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The review of #210 found that the fix left the hole open and widened
another.
A command's words were cut on a space alone, while the verb's own
splitter parts them on a space, a tab or a newline. The same line
written with tabs found no space, so all of it was kept — the very hole
this closes. Its words are now parted as the splitter parts them.
And because the command arm sits above the arm that caps a string at
120 bytes, a command kept whole was no longer capped: for a 300-byte
single token the change kept more than the code it replaced. The first
word now carries the same cap.
A one-word command is still kept whole, but the comment no longer
claims it carries nothing to withhold: the record is written before the
verb judges the line, so one word may be a token or compact JSON. The
cap is what bounds that.
The test now says the whole of what is kept for each line, which is
also what proves the rest is gone, and looks for forbidden words as
whole words rather than as substrings — so "set" is back in the list,
and "show" cannot hide in a word such as "shown". All eight cases fail
against the unfixed code.
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kept() withheld the arguments line, values, secret and stdin, and kept
the command argument of the generic command verb verbatim. A line such
as `settings set <module> '<value>' --node <node>` therefore put the
value into the calls record, which answers anyone who may call the seat.
It is now kept as a mesh-cli line is: its first word, with the rest said
to have been given. A command of one word is kept whole, since there is
nothing after it to withhold, and one that is not a string is kept as
"(given, not kept)".
The record as it stands holds no such line: its whole answer, read at
2026-10-10 22:52 UTC, carries no call of the command verb. That says
nothing of calls older than its window.
The calls the controller serves are kept on the bus with their answers,
and calls answers anyone who may call its seat. A token is the one-time
right to become a machine of the mesh, so the token verb's answer is kept
as withheld (novox/hq ADR 0169).
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The witness moves a running build aside into a directory the controller's user
cannot enter, then deletes it; a verb exec'd from os.Executable() in that window
failed with permission denied. /proc/self/exe stays valid while the process lives.
A verb that still cannot start, or arrives while the controller stops, is refused
with link.ErrHandingOver and marked retry: handing-over.
A controller restart lost every call's outcome, `status` composed the mesh
while its caller waited (18.6s live on 2026-10-06, past the 10s window), a
repair by hand left no trace, and the core's bounds had nothing measured to
be set from.
- calls: kept in the controller's bucket mesh-controller_calls (last 1000 or
14 days, answers bounded to 64 KiB), read by id across a restart; a
controller starting marks a stopped one's running calls abandoned; each
call names its caller from the inbox its answer goes to.
- status: the serving controller composes it at start, after news from a
machine, a build or an acting verb, and every minute; the verb answers the
last composition at once with when and how long it took. Composing resolves
each machine once instead of twice.
- hand-act log in mesh-controller_hand-acts: push (required through the seat),
plans stop/close, broker consumer-reset and the new hand-act record take
--why/--cause/--condition; `hand-acts` lists them and repeated causes;
status counts the week's.
- durations (migration 0066): apply (send to first report), heartbeat gap,
plan tier and build, recorded as heard; `durations` summarises them.
- the controller's seat row takes this binary's definition of its own verbs,
so the console no longer judges calls against an older build's schema.
- the controller is granted its two buckets' subjects.
A push outlasted the console's 30s wait and, when it sent the bus its
changed user list, the broker's reload forgot the reply it may send:
the push happened and its caller was told it did not answer. Calls now
answer in full or as running with an id, a push answers before it
sends, refused answers are recorded on their call, and 'calls' reads
them back.
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