Three faults the mesh's own logs showed this morning. A handler that outlives the acknowledgement
window was handed its message again while it was still working: acting on a merge builds modules,
minutes against a thirty-second window, so one merge ran the whole catalogue five times over. The
transport now says the work is in progress while it runs, which is where the window belongs.
Everything the mesh hands out — a token, a membership, a person's credential — took its address
from the enrolment setting, which on a mesh that has moved still names the broker it moved from:
the first person issued after the move was handed the retired broker's port. There is one bus, and
its address is the one the control plane is connected to.
And `operator issue` documented an argument order its parser refused.
Three faults in one path. A merge rebuilt every module built from the repository, so one change in
a repository holding twenty-six of them meant twenty-six builds. A merge into a repository a module
only *packages* source from rebuilt nothing — two modules are built from the control plane's own
repository and neither had ever been rebuilt when it moved — because the manifest the mesh keeps
carries no build section, so a build now says which repositories it read and the mesh keeps that
beside what it stood on. And a module handed over by hand could record a repository with no
directory inside it, which is a module nothing can ever rebuild (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131, /132).
A change inside no module's own directory is a change to what they share, and everything built from
that repository is rebuilt: rebuilding too much is the safe direction, because the fault this whole
path exists for is a mesh that believes it is current and is not.
The forge announces what it finds merged, and an old merge surfacing late moved the recorded head
backwards and rebuilt everything built from that repository, once per old merge. A merge made
before the source was last seen is history; one that says nothing about when is taken as news.
The catalogue now carries when each source was last seen. The bus-records test follows #116:
a module's tools are every one under its own name.
Bases reach a recipe as build arguments, so the digest was never in the file the builder read
edges from: no build on the mesh recorded what it stood on, and 'build --on', the bases-first
order and the merge follow-up all walked a graph with no edges (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131). The
builder now reports every base it resolved; the controller records them by artifact path and
reads the newest build's edges from the store, since a recorded manifest carries no build.on.
The mesh runs on the seat's bus alone (novox/hq ADR 0131, design 28 task 5.5). The old
transport's consume loop, build request, tool ask, management API and account scoping are
deleted, and the bus switch with them; the controller connects to the broker seat and to
nothing else. The store-window tests keep their assertions on a bus-less fake, and the tests
that only made sense for the old transport's in-memory holding go with it.
The controller follows the forge's merges (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131). For each
module recorded as built from that repository and branch it records the move to
the merge commit and builds it — bases first, because a module built before the
module it stands on is built against the old one and reports success, and a base
that fails stops what stands on it. Nothing is pushed here: what a finished build
does to the machines running the module stays the upgrade's decision.
Two more things the same ordering gives: `build --behind` builds bases first, and
`build --on <module>` rebuilds everything that stands on a module — the rebuild a
changed base needs, which "behind" does not see because their sources did not
move.
Three readers did not follow a moved foundation port (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102),
and each took the control-node down in its own way: the control plane's own
store and broker connections, sealed at genesis with the port inside; and every
build the mesh ever recorded, kept as `<registry>:<port>/<module>/<artifact>@…`.
The control plane cannot open its own sealed connections to move a port, and it
cannot bind the store as a consumer would — a binding mints a credential. So its
settings get a third twin, `NAME_PORT`, read on top of the sealed value by the
store, the broker, the management API and the bus connection, and filled into
its container by a placeholder that names a seat, `${seat:mesh-store:5432}`,
from the node's given or mesh-assigned ports — never the manifest's number, and
empty when the mesh has nothing to add, so what genesis wrote stands. A value
that is still a placeholder is nothing said, aloud: the manifest naming it lands
in the next commit, once every control plane that composes it knows it.
A build is now recorded by digest and path — `artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>@…`
— and the store's address is composed in where a reference is used: the
declaration, the trust file, the bases a build is handed, a replay to the
catalogue. Over the network as `<node>.internal:<port>`; on the store's own node
before any network exists — every genesis push before its "network" step — by
loopback. A reference recorded before this, with an address, is re-routed the
same way when the mesh built it. The trust file and every provider's address
come from one derivation: the node's given port, over the mesh's assignment,
over the manifest's number.
novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102
One name per thing, per the HQ glossary: the module/container/image/binary/repo
becomes mesh-controller, the seat the-controller, and the store+broker pair the
foundation (embedded base bundles, default template and example lock renamed with
their go:embed directives). No behaviour change — a pure vocabulary rename.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx