A module's own secret is asked for by a verb and typed at the desk, bounded, the prompt naming who asked (hq ADR 0277)
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The give verb opened the desk's hidden prompt for a module's own secret, with the desk named. Now the
secret-ask verb (secret ask <node> <module> <name> [--at <desk>]) opens the same prompt from anywhere on
the mesh, with the desk the module's machine unless named, and give composes the same line. Every ask
is recorded in the store before the prompt opens (migration 0091): one open ask per secret, three an
hour, so an agent cannot keep a prompt in front of the operator. The prompt names who asked, from the
bus's word on the caller cut to a name's characters, never an argument of the call. The value stays
typed at the desk, sealed to the one call and then to the module's machine, never in an argument, a
log or an event; a secret the mesh makes itself and a trusted party's secret are refused as before.
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jochen
2026-10-10 15:24:08 +02:00
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@@ -276,12 +276,6 @@ var accountedFlags = map[string]map[string]string{
"all": "withheld: every measurement of a fortnight is more than a call should carry; `command` reaches it",
},
// The desk path of `secret accept` (novox/hq ADR 0259 §10): a value is never an argument of a call.
"secret accept": {
"at-desk": "=at",
"from": "withheld: a file of the control node's is read at a shell, never named by a call",
"provider": "withheld: a pair credential's value is given at a shell; give takes a module's own secret",
"local": "withheld: it goes with --provider",
},
"hand-acts": {"json": "set by the verb: the answer is data"},
"conditions": {"json": "set by the verb: the answer is data"},
"retire": {"json": "set by the verb: the answer is data"},