A TypeScript bundle carries what it runs with: the toolchain's runtime directory is copied into it (hq to-be 38 WP3, ADR 0188)

A bundle that compiled was not yet a bundle that ran. The compiler resolved `import "nats"` from
the toolchain image's own node_modules and the pack took only what the compiler wrote, so what a
machine unpacked could not find a single dependency — and Node would have read the bare `.js` as
CommonJS besides. No TypeScript bundle had run live to show it; the runtime's own is the first that
must. A toolchain now names a Dependencies directory in its image, copied whole into the output's
root after the compile by a second run in the same image: for TypeScript /app/runtime, which the
runtime's image puts a `"type": "module"` package.json and its pruned node_modules at. An older
image without it fails the build by name rather than packing a bundle that starts nowhere. The
SDK's and the runtime's dependencies, nothing module-specific yet: a skeleton, by ADR 0188 §5.
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@@ -57,6 +57,23 @@ type Toolchain struct {
// carrying its debug info. The mistake was believing a comment rather than reading the file it
// produced (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/161).
LinkerFlags []string
// Dependencies is a directory inside the toolchain image whose contents a bundle in this
// language runs with, copied whole into the compiled output's root after the compile.
//
// **A bundle that compiles is not yet a bundle that runs.** The compiler resolves `import
// "nats"` from the toolchain image's own node_modules and the pack takes only what the compiler
// wrote, so what a machine unpacked could not find a single dependency — and no TypeScript bundle
// had ever run live to show it (novox/hq to-be 38 WP3). For TypeScript the directory holds a
// `package.json` saying `"type": "module"` — Node reads a bare `.js` as CommonJS otherwise, so a
// bundle with its dependencies and without that line still fails to start — and the pruned,
// production-only node_modules the runtime itself ships with: the SDK's and the runtime's
// dependencies, and nothing module-specific yet (novox/hq ADR 0188 §5: a skeleton; a module's
// own npm dependencies are a later step). Empty for a language whose bundle carries its own —
// a Go binary is static, a Python bundle is installed with its dependencies.
//
// A toolchain image without the directory fails the build by name rather than packing a bundle
// that starts nowhere: the image predates this and must be rebuilt first.
Dependencies string
// SystemStamp is the variable this language's linker fills with the artifact's declared system,
// for a language whose binaries are pinned to one at link time (novox/hq ADR 0005).
//
@@ -118,9 +135,10 @@ var toolchains = []Toolchain{
"--module", "NodeNext", "--moduleResolution", "NodeNext",
"--target", "ES2022", "--rootDir", ".",
},
OutputFlag: "--outDir",
Unit: UnitSources,
SourceExt: ".ts",
OutputFlag: "--outDir",
Unit: UnitSources,
SourceExt: ".ts",
Dependencies: "/app/runtime",
},
{
Language: "go",