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mesh-catalog/modules/claude-licence-manager
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mesh/merge-gate checking again: the gate refused `unknown` because the controller judged with a node-engine validator pinned before mesh-host #117; mesh-co…
mesh/repo-check checking again: the gate refused `unknown` because the controller judged with a node-engine validator pinned before mesh-host #117; mesh-co…
mesh/delivery-group group feat/owned-paths checking: 0 of 2 member(s) ready
mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
Say on every directory how it treats files it does not know, and check it (issue 1024, ADR 0422)
Every directory and archive resource carries `unknown`: move-out for a home folder whose program writes nothing there (the node-engine, delivered in mesh-host #117, moves the rest to ~/.local/state/mesh-moved/<module>/ with a list), module for ~/.ssh and ~/.claude, program elsewhere; `knows` keeps what a program or the operator relies on (powerlevel10k's compiled files, i3's scripts and the asus/g14 drop-ins, dunst's slack rule, betterbird's records, node-env's forge credential, issue 1033). Two shared folders are no longer declared. Each module's README says it. checks/owned holds every manifest to it; checks/sshdir stays while main's merge check runs it (issue 1035). Tests that pin a manifest follow the new key only. Reviewed in three rounds.
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claude-licence-manager

Holds the anthropic-licence-manager seat: every Anthropic licence the mesh has, kept alive by one rotation source, and handed to each consumer sealed (novox/hq ADR 0183, ADR 0206, design 39).

How a licence comes to exist

Nothing is configured. Every node running claude-code reports what it holds as that module's holdings state — the account, fingerprints and expiries, never a token. This module reads every report when it starts and watches them:

  1. A report with a refresh token it does not hold is a candidate.
  2. It asks that node's claude_code_grant, giving its public key, and receives the grant sealed to it.
  3. It refreshes it. If the vendor exchanges the token, the grant is this module's — encrypted at rest with the key the vault made for it — and from then on it is the only refresher. If not, the candidate is recorded dead and nothing is adopted.
  4. Several nodes logged in to one account: newest login first; the rest are never exchanged.
  5. A node reporting that account and bound to nothing is bound to it.

Each node is then handed an access token only, so the agent there never refreshes, and a refresh token appearing on a node later can only be a person's login — which wins if it refreshes.

An API key enters through adopt, from a file on this module's node.

What each consumer holds

This module's bindings state: one key per consumer (a node's name) with the licence, its kind and a generation that grows with every rotation and switch. claude-code watches its own key and, on a newer generation, asks current with its public key.

The seat's verbs

licences, bindings, bind, switch, release, refresh, usage, adopt, current — through the console as anthropic-licence-manager.<verb>. No answer carries a token.

Settings

settings.json in the state directory: cadence_minutes (240), floor_minutes (60), failures_to_notify (3), cooldown_hours (24), refresh_warn_days (3).

Events

licence.adopted, licence.refused, licence.failing, usage.read — none carries a secret.

Code and tests

Go, one binary (cmd/claude-licence-manager): the seat's verbs and the daemon in one launched bundle, prepare as the run-once preparation step. The sealed box is claude-code's own format, byte for byte — the two modules carry the same seal.go — and a test opens one sealed by the TypeScript agent module the Go one replaced, so the format is the one already on the machines.

go test ./...
# the store against a real postgres:
docker run -d --rm --name licmgr-pg -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=t -p 15498:5432 postgres:16-alpine
MESH_TEST_POSTGRES=postgres://postgres:t@127.0.0.1:15498/postgres go test ./...

Files it does not know

Each directory or archive this module declares says how it treats a file it did not write (ADR 0422, ADR 0416).

  • ${dir:state}: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).