The mesh's one resolver, what every node asks, and a node's hosts file (hq ADR 0194, 0196, 0199)

- dnsmasq holds mesh-dns-resolver: provides wildcard-resolution mesh-wide, forwards every declared
  zone (zones fact), listens on the private address and loopback only, reads no hosts file and no
  operator's files, and no longer writes the container runtime's dns.
- resolv-conf names the mesh's resolver by address, then 1.1.1.1, timeout 1, one attempt; it now
  holds the runtime's live-restore, which dnsmasq held and every node needs.
- resolved-split-dns routes the suffix to the mesh's resolver by address, not 127.0.0.1.
- hosts: new module holding node-hosts-file — the machine's own lines in its block of /etc/hosts,
  the operator's lines kept, changed by entries/add/remove through sudo -n.

modules/anthropic-consumer/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# anthropic-consumer's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/anthropic-consumer
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc apply/index.ts usage/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist /app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist
+# No serve-time entrypoints: every container of this module names its command (`run` on a
+# schedule), so nothing here serves — deliberately no MESH_TOOL_MODULES.

modules/anthropic-consumer/module.json

@@ -14,10 +14,19 @@
   "secrets": {
     "model-access": "${dir:state}/access-token"
   },
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "emits": [
     "usage.session"
   ],
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -37,39 +46,66 @@
     },
     {
       "id": "apply",
-      "type": "process",
-      "name": "anthropic-consumer-apply",
-      "artifact": "code",
-      "run": [
-        "node",
-        "apply/index.js"
-      ],
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-anthropic-consumer-apply",
+      "network": "host",
       "schedule": "*/5 * * * *",
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist/apply/index.js"
+      ],
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:state}:/run/state"
+      ],
       "env": {
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "${dir:state}/access-token",
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "${dir:state}/model.json",
-        "MESH_CLAUDE_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "${dir:state}/claude/.credentials.json",
-        "MESH_CLAUDE_IDENTITY_FILE": "${dir:state}/claude/.claude.json"
-      }
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "/run/state/access-token",
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "/run/state/model.json",
+        "MESH_CLAUDE_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "/run/state/claude/.credentials.json",
+        "MESH_CLAUDE_IDENTITY_FILE": "/run/state/claude/.claude.json"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "usage",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-anthropic-consumer-usage",
+      "network": "host",
+      "schedule": "*/5 * * * *",
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/anthropic-consumer/dist/usage/index.js"
+      ],
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:state}:/run/state"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_CLAUDE_PROJECTS_DIR": "/run/state/claude/projects",
+        "MESH_ANTHROPIC_USAGE_OUT": "/run/state/out/session-usage.json",
+        "MESH_TOOLS_MAIN": "/app/dist/main.js"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "apply/index.js",
-          "usage/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "usage/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_CLAUDE_PROJECTS_DIR": "${dir:state}/claude/projects",
-          "MESH_ANTHROPIC_USAGE_OUT": "${dir:state}/out/session-usage.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/anthropic-consumer/usage/index.ts

@@ -3,15 +3,12 @@
 // per session. The consumer IS the (node,module) session's fixed binding, so no per-message account
 // attribution is done — just the totals (port map "don't-map" #3).
 //
-// Runs in the node's runtime (novox/hq ADR 0198), every five minutes, so events are emitted through
-// the runtime as this module; the totals are also written to a file so the reading is observable
-// without one.
+// Runs as `mesh-tools run` (no broker), so events are emitted best-effort via the sibling mesh-tools
+// `emit` primitive; the totals are also written to a file so the reading is observable without one.
 
 import { readdirSync, statSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync, renameSync, mkdirSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join, dirname } from "node:path";
 
-import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
-
 import { readSessionFile, type SessionUsage } from "../transcript.js";
 
 /** The vendor-neutral usage row ADR 0054 fixes — the shape the model-usage store upserts. Kept local
@@ -119,20 +116,22 @@ function atomicWrite(path: string, content: string): void {
   renameSync(tmp, path);
 }
 
-/** Emit best-effort through the runtime: a reading that could not be announced is still in the file. */
+/** Emit best-effort via the sibling mesh-tools `emit`, which wires a broker a run step has none. */
 async function emitUsage(body: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<void> {
-  try {
-    await emit("usage.session", body);
-  } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`[anthropic-consumer] could not emit usage: ${err}`);
-  }
+  const main = process.env.MESH_TOOLS_MAIN ?? "/app/dist/main.js";
+  const { spawn } = await import("node:child_process");
+  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
+    const child = spawn(
+      process.execPath,
+      [main, "emit", "usage.session", JSON.stringify(body)],
+      { stdio: "inherit" },
+    );
+    child.on("exit", () => resolve());
+    child.on("error", (err) => {
+      console.error(`[anthropic-consumer] could not emit usage: ${err}`);
+      resolve();
+    });
+  });
 }
 
-// The cadence the scheduled container had: once at start, then every five minutes. Not awaited, so the
-// runtime's handshake is answered while a long first reading is still under way.
-const EVERY_MS = 5 * 60 * 1000;
-const tick = (): void => {
-  void main().catch((err) => console.error(`[anthropic-consumer] usage reading failed: ${err}`));
-};
-tick();
-setInterval(tick, EVERY_MS);
+await main();

modules/audit-logger/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# audit-logger's runtime: the shared runtime image, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The toolkit is in the base image, so
+# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout — which is what lets the mesh build this from a
+# repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that happens to have
+# the siblings laid out beside it.
+
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in.
+# They are different images on purpose — the first carries a compiler and the second must not, or
+# every running container would carry one it never invokes. The mesh answers both with the copies it
+# holds, because a fingerprint written here would name one particular copy and no other mesh has it
+# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults, so a build
+# nobody told stops here and says which module to build first.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the toolkit it will run against.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/audit-logger
+COPY . .
+# The compiler is invoked by its real path rather than through node_modules/.bin, whose entries are
+# symlinks to a launcher that requires its library relatively — resolved away when the base image
+# was assembled.
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc audit.ts index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/audit-logger/dist /app/modules/audit-logger/dist
+# **Served, not run.** This subscribes on import, and the serve mode binds the broker before it
+# imports anything — `run` exists for a step that works offline and exits, and would leave this
+# with nothing to subscribe to.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/audit-logger/dist/index.js

modules/audit-logger/module.json

@@ -5,21 +5,27 @@
   "consumes": [
     "**"
   ],
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:state}/broker"
+  },
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "AUDIT_LOG": "${dir:trail}/audit.log"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   },
@@ -34,6 +40,21 @@
       "id": "trail",
       "type": "directory",
       "mode": "0700"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "run",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-audit-logger",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:trail}:/trail"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "AUDIT_LOG": "/trail/audit.log"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "capabilities": [

modules/audit-logger/test/audit.test.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ test("audit-logger records every event to the trail as one line each", async ()
   const path = join(dir, "audit.log");
 
   // The audit-logger's whole behaviour: consume everything, record it.
-  await on("#", async (event) => record(event, path)); // the pattern index.ts subscribes
+  await on("**", async (event) => record(event, path));
 
   process.env.MESH_MODULE = "umami";
   process.env.MESH_NODE = "anchor";
@@ -24,9 +24,7 @@ test("audit-logger records every event to the trail as one line each", async ()
 
   const lines = (await readFile(path, "utf8")).trim().split("\n").map((l) => JSON.parse(l));
   assert.equal(lines.length, 2);
-  // A module names its events locally (design 29); the module is the `source`, which together with
-  // the type says whose event it was. This broker does no namespacing, so the type is as emitted.
-  assert.deepEqual(lines.map((l) => l.type), ["site.created", "node.anchor.joined"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(lines.map((l) => l.type), ["umami.site.created", "node.anchor.joined"]);
   assert.equal(lines[0].source, "umami");
   assert.equal(lines[0].node, "anchor");
   assert.equal(lines[0].body.domain, "my-app");

modules/claude-code/README.md

@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-# claude-code
-
-The operator's agent on a machine (novox/hq design 36): its package, its machine-wide managed
-configuration, and the consumer side of the Anthropic licence manager (design 39, ADR 0183).
-
-## What it owns
-
-Two directories, declared, so the mesh refuses a second module owning either:
-
-- `/etc/claude-code`, the agent's machine-wide managed directory, root's, `0755`.
-- `~/.claude` under the operator account's home, the operator's, `0700`. The module owns the directory —
-  that it exists, who owns it, its mode — and of what is inside only what it writes. Everything else
-  in it (memory, history, projects, local settings, a person's own rules and skills) is the person's
-  and is never read or written (hq ADR 0182). Unassigned, the module leaves the directory: the host
-  removes a directory only when it is empty.
-
-## What it writes
-
-Under the agent's managed directory, `/etc/claude-code`, owned whole by this module and rewritten
-whenever the node's tool runtime collects the module's tools:
-
-| file | holds |
-|---|---|
-| `managed-mcp.json` | the tool servers every session loads: the mesh's console as `mesh`, and the servers set in this module's `mcp_servers` setting. **Exclusive**: a server not listed here does not load — not one added with `claude mcp add`, not a project's `.mcp.json`, not a plugin's |
-| `managed-settings.json` | the repositories' attribution convention, the claude.ai connectors kept beside the managed servers, and the key-helper while the node holds an API-key licence |
-| `CLAUDE.md` | how a session on this mesh works, this node's name and role, the conventions |
-
-Under the operator's home, only `~/.claude/.credentials.json`, and only when the licence manager hands
-this node a subscription token. Nothing else under the home is read or written.
-
-## Over NATS
-
-Everything between this module and the rest of the mesh is NATS, in three kinds: an **event** says that
-something happened and carries no secret, because a stream keeps it; a **request** carries a token,
-because nothing keeps it (hq design 32 §10); and **state** is the current value of something every node
-must see, a node that joins later included — kept, so it carries no secret either (hq ADR 0201).
-
-| what | how |
-|---|---|
-| the licence manager rotated a licence, or switched this node | its `licence.rotated` / `licence.switched` event; this module then asks `anthropic-licence-manager.current` for its token, sealed to the key it sends |
-| this node starts | it asks `current` once, so a node that was off catches up |
-| a person ran `/login` here | the credentials file gains a refresh token this module never writes; it asks `anthropic-licence-manager.adopt` at once with the grant sealed to the manager's key — the one time a refresh token travels, because the login made the manager's stale |
-| an MCP server registered through this module | a key in the module's `servers` state — `all.<server>` for every node, `<node>.<server>` for one; every node watches it and renders what applies to it, a node's own entry over the one for every node. A node that joins later, or was off, reads the whole current set at start; unregistering is a delete. An entry with a secret in its `env` or `headers` is refused by the runtime |
-
-## Tools
-
-`claude_code_status`, `claude_code_render`, `claude_code_pull`, `claude_code_mcp_list`,
-`claude_code_mcp_register` (this node by default; `nodes: "all"` or a list for more — called for this
-node alone, its answer names the other nodes running claude-code), `claude_code_mcp_unregister`.
-
-## Settings
-
-Per node or for the whole mesh, through `mesh-controller.settings module=claude-code`:
-
-- `role` — what this node is, in a few words; shown to every session.
-- `mcp_servers` — extra tool servers, set by the operator for the mesh or a node, beside the ones
-  registered through the tools; keyed by name, in the vendor's `.mcp.json` entry shape
-  (`{"type":"http","url":…}` or `{"type":"stdio","command":…,"args":[…]}`). The name `mesh` is the
-  module's own and cannot be set. Put a person's own servers here, or they stop loading.
-
-## On a machine that carried the predecessor
-
-Remove these by hand, once; the mesh removes nothing it did not make (ADR 0182):
-
-- `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`
-- `~/.claude/rules/00-hal-mesh.md`, `~/.claude/rules/conventions.md`
-- `~/.claude/skills/cleanup/`, `~/.claude/skills/hal-switch-license/`
-- the hand-made console entry in `~/.claude.json` under `mcpServers` — it is ignored now anyway
-
-## Escalation
-
-Writing `/etc/claude-code` needs root. The runtime runs as the operator account, and the module uses
-that account's passwordless `sudo`; on a machine without it, `claude_code_render` says so and nothing
-is written.

modules/claude-code/grant.ts

@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-// The agent's credentials file, and whether an offered grant may replace what it holds (novox/hq
-// ADR 0183, design 36 §5). Pure where it decides, so the rules are tested without a file.
-//
-// The file is the vendor's: `{ claudeAiOauth: { accessToken, expiresAt, refreshTokenExpiresAt?,
-// scopes?, subscriptionType?, rateLimitTier? }, ... }`. A node never holds a refresh token, so the
-// one this module writes never carries one, and a full grant a login left behind is stripped the
-// moment the manager hands the node its own.
-//
-// The lineage rule is the predecessor's, with the incidents that earned it: a rotation of the same
-// licence is applied only if newer; a grant re-issued by a login is adopted whatever its expiry; a
-// switch to another licence is applied regardless, because across licences the expiries are
-// unrelated numbers.
-
-import { readFileSync, renameSync, writeFileSync, mkdirSync } from "node:fs";
-import { dirname } from "node:path";
-
-export interface Grant {
-  readonly accessToken: string;
-  readonly expiresAt: number;
-  readonly refreshTokenExpiresAt?: number | null;
-  readonly scopes?: readonly string[] | null;
-  readonly subscriptionType?: string | null;
-  readonly rateLimitTier?: string | null;
-}
-
-export type ApplySource = "rotation" | "switch";
-
-export type ApplyDecision =
-  | { apply: true; reissued?: boolean }
-  | { apply: false; reason: "already-current" }
-  | { apply: false; reason: "not-newer"; localExpiresAt: number };
-
-/** Two refresh-token expiries within a day are one lineage; a login starts a fresh window weeks away. */
-export const GENERATION_TOLERANCE_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
-
-export function sameGeneration(a?: number | null, b?: number | null): boolean {
-  if (a == null || b == null) return true;
-  return Math.abs(Number(a) - Number(b)) <= GENERATION_TOLERANCE_MS;
-}
-
-export function decideApply(local: Grant | null | undefined, offered: Grant, source: ApplySource): ApplyDecision {
-  if (!local?.accessToken) return { apply: true };
-  if (local.accessToken === offered.accessToken) return { apply: false, reason: "already-current" };
-  const reissued = !sameGeneration(local.refreshTokenExpiresAt, offered.refreshTokenExpiresAt);
-  if (source === "rotation" && !reissued && Number(local.expiresAt) >= Number(offered.expiresAt)) {
-    return { apply: false, reason: "not-newer", localExpiresAt: Number(local.expiresAt) };
-  }
-  return reissued ? { apply: true, reissued: true } : { apply: true };
-}
-
-type Oauth = Record<string, unknown> & { accessToken?: string; refreshToken?: string; expiresAt?: number };
-type Credentials = Record<string, unknown> & { claudeAiOauth?: Oauth };
-
-export function readCredentials(path: string): Credentials | null {
-  try {
-    const parsed = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8")) as Credentials;
-    return parsed && typeof parsed === "object" ? parsed : null;
-  } catch {
-    return null;
-  }
-}
-
-/** The grant the file holds, or null. */
-export function grantOf(creds: Credentials | null): Grant | null {
-  const o = creds?.claudeAiOauth;
-  if (!o?.accessToken) return null;
-  return {
-    accessToken: o.accessToken,
-    expiresAt: Number(o.expiresAt ?? 0),
-    refreshTokenExpiresAt: o.refreshTokenExpiresAt == null ? null : Number(o.refreshTokenExpiresAt),
-  };
-}
-
-/** Does the file hold a full grant — a refresh token this module never writes, so a person's login? */
-export function holdsLogin(creds: Credentials | null): boolean {
-  return typeof creds?.claudeAiOauth?.refreshToken === "string" && creds.claudeAiOauth.refreshToken.length > 0;
-}
-
-/**
- * The handed grant laid over what is there — a rotation of the licence the node already holds — or,
- * for a switch, in place of it: the old licence's grant goes whole, scopes and subscription included,
- * and only keys outside the grant (another kind of credential the vendor keeps in the file) stay.
- * Either way, no refresh token survives.
- */
-export function replacedBy(local: Credentials | null, grant: Grant): Credentials {
-  const next: Credentials = { ...(local ?? {}) };
-  delete next.claudeAiOauth;
-  return withGrant(next, grant);
-}
-
-/** Overlay the handed grant on what is there, and delete any refresh token. */
-export function withGrant(local: Credentials | null, grant: Grant): Credentials {
-  const next: Credentials = { ...(local ?? {}) };
-  const oauth: Oauth = { ...(local?.claudeAiOauth ?? {}) };
-  oauth.accessToken = grant.accessToken;
-  oauth.expiresAt = grant.expiresAt;
-  for (const k of ["refreshTokenExpiresAt", "scopes", "subscriptionType", "rateLimitTier"] as const) {
-    const v = grant[k];
-    if (v != null) oauth[k] = v as unknown;
-  }
-  delete oauth.refreshToken;
-  next.claudeAiOauth = oauth;
-  return next;
-}
-
-/** Write atomically at 0600: a partial credentials file must never be read as a whole one. */
-export function writeCredentials(path: string, creds: Credentials): void {
-  mkdirSync(dirname(path), { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 });
-  const tmp = `${path}.mesh-tmp`;
-  writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(creds, null, 2) + "\n", { mode: 0o600 });
-  renameSync(tmp, path);
-}

modules/claude-code/identity.ts

@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-// Which account the agent is logged in as (novox/hq ADR 0183): not in the token, but in the agent's
-// own state file beside the home, `~/.claude.json` → `oauthAccount`. Read to attribute a login; written,
-// three keys and nothing else, when a licence is switched, so the file Claude Code shows the account from
-// names the account whose token it now holds (as the predecessor learned: two files that disagree make
-// a later login look like the wrong account).
-
-import { readFileSync, renameSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-
-export interface Identity {
-  readonly accountUuid: string;
-  readonly emailAddress?: string;
-  readonly organizationUuid?: string;
-}
-
-export function readIdentity(stateFile: string): Identity | null {
-  try {
-    const raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(stateFile, "utf8")) as { oauthAccount?: Record<string, unknown> };
-    const a = raw.oauthAccount;
-    if (!a || typeof a.accountUuid !== "string") return null;
-    return {
-      accountUuid: a.accountUuid,
-      emailAddress: typeof a.emailAddress === "string" ? a.emailAddress : undefined,
-      organizationUuid: typeof a.organizationUuid === "string" ? a.organizationUuid : undefined,
-    };
-  } catch {
-    return null;
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Point the state file's account at `id`, keeping every other key as found. Returns whether the file
- * changed; a file that cannot be read as an object is left alone rather than replaced.
- */
-export function writeIdentity(stateFile: string, id: Identity): boolean {
-  let raw: Record<string, unknown>;
-  try {
-    raw = JSON.parse(readFileSync(stateFile, "utf8")) as Record<string, unknown>;
-    if (!raw || typeof raw !== "object") return false;
-  } catch {
-    raw = {};
-  }
-  const current = (raw.oauthAccount ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>;
-  if (current.accountUuid === id.accountUuid && current.emailAddress === id.emailAddress
-      && current.organizationUuid === id.organizationUuid) return false;
-  raw.oauthAccount = { ...current, accountUuid: id.accountUuid, emailAddress: id.emailAddress, organizationUuid: id.organizationUuid };
-  const tmp = `${stateFile}.mesh-tmp`;
-  writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(raw, null, 2), { mode: 0o600 });
-  renameSync(tmp, stateFile);
-  return true;
-}

modules/claude-code/module.json

@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "module": "claude-code",
-  "version": "1",
-  "slug": "agent",
-  "capabilities": [
-    "package-manager"
-  ],
-  "requires": [
-    "mcp-endpoint"
-  ],
-  "binds": {
-    "mcp-endpoint": "${dir:state}/mcp-endpoint.json"
-  },
-  "consumes": [
-    "claude-licence-manager.licence.rotated",
-    "claude-licence-manager.licence.switched"
-  ],
-  "state": [
-    "servers"
-  ],
-  "tools": [
-    "claude_code_status",
-    "claude_code_render",
-    "claude_code_pull",
-    "claude_code_mcp_list",
-    "claude_code_mcp_register",
-    "claude_code_mcp_unregister"
-  ],
-  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "package",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "claude-code"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "managed",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/etc/claude-code",
-      "mode": "0755"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "agent-home",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.claude",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "state",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "place": "."
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "facts",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/facts.json",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "content": "{\n  \"node\": \"${machine:name}\",\n  \"console\": \"http://127.0.0.1:${bound:mcp-endpoint:port}/mcp\"\n}\n"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "settings",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.json",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "merge": "json",
-      "content": "{\n  \"role\": \"\",\n  \"mcp_servers\": {}\n}\n"
-    }
-  ],
-  "build": {
-    "artifacts": [
-      {
-        "name": "tools",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_STATE": "${dir:state}",
-          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_FACTS": "${dir:state}/facts.json",
-          "MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_SETTINGS": "${dir:state}/settings.json"
-        }
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}

modules/claude-code/node.ts

@@ -1,271 +0,0 @@
-// What claude-code does on a node, written against two things it is handed — a way to ask a tool on the
-// bus and a way to emit an event — so every path is tested without a bus (novox/hq design 36 §4–§5,
-// ADR 0183, ADR 0198).
-//
-// **Over NATS, in two kinds** (design 32 §10): an event says that something happened and carries no
-// secret, because a stream keeps it; a token travels on a request, which nothing keeps. So:
-//   - the licence manager's `licence.rotated` and `licence.switched` events tell this module to ask the
-//     seat for its current token, sealed to the key it sends with the request;
-//   - a login a person made here — a refresh token this module never writes — is offered to the seat at
-//     once, sealed to the seat's key: the one moment a refresh token travels, because the login made the
-//     manager's stale;
-//   - an MCP server registered through this module is **state, not an event** (novox/hq ADR 0201): one
-//     key per server in the module's `servers` bucket — `all.<server>` for every node, `<node>.<server>`
-//     for one — which every node watches. A node that joins later, or was off, reads the whole current set
-//     at start; unregistering is a delete. A secret never goes in an entry: the runtime refuses one.
-
-import { chmodSync, existsSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-
-import { render, entryProblem, MANAGED_DIR, type Binding, type Facts, type Settings, type Servers } from "./render.js";
-import { generateKeyPair, open, seal, type SealedBox } from "./seal.js";
-import { decideApply, grantOf, holdsLogin, readCredentials, replacedBy, withGrant, writeCredentials, type Grant } from "./grant.js";
-import { readIdentity, writeIdentity, type Identity } from "./identity.js";
-
-export const SEAT = "anthropic-licence-manager";
-
-export interface Paths {
-  state: string;
-  facts: string;
-  settings: string;
-  home: string;
-  node: string;
-}
-
-/** A tool on the bus: its address and arguments in, its JSON answer out. */
-export type Ask = (address: string, args: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<unknown>;
-/** An event of this module's, by its local name. */
-export type Emit = (type: string, body: unknown) => Promise<void>;
-/** Write one managed file; answers what happened. */
-export type WriteManaged = (name: string, content: string) => string;
-
-export const readJson = <T>(p: string, fallback: T): T => {
-  try {
-    return JSON.parse(readFileSync(p, "utf8")) as T;
-  } catch {
-    return fallback;
-  }
-};
-
-const credentialsPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.home, ".claude", ".credentials.json");
-const accountPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.home, ".claude.json");
-const bindingPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.state, "licence.json");
-const apiKeyPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.state, "api-key");
-export const helperPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.state, "api-key-helper");
-const keyPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.state, "key.pem");
-const pubPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.state, "key.pub.pem");
-const registryPath = (p: Paths) => join(p.state, "mcp-servers.json");
-
-export function keypair(p: Paths): { publicKey: string; privateKey: string } {
-  if (!existsSync(keyPath(p))) {
-    const k = generateKeyPair();
-    writeFileSync(keyPath(p), k.privateKey, { mode: 0o600 });
-    writeFileSync(pubPath(p), k.publicKey, { mode: 0o644 });
-  }
-  return { privateKey: readFileSync(keyPath(p), "utf8"), publicKey: readFileSync(pubPath(p), "utf8") };
-}
-
-export function registered(p: Paths): Servers {
-  return readJson<Servers>(registryPath(p), {});
-}
-
-export function renderNow(p: Paths, write: WriteManaged): string[] {
-  const facts = readJson<Facts | null>(p.facts, null);
-  if (!facts?.console) throw new Error(`the mesh has not rendered ${p.facts} yet; nothing to write`);
-  const files = render(facts, readJson<Settings>(p.settings, {}), readJson<Binding | null>(bindingPath(p), null),
-    helperPath(p), registered(p));
-  return Object.entries(files).map(([name, content]) => write(name, content));
-}
-
-// ---- the licence ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/** What the seat answers to `current`: the licence this node is bound to and its token, sealed. */
-export interface Current {
-  licence: string;
-  kind: "subscription" | "api-key";
-  sealed: SealedBox;
-  identity?: Identity | null;
-}
-
-/** Ask the seat for this node's current token and apply it. */
-export async function pull(p: Paths, ask: Ask, write: WriteManaged): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
-  const answer = (await ask(`${SEAT}.current`, { node: p.node, public_key: keypair(p).publicKey })) as Current | null;
-  if (!answer?.sealed) return { applied: false, reason: "the seat holds no licence for this node" };
-  return apply(p, answer, write);
-}
-
-/** Apply what the seat handed over. A switch replaces the grant whole and cleans up after the old licence. */
-export function apply(p: Paths, handed: Current, write: WriteManaged): Record<string, unknown> {
-  const plain = open(handed.sealed, keypair(p).privateKey);
-  const previous = readJson<Binding | null>(bindingPath(p), null);
-  const switched = previous?.licence !== handed.licence;
-  let outcome: Record<string, unknown> = { applied: true, licence: handed.licence, kind: handed.kind, switched };
-  if (handed.kind === "api-key") {
-    writeFileSync(apiKeyPath(p), plain.trim() + "\n", { mode: 0o600 });
-    writeFileSync(helperPath(p), `#!/bin/sh\nexec cat '${apiKeyPath(p)}'\n`, { mode: 0o700 });
-    chmodSync(helperPath(p), 0o700);
-  } else {
-    const grant = JSON.parse(plain) as Grant;
-    const local = readCredentials(credentialsPath(p));
-    const d = decideApply(grantOf(local), grant, switched ? "switch" : "rotation");
-    if (d.apply) writeCredentials(credentialsPath(p), switched ? replacedBy(local, grant) : withGrant(local, grant));
-    else outcome = { applied: false, licence: handed.licence, reason: "reason" in d ? d.reason : undefined }; // narrowed by hand: the build compiles without strict
-    // Away from the API key: it goes, with its helper.
-    rmSync(apiKeyPath(p), { force: true });
-    rmSync(helperPath(p), { force: true });
-  }
-  if (switched && handed.identity?.accountUuid) {
-    outcome.account = writeIdentity(accountPath(p), handed.identity) ? "updated" : "unchanged";
-  }
-  writeFileSync(bindingPath(p), JSON.stringify({ licence: handed.licence, kind: handed.kind }) + "\n", { mode: 0o600 });
-  try {
-    outcome.rendered = renderNow(p, write); // the key-helper comes or goes with the licence's kind
-  } catch (err) {
-    outcome.rendered = { failed: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) };
-  }
-  return outcome;
-}
-
-/** A licence event from the manager: is it for this node? */
-export function concerns(p: Paths, type: string, body: { licence?: string; node?: string }): boolean {
-  if (type.endsWith("licence.switched")) return body.node === p.node;
-  if (type.endsWith("licence.rotated")) return body.licence === readJson<Binding | null>(bindingPath(p), null)?.licence;
-  return false;
-}
-
-/** A refresh token in the credentials file is a login: this module never writes one. Offer it to the seat. */
-export async function offerLogin(p: Paths, ask: Ask): Promise<Record<string, unknown> | null> {
-  const creds = readCredentials(credentialsPath(p));
-  if (!holdsLogin(creds)) return null;
-  const key = (await ask(`${SEAT}.public_key`, {})) as { public_key?: string } | null;
-  if (!key?.public_key) throw new Error("the licence manager did not say what key to seal a login to");
-  return (await ask(`${SEAT}.adopt`, {
-    node: p.node,
-    identity: readIdentity(accountPath(p)),
-    sealed: seal(JSON.stringify(creds!.claudeAiOauth), key.public_key),
-  })) as Record<string, unknown>;
-}
-
-// ---- MCP servers ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-export interface Registration {
-  name: string;
-  entry?: Record<string, unknown>;
-  /** Which nodes: this one (absent), every node running the module ("all"), or a list. */
-  nodes?: "all" | string[];
-}
-
-/** The `servers` state, as this module reaches it through the runtime (`state("servers")` in the SDK). */
-export interface ServerState {
-  put(key: string, value: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<number>;
-  delete(key: string): Promise<void>;
-  keys(): Promise<string[]>;
-}
-
-/** One change to the `servers` state, as a watch hands it over. */
-export interface ServerChange {
-  key: string;
-  op: "put" | "delete";
-  value?: Record<string, unknown>;
-}
-
-/** The key a registration lives at: `all.<server>` for every node, `<node>.<server>` for one. */
-export const keyOf = (scope: string, name: string) => `${scope}.${name}`;
-
-/**
- * What this node takes from the `servers` state: the entries for every node and for this one, by key —
- * kept in memory from the watch, and written through to the module's own file whenever what applies here
- * changes, so the managed directory can be rendered without the bus.
- */
-export class ServerView {
-  private readonly entries = new Map<string, Record<string, unknown>>();
-  constructor(private readonly p: Paths) {}
-
-  /** Take one change; answers whether what applies to this node changed. */
-  take(c: ServerChange): boolean {
-    const dot = c.key.indexOf(".");
-    const scope = c.key.slice(0, dot), name = c.key.slice(dot + 1);
-    if (dot <= 0 || (scope !== "all" && scope !== this.p.node)) return false;
-    if (c.op === "put" && c.value && entryProblem(name, c.value) === null) this.entries.set(c.key, c.value);
-    else this.entries.delete(c.key);
-    return this.writeThrough();
-  }
-
-  /** What applies here: every node's entries, with this node's own laid over them by server name. */
-  effective(): Servers {
-    const out: Record<string, Record<string, unknown>> = {};
-    for (const scope of ["all", this.p.node]) {
-      for (const [key, entry] of [...this.entries].sort(([a], [b]) => a.localeCompare(b))) {
-        if (key.startsWith(scope + ".")) out[key.slice(scope.length + 1)] = entry;
-      }
-    }
-    return out;
-  }
-
-  private writeThrough(): boolean {
-    const now = JSON.stringify(this.effective(), null, 2) + "\n";
-    let before = "";
-    try {
-      before = readFileSync(registryPath(this.p), "utf8");
-    } catch {
-      /* none yet */
-    }
-    if (now === before) return false;
-    writeFileSync(registryPath(this.p), now, { mode: 0o600 });
-    return true;
-  }
-}
-
-/** A change from the watch: take it, and render when what applies here changed. */
-export function onServerChange(view: ServerView, c: ServerChange, p: Paths, write: WriteManaged): string | null {
-  if (!view.take(c)) return null;
-  renderNow(p, write);
-  return `${c.op === "put" ? "registered" : "unregistered"} ${c.key}`;
-}
-
-const scopesOf = (p: Paths, nodes: Registration["nodes"]): string[] =>
-  nodes === undefined ? [p.node] : nodes === "all" ? ["all"] : nodes;
-
-/**
- * Register (or with no entry, unregister) a server: a put (or delete) per scope in the `servers` state.
- * Taken into this node's view at once, so the answer says what it did here; every other node takes it
- * from its watch, and a node that joins later from the current state.
- */
-export async function registerServer(p: Paths, r: Registration, servers: ServerState, view: ServerView,
-                                     write: WriteManaged, others: () => Promise<string[]>): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
-  if (r.entry) {
-    const problem = entryProblem(r.name, r.entry);
-    if (problem) return { registered: false, reason: problem };
-  }
-  const scopes = scopesOf(p, r.nodes);
-  // Compared before and after rather than read from take(): this node's own watch may hand the view the
-  // same change first, and then take() here finds nothing new although this call made it.
-  const before = JSON.stringify(view.effective());
-  for (const scope of scopes) {
-    const key = keyOf(scope, r.name);
-    if (r.entry) await servers.put(key, r.entry);
-    else await servers.delete(key);
-    view.take({ key, op: r.entry ? "put" : "delete", value: r.entry });
-  }
-  const changedHere = JSON.stringify(view.effective()) !== before;
-  const here = scopes.includes("all") || scopes.includes(p.node);
-  const answer: Record<string, unknown> = {
-    [r.entry ? "registered" : "unregistered"]: r.name,
-    on: r.nodes === undefined ? [p.node] : r.nodes,
-    here: here ? (changedHere ? "changed" : "already so") : "not this node",
-    rendered: changedHere ? renderNow(p, write) : [],
-  };
-  if (!r.entry && view.effective()[r.name]) {
-    answer.still = `${r.name} still applies here from another registration (for every node, or for this one); unregister that too`;
-  }
-  if (r.nodes === undefined) {
-    // The question the operator wanted asked: here only, or more?
-    const elsewhere = (await others().catch(() => [] as string[])).filter((n) => n !== p.node);
-    answer.also = elsewhere.length
-      ? `claude-code also runs on ${elsewhere.join(", ")}. To ${r.entry ? "register" : "unregister"} it there too, call again with nodes: "all" or a list of those nodes.`
-      : `To do the same on every node running claude-code, call again with nodes: "all".`;
-  }
-  return answer;
-}
-
-export { MANAGED_DIR };

modules/claude-code/package.json

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "@novox/module-claude-code",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "claude-code — the operator's agent on a machine: its managed configuration, and the consumer side of the Anthropic licence manager (novox/hq design 36).",
-  "type": "module",
-  "private": true,
-  "scripts": {
-    "build": "tsc seal.ts grant.ts identity.ts render.ts node.ts tools/index.ts --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --rootDir . --outDir dist",
-    "test": "npm run build && node --test --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.7"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
-    "typescript": "^5.6.0"
-  }
-}

modules/claude-code/render.ts

@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
-// What the module writes into the agent's machine-wide managed directory (novox/hq design 36 §1–§4).
-// Pure: composed from the facts the mesh rendered, the settings the operator set and the licence the
-// node holds, so what lands under /etc is tested without a machine.
-//
-// Three files, owned whole by this module:
-//   managed-mcp.json        the tool servers every session loads: the mesh's console as `mesh`, and the
-//                           servers the operator declared for the mesh or this node. Exclusive by the
-//                           vendor's rule — a server not listed here does not load — which is why the
-//                           list is the module's settings and nothing else (operator's choice, 2026-10-03).
-//   managed-settings.json   the mesh's keys only: the repositories' attribution convention, the
-//                           claude.ai connectors kept beside the managed servers, and — for an API-key
-//                           licence only — the key-helper. A person's preferences are theirs.
-//   CLAUDE.md               how a session on this mesh works, who this node is, the conventions.
-
-export const MANAGED_DIR = "/etc/claude-code";
-
-export interface Facts {
-  readonly node: string;
-  readonly console: string;
-}
-
-export interface Settings {
-  readonly role?: string;
-  /** Extra tool servers, in the vendor's `.mcp.json` entry shape, keyed by name. */
-  readonly mcp_servers?: Readonly<Record<string, Record<string, unknown>>>;
-}
-
-export interface Binding {
-  readonly licence: string;
-  readonly kind: "subscription" | "api-key";
-}
-
-export interface Rendered {
-  readonly [file: string]: string;
-}
-
-const MESH_ENTRY = "mesh";
-
-export type Servers = Readonly<Record<string, Record<string, unknown>>>;
-
-/** Whether an entry is one the vendor's managed file takes: a name of letters, digits, `-` and `_`, and
- *  an http/sse server with a url or a stdio server with a command. Returns why not, or null. */
-export function entryProblem(name: string, entry: Record<string, unknown>): string | null {
-  if (!/^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/.test(name)) return `"${name}" is not a name the agent takes: letters, digits, - and _`;
-  if (name === MESH_ENTRY) return `"${MESH_ENTRY}" is the mesh's own entry`;
-  const type = entry?.type ?? "stdio";
-  if (type === "http" || type === "sse" || type === "streamable-http") {
-    return typeof entry.url === "string" && entry.url ? null : `an ${type} server needs a url`;
-  }
-  if (type === "stdio") return typeof entry.command === "string" && entry.command ? null : "a stdio server needs a command";
-  return `"${String(type)}" is not a server type the agent knows (http, sse, stdio)`;
-}
-
-/**
- * Compose the three files. `registered` is the module's own list on this node — what was registered
- * through its tools — laid over the servers the operator set in its settings.
- */
-export function render(facts: Facts, settings: Settings, binding: Binding | null, helperPath: string,
-                       registered: Servers = {}): Rendered {
-  const servers: Record<string, unknown> = {};
-  for (const [name, entry] of Object.entries({ ...(settings.mcp_servers ?? {}), ...registered })) {
-    if (entryProblem(name, entry) !== null) continue; // the mesh's own entry, or one the agent would refuse
-    servers[name] = entry;
-  }
-  servers[MESH_ENTRY] = { type: "http", url: facts.console };
-
-  const managed: Record<string, unknown> = {
-    attribution: { commit: "", pr: "" },
-    allowAllClaudeAiMcps: true,
-  };
-  if (binding?.kind === "api-key") managed.apiKeyHelper = helperPath;
-
-  return {
-    "managed-mcp.json": json({ mcpServers: sortKeys(servers) }),
-    "managed-settings.json": json(managed),
-    "CLAUDE.md": instructions(facts, settings),
-  };
-}
-
-function json(v: unknown): string {
-  return JSON.stringify(v, null, 2) + "\n";
-}
-
-function sortKeys(o: Record<string, unknown>): Record<string, unknown> {
-  return Object.fromEntries(Object.keys(o).sort().map((k) => [k, o[k]]));
-}
-
-export function instructions(facts: Facts, settings: Settings): string {
-  const role = settings.role?.trim() ? settings.role.trim() : "not stated — set it in this module's settings for the node";
-  return `# This machine is a node of a Novox mesh
-
-Written by the mesh's \`claude-code\` module. Edit the module's settings or the catalogue, never this file:
-it is rewritten whenever the module renders.
-
-## Who this node is
-
-- **Node:** \`${facts.node}\`
-- **Role:** ${role}
-- The other nodes, their roles and what runs where: ask the controller (\`mesh-controller.nodes\`,
-  \`mesh-controller.node\`). Nothing here lists them, because a copy drifts.
-
-## How a session on this mesh works
-
-The console is the only way to the mesh: the MCP server named \`mesh\`. It offers five tools, and
-everything else is an address you find and call through them:
-
-- \`mesh_search\` — words in, matching addresses out. \`mesh_describe\` — one address's arguments.
-- \`mesh_call\` — call an address. A seat the mesh holds once is \`<seat>.<verb>\` (the mesh's own verbs
-  are \`mesh-controller.<verb>\`: \`status\`, \`plan\`, \`node\`, \`assign\`, \`push\`, \`settings\`);
-  a module on a machine is \`<node>/<module>.<tool>\`.
-- \`mesh_overview\` and \`mesh_machine\` — the mesh's seats and machines, and what one machine runs.
-
-- **Symptom first.** For an error, a failing service or anything unexpected, search the record with the
-  literal text before forming a hypothesis: the records module's \`records_search\`, then
-  \`records_read\`.
-- **Ask the mesh before changing it**, and change it through the controller's verbs or the catalogue.
-- **A licence** through the \`anthropic-licence-manager\` seat's verbs. Never edit the agent's credentials
-  file by hand, never print or ask for a token.
-
-## Hard rules
-
-- A file the mesh manages is changed through the verb or the catalogue that owns it, never on disk. If
-  unsure, \`mesh-controller.plan\` for the node says what the mesh writes there.
-- Never write to a store's database by hand; schema changes are numbered migrations.
-- Never push to a main branch: a branch, a pull request, and a human approval for every merge.
-- The mesh creates no symlinks, and nobody else does either.
-- A package is declared in a module, never installed by hand.
-
-## Conventions
-
-- Commit messages are concise, in the imperative, about why.
-- Test before pushing: nodes update unattended.
-- The playbooks in the record say how research, decisions, designs, issues and hand-offs are done.
-`;
-}

modules/claude-code/seal.ts

@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-// Sealing a token to one recipient (novox/hq ADR 0183): the manager seals what it hands a node to that
-// node's agent module key, and a node seals a waiting login to the key the manager names. X25519 for
-// the agreement, HKDF-SHA256 for the key, AES-256-GCM for the box — all from Node's own library, so a
-// bundle carries no dependency and no secret ever crosses the bus in the clear.
-//
-// A sealed box is `{ v: 1, eph, iv, tag, ct }`, every field base64. `eph` is a one-time public key, so
-// two boxes of one value to one recipient share nothing, and only the recipient's private key opens it.
-
-import {
-  createCipheriv, createDecipheriv, createPrivateKey, createPublicKey, diffieHellman,
-  generateKeyPairSync, hkdfSync, randomBytes, type KeyObject,
-} from "node:crypto";
-
-export interface SealedBox {
-  readonly v: 1;
-  readonly eph: string;
-  readonly iv: string;
-  readonly tag: string;
-  readonly ct: string;
-}
-
-/** A recipient's keypair, as the two PEM strings it is kept and published as. */
-export interface KeyPairPem {
-  readonly publicKey: string;
-  readonly privateKey: string;
-}
-
-const INFO = Buffer.from("novox-mesh sealed box v1");
-
-export function generateKeyPair(): KeyPairPem {
-  const { publicKey, privateKey } = generateKeyPairSync("x25519");
-  return {
-    publicKey: publicKey.export({ type: "spki", format: "pem" }).toString(),
-    privateKey: privateKey.export({ type: "pkcs8", format: "pem" }).toString(),
-  };
-}
-
-function keyFor(secret: Buffer, eph: Buffer, recipient: Buffer): Buffer {
-  // The ephemeral and the recipient's public halves are bound into the key, so a box cannot be
-  // re-addressed to another recipient by swapping its `eph`.
-  return Buffer.from(hkdfSync("sha256", secret, Buffer.concat([eph, recipient]), INFO, 32));
-}
-
-function rawPublic(key: KeyObject): Buffer {
-  return key.export({ type: "spki", format: "der" }).subarray(-32);
-}
-
-export function seal(plaintext: string, recipientPublicPem: string): SealedBox {
-  const recipient = createPublicKey(recipientPublicPem);
-  const eph = generateKeyPairSync("x25519");
-  const secret = diffieHellman({ privateKey: eph.privateKey, publicKey: recipient });
-  const ephRaw = eph.publicKey.export({ type: "spki", format: "der" });
-  const key = keyFor(secret, ephRaw, rawPublic(recipient));
-  const iv = randomBytes(12);
-  const cipher = createCipheriv("aes-256-gcm", key, iv);
-  const ct = Buffer.concat([cipher.update(plaintext, "utf8"), cipher.final()]);
-  return {
-    v: 1,
-    eph: ephRaw.toString("base64"),
-    iv: iv.toString("base64"),
-    tag: cipher.getAuthTag().toString("base64"),
-    ct: ct.toString("base64"),
-  };
-}
-
-/** Open a box with the recipient's private key. Throws on a box for another key or one tampered with. */
-export function open(box: SealedBox, privateKeyPem: string): string {
-  if (!box || box.v !== 1) throw new Error("not a sealed box this module can open");
-  const priv = createPrivateKey(privateKeyPem);
-  const ephRaw = Buffer.from(box.eph, "base64");
-  const eph = createPublicKey({ key: ephRaw, format: "der", type: "spki" });
-  const secret = diffieHellman({ privateKey: priv, publicKey: eph });
-  const key = keyFor(secret, ephRaw, rawPublic(createPublicKey(priv)));
-  const decipher = createDecipheriv("aes-256-gcm", key, Buffer.from(box.iv, "base64"));
-  decipher.setAuthTag(Buffer.from(box.tag, "base64"));
-  return Buffer.concat([decipher.update(Buffer.from(box.ct, "base64")), decipher.final()]).toString("utf8");
-}

modules/claude-code/test/grant.test.ts

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-import {
-  decideApply, grantOf, holdsLogin, readCredentials, withGrant, writeCredentials, type Grant,
-} from "../dist/grant.js";
-
-const NOW = 1_700_000_000_000;
-const HOUR = 3_600_000;
-const g = (over: Partial<Grant> = {}): Grant => ({
-  accessToken: "tok-A", expiresAt: NOW + HOUR, refreshTokenExpiresAt: NOW + 30 * 24 * HOUR, ...over,
-});
-
-test("a rotation applies a newer grant of the same licence", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(decideApply(g(), g({ accessToken: "tok-B", expiresAt: NOW + 2 * HOUR }), "rotation"), { apply: true });
-});
-
-test("a rotation refuses a grant that arrived late and is older", () => {
-  const d = decideApply(g({ accessToken: "new", expiresAt: NOW + 2 * HOUR }), g({ accessToken: "old" }), "rotation");
-  assert.equal(d.apply === false && d.reason, "not-newer");
-});
-
-test("a grant re-issued by a login is adopted even though it expires sooner (2026-09-05)", () => {
-  const local = g({ expiresAt: NOW + 8 * HOUR, refreshTokenExpiresAt: NOW + 30 * 24 * HOUR });
-  const offered = g({ accessToken: "reissued", expiresAt: NOW + HOUR, refreshTokenExpiresAt: NOW + 5 * 24 * HOUR });
-  assert.deepEqual(decideApply(local, offered, "rotation"), { apply: true, reissued: true });
-});
-
-test("a switch to another licence applies whatever the expiries say", () => {
-  const local = g({ expiresAt: NOW + 8 * HOUR });
-  assert.equal(decideApply(local, g({ accessToken: "other", expiresAt: NOW + HOUR }), "switch").apply, true);
-});
-
-test("the same token is not rewritten", () => {
-  assert.deepEqual(decideApply(g(), g(), "switch"), { apply: false, reason: "already-current" });
-});
-
-test("a full grant left by a login is seen as a login, and stripped when the node's own is written", () => {
-  const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "claude-code-"));
-  const path = join(dir, ".claude", ".credentials.json");
-  writeFileSync(join(dir, "x"), "");
-  const login = { claudeAiOauth: { accessToken: "at-login", refreshToken: "rt-login", expiresAt: NOW }, other: 1 };
-  assert.equal(holdsLogin(login), true);
-  writeCredentials(path, withGrant(login, g({ accessToken: "at-mesh", scopes: ["user:inference"] })));
-  const back = readCredentials(path)!;
-  assert.equal(holdsLogin(back), false);
-  assert.equal(grantOf(back)!.accessToken, "at-mesh");
-  assert.deepEqual(back.claudeAiOauth!.scopes, ["user:inference"]);
-  assert.equal(back.other, 1, "a key the module does not know was lost");
-  assert.ok(!readFileSync(path, "utf8").includes("rt-login"));
-  assert.equal(statSync(path).mode & 0o777, 0o600);
-});

modules/claude-code/test/identity.test.ts

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { mkdtempSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-import { readIdentity } from "../dist/identity.js";
-
-test("the account is read from the agent's state file", () => {
-  const p = join(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "cc-id-")), ".claude.json");
-  writeFileSync(p, JSON.stringify({ oauthAccount: { accountUuid: "u-1", emailAddress: "a@example.org" }, other: 2 }));
-  assert.deepEqual(readIdentity(p), { accountUuid: "u-1", emailAddress: "a@example.org", organizationUuid: undefined });
-});
-
-test("no state file, or no account in it, is no identity rather than a guess", () => {
-  assert.equal(readIdentity("/nonexistent/.claude.json"), null);
-  const p = join(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "cc-id-")), ".claude.json");
-  writeFileSync(p, "{}");
-  assert.equal(readIdentity(p), null);
-});

modules/claude-code/test/node.test.ts

@@ -1,173 +0,0 @@
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { existsSync, mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-import {
-  apply, concerns, keypair, offerLogin, onServerChange, pull, registerServer, registered, ServerView, type Paths,
-  type ServerChange, type ServerState,
-} from "../dist/node.js";
-import { generateKeyPair, open, seal } from "../dist/seal.js";
-
-const NOW = Date.now();
-function node(name = "laptop"): { p: Paths; written: Record<string, string> } {
-  const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "cc-node-"));
-  const p = { state: join(root, "state"), facts: join(root, "state", "facts.json"), settings: join(root, "state", "settings.json"), home: join(root, "home"), node: name };
-  mkdirSync(p.state, { recursive: true });
-  mkdirSync(join(p.home, ".claude"), { recursive: true });
-  writeFileSync(p.facts, JSON.stringify({ node: name, console: "http://127.0.0.1:4270/mcp" }));
-  writeFileSync(p.settings, JSON.stringify({ role: "", mcp_servers: {} }));
-  return { p, written: {} };
-}
-const writer = (w: Record<string, string>) => (name: string, content: string) => { w[name] = content; return `${name}: written`; };
-const creds = (p: Paths) => JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(p.home, ".claude", ".credentials.json"), "utf8"));
-const grantFor = (p: Paths, licence: string, token: string, kind: "subscription" | "api-key" = "subscription", identity?: object) => ({
-  licence, kind, identity,
-  sealed: seal(kind === "api-key" ? token : JSON.stringify({ accessToken: token, expiresAt: NOW + 3_600_000, refreshTokenExpiresAt: NOW + 86_400_000, subscriptionType: licence }), keypair(p).publicKey),
-});
-
-test("a pull asks the seat with this node's key and applies what it answers", async () => {
-  const { p, written } = node();
-  let asked: [string, Record<string, unknown>] | null = null;
-  const r = await pull(p, async (address, args) => { asked = [address, args]; return grantFor(p, "personal", "at-1"); }, writer(written));
-  assert.equal(asked![0], "anthropic-licence-manager.current");
-  assert.equal(asked![1].node, "laptop");
-  assert.match(String(asked![1].public_key), /BEGIN PUBLIC KEY/);
-  assert.equal(r.applied, true);
-  assert.equal(creds(p).claudeAiOauth.accessToken, "at-1");
-  assert.ok(written["managed-mcp.json"]);
-});
-
-test("a switch replaces the old licence's grant whole and points the account at the new one", () => {
-  const { p, written } = node();
-  writeFileSync(join(p.home, ".claude.json"), JSON.stringify({ oauthAccount: { accountUuid: "old" }, projects: { keep: 1 } }));
-  apply(p, grantFor(p, "personal", "at-1"), writer(written));
-  const r = apply(p, grantFor(p, "work", "at-2", "subscription", { accountUuid: "new", emailAddress: "w@example.org" }), writer(written));
-  assert.equal(r.switched, true);
-  assert.equal(creds(p).claudeAiOauth.accessToken, "at-2");
-  assert.equal(creds(p).claudeAiOauth.subscriptionType, "work", "the old licence's subscription type survived the switch");
-  const account = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(p.home, ".claude.json"), "utf8"));
-  assert.equal(account.oauthAccount.accountUuid, "new");
-  assert.deepEqual(account.projects, { keep: 1 });
-});
-
-test("switching to the API key adds the key-helper; switching away removes the key and the helper", () => {
-  const { p, written } = node();
-  apply(p, grantFor(p, "api", "sk-key", "api-key"), writer(written));
-  assert.ok(JSON.parse(written["managed-settings.json"]).apiKeyHelper);
-  assert.ok(existsSync(join(p.state, "api-key")));
-  apply(p, grantFor(p, "personal", "at-1"), writer(written));
-  assert.ok(!("apiKeyHelper" in JSON.parse(written["managed-settings.json"])));
-  assert.ok(!existsSync(join(p.state, "api-key")) && !existsSync(join(p.state, "api-key-helper")));
-});
-
-test("a rotation event concerns the node bound to that licence; a switch event the node it names", () => {
-  const { p, written } = node();
-  apply(p, grantFor(p, "personal", "at-1"), writer(written));
-  assert.equal(concerns(p, "claude-licence-manager.licence.rotated", { licence: "personal" }), true);
-  assert.equal(concerns(p, "claude-licence-manager.licence.rotated", { licence: "work" }), false);
-  assert.equal(concerns(p, "claude-licence-manager.licence.switched", { node: "laptop", licence: "work" }), true);
-  assert.equal(concerns(p, "claude-licence-manager.licence.switched", { node: "server" }), false);
-});
-
-test("a login is offered to the seat sealed to the seat's key, with the account it belongs to", async () => {
-  const { p } = node();
-  const manager = generateKeyPair();
-  writeFileSync(join(p.home, ".claude", ".credentials.json"), JSON.stringify({ claudeAiOauth: { accessToken: "at-login", refreshToken: "rt-login", expiresAt: NOW } }));
-  writeFileSync(join(p.home, ".claude.json"), JSON.stringify({ oauthAccount: { accountUuid: "u-9" } }));
-  const calls: [string, Record<string, unknown>][] = [];
-  await offerLogin(p, async (address, args) => { calls.push([address, args]); return address.endsWith("public_key") ? { public_key: manager.publicKey } : { adopted: true }; });
-  assert.deepEqual(calls.map((c) => c[0]), ["anthropic-licence-manager.public_key", "anthropic-licence-manager.adopt"]);
-  const adopt = calls[1][1] as { identity: { accountUuid: string }; sealed: never };
-  assert.equal(adopt.identity.accountUuid, "u-9");
-  assert.equal(JSON.parse(open(adopt.sealed, manager.privateKey)).refreshToken, "rt-login");
-  assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(adopt).includes("rt-login"), "the refresh token crossed in the clear");
-});
-
-test("no refresh token in the file is no login, and nothing is asked", async () => {
-  const { p } = node();
-  writeFileSync(join(p.home, ".claude", ".credentials.json"), JSON.stringify({ claudeAiOauth: { accessToken: "at", expiresAt: NOW } }));
-  assert.equal(await offerLogin(p, async () => { throw new Error("asked"); }), null);
-});
-
-/** The `servers` state as the bus holds it, shared by every node in a test, with each node's watch. */
-function bus() {
-  const kept = new Map<string, Record<string, unknown>>();
-  const watchers: ((c: ServerChange) => void)[] = [];
-  const state: ServerState = {
-    put: async (key, value) => { kept.set(key, value); watchers.forEach((w) => w({ key, op: "put", value })); return kept.size; },
-    delete: async (key) => { kept.delete(key); watchers.forEach((w) => w({ key, op: "delete" })); },
-    keys: async () => [...kept.keys()].sort(),
-  };
-  /** A node joining: its view takes the current state, then every change. */
-  const join = (n: { p: Paths; written: Record<string, string> }) => {
-    const view = new ServerView(n.p);
-    for (const [key, value] of kept) onServerChange(view, { key, op: "put", value }, n.p, writer(n.written));
-    watchers.push((c) => onServerChange(view, c, n.p, writer(n.written)));
-    return view;
-  };
-  return { state, join, kept };
-}
-
-test("registering a server here puts it under this node's key, renders it, and asks about the other nodes", async () => {
-  const n = node();
-  const b = bus();
-  const view = b.join(n);
-  const r = await registerServer(n.p, { name: "search", entry: { type: "http", url: "https://s.example/mcp" } },
-    b.state, view, writer(n.written), async () => ["laptop", "server", "desktop"]);
-  assert.equal(r.here, "changed");
-  assert.match(String(r.also), /server, desktop/);
-  assert.deepEqual([...b.kept.keys()], ["laptop.search"]);
-  assert.ok(JSON.parse(n.written["managed-mcp.json"]).mcpServers.search);
-});
-
-test("registering for every node reaches the others through their watch, and a node joining later reads it", async () => {
-  const a = node("laptop"), s = node("server");
-  const b = bus();
-  const va = b.join(a);
-  b.join(s);
-  await registerServer(a.p, { name: "docs", entry: { type: "stdio", command: "docs-mcp" }, nodes: "all" },
-    b.state, va, writer(a.written), async () => []);
-  assert.deepEqual([...b.kept.keys()], ["all.docs"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(registered(s.p).docs, { type: "stdio", command: "docs-mcp" });
-  assert.ok(JSON.parse(s.written["managed-mcp.json"]).mcpServers.docs);
-  // The gap events left: a node assigned after the registration takes the whole current set at start.
-  const late = node("desktop");
-  b.join(late);
-  assert.deepEqual(registered(late.p).docs, { type: "stdio", command: "docs-mcp" });
-  // Unregistering is a delete, and every node's view drops it.
-  await registerServer(a.p, { name: "docs", nodes: "all" }, b.state, va, writer(a.written), async () => []);
-  assert.equal(registered(s.p).docs, undefined);
-  assert.equal(registered(late.p).docs, undefined);
-});
-
-test("a node's own registration overrides the one for every node; other nodes' keys leave this one alone", async () => {
-  const a = node("laptop"), s = node("server");
-  const b = bus();
-  const va = b.join(a);
-  const vs = b.join(s);
-  await registerServer(a.p, { name: "x", entry: { type: "http", url: "https://all" }, nodes: "all" }, b.state, va, writer(a.written), async () => []);
-  await registerServer(a.p, { name: "x", entry: { type: "http", url: "https://laptop" } }, b.state, va, writer(a.written), async () => []);
-  assert.equal(registered(a.p).x.url, "https://laptop");
-  assert.equal(registered(s.p).x.url, "https://all");
-  await registerServer(a.p, { name: "only", entry: { type: "http", url: "https://o" }, nodes: ["server"] }, b.state, va, writer(a.written), async () => []);
-  assert.equal(registered(a.p).only, undefined);
-  assert.equal(registered(s.p).only.url, "https://o");
-  // Unregistering here leaves the every-node one applying, and says so.
-  const r = await registerServer(a.p, { name: "x" }, b.state, va, writer(a.written), async () => []);
-  assert.match(String(r.still), /still applies here/);
-  assert.equal(registered(a.p).x.url, "https://all");
-  assert.equal(vs.effective().x.url, "https://all");
-});
-
-test("a bad entry is refused before anything is put; a repeated change changes nothing", async () => {
-  const n = node();
-  const b = bus();
-  const view = b.join(n);
-  const r = await registerServer(n.p, { name: "mesh", entry: { type: "http", url: "https://x" } }, b.state, view, writer(n.written), async () => []);
-  assert.equal(r.registered, false);
-  assert.equal(b.kept.size, 0);
-  assert.equal(onServerChange(view, { key: "all.a", op: "put", value: { type: "http", url: "https://a" } }, n.p, writer(n.written)), "registered all.a");
-  assert.equal(onServerChange(view, { key: "all.a", op: "put", value: { type: "http", url: "https://a" } }, n.p, writer(n.written)), null);
-  assert.equal(onServerChange(view, { key: "server.b", op: "put", value: { type: "http", url: "https://b" } }, n.p, writer(n.written)), null);
-});

modules/claude-code/test/render.test.ts

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { render } from "../dist/render.js";
-
-const facts = { node: "workstation", console: "http://127.0.0.1:4270/mcp" };
-
-test("the console is the `mesh` server, and an operator's servers are listed beside it", () => {
-  const out = render(facts, { mcp_servers: { search: { type: "http", url: "https://s.example/mcp" } } }, null, "/h");
-  const mcp = JSON.parse(out["managed-mcp.json"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(Object.keys(mcp.mcpServers), ["mesh", "search"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(mcp.mcpServers.mesh, { type: "http", url: facts.console });
-});
-
-test("a setting cannot replace the mesh's own entry, and a name the vendor refuses is left out", () => {
-  const out = render(facts, { mcp_servers: { mesh: { type: "http", url: "http://evil" }, "bad name": {} } }, null, "/h");
-  const mcp = JSON.parse(out["managed-mcp.json"]);
-  assert.equal(mcp.mcpServers.mesh.url, facts.console);
-  assert.ok(!("bad name" in mcp.mcpServers));
-});
-
-test("managed settings carry the mesh's keys only, and the key-helper only for an API-key licence", () => {
-  const sub = JSON.parse(render(facts, {}, { licence: "personal", kind: "subscription" }, "/h")["managed-settings.json"]);
-  assert.deepEqual(sub, { attribution: { commit: "", pr: "" }, allowAllClaudeAiMcps: true });
-  const key = JSON.parse(render(facts, {}, { licence: "api", kind: "api-key" }, "/state/api-key-helper")["managed-settings.json"]);
-  assert.equal(key.apiKeyHelper, "/state/api-key-helper");
-  assert.ok(!("model" in key), "a preference is the person's");
-});
-
-test("the instruction file names the node and its role, and no other node", () => {
-  const md = render(facts, { role: "the laptop" }, null, "/h")["CLAUDE.md"];
-  assert.match(md, /\*\*Node:\*\* `workstation`/);
-  assert.match(md, /\*\*Role:\*\* the laptop/);
-  assert.match(md, /mesh_call/);
-  assert.match(md, /records_search/);
-});
-
-test("rendering is deterministic, so an unchanged input writes nothing", () => {
-  const s = { mcp_servers: { b: { type: "http", url: "https://b" }, a: { type: "http", url: "https://a" } } };
-  assert.deepEqual(render(facts, s, null, "/h"), render(facts, s, null, "/h"));
-});

modules/claude-code/test/seal.test.ts

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { generateKeyPair, open, seal } from "../dist/seal.js";
-
-test("a box opens with its recipient's key and yields the value", () => {
-  const k = generateKeyPair();
-  assert.equal(open(seal("at-secret", k.publicKey), k.privateKey), "at-secret");
-});
-
-test("a box sealed for one node does not open with another node's key", () => {
-  const a = generateKeyPair();
-  const b = generateKeyPair();
-  assert.throws(() => open(seal("at-secret", a.publicKey), b.privateKey));
-});
-
-test("a tampered box is refused, not opened to garbage", () => {
-  const k = generateKeyPair();
-  const box = seal("at-secret", k.publicKey);
-  const ct = Buffer.from(box.ct, "base64");
-  ct[0] ^= 0xff;
-  assert.throws(() => open({ ...box, ct: ct.toString("base64") }, k.privateKey));
-});
-
-test("two boxes of one value share nothing a reader could compare", () => {
-  const k = generateKeyPair();
-  const x = seal("at-secret", k.publicKey);
-  const y = seal("at-secret", k.publicKey);
-  assert.notEqual(x.ct, y.ct);
-  assert.notEqual(x.eph, y.eph);
-  assert.ok(!JSON.stringify(x).includes("at-secret"));
-});

modules/claude-code/tools/index.ts

@@ -1,224 +0,0 @@
-// claude-code's bundle (novox/hq design 36, ADR 0183). The node's runtime launches it over stdio, as the
-// operator account (ADR 0193), and is its bus (ADR 0198): it asks tools, emits and consumes through the
-// runtime. It is given its state directory and two files the mesh renders into it (ADR 0192), beside the
-// runtime's own words. **stdout is the MCP channel**: everything this module says, it says on stderr.
-//
-// At start it renders the agent's managed directory, asks the licence manager for this node's token,
-// begins watching the credentials file for a login, takes the manager's licence events, and watches the
-// module's `servers` state — every node's MCP server registrations (novox/hq ADR 0201). node.ts holds the
-// logic.
-
-import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, rmSync, watchFile, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
-import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
-import { broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
-import { on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
-import { state } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/state";
-
-import {
-  MANAGED_DIR, SEAT, ServerView, concerns, keypair, offerLogin, onServerChange, pull, readJson, registerServer,
-  registered, renderNow, type Ask, type Paths, type Registration, type ServerChange, type ServerState, type WriteManaged,
-} from "../node.js";
-import { grantOf, holdsLogin, readCredentials } from "../grant.js";
-import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
-
-const say = (line: string) => console.error(`[claude-code] ${line}`);
-const fingerprint = (s: string) => "sha256:" + createHash("sha256").update(s).digest("hex").slice(0, 16);
-
-function pathsFrom(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): Paths | null {
-  const state = env.MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_STATE, facts = env.MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_FACTS;
-  const settings = env.MESH_CLAUDE_CODE_SETTINGS, home = env.MESH_OPERATOR_HOME, node = env.MESH_NODE;
-  if (!state || !facts || !settings || !home || !node) return null;
-  return { state, facts, settings, home, node };
-}
-
-/** Write one managed file as root, only when its content changed. */
-const writeManaged: WriteManaged = (name, content) => {
-  const path = join(MANAGED_DIR, name);
-  try {
-    if (readFileSync(path, "utf8") === content) return `${name}: unchanged`;
-  } catch {
-    /* absent */
-  }
-  // From a file, never /dev/stdin: Node hands a child its input over a socket, which /dev/stdin cannot
-  // open (ENXIO) — found on the first assignment, where nothing under /etc/claude-code was ever written.
-  const staged = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "claude-code-"));
-  const source = join(staged, name);
-  writeFileSync(source, content, { mode: 0o644 });
-  const asRoot = process.getuid?.() === 0;
-  const cmd = asRoot ? ["install", "-D", "-m", "0644", source, path] : ["sudo", "-n", "install", "-D", "-m", "0644", source, path];
-  const r = spawnSync(cmd[0], cmd.slice(1), { encoding: "utf8" });
-  rmSync(staged, { recursive: true, force: true });
-  if (r.status !== 0) {
-    throw new Error(`${name}: could not be written to ${MANAGED_DIR} (${(r.stderr || r.error?.message || "").trim()}); ` +
-      `the module writes there through the operator account's passwordless sudo`);
-  }
-  return `${name}: written`;
-};
-
-/** A tool on the bus, through the runtime; its MCP answer read back as JSON where it is JSON. */
-const ask: Ask = async (address, args) => {
-  const answer = (await broker().request<Record<string, unknown>, { content?: { text?: string }[]; isError?: boolean }>(address, args)) ?? {};
-  const text = answer.content?.map((c) => c.text ?? "").join("") ?? "";
-  if (answer.isError) throw new Error(`${address}: ${text}`);
-  try {
-    return JSON.parse(text);
-  } catch {
-    return text;
-  }
-};
-
-/** The nodes claude-code runs on, from the controller's list of modules — for the register tool's question. */
-async function nodesRunningMe(): Promise<string[]> {
-  const out = await ask("mesh-controller.modules", {});
-  const text = typeof out === "string" ? out : String((out as { output?: string })?.output ?? "");
-  const line = text.split("\n").find((l) => /^claude-code\s/.test(l)) ?? "";
-  const on = line.split(" on ")[1] ?? "";
-  return on.trim() === "nothing" ? [] : on.split(",").map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
-}
-
-function status(p: Paths): Record<string, unknown> {
-  const creds = readCredentials(join(p.home, ".claude", ".credentials.json"));
-  const grant = grantOf(creds);
-  const managed = ["managed-mcp.json", "managed-settings.json", "CLAUDE.md"].map((f) => {
-    try {
-      return { file: join(MANAGED_DIR, f), fingerprint: fingerprint(readFileSync(join(MANAGED_DIR, f), "utf8")) };
-    } catch {
-      return { file: join(MANAGED_DIR, f), fingerprint: null };
-    }
-  });
-  return {
-    node: p.node,
-    licence: readJson(join(p.state, "licence.json"), null),
-    token: grant ? { fingerprint: fingerprint(grant.accessToken), expiresAt: new Date(grant.expiresAt).toISOString(),
-      loginWaiting: holdsLogin(creds) } : null,
-    managed,
-    registered: Object.keys(registered(p)),
-  };
-}
-
-/** The module's MCP servers on the bus (ADR 0201): its own state, which every node of it watches. */
-const servers = () => state<Record<string, unknown>>("servers") as unknown as ServerState;
-
-/** What this node takes from that state, kept from the watch. One per process. */
-let view: ServerView | null = null;
-const viewOf = (p: Paths) => (view ??= new ServerView(p));
-
-function tools(p: Paths): ToolDefinition[] {
-  const nodesArg = { type: "string", description: 'more nodes: "all" for every node running claude-code, or a comma-separated list; absent is this node only' };
-  const nodesOf = (v: unknown): Registration["nodes"] =>
-    v === undefined || v === "" ? undefined : v === "all" ? "all" : String(v).split(",").map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
-  return [
-    {
-      name: "claude_code_status",
-      description: "Claude Code on this machine as the mesh configured it: the licence it holds and when its token expires, the managed files, the MCP servers registered here. Fingerprints only, never a token.",
-      input: {},
-      run: async () => status(p),
-    },
-    {
-      name: "claude_code_render",
-      description: "Write Claude Code's managed directory now, from the mesh's facts, this module's settings and the servers registered here.",
-      input: {},
-      run: async () => ({ rendered: renderNow(p, writeManaged) }),
-    },
-    {
-      name: "claude_code_pull",
-      description: "Ask the licence manager for this node's current token now and apply it, rather than waiting for its next event.",
-      input: {},
-      run: async () => pull(p, ask, writeManaged),
-    },
-    {
-      name: "claude_code_mcp_list",
-      description: "The MCP servers registered through this module: those that apply on this node (beside the console, `mesh`, and those set in the module's settings), and every registration on the mesh, by key — `all.<server>` for every node, `<node>.<server>` for one.",
-      input: {},
-      run: async () => ({ here: registered(p), everywhere: await servers().keys() }),
-    },
-    {
-      name: "claude_code_mcp_register",
-      description: "Register an MCP server with Claude Code on this node, every node, or a list — an http/sse server by url, or a stdio server by command. Kept on the bus, so a node that joins later takes it too. Never put a secret in env or headers: the mesh refuses one.",
-      input: {
-        name: { type: "string", description: "the server's name: letters, digits, - and _" },
-        type: { type: "string", description: "http, sse or stdio (default stdio when a command is given, http when a url is)" },
-        url: { type: "string", description: "an http or sse server's url" },
-        command: { type: "string", description: "a stdio server's program" },
-        args: { type: "array", description: "a stdio server's arguments" },
-        env: { type: "object", description: "a stdio server's environment" },
-        headers: { type: "object", description: "an http server's headers" },
-        nodes: nodesArg,
-      },
-      run: async (a) => {
-        const entry: Record<string, unknown> = { type: a.type ?? (a.url ? "http" : "stdio") };
-        for (const k of ["url", "command", "args", "env", "headers"]) if (a[k] !== undefined) entry[k] = a[k];
-        return registerServer(p, { name: String(a.name ?? ""), entry, nodes: nodesOf(a.nodes) }, servers(), viewOf(p), writeManaged, nodesRunningMe);
-      },
-    },
-    {
-      name: "claude_code_mcp_unregister",
-      description: "Remove an MCP server registered through this module, on this node or more.",
-      input: { name: { type: "string", description: "the server's name" }, nodes: nodesArg },
-      run: async (a) => registerServer(p, { name: String(a.name ?? ""), nodes: nodesOf(a.nodes) }, servers(), viewOf(p), writeManaged, nodesRunningMe),
-    },
-  ];
-}
-
-registerModuleTools("claude-code", (env) => {
-  const p = pathsFrom(env);
-  if (!p) return [];
-  try {
-    keypair(p);
-    for (const line of renderNow(p, writeManaged)) if (!line.endsWith("unchanged")) say(line);
-  } catch (err) {
-    say(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
-  }
-  return tools(p);
-});
-
-// Launched by the runtime: the bus is there from the first line (ADR 0198). Outside it — a test, a
-// build — nothing below runs.
-const p = process.env.MESH_SERVED_MODULE ? pathsFrom(process.env) : null;
-if (p) {
-  const loud = (what: string) => (err: unknown) => say(`${what}: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
-
-  void on<{ licence?: string; node?: string }>("claude-licence-manager.licence.*", async (event) => {
-    if (!concerns(p, event.type, event.body ?? {})) return;
-    say(`${event.type} — asking ${SEAT} for this node's token`);
-    say(JSON.stringify(await pull(p, ask, writeManaged).catch((e) => ({ failed: String(e) }))));
-  }).catch(loud("the licence events"));
-
-  // Every node's MCP servers: the whole current set first, then each change (ADR 0201). **Not awaited
-  // where the module is imported**: the runtime waits on the handshake, and a bucket that is not on the
-  // bus yet — or a grant the bus has not reloaded — answers late; awaited here, that left the bundle
-  // unable to answer `initialize` in time and the module unserved (found on its first assignment). So it
-  // watches beside the handshake and asks again until the state answers; until then the managed
-  // directory holds what the file kept from the last run.
-  const watchServers = (attempt = 0): void => {
-    state<Record<string, unknown>>("servers").watch((c) => {
-      try {
-        const done = onServerChange(viewOf(p), c as ServerChange, p, writeManaged);
-        if (done) say(done);
-      } catch (err) {
-        loud(`taking ${c.op} ${c.key}`)(err); // the view took it; the next render writes it
-      }
-    }).then(
-      () => say(`watching the MCP servers${attempt ? ` (after ${attempt} refusal(s))` : ""}`),
-      (err) => {
-        const wait = [2, 5, 10, 30][attempt] ?? 60;
-        say(`the MCP servers cannot be watched yet (${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}); asking again in ${wait}s`);
-        setTimeout(() => watchServers(attempt + 1), wait * 1000);
-      });
-  };
-  watchServers();
-
-  // Catch up once at start: a node that was off takes its current token now.
-  void pull(p, ask, writeManaged).then((r) => say(`at start: ${JSON.stringify(r)}`), loud("asking for this node's token at start"));
-
-  // A login: a refresh token appears in the credentials file. Polled, because the file is replaced by
-  // rename and a watch on the old inode would go quiet.
-  const credentials = join(p.home, ".claude", ".credentials.json");
-  watchFile(credentials, { interval: 5000 }, () => {
-    void offerLogin(p, ask).then((r) => { if (r) say(`a login here was offered to ${SEAT}: ${JSON.stringify(r)}`); },
-      loud("offering a login to the licence manager"));
-  });
-}

modules/claude-code/tsconfig.json

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "compilerOptions": {
-    "target": "ES2022",
-    "module": "NodeNext",
-    "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
-    "strict": true,
-    "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "noEmit": true
-  },
-  "include": ["seal.ts", "grant.ts", "identity.ts", "render.ts", "node.ts", "tools/index.ts"]
-}

modules/cloudflare-dns/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# cloudflare-dns's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/cloudflare-dns
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist /app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/cloudflare-dns/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/cloudflare-dns/module.json

@@ -18,13 +18,20 @@
     "public-dns": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "token": "${dir:state}/token"
+    "token": "${dir:state}/token",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "emits": [
     "record.created",
     "record.removed"
   ],
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -43,30 +50,48 @@
       "merge": "json",
       "content": "{}",
       "mode": "0600"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-cloudflare-dns",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:/grants",
+        "${dir:state}/token:/run/secrets/token:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/token",
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "/var/lib/cloudflare-dns/grants/mesh.json"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN_FILE": "${dir:state}/token",
-          "MESH_CLOUDFLARE_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:state}/config.json",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/distribution/module.json

@@ -59,10 +59,7 @@
       ],
       "volumes": [
         "/var/lib/mesh-registry:/var/lib/registry"
-      ],
-      "env": {
-        "REGISTRY_STORAGE_DELETE_ENABLED": "true"
-      }
+      ]
     }
   ]
 }

modules/gitea/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# gitea's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled provisioner, tools and event
+# consumer.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
+# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout — which is what lets the mesh build this from a
+# repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that happens to have
+# the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in.
+# They are different images on purpose — the first carries a compiler and the second must not, or
+# every running container would carry one it never invokes. The mesh answers both with the copies it
+# holds, because a fingerprint written here would name one particular copy and no other mesh has it
+# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults, so a build
+# nobody told stops here and says which module to build first.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/gitea
+COPY . .
+# The compiler is invoked by its real path rather than through node_modules/.bin, whose entries are
+# symlinks to a launcher that requires its library relatively — resolved away when the base image
+# was assembled.
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts token.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+# **No apt packages.** gitea's provisioner talks to the forge over HTTP (the gitea REST API), not
+# through a CLI the way postgres drives psql — so the runtime base holds everything this needs.
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/gitea/dist /app/modules/gitea/dist
+# What a tool host should load from this module: its event consumer and its tools, which are
+# separate entrypoints because they are loaded by different things. The provisioner is the third,
+# and is not listed here — the declaration names it in the container's `args`, because it is what
+# this module's own container runs. One image, because they are one module and share a client.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/gitea/dist/index.js,/app/modules/gitea/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/gitea/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/gitea/module.json

@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@
       "scope": "mesh"
     }
   ],
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "resources": [
     {
       "id": "mesh-state",
@@ -177,6 +180,32 @@
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-gitea",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro",
+        "${dir:runtime-state}:/run/state"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_GITEA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
+        "MESH_GITEA_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
+        "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+        "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin",
+        "MESH_GITEA_STATE_DIR": "/run/state",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/npm.json"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime",
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ]
     }
   ],
   "provides": [
@@ -190,29 +219,23 @@
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_GITEA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
-          "MESH_GITEA_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
-          "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-          "MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
-          "MESH_GITEA_STATE_DIR": "${dir:runtime-state}",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/npm.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   },

modules/grafana/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# grafana's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/grafana
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/grafana/dist /app/modules/grafana/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/grafana/dist/index.js,/app/modules/grafana/dist/tools/index.js

modules/grafana/module.json

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
     "alert.firing"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin"
+    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
@@ -111,6 +112,25 @@
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{\n  \"user\": \"admin\",\n  \"password\": \"${secret:admin}\"\n}\n",
       "merge": "json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-grafana",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_GRAFANA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
+        "MESH_GRAFANA_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
@@ -142,23 +162,23 @@
     "influxdb-api": "${dir:mesh-state}/influxdb-api"
   },
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_GRAFANA_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:3000}",
-          "MESH_GRAFANA_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/home-assistant/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# home-assistant's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/home-assistant
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisions/hass.ts provisions/probe.ts provisions/connections.ts provisions/mesh.ts provisions/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/home-assistant/dist /app/modules/home-assistant/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/home-assistant/dist/index.js,/app/modules/home-assistant/dist/tools/index.js
+# NOT dist/provisions/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the
+# `provisions` container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run
+# inside the serving sidecar too, and exit it.

modules/home-assistant/module.json

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
     "state.changed"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker",
     "token": "${dir:mesh-state}/token"
   },
   "listens": [
@@ -79,27 +80,55 @@
       "merge": "json"
     },
     {
-      "id": "provisions-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/provisions.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL=http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}\nMESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE=${dir:mesh-state}/token\nMESH_PROVISIONS_DIR=${dir:state}\nMESH_WRITTEN_DIR=${dir:written}\n"
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-home-assistant",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/token:/run/secrets/token:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}",
+        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/token",
+        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     },
     {
       "id": "provisions",
-      "type": "process",
-      "name": "home-assistant-provisions",
-      "artifact": "code",
-      "run": [
-        "node",
-        "provisions/index.js"
-      ],
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-home-assistant-provisions",
+      "network": "host",
       "run-once": true,
-      "env-file": [
-        "${dir:state}/provisions.env"
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/token:/run/secrets/token:ro",
+        "${dir:written}:/var/lib/home-assistant-provisions",
+        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.json:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.json:/run/provisions/sonarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sonarr-api.secret:/run/provisions/sonarr-api.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.json:/run/provisions/radarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/radarr-api.secret:/run/provisions/radarr-api.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.json:/run/provisions/lidarr-api.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.secret:/run/provisions/lidarr-api.secret:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}",
+        "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/token",
+        "MESH_PROVISIONS_DIR": "/run/provisions",
+        "MESH_WRITTEN_DIR": "/var/lib/home-assistant-provisions"
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/home-assistant/dist/provisions/index.js"
       ],
       "restart-on": [
-        "provisions-env",
         "bound-mqtt-topic",
         "secret-mqtt-topic",
         "bound-sonarr-api",
@@ -108,7 +137,8 @@
         "secret-radarr-api",
         "bound-lidarr-api",
         "secret-lidarr-api"
-      ]
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
@@ -143,25 +173,23 @@
     "lidarr-api": "${dir:state}/lidarr-api.secret"
   },
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisions/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8123}",
-          "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/token",
-          "MESH_HOMEASSISTANT_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/hosts/client.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,178 @@
+// The hosts file's own code (novox/hq ADR 0199): read /etc/hosts as the machine has it, and change the
+// operator's lines — every line outside a `# BEGIN … / # END …` block — leaving every block, the mesh's
+// and any other tool's, byte for byte. The mesh writes this module's block; these verbs never touch it.
+// Root is the module's concern (ADR 0175 §4): the runtime runs as the operator's account, so the file
+// is written through sudo without a prompt where the account is not root, as the packet filter's is.
+
+import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
+import { mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { isIP } from "node:net";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { promisify } from "node:util";
+
+const execFileP = promisify(execFile);
+
+/** Where the file is. The manifest's resource names the same path; a test holds the two together. */
+export const HOSTS_FILE = "/etc/hosts";
+
+/** A command runner, so the writes can be tested without a machine. */
+export type Runner = (cmd: string, args: string[]) => Promise<string>;
+
+export function escalated(cmd: string, args: string[], uid: number | undefined = process.getuid?.()): [string, string[]] {
+  if (uid === 0) return [cmd, args];
+  return ["sudo", ["-n", cmd, ...args]];
+}
+
+const run: Runner = async (cmd, args) => {
+  const [program, argv] = escalated(cmd, args);
+  const { stdout } = await execFileP(program, argv);
+  return stdout;
+};
+
+/** One line of the file, as a reader sees it. */
+export interface Line {
+  /** The line exactly as it is in the file. */
+  text: string;
+  /** Whose it is: the block's id (`mesh hosts.own`, or another tool's) or "operator". */
+  owner: string;
+  /** For an entry: its address and names. Absent for a comment or blank line. */
+  address?: string;
+  names?: string[];
+}
+
+const BEGIN = /^#\s*BEGIN\s+(.+?)\s*$/;
+const END = /^#\s*END\s+(.+?)\s*$/;
+
+/** Every line of a hosts file, each marked whose it is. */
+export function parse(text: string): Line[] {
+  const out: Line[] = [];
+  let block: string | null = null;
+  for (const raw of text.split("\n")) {
+    const begin = raw.match(BEGIN);
+    if (!block && begin) {
+      block = begin[1];
+      out.push({ text: raw, owner: block });
+      continue;
+    }
+    const owner = block ?? "operator";
+    const entry = raw.replace(/#.*/, "").trim().split(/\s+/).filter(Boolean);
+    const line: Line = { text: raw, owner };
+    if (entry.length >= 2 && isIP(entry[0])) {
+      line.address = entry[0];
+      line.names = entry.slice(1);
+    }
+    out.push(line);
+    const end = raw.match(END);
+    if (block && end && end[1] === block) block = null;
+  }
+  // A trailing newline splits into one empty last element; it is the file's ending, not a line.
+  if (out.length > 0 && out[out.length - 1].text === "" && text.endsWith("\n")) out.pop();
+  return out;
+}
+
+const NAME = /^(?=.{1,253}$)[A-Za-z0-9](?:[A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?(?:\.[A-Za-z0-9](?:[A-Za-z0-9-]{0,61}[A-Za-z0-9])?)*\.?$/;
+
+/** Refused input says why, so a caller is one edit from right. */
+function checkAddress(address: string): void {
+  if (!isIP(address)) throw new Error(`${JSON.stringify(address)} is not an IPv4 or IPv6 address`);
+}
+function checkName(name: string): void {
+  if (!NAME.test(name)) throw new Error(`${JSON.stringify(name)} is not a host name`);
+}
+
+/** The file with one address and its names added to the operator's lines; unchanged when already there. */
+export function withAdded(text: string, address: string, names: string[]): string {
+  checkAddress(address);
+  if (names.length === 0) throw new Error("add names at least one name for the address");
+  names.forEach(checkName);
+  const lines = parse(text);
+  const have = new Set(
+    lines.filter((l) => l.owner === "operator" && l.address === address).flatMap((l) => l.names ?? []),
+  );
+  const missing = names.filter((n) => !have.has(n));
+  if (missing.length === 0) return text;
+  const body = text.endsWith("\n") || text === "" ? text : text + "\n";
+  return body + `${address}\t${missing.join(" ")}\n`;
+}
+
+/** The file with one name, or every line of one address, taken out of the operator's lines. Blocks are
+ *  never touched: a name only the mesh or another tool writes is refused, naming whose it is. */
+export function withRemoved(text: string, what: string): { text: string; removed: number } {
+  const byAddress = isIP(what) !== 0;
+  if (!byAddress) checkName(what);
+  const lines = parse(text);
+  let removed = 0;
+  const kept: string[] = [];
+  for (const l of lines) {
+    if (l.owner !== "operator" || !l.address) {
+      kept.push(l.text);
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (byAddress && l.address === what) {
+      removed++;
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (!byAddress && l.names?.includes(what)) {
+      removed++;
+      const rest = l.names.filter((n) => n !== what);
+      if (rest.length > 0) kept.push(`${l.address}\t${rest.join(" ")}`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    kept.push(l.text);
+  }
+  if (removed === 0) {
+    const elsewhere = lines.find((l) => l.owner !== "operator" && (byAddress ? l.address === what : l.names?.includes(what)));
+    if (elsewhere) throw new Error(`${what} is written by ${elsewhere.owner}, not the operator; it is not this verb's to remove`);
+  }
+  return { text: kept.join("\n") + "\n", removed };
+}
+
+export class HostsFile {
+  private readonly path: string;
+  private readonly runner: Runner;
+
+  constructor(path: string = HOSTS_FILE, runner: Runner = run) {
+    this.path = path;
+    this.runner = runner;
+  }
+
+  static onThisMachine(): HostsFile {
+    return new HostsFile();
+  }
+
+  async read(): Promise<string> {
+    return readFile(this.path, "utf8");
+  }
+
+  async entries(): Promise<{ path: string; lines: Line[] }> {
+    return { path: this.path, lines: parse(await this.read()) };
+  }
+
+  async add(address: string, names: string[]): Promise<{ added: boolean; line?: string }> {
+    const before = await this.read();
+    const after = withAdded(before, address, names);
+    if (after === before) return { added: false };
+    await this.write(after);
+    return { added: true, line: after.slice(before.length).trim() };
+  }
+
+  async remove(what: string): Promise<{ removed: number }> {
+    const before = await this.read();
+    const { text, removed } = withRemoved(before, what);
+    if (removed > 0) await this.write(text);
+    return { removed };
+  }
+
+  /** Written whole through a copy beside it, so a reader never sees half a file. */
+  private async write(content: string): Promise<void> {
+    const dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "hosts-"));
+    const staged = join(dir, "hosts");
+    try {
+      await writeFile(staged, content, { mode: 0o644 });
+      await this.runner("install", ["-m", "0644", staged, this.path]);
+    } finally {
+      await rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  }
+}

modules/hosts/module.json

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{
+  "module": "hosts",
+  "version": "1",
+  "claims": [
+    {
+      "name": "node-hosts-file",
+      "scope": "node",
+      "serves": [
+        "entries",
+        "add",
+        "remove"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "own",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/etc/hosts",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "into": "block",
+      "at": "start",
+      "content": "# The machine's own names (module hosts, novox/hq ADR 0199). Every line outside this block is the\n# operator's: kept across every push, changed through the node-hosts-file verbs add and remove, and\n# given back when this module goes. The mesh's names are not here: the mesh's resolver answers them.\n127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n::1\tlocalhost\n"
+    }
+  ],
+  "build": {
+    "artifacts": [
+      {
+        "name": "tools",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": [
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ],
+        "loads": [
+          "tools/index.js"
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}

modules/hosts/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
-  "name": "@novox/module-systemd",
+  "name": "@novox/module-hosts",
   "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "systemd \u2014 the machine's service manager as a module: holds node-service-manager and answers for the units in both scopes (novox/hq ADR 0177). The host applies units; this answers about them.",
+  "description": "hosts — holds the node-hosts-file seat: writes the machine's own lines into /etc/hosts and serves the verbs entries, add and remove over the operator's lines (novox/hq ADR 0199).",
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {

modules/hosts/test/client.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+// The hosts file's verbs over files shaped like the workstation's on 2026-10-03 (novox/hq ADR 0199):
+// distribution lines, an operator's development names, the mesh's block and another tool's.
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { HOSTS_FILE, escalated, parse, withAdded, withRemoved } from "../client.ts";
+
+const FILE =
+  "# Static table lookup for hostnames.\n" +
+  "127.0.0.1\tlocaldev.example.com\n" +
+  "127.0.0.1 a.example.com b.example.com\n" +
+  "# BEGIN mesh hosts.own\n" +
+  "127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n" +
+  "::1\tlocalhost\n" +
+  "# END mesh hosts.own\n" +
+  "# BEGIN other-tool\n" +
+  "192.0.2.7\tproject.test\n" +
+  "# END other-tool\n";
+
+const blocks = (text: string) => parse(text).filter((l) => l.owner !== "operator").map((l) => l.text);
+
+test("every line says whose it is", () => {
+  const lines = parse(FILE);
+  assert.equal(lines.length, 10);
+  assert.deepEqual(lines[1], { text: "127.0.0.1\tlocaldev.example.com", owner: "operator", address: "127.0.0.1", names: ["localdev.example.com"] });
+  assert.equal(lines[4].owner, "mesh hosts.own");
+  assert.equal(lines[8].owner, "other-tool");
+  assert.deepEqual(lines[8].names, ["project.test"]);
+});
+
+test("add appends an operator line, and is a no-op when the names are there", () => {
+  const after = withAdded(FILE, "192.0.2.9", ["lab.test", "www.lab.test"]);
+  assert.ok(after.endsWith("192.0.2.9\tlab.test www.lab.test\n"));
+  assert.deepEqual(blocks(after), blocks(FILE));
+  assert.equal(withAdded(FILE, "127.0.0.1", ["a.example.com"]), FILE);
+  assert.ok(withAdded(FILE, "127.0.0.1", ["a.example.com", "c.example.com"]).endsWith("127.0.0.1\tc.example.com\n"));
+});
+
+test("add refuses what is not an address or a host name", () => {
+  assert.throws(() => withAdded(FILE, "not-an-ip", ["x.test"]), /not an IPv4 or IPv6 address/);
+  assert.throws(() => withAdded(FILE, "192.0.2.9", ["bad name\n10.0.0.1 evil"]), /not a host name/);
+  assert.throws(() => withAdded(FILE, "192.0.2.9", []), /at least one name/);
+});
+
+test("remove takes one name or one address from the operator's lines, and blocks stay byte for byte", () => {
+  const one = withRemoved(FILE, "a.example.com");
+  assert.equal(one.removed, 1);
+  assert.ok(one.text.includes("127.0.0.1\tb.example.com\n"));
+  assert.ok(!one.text.includes("a.example.com"));
+  assert.deepEqual(blocks(one.text), blocks(FILE));
+  const all = withRemoved(FILE, "127.0.0.1");
+  assert.equal(all.removed, 2);
+  assert.ok(all.text.includes("# BEGIN mesh hosts.own\n127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n"), "the mesh's own localhost is not the operator's to remove");
+});
+
+test("remove refuses a name only a block writes, naming whose", () => {
+  assert.throws(() => withRemoved(FILE, "project.test"), /written by other-tool/);
+  assert.equal(withRemoved(FILE, "nowhere.test").removed, 0);
+});
+
+test("the file is written as root through sudo where the account is not root", () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(escalated("install", ["x"], 1000), ["sudo", ["-n", "install", "x"]]);
+  assert.deepEqual(escalated("install", ["x"], 0), ["install", ["x"]]);
+});
+
+test("the path the code writes is the path the manifest's resource declares", () => {
+  const manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(new URL("../module.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
+  assert.equal(manifest.resources.find((r: { id: string }) => r.id === "own").path, HOSTS_FILE);
+});

modules/hosts/tools/index.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+// The hosts file's tools: the node-hosts-file seat's three verbs (novox/hq ADR 0199) — the file's lines
+// with whose each is, add an operator's line, remove one. They change the machine's file and nothing
+// else; the controller holds none of it.
+
+import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
+import { HostsFile } from "../client.js";
+
+export function getSeatVerbs(hosts: HostsFile): ToolDefinition[] {
+  return [
+    {
+      name: "entries",
+      description:
+        "Every line of this machine's /etc/hosts, each marked whose it is: the operator's, or the block of the module or tool that writes it.",
+      input: {},
+      run: async () => hosts.entries(),
+    },
+    {
+      name: "add",
+      description:
+        "Add one address and its names to the operator's lines of this machine's /etc/hosts — a name for this machine's own programs, not the mesh's. Nothing changes when they are already there.",
+      input: {
+        address: { type: "string", description: "the IPv4 or IPv6 address" },
+        names: { type: "string", description: "the names for it, separated by spaces" },
+      },
+      run: async (args) =>
+        hosts.add(String(args.address ?? ""), String(args.names ?? "").split(/[\s,]+/).filter(Boolean)),
+    },
+    {
+      name: "remove",
+      description:
+        "Remove one name, or every line of one address, from the operator's lines of this machine's /etc/hosts. A line a module writes is refused, naming the module.",
+      input: { name: { type: "string", description: "a host name, or an address to remove every line of" } },
+      run: async (args) => hosts.remove(String(args.name ?? "")),
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+const hosts = HostsFile.onThisMachine();
+// The seat's verbs under the seat's name: the runtime serves them as <node>/node-hosts-file.<verb>.
+registerModuleTools("node-hosts-file", () => getSeatVerbs(hosts));

modules/hosts/tsconfig.json

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     "noEmit": true
   },
   "include": [
-    "shell.ts",
+    "client.ts",
     "tools/index.ts"
   ]
 }

modules/icecast/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# icecast's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/icecast
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/icecast/dist /app/modules/icecast/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/icecast/dist/index.js,/app/modules/icecast/dist/tools/index.js

modules/icecast/module.json

@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
     "stream.started",
     "stream.stopped"
   ],
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "listens": [
     {
       "name": "stream",
@@ -92,26 +95,45 @@
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-icecast",
+      "network": "icecast",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_ICECAST_URL": "http://icecast:8000",
+        "MESH_ICECAST_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_ICECAST_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8000}",
-          "MESH_ICECAST_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/influxdb/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# influxdb's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/influxdb
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts grants.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/influxdb/dist /app/modules/influxdb/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/influxdb/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/influxdb/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/influxdb/module.json

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
     "container-runtime"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker",
     "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
     "admin-token": "${dir:state}/admin-token.secret"
   },
@@ -99,6 +100,29 @@
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-influxdb",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/admin-token.secret:/run/secrets/admin-token:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_INFLUXDB_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8086}",
+        "MESH_INFLUXDB_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
+        "MESH_INFLUXDB_TOKEN_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin-token",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
@@ -111,25 +135,23 @@
     }
   },
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_INFLUXDB_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8086}",
-          "MESH_INFLUXDB_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
-          "MESH_INFLUXDB_TOKEN_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin-token.secret",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/invoicing/module.json

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
       "type": "file",
       "path": "${dir:state}/api.env",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "NODE_ENV=production\nPORT=9000\nMONGO_URL=mongodb://${bound:mongodb-database:as}:${secret:mongodb-database}@${bound:mongodb-database:at}:${bound:mongodb-database:port}/${bound:mongodb-database:as}?authSource=${bound:mongodb-database:as}\nMONGO_DB=${bound:mongodb-database:as}\nMINIO_BUCKET=${bound:s3-bucket:bucket}\nMINIO_ENDPOINT=${bound:s3-bucket:at}\nMINIO_PORT=${bound:s3-bucket:port}\nMINIO_ACCESSKEY=${bound:s3-bucket:as}\nMINIO_SECRET=${secret:s3-bucket}\n"
+      "content": "NODE_ENV=production\nPORT=9000\nMONGO_URL=mongodb://${bound:mongodb-database:as}:${secret:mongodb-database}@${bound:mongodb-database:at}:${bound:mongodb-database:port}/${bound:mongodb-database:as}?authSource=${bound:mongodb-database:as}\nMONGO_DB=${bound:mongodb-database:as}\nMINIO_BUCKET=mesh-novox-invoice\nMINIO_ENDPOINT=${bound:s3-bucket:at}\nMINIO_PORT=${bound:s3-bucket:port}\nMINIO_ACCESSKEY=${bound:s3-bucket:as}\nMINIO_SECRET=${secret:s3-bucket}\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "net",

modules/keycloak/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# keycloak's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
+# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
+# resolved away.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/keycloak
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts oidc.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/keycloak/dist /app/modules/keycloak/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
+# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
+# ran no provisioner at all.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/keycloak/dist/index.js,/app/modules/keycloak/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/keycloak/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/keycloak/module.json

@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@
     "oidc-client": "${dir:grants}"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret"
+    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "resources": [
     {
@@ -143,30 +144,49 @@
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-keycloak",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_KEYCLOAK_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}",
+        "MESH_KEYCLOAK_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
+        "MESH_KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_KEYCLOAK_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}",
-          "MESH_KEYCLOAK_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
-          "MESH_KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/lab/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# lab's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's code, and the toolchain the lab's suite
+# builds the mesh with (novox/hq ADR 0172). It reaches the machine's virtualisation and container
+# runtime through their sockets, so what it raises is what a hand run on this machine raises.
+#
+# Every download is pinned by its checksum: an image that builds the mesh is the last place to take
+# whatever an upstream serves today.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/lab
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc tools/index.ts tools/runs.ts --rootDir . \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+RUN apt-get update \
+ && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git make ca-certificates curl python3 file iproute2 sudo \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+RUN curl -fsSL -o /tmp/go.tgz https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz \
+ && echo "d0f743b33e8d8945e6b1f432edd15785c70507121d6e2a723b21285eddf8b57b  /tmp/go.tgz" | sha256sum -c - \
+ && tar -C /usr/local -xzf /tmp/go.tgz && rm /tmp/go.tgz
+RUN curl -fsSL -o /usr/local/bin/incus https://github.com/lxc/incus/releases/download/v7.5.1/bin.linux.incus.x86_64 \
+ && echo "7bd6223b369f4d693fcde695bd8549a73b5b3d403735329212483702aa22c179  /usr/local/bin/incus" | sha256sum -c - \
+ && chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/incus
+RUN curl -fsSL -o /tmp/docker.tgz https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-28.5.2.tgz \
+ && echo "ea90cfd12e1eeb12aa1c971741adb8bd4ed88e2a574eaac13f5029a1dbc6300d  /tmp/docker.tgz" | sha256sum -c - \
+ && tar -C /tmp -xzf /tmp/docker.tgz docker/docker && mv /tmp/docker/docker /usr/local/bin/docker && rm -rf /tmp/docker /tmp/docker.tgz
+ENV PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/lab/dist /app/modules/lab/dist
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/lab/dist/tools/index.js

modules/lab/module.json

@@ -5,7 +5,16 @@
     "container-runtime",
     "virtualisation"
   ],
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -26,67 +35,47 @@
       "content": "MESH_LAB_FORGE=${setting:forge}\n"
     },
     {
-      "id": "git",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "git"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "make",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "make"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "python",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "python"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "file",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "file"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "iproute2",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "iproute2"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "sudo",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "sudo"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "npm",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "npm"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "go",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "go"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "incus",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "incus"
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-lab",
+      "network": "host",
+      "env-file": [
+        "${dir:state}/lab.env"
+      ],
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:work}:${dir:work}",
+        "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock",
+        "/var/lib/incus/unix.socket:/var/lib/incus/unix.socket"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_LAB_WORK": "${dir:work}"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-env"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_LAB_WORK": "${dir:work}",
-          "MESH_LAB_ENV_FILE": "${dir:state}/lab.env"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/lab/tools/index.ts

@@ -2,23 +2,18 @@
 // lab is assigned to, and only there: a bed raises virtual machines on that machine's virtualisation.
 
 import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
-import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import { listRuns, readStatus, REPOSITORIES, running, start, stop, tail } from "./runs.js";
 
 export function getLabTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): ToolDefinition[] {
   const work = env.MESH_LAB_WORK ?? "/var/lib/mesh-lab-runs";
-  // The forge is an operator's setting, which reaches a file and never a bundle's words (novox/hq
-  // ADR 0192): read from the env-file the mesh fills, at each call, so a changed setting is used
-  // without restarting the runtime. MESH_LAB_FORGE itself still wins, for a hand-run instance.
-  const forgeOf = (): string => (env.MESH_LAB_FORGE ?? wordIn(env.MESH_LAB_ENV_FILE, "MESH_LAB_FORGE")).replace(/\/+$/, "");
+  const forge = (env.MESH_LAB_FORGE ?? "").replace(/\/+$/, "");
   return [
     {
       name: "lab_check",
       description: "Whether this machine can run the lab's beds: the lab's own check, against the forge's main branch.",
       input: {},
       run: async () => {
-        const forge = forgeOf();
         if (!forge) return { ok: false, output: "the lab's forge is not set: settings for lab, {\"forge\": \"<url>\"}" };
         const dir = `${work}/check`;
         spawnSync("rm", ["-rf", dir]);
@@ -43,7 +38,6 @@ export function getLabTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): ToolDefinition[] {
         },
       },
       run: async (args) => {
-        const forge = forgeOf();
         if (!forge) return { started: false, reason: "the lab's forge is not set: settings for lab, {\"forge\": \"<url>\"}" };
         const tests = String(args.tests ?? "").split(",").map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
         if (tests.length === 0) return { started: false, reason: "name at least one bed test file" };
@@ -89,20 +83,4 @@ export function getLabTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): ToolDefinition[] {
   ];
 }
 
-/** One word from an env-file (`KEY=value` lines), or "" when the file or the word is absent. */
-export function wordIn(file: string | undefined, word: string): string {
-  if (!file) return "";
-  let text: string;
-  try {
-    text = readFileSync(file, "utf8");
-  } catch {
-    return "";
-  }
-  for (const line of text.split("\n")) {
-    const at = line.indexOf("=");
-    if (at > 0 && line.slice(0, at).trim() === word) return line.slice(at + 1).trim();
-  }
-  return "";
-}
-
 registerModuleTools("lab", (env) => getLabTools(env));

modules/mailu/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# mailu's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
+# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
+# resolved away.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/mailu
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/mailu/dist /app/modules/mailu/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
+# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
+# ran no provisioner at all.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mailu/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mailu/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/mailu/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/mailu/module.json

@@ -135,15 +135,11 @@
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "automx: mail client autoconfiguration; the autoconfig, autodiscover and automx names are route grants reaching it here"
-    },
-    {
-      "name": "admin-api",
-      "port": 8080,
-      "protocol": "tcp",
-      "from": "machine",
-      "why": "the admin API, which this module's own code reaches on loopback from the node's runtime now that it runs outside the mailu network"
     }
   ],
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "resources": [
     {
       "id": "mesh-state",
@@ -309,9 +305,6 @@
       "name": "mailu-admin",
       "image": "ghcr.io/mailu/admin@sha256:6dbfdadc4a9590dcb7652357b505200115b689b74008653bbf369e4599a3be5a",
       "network": "mailu",
-      "ports": [
-        "8080"
-      ],
       "env-file": [
         "${dir:state}/mailu.env",
         "${dir:state}/secret.env",
@@ -480,6 +473,31 @@
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-mailu",
+      "network": "mailu",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/api-token.secret:/run/secrets/api-token:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_MAILU_URL": "http://mailu-admin:8080/api/v1",
+        "MESH_MAILU_API_KEY_FILE": "/run/secrets/api-token",
+        "MESH_MAILU_IMAP_CONTAINER": "mailu-imap",
+        "MESH_MAILU_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
+    },
     {
       "id": "automx",
       "type": "container",
@@ -499,6 +517,16 @@
   ],
   "build": {
     "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      },
       {
         "arg": "PYTHON_BASE",
         "image": "python@sha256:25f3cfeaceca14921366af4d1240b56457ef46273bdb508c7b0e8f469f6fd228"
@@ -506,26 +534,9 @@
     ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_MAILU_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:8080}/api/v1",
-          "MESH_MAILU_API_KEY_FILE": "${dir:state}/api-token.secret",
-          "MESH_MAILU_IMAP_CONTAINER": "mailu-imap",
-          "MESH_MAILU_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       },
       {
         "name": "automx",

modules/mesh-catalog/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# mesh-catalog's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying the catalogue's compiled graph, its consumer
+# of what the builder announces, and its tools.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
+# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout — which is what lets the mesh build this from a
+# repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation with the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned: the image this is COMPILED in, and the image it RUNS in.
+# They are different images on purpose — the first carries a compiler and the second must not, or
+# every running container would carry one it never invokes. The mesh answers both with the copies it
+# holds, because a fingerprint written here would name one particular copy and no other mesh has it
+# (novox/hq issue 044). Declared in module.json's `build.on`; deliberately no defaults, so a build
+# nobody told stops here and says which module to build first.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/mesh-catalog
+COPY . .
+# The compiler is invoked by its real path rather than through node_modules/.bin, whose entries are
+# symlinks to a launcher that requires its library relatively — resolved away when the base image
+# was assembled.
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc pg.d.ts store.ts index.ts tools/index.ts prepare/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+# **A module may need something the base image does not carry.** The base holds what every module
+# needs — the sdk, the broker client — and a postgres driver is not that: the one other module that
+# reaches a database shells out to psql instead. So the catalogue brings its own.
+#
+# Installed into an empty directory rather than into the module's, because the module's package.json
+# also names `@novox/mesh-sdk`, which is not on any registry — it is in the base image. Asking npm to
+# resolve this module's dependencies would therefore fail on the one it already has.
+RUN mkdir -p /deps && cd /deps && \
+      npm install --omit=dev --no-audit --no-fund --no-package-lock pg@8
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/mesh-catalog/dist /app/modules/mesh-catalog/dist
+# Beside the compiled code, so `pg` resolves from it while `@novox/mesh-sdk` keeps walking up to the
+# base image's own node_modules — the module gets its extra dependency without shadowing the sdk it
+# was compiled against.
+COPY --from=build /deps/node_modules /app/modules/mesh-catalog/node_modules
+# Both entrypoints, loaded in serve mode.
+#
+# **A consumer cannot be started with `run`.** That mode imports an entrypoint without binding a
+# broker — it is for a step that does its work offline and exits — and the catalogue's whole job is
+# to listen for what the builder announces. Serve binds the broker first, then imports these, so
+# `on()` has something to subscribe to.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mesh-catalog/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mesh-catalog/dist/tools/index.js
+
+# And what prepares this module's state, for the runtime's `prepare` mode (novox/hq ADR 0135). Named
+# here, beside the entrypoints above, because the module knows which of its files prepares its state
+# and nothing else could: the mesh asks one word and this says what answers it.
+ENV MESH_PREPARE=/app/modules/mesh-catalog/dist/prepare/index.js

modules/mesh-catalog/module.json

@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@
   "secrets": {
     "postgres-database": "${dir:state}/database.secret"
   },
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "consumes": [
     "mesh-build-machine.built",
     "mesh-controller.built-before"
@@ -35,7 +38,14 @@
     "rebuild-needed",
     "catching-up"
   ],
+  "prepares": true,
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -50,41 +60,43 @@
       "content": "postgresql://${bound:postgres-database:as}:${secret:postgres-database}@${bound:postgres-database:at}:${bound:postgres-database:port}/${bound:postgres-database:as}\n"
     },
     {
-      "id": "prepare",
-      "type": "process",
-      "name": "mesh-catalog-prepare",
-      "artifact": "code",
-      "run": [
-        "node",
-        "prepare/index.js"
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-catalog",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:state}:/run/state",
+        "${dir:state}/database.url:/run/secrets/database-url:ro"
       ],
-      "run-once": true,
       "env": {
-        "DATABASE_URL_FILE": "${dir:state}/database.url"
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "DATABASE_URL_FILE": "/run/secrets/database-url"
       },
+      "artifact": "runtime",
       "restart-on": [
         "database-url"
       ]
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "prepare/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "DATABASE_URL_FILE": "${dir:state}/database.url"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/mesh-catalog/pg.d.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 // Ambient types for `pg` (node-postgres), which ships its types only via the separate `@types/pg`
 // package. Rather than pull that in at tsc time, this declares the exact slice model-usage uses —
 // the same precedent anthropic-manager sets for `tweetnacl-sealedbox-js` (a local ambient .d.ts,
-// listed in tsconfig `include`, default-imported). The real `pg` is the package.json dependency the
-// builder installs and inlines into the module's bundle (novox/hq ADR 0198 §4), so this types the
-// code without deciding what runs.
+// listed in tsconfig `include`, default-imported). The real `pg` is installed into the module's
+// runtime image (package.json `dependencies`; novox/hq ADR 0052), so this types the code without
+// deciding what runs.
 declare module "pg" {
   /** One checked-out connection. Needed because registering a module-version and its edges is one
    *  act: a half-written registration is a graph that lies about what something was built against. */

modules/mesh-catalog/prepare/index.ts

@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@
 // nothing anywhere said so.
 //
 // Nothing here connects to the broker. Preparation runs before the version that would use it, so
-// there is nothing yet to talk to: the host runs this file as a run-once process, with the module's
-// words and no bus (novox/hq ADR 0198 §3), before the node's runtime is started with the version
-// that needs it, and this process exiting non-zero is how the host knows the step did not complete.
+// there is nothing yet to talk to; the runtime's `prepare` mode imports this and awaits it, and this
+// process exiting non-zero is how the host knows not to start the runtime.
 import { Graph } from "../store.js";
 
 const graph = Graph.fromEnv();

modules/mesh-vault/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# mesh-vault's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled provisioner, tools and event
+# consumer. The same shape as postgres's, minus the client the database needs: mesh-vault reaches no
+# server, because what it provides is a value the mesh already delivered to its node.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk is in the base image, so
+# nothing is copied out of a neighbouring checkout (novox/hq ADR 0069). Two bases, named rather than
+# pinned — the image this is COMPILED in and the image it RUNS in — answered by the mesh from
+# `build.on` in module.json (novox/hq issue 044).
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/vault
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts provisioner/index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/vault/dist /app/modules/vault/dist
+# The entrypoints a tool host loads from this module: its event consumer, its tools and its
+# provisioner — one image, one process, one broker account (novox/hq ADR 0052).
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/vault/dist/index.js,/app/modules/vault/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/vault/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/mesh-vault/module.json

@@ -27,7 +27,16 @@
     "secret": "${dir:grants}"
   },
   "keeps": "/var/lib/mesh-vault/root",
+  "own-secrets": {
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
+  },
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -48,29 +57,45 @@
       "id": "root",
       "type": "directory",
       "mode": "0700"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-vault",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
+        "${dir:ledger}:${dir:ledger}",
+        "${dir:root}:${dir:root}:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+        "MESH_VAULT_LEDGER": "${dir:ledger}",
+        "MESH_VAULT_ROOT": "${dir:root}"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-          "MESH_VAULT_LEDGER": "${dir:ledger}",
-          "MESH_VAULT_ROOT": "${dir:root}"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   },

modules/minio/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# minio's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+ARG MC_CLI
+
+# Named so the final stage's COPY --from can reference a stage, not an ARG — the legacy builder
+# this host still runs doesn't expand ARGs inside COPY --from, only inside FROM.
+FROM ${MC_CLI} AS mccli
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
+# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
+# resolved away.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/minio
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/minio/dist /app/modules/minio/dist
+# The provisioner shells out to mc to actually create buckets and service accounts on the running
+# minio server — mc itself was never in this runtime image, only in minio's own. Silently retried
+# "spawn mc ENOENT" forever: a requirement was granted at the control-plane level without ever
+# materializing the credential on minio. /usr/bin/mc there is a symlink to the real binary, mcli —
+# both copied so the symlink resolves.
+COPY --from=mccli /usr/bin/mcli /usr/bin/mcli
+COPY --from=mccli /usr/bin/mc /usr/bin/mc
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/minio/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/minio/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/minio/client.ts

@@ -303,11 +303,21 @@ export class MinioClient {
 
 // --- module-scoped helpers -------------------------------------------------
 
-// **Neither the access key nor the bucket is derived here any more.** `accessKeyFor` minted an id
-// of its own until the mesh took that over (ADR 0048: the login is the mesh's, handed to both
-// ends), and `bucketFor` derived the bucket until the mesh took that over too (ADR 0201: the rule
-// is a line of this module's manifest, filled per consumer and delivered to both ends). Both
-// survived with no callers, which is the state a rule comes back from; they are gone.
+/** A deterministic 20-char access key id from a consumer name, so removal needs no stored state:
+ *  the provisioner recomputes the same id at teardown that it minted at creation. */
+export function accessKeyFor(consumer: string): string {
+  const chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
+  const digest = createHash("sha256").update(consumer).digest();
+  let out = "";
+  for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) out += chars[digest[i] % chars.length];
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** A DNS-safe bucket name derived from a consumer — the removable identity of its storage. */
+export function bucketFor(consumer: string): string {
+  const name = consumer.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "").slice(0, 63);
+  return name.length >= 3 ? name : `mesh-${name}`;
+}
 
 function bucketPolicy(bucket: string): string {
   return JSON.stringify({

modules/minio/module.json

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@
     "s3-bucket": {
       "scheme": "http",
       "region": "eu-west",
-      "port": 9000,
-      "bucket": "${consumer:as:dns}"
+      "port": 9000
     }
   },
   "receives": {
@@ -60,9 +59,16 @@
     "s3-bucket": "${dir:grants}"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "root": "${dir:state}/root.secret"
+    "root": "${dir:state}/root.secret",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -121,34 +127,48 @@
       }
     },
     {
-      "id": "client",
-      "type": "package",
-      "package": "minio-client"
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-minio",
+      "network": "minio-net",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT": "http://minio:9000",
+        "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER": "meshroot",
+        "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
+        "MESH_MINIO_REGION": "eu-west",
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "MC_CLI",
+        "image": "docker.io/pgsty/minio@sha256:b6bfe7239bfc83fb90d31612d9704d86039dd714f7904b3f1ad68f211e602372"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:9000}",
-          "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER": "meshroot",
-          "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/root.secret",
-          "MESH_MINIO_REGION": "eu-west",
-          "MESH_MINIO_MC_BIN": "mcli",
-          "MESH_MINIO_MC_CONFIG": "${dir:state}/mc",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/minio/package.json

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {
-    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.7"
+    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^22.0.0",

modules/minio/provisioner/index.ts

@@ -10,24 +10,18 @@
 // **The access key and its secret are the mesh's, not the provisioner's (ADR 0048).** The mesh
 // derives the login (the access-key id) and hands it to both ends, and mints the secret key. minio
 // creates the service account under exactly that access key with exactly that secret — a credential
-// the provisioner invented is one the consumer could never present.
-//
-// **The bucket name is the mesh's too (ADR 0201).** It used to be computed here, from the login,
-// and every consumer transcribed the same rule into its own definition by hand — two copies of
-// one rule with nothing comparing them, and one of three was wrong for months. Now the rule is a
-// line of this module's manifest (`serves.s3-bucket.bucket: ${consumer:as:dns}`), the mesh fills
-// it per consumer, and the same filled value reaches this provisioner and the consumer's own
-// configuration. There is no second computation to disagree with.
+// the provisioner invented is one the consumer could never present. The bucket is derived from the
+// login, so teardown recomputes it with nothing to persist.
 
 import { runProvisioner, type Provision } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/provisioner";
 import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
-import { MinioClient } from "../client.js";
+import { MinioClient, bucketFor } from "../client.js";
 
 const minio = MinioClient.fromEnv();
 
 runProvisioner("s3-bucket", {
   async create(p: Provision): Promise<void> {
-    const bucket = bucketNamed(p.derived);
+    const bucket = bucketFor(p.as);
     const accessKeyId = p.as;
 
     if (!(await minio.bucketExists(bucket))) await minio.createBucket(bucket);
@@ -44,8 +38,8 @@ runProvisioner("s3-bucket", {
     });
   },
 
-  async remove(p: { as: string; derived: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>> }): Promise<void> {
-    const bucket = bucketNamed(p.derived);
+  async remove(p: { as: string }): Promise<void> {
+    const bucket = bucketFor(p.as);
 
     // Revoking the key is what cuts the consumer's access. The bucket is emptied-then-dropped only if
     // empty; a bucket that still holds objects is left for an operator rather than erroring on every
@@ -63,28 +57,10 @@ runProvisioner("s3-bucket", {
   // Asked every minute by the harness: whether the backend still holds this consumer exactly as
   // the mesh gave it, so a login lost behind the provisioner's back is made again (novox/hq issue 120).
   async holds(p: Provision): Promise<boolean> {
-    return minio.canReachAs(bucketNamed(p.derived), p.as, p.password);
+    return minio.canReachAs(bucketFor(p.as), p.as, p.password);
   },
 });
 
-/** The bucket the mesh derived for this consumer.
- *
- *  Absent means this module is running against a control plane that does not fill `${consumer:…}`
- *  yet, or a manifest whose `serves` block lost the line. Both are the same mistake from here —
- *  nobody said which bucket — and both are said rather than guessed: a provisioner that fell back
- *  to deriving one would restore the second rule and hide the fault behind a bucket that happens
- *  to be right. */
-function bucketNamed(derived: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>): string {
-  const bucket = derived.bucket;
-  if (typeof bucket !== "string" || bucket === "") {
-    throw new Error(
-      "the mesh did not say which bucket this consumer gets: minio's manifest must serve " +
-        "`bucket` under s3-bucket (novox/hq ADR 0201)",
-    );
-  }
-  return bucket;
-}
-
 /** Emit best-effort: a broker hiccup is logged and dropped, never allowed to throw back and fail a
  *  bucket that was made. */
 async function announce(type: string, body: unknown): Promise<void> {

modules/mongodb/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# mongodb's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
+# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
+# resolved away.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/mongodb
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+# mongodb's client shells out to `mongosh`, installed from MongoDB's own apt repo so its shared
+# libraries come with it — copying the bare binary out of the mongo image leaves it unable to load.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gnupg curl ca-certificates \
+ && curl -fsSL https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-7.0.asc | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/mongodb.gpg \
+ && echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mongodb.gpg] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian bookworm/mongodb-org/7.0 main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list \
+ && apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends mongodb-mongosh \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/mongodb/dist /app/modules/mongodb/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
+# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
+# ran no provisioner at all.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mongodb/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mongodb/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/mongodb/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/mongodb/client.ts

@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 // mongodb's admin client — mongodb's own code, living in the module (novox/hq ADR 0039). Both this
 // module's tools and its provisioner import it, and nothing outside mongodb does.
 //
-// **The backend's own driver, inside the bundle** (novox/hq ADR 0198 §4). This used to shell out to
-// `mongosh`, which the module's container installed from MongoDB's apt repository; the module's code
-// now runs in the node's runtime, on machines whose system carries no mongosh, so it speaks to the
-// server through the official `mongodb` driver its package.json names — installed and inlined into
-// the bundle by the builder. One connection per call, as one mongosh invocation was: the module is
-// called rarely, and a pool held open across calls would hold a credential the mesh may rotate.
+// Commands run through `mongosh`, not a wire-protocol driver: the module may take NO npm dependency
+// beyond @novox/mesh-sdk, and hand-rolling the MongoDB wire protocol + SCRAM auth is more surface
+// than this should carry — so it shells out to the shell the mongodb image ships, the same way
+// postgres drives itself through `psql`, minio through `mc` and mailu through doveadm. One boundary,
+// `evalJs()`, and every method is built on it: a snippet of JavaScript is evaluated server-side and
+// its result comes back as EJSON on stdout.
 
 import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { MongoClient as Driver, MongoServerError, BSON, type Document } from "mongodb";
+import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
+import { promisify } from "node:util";
+
+const run = promisify(execFile);
 
 export interface DatabaseInfo {
   readonly name: string;
@@ -56,26 +59,32 @@ export class MongoClient {
     return this.conn.port;
   }
 
-  /** The admin connection URI, credentials percent-encoded. */
+  /** The admin connection URI mongosh authenticates with, credentials percent-encoded. */
   private uri(): string {
     const u = encodeURIComponent(this.conn.user);
     const p = encodeURIComponent(this.conn.password);
     const a = encodeURIComponent(this.conn.authSource);
-    return `mongodb://${u}:${p}@${this.conn.host}:${this.conn.port}/?authSource=${a}&directConnection=true`;
+    return `mongodb://${u}:${p}@${this.conn.host}:${this.conn.port}/?authSource=${a}`;
   }
 
   /**
-   * The one execution boundary: connect as the administrator, do `work`, and close — a failure to
-   * connect or to authenticate rejects here rather than returning a partial success.
+   * Evaluate a JavaScript snippet server-side through `mongosh` and parse the JSON it prints (see
+   * header). The snippet MUST `print()` exactly one JSON document as its only stdout — every method
+   * below ends in `print(EJSON.stringify(...))`. `--quiet` suppresses the shell banner so stdout is
+   * the JSON alone; a non-zero exit (auth failure, bad command) rejects here rather than returning
+   * a partial success.
    */
-  private async admin<T>(work: (client: Driver) => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
-    const client = new Driver(this.uri(), { serverSelectionTimeoutMS: 10_000 });
-    try {
-      await client.connect();
-      return await work(client);
-    } finally {
-      await client.close();
+  async evalJs<T>(js: string): Promise<T> {
+    const { stdout } = await run(
+      "mongosh",
+      [this.uri(), "--quiet", "--eval", js],
+      { maxBuffer: 16 << 20 },
+    );
+    const text = stdout.trim();
+    if (text.length === 0) {
+      throw new Error("mongosh returned no output — the eval printed nothing");
     }
+    return JSON.parse(text) as T;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -85,16 +94,19 @@ export class MongoClient {
    * password and roles, so a rotated credential converges.
    */
   async createDatabaseAndUser(database: string, user: string, password: string): Promise<void> {
-    await this.admin(async (client) => {
-      const target = client.db(database);
-      const roles = [{ role: "dbOwner", db: database }];
-      const found = await target.command({ usersInfo: user });
-      if (Array.isArray(found.users) && found.users.length > 0) {
-        await target.command({ updateUser: user, pwd: password, roles });
-      } else {
-        await target.command({ createUser: user, pwd: password, roles });
-      }
-    });
+    const js = `
+const target = db.getSiblingDB(${lit(database)});
+let existing = null;
+try { existing = target.getUser(${lit(user)}); } catch (e) { existing = null; }
+const roles = [{ role: "dbOwner", db: ${lit(database)} }];
+if (existing) {
+  target.updateUser(${lit(user)}, { pwd: ${lit(password)}, roles: roles });
+} else {
+  target.createUser({ user: ${lit(user)}, pwd: ${lit(password)}, roles: roles });
+}
+print(EJSON.stringify({ ok: 1 }));
+`;
+    await this.evalJs<{ ok: number }>(js);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -103,43 +115,45 @@ export class MongoClient {
    * authentication failure or a missing role; an unreachable server rejects (novox/hq issue 120).
    */
   async canAuthenticateAs(database: string, user: string, password: string): Promise<boolean> {
-    // Credentials as options, never in a URI, so the consumer's password is in no message a failed
-    // connection prints.
-    const client = new Driver(`mongodb://${this.conn.host}:${this.conn.port}/?directConnection=true`, {
-      auth: { username: user, password },
-      authSource: database,
-      serverSelectionTimeoutMS: 10_000,
-    });
+    // Connected without credentials, then authenticated inside the eval from the environment, so
+    // the consumer's password is neither on argv nor in the message of a failed command.
+    const uri = `mongodb://${this.conn.host}:${this.conn.port}/?serverSelectionTimeoutMS=10000`;
+    const js =
+      "const t = db.getSiblingDB(process.env.MESH_HOLDS_DB);" +
+      "t.auth(process.env.MESH_HOLDS_USER, process.env.MESH_HOLDS_PW);" +
+      "print(EJSON.stringify(t.runCommand({ connectionStatus: 1 }).authInfo.authenticatedUserRoles))";
+    let stdout: string;
     try {
-      await client.connect();
-      const status = await client.db(database).command({ connectionStatus: 1 });
-      const roles = (status.authInfo?.authenticatedUserRoles ?? []) as { role: string; db: string }[];
-      return roles.some((r) => r.role === "dbOwner" && r.db === database);
+      ({ stdout } = await run("mongosh", [uri, "--quiet", "--eval", js], {
+        env: { ...process.env, MESH_HOLDS_DB: database, MESH_HOLDS_USER: user, MESH_HOLDS_PW: password },
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      }));
     } catch (err) {
-      if (isAuthFailure(err)) return false;
-      throw new Error(`mongodb could not check ${user}: ${String((err as Error).message).split("\n")[0]}`);
-    } finally {
-      await client.close();
+      const text = `${(err as { stderr?: string }).stderr ?? ""}${(err as { stdout?: string }).stdout ?? ""}`;
+      if (/Authentication failed|AuthenticationFailed/i.test(text)) return false;
+      throw new Error(`mongosh could not check ${user}: ${text.trim().slice(0, 500) || String((err as Error).message).split("\n")[0]}`);
     }
+    const roles = JSON.parse(stdout.trim()) as { role: string; db: string }[];
+    return roles.some((r) => r.role === "dbOwner" && r.db === database);
   }
 
   /** Drop a database and its owning user, idempotently. Dropping the database evicts its data; the
    *  user is removed first so a re-grant of the same login starts clean. */
   async dropDatabaseAndUser(database: string, user: string): Promise<void> {
-    await this.admin(async (client) => {
-      const target = client.db(database);
-      try {
-        await target.command({ dropUser: user });
-      } catch (err) {
-        if (!(err instanceof MongoServerError && err.code === 11)) throw err; // 11: UserNotFound
-      }
-      await target.dropDatabase();
-    });
+    const js = `
+const target = db.getSiblingDB(${lit(database)});
+try { target.dropUser(${lit(user)}); } catch (e) {}
+target.dropDatabase();
+print(EJSON.stringify({ ok: 1 }));
+`;
+    await this.evalJs<{ ok: number }>(js);
   }
 
   /** List the databases on the server, with on-disk size, for the mongodb_list_databases tool. */
   async listDatabases(): Promise<DatabaseInfo[]> {
-    const res = await this.admin((client) => client.db("admin").admin().listDatabases());
+    const res = await this.evalJs<{ databases: { name: string; sizeOnDisk?: number }[] }>(
+      `print(EJSON.stringify(db.adminCommand({ listDatabases: 1 })));`,
+    );
     return (res.databases ?? [])
       .map((d) => ({ name: String(d.name), sizeBytes: Number(d.sizeOnDisk ?? 0) }))
       .sort((a, b) => a.name.localeCompare(b.name));
@@ -148,8 +162,6 @@ export class MongoClient {
   /**
    * Run a read-only `find` against a collection in a named database, for the mongodb_query tool.
    * `find` mutates nothing; the limit is capped so a tool call cannot stream an unbounded result.
-   * Documents come back as relaxed Extended JSON — an ObjectId as `{"$oid": …}` — exactly as the
-   * shell's `EJSON.stringify` rendered them before.
    */
   async find(
     database: string,
@@ -158,29 +170,26 @@ export class MongoClient {
     limit: number,
   ): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]> {
     const capped = Math.max(1, Math.min(limit, 1000));
-    const docs = await this.admin((client) =>
-      client
-        .db(database)
-        .collection(collection)
-        .find(BSON.EJSON.deserialize(filter as Document, { relaxed: true }) as Document)
-        .limit(capped)
-        .toArray(),
-    );
-    return BSON.EJSON.serialize(docs, { relaxed: true }) as Record<string, unknown>[];
+    const js =
+      `print(EJSON.stringify(` +
+      `db.getSiblingDB(${lit(database)}).getCollection(${lit(collection)})` +
+      `.find(${JSON.stringify(filter)}).limit(${capped}).toArray()` +
+      `));`;
+    return this.evalJs<Record<string, unknown>[]>(js);
   }
 }
 
-/** An authentication failure, as the server or the driver reports it. */
-function isAuthFailure(err: unknown): boolean {
-  if (err instanceof MongoServerError && err.code === 18) return true; // 18: AuthenticationFailed
-  return /Authentication failed|AuthenticationFailed/i.test(String((err as Error)?.message ?? ""));
-}
-
 /** Generate a URL-safe password. */
 export function generatePassword(): string {
   return randomBytes(24).toString("base64url");
 }
 
+/** Embed a value as a JavaScript literal inside a mongosh snippet — JSON.stringify escapes quotes,
+ *  backslashes and control characters, so a string cannot break out of the snippet. */
+function lit(val: unknown): string {
+  return JSON.stringify(val);
+}
+
 function readSecretFile(path: string | undefined): string | undefined {
   if (!path) return undefined;
   try {

modules/mongodb/index.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-// mongodb's events entrypoint, launched by the node's runtime beside its tools and provisioner
-// (novox/hq ADR 0198). The database lifecycle events are EMITTED from the provisioner, where
+// mongodb's events entrypoint, loaded by the per-node tool host (the provisioner container runs
+// ./provisioner separately). The database lifecycle events are EMITTED from the provisioner, where
 // the lifecycle actually happens (novox/hq ADR 0041/0042):
 //   module.mongodb.database.provisioned    — a consumer's database + owning user was created
 //   module.mongodb.database.deprovisioned  — that database was removed
-// Here in the runtime we react to them, keeping a lightweight audit trail of who was granted a
+// Here in the tool host we react to them, keeping a lightweight audit trail of who was granted a
 // database and who lost one — observability the provider itself is best placed to log.
 
 import { on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";

modules/mongodb/module.json

@@ -39,9 +39,17 @@
     "mongodb-database": "${dir:grants}"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "root": "${dir:state}/root.secret"
+    "root": "${dir:state}/root.secret",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
+  "secrets-owner": "999:999",
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -63,14 +71,6 @@
       "type": "network",
       "name": "mongodb"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "server-root",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/server-root.secret",
-      "mode": "0400",
-      "owner": "999:999",
-      "content": "${secret:root}"
-    },
     {
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
@@ -86,31 +86,46 @@
       ],
       "volumes": [
         "${dir:data}:/data/db",
-        "${dir:state}/server-root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
+        "${dir:state}/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-mongodb",
+      "network": "mongodb",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/root.secret:/run/secrets/root:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_PROVISION_MONGODB": "mongodb://root@mongodb-server:27017/admin?authSource=admin",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root",
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_PROVISION_MONGODB": "mongodb://root@127.0.0.1:${port:27017}/admin?authSource=admin",
-          "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/root.secret",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/mongodb/package.json

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
   "dependencies": {
-    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.1",
-    "mongodb": "^6.21.0"
+    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^22.0.0",

modules/mongodb/provisioner/index.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
 // same-named database under exactly that login — a name the consumer cannot learn is a database it
 // cannot reach.
 //
-// The commands run through MongoClient, the official driver inside this bundle (see client.ts).
+// The commands run through MongoClient.evalJs(), which is the module's one execution boundary (see
+// client.ts).
 
 import { runProvisioner, type Provision } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/provisioner";
 import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";

modules/mongodb/tools/index.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // mongodb's tools — mongodb's own code (novox/hq ADR 0039), importing mongodb's own client. They
-// return structured data; the mesh serves them through the sdk's tool harness. Both call the server
-// through MongoClient, the driver inside this bundle (see client.ts).
+// return structured data; the mesh serves them through the sdk's tool harness. Both call through
+// MongoClient.evalJs(), the module's one execution boundary (see client.ts).
 
 import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import { MongoClient } from "../client.js";

modules/mosquitto/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# mosquitto's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/mosquitto
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc topics.ts client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts bootstrap/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+# mosquitto's client and bootstrap drive `mosquitto_ctrl`; the apt package carries it with its
+# shared libraries — the musl binary from the eclipse image would not load on this glibc base.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends mosquitto \
+ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/mosquitto/dist /app/modules/mosquitto/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/mosquitto/client.ts

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
 import { connect as tcpConnect } from "node:net";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
-import { basename, dirname } from "node:path";
 import { promisify } from "node:util";
 
 import { missingAcls, parseRoleAcls, staleAcls, wantedAcls } from "./topics.js";
@@ -31,14 +30,6 @@ export interface MqttConn {
   /** The Dynamic Security admin client the runtime authenticates as. */
   readonly adminUser: string;
   readonly adminPassword: string;
-  /**
-   * The broker's own container, when `mosquitto_ctrl` is run inside it rather than from this
-   * machine's packages. The broker's image carries the tool at the broker's version, and inside it
-   * the broker listens on 127.0.0.1:1883 whatever port the machine publishes.
-   */
-  readonly container?: string;
-  /** The broker's image, to seed the security file before the broker has ever started. */
-  readonly image?: string;
 }
 
 export class MosquittoClient {
@@ -62,11 +53,7 @@ export class MosquittoClient {
         "mosquitto host or admin password is not set — mosquitto's own code cannot reach the broker",
       );
     }
-    return new MosquittoClient({
-      host, port, adminUser, adminPassword: adminPassword ?? "",
-      container: env.MESH_MQTT_CTRL_CONTAINER || undefined,
-      image: env.MESH_MQTT_CTRL_IMAGE || undefined,
-    });
+    return new MosquittoClient({ host, port, adminUser, adminPassword: adminPassword ?? "" });
   }
 
   get host(): string {
@@ -97,18 +84,16 @@ export class MosquittoClient {
    * to this single-purpose runtime container; see the module README.
    */
   async ctl(...args: string[]): Promise<string> {
-    const inside = this.conn.container !== undefined;
     const base = [
-      "-h", inside ? "127.0.0.1" : this.conn.host,
-      "-p", inside ? "1883" : String(this.conn.port),
+      "-h", this.conn.host,
+      "-p", String(this.conn.port),
       "-u", this.conn.adminUser,
       "-P", this.conn.adminPassword,
     ];
     let stdout: string;
     let stderr: string;
     try {
-      const [command, argv] = this.ctrl([...base, "dynsec", ...args]);
-      ({ stdout, stderr } = await run(command, argv, {
+      ({ stdout, stderr } = await run("mosquitto_ctrl", [...base, "dynsec", ...args], {
         maxBuffer: 16 << 20,
         timeout: 30_000,
       }));
@@ -255,27 +240,10 @@ export class MosquittoClient {
   async initBootstrapFile(configFile: string): Promise<void> {
     // `dynsec init <file> <admin-username> [admin-password]` is an offline file operation — it does
     // not connect to the broker. The password is a positional argument (omitting it prompts).
-    if (this.conn.image) {
-      // Before the broker has ever started there is no container to enter: a throwaway one from the
-      // broker's own image writes the file into the directory the broker will mount.
-      await run("docker", [
-        "run", "--rm", "--entrypoint", "mosquitto_ctrl",
-        "-v", `${dirname(configFile)}:/mosquitto/data`,
-        this.conn.image,
-        "dynsec", "init", `/mosquitto/data/${basename(configFile)}`, this.conn.adminUser, this.conn.adminPassword,
-      ], { maxBuffer: 16 << 20 });
-      return;
-    }
     await run("mosquitto_ctrl", ["dynsec", "init", configFile, this.conn.adminUser, this.conn.adminPassword], {
       maxBuffer: 16 << 20,
     });
   }
-
-  /** How `mosquitto_ctrl` is run here: inside the broker's container when one is named. */
-  ctrl(argv: string[]): [string, string[]] {
-    if (this.conn.container) return ["docker", ["exec", this.conn.container, "mosquitto_ctrl", ...argv]];
-    return ["mosquitto_ctrl", argv];
-  }
 }
 
 /** Generate a URL-safe password with no argv- or MQTT-hostile characters. */

modules/mosquitto/module.json

@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
     "mqtt-topic": "${dir:grants}"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin"
+    "admin": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "listens": [
     {
@@ -87,29 +88,26 @@
       "type": "network",
       "name": "mosquitto"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "bootstrap-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/bootstrap.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT=127.0.0.1:${port:1883}\nMESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER=mesh-admin\nMESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE=${dir:mesh-state}/admin\nMESH_DYNSEC_FILE=${dir:data}/dynamic-security.json\nMESH_MQTT_CTRL_IMAGE=eclipse-mosquitto@sha256:38c0da4f2ef84284d47b3b3eeea1cb3bdeabe81ee10caf0cd5c5ff61ee3ea408\n"
-    },
     {
       "id": "bootstrap",
-      "type": "process",
+      "type": "container",
       "name": "mosquitto-bootstrap",
-      "artifact": "code",
-      "run": [
-        "node",
-        "bootstrap/index.js"
-      ],
       "run-once": true,
-      "env-file": [
-        "${dir:state}/bootstrap.env"
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:data}:/mosquitto/data",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/admin:/run/secrets/admin:ro"
       ],
-      "restart-on": [
-        "bootstrap-env"
-      ]
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT": "mosquitto:1883",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin",
+        "MESH_DYNSEC_FILE": "/mosquitto/data/dynamic-security.json"
+      },
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/mosquitto/dist/bootstrap/index.js"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     },
     {
       "id": "server",
@@ -125,32 +123,45 @@
         "${dir:data}:/mosquitto/data",
         "${dir:state}/mosquitto.conf:/mosquitto/config/mosquitto.conf:ro"
       ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-mosquitto",
+      "network": "mosquitto",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:${dir:grants}:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/admin:/run/secrets/admin:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT": "mosquitto:1883",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js",
-          "bootstrap/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-          "MESH_PROVISION_MQTT": "127.0.0.1:${port:1883}",
-          "MESH_PROVISION_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-          "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/admin",
-          "MESH_MQTT_CTRL_CONTAINER": "mosquitto"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/mosquitto/test/ctrl.test.ts

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-// Run after `npm run build`.
-// mosquitto_ctrl runs inside the broker's own container when the manifest names it, so a machine
-// needs no mosquitto package (whose index may be too stale to install from) and the tool always
-// matches the broker's version.
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import { MosquittoClient } from "../dist/client.js"; // compiled: client.ts uses parameter properties, which type stripping cannot run
-
-const env = { MESH_PROVISION_MQTT: "127.0.0.1:21883", MESH_MQTT_PASSWORD: "pw" };
-
-test("named, the broker's container runs mosquitto_ctrl", () => {
-  const c = MosquittoClient.fromEnv({ ...env, MESH_MQTT_CTRL_CONTAINER: "mosquitto" });
-  assert.deepEqual(c.ctrl(["dynsec", "listClients"]), ["docker", ["exec", "mosquitto", "mosquitto_ctrl", "dynsec", "listClients"]]);
-});
-
-test("unnamed, this machine's mosquitto_ctrl runs", () => {
-  const c = MosquittoClient.fromEnv(env);
-  assert.deepEqual(c.ctrl(["dynsec", "listClients"]), ["mosquitto_ctrl", ["dynsec", "listClients"]]);
-});

modules/mssql/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# mssql's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
+# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
+# resolved away.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/mssql
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+# **sqlcmd, which this module's client drives, has to be here** — it never was, so every tool failed
+# with `spawn sqlcmd ENOENT`. go-sqlcmd is one static binary; fetched at a pinned release and checked
+# against its digest, so a build that receives anything else stops here.
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS sqlcmd
+ARG SQLCMD_VERSION=v1.10.0
+ARG SQLCMD_SHA256=92516d98c63d99b0994de5b61350c91f6915f9b76f139a59039fbcb225c2e987
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends curl ca-certificates bzip2 \
+      && curl -fsSL -o /tmp/sqlcmd.tar.bz2 \
+           "https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd/releases/download/${SQLCMD_VERSION}/sqlcmd-linux-amd64.tar.bz2" \
+      && echo "${SQLCMD_SHA256}  /tmp/sqlcmd.tar.bz2" | sha256sum -c - \
+      && tar -xjf /tmp/sqlcmd.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/bin sqlcmd
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=sqlcmd /usr/local/bin/sqlcmd /usr/local/bin/sqlcmd
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/mssql/dist /app/modules/mssql/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
+# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
+# ran no provisioner at all.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/mssql/dist/index.js,/app/modules/mssql/dist/tools/index.js,/app/modules/mssql/dist/provisioner/index.js

modules/mssql/client.ts

@@ -1,74 +1,22 @@
 // mssql's admin client — mssql's own code, living in the module (novox/hq ADR 0039). Both this
 // module's tools and its provisioner import it, and nothing outside mssql does.
 //
-// **The backend's own driver, inside the bundle** (novox/hq ADR 0198 §4). This used to shell out to
-// `sqlcmd`, a binary the module's container fetched; the module's code now runs in the node's
-// runtime, on machines whose system carries no SQL Server client, so it speaks TDS through the
-// `mssql` driver its package.json names — installed and inlined into the bundle by the builder. One
-// boundary, `session()`, and every method is built on it: a connection as one login to one database,
-// opened for one call and closed after, as one sqlcmd invocation was.
+// SQL is executed through `sqlcmd`, not a wire-protocol driver: the module may take NO npm
+// dependency beyond @novox/mesh-sdk, and hand-rolling the TDS handshake, pre-login and query
+// protocol is more surface than this should carry — so it shells out to the client the mssql
+// tools ship, the same way postgres drives itself through `psql`, minio through `mc`, and mailu
+// through doveadm. One boundary, `run()`, and every method is built on it.
 //
-// Structured rows still come back as JSON rendered by SQL Server itself (`FOR JSON`), so a tool's
-// answer is shaped exactly as it was: SQL Server owns the quoting and typing.
+// Structured rows come back as JSON: SQL Server itself renders the result with `FOR JSON`, and
+// this parses the single JSON document sqlcmd prints — far more robust than parsing sqlcmd's
+// column-aligned text, since SQL Server owns the quoting and typing.
 
-import { isIP } from "node:net";
 import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import sql from "mssql";
+import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
+import { promisify } from "node:util";
 
-/** Where a session connects, and as whom. */
-export interface Target {
-  readonly host: string;
-  readonly port: number;
-  readonly user: string;
-  readonly password: string;
-  readonly database: string;
-}
-
-/** One login's connection to one database: run a batch, answer the rows of its last result set. */
-export interface Session {
-  /** `params` are bound as NVARCHAR parameters (`@name`), never written into the text. */
-  run(text: string, params?: Record<string, string>): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]>;
-  close(): Promise<void>;
-}
-
-/** How a session is opened — the driver, or a test's fake. */
-export type Connect = (to: Target) => Promise<Session>;
-
-/**
- * The driver's session: TLS, trusting the self-signed certificate the mssql image ships with (what
- * sqlcmd's `-C` did), one connection, closed with the session.
- */
-export const connectWithDriver: Connect = async (to) => {
-  const pool = new sql.ConnectionPool({
-    server: to.host,
-    port: to.port,
-    user: to.user,
-    password: to.password,
-    database: to.database,
-    // TLS names a host, never an address: Node refuses an IP as the server name (DEP0123, an error
-    // since Node 25), and the module reaches its server on loopback. The certificate is trusted
-    // either way, so the name only has to be one TLS accepts.
-    options: { encrypt: true, trustServerCertificate: true, ...(isIP(to.host) ? { serverName: "localhost" } : {}) },
-    pool: { min: 0, max: 1 },
-    connectionTimeout: 15_000,
-    requestTimeout: 60_000,
-  });
-  await pool.connect();
-  return {
-    async run(text, params = {}) {
-      const request = pool.request();
-      const names = Object.keys(params);
-      for (const name of names) request.input(name, sql.NVarChar, params[name]);
-      // A batch when nothing is bound — CREATE DATABASE must stand alone in its batch, which a
-      // parameterised query (sp_executesql) is not.
-      const result = names.length > 0 ? await request.query(text) : await request.batch(text);
-      const sets = (result.recordsets ?? []) as Record<string, unknown>[][];
-      return sets.length > 0 ? sets[sets.length - 1] : [];
-    },
-    close: () => pool.close(),
-  };
-};
+const run = promisify(execFile);
 
 export interface QueryResult {
   /** The leading keyword of the statement, e.g. "SELECT", "CREATE". */
@@ -97,17 +45,20 @@ export interface MssqlConn {
  */
 export const READER = "mesh_mssql_reader";
 
-/** Who a session logs in as. */
+/** Who a sqlcmd invocation logs in as, and whether the text is a caller's rather than the module's. */
 interface Invocation {
   readonly user: string;
   readonly password: string;
+  /**
+   * A caller's text: sqlcmd substitutes no `$(NAME)` in it, which would read this process's
+   * environment — the administrator's password among it. (Its own commands are kept out by the
+   * caller's text never beginning a line; see readOnlyQuery.)
+   */
+  readonly caller: boolean;
 }
 
 export class MssqlClient {
-  constructor(
-    private readonly conn: MssqlConn,
-    private readonly connect: Connect = connectWithDriver,
-  ) {}
+  constructor(private readonly conn: MssqlConn) {}
 
   /** The reader is made once per process: idempotent, and repeating it re-sets a rotated password. */
   private readerReady?: Promise<void>;
@@ -139,41 +90,63 @@ export class MssqlClient {
     return this.conn.port;
   }
 
-  /** Execute a batch that returns no rows (DDL and the like). A failed statement rejects. */
-  async exec(text: string, database = "master"): Promise<void> {
-    await this.session(text, database);
+  /**
+   * Execute a batch that returns no rows (DDL and the like), through `sqlcmd`. The password is
+   * passed by SQLCMDPASSWORD, never on argv, the way postgres passes PGPASSWORD; `-b` makes a
+   * failed statement an error here rather than a success with a warning, and `-C` trusts the
+   * server's self-signed certificate the mssql image ships with.
+   */
+  async exec(sql: string, database = "master"): Promise<void> {
+    await this.sqlcmd(sql, database);
   }
 
   /**
    * Run a SELECT and return its rows as objects. The caller's SQL must be a single SELECT; it is
-   * wrapped so SQL Server renders the result with `FOR JSON PATH`, and the JSON document it answers
-   * (split across rows for a large result, and reassembled here) is parsed. An empty result yields
-   * no rows — an empty array. `params` are bound as `@name`, never written into the text.
+   * wrapped so SQL Server renders the result with `FOR JSON PATH`, and the JSON document sqlcmd
+   * prints (split across output lines for a large result, and reassembled here) is parsed. An
+   * empty result yields no output at all — an empty array.
    */
   async query(
     select: string,
     database = "master",
-    params: Record<string, string> = {},
+    variables: Record<string, string> = {},
   ): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]> {
     const wrapped = `SET NOCOUNT ON;\n${stripTrailingSemis(select)}\nFOR JSON PATH, INCLUDE_NULL_VALUES;`;
-    return parseJsonRows(await this.session(wrapped, database, params));
+    const stdout = await this.sqlcmd(wrapped, database, variables);
+    return parseJsonRows(stdout);
   }
 
-  /** The one execution boundary: open a session as `as`, run `text`, close it. */
-  private async session(
-    text: string,
+  /** The one execution boundary: invoke `sqlcmd` and return its concatenated stdout. */
+  private async sqlcmd(
+    sql: string,
     database: string,
-    params: Record<string, string> = {},
-    as: Invocation = { user: this.conn.user, password: this.conn.password },
-  ): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]> {
-    const session = await this.connect({
-      host: this.conn.host, port: this.conn.port, user: as.user, password: as.password, database,
-    });
-    try {
-      return await session.run(text, params);
-    } finally {
-      await session.close();
-    }
+    variables: Record<string, string> = {},
+    as: Invocation = { user: this.conn.user, password: this.conn.password, caller: false },
+  ): Promise<string> {
+    // `-h -1` drops the column-header rule; `-y 0`/`-Y 0` lift the display-width cap so a long
+    // JSON document is not truncated; `-W` trims trailing whitespace so the JSON chunks rejoin
+    // cleanly. sqlcmd from the mssql-tools ships in the runtime container, the way `psql` ships
+    // with postgres's — the module owns its own code (ADR 0039) and shells out to it.
+    const { stdout } = await run(
+      "sqlcmd",
+      [
+        "-S", `${this.conn.host},${this.conn.port}`,
+        "-U", as.user,
+        "-d", database,
+        ...(as.caller ? ["-x"] : []),
+        "-C",
+        "-b",
+        "-h", "-1",
+        "-y", "0",
+        "-Y", "0",
+        "-W",
+        "-Q", sql,
+      ],
+      // `variables` reach sqlcmd as environment variables, which it substitutes as `$(NAME)` scripting
+      // variables: a value that must not appear on argv, or in the message of a failed command.
+      { env: { ...process.env, ...variables, SQLCMDPASSWORD: as.password }, maxBuffer: 16 << 20 },
+    );
+    return stdout;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -200,7 +173,7 @@ export class MssqlClient {
       `SELECT 1 AS ok FROM sys.databases WHERE name = ${literal(database)}`,
     );
     if (dbs.length === 0) {
-      // CREATE DATABASE must stand alone in its batch; it runs as its own session.
+      // CREATE DATABASE must stand alone in its batch; it runs as its own sqlcmd invocation.
       await this.exec(`CREATE DATABASE ${ident(database)}`);
     }
 
@@ -233,14 +206,15 @@ export class MssqlClient {
    * nothing logs in and no failed-login is recorded (novox/hq issue 120).
    */
   async holdsLogin(database: string, login: string, password: string): Promise<boolean> {
-    // The password is a bound parameter, never inside the query text, so it is in no message of a
-    // failed statement.
+    // The password reaches sqlcmd as a scripting variable from the environment, never inside the
+    // query text, so it is neither on argv nor in the message of a failed command. It is the mesh's
+    // minted value, which carries no quote.
     const server = await this.query(
       `SELECT CAST(CASE WHEN EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM sys.sql_logins WHERE name = ${literal(login)} ` +
-        `AND is_disabled = 0 AND PWDCOMPARE(@meshholdspw, password_hash) = 1) ` +
+        `AND is_disabled = 0 AND PWDCOMPARE(N'$(MESHHOLDSPW)', password_hash) = 1) ` +
         `AND DB_ID(${literal(database)}) IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS int) AS ok`,
       "master",
-      { meshholdspw: password },
+      { MESHHOLDSPW: password },
     );
     if (Number(server[0]?.ok) !== 1) return false;
     // The user must be this login's, by SID, and a db_owner. A user orphaned by a restore has the
@@ -320,27 +294,35 @@ export class MssqlClient {
    * (novox/hq issue 193). Read-only by the login, not by a transaction wrapped around the text; the
    * rows are rendered by FOR JSON. Never as the administrator: without the reader's password the call
    * is refused.
-   *
-   * The text goes to the server as it is, over the driver: there is no client between that reads a
-   * line of its own (sqlcmd's `:!!`, which could start a program) or substitutes `$(NAME)` from this
-   * process's environment, so neither the one-line rule nor `-x` has anything left to guard.
    */
-  async readOnlyQuery(database: string, text: string): Promise<QueryResult> {
+  async readOnlyQuery(database: string, sql: string): Promise<QueryResult> {
     const password = this.conn.readerPassword;
     if (!password) throw readerMissing();
+    // **One line, refused otherwise.** sqlcmd reads a line that BEGINS with `:` or `!!` as its own
+    // command rather than SQL, and `:!!` starts a program in this container, which holds the
+    // administrator's password. Its switch for refusing those (-X) makes it ignore -Q in the
+    // version shipped here, so instead no line of a caller's text can begin one: the text follows
+    // this module's own on the first line, and a line break in it is refused. Proven on a throwaway
+    // server: the same text at the start of a line ran a program; mid-line it is a syntax error.
+    if (/[\r\n]/.test(sql)) {
+      throw new Error(
+        "mssql_query: the statement must be one line — sqlcmd takes a line beginning with ':' or " +
+          "'!!' as a command of its own, which can start a program (novox/hq issue 193)",
+      );
+    }
     this.readerReady ??= this.ensureReader().catch((err) => {
       this.readerReady = undefined; // asked again next call, not failed for the process's life
       throw err;
     });
     await this.readerReady;
-    const rows = await this.session(
-      `SET NOCOUNT ON; ${stripTrailingSemis(text)}\nFOR JSON PATH, INCLUDE_NULL_VALUES;`,
+    const stdout = await this.sqlcmd(
+      `SET NOCOUNT ON; ${stripTrailingSemis(sql)}\nFOR JSON PATH, INCLUDE_NULL_VALUES;`,
       database,
       {},
-      { user: READER, password },
+      { user: READER, password, caller: true },
     );
-    const command = /^\s*([A-Za-z]+)/.exec(text)?.[1]?.toUpperCase() ?? "";
-    return { command, rows: parseJsonRows(rows) };
+    const command = /^\s*([A-Za-z]+)/.exec(sql)?.[1]?.toUpperCase() ?? "";
+    return { command, rows: parseJsonRows(stdout) };
   }
 }
 
@@ -390,13 +372,18 @@ function safeUrl(raw: string): URL | undefined {
 }
 
 /**
- * Parse the JSON a FOR JSON query answers. SQL Server splits a large FOR JSON result into
- * ~2033-character chunks, one per row of a single column, so the document is reassembled by
- * concatenating that column in order. No rows (an empty result, or a pure DDL batch) means none.
+ * Parse the JSON a FOR JSON query prints through sqlcmd. SQL Server splits a large FOR JSON result
+ * into ~2033-character chunks, one per output row; with `-h -1 -W` each lands on its own line, so
+ * the document is reassembled by concatenating the non-empty lines. No output (an empty result, or
+ * a pure DDL batch) means no rows.
  */
-function parseJsonRows(rows: Record<string, unknown>[]): Record<string, unknown>[] {
-  const joined = rows.map((row) => String(Object.values(row)[0] ?? "")).join("");
-  if (joined.trim().length === 0) return [];
+function parseJsonRows(stdout: string): Record<string, unknown>[] {
+  const joined = stdout
+    .split(/\r?\n/)
+    .map((l) => l.trimEnd())
+    .filter((l) => l.length > 0)
+    .join("");
+  if (joined.length === 0) return [];
   const parsed = JSON.parse(joined);
   return Array.isArray(parsed) ? (parsed as Record<string, unknown>[]) : [parsed as Record<string, unknown>];
 }

modules/mssql/index.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-// mssql's events entrypoint, launched by the node's runtime beside its tools and provisioner
-// (novox/hq ADR 0198). The database lifecycle events are EMITTED from the provisioner, where
+// mssql's events entrypoint, loaded by the per-node tool host (the provisioner container runs
+// ./provisioner separately). The database lifecycle events are EMITTED from the provisioner, where
 // the lifecycle actually happens (novox/hq ADR 0041/0042):
 //   module.mssql.database.provisioned    — a consumer's database + login/user was created
 //   module.mssql.database.deprovisioned  — that database was removed
-// Here in the runtime we react to them, keeping a lightweight audit trail of who was granted a
+// Here in the tool host we react to them, keeping a lightweight audit trail of who was granted a
 // database and who lost one — observability the provider itself is best placed to log.
 
 import { on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";

modules/mssql/module.json

@@ -38,9 +38,16 @@
   },
   "own-secrets": {
     "sa": "${dir:state}/sa.secret",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker",
     "reader": "${dir:state}/reader.secret"
   },
   "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "mesh-state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "mesh"
+    },
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
@@ -86,30 +93,46 @@
         "${dir:data}:/var/opt/mssql"
       ],
       "secrets-in-environment": "the image documents only MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD, no _FILE and no configuration field; not convertible without a wrapper entrypoint"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-mssql",
+      "network": "mssql",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:grants}:/var/lib/mssql/grants:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/sa.secret:/run/secrets/sa:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/reader.secret:/run/secrets/reader:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_PROVISION_MSSQL": "mssql://sa@mssql:1433/master",
+        "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/sa",
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_RECEIVES": "/var/lib/mssql/grants/mesh.json",
+        "MESH_MSSQL_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/reader"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "provisioner/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_PROVISION_MSSQL": "mssql://sa@127.0.0.1:${port:1433}/master",
-          "MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/sa.secret",
-          "MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
-          "MESH_MSSQL_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/reader.secret"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/mssql/mssql.d.ts

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-// Ambient types for `mssql`, which ships its types only in the separate `@types/mssql` package. This
-// declares the slice client.ts uses — the precedent mesh-catalog's pg.d.ts sets — so the module
-// type-checks without deciding what runs: the real `mssql` is the package.json dependency the
-// builder installs and inlines into the bundle (novox/hq ADR 0198 §4).
-declare module "mssql" {
-  interface Result {
-    recordsets: unknown;
-  }
-  interface Request {
-    input(name: string, type: unknown, value: unknown): Request;
-    query(text: string): Promise<Result>;
-    batch(text: string): Promise<Result>;
-  }
-  class ConnectionPool {
-    constructor(config: {
-      server: string;
-      port?: number;
-      user?: string;
-      password?: string;
-      database?: string;
-      options?: { encrypt?: boolean; trustServerCertificate?: boolean; serverName?: string };
-      pool?: { min?: number; max?: number };
-      connectionTimeout?: number;
-      requestTimeout?: number;
-    });
-    connect(): Promise<ConnectionPool>;
-    request(): Request;
-    close(): Promise<void>;
-  }
-  const sql: { ConnectionPool: typeof ConnectionPool; NVarChar: unknown };
-  export default sql;
-}

modules/mssql/package.json

@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@
   "type": "module",
   "private": true,
   "scripts": {
-    "build": "tsc mssql.d.ts client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist",
+    "build": "tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts provisioner/index.ts --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist",
     "test": "npm run build && node --test --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.1",
-    "mssql": "^11.0.2"
+    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.1"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^22.0.0",

modules/mssql/test/reader.test.ts

@@ -1,83 +1,96 @@
 // What holds mssql_query to being read-only (novox/hq issue 193): a caller's statement runs as the
-// reader login and never as the administrator, with no transaction wrapped around it as text, and
-// without the reader's password the statement is refused.
+// reader login and never as the administrator, with sqlcmd's variable substitution off, on one line
+// that follows the module's own — a line break is refused before sqlcmd starts — and with no
+// transaction wrapped around it as text. Without the reader's password the statement is refused.
 //
-// The driver is a fake session that records each call's login, database, text and bound
-// parameters. That the reader cannot write is the server's to enforce and was proven against a real
-// server; this holds the module to asking for it. Run against the compiled module (npm test builds
-// first), the way the runtime loads it.
+// sqlcmd is a fake on PATH that records each call's login, flags and text. That the reader cannot
+// write is the server's to enforce and was proven against a real server; this holds the module to
+// asking for it. Run against the compiled module (npm test builds first), the way the runtime loads it.
 
-import { test } from "node:test";
+import { test, before, after } from "node:test";
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { chmod, mkdtemp, readFile, rm, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
 
-import { MssqlClient, READER, type Connect, type Target } from "../dist/client.js";
+import { MssqlClient, READER } from "../dist/client.js";
 
-interface Call extends Target {
-  text: string;
-  params: Record<string, string>;
-}
+let dir: string;
+let log: string;
+const originalPath = process.env.PATH;
 
-function recording(): { connect: Connect; calls: Call[] } {
-  const calls: Call[] = [];
-  const connect: Connect = async (to) => ({
-    async run(text, params = {}) {
-      calls.push({ ...to, text, params });
-      if (/FROM sys.server_principals/.test(text)) return [];
-      // FOR JSON answers its document split across rows of one column.
-      if (/FOR JSON/.test(text)) return [{ JSON_F52E: '[{"name":"al' }, { JSON_F52E: 'pha","n":1}]' }];
-      return [];
-    },
-    async close() {},
-  });
-  return { connect, calls };
+before(async () => {
+  dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "mssql-reader-"));
+  log = join(dir, "calls.jsonl");
+  await writeFile(join(dir, "sqlcmd"), `#!/usr/bin/env node
+const fs = require("node:fs");
+const args = process.argv.slice(2);
+const at = (flag) => args[args.indexOf(flag) + 1];
+fs.appendFileSync(${JSON.stringify(log)}, JSON.stringify({
+  user: at("-U"), database: at("-d"), sql: at("-Q"), noVariables: args.includes("-x"),
+  password: process.env.SQLCMDPASSWORD,
+}) + "\\n");
+const sql = at("-Q");
+if (/FROM sys.server_principals/.test(sql)) process.stdout.write("");
+else if (/FOR JSON/.test(sql)) process.stdout.write('[{"name":"alpha","n":1}]\\n');
+`);
+  await chmod(join(dir, "sqlcmd"), 0o755);
+  process.env.PATH = `${dir}:${originalPath}`;
+});
+
+after(async () => {
+  process.env.PATH = originalPath;
+  await rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+async function calls(): Promise<Record<string, unknown>[]> {
+  const text = await readFile(log, "utf8").catch(() => "");
+  await writeFile(log, "");
+  return text.split("\n").filter(Boolean).map((line) => JSON.parse(line));
 }
 
 const conn = { host: "127.0.0.1", port: 1433, user: "sa", password: "admin-secret" };
 
-test("a caller's statement runs as the reader, as it was written, on the database it names", async () => {
-  const { connect, calls } = recording();
-  const client = new MssqlClient({ ...conn, readerPassword: "reader-secret" }, connect);
+test("a caller's statement runs as the reader, without variables, on the module's first line", async () => {
+  const client = new MssqlClient({ ...conn, readerPassword: "reader-secret" });
   const result = await client.readOnlyQuery("inventory", "SELECT '$(SQLCMDPASSWORD)' AS p");
 
-  const asked = calls.at(-1)!;
+  const asked = (await calls()).at(-1)!;
   assert.equal(asked.user, READER, "the statement never runs as the administrator");
   assert.equal(asked.password, "reader-secret");
-  assert.equal(asked.database, "inventory");
-  assert.ok(asked.text.startsWith("SET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT '$(SQLCMDPASSWORD)' AS p\nFOR JSON PATH"),
-    "the caller's text reaches the server unaltered");
-  assert.doesNotMatch(asked.text, /BEGIN TRANSACTION|ROLLBACK/, "no transaction wrapped around it as text");
-  assert.deepEqual(result.rows, [{ name: "alpha", n: 1 }], "a FOR JSON document split across rows is reassembled");
+  assert.equal(asked.noVariables, true, "no $(NAME) is substituted in a caller's text");
+  const [first] = String(asked.sql).split("\n");
+  assert.ok(first.startsWith("SET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT '$(SQLCMDPASSWORD)'"), "the caller's text never begins a line");
+  assert.doesNotMatch(String(asked.sql), /BEGIN TRANSACTION|ROLLBACK/, "no transaction wrapped around it as text");
+  assert.deepEqual(result.rows, [{ name: "alpha", n: 1 }]);
   assert.equal(result.command, "SELECT");
 });
 
+test("a line break in a caller's statement is refused before sqlcmd starts", async () => {
+  const client = new MssqlClient({ ...conn, readerPassword: "reader-secret" });
+  for (const sql of ["SELECT 1\n:!! id", "SELECT 1\r\n:!! id", "SELECT 1\r:!! id"]) {
+    await assert.rejects(client.readOnlyQuery("inventory", sql), /must be one line/);
+  }
+  assert.deepEqual(await calls(), []);
+});
+
 test("the reader is made as the administrator, kept out of sysadmin, and granted only reading", async () => {
-  const { connect, calls } = recording();
-  const client = new MssqlClient({ ...conn, readerPassword: "reader-secret" }, connect);
+  const client = new MssqlClient({ ...conn, readerPassword: "reader-secret" });
   await client.readOnlyQuery("inventory", "SELECT 1 AS x");
   await client.readOnlyQuery("inventory", "SELECT 2 AS x");
 
-  const asAdmin = calls.filter((c) => c.user === "sa").map((c) => c.text);
+  const made = await calls();
+  const asAdmin = made.filter((c) => c.user === "sa").map((c) => String(c.sql));
   assert.ok(asAdmin.some((s) => s.startsWith(`CREATE LOGIN [${READER}]`)));
   assert.ok(asAdmin.some((s) => /ALTER SERVER ROLE sysadmin DROP MEMBER/.test(s)));
   assert.ok(asAdmin.includes(`GRANT CONNECT ANY DATABASE TO [${READER}]`));
   assert.ok(asAdmin.includes(`GRANT SELECT ALL USER SECURABLES TO [${READER}]`));
   assert.equal(asAdmin.filter((s) => s.startsWith("CREATE LOGIN")).length, 1, "made once, not per call");
-  assert.equal(calls.filter((c) => c.user === READER).length, 2);
+  assert.equal(made.filter((c) => c.user === READER).length, 2);
 });
 
 test("without the reader's password the statement is refused, and nothing runs as the administrator", async () => {
-  const { connect, calls } = recording();
-  const client = new MssqlClient(conn, connect);
+  const client = new MssqlClient(conn);
   await assert.rejects(client.readOnlyQuery("inventory", "SELECT 1"), /refused rather than run as the administrator/);
-  assert.deepEqual(calls, []);
-});
-
-test("a consumer's password is checked as a bound parameter, never in the text", async () => {
-  const { connect, calls } = recording();
-  const client = new MssqlClient(conn, connect);
-  await client.holdsLogin("shop", "shop_login", "minted-secret");
-  const asked = calls[0];
-  assert.equal(asked.params.meshholdspw, "minted-secret");
-  assert.doesNotMatch(asked.text, /minted-secret/);
-  assert.match(asked.text, /PWDCOMPARE\(@meshholdspw, password_hash\)/);
+  assert.deepEqual(await calls(), []);
 });

modules/mssql/tsconfig.json

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

modules/netcheck/cmd/netcheck/checks.go

@@ -1,173 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"math"
-	"net"
-	"sort"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
-)
-
-// Bounds on what a caller may ask: a check is a probe, never a wait anyone can make long.
-const (
-	DefaultTimeout = 3 * time.Second
-	MostTimeout    = 30 * time.Second
-)
-
-// TCPResult is what netcheck_tcp answers.
-type TCPResult struct {
-	Host      string `json:"host"`
-	Port      int    `json:"port"`
-	Address   string `json:"address,omitempty"`
-	Reachable bool   `json:"reachable"`
-	ElapsedMS int64  `json:"elapsed_ms"`
-	Error     string `json:"error,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// CheckTCP opens one TCP connection and closes it, sending nothing. A port that refuses or a host
-// that does not answer is a result, not a failure of the tool; only a malformed question is.
-func CheckTCP(host string, port int, timeout time.Duration) (TCPResult, error) {
-	if port < 1 || port > 65535 {
-		return TCPResult{}, fmt.Errorf("port %d is not a TCP port (1-65535)", port)
-	}
-	out := TCPResult{Host: host, Port: port}
-	start := time.Now()
-	conn, err := net.DialTimeout("tcp", net.JoinHostPort(host, strconv.Itoa(port)), timeout)
-	out.ElapsedMS = time.Since(start).Milliseconds()
-	if err != nil {
-		out.Error = err.Error()
-		return out, nil
-	}
-	out.Address = conn.RemoteAddr().String()
-	out.Reachable = true
-	_ = conn.Close()
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// DNSResult is what netcheck_dns answers.
-type DNSResult struct {
-	Name      string   `json:"name"`
-	Type      string   `json:"type"`
-	Answers   []string `json:"answers"`
-	ElapsedMS int64    `json:"elapsed_ms"`
-	Error     string   `json:"error,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// DNSTypes are the record types netcheck_dns looks up.
-var DNSTypes = []string{"A", "AAAA", "CNAME", "TXT", "MX"}
-
-// CheckDNS looks a name up with the machine's resolver. Built without cgo, Go's own resolver reads
-// the machine's /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts, which is the resolver this machine's programs use.
-// A name that does not resolve is a result with its error; an unknown type is refused.
-func CheckDNS(name, kind string, timeout time.Duration) (DNSResult, error) {
-	kind = strings.ToUpper(strings.TrimSpace(kind))
-	if kind == "" {
-		kind = "A"
-	}
-	known := false
-	for _, t := range DNSTypes {
-		known = known || t == kind
-	}
-	if !known {
-		return DNSResult{}, fmt.Errorf("type %q is not one netcheck_dns looks up (%s)", kind, strings.Join(DNSTypes, ", "))
-	}
-	out := DNSResult{Name: name, Type: kind, Answers: []string{}}
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), timeout)
-	defer cancel()
-	r := net.DefaultResolver
-	start := time.Now()
-	var err error
-	switch kind {
-	case "A", "AAAA":
-		network := "ip4"
-		if kind == "AAAA" {
-			network = "ip6"
-		}
-		var ips []net.IP
-		if ips, err = r.LookupIP(ctx, network, name); err == nil {
-			for _, ip := range ips {
-				out.Answers = append(out.Answers, ip.String())
-			}
-		}
-	case "CNAME":
-		var cname string
-		if cname, err = r.LookupCNAME(ctx, name); err == nil {
-			out.Answers = append(out.Answers, cname)
-		}
-	case "TXT":
-		var txts []string
-		if txts, err = r.LookupTXT(ctx, name); err == nil {
-			out.Answers = append(out.Answers, txts...)
-		}
-	case "MX":
-		var mxs []*net.MX
-		if mxs, err = r.LookupMX(ctx, name); err == nil {
-			for _, mx := range mxs {
-				out.Answers = append(out.Answers, fmt.Sprintf("%d %s", mx.Pref, mx.Host))
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	out.ElapsedMS = time.Since(start).Milliseconds()
-	if err != nil {
-		out.Error = err.Error()
-	}
-	if kind != "MX" {
-		sort.Strings(out.Answers)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// text is a required string argument.
-func text(args map[string]any, key string) (string, error) {
-	s, _ := args[key].(string)
-	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
-	if s == "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is required", key)
-	}
-	return s, nil
-}
-
-// whole is an integer argument, given as a JSON number or a numeric string; fallback when absent.
-func whole(args map[string]any, key string, fallback int) (int, error) {
-	v, given := args[key]
-	if !given || v == nil {
-		if fallback == 0 {
-			return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s is required", key)
-		}
-		return fallback, nil
-	}
-	switch n := v.(type) {
-	case float64:
-		if n != math.Trunc(n) {
-			return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s must be a whole number, not %v", key, n)
-		}
-		return int(n), nil
-	case string:
-		i, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(n))
-		if err != nil {
-			return 0, fmt.Errorf("%s must be a whole number, not %q", key, n)
-		}
-		return i, nil
-	}
-	return 0, errors.New(key + " must be a whole number")
-}
-
-// timeoutOf is timeout_ms, defaulted and bounded.
-func timeoutOf(args map[string]any) (time.Duration, error) {
-	ms, err := whole(args, "timeout_ms", int(DefaultTimeout/time.Millisecond))
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
-	if ms < 1 {
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("timeout_ms must be at least 1, not %d", ms)
-	}
-	d := time.Duration(ms) * time.Millisecond
-	if d > MostTimeout {
-		d = MostTimeout
-	}
-	return d, nil
-}

modules/netcheck/cmd/netcheck/checks_test.go

@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"net"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-)
-
-func TestATCPPortThatListensIsReachableAndOneThatDoesNotIsNot(t *testing.T) {
-	l, err := net.Listen("tcp", "127.0.0.1:0")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	port := l.Addr().(*net.TCPAddr).Port
-	got, err := CheckTCP("127.0.0.1", port, time.Second)
-	if err != nil || !got.Reachable || got.Error != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("a listening port: %+v, %v", got, err)
-	}
-	l.Close()
-	got, err = CheckTCP("127.0.0.1", port, time.Second)
-	if err != nil || got.Reachable || got.Error == "" {
-		t.Fatalf("a closed port is reported as a result with its error, not a failure: %+v, %v", got, err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAPortOutsideTheRangeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, p := range []int{0, -1, 65536} {
-		if _, err := CheckTCP("127.0.0.1", p, time.Second); err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("port %d was accepted", p)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestDNSAnswersFromTheMachinesResolverAndRefusesAnUnknownType(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := CheckDNS("localhost", "a", time.Second)
-	if err != nil || got.Type != "A" || len(got.Answers) == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("localhost A: %+v, %v", got, err)
-	}
-	if _, err := CheckDNS("localhost", "SRV", time.Second); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("an unknown record type was accepted")
-	}
-	got, err = CheckDNS("no-such-name.invalid", "A", time.Second)
-	if err != nil || got.Error == "" || len(got.Answers) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a name that does not resolve is a result with its error: %+v, %v", got, err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTimeoutIsDefaultedAndBounded(t *testing.T) {
-	if d, _ := timeoutOf(map[string]any{}); d != DefaultTimeout {
-		t.Errorf("default: %v", d)
-	}
-	if d, _ := timeoutOf(map[string]any{"timeout_ms": float64(10 * 60 * 1000)}); d != MostTimeout {
-		t.Errorf("bounded: %v", d)
-	}
-	if _, err := timeoutOf(map[string]any{"timeout_ms": float64(0)}); err == nil {
-		t.Error("a zero timeout was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestBothToolsAreListedUnprefixed(t *testing.T) {
-	names := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, tool := range tools() {
-		names[tool.Name] = true
-	}
-	if !names["netcheck_tcp"] || !names["netcheck_dns"] || len(names) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("tools: %v", names)
-	}
-}

modules/netcheck/cmd/netcheck/main.go

@@ -1,72 +0,0 @@
-// netcheck's Go tools bundle (novox/hq ADR 0188, ADR 0193): a process the node's runtime launches
-// and speaks MCP over stdio to, through the Go SDK. It serves the two checks that are the machine's
-// own sockets and resolver — a TCP connect and a DNS lookup — and nothing that changes anything.
-// The module's HTTP check is its TypeScript bundle; the runtime serves both under one module.
-package main
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
-)
-
-func main() {
-	// An empty name serves as the module the runtime names (MESH_SERVED_MODULE): netcheck.
-	if err := stdio.Serve("", tools()); err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
-		os.Exit(1)
-	}
-}
-
-func tools() []stdio.Tool {
-	return []stdio.Tool{
-		{
-			Name: "netcheck_tcp",
-			Description: "Check whether a TCP port is reachable from this machine: opens one connection " +
-				"and closes it at once, sending nothing. Answers reachable, elapsed_ms and the error when not.",
-			Input: map[string]any{
-				"host":       map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "host name or IP address"},
-				"port":       map[string]any{"type": "integer", "description": "TCP port, 1-65535"},
-				"timeout_ms": map[string]any{"type": "integer", "description": "give up after this long (default 3000, at most 30000)"},
-			},
-			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
-				host, err := text(args, "host")
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				port, err := whole(args, "port", 0)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				timeout, err := timeoutOf(args)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				return CheckTCP(host, port, timeout)
-			},
-		},
-		{
-			Name: "netcheck_dns",
-			Description: "Look a name up with this machine's resolver (its /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts). " +
-				"type is A, AAAA, CNAME, TXT or MX; answers the records found, or the error.",
-			Input: map[string]any{
-				"name":       map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the name to look up"},
-				"type":       map[string]any{"type": "string", "enum": []string{"A", "AAAA", "CNAME", "TXT", "MX"}, "description": "record type (default A)"},
-				"timeout_ms": map[string]any{"type": "integer", "description": "give up after this long (default 3000, at most 30000)"},
-			},
-			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
-				name, err := text(args, "name")
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				kind, _ := args["type"].(string)
-				timeout, err := timeoutOf(args)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				return CheckDNS(name, kind, timeout)
-			},
-		},
-	}
-}

modules/netcheck/go.mod

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-module netcheck
-
-go 1.22
-
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6

modules/netcheck/go.sum

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6 h1:9qzdYONYbJdWcu6sxQcq9v1LI0JxcfkiKYkMUzJSkVQ=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=

modules/netcheck/http.ts

@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-// netcheck's HTTP check — the module's own code, in TypeScript (novox/hq ADR 0039, ADR 0188). One
-// request, HEAD or GET, never a body sent and never a body read: the status, how long it took and
-// a few headers that say what answered. Redirects are reported, not followed, so a check reaches
-// exactly the address it was given.
-
-export const METHODS = ["HEAD", "GET"] as const;
-export type Method = (typeof METHODS)[number];
-
-/** The headers worth reporting: what answered and what it says it is, nothing it set for a client. */
-export const REPORTED_HEADERS = [
-  "content-type", "content-length", "server", "location", "date",
-  "cache-control", "last-modified", "etag",
-] as const;
-
-export const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;
-export const MOST_TIMEOUT_MS = 30000;
-
-export interface HttpResult {
-  url: string;
-  method: Method;
-  status?: number;
-  statusText?: string;
-  elapsed_ms: number;
-  headers: Record<string, string>;
-  error?: string;
-}
-
-/** Only http and https are checked; anything else — file:, data:, ftp: — is refused by name. */
-export function checkedUrl(raw: unknown): URL {
-  const text = typeof raw === "string" ? raw.trim() : "";
-  if (!text) throw new Error("url is required");
-  let url: URL;
-  try {
-    url = new URL(text);
-  } catch {
-    throw new Error(`${JSON.stringify(text)} is not a URL`);
-  }
-  if (url.protocol !== "http:" && url.protocol !== "https:") {
-    throw new Error(`netcheck_http checks http and https URLs only, not ${url.protocol}`);
-  }
-  return url;
-}
-
-export function checkedMethod(raw: unknown): Method {
-  const m = (typeof raw === "string" && raw.trim() ? raw.trim() : "HEAD").toUpperCase();
-  if (!(METHODS as readonly string[]).includes(m)) {
-    throw new Error(`method ${m} is not one netcheck_http uses (${METHODS.join(", ")}): a check never changes anything`);
-  }
-  return m as Method;
-}
-
-export function checkedTimeout(raw: unknown): number {
-  if (raw === undefined || raw === null || raw === "") return DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS;
-  const n = Number(raw);
-  if (!Number.isInteger(n) || n < 1) throw new Error(`timeout_ms must be a whole number of at least 1, not ${String(raw)}`);
-  return Math.min(n, MOST_TIMEOUT_MS);
-}
-
-/** Make one request and report how it went. A refused connection or a timeout is a result with its
- *  error; only a malformed question throws. */
-export async function checkHttp(args: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>, fetcher: typeof fetch = fetch): Promise<HttpResult> {
-  const url = checkedUrl(args.url);
-  const method = checkedMethod(args.method);
-  const timeout = checkedTimeout(args.timeout_ms);
-  const started = performance.now();
-  const out: HttpResult = { url: url.toString(), method, elapsed_ms: 0, headers: {} };
-  try {
-    const res = await fetcher(url, { method, redirect: "manual", signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeout) });
-    out.elapsed_ms = Math.round(performance.now() - started);
-    out.status = res.status;
-    out.statusText = res.statusText;
-    for (const h of REPORTED_HEADERS) {
-      const v = res.headers.get(h);
-      if (v !== null) out.headers[h] = v;
-    }
-    // The body is not read: a check asks whether something answers, not what it says.
-    await res.body?.cancel().catch(() => {});
-  } catch (err) {
-    out.elapsed_ms = Math.round(performance.now() - started);
-    const e = err as Error & { cause?: { message?: string; code?: string } };
-    out.error = e.name === "TimeoutError" ? `no answer within ${timeout} ms` : (e.cause?.code ?? e.cause?.message ?? e.message);
-  }
-  return out;
-}

modules/netcheck/module.json

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "module": "netcheck",
-  "version": "1",
-  "tools": [
-    "netcheck_tcp",
-    "netcheck_dns",
-    "netcheck_http"
-  ],
-  "build": {
-    "artifacts": [
-      {
-        "name": "tools-go",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "go",
-        "system": "arch",
-        "from": "cmd/netcheck",
-        "binary": "netcheck",
-        "loads": [
-          "netcheck"
-        ]
-      },
-      {
-        "name": "tools-typescript",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ]
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}

modules/netcheck/package.json

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "@novox/module-netcheck",
-  "version": "0.1.0",
-  "description": "netcheck — read-only network checks from a machine, as one module carrying a Go tools bundle (TCP, DNS) and a TypeScript one (HTTP) (novox/hq ADR 0188, ADR 0193).",
-  "type": "module",
-  "private": true,
-  "scripts": {
-    "test": "node --test --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.6"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
-    "typescript": "^5.6.0"
-  }
-}

modules/netcheck/test/http.test.ts

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-// The HTTP check refuses what is not http(s) and what would change something, and reports a status,
-// a refusal and a timeout as results (novox/hq ADR 0188: a tools bundle is read-only and harmless).
-import { test } from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { createServer } from "node:http";
-import type { AddressInfo } from "node:net";
-import { checkHttp, checkedMethod, checkedUrl } from "../http.ts";
-
-test("only http and https URLs are checked", () => {
-  for (const bad of ["file:///etc/passwd", "ftp://example.org/", "data:text/plain,hi", "javascript:1", "", "not a url"]) {
-    assert.throws(() => checkedUrl(bad), `${bad} was accepted`);
-  }
-  assert.equal(checkedUrl("https://example.org/x").protocol, "https:");
-});
-
-test("only HEAD and GET are used", () => {
-  assert.equal(checkedMethod(undefined), "HEAD");
-  assert.equal(checkedMethod("get"), "GET");
-  for (const bad of ["POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "PATCH"]) assert.throws(() => checkedMethod(bad));
-});
-
-test("a status, its headers and a redirect not followed", async () => {
-  const server = createServer((req, res) => {
-    if (req.url === "/moved") { res.writeHead(302, { location: "/elsewhere" }); res.end(); return; }
-    res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/plain", "x-secret": "not reported" });
-    res.end(req.method === "GET" ? "body" : undefined);
-  });
-  await new Promise<void>((ok) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", ok));
-  const base = `http://127.0.0.1:${(server.address() as AddressInfo).port}`;
-  try {
-    const head = await checkHttp({ url: base + "/" });
-    assert.equal(head.status, 200);
-    assert.equal(head.method, "HEAD");
-    assert.equal(head.headers["content-type"], "text/plain");
-    assert.equal(head.headers["x-secret"], undefined);
-    const moved = await checkHttp({ url: base + "/moved", method: "GET" });
-    assert.equal(moved.status, 302);
-    assert.equal(moved.headers.location, "/elsewhere");
-  } finally {
-    server.close();
-  }
-});
-
-test("a refused connection is a result with its error", async () => {
-  const server = createServer();
-  await new Promise<void>((ok) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", ok));
-  const port = (server.address() as AddressInfo).port;
-  await new Promise<void>((ok) => server.close(() => ok()));
-  const got = await checkHttp({ url: `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/`, timeout_ms: 2000 });
-  assert.equal(got.status, undefined);
-  assert.ok(got.error, "no error reported");
-});

modules/netcheck/tools/index.ts

@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-// netcheck's TypeScript tools bundle (novox/hq ADR 0188, ADR 0193): what the builder's launcher
-// imports and serves over MCP on stdio. Its Go bundle serves the TCP and DNS checks; this one the
-// HTTP check — one module, two languages, one runtime that knows neither.
-
-import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
-import { checkHttp, DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS, METHODS, MOST_TIMEOUT_MS } from "../http.js";
-
-export function getNetcheckHttpTools(): ToolDefinition[] {
-  return [
-    {
-      name: "netcheck_http",
-      description:
-        "Check whether an http(s) URL answers from this machine: one HEAD or GET, no body sent or read, " +
-        "redirects reported and not followed. Answers status, elapsed_ms and a few headers.",
-      input: {
-        url: { type: "string", description: "an http:// or https:// URL" },
-        method: { type: "string", enum: [...METHODS], description: "HEAD (default) or GET" },
-        timeout_ms: {
-          type: "integer",
-          description: `give up after this long (default ${DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS}, at most ${MOST_TIMEOUT_MS})`,
-        },
-      },
-      run: async (args) => checkHttp(args),
-    },
-  ];
-}
-
-registerModuleTools("netcheck", () => getNetcheckHttpTools());

modules/netcheck/tsconfig.json

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "compilerOptions": {
-    "target": "ES2022",
-    "module": "NodeNext",
-    "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
-    "strict": true,
-    "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "skipLibCheck": true,
-    "noEmit": true
-  },
-  "include": ["http.ts", "tools/index.ts"]
-}

modules/nextcloud/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# nextcloud's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+ARG DOCKER_CLI
+
+# Named so the final stage's COPY --from can reference a stage, not an ARG — the legacy builder
+# this host still runs doesn't expand ARGs inside COPY --from, only inside FROM.
+FROM ${DOCKER_CLI} AS dockercli
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+# Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
+# node_modules — the module is compiled against exactly the sdk it will run against. The compiler
+# is invoked by its real path: node_modules/.bin entries are launcher symlinks the base image
+# resolved away.
+WORKDIR /app/modules/nextcloud
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/nextcloud/dist /app/modules/nextcloud/dist
+# occ runs inside nextcloud's own container, reached over the mounted docker socket — which needs
+# the docker CLI itself present here, not only the socket. Copied from Docker's own official client
+# image rather than apt-installed, so this stays the one binary and nothing else (no daemon, no
+# systemd unit, no package manager tree pulled in for it).
+COPY --from=dockercli /usr/local/bin/docker /usr/local/bin/docker
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
+# provisioner (`run`) served no tools and emitted no events; a container that named no command
+# ran no provisioner at all.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/nextcloud/dist/index.js,/app/modules/nextcloud/dist/tools/index.js

modules/nextcloud/module.json

@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@
     "share.created"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
-    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret"
+    "admin": "${dir:state}/admin.secret",
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@
       "type": "file",
       "path": "${dir:state}/server.env",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "POSTGRES_HOST=${bound:postgres-database:at}:${bound:postgres-database:port}\nPOSTGRES_DB=${bound:postgres-database:as}\nPOSTGRES_USER=${bound:postgres-database:as}\nPOSTGRES_PASSWORD=${secret:postgres-database}\nNEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER=mesh-admin\nNEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${secret:admin}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_HOST=${bound:s3-bucket:at}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_PORT=${bound:s3-bucket:port}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_BUCKET=${bound:s3-bucket:bucket}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_KEY=${bound:s3-bucket:as}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_SECRET=${secret:s3-bucket}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_SSL=false\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_USEPATH_STYLE=true\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_REGION=${bound:s3-bucket:region}\n"
+      "content": "POSTGRES_HOST=${bound:postgres-database:at}:${bound:postgres-database:port}\nPOSTGRES_DB=${bound:postgres-database:as}\nPOSTGRES_USER=${bound:postgres-database:as}\nPOSTGRES_PASSWORD=${secret:postgres-database}\nNEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER=mesh-admin\nNEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD=${secret:admin}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_HOST=${bound:s3-bucket:at}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_PORT=${bound:s3-bucket:port}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_BUCKET=mesh-novox-ncloud\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_KEY=${bound:s3-bucket:as}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_SECRET=${secret:s3-bucket}\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_SSL=false\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_USEPATH_STYLE=true\nOBJECTSTORE_S3_REGION=${bound:s3-bucket:region}\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "html",
@@ -93,28 +94,53 @@
       "mode": "0600",
       "content": "{}\n",
       "merge": "json"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-nextcloud",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/admin.secret:/run/secrets/admin:ro",
+        "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:80}",
+        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json",
+        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
+        "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/admin"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "DOCKER_CLI",
+        "image": "docker@sha256:018edbc908e08fcc9dbf029c812c34251e9b4719e6f71ca0e5eae2a987d014ca"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "index.js",
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:80}",
-          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json",
-          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_USER": "mesh-admin",
-          "MESH_NEXTCLOUD_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/admin.secret"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/node-env/module.json

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "module": "node-env",
-  "version": "1",
-  "claims": [
-    {
-      "name": "node-environment",
-      "scope": "node"
-    }
-  ],
-  "resources": [
-    {
-      "id": "mesh-config-dir",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/mesh",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "mode": "0755"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "environment-d",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/environment.d",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "mode": "0755"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "posix",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/mesh/environment.sh",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "mode": "0644",
-      "content": "# The operator account's environment, generated by the mesh (module node-env, novox/hq ADR 0203).\n# Do not edit: this file is replaced at every push. Every line names the module that contributed it.\n# Sourced by the login shell from its always-read startup file (for zsh, ~/.zshenv), so a script, a\n# login and the shell's execute verb all see it. Your own variables belong in your shell's own lines.\n${environment:posix}"
-    },
-    {
-      "id": "systemd",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/environment.d/50-mesh.conf",
-      "owner": "${machine:account}",
-      "mode": "0644",
-      "content": "# The operator account's environment for its service manager and graphical session, generated by\n# the mesh (module node-env, novox/hq ADR 0203). Do not edit: this file is replaced at every push.\n# The same facts as ~/.config/mesh/environment.sh, in environment.d(5) syntax.\n${environment:systemd}"
-    }
-  ]
-}

modules/nodered/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# nodered's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/nodered
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts tools/index.ts mqtt/probe.ts mqtt/connection.ts mqtt/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/nodered/dist /app/modules/nodered/dist
+# Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
+# provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
+# the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled.
+ENV MESH_TOOL_MODULES=/app/modules/nodered/dist/tools/index.js
+# NOT dist/mqtt/index.js: that is a step the host runs to completion, named by the `mqtt`
+# container's args as `mesh-tools run …` (novox/hq ADR 0052). Listed here it would run inside the
+# serving sidecar too, and exit it.

modules/nodered/module.json

@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@
     "api-token": {
       "path": "${dir:mesh-state}/api-token",
       "taken": "at-start"
-    }
+    },
+    "broker": "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"
   },
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
@@ -100,31 +101,53 @@
       "content": "{\n  \"token\": \"${secret:api-token}\"\n}\n"
     },
     {
-      "id": "mqtt-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "${dir:state}/mqtt.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "MESH_NODERED_URL=http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}\nMESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE=${dir:mesh-state}/config.json\nMESH_PROVISIONS_DIR=${dir:state}\nMESH_WRITTEN_DIR=${dir:written}\n"
+      "id": "runtime",
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-nodered",
+      "network": "host",
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro",
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
+        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
+        "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
+      },
+      "restart-on": [
+        "runtime-config"
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     },
     {
       "id": "mqtt",
-      "type": "process",
-      "name": "nodered-mqtt",
-      "artifact": "code",
-      "run": [
-        "node",
-        "mqtt/index.js"
-      ],
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-nodered-mqtt",
+      "network": "host",
       "run-once": true,
-      "env-file": [
-        "${dir:state}/mqtt.env"
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json:/run/config/config.json:ro",
+        "${dir:written}:/var/lib/nodered-provisions",
+        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.json:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.json:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret:/run/provisions/mqtt-topic.secret:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/settings.json:/run/provisions/settings.json:ro"
+      ],
+      "env": {
+        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${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": [
-        "mqtt-env",
         "bound-mqtt-topic",
         "secret-mqtt-topic",
         "settings"
-      ]
+      ],
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "requires": [
@@ -150,22 +173,23 @@
     "mqtt-topic": "${dir:state}/mqtt-topic.secret"
   },
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "tools/index.js",
-          "mqtt/index.js"
-        ],
-        "loads": [
-          "tools/index.js"
-        ],
-        "env": {
-          "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
-          "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "${dir:mesh-state}/config.json"
-        }
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/openai-consumer/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# openai-consumer's runtime: the tool runtime, carrying this module's compiled code.
+#
+# **Built from this module's own directory and nothing else.** The sdk and the tool runtime are in
+# the base images, published like any other artifact — which is what makes this buildable by the
+# mesh from a repository and a path (novox/hq ADR 0069) rather than only on a workstation that
+# happens to have the siblings.
+#
+# Two bases, named rather than pinned (novox/hq issue 044): the image this is COMPILED in and the
+# image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
+ARG BUILD_BASE
+ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+
+FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
+WORKDIR /app/modules/openai-consumer
+COPY . .
+RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc apply/index.ts \
+      --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
+
+FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+COPY --from=build /app/modules/openai-consumer/dist /app/modules/openai-consumer/dist
+# No serve-time entrypoints: every container of this module names its command (`run` on a
+# schedule), so nothing here serves — deliberately no MESH_TOOL_MODULES.

modules/openai-consumer/module.json

@@ -28,31 +28,44 @@
     },
     {
       "id": "apply",
-      "type": "process",
-      "name": "openai-consumer-apply",
-      "artifact": "code",
-      "run": [
-        "node",
-        "apply/index.js"
-      ],
+      "type": "container",
+      "name": "mesh-openai-consumer-apply",
+      "network": "host",
       "schedule": "*/5 * * * *",
+      "args": [
+        "run",
+        "/app/modules/openai-consumer/dist/apply/index.js"
+      ],
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:state}:/run/state"
+      ],
       "env": {
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "${dir:state}/api-key",
-        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "${dir:state}/model.json",
-        "MESH_OPENAI_ENV_FILE": "${dir:state}/config/openai.env",
-        "MESH_OPENAI_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "${dir:state}/config/auth.json"
-      }
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_SECRET_FILE": "/run/state/api-key",
+        "MESH_MODEL_ACCESS_BIND_FILE": "/run/state/model.json",
+        "MESH_OPENAI_ENV_FILE": "/run/state/config/openai.env",
+        "MESH_OPENAI_CREDENTIALS_FILE": "/run/state/config/auth.json"
+      },
+      "artifact": "runtime"
     }
   ],
   "build": {
+    "on": [
+      {
+        "arg": "BUILD_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "build"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
+        "module": "mesh-tools",
+        "artifact": "runtime"
+      }
+    ],
     "artifacts": [
       {
-        "name": "code",
-        "kind": "bundle",
-        "language": "typescript",
-        "entrypoints": [
-          "apply/index.js"
-        ]
+        "name": "runtime",
+        "kind": "image",
+        "from": "Dockerfile"
       }
     ]
   }

modules/photos-eef/module.json

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
       "image": "registry-api.novox.be/novox/photos-client@sha256:f87d63ee7bfb44c9f9748b99be6ba6dc0daf955a1d463699e9e7e3009693c0ab",
       "network": "photos-eef",
       "ports": [
-        "4012:80"
+        "80"
       ],
       "names-on-purpose": {
         "registry-api.novox.be": "built outside the mesh, from the application's own repository, and pulled from the registry that built it; moves when that repository is a build source on the git seat (novox/hq ADR 0155, issue 122)"

modules/photos-filip/module.json

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
       "image": "registry-api.novox.be/novox/photos-client@sha256:f87d63ee7bfb44c9f9748b99be6ba6dc0daf955a1d463699e9e7e3009693c0ab",
       "network": "photos-filip",
       "ports": [
-        "4013:80"
+        "80"
       ],
       "names-on-purpose": {
         "registry-api.novox.be": "built outside the mesh, from the application's own repository, and pulled from the registry that built it; moves when that repository is a build source on the git seat (novox/hq ADR 0155, issue 122)"

modules/photos/module.json

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
       "type": "file",
       "path": "${dir:state}/server.env",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "NODE_ENV=production\nPORT=9000\nMONGO_URL=mongodb://${bound:mongodb-database:as}:${secret:mongodb-database}@${bound:mongodb-database:at}:${bound:mongodb-database:port}/${bound:mongodb-database:as}?authSource=admin\nMONGO_DB=${bound:mongodb-database:as}\nMINIO_ENDPOINT=${bound:s3-bucket:at}\nMINIO_PORT=${bound:s3-bucket:port}\nMINIO_BUCKET=${bound:s3-bucket:bucket}\nMINIO_ACCESSKEY=${bound:s3-bucket:as}\nMINIO_SECRET=${secret:s3-bucket}\nMINIO_USE_SSL=false\n"
+      "content": "NODE_ENV=production\nPORT=9000\nMONGO_URL=mongodb://${bound:mongodb-database:as}:${secret:mongodb-database}@${bound:mongodb-database:at}:${bound:mongodb-database:port}/${bound:mongodb-database:as}?authSource=admin\nMONGO_DB=${bound:mongodb-database:as}\nMINIO_ENDPOINT=${bound:s3-bucket:at}\nMINIO_PORT=${bound:s3-bucket:port}\nMINIO_BUCKET=mesh-novox-photos\nMINIO_ACCESSKEY=${bound:s3-bucket:as}\nMINIO_SECRET=${secret:s3-bucket}\nMINIO_USE_SSL=false\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "net",
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
       "image": "registry-api.novox.be/novox/photos-admin-client@sha256:f437fa9ed28b29a012f715fb8d9b809a15cff4a672794c620d5d400f57695580",
       "network": "photos",
       "ports": [
-        "4001:80"
+        "80"
       ],
       "names-on-purpose": {
         "registry-api.novox.be": "built outside the mesh, from the application's own repository, and pulled from the registry that built it; moves when that repository is a build source on the git seat (novox/hq ADR 0155, issue 122)"