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The config directory was the stated path /services/bookshelf/config; it
is now a pathless directory the mesh places (0700, 1000:1000), and the
route binding lives in a placed state dir, as in jackett and searxng.
/var/lib/mesh/bookshelf stays for the broker secret.
The image is pinned to the digest ace runs (hardcover, 0.4.21.182,
ls36). The old pin was a February build: older than the database it
would open, which Readarr-family apps migrate forward only.
The sidecar dials ${port:8787}, the port the mesh assigned, not the
software's own (the same one-line change as #154).
Not carried from HAL: its install hook seeded config.xml with an API key
(the image writes its own on first start, and the data keeps it) and
registered nzbget, qbittorrent and jackett through the API with wrong
hosts and ports, so ace's bookshelf has no download client and no
indexer today. Wiring them is provisioning work that depends on the
download-client and jackett providers, and on where ace's books and
downloads live (hq 153).
Verified: catalogue tests with MESH_CATALOGUE; a scratch resolution with
ace's assignment composes books.zurag.be and keeps the port to the
mesh; a throwaway container at the pinned digest on a fresh 0700
1000:1000 dir answered /ping and /api/v1/system/status (401 on a wrong
key); client.ts typechecks strict, found the key in config.xml and read
the queue.
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 mechanism02-DECISIONS/0010-applications-live-in-their-own-repository.md— why applications are not here02-DECISIONS/0030-the-repository-structure.md— the repositories, and the open tier-4 question this repository answers03-DESIGN/00-as-is/10-module-catalogue.md— the catalogue's shape, and what it records