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Which module owns /etc/hosts or /etc/resolv.conf on a machine was answered only by reading every
manifest, and a module not holding node-hostname could declare /etc/hosts where nobody held it.
hq ADR 0287 makes the paths part of the seat's definition: node-hostname names /etc/hosts and
/etc/hostname, node-uplink names /etc/resolv.conf stepping back for node-resolver, node-resolver
names /etc/resolv.conf.
CanHold refuses a holder that does not declare every path (registration and handover), registration
refuses a module declaring a seat's path while claiming none of the seats naming it, a module's own
seat names paths under the same rules (node only, literal, not named by another seat), composition
refuses a generated resource on a seat's path, the uplink's step-back is read from the seat instead
of a special case, and `seats` shows each seat's paths and who owns each on each machine.
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Root chowns a directory to the number its owner's setting names, so a key
an owner asks for must not change through the settings verb: any caller
could have set puid to 0 or to its own uid. TerminalKeys now takes every
${setting:…} in a directory's owner, whatever else asks for it, and the
owner is written as the parsed number so "0001" never reaches the
node-engine as text (review 60).
A media manager runs as the puid/pgid its assignment sets per node, but a
declared directory's owner was literal, so a folder the app must write was
refused on a machine whose identity was not the image's default. A
directory's owner now takes ${setting:<key>} (user, or user:group), filled
at composition and refused unless the value is a whole number, and the
module check refuses any other shape or a key the module asks for nowhere
else.
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The real mesh-vault manifest declares its directories without a path, so the
list left its state and ledger out, and a place still holding a placeholder
vanished from it without a word. The provider's directories are now resolved
where the node places them, an unresolved place fails the composition naming
the module, and a node-reads holder whose account is put in a group is refused.
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The queue verb answered only a table, so nothing outside the controller
could say an ask's place in the queue. It now asks its command for JSON:
each ask's state, kind, repository, commit, machine, since and position
among the waiting, with the table carried beside it and answered as the
verb's output, both written from one read. A repository's password, if
one were ever written into it, is left out of what is shown.
novox/hq issue 455
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Before the node-engine gives a mesh directory its mode and owner only through
a walk that follows no link another account could make, the operator is to
see which directories that walk would refuse on every node, the control-node
included, where no tool reads a path. `node judge-directories <node>` signs
the ask as a hand-over is, under its own context, and prints the engine's
one line per directory; it changes nothing, so it is a seat verb an agent may
call. The node is granted the subject, the controller alone its publish.
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Reading a file, searching one, listing a directory, the owner and mode of each
component of a path and looking up an account had no mesh tool, so they went
through the login shell's execute as the operator's account. node-reads is a
node seat with six verbs, each saying the commands it replaces. Its holder must
run as an account of its own (ADR 0310 §3), and its own runtime is given
MESH_SECRET_PLACES: the directory of every module's own secret, every credential
file and grant directory, the vault's directories and the sealed-secret keep,
so it refuses them by name before any read (§5).
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The url was skipped by the installation check, so an installation's host or
an address passed; it is judged whole now, the vendor's host declared in the
artifact's names-on-purpose, and an address or a reserved name as the host
is refused. Only the version's dotted-quad reading is skipped. The unpack
caps its entries, drains xz before waiting for it, reads a pax global
header and a nested within's parents, and a redirect off https is not
followed.
A mail client's release is about 80 MB per version, too large to keep in a
repository at every upgrade, and an add-on whose licence forbids copying it
to third parties may not be in a repository at all. An archive artifact may
now name url, sha256 and version (and file or within) instead of from: the
build seat fetches it once, refuses it when its digest is not the pin's and
names both, keeps it in its workspace under the digest (a vendor that serves
only its newest version cannot break a later build of the same pin), and
packs it like any archive, so a node gets the mesh's own archive by digest
and never asks the vendor. The build seat's image carries xz, which Go's
standard library does not read. The installation check takes the vendor's
address and version of such a pin for the world's, as a registry is an
image's.
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ADR 0246 step 3: the systemd module, the seat's only holder, serves all three on every node,
so a holder that stops serving one is refused rather than leaving a node without them.
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A token a media server got from its vendor reached its consumers only as a value the mesh minted, which
the server refused, or as a copy typed by hand. An offer may now say its software issues the credential;
the new issued verb carries no value and asks the provider's tool, in the controller's own name, for the
value sealed to one call, then seals it to every pair that does not hold it yet.
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Assigning the media-importer beside youtube was refused because both
declare ffmpeg. The node-engine installs a missing package and never
removes one a declaration stopped naming, so a second declaration
changes nothing on the machine; what two modules can contradict is one
declaring a package present and another absent, which stays refused.
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A new batch beside the open one walked an older commit after a newer one, and a
stop that failed partway could leave a merge on two plans. A module shared with
the stopped merge, built at its branch, would deliver it; it is left out or
withheld. A batch not yet cut can drop a merge, so mesh-delivery can stop a
merge walked again. The stopped walk names what it left on which machines.
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One walk carries every merge of its batch, so ending it for one group member
ended every other delivery on it. delivery-stop now takes without: the walk
ends, every other merge it answered is batched again, and each later merge of
a left-out merge's repository is left out too, since it contains it.
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The issue tracker's history lasts seven days on the events stream and its
bucket fills toward a cap with no warning (issues 501, 502). A module may
now declare `logs`; the controller creates each as a stream on the bus
(create-or-update, never deleted or recreated, reported when undeclared),
issues it to the owner's assignments in their membership, grants the
runtime exactly the append and direct-read subjects, and raises a
condition when any module's bucket or log reaches 75% of its cap, cleared
below 70%.
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The test pinned daemon.json to live-restore alone, so every controller check failed once the
docker module gained log rotation as a preference (mesh-catalog #205, #217). It still refuses
dns (ADR 0196) and any key the module does not declare, and checks the log defaults where the
module declares them (novox/hq issue 498).
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A push leaves out a module whose settings do not compose and sends the rest,
which is right, but only plan said so: nfs-server ran nowhere for days while
the operator believed it ran. The self-check now raises needs-operator for a
setting nobody gave, naming the setting and the command, and left-out for any
other cause; both warnings, cleared once the module composes or is unassigned.
status and node show list the same modules as assigned, not applied.
Tests that read ../../../mesh-catalog or ../../../mesh-host gave a verdict
that depended on what sat beside the checkout: a stale or dirty sibling
failed them on a desktop, and a missing one skipped them unseen. They now
read the clone the build seat puts in MESH_CHECK_BESIDE, failing when it is
absent there, and elsewhere a copy captured at a named commit.
The skip had hidden that the builder test read a module retired by ADR 0190.
The systemd reading test no longer counts the machine's own environment.d.
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The case-insensitive rule for the mesh's namespace words took ${PORT:-8080},
${SHELL:-/bin/sh}, ${SECRET:?unset} and ${dir:-/tmp} for misspellings, though they
are among the commonest lines of a script or env file. A :-, :=, :+ or :? after the
colon is the shell's, whatever the word's case.
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The first sweep ran at composition over the resource after settings, bindings and
machine facts were filled, so an operator's value such as ${labels:instance} was
refused as a misspelling its author never wrote, and the whole machine got nothing.
Both points now sweep the resource as the manifest wrote it, against one table of
which fields each pass fills, so the check and composition refuse the same things.
Any ${<known namespace>: its pattern does not take is refused whatever its case or key.
Issue 231's undeclared-setting half is not met here: refusing a key the module does
not declare (ADR 0164) is not built and is handed to issue 398.
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A module waiting for the operator's secret failed its first-node gate, held
every later walk and was said as 'nothing for you to do'. The node-engine's
new waiting state is checked against the manifest and the secrets given,
read by the gate as a wait for a person, and raised as needs-operator naming
the act. A secret family gives each part its own one-line secret, which the
mesh never makes, so the desk prompt can take each password.
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The operator's budget (a leaf module running everywhere within five minutes
of its merge, a core module within ten) cannot be held to without knowing
where a walk's time goes. A walk now keeps when its batch's window closed,
when it was cut and its class (migration 0093), each gate reading, and what
each machine of the rest was sent; 'delivery walks' and plan-moved say its
phases from the merge to every machine of the rest reporting the build
applied, and ended walks keep them as walk-phase durations per class. Probe
D16 reads mesh-delivery's 'times' and raises delivery.<class>.over-budget.
A phase that cannot be measured is said unknown, never zero. Measurement
only: no walk is held, sent or judged differently.
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The give verb opened the desk's hidden prompt for a module's own secret, with the desk named. Now the
secret-ask verb (secret ask <node> <module> <name> [--at <desk>]) opens the same prompt from anywhere on
the mesh, with the desk the module's machine unless named, and give composes the same line. Every ask
is recorded in the store before the prompt opens (migration 0091): one open ask per secret, three an
hour, so an agent cannot keep a prompt in front of the operator. The prompt names who asked, from the
bus's word on the caller cut to a name's characters, never an argument of the call. The value stays
typed at the desk, sealed to the one call and then to the module's machine, never in an argument, a
log or an event; a secret the mesh makes itself and a trusted party's secret are refused as before.
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Issue 339 made every trusted setting the controller's terminal's alone, so an agent could only hand the
operator a line to type at the control node. Now anyone the bus admits may PROPOSE a layer: settings
propose keeps the proposal in the controller's own asks (the asked bucket, which the controller alone
writes), judged as settings set judges, and asks the operator on the operator channel at the level
approve with every key, its exact new value (in its shape where a path or an address may not leave the
mesh), the was of a changed key, the removed keys and the layer's fingerprint. The serving controller
sets the layer on the warrant alone: once, for the ask it holds, only when the record's values still
digest to what the option bound and the layer is still the one shown, with the terminal's judgement and
history, and keeps who approved it beside the layer, which settings says back (migration 0090). Decline,
expiry, a cancel, a replacement or the router's refusal discard it; nothing is asked when no router, no
grant or no channel can carry it. settings proposals lists them. The push afterwards is a separate act.
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The gate passes only the manifests a change touches, so a module that starts using the operator channel
was refused for a declaration it could not see. Over every manifest it stays a refusal.
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A module that asks the operator acts with its own grants, and the hand-act log is where a person's
decisions are read back. The new verb warranted records who chose, how and with which proofs from the
router's record, never the caller's word, once per ask however many instances ask.
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A merge to the controller's repository moved the route proxy and the build
seat's holder whatever it changed, because nothing said which files their
builds read. A build of a trunk commit now says its build source per
repository: a Go program's import closure, an archive's directory, an
image's recipe and the package it names in the new 'compiles' field. That
image is built from its build source alone, so a recipe reading past it
fails by name, and its fingerprint is over what it was handed.
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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.
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.
jochen
mesh-admin
jschoubben