The build role is the node-scoped seat node-build-agent, and its work is shared by every holder (hq ADR 0190)

One build machine built everything, in a queue of one, because the seat was mesh-scoped and a
mesh seat has one holder. ADR 0190 makes building a node role: node-build-agent, held on every
machine that builds, with the work asked of the role and taken by whichever holder is idle. The
work subject of a node-scoped seat carries no node — that token is for a seat's tools, asked of
one machine (design 33 §4) — so holders on several machines read one queue; a test now says so.

The retired mesh-build-machine row stays while the builder module's registered manifest claims
it: a claim to a seat the mesh no longer defines is refused, and the machine holding it would be
unresolvable until build-agent replaces it. Removed once no manifest claims it.

The installer's genesis template (in the host's repository) still grants the controller the old
seat's subjects; its test here says so until that template names node-build-agent.
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jochen
2026-10-02 22:31:55 +02:00
parent d07018f3c5
commit bde4b61b3b
11 changed files with 53 additions and 18 deletions
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@@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ type Principal struct {
PasswordHash string
}
// meshSeatsTheControllerUses are the roles the mesh's own flows submit work to. Named rather than
// seatsTheControllerAsks are the roles the mesh's own flows submit work to. Named rather than
// derived from the seat set: the controller is not a module and declares no `uses`, so its side of a
// seat has to be stated, and a list is what makes "which roles does the mesh itself talk to" answerable.
var meshSeatsTheControllerUses = []string{"mesh-build-machine"}
var seatsTheControllerAsks = []string{"node-build-agent"}
// enrolmentPrefix is the space every enrolling node's user and inbox live under, so the one place the
// controller may answer an enrolment is derived from the same constant the user is named from.
@@ -208,7 +208,9 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
// Work the mesh's own flows submit to a role, and the outcomes they wait on (ADR 0121). A
// build is the one today: the controller asks, and reads the answer from the seat's event
// like the catalogue does — which is why no holder needs to publish into anybody's inbox.
for _, seat := range meshSeatsTheControllerUses {
// A node-scoped seat's work subject carries no node (novox/hq ADR 0190): the ask goes to
// the role, and whichever machine holding it is idle takes it.
for _, seat := range seatsTheControllerAsks {
pub = append(pub, "mesh.seat."+seat+".accept.>")
}
// **And what the mesh says it did** (novox/hq ADR 0134). The control plane states its own
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@@ -441,3 +441,24 @@ func contains(list []string, want string) bool {
}
return false
}
// A node-scoped seat's work is shared (novox/hq ADR 0190): its holder on any machine subscribes the
// seat's one work subject, with no node in it, so holders on several machines read one queue. The
// node token belongs to a seat's tools, which are asked of one machine (design 33 §4), not to its work.
func TestANodeSeatsWorkSubjectCarriesNoNode(t *testing.T) {
seat := Seat{Name: "node-build-agent", Scope: "node", Accepts: []string{"build"}, Serves: []string{"status"}}
perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "anchor", Module: "build-agent", Holds: []Seat{seat}})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
has(t, perms.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.build")
hasNot(t, perms.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.build.anchor")
// And its tools still carry the machine.
has(t, perms.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.tool.status.anchor")
// The controller asks the role, not a machine.
controller, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindController})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
has(t, controller.Publish, "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>")
}
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@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ var ControllerFollows = []string{
// A build's outcome, which is the build-machine role's own event now (ADR 0121) rather than a
// message on the control branch. Same three audiences, one publish: whoever asked, this, and the
// catalogue.
seatEventSubject("mesh-build-machine", "built"),
seatEventSubject("node-build-agent", "built"),
// The forge's merges: what moved a source, so the mesh builds what that source produces
// without anybody telling it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131). Appended, because the index is a name.
moduleEventSubject("gitea", "pull.merged"),
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@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ accounts {
jetstream: enabled
users = [
{ user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused"] }
subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>"] }
publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>"] }
subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
} }
{ user: "enrol.one", password: "$2a$11$eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", permissions: {
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@@ -96,8 +96,17 @@ var defaultSeats = []Seat{
// A build says what it does as it does it (novox/hq ADR 0157): `started` when work is taken,
// `log.<build id>` for every line, `built` for the outcome. The log's tail token is the build's
// id, so a reader follows one build by subject alone.
// **Node-scoped, and every holder takes from one queue** (novox/hq ADR 0190): a build is asked of
// the role, and whichever machine holding the seat is idle pulls it. One holder per machine is
// what the scope says; sharing the work is what a seat's queue has always done.
{Name: "node-build-agent", Scope: ScopeNode,
Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"started", "built", "log.*"}, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0190"},
// **Retired by ADR 0190, kept while a manifest still claims it.** The one build machine's seat.
// A claim to a seat the mesh no longer defines is refused, and the module holding this one is
// assigned on a live machine until build-agent replaces it — removing the row first would make
// that machine unresolvable in the meantime. Deleted once no registered manifest claims it.
{Name: "mesh-build-machine", Scope: ScopeMesh,
Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"started", "built", "log.*"}, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"started", "built", "log.*"}, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0190"},
{Name: "node-dns-resolver", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
// The intrusion prevention's verbs (novox/hq ADR 0179): what a person asks a machine's ban list
// whatever keeps it — who is banned and why, ban one address, let one go. Every holder serves all
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@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
delivered[s.Delivers] = s.Name
}
}
// Sixteen since node-service-manager (novox/hq ADR 0177).
if len(Seats()) != 16 {
t.Errorf("the mesh defines %d seats rather than 16; the set is closed, so a change here is "+
// Seventeen since node-build-agent (novox/hq ADR 0190) — sixteen once the retired
// mesh-build-machine row goes, when no registered manifest claims it any more.
if len(Seats()) != 17 {
t.Errorf("the mesh defines %d seats rather than 17; the set is closed, so a change here is "+
"a decision (novox/hq ADR 0110): %s", len(Seats()), seatNames())
}
}
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@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ func dependenciesOf(entries []Entry, against map[string][]string, read map[strin
if r := repositoryKey(e.Source.Repository); r != "" {
byRepository[r] = append(byRepository[r], name)
}
if e.Manifest.ClaimsSeat("mesh-build-machine") {
if e.Manifest.ClaimsSeat("node-build-agent") || e.Manifest.ClaimsSeat("mesh-build-machine") {
builders = append(builders, name)
}
}
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ func TestDependenciesAreOneRelationWithTheirKinds(t *testing.T) {
return Entry{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: name}, Source: Source{Repository: repository}}
}
builder := entry("builder", "http://forge/novox/mesh-catalog.git")
builder.Manifest.Claims = []catalogue.Claim{{Name: "mesh-build-machine", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh}}
builder.Manifest.Claims = []catalogue.Claim{{Name: "node-build-agent", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode}}
plugin := entry("shop-plugin", "http://forge/novox/mesh-catalog.git")
plugin.Manifest.Build = &catalogue.Build{On: []catalogue.BuildsOn{{Arg: "BASE", Module: "shop"}}}
entries := []Entry{
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@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@ import (
// act on or a declaration a node reconciles toward; a build is a request that takes minutes and has
// exactly one answer. Too long for request/reply, too particular to be an event.
// TheBuildMachine is the role a build is submitted to.
const TheBuildMachine = "mesh-build-machine"
// TheBuildMachine is the role a build is submitted to: node-scoped, held on every machine that
// builds, and the work shared among them (novox/hq ADR 0190). The name stays for every caller; what
// it names moved from the mesh's one build machine to whichever build agent is idle.
const TheBuildMachine = "node-build-agent"
// BuildWork is where a build request lands, and BuildOutcome is where its result does. Derived from
// the seat, so both sides name the role and neither names the other.
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ func TestTheOldBusAnnouncesABuildUnderBothNames(t *testing.T) {
if KeyRoleBuilt != "built" {
t.Fatalf("the role's event is %q, and a holder emits its verbs bare", KeyRoleBuilt)
}
if TheBuildMachine != "mesh-build-machine" {
if TheBuildMachine != "node-build-agent" {
t.Fatalf("the role is %q", TheBuildMachine)
}
// The two must differ, or one publish would serve both and this doubling would be pointless.
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@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func aBusWithTheBuildRole(t *testing.T) *broker.JetStream {
t.Fatal(err)
}
clean := func() {
_ = js.Context().DeleteStream("SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE")
_ = js.Context().DeleteStream("SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT")
for _, s := range broker.MeshStreams() {
_ = js.Context().PurgeStream(s.Name)
}
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ func TestNatsABuildIsTakenAndItsOutcomeReachesEverybody(t *testing.T) {
// And the work left the queue: a request a machine took and settled must not be given to another.
deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
info, err := js.Context().StreamInfo("SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE")
info, err := js.Context().StreamInfo("SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT")
if err == nil && info.State.Msgs == 0 {
return
}
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func TestNatsABuildWaitsForAMachineRatherThanFailing(t *testing.T) {
if _, err := js.Context().Publish(BuildWork(), body); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
info, err := js.Context().StreamInfo("SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE")
info, err := js.Context().StreamInfo("SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT")
if err != nil || info.State.Msgs != 1 {
t.Fatalf("the work did not queue: %+v %v", info, err)
}