorf("only: %v", c)
 	}
-	if c := strs(more.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); len(c) != 3 || !has(c, "mesh/delivery") {
+	if c := strs(more.Rules[mainRule]["status_check_contexts"]); len(c) != 2 || !has(c, "mesh/delivery") {
 		t.Errorf("more lost a status: %v", c)
 	}
 	for _, w := range f.writes() {
@@ -314,7 +312,8 @@ func TestRefusedStepStopsThatRepositoryOnly(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// 1124/AC7: a repository taken out of the value gets no call at all.
+// 1124/AC7: a repository taken out of the value is not changed: its rules are read (issue 1301 switches one whose
+// main requires mesh/merge-gate), nothing is written, and one still under the setup account is not asked about.
 func TestRepositoryOutOfTheValueIsNotTouched(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake()
 	f.add("novox/old", map[string]map[string]any{mainRule: {"enable_push": true}}, "main")
@@ -323,7 +322,7 @@ func TestRepositoryOutOfTheValueIsNotTouched(t *testing.T) {
 	run(t, s, Value{})
 	run(t, s, Value{"new": {}})
 	for _, c := range f.all() {
-		if strings.Contains(c, "old") {
+		if strings.Contains(c, "older") || (strings.Contains(c, "old") && !strings.HasPrefix(c, "GET ")) {
 			t.Errorf("a repository out of the value was asked: %s", c)
 		}
 	}

modules/gitea/delivery.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ import { promisify } from "node:util";
 import type { ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import type { CommitStatus } from "./client.js";
 import { checkName } from "./guard.js";
+import { CHECK_STATUS } from "./pulls.js";
+
+export { CHECK_STATUS };
 
 /** How a command is run: docker on the forge's machine, or a test's. */
 export type Runner = (file: string, args: string[]) => Promise<{ stdout: string; code: number }>;
@@ -91,11 +94,18 @@ const states = new Set(["pending", "success", "error", "failure", "warning"]);
 /** The merge check's contexts (pulls.ts): a branch's protection may require them. */
 const mergeCheckContexts = new Set(["mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"]);
 
+
 /** A status mesh-delivery asks for, checked: one of the forge's states, a context of the mesh's own, a
  *  bounded description. */
 export function deliveryStatus(context: string, state: string, description: string, target?: string) {
   if (!/^mesh\/[a-z-]+$/.test(context)) throw new Error(`${context} is not a status of the mesh's own`);
   if (!states.has(state)) throw new Error(`${state} is not a status the forge keeps`);
+  // mesh/check is the checker's verdict and the one status main requires (ADR 0447 §1): no hand sets it in any
+  // state, as issue 293 closed for the two before it. The forge bridge writes it through gitea_check_status, a tool
+  // only its account may call (issue 1301).
+  if (context === CHECK_STATUS) {
+    throw new Error(`${CHECK_STATUS} is the checker's status: the forge bridge writes it through gitea_check_status, never this tool`);
+  }
   // The merge check's statuses are its verdict's, set when the controller says it, and a branch may require
   // them: never set to a verdict by hand, so nothing passes — or fails — a merge past the check (novox/hq
   // issue 293). Pending is no verdict: it is what this holder says on every new head until the verdict comes,
@@ -126,7 +136,7 @@ export interface StatusWriters {
 export function commitStatusTool(writers: StatusWriters): ToolDefinition {
   return {
     name: "gitea_commit_status",
-    description: "Set one of the mesh's statuses on a commit (mesh/delivery, mesh/delivery-group): pending, success, error, failure or warning, a short description, and the page it links to. The merge check's statuses (mesh/merge-gate, mesh/repo-check) take pending only — a recheck putting them back until the fresh verdict sets them — on the head's whole sha, in their turn after the check's earlier writes.",
+    description: "Set one of the mesh's statuses on a commit (mesh/delivery, mesh/delivery-group): pending, success, error, failure or warning, a short description, and the page it links to. mesh/check, the status main requires, is refused: the checker's forge bridge writes it through gitea_check_status. hq's mesh/repo-check (and mesh/merge-gate, kept for a revert) take pending only — a recheck putting them back until the fresh verdict sets them — on the head's whole sha, in their turn after the check's earlier writes.",
     input: {
       owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
       repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
@@ -153,3 +163,48 @@ export function commitStatusTool(writers: StatusWriters): ToolDefinition {
     },
   };
 }
+
+/** What the check's status tool writes with: the forge. */
+export interface CheckStatusWriter {
+  setCommitStatus(owner: string, repo: string, sha: string, status: CommitStatus): Promise<void>;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `gitea_check_status` tool (novox/hq issue 1301, ADR 0447 §1): the one way `mesh/check` is written. Its arguments
+ * are gitea_commit_status's, so the forge bridge sends an owed status's arguments unchanged to it: owner, repo, sha
+ * (the head's whole sha), state, description, target_url, and context, which may be left out and is mesh/check when
+ * given. **Who may write it is the bus's grant**: the runtime tells a tool no caller, so only a module that lists
+ * `gitea.gitea_check_status` in its manifest's `invokes` may call it, and the forge bridge alone does. Served beside
+ * gitea_commit_status, from the watcher's bundle.
+ */
+export function checkStatusTool(writer: CheckStatusWriter): ToolDefinition {
+  return {
+    name: "gitea_check_status",
+    description: "Set mesh/check, the checker's verdict and the one status main requires, on a pull request's head: pending, success, error, failure or warning, a short description, and the page it links to. The checker's forge bridge alone may call it (its manifest's invokes); no other status is written here, and no other tool writes this one.",
+    input: {
+      owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
+      repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
+      sha: { type: "string", description: "the head's whole sha" },
+      context: { type: "string", description: "mesh/check, or left out" },
+      state: { type: "string", description: "pending | success | error | failure | warning" },
+      description: { type: "string", description: "one line" },
+      target_url: { type: "string", description: "the page it links to (the check's report)" },
+    },
+    run: async (args) => {
+      const owner = checkName("owner", args.owner), repo = checkName("name", args.repo), sha = String(args.sha ?? "");
+      if (args.context !== undefined && args.context !== null && String(args.context) !== CHECK_STATUS) {
+        throw new Error(`${JSON.stringify(args.context)}: this tool writes ${CHECK_STATUS} alone. Nothing was sent`);
+      }
+      if (!/^([0-9a-f]{40}|[0-9a-f]{64})$/i.test(sha)) {
+        throw new Error(`${JSON.stringify(args.sha)} is not a head's whole sha: ${CHECK_STATUS} names the head whole. Nothing was sent`);
+      }
+      // deliveryStatus checks the state and cuts the description; it refuses mesh/check, so it is asked for a
+      // context of the mesh's own and the status is named mesh/check after.
+      const checked = deliveryStatus("mesh/delivery", String(args.state), String(args.description ?? ""),
+        args.target_url ? String(args.target_url) : undefined);
+      const status = { ...checked, context: CHECK_STATUS };
+      await writer.setCommitStatus(owner, repo, sha, status);
+      return { set: status };
+    },
+  };
+}

modules/gitea/gate.ts

@@ -212,7 +212,8 @@ export class GateWriter {
       let since = h.pendingAt;
       if (since === undefined) {
         const gate = await this.forge.gateOf(owner, repo, sha);
-        if (gate && gate.state !== "pending") return;
+        // No gate on the forge: none was written (its base does not require it, issue 1301), and nothing is said.
+        if (!gate || gate.state !== "pending") return;
         since = gate?.updated_at ? Date.parse(gate.updated_at) : undefined;
       }
       if (since !== undefined && at.getTime() < since - CLOCK_SLACK_MS) return;

modules/gitea/go.mod

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module gitea
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021114014-66e8fdaa62e2
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022190740-104533e8c0c9
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0

modules/gitea/go.sum

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021114014-66e8fdaa62e2 h1:Cdl5N56QPfmFBoLHrDfvvyc5Q+PUnTjf3fgYD7imcco=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021114014-66e8fdaa62e2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022190740-104533e8c0c9 h1:Ufmd2cYEXICQ817IGflccP9bexABE4WhIO49HPbaoSo=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022190740-104533e8c0c9/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=

modules/gitea/index.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 // Consumes mesh-controller.checked — a pull request's merge check, judged — and sets it as the head
 // commit's statuses: `mesh/merge-gate`, the modules of the mesh's graph the change touches, and
 // `mesh/repo-check`, the repository's own merge-check.sh (novox/hq ADR 0237 as amended); with a comment
-// saying why when the gate is not a pass or the repository's own check failed.
+// saying why when the gate is not a pass or the repository's own check failed. Of the two, only those the base
+// still requires are written (issue 1301): main requires `mesh/check` — the checker's, written by its forge bridge
+// through gitea_check_status — everywhere but hq, whose main requires `mesh/repo-check` alone (ADR 0503 §5).
 //
 // Consumes node-build-agent.started — a build machine took an ask — and says, on the head a pending check is of,
 // which machine builds it since when (novox/hq issue 446). This module is the one writer of mesh/merge-gate.
@@ -38,12 +40,13 @@
 
 import { emit, on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
 import { registerModuleTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
-import { commitStatusTool } from "./delivery.js";
+import { statesAnnouncement } from "./kept.js";
+import { checkStatusTool, commitStatusTool } from "./delivery.js";
 import { announce, keepWatermark, readWatermark } from "./announce.js";
 import { mergeTool } from "./merge.js";
 import { GiteaAdmin, GiteaClient, movedSince } from "./client.js";
-import { CHECK_CONTEXT, REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT, commentFor, composedGate, groupGateStatus, headsToAnnounce, statusesFor, type Announced, type Checked,
-  repoCheckFacts, reposToLook } from "./pulls.js";
+import { CHECK_CONTEXT, CHECK_STATUS, REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT, commentFor, composedGate, groupGateStatus, headsToAnnounce, maintained,
+  requiredOf, statusesFor, writesGate, type Announced, type Checked, repoCheckFacts, reposToLook } from "./pulls.js";
 import { GateWriter, clonedAs, type BuildStarted } from "./gate.js";
 import { HOOK_PATH, HOOK_PORT, Pace, claimHead, ensureSystemHook, eventsTool, keptSecret, receiver, type ForgeEvent } from "./webhook.js";
 import { keepSiblings, noteComposed, noteVerdict, readSiblings, siblingsFile, siblingsOf, weighSiblings } from "./siblings.js";
@@ -247,8 +250,11 @@ async function announceHead(client: GiteaClient, repo: RepoOf, pull: OpenOf): Pr
   // Said, so an operator knows the mesh was asked to check it.
   console.log(`[gitea] announced ${key} at ${sha.slice(0, 8)} to be checked before it merges`);
   // Pending until the verdict comes, so the pull request says a check is running rather than nothing — and
-  // where it is: in the build queue from now, until a build machine takes it (novox/hq issue 446).
-  await gates.pending(repo.owner, repo.name, sha);
+  // where it is: in the build queue from now, until a build machine takes it (novox/hq issue 446). Only where the base
+  // still requires mesh/merge-gate (issue 1301): a main that requires mesh/check is the checker's, and hq's requires
+  // mesh/repo-check alone; a rule that cannot be read is said pending, as before.
+  const rule = await client.appliedProtection(repo.owner, repo.name, String(pull.base || "main")).catch(() => undefined);
+  if (writesGate(requiredOf(rule))) await gates.pending(repo.owner, repo.name, sha);
   return true;
 }
 type OpenOf = Awaited<ReturnType<GiteaClient["listOpenPullsSince"]>>[number];
@@ -257,7 +263,7 @@ type OpenOf = Awaited<ReturnType<GiteaClient["listOpenPullsSince"]>>[number];
 async function alreadyChecked(client: GiteaClient, repo: RepoOf, pull: OpenOf): Promise<boolean> {
   try {
     const checks = await client.headChecks(repo.owner, repo.name, String(pull.head_sha));
-    return CHECK_CONTEXT in checks || REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT in checks;
+    return CHECK_CONTEXT in checks || REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT in checks || CHECK_STATUS in checks;
   } catch {
     return false; // the forge cannot say: announced, and the bus's message id collapses it if it was
   }
@@ -394,16 +400,20 @@ async function setVerdict(client: GiteaClient, event: { body: unknown }): Promis
   // (novox/hq ADR 0323 §4): a check asked before the trunk moved. It is said so, pending with the reason, in place of
   // its pass or failure; a trunk that cannot be read lets the verdict stand, and the merge tool compares the commits.
   const trunk = base ?? c.plan?.base;
+  // Only the statuses the base still requires are written (issue 1301): on hq, mesh/repo-check alone.
+  const required = trunk ? requiredOf(await client.appliedProtection(c.owner, c.repo, trunk).catch(() => undefined)) : undefined;
+  const kept = maintained(required);
   if (c.trunk && trunk) {
     const head = await client.branchHead(c.owner, c.repo, trunk).catch(() => undefined);
     if (head && !sameCommit(c.trunk, head)) {
       const description = outOfDateWords(c.trunk, head);
-      for (const context of [...(composedGate(c) ? [] : [CHECK_CONTEXT]), ...(c["repo-check"] ? [REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT] : [])]) {
+      for (const context of [...(composedGate(c) ? [] : [CHECK_CONTEXT]), ...(c["repo-check"] ? [REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT] : [])]
+        .filter((x) => kept.includes(x))) {
         await client.setCommitStatus(c.owner, c.repo, c.commit, { state: "pending", context, description,
           ...(target ? { target_url: target } : {}) });
       }
       // Its account is kept and shown all the same (ADR 0323 §7): what it judged, and that it is out of date.
-      const said = commentFor(c, await repoCheckFacts(client, c, trunk));
+      const said = commentFor(c, await repoCheckFacts(client, c, trunk), required);
       if (c.number && !composedGate(c)) await client.addComment(c.owner, c.repo, c.number, lateVerdictComment(c, said, description));
       console.log(`[gitea] ${c.owner}/${c.repo}#${c.number ?? "?"} at ${c.commit.slice(0, 8)}: merge check ${c.verdict}, ` +
         `${description}`);
@@ -412,10 +422,10 @@ async function setVerdict(client: GiteaClient, event: { body: unknown }): Promis
   }
   const facts = await repoCheckFacts(client, c, base ?? c.plan?.base);
   const gateNow = composedGate(c) ? (await client.headChecks(c.owner, c.repo, c.commit).catch(() => ({} as Record<string, { description?: string }>)))[CHECK_CONTEXT]?.description : undefined;
-  for (const status of statusesFor(c, facts, gateNow)) {
+  for (const status of statusesFor(c, facts, gateNow, required)) {
     await client.setCommitStatus(c.owner, c.repo, c.commit, target ? { ...status, target_url: target } : status);
   }
-  const comment = composedGate(c) ? null : commentFor(c, facts);
+  const comment = composedGate(c) ? null : commentFor(c, facts, required);
   if (comment && c.number) await client.addComment(c.owner, c.repo, c.number, comment);
   console.log(`[gitea] ${c.owner}/${c.repo}#${c.number ?? "?"} at ${c.commit.slice(0, 8)}: merge check ${c.verdict}`);
 }
@@ -473,10 +483,16 @@ const gates = new GateWriter({
 const pace = new Pace();
 if (!gitea) pace.unheard("the forge is not watched: no way to a token", false);
 
+// The states this module keeps and which others may read, said on the bus before it serves (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2).
+// Said with `emit`, not the SDK's `keeps`, which the toolchain's SDK does not have yet: switch to `keeps` once that SDK is 0.1.15 or later (issue 1852).
+await emit("states", statesAnnouncement(process.env.MESH_MODULE || "gitea", process.env.MESH_NODE));
+
 // gitea_events is served whether or not the forge is watched: it says so (novox/hq issue 729).
 registerModuleTools("gitea", () => [eventsTool(pace), ...(gitea ? [commitStatusTool({
   setCommitStatus: (owner, repo, sha, status) => (gitea as GiteaClient).setCommitStatus(owner, repo, sha, status),
   gates,
+}), checkStatusTool({
+  setCommitStatus: (owner, repo, sha, status) => (gitea as GiteaClient).setCommitStatus(owner, repo, sha, status),
 }), mergeTool(gitea, { gates })] : [])]);
 
 // **A build machine took an ask** (the build seat's `started`, novox/hq ADR 0157): said on the head it checks, when

modules/gitea/kept.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// The states this module keeps on the bus and whether other modules may read them (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2; issue
+// 1790): the module says it itself, from its code, as it starts (index.ts calls keeps with this list), and a reader is
+// granted what it said (clause 3). A state is readable when another module's manifest reads it; none reads gitea's.
+// test/kept.test.ts holds the list to the manifest's `state`.
+export const KEPT: readonly { readonly name: string; readonly readable?: boolean }[] = [
+  { name: "announced" },
+  { name: "bound" },
+];
+
+/** The announcement of these states, in the layout mesh-sdk's go/announce reads (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2): version 1,
+ *  the module, the machine when known, and the states sorted by name, `readable` only where true. It is said as the event
+ *  `states`, which is the subject mesh.mod.gitea.event.states. gitea says it with the SDK's `emit` because the
+ *  toolchain's SDK, which judges R4e's group, predates the SDK's `keeps` (0.1.15); switch to `keeps` once the toolchain's
+ *  SDK is 0.1.15 or later (issue 1852). */
+export function statesAnnouncement(module: string, node: string | undefined) {
+  const states = [...KEPT]
+    .sort((a, b) => (a.name < b.name ? -1 : a.name > b.name ? 1 : 0))
+    .map((k) => (k.readable ? { name: k.name, readable: true } : { name: k.name }));
+  return { v: 1, module, ...(node ? { node } : {}), states };
+}

modules/gitea/merge.ts

@@ -4,13 +4,18 @@
 // when a verdict is judged against an earlier trunk commit than the trunk's head, the tool asks the head's check and
 // puts its statuses back to pending through that writer, so where the check runs is said and no second check is asked.
 // Each bundle the runtime serves is its own process; from the tools' bundle the pending bypassed the writer's chain.
+//
+// **It judges on the status the base requires** (issue 1301; ADR 0447 §1, §4; ADR 0503 §5): mesh/check, the checker's,
+// whose line names the trunk it judged ("pass <head12> on <trunk12>"); where a base does not require it, the controller's
+// status it still requires (hq's mesh/repo-check), as before. A mesh/check of another trunk is refused and nothing is
+// asked: the checker sets it out of date on the trunk's move and checks it again.
 
 import { announce } from "./announce.js";
 import type { ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import type { CommitStatus, GiteaClient } from "./client.js";
 import { mergeableUnder, newestByContext } from "./checks.js";
 import { MERGE_METHODS, Refused, checkName } from "./guard.js";
-import { CHECK_CONTEXT, REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT } from "./pulls.js";
+import { CHECK_CONTEXT, CHECK_STATUS, REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT, maintained, requiredOf } from "./pulls.js";
 import { approvedHeadsOf, groupRefusal, memberKey, namesSiblings, notApproved, readSiblings, siblingOutOfDate, siblingsFile } from "./siblings.js";
 import { announcementOf, askedWords, outOfDateWords, sameCommit, tookFile, tookWords, twelve, verdictAtTrunk, waitsForComposed } from "./trunk.js";
 
@@ -32,7 +37,7 @@ export function mergeTool(gitea: GiteaClient, given: MergeDeps): ToolDefinition
   return {
     name: "gitea_merge_pull_request",
     description: "Merge a pull request at the head you name — the commit you reviewed — when that is still its head " +
-      "and every status its base branch's protection requires succeeded there (mesh/merge-gate, mesh/repo-check), " +
+      "and every status its base branch's protection requires succeeded there (mesh/check; hq's mesh/repo-check), " +
       "judged against the trunk's head as it is now, optionally deleting the source branch afterwards. Refused " +
       "otherwise, with nothing merged: no tool merges past a check, and none merges a head that moved after it was " +
       "reviewed. A verdict judged against an earlier trunk commit is refused, naming both, and the head's check against " +
@@ -108,11 +113,33 @@ export function mergeTool(gitea: GiteaClient, given: MergeDeps): ToolDefinition
       // head makes — never again while one is on its way. The caller asks again at the reviewed head once it passes.
       const trunkHead = await gitea.branchHead(owner, repo, pull.base);
       const checks = await gitea.headChecks(owner, repo, pull.head_sha);
-      const at = verdictAtTrunk(checks, trunkHead);
+      const required = requiredOf(rule) ?? [];
+      if (required.includes(CHECK_STATUS)) {
+        // **mesh/check is the checker's** (ADR 0447 §4): it is judged here against the trunk's head, and refused when it
+        // is not current; nothing is written or asked — the checker checks a head again when its trunk moves.
+        const check = checks[CHECK_STATUS];
+        const at = verdictAtTrunk(checks, trunkHead, CHECK_STATUS);
+        if (!check || check.state === "pending") {
+          throw new Refused(`${owner}/${repo}#${number} is not merged: its ${CHECK_STATUS} is ` +
+            `${check ? `pending (${check.description ?? ""})` : "not set yet"}; the checker answers it. Ask again at ` +
+            `${twelve(pull.head_sha)} once it passes against ${pull.base}'s head ${twelve(trunkHead)}. Nothing was merged`);
+        }
+        if (!at.current) {
+          throw new Refused(`${owner}/${repo}#${number} is not merged: its ${CHECK_STATUS} ` +
+            `${at.judged ? `was judged on trunk ${twelve(at.judged)}` : "names no trunk commit it was judged on"}, and ` +
+            `${pull.base} is now ${twelve(trunkHead)}. The checker checks it again against the trunk's head (novox/hq ` +
+            `ADR 0447); this tool asks nothing. Ask again at ${twelve(pull.head_sha)} once it passes. Nothing was merged`);
+        }
+      }
+      // Where the base still requires the controller's statuses (hq's mesh/repo-check; mesh/merge-gate only on a
+      // revert), the first it requires judges, as before (ADR 0323 §5).
+      const kept = maintained(required);
+      const judge = kept[0] ?? CHECK_CONTEXT;
+      const at = kept.length ? verdictAtTrunk(checks, trunkHead, judge) : { current: true, onItsWay: false };
       if (!at.current) {
         // A verdict put out of date by a sibling's move says so in its own words (ADR 0382 §5); it is asked again as a
         // trunk's move is, and a failed ask puts those words back, not the trunk's.
-        const siblingWords = siblingOutOfDate(checks[CHECK_CONTEXT]?.description) ? checks[CHECK_CONTEXT]?.description : undefined;
+        const siblingWords = siblingOutOfDate(checks[judge]?.description) ? checks[judge]?.description : undefined;
         const judged = siblingWords ? `was put out of date by a sibling's move (${siblingWords})`
           : at.judged ? `was judged against trunk ${twelve(at.judged)}` : "names no trunk commit it was judged against";
         const took = tookWords(tookFile(deps.stateDir), `${owner}/${repo}`);
@@ -120,21 +147,22 @@ export function mergeTool(gitea: GiteaClient, given: MergeDeps): ToolDefinition
         // **A member that waits for its group's composed check is not announced again** (novox/hq issue 1106): its own
         // check can only say "composed" once more, so an ask here brought a verdict naming no trunk and the next merge was
         // refused the same way for ever. The composed check is mesh-delivery's to ask; this says whose verdict is awaited.
-        if (waitsForComposed(checks[CHECK_CONTEXT])) {
-          throw new Refused(`${owner}/${repo}#${number} is not merged: its merge gate ${checks[CHECK_CONTEXT]?.description}; the ` +
+        if (waitsForComposed(checks[judge])) {
+          throw new Refused(`${owner}/${repo}#${number} is not merged: its merge gate ${checks[judge]?.description}; the ` +
             `verdict that names its trunk commit is its group's composed check's, and mesh-delivery asks it, this tool asks no check ` +
             `(main is now ${now}). Ask again once the group's composed check has passed. Nothing was merged`);
         }
         if (at.onItsWay) {
           throw new Refused(`${owner}/${repo}#${number} is not merged: its verdict ${judged}, and ${pull.base} is now ` +
-            `${now}. Its check is already asked and not yet answered (${checks[CHECK_CONTEXT]?.description}), so it is not ` +
+            `${now}. Its check is already asked and not yet answered (${checks[judge]?.description}), so it is not ` +
             `asked again; ${took}. Ask again at ${head} once both statuses pass: this tool never merges by itself ` +
               `(novox/hq ADR 0323). A check that never answers is asked again with mesh-delivery.recheck. Nothing was merged`);
         }
         // Pending first, so a second ask finds the check on its way; then the head is announced as a new head is. An
         // announcement that cannot be made puts the statuses back to out of date, so the next ask asks again rather
         // than wait for ever on a check nobody asked.
-        const contexts = [CHECK_CONTEXT, ...(checks[REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT] ? [REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT] : [])];
+        // The statuses the base requires of the controller's (issue 1301): hq's mesh/repo-check alone.
+        const contexts = kept.filter((c) => c === judge || (c === REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT && checks[REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT]));
         // Through the module's one writer of the merge check (gate.ts, novox/hq issue 456): the pending opens a new
         // check of the head, so where it runs is said ("building on …") and its verdict is not weighed as older.
         const say = async (description: string) => {
@@ -167,9 +195,12 @@ export function mergeTool(gitea: GiteaClient, given: MergeDeps): ToolDefinition
       // **A member judged beside its siblings merges only with its group passed and reviewed** (novox/hq ADR 0382 §6): the
       // siblings its verdict names are the holder's record (siblings.ts); a status that says it read siblings with no record
       // of them is no verdict to merge on, never read as none.
-      const heard = readSiblings(siblingsFile(deps.stateDir))[memberKey(owner, repo, number)];
+      // Under mesh/check (issue 1301) the group is the checker's one verdict on every member's head (ADR 0447 §2) and the
+      // Approve's heads above; a record the controller's verdicts left before the switch judges nothing there.
+      const heard = required.includes(CHECK_STATUS) ? undefined : readSiblings(siblingsFile(deps.stateDir))[memberKey(owner, repo, number)];
       const siblings = heard && sameCommit(heard.head, pull.head_sha) ? heard.siblings : [];
-      if (!siblings.length && namesSiblings(statuses.find((s) => s.context === CHECK_CONTEXT)?.description)) {
+      if (!siblings.length && !required.includes(CHECK_STATUS) &&
+        namesSiblings(statuses.find((s) => s.context === CHECK_CONTEXT)?.description)) {
         throw new Refused(`${owner}/${repo}#${number} is not merged: its verdict read siblings, and which ones is not held ` +
           `here, so the group cannot be weighed. Ask its check again at ${twelve(pull.head_sha)}. Nothing was merged`);
       }

modules/gitea/module.json

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
     },
     "repositories": {
       "type": "object",
-      "description": "The repositories of the organisation novox the mesh holds (ADR 0428): each by name, {\"<name>\": {\"private\": true, \"description\": \"...\"}}. One that does not exist is made by the module's setup login under its own account, its main protected and given a first commit (a README naming the description and a merge-check.sh), its rule narrowed to no push and the tools' merge requiring mesh/repo-check and mesh/merge-gate, and only then moved into the organisation; one that exists only has main's rule put right, its statuses kept. A repository taken out of the value is never touched.",
+      "description": "The repositories of the organisation novox the mesh holds (ADR 0428): each by name, {\"<name>\": {\"private\": true, \"description\": \"...\"}}. One that does not exist is made by the module's setup login under its own account, its main protected and given a first commit (a README naming the description and a merge-check.sh), its rule narrowed to no push and the tools' merge requiring mesh/check, and only then moved into the organisation; one that exists only has main's rule put right, mesh/check in place of mesh/merge-gate and mesh/repo-check and its other statuses kept (a main requiring mesh/repo-check alone keeps it). Every other repository whose main requires mesh/merge-gate has the two swapped for mesh/check; nothing else of a repository out of the value is touched.",
       "trusted": true,
       "default": {}
     }

modules/gitea/protection.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-// A branch's protection (novox/hq ADR 0237): what makes a pull request wait for the mesh's merge check —
-// `mesh/merge-gate`, the module graph's gate, and `mesh/repo-check`, the repository's own tests — before it
-// may merge. Pure, so it is tested without a forge; the client does the asking (client.ts).
+// A branch's protection (novox/hq ADR 0237): what makes a pull request wait for the mesh's check — `mesh/check`,
+// the checker's verdict on the head merged onto its trunk (ADR 0447 §1; hq's `mesh/repo-check` until issue 1296) —
+// before it may merge. Pure, so it is tested without a forge; the client does the asking (client.ts).
 
 import { TOOLS_ACCOUNT } from "./tools-account.js";
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export interface BranchProtection {
 /** What a branch's protection is set to. A field not given is left as the rule has it (or the forge's
  *  default on a new rule), except pushes, which a new rule refuses unless `push` says otherwise. */
 export interface ProtectionWanted {
-  /** The statuses a pull request must have succeeded before it merges, e.g. mesh/merge-gate. Empty: none. */
+  /** The statuses a pull request must have succeeded before it merges, e.g. mesh/check. Empty: none. */
   statusChecks: string[];
   /** Whether a person may push to the branch directly. */
   push?: boolean;

modules/gitea/pulls.ts

@@ -19,6 +19,34 @@ export const CHECK_CONTEXT = "mesh/merge-gate";
 /** The status context of the repository's own merge-check.sh, the check's second layer (novox/hq ADR 0237). */
 export const REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT = "mesh/repo-check";
 
+/** The one status main requires (novox/hq ADR 0447 §1, issue 1301): the checker's verdict, written by its forge bridge
+ *  through gitea_check_status. Its line names the head and the trunk commit it judged: "pass <head12> on <trunk12> …". */
+export const CHECK_STATUS = "mesh/check";
+
+/** The statuses a branch's rule requires, from the rule the forge applies to it: none when it is unprotected or checks
+ *  no status; undefined when the rule could not be read. */
+export function requiredOf(rule: { enable_status_check?: boolean; status_check_contexts?: string[] } | null | undefined): string[] | undefined {
+  if (rule === undefined) return undefined;
+  if (!rule || !rule.enable_status_check) return [];
+  return (rule.status_check_contexts ?? []).filter(Boolean);
+}
+
+/**
+ * **The controller's statuses are written only where a base still requires them** (issue 1301; ADR 0503 §3, §5): of
+ * mesh/merge-gate and mesh/repo-check, those the base requires — hq's mesh/repo-check alone once the forge requires
+ * mesh/check everywhere else, so no mesh/merge-gate stands on a head that nothing will set. A base whose rule could not
+ * be read keeps both, as before: a status nothing requires blocks nothing, and one that is required is never left out.
+ */
+export function maintained(required: string[] | undefined): string[] {
+  const both = [CHECK_CONTEXT, REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT];
+  return required === undefined ? both : both.filter((c) => required.includes(c));
+}
+
+/** Whether mesh/merge-gate is written on a head of this base (maintained). */
+export function writesGate(required: string[] | undefined): boolean {
+  return maintained(required).includes(CHECK_CONTEXT);
+}
+
 /**
  * The pending words a head's merge check is announced with (novox/hq issue 446): where the check is, and since when,
  * in the time the operator reads. They stood as "the mesh is mapping this head onto its module graph" for the whole
@@ -257,8 +285,14 @@ export function composedGate(c: Checked): boolean {
   return c.gate?.verdict === "composed";
 }
 
-/** Every status a verdict sets: the gate's, and the repository's own check's when it was said. */
-export function statusesFor(c: Checked, facts: RepoCheckFacts = {}, gateNow?: string): CommitStatus[] {
+/** Every status a verdict sets: the gate's, and the repository's own check's when it was said; of them, only those the
+ *  base requires (`required`, the base's rule: maintained). */
+export function statusesFor(c: Checked, facts: RepoCheckFacts = {}, gateNow?: string, required?: string[]): CommitStatus[] {
+  const kept = maintained(required);
+  return allStatusesFor(c, facts, gateNow).filter((s) => kept.includes(s.context));
+}
+
+function allStatusesFor(c: Checked, facts: RepoCheckFacts = {}, gateNow?: string): CommitStatus[] {
   if (composedGate(c)) {
     // A member whose gate the group's composed check judges (ADR 0403 §1): only its repository's check is its own to
     // set. The gate stays pending, saying it waits for the group, unless a composed verdict already stands on it.
@@ -292,11 +326,13 @@ function judgedFirst(c: Checked, status: CommitStatus): CommitStatus {
  *  change that builds something (novox/hq ADR 0238), and why, when the gate is not a pass or the
  *  repository's own check failed or could not run. A repository with no merge-check.sh, touching nothing,
  *  is said by its statuses alone, not by a comment on every push. */
-export function commentFor(c: Checked, facts: RepoCheckFacts = {}): string | null {
+export function commentFor(c: Checked, facts: RepoCheckFacts = {}, required?: string[]): string | null {
   const gate = c.gate ?? { verdict: c.verdict, summary: c.summary };
+  // A base that no longer requires the gate (issue 1301) is told nothing of it: its verdict is the repository's own check.
+  const withGate = writesGate(required);
   const repo = c["repo-check"];
   const wrong = repoWrong(repo, facts);
-  if (gate.verdict === "pass" && !wrong && !builds(c.plan)) return null;
+  if ((!withGate || gate.verdict === "pass") && !wrong && !builds(c.plan)) return null;
   const lines = [`**Merge check** at \`${c.commit.slice(0, 8)}\``, ""];
   if (c.trunk) {
     // What was judged (novox/hq ADR 0323 §3): the head merged into the trunk commit, and what was read beside it.
@@ -312,9 +348,11 @@ export function commentFor(c: Checked, facts: RepoCheckFacts = {}): string | nul
   } else if (c.siblings_unknown) {
     lines.splice(c.trunk ? 2 : 1, 0, `Siblings could not be learned: ${c.siblings_unknown}`);
   }
-  lines.push(`- \`${CHECK_CONTEXT}\`: **${saidAs(gate.verdict).toUpperCase()}** — ${gate.summary}` +
-    (gate.modules?.length ? ` (modules: ${gate.modules.join(", ")}` +
-      (gate.dependents?.length ? `; built after them: ${gate.dependents.join(", ")}` : "") + ")" : ""));
+  if (withGate) {
+    lines.push(`- \`${CHECK_CONTEXT}\`: **${saidAs(gate.verdict).toUpperCase()}** — ${gate.summary}` +
+      (gate.modules?.length ? ` (modules: ${gate.modules.join(", ")}` +
+        (gate.dependents?.length ? `; built after them: ${gate.dependents.join(", ")}` : "") + ")" : ""));
+  }
   if (repo) {
     const st = repoStatus(repo, facts);
     lines.push(`- \`${REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT}\`: ` + (repo.verdict === "warning" && facts.defined === false

modules/gitea/test/commit-trees.test.ts

@@ -171,3 +171,53 @@ test("the root tree is git's hash of the root's own entries, never the listing's
     server.close();
   }
 });
+
+test("named paths: each asked path's git object id at the commit, a file's or a directory's, by directory (1758 S1, ADR 0499 §3)", async () => {
+  const { client, server } = await serve([{ sha: COMMIT, url: "u", tree: LISTING, truncated: false, page: 1, total_count: LISTING.length }]);
+  try {
+    const got = await client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT, { "modules/a": ["main.go", "module.json"], "modules/b": ["c"], "": ["README.md", "modules/d"] });
+    assert.deepEqual(got.paths, {
+      "modules/a": { "main.go": h("6"), "module.json": h("5") },
+      "modules/b": { c: h("8") },
+      "": { "README.md": h("1"), "modules/d": h("a") },
+    });
+    assert.deepEqual(got.trees, { "": ROOT, "modules/a": h("4"), "modules/b/c": h("8") });
+    assert.equal((await client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT)).paths, undefined, "no paths asked, none answered");
+  } finally {
+    server.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("a named path the listing lacks fails naming the directory and the path, and answers nothing", async () => {
+  const { client, server } = await serve([{ sha: COMMIT, url: "u", tree: LISTING, truncated: false, page: 1, total_count: LISTING.length }]);
+  try {
+    await assert.rejects(client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT, { "modules/a": ["main.go", "gone.go"] }), (err: Error) => {
+      assert.match(err.message, /modules\/a/);
+      assert.match(err.message, /gone\.go/);
+      return true;
+    });
+    for (const bad of [[""], ["../x"], ["/abs"], ["a//b"]]) {
+      await assert.rejects(client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT, { "modules/a": bad }), /./, JSON.stringify(bad));
+    }
+  } finally {
+    server.close();
+  }
+});
+
+test("gitea_commit_trees takes paths as {directory: [paths]} and refuses another shape before the forge is asked", async () => {
+  const { getGiteaTools } = await import("../tools/index.ts");
+  const { client, server, asked } = await serve([{ sha: COMMIT, url: "u", tree: LISTING, truncated: false, page: 1, total_count: LISTING.length }]);
+  try {
+    const tool = getGiteaTools(client).find((t) => t.name === "gitea_commit_trees")!;
+    assert.ok("paths" in tool.input, "the tool names the argument");
+    const got: any = await tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "hq", sha: COMMIT, paths: { "modules/a": ["main.go"] } } as any);
+    assert.deepEqual(got.paths, { "modules/a": { "main.go": h("6") } });
+    const before = asked.length;
+    for (const paths of ["modules/a", ["main.go"], { "modules/a": "main.go" }, { "modules/a": [1] }]) {
+      await assert.rejects(tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "hq", sha: COMMIT, paths } as any), /paths/, JSON.stringify(paths));
+    }
+    assert.equal(asked.length, before, "the forge was asked for a refused call");
+  } finally {
+    server.close();
+  }
+});

modules/gitea/test/delivery.test.ts

@@ -61,3 +61,38 @@ test("one view per pull request, found by its marker; only the mesh's statuses",
   assert.equal(deliveryStatus("mesh/repo-check", "pending", "checking again: main moved on").context, "mesh/repo-check");
   assert.equal(deliveryStatus("mesh/delivery", "success", "x", "javascript:alert(1)").target_url, undefined);
 });
+
+// Issue 1301-S4 (ADR 0447 §1; the lead's choice A): main requires mesh/check, so no hand may set it. The status tool
+// every caller may use refuses it in every state; it is written only by gitea_check_status, which the forge bridge
+// alone lists in its manifest's `invokes`, so only its account may call it.
+test("mesh/check is refused by the status tool and written by the check's own tool alone", async () => {
+  const { commitStatusTool, checkStatusTool, deliveryStatus, CHECK_STATUS } = await import("../delivery.ts");
+  assert.equal(CHECK_STATUS, "mesh/check");
+  const sha = "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567";
+  const sent: string[] = [];
+  const setCommitStatus = async (o: string, r: string, s: string, st: any) =>
+    void sent.push(`${o}/${r}@${s.slice(0, 8)} ${st.context} ${st.state} ${st.description}${st.target_url ? " " + st.target_url : ""}`);
+  const gates = { rechecked: async () => { throw new Error("not the gate writer's"); } };
+  for (const state of ["pending", "success", "failure", "error", "warning"]) {
+    assert.throws(() => deliveryStatus("mesh/check", state, "x"), /mesh\/check is the checker's status/);
+    await assert.rejects(commitStatusTool({ setCommitStatus, gates } as any).run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha,
+      context: "mesh/check", state, description: "by hand" }), /gitea_check_status/);
+  }
+  assert.deepEqual(sent, [], "nothing was sent for a hand-set mesh/check");
+
+  const tool = checkStatusTool({ setCommitStatus });
+  assert.equal(tool.name, "gitea_check_status");
+  for (const k of ["owner", "repo", "sha", "state", "description", "target_url", "context"]) assert.ok(k in tool.input, k);
+  // The bridge's arguments as it sends them for gitea_commit_status: the context may be given, and is mesh/check.
+  await tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha, context: "mesh/check", state: "success", description: "pass",
+    target_url: "https://forge.invalid/novox/mesh-sdk/pulls/1" });
+  await tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha, state: "pending", description: "y".repeat(300) });
+  assert.equal(sent[0], "novox/mesh-sdk@01234567 mesh/check success pass https://forge.invalid/novox/mesh-sdk/pulls/1");
+  assert.ok(sent[1].startsWith("novox/mesh-sdk@01234567 mesh/check pending yyyy"), sent[1]);
+  assert.ok(sent[1].length < 200, "the description is cut as every status's is");
+  await assert.rejects(tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha, context: "mesh/delivery", state: "success" }), /mesh\/check alone/);
+  await assert.rejects(tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha: sha.slice(0, 12), state: "success" }), /whole sha/);
+  await assert.rejects(tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha, state: "green" }), /not a status/);
+  await assert.rejects(tool.run({ owner: "../x", repo: "mesh-sdk", sha, state: "success" }));
+  assert.equal(sent.length, 2, "nothing more was sent");
+});

modules/gitea/test/gate.test.ts

@@ -322,3 +322,13 @@ test("a repository as the mesh clones it is told from another", async () => {
   assert.equal(clonedAs("http://127.0.0.1:20000/novox/mesh-hq.git", "novox", "hq"), false);
   assert.equal(clonedAs("http://127.0.0.1:20000/novox/mesh-controller.git", "novox", "hq"), false);
 });
+
+// Issue 1301: a build machine's start on a head that holds no mesh/merge-gate (its base requires none, so none was written)
+// says nothing: no "building on" status appears on a main that does not require the gate.
+test("a start on a head with no gate on the forge writes nothing", async () => {
+  const { GateWriter } = await import("../gate.ts");
+  const forge = aForge();
+  const gates = new GateWriter(forge, announcedAt);
+  assert.equal(await gates.started("novox", "hq", SHA, startedOnShanks), false);
+  assert.equal(forge.kept["mesh/merge-gate"], undefined);
+});

modules/gitea/test/guard.test.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import { GiteaClient } from "../dist/client.js";
 import { ConfiguredToken } from "../dist/token.js";
 import { getGiteaTools } from "../dist/tools/index.js";
 import { mergeTool } from "../dist/merge.js";
-import { commitStatusTool } from "../dist/delivery.js";
+import { checkStatusTool, commitStatusTool } from "../dist/delivery.js";
 import { GateWriter } from "../dist/gate.js";
 import { judgeApiCall, judgeProtectionChange, ruleCovers, routedPath } from "../dist/guard.js";
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ const gates = { rechecked: (o: string, r: string, sha: string, s: any) => {
 } };
 const tools = [...getGiteaTools(client), commitStatusTool({
   setCommitStatus: (o, r, sha, s) => client.setCommitStatus(o, r, sha, s), gates: writer,
-}), mergeTool(client, { gates, stateDir, emit: async (type, body) => { state.emitted.push({ type, body }); },
+}), checkStatusTool({ setCommitStatus: (o, r, sha, s) => client.setCommitStatus(o, r, sha, s) }), mergeTool(client, { gates, stateDir, emit: async (type, body) => { state.emitted.push({ type, body }); },
   now: () => new Date(2026, 9, 12, 15, 1) })];
 const tool = (name: string) => tools.find((t) => t.name === name)!;
 const writes = () => state.sent.map((s) => `${s.method} ${s.path}`);
@@ -568,6 +568,10 @@ test("no tool's caller text becomes another path or another user: `..` and `?sud
     ["gitea_get_file", { ...repo, path: "README.md?sudo=jschoubben" }],
     ["gitea_commit_status", { ...repo, sha: "abc1234?sudo=jschoubben", context: "mesh/delivery", state: "success" }],
     ["gitea_commit_status", { ...repo, sha: "../../../admin/users", context: "mesh/delivery", state: "success" }],
+    ["gitea_check_status", { ...repo, sha: "abc1234?sudo=jschoubben", state: "success" }],
+    ["gitea_check_status", { ...repo, sha: "../../../admin/users", state: "success" }],
+    ["gitea_check_status", { owner: "novox", repo: "..", sha: "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567", state: "success" }],
+    ["gitea_commit_status", { ...repo, sha: "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567", context: "mesh/check", state: "success" }],
     ["gitea_commit_statuses", { ...repo, sha: ".." }],
     ["gitea_commit_statuses", { ...repo, sha: "main?sudo=jschoubben" }],
     ["gitea_branch_protection_set", { ...repo, branch: "..", status_checks: "mesh/merge-gate" }],
@@ -704,3 +708,53 @@ test("a group of two merges in one pass: the sibling's merge of the composed hea
   assert.equal(done.merged, true);
   assert.equal(state.emitted.length, 0, "no check was asked");
 });
+
+// **Issue 1301 (ADR 0447 §1, §4; ADR 0503 §3, §5): the merge tool judges on the status the base requires.** A main that
+// requires mesh/check is judged by the checker's line ("pass <head12> on <trunk12> …"): it merges on a pass that names the
+// trunk's head, and refuses one that names an older trunk, naming both, writing nothing and asking nothing — a re-check on
+// a trunk's move is the checker's. No mesh/merge-gate is read or written there.
+test("gitea_merge_pull_request judges a main requiring mesh/check on mesh/check alone, and asks nothing of it", async () => {
+  const merge = () => tool("gitea_merge_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7, head: REVIEWED });
+  state.rules = [{ ...protectedMain(), status_check_contexts: ["mesh/check"] }];
+  const line = (trunk: string, s = "success", words = "pass") =>
+    [{ context: "mesh/check", state: s, description: `${words} ${REVIEWED.slice(0, 12)} on ${trunk.slice(0, 12)} | unit 12 run` }];
+  const before = state.emitted.length;
+
+  state.statuses = line(MOVED);
+  await assert.rejects(merge(), (err: Error) => {
+    assert.match(err.message, /mesh\/check/);
+    assert.match(err.message, new RegExp(`${MOVED.slice(0, 12)}.*${TRUNK.slice(0, 12)}`));
+    assert.match(err.message, /checker checks it again/i);
+    assert.match(err.message, /Nothing was merged/);
+    return true;
+  });
+  state.statuses = line(TRUNK, "pending", "checking");
+  await assert.rejects(merge(), /mesh\/check is pending/);
+  state.statuses = judgedAt(TRUNK); // the old two, current: not what this main requires
+  await assert.rejects(merge(), /mesh\/check/);
+  assert.deepEqual(writes(), [], "nothing is written: mesh/check is the checker's");
+  assert.equal(state.emitted.length, before, "no check is asked");
+  assert.equal(state.merged, false);
+
+  state.statuses = line(TRUNK);
+  assert.equal(((await merge()) as Record<string, unknown>).merged, true);
+});
+
+// hq's main requires mesh/repo-check alone (ADR 0503 §5): judged on its words, and an out-of-date one is asked again on
+// mesh/repo-check alone; no mesh/merge-gate is written on it.
+test("gitea_merge_pull_request judges a main requiring mesh/repo-check alone on it, and writes no mesh/merge-gate", async () => {
+  const { keepSiblings, siblingsFile } = await import("../dist/siblings.js");
+  keepSiblings(siblingsFile(stateDir), {}); // no sibling record left by the tests before
+  const merge = () => tool("gitea_merge_pull_request").run({ owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7, head: REVIEWED });
+  state.rules = [{ ...protectedMain(), status_check_contexts: ["mesh/repo-check"] }];
+  state.statuses = [judgedAt(MOVED)[1]];
+  const before = state.emitted.length;
+  await assert.rejects(merge(), /judged against trunk/);
+  assert.deepEqual(state.sent.filter((s) => s.path.includes("/statuses/")).map((s) => `${s.body.context} ${s.body.state}`),
+    ["mesh/repo-check pending"]);
+  assert.equal(state.emitted.length, before + 1, "its check is asked once");
+  await assert.rejects(merge(), /already asked/);
+  state.sent = [];
+  state.statuses = [judgedAt(TRUNK)[1]];
+  assert.equal(((await merge()) as Record<string, unknown>).merged, true);
+});

modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+
+// 1790: the states the module announces are the states its manifest declares, no more, no fewer; none is readable
+// because no other module's manifest reads one of them.
+test("the states the module announces are the states its manifest declares", async () => {
+  const { KEPT } = await import("../kept.ts");
+  const manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(new URL("../module.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
+  const declared = (manifest.state as (string | { name: string })[]).map((s) => (typeof s === "string" ? s : s.name)).sort();
+  assert.deepEqual(KEPT.map((k) => k.name).sort(), declared);
+  assert.ok(KEPT.every((k) => !k.readable), "no other module's manifest reads a state of gitea");
+});
+
+test("the announcement has the layout mesh-sdk's go/announce reads: version 1, the module, the node, the states sorted by name", async () => {
+  const { statesAnnouncement } = await import("../kept.ts");
+  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", "ace"), { v: 1, module: "gitea", node: "ace", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound" }] });
+  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", undefined), { v: 1, module: "gitea", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound" }] });
+});
+
+test("index.ts says the announcement as the event `states` before the tools are served", () => {
+  const source = readFileSync(new URL("../index.ts", import.meta.url), "utf8");
+  assert.match(source, /await emit\("states", statesAnnouncement\(/);
+  assert.ok(source.indexOf('await emit("states"') < source.indexOf('registerModuleTools("gitea"'), "announced before the tools are served");
+});

modules/gitea/test/pulls.test.ts

@@ -192,3 +192,27 @@ test("a member's own verdict with a composed gate layer leaves the gate to the c
   // A verdict with an ordinary gate is as before.
   assert.equal(composedGate({ ...c, gate: { verdict: "pass", summary: "x" } }), false);
 });
+
+// Issue 1301 (ADR 0503 §3, §5): gitea writes the controller's statuses only where the base still requires them. hq's main
+// requires mesh/repo-check alone: its verdict sets mesh/repo-check and no mesh/merge-gate, and its comment names no gate.
+test("a base's required statuses decide which of the controller's statuses are written", async () => {
+  const { maintained, writesGate, statusesFor, commentFor, CHECK_STATUS } = await import("../pulls.ts");
+  assert.equal(CHECK_STATUS, "mesh/check");
+  assert.deepEqual(maintained(undefined), ["mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"], "a rule not read: as before");
+  assert.deepEqual(maintained(["mesh/repo-check"]), ["mesh/repo-check"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(maintained(["mesh/check", "other/x"]), []);
+  assert.deepEqual(maintained([]), []);
+  assert.equal(writesGate(undefined), true);
+  assert.equal(writesGate(["mesh/repo-check"]), false);
+  assert.equal(writesGate(["mesh/check"]), false);
+  assert.equal(writesGate(["mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"]), true);
+  const c = { owner: "novox", repo: "hq", number: 5, commit: "a".repeat(40), id: "x", verdict: "warning", summary: "no script",
+    trunk: "b".repeat(12), "repo-check": { verdict: "pass", summary: "ok" } } as any;
+  const hq = statusesFor(c, {}, undefined, ["mesh/repo-check"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(hq.map((s: any) => s.context), ["mesh/repo-check"]);
+  assert.match(hq[0].description, /merged into trunk bbbbbbbbbbbb/);
+  assert.deepEqual(statusesFor(c).map((s: any) => s.context), ["mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"], "unread: as before");
+  assert.deepEqual(statusesFor(c, {}, undefined, ["mesh/check"]), []);
+  const comment = commentFor(c, {}, ["mesh/repo-check"]);
+  assert.ok(comment === null || !comment.includes("mesh/merge-gate"), comment ?? "");
+});

modules/gitea/test/trunk.test.ts

@@ -199,3 +199,21 @@ test("a release branch's move puts every open pull request into it out of date,
   assert.equal(verdictAtTrunk({ "mesh/merge-gate": { state: "success",
     description: "head x merged into trunk eeeeeeeeeeee — pass" } }, MOVED).current, false);
 });
+
+// Issue 1301: a trunk's move puts out of date only the controller's statuses the base still requires; on hq that is
+// mesh/repo-check alone, judged by its own words; on a main requiring mesh/check, none (the checker's, ADR 0447 §4).
+test("a trunk's move writes only the statuses the base still requires", async () => {
+  const { outOfDateStatuses, trunkNamed } = await import("../trunk.ts");
+  const old = "1".repeat(40), now = "2".repeat(40);
+  const repo = { state: "success", description: `head ${"a".repeat(12)} merged into trunk ${old.slice(0, 12)} — pass: y` };
+  const gate = { state: "success", description: `head ${"a".repeat(12)} merged into trunk ${old.slice(0, 12)} — pass: x` };
+  assert.deepEqual(outOfDateStatuses({ "mesh/repo-check": repo }, now, ["mesh/repo-check"]).map((s: any) => s.context), ["mesh/repo-check"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(outOfDateStatuses({ "mesh/merge-gate": gate, "mesh/repo-check": repo }, now, ["mesh/repo-check"]).map((s: any) => s.context),
+    ["mesh/repo-check"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(outOfDateStatuses({ "mesh/merge-gate": gate, "mesh/repo-check": repo }, now, ["mesh/check"]), []);
+  assert.deepEqual(outOfDateStatuses({ "mesh/merge-gate": gate, "mesh/repo-check": repo }, now).map((s: any) => s.context),
+    ["mesh/merge-gate", "mesh/repo-check"], "a rule not read: as before");
+  // The checker's line names its trunk as "<head12> on <trunk12>".
+  assert.equal(trunkNamed(`pass ${"a".repeat(12)} on ${old.slice(0, 12)} | unit 3 run`), old.slice(0, 12));
+  assert.equal(trunkNamed("building on shanks since 10:00"), undefined);
+});

modules/gitea/test/webhook.test.ts

@@ -350,3 +350,14 @@ test("a pull request's edit event carries its description, and no other pull req
     assert.equal(eventOf("pull_request", { action, pull_request: pull, repository }).body.body, undefined, action);
   }
 });
+
+// Issue 1302: a status event carries the status's words, so the delivery gate reads mesh/check's line (the head and the trunk
+// it judged) from the event itself.
+test("a status event carries its context, state and words", async () => {
+  const { eventOf } = await import("../webhook.ts");
+  const e = eventOf("status", { sha: "a".repeat(40), context: "mesh/check", state: "success",
+    description: "pass aaaaaaaaaaaa on bbbbbbbbbbbb | unit 3 run, 0 kept", repository: { name: "x", owner: { login: "novox" } } });
+  assert.equal(e.name, "forge.status");
+  assert.equal((e.body as any).context, "mesh/check");
+  assert.equal((e.body as any).description, "pass aaaaaaaaaaaa on bbbbbbbbbbbb | unit 3 run, 0 kept");
+});

modules/gitea/tools/index.ts

@@ -60,6 +60,22 @@ function namesChecked(tools: ToolDefinition[]): ToolDefinition[] {
   }));
 }
 
+/** The `paths` argument of gitea_commit_trees: {directory: [path relative to it]}, each path plain (no empty, `.` or `..`
+ *  segment, not absolute); anything else is refused before the forge is asked. Absent is absent. */
+function namedPaths(raw: unknown): Record<string, string[]> | undefined {
+  if (raw === undefined || raw === null) return undefined;
+  if (typeof raw !== "object" || Array.isArray(raw)) throw new Error("paths is {directory: [path, ...]}");
+  const out: Record<string, string[]> = {};
+  for (const [dir, list] of Object.entries(raw as Record<string, unknown>)) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(list) || list.some((p) => typeof p !== "string")) throw new Error(`paths of ${dir || "the root"} is a list of paths`);
+    for (const p of list as string[]) {
+      if (p === "" || p.split("/").some((seg) => seg === "" || seg === "." || seg === "..")) throw new Error(`paths: ${JSON.stringify(p)} of ${dir || "the root"} is not a plain relative path`);
+    }
+    out[dir] = list as string[];
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 export function getGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefinition[] {
   return namesChecked(allGiteaTools(gitea, admin));
 }
@@ -395,7 +411,7 @@ function allGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefini
     // ---- Branch protection (novox/hq ADR 0237) ----
     {
       name: "gitea_branch_protection_get",
-      description: "A repository's branch protection: the rule for one branch (null when it has none) or every rule — whether direct pushes are refused, which commit statuses a pull request must have succeeded to merge (e.g. mesh/merge-gate), approvals, and whether an administrator may merge past them.",
+      description: "A repository's branch protection: the rule for one branch (null when it has none) or every rule — whether direct pushes are refused, which commit statuses a pull request must have succeeded to merge (e.g. mesh/check), approvals, and whether an administrator may merge past them.",
       input: {
         owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
         repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
@@ -413,12 +429,12 @@ function allGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefini
     },
     {
       name: "gitea_branch_protection_set",
-      description: "Only ever stronger (novox/hq ADR 0266): a change that drops a required status, lets a person push directly or lets an administrator merge past a status is refused, and on main so is a change that drops the merge whitelist (only mesh-tools merges there) or widens it (novox/hq ADR 0398 §2, issue 948) — that is the operator's, at the forge. Make a branch require commit statuses before a pull request merges into it — the mesh's merge check sets `mesh/merge-gate` (the module graph's gate) and `mesh/repo-check` (the repository's own tests). Edits the branch's rule (its required statuses replaced by these, everything else kept unless given) or creates one, which refuses direct pushes unless push=true. Answers the rule before and after.",
+      description: "Only ever stronger (novox/hq ADR 0266): a change that drops a required status, lets a person push directly or lets an administrator merge past a status is refused, and on main so is a change that drops the merge whitelist (only mesh-tools merges there) or widens it (novox/hq ADR 0398 §2, issue 948) — that is the operator's, at the forge. Make a branch require commit statuses before a pull request merges into it — the mesh's checker sets `mesh/check` (ADR 0447), and the repositories program requires it on every main. Edits the branch's rule (its required statuses replaced by these, everything else kept unless given) or creates one, which refuses direct pushes unless push=true. Answers the rule before and after.",
       input: {
         owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
         repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
         branch: { type: "string", description: "the branch to protect, e.g. main" },
-        status_checks: { type: "string", description: "comma-separated statuses required to merge, e.g. mesh/merge-gate,mesh/repo-check; empty requires none" },
+        status_checks: { type: "string", description: "comma-separated statuses required to merge, e.g. mesh/check; empty requires none" },
         push: { type: "boolean", description: "whether a person may push to the branch directly (a new rule refuses it when not given)" },
         block_admin_override: { type: "boolean", description: "stop an administrator merging past a status that has not succeeded (left as it is when not given)" },
       },
@@ -478,7 +494,7 @@ function allGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefini
     },
     {
       name: "gitea_commit_statuses",
-      description: "Read a commit's statuses — or a pull request's head's — as the forge keeps them: the newest of each context (mesh/merge-gate, mesh/repo-check, mesh/delivery, …) with its state, description, link, when it was set and by whom; and whether the branch it merges into would let it merge, every status that branch's protection requires being a success. Reads only.",
+      description: "Read a commit's statuses — or a pull request's head's — as the forge keeps them: the newest of each context (mesh/check, mesh/delivery, …) with its state, description, link, when it was set and by whom; and whether the branch it merges into would let it merge, every status that branch's protection requires being a success. Reads only.",
       input: {
         owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
         repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
@@ -525,18 +541,19 @@ function allGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefini
     },
     {
       name: "gitea_commit_trees",
-      description: "A commit's trees from the forge's one recursive listing: the root tree, and the tree of every directory that holds a module.json (the root as an empty name), each by its git hash. What the forge bridge puts in a merge's message (novox/hq ADR 0437 §5). The commit is a full 40-hex sha. A listing the forge cut is refused, never answered in part. Reads only.",
+      description: "A commit's trees from the forge's one recursive listing: the root tree, and the tree of every directory that holds a module.json (the root as an empty name), each by its git hash. What the forge bridge puts in a merge's message (novox/hq ADR 0437 §5). With paths, {directory: [path relative to it]}, the answer also carries paths, {directory: {path: git object id}} of each named file or directory at the commit (novox/hq ADR 0499 §3); a path the commit lacks fails naming the directory and the path. The commit is a full 40-hex sha. A listing the forge cut is refused, never answered in part. Reads only.",
       input: {
         owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
         repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
         sha: { type: "string", description: "the commit, its full 40-hex sha" },
+        paths: { type: "object", description: "optional, {directory: [path relative to it]}: the git object id of each named file or directory is answered under paths; the root directory is the empty name" },
       },
       run: async (args) => {
         const owner = String(args.owner ?? "").trim(), repo = String(args.repo ?? "").trim();
         const sha = String(args.sha ?? "").trim();
         if (!owner || !repo) throw new Error("name the repository: owner and repo");
         if (!/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/i.test(sha)) throw new Error("sha is a commit's full 40-hex sha");
-        return gitea.commitTrees(owner, repo, sha);
+        return gitea.commitTrees(owner, repo, sha, namedPaths(args.paths));
       },
     },
     {

modules/gitea/trunk.ts

@@ -12,12 +12,17 @@
 //     the moment it is asked, merges nothing when they differ, asks the head's check once — the same announcement a
 //     new head makes — and says how long the last check of that repository took. It never merges by itself after.
 //
+// Since issue 1301 (ADR 0447 §4) a main that requires mesh/check is the checker's: its line names the trunk commit it judged
+// ("pass <head12> on <trunk12>"), the checker sets it out of date when the trunk moves, and the merge tool refuses a verdict
+// of another trunk and asks nothing. The two statuses above are kept only where a base still requires them (hq's
+// mesh/repo-check, pulls.ts maintained).
+//
 // Pure functions and two small files of the module's own state, so this is tested without a forge.
 
 import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, renameSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { dirname } from "node:path";
 import type { CommitStatus, GiteaClient, GiteaPull, HeadCheck } from "./client.js";
-import { CHECK_CONTEXT, REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT, WAITS_FOR_COMPOSED } from "./pulls.js";
+import { CHECK_CONTEXT, WAITS_FOR_COMPOSED, maintained, requiredOf } from "./pulls.js";
 
 /** A commit as a verdict names it: its first twelve characters. */
 export function twelve(sha: string | undefined): string {
@@ -40,7 +45,9 @@ export function judgedWords(head: string, trunk: string): string {
  *  verdict put out of date, the one it had judged ("judged against trunk …"). Undefined when it names none, as a
  *  verdict of a build seat from before ADR 0323 does. */
 export function trunkNamed(description: string | undefined): string | undefined {
-  const m = /(?:merged into|judged against) trunk ([0-9a-f]{7,64})\b/i.exec(description ?? "");
+  const m = /(?:merged into|judged against) trunk ([0-9a-f]{7,64})\b/i.exec(description ?? "")
+    // The checker's mesh/check line (ADR 0447 §3): "<head12> on <trunk12>".
+    ?? /\b[0-9a-f]{12} on ([0-9a-f]{12})\b/i.exec(description ?? "");
   return m ? m[1].toLowerCase() : undefined;
 }
 
@@ -70,15 +77,15 @@ export function waitsForComposed(gate: HeadCheck | undefined): boolean {
  * gate, and the repository's own check when the head has one — a pending repo-check a verdict will not set would
  * stand for ever (novox/hq issue 305's rule).
  */
-export function outOfDateStatuses(checks: Record<string, HeadCheck>, trunkHead: string): CommitStatus[] {
-  const gate = checks[CHECK_CONTEXT];
-  if (!gate || gate.state === "pending") return [];
-  const judged = trunkNamed(gate.description);
+export function outOfDateStatuses(checks: Record<string, HeadCheck>, trunkHead: string, required?: string[]): CommitStatus[] {
+  // Only the statuses the base still requires (issue 1301): the first of them the head holds judges.
+  const kept = maintained(required).filter((c) => checks[c]);
+  const judge = kept.length ? checks[kept[0]] : undefined;
+  if (!judge || judge.state === "pending") return [];
+  const judged = trunkNamed(judge.description);
   if (judged && sameCommit(judged, trunkHead)) return [];
   const description = outOfDateWords(judged, trunkHead);
-  const out: CommitStatus[] = [{ state: "pending", context: CHECK_CONTEXT, description }];
-  if (checks[REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT]) out.push({ state: "pending", context: REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT, description });
-  return out;
+  return kept.map((context) => ({ state: "pending" as const, context, description }));
 }
 
 /** Where the merge tool stands with a head's verdict and the trunk's head (ADR 0323 §5). */
@@ -91,8 +98,8 @@ export interface VerdictAtTrunk {
   judged?: string;
 }
 
-export function verdictAtTrunk(checks: Record<string, HeadCheck>, trunkHead: string): VerdictAtTrunk {
-  const gate = checks[CHECK_CONTEXT];
+export function verdictAtTrunk(checks: Record<string, HeadCheck>, trunkHead: string, context = CHECK_CONTEXT): VerdictAtTrunk {
+  const gate = checks[context];
   const judged = trunkNamed(gate?.description);
   if (checkOnItsWay(gate)) return { current: false, onItsWay: true, judged };
   return { current: !!gate && gate.state !== "pending" && !!judged && sameCommit(judged, trunkHead), onItsWay: false, judged };
@@ -119,6 +126,9 @@ export function lateVerdictComment(c: { commit: string; trunk?: string; verdict:
 export interface TrunkForge {
   listOpenPulls(owner: string, repo: string): Promise<GiteaPull[]>;
   branchHead(owner: string, repo: string, branch: string): Promise<string>;
+  /** The rule the forge applies to a branch: which of the controller's statuses are kept there (issue 1301). Not given,
+   *  or not read: both, as before. */
+  appliedProtection?(owner: string, repo: string, branch: string): Promise<{ enable_status_check?: boolean; status_check_contexts?: string[] } | null>;
 }
 
 /** What it writes with: the merge check's one writer (gate.ts), which decides in the head's own turn. */
@@ -147,11 +157,13 @@ export async function weighTrunks(forge: TrunkForge, gates: OutOfDateWriter, tru
       if (before && sameCommit(before, head)) continue;
       if (before) {
         let put = 0;
+        const required = forge.appliedProtection
+          ? requiredOf(await forge.appliedProtection(owner, name, base).catch(() => undefined)) : undefined;
         for (const pull of open.filter((p) => p.base === base)) {
           // The trunk is read again in the head's own turn: a verdict judged against a head newer than the pass's first
           // read — the trunk moved again meanwhile, and a check answered — is not put out of date.
           const written = await gates.outOfDate(owner, name, String(pull.head_sha),
-            async (checks) => outOfDateStatuses(checks, await forge.branchHead(owner, name, base)), pull.html_url || undefined);
+            async (checks) => outOfDateStatuses(checks, await forge.branchHead(owner, name, base), required), pull.html_url || undefined);
           if (written.length) put++;
         }
         console.log(`[gitea] ${owner}/${name}'s ${base} moved from ${twelve(before)} to ${twelve(head)}: ${put} open pull ` +

modules/gitea/webhook.ts

@@ -127,7 +127,9 @@ function forgeEventOf(said: string, payload: any): ForgeEvent {
     return { name: kind, body: { ...base, ref: str(payload.ref), ref_type: str(payload.ref_type), sha: str(payload.sha) } };
   }
   if (kind === "status") {
-    return { name: "status", body: { ...base, sha: str(payload.sha), context: str(payload.context), state: str(payload.state) } };
+    // Its words too (issue 1302): mesh/check's line names the head and the trunk it judged, which the delivery gate reads.
+    return { name: "status", body: { ...base, sha: str(payload.sha), context: str(payload.context), state: str(payload.state),
+      description: str(payload.description) } };
   }
   const name = family === "other" ? `other.${kind.replace(/[^a-z0-9_-]/gi, "_") || "unknown"}` :
     ["fork"].includes(family) ? family : `${family}.${action ?? "changed"}`;

modules/i3/cmd/i3-tools/manifest_test.go

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -204,41 +203,37 @@ func TestTheLoginManagersEntryRunsTheSessionsStart(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Every module of the catalogue that contributes window-manager lines (novox/hq ADR 0212) is placed in
-// the main file as the controller places them — in module order, each module's under a line naming it
-// — and loaded as i3 would load them on a machine with all of them assigned: no two bind one key, and
-// every line parses.
+// The window-manager lines the catalogue's modules contribute to the main file (novox/hq ADR 0212) are kept in
+// testdata/window-manager-lines.json, one entry per contributing module in module order, as the controller places
+// them. The test reads that file, never the other modules' manifests: a module may not read a manifest (ADR 0495
+// §1), and a test that reads its siblings' fails wherever they are not beside it (issue 1814). The main file and
+// those lines are placed together — each module's under a line naming it — and loaded as i3 would load them on a
+// machine with all of them assigned: no two bind one key, and every line parses.
 func TestTheMainFileAndEveryModulesContributionLoadTogether(t *testing.T) {
 	i3, err := exec.LookPath("i3")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Skip("no i3 here to check with")
 	}
 	dir := t.TempDir()
-	manifests, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "*", "module.json"))
-	sort.Strings(manifests)
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("testdata", "window-manager-lines.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var contributions []struct {
+		Module  string   `json:"module"`
+		Content []string `json:"content"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &contributions); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	var placed strings.Builder
 	var found []string
-	for _, p := range manifests {
-		raw, _ := os.ReadFile(p)
-		var m struct {
-			Module        string `json:"module"`
-			Contributions []struct {
-				Seat, Kind, Content string
-			} `json:"contributions"`
-		}
-		json.Unmarshal(raw, &m)
-		named := false
-		for _, c := range m.Contributions {
-			if c.Seat != "node-display-session" || c.Kind != "config" {
-				continue
-			}
-			if !named {
-				placed.WriteString("# " + m.Module + "\n")
-				named = true
-				found = append(found, m.Module)
-			}
-			placed.WriteString(c.Content)
-			if !strings.HasSuffix(c.Content, "\n") {
+	for _, c := range contributions {
+		placed.WriteString("# " + c.Module + "\n")
+		found = append(found, c.Module)
+		for _, content := range c.Content {
+			placed.WriteString(content)
+			if !strings.HasSuffix(content, "\n") {
 				placed.WriteString("\n")
 			}
 		}

modules/i3/cmd/i3-tools/testdata/window-manager-lines.json

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+[
+  {
+    "module": "asus-zephyrus-g14",
+    "content": [
+      "# The laptop's own lines in i3 (module asus-zephyrus-g14, novox/hq ADR 0208, ADR 0210). Owned by the\n# mesh: replaced at every push. Once the controller places contributions to node-display-session\n# (ADR 0210), these become the module's contribution instead of a file in i3's directory.\n#\n# The keys the firmware turns into ordinary key presses. The vendor keys that reach no X client are\n# triggerhappy's (/etc/triggerhappy/triggers.d/asus-g14.conf): M4 and Fn+F4/F5 for media, Fn+F7/F8 for\n# the panel, Fn+F10 for the touchpad. The keyboard backlight (Fn+F2/F3) is the firmware's and asusd's.\n\n# Fn+F6, the screenshot key: the firmware sends Super+Shift+S. Released before it runs, because the\n# screenshot grabs the pointer to select a region, which fails while the key is still held.\nbindsym --release $mod+Shift+s exec --no-startup-id $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/i3/scripts/screenshot.sh\n\n# Fn+F9, the display key: the firmware sends Super+P. Odd workspaces to the panel, even ones to the\n# external output.\nbindsym $mod+p exec --no-startup-id /usr/local/lib/example-laptop/bin/zephyrus-display order\n\n# The keyboard backlight's level, shown when it changes.\nexec --no-startup-id /usr/local/lib/example-laptop/bin/zephyrus-kbd-notify\n# The laptop's own lines in i3 (module asus-zephyrus-g14, novox/hq ADR 0208, ADR 0210). Owned by the\n# mesh: replaced at every push. Once the controller places contributions to node-display-session\n# (ADR 0210), these become the module's contribution instead of a file in i3's directory.\n#\n# The model's panel and touchpad.\n\n# The internal panel is the primary output, where the bars' tray goes. Which monitors are on and where\n# is the display server's (autorandr, run at every session start).\nexec --no-startup-id /usr/local/lib/example-laptop/bin/zephyrus-display primary\n\n# The touchpad's settings again, by hand. X applies them itself whenever the device appears.\nbindsym $mod+Shift+x exec --no-startup-id /usr/local/lib/example-laptop/bin/zephyrus-touchpad reset\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "clipmenu",
+    "content": [
+      "# The clipboard's history key (module clipmenu, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at\n# every push. clipmenu shows the history through `dmenu`, the node's dmenu-compatible command, which\n# the holder of node-launcher answers (rofi on the workstations); the chosen entry is put back on the\n# clipboard.\nbindsym $mod+period exec --no-startup-id clipmenu -p Clipboard\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "dunst",
+    "content": [
+      "# The notifications' key (module dunst, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.\n# Super+N opens the menu (rofi) of the actions and links of every notification on screen, so one is\n# chosen from the keyboard as a tap chooses it on the notification.\nbindsym $mod+n exec --no-startup-id dunstctl context\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "feh",
+    "content": [
+      "# The wallpaper's key (module feh, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.\n# It puts the declared wallpaper back, after a monitor change or a wallpaper set for the session.\nbindsym $mod+Shift+b exec --no-startup-id ~/.fehbg\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "i3status-rust",
+    "content": [
+      "# The bars (module i3status-rust, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.\n# i3 reads this file through its configuration's `include ~/.config/i3/config.d/*.conf`. The bottom\n# bar shows the machine; the top bar the focused window and the tray, on the primary output. The\n# face is the monospace one every desktop module names.\nbar {\n        font pango:JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 11\n        position bottom\n        status_command i3status-rs ~/.config/i3status-rust/bottom-bar.toml\n        tray_output none\n        colors {\n                separator #ffffff\n                background #000000\n                statusline #ffffff\n                # The text on an accent-coloured button is dark: light text on the accent was barely\n                # legible.\n                focused_workspace #de5200 #de5200 #000000\n                active_workspace #de5200 #de5200 #000000\n                inactive_workspace #000000 #000000 #ffffff\n                urgent_workspace #2f343a #900000 #ffffff\n        }\n}\n\nbar {\n        font pango:JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 11\n        position top\n        status_command i3status-rs ~/.config/i3status-rust/top-bar.toml\n        workspace_buttons no\n        tray_output primary\n        colors {\n                separator #ffffff\n                background #000000\n                statusline #ffffff\n        }\n}\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "polychromatic",
+    "content": [
+      "# The Razer peripherals' tray (module polychromatic, novox/hq ADR 0208, ADR 0212). Owned by the mesh:\n# replaced at every push. This line is the tray's one start, at the session's start (exec, not\n# exec_always, so a reload starts nothing). The package's own login helper starts it too while the\n# application's setting \"Start the tray applet when I log on\" is ticked; polychromatic_check names\n# that as a second start.\nexec --no-startup-id polychromatic-tray-applet\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "rofi",
+    "content": [
+      "# The launcher's key bindings (module rofi, novox/hq ADR 0208). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every\n# push. i3 reads this file through its configuration's `include ~/.config/i3/config.d/*.conf`, after\n# the variables it sets, so $mod is i3's.\nbindsym $mod+d exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/rofi-launch drun\nbindsym $mod+t exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/rofi-launch run\nbindsym $mod+Shift+t exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/rofi-launch sudo\nbindsym $mod+Shift+w exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/rofi-launch window\nbindsym $mod+Escape exec --no-startup-id ~/.local/bin/rofi-powermenu\n"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "module": "slack",
+    "content": [
+      "# Slack (module slack, novox/hq ADR 0208, ADR 0212). Owned by the mesh: replaced at every push.\n# Its one start: at login, to the tray (-s), with the arguments of the package's own desktop entry.\n# No XDG autostart entry starts it as well; slack_check names one if it appears.\nexec --no-startup-id /usr/bin/slack --gtk-version=3 -s\n# The chat window. Slack owns four X windows, and the only one i3 manages has the class \"slack\" in\n# lower case; the three of class \"Slack\" (the packaged entry's StartupWMClass) are its unmanaged\n# helpers and its tray icon, so a rule on class=\"Slack\" matches nothing. window_role keeps a call or\n# screen-share window out of the rules. $ws3 is i3's, in scope here.\nfor_window [class=\"(?i)^slack$\" window_role=\"browser-window\"] move to workspace $ws3\nfor_window [class=\"(?i)^slack$\" window_role=\"browser-window\"] floating disable\nfor_window [class=\"(?i)^slack$\" window_role=\"browser-window\"] border pixel 2\n"
+    ]
+  }
+]

modules/mesh-build-go/README.md

@@ -65,14 +65,16 @@ integration-tagged test runs the real go on the fixtures.
 
 ## The integration level
 
-`build_go_test` with `level: integration` runs `go test -tags integration` against a store and a bus started for the
-run alone (novox/hq ADR 0470). The store is a postgres of the installed package: `initdb` and `pg_ctl` into
+`build_go_test` with `level: integration` runs `go test -tags integration,isolation` (isolation: the bubblewrap proofs,
+which a build node can run) against a store and a bus started for the run alone (novox/hq ADR 0470). The store is a postgres of the installed package: `initdb` and `pg_ctl` into
 `<work>/<workspace>/run-<id>/pg`, as the module's account, listening on a unix socket there and on no TCP address, with
 durability off; the tests get `MESH_TEST_POSTGRES` (the socket directory percent-encoded in the URL, because the
 controller's tests cut the URL at its last slash). The bus is a nats-server from the Go library at the version this
 module's `go.mod` names, run by this same binary started as `mesh-build-go bus <dir>` (`bus.go`: JetStream on, a
 loopback port of its own, its address on the first line, stopped when its input closes); the tests get `MESH_TEST_NATS`.
-Both run inside the step, are stopped, and the run's directory is removed whatever the tests did.
+Both run inside the step, are stopped, and the run's directory is removed whatever the tests did. The store, the bus and
+the tests run together in one bubblewrap (ADR 0448, issue 1309): this binary again as `mesh-build-go level <spec>`, which
+prints the level's result as one line of JSON, so the tests reach the level's own store and bus and nothing of the machine.
 
 Setup (compiling the tests, the store, the bus) is judged within 30 s and the tests' running time (the wall time of
 `go test`) within 60 s, apart; a level over either says `over_bound` and names the bound, with the slowest tests for the running
@@ -87,7 +89,9 @@ is said until a source exists.
 one digest of everything those tests read (ADR 0445 §5): the files, by content and under their path in the tree, of the
 package and every package its test binary reaches (`go list -test -deps`) that lies in the module's own tree; the version
 and checksum of every module outside it; the package's own `testdata/` files; and the level, the build tags and, at the
-integration level, the postgres major and the nats-server version. The Go version is not in it: the toolchain enters a
+integration level, the postgres major and the nats-server version; and, when the fetch placed siblings beside the
+workspace (`beside`), each one's repository and commit, which the answer echoes as `beside` (the checker keeps a verdict only
+for the siblings it was judged with). The text's form is `DigestVersion` 3. The Go version is not in it: the toolchain enters a
 fingerprint once, as the version the build nodes agree on (ADR 0477 §3), and the standard library's packages are that
 version's. A package with no tests at the level has no digest and is named in `without_tests`. A directory that vendors
 is listed and tested from its vendor directory (`-mod=vendor`).
@@ -101,11 +105,16 @@ that vendors), `go build -ldflags "-s -w -X main.builtFor=<system>" -o .mesh-bui
 module's directory, by the installed go (`GOTOOLCHAIN=local`) from the module cache the fetch filled and no network
 (`GOPROXY=off`). The binary is named as the build agent names it. The output directory is packed with mesh-sdk's `Pack`,
 as the build agent packs; two build nodes on the same toolchain give the same digest for the same tree (ADR 0477 §6). The step ends with the artifact, the binary, the digest, the size and
-the path of the archive, which stays in the workspace's `artifacts` directory: publishing it is the builder's, in a later
-release. An artifact that is neither a Go bundle nor an archive fails the step naming it.
+the reference of the archive: once the build ended, this process pushes it to the artifact store (novox/hq ADR 0498 §1 §2,
+mesh-sdk's `buildstep.PushBlob`) under `<module>/<artifact>` by its digest, a candidate's as a trunk build's, and answers
+`artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>/blobs/<digest>`; a push that fails fails the step `not stored: <artifact>: <the
+store's words>`. The packed bytes never stay on the node. The store's address is `${dir:state}/registry`, placed by the
+manifest, which requires `artifact-store`. The go build runs shut off in bubblewrap (ADR 0448, `isolate.go`): no
+network, none of the account, the caches beneath a throwaway layer unless the step is told `publish` (a trunk build). An artifact that is neither a Go
+bundle nor an archive fails the step naming it.
 
 The same tool packs an archive artifact of any module's tree, whatever its language (ADR 0478 §1, issue 1589): the
 directory named by `from`, or a file pinned by `url` and `sha256`, packed with the same `Pack` as the build agent's `pack`
 (`testdata/captured/README` says how its digest was captured). A pinned file is fetched, checked against its sha256 (a
-mismatch fails the step naming both digests) and laid out as the artifact says (`file`, or unpacked from `within`; gzip and
-bzip2, not yet xz); it runs no command and needs no Go.
+mismatch fails the step naming both digests) and laid out as the artifact says (`file`, or unpacked from `within`; gzip, bzip2
+and xz, read in Go as the build agent reads it, issue 1590); it runs no command and needs no Go.

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/announce.go

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package main
+
+// What this module keeps on the bus, announced from its code (novox/hq ADR 0495 §2 §5; issue 1790): every state it
+// keeps, each readable by others, since another module reads each today (the builder, the checker and the indexer read toolchains; the builder and the checker read steps; gitea reads keys). A state of its own that it
+// did not name here is refused at the call (stdio.Keeps).
+
+import (
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+)
+
+// Kept are the states the module keeps.
+var Kept = []announce.State{
+	{Name: "toolchains", Readable: true},
+	{Name: "keys", Readable: true},
+	{Name: "steps", Readable: true},
+}
+
+// keepStates announces Kept as this module's (stdio.Keeps): main calls it before it serves.
+func keepStates() error { return stdio.Keeps(Kept...) }

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/announce_integration_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announcetest"
+)
+
+// 1790 (ADR 0495 §5): served as the runtime serves it, the module announces on the bus every state it keeps, as its
+// code declares them. The runtime's part, publishing what the bundle asks to publish, is played by relay.
+func TestTheModuleAnnouncesEveryStateItKeeps(t *testing.T) {
+	const module = "mesh-build-go"
+	announcetest.Check(t, module, Kept, func(url string) func() {
+		t.Setenv("MESH_MODULE", module)
+		t.Setenv("MESH_NODE", "shanks")
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(url)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := keepStates(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		inR, inW := io.Pipe()
+		outR, outW := io.Pipe()
+		go func() { _ = stdio.ServeOn(module, nil, inR, outW) }()
+		go relay(t, module, nc, outR, inW)
+		return func() { _ = inW.Close(); _ = outW.Close(); nc.Close() }
+	})
+}
+
+// relay is the runtime's side of the channel: each mesh/publish the bundle asks is published on its module's event
+// subject, mesh.mod.<module>.event.<key>, and answered.
+func relay(t *testing.T, module string, nc *nats.Conn, from io.Reader, to io.Writer) {
+	sc := bufio.NewScanner(from)
+	sc.Buffer(make([]byte, 1<<20), 1<<24)
+	enc := json.NewEncoder(to)
+	for sc.Scan() {
+		var m struct {
+			ID     json.RawMessage `json:"id"`
+			Method string          `json:"method"`
+			Params struct {
+				Key  string          `json:"key"`
+				Body json.RawMessage `json:"body"`
+			} `json:"params"`
+		}
+		if json.Unmarshal(sc.Bytes(), &m) != nil || m.Method != "mesh/publish" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := nc.Publish("mesh.mod."+module+".event."+m.Params.Key, m.Params.Body); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("publishing %s: %v", m.Params.Key, err)
+		}
+		_ = nc.Flush()
+		_ = enc.Encode(map[string]any{"id": m.ID, "result": map[string]any{}})
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/archive.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"github.com/therootcompany/xz"
 )
 
 // maxUpstream is the largest pinned file fetched and the largest it may unpack to, as the build agent's and the
@@ -42,9 +43,9 @@ func (m *Module) httpClient() *http.Client {
 
 // buildArchive packs one archive artifact of the module in dir: a pinned file when it names a url, else the directory
 // `from` of the module's tree.
-func (m *Module) buildArchive(ctx context.Context, workspace, module, dir string, art catalogue.Artifact) (any, error) {
+func (m *Module) buildArchive(ctx context.Context, workspace, module, name, dir string, art catalogue.Artifact) (any, error) {
 	if art.URL != "" {
-		return m.pinnedArchive(ctx, workspace, module, art)
+		return m.pinnedArchive(ctx, workspace, module, name, art)
 	}
 	from := strings.Trim(path.Clean("/"+filepath.ToSlash(art.From)), "/")
 	if strings.TrimSpace(art.From) == "" {
@@ -76,12 +77,12 @@ func (m *Module) buildArchive(ctx context.Context, workspace, module, dir string
 	if !within(realDir, realRoot) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the archive %s is taken from %q, which lies outside the module: it resolves to %s, and the module is %s", art.Name, art.From, realRoot, realDir)
 	}
-	return m.packInto(workspace, module, art.Name, root)
+	return m.packInto(ctx, workspace, module, name, art.Name, root)
 }
 
 // pinnedArchive fetches the file an artifact is pinned to, checks it against the pin, lays it out as the artifact says
 // (kept whole as `file`, or unpacked from `within`) and packs it.
-func (m *Module) pinnedArchive(ctx context.Context, workspace, module string, art catalogue.Artifact) (any, error) {
+func (m *Module) pinnedArchive(ctx context.Context, workspace, module, name string, art catalogue.Artifact) (any, error) {
 	file, err := m.pinnedFile(ctx, workspace, art)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", art.Name, err)
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ func (m *Module) pinnedArchive(ctx context.Context, workspace, module string, ar
 	} else if err := unpackUpstream(file, laid, art.Within); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %s (%s): %w", art.Name, art.URL, art.Version, err)
 	}
-	return m.packInto(workspace, module, art.Name, laid)
+	return m.packInto(ctx, workspace, module, name, art.Name, laid)
 }
 
 // pinnedFile is the path of the pinned file in the workspace: kept from an earlier build when its bytes are still the
@@ -190,10 +191,13 @@ func sumOf(file string) (string, error) {
 	return hex.EncodeToString(hash.Sum(nil)), nil
 }
 
-// unpackUpstream unpacks a tar archive compressed with gzip or bzip2 into a directory: of its entries only those within
-// `within` (all, when empty), with that prefix taken off. Only files and directories, and nothing outside: the
-// node-engine unpacks nothing else. An xz archive is refused by name; the build agent reads it, this module does not
-// yet (it is a later issue, not a quiet difference in the archive).
+// xzDictMax is the largest xz dictionary read (the build agent's): xz's own presets use at most 64 MiB (-9); a stream
+// asking for more is refused rather than given the memory.
+const xzDictMax = 64 << 20
+
+// unpackUpstream unpacks a tar archive compressed with gzip, bzip2 or xz into a directory: of its entries only those
+// within `within` (all, when empty), with that prefix taken off. Only files and directories, and nothing outside: the
+// node-engine unpacks nothing else.
 func unpackUpstream(file, into, within string) error {
 	f, err := os.Open(file)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -214,9 +218,22 @@ func unpackUpstream(file, into, within string) error {
 	case bytes.HasPrefix(magic, []byte("BZh")):
 		stream = bzip2.NewReader(buffered)
 	case bytes.HasPrefix(magic, []byte{0xfd, '7', 'z', 'X', 'Z', 0x00}):
-		return errors.New("it is an xz archive, which this build module does not read yet; the build agent does")
+		// As the build agent reads it (mesh-controller internal/builder/upstream_file.go; issue 1590): in Go
+		// (github.com/therootcompany/xz, a port of xz-embedded), never by a tool the node may not carry. xzDictMax is
+		// a real maximum: a block whose LZMA2 dictionary is larger is refused before its dictionary is allocated. The
+		// reader keeps a filter decoder for every block of a stream, so the file's framing is walked first and a file
+		// of more blocks than xzBlocksMax is refused before anything is decoded (xz_framing.go). What the stream
+		// unpacks to is bounded by untar (maxUpstream, maxEntries).
+		if err := xzWithinLimits(file); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		zipped, err := xz.NewReader(buffered, xzDictMax)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("it is not an xz stream this build module reads (a dictionary of %d MiB at most): %v", xzDictMax>>20, err)
+		}
+		stream = zipped
 	default:
-		return errors.New("it is not a tar archive compressed with gzip or bzip2; a single file is kept whole by naming it in `file`")
+		return errors.New("it is not a tar archive compressed with gzip, bzip2 or xz; a single file is kept whole by naming it in `file`")
 	}
 	return untar(stream, into, within)
 }

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/archive_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"compress/gzip"
 	"context"
 	"crypto/sha256"
@@ -40,16 +41,11 @@ const (
 	capturedWithGo            = "go1.27.1"
 )
 
-// sameAsBuildAgent says the archive at res.Path holds the tar stream the build agent's pack wrote, and, under the Go the
+// sameAsBuildAgent says the archive the build pushed holds the tar stream the build agent's pack wrote, and, under the Go the
 // digests were captured with, has its digest.
 func sameAsBuildAgent(t *testing.T, res BuildResult, stream, digest string) {
 	t.Helper()
-	f, err := os.Open(res.Path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	defer f.Close()
-	z, err := gzip.NewReader(f)
+	z, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(archiveOf(t, res)))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -157,8 +153,8 @@ func TestAnArchiveOfADirectoryHasTheBuildAgentsDigest(t *testing.T) {
 	if res.Artifact != "files" || res.Size == 0 || res.Binary != "" {
 		t.Errorf("result = %+v", res)
 	}
-	if info, err := os.Stat(res.Path); err != nil || info.Size() != int64(res.Size) {
-		t.Errorf("the archive at %q: %v", res.Path, err)
+	if len(archiveOf(t, res)) != res.Size {
+		t.Errorf("the archive pushed is not %d bytes", res.Size)
 	}
 	if len(*calls) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("an archive ran %d commands", len(*calls))

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/beside_digest_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// The lead's decision L5 (the checker keeps a verdict of a core repository): the fetch writes the siblings it placed
+// beside the workspace, and the digest folds each one's repository and commit into every package's digest and echoes
+// them, so a verdict is kept only for the siblings it was judged with.
+func TestTheSiblingsCommitsAreInEveryDigestAndEchoed(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	m, _ := digestFixture(t)
+	alone := digests(t, m, "unit")
+	if len(alone.Beside) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a workspace without siblings echoes %v", alone.Beside)
+	}
+	write := func(placed []Sibling) {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(placed)
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", besideRecord), raw, 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	other := strings.Repeat("b", 40)
+	write([]Sibling{{Repository: "novox/mesh-sdk", Commit: commitSHA, Dir: "mesh-sdk"}, {Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: commitSHA, Dir: "mesh-catalog"}})
+	with := digests(t, m, "unit")
+	want := []string{"novox/mesh-catalog " + commitSHA, "novox/mesh-sdk " + commitSHA}
+	if !slices.Equal(with.Beside, want) {
+		t.Errorf("echoed %v, want %v", with.Beside, want)
+	}
+	write([]Sibling{{Repository: "novox/mesh-sdk", Commit: other, Dir: "mesh-sdk"}, {Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Commit: commitSHA, Dir: "mesh-catalog"}})
+	moved := digests(t, m, "unit")
+	for p, d := range alone.Packages {
+		if with.Packages[p] == d {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the siblings left the digest as it was without them", p)
+		}
+		if moved.Packages[p] == with.Packages[p] {
+			t.Errorf("%s: a sibling's new commit left the digest as it was", p)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The fetch writes the siblings it placed, which the digest reads.
+func TestTheFetchRecordsTheSiblingsItPlaced(t *testing.T) {
+	f := &fakeStep{gomods: "go.mod\n"}
+	m, states := fetchModule(t, f)
+	args := map[string]any{"repository": "novox/mesh-controller", "commit": commitSHA, "beside": []any{
+		map[string]any{"repository": "novox/mesh-sdk", "commit": commitSHA}}}
+	if _, err := fetchTool(t, m)(args); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	st := states.waitEnd(t)
+	var res FetchResult
+	json.Unmarshal(st.Result, &res)
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the step ended %s: %s", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(m.Work, res.Workspace, besideRecord))
+	var placed []Sibling
+	if err != nil || json.Unmarshal(raw, &placed) != nil || len(placed) != 1 || placed[0].Repository != "novox/mesh-sdk" || placed[0].Commit != commitSHA {
+		t.Errorf("the record is %s (%v)", raw, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// The checker's agreement: the integration level runs and digests under the tags integration and isolation, so the
+// bubblewrap proofs tagged isolation run in every check on a build node.
+func TestTheIntegrationLevelDigestsUnderBothTags(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	m, _ := digestFixture(t)
+	var seen []shutOff
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, m.Run, &seen)
+	digests(t, m, LevelIntegration)
+	for _, s := range seen {
+		if !strings.Contains(s.command, " -tags integration,isolation ") {
+			t.Errorf("the integration digest listed %q", s.command)
+		}
+	}
+	if DigestVersion != "3" {
+		t.Errorf("the digest's form changed in kind and is still version %s", DigestVersion)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/build.go

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package main
 // The build step (novox/hq ADR 0405 §3 §7, ADR 0453 §7; issue 1487): a Go bundle artifact of a module of a fetched
 // workspace, built with today's recipe — the build agent's, mesh-controller's internal/builder/toolchain.go (the Go
 // entry) and builder.go (compile, binaryName, pack) — by the installed Go and no network, packed with mesh-sdk's Pack
-// so that its digest is the build agent's for the same tree. The archive is left in the workspace; publishing it is
-// the builder's, in a later release.
+// so that its digest is the build agent's for the same tree, and pushed to the artifact store by this process once the
+// build ended (ADR 0498 §1 §2, push.go).
 
 import (
 	"context"
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
 // The Go recipe of the build agent (toolchain.go, the entry of language go): static, trimmed of its own paths and of
@@ -33,8 +34,9 @@ type BuildResult struct {
 	Binary   string `json:"binary"`
 	Digest   string `json:"digest"`
 	Size     int    `json:"size"`
-	// Path is the archive, in the workspace's directory of the work directory.
-	Path string `json:"path"`
+	// Reference is where the archive is in the artifact store (novox/hq ADR 0498 §1):
+	// artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>/blobs/<digest>.
+	Reference string `json:"reference"`
 }
 
 func (m *Module) buildTool() StepTool {
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@ func (m *Module) buildTool() StepTool {
 				"workspace": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the workspace id build_go_fetch answered"},
 				"module":    map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the module's directory in the workspace, . for the repository's root"},
 				"artifact":  map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the artifact's name in the module's manifest"},
+				"publish":   map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "true for a merged trunk commit alone: the build writes the shared Go caches; without it (a candidate) they are read beneath a throwaway layer"},
 			},
 			"required": []string{"workspace", "module", "artifact"},
 		},
@@ -76,6 +79,7 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	workspace, _ := args["workspace"].(string)
 	module, _ := args["module"].(string)
 	name, _ := args["artifact"].(string)
+	publish, _ := args["publish"].(bool)
 	if !workspaceOK.MatchString(workspace) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a workspace id", workspace)
 	}
@@ -88,7 +92,7 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no module in %q of workspace %s: %w", module, workspace, err)
 	}
-	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
+	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifestForInputs(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the manifest in %q: %w", module, err)
 	}
@@ -106,7 +110,7 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the module %s has no artifact %q (it has %s)", manifest.Module, name, strings.Join(names, ", "))
 	}
 	if art.Kind == "archive" {
-		return m.buildArchive(ctx, workspace, module, dir, *art)
+		return m.buildArchive(ctx, workspace, module, manifest.Module, dir, *art)
 	}
 	if art.Kind != "bundle" || art.Language != "go" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the artifact %s of %s is a %s of language %q: this module builds Go bundles and archives", name, manifest.Module, art.Kind, art.Language)
@@ -133,13 +137,19 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 		linker += " -X " + recipeSystemStamp + "=" + system
 	}
 	cmd := []string{"-C", dir, "build", "-ldflags", linker, "-o", filepath.Join(out, binary), "./" + strings.Trim(art.From, "./")}
-	if r := m.Run(ctx, m.buildEnv(dir), "go", cmd...); r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
+	// Shut off (ADR 0448): the shared caches are written by a trunk build alone (publish), a candidate's go build writes
+	// beneath a throwaway layer.
+	run, err := m.stepRunner(workspace, publish)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if r := run(ctx, m.buildEnv(dir), "go", cmd...); r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("go build of %s: %s", art.Name, causeLine(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr+"\n"+r.Stdout))
 	}
 	if err := m.insideModule(workspace, dir, out); err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the output directory of %s: %w", art.Name, err)
 	}
-	res, err := m.packInto(workspace, module, art.Name, out)
+	res, err := m.packInto(ctx, workspace, module, manifest.Module, art.Name, out)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -147,22 +157,20 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	return res, nil
 }
 
-// packInto packs a directory with mesh-sdk's Pack, as the build agent packs every artifact, and leaves the archive in
-// the workspace's artifacts directory.
-func (m *Module) packInto(workspace, module, artifact, root string) (BuildResult, error) {
+// packInto packs a directory with mesh-sdk's Pack, as the build agent packs every artifact, and pushes the archive to
+// the artifact store from this process, after the build step ended (novox/hq ADR 0498 §1 §2): a candidate's as a trunk
+// build's, under <module>/<artifact> by its digest. The step answers the reference; a push that fails fails the step
+// `not stored:`. The packed bytes never stay on the node: they are held in this process until the push answered (the
+// lead's decision L9).
+func (m *Module) packInto(ctx context.Context, workspace, module, name, artifact, root string) (BuildResult, error) {
 	archive, digest, err := buildstep.Pack(root)
 	if err != nil {
 		return BuildResult{}, fmt.Errorf("packing %s: %w", artifact, err)
 	}
-	artifacts := filepath.Join(m.Work, workspace, "artifacts")
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(artifacts, 0o700); err != nil {
-		return BuildResult{}, err
+	if err := m.push(ctx, name+"/"+artifact, digest, archive); err != nil {
+		return BuildResult{}, fmt.Errorf("%s%s: %v", delivery.NotStored, artifact, err)
 	}
-	path := filepath.Join(artifacts, strings.ReplaceAll(module, "/", "_")+"."+artifact+".tar.gz")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, archive, 0o600); err != nil {
-		return BuildResult{}, err
-	}
-	return BuildResult{Artifact: artifact, Digest: digest, Size: len(archive), Path: path}, nil
+	return BuildResult{Artifact: artifact, Digest: digest, Size: len(archive), Reference: buildstep.BlobReference(name, artifact, digest)}, nil
 }
 
 // buildEnv is the environment of the compile: the build agent's (CGO_ENABLED=0, GOFLAGS) with the installed go

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/build_test.go

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ func buildModule(t *testing.T, manifest, content string) (*Module, *keptStates,
 	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "module.json"), []byte(manifest), 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	m.Run = func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
 		*calls = append(*calls, cmdRecord{env: env, line: name + " " + strings.Join(args, " ")})
 		for i, a := range args {
 			if a == "-o" {
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ func buildModule(t *testing.T, manifest, content string) (*Module, *keptStates,
 			}
 		}
 		return forgekey.Ran{}
-	}
+	}, &[]shutOff{}) // the compile runs shut off (1309)
+	withStore(t, m) // the archive is pushed to a store of the test's own (ADR 0498)
 	return m, states, calls
 }
 
@@ -143,13 +144,10 @@ func TestTheArchiveHoldsOneExecutableAndTwoBuildsAreOneDigest(t *testing.T) {
 	m, states, _ := buildModule(t, manifestWith(goBundle), "the program")
 	first, _ := runBuild(t, m, states, "tools")
 	second, _ := runBuild(t, m, states, "tools")
-	if first.Digest != second.Digest || first.Path != second.Path {
+	if first.Digest != second.Digest || first.Reference != second.Reference {
 		t.Errorf("two builds: %+v and %+v", first, second)
 	}
-	raw, err := os.ReadFile(first.Path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
+	raw := archiveOf(t, first)
 	sum := sha256.Sum256(raw)
 	if first.Digest != "sha256:"+hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]) {
 		t.Errorf("the digest %s is not the archive's", first.Digest)
@@ -239,3 +237,21 @@ func TestABuildOutputDirectoryLinkedOutsideTheModuleIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("a file outside the module was touched: %q, %v", body, err)
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1751 (ADR 0514 §2, the review's K2): a manifest whose config value falls back to a predefined key builds. The
+// builder holds no published list of the keys, so it reads the manifest for its inputs (ParseManifestForInputs), not
+// as a judge of config values; claude-code's real manifest (capturedClaudeCodeManifest) is the fixture.
+func TestAManifestFallingBackToAPredefinedKeyBuilds(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := []byte(capturedClaudeCodeManifest)
+	if !strings.Contains(string(raw), `"predefined": "agent-managed-settings"`) {
+		t.Fatal("the captured manifest no longer falls back to a predefined key")
+	}
+	m, states, _ := buildModule(t, string(raw), "binary")
+	res, st := runBuild(t, m, states, "tools")
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the step ended %s: %s", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	if res.Artifact != "tools" || res.Binary != "claude-code" || !strings.HasPrefix(res.Digest, "sha256:") {
+		t.Errorf("result = %+v", res)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/captured_manifest_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+package main
+
+// capturedClaudeCodeManifest is modules/claude-code/module.json of this catalogue at 56c68be7, copied verbatim on
+// 2026-10-22 for issue 1751 (the R4e review's finding K2): a real manifest whose config value managed_settings falls
+// back to the predefined key agent-managed-settings (ADR 0348 §7), which the builder holds no published list for. It
+// lives in a test file, not under testdata, because the catalogue's paths check (ADR 0260) reads every other file of a
+// module and the manifest names claude-code's own paths.
+const capturedClaudeCodeManifest = `{
+  "module": "claude-code",
+  "version": "1",
+  "moved": true,
+  "slug": "agent",
+  "capabilities": [
+    "package-manager"
+  ],
+  "requires": [
+    "mcp-endpoint",
+    {
+      "name": "gitea-read",
+      "optional": true
+    }
+  ],
+  "binds": {
+    "mcp-endpoint": "${dir:state}/mcp-endpoint.json"
+  },
+  "secrets": {
+    "gitea-read": "${dir:state}/gitea-read.secret"
+  },
+  "uses": [
+    "operator-channel"
+  ],
+  "state": [
+    "servers",
+    "holdings",
+    "config",
+    "proposals",
+    "questions",
+    "memory",
+    "waits"
+  ],
+  "reads": [
+    "claude-licence-manager.bindings"
+  ],
+  "tools": [
+    "claude_code_status",
+    "claude_code_render",
+    "claude_code_guard",
+    "claude_code_pull",
+    "claude_code_grant",
+    "claude_code_add_api_key",
+    "claude_code_registrations",
+    "claude_code_memory",
+    "claude_code_mcp_list",
+    "claude_code_mcp_register",
+    "claude_code_mcp_unregister",
+    "claude_code_skill_list",
+    "claude_code_skill_register",
+    "claude_code_skill_unregister",
+    "claude_code_agent_list",
+    "claude_code_agent_register",
+    "claude_code_agent_unregister",
+    "claude_code_command_list",
+    "claude_code_command_register",
+    "claude_code_command_unregister",
+    "claude_code_hook_list",
+    "claude_code_hook_register",
+    "claude_code_hook_unregister",
+    "claude_code_output_style_list",
+    "claude_code_output_style_register",
+    "claude_code_output_style_unregister",
+    "claude_code_instructions_list",
+    "claude_code_instructions_register",
+    "claude_code_instructions_unregister",
+    "claude_code_instructions_propose",
+    "claude_code_proposals",
+    "claude_code_ask",
+    "claude_code_answer",
+    "claude_code_wait",
+    "claude_code_settings_get",
+    "claude_code_settings_set",
+    "claude_code_settings_clear",
+    "claude_code_permission_add",
+    "claude_code_permission_remove",
+    "claude_code_config_list",
+    "claude_code_config_show",
+    "claude_code_config_status",
+    "claude_code_config_import",
+    "claude_code_home_show",
+    "claude_code_home_remove",
+    "claude_code_home_removed",
+    "claude_code_home_restore",
+    "claude_code_judge",
+    "claude_code_judged"
+  ],
+  "data": {
+    "own": [
+      {
+        "id": "agent-home",
+        "path": "${dir:agent-home}",
+        "class": "valuable",
+        "why": "the operator's agent's own files: its memory, history and projects"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "config": {
+    "role": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "What this machine is for, in a sentence, written into the instructions every Claude Code session on it reads; empty says nothing.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": ""
+    },
+    "mcp_servers": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The tool servers every session on this machine is given beside the mesh's own, by name, each as Claude Code's managed MCP configuration takes it; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "managed_settings": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "Keys of Claude Code's managed settings every session on this machine obeys, such as spinnerTipsEnabled, laid over the mesh's own; empty adds none. Falls back to agent-managed-settings, the mesh's or this node's.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "predefined": "agent-managed-settings",
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "instructions": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The instructions every session on this machine reads, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "output_styles": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The output styles offered to every session on this machine, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "skills": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The skills offered to every session on this machine, by name, each its files by path, a text as one line or a list of its lines; a skill without its SKILL.md is left out; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "commands": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The slash commands offered to every session on this machine, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "agents": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The agents offered to every session on this machine, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    }
+  },
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "package",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "claude-code"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "managed",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "/etc/claude-code",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "unknown": "program"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "start",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/usr/local/bin/claude-agent",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "template": "files/claude-agent"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "agent-account-name",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/etc/claude-code/agent-account",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "template": "files/agent-account"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "agent-account",
+      "type": "user",
+      "name": "${machine:agent-account}",
+      "home": "${machine:agent-home}",
+      "root": "${machine:agent-root}"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "agent-home",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "${machine:agent-home}/.claude",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "owner": "${machine:agent-account}",
+      "unknown": "module"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "place": ".",
+      "unknown": "program"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "facts",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/facts.json",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "template": "files/facts.json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "settings",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.json",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "takes-config": ["role", "mcp_servers", "managed_settings", "instructions", "output_styles", "skills", "commands", "agents"],
+      "merge": "json",
+      "template": "files/settings.json"
+    }
+  ],
+  "items": [
+    {
+      "collection": "shell:zsh:normal",
+      "template": "files/zsh-normal"
+    }
+  ],
+  "build": {
+    "artifacts": [
+      {
+        "name": "tools",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "go",
+        "system": "arch",
+        "from": "cmd/claude-code",
+        "binary": "claude-code",
+        "loads": [
+          "claude-code"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_STATE": "${dir:state}",
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_FACTS": "${dir:state}/facts.json",
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_SETTINGS": "${dir:state}/settings.json"
+        }
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "files",
+        "kind": "archive",
+        "from": "files"
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+`

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/digest.go

@@ -20,7 +20,13 @@ import (
 )
 
 // DigestVersion is the form of the digest's text: changed whenever what the digest hashes changes in kind.
-const DigestVersion = "2" // 2: no Go version in the text; the toolchain enters a fingerprint as the agreed version (ADR 0477 §3)
+// 2: no Go version in the text; the toolchain enters a fingerprint as the agreed version (ADR 0477 §3). 3: the siblings'
+// commits (the lead's decision L5) and the integration level's tags integration,isolation (the checker's agreement).
+const DigestVersion = "3"
+
+// integrationTags are the build tags of the integration level, its run and its digest alike: integration, and isolation
+// for the bubblewrap proofs (mesh-sdk's and the build modules'), which a build node can run.
+var integrationTags = []string{"integration", "isolation"}
 
 // goPackage is the part of `go list -json` a digest reads.
 type goPackage struct {
@@ -71,9 +77,12 @@ func (p *goPackage) hasTests() bool { return len(p.TestGoFiles)+len(p.XTestGoFil
 // DigestResult is what a digest step answers: one digest per package that has tests at the level, and the packages
 // that have none.
 type DigestResult struct {
-	Level        string            `json:"level"`
-	Packages     map[string]string `json:"packages"`
-	WithoutTests []string          `json:"without_tests,omitempty"`
+	Level    string            `json:"level"`
+	Packages map[string]string `json:"packages"`
+	// Beside echoes the siblings folded into every digest, "<owner/repo> <commit>" sorted: the checker keeps a verdict
+	// only when they are the siblings it gave the fetch.
+	Beside       []string `json:"beside,omitempty"`
+	WithoutTests []string `json:"without_tests,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (m *Module) digestTool() StepTool {
@@ -113,20 +122,27 @@ func (m *Module) digest(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 		if _, err := m.checkPostgres(ctx); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		tags = []string{"integration"}
+		tags = integrationTags
 		header = append(header, "postgres "+strconv.Itoa(m.Recipe.PostgresMajor), "nats-server "+m.Recipe.NatsServer)
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the level %q is neither unit nor integration", level)
 	}
 	header = append(header, "tags "+strings.Join(tags, ","))
+	beside, err := m.besideLines(workspace)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	for _, b := range beside {
+		header = append(header, "beside "+b)
+	}
 
 	dirs, err := m.goModDirs(ctx, tree)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	res := DigestResult{Level: level, Packages: map[string]string{}}
+	res := DigestResult{Level: level, Packages: map[string]string{}, Beside: beside}
 	for _, d := range dirs {
-		pkgs, err := m.listPackages(ctx, tree, d, tags)
+		pkgs, err := m.listPackages(ctx, workspace, tree, d, tags)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
@@ -139,14 +155,18 @@ func (m *Module) digest(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 }
 
 // listPackages is `go list -test -deps -json` of the directory's packages, by import path.
-func (m *Module) listPackages(ctx context.Context, tree, dir string, tags []string) (map[string]*goPackage, error) {
+func (m *Module) listPackages(ctx context.Context, workspace, tree, dir string, tags []string) (map[string]*goPackage, error) {
 	abs := filepath.Join(tree, dir)
 	args := []string{"-C", abs, "list", "-test", "-deps", "-json"}
 	if len(tags) > 0 {
 		args = append(args, "-tags", strings.Join(tags, ","))
 	}
 	args = append(args, "./...")
-	r := m.Run(ctx, m.goEnvFor(abs), "go", args...)
+	run, err := m.stepRunner(workspace, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	r := run(ctx, m.goEnvFor(abs), "go", args...)
 	if r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("go list in %s: %s", dir, causeLine(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr+"\n"+r.Stdout))
 	}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/digest_test.go

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ func digestFixture(t *testing.T) (*Module, string) {
 	m := moduleWith(newStates(), "go1.27.1")
 	m.Home, m.Work, m.Cache = t.TempDir(), work, t.TempDir()
 	real := StepRunner(m.Home)
-	m.Run = func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
 		switch name {
 		case "git":
 			return forgekey.Ran{Stdout: "go.mod\n"}
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func digestFixture(t *testing.T) (*Module, string) {
 			return forgekey.Ran{Stdout: "postgres (PostgreSQL) " + strconv.Itoa(m.Recipe.PostgresMajor) + ".1\n"}
 		}
 		return real(ctx, env, name, args...)
-	}
+	}, &[]shutOff{}) // go list runs shut off (1309); here the real go, unshut, reads the fixture
 	return m, tree
 }
 

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/fetch.go

@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ func (m *Module) fetchTool() StepTool {
 				"commit":     map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the full commit, 40 hex digits"},
 				"ref":        map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "refs/pull/<n>/head when only a pull request's head carries the commit"},
 				"base":       map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "optional trunk commit, 40 hex digits: the head is merged onto it as the forge's merge would, and the answer carries the merge commit, the files in conflict (an answer, the workspace is then left at the trunk commit), the changed paths and the tree of each module directory"},
+				"dir":        buildstep.FetchRequestProperties()["dir"],
+				"paths":      buildstep.FetchRequestProperties()["paths"],
 				"beside": map[string]any{"type": "array", "description": "optional sibling repositories the tests read, each placed as a plain directory (no symlink) under the workspace's beside/<name>, which build_go_test gives the tests as MESH_CHECK_BESIDE",
 					"items": map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{
 						"repository": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "<owner>/<repository> on the forge"},
@@ -81,19 +83,16 @@ func (m *Module) fetchTool() StepTool {
 }
 
 func (m *Module) fetch(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
-	repository, _ := args["repository"].(string)
-	commit, _ := args["commit"].(string)
-	ref, _ := args["ref"].(string)
-	base, _ := args["base"].(string)
-	if base != "" && !commitOK.MatchString(base) {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a trunk commit (40 hex digits)", base)
-	}
-	siblings, err := siblingsArg(args["beside"])
+	// What the builder and the checker ask, in mesh-sdk's one form (ADR 0499 §4): with the module's directory and its
+	// named paths, the workspace is narrowed to them (buildstep.Narrow).
+	req, err := buildstep.ParseFetchRequest(args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if !repositoryOK.MatchString(repository) || strings.Contains(repository, "..") {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a repository, <owner>/<name>", repository)
+	repository, commit, ref, base := req.Repository, req.Commit, req.Ref, req.Base
+	siblings, err := siblingsArg(args["beside"])
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	m.CleanWorkspaces(m.now())
 	id := buildstep.NewID()
@@ -115,6 +114,15 @@ func (m *Module) fetch(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	if res.Beside, err = m.placeSiblings(ctx, root, siblings); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	if (base == "" || res.Merge != "") && len(req.Paths) > 0 {
+		if err := buildstep.Narrow(tree, req); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		// Said beside the tree, so the steps that list the tree's go.mod files leave out those narrowed away.
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, narrowedMark), nil, 0o600); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
 	dirs, err := m.goModDirs(ctx, tree)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -177,6 +185,11 @@ func (m *Module) goModDirs(ctx context.Context, tree string) ([]string, error) {
 	dirs := []string{}
 	for _, l := range strings.Split(r.Stdout, "\n") {
 		if l = strings.TrimSpace(l); l != "" && !inTestdata(l) {
+			if narrowed(tree) {
+				if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(tree, filepath.FromSlash(l))); err != nil {
+					continue // outside a narrowed workspace's paths (buildstep.Narrow): no module of this build
+				}
+			}
 			dirs = append(dirs, filepath.ToSlash(filepath.Dir(l)))
 		}
 	}
@@ -268,3 +281,12 @@ func firstLine(s string) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
+
+// narrowedMark is the file beside a workspace's tree saying the fetch narrowed it to a module's named paths.
+const narrowedMark = "narrowed"
+
+// narrowed says whether the fetch narrowed the workspace whose tree this is.
+func narrowed(tree string) bool {
+	_, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(tree), narrowedMark))
+	return err == nil
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/forge_test.go

@@ -143,8 +143,9 @@ func TestForgeFilesRenderFromTheBoundValuesInTheModulesOwnHome(t *testing.T) {
 // template in the files/ archive (novox/hq ADR 0349 §2).
 func TestManifestRequiresForgeAccountKeepsKeysAndTakesFilesFromTemplates(t *testing.T) {
 	m := readForgeManifest(t)
-	if len(m.Requires) != 2 || m.Requires[0] != "forge-account" || m.Requires[1] != "go-toolchain" {
-		t.Errorf("requires = %v, want [forge-account go-toolchain]", m.Requires)
+	// artifact-store: the module pushes a done build's archive itself (ADR 0498 §2).
+	if len(m.Requires) != 3 || m.Requires[0] != "forge-account" || m.Requires[1] != "go-toolchain" || m.Requires[2] != "artifact-store" {
+		t.Errorf("requires = %v, want [forge-account go-toolchain artifact-store]", m.Requires)
 	}
 	keeps := false
 	for _, s := range m.State {

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/integration.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
@@ -33,11 +34,22 @@ func (m *Module) integrationBounds() Bounds {
 	return b
 }
 
-func (m *Module) integration(ctx context.Context, workspace, tree string, packages []string) (res *TestResult, err error) {
+func (m *Module) integration(ctx context.Context, workspace, tree string, packages []string, pattern string) (res *TestResult, err error) {
 	major, err := m.checkPostgres(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err // a *buildstep.Refusal: this level only
 	}
+	if !m.Inside {
+		// The store, the bus and the tests run together in one shut-off process (level.go), so the tests reach the
+		// level's own store and bus and nothing else.
+		return m.integrationShutOff(ctx, workspace, packages, pattern)
+	}
+	return m.integrationHere(ctx, workspace, tree, packages, pattern, major)
+}
+
+// integrationHere is the level itself, in the shut-off process: the store and the bus started for the run, the tests
+// compiled and run against them, both stopped and the run's directory removed however it ends.
+func (m *Module) integrationHere(ctx context.Context, workspace, tree string, packages []string, pattern string, major int) (res *TestResult, err error) {
 	run := filepath.Join(m.Work, workspace, "run-"+buildstep.NewID())
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(run, 0o700); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -64,12 +76,13 @@ func (m *Module) integration(ctx context.Context, workspace, tree string, packag
 	// Compiling counts as setup: the tests are built once, here, with the addresses a TestMain may read, and the run
 	// below finds them built. Whether they compile is for the run to say; its failure is not read here.
 	for _, d := range dirs {
-		m.Run(ctx, append(m.goEnvFor(filepath.Join(tree, d)), env...), "go", "-C", filepath.Join(tree, d), "test", "-tags", "integration", "-run", "^$", "-count=1", "./...")
+		m.Run(ctx, append(m.goEnvFor(filepath.Join(tree, d)), env...), "go", "-C", filepath.Join(tree, d), "test", "-tags", strings.Join(integrationTags, ","), "-run", "^$", "-count=1", "./...")
 	}
 	setup := m.clock().Sub(began)
 
 	return m.runLevel(ctx, tree, levelOpts{
-		level: LevelIntegration, tags: []string{"integration"}, packages: packages, bounds: m.integrationBounds(),
+		workspace: workspace, run: pattern,
+		level: LevelIntegration, tags: integrationTags, packages: packages, bounds: m.integrationBounds(),
 		env:   env,
 		setup: setup, wall: true,
 		store: "postgres " + strconv.Itoa(major), bus: "nats-server " + m.Recipe.NatsServer,

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/integration_level_test.go

@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ func integModule(t *testing.T, f *integFake) (*Module, *keptStates) {
 	m := moduleWith(states, "go1.27.1")
 	m.Home, m.Work, m.Cache = t.TempDir(), t.TempDir(), t.TempDir()
 	m.Run, m.Now, m.StartBus = f.run, f.now, f.startBus
+	// These tests judge the level as it runs in its shut-off process (level.go, 1309-S5): the store, the bus and the
+	// tests side by side. That the step starts that one process shut off is isolate_test.go's.
+	m.Inside = true
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", "tree"), 0o755); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -177,7 +180,7 @@ func TestTheStoreListensOnASocketUnderTheRunAndNowhereElse(t *testing.T) {
 			test = c
 		}
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(test.line, "-tags integration") {
+	if !strings.Contains(test.line, "-tags integration,isolation") { // the bubblewrap proofs run too (the checker's agreement)
 		t.Errorf("the run does not ask for the tag: %s", test.line)
 	}
 	env := map[string]string{}
@@ -277,7 +280,7 @@ func TestAFailedOrPanickedRunStopsTheServersAndRemovesTheRunDirectory(t *testing
 	m, _ = integModule(t, g)
 	func() {
 		defer func() { recover() }()
-		m.integration(context.Background(), "ws1", filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", "tree"), nil)
+		m.integration(context.Background(), "ws1", filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", "tree"), nil, "")
 	}()
 	checkCleaned(g, m)
 }

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/isolate.go

@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+package main
+
+// The run steps shut off (novox/hq ADR 0448; issue 1309, lead decision L2 of R4e): every command that runs a change's
+// code (go test, go build, go list) runs through mesh-sdk's buildstep.Isolated, in bubblewrap: no network, none of the
+// account (its home, its ssh key, its bus login, the runtime directory), the workspace read-write, the shared Go caches
+// read-only under a throwaway writable layer, or read-write for a trunk build alone (publish). The fetch step (git, go
+// mod download) holds the key and the network and runs none of the change's code, so it runs as before.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/forgekey"
+)
+
+// BubblewrapLeast is the oldest bubblewrap a run step is shut off with: --overlay-src and --tmp-overlay, which keep the
+// shared caches unchanged by a candidate, came in 0.10.
+const BubblewrapLeast = "0.10"
+
+// caches are the shared warm caches of the module: Go's module cache and its build cache.
+func (m *Module) caches() []string {
+	return []string{filepath.Join(m.Cache, "gomod"), filepath.Join(m.Cache, "gobuild")}
+}
+
+// isolation is how a run step of the workspace is shut off: the workspace (its tree, its siblings, its run directories,
+// its packed artifacts) read-write, the caches beneath a throwaway layer unless write, and an environment of a PATH and
+// a locale alone (the step's HOME is its own, inside its /tmp).
+func (m *Module) isolation(workspace string, write bool) buildstep.Isolation {
+	path := os.Getenv("PATH")
+	if path == "" {
+		path = defaultPath
+	}
+	return buildstep.Isolation{
+		Workspace:   filepath.Join(m.Work, workspace),
+		Caches:      m.caches(),
+		WriteCaches: write,
+		Env:         []string{"PATH=" + path, "LC_ALL=C"},
+	}
+}
+
+// stepRunner is the runner of a run step of the workspace: buildstep.Isolated over m.Run, so every command it runs is
+// shut off; write is true for a trunk build alone (the shared caches are written by trunk builds only). Inside is the
+// integration level's own process, already running shut off (level.go): it runs its commands as they are.
+func (m *Module) stepRunner(workspace string, write bool) (forgekey.Runner, error) {
+	if m.Inside {
+		return m.Run, nil
+	}
+	for _, c := range m.caches() {
+		// bubblewrap binds only a directory that is there; the fetch makes them, a step on a fresh node may come first.
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(c, 0o700); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the shared cache %s: %w", c, err)
+		}
+	}
+	return buildstep.Isolated(m.Run, m.isolation(workspace, write)), nil
+}
+
+// ProbeBubblewrap reads the installed bubblewrap's version (`bwrap --version`: "bubblewrap 0.13.0").
+func ProbeBubblewrap(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, ProbeTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	r := forgekey.ExecRunnerClean(0)(ctx, []string{"PATH=" + defaultPath}, buildstep.Bubblewrap, "--version")
+	if r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("`%s --version` failed: %s", buildstep.Bubblewrap, firstLine(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
+	}
+	return parseBubblewrapVersion(r.Stdout)
+}
+
+var bubblewrapVersion = regexp.MustCompile(`^bubblewrap (\d+)\.(\d+)(\.\d+)?\s*$`)
+
+func parseBubblewrapVersion(out string) (string, error) {
+	f := bubblewrapVersion.FindStringSubmatch(strings.TrimSpace(out))
+	if f == nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("`%s --version` answered %q", buildstep.Bubblewrap, strings.TrimSpace(out))
+	}
+	return f[1] + "." + f[2] + f[3], nil
+}
+
+// bubblewrapProblem says why the installed bubblewrap cannot shut a run step off, or "" when it can: it is missing, or
+// older than BubblewrapLeast.
+func bubblewrapProblem(version string, err error) string {
+	if err != nil {
+		return "bubblewrap cannot be run, and every build and test step runs in it (ADR 0448): " + err.Error()
+	}
+	if !atLeast(version, BubblewrapLeast) {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("bubblewrap %s installed, and a build or test step needs %s or later (ADR 0448)", version, BubblewrapLeast)
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// atLeast says whether the dotted version v is least or later.
+func atLeast(v, least string) bool {
+	a, b := strings.Split(v, "."), strings.Split(least, ".")
+	for i := 0; i < len(b); i++ {
+		var x, y int
+		if i < len(a) {
+			x, _ = strconv.Atoi(a[i])
+		}
+		y, _ = strconv.Atoi(b[i])
+		if x != y {
+			return x > y
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// checkBubblewrap refuses a step when bubblewrap cannot shut it off; nil Bubblewrap probes nothing (a module that only
+// guards).
+func (m *Module) checkBubblewrap(ctx context.Context) error {
+	if m.Bubblewrap == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	v, err := m.Bubblewrap(ctx)
+	if why := bubblewrapProblem(v, err); why != "" {
+		return &buildstep.Refusal{Text: why, Want: BubblewrapLeast + " or later", Have: v}
+	}
+	return nil
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/isolate_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,295 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/forgekey"
+)
+
+// shutOff is one command a step ran in bubblewrap: the bubblewrap words before "--", what it bound read-write, read-only
+// and beneath a throwaway layer, and the command with its environment.
+type shutOff struct {
+	flags                    []string
+	binds, roBinds, overlays []string
+	env                      []string
+	command                  string
+	chdir                    string
+}
+
+// bwrapArity is how many words each bubblewrap option the SDK writes takes.
+var bwrapArity = map[string]int{"--unshare-all": 0, "--die-with-parent": 0, "--new-session": 0, "--clearenv": 0,
+	"--proc": 1, "--dev": 1, "--tmpfs": 1, "--dir": 1, "--chdir": 1, "--overlay-src": 1, "--tmp-overlay": 1,
+	"--ro-bind": 2, "--ro-bind-try": 2, "--bind": 2, "--symlink": 2, "--setenv": 2}
+
+// throughBubblewrap is the fake runner of a step's tests: a bubblewrap command is read back (recorded in seen) and its
+// command handed to run with the environment bubblewrap was told to set, the way it runs in the step; any other command
+// (the fetch's git, postgres --version) goes to run as it is.
+func throughBubblewrap(t *testing.T, run forgekey.Runner, seen *[]shutOff) forgekey.Runner {
+	t.Helper()
+	var mu sync.Mutex
+	return func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
+		if name != buildstep.Bubblewrap {
+			return run(ctx, env, name, args...)
+		}
+		var s shutOff
+		i := 0
+		for ; i < len(args) && args[i] != "--"; i++ {
+			n, ok := bwrapArity[args[i]]
+			if !ok || i+n >= len(args) {
+				t.Errorf("bubblewrap was given %q, which the test does not know: %v", args[i], args)
+				return forgekey.Ran{Status: 1, Err: "unknown bubblewrap option"}
+			}
+			s.flags = append(s.flags, args[i])
+			switch args[i] {
+			case "--bind":
+				s.binds = append(s.binds, args[i+1])
+			case "--ro-bind", "--ro-bind-try":
+				s.roBinds = append(s.roBinds, args[i+1])
+			case "--overlay-src":
+				s.overlays = append(s.overlays, args[i+1])
+			case "--setenv":
+				s.env = append(s.env, args[i+1]+"="+args[i+2])
+			case "--chdir":
+				s.chdir = args[i+1]
+			}
+			i += n
+		}
+		if i+1 >= len(args) {
+			t.Errorf("bubblewrap was given no command: %v", args)
+			return forgekey.Ran{Status: 1, Err: "no command"}
+		}
+		s.command = args[i+1] + " " + strings.Join(args[i+2:], " ")
+		mu.Lock()
+		*seen = append(*seen, s)
+		mu.Unlock()
+		return run(ctx, s.env, args[i+1], args[i+2:]...)
+	}
+}
+
+// checkShutOff fails the test unless s ran with no network and none of the account: every namespace unshared, the
+// environment cleared, nothing of the home or the state bound, the caches beneath a throwaway layer unless write.
+func checkShutOff(t *testing.T, m *Module, s shutOff, write bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	for _, f := range []string{"--unshare-all", "--clearenv", "--die-with-parent"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(s.flags, f) {
+			t.Errorf("%s ran without %s: %v", s.command, f, s.flags)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, b := range append(append([]string{}, s.binds...), s.roBinds...) {
+		if m.Home != "" && (b == m.Home || strings.HasPrefix(b, m.Home+"/")) {
+			t.Errorf("%s was given the account's home: %s", s.command, b)
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(b, "/run") {
+			t.Errorf("%s was given the runtime directory: %s", s.command, b)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, e := range s.env {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(e, "HOME="+m.Home) && m.Home != "" {
+			t.Errorf("%s was told the account's home: %s", s.command, e)
+		}
+	}
+	caches := m.caches()
+	for _, c := range caches {
+		bound, layered := slices.Contains(s.binds, c), slices.Contains(s.overlays, c)
+		switch {
+		case write && (!bound || layered):
+			t.Errorf("a trunk build's %s does not write the shared cache %s (bound %v, layered %v)", s.command, c, bound, layered)
+		case !write && (bound || !layered):
+			t.Errorf("%s may write the shared cache %s (bound %v, layered %v): only a trunk build does", s.command, c, bound, layered)
+		}
+	}
+	if want := filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1"); !slices.Contains(s.binds, want) {
+		t.Errorf("%s was not given its workspace %s read-write: %v", s.command, want, s.binds)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1309-S2: every go test of the unit level runs shut off in bubblewrap: no network, none of the account, the caches
+// beneath a throwaway layer.
+func TestTheUnitLevelRunsEveryGoTestShutOff(t *testing.T) {
+	m, states, ws, calls := workspaceFor(t, "failing")
+	var seen []shutOff
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, m.Run, &seen)
+	if _, st := runUnit(t, m, states, ws); st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the step ended %s: %s", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	ran := 0
+	for _, c := range *calls {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(c.line, "go ") {
+			ran++
+		}
+	}
+	if ran == 0 || len(seen) != ran {
+		t.Fatalf("%d go commands ran, %d of them shut off: %v", ran, len(seen), *calls)
+	}
+	for _, s := range seen {
+		checkShutOff(t, m, s, false)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1309-S2: a try's tests: build_go_test's run pattern reaches go test as one -run word; a pattern that is a flag is refused.
+func TestTheRunPatternReachesGoTestAndAFlagIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	m, states, ws, calls := workspaceFor(t, "failing")
+	var seen []shutOff
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, m.Run, &seen)
+	run := stepTool(t, m, "build_go_test")
+	if _, err := run(map[string]any{"workspace": ws, "level": "unit", "run": "TestA|TestB"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	states.waitEnd(t)
+	found := false
+	for _, c := range *calls {
+		found = found || strings.Contains(c.line, " -run TestA|TestB ")
+	}
+	if !found {
+		t.Errorf("no go test was given -run TestA|TestB: %v", *calls)
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{"-exec=/bin/sh", "a b", "(unclosed"} {
+		if runPatternOK(bad) {
+			t.Errorf("the run pattern %q was taken", bad)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// 1309-S3 and S4: a candidate's go build runs shut off with the caches beneath a throwaway layer; a trunk build
+// (publish) writes them.
+func TestABuildRunsShutOffAndOnlyATrunkBuildWritesTheCaches(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, publish := range []bool{false, true} {
+		m, states, _ := buildModule(t, manifestWith(goBundle), "binary")
+		var seen []shutOff
+		m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, m.Run, &seen)
+		run := stepTool(t, m, "build_go_build")
+		args := map[string]any{"workspace": "ws1", "module": "modules/demo", "artifact": "tools"}
+		if publish {
+			args["publish"] = true
+		}
+		if _, err := run(args); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if st := states.waitEnd(t); st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+			t.Fatalf("publish %v: the step ended %s: %s", publish, st.State, st.Reason)
+		}
+		if len(seen) != 1 || !strings.HasPrefix(seen[0].command, "go ") || !strings.Contains(seen[0].command, " build ") {
+			t.Fatalf("publish %v: shut off %v, want the one go build", publish, seen)
+		}
+		checkShutOff(t, m, seen[0], publish)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1309-S3: the digest's go list runs shut off.
+func TestTheDigestListsPackagesShutOff(t *testing.T) {
+	m, _ := digestFixture(t)
+	var seen []shutOff
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, m.Run, &seen)
+	digests(t, m, LevelUnit)
+	if len(seen) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the digest ran no command shut off")
+	}
+	for _, s := range seen {
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(s.command, "go ") || !strings.Contains(s.command, " list ") {
+			t.Errorf("the digest shut off %q, want go list", s.command)
+		}
+		checkShutOff(t, m, s, false)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1309-S5: the integration level runs its store, its bus and its tests in ONE shut-off process (this program again,
+// `level <spec>`), so they reach each other and nothing else; its answer is the level's result. Nothing of the level
+// runs outside but reading postgres's version.
+func TestTheIntegrationLevelRunsInOneShutOffProcess(t *testing.T) {
+	m, states, ws, _ := workspaceFor(t, "failing")
+	m.Executable = "/opt/bundle/mesh-build-go"
+	want := TestResult{Level: LevelIntegration, Passed: true, Tests: 3, Packages: []PackageResult{}, Store: "postgres 18"}
+	var outside []string
+	var seen []shutOff
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
+		switch {
+		case name == "postgres" && len(args) == 1 && args[0] == "--version":
+			return forgekey.Ran{Stdout: "postgres (PostgreSQL) 18.6\n"}
+		case name == m.Executable && len(args) == 2 && args[0] == levelArg:
+			var spec levelSpec
+			if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(args[1]), &spec); err != nil || spec.Workspace != ws || spec.Work != m.Work {
+				t.Errorf("the level's spec %s: %v", args[1], err)
+			}
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(levelAnswer{Result: &want})
+			return forgekey.Ran{Stdout: string(raw) + "\n"}
+		}
+		outside = append(outside, name+" "+strings.Join(args, " "))
+		return forgekey.Ran{Status: 1, Err: "not expected here"}
+	}, &seen)
+	run := stepTool(t, m, "build_go_test")
+	if _, err := run(map[string]any{"workspace": ws, "level": LevelIntegration}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	st := states.waitEnd(t)
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the step ended %s: %s", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	var got TestResult
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(st.Result, &got); err != nil || got.Tests != 3 || !got.Passed || got.Store != "postgres 18" {
+		t.Errorf("the result %s (%v), want the shut-off process's", st.Result, err)
+	}
+	if len(outside) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("ran outside the shut-off process: %v", outside)
+	}
+	if len(seen) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("shut off %d processes, want one: %v", len(seen), seen)
+	}
+	checkShutOff(t, m, seen[0], false)
+	if !slices.Contains(seen[0].roBinds, m.Executable) || slices.Contains(seen[0].roBinds, filepath.Dir(m.Executable)) {
+		t.Errorf("the program is bound %v; want the program alone, read-only", seen[0].roBinds)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1309-S1: a step is refused, and the module is unhealthy, while bubblewrap is missing or older than 0.10, naming it.
+func TestAnOldOrMissingBubblewrapRefusesTheStepsAndIsUnhealthy(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		version string
+		err     error
+		ok      bool
+	}{{"0.13.0", nil, true}, {"0.10.0", nil, true}, {"0.9.0", nil, false}, {"", errors.New("bwrap: not found"), false}} {
+		m := moduleWith(newStates(), "go1.27.1")
+		m.Bubblewrap = func(context.Context) (string, error) { return c.version, c.err }
+		err := m.Check(context.Background())
+		h := m.Health(context.Background())
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(h)
+		if c.ok {
+			if err != nil || strings.Contains(string(raw), "unhealthy") {
+				t.Errorf("bubblewrap %q: refused %v, health %s", c.version, err, raw)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		var ref *buildstep.Refusal
+		if !errors.As(err, &ref) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "bubblewrap") {
+			t.Errorf("bubblewrap %q %v: Check answered %v, want a refusal naming bubblewrap", c.version, c.err, err)
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(string(raw), "unhealthy") || !strings.Contains(string(raw), "bubblewrap") {
+			t.Errorf("bubblewrap %q %v: health %s, want unhealthy naming bubblewrap", c.version, c.err, raw)
+		}
+	}
+	for out, want := range map[string]string{"bubblewrap 0.13.0\n": "0.13.0", "bubblewrap 0.10": "0.10"} {
+		if got, err := parseBubblewrapVersion(out); err != nil || got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%q read as %q, %v", out, got, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// stepTool is the Run of the named tool.
+func stepTool(t *testing.T, m *Module, name string) func(map[string]any) (any, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	for _, tool := range m.Tools(m.StepTools()) {
+		if tool.Name == name {
+			return tool.Run
+		}
+	}
+	t.Fatalf("no tool %s", name)
+	return nil
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/isolation_integration_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// 1309-S6 (ADR 0448's check): a test of the change, run by the unit level, reads no key and no login of the account,
+// resolves no name, reaches no socket of the machine (a TCP port on its loopback, a unix socket) and leaves the shared
+// caches unchanged. The probe is testdata/repos/probe.
+func TestARunStepReachesNoKeyLoginNameOrSocketAndLeavesTheCachesUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
+	needTools(t, "the shut-off unit level", "go", "git", "bwrap")
+	tree := repository(t, "probe")
+	work, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "w")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { os.RemoveAll(work) })
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(work, "ws1"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.Rename(tree, filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	home := t.TempDir()
+	key, login := filepath.Join(home, ".ssh", "mesh_ed25519"), filepath.Join(home, "broker")
+	for _, f := range []string{key, login} {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(f), 0o700); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(f, []byte("secret"), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	tcp, err := net.Listen("tcp", "127.0.0.1:0")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer tcp.Close()
+	sockDir := t.TempDir()
+	unix, err := net.Listen("unix", filepath.Join(sockDir, "s"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer unix.Close()
+	m := &Module{Recipe: Current(), Home: home, Work: work, Cache: t.TempDir()}
+	m.Run = StepRunner(home)
+	for _, c := range m.caches() {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(c, 0o700); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	res, err := m.runLevel(context.Background(), filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree"), levelOpts{workspace: "ws1", level: LevelUnit,
+		bounds: Bounds{Run: UnitBound * 100}, env: []string{"PROBE_KEY=" + key, "PROBE_LOGIN=" + login,
+			"PROBE_TCP=" + tcp.Addr().String(), "PROBE_SOCKET=" + filepath.Join(sockDir, "s"), "PROBE_CACHE=" + m.caches()[1]}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !res.Passed {
+		t.Fatalf("the probe did not run: %+v", res)
+	}
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree", "seen.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the probe wrote nothing: %v", err)
+	}
+	var seen map[string]bool
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &seen); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for what, reached := range seen {
+		if reached && what != "wroteCache" {
+			t.Errorf("the run step reached %s: %s", what, raw)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(m.caches()[1], "written-by-a-candidate")); err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("a candidate's step changed the shared cache")
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/level.go

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+package main
+
+// The integration level shut off (novox/hq ADR 0448, ADR 0470; issue 1309 S5): its store, its bus and its tests run in
+// one bubblewrap of their own, so the tests reach the level's postgres (a socket in the run's directory) and its bus (a
+// loopback port of the step's own network) and nothing of the machine. The process in it is this binary started again
+// as `mesh-build-go level <spec>`: it runs the level as integrationHere does and prints its answer as one line of JSON.
+// The tools bundle never runs a level in its own process, and a level never serves tools.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+)
+
+// levelArg is the first argument that makes this binary an integration level's process.
+const levelArg = "level"
+
+// levelSpec is what the shut-off process is asked: the workspace, the packages and the -run pattern, the level's bounds.
+type levelSpec struct {
+	Work      string        `json:"work"`
+	Cache     string        `json:"cache"`
+	Workspace string        `json:"workspace"`
+	Packages  []string      `json:"packages,omitempty"`
+	Run       string        `json:"run,omitempty"`
+	Setup     time.Duration `json:"setup"`
+	Bound     time.Duration `json:"bound"`
+}
+
+// levelAnswer is the one line the process prints: the level's result, or why it could not run.
+type levelAnswer struct {
+	Result *TestResult `json:"result,omitempty"`
+	Error  string      `json:"error,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// executable is this program's path, bound read-only into the step: Executable when a test set it.
+func (m *Module) executable() (string, error) {
+	if m.Executable != "" {
+		return m.Executable, nil
+	}
+	exe, err := os.Executable()
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return filepath.EvalSymlinks(exe)
+}
+
+// integrationShutOff runs the integration level in one shut-off process and reads its answer.
+func (m *Module) integrationShutOff(ctx context.Context, workspace string, packages []string, pattern string) (*TestResult, error) {
+	exe, err := m.executable()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the integration level's program: %w", err)
+	}
+	b := m.integrationBounds()
+	spec, err := json.Marshal(levelSpec{Work: m.Work, Cache: m.Cache, Workspace: workspace, Packages: packages, Run: pattern, Setup: b.Setup, Bound: b.Run})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	for _, c := range m.caches() {
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(c, 0o700); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the shared cache %s: %w", c, err)
+		}
+	}
+	iso := m.isolation(workspace, false)
+	iso.ReadOnly = append(iso.ReadOnly, exe) // the program alone, not the directory it lies in
+	r := buildstep.Isolated(m.Run, iso)(ctx, nil, exe, levelArg, string(spec))
+	var answer levelAnswer
+	line := lastLine(r.Stdout)
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(line), &answer); err != nil || (answer.Result == nil && answer.Error == "") {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the integration level's shut-off process answered nothing it says (status %d %s): %s", r.Status, r.Err, firstLine(r.Stderr+"\n"+r.Stdout))
+	}
+	if answer.Error != "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s", answer.Error)
+	}
+	return answer.Result, nil
+}
+
+func lastLine(s string) string {
+	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(s), "\n")
+	return strings.TrimSpace(lines[len(lines)-1])
+}
+
+// runLevelProcess is the shut-off process: args is the spec. It prints its answer and returns the exit status, 0 when it
+// printed one.
+func runLevelProcess(args []string) int {
+	say := func(a levelAnswer) int {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(a)
+		fmt.Println(string(raw))
+		return 0
+	}
+	if len(args) != 1 {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "usage: mesh-build-go level <spec>")
+		return 2
+	}
+	var spec levelSpec
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(args[0]), &spec); err != nil {
+		return say(levelAnswer{Error: "the level's spec: " + err.Error()})
+	}
+	if !workspaceOK.MatchString(spec.Workspace) {
+		return say(levelAnswer{Error: fmt.Sprintf("%q is not a workspace id", spec.Workspace)})
+	}
+	m := &Module{Inside: true, Recipe: Current(), Work: spec.Work, Cache: spec.Cache, Home: os.Getenv("HOME"),
+		IntegrationBounds: Bounds{Setup: spec.Setup, Run: spec.Bound}, Say: func(string, ...any) {}}
+	m.Run = StepRunner(m.Home)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	major, err := m.checkPostgres(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return say(levelAnswer{Error: err.Error()})
+	}
+	tree := filepath.Join(spec.Work, spec.Workspace, "tree")
+	res, err := m.integrationHere(ctx, spec.Workspace, tree, spec.Packages, spec.Run, major)
+	if err != nil {
+		return say(levelAnswer{Error: err.Error()})
+	}
+	return say(levelAnswer{Result: res})
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/main.go

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ func main() {
 	if len(os.Args) > 1 && os.Args[1] == busArg {
 		os.Exit(runBus(os.Args[2:]))
 	}
+	if len(os.Args) > 1 && os.Args[1] == levelArg {
+		os.Exit(runLevelProcess(os.Args[2:]))
+	}
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	m := &Module{
 		Node:                strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv("MESH_NODE")),
@@ -47,12 +50,19 @@ func main() {
 		m.Home = u.HomeDir
 	}
 	m.Run = StepRunner(m.Home)
+	m.RegistryFile = m.Home + "/registry"
 	m.Probe = ProbeGo(m.Home, m.Cache)
+	m.Bubblewrap = ProbeBubblewrap
 	// Outside a launch by the runtime — a build, a check — there is no node and no state to write.
 	if m.Node != "" {
 		go m.Start(ctx)
 	}
 	go startKeeper(ctx)
+	// Every state it keeps, said on the bus before it serves (ADR 0495 §2; issue 1790).
+	if err := keepStates(); err != nil {
+		logf("announcing the states it keeps: %v", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
 	if err := stdio.Serve("", m.Tools(m.StepTools())); err != nil {
 		logf("%v", err)
 		os.Exit(1)

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/manifest_test.go

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func TestManifestIsValidAndDeclaresTheAccountTheCapabilityAndThePackages(t *test
 		}
 	}
 	slices.Sort(packages)
-	if want := []string{"git", "openssh", "postgresql"}; !slices.Equal(packages, want) {
+	if want := []string{"bubblewrap", "git", "openssh", "postgresql"}; !slices.Equal(packages, want) {
 		t.Errorf("packages = %v, want %v", packages, want)
 	}
 }
@@ -144,7 +144,34 @@ func TestGiteaReadsTheBuildModulesKeysAndTheCatalogueAcceptsThemTogether(t *test
 			t.Errorf("gitea reads %v, lacks %s", gitea.Reads, want)
 		}
 	}
-	if problems := catalogue.StateReadsNothingDeclares(all); len(problems) > 0 {
-		t.Errorf("a read names a state its owner does not keep: %v", problems)
+}
+
+// 1309-S1: every run step runs in bubblewrap, so the module declares its package (the lead's decision: each build module
+// that runs a step through it declares it), beside the user-namespaces capability bubblewrap needs.
+func TestTheModuleDeclaresBubblewrapAndTheCapabilityItNeeds(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	if r := resource(t, m, "bubblewrap"); r["type"] != "package" || r["package"] != "bubblewrap" {
+		t.Errorf("the bubblewrap resource is %v, want the package bubblewrap", r)
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(m.Capabilities, "user-namespaces") {
+		t.Errorf("capabilities %v lack user-namespaces", m.Capabilities)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1587-S1 (ADR 0498 §2): the module requires the artifact store and is told its address in a file of its home, which no
+// run step is given (a run step has no network either, ADR 0448).
+func TestTheModuleRequiresTheArtifactStoreAndIsToldItsAddress(t *testing.T) {
+	m := readManifest(t)
+	if !slices.Contains(m.Requires, "artifact-store") {
+		t.Errorf("requires %v lack artifact-store", m.Requires)
+	}
+	r := resource(t, m, "registry")
+	// The validator reads the template (files/registry) into the resource's content.
+	if content, _ := r["content"].(string); r["type"] != "file" || r["path"] != "${dir:state}/registry" || !strings.Contains(content, "${seat:mesh-artifact-store:reach}") {
+		t.Errorf("the registry resource is %v", r)
+	}
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(moduleDir, "files", "registry"))
+	if err != nil || strings.TrimSpace(string(raw)) != "${seat:mesh-artifact-store:reach}" {
+		t.Errorf("files/registry is %q (%v), want the store seat's reach", raw, err)
 	}
 }

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/module.go

@@ -50,6 +50,18 @@ type Module struct {
 	IntegrationBounds Bounds
 	// Now is the clock the levels' times are read from; time.Now when nil.
 	Now func() time.Time
+	// Bubblewrap reads the installed bubblewrap's version (ProbeBubblewrap): a step is refused, and the module is
+	// unhealthy, while it is missing or older than BubblewrapLeast. Nil probes nothing.
+	Bubblewrap func(ctx context.Context) (string, error)
+	// Inside is the integration level's own process, started shut off in bubblewrap by a test step (level.go): its
+	// commands run as they are, never shut off a second time.
+	Inside bool
+	// RegistryFile holds the artifact store's address (host:port), placed by the manifest; Push puts a blob there
+	// (buildstep.PushBlob when nil; a test's fake store).
+	RegistryFile string
+	Push         func(ctx context.Context, registry, repository, digest string, body []byte) error
+	// Executable is this program's path, which the integration level starts again shut off; os.Executable when empty.
+	Executable string
 	// StartBus starts the throwaway bus of a run in dir and answers its address and what stops it (the module's own
 	// program, StartBus in bus.go, when nil).
 	StartBus func(ctx context.Context, dir string) (url string, stop func(), err error)
@@ -69,7 +81,10 @@ func (m *Module) guard(installed string, probeErr error) buildstep.Guard {
 // CheckRound.
 func (m *Module) Check(ctx context.Context) error {
 	installed, err := m.Probe(ctx)
-	return m.guard(installed, err).Check(ctx)
+	if err := m.guard(installed, err).Check(ctx); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return m.checkBubblewrap(ctx)
 }
 
 // Start checks once, as the module starts, and then every CheckRound until ctx ends.
@@ -95,6 +110,9 @@ func (m *Module) Health(ctx context.Context) health.Answer {
 	if err := m.guard(installed, perr).Check(ctx); err != nil {
 		return health.Unhealthy(err.Error())
 	}
+	if err := m.checkBubblewrap(ctx); err != nil {
+		return health.Unhealthy(err.Error())
+	}
 	return health.Healthy(fmt.Sprintf("%s installed, the version the module builds with (recipe %s)", installed, m.Recipe.Version()))
 }
 

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/narrow_integration_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// ADR 0499 §4 (issue 1758): a fetch asked with the module's directory and its named paths leaves the workspace holding
+// only those, the manifest and the lock files; the rest of the commit is gone before any run step; a request naming
+// paths without a directory is refused before anything is fetched.
+func TestAFetchWithNamedPathsNarrowsTheWorkspace(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newForge(t)
+	_, head := f.repo("novox/narrow", map[string]string{
+		"README.md":       "the repository\n",
+		"lib/go.mod":      "module fixture/lib\n\ngo 1.25.0\n",
+		"lib/module.json": `{"module":"lib","version":"1"}`,
+		"lib/cmd/x/x.go":  "package main\n\nfunc main() {}\n",
+		"lib/docs/a.md":   "not named\n",
+		"other/go.mod":    "module fixture/other\n\ngo 1.25.0\n",
+		"other/o.go":      "package other\n",
+	})
+	m, states := f.module(t)
+	res, st := fetched(t, m, states, map[string]any{"repository": "novox/narrow", "commit": head, "dir": "lib", "paths": []any{"cmd"}})
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the fetch ended %s: %s", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	tree := filepath.Join(m.Work, res.Workspace, "tree")
+	for _, kept := range []string{"lib/go.mod", "lib/module.json", "lib/cmd/x/x.go"} {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(tree, kept)); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s was narrowed away: %v", kept, err)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, gone := range []string{"README.md", "lib/docs/a.md", "other/o.go"} {
+		if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(tree, gone)); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s is still in the workspace", gone)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Join(res.Modules, ",") != "lib" {
+		t.Errorf("the fetch answered the modules %v, want lib alone", res.Modules)
+	}
+	_, st = fetched(t, m, states, map[string]any{"repository": "novox/narrow", "commit": head, "paths": []any{"cmd"}})
+	if st.State != delivery.StepFailed || !strings.Contains(st.Reason, "no module directory") {
+		t.Errorf("paths without a directory: %s %q", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_integration_test.go

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ func TestRealFetchAndBuildOfAMemberPinningAPullHead(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	_, memberHead := f.repo("novox/member", member)
 	m, states := f.module(t)
+	withStore(t, m) // the build pushes its archive (ADR 0498)
 
 	res, st := fetched(t, m, states, map[string]any{"repository": "novox/member", "commit": memberHead})
 	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
@@ -49,6 +50,9 @@ func TestRealFetchAndBuildOfAMemberPinningAPullHead(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(m.Work, res.Workspace, "pinned", "dep@"+head, "beside", "dep", "go", "dep.go")); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("the pull request's repository was not placed beside the workspace: %v", err)
 	}
+	// The build runs shut off in bubblewrap (1309), which a build node has and build-agent's check container has not:
+	// there the build half is not run, said loudly; the fetch half above, the pin's own part (issue 1148), always is.
+	needTools(t, "the shut-off build of a member pinning a pull head", "bwrap")
 	built, err := m.build(context.Background(), map[string]any{"workspace": res.Workspace, "module": ".", "artifact": "tools"})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(fmt.Errorf("the build: %w", err))

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io/fs"
 	"os"
@@ -104,9 +105,47 @@ func (m *Module) placeSiblings(ctx context.Context, root string, siblings []sibl
 		placed = append(placed, Sibling{Repository: s.repository, Commit: s.commit, Dir: name})
 	}
 	sort.Slice(placed, func(i, j int) bool { return placed[i].Dir < placed[j].Dir })
+	if len(placed) > 0 {
+		// What the digest folds in (the lead's decision L5): the siblings this workspace's tests read, by commit.
+		raw, err := json.Marshal(placed)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, besideRecord), raw, 0o600); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
 	return placed, nil
 }
 
+// besideRecord is the file in a workspace's root naming the siblings the fetch placed beside it.
+const besideRecord = "beside.json"
+
+// besideLines are the siblings a workspace's fetch placed, as the digest folds them in and echoes them: "<owner/repo>
+// <commit>", sorted; none when it placed none.
+func (m *Module) besideLines(workspace string) ([]string, error) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(m.Work, workspace, besideRecord))
+	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var placed []Sibling
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &placed); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the workspace's record of its siblings: %w", err)
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for _, s := range placed {
+		if !repositoryOK.MatchString(s.Repository) || !commitOK.MatchString(s.Commit) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the workspace's record of its siblings names %q at %q", s.Repository, s.Commit)
+		}
+		out = append(out, s.Repository+" "+s.Commit)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out, nil
+}
+
 func firstSymlink(dir string) string {
 	var found string
 	filepath.WalkDir(dir, func(p string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview_integration_test.go

@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ func TestRealFetchMergesConflictsAndPlainlyFetches(t *testing.T) {
 // sibling and passes with it; the sibling is a plain directory with no symlink in it; and a sibling that holds a
 // symlink fails the fetch naming it.
 func TestRealTestsReadTheSiblingBesideTheTree(t *testing.T) {
+	needTools(t, "the shut-off unit level", "go", "git", "bwrap") // the tests run in bubblewrap (1309)
 	f := newForge(t)
 	files := map[string]string{}
 	for _, n := range []string{"go.mod", "beside.go", "beside_test.go"} {

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview_test.go

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ func TestSiblingsArePlacedBesideAndTheUnitLevelIsGivenTheirDirectory(t *testing.
 	}
 
 	calls := &[]cmdRecord{}
-	m.Run = capturedRunner(t, "failing", calls)
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, capturedRunner(t, "failing", calls), &[]shutOff{})
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(m.Work, res.Workspace, "tree"), 0o755); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/push.go

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package main
+
+// The push of a done build's archive (novox/hq ADR 0498 §1 §2; issue 1587): from this module's own process, after the
+// build step ended, with mesh-sdk's one client (buildstep.PushBlob), to the artifact store whose address the manifest
+// binds into RegistryFile. No build step reaches the store: a run step has no network (ADR 0448).
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+)
+
+// registry is the artifact store's address, host:port, as the manifest bound it into RegistryFile.
+func (m *Module) registry() (string, error) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(m.RegistryFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the artifact store's address cannot be read: %w", err)
+	}
+	addr := strings.TrimSpace(string(raw))
+	if addr == "" || strings.Contains(addr, "${") || strings.HasPrefix(addr, ":") || strings.HasSuffix(addr, ":") {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the artifact store's address in %s is %q, not host:port", m.RegistryFile, addr)
+	}
+	return addr, nil
+}
+
+// push puts body into the artifact store as a blob of repository (<module>/<artifact>) by its digest: Push when a test
+// set it, else buildstep.PushBlob.
+func (m *Module) push(ctx context.Context, repository, digest string, body []byte) error {
+	addr, err := m.registry()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if m.Push != nil {
+		return m.Push(ctx, addr, repository, digest, body)
+	}
+	return buildstep.PushBlob(ctx, &http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Minute}, addr, repository, digest, body)
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/push_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// pushed are the blobs the fake artifact store took, by digest, for the tests that read an archive back.
+var pushed sync.Map
+
+// fakeStore makes m push to a store of the test's own: its address in RegistryFile, each blob kept by repository and
+// digest; fail, when set, is the store's refusal.
+type fakeStore struct {
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	blobs map[string][]byte // "<repository>@<digest>"
+	fail  error
+	addr  string
+}
+
+func withStore(t *testing.T, m *Module) *fakeStore {
+	t.Helper()
+	s := &fakeStore{blobs: map[string][]byte{}}
+	m.RegistryFile = filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "registry")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(m.RegistryFile, []byte("store.test:5000\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	m.Push = func(ctx context.Context, registry, repository, digest string, body []byte) error {
+		s.mu.Lock()
+		defer s.mu.Unlock()
+		s.addr = registry
+		if s.fail != nil {
+			return s.fail
+		}
+		sum := sha256.Sum256(body)
+		if "sha256:"+hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]) != digest {
+			t.Errorf("pushed %s with bytes of another digest", digest)
+		}
+		s.blobs[repository+"@"+digest] = append([]byte(nil), body...)
+		pushed.Store(digest, s.blobs[repository+"@"+digest])
+		return nil
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
+// archiveOf is the archive a build pushed, by its digest.
+func archiveOf(t *testing.T, res BuildResult) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+	raw, ok := pushed.Load(res.Digest)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("nothing was pushed under %s", res.Digest)
+	}
+	return raw.([]byte)
+}
+
+// 1587-S2 (ADR 0498 §1): a done build answers a reference of the stated form whose tail is the build's digest, and the
+// store holds the archive there; a bundle and an archive alike.
+func TestADoneBuildAnswersTheReferenceOfTheArchiveItPushed(t *testing.T) {
+	m, states, _ := buildModule(t, manifestWith(goBundle), "the program")
+	store := withStore(t, m)
+	res, st := runBuild(t, m, states, "tools")
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the step ended %s: %s", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	if want := "artifact-store://demo/tools/blobs/" + res.Digest; res.Reference != want {
+		t.Errorf("reference %q, want %q", res.Reference, want)
+	}
+	if store.addr != "store.test:5000" || store.blobs["demo/tools@"+res.Digest] == nil {
+		t.Errorf("the store at %q holds %d blobs, not demo/tools@%s", store.addr, len(store.blobs), res.Digest)
+	}
+	a, states2, _ := archiveModule(t, "")
+	withStore(t, a)
+	arch, st := runBuild(t, a, states2, "files")
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed || arch.Reference != "artifact-store://demo/files/blobs/"+arch.Digest {
+		t.Errorf("the archive artifact: %s %q, reference %q", st.State, st.Reason, arch.Reference)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1587-S3 (ADR 0498 §2): a push the store refuses fails the step `not stored: <artifact>: <the store's words>`, and so
+// does a store whose address the manifest did not place.
+func TestARefusedPushFailsTheStepNotStored(t *testing.T) {
+	m, states, _ := buildModule(t, manifestWith(goBundle), "the program")
+	store := withStore(t, m)
+	store.fail = errors.New("store.test:5000 refused the blob: 500 Internal Server Error disk full")
+	if _, st := runBuild(t, m, states, "tools"); st.State != delivery.StepFailed || !strings.HasPrefix(st.Reason, delivery.NotStored+"tools: ") || !strings.Contains(st.Reason, "disk full") {
+		t.Errorf("the step ended %s: %q", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	m.RegistryFile = filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "absent")
+	if _, st := runBuild(t, m, states, "tools"); st.State != delivery.StepFailed || !strings.HasPrefix(st.Reason, delivery.NotStored+"tools: ") {
+		t.Errorf("no address: the step ended %s: %q", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1587-S4 (the lead's decision L9): the packed file is not left on the node once its push answered, a candidate's
+// included: the workspace holds no archive, pushed or refused.
+func TestThePackedFileLeavesTheNodeOnceItsPushAnswered(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, fail := range []error{nil, errors.New("refused")} {
+		m, states, _ := buildModule(t, manifestWith(goBundle), "the program")
+		withStore(t, m).fail = fail
+		runBuild(t, m, states, "tools")
+		var archives []string
+		filepath.WalkDir(m.Work, func(p string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
+			if err == nil && strings.HasSuffix(p, ".tar.gz") {
+				archives = append(archives, p)
+			}
+			return nil
+		})
+		if len(archives) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("push answered %v: archives left on the node: %v", fail, archives)
+		}
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/store_integration_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/distribution/distribution/v3/configuration"
+	"github.com/distribution/distribution/v3/registry/handlers"
+	_ "github.com/distribution/distribution/v3/registry/storage/driver/inmemory"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// realStore starts the artifact store's own program (the distribution registry, modules/distribution) inside this
+// test, with its in-memory storage, on a loopback port, and points m at it with the real push client. It is imported
+// by this integration test alone: the module's program does not carry it.
+func realStore(t *testing.T, m *Module) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	config := &configuration.Configuration{Storage: configuration.Storage{"inmemory": configuration.Parameters{}}}
+	config.HTTP.Secret = "a throwaway store"
+	config.Log.Level = "error"
+	config.Log.AccessLog.Disabled = true
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(handlers.NewApp(context.Background(), config))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	addr := strings.TrimPrefix(srv.URL, "http://")
+	m.RegistryFile = filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "registry")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(m.RegistryFile, []byte(addr+"\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	m.Push = nil
+	return addr
+}
+
+// resolve reads a done artifact's reference from the store, as the controller will: artifact-store://<module>/
+// <artifact>/blobs/<digest> is <store>/v2/<module>/<artifact>/blobs/<digest>.
+func resolve(t *testing.T, addr string, a delivery.BuiltArtifact) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+	path, ok := strings.CutPrefix(a.Reference, "artifact-store://")
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("%s's reference %q is not the artifact store's", a.Name, a.Reference)
+	}
+	resp, err := http.Get("http://" + addr + "/v2/" + path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		t.Fatalf("the store answered %s for %s", resp.Status, a.Reference)
+	}
+	return body
+}
+
+// 1587-S9 (ADR 0498's check): a done build's every artifact names a reference whose tail is its digest, and that
+// reference resolves in a real artifact store to bytes of that digest. The build is the real go's, shut off, of the
+// fixture testdata/repos/build, with an archive beside its bundle.
+func TestADoneBuildsArtifactsResolveInARealArtifactStore(t *testing.T) {
+	needTools(t, "the build", "go", "bwrap")
+	work := t.TempDir()
+	tree := filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(tree, 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if out, err := exec.Command("cp", "-r", filepath.Join("testdata", "repos", "build")+"/.", tree).CombinedOutput(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("%v %s", err, out)
+	}
+	manifest := `{"module":"fixture-build","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[` +
+		`{"name":"tools","kind":"bundle","language":"go","system":"arch","from":"cmd/prog","binary":"prog-bin","loads":["prog-bin"]},` +
+		`{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"cmd"}]}}`
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(tree, "module.json"), []byte(manifest), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	home := t.TempDir()
+	m := &Module{Home: home, Work: work, Cache: t.TempDir()}
+	m.Run = StepRunner(home)
+	addr := realStore(t, m)
+	done := delivery.BuilderBuild{V: 1, State: delivery.BuildDone, Manifest: strings.Repeat("0", 64)}
+	for _, a := range []struct{ name, kind string }{{"tools", "bundle"}, {"files", "archive"}} {
+		out, err := m.build(context.Background(), map[string]any{"workspace": "ws1", "module": ".", "artifact": a.name})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", a.name, err)
+		}
+		r := out.(BuildResult)
+		done.Artifacts = append(done.Artifacts, delivery.BuiltArtifact{Name: a.name, Kind: a.kind, Digest: r.Digest, Reference: r.Reference})
+	}
+	if _, err := delivery.EncodeBuilderBuild(done); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("the done key the builder would write is refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if ok, missing := done.Referenced(); !ok {
+		t.Errorf("the done key is not deliverable, missing %v", missing)
+	}
+	for _, a := range done.Artifacts {
+		if !strings.HasSuffix(a.Reference, "/blobs/"+a.Digest) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the reference %q does not end in its digest %s", a.Name, a.Reference, a.Digest)
+		}
+		sum := sha256.Sum256(resolve(t, addr, a))
+		if got := "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]); got != a.Digest {
+			t.Errorf("%s resolves to %s, its digest is %s", a.Name, got, a.Digest)
+		}
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/test.go

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ func (m *Module) testTool() StepTool {
 				"level":     map[string]any{"type": "string", "enum": []string{LevelUnit, LevelIntegration}, "description": "the level"},
 				"packages": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
 					"description": "package patterns of each module, ./... when none"},
+				"run": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "optional go test -run pattern: only the tests it matches run (a try's tests)"},
 			},
 			"required": []string{"workspace", "level"},
 		},
@@ -56,6 +57,10 @@ func (m *Module) test(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	pattern, _ := args["run"].(string)
+	if !runPatternOK(pattern) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a go test -run pattern", pattern)
+	}
 	if !workspaceOK.MatchString(workspace) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a workspace id", workspace)
 	}
@@ -65,9 +70,9 @@ func (m *Module) test(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	}
 	switch level {
 	case LevelUnit:
-		return m.runLevel(ctx, tree, levelOpts{level: LevelUnit, packages: packages, bounds: Bounds{Run: m.unitBound()}, env: m.besideEnv(workspace)})
+		return m.runLevel(ctx, tree, levelOpts{workspace: workspace, level: LevelUnit, packages: packages, run: pattern, bounds: Bounds{Run: m.unitBound()}, env: m.besideEnv(workspace)})
 	case LevelIntegration:
-		return m.integration(ctx, workspace, tree, packages)
+		return m.integration(ctx, workspace, tree, packages, pattern)
 	}
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("the level %q is neither unit nor integration", level)
 }
@@ -103,6 +108,10 @@ func packagesArg(v any) ([]string, error) {
 
 // levelOpts are what a level asks of runLevel.
 type levelOpts struct {
+	// workspace is the workspace's id: its commands run shut off in it (stepRunner).
+	workspace string
+	// run is go test's -run pattern, "" for every test.
+	run      string
 	level    string
 	tags     []string
 	packages []string
@@ -129,6 +138,10 @@ func (m *Module) runLevel(ctx context.Context, tree string, o levelOpts) (*TestR
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	run, err := m.stepRunner(o.workspace, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	began := m.clock()
 	for _, d := range dirs {
 		packages := byDir[d]
@@ -139,8 +152,11 @@ func (m *Module) runLevel(ctx context.Context, tree string, o levelOpts) (*TestR
 		if len(o.tags) > 0 {
 			args = append(args, "-tags", strings.Join(o.tags, ","))
 		}
+		if o.run != "" {
+			args = append(args, "-run", o.run)
+		}
 		args = append(args, packages...)
-		r := m.Run(ctx, append(m.goEnvFor(filepath.Join(tree, d)), o.env...), "go", args...)
+		r := run(ctx, append(m.goEnvFor(filepath.Join(tree, d)), o.env...), "go", args...)
 		rd := newReader(res, d)
 		noise := rd.read(r.Stdout)
 		rd.finish()
@@ -202,3 +218,22 @@ func modulePath(gomod string) string {
 	}
 	return ""
 }
+
+// runPatternOK says whether a -run pattern is one go test takes as a single argument: no flag, no space, no control
+// character, and short ("" is every test).
+func runPatternOK(p string) bool {
+	if len(p) > 512 || strings.HasPrefix(p, "-") {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, r := range p {
+		if r <= ' ' || r == 0x7f {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	if p != "" {
+		if _, err := regexp.Compile(strings.Split(p, "/")[0]); err != nil {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/test_real_integration_test.go

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
 	if len(os.Args) > 1 && os.Args[1] == busArg {
 		os.Exit(runBus(os.Args[2:]))
 	}
+	if len(os.Args) > 1 && os.Args[1] == levelArg {
+		os.Exit(runLevelProcess(os.Args[2:])) // and the integration level's shut-off process (level.go)
+	}
 	os.Exit(m.Run())
 }
 
@@ -54,7 +57,7 @@ func repository(t *testing.T, name string) string {
 // test_test.go read the output captured from them, and this one proves the capture is what the real go says today. It
 // starts go test, so it carries the tag.
 func TestUnitLevelRunsTheRealGoOnTheFixtureRepositories(t *testing.T) {
-	needTools(t, "the unit level on fixtures", "go", "git")
+	needTools(t, "the unit level on fixtures", "go", "git", "bwrap")
 	want := map[string]struct {
 		passed, noTests bool
 		failed          string
@@ -66,11 +69,18 @@ func TestUnitLevelRunsTheRealGoOnTheFixtureRepositories(t *testing.T) {
 		"broken":  {failed: "fixture/broken"},
 	}
 	for name, w := range want {
-		tree := repository(t, name)
 		home := t.TempDir()
 		m := &Module{Home: home, Work: t.TempDir(), Cache: t.TempDir()}
+		// The tree lies in a workspace of the work directory, as a fetch leaves it: the level runs shut off in it (1309).
+		tree := filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", "tree")
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(tree), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.Rename(repository(t, name), tree); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
 		m.Run = StepRunner(home)
-		res, err := m.runLevel(context.Background(), tree, levelOpts{level: LevelUnit, bounds: Bounds{Run: UnitBound}})
+		res, err := m.runLevel(context.Background(), tree, levelOpts{workspace: "ws1", level: LevelUnit, bounds: Bounds{Run: UnitBound}})
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", name, err)
 		}
@@ -96,7 +106,7 @@ func processesNamed(text string) []string {
 // integration level passes, and afterwards no postgres or bus process of the run is left and its directory is gone.
 // It starts postgres and a bus, so it runs in the merge check and in a try, never on the way.
 func TestIntegrationLevelRunsAgainstARealStoreAndBusAndLeavesNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	needTools(t, "the integration level", "go", "git", "initdb", "pg_ctl", "postgres")
+	needTools(t, "the integration level", "go", "git", "initdb", "pg_ctl", "postgres", "bwrap")
 	tree := repository(t, "store")
 	// A short work directory: a unix socket's path is bounded at 108 bytes.
 	work, err := os.MkdirTemp("/tmp", "w")
@@ -113,7 +123,7 @@ func TestIntegrationLevelRunsAgainstARealStoreAndBusAndLeavesNothing(t *testing.
 	home := t.TempDir()
 	m := &Module{Recipe: Current(), Home: home, Work: work, Cache: t.TempDir()}
 	m.Run = StepRunner(home)
-	res, err := m.integration(context.Background(), "ws1", filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree"), nil)
+	res, err := m.integration(context.Background(), "ws1", filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree"), nil, "")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the integration level: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -134,7 +144,7 @@ func TestIntegrationLevelRunsAgainstARealStoreAndBusAndLeavesNothing(t *testing.
 // 1487/AC2: given a fixture Go module, when it is built twice, both digests are equal and the archive holds one
 // executable named as binaryName says. It runs the real go, so it carries the tag.
 func TestBuildTwiceGivesOneDigestAndOneExecutable(t *testing.T) {
-	needTools(t, "the build", "go")
+	needTools(t, "the build", "go", "bwrap")
 	work := t.TempDir()
 	tree := filepath.Join(work, "ws1", "tree")
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(tree, 0o755); err != nil {
@@ -151,6 +161,7 @@ func TestBuildTwiceGivesOneDigestAndOneExecutable(t *testing.T) {
 	home := t.TempDir()
 	m := &Module{Home: home, Work: work, Cache: t.TempDir()}
 	m.Run = StepRunner(home)
+	withStore(t, m)
 	args := map[string]any{"workspace": "ws1", "module": ".", "artifact": "tools"}
 	first, err := m.build(context.Background(), args)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -164,11 +175,7 @@ func TestBuildTwiceGivesOneDigestAndOneExecutable(t *testing.T) {
 	if a.Digest != b.Digest || a.Binary != "prog-bin" {
 		t.Errorf("two builds of one tree: %+v and %+v", a, b)
 	}
-	raw, err := os.ReadFile(a.Path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	zr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(raw))
+	zr, err := gzip.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(archiveOf(t, a)))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/test_test.go

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func workspaceFor(t *testing.T, captured string) (*Module, *keptStates, string,
 	states := newStates()
 	m := moduleWith(states, "go1.27.1")
 	m.Home, m.Work, m.Cache = t.TempDir(), t.TempDir(), t.TempDir()
-	m.Run = capturedRunner(t, captured, calls)
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, capturedRunner(t, captured, calls), &[]shutOff{}) // the step's go runs shut off (1309)
 	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", "tree"), 0o755); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -185,12 +185,12 @@ func TestUnitLevelRunsGoTestJsonInTheModulesDirectoryWithTheStepsEnvironment(t *
 // A go test that said nothing a test says (it could not run) ends the step failed, not the level.
 func TestAGoTestThatCouldNotRunEndsTheStepFailed(t *testing.T) {
 	m, states, ws, _ := workspaceFor(t, "empty")
-	m.Run = func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
+	m.Run = throughBubblewrap(t, func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {
 		if name == "go" {
 			return forgekey.Ran{Status: 1, Stderr: "go: cannot find main module\n"}
 		}
 		return forgekey.Ran{Stdout: "go.mod\n"}
-	}
+	}, &[]shutOff{})
 	_, st := runUnit(t, m, states, ws)
 	if st.State != delivery.StepFailed || !strings.Contains(st.Reason, "go: cannot find main module") {
 		t.Errorf("the step ended %s: %q", st.State, st.Reason)

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/testdata/repos/probe/go.mod

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module fixture/probe
+
+go 1.25.0

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/testdata/repos/probe/probe_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+package probe
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// TestProbe tries what a change's code must not reach, named by PROBE_* (the test that runs it sets them through
+// the environment of the step), and writes what it saw to seen.json beside it.
+func TestProbe(t *testing.T) {
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	read := func(p string) bool { _, err := os.ReadFile(p); return err == nil }
+	seen["key"] = read(os.Getenv("PROBE_KEY"))
+	seen["login"] = read(os.Getenv("PROBE_LOGIN"))
+	_, err := net.LookupHost("git.novox.be")
+	seen["resolved"] = err == nil
+	reach := func(network, addr string) bool {
+		c, err := net.DialTimeout(network, addr, 2*time.Second)
+		if err == nil {
+			c.Close()
+		}
+		return err == nil
+	}
+	seen["tcp"] = reach("tcp", os.Getenv("PROBE_TCP"))
+	seen["socket"] = reach("unix", os.Getenv("PROBE_SOCKET"))
+	seen["wroteCache"] = os.WriteFile(os.Getenv("PROBE_CACHE")+"/written-by-a-candidate", []byte("x"), 0o644) == nil
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(seen)
+	if err := os.WriteFile("seen.json", raw, 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/xz_framing.go

@@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
+package main
+
+// Copied from mesh-controller origin/main internal/builder/xz_framing.go (issue 1590): the build agent's walk of an xz
+// file's framing before its reader decodes it. "The build seat" below is the build module now.
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"hash/crc32"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+)
+
+// xzBlocksMax and xzStreamsMax are the most blocks and the most concatenated streams an xz file may hold for
+// the build seat to read it.
+//
+// **Why a block count is limited at all.** The xz reader (github.com/therootcompany/xz v1.0.1) keeps one
+// filter decoder for every block that names a delta or BCJ filter, and frees them only when a stream ends:
+// its block counters are reset per stream, not per block. A stream of many tiny blocks therefore grows the
+// heap with its length: an `xz --block-size=1 --delta` file of 6 MB kept about 67 MiB live, which comes to
+// about 5.6 GiB at the 512 MiB download cap (review 68 on mesh-controller pull request 264, hq issue 345).
+//
+// **Why 1,024.** At about 340 bytes of decoder a block, 1,024 blocks keep at most about 0.35 MiB live. A
+// real release is far below it: Betterbird's archive is 1 stream with 1 block, and multi-threaded xz cuts
+// blocks of three times the dictionary (24 MiB at the default preset), so even 512 MiB unpacked in blocks
+// of 512 KiB stays within it. Streams are limited to 16 because a release is one stream; the decoders are
+// reused from one stream to the next, so the stream limit only bounds the work of this walk.
+const (
+	xzBlocksMax  = 1024
+	xzStreamsMax = 16
+)
+
+// xzWithinLimits walks an xz file's framing, without decompressing anything, and refuses one holding more
+// blocks or streams than the build seat reads.
+//
+// **The framing, not the index.** Each stream's index at its end lists its blocks, but the reader compares
+// the index with the blocks only after it has decoded them all, so a file whose index lies would still be
+// decoded block by block. This walk follows the same framing the reader follows: stream header, each block
+// header, the block's LZMA2 chunks (each chunk header carries its own compressed size, so a chunk is skipped
+// without being decoded), its padding and check, then the index and the footer. It counts the blocks the
+// reader would decode, and it also refuses an index whose count of blocks is not the count walked.
+func xzWithinLimits(file string) error {
+	f, err := os.Open(file)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer f.Close()
+	_, _, err = xzFraming(bufio.NewReader(f))
+	if errors.Is(err, errXzTooManyBlocks) || errors.Is(err, errXzTooManyStreams) {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("it is not an xz file this build seat reads: %v", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+var (
+	errXzTooManyBlocks = fmt.Errorf("it holds more than %d xz blocks, the most this build seat reads: "+
+		"its xz reader keeps a filter decoder for every block (hq issue 345)", xzBlocksMax)
+	errXzTooManyStreams = fmt.Errorf("it holds more than %d concatenated xz streams, the most this build "+
+		"seat reads", xzStreamsMax)
+)
+
+// xzFraming counts the streams and blocks of an xz file, checking its framing as it goes. It stops with
+// errXzTooManyBlocks or errXzTooManyStreams at the first block or stream over the limit.
+func xzFraming(r *bufio.Reader) (streams, blocks int, err error) {
+	full := func(n int) ([]byte, error) {
+		b := make([]byte, n)
+		if _, err := io.ReadFull(r, b); err != nil {
+			if err == io.EOF {
+				err = io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+			}
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return b, nil
+	}
+	skip := func(n int) error {
+		if got, err := r.Discard(n); err != nil || got != n {
+			return io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+	for {
+		header, err := full(12)
+		if err != nil {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: header: %v", streams+1, err)
+		}
+		if !bytes.Equal(header[:6], []byte{0xfd, '7', 'z', 'X', 'Z', 0x00}) {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: no xz stream header", streams+1)
+		}
+		if header[6] != 0 || header[7]&0xf0 != 0 ||
+			crc32.ChecksumIEEE(header[6:8]) != binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(header[8:12]) {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: a corrupt stream header", streams+1)
+		}
+		if streams++; streams > xzStreamsMax {
+			return streams, blocks, errXzTooManyStreams
+		}
+		checkSize := 0
+		if check := int(header[7]); check != 0 {
+			checkSize = 4 << ((check - 1) / 3)
+		}
+		inStream := 0
+		for {
+			first, err := r.ReadByte()
+			if err != nil {
+				return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: no index: %v", streams, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF)
+			}
+			if first == 0 {
+				break // the index indicator
+			}
+			rest, err := full(int(first)*4 + 3)
+			if err != nil {
+				return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d, block %d: header: %v", streams, inStream+1, err)
+			}
+			if err := xzBlockHeader(append([]byte{first}, rest...)); err != nil {
+				return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d, block %d: %v", streams, inStream+1, err)
+			}
+			inStream++
+			if blocks++; blocks > xzBlocksMax {
+				return streams, blocks, errXzTooManyBlocks
+			}
+			// The block's LZMA2 chunks, up to the end marker.
+			size := 0
+			for {
+				control, err := r.ReadByte()
+				if err != nil {
+					return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d, block %d: %v", streams, inStream, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF)
+				}
+				size++
+				if control == 0 {
+					break
+				}
+				switch {
+				case control == 1 || control == 2: // stored: a 16-bit size less one, then the bytes
+					b, err := full(2)
+					if err != nil {
+						return streams, blocks, err
+					}
+					n := int(binary.BigEndian.Uint16(b)) + 1
+					if err := skip(n); err != nil {
+						return streams, blocks, err
+					}
+					size += 2 + n
+				case control >= 0x80: // LZMA: unpacked and packed sizes, the properties byte on a reset
+					b, err := full(4)
+					if err != nil {
+						return streams, blocks, err
+					}
+					n := int(binary.BigEndian.Uint16(b[2:])) + 1
+					size += 4
+					if control >= 0xc0 {
+						if err := skip(1); err != nil {
+							return streams, blocks, err
+						}
+						size++
+					}
+					if err := skip(n); err != nil {
+						return streams, blocks, err
+					}
+					size += n
+				default:
+					return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d, block %d: an LZMA2 chunk of kind %#x",
+						streams, inStream, control)
+				}
+			}
+			if pad := (4 - size%4) % 4; pad > 0 {
+				b, err := full(pad)
+				if err != nil || !bytes.Equal(b, make([]byte, pad)) {
+					return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d, block %d: corrupt block padding", streams, inStream)
+				}
+			}
+			if err := skip(checkSize); err != nil {
+				return streams, blocks, err
+			}
+		}
+		// The index: its count of records, two numbers each, padding, CRC32.
+		used := 1
+		count, n, err := xzVLI(r)
+		if err != nil {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: index: %v", streams, err)
+		}
+		used += n
+		if count != uint64(inStream) {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: its index lists %d blocks, but it holds %d",
+				streams, count, inStream)
+		}
+		for i := 0; i < 2*inStream; i++ {
+			_, n, err := xzVLI(r)
+			if err != nil {
+				return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: index: %v", streams, err)
+			}
+			used += n
+		}
+		if err := skip((4-used%4)%4 + 4); err != nil {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: index: %v", streams, err)
+		}
+		footer, err := full(12)
+		if err != nil || footer[10] != 'Y' || footer[11] != 'Z' {
+			return streams, blocks, fmt.Errorf("stream %d: no stream footer", streams)
+		}
+		// Stream padding: zero bytes, a multiple of four, then the end or another stream.
+		zeros := 0
+		for {
+			b, err := r.ReadByte()
+			if err == io.EOF {
+				if zeros%4 != 0 {
+					return streams, blocks, errors.New("stream padding not a multiple of four bytes")
+				}
+				return streams, blocks, nil
+			}
+			if err != nil {
+				return streams, blocks, err
+			}
+			if b != 0 {
+				_ = r.UnreadByte()
+				break
+			}
+			zeros++
+		}
+		if zeros%4 != 0 {
+			return streams, blocks, errors.New("stream padding not a multiple of four bytes")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// xzBlockHeader checks one block header: its CRC32, its flags, and that its last filter is LZMA2, the only
+// one whose chunks this walk can skip (and the only last filter the reader decodes).
+func xzBlockHeader(h []byte) error {
+	size := len(h)
+	if crc32.ChecksumIEEE(h[:size-4]) != binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(h[size-4:]) {
+		return errors.New("a corrupt block header")
+	}
+	flags := h[1]
+	if flags&0x3c != 0 {
+		return errors.New("a block header with reserved flags")
+	}
+	body := bytes.NewReader(h[2 : size-4])
+	if flags&0x40 != 0 {
+		if _, _, err := xzVLI(body); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	if flags&0x80 != 0 {
+		if _, _, err := xzVLI(body); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	var last uint64
+	for i := 0; i <= int(flags&3); i++ {
+		id, _, err := xzVLI(body)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		props, _, err := xzVLI(body)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if props > uint64(body.Len()) {
+			return errors.New("a corrupt block header")
+		}
+		if _, err := body.Seek(int64(props), io.SeekCurrent); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		last = id
+	}
+	if last != 0x21 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("a block whose last filter is %#x, not LZMA2", last)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// xzVLI reads one of xz's variable-length integers (at most 9 bytes, 7 bits each), and how many bytes it took.
+func xzVLI(r io.ByteReader) (uint64, int, error) {
+	var v uint64
+	for i := 0; i < 9; i++ {
+		b, err := r.ReadByte()
+		if err != nil {
+			return 0, i, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF
+		}
+		v |= uint64(b&0x7f) << (7 * i)
+		if b&0x80 == 0 {
+			if i > 0 && b == 0 {
+				return 0, i + 1, errors.New("a number not in its shortest form")
+			}
+			return v, i + 1, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return 0, 9, errors.New("a number longer than nine bytes")
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/xz_framing_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+package main
+
+// Copied from mesh-controller origin/main internal/builder/xz_framing_test.go (issue 1590), with xz_framing.go: the
+// build agent's walk of an xz file's framing, which this module now uses as the build agent does.
+
+import (
+	"archive/tar"
+	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"errors"
+	"hash/crc32"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"runtime"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// xzStream is one xz stream (no integrity check) of data cut into blocks of blockSize bytes, each block's
+// LZMA2 data stored uncompressed, each block a delta filter before LZMA2 when delta is set: the shape of
+// `xz --block-size=N --filters=delta,lzma2`, built without any xz tool. listed is how many blocks its index
+// lists (-1: as many as it holds), so a stream whose index lies can be built too.
+func xzStream(data []byte, blockSize int, delta bool, listed int) []byte {
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	flags := []byte{0, 0}
+	out.Write([]byte{0xfd, '7', 'z', 'X', 'Z', 0x00})
+	out.Write(flags)
+	out.Write(binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(nil, crc32.ChecksumIEEE(flags)))
+	type record struct{ unpadded, uncompressed uint64 }
+	var records []record
+	for at := 0; at < len(data); at += blockSize {
+		block := data[at:min(at+blockSize, len(data))]
+		if delta {
+			// Delta-encoded with a distance of one; the decoder's history starts empty at each block.
+			encoded := make([]byte, len(block))
+			for i := range block {
+				encoded[i] = block[i]
+				if i > 0 {
+					encoded[i] -= block[i-1]
+				}
+			}
+			block = encoded
+		}
+		header := []byte{2, 0} // 12 bytes
+		if delta {
+			header[1] = 1 // two filters
+			header = append(header, 0x03, 0x01, 0x00)
+		}
+		header = append(header, 0x21, 0x01, 0x00) // LZMA2, a 4 KiB dictionary
+		for len(header) < 8 {
+			header = append(header, 0)
+		}
+		header = binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(header, crc32.ChecksumIEEE(header))
+		out.Write(header)
+		size := 0
+		for i, chunk := 0, block; len(chunk) > 0; i++ {
+			n := min(len(chunk), 1<<16)
+			control := byte(2)
+			if i == 0 {
+				control = 1 // the first chunk of a block resets the dictionary
+			}
+			out.WriteByte(control)
+			out.Write(binary.BigEndian.AppendUint16(nil, uint16(n-1)))
+			out.Write(chunk[:n])
+			size += 3 + n
+			chunk = chunk[n:]
+		}
+		out.WriteByte(0)
+		size++
+		out.Write(make([]byte, (4-size%4)%4))
+		records = append(records, record{uint64(len(header) + size), uint64(len(block))})
+	}
+	if listed >= 0 {
+		for len(records) < listed {
+			records = append(records, records[0])
+		}
+		records = records[:listed]
+	}
+	vli := func(b []byte, v uint64) []byte {
+		for v >= 0x80 {
+			b = append(b, byte(v)|0x80)
+			v >>= 7
+		}
+		return append(b, byte(v))
+	}
+	index := vli([]byte{0}, uint64(len(records)))
+	for _, r := range records {
+		index = vli(vli(index, r.unpadded), r.uncompressed)
+	}
+	for len(index)%4 != 0 {
+		index = append(index, 0)
+	}
+	index = binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(index, crc32.ChecksumIEEE(index))
+	out.Write(index)
+	footer := binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(nil, uint32(len(index)/4-1))
+	footer = append(footer, flags...)
+	out.Write(binary.LittleEndian.AppendUint32(nil, crc32.ChecksumIEEE(footer)))
+	out.Write(footer)
+	out.WriteString("YZ")
+	return out.Bytes()
+}
+
+// tarHolding is a tar holding betterbird/data with body.
+func tarHolding(t *testing.T, body []byte) []byte {
+	t.Helper()
+	var out bytes.Buffer
+	w := tar.NewWriter(&out)
+	if err := w.WriteHeader(&tar.Header{Name: "betterbird/data", Mode: 0o644, Size: int64(len(body)),
+		Typeflag: tar.TypeReg}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	w.Write(body)
+	if err := w.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return out.Bytes()
+}
+
+func writeTemp(t *testing.T, body []byte) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	file := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "r.tar.xz")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(file, body, 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return file
+}
+
+func TestAnXzFileOfManyDeltaBlocksIsRefusedBeforeItIsDecoded(t *testing.T) {
+	// Review 68 on pull request 264: `xz --block-size=1 --delta` of a 200 kB tar kept about 67 MiB live in
+	// the reader, one delta decoder per block. Its index here lists one block, as a file crafted to pass a
+	// check of the index alone would; the walk counts the blocks the reader would decode.
+	body := make([]byte, 200_000)
+	for i := range body {
+		body[i] = byte(i * 7)
+	}
+	crafted := xzStream(tarHolding(t, body), 1, true, 1)
+	path := writeTemp(t, crafted)
+	var before, after runtime.MemStats
+	runtime.GC()
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&before)
+	err := unpackUpstream(path, t.TempDir(), "betterbird")
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&after)
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "more than 1024 xz blocks") {
+		t.Fatalf("a file of %d bytes in blocks of one byte was not refused for its blocks: %v", len(crafted), err)
+	}
+	if grew := after.TotalAlloc - before.TotalAlloc; grew > 4<<20 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d bytes were allocated for a refused file", grew)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheXzBlockLimitIsExact(t *testing.T) {
+	data := make([]byte, xzBlocksMax+1)
+	streams, blocks, err := xzFraming(bufio.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(xzStream(data[:xzBlocksMax], 1, true, -1))))
+	if err != nil || streams != 1 || blocks != xzBlocksMax {
+		t.Fatalf("%d blocks: %d streams, %d blocks, %v", xzBlocksMax, streams, blocks, err)
+	}
+	if _, _, err := xzFraming(bufio.NewReader(bytes.NewReader(xzStream(data, 1, true, -1)))); !errors.Is(err, errXzTooManyBlocks) {
+		t.Fatalf("%d blocks: %v", xzBlocksMax+1, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnXzFileOfTooManyStreamsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	var file []byte
+	for i := 0; i <= xzStreamsMax; i++ {
+		file = append(file, xzStream([]byte("x"), 1, false, -1)...)
+	}
+	err := unpackUpstream(writeTemp(t, file), t.TempDir(), "")
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "more than 16 concatenated xz streams") {
+		t.Fatalf("%v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnXzIndexThatDoesNotListItsBlocksIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	file := xzStream(tarHolding(t, []byte("x")), 512, false, 1)
+	err := unpackUpstream(writeTemp(t, file), t.TempDir(), "betterbird")
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "its index lists 1 blocks, but it holds 4") {
+		t.Fatalf("%v", err)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/xz_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// releaseXzSHA256 is the sha256 of testdata/upstream-release.tar.xz: the tar stream of upstream-release.tar.gz,
+// compressed with `xz -9e` (one stream, one block).
+const releaseXzSHA256 = "7e59472615d7d654d6f72e8275c83e36203da9db1b91372dcd38a3ff7984f997"
+
+// pinnedModuleServing is pinnedModule for any fixture file, served at /<its name>.
+func pinnedModuleServing(t *testing.T, fixture, sha, extra string) (*Module, *keptStates) {
+	t.Helper()
+	body, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("testdata", fixture))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	srv := httptest.NewTLSServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if r.URL.Path != "/"+fixture {
+			http.NotFound(w, r)
+			return
+		}
+		w.Write(body)
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	m, states, _ := archiveModule(t, pinned("https://example.com/"+fixture, sha, extra))
+	client := srv.Client()
+	client.Transport.(*http.Transport).DialContext = func(ctx context.Context, network, _ string) (net.Conn, error) {
+		return (&net.Dialer{}).DialContext(ctx, network, srv.Listener.Addr().String())
+	}
+	m.HTTP = client
+	return m, states
+}
+
+// Issue 1590: a pinned release compressed with xz (as betterbird's is) is unpacked as the build agent unpacks it, and
+// gives the build agent's archive: the same tar under gzip and under xz packs to one stream.
+func TestAPinnedXzArchiveIsUnpackedAsTheBuildAgentDoes(t *testing.T) {
+	m, states := pinnedModuleServing(t, "upstream-release.tar.xz", releaseXzSHA256, `,"within":"release/app"`)
+	res, st := runBuild(t, m, states, "files")
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("the step ended %s: %q", st.State, st.Reason)
+	}
+	sameAsBuildAgent(t, res, buildAgentWithinStream, buildAgentWithinDigest)
+}

modules/mesh-build-go/files/registry

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+${seat:mesh-artifact-store:reach}

modules/mesh-build-go/go.mod

@@ -3,19 +3,81 @@ module meshbuildgo
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021192148-78364e318bdc
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022183749-875c680d9876
+	github.com/distribution/distribution/v3 v3.1.2
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
+	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
+	github.com/therootcompany/xz v1.0.1
 )
 
 require (
 	github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op // indirect
+	github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 // indirect
+	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v5 v5.0.3 // indirect
+	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
+	github.com/dgryski/go-rendezvous v0.0.0-20200823014737-9f7001d12a5f // indirect
+	github.com/distribution/reference v0.6.0 // indirect
+	github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers v0.9.5 // indirect
+	github.com/docker/go-events v0.0.0-20250808211157-605354379745 // indirect
+	github.com/docker/go-metrics v0.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/felixge/httpsnoop v1.0.4 // indirect
+	github.com/go-logr/logr v1.4.4 // indirect
+	github.com/go-logr/stdr v1.2.2 // indirect
 	github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 // indirect
+	github.com/google/uuid v1.6.0 // indirect
+	github.com/gorilla/handlers v1.5.2 // indirect
+	github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.1 // indirect
+	github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2 v2.29.0 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/arc/v2 v2.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2 v2.0.5 // indirect
 	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 // indirect
 	github.com/minio/highwayhash v1.0.4 // indirect
+	github.com/munnerz/goautoneg v0.0.0-20191010083416-a7dc8b61c822 // indirect
 	github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2 v2.8.1 // indirect
 	github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 // indirect
 	github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.1.1 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_golang v1.23.2 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/client_model v0.6.2 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/common v0.67.5 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/otlptranslator v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/prometheus/procfs v0.20.1 // indirect
+	github.com/redis/go-redis/extra/rediscmd/v9 v9.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/redis/go-redis/extra/redisotel/v9 v9.0.5 // indirect
+	github.com/redis/go-redis/v9 v9.7.3 // indirect
+	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.10.2 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk v1.2.1 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/bridges/prometheus v0.67.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/exporters/autoexport v0.67.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.45.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploggrpc v0.21.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp v0.21.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetricgrpc v1.42.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp v1.43.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace v1.43.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc v1.42.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracehttp v1.43.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/prometheus v0.64.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutlog v0.21.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutmetric v1.42.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdouttrace v1.42.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log v0.21.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.45.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.45.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log v0.21.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v1.45.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.45.0 // indirect
+	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v1.11.0 // indirect
+	go.yaml.in/yaml/v2 v2.4.4 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/net v0.59.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.23.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/text v0.42.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/time v0.15.0 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/api v0.0.0-20260803160001-6ac0973c030d // indirect
+	google.golang.org/genproto/googleapis/rpc v0.0.0-20260803160001-6ac0973c030d // indirect
+	google.golang.org/grpc v1.83.2 // indirect
+	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.11 // indirect
 )

modules/mesh-build-go/go.sum

@@ -1,17 +1,67 @@
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-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021093645-465beb4ea5e3/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021185947-afbe371003a5 h1:1BiPKRPTYpgex8rSHWT9az0BteOafGWRDzd/Ba6GAcA=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021185947-afbe371003a5/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021192148-78364e318bdc h1:ZJScJSnF6LgFl55/VJ9RT/lNroVWun469sXtx0nlVYw=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021192148-78364e318bdc/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022183749-875c680d9876 h1:dtiIJzrX7ey1wmsdzapiFgCKDllCph7/vxfUp1ib/t8=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022183749-875c680d9876/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2 v2.35.0 h1:QwLphYqCEAo1eu1TqPRN2jgVMPBweeQcR21jeqDCONI=
+github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2 v2.35.0/go.mod h1:TcL7YfarKPGDAthEtl5NBeHZfeUQj6OXMm/+iu5cLMM=
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 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
+github.com/beorn7/perks v1.0.1 h1:VlbKKnNfV8bJzeqoa4cOKqO6bYr3WgKZxO8Z16+hsOM=
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+github.com/bsm/ginkgo/v2 v2.7.0/go.mod h1:AiKlXPm7ItEHNc/2+OkrNG4E0ITzojb9/xWzvQ9XZ9w=
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   "requires": [
     "forge-account",
-    "go-toolchain"
+    "go-toolchain",
+    "artifact-store"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
     "broker": "${dir:state}/broker"
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       "mode": "0644",
       "template": "files/gitconfig"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "registry",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/registry",
+      "owner": "mesh-build-go",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "template": "files/registry"
+    },
     {
       "id": "git",
       "type": "package",
@@ -119,6 +128,11 @@
       "type": "package",
       "package": "openssh"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "bubblewrap",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "bubblewrap"
+    },
     {
       "id": "postgresql",
       "type": "package",

modules/mesh-build-image/README.md

@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ The Dockerfile's steps may use the network (ADR 0487 §6); nothing a step can re
   `<module>/<artifact>:<tag of its own>` (the first 12 hex digits of the digest unless the call gives one), waiting out
   a registry held still, and the key carries the digest the registry serves and the reference pinned by it. Without
   `publish` (a pull request) nothing is pushed.
+- `build_image_copy` copies an upstream artifact (`module`, `artifact`, `from`) registry to registry into the artifact store
+  over the registry API, the whole index and every blob, by the digest the manifest pins (ADR 0498 §4), and verifies the
+  store serves that digest. Answers the digest and the reference `<registry>/<module>/<artifact>@sha256:<digest>`. A
+  `from` without a digest fails `not pinned:`. It needs no workspace and no buildah.
 - It refuses, naming why, an image whose build context is a whole repository (`context`) or whose `build.on` names
   another module's artifact (`unsupportedImage` in `build.go`): those forms belong to the images build-agent builds
   until it is removed at R4g.

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/announce.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package main
+
+// What this module keeps on the bus, announced from its code (novox/hq ADR 0495 §2 §5; issue 1790): every state it
+// keeps, each readable by others, since another module reads each today (the builder reads steps; gitea reads keys). A state of its own that it
+// did not name here is refused at the call (stdio.Keeps).
+
+import (
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+)
+
+// Kept are the states the module keeps.
+var Kept = []announce.State{
+	{Name: "keys", Readable: true},
+	{Name: "steps", Readable: true},
+}
+
+// keepStates announces Kept as this module's (stdio.Keeps): main calls it before it serves.
+func keepStates() error { return stdio.Keeps(Kept...) }

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/announce_integration_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announcetest"
+)
+
+// 1790 (ADR 0495 §5): served as the runtime serves it, the module announces on the bus every state it keeps, as its
+// code declares them. The runtime's part, publishing what the bundle asks to publish, is played by relay.
+func TestTheModuleAnnouncesEveryStateItKeeps(t *testing.T) {
+	const module = "mesh-build-image"
+	announcetest.Check(t, module, Kept, func(url string) func() {
+		t.Setenv("MESH_MODULE", module)
+		t.Setenv("MESH_NODE", "shanks")
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(url)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := keepStates(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		inR, inW := io.Pipe()
+		outR, outW := io.Pipe()
+		go func() { _ = stdio.ServeOn(module, nil, inR, outW) }()
+		go relay(t, module, nc, outR, inW)
+		return func() { _ = inW.Close(); _ = outW.Close(); nc.Close() }
+	})
+}
+
+// relay is the runtime's side of the channel: each mesh/publish the bundle asks is published on its module's event
+// subject, mesh.mod.<module>.event.<key>, and answered.
+func relay(t *testing.T, module string, nc *nats.Conn, from io.Reader, to io.Writer) {
+	sc := bufio.NewScanner(from)
+	sc.Buffer(make([]byte, 1<<20), 1<<24)
+	enc := json.NewEncoder(to)
+	for sc.Scan() {
+		var m struct {
+			ID     json.RawMessage `json:"id"`
+			Method string          `json:"method"`
+			Params struct {
+				Key  string          `json:"key"`
+				Body json.RawMessage `json:"body"`
+			} `json:"params"`
+		}
+		if json.Unmarshal(sc.Bytes(), &m) != nil || m.Method != "mesh/publish" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := nc.Publish("mesh.mod."+module+".event."+m.Params.Key, m.Params.Body); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("publishing %s: %v", m.Params.Key, err)
+		}
+		_ = nc.Flush()
+		_ = enc.Encode(map[string]any{"id": m.ID, "result": map[string]any{}})
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/build.go

@@ -74,6 +74,23 @@ func unsupportedImage(manifest catalogue.Manifest, a catalogue.Artifact) string
 	return ""
 }
 
+// qualifyImage names a base image in full, as the controller's parseReference reads it: a name without a registry host
+// is the public hub's (docker.io), a single name under `library/`. buildah, with this machine's registry configuration,
+// has no unqualified-search registry and refuses a short name (issue 1824); a name that has a host is kept.
+func qualifyImage(ref string) string {
+	name := ref
+	if at := strings.Index(name, "@"); at >= 0 {
+		name = name[:at]
+	}
+	if slash := strings.Index(name, "/"); slash >= 0 && (strings.ContainsAny(name[:slash], ".:") || name[:slash] == "localhost") {
+		return ref
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(name, "/") {
+		return "docker.io/library/" + ref
+	}
+	return "docker.io/" + ref
+}
+
 // imageArgs are the --build-arg words of the images the manifest pins in build.on, in its order.
 func imageArgs(manifest catalogue.Manifest) []string {
 	var out []string
@@ -82,7 +99,7 @@ func imageArgs(manifest catalogue.Manifest) []string {
 	}
 	for _, on := range manifest.Build.On {
 		if on.Image != "" && on.Arg != "" {
-			out = append(out, "--build-arg", on.Arg+"="+on.Image)
+			out = append(out, "--build-arg", on.Arg+"="+qualifyImage(on.Image))
 		}
 	}
 	return out
@@ -109,7 +126,7 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no module in %q of workspace %s: %w", module, workspace, err)
 	}
-	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
+	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifestForInputs(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the manifest in %q: %w", module, err)
 	}

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/build_test.go

@@ -198,3 +198,53 @@ func TestBuildFailsForWhatIsNotAnImageOrNotThere(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1751 (ADR 0514 §2, the review's K2): a manifest whose config value falls back to a predefined key builds. The
+// builder holds no published list of the keys, so it reads the manifest for its inputs (ParseManifestForInputs), not
+// as a judge of config values. The manifest is claude-code's real one (capturedClaudeCodeManifest) with the image fixture's
+// base and artifact added to its build, since no image module of the catalogue falls back to a predefined key today.
+func TestAManifestFallingBackToAPredefinedKeyBuilds(t *testing.T) {
+	raw := []byte(capturedClaudeCodeManifest)
+	if !strings.Contains(string(raw), `"predefined": "agent-managed-settings"`) {
+		t.Fatal("the captured manifest no longer falls back to a predefined key")
+	}
+	m, _, states := setup(t, func(fixture string) string {
+		var real, image map[string]json.RawMessage
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &real); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(fixture), &image); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		// The image fixture's base and artifact join claude-code's own artifacts (its archive of files/ stays).
+		var realBuild, imageBuild struct {
+			On        json.RawMessage   `json:"on,omitempty"`
+			Artifacts []json.RawMessage `json:"artifacts"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(real["build"], &realBuild); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(image["build"], &imageBuild); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		realBuild.On = imageBuild.On
+		realBuild.Artifacts = append(realBuild.Artifacts, imageBuild.Artifacts...)
+		b, err := json.Marshal(realBuild)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		real["build"] = b
+		out, err := json.Marshal(real)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return string(out)
+	})
+	res, st := runBuild(t, m, states, nil)
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("step = %+v", st)
+	}
+	if res.Digest != imageDigest || res.Artifact != "server" {
+		t.Errorf("result = %+v", res)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/captured_manifest_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+package main
+
+// capturedClaudeCodeManifest is modules/claude-code/module.json of this catalogue at 56c68be7, copied verbatim on
+// 2026-10-22 for issue 1751 (the R4e review's finding K2): a real manifest whose config value managed_settings falls
+// back to the predefined key agent-managed-settings (ADR 0348 §7), which the builder holds no published list for. It
+// lives in a test file, not under testdata, because the catalogue's paths check (ADR 0260) reads every other file of a
+// module and the manifest names claude-code's own paths.
+const capturedClaudeCodeManifest = `{
+  "module": "claude-code",
+  "version": "1",
+  "moved": true,
+  "slug": "agent",
+  "capabilities": [
+    "package-manager"
+  ],
+  "requires": [
+    "mcp-endpoint",
+    {
+      "name": "gitea-read",
+      "optional": true
+    }
+  ],
+  "binds": {
+    "mcp-endpoint": "${dir:state}/mcp-endpoint.json"
+  },
+  "secrets": {
+    "gitea-read": "${dir:state}/gitea-read.secret"
+  },
+  "uses": [
+    "operator-channel"
+  ],
+  "state": [
+    "servers",
+    "holdings",
+    "config",
+    "proposals",
+    "questions",
+    "memory",
+    "waits"
+  ],
+  "reads": [
+    "claude-licence-manager.bindings"
+  ],
+  "tools": [
+    "claude_code_status",
+    "claude_code_render",
+    "claude_code_guard",
+    "claude_code_pull",
+    "claude_code_grant",
+    "claude_code_add_api_key",
+    "claude_code_registrations",
+    "claude_code_memory",
+    "claude_code_mcp_list",
+    "claude_code_mcp_register",
+    "claude_code_mcp_unregister",
+    "claude_code_skill_list",
+    "claude_code_skill_register",
+    "claude_code_skill_unregister",
+    "claude_code_agent_list",
+    "claude_code_agent_register",
+    "claude_code_agent_unregister",
+    "claude_code_command_list",
+    "claude_code_command_register",
+    "claude_code_command_unregister",
+    "claude_code_hook_list",
+    "claude_code_hook_register",
+    "claude_code_hook_unregister",
+    "claude_code_output_style_list",
+    "claude_code_output_style_register",
+    "claude_code_output_style_unregister",
+    "claude_code_instructions_list",
+    "claude_code_instructions_register",
+    "claude_code_instructions_unregister",
+    "claude_code_instructions_propose",
+    "claude_code_proposals",
+    "claude_code_ask",
+    "claude_code_answer",
+    "claude_code_wait",
+    "claude_code_settings_get",
+    "claude_code_settings_set",
+    "claude_code_settings_clear",
+    "claude_code_permission_add",
+    "claude_code_permission_remove",
+    "claude_code_config_list",
+    "claude_code_config_show",
+    "claude_code_config_status",
+    "claude_code_config_import",
+    "claude_code_home_show",
+    "claude_code_home_remove",
+    "claude_code_home_removed",
+    "claude_code_home_restore",
+    "claude_code_judge",
+    "claude_code_judged"
+  ],
+  "data": {
+    "own": [
+      {
+        "id": "agent-home",
+        "path": "${dir:agent-home}",
+        "class": "valuable",
+        "why": "the operator's agent's own files: its memory, history and projects"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "config": {
+    "role": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "What this machine is for, in a sentence, written into the instructions every Claude Code session on it reads; empty says nothing.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": ""
+    },
+    "mcp_servers": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The tool servers every session on this machine is given beside the mesh's own, by name, each as Claude Code's managed MCP configuration takes it; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "managed_settings": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "Keys of Claude Code's managed settings every session on this machine obeys, such as spinnerTipsEnabled, laid over the mesh's own; empty adds none. Falls back to agent-managed-settings, the mesh's or this node's.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "predefined": "agent-managed-settings",
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "instructions": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The instructions every session on this machine reads, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "output_styles": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The output styles offered to every session on this machine, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "skills": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The skills offered to every session on this machine, by name, each its files by path, a text as one line or a list of its lines; a skill without its SKILL.md is left out; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "commands": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The slash commands offered to every session on this machine, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    },
+    "agents": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "description": "The agents offered to every session on this machine, by name, each a text as one line or a list of its lines; empty adds none.",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": {}
+    }
+  },
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "package",
+      "type": "package",
+      "package": "claude-code"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "managed",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "/etc/claude-code",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "unknown": "program"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "start",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/usr/local/bin/claude-agent",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "template": "files/claude-agent"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "agent-account-name",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/etc/claude-code/agent-account",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "template": "files/agent-account"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "agent-account",
+      "type": "user",
+      "name": "${machine:agent-account}",
+      "home": "${machine:agent-home}",
+      "root": "${machine:agent-root}"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "agent-home",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "${machine:agent-home}/.claude",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "owner": "${machine:agent-account}",
+      "unknown": "module"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "place": ".",
+      "unknown": "program"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "facts",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/facts.json",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "template": "files/facts.json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "settings",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.json",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "takes-config": ["role", "mcp_servers", "managed_settings", "instructions", "output_styles", "skills", "commands", "agents"],
+      "merge": "json",
+      "template": "files/settings.json"
+    }
+  ],
+  "items": [
+    {
+      "collection": "shell:zsh:normal",
+      "template": "files/zsh-normal"
+    }
+  ],
+  "build": {
+    "artifacts": [
+      {
+        "name": "tools",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "go",
+        "system": "arch",
+        "from": "cmd/claude-code",
+        "binary": "claude-code",
+        "loads": [
+          "claude-code"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_STATE": "${dir:state}",
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_FACTS": "${dir:state}/facts.json",
+          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_SETTINGS": "${dir:state}/settings.json"
+        }
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "files",
+        "kind": "archive",
+        "from": "files"
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+`

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/copy.go

@@ -0,0 +1,374 @@
+package main
+
+// The copy step (novox/hq ADR 0498 §4; issue 1587): an upstream artifact is copied registry to registry into the
+// artifact store, whole (an index with every manifest it lists, every blob), by the digest its manifest pins. The copy
+// runs no code of a change, so it needs neither buildah nor an isolation; it is made over the registry API, which
+// keeps every digest as it is (a pull and a push through buildah may rewrite a manifest). An upstream without a
+// digest is not copied: `not pinned:`. A copy that does not end with the pinned digest in the store is `not stored:`.
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// CopyTool is the copy step's tool.
+const CopyTool = "build_image_copy"
+
+// CopyResult is what a passed copy step says: the pinned digest, now in the store, and the reference to it in the
+// form an image's is (<registry>/<module>/<artifact>@sha256:<digest>).
+type CopyResult struct {
+	Artifact  string `json:"artifact"`
+	Digest    string `json:"digest"`
+	Reference string `json:"reference"`
+	Pushed    bool   `json:"pushed"`
+}
+
+var (
+	nameOK       = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]*(/[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]*)*$`)
+	pinnedOK     = regexp.MustCompile(`@(sha256:[0-9a-f]{64})$`)
+	manifestKind = strings.Join([]string{
+		"application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json", "application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.list.v2+json",
+		"application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json", "application/vnd.docker.distribution.manifest.v2+json"}, ", ")
+)
+
+func (m *Module) copyTool() StepTool {
+	return StepTool{
+		Name: CopyTool,
+		Description: "Copy an upstream image, registry to registry, into the artifact store by the digest the manifest pins " +
+			"(novox/hq ADR 0498 §4). Answers a step id at once; the step ends on its key with the digest in the store and the " +
+			"reference to it. A reference without a digest fails `not pinned:`. Needs no workspace and runs no code of a change.",
+		Input: map[string]any{
+			"type": "object",
+			"properties": map[string]any{
+				"module":   map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the module that names the upstream artifact"},
+				"artifact": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the upstream artifact's name in the module's manifest"},
+				"from":     map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the image reference the manifest gives, pinned by digest, such as nats:2.11.17-alpine@sha256:..."},
+			},
+			"required": []string{"module", "artifact", "from"},
+		},
+		Long: true,
+		Run:  m.copy,
+	}
+}
+
+// upstreamRef is an image reference split the way a container runtime does: no host means the public hub.
+type upstreamRef struct {
+	base, repository, digest string
+}
+
+func parseUpstream(from string) (upstreamRef, error) {
+	pin := pinnedOK.FindStringSubmatch(from)
+	if pin == nil {
+		return upstreamRef{}, fmt.Errorf("%q names no digest", from)
+	}
+	name := strings.TrimSuffix(from, "@"+pin[1])
+	if colon := strings.LastIndex(name, ":"); colon > strings.LastIndex(name, "/") {
+		name = name[:colon] // the tag is only what it was called; the digest names the image
+	}
+	if name == "" {
+		return upstreamRef{}, fmt.Errorf("%q is not an image reference", from)
+	}
+	host, repository := "docker.io", name
+	if slash := strings.Index(name, "/"); slash >= 0 && (strings.ContainsAny(name[:slash], ".:") || name[:slash] == "localhost") {
+		host, repository = name[:slash], name[slash+1:]
+	}
+	if host == "docker.io" {
+		host = "registry-1.docker.io"
+		if !strings.Contains(repository, "/") {
+			repository = "library/" + repository
+		}
+	}
+	scheme := "https://"
+	if strings.HasPrefix(host, "localhost") || strings.HasPrefix(host, "127.") {
+		scheme = "http://"
+	}
+	return upstreamRef{base: scheme + host, repository: repository, digest: pin[1]}, nil
+}
+
+func (m *Module) copy(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+	module, _ := args["module"].(string)
+	name, _ := args["artifact"].(string)
+	from, _ := args["from"].(string)
+	if !nameOK.MatchString(module) || !nameOK.MatchString(name) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q / %q: a module and an artifact are named in lower case letters, digits, dots, dashes and underscores", module, name)
+	}
+	src, err := parseUpstream(from)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("not pinned: %s: %v; an upstream artifact is copied by the digest its manifest pins", name, err)
+	}
+	addr, err := m.registry()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("not stored: %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	repository := module + "/" + name
+	c := &copier{m: m, src: src, dstBase: "http://" + addr, dstRepo: repository, done: map[string]bool{}}
+	if err := m.waitForRegistry(ctx, addr, "copying "+from, func() error { return c.copyManifest(ctx, src.digest) }); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("not stored: %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	if err := c.verify(ctx); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("not stored: %s: %w", name, err)
+	}
+	return CopyResult{Artifact: name, Digest: src.digest, Reference: addr + "/" + repository + "@" + src.digest, Pushed: true}, nil
+}
+
+// copier copies one image from its upstream registry into the store's repository.
+type copier struct {
+	m       *Module
+	src     upstreamRef
+	dstBase string
+	dstRepo string
+	token   string
+	done    map[string]bool
+}
+
+func (c *copier) client() *http.Client {
+	if c.m.HTTP != nil {
+		return c.m.HTTP
+	}
+	return &http.Client{Timeout: 30 * time.Minute}
+}
+
+// get reads from the upstream registry, answering one bearer challenge with an anonymous token.
+func (c *copier) get(ctx context.Context, path, accept string) (*http.Response, error) {
+	for attempt := 0; attempt < 2; attempt++ {
+		req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, c.src.base+"/v2/"+c.src.repository+path, nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if accept != "" {
+			req.Header.Set("Accept", accept)
+		}
+		if c.token != "" {
+			req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+c.token)
+		}
+		resp, err := c.client().Do(req)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if resp.StatusCode == http.StatusUnauthorized && attempt == 0 {
+			challenge := resp.Header.Get("Www-Authenticate")
+			resp.Body.Close()
+			if c.token, err = c.fetchToken(ctx, challenge); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+			resp.Body.Close()
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("upstream answered %s for %s%s", resp.Status, c.src.repository, path)
+		}
+		return resp, nil
+	}
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("upstream refused %s%s after a token", c.src.repository, path)
+}
+
+var challengeParam = regexp.MustCompile(`(\w+)="([^"]*)"`)
+
+func (c *copier) fetchToken(ctx context.Context, challenge string) (string, error) {
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(strings.ToLower(challenge), "bearer ") {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("upstream asks for credentials (%q) and this copy holds none", challenge)
+	}
+	p := map[string]string{}
+	for _, kv := range challengeParam.FindAllStringSubmatch(challenge, -1) {
+		p[kv[1]] = kv[2]
+	}
+	realm := p["realm"]
+	if realm == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("upstream's challenge %q names no realm", challenge)
+	}
+	q := url.Values{"service": {p["service"]}, "scope": {"repository:" + c.src.repository + ":pull"}}
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, realm+"?"+q.Encode(), nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	resp, err := c.client().Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	var tok struct {
+		Token  string `json:"token"`
+		Access string `json:"access_token"`
+	}
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK || json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&tok) != nil || (tok.Token == "" && tok.Access == "") {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("upstream's token service answered %s", resp.Status)
+	}
+	if tok.Token != "" {
+		return tok.Token, nil
+	}
+	return tok.Access, nil
+}
+
+// copyManifest copies the manifest of digest and everything it names, children before the manifest itself.
+func (c *copier) copyManifest(ctx context.Context, digest string) error {
+	if c.done[digest] {
+		return nil
+	}
+	resp, err := c.get(ctx, "/manifests/"+digest, manifestKind)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 16<<20))
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	sum := sha256.Sum256(body)
+	if got := "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]); got != digest {
+		return fmt.Errorf("upstream served %s for the manifest pinned as %s", got, digest)
+	}
+	var doc struct {
+		MediaType string                    `json:"mediaType"`
+		Config    struct{ Digest string }   `json:"config"`
+		Layers    []struct{ Digest string } `json:"layers"`
+		Manifests []struct{ Digest string } `json:"manifests"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &doc); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the manifest %s is not JSON: %w", digest, err)
+	}
+	for _, child := range doc.Manifests {
+		if err := c.copyManifest(ctx, child.Digest); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	blobs := []string{}
+	if doc.Config.Digest != "" {
+		blobs = append(blobs, doc.Config.Digest)
+	}
+	for _, l := range doc.Layers {
+		blobs = append(blobs, l.Digest)
+	}
+	for _, b := range blobs {
+		if err := c.copyBlob(ctx, b); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	mediaType := resp.Header.Get("Content-Type")
+	if mediaType == "" {
+		mediaType = doc.MediaType
+	}
+	if err := c.putManifest(ctx, digest, mediaType, body); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	c.done[digest] = true
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (c *copier) copyBlob(ctx context.Context, digest string) error {
+	if !digestOK.MatchString(digest) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a blob digest", digest)
+	}
+	if c.done[digest] {
+		return nil
+	}
+	head, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodHead, c.dstBase+"/v2/"+c.dstRepo+"/blobs/"+digest, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if r, err := c.client().Do(head); err != nil {
+		return err
+	} else {
+		r.Body.Close()
+		if r.StatusCode == http.StatusOK {
+			c.done[digest] = true
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+	post, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, c.dstBase+"/v2/"+c.dstRepo+"/blobs/uploads/", nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	pr, err := c.client().Do(post)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	pr.Body.Close()
+	loc, err := pr.Location()
+	if pr.StatusCode != http.StatusAccepted || err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the store answered %s to a blob upload of %s", pr.Status, digest)
+	}
+	q := loc.Query()
+	q.Set("digest", digest)
+	loc.RawQuery = q.Encode()
+	blob, err := c.get(ctx, "/blobs/"+digest, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer blob.Body.Close()
+	put, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPut, loc.String(), blob.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	put.ContentLength = blob.ContentLength
+	put.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
+	resp, err := c.client().Do(put)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusCreated {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the store answered %s to the blob %s", resp.Status, digest)
+	}
+	c.done[digest] = true
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (c *copier) putManifest(ctx context.Context, digest, mediaType string, body []byte) error {
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPut, c.dstBase+"/v2/"+c.dstRepo+"/manifests/"+digest, bytes.NewReader(body))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", mediaType)
+	resp, err := c.client().Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusCreated && resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the store answered %s to the manifest %s", resp.Status, digest)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// verify reads back what the store serves for the pinned digest: only the store can say.
+func (c *copier) verify(ctx context.Context) error {
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodHead, c.dstBase+"/v2/"+c.dstRepo+"/manifests/"+c.src.digest, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	req.Header.Set("Accept", manifestKind)
+	resp, err := c.client().Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	resp.Body.Close()
+	if got := resp.Header.Get("Docker-Content-Digest"); resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK || got != c.src.digest {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the store answered %s with digest %q for the pinned %s", resp.Status, got, c.src.digest)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Plain is a long step that needs nothing of the machine: no guard. The copy runs no buildah.
+func (m *Module) Plain(tool string, run func(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error)) func(map[string]any) (any, error) {
+	return func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+		id, err := buildstep.Start(m.Ctx, m.Steps, m.Node, tool, func(ctx context.Context) (any, error) { return run(ctx, args) })
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		key, _ := delivery.StepKey(m.Node, id)
+		return map[string]any{"step": id, "key": key, "state": delivery.StepRunning}, nil
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/copy_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+func digestOf(b []byte) string { s := sha256.Sum256(b); return "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(s[:]) }
+
+// memRegistry is a registry in memory: blobs and manifests by digest, per repository.
+type memRegistry struct {
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	blobs     map[string][]byte // repo|digest
+	manifests map[string][]byte // repo|digest
+	types     map[string]string
+	puts      []string
+	srv       *httptest.Server
+}
+
+func newMem(t *testing.T) *memRegistry {
+	r := &memRegistry{blobs: map[string][]byte{}, manifests: map[string][]byte{}, types: map[string]string{}}
+	r.srv = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(r.serve))
+	t.Cleanup(r.srv.Close)
+	return r
+}
+
+func (r *memRegistry) addr() string { return r.srv.Listener.Addr().String() }
+
+func (r *memRegistry) serve(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	path := strings.TrimPrefix(req.URL.Path, "/v2/")
+	if i := strings.Index(path, "/blobs/uploads/"); i >= 0 {
+		if req.Method == http.MethodPost {
+			w.Header().Set("Location", "/v2/"+path[:i]+"/blobs/uploads/u1")
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusAccepted)
+			return
+		}
+		body, _ := io.ReadAll(req.Body)
+		d := req.URL.Query().Get("digest")
+		if digestOf(body) != d {
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+			return
+		}
+		r.blobs[path[:i]+"|"+d] = body
+		r.puts = append(r.puts, "blob "+d)
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusCreated)
+		return
+	}
+	for _, kind := range []string{"blobs", "manifests"} {
+		if i := strings.Index(path, "/"+kind+"/"); i >= 0 {
+			key := path[:i] + "|" + path[i+len(kind)+2:]
+			store := r.blobs
+			if kind == "manifests" {
+				store = r.manifests
+			}
+			if req.Method == http.MethodPut {
+				body, _ := io.ReadAll(req.Body)
+				if digestOf(body) != path[i+len(kind)+2:] {
+					w.WriteHeader(http.StatusBadRequest)
+					return
+				}
+				r.manifests[key] = body
+				r.types[key] = req.Header.Get("Content-Type")
+				r.puts = append(r.puts, "manifest "+path[i+len(kind)+2:])
+				w.WriteHeader(http.StatusCreated)
+				return
+			}
+			body, ok := store[key]
+			if !ok {
+				http.NotFound(w, req)
+				return
+			}
+			w.Header().Set("Docker-Content-Digest", path[i+len(kind)+2:])
+			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", r.types[key])
+			if req.Method == http.MethodHead {
+				return
+			}
+			w.Write(body)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+	http.NotFound(w, req)
+}
+
+// upstreamImage puts a two-platform index (two manifests, each with a config and a layer) into r and answers the index digest.
+func upstreamImage(r *memRegistry, repo string) string {
+	var children []map[string]string
+	for _, tag := range []string{"amd64", "arm64"} {
+		cfg, layer := []byte(`{"arch":"`+tag+`"}`), []byte("layer-"+tag)
+		r.blobs[repo+"|"+digestOf(cfg)], r.blobs[repo+"|"+digestOf(layer)] = cfg, layer
+		mf, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"schemaVersion": 2, "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json",
+			"config": map[string]string{"digest": digestOf(cfg)}, "layers": []map[string]string{{"digest": digestOf(layer)}}})
+		r.manifests[repo+"|"+digestOf(mf)] = mf
+		r.types[repo+"|"+digestOf(mf)] = "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json"
+		children = append(children, map[string]string{"digest": digestOf(mf)})
+	}
+	idx, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"schemaVersion": 2, "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json", "manifests": children})
+	d := digestOf(idx)
+	r.manifests[repo+"|"+d] = idx
+	r.types[repo+"|"+d] = "application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json"
+	return d
+}
+
+func runCopy(t *testing.T, m *Module, states *keptStates, args map[string]any) (CopyResult, delivery.Step) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if _, err := tool(t, m, CopyTool)(args); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	st := states.waitEnd(t)
+	var res CopyResult
+	if st.State == delivery.StepPassed {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(st.Result, &res); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	return res, st
+}
+
+// ADR 0498 §4 / AC: the copy leaves the pinned digest in the store and answers it, with the whole index (every
+// manifest it lists, every blob), and runs no buildah.
+func TestTheCopyLeavesThePinnedDigestInTheStoreAndAnswersIt(t *testing.T) {
+	up, store := newMem(t), newMem(t)
+	digest := upstreamImage(up, "library/nats")
+	f := newFake(t)
+	states := newStates()
+	m := moduleWith(t, f, states)
+	m.HTTP = nil
+	reg := store.addr()
+	writeFile(t, m.RegistryFile, reg+"\n")
+	from := up.addr() + "/library/nats:2.11.17-alpine@" + digest
+	res, st := runCopy(t, m, states, map[string]any{"module": "nats", "artifact": "server", "from": from})
+	if st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("step = %+v", st)
+	}
+	if res.Digest != digest || res.Reference != reg+"/nats/server@"+digest || !res.Pushed || res.Artifact != "server" {
+		t.Errorf("result = %+v", res)
+	}
+	if _, ok := store.manifests["nats/server|"+digest]; !ok {
+		t.Fatal("the index is not in the store")
+	}
+	if len(store.manifests) != 3 || len(store.blobs) != 4 {
+		t.Errorf("store holds %d manifests and %d blobs, want 3 and 4", len(store.manifests), len(store.blobs))
+	}
+	if len(f.lines()) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the copy ran commands: %v", f.lines())
+	}
+	// A second copy writes nothing new but the manifests.
+	store.puts = nil
+	if _, st := runCopy(t, m, states, map[string]any{"module": "nats", "artifact": "server", "from": from}); st.State != delivery.StepPassed {
+		t.Fatalf("again: %+v", st)
+	}
+	for _, p := range store.puts {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(p, "blob ") {
+			t.Errorf("a blob the store holds was sent again: %s", p)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// ADR 0498 §4 / AC: an upstream without a digest fails `not pinned:`, and nothing is read from the upstream.
+func TestAnUpstreamWithoutADigestFailsNotPinned(t *testing.T) {
+	up, store := newMem(t), newMem(t)
+	upstreamImage(up, "library/nats")
+	f := newFake(t)
+	states := newStates()
+	m := moduleWith(t, f, states)
+	writeFile(t, m.RegistryFile, store.addr()+"\n")
+	_, st := runCopy(t, m, states, map[string]any{"module": "nats", "artifact": "server", "from": up.addr() + "/library/nats:2.11.17-alpine"})
+	if st.State != delivery.StepFailed || !strings.Contains(st.Reason, "not pinned: server") {
+		t.Fatalf("step = %+v", st)
+	}
+	if len(store.puts) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the store was written: %v", store.puts)
+	}
+}
+
+// A manifest the upstream serves under another digest than the pin is not copied; the failure is `not stored:`.
+func TestAnUpstreamServingAnotherManifestThanPinnedIsNotStored(t *testing.T) {
+	up, store := newMem(t), newMem(t)
+	d := upstreamImage(up, "library/nats")
+	up.manifests["library/nats|"+d] = []byte(`{"tampered":true}`)
+	f := newFake(t)
+	states := newStates()
+	m := moduleWith(t, f, states)
+	writeFile(t, m.RegistryFile, store.addr()+"\n")
+	_, st := runCopy(t, m, states, map[string]any{"module": "nats", "artifact": "server", "from": up.addr() + "/library/nats@" + d})
+	if st.State != delivery.StepFailed || !strings.HasPrefix(st.Reason, "not stored: server:") {
+		t.Fatalf("step = %+v", st)
+	}
+	if len(store.manifests) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the store holds %v", store.manifests)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAShortNameIsQualifiedAsTheHubsAndAHostIsKept(t *testing.T) {
+	d := "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)
+	for from, want := range map[string]upstreamRef{
+		"alpine@" + d:              {"https://registry-1.docker.io", "library/alpine", d},
+		"nats:2.11.17-alpine@" + d: {"https://registry-1.docker.io", "library/nats", d},
+		"grafana/grafana:11@" + d:  {"https://registry-1.docker.io", "grafana/grafana", d},
+		"ghcr.io/org/app:1@" + d:   {"https://ghcr.io", "org/app", d},
+		"localhost:5000/x/y@" + d:  {"http://localhost:5000", "x/y", d},
+	} {
+		got, err := parseUpstream(from)
+		if err != nil || got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %+v, %v; want %+v", from, got, err, want)
+		}
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/main.go

@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ func main() {
 		go m.Start(ctx)
 	}
 	go startKeeper(ctx)
+	// Every state it keeps, said on the bus before it serves (ADR 0495 §2; issue 1790).
+	if err := keepStates(); err != nil {
+		logf("announcing the states it keeps: %v", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
 	if err := stdio.Serve("", m.Tools(m.StepTools())); err != nil {
 		logf("%v", err)
 		os.Exit(1)

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/manifest_test.go

@@ -154,9 +154,6 @@ func TestGiteaReadsTheImageBuildModulesKeys(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("gitea reads %v, lacks %s", gitea.Reads, want)
 		}
 	}
-	if problems := catalogue.StateReadsNothingDeclares(all); len(problems) > 0 {
-		t.Errorf("a read names a state its owner does not keep: %v", problems)
-	}
 }
 
 // 1704b: over the real manifests, mesh-build-image where no module provides rootless-image-build is refused, the error

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/qualify_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+)
+
+const pin = "@sha256:e4bf19f15fd3218814a4e3c9e0064e1334bd8aa20d5984b9f1a0afd084f8cc00"
+
+// 1824: a short base image name is qualified the way the controller's parseReference does (the public hub, `library/`
+// for a single name), because buildah has no unqualified-search registry here; a qualified name is left as it is.
+func TestAShortBaseImageNameIsQualifiedAsTheHubsAndAQualifiedOneIsKept(t *testing.T) {
+	for in, want := range map[string]string{
+		"nats" + pin:                     "docker.io/library/nats" + pin,
+		"nats:2.11.17-alpine" + pin:      "docker.io/library/nats:2.11.17-alpine" + pin,
+		"n8nio/n8n" + pin:                "docker.io/n8nio/n8n" + pin,
+		"docker.io/library/alpine" + pin: "docker.io/library/alpine" + pin,
+		"ghcr.io/org/app:1" + pin:        "ghcr.io/org/app:1" + pin,
+		"localhost:5000/x/y" + pin:       "localhost:5000/x/y" + pin,
+		"registry-1.docker.io/library/a": "registry-1.docker.io/library/a",
+	} {
+		if got := qualifyImage(in); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %s, want %s", in, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheBuildArgsCarryTheQualifiedName(t *testing.T) {
+	m := catalogue.Manifest{Build: &catalogue.Build{On: []catalogue.BuildsOn{{Arg: "NATS_BASE", Image: "nats" + pin}}}}
+	if got, want := imageArgs(m), []string{"--build-arg", "NATS_BASE=docker.io/library/nats" + pin}; !slices.Equal(got, want) {
+		t.Errorf("%v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/tools.go

@@ -25,14 +25,18 @@ type StepTool struct {
 }
 
 // StepTools are the module's step tools.
-func (m *Module) StepTools() []StepTool { return []StepTool{m.fetchTool(), m.buildTool()} }
+func (m *Module) StepTools() []StepTool {
+	return []StepTool{m.fetchTool(), m.buildTool(), m.copyTool()}
+}
 
 // Tools is every tool the module serves: its step tools behind the guard, its read tools, its status and its health.
 func (m *Module) Tools(steps []StepTool) []stdio.Tool {
 	tools := []stdio.Tool{}
 	for _, s := range steps {
 		t := stdio.Tool{Name: s.Name, Description: s.Description, Input: s.Input}
-		if s.Long {
+		if s.Name == CopyTool {
+			t.Run = m.Plain(s.Name, s.Run) // a copy needs no buildah, so the buildah guard does not stand in front of it
+		} else if s.Long {
 			t.Run = m.Long(s.Name, s.Run)
 		} else {
 			t.Run = m.Short(s.Run)

modules/mesh-build-image/go.mod

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module meshbuildimage
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021192148-78364e318bdc
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022183749-875c680d9876
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 )

modules/mesh-build-image/go.sum

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021192148-78364e318bdc h1:ZJScJSnF6LgFl55/VJ9RT/lNroVWun469sXtx0nlVYw=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021192148-78364e318bdc/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022183749-875c680d9876 h1:dtiIJzrX7ey1wmsdzapiFgCKDllCph7/vxfUp1ib/t8=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261022183749-875c680d9876/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=

modules/mesh-build-image/module.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   "tools": [
     "build_image_fetch",
     "build_image_build",
+    "build_image_copy",
     "build_image_step",
     "build_image_steps",
     "build_image_status",

modules/mesh-build-node/README.md

@@ -58,6 +58,15 @@ toolchain install: a long step answers at once with its id and ends on `<node>.<
   other `@novox/` packages install. A module with packages and no lock does not fail the fetch: its result lists it
   under `refused` with the reason, and a build of that bundle fails naming it (issue 1459). Every command runs through `forgekey.ExecRunnerClean(0)` with PATH, HOME, the locale and its own
   words, nothing of this process's environment. Workspaces older than a day are removed at each fetch.
+  The arguments are mesh-sdk's `buildstep.FetchRequest` (ADR 0499 §4): with `dir` and `paths` (from the builder, never
+  from a manifest) the workspace is narrowed to those paths, the manifest and the lock files before anything else. A
+  member is built against the SDK version its own lock names (the lead's decision L10 of R4e, ADR 0500 §5-§6): the
+  fetch places that version in the module's `node_modules/@novox/mesh-sdk`, from the group's package when the call
+  names one (`package: {repository, commit, ref}`: fetched, its dependencies installed from its own lock, built and
+  packed shut off, published nowhere) and its version and integrity are the lock's, else from the registry (integrity
+  checked); a version the registry lacks fails `waits for: @novox/mesh-sdk@<version>` (the builder queues the key), or,
+  with a group package of another version, fails naming both. A module whose lock names no SDK keeps the toolchain's.
+  A module whose artifact is a `package` gets its dependencies, devDependencies included, from its own lock instead.
 - `build_node_test` {workspace, module, level} (issue 1491): the unit level is the type-check (the toolchain's tsc, the
   package's `tsconfig.json` or the build agent's flags over its .ts files) and the `test` script; the integration level
   is the `test:integration` script, the type-check being its setup. Bounds (the Go module's; ADR 0445 names none for
@@ -70,4 +79,14 @@ toolchain install: a long step answers at once with its id and ends on `<node>.<
   toolchain's packages (not typescript or esbuild) copied to `stage-<artifact>/node_modules`: the build agent's depth
   (`/app/modules/module`, `/app/node_modules`), so esbuild's `../../node_modules/...` path comments, and the bundle's
   digest, equal its. Copies, not links, because the mesh makes no symlink. A bundle that keeps an external gets them in its own `node_modules`.
-  The packed archive is written beside the tree as `<artifact>.tar.gz`.
+  Once the build ended, this process pushes the packed archive to the artifact store (novox/hq ADR 0498 §1 §2, mesh-sdk's
+  `buildstep.PushBlob`, the address in `${dir:state}/registry`) under `<module>/<artifact>` by its digest, a candidate's as a
+  trunk build's, and answers `reference: artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>/blobs/<digest>`; a push that fails fails the
+  step `not stored: <artifact>: <the store's words>`. The packed bytes never stay on the node. tsc and esbuild, like the
+  type-check and the test script, run shut off in bubblewrap (ADR 0448): no network, none of the account, the toolchain
+  read-only, the npm cache beneath a throwaway layer unless the step is told `publish` (a trunk build).
+  A `package` artifact (ADR 0498 §5) is built by its own `build` script and packed with `npm pack --ignore-scripts`, both
+  shut off; its digest is the packed file's. Only with `publish` is it published, by this process with the registry's
+  write credential (never in a workspace or a step's mounts): a version the registry lacks is published, the same
+  packed file already there is done without a publish, another file under that version fails `version taken:
+  <name>@<version>`; the reference `<name>@<version>` is answered only then. A candidate answers its digest alone.

modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/announce.go

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package main
+
+// What this module keeps on the bus, announced from its code (novox/hq ADR 0495 §2 §5; issue 1790): every state it
+// keeps, each readable by others, since another module reads each today (the builder, the checker and the indexer read toolchains; the builder and the checker read steps; gitea reads keys). A state of its own that it
+// did not name here is refused at the call (stdio.Keeps).
+
+import (
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+)
+
+// Kept are the states the module keeps.
+var Kept = []announce.State{
+	{Name: "toolchains", Readable: true},
+	{Name: "keys", Readable: true},
+	{Name: "steps", Readable: true},
+}
+
+// keepStates announces Kept as this module's (stdio.Keeps): main calls it before it serves.
+func keepStates() error { return stdio.Keeps(Kept...) }

modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/announce_integration_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announcetest"
+)
+
+// 1790 (ADR 0495 §5): served as the runtime serves it, the module announces on the bus every state it keeps, as its
+// code declares them. The runtime's part, publishing what the bundle asks to publish, is played by relay.
+func TestTheModuleAnnouncesEveryStateItKeeps(t *testing.T) {
+	const module = "mesh-build-node"
+	announcetest.Check(t, module, Kept, func(url string) func() {
+		t.Setenv("MESH_MODULE", module)
+		t.Setenv("MESH_NODE", "shanks")
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(url)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := keepStates(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		inR, inW := io.Pipe()
+		outR, outW := io.Pipe()
+		go func() { _ = stdio.ServeOn(module, nil, inR, outW) }()
+		go relay(t, module, nc, outR, inW)
+		return func() { _ = inW.Close(); _ = outW.Close(); nc.Close() }
+	})
+}
+
+// relay is the runtime's side of the channel: each mesh/publish the bundle asks is published on its module's event
+// subject, mesh.mod.<module>.event.<key>, and answered.
+func relay(t *testing.T, module string, nc *nats.Conn, from io.Reader, to io.Writer) {
+	sc := bufio.NewScanner(from)
+	sc.Buffer(make([]byte, 1<<20), 1<<24)
+	enc := json.NewEncoder(to)
+	for sc.Scan() {
+		var m struct {
+			ID     json.RawMessage `json:"id"`
+			Method string          `json:"method"`
+			Params struct {
+				Key  string          `json:"key"`
+				Body json.RawMessage `json:"body"`
+			} `json:"params"`
+		}
+		if json.Unmarshal(sc.Bytes(), &m) != nil || m.Method != "mesh/publish" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := nc.Publish("mesh.mod."+module+".event."+m.Params.Key, m.Params.Body); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("publishing %s: %v", m.Params.Key, err)
+		}
+		_ = nc.Flush()
+		_ = enc.Encode(map[string]any{"id": m.ID, "result": map[string]any{}})
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/build.go

@@ -18,12 +18,9 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
-// launcherSuffix is what an entrypoint's launcher is called beside it: index.js is started as index.serve.mjs
-// (novox/hq ADR 0193).
-const launcherSuffix = ".serve.mjs"
-
 // Out is where a bundle's compiled files go in the module's directory (builder toolchain.go:118).
 func Out(artifact string) string { return ".mesh-build/" + artifact }
 
@@ -32,7 +29,10 @@ const banner = "--banner:js=import { createRequire as __meshRequire } from 'node
 
 // artifact is the part of a module.json artifact the build reads.
 type artifact struct {
+	// module is the manifest's module name, which the artifact is stored under.
+	module      string
 	Name        string   `json:"name"`
+	Kind        string   `json:"kind"`
 	Language    string   `json:"language"`
 	Entrypoints []string `json:"entrypoints"`
 	External    []string `json:"external"`
@@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ type BuildResult struct {
 	// Digest is "sha256:" and the hex of the archive's bytes (buildstep.Pack).
 	Digest string `json:"digest"`
 	Bytes  int    `json:"bytes"`
-	// Archive is the packed file, in the workspace beside its tree.
-	Archive string   `json:"archive"`
-	Files   []string `json:"files"`
+	// Reference is where the packed bundle is in the artifact store (novox/hq ADR 0498 §1):
+	// artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>/blobs/<digest>. The packed file never stays on the node.
+	Reference string   `json:"reference"`
+	Files     []string `json:"files"`
 }
 
 func (m *Module) buildTool() StepTool {
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ func (m *Module) buildTool() StepTool {
 				"workspace": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the workspace id a fetch step answered"},
 				"module":    map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the module's directory in the workspace, '.' when it is the root"},
 				"artifact":  map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the name of the bundle in the module's module.json"},
+				"publish":   map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "true for a merged trunk commit alone: the build writes the shared cache; without it (a candidate) the cache is read beneath a throwaway layer"},
 			},
 			"required": []string{"workspace", "artifact"},
 		},
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	workspace, _ := args["workspace"].(string)
 	module, _ := args["module"].(string)
 	name, _ := args["artifact"].(string)
+	publish, _ := args["publish"].(bool)
 	root, dir, err := m.moduleDirOf(workspace, module)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -83,6 +86,9 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	if a.Kind == "package" {
+		return m.buildPackage(ctx, workspace, module, root, dir, a, publish)
+	}
 	if why, err := lockProblem(dir, module); err != nil || why != "" {
 		if err == nil {
 			err = fmt.Errorf("%s was refused by the fetch: %s", name, why)
@@ -112,14 +118,14 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	tsc := []string{m.tsc(), "--module", "NodeNext", "--moduleResolution", "NodeNext", "--target", "ES2022",
 		"--rootDir", ".", "--outDir", out}
 	tsc = append(tsc, sourcesFor(a.Entrypoints, out, ".ts")...)
-	if why := ranFailed(m.runIn(ctx, dir, nil, "node", tsc...)); why != "" {
+	if why := ranFailed(m.runIn(ctx, root, publish, dir, nil, "node", tsc...)); why != "" {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("tsc for %s: %s", a.Name, why)
 	}
 	launchers, err := writeLaunchers(filepath.Join(dir, out), a)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	if err := m.bundle(ctx, dir, a, launchers); err != nil {
+	if err := m.bundle(ctx, root, publish, dir, a, launchers); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	bundleDir := filepath.Join(dir, final)
@@ -132,9 +138,10 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("packing %s: %w", a.Name, err)
 	}
-	file := filepath.Join(root, a.Name+".tar.gz")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(file, archive, 0o600); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+	// Pushed from this process once the build ended, a candidate's as a trunk build's (ADR 0498 §1 §2): the step answers
+	// the reference, or fails not stored. The packed bytes are never written to the node (the lead's decision L9).
+	if err := m.push(ctx, a.module+"/"+a.Name, digest, archive); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s%s: %v", delivery.NotStored, a.Name, err)
 	}
 	files := []string{}
 	_ = filepath.WalkDir(bundleDir, func(p string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
@@ -145,12 +152,13 @@ func (m *Module) build(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 		return nil
 	})
 	sort.Strings(files)
-	return BuildResult{Workspace: workspace, Module: module, Artifact: a.Name, Digest: digest, Bytes: len(archive), Archive: file, Files: files}, nil
+	return BuildResult{Workspace: workspace, Module: module, Artifact: a.Name, Digest: digest, Bytes: len(archive),
+		Reference: buildstep.BlobReference(a.module, a.Name, digest), Files: files}, nil
 }
 
 // bundle makes every entrypoint and every launcher ONE file, with esbuild (builder.go:1971-2039): an entrypoint is
 // bundled in place under its own name, a launcher keeps its name with the extension .mjs.
-func (m *Module) bundle(ctx context.Context, dir string, a artifact, launchers map[string]string) error {
+func (m *Module) bundle(ctx context.Context, root string, publish bool, dir string, a artifact, launchers map[string]string) error {
 	out, final := Out(a.Name), Out(a.Name)+".bundled"
 	if err := os.RemoveAll(filepath.Join(dir, final)); err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -177,7 +185,7 @@ func (m *Module) bundle(ctx context.Context, dir string, a artifact, launchers m
 			return nil
 		}
 		args := append(append(append([]string{}, entries...), common...), extra...)
-		if why := ranFailed(m.runIn(ctx, dir, nil, m.esbuild(), args...)); why != "" {
+		if why := ranFailed(m.runIn(ctx, root, publish, dir, nil, m.esbuild(), args...)); why != "" {
 			return fmt.Errorf("esbuild for %s: %s", a.Name, why)
 		}
 		return nil
@@ -204,15 +212,12 @@ func (m *Module) bundle(ctx context.Context, dir string, a artifact, launchers m
 }
 
 // writeLaunchers writes, beside every entrypoint, an executable that imports the entrypoint and serves what it
-// registered over MCP on stdio (builder.go:1926-1956; novox/hq ADR 0193). Its answer is each entrypoint's launcher,
-// relative to the bundle's root.
+// registered over MCP on stdio (builder.go:1926-1956; novox/hq ADR 0193). Which entrypoint gets which launcher is
+// mesh-sdk's one rule, buildstep.Launchers, which the controller reads a bundle by (R4e). Its answer is each
+// entrypoint's launcher, relative to the bundle's root.
 func writeLaunchers(root string, a artifact) (map[string]string, error) {
 	out := map[string]string{}
-	for _, entry := range a.Entrypoints {
-		if !strings.HasSuffix(entry, ".js") {
-			continue
-		}
-		launcher := strings.TrimSuffix(entry, ".js") + launcherSuffix
+	for entry, launcher := range buildstep.Launchers(a.Language, a.Entrypoints) {
 		body := "#!/usr/bin/env node\n" +
 			"// Written by the mesh's builder (novox/hq ADR 0193): serve what " + entry + " registers,\n" +
 			"// over MCP on stdio, as the module the node's runtime names in MESH_SERVED_MODULE.\n" +
@@ -260,7 +265,8 @@ func readArtifact(dir, name string) (artifact, error) {
 		return artifact{}, fmt.Errorf("the module has no module.json: %w", err)
 	}
 	var m struct {
-		Build struct {
+		Module string `json:"module"`
+		Build  struct {
 			Artifacts []artifact `json:"artifacts"`
 		} `json:"build"`
 	}
@@ -271,12 +277,17 @@ func readArtifact(dir, name string) (artifact, error) {
 		if a.Name != name {
 			continue
 		}
+		if a.Kind == "package" && a.Language == "typescript" {
+			a.module = m.Module
+			return a, nil // a package is built by its own build script and packed (package.go), from no entrypoint
+		}
 		if a.Language != "typescript" {
 			return artifact{}, fmt.Errorf("artifact %q is %q, and this module builds typescript", name, a.Language)
 		}
 		if len(a.Entrypoints) == 0 {
 			return artifact{}, fmt.Errorf("artifact %q names no entrypoints", name)
 		}
+		a.module = m.Module
 		return a, nil
 	}
 	return artifact{}, fmt.Errorf("module.json declares no artifact %q", name)

modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/build_integration_test.go

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 // registry for @novox, which reads without a credential) and makes two workspaces holding one fixture bundle.
 func realMachine(t *testing.T) (*Module, string) {
 	t.Helper()
-	for _, p := range []string{"node", "npm"} {
+	for _, p := range []string{"node", "npm", "bwrap"} { // bwrap: tsc, esbuild and the scripts run shut off (1309)
 		if _, err := exec.LookPath(p); err != nil {
 			t.Skipf("NOT RUN: no %s installed where this check runs (the mesh's Go toolchain image holds none); proven live on a build node", p)
 		}
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ func realMachine(t *testing.T) (*Module, string) {
 		Toolchain: &Toolchain{Paths: Paths{Home: home, Cache: cache}, Run: run, Registry: func() (Registry, error) {
 			return Registry{URL: "https://git.novox.be/api/packages/novox/npm/"}, nil
 		}}}
+	withStore(t, m)
 	if err := m.Toolchain.Ensure(context.Background(), m.Recipe.Version()); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -89,3 +90,28 @@ func TestTheFixturePassesTheUnitLevel(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("result = %+v", r)
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1869: a package whose test imports its own build output (as mesh-sdk's do) passes the unit level: the test step
+// emits it with the real tsc, shut off, before the test script runs.
+func TestAPackageWhoseTestsImportItsBuildPassesTheUnitLevel(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := exec.LookPath("bwrap"); err != nil {
+		t.Skip("NOT RUN: no bubblewrap installed where this check runs; every build node has it (the module declares it)")
+	}
+	m, work := realMachine(t)
+	for p, body := range map[string]string{
+		"modules/p/package.json":  `{"name":"p","type":"module","scripts":{"build":"tsc","test":"node --test test/a.test.mjs","prepare":"tsc"}}`,
+		"modules/p/tsconfig.json": `{"compilerOptions":{"module":"NodeNext","moduleResolution":"NodeNext","target":"ES2022","outDir":"dist","rootDir":"src"},"include":["src"]}`,
+		"modules/p/src/index.ts":  "export const answer: number = 42;\n",
+		"modules/p/test/a.test.mjs": "import { test } from 'node:test';\nimport assert from 'node:assert';\nimport { answer } from '../dist/index.js';\n" +
+			"test('the build is there', () => assert.equal(answer, 42));\n",
+	} {
+		write(t, filepath.Join(work, "w1", "tree", filepath.FromSlash(p)), body, 0o644)
+	}
+	out, err := m.test(context.Background(), map[string]any{"workspace": "w1", "module": "modules/p", "level": "unit"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if r := out.(*TestResult); !r.Passed || !slices.Equal(r.Ran, []string{"build", "test"}) {
+		t.Errorf("result = %+v", r)
+	}
+}