bazarr: reach sonarr and radarr through the mesh; placed dirs; the image ace runs

bazarr reached sonarr and radarr as `sonarr:8989` and `radarr:7878`,
container names on HAL's shared network, which the mesh does not have.
It now requires sonarr-api and radarr-api (provided since #156) and a
run-once step writes host, port, TLS, base path and key into bazarr
through bazarr's own POST /api/system/settings - the call its settings
screen makes - only for the fields that differ, and reads them back.
bazarr's config.yaml is not written by the mesh: bazarr holds it in
memory and rewrites it, so the two would overwrite each other. The key is
tried against the app first; a refused key (a minted pair credential
before the operator accepts the app's own) is never written, and the step
fails naming the `secret accept` that fixes it. Declared last so its
failing gates nothing else (ADR 0136); restart-on its four inputs.

The api-key own-secret is gone. bazarr makes its own key and nothing lets
the mesh set it, so a minted one could never work; the tools and the step
read auth.apikey from bazarr's own config/config.yaml (mounted read-only),
which also stays right if the key is regenerated. Nothing to accept.

The config dir is a pathless ${dir:config}; config.json and the bindings
live in a placed state dir; /var/lib/mesh/bazarr keeps only the broker.
The image is pinned to the digest ace runs (v1.6.1-ls364); the old pin was
v1.6.0-ls361, older than ace's database.

Based on feat/servarr-api-provision (#156); this branch contains it.

Verified: catalogue tests with MESH_CATALOGUE pass (not skipped); a
resolve of sonarr+radarr+bazarr on a fake ace renders both bindings and
sealed credentials into the state dir with every ${} filled, and bazarr
alone is refused naming sonarr and radarr; strict tsc passes and the
Dockerfile's non-strict compile builds; 8 node tests pass; the compiled
step against the pinned image in a throwaway container with fake
sonarr/radarr wrote sonarr (ip, port, apikey), refused radarr's minted
key and wrote nothing for it, wrote radarr once the key was right, and
changed nothing on a third run - the values landed in config.yaml.

modules/bazarr/Dockerfile

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ARG RUNTIME_BASE
 FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
 WORKDIR /app/modules/bazarr
 COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc apikey.ts client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts servarr/settings.ts servarr/index.ts \
       --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
 
 FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ COPY --from=build /app/modules/bazarr/dist /app/modules/bazarr/dist
 # provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
 # the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
 ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/bazarr/dist/index.js,/app/modules/bazarr/dist/tools/index.js
+# NOT dist/servarr/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the `servarr`
+# container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run inside the
+# serving sidecar too, and exit it.

modules/bazarr/apikey.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// bazarr's own API key, found where bazarr keeps it. Shared by the client (tools, events) and the
+// Servarr step, and kept apart from client.ts so the step and its test load it without the client.
+
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+
+/**
+ * bazarr's own API key, read from where bazarr keeps it: `auth.apikey` in `config/config.yaml` under
+ * its config directory. bazarr makes this key itself on first start and nothing lets the mesh set it,
+ * so a key the mesh minted could never work; reading bazarr's own file needs nothing accepted and
+ * stays right if the operator regenerates the key in bazarr's settings screen. The file is read, never
+ * written. Undefined when the file or the key is not there.
+ */
+export function apiKeyFromConfigDir(configDir?: string): string | undefined {
+  if (!configDir) return undefined;
+  let text: string;
+  try { text = readFileSync(`${configDir.replace(/\/$/, "")}/config/config.yaml`, "utf8"); }
+  catch { return undefined; }
+  return apiKeyFromConfigYaml(text);
+}
+
+/** `auth.apikey` from the text of bazarr's config.yaml — a top-level `auth:` mapping, one level deep. */
+export function apiKeyFromConfigYaml(text: string): string | undefined {
+  let inAuth = false;
+  for (const line of text.split(/\r?\n/)) {
+    if (/^\S/.test(line)) {
+      inAuth = /^auth:\s*$/.test(line);
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (!inAuth) continue;
+    const m = line.match(/^\s+apikey:\s*(.*?)\s*$/);
+    if (m) {
+      const v = m[1].replace(/^(['"])(.*)\1$/, "$2").trim();
+      return v || undefined;
+    }
+  }
+  return undefined;
+}

modules/bazarr/client.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
+import { apiKeyFromConfigDir } from "./apikey.js";
+
 export interface WantedSubtitle {
   kind: "episode" | "movie";
   title: string; // series + episode, or movie title
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ function meshConfig(file?: string): Record<string, string> {
  *  absent or unreadable yields undefined so callers fall back rather than crash. */
 function readSecret(file?: string): string | undefined {
   if (!file) return undefined;
-  try { return readFileSync(file, "utf8").trim(); }
+  try { return readFileSync(file, "utf8").trim() || undefined; }
   catch { return undefined; }
 }
 
@@ -66,9 +68,13 @@ export class BazarrClient {
   static fromEnv(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): BazarrClient {
     const cfg = meshConfig(env.MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_FILE);
     const url = cfg.url ?? env.MESH_BAZARR_URL;
-    const apiKey = cfg.apiKey ?? readSecret(env.MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY_FILE) ?? env.MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY;
+    const apiKey =
+      cfg.apiKey ??
+      apiKeyFromConfigDir(env.MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR) ??
+      readSecret(env.MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY_FILE) ??
+      env.MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY;
     if (!url) throw new Error("no Bazarr URL — set MESH_BAZARR_URL");
-    if (!apiKey) throw new Error("no Bazarr API key — set MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY");
+    if (!apiKey) throw new Error("no Bazarr API key — bazarr's config/config.yaml under MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR has none");
     return new BazarrClient(url, apiKey);
   }
 

modules/bazarr/module.json

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
     "subtitle.downloaded"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
-    "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/broker",
-    "api-key": "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/api-key"
+    "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/broker"
   },
   "listens": [
     {
@@ -45,10 +44,15 @@
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr",
       "mode": "0700"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "."
+    },
     {
       "id": "config",
       "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/services/bazarr/config",
       "mode": "0700",
       "owner": "1000:1000"
     },
@@ -56,7 +60,7 @@
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
       "name": "bazarr",
-      "image": "lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr@sha256:3a820372f19fcb2981ea19fe4b5382934d67414afaba974bce831ddda0a64a02",
+      "image": "lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr@sha256:d24bd0048c759a468970989e9df11a6b96a7628d556d00f923e60a35ba59237b",
       "env": {
         "PUID": "1000",
         "PGID": "1000",
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@
         "6767"
       ],
       "volumes": [
-        "/services/bazarr/config:/config",
+        "${dir:config}:/config",
         "/services/media/movies:/movies",
         "/services/media/series:/series",
         "/services/media/anime:/anime",
@@ -76,7 +80,7 @@
     {
       "id": "runtime-config",
       "type": "file",
-      "path": "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/config.json",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/config.json",
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
@@ -88,14 +92,12 @@
       "network": "host",
       "volumes": [
         "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
-        "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/api-key:/run/secrets/api-key:ro",
-        "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "/services/bazarr/config:/var/lib/bazarr/config:ro"
+        "${dir:state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:config}:/var/lib/bazarr/config:ro"
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_BAZARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:6767",
-        "MESH_BAZARR_API_KEY_FILE": "/run/secrets/api-key",
+        "MESH_BAZARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:6767}",
         "MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
         "MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/bazarr/config"
       },
@@ -103,10 +105,42 @@
         "runtime-config"
       ],
       "artifact": "runtime"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "servarr",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-bazarr-servarr",
+      "network": "host",
+      "run-once": true,
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:config}:/var/lib/bazarr/config:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.json:/run/servarr/sonarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.secret:/run/servarr/sonarr-api.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.json:/run/servarr/radarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.secret:/run/servarr/radarr-api.secret:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BAZARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:6767}",
+        "MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/bazarr/config",
+        "MESH_SERVARR_DIR": "/run/servarr"
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/bazarr/dist/servarr/index.js"
+      ],
+      "restart-on": [
+        "bound-sonarr-api",
+        "secret-sonarr-api",
+        "bound-radarr-api",
+        "secret-radarr-api"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
-    "route"
+    "radarr-api",
+    "route",
+    "sonarr-api"
   ],
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
@@ -115,7 +149,13 @@
     }
   },
   "binds": {
-    "route": "/var/lib/mesh/bazarr/route.json"
+    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json",
+    "sonarr-api": "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.json",
+    "radarr-api": "${dir:state}/radarr-api.json"
+  },
+  "secrets": {
+    "sonarr-api": "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.secret",
+    "radarr-api": "${dir:state}/radarr-api.secret"
   },
   "build": {
     "on": [

modules/bazarr/package.json

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
   "description": "bazarr — subtitle management. Its API client, tools and events live here (novox/hq ADR 0039).",
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc apikey.ts client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts servarr/settings.ts servarr/index.ts --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist",
+    "typecheck": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
+    "test": "node --test --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
+  },
   "dependencies": {
     "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0"
   },

modules/bazarr/servarr/index.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+// bazarr's Servarr step — run once by the host after bazarr's server starts, and run again whenever a
+// binding or pair credential it reads changes (the container's `restart-on`, novox/hq ADR 0099).
+//
+// **A step, not a loop**: everything it does is a function of files the mesh writes, and the host
+// already knows when they change. It connects to no broker.
+//
+// Exits non-zero when any app could not be put right — a refused credential, an unreachable app, a
+// bazarr that would not keep the settings — so the node reports the step failed and the host runs it
+// again on the next apply. Declared last in the manifest, so its failing gates nothing else of
+// bazarr's (novox/hq ADR 0136).
+//
+// Reads, per app, `<dir>/<provision>.json` (the binding) and `<dir>/<provision>.secret` (the pair
+// credential), where <dir> is MESH_SERVARR_DIR; and bazarr's own key from bazarr's own config.yaml
+// under MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR. Never prints a key.
+
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { apiKeyFromConfigDir } from "../apikey.js";
+import { APPS, bazarrReady, readBinding, readIfThere, reconcileApp, type Http } from "./settings.js";
+
+const dir = process.env.MESH_SERVARR_DIR ?? "/run/servarr";
+const url = process.env.MESH_BAZARR_URL ?? "http://127.0.0.1:6767";
+const waitSeconds = Number(process.env.MESH_BAZARR_WAIT_SECONDS ?? "180");
+
+const http: Http = { fetch: (u, init) => fetch(u, init) };
+
+const bazarrUp = await bazarrReady(http, { url, apiKey: "" }, waitSeconds * 1000);
+if (!bazarrUp) {
+  console.error(`[bazarr-servarr] bazarr did not answer at ${url} within ${waitSeconds}s`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+// Read after bazarr answers: on a first start bazarr writes its config.yaml, key included, as it boots.
+const apiKey = apiKeyFromConfigDir(process.env.MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR);
+if (!apiKey) {
+  console.error("[bazarr-servarr] no bazarr API key in bazarr's config/config.yaml under MESH_BAZARR_CONFIG_DIR");
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+const bazarr = { url, apiKey };
+
+let failed = 0;
+for (const spec of APPS) {
+  const outcome = await reconcileApp(
+    http,
+    bazarr,
+    spec,
+    await readBinding(join(dir, `${spec.provision}.json`)),
+    await readIfThere(join(dir, `${spec.provision}.secret`)),
+  );
+  switch (outcome.result) {
+    case "unchanged":
+      console.log(`[bazarr-servarr] ${outcome.app}: already as the mesh says; key taken by ${outcome.app}`);
+      break;
+    case "written":
+      console.log(`[bazarr-servarr] ${outcome.app}: wrote ${outcome.fields.join(", ")}; key taken by ${outcome.app}`);
+      break;
+    case "refused":
+      failed++;
+      console.error(`[bazarr-servarr] ${outcome.app}: ${outcome.problem}`);
+      break;
+  }
+}
+process.exitCode = failed > 0 ? 1 : 0;

modules/bazarr/servarr/settings.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+// Where bazarr reaches Sonarr and Radarr — decided by the mesh, written into bazarr by bazarr's own
+// API.
+//
+// **Why this exists.** bazarr keeps its connection to each app in its own `config/config.yaml`, which
+// it holds in memory and writes back whenever its settings change — so the mesh cannot own that file
+// without the two overwriting each other. bazarr requires `sonarr-api` and `radarr-api`; the mesh
+// delivers, for each, a binding (where the app is: `at`, and what it serves: `port`, `scheme`,
+// `url-base`) and a pair credential (the app's API key, accepted by the operator — a Servarr app has
+// exactly one key and the mesh cannot mint it, novox/hq ADR 0092). This step reads those files and
+// makes bazarr's settings say the same thing, through `POST /api/system/settings` — the call bazarr's
+// own settings screen makes, which also restarts bazarr's SignalR feed from the app.
+//
+// **Only the connection, and only when it differs.** Host, port, TLS, base path and API key. Whether
+// bazarr uses the app at all (`general.use_sonarr`), sync intervals, excluded tags, path mappings and
+// every other choice the operator made are left exactly as they are: the mesh knows where the app is,
+// not what bazarr should do with it.
+//
+// **A credential the app refuses is never written.** Until the operator accepts the app's key for this
+// pair the mesh delivers a value it minted, which no Servarr app accepts. Writing it would replace a
+// working key in bazarr with a dead one, so the key is tried against the app first; refused, nothing
+// for that app is written and the step fails naming the `secret accept` that fixes it.
+//
+// The same shape as ombi's step (modules/ombi/servarr), repeated rather than shared because a module
+// is built from its own directory and nothing else (novox/hq ADR 0069). Pure logic and a small HTTP
+// seam, tested against fakes (test/servarr.test.ts).
+
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+
+/** One Servarr app bazarr connects to. */
+export interface ServarrApp {
+  /** The section of bazarr's settings that holds the connection: settings.<app>.* */
+  app: "sonarr" | "radarr";
+  /** The provision it is required as — the manifest's `requires`, `binds` and `secrets` key. */
+  provision: string;
+  /** The app's own status endpoint, which answers 401 to a wrong key. */
+  statusPath: string;
+}
+
+export const APPS: readonly ServarrApp[] = [
+  { app: "sonarr", provision: "sonarr-api", statusPath: "/api/v3/system/status" },
+  { app: "radarr", provision: "radarr-api", statusPath: "/api/v3/system/status" },
+];
+
+/** The connection fields bazarr keeps for an app — the only ones this step ever writes. */
+export interface Connection {
+  ip: string;
+  port: number;
+  ssl: boolean;
+  /** bazarr's base_url: "" at the root, otherwise "/base". */
+  base_url: string;
+  apikey: string;
+}
+
+/** What the mesh wrote at `binds.<provision>`: the binding document. */
+export interface Binding {
+  provision?: string;
+  from?: string;
+  at?: string;
+  as?: string;
+  serves?: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+export type Wanted = { ok: true; connection: Connection; from: string } | { ok: false; problem: string };
+
+/**
+ * The connection the mesh says bazarr should use. Refused rather than guessed when the binding cannot
+ * be dialled from bazarr's own container: a loopback `at` is bazarr's container itself.
+ */
+export function wanted(spec: ServarrApp, binding: Binding | undefined, credential: string | undefined): Wanted {
+  if (!binding) {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `no binding for ${spec.provision} was delivered — the mesh writes it before this step runs` };
+  }
+  const at = typeof binding.at === "string" ? binding.at.trim() : "";
+  const serves = binding.serves ?? {};
+  const port = Number(serves.port);
+  if (!at) return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} binding names no host (at)` };
+  if (isLoopback(at)) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      problem:
+        `the ${spec.provision} binding says ${spec.app} is at ${at}, which from bazarr's own container is ` +
+        `bazarr itself. The mesh hands loopback to a machine that is not on the private network; put it ` +
+        `on the private network so ${spec.app} has an address bazarr can dial`,
+    };
+  }
+  if (!Number.isInteger(port) || port <= 0 || port > 65535) {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} binding serves no usable port (${String(serves.port)})` };
+  }
+  const scheme = typeof serves.scheme === "string" && serves.scheme ? serves.scheme : "http";
+  if (scheme !== "http" && scheme !== "https") {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} binding serves scheme ${scheme}, which bazarr cannot dial` };
+  }
+  const key = (credential ?? "").trim();
+  if (!key) return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} credential is empty or was not delivered` };
+  return {
+    ok: true,
+    from: typeof binding.from === "string" ? binding.from : "",
+    connection: { ip: at, port, ssl: scheme === "https", base_url: baseUrlOf(serves["url-base"]), apikey: key },
+  };
+}
+
+/** A URL base as bazarr stores it: "" for none, else one leading slash and no trailing one. */
+export function baseUrlOf(urlBase: unknown): string {
+  const trimmed = typeof urlBase === "string" ? urlBase.trim().replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, "") : "";
+  return trimmed === "" ? "" : `/${trimmed}`;
+}
+
+function isLoopback(host: string): boolean {
+  const h = host.toLowerCase();
+  return h === "localhost" || h === "::1" || h === "[::1]" || /^127\./.test(h);
+}
+
+/** Which connection fields differ between what bazarr holds and what the mesh says. Names only. */
+export function differing(current: Record<string, unknown> | undefined, want: Connection): (keyof Connection)[] {
+  const now = current ?? {};
+  const out: (keyof Connection)[] = [];
+  if (String(now.ip ?? "") !== want.ip) out.push("ip");
+  if (Number(now.port ?? 0) !== want.port) out.push("port");
+  if (Boolean(now.ssl) !== want.ssl) out.push("ssl");
+  if (baseUrlOf(now.base_url) !== want.base_url) out.push("base_url");
+  if (String(now.apikey ?? "") !== want.apikey) out.push("apikey");
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The form bazarr's settings endpoint takes for the differing fields: `settings-<app>-<field>`.
+ * bazarr casts "true"/"false" to booleans and digit strings to integers itself.
+ */
+export function settingsForm(spec: ServarrApp, want: Connection, fields: readonly (keyof Connection)[]): URLSearchParams {
+  const form = new URLSearchParams();
+  for (const f of fields) {
+    const v = want[f];
+    form.append(`settings-${spec.app}-${f}`, typeof v === "boolean" ? (v ? "true" : "false") : String(v));
+  }
+  return form;
+}
+
+/** The app's base URL as the step dials it — the same host and port bazarr will be given. */
+export function appUrl(want: Connection): string {
+  const scheme = want.ssl ? "https" : "http";
+  const host = want.ip.includes(":") && !want.ip.startsWith("[") ? `[${want.ip}]` : want.ip;
+  return `${scheme}://${host}:${want.port}${want.base_url}`;
+}
+
+/** How one app came out. */
+export type Outcome =
+  | { app: string; result: "unchanged" }
+  | { app: string; result: "written"; fields: string[] }
+  | { app: string; result: "refused"; problem: string };
+
+/** The HTTP the step needs, so a test can stand fakes in for bazarr and the apps. */
+export interface Http {
+  fetch(url: string, init?: { method?: string; headers?: Record<string, string>; body?: string }): Promise<{
+    status: number;
+    text(): Promise<string>;
+  }>;
+}
+
+export interface Bazarr {
+  url: string;
+  apiKey: string;
+}
+
+async function bazarrCall(http: Http, bazarr: Bazarr, method: string, path: string, form?: URLSearchParams): Promise<unknown> {
+  const res = await http.fetch(`${bazarr.url.replace(/\/$/, "")}/api${path}`, {
+    method,
+    headers: {
+      "X-API-KEY": bazarr.apiKey,
+      Accept: "application/json",
+      ...(form ? { "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" } : {}),
+    },
+    body: form ? form.toString() : undefined,
+  });
+  const text = await res.text();
+  if (res.status < 200 || res.status >= 300) {
+    // bazarr's error body is a message, never a request echo, so it carries no key.
+    throw new Error(`bazarr ${method} ${path} answered ${res.status}${text ? `: ${text.slice(0, 200)}` : ""}`);
+  }
+  return text ? (JSON.parse(text) as unknown) : undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Does the app take this key? `true` it does, `false` it refused it (401/403), and a thrown error
+ * when it could not be asked.
+ */
+export async function appTakes(http: Http, spec: ServarrApp, want: Connection): Promise<boolean> {
+  const res = await http.fetch(`${appUrl(want)}${spec.statusPath}`, {
+    method: "GET",
+    headers: { "X-Api-Key": want.apikey, Accept: "application/json" },
+  });
+  if (res.status === 401 || res.status === 403) return false;
+  if (res.status >= 200 && res.status < 300) return true;
+  throw new Error(`${spec.app} answered ${res.status} at ${spec.statusPath}`);
+}
+
+/** The remedy for a refused key, in the controller's own words (ADR 0092). */
+export function acceptRemedy(spec: ServarrApp, from: string): string {
+  return (
+    `${spec.app} refuses the ${spec.provision} credential the mesh delivered, so it was not written ` +
+    `into bazarr. A Servarr app has one API key and the mesh cannot make it: accept ${spec.app}'s own ` +
+    `key for this pair — \`secret accept <this node> bazarr ${spec.provision} --provider ${from || "<its node>"} ` +
+    `--from <file holding ${spec.app}'s ApiKey>\``
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Bring bazarr's connection to one app in line with the mesh: check the key against the app, compare,
+ * write only the differing connection fields, then read bazarr's settings back to confirm they took.
+ * Never throws: every failure is an outcome with a reason.
+ */
+export async function reconcileApp(
+  http: Http,
+  bazarr: Bazarr,
+  spec: ServarrApp,
+  binding: Binding | undefined,
+  credential: string | undefined,
+): Promise<Outcome> {
+  const w = wanted(spec, binding, credential);
+  // `in`, not `!w.ok`: the Dockerfile compiles without strict, where a boolean discriminant does not
+  // narrow.
+  if ("problem" in w) return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: w.problem };
+  const want = w.connection;
+
+  try {
+    if (!(await appTakes(http, spec, want))) {
+      return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: acceptRemedy(spec, w.from) };
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    return {
+      app: spec.app,
+      result: "refused",
+      problem: `${spec.app} could not be asked whether it takes the key at ${want.ip}:${want.port}: ${message(err)}`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const before = await sectionOf(http, bazarr, spec);
+    const fields = differing(before, want);
+    if (fields.length === 0) return { app: spec.app, result: "unchanged" };
+    await bazarrCall(http, bazarr, "POST", "/system/settings", settingsForm(spec, want, fields));
+    const still = differing(await sectionOf(http, bazarr, spec), want);
+    if (still.length > 0) {
+      return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: `bazarr did not keep its ${spec.app} settings (${still.join(", ")})` };
+    }
+    return { app: spec.app, result: "written", fields };
+  } catch (err) {
+    return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: message(err) };
+  }
+}
+
+async function sectionOf(http: Http, bazarr: Bazarr, spec: ServarrApp): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | undefined> {
+  const doc = (await bazarrCall(http, bazarr, "GET", "/system/settings")) as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+  return doc?.[spec.app] as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+}
+
+/** Wait for bazarr to answer, because the step runs right after its container starts. */
+export async function bazarrReady(http: Http, bazarr: Bazarr, waitMs: number, pauseMs = 2000): Promise<boolean> {
+  const until = Date.now() + waitMs;
+  for (;;) {
+    try {
+      const res = await http.fetch(`${bazarr.url.replace(/\/$/, "")}/api/system/ping`, { method: "GET" });
+      if (res.status === 200) return true;
+    } catch {
+      // not listening yet
+    }
+    if (Date.now() >= until) return false;
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, pauseMs));
+  }
+}
+
+/** A file the mesh wrote, or undefined when it is not there. */
+export async function readIfThere(path: string | undefined): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  if (!path) return undefined;
+  return readFile(path, "utf8").catch(() => undefined);
+}
+
+/** A binding file parsed, or undefined when absent or not JSON. */
+export async function readBinding(path: string | undefined): Promise<Binding | undefined> {
+  const raw = await readIfThere(path);
+  if (raw === undefined) return undefined;
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(raw) as Binding;
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+}
+
+function message(err: unknown): string {
+  return err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+}

modules/bazarr/test/servarr.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+// What holds bazarr's Servarr step (servarr/settings.ts): the connection bazarr keeps for Sonarr and
+// Radarr is made to say what the mesh bound — host, port, TLS, base path, key — and nothing else
+// bazarr keeps is sent; nothing is written when nothing differs; and a key the app refuses (the mesh's
+// own minted value, before the operator accepts the app's key) is never written, with the
+// `secret accept` that fixes it named. Also: bazarr's own key is found in its config.yaml's `auth`
+// section and not in the `sonarr`/`radarr` sections that also carry an `apikey`.
+//
+// bazarr and the apps are fakes answering as the real ones do (checked against
+// lscr.io/linuxserver/bazarr v1.6.1-ls364: GET/POST /api/system/settings with X-API-KEY, the form
+// keys `settings-<section>-<field>`, 204 on save).
+
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+
+import { apiKeyFromConfigYaml } from "../apikey.ts";
+import { APPS, baseUrlOf, differing, reconcileApp, wanted, type Binding, type Http, type ServarrApp } from "../servarr/settings.ts";
+
+const SONARR = APPS.find((a) => a.app === "sonarr") as ServarrApp;
+const RADARR = APPS.find((a) => a.app === "radarr") as ServarrApp;
+const THE_KEY = "the-apps-own-key";
+const BAZARR = { url: "http://127.0.0.1:6767", apiKey: "bazarr-key" };
+
+function binding(provision: string, port: number, at = "ace.internal"): Binding {
+  return { binding: 1, provision, from: "ace", at, as: "mesh_ace_bazarr", serves: { scheme: "http", port, "url-base": "" } } as Binding;
+}
+
+interface Call {
+  method: string;
+  url: string;
+  body?: string;
+}
+
+/** bazarr's settings (one document, sections per app) and the apps' key check, behind one fetch. */
+function fakes(settings: Record<string, Record<string, unknown>>, opts: { appKey?: string; reachable?: boolean } = {}) {
+  const calls: Call[] = [];
+  const appKey = opts.appKey ?? THE_KEY;
+  const http: Http = {
+    async fetch(url, init) {
+      const method = init?.method ?? "GET";
+      calls.push({ method, url, body: init?.body });
+      const reply = (status: number, value?: unknown) => ({
+        status,
+        text: async () => (value === undefined ? "" : JSON.stringify(value)),
+      });
+      const u = new URL(url);
+      if (u.pathname.endsWith("/system/status")) {
+        if (opts.reachable === false) throw new Error("connect ECONNREFUSED");
+        return init?.headers?.["X-Api-Key"] === appKey ? reply(200, { version: "4" }) : reply(401);
+      }
+      if (init?.headers?.["X-API-KEY"] !== BAZARR.apiKey) return reply(401);
+      if (u.pathname !== "/api/system/settings") return reply(404);
+      if (method === "GET") return reply(200, settings);
+      // bazarr's save_settings: split the key, cast as bazarr casts, store.
+      for (const [k, raw] of new URLSearchParams(init?.body ?? "")) {
+        const [, section, field] = k.split("-");
+        let v: unknown = raw;
+        if (raw === "true") v = true;
+        else if (raw === "false") v = false;
+        else if (/^\d+$/.test(raw)) v = Number(raw);
+        settings[section] = { ...(settings[section] ?? {}), [field]: v };
+      }
+      return reply(204);
+    },
+  };
+  return { http, calls, settings };
+}
+
+/** ace's bazarr today: the apps by container name on HAL's shared network. */
+function aceToday(): Record<string, Record<string, unknown>> {
+  return {
+    general: { use_sonarr: true, use_radarr: true, port: 6767 },
+    sonarr: { ip: "sonarr", port: 8989, ssl: false, base_url: "", apikey: THE_KEY, series_sync: 15, excluded_series_types: ["anime"] },
+    radarr: { ip: "radarr", port: 7878, ssl: false, base_url: "", apikey: THE_KEY, movies_sync: 15 },
+  };
+}
+
+test("moving an app writes only host and port, and leaves every other setting alone", async () => {
+  const f = fakes(aceToday());
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, BAZARR, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20010), THE_KEY);
+  assert.deepEqual(out, { app: "sonarr", result: "written", fields: ["ip", "port"] });
+  const post = f.calls.find((c) => c.method === "POST");
+  assert.ok(post);
+  assert.deepEqual([...new URLSearchParams(post.body ?? "").keys()].sort(), ["settings-sonarr-ip", "settings-sonarr-port"]);
+  assert.equal(f.settings.sonarr.ip, "ace.internal");
+  assert.equal(f.settings.sonarr.port, 20010);
+  assert.deepEqual(f.settings.sonarr.excluded_series_types, ["anime"]);
+  assert.equal(f.settings.radarr.ip, "radarr", "radarr is its own app and was not touched");
+});
+
+test("nothing is written when bazarr already says what the mesh says", async () => {
+  const s = aceToday();
+  s.radarr = { ...s.radarr, ip: "ace.internal", port: 20011 };
+  const f = fakes(s);
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, BAZARR, RADARR, binding("radarr-api", 20011), THE_KEY);
+  assert.deepEqual(out, { app: "radarr", result: "unchanged" });
+  assert.equal(f.calls.filter((c) => c.method === "POST").length, 0);
+});
+
+test("a key the app refuses is never written, and the remedy is named", async () => {
+  const f = fakes(aceToday());
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, BAZARR, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20010), "a-value-the-mesh-minted");
+  assert.equal(out.result, "refused");
+  assert.match((out as { problem: string }).problem, /secret accept <this node> bazarr sonarr-api --provider ace/);
+  assert.equal(f.calls.filter((c) => c.method === "POST").length, 0);
+  assert.equal(f.settings.sonarr.apikey, THE_KEY, "the working key stays");
+  assert.equal(f.settings.sonarr.ip, "sonarr", "nothing moved either");
+});
+
+test("an unreachable app writes nothing", async () => {
+  const f = fakes(aceToday(), { reachable: false });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, BAZARR, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20010), THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(out.result, "refused");
+  assert.equal(f.calls.filter((c) => c.method === "POST").length, 0);
+});
+
+test("a loopback binding is refused: from bazarr's container that is bazarr", () => {
+  const w = wanted(SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 8989, "127.0.0.1"), THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(w.ok, false);
+});
+
+test("a new key is written when the operator accepted a different one", async () => {
+  const s = aceToday();
+  s.sonarr = { ...s.sonarr, ip: "ace.internal", port: 20010, apikey: "an-old-key" };
+  const f = fakes(s);
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, BAZARR, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20010), THE_KEY);
+  assert.deepEqual(out, { app: "sonarr", result: "written", fields: ["apikey"] });
+  assert.equal(f.settings.sonarr.apikey, THE_KEY);
+});
+
+test("base paths compare as bazarr stores them", () => {
+  assert.equal(baseUrlOf(""), "");
+  assert.equal(baseUrlOf("/"), "");
+  assert.equal(baseUrlOf("sonarr/"), "/sonarr");
+  const want = { ip: "a", port: 1, ssl: false, base_url: "", apikey: "k" };
+  assert.deepEqual(differing({ ip: "a", port: 1, ssl: false, base_url: "/", apikey: "k" }, want), []);
+});
+
+test("bazarr's own key is auth.apikey, not an app's", () => {
+  const yaml = [
+    "analytics:",
+    "  enabled: false",
+    "auth:",
+    "  apikey: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
+    "  password: ''",
+    "  type: form",
+    "general:",
+    "  port: 6767",
+    "sonarr:",
+    "  apikey: not-this-one",
+    "",
+  ].join("\n");
+  assert.equal(apiKeyFromConfigYaml(yaml), "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef");
+  assert.equal(apiKeyFromConfigYaml("sonarr:\n  apikey: x\n"), undefined);
+  assert.equal(apiKeyFromConfigYaml("auth:\n  apikey: ''\n"), undefined);
+  assert.equal(apiKeyFromConfigYaml("auth:\r\n  apikey: 'abc'\r\n"), "abc");
+});

modules/bazarr/tsconfig.json

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "noEmit": true
   },
-  "include": ["client.ts", "index.ts", "tools/index.ts"]
+  "include": ["apikey.ts", "client.ts", "index.ts", "tools/index.ts", "servarr/settings.ts", "servarr/index.ts"]
 }

modules/bookshelf/module.json

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_BOOKSHELF_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8787",
+        "MESH_BOOKSHELF_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8787}",
         "MESH_BOOKSHELF_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/bookshelf/config"
       },
       "artifact": "runtime"

modules/lidarr/module.json

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 {
   "module": "lidarr",
   "version": "1",
+  "provides": [
+    {
+      "name": "lidarr-api",
+      "scope": "mesh"
+    }
+  ],
+  "serves": {
+    "lidarr-api": {
+      "scheme": "http",
+      "port": 8686,
+      "url-base": ""
+    }
+  },
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
   ],
@@ -75,7 +88,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_LIDARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8686",
+        "MESH_LIDARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8686}",
         "MESH_LIDARR_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/lidarr/config"
       },
       "artifact": "runtime"

modules/nodered/Dockerfile

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ARG RUNTIME_BASE
 FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
 WORKDIR /app/modules/nodered
 COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts mqtt/probe.ts mqtt/connection.ts mqtt/index.ts \
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts \
       --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
 
 FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
@@ -22,6 +22,3 @@ COPY --from=build /app/modules/nodered/dist /app/modules/nodered/dist
 # provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
 # the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
 ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/nodered/dist/tools/index.js
-# NOT dist/mqtt/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the `mqtt`
-# container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run inside the
-# serving sidecar too, and exit it.

modules/nodered/client.ts

@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 //
 // Node-RED exposes a runtime admin API under its base URL: GET/POST /flows for the whole flow
 // configuration, GET /nodes for installed node modules. A default install has no auth; when
-// adminAuth is on, a bearer token is required — the module's settings accept the mesh-minted
-// api-token, which the runtime config file carries as `token`.
+// adminAuth is on, a bearer token (minted at /auth/token) is required.
 
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
@@ -82,35 +81,6 @@ export class NodeRedClient {
     return modules.map((m) => ({ name: m.name, version: m.version, types: m.types ?? [] }));
   }
 
-  /** The whole flow configuration with its revision (API v2), for a deploy that must not clobber
-   *  a change made meanwhile. */
-  async flowsWithRev(): Promise<{ rev: string; flows: any[] }> {
-    const body = await this.req("/flows", { headers: this.headers({ "Node-RED-API-Version": "v2" }) });
-    return { rev: String(body?.rev ?? ""), flows: Array.isArray(body?.flows) ? body.flows : [] };
-  }
-
-  /** A node's stored credentials as Node-RED shows them: plain fields, and `has_<field>` for secret ones. */
-  async credentials(type: string, id: string): Promise<{ user?: string; has_password?: boolean }> {
-    return (await this.req(`/credentials/${encodeURIComponent(type)}/${encodeURIComponent(id)}`, { headers: this.headers() })) ?? {};
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Deploy the flow configuration read at `rev`. Node-RED answers 409 when the flows changed since,
-   * rather than overwriting what someone deployed in between. A node carrying `credentials` has them
-   * stored (encrypted) and counts as changed, so a "nodes" deploy restarts it and nothing else.
-   */
-  async deployFlowsAt(rev: string, config: any[], type = "nodes"): Promise<void> {
-    await this.req("/flows", {
-      method: "POST",
-      headers: this.headers({
-        "Content-Type": "application/json",
-        "Node-RED-API-Version": "v2",
-        "Node-RED-Deployment-Type": type,
-      }),
-      body: JSON.stringify({ rev, flows: config }),
-    });
-  }
-
   /**
    * Replace the whole flow configuration and deploy. Returns the new revision. `type` maps to
    * Node-RED's deployment types — "full" (default), "nodes", or "flows".
@@ -118,13 +88,8 @@ export class NodeRedClient {
   async deployFlows(config: any[], type = "full"): Promise<{ rev?: string; nodeCount: number }> {
     const body = await this.req("/flows", {
       method: "POST",
-      // v2 answers { rev }; v1 answers 204 with no body, which req() cannot parse.
-      headers: this.headers({
-        "Content-Type": "application/json",
-        "Node-RED-API-Version": "v2",
-        "Node-RED-Deployment-Type": type,
-      }),
-      body: JSON.stringify({ flows: config }),
+      headers: this.headers({ "Content-Type": "application/json", "Node-RED-Deployment-Type": type }),
+      body: JSON.stringify(config),
     });
     return { rev: body?.rev, nodeCount: config.length };
   }

modules/nodered/module.json

@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
     "flows.deployed"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/admin",
-    "api-token": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/api-token",
     "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/broker"
   },
   "capabilities": [
@@ -28,63 +26,26 @@
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered",
       "mode": "0700"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "place": "."
-    },
     {
       "id": "data",
       "type": "directory",
+      "path": "/services/nodered/data",
       "mode": "0700",
       "owner": "1000:1000"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "written",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "settings-code",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.js",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "owner": "1000:1000",
-      "content": "// Node-RED's settings, written by the mesh from the nodered module. What an assignment may change\n// is settings.json beside this file (merged key by key); the credentials are the mesh's secrets and\n// reach Node-RED only through this file. The flows' own credentials stay encrypted in the user\n// directory under the key Node-RED keeps there (.config.runtime.json), which is data, not this.\nconst fs = require(\"fs\");\nconst path = require(\"path\");\nconst crypto = require(\"crypto\");\n\nconst ADMIN_PASSWORD = \"${secret:admin}\";\nconst API_TOKEN = \"${secret:api-token}\";\nconst ADMIN = { username: \"admin\", permissions: \"*\" };\n\nconst settings = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, \"settings.json\"), \"utf8\"));\n// The mesh's keys, not Node-RED's: endpoints lands in every merged file; timeZone is the\n// assignment's way to set the zone flows schedule and format in; mqtt names the broker nodes the\n// module's MQTT step keeps pointed at the mesh's broker; topics is what nodered asks the broker for.\nif (settings.timeZone) process.env.TZ = settings.timeZone;\ndelete settings.timeZone;\ndelete settings.endpoints;\ndelete settings.mqtt;\ndelete settings.topics;\n\nfunction same(a, b) {\n  const x = crypto.createHash(\"sha256\").update(String(a)).digest();\n  const y = crypto.createHash(\"sha256\").update(String(b)).digest();\n  return crypto.timingSafeEqual(x, y);\n}\n\n// The admin secret is a password, or, accepted from an existing install, the bcrypt hash its\n// settings held, so the password people already use keeps working.\nfunction passwordMatches(given) {\n  if (/^\\$2[aby]\\$\\d\\d\\$/.test(ADMIN_PASSWORD)) return require(\"bcryptjs\").compare(String(given), ADMIN_PASSWORD);\n  return Promise.resolve(same(given, ADMIN_PASSWORD));\n}\n\nmodule.exports = Object.assign(settings, {\n  uiPort: 1880,\n  adminAuth: {\n    type: \"credentials\",\n    users: (username) => Promise.resolve(username === ADMIN.username ? ADMIN : null),\n    authenticate: (username, password) =>\n      username === ADMIN.username\n        ? passwordMatches(password).then((ok) => (ok ? ADMIN : null))\n        : Promise.resolve(null),\n    // The module's own tools call the admin API with this bearer token.\n    tokens: (token) => Promise.resolve(same(token, API_TOKEN) ? { username: \"mesh\", permissions: \"*\" } : null),\n  },\n});\n"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "settings",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.json",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "owner": "1000:1000",
-      "merge": "json",
-      "content": "{\n  \"flowFile\": \"flows.json\",\n  \"flowFilePretty\": true,\n  \"diagnostics\": { \"enabled\": true, \"ui\": true },\n  \"runtimeState\": { \"enabled\": false, \"ui\": false },\n  \"logging\": { \"console\": { \"level\": \"info\", \"metrics\": false, \"audit\": false } },\n  \"exportGlobalContextKeys\": false,\n  \"externalModules\": {},\n  \"editorTheme\": { \"projects\": { \"enabled\": false } },\n  \"functionExternalModules\": true,\n  \"debugMaxLength\": 1000,\n  \"mqttReconnectTime\": 15000,\n  \"serialReconnectTime\": 15000\n}\n"
-    },
     {
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
       "name": "nodered",
-      "image": "nodered/node-red@sha256:a649dd711d55490151a2c39a8e48ad0c44325488fbc0e66315f2d2e19e5e1ace",
+      "image": "nodered/node-red@sha256:02a2b92a41b73d2bc388238b86e4fcaab7fb5466373adb24e1df6aa5845265ff",
       "env": {
         "TZ": "Etc/UTC"
       },
       "ports": [
         "1880"
       ],
-      "args": [
-        "--settings",
-        "/config/settings.js"
-      ],
       "volumes": [
-        "${dir:data}:/data",
-        "${dir:state}/settings.js:/config/settings.js:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/settings.json:/config/settings.json:ro"
-      ],
-      "restart-on": [
-        "settings-code",
-        "settings"
+        "/services/nodered/data:/data"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -92,7 +53,8 @@
       "type": "file",
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/config.json",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "{\n  \"token\": \"${secret:api-token}\"\n}\n"
+      "content": "{}\n",
+      "merge": "json"
     },
     {
       "id": "runtime",
@@ -105,66 +67,26 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
+        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:1880",
         "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
       },
       "restart-on": [
         "runtime-config"
       ],
       "artifact": "runtime"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "mqtt",
-      "type": "container",
-      "name": "mesh-nodered-mqtt",
-      "network": "host",
-      "run-once": true,
-      "volumes": [
-        "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "${dir:written}:/var/lib/nodered-provisions",
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.json:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.json:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.secret:ro",
-        "${dir:state}/settings.json:/run/provisions/settings.json:ro"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
-        "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_PROVISIONS_DIR": "/run/provisions",
-        "MESH_WRITTEN_DIR": "/var/lib/nodered-provisions"
-      },
-      "args": [
-        "run",
-        "/app/modules/nodered/dist/mqtt/index.js"
-      ],
-      "restart-on": [
-        "bound-mqtt-topic",
-        "secret-mqtt-topic",
-        "settings"
-      ],
-      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
-    "mqtt-topic",
     "route"
   ],
   "contributes": {
-    "mqtt-topic": {
-      "topics": [
-        "#"
-      ]
-    },
     "route": {
       "label": "nodered",
       "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
-    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json",
-    "mqtt-topic": "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.json"
-  },
-  "secrets": {
-    "mqtt-topic": "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret"
+    "route": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/route.json"
   },
   "build": {
     "on": [

modules/nodered/mqtt/connection.ts

@@ -1,232 +0,0 @@
-// Node-RED's MQTT broker config node, pointed at the broker the mesh bound — `mqtt-topic`.
-//
-// **Why a step.** Node-RED keeps a broker as a config node in its flows (`flows.json`) and the login
-// and password in its encrypted credentials file, both of them Node-RED's to write. So this reads the
-// binding and the pair credential and makes the broker node say the same thing through Node-RED's
-// admin API — `GET /flows`, then `POST /flows` with the changed node and its `credentials`, deployed
-// as "nodes" so only what changed restarts — with the module's own `api-token`.
-//
-// **Which broker nodes are the mesh's.** Never guessed: a flow may talk to a broker that has nothing
-// to do with this mesh. The step owns the node it creates itself (id `mesh-mqtt-topic`, "mesh:
-// mqtt-topic") and the ones an assignment names in settings (`mqtt.brokers`: node ids — how ace's
-// existing broker node, which every one of its MQTT flows uses, is handed over). With none named and
-// none made yet, it makes one, so a fresh Node-RED has a broker the flows can pick.
-//
-// **Only the connection, and only when it differs.** Host, port, TLS off (the broker serves plain
-// MQTT), login, password. Every other field of the node — client id, keepalive, birth/close/will
-// messages — is left as it is. Node-RED never hands a stored password back, so the step keeps a
-// digest of what it last wrote: equal host/port/login and an equal digest is "already as the mesh
-// says".
-//
-// **Nothing loses its connection without someone seeing it.** The broker is asked first whether it
-// takes the delivered login; if not, nothing is written and the step fails saying why.
-//
-// Pure logic over two seams (Node-RED, the broker), tested against fakes (test/mqtt.test.ts).
-
-import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
-
-import type { Probe } from "./probe.js";
-
-export const PROVISION = "mqtt-topic";
-/** The id and name of the broker node the step makes when none is named. */
-export const MESH_BROKER_ID = "mesh-mqtt-topic";
-export const MESH_BROKER_NAME = "mesh: mqtt-topic";
-
-/** What the mesh wrote at `binds.mqtt-topic`. */
-export interface Binding {
-  provision?: string;
-  from?: string;
-  at?: string;
-  as?: string;
-  serves?: Record<string, unknown>;
-}
-
-export type Outcome =
-  | { what: string; result: "unchanged"; note?: string }
-  | { what: string; result: "written"; fields: string[]; note?: string }
-  | { what: string; result: "refused"; problem: string };
-
-/** A flow node; a broker config node carries `broker`, `port`, `usetls`. */
-export interface FlowNode {
-  id: string;
-  type: string;
-  [key: string]: unknown;
-}
-
-/** Node-RED's admin API, as the step uses it. */
-export interface NodeRed {
-  /** The whole flow configuration and its revision (API v2). */
-  flows(): Promise<{ rev: string; flows: FlowNode[] }>;
-  /** A node's stored credentials as Node-RED shows them: the user, and only whether a password is set. */
-  credentials(type: string, id: string): Promise<{ user?: string; has_password?: boolean }>;
-  /** Deploy the configuration against the revision it was read at; "nodes" restarts only what changed. */
-  deploy(rev: string, flows: FlowNode[]): Promise<void>;
-}
-
-export interface Marks {
-  get(name: string): Promise<string | undefined>;
-  set(name: string, digest: string): Promise<void>;
-}
-
-export interface Deps {
-  nodered: NodeRed;
-  probe: Probe;
-  marks: Marks;
-}
-
-export interface Wanted {
-  host: string;
-  port: number;
-  user: string;
-  password: string;
-}
-
-export function digest(...parts: (string | number)[]): string {
-  return createHash("sha256").update(parts.map(String).join("\u0000")).digest("hex");
-}
-
-function isLoopback(host: string): boolean {
-  const h = host.toLowerCase();
-  return h === "localhost" || h === "::1" || h === "[::1]" || /^127\./.test(h);
-}
-
-/**
- * The broker and login the mesh says Node-RED uses. A loopback `at` — what the mesh hands a machine
- * that is not on the private network — is refused: from Node-RED's own container it is Node-RED.
- */
-export function wanted(binding: Binding | undefined, credential: string | undefined): { ok: true; want: Wanted } | { ok: false; problem: string } {
-  if (!binding) return { ok: false, problem: `no binding for ${PROVISION} was delivered — the mesh writes it before this step runs` };
-  const host = typeof binding.at === "string" ? binding.at.trim() : "";
-  if (!host) return { ok: false, problem: `the ${PROVISION} binding names no host (at)` };
-  if (isLoopback(host)) {
-    return {
-      ok: false,
-      problem:
-        `the ${PROVISION} binding says the broker is at ${host}, which from Node-RED's own container is Node-RED ` +
-        `itself; put the machine on the private network so the broker has an address Node-RED can dial`,
-    };
-  }
-  const port = Number(binding.serves?.port);
-  if (!Number.isInteger(port) || port <= 0 || port > 65535) {
-    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${PROVISION} binding serves no usable port (${String(binding.serves?.port)})` };
-  }
-  const scheme = binding.serves?.scheme;
-  if (scheme !== undefined && scheme !== "mqtt") return { ok: false, problem: `the ${PROVISION} binding serves scheme ${String(scheme)}; this step writes plain MQTT` };
-  const user = typeof binding.as === "string" ? binding.as.trim() : "";
-  if (!user) return { ok: false, problem: `the ${PROVISION} binding names no login (as)` };
-  const password = (credential ?? "").replace(/\n$/, "");
-  if (!password) return { ok: false, problem: `the ${PROVISION} credential is empty or was not delivered` };
-  return { ok: true, want: { host, port, user, password } };
-}
-
-/** The broker node ids an assignment named in settings (`mqtt.brokers`), or none. */
-export function namedBrokers(settings: unknown): string[] {
-  const brokers = (settings as { mqtt?: { brokers?: unknown } } | undefined)?.mqtt?.brokers;
-  return Array.isArray(brokers) ? brokers.filter((b): b is string => typeof b === "string" && b.length > 0) : [];
-}
-
-/** A new broker node, Node-RED 5's defaults, pointed at the broker. */
-export function newBrokerNode(want: Wanted): FlowNode {
-  return {
-    id: MESH_BROKER_ID, type: "mqtt-broker", name: MESH_BROKER_NAME,
-    broker: want.host, port: String(want.port), clientid: "", autoConnect: true, usetls: false,
-    protocolVersion: "4", keepalive: "60", cleansession: true, autoUnsubscribe: true,
-    birthTopic: "", birthQos: "0", birthRetain: "false", birthPayload: "", birthMsg: {},
-    closeTopic: "", closeQos: "0", closeRetain: "false", closePayload: "", closeMsg: {},
-    willTopic: "", willQos: "0", willRetain: "false", willPayload: "", willMsg: {},
-    userProps: "", sessionExpiry: "",
-  };
-}
-
-const markFor = (id: string, w: Wanted): string => digest("nodered-mqtt", id, w.host, w.port, w.user, w.password);
-
-function scrub(err: unknown, secret: string): string {
-  let text = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
-  for (const form of new Set([secret, encodeURIComponent(secret)])) text = text.split(form).join("***");
-  return text;
-}
-
-/**
- * Bring the mesh's broker nodes in line with the binding: one outcome per node. Never throws. A node
- * the settings name that is not in the flows is refused (the others are still put right).
- */
-export async function reconcileBrokers(deps: Deps, binding: Binding | undefined, credential: string | undefined, named: readonly string[]): Promise<Outcome[]> {
-  const w = wanted(binding, credential);
-  if ("problem" in w) return [{ what: "mqtt", result: "refused", problem: w.problem }];
-  const want = w.want;
-
-  let note: string | undefined;
-  try {
-    const probe = await deps.probe(want.host, want.port, want.user, want.password, "#");
-    if (probe.connack === 4 || probe.connack === 5) {
-      return [{
-        what: "mqtt",
-        result: "refused",
-        problem:
-          `the broker at ${want.host}:${want.port} does not (yet) take the login ${want.user} with the delivered password ` +
-          `(CONNACK ${probe.connack}); mosquitto's provisioner creates it from the grant — nothing was written`,
-      }];
-    }
-    if (probe.connack !== 0) return [{ what: "mqtt", result: "refused", problem: `the broker at ${want.host}:${want.port} answered CONNACK ${probe.connack}; nothing was written` }];
-    if (probe.suback === 0x80) note = `warning: ${want.user} may not subscribe to every topic; flows subscribing outside its grant will get nothing`;
-  } catch (err) {
-    return [{ what: "mqtt", result: "refused", problem: `the broker at ${want.host}:${want.port} could not be asked: ${scrub(err, want.password)}; nothing was written` }];
-  }
-
-  const outcomes: Outcome[] = [];
-  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 2; attempt++) {
-    outcomes.length = 0;
-    try {
-      const { rev, flows } = await deps.nodered.flows();
-      const targets = named.length > 0 ? [...named] : [MESH_BROKER_ID];
-      const changed: { id: string; fields: string[] }[] = [];
-      for (const id of targets) {
-        let node = flows.find((n) => n.id === id);
-        if (node && node.type !== "mqtt-broker") {
-          outcomes.push({ what: `broker ${id}`, result: "refused", problem: `node ${id} is a ${node.type}, not an mqtt-broker` });
-          continue;
-        }
-        if (!node) {
-          if (id !== MESH_BROKER_ID) {
-            outcomes.push({ what: `broker ${id}`, result: "refused", problem: `the settings name broker node ${id}, and Node-RED's flows have no such node` });
-            continue;
-          }
-          node = newBrokerNode(want);
-          flows.push(node);
-          node.credentials = { user: want.user, password: want.password };
-          changed.push({ id, fields: ["node"] });
-          continue;
-        }
-        const fields: string[] = [];
-        if (String(node.broker ?? "") !== want.host) fields.push("broker");
-        if (Number(node.port ?? 0) !== want.port) fields.push("port");
-        if (node.usetls === true) fields.push("usetls");
-        const creds = await deps.nodered.credentials("mqtt-broker", id);
-        if ((creds.user ?? "") !== want.user) fields.push("user");
-        if (!creds.has_password || (await deps.marks.get(`broker-${id}`)) !== markFor(id, want)) fields.push("password");
-        if (fields.length === 0) {
-          outcomes.push(note ? { what: `broker ${id}`, result: "unchanged", note } : { what: `broker ${id}`, result: "unchanged" });
-          continue;
-        }
-        node.broker = want.host;
-        node.port = String(want.port);
-        node.usetls = false;
-        node.credentials = { user: want.user, password: want.password };
-        changed.push({ id, fields });
-      }
-      if (changed.length > 0) {
-        await deps.nodered.deploy(rev, flows);
-        for (const c of changed) {
-          await deps.marks.set(`broker-${c.id}`, markFor(c.id, want));
-          outcomes.push({ what: `broker ${c.id}`, result: "written", fields: c.fields, ...(note ? { note } : {}) });
-        }
-      }
-      return outcomes;
-    } catch (err) {
-      // A deploy against a revision someone else changed meanwhile (409) is read again once.
-      if (attempt === 0 && /\b409\b/.test(String(err))) continue;
-      return [...outcomes, { what: "mqtt", result: "refused", problem: scrub(err, want.password) }];
-    }
-  }
-  return outcomes;
-}

modules/nodered/mqtt/index.ts

@@ -1,102 +0,0 @@
-// nodered's MQTT step — run once by the host after Node-RED starts, and again whenever the
-// `mqtt-topic` binding, its pair credential or the settings change (the container's `restart-on`,
-// novox/hq ADR 0099). It points the mesh's broker config nodes at the broker the mesh bound, through
-// Node-RED's admin API (connection.ts). It connects to no mesh broker.
-//
-// Exits non-zero when anything could not be put right, so the node reports the step failed and the
-// host runs it again on the next apply. Declared last in the manifest, so its failing gates nothing
-// else of nodered's (novox/hq ADR 0136). Never prints a password.
-
-import { mkdir, readFile, rename, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-
-import { NodeRedClient } from "../client.js";
-import { namedBrokers, reconcileBrokers, type Binding, type Marks } from "./connection.js";
-import { probeBroker } from "./probe.js";
-
-const dir = process.env.MESH_PROVISIONS_DIR ?? "/run/provisions";
-const writtenDir = process.env.MESH_WRITTEN_DIR ?? "/var/lib/nodered-provisions";
-const waitSeconds = Number(process.env.MESH_NODERED_WAIT_SECONDS ?? "180");
-
-const readIfThere = (path: string): Promise<string | undefined> => readFile(path, "utf8").catch(() => undefined);
-const parse = <T>(raw: string | undefined): T | undefined => {
-  if (raw === undefined) return undefined;
-  try {
-    return JSON.parse(raw) as T;
-  } catch {
-    return undefined;
-  }
-};
-
-const marks: Marks = {
-  async get(name) {
-    return (await readIfThere(join(writtenDir, `${name}.digest`)))?.trim() || undefined;
-  },
-  async set(name, value) {
-    await mkdir(writtenDir, { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 });
-    const path = join(writtenDir, `${name}.digest`);
-    await writeFile(`${path}.tmp`, `${value}\n`, { mode: 0o600 });
-    await rename(`${path}.tmp`, path);
-  },
-};
-
-let client: NodeRedClient;
-try {
-  client = NodeRedClient.fromEnv();
-} catch (err) {
-  console.error(`[nodered-mqtt] ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
-  process.exit(1);
-}
-
-/** Node-RED answers the admin API once its flows are loaded and the token is good. */
-async function ready(): Promise<boolean> {
-  const until = Date.now() + waitSeconds * 1000;
-  for (;;) {
-    try {
-      await client.flowsWithRev();
-      return true;
-    } catch (err) {
-      if (/\b(401|403)\b/.test(String(err))) {
-        console.error("[nodered-mqtt] Node-RED refuses the api-token — settings.js and this step disagree");
-        return false;
-      }
-    }
-    if (Date.now() >= until) return false;
-    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 2000));
-  }
-}
-
-if (!(await ready())) {
-  console.error(`[nodered-mqtt] Node-RED's admin API did not answer at ${client.baseUrl} within ${waitSeconds}s`);
-  process.exit(1);
-}
-
-const binding = parse<Binding>(await readIfThere(join(dir, "mqtt-topic.json")));
-const secret = await readIfThere(join(dir, "mqtt-topic.secret"));
-const settings = parse<unknown>(await readIfThere(join(dir, "settings.json")));
-
-const outcomes = await reconcileBrokers(
-  {
-    nodered: {
-      flows: () => client.flowsWithRev(),
-      credentials: (type, id) => client.credentials(type, id),
-      deploy: (rev, flows) => client.deployFlowsAt(rev, flows, "nodes"),
-    },
-    probe: probeBroker,
-    marks,
-  },
-  binding,
-  secret,
-  namedBrokers(settings),
-);
-
-let failed = 0;
-for (const o of outcomes) {
-  if (o.result === "unchanged") console.log(`[nodered-mqtt] ${o.what}: already as the mesh says${o.note ? ` — ${o.note}` : ""}`);
-  else if (o.result === "written") console.log(`[nodered-mqtt] ${o.what}: wrote ${o.fields.join(", ")}${o.note ? ` — ${o.note}` : ""}`);
-  else {
-    failed++;
-    console.error(`[nodered-mqtt] ${o.what}: ${o.problem}`);
-  }
-}
-process.exitCode = failed > 0 ? 1 : 0;

modules/nodered/mqtt/probe.ts

@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-// Ask the broker, before Node-RED is told anything, whether it takes the login and password the
-// mesh delivered — and whether that login may subscribe to every topic, as flows expect.
-//
-// One MQTT 3.1.1 session: CONNECT (clean, a throwaway client id, so no flow's session is taken
-// over), read the CONNACK, optionally SUBSCRIBE once and read the SUBACK, DISCONNECT. No dependency:
-// the handful of bytes MQTT needs for this are written here.
-
-import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
-import { connect } from "node:net";
-
-export interface ProbeResult {
-  /** 0 accepted; 4 bad username or password; 5 not authorised. */
-  connack: number;
-  /** The SUBACK return code for the filter asked about: 0–2 granted, 0x80 refused. */
-  suback?: number;
-}
-
-export type Probe = (host: string, port: number, username: string, password: string, subscribe?: string) => Promise<ProbeResult>;
-
-function str(v: string): Buffer {
-  const b = Buffer.from(v, "utf8");
-  const len = Buffer.alloc(2);
-  len.writeUInt16BE(b.length);
-  return Buffer.concat([len, b]);
-}
-
-function packet(type: number, body: Buffer): Buffer {
-  let remaining = body.length;
-  const lenBytes: number[] = [];
-  do {
-    let byte = remaining % 128;
-    remaining = Math.floor(remaining / 128);
-    if (remaining > 0) byte |= 0x80;
-    lenBytes.push(byte);
-  } while (remaining > 0);
-  return Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([type, ...lenBytes]), body]);
-}
-
-/** The first complete packet in `buf`: its type byte, its body, and how many bytes it took. */
-export function firstPacket(buf: Buffer): { type: number; body: Buffer; used: number } | undefined {
-  if (buf.length < 2) return undefined;
-  let length = 0;
-  let multiplier = 1;
-  let i = 1;
-  for (;;) {
-    if (i >= buf.length) return undefined;
-    const byte = buf[i++];
-    length += (byte & 0x7f) * multiplier;
-    if ((byte & 0x80) === 0) break;
-    multiplier *= 128;
-    if (i > 4) throw new Error("malformed MQTT remaining length");
-  }
-  if (buf.length < i + length) return undefined;
-  return { type: buf[0], body: buf.subarray(i, i + length), used: i + length };
-}
-
-export const probeBroker: Probe = (host, port, username, password, subscribe) => {
-  const connectBody = Buffer.concat([
-    str("MQTT"),
-    Buffer.from([4, 0xc2, 0, 10]), // level 4 (3.1.1); username + password + clean session; keepalive 10s
-    str(`mesh-probe-${randomBytes(6).toString("hex")}`),
-    str(username),
-    str(password),
-  ]);
-  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-    const socket = connect({ host, port });
-    let buf = Buffer.alloc(0);
-    const result: ProbeResult = { connack: -1 };
-    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
-      socket.destroy();
-      reject(new Error(`no answer from the broker at ${host}:${port} within 10s`));
-    }, 10_000);
-    const finish = (): void => {
-      clearTimeout(timer);
-      if (result.connack === 0) socket.end(Buffer.from([0xe0, 0]));
-      else socket.destroy();
-      resolve(result);
-    };
-    socket.on("connect", () => socket.write(packet(0x10, connectBody)));
-    socket.on("data", (chunk) => {
-      buf = Buffer.concat([buf, chunk]);
-      for (;;) {
-        let p;
-        try {
-          p = firstPacket(buf);
-        } catch (err) {
-          clearTimeout(timer);
-          socket.destroy();
-          reject(err);
-          return;
-        }
-        if (!p) return;
-        buf = buf.subarray(p.used);
-        const kind = p.type >> 4;
-        if (kind === 2) {
-          result.connack = p.body[1] ?? -1;
-          if (result.connack !== 0 || !subscribe) return finish();
-          // SUBSCRIBE, packet id 1, one filter at QoS 0.
-          socket.write(packet(0x82, Buffer.concat([Buffer.from([0, 1]), str(subscribe), Buffer.from([0])])));
-        } else if (kind === 9) {
-          result.suback = p.body[2];
-          return finish();
-        }
-      }
-    });
-    socket.on("error", (err) => {
-      clearTimeout(timer);
-      reject(err);
-    });
-    socket.on("close", () => {
-      if (result.connack === -1) {
-        clearTimeout(timer);
-        reject(new Error(`the broker at ${host}:${port} closed the connection without answering`));
-      }
-    });
-  });
-};

modules/nodered/package.json

@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 {
   "name": "@novox/module-nodered",
   "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "nodered \u2014 flow-based automation. Its client and tools live here (novox/hq ADR 0039).",
+  "description": "nodered — flow-based automation. Its client and tools live here (novox/hq ADR 0039).",
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
-  "scripts": {
-    "build": "tsc client.ts tools/index.ts mqtt/probe.ts mqtt/connection.ts mqtt/index.ts --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist",
-    "typecheck": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
-    "test": "node --test --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
-  },
   "dependencies": {
     "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0"
   },

modules/nodered/test/mqtt.test.ts

@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-// What holds nodered's MQTT step (mqtt/connection.ts): the broker nodes the mesh owns — the one it
-// makes, or the ones settings name — are made to use the broker and login the mesh bound, only after
-// the broker takes that login; every other field of a node is kept; nothing is deployed when nothing
-// differs; a node that is not named is never touched; a loopback broker address is refused.
-//
-// Node-RED and the broker are fakes answering as the real ones do (admin API v2 of nodered/node-red
-// 5.0.7, the build ace runs).
-
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-
-import { MESH_BROKER_ID, namedBrokers, reconcileBrokers, type Binding, type FlowNode, type Marks, type NodeRed } from "../mqtt/connection.ts";
-import type { Probe } from "../mqtt/probe.ts";
-
-const MINTED = "mesh-minted-password";
-const binding = (at = "ace.internal"): Binding => ({ provision: "mqtt-topic", from: "ace", at, as: "mesh_ace_nodered", serves: { scheme: "mqtt", port: 1883 } });
-
-/** ace's flows, reduced: its one broker node (dead, zurag.be:1884) and a node that uses it. */
-function aceFlows(): FlowNode[] {
-  return [
-    { id: "2b0aece9c5f3b307", type: "mqtt-broker", name: "MQTT Broker", broker: "zurag.be", port: "1884", clientid: "", usetls: false, protocolVersion: "4", keepalive: "60" },
-    { id: "fe0cae96f1e3ae4d", type: "mqtt in", topic: "stat/sonoff_office_light_switch/RESULT", broker: "2b0aece9c5f3b307", z: "t" },
-    { id: "other-broker", type: "mqtt-broker", name: "someone else's", broker: "test.mosquitto.org", port: "1883" },
-  ];
-}
-
-function fakeNodeRed(flows: FlowNode[], creds: Record<string, { user?: string; password?: string }> = {}) {
-  let rev = "r1";
-  const deploys: FlowNode[][] = [];
-  const nodered: NodeRed = {
-    async flows() {
-      return { rev, flows: structuredClone(flows) };
-    },
-    async credentials(_type, id) {
-      const c = creds[id] ?? {};
-      return { user: c.user, has_password: Boolean(c.password) };
-    },
-    async deploy(at, next) {
-      if (at !== rev) throw new Error("Node-RED /flows: 409 version_mismatch");
-      for (const n of next) {
-        if (n.credentials) creds[n.id] = { ...(creds[n.id] ?? {}), ...(n.credentials as object) };
-      }
-      flows.splice(0, flows.length, ...next.map(({ credentials: _c, ...n }) => n as FlowNode));
-      deploys.push(next);
-      rev = `r${deploys.length + 1}`;
-    },
-  };
-  return { nodered, deploys, flows, creds };
-}
-
-const marks = (): Marks & { store: Map<string, string> } => {
-  const store = new Map<string, string>();
-  return { store, get: async (k) => store.get(k), set: async (k, v) => void store.set(k, v) };
-};
-const takes: Probe = async (_h, _p, user, pass) => ({ connack: user === "mesh_ace_nodered" && pass === MINTED ? 0 : 5, suback: 0 });
-
-test("ace: the named broker node is moved to the bound broker and login; the other broker is not touched", async () => {
-  const f = fakeNodeRed(aceFlows(), { "2b0aece9c5f3b307": { user: "luffy", password: "old" }, "other-broker": { user: "x", password: "y" } });
-  const m = marks();
-  const out = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: f.nodered, probe: takes, marks: m }, binding(), `${MINTED}\n`, ["2b0aece9c5f3b307"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(out, [{ what: "broker 2b0aece9c5f3b307", result: "written", fields: ["broker", "port", "user", "password"] }]);
-  const node = f.flows.find((n) => n.id === "2b0aece9c5f3b307");
-  assert.deepEqual(node, { ...aceFlows()[0], broker: "ace.internal", port: "1883", usetls: false });
-  assert.deepEqual(f.creds["2b0aece9c5f3b307"], { user: "mesh_ace_nodered", password: MINTED });
-  assert.deepEqual(f.flows.find((n) => n.id === "other-broker"), aceFlows()[2]);
-  assert.deepEqual(f.creds["other-broker"], { user: "x", password: "y" });
-  // Only the changed node carried credentials in the deploy.
-  assert.deepEqual(f.deploys[0].filter((n) => n.credentials).map((n) => n.id), ["2b0aece9c5f3b307"]);
-
-  // Again: nothing differs, nothing is deployed.
-  const again = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: f.nodered, probe: takes, marks: m }, binding(), MINTED, ["2b0aece9c5f3b307"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(again, [{ what: "broker 2b0aece9c5f3b307", result: "unchanged" }]);
-  assert.equal(f.deploys.length, 1);
-});
-
-test("fresh: with nothing named, the step makes its own broker node", async () => {
-  const f = fakeNodeRed([]);
-  const out = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: f.nodered, probe: takes, marks: marks() }, binding(), MINTED, []);
-  assert.deepEqual(out, [{ what: `broker ${MESH_BROKER_ID}`, result: "written", fields: ["node"] }]);
-  assert.equal(f.flows[0].type, "mqtt-broker");
-  assert.equal(f.flows[0].broker, "ace.internal");
-  assert.deepEqual(f.creds[MESH_BROKER_ID], { user: "mesh_ace_nodered", password: MINTED });
-});
-
-test("a login the broker does not take is never written", async () => {
-  const f = fakeNodeRed(aceFlows());
-  const out = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: f.nodered, probe: async () => ({ connack: 5 }), marks: marks() }, binding(), MINTED, ["2b0aece9c5f3b307"]);
-  assert.equal(out[0].result, "refused");
-  assert.equal(f.deploys.length, 0);
-});
-
-test("a named node that is not there, or a loopback broker, is refused", async () => {
-  const f = fakeNodeRed(aceFlows());
-  const out = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: f.nodered, probe: takes, marks: marks() }, binding(), MINTED, ["gone"]);
-  assert.match((out[0] as { problem: string }).problem, /no such node/);
-  const lo = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: f.nodered, probe: takes, marks: marks() }, binding("127.0.0.1"), MINTED, []);
-  assert.match((lo[0] as { problem: string }).problem, /Node-RED itself/);
-  assert.equal(f.deploys.length, 0);
-});
-
-test("a deploy that raced another is read again once", async () => {
-  const f = fakeNodeRed(aceFlows());
-  let first = true;
-  const racing: NodeRed = {
-    ...f.nodered,
-    async flows() {
-      const got = await f.nodered.flows();
-      if (first) {
-        first = false;
-        return { ...got, rev: "stale" };
-      }
-      return got;
-    },
-  };
-  const out = await reconcileBrokers({ nodered: racing, probe: takes, marks: marks() }, binding(), MINTED, ["2b0aece9c5f3b307"]);
-  assert.equal(out[0].result, "written");
-  assert.equal(f.deploys.length, 1);
-});
-
-test("settings name broker nodes under mqtt.brokers", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(namedBrokers({ mqtt: { brokers: ["a", "", 3, "b"] } }), ["a", "b"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(namedBrokers({ endpoints: {} }), []);
-  assert.deepEqual(namedBrokers(undefined), []);
-});

modules/nodered/tsconfig.json

@@ -8,11 +8,5 @@
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "noEmit": true
   },
-  "include": [
-    "client.ts",
-    "tools/index.ts",
-    "mqtt/probe.ts",
-    "mqtt/connection.ts",
-    "mqtt/index.ts"
-  ]
+  "include": ["client.ts", "tools/index.ts"]
 }

modules/nzbget/module.json

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_NZBGET_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:6789",
+        "MESH_NZBGET_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:6789}",
         "MESH_NZBGET_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/password",
         "MESH_NZBGET_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
         "MESH_NZBGET_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/nzbget/config"

modules/ombi/Dockerfile

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ ARG RUNTIME_BASE
 FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
 WORKDIR /app/modules/ombi
 COPY . .
-RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts servarr/settings.ts servarr/index.ts \
       --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
 
 FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ COPY --from=build /app/modules/ombi/dist /app/modules/ombi/dist
 # provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
 # the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
 ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/ombi/dist/index.js,/app/modules/ombi/dist/tools/index.js
+# NOT dist/servarr/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the `servarr`
+# container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run inside the
+# serving sidecar too, and exit it.

modules/ombi/module.json

@@ -28,10 +28,15 @@
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/ombi",
       "mode": "0700"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "."
+    },
     {
       "id": "config",
       "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/services/ombi/config",
       "mode": "0700",
       "owner": "1000:1000"
     },
@@ -39,7 +44,7 @@
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
       "name": "ombi",
-      "image": "lscr.io/linuxserver/ombi@sha256:a6f76ac521ba01eee2e9f0c23a3fed22e56630d97a04d5eeaeaa36c1e681640d",
+      "image": "lscr.io/linuxserver/ombi@sha256:22d6ebadbaaa728571353e74dc2173719e0fb02d4eaec551a7e9d2ee99ef68ac",
       "env": {
         "PUID": "1000",
         "PGID": "1000",
@@ -49,7 +54,7 @@
         "3579"
       ],
       "volumes": [
-        "/services/ombi/config:/config"
+        "${dir:config}:/config"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -68,24 +73,59 @@
       "volumes": [
         "/var/lib/mesh/ombi/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
         "/var/lib/mesh/ombi/api-key:/run/secrets/api-key:ro",
-        "/var/lib/mesh/ombi/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
-        "/services/ombi/config:/var/lib/ombi/config:ro"
+        "/var/lib/mesh/ombi/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_OMBI_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:3579",
+        "MESH_OMBI_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3579}",
         "MESH_OMBI_API_KEY_FILE": "/run/secrets/api-key",
-        "MESH_OMBI_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
-        "MESH_OMBI_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/ombi/config"
+        "MESH_OMBI_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
       },
       "restart-on": [
         "runtime-config"
       ],
       "artifact": "runtime"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "servarr",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-ombi-servarr",
+      "network": "host",
+      "run-once": true,
+      "volumes": [
+        "/var/lib/mesh/ombi/api-key:/run/secrets/api-key:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.json:/run/servarr/sonarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.secret:/run/servarr/sonarr-api.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.json:/run/servarr/radarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.secret:/run/servarr/radarr-api.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.json:/run/servarr/lidarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.secret:/run/servarr/lidarr-api.secret:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_OMBI_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3579}",
+        "MESH_OMBI_API_KEY_FILE": "/run/secrets/api-key",
+        "MESH_SERVARR_DIR": "/run/servarr"
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/ombi/dist/servarr/index.js"
+      ],
+      "restart-on": [
+        "bound-sonarr-api",
+        "secret-sonarr-api",
+        "bound-radarr-api",
+        "secret-radarr-api",
+        "bound-lidarr-api",
+        "secret-lidarr-api"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
-    "route"
+    "lidarr-api",
+    "radarr-api",
+    "route",
+    "sonarr-api"
   ],
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
@@ -94,7 +134,15 @@
     }
   },
   "binds": {
-    "route": "/var/lib/mesh/ombi/route.json"
+    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json",
+    "sonarr-api": "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.json",
+    "radarr-api": "${dir:state}/radarr-api.json",
+    "lidarr-api": "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.json"
+  },
+  "secrets": {
+    "sonarr-api": "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.secret",
+    "radarr-api": "${dir:state}/radarr-api.secret",
+    "lidarr-api": "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.secret"
   },
   "build": {
     "on": [

modules/ombi/package.json

@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
   "description": "ombi — media requests. Its API client, tools and events live here (novox/hq ADR 0039).",
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts servarr/settings.ts servarr/index.ts --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist",
+    "typecheck": "tsc -p tsconfig.json",
+    "test": "node --test --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
+  },
   "dependencies": {
     "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0"
   },

modules/ombi/servarr/index.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+// ombi's Servarr step — run once by the host after ombi's server starts, and run again whenever a
+// binding or pair credential it reads changes (the container's `restart-on`, novox/hq ADR 0099).
+//
+// **A step, not a loop**, for the reason route-adapter gives: everything it does is a function of
+// files the mesh writes, and the host already knows when they change. It connects to no broker.
+//
+// Exits non-zero when any app could not be put right — a refused credential, an unreachable app, an
+// ombi that cannot reach it — so the node reports the step failed and the host runs it again on the
+// next apply. It is declared last in the manifest, so its failing gates nothing else of ombi's
+// (novox/hq ADR 0136).
+//
+// Reads, per app, `<dir>/<provision>.json` (the binding) and `<dir>/<provision>.secret` (the pair
+// credential), where <dir> is MESH_SERVARR_DIR. Never prints a key.
+
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { APPS, ombiReady, readBinding, readIfThere, reconcileApp, type Http } from "./settings.js";
+
+const dir = process.env.MESH_SERVARR_DIR ?? "/run/servarr";
+const url = process.env.MESH_OMBI_URL ?? "http://127.0.0.1:3579";
+const apiKey = (await readIfThere(process.env.MESH_OMBI_API_KEY_FILE))?.trim() ?? process.env.MESH_OMBI_API_KEY ?? "";
+const waitSeconds = Number(process.env.MESH_OMBI_WAIT_SECONDS ?? "180");
+
+const http: Http = { fetch: (u, init) => fetch(u, init) };
+
+if (!apiKey) {
+  console.error("[ombi-servarr] no ombi API key — ombi's own `api-key` secret has not been accepted");
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+const ombi = { url, apiKey };
+
+if (!(await ombiReady(http, ombi, waitSeconds * 1000))) {
+  console.error(`[ombi-servarr] ombi did not answer at ${url} within ${waitSeconds}s`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+let failed = 0;
+for (const spec of APPS) {
+  const outcome = await reconcileApp(
+    http,
+    ombi,
+    spec,
+    await readBinding(join(dir, `${spec.provision}.json`)),
+    await readIfThere(join(dir, `${spec.provision}.secret`)),
+  );
+  switch (outcome.result) {
+    case "unchanged":
+      console.log(`[ombi-servarr] ${outcome.app}: already as the mesh says; connection tested`);
+      break;
+    case "written":
+      console.log(`[ombi-servarr] ${outcome.app}: wrote ${outcome.fields.join(", ")}; connection tested`);
+      break;
+    case "refused":
+      failed++;
+      console.error(`[ombi-servarr] ${outcome.app}: ${outcome.problem}`);
+      break;
+  }
+}
+process.exitCode = failed > 0 ? 1 : 0;

modules/ombi/servarr/settings.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
+// Where ombi reaches Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr — decided by the mesh, written into ombi by ombi's
+// own API.
+//
+// **Why this exists.** ombi keeps its connection to each Servarr app in its own database
+// (OmbiSettings.db), not in a file, so the mesh has nowhere to write `${bound:sonarr-api:at}` for it.
+// ombi requires `sonarr-api`, `radarr-api` and `lidarr-api`; the mesh delivers, for each, a binding
+// (where the app is: `at`, and what it serves: `port`, `scheme`, `url-base`) and a pair credential
+// (the app's API key, accepted by the operator — a Servarr app has exactly one key and the mesh
+// cannot mint it). This step reads those files and makes ombi's settings say the same thing.
+//
+// **Only the connection, and only when it differs.** Host, port, TLS, base path and API key. The
+// quality profile, root folder, language profile, tags, "enabled" and every other choice an operator
+// made in ombi's settings screen are left exactly as they are: the mesh knows where the app is, not
+// what ombi should do with it. Radarr's 4K instance is a different Radarr and is not touched.
+//
+// **A credential the app refuses is never written.** Until the operator accepts the app's API key
+// for this pair, the mesh delivers a value it minted itself, which no Servarr app will ever accept
+// (novox/hq ADR 0092). Writing it would replace a working key in ombi with a dead one. So the key is
+// tried against the app first; refused, nothing for that app is written and the step fails naming
+// the `secret accept` that fixes it.
+//
+// Pure logic and a small HTTP seam, so it is tested against fake servers (test/servarr.test.ts).
+
+import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+
+/** One Servarr app ombi connects to, and the shape of that connection in ombi's API. */
+export interface ServarrApp {
+  /** The app, as ombi's API names it: /Settings/<app>, /Tester/<app>. */
+  app: "sonarr" | "radarr" | "lidarr";
+  /** The provision it is required as — the manifest's `requires`, `binds` and `secrets` key. */
+  provision: string;
+  /** The app's own status endpoint, which answers 401 to a wrong key. */
+  statusPath: string;
+  /**
+   * Where the one connection sits in ombi's settings document. Radarr's is `{radarr, radarr4K}`
+   * (two Radarr instances); only `radarr` is this provision's.
+   */
+  within?: string;
+}
+
+export const APPS: readonly ServarrApp[] = [
+  { app: "sonarr", provision: "sonarr-api", statusPath: "/api/v3/system/status" },
+  { app: "radarr", provision: "radarr-api", statusPath: "/api/v3/system/status", within: "radarr" },
+  { app: "lidarr", provision: "lidarr-api", statusPath: "/api/v1/system/status" },
+];
+
+/** The connection fields ombi keeps for an app — the only ones this step ever writes. */
+export interface Connection {
+  ip: string;
+  port: number;
+  ssl: boolean;
+  /** ombi's name for the app's URL base; null when the app is served at the root. */
+  subDir: string | null;
+  apiKey: string;
+}
+
+/** What the mesh wrote at `binds.<provision>`: the binding document (controller's boundFile). */
+export interface Binding {
+  provision?: string;
+  from?: string;
+  at?: string;
+  as?: string;
+  serves?: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+
+export type Wanted = { ok: true; connection: Connection; from: string } | { ok: false; problem: string };
+
+/**
+ * The connection the mesh says ombi should use, from the binding and the pair credential.
+ *
+ * Refused rather than guessed when the binding cannot be dialled from ombi's own container: a
+ * loopback `at` — what the mesh hands a machine that is not on the private network — is ombi's
+ * container itself, not the app.
+ */
+export function wanted(spec: ServarrApp, binding: Binding | undefined, credential: string | undefined): Wanted {
+  if (!binding) {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `no binding for ${spec.provision} was delivered — the mesh writes it before this step runs` };
+  }
+  const at = typeof binding.at === "string" ? binding.at.trim() : "";
+  const serves = binding.serves ?? {};
+  const port = Number(serves.port);
+  if (!at) {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} binding names no host (at)` };
+  }
+  if (isLoopback(at)) {
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      problem:
+        `the ${spec.provision} binding says ${spec.app} is at ${at}, which from ombi's own container is ` +
+        `ombi itself. The mesh hands loopback to a machine that is not on the private network; put it ` +
+        `on the private network so ${spec.app} has an address ombi can dial`,
+    };
+  }
+  if (!Number.isInteger(port) || port <= 0 || port > 65535) {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} binding serves no usable port (${String(serves.port)})` };
+  }
+  const scheme = typeof serves.scheme === "string" && serves.scheme ? serves.scheme : "http";
+  if (scheme !== "http" && scheme !== "https") {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} binding serves scheme ${scheme}, which ombi cannot dial` };
+  }
+  const key = (credential ?? "").trim();
+  if (!key) {
+    return { ok: false, problem: `the ${spec.provision} credential is empty or was not delivered` };
+  }
+  return {
+    ok: true,
+    from: typeof binding.from === "string" ? binding.from : "",
+    connection: { ip: at, port, ssl: scheme === "https", subDir: subDirOf(serves["url-base"]), apiKey: key },
+  };
+}
+
+/** ombi's `subDir`: the URL base with its slashes trimmed, null when there is none. */
+export function subDirOf(urlBase: unknown): string | null {
+  const trimmed = typeof urlBase === "string" ? urlBase.trim().replace(/^\/+|\/+$/g, "") : "";
+  return trimmed === "" ? null : trimmed;
+}
+
+function isLoopback(host: string): boolean {
+  const h = host.toLowerCase();
+  return h === "localhost" || h === "::1" || h === "[::1]" || /^127\./.test(h);
+}
+
+/** Which connection fields differ between what ombi holds and what the mesh says. Names only. */
+export function differing(current: Record<string, unknown> | undefined, want: Connection): (keyof Connection)[] {
+  const now = current ?? {};
+  const out: (keyof Connection)[] = [];
+  if (String(now.ip ?? "") !== want.ip) out.push("ip");
+  if (Number(now.port ?? 0) !== want.port) out.push("port");
+  if (Boolean(now.ssl) !== want.ssl) out.push("ssl");
+  if (subDirOf(now.subDir) !== want.subDir) out.push("subDir");
+  if (String(now.apiKey ?? "") !== want.apiKey) out.push("apiKey");
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** ombi's settings for the app with the connection laid over them and nothing else changed. */
+export function withConnection(current: Record<string, unknown> | undefined, want: Connection): Record<string, unknown> {
+  return { ...(current ?? {}), ip: want.ip, port: want.port, ssl: want.ssl, subDir: want.subDir, apiKey: want.apiKey };
+}
+
+/** The app's base URL as the step dials it — the same host and port ombi will be given. */
+export function appUrl(want: Connection): string {
+  const scheme = want.ssl ? "https" : "http";
+  const host = want.ip.includes(":") && !want.ip.startsWith("[") ? `[${want.ip}]` : want.ip;
+  return `${scheme}://${host}:${want.port}${want.subDir ? `/${want.subDir}` : ""}`;
+}
+
+/** How one app came out. */
+export type Outcome =
+  | { app: string; result: "unchanged" }
+  | { app: string; result: "written"; fields: string[] }
+  | { app: string; result: "refused"; problem: string };
+
+/** The HTTP the step needs, so a test can stand fakes in for ombi and the apps. */
+export interface Http {
+  fetch(url: string, init?: { method?: string; headers?: Record<string, string>; body?: string }): Promise<{
+    status: number;
+    text(): Promise<string>;
+  }>;
+}
+
+export interface Ombi {
+  url: string;
+  apiKey: string;
+}
+
+async function ombiCall(http: Http, ombi: Ombi, method: string, path: string, body?: unknown): Promise<unknown> {
+  const res = await http.fetch(`${ombi.url.replace(/\/$/, "")}/api/v1${path}`, {
+    method,
+    headers: {
+      ApiKey: ombi.apiKey,
+      Accept: "application/json",
+      ...(body !== undefined ? { "Content-Type": "application/json" } : {}),
+    },
+    body: body !== undefined ? JSON.stringify(body) : undefined,
+  });
+  const text = await res.text();
+  if (res.status < 200 || res.status >= 300) {
+    // The body is ombi's error, never a request echo, so it carries no key.
+    throw new Error(`ombi ${method} ${path} answered ${res.status}${text ? `: ${text.slice(0, 200)}` : ""}`);
+  }
+  return text ? (JSON.parse(text) as unknown) : undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Does the app take this key? `true` it does, `false` it refused it (401/403), and a thrown error
+ * when it could not be asked — unreachable, or answering something that is neither.
+ */
+export async function appTakes(http: Http, spec: ServarrApp, want: Connection): Promise<boolean> {
+  const res = await http.fetch(`${appUrl(want)}${spec.statusPath}`, {
+    method: "GET",
+    headers: { "X-Api-Key": want.apiKey, Accept: "application/json" },
+  });
+  if (res.status === 401 || res.status === 403) return false;
+  if (res.status >= 200 && res.status < 300) return true;
+  throw new Error(`${spec.app} answered ${res.status} at ${spec.statusPath}`);
+}
+
+/** The remedy for a refused key, in the controller's own words (ADR 0092). */
+export function acceptRemedy(spec: ServarrApp, from: string): string {
+  return (
+    `${spec.app} refuses the ${spec.provision} credential the mesh delivered, so it was not written ` +
+    `into ombi. A Servarr app has one API key and the mesh cannot make it: accept ${spec.app}'s own ` +
+    `key for this pair — \`secret accept <this node> ombi ${spec.provision} --provider ${from || "<its node>"} ` +
+    `--from <file holding ${spec.app}'s ApiKey>\``
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Bring ombi's connection to one app in line with the mesh: check the key against the app, compare,
+ * write only the connection fields when they differ, then have ombi test the connection from its own
+ * container. Never throws: every failure is an outcome with a reason.
+ */
+export async function reconcileApp(
+  http: Http,
+  ombi: Ombi,
+  spec: ServarrApp,
+  binding: Binding | undefined,
+  credential: string | undefined,
+): Promise<Outcome> {
+  const w = wanted(spec, binding, credential);
+  // `in`, not `!w.ok`: the Dockerfile compiles without strict, where a boolean discriminant does not
+  // narrow.
+  if ("problem" in w) return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: w.problem };
+  const want = w.connection;
+
+  try {
+    if (!(await appTakes(http, spec, want))) {
+      return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: acceptRemedy(spec, w.from) };
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    return {
+      app: spec.app,
+      result: "refused",
+      problem: `${spec.app} could not be asked whether it takes the key at ${want.ip}:${want.port}: ${message(err)}`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const document = (await ombiCall(http, ombi, "GET", `/Settings/${spec.app}`)) as Record<string, unknown> | undefined;
+    const current = spec.within ? (document?.[spec.within] as Record<string, unknown> | undefined) : document;
+    const fields = differing(current, want);
+    if (fields.length > 0) {
+      const next = withConnection(current, want);
+      const body = spec.within ? { ...(document ?? {}), [spec.within]: next } : next;
+      const saved = await ombiCall(http, ombi, "POST", `/Settings/${spec.app}`, body);
+      if (saved === false) {
+        return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: `ombi declined to save its ${spec.app} settings` };
+      }
+    }
+    // ombi's own test, from ombi's own container — the path the step's check above did not take.
+    const tested = (await ombiCall(http, ombi, "POST", `/Tester/${spec.app}`, withConnection(current, want))) as
+      | { isValid?: boolean; expectedSubDir?: string | null }
+      | undefined;
+    if (!tested?.isValid) {
+      const hint = tested?.expectedSubDir ? ` (ombi expected the base path ${tested.expectedSubDir})` : "";
+      return {
+        app: spec.app,
+        result: "refused",
+        problem:
+          `ombi cannot reach ${spec.app} at ${want.ip}:${want.port} from its own container${hint}` +
+          (fields.length > 0 ? `; its settings were written (${fields.join(", ")})` : ""),
+      };
+    }
+    return fields.length > 0 ? { app: spec.app, result: "written", fields } : { app: spec.app, result: "unchanged" };
+  } catch (err) {
+    return { app: spec.app, result: "refused", problem: message(err) };
+  }
+}
+
+/** Wait for ombi to answer, because the step runs right after its container starts. */
+export async function ombiReady(http: Http, ombi: Ombi, waitMs: number, pauseMs = 2000): Promise<boolean> {
+  const until = Date.now() + waitMs;
+  for (;;) {
+    try {
+      const res = await http.fetch(`${ombi.url.replace(/\/$/, "")}/api/v1/Status`, { method: "GET" });
+      if (res.status === 200) return true;
+    } catch {
+      // not listening yet
+    }
+    if (Date.now() >= until) return false;
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, pauseMs));
+  }
+}
+
+/** A file the mesh wrote, or undefined when it is not there. */
+export async function readIfThere(path: string | undefined): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  if (!path) return undefined;
+  return readFile(path, "utf8").catch(() => undefined);
+}
+
+/** A binding file parsed, or undefined when absent or not JSON. */
+export async function readBinding(path: string | undefined): Promise<Binding | undefined> {
+  const raw = await readIfThere(path);
+  if (raw === undefined) return undefined;
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(raw) as Binding;
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+}
+
+function message(err: unknown): string {
+  return err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
+}

modules/ombi/test/servarr.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+// What holds ombi's Servarr step (servarr/settings.ts): the connection ombi keeps for each app is
+// made to say what the mesh bound — host, port, TLS, base path, key — and nothing else it keeps is
+// touched; nothing is written when nothing differs; Radarr's 4K instance is left alone; and a key the
+// app refuses (the mesh's own minted value, before the operator accepts the app's key) is never
+// written, with the `secret accept` that fixes it named.
+//
+// ombi and the apps are fakes: the routes the step touches, answering as the real ones do (checked
+// against lscr.io/linuxserver/ombi 4.53.10 and the catalogue's pinned sonarr/radarr/lidarr).
+
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+
+import { APPS, differing, reconcileApp, subDirOf, wanted, type Binding, type Http, type ServarrApp } from "../servarr/settings.ts";
+
+const SONARR = APPS.find((a) => a.app === "sonarr") as ServarrApp;
+const RADARR = APPS.find((a) => a.app === "radarr") as ServarrApp;
+const LIDARR = APPS.find((a) => a.app === "lidarr") as ServarrApp;
+const THE_KEY = "the-apps-own-key";
+
+function binding(provision: string, port: number, at = "ace.internal"): Binding {
+  return { binding: 1, provision, from: "ace", at, as: "mesh_ace_ombi", serves: { scheme: "http", port, "url-base": "" } } as Binding;
+}
+
+interface Call {
+  method: string;
+  url: string;
+  body?: unknown;
+}
+
+/** ombi's settings store and the apps' key check, behind one fetch. */
+function fakes(settings: Record<string, unknown>, opts: { appKey?: string; reachable?: boolean } = {}) {
+  const calls: Call[] = [];
+  const appKey = opts.appKey ?? THE_KEY;
+  const http: Http = {
+    async fetch(url, init) {
+      const method = init?.method ?? "GET";
+      const body = init?.body ? (JSON.parse(init.body) as unknown) : undefined;
+      calls.push({ method, url, body });
+      const reply = (status: number, value?: unknown) => ({
+        status,
+        text: async () => (value === undefined ? "" : JSON.stringify(value)),
+      });
+      const u = new URL(url);
+      if (u.pathname.endsWith("/system/status")) {
+        if (opts.reachable === false) throw new Error("connect ECONNREFUSED");
+        return init?.headers?.["X-Api-Key"] === appKey ? reply(200, { version: "4" }) : reply(401);
+      }
+      if (init?.headers?.ApiKey !== "ombi-key") return reply(401);
+      const m = u.pathname.match(/^\/api\/v1\/(Settings|Tester)\/(\w+)$/);
+      if (!m) return reply(404);
+      const [, kind, app] = m;
+      if (kind === "Settings" && method === "GET") return reply(200, settings[app]);
+      if (kind === "Settings" && method === "POST") {
+        settings[app] = body;
+        return reply(200, true);
+      }
+      const tried = body as { apiKey?: string };
+      return reply(200, { isValid: tried.apiKey === appKey, expectedSubDir: null });
+    },
+  };
+  return { http, calls, settings };
+}
+
+const OMBI = { url: "http://127.0.0.1:3579", apiKey: "ombi-key" };
+
+const operatorSonarr = () => ({
+  enabled: true, apiKey: "old-key", qualityProfile: "3", seasonFolders: true, rootPath: "10",
+  qualityProfileAnime: "7", rootPathAnime: "9", languageProfile: 1, ssl: false, subDir: null,
+  ip: "sonarr", port: 8989, id: 5,
+});
+
+test("it writes the connection the mesh bound, and keeps every other setting ombi had", async () => {
+  const f = fakes({ sonarr: operatorSonarr() });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, OMBI, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20101), `${THE_KEY}\n`);
+  assert.deepEqual(out, { app: "sonarr", result: "written", fields: ["ip", "port", "apiKey"] });
+  assert.deepEqual(f.settings.sonarr, {
+    ...operatorSonarr(), ip: "ace.internal", port: 20101, apiKey: THE_KEY, ssl: false, subDir: null,
+  });
+  // Checked against the app itself, at the bound address, before anything was written.
+  assert.equal(f.calls[0].url, "http://ace.internal:20101/api/v3/system/status");
+});
+
+test("nothing is written when ombi already says what the mesh says", async () => {
+  const f = fakes({ sonarr: { ...operatorSonarr(), ip: "ace.internal", port: 20101, apiKey: THE_KEY } });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, OMBI, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20101), THE_KEY);
+  assert.deepEqual(out, { app: "sonarr", result: "unchanged" });
+  assert.equal(f.calls.filter((c) => c.method === "POST" && c.url.includes("/Settings/")).length, 0);
+});
+
+test("a key the app refuses is never written, and the accept that fixes it is named", async () => {
+  const f = fakes({ sonarr: operatorSonarr() });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, OMBI, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20101), "a-value-the-mesh-minted");
+  assert.equal(out.result, "refused");
+  assert.match((out as { problem: string }).problem, /secret accept <this node> ombi sonarr-api --provider ace/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch((out as { problem: string }).problem, /a-value-the-mesh-minted/);
+  assert.deepEqual(f.settings.sonarr, operatorSonarr(), "ombi's working settings were left alone");
+  assert.equal(f.calls.some((c) => c.url.includes("/api/v1/")), false, "ombi was not even asked");
+});
+
+test("an app it cannot reach is reported, and ombi is left alone", async () => {
+  const f = fakes({ sonarr: operatorSonarr() }, { reachable: false });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, OMBI, SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20101), THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(out.result, "refused");
+  assert.match((out as { problem: string }).problem, /could not be asked.*ECONNREFUSED/);
+  assert.deepEqual(f.settings.sonarr, operatorSonarr());
+});
+
+test("radarr's connection is written inside its combined document, and the 4K instance is untouched", async () => {
+  const fourK = { enabled: true, apiKey: "4k-key", ip: "radarr4k", port: 7879, defaultQualityProfile: "9", id: 7 };
+  const f = fakes({ radarr: { radarr: { enabled: true, apiKey: "old", ip: "radarr", port: 7878, defaultRootPath: "/movies", id: 6 }, radarr4K: fourK } });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, OMBI, RADARR, binding("radarr-api", 20102), THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(out.result, "written");
+  const doc = f.settings.radarr as { radarr: Record<string, unknown>; radarr4K: unknown };
+  assert.deepEqual(doc.radarr4K, fourK);
+  assert.equal(doc.radarr.ip, "ace.internal");
+  assert.equal(doc.radarr.port, 20102);
+  assert.equal(doc.radarr.defaultRootPath, "/movies");
+});
+
+test("lidarr is checked on its own API version", async () => {
+  const f = fakes({ lidarr: { enabled: true, apiKey: null, ip: null, port: 0, id: 0 } });
+  const out = await reconcileApp(f.http, OMBI, LIDARR, binding("lidarr-api", 20103), THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(out.result, "written");
+  assert.equal(f.calls[0].url, "http://ace.internal:20103/api/v1/system/status");
+});
+
+test("a loopback binding is refused: from ombi's container it is ombi itself", () => {
+  const w = wanted(SONARR, binding("sonarr-api", 20101, "127.0.0.1"), THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(w.ok, false);
+  assert.match((w as { problem: string }).problem, /private network/);
+});
+
+test("the base path is ombi's subDir, slashes trimmed; empty is none", () => {
+  assert.equal(subDirOf(""), null);
+  assert.equal(subDirOf("/sonarr/"), "sonarr");
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    differing({ ip: "h", port: 1, ssl: false, subDir: "", apiKey: "k" }, { ip: "h", port: 1, ssl: false, subDir: null, apiKey: "k" }),
+    [],
+  );
+});
+
+test("an https binding sets ombi's ssl flag", () => {
+  const b = binding("sonarr-api", 443);
+  (b.serves as Record<string, unknown>).scheme = "https";
+  const w = wanted(SONARR, b, THE_KEY);
+  assert.equal(w.ok && w.connection.ssl, true);
+});

modules/ombi/tsconfig.json

@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
     "skipLibCheck": true,
     "noEmit": true
   },
-  "include": ["client.ts", "index.ts", "tools/index.ts"]
+  "include": ["client.ts", "index.ts", "tools/index.ts", "servarr/settings.ts", "servarr/index.ts"]
 }

modules/qbittorrent/module.json

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_QBITTORRENT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
+        "MESH_QBITTORRENT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}",
         "MESH_QBITTORRENT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/password",
         "MESH_QBITTORRENT_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
         "MESH_QBITTORRENT_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/qbittorrent/config"

modules/radarr/module.json

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 {
   "module": "radarr",
   "version": "1",
+  "provides": [
+    {
+      "name": "radarr-api",
+      "scope": "mesh"
+    }
+  ],
+  "serves": {
+    "radarr-api": {
+      "scheme": "http",
+      "port": 7878,
+      "url-base": ""
+    }
+  },
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
   ],
@@ -75,7 +88,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_RADARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:7878",
+        "MESH_RADARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:7878}",
         "MESH_RADARR_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/radarr/config"
       },
       "artifact": "runtime"

modules/searxng/module.json

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_SEARXNG_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8080",
+        "MESH_SEARXNG_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}",
         "MESH_SEARXNG_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
       },
       "restart-on": [

modules/sonarr/module.json

@@ -1,6 +1,19 @@
 {
   "module": "sonarr",
   "version": "1",
+  "provides": [
+    {
+      "name": "sonarr-api",
+      "scope": "mesh"
+    }
+  ],
+  "serves": {
+    "sonarr-api": {
+      "scheme": "http",
+      "port": 8989,
+      "url-base": ""
+    }
+  },
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
   ],
@@ -80,7 +93,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_SONARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8989",
+        "MESH_SONARR_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8989}",
         "MESH_SONARR_CONFIG_DIR": "/var/lib/sonarr/config"
       },
       "artifact": "runtime"