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On 2026-10-09 a release's gate on the control node read the machine's
report against a newer send another plan had just made there, failed
three builds the machine had reported healthy, and put them back on
every machine to a controller older than the store's schema; that
controller then passed the newer plan's gate from its own health.
- A gate keeps what its send carried (digest, sequence) and reads the
report against it; a report on the last send is on it too.
- A gate judges only the build the machine was last sent: another build
there supersedes the judging — no verdict, nothing put back.
- A controller is told its build (MESH_CONTROLLER_VERSION, ${version}
in a process's env) and records how far it reads the store's schema;
a put-back to a build that reaches less, or never said, is refused
and the current build kept, said as urgent.
- A release's open gate holds other sends of its modules there, and a
plan's own first send waits on it.
A desk's prompt is answered over the desk machine's bus, on a subject that machine's runtime answers;
on a desk machine agents run as the operator, who holds that credential, so an agent could answer first
with a bot token of its own sealed to the call's key. The secret of a module running as an account of
its own (the Telegram bot's token) is now refused at the desk, before anybody is asked, naming the line
to type at the controller's terminal; there it is announced on every channel, the old one among them,
before it is kept, and not kept when that announcement fails. What is typed at the terminal is not
echoed. Tests: the refusal with nobody asked, and only the desk machine's launcher may answer its
prompt (MaySubscribe).
The review of 2026-10-09 (M4):
- give refuses broker (the bus account issue mints) and any own secret the mesh may make itself;
- the desk's prompt is asked by module, secret and machine, never with words of the caller's, and the
bus denies the prompt's subjects to every principal but the controller, however wide its grant, so the
prompt's 'the controller asks' is the bus's word (Permissions.PublishDeny, broker.ControllerOnly);
- secret accept with a value is refused through a verb: a value comes from the terminal or the desk;
- every value given for an own secret, at the terminal or the desk, raises the urgent condition
secret-given on every channel, until the operator silences it.
- M1: a condition offering both kinds of answer is asked twice: its authorising answers about the
condition, its acknowledging ones (Silence) apart, so an answer from a channel that only acknowledges
never ends an approval.
- L2: the asked store creates once and changes only over the revision it read, deciding again on what it
reads; a stale cancel no longer writes over an act.
- L3: every ask is kept before it is published, one whose publishing failed is marked unsent and asked
again, and a cancel is kept before it is said. The terminal's test question is now `rehearse`, so it is
not called what the glossary calls a drill; its two answers are both approve-level.
- L7: two deliveries of one warrant to two controllers at once act exactly once, on a real bus.
- Re-vendored onto mesh-sdk 76902998 (canonical digests): an option binds an asks.Act with each argument
as arg.<name>.
- The lab's bus fixture composes verified-sender only where the lab says its machine is root-free
(MESH_LAB_ASKS_ROOT_FREE=true).
mesh-lab's asks proof runs the router, the Telegram channel and an asker on a real bus. Its accounts,
streams, workers, buckets and memberships come from this test at the controller's commit, so the lab
proves the composition and not a copy of it. Skipped unless the lab asks.
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The review of PR 179 found four paths no test held: which of two earlier
plans NewestMergeOf takes, a tie between them, gaps kept across a second
reopening in one keeper, and a merge time's fraction of a second.
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- A reopened fault keeps its gaps: it was there at a send unless the send
fell in one, so a send that breaks a machine recovered before it still
fails its gate (A2).
- An undecided part holds only the conditions that name it (A4).
- D2 holds a silent resolver for the next run again, refused or not: a
burst of refusals is also a restart (A3).
- A late merge is planned at the newest planned merge of its branch in any
state, not only an open one (A1); merge times to the nanosecond (A5).
A merge acted on late by the catch-up made its plan after the plan of the
merge that followed it, superseded it by creation time, and folded its
unbuilt modules into a plan at the older commit: on 2026-10-09 the
forge's security fix (a082615b) was superseded by 8ff8197a. A plan now
keeps its merge time (migration 0086), supersession follows it, and a
merge older than an open plan of its branch is planned at that plan's
commit, which contains it.
The confirmation review asked who may answer root-free on the bus. Composed from the controller's own
manifest, the module principal of the machine running the controller and that machine's runtime were
granted the controller seat's tool subjects too: either could answer root-free, and the runtime's
credential is one an agent on that machine may hold. The controller's seat is now served by the
controller principal alone, in grants and memberships; TestOnlyTheServingControllerMayAnswerRootFree
failed before (3 answerers) and passes. And a machine waiting for its first setuid search is not
root-free, whatever ADR 0266's quiet window does to the self-check.
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The forge applies the rule named for a branch, else the first glob covering
it; the judge passed a branch whose applied rule let pushes when a later rule
happened to guard it. And a registration whose id the forge could not give
cleared the id already recorded (the confirmation review of 2026-10-09).
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The node-engine's own since starts again at every restart, so an agent that
restarted the engine in a loop kept agent-can-become-root quiet for ever (the
review of 2026-10-09). The controller now keeps when it first saw the verdict
waiting for the setuid search (migration 0085), forgets it at the next
complete verdict, and raises once the engine's own bound has passed since;
the bound and the pending reason are read from mesh-host's rootsearch.
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A source repository's name is not its identity, and a trunk anyone may push
to makes the trunk rule mean nothing (the review of 2026-10-09). Through any
verb a module now registers only from a repository on the mesh's forge whose
trunk refuses direct pushes, requires a status and lets no administrator
merge past one, asked of the forge's own tools; and only from the repository
by the forge's id, recorded at registration (migration 0084), so one deleted
and made again under the name is refused. The serving controller marks its
environment, so nothing it runs or starts reads as the terminal, and a
terminal request covers only the repository and path it asked.
A build refused for its repository is still recorded, and a fork carries the
commit the module was registered at: the rollback's search for the previous
build would have found it and registered it by the back door.
An agent could make a repository of its own, or fork one the mesh builds
from, commit a module.json naming sudo or mesh-host, and ask the build verb
for it: the outcome was registered under that name, and the next push made
whoever wrote it root on every node (novox/hq ADR 0266 §7, the review of
2026-10-09). The trunk rule checked the trunk of the repository built, which
was the agent's.
The take-in, which every outcome reaches whichever verb asked it, now
registers a module only from its registered repository, and a new module only
from a repository the catalogue already builds from (a merge adding one);
anything else only when the build request was kept as asked at the
controller's terminal (migration 0084). Through a verb, a build of a
repository the catalogue builds nothing from is not asked at all.
The generic command verb ran node account and node agent-account, so an agent
could name itself the operator account and have the next send grant it root
(hq ADR 0266 review). Refuse every node subcommand but list and show through
any verb; refuse the operator account as the agent account in both
directions and well-known service accounts as an agent account; and count a
verdict heard more than 15 minutes ago as not judged, so stopping the
node-engine cannot freeze a healthy one. Re-pin mesh-host to its review head.
On the control node every agent ran as the operator's account, which has
passwordless sudo, so an agent could become root without a person (hq ADR
0266). A node now names an agent account at the controller's terminal only;
the agent's module declares it never to become root, the node-engine judges
that, and the self-check (DA) raises agent-can-become-root while it does not
hold, so ADR 0259's router can rest on it.
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A key dropped silently ran a module without what its manifest says, and a key inside a block still
failed the whole catalogue. Judge a key by what it is about, and narrow the listing to one machine.
A strict read of the stored catalogue fails every plan and send once a manifest uses a field an older
controller lacks; registration stays strict. A node named default lost its layer to the name check.
Judge the operator's keys by whole words, and scan a default under any key.
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Second review of #150: one key per machine and module let a newer failure
be cleared in the tick that raised it, pruning could orphan an open
condition, and a build no longer waited for read as never asked although it
may still run.
Review of #150: a withdrawal could land between the look and the act, a
failed ask read as a build in flight, a request kept the wrong asker, a
build being registered read as not built, build "true" could ask a build
nothing waited on, and a status read changed state. Claim a row under the
machine's hold before making it, keep a request only once asked, settle on
the controller's own tick, raise an assignment not made as a condition
until it is answered, and tie each row to its machine.
A merge asks for a new module's build, and assign answered "no module of that
name" until the build registered it, which read as a module nobody registered
(hq issue 325). Keep every build request, tell a build in flight, a module
known and not built, and an unknown name apart, and make an assignment made
while the build runs when the build registers the module.
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A derived read reached the whole bucket, and the power module could write every
machine's draw. A read granted for a block now reaches that block's key alone, by the
direct get of its subject and a consumer filtered to it, and state declared per-machine
is written and read at the machine's own key only.
An unrecorded index or a copy in progress can name a platform the records do not see, so
only a person's collect, after its dry run, takes an index's platforms, and only once every
kept index of each repository it touches was read. A copy missing a platform is copied
again, and a copy a build holds again is no longer recorded as collected (review of #144).
A copied base was named only in what a build stood on, and nowhere when the build failed,
so the store's sweep could never let one go (hq issue 321). One repository per upstream
image stops each module asking the public registry for the same image again, and letting
an index go now takes its own platform manifests, which otherwise kept every byte. A
person can record the copies no record names through the new mirrors verb (hq ADR 0257).
The forge test fix is the same commit as on feat/plain-notifications: main fails without it.
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Modules talk over the bus, and the power draw reached the bar through a file. A block
may now show state its contributor keeps, the contributor only its own; the holder on
the same machine is granted the read without naming the module, and the template sees
which machine it renders for.
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The store's tools and a machine's image pruning decide from the records, so
the controller says them: artifacts (every recorded artifact, kept and why,
eligible, collected on request), collect (the after-build sweep on demand,
a dry run unless confirmed with a why, recorded as a hand act) and images
(what a machine's declaration names, now and as last sent). The sweep is one
implementation with two sets of bounds.
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A module's failed unit now arrives among its resources and raises the
module's own condition, named by the unit. The machine's own failed
units, which no module places, are one warning for the machine listing
them, cleared when none is listed. Nothing a send moved is among them,
so the gate never holds a send on that finding. The statement's units
are kept with the machine's health (migration 0080) and node show says
them.
token issue --overlay-key records the key the machine made, binds the
token to it, gives the machine its address and makes it a peer of the
hub, pushing the hub before the token is shown. The token carries the
hub's tunnel and the bus at its holder's address on the private network,
and enrolment refuses any other key (novox/hq ADR 0169). The bus is no
longer public, so a machine outside the mesh can join only this way; a
token without a key is still what the machine running the bus joins its
own mesh with. Also a token verb, which says it replaces running the
command by hand and adding a peer to the hub with wg.
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Two incidents had one shape: a change took effect that nobody saw first (hq issues 241, 304).
Three guards, each silent when nothing is at stake:
- settings show [--history], and a set that answers each key it adds, changes and removes, and
refuses a removal unless --replace; the replaced or cleared layer is kept in settings_history,
in the same transaction as the write (migration 0078).
- every send keeps a summary of what it sent (no file content), plan <node> --diff compares with
it, and push with no machine is refused unless --all.
- a push that would give a running container's mount another host directory holds that machine,
naming the module, mount and both directories, until push <node> --move <module>; a named push's
cascade is held the same way.
Rebased onto main and fitted to it: the hold runs before the push says what it recreates, a whole
push still says so first and leaves machines waiting for a gate, the verb's push with no machine is
still --behind and a push still needs why. The verbs take plan diff, settings replace and history,
and push move beside a machine, each refused where it cannot take effect.
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The verb took only a repository; build --on <module> and build --behind were reachable only through the generic command verb. Each shape is one per call, and a second beside it is refused as passed over.
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A seat's verb names the shell commands it is the mesh's way to do, and a module says it for its own
tools in its manifest; the tools verb and module list --json carry both, for the mesh MCP server's
search, the agent's instructions and the guard on its shell.
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failed was required, so the controller refused the systemd module running
today and the module serving it was refused by the controller running
today: neither could land first. It is now optional (Verb.Optional, #117).
Two things kept either change from reaching a mesh whose seat rows already
exist: re-seeding added a verb but never an argument to one, and the
console refuses an argument the row does not name, so the journal window
would stay unreachable; and the optional mark is never stored, so a verb
seeded into a row came back required. A row's verb now gains the arguments
the binary names, and the working set takes the optional mark from the
compiled seat, which also keeps mesh-delivery's checks optional once seeded.
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A plan's gated send for mail carried postgres's and mongodb's new builds
(policy record) to the control node and the anchor on 2026-10-07: a send
composes the machine's whole declaration from the builds the mesh holds,
and the gate only ever looked at modules that roll out. Every send but a
person's push now composes a recorded module from the manifest of the build
the machine was last sent and records that it still carries it; the bus
step moves the bus alone. And each move a gated send carries says how many
of the module's containers it recreates, and whether with a new image or
only their declaration.
A VPN client rewrote the laptop's resolver file and nothing said so. The
engine now states its machine's networking; the controller keeps it with
the machine's health (migration 0077) and raises the rewrite as its own
finding naming the writer, the machine's own faults as machine.<m>.network,
and what several machines cannot reach once, there. The gate waits on a
rewrite it did not make rather than putting back a good build.
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A module could say nothing about what ready means for what it runs, so a web
application with its port open and its requests hanging passed everything for
eleven hours (issue 145). A long-running resource now carries `health` — the
image's own check adopted by name, http, tcp, exec, unit or a module's own tool,
with its timing — refused near its author when it names a port or an address,
an endpoint the module does not declare, a tool it does not serve, a tool check
alone, or a timing outside the record's bounds. It is composed with the endpoint
as the port this machine published it on, and sent only to a node-engine whose
statement says it reads it: an older one would refuse the whole declaration.
The engine is granted its own machine's instance of each health tool. `module
check` warns of every long-running resource without `health`, counts them for
the catalogue, and refuses them from 2026-11-18. A check's findings stay out of
a condition's summary. The node-engine's validator is vendored at its Phase B
commit, so what is composed is judged by the words the engine takes.
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