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Review of the view (research 036): granted CONSUMER.CREATE on the bucket's stream, the view made a
push consumer delivering to mesh.mod.mesh-issues.event.opened, and a module subscribed there
received the bucket's entry as the tracker's event — measured on 2.11.17. The server does not hold a
deliver subject to its creator's permissions, so a consumer grant is a publish to any subject.
The view now binds and reads directly, nothing else: STREAM.INFO, DIRECT.GET by key, and the batch
DIRECT.GET (multi_last) that lists every key's newest value into its inbox. No watch: the page
re-reads the key a tracker event names (every event carries the number). The live test lists with
the batch, follows a moved event to the re-read, and is refused the consumer and the watch with
nothing reaching the event subject; the mutation (CONSUMER.CREATE back) fails three tests.
The credential says how to read, and that the step making it work is the next `bus upgrade` while
a new bus build waits, not a push.
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Research 036 names the gap (G1): no way for a browser to reach the bus. The bus module now listens
over WebSocket (mesh-catalog, nats); this is who connects there. The view is a fixed principal
(broker.KindView, user `view`) composed into the user list like every user once its credential is
minted, and left out once it is forgotten: it subscribes the issue tracker's events (opened, moved,
noted, linked), the controller's plan-moved and condition-raised/changed/cleared, and the delivery
owner's transition and group; it publishes only the JetStream API requests a read-only watcher of
the tracker's bucket (mesh-issues_issues) makes — STREAM.INFO, DIRECT.GET, CONSUMER.CREATE/INFO/
DELETE, flow control — answered in its own inbox; no reply, no tool, no event, no `$KV` write.
`bus view-credential` mints and prints it once (hash kept, like a person's); `bus view-revoke`
forgets it, real at the next composition. Tests: the composed grants are exactly these and a write
grant of any shape fails; the view is composed only once minted; and against a real server read from
the composed file over WebSocket, the view binds the bucket, reads a key, watches a put land, and is
refused a put, a delete and an event, the bucket unchanged.
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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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Every merge opened a walk and the next merge of the branch superseded it: two
catalogue merges 18 s apart left a walk no delivery held, and the operator
started it by hand 58 minutes later. A merge now joins the open batch, kept in
the store (migration 0089), which is cut into one walk when no merge came for
merge-window (90 s) or at merge-window-at-most (10 min): one commit per
repository, the latest of its branch, with every file the batch's merges
changed. One walk at a time; a started walk is never superseded, a waiting one
is folded into the next. The walk names every merge it answers on the wire
(delivery.merges, taken_over_by, batch). A failed walk walks its earlier merges
alone, newest first, until one is delivered. A delivery group's order becomes
tier edges inside the walk. plans shows the batch assembling; S18 and S19
bound its waits; S16 names the merges a waiting walk answers.
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A what-if named the build seat's holder as packaging the controller's
source, "rebuilt without their own source moving", while it was in the
plan because an open plan had not built it yet. The what-if and the merge
log now say, per module, which changed files of its build source moved it,
or that it is read whole and why: no build source recorded, a newer build
failed, or a plan has not built it yet.
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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 plan that closed without building a module hid a missed merge from it;
a window of recent plans let an old closure back in once the plan that
overtook it slid out; a merge the forge gave no time was acted on again
every pass. A plan answering the merge's own commit is now a look at it,
and clocks a little apart do not make a merge history.
A failed build, or a plan closed before reaching a module, left the
closure its last good build said, and a fix-forward to a newly imported
package would have moved nothing. A missed merge moving only a module
that packages the repository was never caught up, and an older merge
read as history for it through a look that was not its own. The gate,
a pull request's check, the what-if and a delivery's order now read the
same view the merge handler does.
Every merge to the controller's repository planned the controller, the
build seat's holder and the route proxy in three gated tiers, whatever it
changed (issue 338). The planner now maps a merge's files onto the build
source each module's newest trunk build said: a README moves nothing, the
controller's command the controller alone, the proxy's program the proxy
alone. A module with none said, or one an open plan has yet to build, is
read whole as before. Sharing a repository draws no packages edge any more,
and one recorded before neither widens nor orders a plan.
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A hand build of an older trunk commit said a closure lacking what was
imported since, and the planner would have mapped the next merge onto it.
C and assembly beside Go may include files below their directory, and a
go.mod made above a package moves it out of its module: each is now held.
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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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After the operator removes by hand what the last search found, no apply says so and nothing searched again
until the next day. node setuid-search <node> signs the ask as a hand-over is, under its own context, on a
subject only the node's engine hears and only the controller may publish.
The node-engine's search has no bound any more: it runs at idle priority
and judges from its last complete, fresh result. The controller's quiet
while an agent account waits is the engine's rootsearch.Quiet, not the
old fifteen-minute bound, and the node-engine is pinned at its pull
request.
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The reviewer found that the logged reason quoted the refused fragment: a
hash-shaped secret would reach the journal, and a changing clock time
defeated the once-per-kind dedupe. The reason is now logged without its
quoted fragment, the test resets the dedupe so it repeats, and a module
name too long for the headline falls back to the machine.
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The secret-given condition's explanation carried a clock time, which the
plain rule refuses, so the operator read the scope's fallback ("needs a
look") instead of what changed. Its words now carry no time and say the
secret's name as words; a test holds them to the rule through a keeper.
With no test hook set, the keeper logs a refused or missing wording once
per kind and reason, so a fallback is never silent again (hq issue 359).
The subject proved nothing: the bus lets any principal allowed to answer reply to a message it received on the reply subject that message named, so a tool server — the operator's account, every agent — could deliver a hand-over to an engine. The controller now signs the ask with the mesh's key over a fixed context (node, path, who asked, a minute's expiry, a fresh nonce), as declarations are signed, and the engine verifies it. The writers table gains the row for mesh.node.*.ask.hand-over; the subject's comment no longer claims who the engine hears. The line's known-node check and the refusal branch are tested; every check was removed in turn and a test failed.
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A module's condition told the operator to run the node-engine's hand-over at the machine, as root (issue 339), and the mesh had no channel for it. Now node hand-over <node> <path> is the controller's terminal's — a node subcommand that is not a read, so every verb and mesh-cli outside the terminal refuse it — and asks that node's engine on mesh.node.<node>.ask.hand-over, a request only the controller may publish and only that node's engine may hear and answer (its grant gains the subject and the right to answer what it was asked). The line's node and path are judged before anything is asked; the engine's answer is printed, a refusal as a refusal. Every text addressed to the operator names the nox line (ADR 0272); the condition's words stay plain.
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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.
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A secret given at the controller's terminal through mesh-cli (secret accept … --from -) never reached the
line: every line ran with no standard input. A line that runs as the terminal now reads what mesh-cli
carried (at most 64 KiB); an ordinary call carrying any is refused and nothing runs; the calls record keeps
only that some was given, the journal and the answer nothing of it.
A desk's prompt is answered over the desk machine's bus, on a subject that machine's runtime answers;
on a desk machine agents run as the operator, who holds that credential, so an agent could answer first
with a bot token of its own sealed to the call's key. The secret of a module running as an account of
its own (the Telegram bot's token) is now refused at the desk, before anybody is asked, naming the line
to type at the controller's terminal; there it is announced on every channel, the old one among them,
before it is kept, and not kept when that announcement fails. What is typed at the terminal is not
echoed. Tests: the refusal with nobody asked, and only the desk machine's launcher may answer its
prompt (MaySubscribe).
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.
- M1: a condition offering both kinds of answer is asked twice: its authorising answers about the
condition, its acknowledging ones (Silence) apart, so an answer from a channel that only acknowledges
never ends an approval.
- L2: the asked store creates once and changes only over the revision it read, deciding again on what it
reads; a stale cancel no longer writes over an act.
- L3: every ask is kept before it is published, one whose publishing failed is marked unsent and asked
again, and a cancel is kept before it is said. The terminal's test question is now `rehearse`, so it is
not called what the glossary calls a drill; its two answers are both approve-level.
- L7: two deliveries of one warrant to two controllers at once act exactly once, on a real bus.
- Re-vendored onto mesh-sdk 76902998 (canonical digests): an option binds an asks.Act with each argument
as arg.<name>.
- The lab's bus fixture composes verified-sender only where the lab says its machine is root-free
(MESH_LAB_ASKS_ROOT_FREE=true).
mesh-lab's asks proof runs the router, the Telegram channel and an asker on a real bus. Its accounts,
streams, workers, buckets and memberships come from this test at the controller's commit, so the lab
proves the composition and not a copy of it. Skipped unless the lab asks.
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The review of PR 179 found four paths no test held: which of two earlier
plans NewestMergeOf takes, a tie between them, gaps kept across a second
reopening in one keeper, and a merge time's fraction of a second.
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- A reopened fault keeps its gaps: it was there at a send unless the send
fell in one, so a send that breaks a machine recovered before it still
fails its gate (A2).
- An undecided part holds only the conditions that name it (A4).
- D2 holds a silent resolver for the next run again, refused or not: a
burst of refusals is also a restart (A3).
- A late merge is planned at the newest planned merge of its branch in any
state, not only an open one (A1); merge times to the nanosecond (A5).
The test reads the catalogue beside it, which the build seat checks out at
main; mesh-catalog PR 161 changes the binding, so the two land in either
order.
A merge acted on late by the catch-up made its plan after the plan of the
merge that followed it, superseded it by creation time, and folded its
unbuilt modules into a plan at the older commit: on 2026-10-09 the
forge's security fix (a082615b) was superseded by 8ff8197a. A plan now
keeps its merge time (migration 0086), supersession follows it, and a
merge older than an open plan of its branch is planned at that plan's
commit, which contains it.
On 2026-10-09 the control node's resolver refused from 10:57:57 UTC. A
node-engine restarted by the 10:59:34 send said its names undecided, that
statement cleared the network condition, the next look raised it again
after the send, and the gate put back two builds for a fault older than
them.
- A condition keeps First across a reopening; the gate reads Began.
- An undecided network statement (unknown, starting) clears nothing.
- D10 counts what a release's tier names as rolling, so a walked
node-engine is not core-behind on its own first machine.
- D2 raises a resolver that refuses every try at once: a refusal is an
answer, not a loaded resolver (issue 277).
A private kind is where the router shows a link's code, and the code makes an account the operator's.
Registration refused a verified-sender holder on the machine's runtime and let a private one stand;
it now refuses both (the confirmation review of 2026-10-09, low).
The confirmation review asked who may answer root-free on the bus. Composed from the controller's own
manifest, the module principal of the machine running the controller and that machine's runtime were
granted the controller seat's tool subjects too: either could answer root-free, and the runtime's
credential is one an agent on that machine may hold. The controller's seat is now served by the
controller principal alone, in grants and memberships; TestOnlyTheServingControllerMayAnswerRootFree
failed before (3 answerers) and passes. And a machine waiting for its first setuid search is not
root-free, whatever ADR 0266's quiet window does to the self-check.
The router's contract names the machines as a JSON array. A verb's argument declared a list now takes
an array of names (or one text separated by commas), and refuses anything else in it.
The agent-root probe read the sudo module's answer, given in the machine's runtime as the very account
an agent could become, and took a missing account, a missing answer or no accounts as a pass. One
judgement now decides: the machine names an agent account its node-engine judged unable to become
root within 15 minutes (agentConfined, mesh-controller #164), and the login shell's execute is not
served there; anything not read is not free. The probe raises agent-root on it, the new root-free
verb answers it live for the router, and a push composes verified-sender for a kind only while its
machine and the router's pass it.
jochen
mesh-admin
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