jschoubben 21f5301268 ombi: its config is placed, its image is the one ace runs
ombi's definition named /services/ombi/config (a HAL machine path) in three
places and pinned an image older than the one ace runs. Ombi migrates its
own SQLite schema, so a take onto the older pin (v4.53.10-ls267) would start
it on a database the newer build (ls269) already touched.

- config is a pathless placed directory, mounted as ${dir:config}
- a state directory placed at the assignment root carries route.json
- image pinned to the digest ace runs today (v4.53.10-ls269)
- the sidecar reaches ombi on the machine port the mesh assigns
  (${port:3579}) rather than assuming 3579 is free
- the sidecar no longer mounts ombi's data directory: MESH_OMBI_CONFIG_DIR
  is read by no code, and the mount exposed the databases for nothing

Verified: catalogue tests (MESH_CATALOGUE set, 6 pass, none skipped); the
pinned image starts as PUID 1000 in a 0700 dir and answers /api/v1/Status
200; data owned 1001:2000 (ace's media ids) under a 1000:1000 dir is
re-owned by the image's init and serves 200; a minted ApiKey is refused
(401) - the api-key secret must be accepted from ombi's own settings.
2026-09-29 23:38:56 +02:00

mesh-catalog

The Novox Mesh catalogue. The modules the mesh builds, provisions and runs — as manifests, one per module under modules/.

This is data, not a control-plane concern. The manifests describe what a module is: what it provides, what it requires, the seats it claims, the resources the host applies for it. The engine that reads them — parsing, eligibility resolution, sealing, declaration emission — lives in the control plane (novox/mesh-controller, internal/catalogue), which consumes this repository as a build source. The host (novox/mesh-host) applies the declarations the control plane emits. Neither is here.

What a module is, and is not

A module is one thing the mesh can run, named once, described completely by its manifest. A manifest names its image (pinned by digest), the resources the host owns for it (directories, files, the container, the private network it joins), what it requires from a provider and what it provides to consumers, and the sealed secrets it needs filled on the machine.

  • Core mesh components are not modules. The node host, the foundation, the control-plane contexts and the surfaces are the mesh itself; they ship as their own repositories (mesh-host, mesh-foundation, mesh-controller, mesh-surfaces, mesh-sdk), not from here.
  • Standalone applications are not here either. A larger application lives in its own repository with its manifest at the root, registered with the mesh as a build source (novox/hq ADR 0010). This repository holds the modules the mesh maintains as its shared catalogue; an application the mesh merely hosts keeps its manifest beside its own code.

So there is one home for the catalogue the mesh owns, and every application that runs on the mesh rather than being of it carries its own — both reach the pipeline the same way, as a registered source.

Layout

modules/<name>.json      one manifest per module

Flat, because the catalogue's shape carries no meaning: a module is found by its name and described by its manifest, and what relates two modules — a shared seat, a claim, a provider/consumer edge — is data inside the manifests, not a directory the tree encodes (novox/hq, the domain-grouping question closed in favour of seats, claims and tags).

The manifest contract

The shape a manifest must satisfy is owned by the control plane's catalogue engine and is what validates a manifest before a machine ever sees it — a stray key, a consumer contributing the wrong provision field, an image that nothing builds. That validation belongs with this repository and is being re-homed here from mesh-controller; until it is, the pipeline is the gate — it builds each module and refuses a manifest it cannot resolve.

Where the reasoning lives

Design and decisions are in novox/hq:

  • 02-DECISIONS/0002-everything-is-a-module.md — one unit, no second mechanism
  • 02-DECISIONS/0010-applications-live-in-their-own-repository.md — why applications are not here
  • 02-DECISIONS/0030-the-repository-structure.md — the repositories, and the open tier-4 question this repository answers
  • 03-DESIGN/00-as-is/10-module-catalogue.md — the catalogue's shape, and what it records
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