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Design 25 promised a dead-letter stream that did not exist: a message a
consumer gave up on stayed only in its source, which drops it after a week,
and its condition cleared when the advisories stopped (hq issue 330, ADR 0264).
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An unplaceable line of a left-out module, such as an access nobody placed, failed the whole machine's
declaration. Say it among what could not be placed instead, never copy the definition's path past a
placement that does not read, and accept a removal only when the decoder is past it.
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A machine sharing folders and a machine mounting them each need one holder
per machine, with verbs an agent calls instead of exportfs, fstab edits or
zfs set. Both seats deliver nothing: nfs-share is provided at the mesh's
scope. The two adopt verbs are dry runs unless confirmed.
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A module left out for an unknown key inside an entry lost its whole manifest, so every consumer of what
it provides was refused and its data stopped being copied. Read past only the unknown key, keep its
backup lines, and say in the condition what stops.
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disable cannot remove an enable link whose unit file is gone, so a
leftover unit stays wanted at every login with no verb to end it. Optional
until the systemd module serves it (ADR 0246 step 1).
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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.
One verb is the interface to every preference, so no module builds a settings tool of its own: each
key, its default and why, and every assigned machine's value with its source.
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.
Without a default, a running module could never gain a setting: the file asking for it
failed to compose until set, and the key was refused as stray until a file asked for it.
Defaults sit under the mesh's and the node's settings, never merge into a JSON file, are
refused for the operator's own values, and settings shows each value's source.
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A failed unit whose file is gone stays raised until its record is reset,
and nothing could say which unit or enable link still asks for it. Both
verbs are optional until the systemd module serves them (ADR 0246 step 1).
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.
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Let go of alone after a build, an index's platforms stayed for ever under a record that
said collected, so no later collect could reach them (re-review of #144).
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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A piece whose shows the holder's template does not know rendered as nothing and failed
the whole machine's declaration; it is now left out and named, for push, plan and the
merge gate. quote escapes DEL, which TOML refuses bare. An if-capability nothing
detects, or on a kind a holder depends on, would drop a piece silently, so both are
refused.
The catalogue's forge gained an npm-registry bundle (hq ADR 0251 §4), so resolving it
against its code bundle alone failed three tests on main and on every pull request.
A module adding a battery to the bar had to write i3status-rust's TOML, so a second
bar could not take its place. node-bar now receives a bar-neutral block: the
contributor says what it shows, the holder renders it with its own template, places
every bar and place once, and a contribution may name a capability the machine must
report. The block is offered: the power module runs on servers without a bar.
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The catalogue's forge also builds its npm registry since hq ADR 0251, so the three
forge tests resolved it against half its build and failed on main as on every branch.
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The client library refuses to send a reply over the bus's max_payload, and the
controller only logged it: conditions and status answered nobody for hours on
2026-10-08 while calls said each was answered in 130 ms, and the operator's
channel read nothing. An answer too large is now held under its call and paged
to the caller that asks, on the same subject; a caller that does not page is
told in words, and calls says it. The overviews no longer carry every finding:
conditions and status list each condition with its newest evidence, doctor at
most twenty findings a probe (probe= gives one whole), and the JSON overviews
are sent once, as data, instead of twice.
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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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Composed first, an account a module puts in its daemon's group was put in a group the package
had not made yet, and only the next apply healed it. An account that sets a shell or home still
goes first (issue 213).
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The group feat/a-machine-joins-through-the-tunnel was refused: the
controller's member moved the build agent, which builds the node-engine
(built by: controller first), and the node-engine goes before the
controller (engine before controller: engine first). Both rules applied
to one pair in opposite directions, and every two-way pair was a cycle.
Rules now have a precedence (hq ADR 0249): a declared after: line, then
what the graph and the change say (built by, version skew), then the
rollout default engine-before-controller. The higher rule decides the
pair, which says what it won over. Rules of one rank both ways are still
refused, as a contradiction naming both rules and how to declare the
order. TestReplay309 replays the group with only what orderOf had before.
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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mesh/delivery held for a person: merged, and the controller opened no walk for it within 10m0s — nothing it holds follows that branch, or the merge was…
The key-value-buckets record took 0201 on main while this waited to merge.
Only the comments citing the derived-value work move; this repository's other
0201 citations are the buckets record's own and stay.
(cherry picked from commit 75b2676d32)
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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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R292: two drills recorded through hand-act record want no healer.
R298: the delivery seat's holder holds it before and after it serves checks,
so neither repository has to merge first.
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A machine with a VPN client that writes /etc/resolv.conf needs its domains
routed to the VPN's servers while every other name still goes to the mesh's
resolvers. node-resolver's holder does that on the machine, owns the resolver
file there, and serves routes, route and unroute. The uplink's holder steps
back from the file only where the resolver is held; every other machine
composes as before.
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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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What a machine resolves through and over which links had no tool: the
resolver file and its writer, and each link with its routes and resolvers,
are now verbs of node-uplink, the same whatever manages the network. Marked
optional (Verb.Optional), so today's holders still hold the seat until both
serve them; read back from the store's row they stay optional.
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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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