Without a judge cache the replays still ran mesh-lab's checkout in the workspace
with the container runtime's socket, so a self-judging pull request could write
a test into them (hq issue 709, review 12303). They now run from a copy in a
container volume of the check's own, made before anything of the change runs,
with a fresh home and throwaway caches, removed after the check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mesh/merge-gate head 0214b45469ec merged into trunk 76304d9db817 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
The replays hold the container runtime's socket, yet took their HOME, Go
environment, build cache and module cache from the workspace a pull request's
own script writes, so a planted -toolexec hook ran as root on the build node
(hq issue 709). They now run from a copy of mesh-lab made before anything of
the change runs, with a fresh home and the judge cache's caches, as a judge is
built (ADR 0358 §6).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mesh/delivery-group group fix/704-release-branch-judge rejected: its order contradicts itself: novox/mesh-catalog@47ef2644aca1 and novox/mesh-controller@2bee29…
mesh/merge-gate head 2bee290eea56 merged into trunk 76304d9db817 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
Review of #329: a judge's home made with a temporary directory inside the build
agent is resolved on the host by the container runtime, leaving a cold cache
behind on every check, and a kept judge was lost on every redeploy. Judge builds
now use the judge cache the build agent declares (MESH_JUDGE_CACHE), mounted into
judge builds only: one warm Go cache, the kept judges, and a fresh home per check
removed after it (hq ADR 0358 §6, issue 704, issue 482).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review of #329: a judge built with HOME in the workspace runs git under a
configuration a pull request's script can plant, so a hook could rewrite the
judge's sources before they compile and the result be kept under an honest key
(issue 482, issue 704). Every judge now builds with its own HOME, configuration
and Go cache outside the workspace, no git configuration and no VCS stamping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review of #329: mesh-lab's replays run with the container runtime's socket, so
a same-named branch must never be what runs there; the shared Go cache and HOME
are writable by a pull request's own script, so the judge kept for a head must
not be built from them (issue 704, issue 482). A forge answer naming no branch
is an error, and a trunk is the branch a repository follows, not a name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mesh/merge-gate head ea7d91bff190 merged into trunk 535c7641ac41 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
ADR 0358 version 4 asks the verdict to say whether mesh-host's release-branch
validator or the vendored one judged, and checks that a release branch's own
pull request into its trunk is judged as any trunk pull request (issue 704).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mesh/merge-gate head 4a75cc51dda6 merged into trunk 535c7641ac41 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A release branch could never carry a change that needs another repository's
release-branch change: its pull requests were judged by the running controller
and against the other repositories' main (hq issue 704, ADR 0358).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
mesh/merge-gate head c707bf18d8bf merged into trunk 04730b54a8f2 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A build of another pull request or of a head the forge did not merge is
in no verdict the walk is handed; the walk now names the check that made
it, so its "built:" line says which head it was (novox/hq issue 703).
mesh/merge-gate head 060f2a9ca5fd merged into trunk 04730b54a8f2 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
The gate and the repository's check mount the workspace read-write, so a
build from that tree could hold what the tests wrote under a key that
describes the merge. A check now clones the merge outside the workspace
before anything of the change runs, and builds from that. A check keeps,
and a walk takes, only a build an earlier check of the same pull request
at the same head made: another pull request's build, or an earlier
head's, is never registered. The walk reads the verdicts once
(novox/hq issue 703, review of #328).
mesh/merge-gate head 1666747a2246 merged into trunk 04730b54a8f2 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A fresh check asked when only the trunk moved rebuilt every image, though
the reuse key said nothing it is built from changed: a controller check
took about 12 minutes instead of 5.5. The check now keeps a build kept
under its key when a verdict of the build seat names that key and every
digest, names it as the build's own check so a walk takes it, and the
cleanup keeps it while any check names it (novox/hq issue 703).
mesh/merge-gate head 45870ab31cc5 merged into trunk 3479a35462b2 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A storm of closures must not spend a watchdog tick, so the read stops at 2000
events and says the count is a floor. A failed read is its own condition
rather than blinding S9, so the controller's own signals are still said. The
controller's fall behind, told to its client and closed by the server, is one
fault, counted once.
mesh/merge-gate head fd9308d3287e merged into trunk 3479a35462b2 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
The controller heard a slow consumer only on its own connection: the server
says another user's only in its record of closed connections. The bus module
now says that record as events; the watchdogs read the last hour back on every
tick and raise one condition per user and kind, naming the module and machine.
The module check lets the bus module emit, since its tool runner publishes.
mesh/merge-gate head 3479a35462b2 merged into trunk 221fe5a60d1f — fail: head 3479a35462b2 does not merge cleanly into trunk 221fe5a60d1f: in conflict test…
mesh/repo-check head 3479a35462b2 merged into trunk 221fe5a60d1f — fail: head 3479a35462b2 does not merge cleanly into trunk 221fe5a60d1f: in conflict test…
mesh/merge-gate head cebc593627d3 merged into trunk 2959c8143536 — pass: builds build-agent → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes …
The rule 5 test of ADR 0240 (one provider down, three consumers, one
condition) and its healthy-provider twin need the store and skip without
one; unlisted, the merge check passed them without running them.
mesh/merge-gate head 8933864a49d0 merged into trunk df9e5728a925 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A runtime on containerd's image store, the default on a fresh docker 29,
need not hold the compressed layers of a base it built FROM: a layer it
had unpacked already is never fetched. Its push then fails on that layer
although the registry holds it under the base's mirror. A push reads
locally only what the target repository lacks, so mount the base's blobs
there first.
mesh/merge-gate head 3ce5a0239bb1 merged into trunk 2d18f438c516 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
mesh/repo-check head 3ce5a0239bb1 merged into trunk 2d18f438c516 — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
Review of #314: a try's start named its commit, which the forge's holder
matches to an open pull request's head and marks pending. Its start now
names no repository or commit. One try per commit and four in all, a try
never ages ahead of deliveries or pull request checks, and its id is
checked before it is a bus subject.
mesh/merge-gate head 70885ab3c4a3 merged into trunk ca3f43c400ba — pass: builds mesh-controller → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the chang…
mesh/merge-gate head 65508d9df9f4 merged into trunk ca3f43c400ba — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
mesh/repo-check head 65508d9df9f4 merged into trunk ca3f43c400ba — pass: THE CHANGE ALTERS ITS OWN CHECK (merge-check.sh): main's version judged it; the ch…
Store tests skip without a store and no agent may start one, so each failure
cost a 15-30 minute review round. The try verb asks the build seat for the
repository's merge-check.sh on the ref merged into the trunk, as a check in
the build queue, and reads its outcome from the build's log: no status on
the forge, nothing registered, nothing built for a merge.
A builder's store tests first ran in the pull request's merge check, a review
round late. These fail on main: a try asks the repository's own check alone,
its outcome sets no status and registers nothing, an unknown ref is refused
before anything is asked, and the answer carries the failing lines.
A build made from the source every machine running it runs is marked sent
and sent nothing, yet the tier's wait asked each machine for a report after
that marking. None follows, and the walk waited for ever. Each machine is
now judged by whether it answered its last send, the one whose builds made
the build no move.
mesh/merge-gate head b482122d6646 merged into trunk 1601cb17432e — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
mesh/merge-gate head 2f5cc146fe46 merged into trunk 1601cb17432e — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A release's own gates held its other sends back for ever; an adopted send
lost what the machine ran before; a kept send could grow a build no gate
passed; a take-over matched by commit alone; a rest that went silent ended
done. The node-engine and the resolver still go one machine at a time, since
a fault that cuts a machine off shows only as silence.
mesh/repo-check head c2ea9b4c5187 merged into trunk 1601cb17432e — fail: its merge-check.sh failed: --- FAIL: TestAReleaseSendsTheRestAtOnceAfterTheFirstPa…
mesh/merge-gate head c2ea9b4c5187 merged into trunk 1601cb17432e — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
A release now sends every other machine in one step once its first machine
passed, each judged by its own gate; a failing one is put back without
stopping the others, a silent one is left. A send is kept before it is made,
and a machine already sent what a gate is for is not sent again: the gate
counts from that send and takes over another walk's readings of the same
build there.
Review of #283: a drain whose replacement was withdrawn held the agent for
ever with its health green; the gate trusted the engine's until; a machine
of the rest waiting at the bound read as silent and its apply time held the
wait; an unknown mesh-builder word exited 0; plan said nothing of a busy an
older engine is not sent; and a node with a report and no send broke the
reading of every last report (the store test's NULL).
mesh/merge-gate head 5c606fd1d48b merged into trunk 372faebf2824 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
The artifact store takes writes from anything on its network, so a record
planted under another merge's key could have been registered: the walk now
takes a scratch build only when the build seat's own verdict for one of its
pull requests names its key and digests. Deleting by digest also took builds
another check shared (review of #311; novox/hq ADR 0350).
mesh/merge-gate head 675466a8c35f merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
Two tier tests relied on the two-minute settle to keep a module unjudged; the
witness window and the gate's spacing now hold it. A healthy reading taken
before the controller's floor counted no pass, so a dip after it did not take
the two-minute pass away (novox/hq ADR 0352 decision 3).
mesh/delivery-group group feat/350-one-build-per-change checking: composed check out of date: novox/mesh-controller@cd49b50c4075 was judged against trunk bff5b…
A merge built every moved module a second time although its check had judged
the same tree (issue 649). The check now builds into the scratch namespace
under a reuse key (source fingerprint plus the builder's own digest), and the
walk of the trunk commit copies a build of the same key by digest instead of
building, saying per module why when it cannot (novox/hq ADR 0350).
mesh/merge-gate head 41eefc2f8c3e merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
mesh/repo-check head 41eefc2f8c3e merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — fail: its merge-check.sh failed: --- FAIL: TestACoreBehindWhileTheNodeToolsSettleFailsNo…
mesh/merge-gate head c3946e5d72c2 merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
mesh/repo-check head c3946e5d72c2 merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — fail: its merge-check.sh failed: --- FAIL: TestACoreBehindWhileTheNodeToolsSettleFailsNo…
The operator wants these gates as fast as they can be: counting readings only after
two minutes added about 80 s to every node-engine rollout for no safety. Count
from the send, pass on the third healthy reading, and pass a module healthy at
every reading at two minutes on what it has (novox/hq ADR 0352).
mesh/merge-gate head 524295926f76 merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every …
mesh/repo-check head 524295926f76 merged into trunk bff5b7f0e4f8 — fail: its merge-check.sh failed: --- FAIL: TestACoreBehindWhileTheNodeToolsSettleFailsNo…
The controller runs on one machine, so three readings over two minutes guarded no
other machine and held every walk behind it. Judge each module by its own rule:
one reading for the controller and the tool runner once the node-engine's witness
window has ended, one for mesh-delivery, three for the node-engine and the
resolver with the first two minutes after the send (novox/hq ADR 0351). The
gate's verdict names the rule it applied.
{a:1, b:2, c:3, password:hunter2} was proposed with "+ password: hunter2" in its Details: the router
withheld the line unnamed and Approve set a value the operator never saw (ADR 0347 §1, §3, §4). Each line is
now judged as the router judges it, masked under the content rule and whole under the secret rule; a line
refused is said "+ password (value withheld)", and any line the router would still refuse is refused at
propose in the controller's words, never echoing a secret-shaped key. SDK at mesh-sdk 5933eb7 (no two asks
digest the same).
Rebased on #305: Approve now sends the layer by a walk, so the summary's "takes it at its next push" was
false. The summary says it is set and sent at once by a walk to where it reaches, one machine at a time,
each judged; the rest of what Approve does (onApprove) leads the Details, beside every key whole.
The review of #304: with more than three keys the ask showed only the names of the rest, a long value was
cut without a word, and the Details held no key, so Approve bound values the operator never saw. The
Details now list every key uncut — masked, and whole in WholeDetails for a channel that proves who
answers — before who proposed it and the fingerprint; the glance says what it cut. Vendors mesh-sdk at
f474544 and captures its conformance events there.
The operator could not read the settings proposals on the phone: the change, the fingerprint and a how-to
paragraph in one wall of plain text, and the values masked as ‹path› and ‹address›, so the approval was
blind.
The ask is now a summary of what changes where ("Changes 3 setting(s) of mounts on shanks; approved, the
layer is set at once and shanks takes it at its next push."), then at most three points, one key each (more
keys: the first two and the names of the rest). Who proposed it, the fingerprint and how to read it whole
are its Details, which the router notes after the answers. The change is carried twice: under the content
rule, and whole (asks.Ask.Whole), shown only on a channel that proves who answers, a value shaped like a
secret withheld in both (from the earlier work on issue 383, #202).
Vendors mesh-sdk at 9588871 (fix/639-an-ask-reads-at-a-glance: Message.Note, asks.Glance), and captures its
conformance events at that commit.