A module is told the name it is served under (hq 122)

A module contributes a label; the mesh joins it with the node's domains and
the provider serves the result — and the module itself was never told.
Software that must know its own address (a login redirect, a canonical URL,
an issuer) had it written into the manifest as a literal: a domain in a
definition, wrong on every other machine (ADR 0112). Found converting
grafana's keycloak login for ace, where it forced GF_SERVER_ROOT_URL and
keycloak's issuer back into manifests.

The binding for a requirement a module contributes to now carries `name`
and `internal-name` (or `names` by local name for several contributions),
and `${bound:<requirement>:name}` / `:internal-name` (`:name-<local>`) fill
files from it. Both come from the one function the provider's received
file is composed by, so the proxy and the module cannot disagree about the
name. Absent when nothing was composed, so a file asking for a name on a
node with no public domain is refused, not rendered empty.

Also: `${bound:…}` could not name a requirement answered by a node-scoped
provider on the same machine — its binding file was written (from `here`)
but the placeholders only looked at the mesh's needs. Filled from the same
answer now.

cmd/mesh-builder/main.go

@@ -148,34 +148,20 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
 	// it either finishes or fails is indistinguishable from one that never arrived — which cost a long
 	// diagnosis against a running mesh, chasing "the handler never fired" when the truth was only that
 	// the handler said nothing until the end.
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "a build request arrived for %s (%s)\n", request.Repository, request.ID)
-
-	// **Everything a build says goes two ways**: to stderr, as always, and onto the bus as the
-	// role's own events under the build's id (novox/hq ADR 0157) — so whoever asked, and anybody
-	// watching, reads the same lines this container's log holds, live, and after the fact from the
-	// stream. Said first, before anything runs, so a build that hangs is one that visibly started.
-	say := func(step, message string) {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  [%s] %s\n", step, message)
-		work.Say(step, message)
-	}
-	builder.Said = say
-	defer func() { builder.Said = nil }()
-	if err := work.Began(ctx); err != nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "cannot say a build started: %v\n", err)
-	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "a build request arrived for %s\n", request.Repository)
 
 	result := link.BuildResult{
 		ID: request.ID, Repository: request.Repository, Path: request.Path,
-		Ref: request.Ref, On: on, Source: request.Source,
+		Ref: request.Ref, On: on,
 	}
-	what := "building " + request.Repository
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "building %s", request.Repository)
 	if request.Path != "" {
-		what += " at " + request.Path
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " at %s", request.Path)
 	}
 	if request.Ref != "" {
-		what += " on " + request.Ref
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " at %s", request.Ref)
 	}
-	say("build", what)
+	fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr)
 
 	npmrc, err := packagesFrom()
 	var built builder.Result
@@ -185,13 +171,16 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
 		// after a clone that then fails at npm ci.
 		built, err = builder.Build(ctx, builder.Command, publisher,
 			request.Repository, request.Path, request.Ref, workspace, request.Held, npmrc,
-			forgeFrom(), say, request.Seats)
+			forgeFrom(),
+			func(step, message string) {
+				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  [%s] %s\n", step, message)
+			})
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		// A failure is a result. A build that fails and says nothing is indistinguishable from a
 		// builder that is not running, and those want completely different responses.
 		result.Failed = err.Error()
-		say("failed", err.Error())
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  failed: %v\n", err)
 	} else {
 		manifest, marshalErr := json.Marshal(built.Manifest)
 		if marshalErr != nil {
@@ -208,7 +197,7 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
 			for _, r := range built.Read {
 				result.Read = append(result.Read, link.ReadRepository{Repository: r.Repository, Ref: r.Ref})
 			}
-			say("built", built.Manifest.Module+" from "+short(built.Commit))
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  built %s from %s\n", built.Manifest.Module, short(built.Commit))
 		}
 	}
 

cmd/mesh-controller/acts.go

@@ -46,13 +46,6 @@ func assign(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node, module string) (string, err
 		return "", err
 	}
 	defer release()
-	// **Before the new assignment can unsettle a seat somebody holds only by being alone**
-	// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/170): what the mesh derived so far is written down, and then the
-	// assignment resolves against a record rather than against a coincidence.
-	settled, err := recordDerivedHolders(ctx, open)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
 	fresh, err := open.inventory.Assign(ctx, node, module)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
@@ -64,9 +57,6 @@ func assign(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node, module string) (string, err
 			node, module), nil
 	}
 	said := fmt.Sprintf("%s is assigned %s", node, module)
-	for _, line := range settled {
-		said += "\n  " + line
-	}
 	plan, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
 	if err != nil {
 		// Kept, and still refused. Both halves are the answer, and the rest of the mesh is still

cmd/mesh-controller/adopting_test.go

@@ -91,10 +91,6 @@ func reportsReaching(t *testing.T, open *stores, reachable []link.Reach, held ..
 	if _, err := (link.Enrolment{Inventory: open.inventory}).Heard(ctx, link.Report{
 		Node: "anchor", Applied: []string{"hello-web.x"}, Declared: digestOf(body),
 		Firewall: "ufw", Held: held, Reachable: reachable,
-		// A machine says which of its links face outside on every apply (novox/hq ADR 0140), and a
-		// filter is not sent to one that has not. The anchor reports one, as a real host does; this
-		// fixture lacked it from 2026-09-28 and nothing ran the test (issue 177).
-		Outward: []string{"eth0"},
 	}); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -109,10 +105,10 @@ var (
 
 func TestTakingAModuleNotOnTheNodeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
-	if _, err := take(t.Context(), open, "anchor", "nftables", takeOptions{Yes: true}); !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNotAssigned) {
+	if _, err := take(t.Context(), open, "anchor", "nftables"); !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNotAssigned) {
 		t.Fatalf("taking an unassigned module gave %v", err)
 	}
-	if _, err := take(t.Context(), open, "laptop", "network", takeOptions{Yes: true}); !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNotAdopted) {
+	if _, err := take(t.Context(), open, "laptop", "network"); !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNotAdopted) {
 		t.Fatalf("taking on a converged node gave %v", err)
 	}
 }
@@ -143,7 +139,7 @@ func TestTheFlipIsRefusedWhileAFoundContainerIsHeld(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTakingNamesWhatItReplaces(t *testing.T) {
 	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	reportsHolding(t, open, heldContainer, heldFile)
-	said, err := take(t.Context(), open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true})
+	said, err := take(t.Context(), open, "anchor", "hello-web")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -156,7 +152,7 @@ func TestTakingNamesWhatItReplaces(t *testing.T) {
 func TestConvergingPreviewsThenChangesAndAdoptingKeepsWhatWasTaken(t *testing.T) {
 	open, sent := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	reportsHolding(t, open, heldFile)
@@ -330,7 +326,7 @@ func digestIn(t *testing.T, preview string) string {
 func TestTheFlipActsOnlyOnThePreviewTheOperatorSaw(t *testing.T) {
 	open, sent := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	reportsHolding(t, open, heldFile)
@@ -396,7 +392,7 @@ func TestTheFlipActsOnlyOnThePreviewTheOperatorSaw(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTheFlipHoldsTheNodeWhileItSends(t *testing.T) {
 	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	reportsHolding(t, open, heldFile)
@@ -441,7 +437,7 @@ func TestTheFlipHoldsTheNodeWhileItSends(t *testing.T) {
 func TestThePreviewNamesEveryHeldKind(t *testing.T) {
 	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	since := time.Now()
@@ -484,7 +480,7 @@ func TestThePreviewNamesEveryHeldKind(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTheFlipIsRefusedOnAnAccountNamingNothingReachable(t *testing.T) {
 	open, sent := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	// Only a loopback listener: nothing off the machine, which is the same silence.
@@ -512,7 +508,7 @@ func TestTheFlipIsRefusedOnAnAccountNamingNothingReachable(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAssigningWaitsForWhateverIsConvergingTheNode(t *testing.T) {
 	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
 	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web", takeOptions{Yes: true}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	reportsHolding(t, open, heldFile)

cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go

@@ -24,11 +24,6 @@ import (
 func showMode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node inventory.Node) error {
 	if !node.Adopted {
 		fmt.Printf("  mode              converged\n")
-		// A converged machine holds nothing, and can still run what nobody asked for
-		// (novox/hq ADR 0163): what it reports as strays is said whatever its mode.
-		if said, err := inv.AdoptionOf(ctx, node.Name); err == nil && len(said.Strays) > 0 {
-			showStrays(said.Strays)
-		}
 		return nil
 	}
 	fmt.Printf("  mode              adopted since %s\n",
@@ -67,26 +62,11 @@ func showMode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node inventory.Node
 		if h.Kept != "" {
 			fmt.Printf("  %-17s original kept at %s\n", "", h.Kept)
 		}
-		for _, f := range comparisonLines(h) {
-			fmt.Printf("  %-17s %s\n", "", f)
-		}
 	}
-	showStrays(said.Strays)
 	fmt.Printf("  as of             %s\n", said.At.Local().Format(time.DateTime))
 	return nil
 }
 
-// showStrays says what a machine runs that the mesh neither wrote nor holds (ADR 0163).
-func showStrays(strays []inventory.Stray) {
-	if len(strays) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-	fmt.Printf("  strays            %d container(s) the mesh neither wrote nor holds:\n", len(strays))
-	for _, s := range strays {
-		fmt.Printf("  %-17s %s (%s)\n", "", s.Name, s.Detail)
-	}
-}
-
 // showTunnel is the node show lines about the tunnel an adopted node found and carried (novox/hq
 // ADR 0105): what it presented at enrolment, and what it last said about taking it over.
 func showTunnel(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, name string) error {
@@ -156,14 +136,7 @@ const DefaultFilter = "nftables"
 // take is a module's cutover on an adopted node: the operator's act, done when that module's data
 // has moved. From the next push its resources converge there like any other, replacing what the
 // node found and holds for it.
-// takeOptions is what a take was told about the differences it may pass (novox/hq ADR 0163).
-type takeOptions struct {
-	Yes       bool
-	Downgrade bool
-	Replace   map[string]bool
-}
-
-func take(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node, module string, opts takeOptions) (string, error) {
+func take(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node, module string) (string, error) {
 	inv := open.inventory
 	assigned, err := inv.Assigned(ctx, node)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -177,170 +150,27 @@ func take(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node, module string, opts takeOptio
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	// The comparison first (novox/hq ADR 0163): every held thing the module would replace, beside
-	// what the module declares, and the differences that refuse unless named.
-	reported, err := inv.AdoptionOf(ctx, node)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	preview, refusals := comparisonOf(reported.Held, module, opts)
-	if len(refusals) > 0 {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("taking %s on %s is refused:\n  %s\n%s", module, node,
-			strings.Join(refusals, "\n  "), preview)
-	}
-	if !opts.Yes {
-		return preview + fmt.Sprintf("\nnothing taken; `take %s %s --yes` cuts it over as previewed", node, module), nil
-	}
 	if err := inv.Take(ctx, node, module); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	said := fmt.Sprintf("%s is taken on %s", module, node)
-	if preview != "" {
-		said += "; the next push replaces what the node found and holds for it:\n" + preview
+	reported, err := inv.AdoptionOf(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	var replaces []string
+	for _, h := range reported.Held {
+		if h.Module == module {
+			replaces = append(replaces, "  "+heldLine(h))
+		}
+	}
+	if len(replaces) > 0 {
+		said += "; the next push replaces what the node found and holds for it:\n" +
+			strings.Join(replaces, "\n")
 	}
 	return said + fmt.Sprintf("\n  run `push %s` to cut it over", node), nil
 }
 
-// comparisonOf is a take's preview: for every held thing of the module, what runs beside what the
-// module declares, and the refusals the differences earn unless the take named them
-// (novox/hq ADR 0163): an image older than the one running, a declared file that differs from the
-// found one. A narrowed port and a shared network are said and not refused.
-func comparisonOf(held []inventory.Held, module string, opts takeOptions) (string, []string) {
-	var b strings.Builder
-	var refusals []string
-	for _, h := range held {
-		if h.Module != module {
-			continue
-		}
-		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  %s", heldLine(h))
-		if h.Kept != "" {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&b, ", original kept at %s", h.Kept)
-		}
-		b.WriteString("\n")
-		for _, line := range comparisonLines(h) {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "    %s\n", line)
-		}
-		f := factsOf(h)
-		if f.downgrade && !opts.Downgrade {
-			refusals = append(refusals, fmt.Sprintf("%s: the module's image (%s, made %s) is older than the one running (%s, made %s) — "+
-				"a service that migrated its data forward may not start on it; `--downgrade` to take it anyway",
-				h.Target, f.declaredImage, day(f.declaredCreated), f.image, day(f.imageCreated)))
-		}
-		if f.differs && !opts.Replace[h.Target] && !opts.Replace["*"] {
-			refusals = append(refusals, fmt.Sprintf("%s: the module's content differs from the file found; the lines above "+
-				"marked - are lost by taking it; `--replace %s` to replace it anyway, or declare the file partially",
-				h.Target, h.Target))
-		}
-	}
-	return b.String(), refusals
-}
-
-// facts is a held thing's facts as the preview reads them.
-type facts struct {
-	image, imageCreated, declaredImage, declaredCreated string
-	downgrade, differs                                  bool
-	networks                                            map[string][]string
-	mounts, ports, declaredPorts, declaredVolumes       []string
-	difference                                          []string
-}
-
-func factsOf(h inventory.Held) facts {
-	var f facts
-	if h.Facts == nil {
-		return f
-	}
-	str := func(k string) string { s, _ := h.Facts[k].(string); return s }
-	list := func(k string) []string {
-		var out []string
-		if raw, ok := h.Facts[k].([]any); ok {
-			for _, x := range raw {
-				if s, ok := x.(string); ok {
-					out = append(out, s)
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		return out
-	}
-	f.image, f.imageCreated = str("image"), str("image_created")
-	f.declaredImage, f.declaredCreated = str("declared_image"), str("declared_image_created")
-	f.downgrade, _ = h.Facts["downgrade"].(bool)
-	f.differs, _ = h.Facts["differs"].(bool)
-	f.mounts, f.ports = list("mounts"), list("ports")
-	f.declaredPorts, f.declaredVolumes, f.difference = list("declared_ports"), list("declared_volumes"), list("difference")
-	if raw, ok := h.Facts["networks"].(map[string]any); ok {
-		f.networks = map[string][]string{}
-		for name, members := range raw {
-			var out []string
-			if ms, ok := members.([]any); ok {
-				for _, m := range ms {
-					if s, ok := m.(string); ok {
-						out = append(out, s)
-					}
-				}
-			}
-			f.networks[name] = out
-		}
-	}
-	return f
-}
-
-// comparisonLines says a held thing's facts the way a person weighs them.
-func comparisonLines(h inventory.Held) []string {
-	f := factsOf(h)
-	var out []string
-	if f.image != "" || f.declaredImage != "" {
-		line := fmt.Sprintf("runs %s", orNone(f.image))
-		if f.imageCreated != "" {
-			line += " (made " + day(f.imageCreated) + ")"
-		}
-		line += "; the module declares " + orNone(f.declaredImage)
-		switch {
-		case f.declaredCreated != "":
-			line += " (made " + day(f.declaredCreated) + ")"
-		case f.declaredImage != "":
-			line += " (not on the machine yet, so its age is unknown)"
-		}
-		if f.downgrade {
-			line += " — DOWNGRADE"
-		}
-		out = append(out, line)
-	}
-	names := make([]string, 0, len(f.networks))
-	for n := range f.networks {
-		names = append(names, n)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	for _, n := range names {
-		if members := f.networks[n]; len(members) > 0 {
-			out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("on the network %s with %s, which may reach it by name and will not once it moves to the module's own network",
-				n, strings.Join(members, ", ")))
-		}
-	}
-	if len(f.ports) > 0 || len(f.declaredPorts) > 0 {
-		out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("publishes %s; the module declares %s",
-			orNone(strings.Join(f.ports, " ")), orNone(strings.Join(f.declaredPorts, " "))))
-	}
-	if len(f.mounts) > 0 || len(f.declaredVolumes) > 0 {
-		out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("mounts %s; the module declares %s",
-			orNone(strings.Join(f.mounts, " ")), orNone(strings.Join(f.declaredVolumes, " "))))
-	}
-	if f.differs {
-		out = append(out, "the declared content differs from the file found (- lost, + new):")
-		for _, d := range f.difference {
-			out = append(out, "  "+d)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// day is a timestamp as a person reads it in a preview: its date.
-func day(stamp string) string {
-	if len(stamp) >= 10 {
-		return stamp[:10]
-	}
-	return stamp
-}
-
 // reportFreshFor is how old a node's account of itself may be for the flip to act on it. A
 // variable so a test can age a report without waiting.
 var reportFreshFor = 15 * time.Minute
@@ -766,31 +596,12 @@ func adopt(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string) (string, error) {
 
 // takeCommand, convergeCommand and adoptCommand are the command line's adapters to the acts above.
 func takeCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
-	set := flag.NewFlagSet("take", flag.ContinueOnError)
-	yes := set.Bool("yes", false, "cut over as previewed; without it the comparison is printed and nothing is taken")
-	downgrade := set.Bool("downgrade", false, "take it although the module's image is older than the one running")
-	var replace stringList
-	set.Var(&replace, "replace", "a found file's path whose content the module may replace although it differs (repeatable; * for every one)")
-	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
+	if len(args) != 2 {
+		return errors.New("take <node> <module>")
 	}
-	if len(positionals) != 2 {
-		return errors.New("take <node> <module> [--yes] [--downgrade] [--replace <path>]...")
-	}
-	opts := takeOptions{Yes: *yes, Downgrade: *downgrade, Replace: map[string]bool{}}
-	for _, r := range replace {
-		opts.Replace[r] = true
-	}
-	return runAct(ctx, func(open *stores) (string, error) { return take(ctx, open, positionals[0], positionals[1], opts) })
+	return runAct(ctx, func(open *stores) (string, error) { return take(ctx, open, args[0], args[1]) })
 }
 
-// stringList is a repeatable flag.
-type stringList []string
-
-func (l *stringList) String() string     { return strings.Join(*l, ",") }
-func (l *stringList) Set(v string) error { *l = append(*l, v); return nil }
-
 func convergeCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	set := flag.NewFlagSet("converge", flag.ContinueOnError)
 	yes := set.String("yes", "", "do it, naming the digest the preview printed; without it, only "+

cmd/mesh-controller/api.go

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func commands(who Authenticator) http.Handler {
 	}))
 	// Adoption (novox/hq ADR 0100): the same acts as `take`, `converge` and `adopt`.
 	mux.HandleFunc("POST /take", acting(who, true, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
-		return take(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Module, takeOptions{Yes: true})
+		return take(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Module)
 	}))
 	mux.HandleFunc("POST /converge", acting(who, false, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
 		return converge(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Yes, in.Digest, in.Filter)

cmd/mesh-controller/build.go

@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
-
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
@@ -177,14 +175,10 @@ func buildFrom(result link.BuildResult) inventory.Build {
 func buildsCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	set := flag.NewFlagSet("builds", flag.ContinueOnError)
 	limit := set.Int("n", 20, "how many to show")
-	logOf := set.String("log", "", "a build's id: print what the build machine said, line by line")
 	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	if *logOf != "" {
-		return buildLog(ctx, *logOf)
-	}
 	module := ""
 	if len(positionals) == 1 {
 		module = positionals[0]
@@ -225,8 +219,8 @@ func buildsCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		if !b.Worked() {
 			outcome = "failed"
 		}
-		fmt.Printf("%-18s %-14s %-10s %s  %s\n",
-			what, outcome, b.On, b.At.Local().Format("2006-01-02 15:04"), b.ID)
+		fmt.Printf("%-18s %-14s %-10s %s\n",
+			what, outcome, b.On, b.At.Local().Format("2006-01-02 15:04"))
 		fmt.Printf("    %s", b.Repository)
 		if b.Ref != "" {
 			fmt.Printf(" at %s", b.Ref)
@@ -414,14 +408,11 @@ func buildOne(ctx context.Context, source buildSource, path, ref string, wait ti
 		Path:       path,
 		Ref:        ref,
 		Held:       heldBy(ctx),
-		Seats:      seatBases(ctx),
 	}
 	fmt.Printf("asked for %s", source)
 	if source.Seat != "" {
 		fmt.Printf(" (%s)", repository)
 	}
-	// The id is how a person follows this build while it runs: `builds --log <id>`.
-	fmt.Printf(" as %s", request.ID)
 	if path != "" {
 		fmt.Printf(" at %s", path)
 	}
@@ -436,104 +427,64 @@ func buildOne(ctx context.Context, source buildSource, path, ref string, wait ti
 	}
 	defer ask.Close()
 
-	if wait == 0 {
-		// Asked and not waited for (novox/hq issue 176): the outcome is the role's event, and the
-		// controller takes it in — records the build, registers the module — whether or not anybody
-		// is still here. A tool call cannot hold a connection for the minutes a build takes; it
-		// follows the build by its id instead.
-		if err := ask.Ask(ctx, request); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("asked, not waited for: `builds --log %s` follows it as it runs, and `builds` "+
-			"shows what came of it; the module is registered when the outcome comes\n", request.ID)
-		return nil
-	}
-
 	result, err := ask.Submit(ctx, request, wait)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	// Kept before it is judged. A failed build that leaves no trace is indistinguishable from one
+	// nobody asked for, and the difference is the whole of whether somebody should be looking at
+	// something.
 	open, err := openStores(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	defer open.Close()
-	manifest, kept, err := takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, result)
-	if err != nil {
+	inv := open.inventory
+	kept := buildFrom(result)
+	if err := inv.RecordBuild(ctx, kept); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+
+	if result.Failed != "" {
+		// The builder's own words. Wrapping them in something about the control plane would put
+		// two explanations between a person and a build log.
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s could not build %s:\n%s", result.On, result.Repository, result.Failed)
+	}
+
 	// Said as recorded: what each artifact is, not where this builder happened to push it.
 	for _, made := range kept.Made {
 		fmt.Printf("  %-12s %s %s\n", made.Name, made.Kind, made.Reference)
 	}
-	fmt.Printf("\n%s %s, built on %s from %s\n",
-		manifest.Module, manifest.Version, result.On, short(result.Commit))
-	saysWhenThePolicyActs(ctx, open.inventory, manifest.Module)
-	fmt.Printf("  run `assign <node> %s` to put it somewhere\n", manifest.Module)
-	return nil
-}
 
-// saysWhenThePolicyActs tells whoever built a module that its upgrade policy will send the
-// result on at once (novox/hq issue 126, ADR 0163): a person choreographing a data move must
-// know which module will not wait for them.
-func saysWhenThePolicyActs(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module string) {
-	if u, err := inv.UpgradeOf(ctx, module); err == nil && u.RollOut {
-		how := "one machine at a time"
-		if u.Together {
-			how = "every machine at once"
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("  %s rolls out on build: the machines running it are sent this now, %s — "+
-			"`upgrade %s record` first if something must move before it does\n", module, how, module)
-	}
-}
-
-// takeIn is what the mesh does with a build's outcome, whoever hears it: the waiting command and
-// the daemon that follows the role's events both come here (novox/hq issue 176), so a build's
-// result reaches the catalogue whether or not the asker was still listening.
-//
-// Kept before it is judged. A failed build that leaves no trace is indistinguishable from one
-// nobody asked for, and the difference is the whole of whether somebody should be looking at
-// something. Then parsed with the same parser a hand-written manifest goes through — a second path
-// would be a second thing to disagree about what a manifest is — and registered with where it came
-// from: **for a source on a seat, as the path and the seat, never the URL just cloned** (ADR 0111),
-// which the request carried and the outcome echoes. A definition naming an installation is refused
-// here, where it would enter the catalogue; the build stays recorded and the refusal says which.
-//
-// Idempotent: the same outcome taken in twice registers the same module twice, which is one row
-// written with the same values.
-func takeIn(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, result link.BuildResult) (
-	catalogue.Manifest, inventory.Build, error) {
-	kept := buildFrom(result)
-	if err := inv.RecordBuild(ctx, kept); err != nil {
-		return catalogue.Manifest{}, kept, err
-	}
-	if result.Failed != "" {
-		// The builder's own words. Wrapping them in something about the control plane would put
-		// two explanations between a person and a build log.
-		return catalogue.Manifest{}, kept, fmt.Errorf("%s could not build %s:\n%s",
-			result.On, result.Repository, result.Failed)
-	}
+	// Parsed with the same parser a hand-written manifest goes through. A second path would be a
+	// second thing to disagree about what a manifest is. The manifest as recorded, so the catalogue
+	// holds references by digest and path and every declaration composes the store's address in.
 	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(kept.Manifest)
 	if err != nil {
-		return catalogue.Manifest{}, kept, fmt.Errorf("%s built %s and what came back is not a manifest: %w",
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s built %s and what came back is not a manifest: %w",
 			result.On, result.Repository, err)
 	}
+
+	// Recorded with where it came from, so "is this current?" is answerable without building it
+	// again (novox/hq ADR 0009). **For a source on a seat, as the path and the seat, never the URL
+	// just cloned** (ADR 0111): the URL is where the forge runs today, and recording it would put
+	// the forge's address back into every module built from it. The build log above keeps the URL,
+	// because that is what was cloned.
 	recorded := inventory.Source{
 		Repository: result.Repository, Path: result.Path, Ref: result.Ref,
 		BuiltFrom: result.Commit, Head: result.Commit,
 	}
-	if result.Source != nil && result.Source.Seat != "" {
-		recorded.Repository, recorded.Seat = result.Source.Repository, result.Source.Seat
-	}
-	if err := namesNoInstallation(manifest); err != nil {
-		return manifest, kept, fmt.Errorf("%s built %s (%s), and the mesh does not register it: %w",
-			result.On, result.Repository, short(result.Commit), err)
+	if source.Seat != "" {
+		recorded.Repository, recorded.Seat = source.Repository, source.Seat
 	}
 	if err := inv.RegisterModule(ctx, manifest, recorded); err != nil {
-		return manifest, kept, err
+		return err
 	}
-	return manifest, kept, nil
+	fmt.Printf("\n%s %s, built on %s from %s\n",
+		manifest.Module, manifest.Version, result.On, short(result.Commit))
+	fmt.Printf("  run `assign <node> %s` to put it somewhere\n", manifest.Module)
+	return nil
 }
 
 // buildAndShow builds and prints the manifest without recording anything.
@@ -562,7 +513,7 @@ func buildAndShow(ctx context.Context, source buildSource, path, ref string, wai
 	result, err := ask.Submit(ctx, link.BuildRequest{
 		ID:         fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", "build", time.Now().UnixNano()),
 		Repository: repository, Path: path, Ref: ref,
-		Held: heldBy(ctx), Seats: seatBases(ctx),
+		Held: heldBy(ctx),
 	}, wait)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -596,8 +547,6 @@ type answers struct {
 	// pair that answers "has it caught up", which waiting alone cannot (the sent digest is
 	// recorded at send, not at apply).
 	reported []inventory.Reported
-	// plans is what the last merges produced and where each stands (novox/hq ADR 0162).
-	plans []inventory.Plan
 	// refused is why a machine cannot be worked out at all, by name. A different thing from every
 	// other answer here: those are about a machine that was told something, and this is about one
 	// that cannot be told anything — it never reaches waiting, because nothing was computed for it
@@ -607,16 +556,6 @@ type answers struct {
 	// a consequence of the refusals above: a node that does not resolve is not on the network, and
 	// a mesh whose hub is that node has no hub.
 	network string
-	// untaken is, per machine, each assigned module whose resources the machine is holding as it
-	// found them, and how many — a module that was assigned, sent, and is running none of what it
-	// declares because nothing has taken it (novox/hq ADR 0100, 04-ISSUES/125).
-	//
-	// **Its absence cost an outage.** The module was assigned, the push reported success, this
-	// command said the machine was doing everything it was told, and the module's three containers
-	// did not exist. On the strength of those reports the predecessor's proxy was stopped and every
-	// public name on the machine went dark. The holds were correct; they were recorded only in the
-	// machine's own state file, and the one visible symptom was a count that did not add up.
-	untaken map[string]map[string]int
 }
 
 // heldBy is every artifact this mesh has built, for a build that may need one as its base.
@@ -669,57 +608,3 @@ func askOver(_ *link.Server) (link.Builders, error) {
 	}
 	return link.BuildsOverNATS(address)
 }
-
-// buildLog prints everything a build machine said about one build, read back from the bus.
-//
-// **From the stream, not from a record** (novox/hq ADR 0157). A build's lines are the role's own
-// events under the build's id, retained with every other event; the mesh keeps no second copy. Read
-// with a consumer of its own that is gone when this returns, so nothing accumulates in the server
-// for the reading, and filtered by subject, so one build's lines are all that travel.
-func buildLog(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
-	address, err := broker.BusAddress()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	js, err := broker.Dial(address)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("cannot reach the bus to read a build's log: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer js.Close()
-
-	sub, err := js.Context().PullSubscribe(link.BuildLog(id), "",
-		nats.BindStream(broker.EventsStream), nats.DeliverAll(), nats.AckNone())
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("cannot read %s from the bus: %w", link.BuildLog(id), err)
-	}
-	defer func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() }()
-
-	printed := 0
-	for {
-		batch, err := sub.Fetch(200, nats.MaxWait(2*time.Second))
-		if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, nats.ErrTimeout) && !errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
-			return fmt.Errorf("reading a build's log: %w", err)
-		}
-		for _, msg := range batch {
-			var line link.BuildLine
-			if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &line); err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("  ? %s\n", string(msg.Data))
-				continue
-			}
-			at := line.At
-			if t, err := time.Parse(time.RFC3339Nano, line.At); err == nil {
-				at = t.Local().Format("15:04:05")
-			}
-			fmt.Printf("%s %4d [%s] %s\n", at, line.Seq, line.Step, line.Message)
-			printed++
-		}
-		if len(batch) < 200 {
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if printed == 0 {
-		fmt.Printf("nothing on the bus for build %s: no build by that id in the last week, or a build "+
-			"machine older than this that said nothing while building\n", id)
-	}
-	return nil
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/build_test.go

@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
-)
-
-// A build's outcome is taken in the same way whoever hears it (novox/hq issue 176): recorded, and
-// the module registered with its source as the seat and path when the request said so — never the
-// URL. A definition naming an installation is recorded and not registered; a failure is recorded
-// and said.
-func TestABuildHeardIsRecordedAndRegistered(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	ctx := t.Context()
-	manifest, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"module": "shop", "version": "3"})
-	m, _, err := takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, link.BuildResult{
-		ID: "b-1", Repository: "http://forge.internal:20000/novox/shop.git", Path: "modules/shop",
-		Ref: "main", On: "anchor", Commit: "abcdef0123", Manifest: manifest,
-		Source: &link.SourceOnSeat{Seat: "git", Repository: "novox/shop"},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if m.Module != "shop" {
-		t.Fatalf("registered %q", m.Module)
-	}
-	shelf, err := open.inventory.Catalogue(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, held := shelf["shop"]; !held {
-		t.Fatal("the module a heard build produced is not in the catalogue")
-	}
-	src, err := open.inventory.SourceOf(ctx, "shop")
-	if err != nil || src.Seat != "git" || src.Repository != "novox/shop" || src.BuiltFrom != "abcdef0123" {
-		t.Fatalf("the source is the seat and the path, never the URL: %+v %v", src, err)
-	}
-	builds, err := open.inventory.Builds(ctx, "shop", 5)
-	if err != nil || len(builds) != 1 || builds[0].ID != "b-1" {
-		t.Fatalf("the build is not recorded once: %v %v", builds, err)
-	}
-
-	named, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"module": "idp", "version": "1", "resources": []any{
-		map[string]any{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "x@sha256:aa",
-			"env": map[string]any{"KC_HOSTNAME": "https://login.mesh-one.be"}}}})
-	_, _, err = takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, link.BuildResult{
-		ID: "b-2", Repository: "/r", On: "anchor", Commit: "0123456789", Manifest: named})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not register it") {
-		t.Fatalf("a definition naming an installation was taken in: %v", err)
-	}
-	if shelf, _ := open.inventory.Catalogue(ctx); shelf["idp"].Module != "" {
-		t.Fatal("the refused module was registered anyway")
-	}
-	if builds, _ := open.inventory.Builds(ctx, "idp", 5); len(builds) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("the refused build was not recorded: %v", builds)
-	}
-
-	_, _, err = takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, link.BuildResult{ID: "b-3", Repository: "/r", On: "anchor", Failed: "no compiler"})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no compiler") {
-		t.Fatalf("a failure is said in the builder's words: %v", err)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/check.go

@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"sort"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// moduleCheck judges manifests where they are written, with no mesh (novox/hq ADR 0037, issue 148).
-//
-// **The same functions registration runs, and nothing the command line adds** (ADR 0035): the strict
-// parse with every per-manifest problem, then the rules no single manifest can be judged against,
-// over exactly the manifests given. Somebody describing their own application in their own
-// repository runs this before pushing and finds out there, rather than when a running mesh refuses
-// the registration or, later, when a machine applies something that resolved and should not have.
-//
-// **What it cannot know without a store, it says.** The mesh's own seat set is the store's (ADR
-// 0122); this binary carries a compiled copy that the store overrides when loaded, so a claim on a
-// mesh seat is judged fully only at registration. A seat another module declares is unknown unless
-// that module's manifest is passed too. Both are printed as a note, not as a problem — a check that
-// refused what it could not see would teach people to ignore it.
-func moduleCheck(paths []string, out io.Writer) error {
-	if len(paths) == 0 {
-		return errors.New("module check <manifest.json>... — one file per module; pass every " +
-			"manifest of a repository together so the rules between them are checked too")
-	}
-	shelf := catalogue.Shelf{}
-	faulted := map[string]bool{}
-	failed := 0
-	for _, path := range paths {
-		raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %v\n", path, err)
-			failed++
-			continue
-		}
-		m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
-		if err != nil {
-			fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %v\n", path, err)
-			failed++
-			continue
-		}
-		if first, twice := shelf[m.Module]; twice {
-			_ = first
-			fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %s was already given; two manifests name one module\n", path, m.Module)
-			failed++
-			continue
-		}
-		// A definition names no installation (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155): judged here, in the
-		// catalogue-wide test, and at registration, which refuses in the same words.
-		if named := catalogue.InstallationProblems(m); len(named) > 0 {
-			for _, p := range named {
-				fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: %s\n", path, p)
-			}
-			failed += len(named)
-			faulted[m.Module] = true
-		}
-		shelf[m.Module] = m
-	}
-
-	// Between the manifests: a seat declared twice, a use of a seat nothing declares, a claim on
-	// a seat that does not exist. Run only over what parsed, because a problem inside one manifest
-	// has already been said and would be said again here in a worse form.
-	problems := catalogue.CatalogueProblems(shelf)
-	sort.Strings(problems)
-	for _, p := range problems {
-		fmt.Fprintln(out, p)
-	}
-	failed += len(problems)
-
-	var names []string
-	for name := range shelf {
-		names = append(names, name)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	for _, name := range names {
-		m := shelf[name]
-		if faulted[name] {
-			continue
-		}
-		fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s: ok", name)
-		if n := len(m.Tools); n > 0 {
-			fmt.Fprintf(out, ", %d tool(s)", n)
-		}
-		if len(m.Invokes) > 0 {
-			fmt.Fprintf(out, ", invokes %s", joinInvokes(m.Invokes))
-		}
-		fmt.Fprintln(out)
-	}
-	if failed > 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%d problem(s) in %d manifest(s)", failed, len(paths))
-	}
-	fmt.Fprintf(out, "%d manifest(s) checked. Judged against the seats this binary carries; a claim on "+
-		"one of the mesh's own seats is judged fully at registration, and a seat declared by a "+
-		"module not given here reads as unknown\n", len(paths))
-	return nil
-}
-
-func joinInvokes(invokes []string) string {
-	if len(invokes) == 1 && invokes[0] == "*" {
-		return "every tool"
-	}
-	s := ""
-	for i, t := range invokes {
-		if i > 0 {
-			s += ", "
-		}
-		s += t
-	}
-	return s
-}
-
-// manifestsUnder lists every module.json below a directory, for `module check <dir>`.
-func manifestsUnder(dir string) ([]string, error) {
-	var found []string
-	err := filepath.WalkDir(dir, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if d.IsDir() && (d.Name() == "node_modules" || d.Name() == ".git" || d.Name() == "dist") {
-			return filepath.SkipDir
-		}
-		if !d.IsDir() && d.Name() == "module.json" {
-			found = append(found, path)
-		}
-		return nil
-	})
-	sort.Strings(found)
-	return found, err
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/check_test.go

@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// The check anybody can run is the check registration runs (novox/hq issue 148, ADR 0037): a manifest
-// with a known fault is named, and one without passes, with no store opened.
-func TestModuleCheckNamesAFaultAndNeedsNoMesh(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	good := filepath.Join(dir, "good.json")
-	bad := filepath.Join(dir, "bad.json")
-	os.WriteFile(good, []byte(`{"module":"shop","version":"1","tools":["price"],"invokes":["mesh-catalog.catalog_modules"]}`), 0o600)
-	os.WriteFile(bad, []byte(`{"module":"till","version":"1","invokes":["shop"]}`), 0o600)
-
-	var out bytes.Buffer
-	if err := moduleCheck([]string{good}, &out); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a sound manifest was refused: %v\n%s", err, out.String())
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "shop: ok, 1 tool(s), invokes mesh-catalog.catalog_modules") {
-		t.Fatalf("the report does not say what it checked:\n%s", out.String())
-	}
-
-	out.Reset()
-	err := moduleCheck([]string{good, bad}, &out)
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a manifest invoking a module and no tool passed")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), `till invokes "shop", which does not name a tool`) {
-		t.Fatalf("the fault is not named in the manifest's words:\n%s", out.String())
-	}
-}
-
-// The rules between manifests run over what was given together: a seat two modules declare is
-// refused, which no single-manifest check can see.
-func TestModuleCheckJudgesBetweenTheManifestsGiven(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	a := filepath.Join(dir, "a.json")
-	b := filepath.Join(dir, "b.json")
-	os.WriteFile(a, []byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","seats":[{"name":"printer","scope":"mesh"}]}`), 0o600)
-	os.WriteFile(b, []byte(`{"module":"b","version":"1","seats":[{"name":"printer","scope":"mesh"}]}`), 0o600)
-	var out bytes.Buffer
-	if err := moduleCheck([]string{a, b}, &out); err == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("two declarations of one seat passed:\n%s", out.String())
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(out.String(), "a seat name means one protocol") {
-		t.Fatalf("the cross-manifest rule was not the one named:\n%s", out.String())
-	}
-}
-
-// The real catalogue passes the command, the way it passes the test that used to be the only check.
-func TestModuleCheckPassesTheCatalogue(t *testing.T) {
-	root := filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "mesh-catalog", "modules")
-	if _, err := os.Stat(root); err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("catalogue sibling not present: %v", err)
-	}
-	paths, err := manifestsUnder(root)
-	if err != nil || len(paths) == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("no manifests under %s: %v", root, err)
-	}
-	var out bytes.Buffer
-	if err := moduleCheck(paths, &out); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the catalogue does not pass its own check: %v\n%s", err, out.String())
-	}
-}
-
-func TestRegistrationRefusesADefinitionNamingAnInstallation(t *testing.T) {
-	// novox/hq ADR 0155: the check moves to registration once the catalogue passes it. Both
-	// ways in — `module add` and a build's result — go through this, and a name declared on
-	// purpose passes with its reason.
-	named := catalogue.Manifest{Module: "idp", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "x@sha256:aa",
-			"env": map[string]any{"KC_HOSTNAME": "https://login.mesh-one.be"}},
-	}}
-	err := namesNoInstallation(named)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "login.mesh-one.be") ||
-		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), catalogue.NamesOnPurpose) {
-		t.Fatalf("a definition naming an installation is refused with the name and the way out; got %v", err)
-	}
-	meant := catalogue.Manifest{Module: "site", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "registry.mesh-one.be/org/site@sha256:cc",
-			catalogue.NamesOnPurpose: map[string]any{
-				"registry.mesh-one.be": "built outside the mesh until its repository is a build source here"}},
-	}}
-	if err := namesNoInstallation(meant); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a name declared on purpose passes; got %v", err)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/dependents_test.go

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-)
-
-// A merge that rebuilds a base rebuilds what stands on it, through every layer, and nothing else
-// (novox/hq issue 186): the runtime image moving means every module built on it moves too, and a
-// module built on one of those moves as well.
-func TestAMergeOfABaseTakesWhatStandsOnItAlong(t *testing.T) {
-	entry := func(name string) inventory.Entry {
-		return inventory.Entry{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: name}}
-	}
-	entries := []inventory.Entry{entry("mesh-tools"), entry("shop"), entry("shop-plugin"), entry("postgres"), entry("unrelated")}
-	against := map[string][]string{
-		"shop":        {catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "mesh-tools/runtime@sha256:a"},
-		"shop-plugin": {catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "shop/runtime@sha256:b"},
-		"postgres":    {catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "mesh-tools/runtime@sha256:a"},
-		"unrelated":   {catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "alpine/base@sha256:c"},
-	}
-	got := dependentsOf([]inventory.Entry{entry("mesh-tools")}, entries, against)
-	var names []string
-	for _, e := range got {
-		names = append(names, e.Manifest.Module)
-	}
-	want := map[string]bool{"shop": true, "shop-plugin": true, "postgres": true}
-	if len(names) != len(want) {
-		t.Fatalf("rebuilt %v; wanted exactly the three that stand on the runtime, directly or through shop", names)
-	}
-	for _, n := range names {
-		if !want[n] {
-			t.Fatalf("%s was rebuilt and stands on nothing that moved (%v)", n, names)
-		}
-	}
-	// The dependents come in base order when the merge orders them: the runtime, then shop, then
-	// the plugin that stands on shop.
-	ordered := orderByBases(append([]inventory.Entry{entry("mesh-tools")}, got...), against)
-	pos := map[string]int{}
-	for i, e := range ordered {
-		pos[e.Manifest.Module] = i
-	}
-	if !(pos["mesh-tools"] < pos["shop"] && pos["shop"] < pos["shop-plugin"]) {
-		t.Fatalf("not in base order: %v", ordered)
-	}
-	// Nothing moved: nothing follows.
-	if more := dependentsOf(nil, entries, against); len(more) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("with nothing moved, %d module(s) were rebuilt", len(more))
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/holdings.go

@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"fmt"
-	"sort"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// recordDerivedHolders writes down who holds each mesh-scoped seat that nobody was ever recorded
-// as holding.
-//
-// **A seat held by derivation is a seat held by accident of being alone** (novox/hq
-// 04-ISSUES/170). ADR 0131 lets a holder on record settle a seat, and lets any other assignment
-// whose module could hold it stand beside the holder, eligible and silent. But a seat nobody
-// ever handed over has no record, so its holder is whichever assignment happened to be the sole
-// claimant — and the day a second one is assigned, both claim, both are refused, and the first
-// one's whole machine stops resolving. That is what assigning a second postgres did to the
-// control plane's own store.
-//
-// So the mesh writes the derived answer down before it acts on an assignment: for every
-// mesh-scoped seat with exactly one resolved holder and nothing on record, that holder is
-// recorded as the standing one — the same record `seat <name> --to <node>/<module>` makes by
-// hand, made from what the mesh already resolved. A seat with two derived claimants is left
-// alone: that is the ambiguity a person settles, and recording either would be guessing.
-//
-// Node-scoped seats are untouched: a record is one holder per seat, and a node-scoped seat has
-// one holder per machine (ADR 0121), so there is nothing for a record to settle there.
-func recordDerivedHolders(ctx context.Context, open *stores) ([]string, error) {
-	inv := open.inventory
-	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	// exclude nobody: every node's claims, resolved with the holdings on record.
-	world, err := theRestOfTheMesh(ctx, inv, shelf, "")
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	recorded, err := inv.Holdings(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	// A record is a row against a seat the store knows. A seat it does not — a mesh whose seats
-	// were never seeded, a seat a module declares for itself — stays held by derivation, as it
-	// always was; a missing row is not a reason an assignment fails.
-	known, err := inv.Seats(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	recordable := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, s := range known {
-		recordable[s.Name] = true
-	}
-	onRecord := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, h := range recorded {
-		if s, ok := catalogue.SeatNamed(h.Claim); ok {
-			onRecord[s.Name] = true
-		}
-	}
-	holders := map[string][]catalogue.Held{}
-	for _, h := range world.Held {
-		if h.Scope != catalogue.ScopeMesh {
-			continue
-		}
-		s, ok := catalogue.SeatNamed(h.Claim)
-		if !ok || onRecord[s.Name] || !recordable[s.Name] {
-			continue
-		}
-		holders[s.Name] = append(holders[s.Name], h)
-	}
-	names := make([]string, 0, len(holders))
-	for name := range holders {
-		names = append(names, name)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	var said []string
-	for _, name := range names {
-		if len(holders[name]) != 1 {
-			continue
-		}
-		h := holders[name][0]
-		if err := inv.HoldSeat(ctx, name, catalogue.ScopeMesh, h.Node, h.Module); err != nil {
-			return said, err
-		}
-		said = append(said, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"recorded %s on %s as the standing holder of %s, which it held only by being alone",
-			h.Module, h.Node, name))
-	}
-	return said, nil
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/holdings_test.go

@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// A seat nobody ever handed over is held by whichever assignment happened to be alone — and the
-// day a second module able to hold it is assigned, both claimed, both were refused, and the first
-// one's machine stopped resolving (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/170). The mesh now writes the derived holder
-// down before it acts, so the second assignment stands beside the holder on record.
-
-func aSeatedStore() catalogue.Manifest {
-	return catalogue.Manifest{Module: "store", Version: "1",
-		Provides: []catalogue.Offer{{Name: "postgres-database", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh}},
-		Serves:   map[string]map[string]any{"postgres-database": {"port": 5432}},
-		Claims:   []catalogue.Claim{{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh}}}
-}
-
-func TestASecondEligibleHolderStandsBesideTheOneHeldByBeingAlone(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	ctx := t.Context()
-	// Every deploy seeds the mesh's own seats; a record is a row against one of them.
-	if _, err := open.inventory.SeedSeats(ctx, catalogue.DefaultSeats()); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	register(t, open, aSeatedStore())
-
-	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", "store"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	said, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "store")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a second store, eligible for the seat, was refused:\n%s\n%v", said, err)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(said, "cannot be worked out") {
-		t.Fatalf("assigning a second store unsettled the first one's machine:\n%s", said)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(said, "recorded store on anchor as the standing holder of mesh-store") {
-		t.Fatalf("the holder by derivation was not written down:\n%s", said)
-	}
-
-	holdings, err := open.inventory.Holdings(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var found bool
-	for _, h := range holdings {
-		if h.Claim == "mesh-store" {
-			found = true
-			if h.Node != "anchor" || h.Module != "store" {
-				t.Fatalf("mesh-store is recorded on %s/%s, not on the one that held it", h.Node, h.Module)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if !found {
-		t.Fatalf("mesh-store has no holder on record after assigning: %v", holdings)
-	}
-
-	// And the record decides from here: the anchor's plan holds the seat, the laptop's does not.
-	for node, holds := range map[string]bool{"anchor": true, "laptop": false} {
-		plan, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%s no longer resolves: %v", node, err)
-		}
-		var claimed bool
-		for _, c := range plan.Claims {
-			if c.Claim == "mesh-store" {
-				claimed = true
-			}
-		}
-		if claimed != holds {
-			t.Fatalf("%s holds mesh-store: %v, want %v", node, claimed, holds)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAHolderOnRecordIsNotRewrittenByDerivation(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	ctx := t.Context()
-	if _, err := open.inventory.SeedSeats(ctx, catalogue.DefaultSeats()); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	register(t, open, aSeatedStore())
-	for _, node := range []string{"anchor", "laptop"} {
-		if _, err := assign(ctx, open, node, "store"); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-	// A person hands the seat to the laptop. From here the record decides, and what the mesh
-	// derives must never write over it.
-	if err := open.inventory.HoldSeat(ctx, "mesh-store", catalogue.ScopeMesh, "laptop", "store"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	said, err := recordDerivedHolders(ctx, open)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(said) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a seat on record was written again from derivation: %v", said)
-	}
-	holdings, _ := open.inventory.Holdings(ctx)
-	for _, h := range holdings {
-		if h.Claim == "mesh-store" && h.Node != "laptop" {
-			t.Fatalf("the record moved to %s", h.Node)
-		}
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/hosts_behind_test.go

@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-)
-
-// A host refuses a declaration carrying a field it does not know, and refuses it whole — so every new
-// field is a flag day, and the mesh had no record of which host any machine ran (novox/hq
-// 04-ISSUES/087). The order was kept by somebody remembering it.
-
-func TestTheMeshNamesWhichMachinesRunWhichHost(t *testing.T) {
-	split := hostSplit([]inventory.Node{
-		{Name: "anchor", HostVersion: "04a27ca"},
-		{Name: "laptop", HostVersion: "ced54d4"},
-		{Name: "spare", HostVersion: "04a27ca"},
-	})
-	if len(split) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("two versions were reported and the split has %d: %v", len(split), split)
-	}
-	if got := strings.Join(split["04a27ca"], ","); got != "anchor,spare" && got != "spare,anchor" {
-		t.Fatalf("04a27ca is held by %q", got)
-	}
-	if got := strings.Join(split["ced54d4"], ","); got != "laptop" {
-		t.Fatalf("ced54d4 is held by %q", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheMeshDoesNotClaimWhichHostIsNewer(t *testing.T) {
-	// **The fault this replaced.** A host reports its version as a commit, and commits have no order.
-	// The first version compared them as strings and, on the live mesh, named the three machines
-	// running the NEWER host as the ones behind: `ced54d4` sorts above `04a27ca` and means nothing.
-	//
-	// There is no assertion to make about which is newer, and that is the point — the type says so.
-	// hostSplit returns who runs what, and nothing that could be read as an ordering.
-	split := hostSplit([]inventory.Node{
-		{Name: "old-but-sorts-high", HostVersion: "ced54d4"},
-		{Name: "new-but-sorts-low", HostVersion: "04a27ca"},
-	})
-	for version, machines := range split {
-		if len(machines) != 1 {
-			t.Fatalf("%s is held by %v", version, machines)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAMachineThatHasNotSaidIsNotAVersion(t *testing.T) {
-	// It may be running anything. Counting it as a version would invent a disagreement; `node show`
-	// says per machine that it has not said.
-	split := hostSplit([]inventory.Node{
-		{Name: "anchor", HostVersion: "04a27ca"},
-		{Name: "quiet"},
-	})
-	if split != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("one reported version and one silence read as a disagreement: %v", split)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestMachinesAgreeingOnTheirHostAreNotADisagreement(t *testing.T) {
-	if split := hostSplit([]inventory.Node{
-		{Name: "anchor", HostVersion: "v2"},
-		{Name: "laptop", HostVersion: "v2"},
-	}); split != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("machines agreeing reported a split: %v", split)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAMeshWhereNothingReportedAHostStatesNoDisagreement(t *testing.T) {
-	if split := hostSplit([]inventory.Node{{Name: "anchor"}, {Name: "laptop"}}); split != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a mesh told no host version reported a split: %v", split)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAReportedHostVersionIsKeptAndReadBack(t *testing.T) {
-	// The machine has sent this since ADR 0141 and the controller's own copy of the report did not
-	// have the field, so it was unmarshalled into nothing. End to end through the store, because the
-	// fault was a field that existed on one side of the wire only.
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	record, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), "anchor")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if record.HostVersion != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("a machine that never reported one has host version %q", record.HostVersion)
-	}
-	if err := open.inventory.RecordHostVersion(t.Context(), record.ID, "ced54d4"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	again, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), "anchor")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if again.HostVersion != "ced54d4" {
-		t.Fatalf("the reported host version read back as %q", again.HostVersion)
-	}
-	// An empty report never clears what a machine last said: a bare word that the node is there says
-	// nothing about its host.
-	if err := open.inventory.RecordHostVersion(t.Context(), record.ID, "  "); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	kept, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), "anchor")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if kept.HostVersion != "ced54d4" {
-		t.Fatalf("a report carrying no host version cleared what the machine had said: %q",
-			kept.HostVersion)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/main.go

@@ -72,8 +72,6 @@ func run() error {
 		return askCommand(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "builds":
 		return buildsCommand(ctx, args[1:])
-	case "plans":
-		return plansCommand(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "pin":
 		return pinCommand(ctx, args[1:], true)
 	case "unpin":
@@ -163,7 +161,6 @@ func usage() {
   overlay place <node> [flags]   say where a node is and how it is reached
   overlay show                   the private network, as the mesh computes it
   module add <file>              register a module from its manifest
-  module check <file|dir>...     judge manifests where they are written, with no mesh (exit 1 on any problem)
   module list                    what modules this mesh knows about
   module moved <name> <commit>   the source has a newer commit than the mesh built
   module forget <name>           remove one, unless a node runs it or the mesh holds things for it
@@ -174,8 +171,6 @@ func usage() {
   upgrade <name> record          ...record that they are behind, and send nothing
   status [--json]                what is wrong, what is quiet, and what is out of date
   seats [--json]                 every seat this mesh defines, what it delivers, and who holds it
-  seat rename <from> <to>        rename a seat; its former name still resolves (ADR 0122)
-  seat <name> --to <node>/<module>   hand a seat to that assignment as one act; never empty in between (ADR 0131)
   board [--listen ADDR]          the same three questions, as a page that holds nothing
   api --issuer URL [--listen A]  assign and unassign over http, for a surface that is not here
   assign <node> <module>         put a module on a node
@@ -205,8 +200,7 @@ func usage() {
   licence refresh <name>         mint a new access token and seal it to every holder
   rotate <provision> [--consumer <n>]  a new credential for every holder, both ends at once
   ask <module> <tool> [json]           call one of a module's tools over the broker, and print its answer
-  pin <node> <provision> <from-node> <module>
-                                 which provider this one gets a provision from: the module, and its node
+  pin <node> <provision> <from>  which node this one gets a provision from
   unpin <node> <provision>       put that question back
   plan <node> [--files|--json]     what that node would run, and why
   push [<node>] [--behind]       send a node everything it should be, or only those that need it
@@ -246,31 +240,6 @@ func parseAround(set *flag.FlagSet, args []string) ([]string, error) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Built is the daemon hearing a build's outcome on the bus — its own asking, an announcement's, or
-// a tool's that did not wait (novox/hq issue 176) — and taking it in: recorded, and the module
-// registered, the same as the waiting command does. Said either way, so the daemon's log tells what
-// became of a build nobody was watching.
 func (b builds) Built(ctx context.Context, result link.BuildResult) error {
-	manifest, _, err := takeIn(ctx, b.inv, result)
-	switch {
-	case err != nil && result.Failed != "":
-		fmt.Printf("%s: %v\n", result.ID, err)
-		if result.Module != "" {
-			planBuilt(ctx, b.open, result.Module, result.Commit, result.Failed)
-		} else {
-			planFailedBuild(ctx, b.open, result)
-		}
-		return nil
-	case err != nil:
-		fmt.Printf("%s: heard and recorded, and not registered: %v\n", result.ID, err)
-		if manifest.Module != "" {
-			planBuilt(ctx, b.open, manifest.Module, result.Commit, err.Error())
-		}
-		return nil
-	}
-	fmt.Printf("%s: %s %s registered, built on %s from %s\n",
-		result.ID, manifest.Module, manifest.Version, result.On, short(result.Commit))
-	saysWhenThePolicyActs(ctx, b.inv, manifest.Module)
-	planBuilt(ctx, b.open, manifest.Module, result.Commit, "")
-	return nil
+	return b.inv.RecordBuild(ctx, buildFrom(result))
 }

cmd/mesh-controller/modules.go

@@ -54,24 +54,7 @@ var provided = providedModules()
 
 func moduleCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	if len(args) == 0 {
-		return errors.New("module add <file>, module check <file>..., module list, or module forget <name>")
-	}
-	// `check` needs no mesh, and must not: it is what somebody runs in their own repository before
-	// there is a mesh in reach (novox/hq issue 148). A directory expands to every manifest under it.
-	if args[0] == "check" {
-		var paths []string
-		for _, a := range args[1:] {
-			if info, err := os.Stat(a); err == nil && info.IsDir() {
-				under, err := manifestsUnder(a)
-				if err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-				paths = append(paths, under...)
-				continue
-			}
-			paths = append(paths, a)
-		}
-		return moduleCheck(paths, os.Stdout)
+		return errors.New("module add <file>, module list, or module forget <name>")
 	}
 	open, err := openStores(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -113,9 +96,6 @@ func moduleCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		if err := namesNoInstallation(m); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
 		if err := inv.RegisterModule(ctx, m, from); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@@ -295,7 +275,7 @@ func moduleCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		return issueOnTheNewBus(ctx, inv, m, *forNode, busAddress)
 
 	default:
-		return fmt.Errorf("module has no %q; it has add, check, list, moved, forget and issue", args[0])
+		return fmt.Errorf("module has no %q; it has add, list, moved, forget and issue", args[0])
 	}
 }
 
@@ -411,8 +391,8 @@ func describeOffers(offers []catalogue.Offer) string {
 // database should not change where an existing machine gets its data the day a second one
 // arrives.
 func pinCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string, setting bool) error {
-	if setting && len(args) != 4 {
-		return errors.New("pin <node> <provision> <from-node> <module>")
+	if setting && len(args) != 3 {
+		return errors.New("pin <node> <provision> <from-node>")
 	}
 	if !setting && len(args) != 2 {
 		return errors.New("unpin <node> <provision>")
@@ -431,12 +411,17 @@ func pinCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string, setting bool) error {
 		fmt.Printf("%s is no longer told where to get %s from\n", args[0], args[1])
 		return nil
 	}
-	// The provider's node may be this same machine: two modules beside the consumer can both
-	// answer a provision, and then the module is the whole question (novox/hq #258).
-	if err := inv.PinProvision(ctx, args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3]); err != nil {
+	if args[0] == args[2] {
+		// Allowed by nothing here, and worth saying rather than resolving into a confusing
+		// refusal later: a node providing something to itself is a node-scoped provision, and
+		// this field is for the other kind.
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s cannot get %s from itself; that would be a provision this machine "+
+			"provides, which does not need saying", args[0], args[1])
+	}
+	if err := inv.PinProvision(ctx, args[0], args[1], args[2]); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	fmt.Printf("%s gets %s from %s/%s\n", args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3])
+	fmt.Printf("%s gets %s from %s\n", args[0], args[1], args[2])
 	fmt.Printf("  run `push %s` to send it\n", args[0])
 	return nil
 }
@@ -579,25 +564,16 @@ func issueOnTheNewBus(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue
 // (`rollout mint`, design 28 task 5.2) rather than the one in this process's environment.
 func issueWith(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue.Manifest,
 	node, busAddress string, known broker.Broker, reachable, user, password string) error {
-	// The seats this module claims, with the verbs each promises (novox/hq ADR 0159): the runtime
-	// serves a claimed seat's verbs with its tools of the same name, and the bus admits only the
-	// holder's subscription — so the runtime tries each claim and the grant decides. Written here
-	// because this file is the one thing the mesh writes that the runtime reads before it speaks.
-	claims, err := claimsFor(ctx, inv, m)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 	held, err := json.Marshal(struct {
-		URL         string        `json:"url"`
-		Fingerprint string        `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
-		Node        string        `json:"node"`
-		Module      string        `json:"module"`
-		User        string        `json:"user"`
-		Password    string        `json:"password"`
-		Claims      []seatClaimed `json:"claims,omitempty"`
+		URL         string `json:"url"`
+		Fingerprint string `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
+		Node        string `json:"node"`
+		Module      string `json:"module"`
+		User        string `json:"user"`
+		Password    string `json:"password"`
 	}{
 		URL: "nats://" + reachable, Fingerprint: known.Fingerprint,
-		Node: node, Module: m.Module, User: user, Password: password, Claims: claims,
+		Node: node, Module: m.Module, User: user, Password: password,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -669,53 +645,3 @@ func whereItComesFrom(repository, ref, commit, path string, self bool) (inventor
 	}
 	return from, nil
 }
-
-// namesNoInstallation is the mesh refusing a definition that names an installation, at the moment
-// it would enter the catalogue (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155). `module check` says the same thing
-// earlier, where the author is; this is the last moment the mesh can still say no, and a
-// definition that got past the check — written elsewhere, or checked by nobody — is refused here
-// in the same words. A name meant on purpose is declared with its reason and passes.
-func namesNoInstallation(m catalogue.Manifest) error {
-	named := catalogue.InstallationProblems(m)
-	if len(named) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	return fmt.Errorf("%s names an installation, and a definition names none — declare a name meant "+
-		"on purpose under %s with its reason, or take it out:\n  - %s",
-		m.Module, catalogue.NamesOnPurpose, strings.Join(named, "\n  - "))
-}
-
-// seatClaimed is one seat a module claims, as its runtime needs it: the name, the scope (a
-// node-scoped seat's verb carries the machine, design 33 §4) and the verbs the seat promises.
-type seatClaimed struct {
-	Seat   string   `json:"seat"`
-	Scope  string   `json:"scope"`
-	Serves []string `json:"serves,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// claimsFor joins a module's claims with the seats' protocols from the mesh's records.
-func claimsFor(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue.Manifest) ([]seatClaimed, error) {
-	if len(m.Claims) == 0 {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	seats, err := inv.Seats(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	byName := map[string]catalogue.Seat{}
-	for _, s := range seats {
-		byName[s.Name] = s
-	}
-	var out []seatClaimed
-	for _, c := range m.Claims {
-		claimed := seatClaimed{Seat: c.Name, Scope: c.At()}
-		if s, known := byName[c.Name]; known {
-			claimed.Scope = s.Scope
-			// The verbs the runtime serves for the seat: the claim's own when it names them
-			// (ADR 0160), else every verb the seat promises, which its tools then answer.
-			claimed.Serves = c.ServesFor(catalogue.Manifest{Tools: catalogue.VerbNames(s.Serves)})
-		}
-		out = append(out, claimed)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/modules_test.go

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import (
 // A module that declares none is refused before the account exists, so the bus never carries an
 // account nothing reads (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/078).
 func TestAModuleWithNoBrokerSecretCannotBeIssued(t *testing.T) {
-	err := mayIssue(catalogue.Manifest{Module: "step-ca", OwnSecrets: catalogue.OwnSecrets{"password": {Path: "/run/password"}}})
+	err := mayIssue(catalogue.Manifest{Module: "step-ca", OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"password": "/run/password"}})
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a module with no broker own secret was issued an account")
 	}
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ func TestAModuleWithNoBrokerSecretCannotBeIssued(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("the refusal does not say %q: %v", want, err)
 		}
 	}
-	if err := mayIssue(catalogue.Manifest{Module: "redis", OwnSecrets: catalogue.OwnSecrets{"broker": {Path: "/run/broker"}}}); err != nil {
+	if err := mayIssue(catalogue.Manifest{Module: "redis", OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"broker": "/run/broker"}}); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("a module declaring its broker secret was refused: %v", err)
 	}
 }

cmd/mesh-controller/network.go

@@ -567,9 +567,6 @@ func onTheNetwork(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 			catalogue.Node{Name: p.Name, Site: p.Site, Capabilities: caps},
 			catalogue.World{Unchecked: true, Holdings: holdings})
 		if err != nil {
-			// Said, not skipped in silence: a machine dropped here loses its address, and every
-			// plan that names it fails in another module's words (novox/hq issue 188).
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is not counted as on the network: it does not resolve: %v\n", p.Name, err)
 			continue
 		}
 		for _, m := range got.Modules {

cmd/mesh-controller/nodes.go

@@ -436,12 +436,6 @@ func showNode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, name string) error
 	}
 	fmt.Printf("%s\n", node.Name)
 	fmt.Printf("  last heard from   %s\n", heardFrom(node))
-	// Which host runs it, as it reported (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/087). Said whenever known, because a
-	// host refuses a declaration carrying a field it does not understand and refuses it WHOLE — so
-	// which host a machine runs is what decides whether the mesh can send it anything new, and
-	// nothing could say it. "not reported" rather than blank: a machine that has not said is a
-	// different thing from one running nothing.
-	fmt.Printf("  host              %s\n", orNotReported(node.HostVersion))
 	if err := showMode(ctx, inv, node); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -492,11 +486,3 @@ func showNode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, name string) error
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-
-// orNotReported is a fact a machine states about itself, or the fact that it has not.
-func orNotReported(s string) string {
-	if strings.TrimSpace(s) == "" {
-		return "not reported — this machine has not said since the mesh began keeping it"
-	}
-	return s
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"os"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -164,14 +163,7 @@ func planFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, nodeName string) (catalogue.Reso
 			}
 			continue
 		}
-		var secret inventory.Secret
-		var err error
-		if n.SharedOwn != "" {
-			// The provider's one credential, sealed to this consumer too (novox/hq ADR 0158).
-			secret, err = inv.SharedSecretFor(ctx, n.Name, nodeName, n.For, n.From, providerModuleOf(resolved, open, ctx, n), n.Local, n.SharedOwn)
-		} else {
-			secret, err = inv.SecretFor(ctx, n.Name, nodeName, n.For, n.From, n.Local)
-		}
+		secret, err := inv.SecretFor(ctx, n.Name, nodeName, n.For, n.From, n.Local)
 		if err != nil {
 			// Said rather than skipped. A machine that resolves cleanly and receives no
 			// credential is one that will fail to authenticate at some later, less obvious
@@ -282,9 +274,8 @@ func theRestOfTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 	for _, o := range others {
 		got, err := catalogue.Resolve(shelf, o.assigned, o.node, catalogue.World{Unchecked: true, Holdings: holdings})
 		if err != nil {
-			// Said, not skipped: a machine dropped here offers nothing and holds nothing as far
-			// as every other machine's plan can tell (novox/hq issue 188).
-			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is left out of the rest of the mesh: it does not resolve: %v\n", o.node.Name, err)
+			// Their set does not resolve for some other reason. Not this node's problem to
+			// report, and nothing of theirs is running, so it offers nothing.
 			continue
 		}
 		firstHeld = append(firstHeld, got.Claims...)
@@ -315,22 +306,8 @@ func theRestOfTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 	world := catalogue.World{Offered: offered, Held: firstHeld, Holdings: holdings}
 	var held []catalogue.Held
 	for _, o := range others {
-		// Each machine is resolved with its own pins, as its plan is: a machine that needs one to
-		// settle two providers would otherwise be refused here and vanish from the mesh — every
-		// seat it holds unheld, every build that needs one refused (2026-10-01, the control node;
-		// novox/hq issue 188).
-		theirs := world
-		if pins, err := inv.PinsFor(ctx, o.node.Name); err == nil {
-			theirs.Pinned = pins
-		}
-		got, err := catalogue.Resolve(shelf, o.assigned, o.node, theirs)
+		got, err := catalogue.Resolve(shelf, o.assigned, o.node, world)
 		if err != nil {
-			// Said only for the whole-mesh view. With one machine excluded, the others are
-			// resolved without its offers, and one that consumes them cannot resolve here by
-			// design — that is not the machine being dropped, it is the view being partial.
-			if exclude == "" {
-				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is left out of the rest of the mesh: it does not resolve: %v\n", o.node.Name, err)
-			}
 			continue
 		}
 		held = append(held, got.Claims...)
@@ -754,13 +731,9 @@ func routeNamesInTheMesh(ctx context.Context, open *stores) (map[string]string,
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("which machines the mesh has cannot be read: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// Every machine's resolution first, then the names across them at once: which node serves a
-	// name is a question about the graph — the consumer on one machine, the provider on another —
-	// and answered wrongly by looking at one contribution at a time (novox/hq issue 178).
-	plans := map[string]catalogue.Resolution{}
-	settings := map[string]catalogue.SettingsBy{}
+	out := map[string]string{}
 	for _, n := range nodes {
-		plan, layers, err := planFor(ctx, open, n.Name)
+		plan, settings, err := planFor(ctx, open, n.Name)
 		switch {
 		case unresolvable(err):
 			// Their set does not compose, so they serve no names. Passed over, so one machine's
@@ -772,16 +745,38 @@ func routeNamesInTheMesh(ctx context.Context, open *stores) (map[string]string,
 			// operator having withdrawn them (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/152).
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the names %s serves cannot be read: %w", n.Name, err)
 		}
-		plans[n.Name], settings[n.Name] = plan, layers
-	}
-	served, err := catalogue.NamesServed(plans, settings)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	out := map[string]string{}
-	for name, node := range served {
-		if at := address[node]; at != "" {
-			out[name] = at
+		for _, m := range plan.Modules {
+			for to := range m.Contributes {
+				values, asks, err := plan.ContributionsFrom(to, m.Module, settings)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				if !asks {
+					continue
+				}
+				// A routed name, and only that: a contribution the mesh composed a name for from a
+				// label it was given. A grant that happens to carry a `name` of its own — a database
+				// name — carries no label and is left alone.
+				if _, labelled := values["label"]; !labelled {
+					continue
+				}
+				name, _ := values["name"].(string)
+				if name == "" {
+					continue
+				}
+				// The node that serves it: whoever answers this consumer's route requirement, or
+				// this same node when the proxy is beside the consumer.
+				serving := n.Name
+				for _, need := range plan.Needs {
+					if need.Name == to && need.For == m.Module {
+						serving = need.From
+						break
+					}
+				}
+				if at := address[serving]; at != "" {
+					out[strings.ToLower(name)] = at
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return out, nil
@@ -1361,23 +1356,3 @@ func foundationPortsFor(brokerPort int, modules []catalogue.Manifest) []int {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
-
-// providerModuleOf is which module answers a need on the providing node: the one in this node's
-// own set when the provider is here, else the one the catalogue says offers it.
-func providerModuleOf(resolved catalogue.Resolution, open *stores, ctx context.Context, n catalogue.Needed) string {
-	for _, m := range resolved.Modules {
-		if _, shared := m.SharedCredentialOf(n.Name); shared {
-			return m.Module
-		}
-	}
-	shelf, err := open.inventory.Catalogue(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-	for name, m := range shelf {
-		if _, shared := m.SharedCredentialOf(n.Name); shared {
-			return name
-		}
-	}
-	return ""
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/push.go

@@ -4,11 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"encoding/hex"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"log"
 	"os"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
@@ -113,10 +111,7 @@ func serve(ctx context.Context) error {
 	// while everything else about it looks correct.
 	// And build results nobody was waiting for. A build triggered any other way than `build`
 	// would otherwise be reported into the void, which is the same as not reporting it.
-	server.Records(builds{inv, open})
-	// Open plans move on a timer as well as on outcomes (novox/hq ADR 0162): a tier waiting for
-	// machines to report moves when they have, and a plan left by a replaced controller resumes.
-	go planTicker(ctx, open)
+	server.Records(builds{inv})
 	// And what the catalogue decided a build meant. The builder's own result is already handled
 	// above; this is the other half — the control plane is the only one of the three that knows
 	// which machines run the thing, so it is the one that acts (novox/hq ADR 0072).
@@ -129,22 +124,6 @@ func serve(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// And the mesh's own verbs, as the seat this control plane holds (novox/hq ADR 0154). Served
-	// from the store's row, so what the seat declares is what is answered.
-	handlers, err := seatToolHandlers()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	bus, isNATS := server.Bus().(link.OverNATS)
-	if !isNATS {
-		return errors.New("the mesh's verbs are served over the bus, and this control plane is not on it")
-	}
-	stopServing, err := bus.ServeSeatTools(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, handlers, log.New(os.Stdout, "", log.LstdFlags))
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer stopServing()
-
 	return server.Serve(ctx)
 }
 
@@ -359,12 +338,6 @@ func pushCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	sentDigest := map[string]string{}
 	defer release()
 	for _, s := range sending {
-		// Numbered under the hold, one higher than the last, before the body exists — the number is
-		// inside the signed bytes, so a replayed older declaration cannot borrow a newer one's
-		// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/107).
-		if err := number(ctx, inv, &s); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
 		body, err := s.declared.Body()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -387,15 +360,6 @@ func pushCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	}
 	release()
 	fmt.Printf("\n%d node(s) told\n", len(sending))
-	// And each machine's memberships, as every other send does (ADR 0160): a push is the one most
-	// operators run, and on 2026-10-01 it was the one path that issued none.
-	var told []string
-	for _, s := range sending {
-		told = append(told, s.node)
-	}
-	if err := issueMemberships(ctx, open, server, told); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 
 	// **A named push leaves the mesh consistent, not just the machine it named** (novox/hq
 	// issue 057, ADR 0083). Assigning a cross-node consumer mints a provision, and the PROVIDER's
@@ -600,9 +564,6 @@ func sendRound(ctx context.Context, open *stores, names []string,
 		return compose(held, node)
 	})
 	for _, s := range sending {
-		if err := number(ctx, open.inventory, &s); err != nil {
-			return refused, err
-		}
 		body, err := s.declared.Body()
 		if err != nil {
 			return refused, err
@@ -684,9 +645,6 @@ func sendTo(ctx context.Context, open *stores, names []string) error {
 	defer server.Close()
 
 	for _, s := range sending {
-		if err := number(ctx, inv, &s); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
 		body, err := s.declared.Body()
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -703,51 +661,6 @@ func sendTo(ctx context.Context, open *stores, names []string) error {
 		}
 		fmt.Printf("  sent %s %d resource(s)\n", s.node, len(s.declared.Resources))
 	}
-	// And every assignment on those machines its membership (novox/hq ADR 0160): composed from the
-	// same records the bus's accounts are, so what a runtime serves and what its account may are one
-	// composition. Issued after the declaration, because the runtime it is for arrives with it.
-	return issueMemberships(ctx, open, server, names)
-}
-
-// issueMemberships publishes the membership of every module on the named machines.
-func issueMemberships(ctx context.Context, open *stores, server *link.Server, names []string) error {
-	records, err := open.inventory.BusRecords(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	where := broker.PlacementsOf(records, records.Interchangeable)
-	bus, ok := server.Bus().(link.OverNATS)
-	if !ok {
-		return nil
-	}
-	// The declarations are sent and recorded by now; a membership that cannot be issued is said
-	// and does not unsay them. Every runtime without one serves the shape it derives (ADR 0160), so
-	// the push stands, the first failure is named once, and the next push tries again.
-	issued, failed := 0, 0
-	var first error
-	for _, node := range names {
-		for _, d := range records.Assigned[node] {
-			body, err := json.Marshal(broker.MembershipFor(node, d, where))
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			if err := bus.PublishMembership(ctx, node, d.Module, body); err != nil {
-				if first == nil {
-					first = err
-				}
-				failed++
-				continue
-			}
-			issued++
-		}
-	}
-	if issued > 0 {
-		fmt.Printf("  issued %d membership(s)\n", issued)
-	}
-	if failed > 0 {
-		fmt.Printf("  %d membership(s) could not be issued; the first: %v — the machines keep what "+
-			"they derive until the next push\n", failed, first)
-	}
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -781,12 +694,6 @@ func wouldSend(ctx context.Context, open *stores,
 		if err != nil {
 			continue
 		}
-		// Composed with the number the machine was LAST sent, so this is byte for byte what it was
-		// sent when nothing else changed. A fresh number here would make every machine read as
-		// behind for ever (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/107).
-		if declared.Sequence, err = open.inventory.Sequence(ctx, n.ID); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
 		body, err := declared.Body()
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
@@ -920,17 +827,3 @@ func seatHolders(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) (map[string]brok
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
-
-// number gives one send the next sequence for its node (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/107).
-func number(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, s *readyNode) error {
-	record, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, s.node)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	seq, err := inv.NextSequence(ctx, record.ID)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	s.declared.Sequence = seq
-	return nil
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/readable.go

@@ -39,9 +39,6 @@ type meshStatus struct {
 	// whose is older is still working — and Waiting cannot tell those apart, because the sent
 	// digest is recorded at send, not at apply.
 	Reported []machineReported `json:"reported"`
-	// Plans is what the last merges produced and where each stands (novox/hq ADR 0162): the
-	// open ones first, each saying its tier, what it waits for, and whether it has waited too long.
-	Plans []planStatus `json:"plans"`
 	// Unresolved is every machine that cannot be worked out at all, with what the mesh said when
 	// it tried. **A machine here is in none of the lists above**: nothing was computed for it, so
 	// there is nothing to compare it against and nothing it can be behind — which is why a
@@ -59,23 +56,6 @@ type meshStatus struct {
 	Machines int `json:"machines"`
 	// Adopted is every node still adopted (novox/hq ADR 0100); absent when none is.
 	Adopted []string `json:"adopted,omitempty"`
-	// Untaken is every module assigned to a machine that is holding what it found rather than
-	// running what the module declares, because nothing took it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125). Absent
-	// when nothing is held.
-	//
-	// **A document without this said an outage was a well mesh.** Read from what each machine
-	// reported, so it is the machine's account and not the mesh's take-time listing.
-	Untaken []machineUntaken `json:"untaken,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// machineUntaken is one module a machine is holding rather than running, and how many resources of
-// it are held.
-type machineUntaken struct {
-	Node   string `json:"node"`
-	Module string `json:"module"`
-	// Held is how many of the module's resources the machine is keeping as it found them. Zero is
-	// impossible here: a module with nothing held is not in this list.
-	Held int `json:"held"`
 }
 
 type machineUnresolved struct {
@@ -155,24 +135,7 @@ func statusAsJSON(asked answers) ([]byte, error) {
 	out := meshStatus{Machines: len(nodes), Wrong: []machineDoing{},
 		Quiet: []machineQuiet{}, Behind: []moduleBehind{}, Waiting: []machineWaiting{},
 		Reported: []machineReported{}, Unresolved: []machineUnresolved{},
-		Network: asked.network, Adopted: adoptedNodes(nodes), Plans: planStatuses(asked.plans, time.Now())}
-	// In a stated order, so two readings of an unchanged mesh are the same document.
-	untakenNodes := make([]string, 0, len(asked.untaken))
-	for name := range asked.untaken {
-		untakenNodes = append(untakenNodes, name)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(untakenNodes)
-	for _, name := range untakenNodes {
-		modules := make([]string, 0, len(asked.untaken[name]))
-		for m := range asked.untaken[name] {
-			modules = append(modules, m)
-		}
-		sort.Strings(modules)
-		for _, m := range modules {
-			out.Untaken = append(out.Untaken,
-				machineUntaken{Node: name, Module: m, Held: asked.untaken[name][m]})
-		}
-	}
+		Network: asked.network, Adopted: adoptedNodes(nodes)}
 	for name := range asked.refused {
 		out.Unresolved = append(out.Unresolved, machineUnresolved{
 			Node: name, Problem: asked.refused[name]})

cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan.go

@@ -1,742 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"flag"
-	"fmt"
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
-)
-
-// A merge produces a tiered plan the mesh keeps (novox/hq ADR 0162).
-//
-// The handler that hears the merge computes the plan from the catalogue's one dependency relation,
-// writes it to the store, asks the first tier and returns — the receive loop is never held by a
-// build. Every outcome taken in advances the plan it belongs to; a ticker advances what outcomes
-// alone cannot (a tier waiting for machines to report); a controller replaced mid-plan finds the
-// plan where it left it.
-
-// planWaitBound is how long a plan may wait on one thing before `status` names it red.
-const planWaitBound = 30 * time.Minute
-
-// tiersOf sorts a set of modules into tiers along the ordering edges among them: tier 0 depends
-// on nothing else in the set, tier 1 only on tier 0, and so on. An edge to a module outside the set says
-// nothing about the order inside it. A cycle — which the catalogue should never produce — puts
-// what remains in one last tier rather than losing it, and is said by the caller.
-func tiersOf(set []string, edges []inventory.Edge) [][]string {
-	in := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, m := range set {
-		in[m] = true
-	}
-	deps := map[string]map[string]bool{}
-	for _, m := range set {
-		deps[m] = map[string]bool{}
-	}
-	for _, e := range edges {
-		// A code dependency — B packages A's source — rebuilds B with A, in the same tier: B's
-		// build needs nothing of A's first. The other kinds order: stands-on and declared after
-		// the base is built, built-by after the build machine is built and running — except for
-		// what the build machine itself stands on. The runtime image is built by the builder and
-		// the builder is built on the runtime image; the image comes first, built by the builder
-		// that is running, which is the only one there could be.
-		if !in[e.From] || !in[e.To] || e.From == e.To || e.Kind == inventory.EdgePackages {
-			continue
-		}
-		if e.Kind == inventory.EdgeBuiltBy && isBaseOf(e.From, e.To, edges, in) {
-			continue
-		}
-		deps[e.From][e.To] = true
-	}
-	placed := map[string]bool{}
-	var tiers [][]string
-	for len(placed) < len(set) {
-		var tier []string
-		for _, m := range set {
-			if placed[m] {
-				continue
-			}
-			free := true
-			for d := range deps[m] {
-				if !placed[d] {
-					free = false
-					break
-				}
-			}
-			if free {
-				tier = append(tier, m)
-			}
-		}
-		if len(tier) == 0 {
-			// A cycle: everything left, together, and the caller says so.
-			for _, m := range set {
-				if !placed[m] {
-					tier = append(tier, m)
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		sort.Strings(tier)
-		for _, m := range tier {
-			placed[m] = true
-		}
-		tiers = append(tiers, tier)
-	}
-	return tiers
-}
-
-// isBaseOf says whether `to` stands on `base`, directly or through other bases in the set, along
-// the build edges alone.
-func isBaseOf(base, to string, edges []inventory.Edge, in map[string]bool) bool {
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	var walk func(string) bool
-	walk = func(m string) bool {
-		if m == base {
-			return true
-		}
-		if seen[m] {
-			return false
-		}
-		seen[m] = true
-		for _, e := range edges {
-			if e.From == m && in[e.To] && (e.Kind == inventory.EdgeStandsOn || e.Kind == inventory.EdgeDeclared) && walk(e.To) {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-		return false
-	}
-	return walk(to)
-}
-
-// reachableFrom is the moved modules plus everything that depends on them, through every layer:
-// what a merge rebuilds. Along the code and build edges only: a module *built by* the build machine
-// is not changed by a new build machine, so a built-by edge orders and gates a plan and never
-// widens it — the first plan of 2026-10-01 took the whole catalogue along for a controller change.
-func reachableFrom(moved []string, edges []inventory.Edge) []string {
-	in := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, m := range moved {
-		in[m] = true
-	}
-	for grew := true; grew; {
-		grew = false
-		for _, e := range edges {
-			if e.Kind == inventory.EdgeBuiltBy {
-				continue
-			}
-			if in[e.To] && !in[e.From] {
-				in[e.From] = true
-				grew = true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	out := make([]string, 0, len(in))
-	for m := range in {
-		out = append(out, m)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out
-}
-
-// hasCycle says whether the tiers' last tier holds modules that still depend on each other.
-func hasCycle(tiers [][]string, edges []inventory.Edge) bool {
-	if len(tiers) == 0 {
-		return false
-	}
-	last := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, m := range tiers[len(tiers)-1] {
-		last[m] = true
-	}
-	for _, e := range edges {
-		if last[e.From] && last[e.To] {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// planFor is the plan a merge produces: the moved modules and everything reachable from them,
-// tiered, with the merge it answers.
-func planOfMerge(m link.SourceMoved, moved []string, edges []inventory.Edge) inventory.Plan {
-	set := reachableFrom(moved, edges)
-	tiers := tiersOf(set, edges)
-	modules := map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{}
-	for _, name := range set {
-		modules[name] = &inventory.PlanModule{}
-	}
-	return inventory.Plan{
-		ID:         fmt.Sprintf("plan-%d", time.Now().UnixNano()),
-		Repository: m.Owner + "/" + m.Repo,
-		Commit:     m.Commit,
-		Created:    time.Now().UTC(),
-		State:      inventory.PlanBuilding,
-		Tiers:      tiers,
-		Modules:    modules,
-	}
-}
-
-// gates is what the next tier needs running from this one: a module of the tier that a later
-// tier is built by — the runtime dependency — and whose policy rolls it out, must be applied by
-// the machines running it before the next tier is asked. A base an image stands on need only be
-// built; a source another module packages need not even be that.
-func gates(p inventory.Plan, edges []inventory.Edge, rollsOut func(string) bool) []string {
-	if p.Tier >= len(p.Tiers) {
-		return nil
-	}
-	inTier := map[string]bool{}
-	all := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, tier := range p.Tiers {
-		for _, m := range tier {
-			all[m] = true
-		}
-	}
-	for _, m := range p.Tiers[p.Tier] {
-		inTier[m] = true
-	}
-	later := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, tier := range p.Tiers[p.Tier+1:] {
-		for _, m := range tier {
-			later[m] = true
-		}
-	}
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	var out []string
-	for _, e := range edges {
-		if later[e.From] && inTier[e.To] && e.Kind == inventory.EdgeBuiltBy && !seen[e.To] && rollsOut(e.To) &&
-			!isBaseOf(e.From, e.To, edges, all) {
-			seen[e.To] = true
-			out = append(out, e.To)
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out
-}
-
-// applied says whether every machine running the module has reported since the module was built.
-func applied(module string, builtAt time.Time, running []string, reports []inventory.Reported) (bool, []string) {
-	at := map[string]*time.Time{}
-	for _, r := range reports {
-		at[r.Node] = r.At
-	}
-	var waiting []string
-	for _, n := range running {
-		if t := at[n]; t == nil || t.Before(builtAt) {
-			waiting = append(waiting, n)
-		}
-	}
-	return len(waiting) == 0, waiting
-}
-
-// askTier asks the build machine for every module of the tier, and marks each asked. A module
-// the catalogue no longer holds, or whose ask could not be made, is a failure of the plan: a tier
-// half asked is a tier that will never complete.
-func askTier(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, p *inventory.Plan) error {
-	entries, err := inv.Catalogued(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	byName := map[string]inventory.Entry{}
-	for _, e := range entries {
-		byName[e.Manifest.Module] = e
-	}
-	now := time.Now().UTC()
-	for _, name := range p.Tiers[p.Tier] {
-		state := p.Modules[name]
-		if state == nil {
-			state = &inventory.PlanModule{}
-			p.Modules[name] = state
-		}
-		e, known := byName[name]
-		if !known {
-			state.State = "failed"
-			state.Why = "no longer in the catalogue"
-			p.State = inventory.PlanFailed
-			p.Note = name + " is no longer in the catalogue"
-			continue
-		}
-		source := buildSource{Repository: e.Source.Repository, Seat: e.Source.Seat}
-		fmt.Printf("  tier %d: ", p.Tier)
-		if err := buildOne(ctx, source, e.Source.Path, e.Source.Ref, 0); err != nil {
-			state.State = "failed"
-			state.Why = err.Error()
-			p.State = inventory.PlanFailed
-			p.Note = fmt.Sprintf("%s could not be asked for: %v", name, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		state.State = "asked"
-		state.AskedAt = &now
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// planBuilt marks a module built (or failed) in every open plan whose current tier holds it, and
-// advances what that completes. Called from the daemon's take-in of every outcome.
-func planBuilt(ctx context.Context, open *stores, module, commit, failed string) {
-	inv := open.inventory
-	plans, err := inv.OpenPlans(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Printf("plans: cannot read them: %v\n", err)
-		return
-	}
-	now := time.Now().UTC()
-	for i := range plans {
-		p := &plans[i]
-		if p.Tier >= len(p.Tiers) {
-			continue
-		}
-		inTier := false
-		for _, m := range p.Tiers[p.Tier] {
-			if m == module {
-				inTier = true
-			}
-		}
-		if !inTier {
-			continue
-		}
-		state := p.Modules[module]
-		if state == nil {
-			state = &inventory.PlanModule{}
-			p.Modules[module] = state
-		}
-		if failed != "" {
-			state.State = "failed"
-			state.Why = failed
-			p.State = inventory.PlanFailed
-			p.Note = fmt.Sprintf("%s failed to build in tier %d", module, p.Tier)
-		} else {
-			state.State = "built"
-			state.BuiltAt = &now
-			state.Commit = commit
-		}
-		if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, *p); err != nil {
-			fmt.Printf("%s: cannot keep the plan: %v\n", p.ID, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		if p.State == inventory.PlanFailed {
-			fmt.Printf("%s: %s; the tiers after it are not asked\n", p.ID, p.Note)
-		}
-	}
-	advancePlans(ctx, open)
-}
-
-// advancePlans moves every open plan as far as the facts allow: a tier whose modules are all built
-// and whose gates are applied gives way to the next; the last tier done is the plan done. Called
-// after every outcome and on a timer, so a plan waiting on a machine's report moves when it comes.
-func advancePlans(ctx context.Context, open *stores) {
-	inv := open.inventory
-	plans, err := inv.OpenPlans(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Printf("plans: cannot read them: %v\n", err)
-		return
-	}
-	if len(plans) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-	edges, err := inv.Dependencies(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		fmt.Printf("plans: cannot read the dependencies: %v\n", err)
-		return
-	}
-	rollsOut := func(module string) bool {
-		u, err := inv.UpgradeOf(ctx, module)
-		return err == nil && u.RollOut
-	}
-	for i := range plans {
-		p := &plans[i]
-		for p.Open() {
-			moved, err := advanceOnce(ctx, open, p, edges, rollsOut)
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("%s: %v\n", p.ID, err)
-				break
-			}
-			if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, *p); err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("%s: cannot keep the plan: %v\n", p.ID, err)
-				break
-			}
-			if !moved {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// advanceOnce takes one step of one plan and says whether anything changed.
-func advanceOnce(ctx context.Context, open *stores, p *inventory.Plan,
-	edges []inventory.Edge, rollsOut func(string) bool) (bool, error) {
-	inv := open.inventory
-	if p.Tier >= len(p.Tiers) {
-		p.State = inventory.PlanDone
-		fmt.Printf("%s: done — %s at %s, %d tier(s)\n", p.ID, p.Repository, short(p.Commit), len(p.Tiers))
-		return true, nil
-	}
-	tier := p.Tiers[p.Tier]
-	// Not yet asked: ask.
-	unasked := 0
-	for _, m := range tier {
-		if s := p.Modules[m]; s == nil || s.State == "" {
-			unasked++
-		}
-	}
-	if unasked == len(tier) {
-		if err := askTier(ctx, inv, p); err != nil {
-			return false, err
-		}
-		return true, nil
-	}
-	// Asked: wait for every build.
-	var latest time.Time
-	for _, m := range tier {
-		s := p.Modules[m]
-		if s == nil || s.State != "built" {
-			return false, nil
-		}
-		if s.BuiltAt != nil && s.BuiltAt.After(latest) {
-			latest = *s.BuiltAt
-		}
-	}
-	// Built: send every module of the tier whose policy rolls out, once, to the machines running
-	// it — whether or not its source commit moved. A dependent rebuilt because its base moved, or
-	// a module that packages another repository's source, keeps its commit; the catalogue announces
-	// no move for it and its machines would keep the old image until somebody pushed (novox/hq
-	// issue 189). A module whose policy records is built and left, as its policy says.
-	for _, m := range tier {
-		state := p.Modules[m]
-		if state == nil || state.SentAt != nil || !rollsOut(m) {
-			continue
-		}
-		running, err := inv.Running(ctx, m)
-		if err != nil {
-			return false, err
-		}
-		now := time.Now().UTC()
-		state.SentAt = &now
-		if len(running) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		if err := sendTo(ctx, open, running); err != nil {
-			return false, fmt.Errorf("sending %s to %s after tier %d: %w", m, strings.Join(running, ", "), p.Tier, err)
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s: tier %d built; sent %s to %s\n", p.ID, p.Tier, m, strings.Join(running, ", "))
-		return true, nil
-	}
-	// And wait for what the next tier needs running.
-	needed := gates(*p, edges, rollsOut)
-	if len(needed) > 0 {
-		reports, err := inv.LastReports(ctx)
-		if err != nil {
-			return false, err
-		}
-		var waiting []string
-		for _, m := range needed {
-			running, err := inv.Running(ctx, m)
-			if err != nil {
-				return false, err
-			}
-			state := p.Modules[m]
-			if state == nil {
-				state = &inventory.PlanModule{}
-				p.Modules[m] = state
-			}
-			// The plan sends what it waits for. A rebuild from the same source commit is not a
-			// move the catalogue announces — the build machine rebuilt for a controller change
-			// is one — so the roll-out that opens this gate is the plan's to make, once, and
-			// the reports that open it are the ones after the send.
-			since := latest
-			if state.BuiltAt != nil {
-				since = *state.BuiltAt
-			}
-			if state.SentAt != nil && state.SentAt.After(since) {
-				since = *state.SentAt
-			}
-			if ok, on := applied(m, since, running, reports); !ok {
-				waiting = append(waiting, fmt.Sprintf("%s on %s", m, strings.Join(on, ", ")))
-			}
-		}
-		if len(waiting) > 0 {
-			note := "tier " + fmt.Sprint(p.Tier) + " built; waiting for " + strings.Join(waiting, "; ") + " to be applied"
-			changed := p.State != inventory.PlanRolling || p.Note != note
-			p.State = inventory.PlanRolling
-			p.Note = note
-			return changed, nil
-		}
-	}
-	p.Tier++
-	p.State = inventory.PlanBuilding
-	p.Note = ""
-	if p.Tier < len(p.Tiers) {
-		fmt.Printf("%s: tier %d done; asking tier %d: %s\n", p.ID, p.Tier-1, p.Tier, strings.Join(p.Tiers[p.Tier], ", "))
-	}
-	return true, nil
-}
-
-// planTicker advances open plans on a timer, for the steps outcomes alone cannot take.
-func planTicker(ctx context.Context, open *stores) {
-	advancePlans(ctx, open)
-	tick := time.NewTicker(30 * time.Second)
-	defer tick.Stop()
-	for {
-		select {
-		case <-ctx.Done():
-			return
-		case <-tick.C:
-			advancePlans(ctx, open)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// planLine is one plan as `status` says it.
-func planLine(p inventory.Plan, now time.Time) string {
-	where := fmt.Sprintf("tier %d of %d", min(p.Tier+1, len(p.Tiers)), len(p.Tiers))
-	switch p.State {
-	case inventory.PlanDone:
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%s %s done, %d tier(s)", p.Repository, short(p.Commit), len(p.Tiers))
-	case inventory.PlanFailed:
-		return fmt.Sprintf("%s %s FAILED at %s: %s", p.Repository, short(p.Commit), where, p.Note)
-	}
-	since := now.Sub(p.Updated).Round(time.Minute)
-	late := ""
-	if since > planWaitBound {
-		late = " — LATE"
-	}
-	what := "building"
-	if p.State == inventory.PlanRolling {
-		what = p.Note
-	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%s %s %s, %s for %s%s", p.Repository, short(p.Commit), where, what, since, late)
-}
-
-// planFailedBuild marks the module a failed build was for when the result names no module: by the
-// repository and path the plan's modules were asked at.
-func planFailedBuild(ctx context.Context, open *stores, result link.BuildResult) {
-	entries, err := open.inventory.Catalogued(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return
-	}
-	for _, e := range entries {
-		if repositoryMatches(e.Source.Repository, result.Repository) && e.Source.Path == result.Path {
-			planBuilt(ctx, open, e.Manifest.Module, result.Commit, result.Failed)
-			return
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func repositoryMatches(a, b string) bool {
-	trim := func(s string) string { return strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSuffix(s, ".git")) }
-	return trim(a) == trim(b) || strings.HasSuffix(trim(a), "/"+trim(b)) || strings.HasSuffix(trim(b), "/"+trim(a))
-}
-
-// planStatus is one plan as `status --json` says it.
-type planStatus struct {
-	ID         string    `json:"id"`
-	Repository string    `json:"repository"`
-	Commit     string    `json:"commit"`
-	State      string    `json:"state"`
-	Tier       int       `json:"tier"`
-	Tiers      int       `json:"tiers"`
-	Waiting    string    `json:"waiting,omitempty"`
-	Since      time.Time `json:"since"`
-	Late       bool      `json:"late"`
-}
-
-func planStatuses(plans []inventory.Plan, now time.Time) []planStatus {
-	out := make([]planStatus, 0, len(plans))
-	for _, p := range plans {
-		ps := planStatus{ID: p.ID, Repository: p.Repository, Commit: p.Commit, State: p.State,
-			Tier: p.Tier, Tiers: len(p.Tiers), Since: p.Updated}
-		if p.Open() {
-			ps.Waiting = p.Note
-			if ps.Waiting == "" {
-				ps.Waiting = "builds of tier " + fmt.Sprint(p.Tier)
-			}
-			ps.Late = now.Sub(p.Updated) > planWaitBound
-		}
-		out = append(out, ps)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// openPlans is the open plans among the recent ones, and how many have waited past the bound.
-func openPlans(plans []inventory.Plan) ([]inventory.Plan, int) {
-	var open []inventory.Plan
-	late := 0
-	for _, p := range plans {
-		if p.Open() {
-			open = append(open, p)
-			if time.Since(p.Updated) > planWaitBound {
-				late++
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return open, late
-}
-
-// plansCommand says what the last merges produced and where each stands; given an id, one plan
-// tier by tier with every module's state.
-func plansCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
-	set := flag.NewFlagSet("plans", flag.ContinueOnError)
-	limit := set.Int("n", 10, "how many to show")
-	whatIf := set.String("what-if", "", "owner/repository: the plan a merge there would produce, saving nothing — with --paths or --modules")
-	paths := set.String("paths", "", "the files the merge would change, comma-separated, from the repository's root")
-	modules := set.String("modules", "", "or the modules it would change, comma-separated")
-	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	open, err := openStores(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer open.Close()
-	inv := open.inventory
-	now := time.Now()
-	if len(positionals) == 1 {
-		p, err := inv.PlanByID(ctx, positionals[0])
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s — %s\n", p.ID, planLine(p, now))
-		for i, tier := range p.Tiers {
-			marker := " "
-			if i == p.Tier && p.Open() {
-				marker = ">"
-			}
-			fmt.Printf("%s tier %d\n", marker, i)
-			for _, m := range tier {
-				s := p.Modules[m]
-				state := "not yet asked"
-				if s != nil && s.State != "" {
-					state = s.State
-					if s.Commit != "" {
-						state += " from " + short(s.Commit)
-					}
-					if s.Why != "" {
-						state += ": " + s.Why
-					}
-				}
-				fmt.Printf("    %-22s %s\n", m, state)
-			}
-		}
-		return nil
-	}
-	if *whatIf != "" {
-		return planWhatIf(ctx, inv, *whatIf, splitList(*paths), splitList(*modules))
-	}
-	if len(positionals) == 2 && positionals[0] == "stop" {
-		p, err := inv.PlanByID(ctx, positionals[1])
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		if !p.Open() {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%s is already %s", p.ID, p.State)
-		}
-		p.State = inventory.PlanFailed
-		p.Note = "stopped by hand at tier " + fmt.Sprint(p.Tier)
-		if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, p); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s stopped at tier %d of %d; what was asked still builds and registers, nothing further is asked\n",
-			p.ID, p.Tier, len(p.Tiers))
-		return nil
-	}
-	plans, err := inv.RecentPlans(ctx, *limit)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if len(plans) == 0 {
-		fmt.Println("no merge has produced a plan yet")
-		return nil
-	}
-	for _, p := range plans {
-		fmt.Printf("%-28s %s\n", p.ID, planLine(p, now))
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// planWhatIf is the plan a merge would produce, computed the way the merge handler computes one
-// and saved nowhere: the modules the repository's changed files touch (or the modules named), what
-// packages their source, everything reachable from them, in tiers. For reading before merging.
-func planWhatIf(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, repository string, paths, modules []string) error {
-	owner, repo, found := strings.Cut(repository, "/")
-	if !found {
-		return fmt.Errorf("--what-if takes owner/repository, not %q", repository)
-	}
-	m := link.SourceMoved{Owner: owner, Repo: repo, Base: "main", Commit: "what-if", Paths: paths}
-	entries, err := inv.Catalogued(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	read, err := inv.ReadRepositories(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	var from, packaging []inventory.Entry
-	named := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, name := range modules {
-		named[name] = true
-	}
-	for _, e := range entries {
-		switch {
-		case named[e.Manifest.Module]:
-			from = append(from, e)
-		case len(named) == 0 && sourceIs(e.Source, m):
-			from = append(from, e)
-		case readsFrom(read[e.Manifest.Module], m):
-			packaging = append(packaging, e)
-		}
-	}
-	if len(named) == 0 {
-		from = whatTheMergeTouched(from, entries, m)
-	}
-	moved := append(append([]inventory.Entry{}, from...), packaging...)
-	if len(moved) == 0 {
-		fmt.Printf("a merge of %s changing %s would build nothing the mesh holds\n", repository,
-			orNone(strings.Join(append(paths, modules...), ", ")))
-		return nil
-	}
-	edges, err := inv.Dependencies(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	var names []string
-	for _, e := range moved {
-		names = append(names, e.Manifest.Module)
-	}
-	p := planOfMerge(m, names, edges)
-	fmt.Printf("a merge of %s would build %d module(s) in %d tier(s):\n", repository, len(p.Modules), len(p.Tiers))
-	rolls := map[string]string{}
-	for i, tier := range p.Tiers {
-		fmt.Printf("  tier %d\n", i)
-		for _, name := range tier {
-			how := "built; its policy records, so nothing is sent"
-			if u, err := inv.UpgradeOf(ctx, name); err == nil && u.RollOut {
-				running, _ := inv.Running(ctx, name)
-				how = "built, then sent to " + orNone(strings.Join(running, ", "))
-				rolls[name] = how
-			}
-			fmt.Printf("    %-22s %s\n", name, how)
-		}
-	}
-	if hasCycle(p.Tiers, edges) {
-		fmt.Println("  the last tier depends on itself and would be built together, in no order")
-	}
-	if len(packaging) > 0 {
-		var also []string
-		for _, e := range packaging {
-			also = append(also, e.Manifest.Module)
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("  %s package source from %s, so they are rebuilt without their own source moving\n",
-			strings.Join(also, ", "), repository)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func splitList(s string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, part := range strings.Split(s, ",") {
-		if part = strings.TrimSpace(part); part != "" {
-			out = append(out, part)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan_test.go

@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
-)
-
-// A merge produces a tiered plan (novox/hq ADR 0162): what moved and everything reachable from it,
-// sorted so a tier depends only on earlier ones — with the three kinds of dependency told apart.
-func TestAMergeIsPlannedInTiersAlongTheThreeKindsOfDependency(t *testing.T) {
-	edges := []inventory.Edge{
-		// build dependencies: images on the runtime, a plugin on one of them
-		{From: "shop", To: "mesh-tools", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn},
-		{From: "postgres", To: "mesh-tools", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn},
-		{From: "shop-plugin", To: "shop", Kind: inventory.EdgeDeclared},
-		// a code dependency: the proxy packages the controller's source — same tier
-		{From: "route-proxy", To: "mesh-controller", Kind: inventory.EdgePackages},
-		{From: "builder", To: "mesh-controller", Kind: inventory.EdgePackages},
-		// runtime dependencies: everything source-built is built by the builder
-		{From: "shop", To: "builder", Kind: inventory.EdgeBuiltBy},
-		{From: "postgres", To: "builder", Kind: inventory.EdgeBuiltBy},
-		{From: "shop-plugin", To: "builder", Kind: inventory.EdgeBuiltBy},
-		{From: "route-proxy", To: "builder", Kind: inventory.EdgeBuiltBy},
-		{From: "mesh-controller", To: "builder", Kind: inventory.EdgeBuiltBy},
-		{From: "mesh-tools", To: "builder", Kind: inventory.EdgeBuiltBy},
-		{From: "builder", To: "mesh-tools", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn},
-		{From: "unrelated", To: "alpine", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn},
-	}
-	// The runtime image moved: everything on it, and what is built by what is on it.
-	set := reachableFrom([]string{"mesh-tools"}, edges)
-	// What stands on the runtime, and the builder that stands on it; not the controller, which the
-	// builder merely builds, nor the proxy that packages the controller.
-	want := []string{"builder", "mesh-tools", "postgres", "shop", "shop-plugin"}
-	if len(set) != len(want) {
-		t.Fatalf("reachable from the runtime: %v, want %v", set, want)
-	}
-	tiers := tiersOf(set, edges)
-	pos := map[string]int{}
-	for i, tier := range tiers {
-		for _, m := range tier {
-			pos[m] = i
-		}
-	}
-	if pos["mesh-tools"] != 0 || pos["builder"] != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("the runtime then the builder: %v", tiers)
-	}
-	if !(pos["shop"] > pos["builder"] && pos["postgres"] > pos["builder"]) {
-		t.Fatalf("what the builder builds comes after the builder: %v", tiers)
-	}
-	if pos["shop-plugin"] <= pos["shop"] {
-		t.Fatalf("a plugin after what it is declared on: %v", tiers)
-	}
-	if hasCycle(tiers, edges) {
-		t.Fatalf("no cycle here: %v", tiers)
-	}
-
-	// The controller alone moved: the proxy with it, nothing else.
-	small := reachableFrom([]string{"mesh-controller"}, edges)
-	if len(small) != 3 {
-		t.Fatalf("a controller merge rebuilds the controller and what packages it: %v", small)
-	}
-	// The builder packages the controller's source (same tier by that edge) and the controller is
-	// built by the builder (next tier by that one): the builder first, then the controller and the
-	// proxy together — a code dependency in one tier, a runtime dependency across tiers.
-	smallTiers := tiersOf(small, edges)
-	if len(smallTiers) != 2 || smallTiers[0][0] != "builder" || len(smallTiers[1]) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("the builder, then the controller and the proxy together: %v", smallTiers)
-	}
-	// The builder alone moved: the builder, and nothing it builds.
-	if only := reachableFrom([]string{"builder"}, edges); len(only) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("a build machine change rebuilds the build machine alone: %v", only)
-	}
-
-	// Only a runtime dependency gates on deployment, and only when the module rolls out.
-	p := planOfMerge(link.SourceMoved{Owner: "novox", Repo: "mesh-tools", Commit: "abc"}, []string{"mesh-tools"}, edges)
-	p.Tier = pos["builder"]
-	rollsOut := func(m string) bool { return m == "builder" }
-	if g := gates(p, edges, rollsOut); len(g) != 1 || g[0] != "builder" {
-		t.Fatalf("the builder gates the tier after it: %v", g)
-	}
-	p.Tier = 0
-	if g := gates(p, edges, rollsOut); len(g) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the runtime image is a build dependency and gates nothing: %v", g)
-	}
-	if g := gates(p, edges, func(string) bool { return false }); len(g) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a module that only records its upgrade gates nothing: %v", g)
-	}
-}
-
-// A gate is open once every machine running the module has reported after it was built.
-func TestAGateOpensWhenTheMachinesHaveReportedSinceTheBuild(t *testing.T) {
-	built := time.Date(2026, 10, 1, 15, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	before, after := built.Add(-time.Minute), built.Add(time.Minute)
-	reports := []inventory.Reported{{Node: "anchor", At: &after}, {Node: "home-server", At: &before}}
-	ok, waiting := applied("builder", built, []string{"anchor", "home-server"}, reports)
-	if ok || len(waiting) != 1 || waiting[0] != "home-server" {
-		t.Fatalf("one machine has not reported since the build: ok=%v waiting=%v", ok, waiting)
-	}
-	if ok, _ := applied("builder", built, []string{"anchor"}, reports); !ok {
-		t.Fatal("the machine that reported after the build holds the gate open")
-	}
-	if ok, _ := applied("builder", built, nil, reports); !ok {
-		t.Fatal("a module running nowhere gates nothing")
-	}
-}
-
-// A cycle is not lost: what remains is one last tier, and the caller says so.
-func TestACycleIsOneLastTierAndSaidSo(t *testing.T) {
-	edges := []inventory.Edge{{From: "a", To: "b", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn}, {From: "b", To: "a", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn}}
-	tiers := tiersOf([]string{"a", "b"}, edges)
-	if len(tiers) != 1 || len(tiers[0]) != 2 || !hasCycle(tiers, edges) {
-		t.Fatalf("a cycle should be one tier of two, said: %v", tiers)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go

@@ -1,264 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"os/exec"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
-)
-
-// The mesh's own verbs, served as the mesh-controller seat's tools (novox/hq ADR 0154, design 33).
-//
-// **Each tool runs the command it names, in this same binary, and answers what it printed.** That is
-// ADR 0035 taken literally: the logic lives once, in the command, and a surface is an adapter with no
-// decisions in it. Running a fresh process rather than calling the function keeps two things true
-// that calling it would not — every command opens and closes its own stores the way it does from a
-// shell, and nothing a command prints to the process's standard output can leak into another call's
-// answer. It also means a refusal is the same refusal in the same words, because it is the same
-// output.
-
-// verbAnswer is what a verb answers: what the command printed, whether it succeeded, and — where the
-// command speaks JSON — the same as data.
-type verbAnswer struct {
-	Output string `json:"output"`
-	OK     bool   `json:"ok"`
-	Answer any    `json:"answer,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// argvFor is the command line a verb and its arguments become. Only the verbs the seat declares, and
-// only the arguments each declares: a caller cannot reach a flag the schema did not name.
-func argvFor(verb string, args map[string]any) ([]string, error) {
-	str := func(key string) string {
-		v, _ := args[key].(string)
-		return strings.TrimSpace(v)
-	}
-	need := func(keys ...string) error {
-		for _, k := range keys {
-			if str(k) == "" {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%s needs %q", verb, k)
-			}
-		}
-		return nil
-	}
-	switch verb {
-	case "status":
-		return []string{"status", "--json"}, nil
-	case "nodes":
-		return []string{"node", "list"}, nil
-	case "node":
-		if err := need("node"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		return []string{"node", "show", str("node")}, nil
-	case "modules":
-		return []string{"module", "list"}, nil
-	case "seats":
-		return []string{"seats", "--json"}, nil
-	case "builds":
-		if id := str("log"); id != "" {
-			return []string{"builds", "--log", id}, nil
-		}
-		if m := str("module"); m != "" {
-			return []string{"builds", m}, nil
-		}
-		return []string{"builds"}, nil
-	case "plans":
-		if r := str("repository"); r != "" {
-			argv := []string{"plans", "--what-if", r}
-			if p := str("paths"); p != "" {
-				argv = append(argv, "--paths", p)
-			}
-			if m := str("modules"); m != "" {
-				argv = append(argv, "--modules", m)
-			}
-			return argv, nil
-		}
-		if id := str("stop"); id != "" {
-			return []string{"plans", "stop", id}, nil
-		}
-		if id := str("id"); id != "" {
-			return []string{"plans", id}, nil
-		}
-		return []string{"plans"}, nil
-	case "plan":
-		if err := need("node"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		return []string{"plan", str("node"), "--json"}, nil
-	case "assign", "unassign":
-		if err := need("node", "module"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		return []string{verb, str("node"), str("module")}, nil
-	case "pin":
-		if err := need("node", "provision", "from", "module"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		return []string{"pin", str("node"), str("provision"), str("from"), str("module")}, nil
-	case "unpin":
-		if err := need("node", "provision"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		return []string{"unpin", str("node"), str("provision")}, nil
-	case "push":
-		// Sent and not waited for: the asker reads `status` for what the machine did, which is
-		// what a person at a shell does too. A tool call that blocked for a push's whole apply would
-		// time out on every machine that takes a minute, and say nothing about the ones that did not.
-		if n := str("node"); n != "" {
-			return []string{"push", n, "--wait", "0"}, nil
-		}
-		return []string{"push", "--behind", "--wait", "0"}, nil
-	case "rotate":
-		if p := str("provision"); p != "" {
-			argv := []string{"rotate", p}
-			if c := str("consumer"); c != "" {
-				argv = append(argv, "--consumer", c)
-			}
-			return argv, nil
-		}
-		if str("node") != "" && str("module") != "" && str("secret") != "" {
-			return []string{"secret", "rotate", str("node"), str("module"), str("secret")}, nil
-		}
-		// Half of either shape: the command says its usage, which names both shapes, and that is
-		// the answer the caller needs.
-		return []string{"rotate"}, nil
-	case "build":
-		if err := need("repository"); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		// Not waited for: a tool call cannot hold a connection for the minutes a build takes; the
-		// daemon takes the outcome in when it comes and the id follows the build (issue 176). A
-		// repository given without a scheme is a path on the forge holding the git seat.
-		argv := []string{"build", str("repository"), "--wait", "0"}
-		if !strings.Contains(str("repository"), "://") && !strings.HasPrefix(str("repository"), "git@") {
-			argv = append(argv, "--self")
-		}
-		if p := str("path"); p != "" {
-			argv = append(argv, "--path", p)
-		}
-		if r := str("ref"); r != "" {
-			argv = append(argv, "--ref", r)
-		}
-		return argv, nil
-	}
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not a verb the %s seat serves", verb, catalogue.ControllerSeatName)
-}
-
-// jsonVerbs are the verbs whose command speaks JSON, so the answer carries it as data as well.
-var jsonVerbs = map[string]bool{"status": true, "seats": true, "plan": true}
-
-// runVerb runs this binary with the given command line and gathers what it said.
-func runVerb(ctx context.Context, argv []string) (verbAnswer, error) {
-	self, err := os.Executable()
-	if err != nil {
-		return verbAnswer{}, err
-	}
-	cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, self, argv...)
-	// The same environment: the stores' credentials, the bus, the broker — everything a command run
-	// from a shell in this container would have, because it is that.
-	cmd.Env = os.Environ()
-	// Two buffers, one answer. What the command *says* is both streams, in the order a person at
-	// a shell would read them; what it *answers as data* is standard output alone — `status --json`
-	// prints its warnings beside the document, and a JSON parsed from the two together parsed
-	// nothing (2026-09-30, the first status asked through the console had no `answer`).
-	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
-	cmd.Stdout = &stdout
-	cmd.Stderr = &stderr
-	runErr := cmd.Run()
-	answer := verbAnswer{Output: stdout.String() + stderr.String(), OK: runErr == nil}
-	if jsonVerbs[argv[0]] && runErr == nil {
-		var parsed any
-		if json.Unmarshal(bytes.TrimSpace(stdout.Bytes()), &parsed) == nil {
-			answer.Answer = parsed
-		}
-	}
-	var exit *exec.ExitError
-	if runErr != nil && !errors.As(runErr, &exit) {
-		// Not the command refusing — the command not running at all, which is this process's fault.
-		return answer, fmt.Errorf("could not run %s: %w", strings.Join(argv, " "), runErr)
-	}
-	return answer, nil
-}
-
-// seatToolHandlers are the handlers for every verb the mesh-controller seat declares, from the
-// store's row, so a verb the row does not carry is not served and a verb it carries that this binary
-// cannot run is said at start rather than at the first call.
-func seatToolHandlers() (map[string]link.ToolHandler, error) {
-	seat, known := catalogue.SeatNamed(catalogue.ControllerSeatName)
-	if !known {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("this mesh defines no %s seat", catalogue.ControllerSeatName)
-	}
-	handlers := map[string]link.ToolHandler{}
-	for _, v := range seat.Serves {
-		verb := v.Name
-		if verb == "tools" {
-			handlers[verb] = func(ctx context.Context, _ json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
-				return seatTools(), nil
-			}
-			continue
-		}
-		if _, err := argvFor(verb, sampleArguments(v)); err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the %s seat's row declares %q, which this control plane cannot run: %w",
-				catalogue.ControllerSeatName, verb, err)
-		}
-		handlers[verb] = func(ctx context.Context, raw json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
-			args := map[string]any{}
-			if len(raw) > 0 {
-				if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &args); err != nil {
-					return nil, fmt.Errorf("the arguments are not a JSON object: %w", err)
-				}
-			}
-			argv, err := argvFor(verb, args)
-			if err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
-			return runVerb(ctx, argv)
-		}
-	}
-	return handlers, nil
-}
-
-// seatTools is what `tools` answers: every seat with a protocol, and the tools each serves, from the
-// mesh's own records — no holder in the path, so it is true while a holder restarts (design 33 §5).
-func seatTools() map[string]any {
-	var seats []map[string]any
-	for _, s := range catalogue.SeatsWithAProtocol() {
-		if len(s.Serves) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		var tools []map[string]any
-		for _, v := range s.Serves {
-			tools = append(tools, map[string]any{
-				"name": v.Name, "description": v.Description, "input": v.Input, "output": v.Output,
-			})
-		}
-		seats = append(seats, map[string]any{"seat": s.Name, "scope": s.Scope, "tools": tools})
-	}
-	return map[string]any{"seats": seats}
-}
-
-// sampleArguments is one of every argument a verb's schema requires, so the check at start proves the
-// verb runnable rather than that it happens to want the arguments the check guessed.
-func sampleArguments(v catalogue.Verb) map[string]any {
-	sample := map[string]any{"node": "x", "module": "x", "repository": "x"}
-	switch required := v.Input["required"].(type) {
-	case []string:
-		for _, k := range required {
-			sample[k] = "x"
-		}
-	case []any:
-		for _, k := range required {
-			if name, ok := k.(string); ok {
-				sample[name] = "x"
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return sample
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go

@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// Every verb the mesh-controller seat declares is one this binary can run, with the arguments the
-// schema names and no other (novox/hq ADR 0154, ADR 0035).
-func TestEveryDeclaredVerbHasACommandLine(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, v := range catalogue.ControllerVerbs {
-		if v.Name == "tools" {
-			continue
-		}
-		args := map[string]any{}
-		props, _ := v.Input["properties"].(map[string]any)
-		for name := range props {
-			args[name] = "x"
-		}
-		argv, err := argvFor(v.Name, args)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v", v.Name, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		if argv[0] == "" {
-			t.Errorf("%s: empty command", v.Name)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// `builds` given a build's id reads that build's log from the bus rather than listing builds
-// (novox/hq ADR 0157).
-func TestBuildsWithAnIdReadsThatBuildsLog(t *testing.T) {
-	argv, err := argvFor("builds", map[string]any{"log": "build-17"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if strings.Join(argv, " ") != "builds --log build-17" {
-		t.Fatalf("builds with a log id became %q", strings.Join(argv, " "))
-	}
-}
-
-// The build tool takes a repository as a URL or as its path on the forge holding the git seat, and
-// says which it was given, so the command reads the path as a seat source rather than handing it to
-// git as written (novox/hq issue 176). And it never waits: the id follows the build.
-func TestTheBuildToolTellsAForgePathFromAURL(t *testing.T) {
-	argv, _ := argvFor("build", map[string]any{"repository": "novox/mesh-catalog", "path": "modules/x"})
-	if line := strings.Join(argv, " "); !strings.Contains(line, "--self") || !strings.Contains(line, "--wait 0") {
-		t.Fatalf("a forge path is a seat source, not waited for; got %q", line)
-	}
-	argv, _ = argvFor("build", map[string]any{"repository": "https://example.tld/o/r.git"})
-	if line := strings.Join(argv, " "); strings.Contains(line, "--self") {
-		t.Fatalf("a URL is cloned as given; got %q", line)
-	}
-}
-
-// `rotate` is one verb with two shapes (ADR 0114, issue 180): a pair credential by provision, or a
-// module's own secret by machine, module and name.
-func TestRotateTakesAProvisionOrAnOwnSecret(t *testing.T) {
-	argv, _ := argvFor("rotate", map[string]any{"provision": "postgres-database", "consumer": "ace"})
-	if strings.Join(argv, " ") != "rotate postgres-database --consumer ace" {
-		t.Fatalf("a pair credential: %v", argv)
-	}
-	argv, _ = argvFor("rotate", map[string]any{"node": "ace", "module": "nodered", "secret": "api-token"})
-	if strings.Join(argv, " ") != "secret rotate ace nodered api-token" {
-		t.Fatalf("an own secret: %v", argv)
-	}
-	argv, _ = argvFor("rotate", map[string]any{"node": "ace"})
-	if strings.Join(argv, " ") != "rotate" {
-		t.Fatalf("half an own secret falls to the command's usage: %v", argv)
-	}
-}
-
-// A required argument missing is refused in the verb's own words, before anything runs.
-func TestAVerbMissingWhatItNeedsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := argvFor("node", map[string]any{}); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `node needs "node"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("node without a machine was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := argvFor("upgrade", map[string]any{}); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a verb the seat does not serve was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
-// A push and a build are sent, not waited for: the asker reads status, or the build's log by its
-// id, for what happened. A repository given as a forge path is said to be one (issue 176).
-func TestActsDoNotBlockTheCall(t *testing.T) {
-	argv, _ := argvFor("push", map[string]any{"node": "one"})
-	if strings.Join(argv, " ") != "push one --wait 0" {
-		t.Fatalf("push waits: %v", argv)
-	}
-	argv, _ = argvFor("build", map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "path": "modules/x"})
-	if strings.Join(argv, " ") != "build novox/x --wait 0 --self --path modules/x" {
-		t.Fatalf("build: %v", argv)
-	}
-}
-
-// What `tools` answers is the seats' records, with each verb's schema.
-func TestToolsAnswersTheSeatsRecords(t *testing.T) {
-	handlers, err := seatToolHandlers()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(handlers) != len(catalogue.ControllerVerbs) {
-		t.Fatalf("%d handlers for %d verbs", len(handlers), len(catalogue.ControllerVerbs))
-	}
-	answer := seatTools()
-	seats, _ := answer["seats"].([]map[string]any)
-	var found bool
-	for _, s := range seats {
-		if s["seat"] == catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
-			found = true
-			tools, _ := s["tools"].([]map[string]any)
-			if len(tools) != len(catalogue.ControllerVerbs) || tools[0]["input"] == nil {
-				t.Fatalf("the controller seat's tools are not listed in full: %v", tools)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if !found {
-		t.Fatal("the mesh-controller seat is not in the listing")
-	}
-}
-
-// A JSON verb's answer is parsed from what the command wrote to standard output alone; a warning it
-// printed beside the document does not take the document away. The test binary stands in for the
-// controller: `-test.run` with a name that matches nothing prints `ok` and a warning about no tests.
-func TestAJSONVerbsAnswerIsItsStandardOutput(t *testing.T) {
-	jsonVerbs["-test.run"] = true
-	t.Cleanup(func() { delete(jsonVerbs, "-test.run") })
-	answer, err := runVerb(t.Context(), []string{"-test.run", "TestAnswerEcho", "-test.v"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !answer.OK {
-		t.Fatalf("the command failed: %s", answer.Output)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(answer.Output, "PASS") {
-		t.Fatalf("stderr and stdout are both what the command said: %s", answer.Output)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/secret.go

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
-	"time"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
@@ -39,8 +38,6 @@ func secretCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	}
 	switch args[0] {
 	case "accept":
-	case "rotate":
-		return secretRotate(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "recover":
 		return secretRecover(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "export":
@@ -104,8 +101,7 @@ func secretCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-const secretUsage = "secret rotate <node> <module> <name>\n" +
-	"secret accept <node> <module> <name> [--from <file>] [--provider <node> [--local <name>]]\n" +
+const secretUsage = "secret accept <node> <module> <name> [--from <file>] [--provider <node> [--local <name>]]\n" +
 	"secret recover <node> <module> <name> --key <operator-key> [--out <file>] [--from-export <file>] [--provider <node>]\n" +
 	"secret export [--out <file>]"
 
@@ -363,59 +359,3 @@ func valueFor(node, module, name, from string) (string, error) {
 		return line, nil
 	}
 }
-
-// secretRotate makes a module's own secret anew and sends the machine, so the module starts again on
-// the new value (novox/hq ADR 0114, issue 180). A pair credential rotates with `rotate <provision>`;
-// this is the secret with one party. Said in the log with who asked and when, never the value.
-func secretRotate(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
-	rest, _ := split(args)
-	if len(rest) != 3 {
-		return errors.New(secretUsage)
-	}
-	node, module, name := rest[0], rest[1], rest[2]
-	open, err := openStores(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer open.Close()
-	if err := open.inventory.RotateModuleSecret(ctx, node, module, name); err != nil {
-		var refused inventory.ErrNotRotatable
-		if errors.As(err, &refused) {
-			return fmt.Errorf("not rotated: %s", refused.Why)
-		}
-		return err
-	}
-	fmt.Printf("rotated %q of %s on %s at %s, asked by %s; the value is sealed and not shown\n",
-		name, module, node, time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339), whoAsked())
-	// A shared credential (ADR 0158) has as many holders as the provision has consumers, and all
-	// of them are sent in one act, so no machine is left reading a value the provider no longer takes.
-	machines, err := open.inventory.SharedHolders(ctx, node, module, name)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if len(machines) == 0 {
-		machines = []string{node}
-	}
-	if len(machines) == 1 {
-		fmt.Printf("sending %s, so %s starts again on the new value:\n", node, module)
-	} else {
-		fmt.Printf("shared with every consumer; sending %s together:\n", strings.Join(machines, ", "))
-	}
-	if err := sendTo(ctx, open, machines); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w\n\nThe new value is sealed and not yet delivered; what runs keeps the old "+
-			"one until the machines next apply. Fix the cause and run `push --behind`", err)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// whoAsked names the caller for the log: the account the command runs as, which for a tool call
-// through the console is the mesh's own.
-func whoAsked() string {
-	if u := os.Getenv("SUDO_USER"); u != "" {
-		return u
-	}
-	if u := os.Getenv("USER"); u != "" {
-		return u
-	}
-	return "the mesh"
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go

@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ import (
 // make a machine look out of date for ever, or send something `plan` never showed.
 type sendable struct {
 	Resources []map[string]any
-	// Sequence orders this send against every other to the same node: one higher each time, taken
-	// under the node's hold just before the body is made (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/107). Zero is not sent
-	// at all, which a host reads as "no order claimed" — the shape of every declaration before this.
-	Sequence int64
 	// Adoption is nil for a converged node, and then the body is byte for byte what it was before
 	// adoption existed: an older host parses the envelope strictly and would refuse the key.
 	Adoption *adoptionEnvelope
@@ -42,9 +38,6 @@ func (s sendable) Body() ([]byte, error) {
 	if s.Adoption != nil {
 		envelope["adoption"] = s.Adoption
 	}
-	if s.Sequence > 0 {
-		envelope["sequence"] = s.Sequence
-	}
 	// An empty declaration is deliberate here — the node owns nothing the mesh put there
 	// (novox/hq issue 127) — and the host refuses an empty body unless it is told the emptiness
 	// is meant, so a truncated or mis-composed body is never mistaken for "own nothing".

cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go

@@ -47,12 +47,7 @@ func composed(t *testing.T, open *stores, node string) sendable {
 // aMesh's laptop with the private network taken off it, so nothing in the declaration is random:
 // what changes this string is a change to what a converged machine is sent, which is the thing an
 // older host would refuse.
-//
-// Re-captured 2026-10-01 (novox/hq issue 177): c978aa7 took `hosts` off every container — a
-// machine's own resolver knows the mesh's names now — and left this string carrying it, so the
-// guard failed for a day and nothing ran it. A field an older host never sees is the one change
-// this guard permits; a field it would refuse is the one it exists to catch.
-const convergedBefore = `{"declaration":1,"resources":[{"content":"hello","id":"hello-web.page","path":"/var/lib/hello-web/index.html","type":"file"},{"id":"hello-web.server","image":"registry.example/hello@sha256:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa","name":"hello-web","type":"container"},{"id":"hello-web.served","path":"/var/lib/hello-web","type":"directory"}]}`
+const convergedBefore = `{"declaration":1,"resources":[{"content":"hello","id":"hello-web.page","path":"/var/lib/hello-web/index.html","type":"file"},{"hosts":["anchor.internal:10.77.0.1"],"id":"hello-web.server","image":"registry.example/hello@sha256:aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa","name":"hello-web","type":"container"},{"id":"hello-web.served","path":"/var/lib/hello-web","type":"directory"}]}`
 
 func TestAConvergedDeclarationIsByteForByteWhatItWas(t *testing.T) {
 	open := aMesh(t)

cmd/mesh-controller/sequence_test.go

@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A declaration's only identity was the digest of its bytes; the controller already held a per-node
-// lock and recorded each send, so the order existed and was thrown away at the wire (novox/hq
-// 04-ISSUES/107).
-
-func TestASendCarriesItsNumberInsideTheSignedBytes(t *testing.T) {
-	body, err := sendable{Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "x", "type": "file"}}, Sequence: 7}.Body()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var env map[string]any
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &env); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if got, _ := env["sequence"].(float64); got != 7 {
-		t.Fatalf("the body carries sequence %v, wanted 7", env["sequence"])
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnUnnumberedSendIsByteForByteWhatItWasBefore(t *testing.T) {
-	// Zero is not sent at all. A host reads absence as "no order claimed" — the shape of every
-	// declaration before this — so an older host, or the read-only comparison against a machine
-	// sent nothing since sends were numbered, sees exactly the bytes it always saw.
-	body, err := sendable{Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "x", "type": "file"}}}.Body()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var env map[string]any
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &env); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, present := env["sequence"]; present {
-		t.Fatalf("a send numbered zero put a sequence on the wire: %s", body)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestEachSendToANodeIsOneHigherAndReadable(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	record, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), "anchor")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	// Sent nothing since numbering existed: what it would be sent is composed with zero, which is
-	// not on the wire, which is what it was actually sent.
-	if n, err := open.inventory.Sequence(t.Context(), record.ID); err != nil || n != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a fresh node reads sequence %d, %v", n, err)
-	}
-	first, err := open.inventory.NextSequence(t.Context(), record.ID)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	second, err := open.inventory.NextSequence(t.Context(), record.ID)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if first != 1 || second != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("two sends were numbered %d and %d", first, second)
-	}
-	// And the read path sees the last one taken, so the comparison composes what was sent.
-	if n, err := open.inventory.Sequence(t.Context(), record.ID); err != nil || n != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("after two sends the node reads sequence %d, %v", n, err)
-	}
-	// Another node counts on its own.
-	other, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), "laptop")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if n, err := open.inventory.NextSequence(t.Context(), other.ID); err != nil || n != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("a second node's first send was numbered %d, %v", n, err)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/source.go

@@ -82,16 +82,6 @@ func cloneFrom(ctx context.Context, source buildSource) (string, error) {
 // serves no scheme or port has nothing to compose from — a default port here would be the forge's
 // address guessed, which is the thing this exists to stop.
 func clonedFromSeat(world catalogue.World, seatName, repository string) (string, error) {
-	base, err := seatBase(world, seatName)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	path := strings.TrimSuffix(strings.Trim(repository, "/"), ".git")
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s.git", base, path), nil
-}
-
-// seatBase is `scheme://host:port` of a seat's holder as the mesh reaches it, for cloning.
-func seatBase(world catalogue.World, seatName string) (string, error) {
 	seat, known := catalogue.SeatNamed(seatName)
 	if !known || seat.Delivers == "" {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%q is not a seat a repository can live on", seatName)
@@ -104,9 +94,9 @@ func seatBase(world catalogue.World, seatName string) (string, error) {
 		}
 	}
 	if holder == nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("nobody holds the %s seat, so nothing can be cloned from this mesh's "+
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("nobody holds the %s seat, so %s cannot be cloned from this mesh's "+
 			"forge — assign a module that claims it, or build from the repository's URL without --self",
-			seat.Name)
+			seat.Name, repository)
 	}
 	var provider *catalogue.Provider
 	for i, p := range world.Offered[seat.Delivers] {
@@ -128,33 +118,8 @@ func seatBase(world catalogue.World, seatName string) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s on %s holds the %s seat and does not serve a scheme and a port for %q",
 			holder.Module, holder.Node, seat.Name, seat.Delivers)
 	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s:%s", scheme, provider.At, port), nil
-}
-
-// seatBases is the clone base of every seat a recipe's context may name, for a build request
-// (novox/hq ADR 0155). A seat nobody holds is left out rather than refused here: the build may not
-// name it at all, and if it does the builder refuses with the seat's name.
-func seatBases(ctx context.Context) map[string]string {
-	open, err := openStores(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	defer open.Close()
-	shelf, err := open.inventory.Catalogue(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	world, err := theRestOfTheMesh(ctx, open.inventory, shelf, "")
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	bases := map[string]string{}
-	for _, seatName := range []string{gitSeat} {
-		if base, err := seatBase(world, seatName); err == nil {
-			bases[seatName] = base
-		}
-	}
-	return bases
+	path := strings.TrimSuffix(strings.Trim(repository, "/"), ".git")
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s:%s/%s.git", scheme, provider.At, port, path), nil
 }
 
 // servedPort is a served port as text, however the manifest and the node's settings carried it.

cmd/mesh-controller/status.go

@@ -46,21 +46,15 @@ func statusCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		return err
 	}
 	defer open.Close()
-	return statusFor(ctx, open, *asJSON)
-}
 
-// statusFor asks and answers, against stores somebody else opened.
-//
-// Split from the command so what it prints can be read by a test. The sentence it prints when nothing
-// is wrong has been acted on and been misleading (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/145, 125), which makes its exact
-// words the thing worth holding still.
-func statusFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, asJSON bool) error {
 	asked, err := theThreeQuestions(ctx, open)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	wrong, nodes, quiet := asked.wrong, asked.nodes, asked.quiet
+	behind, sources := asked.behind, asked.sources
 
-	if asJSON {
+	if *asJSON {
 		body, err := statusAsJSON(asked)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -68,18 +62,6 @@ func statusFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, asJSON bool) error {
 		fmt.Println(string(body))
 		return nil
 	}
-	return printStatus(asked)
-}
-
-// printStatus is the words, separated from the questions.
-//
-// **Its exact sentences have been acted on and been misleading twice** — a held module reading as a
-// machine doing what it was told (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125), and "all doing what they were told" being
-// true of a mesh in which no module could reach another (04-ISSUES/145). So they are written where a
-// test can read them without a store, a bus or a machine.
-func printStatus(asked answers) error {
-	wrong, nodes, quiet := asked.wrong, asked.nodes, asked.quiet
-	behind, sources := asked.behind, asked.sources
 
 	if len(asked.refused) > 0 {
 		// First, above everything else. A machine that cannot be worked out is not running an old
@@ -138,18 +120,6 @@ func printStatus(asked answers) error {
 			len(quiet), strings.Join(said, "\n  "))
 	}
 
-	if open, late := openPlans(asked.plans); len(open) > 0 {
-		fmt.Printf("%d plan(s) open", len(open))
-		if late > 0 {
-			fmt.Printf(", %d waiting past %s", late, planWaitBound)
-		}
-		fmt.Println(":")
-		for _, p := range open {
-			fmt.Printf("  %s\n", planLine(p, time.Now()))
-		}
-		fmt.Println()
-	}
-
 	if len(behind) > 0 {
 		var names []string
 		for m := range behind {
@@ -201,65 +171,6 @@ func printStatus(asked answers) error {
 		fmt.Printf("\n  `push --behind` sends them\n\n")
 	}
 
-	if split := hostSplit(nodes); len(split) > 1 {
-		// **Before a declaration gains a field, every machine has to understand it** (novox/hq
-		// 04-ISSUES/087). A host refuses a declaration carrying a field it does not know, and refuses
-		// it whole, so every new field is a flag day: hosts first, then the controller. The mesh had
-		// no record of which host any machine ran, so that order was kept by somebody remembering it.
-		//
-		// **Disagreement, and deliberately not "behind".** A host reports its version as a commit, and
-		// commits have no order — the first version of this said "N machines run an older host" and
-		// named the three that were newer, because it compared two hashes as strings. What the mesh
-		// can say truthfully is that the machines do not all run the same host, and which machines
-		// hold which. Ordering needs a version that is ordered, and that is the host's to report.
-		versions := make([]string, 0, len(split))
-		for v := range split {
-			versions = append(versions, v)
-		}
-		sort.Strings(versions)
-		fmt.Printf("%d machine(s) do not all run the same host:\n", len(nodes))
-		for _, v := range versions {
-			sort.Strings(split[v])
-			fmt.Printf("  %-12s %s\n", v, strings.Join(split[v], ", "))
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("\n  a host refuses a declaration carrying a field it does not know, whole — so the\n" +
-			"  mesh may send only what every one of these understands. Which of them is newer is\n" +
-			"  not readable from a commit; that needs a version the host reports as ordered\n\n")
-	}
-
-	if len(asked.untaken) > 0 {
-		// **Before the adopted line, and it breaks "all well".** An adopted machine is a state
-		// somebody chose and can leave alone; a module assigned to one and never taken is work
-		// outstanding that reads exactly like work finished. That reading is what stopped a
-		// predecessor's proxy on the strength of four green surfaces (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125).
-		machines := make([]string, 0, len(asked.untaken))
-		for name := range asked.untaken {
-			machines = append(machines, name)
-		}
-		sort.Strings(machines)
-		total := 0
-		for _, held := range asked.untaken {
-			for _, n := range held {
-				total += n
-			}
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%d resource(s) are held as found, because their module was assigned and never "+
-			"taken — so it is running none of what it declares:\n", total)
-		for _, name := range machines {
-			modules := make([]string, 0, len(asked.untaken[name]))
-			for m := range asked.untaken[name] {
-				modules = append(modules, m)
-			}
-			sort.Strings(modules)
-			parts := make([]string, 0, len(modules))
-			for _, m := range modules {
-				parts = append(parts, fmt.Sprintf("%s (%d)", m, asked.untaken[name][m]))
-			}
-			fmt.Printf("  %-12s %s\n", name, strings.Join(parts, ", "))
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("\n  `take <node> <module>` compares what runs against what it declares, and runs it\n\n")
-	}
-
 	if adopted := adoptedNodes(nodes); len(adopted) > 0 {
 		// Said, because nothing forces the flip: a node left adopted is visible here rather than
 		// read as converged (novox/hq ADR 0100). Not a fault, so it does not break "all well".
@@ -267,23 +178,12 @@ func printStatus(asked answers) error {
 		fmt.Printf("\n  `converge <node>` previews the flip\n\n")
 	}
 
-	if asked.well() {
+	if len(wrong) == 0 && len(quiet) == 0 && len(behind) == 0 && len(asked.waiting) == 0 &&
+		len(asked.refused) == 0 && asked.network == "" {
 		// Said plainly. "Nothing to report" and "nothing was checked" must never look the same,
 		// and getting here means every question was asked and answered.
 		fmt.Printf("%d machine(s), all doing what they were told, all heard from, running what "+
 			"the mesh would send them, and every module current with its source\n", len(nodes))
-		// **And what that sentence does not cover**, because for eleven hours it was true of a mesh
-		// in which no module could reach another (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/145). Every question above is
-		// about the relationship between the mesh and a machine — applied what it was sent, matches
-		// what would be sent, built from what the source has. None of them asks whether a module can
-		// reach what it requires, and the mesh composes every one of those grants itself.
-		//
-		// Said here rather than left to be inferred. A reader who acts on the line above is acting on
-		// "the machines are as the mesh described them", and the distance between that and "it works"
-		// is where the eleven hours went.
-		fmt.Printf("\n  That is the mesh and the machines agreeing. Nothing here dials a provision:\n" +
-			"  no grant the mesh composed has been tested, so a module unable to reach what it\n" +
-			"  requires would not appear above (04-ISSUES/145)\n")
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -301,10 +201,7 @@ func firstLine(s string) string {
 // A type of its own rather than a method on the enrolment, because they are unrelated things
 // arriving on one queue and an implementation of one should not have to say anything about the
 // other.
-type builds struct {
-	inv  *inventory.Inventory
-	open *stores
-}
+type builds struct{ inv *inventory.Inventory }
 
 // theThreeQuestions reads what anything answering "is the mesh alright" needs.
 //
@@ -350,17 +247,6 @@ func theThreeQuestions(ctx context.Context, open *stores) (answers, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return answers{}, err
 	}
-	// And what each machine is holding rather than running, by the module that would run it. Read
-	// from what the machine itself last reported, not from what take-time computed: the machine is
-	// the only thing that knows what it found (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125).
-	out.untaken, err = untakenModules(ctx, inv, out.nodes)
-	if err != nil {
-		return answers{}, err
-	}
-	out.plans, err = inv.RecentPlans(ctx, 5)
-	if err != nil {
-		return answers{}, err
-	}
 
 	// And which machines are not running what the mesh would send them. The same question as a
 	// module being behind its source, one level down: that one says the catalogue is out of date,
@@ -395,82 +281,3 @@ func theThreeQuestions(ctx context.Context, open *stores) (answers, error) {
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
-
-// untakenModules is, per machine, each module whose resources that machine is holding as found, and
-// how many.
-//
-// **The machine's own account, not the mesh's.** An adopted node decides at apply time what it found
-// and reports it; the mesh's take-time listing is a different thing and was the one this command used
-// to have, which is why a module assigned after the listing showed nothing at all
-// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125).
-//
-// A machine that reports no holds contributes nothing, so a converged mesh answers an empty map and
-// the caller prints nothing.
-func untakenModules(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, nodes []inventory.Node) (
-	map[string]map[string]int, error) {
-
-	out := map[string]map[string]int{}
-	for _, n := range nodes {
-		said, err := inv.AdoptionOf(ctx, n.Name)
-		if err != nil {
-			// A machine whose record cannot be read is not a machine holding nothing. Said, because
-			// answering "nothing held" from a failed read is the shape this whole issue is about.
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("what %s is holding cannot be read: %w", n.Name, err)
-		}
-		for _, h := range said.Held {
-			if h.Module == "" {
-				continue // a hold the mesh cannot attribute to a module has nothing to take
-			}
-			if out[n.Name] == nil {
-				out[n.Name] = map[string]int{}
-			}
-			out[n.Name][h.Module]++
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// well is whether every question this command asks came back with nothing to say.
-//
-// Named, and in one place, because it is the sentence an operator acts on and it has been wrong
-// twice. It is deliberately NOT "nothing is broken": a machine holding what it found is not broken
-// and is not doing what it was told either.
-//
-// **A hold suppresses it; being adopted does not.** Adopted is a mode somebody chose and can leave
-// alone. A module assigned to a machine and never taken is a half-finished action with nothing left
-// to finish it — it runs none of what it declares, and "all doing what they were told" was true and
-// read as success for the whole of the edge cut-over outage (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125).
-func (a answers) well() bool {
-	return len(a.wrong) == 0 && len(a.quiet) == 0 && len(a.behind) == 0 &&
-		len(a.waiting) == 0 && len(a.refused) == 0 && a.network == "" && len(a.untaken) == 0
-}
-
-// hostSplit is which machines report which host version, for every version more than one machine
-// could disagree about.
-//
-// **It does not say which is newer, because it cannot.** A host reports its version as a commit, and
-// commits have no order. The first version of this returned "the machines behind the newest" by
-// comparing versions as strings, and on the live mesh it named the three machines running the NEWER
-// host as the ones behind — an arbitrary lexicographic result presented as a fact
-// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/087). A report that confidently says the opposite of the truth is worse than one
-// that says less, which is the whole subject of 04-ISSUES/145.
-//
-// So this answers what is checkable: who runs what. The reader sees the split and the mesh claims no
-// ordering. Ordering wants an ordered version, and that is the host's to report rather than this
-// function's to infer.
-//
-// Machines that have not reported a version are left out entirely: they are not a version, and
-// counting them as one would invent a disagreement. `node show` says per machine that it has not said.
-func hostSplit(nodes []inventory.Node) map[string][]string {
-	out := map[string][]string{}
-	for _, n := range nodes {
-		if n.HostVersion == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		out[n.HostVersion] = append(out[n.HostVersion], n.Name)
-	}
-	if len(out) < 2 {
-		return nil // one version, or none reported: nothing to disagree about
-	}
-	return out
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/take_preview_test.go

@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-)
-
-// A take is a comparison (novox/hq ADR 0163): the preview puts what runs beside what the module
-// declares, and an older image or a differing file refuses unless named.
-func TestATakePreviewsTheComparisonAndRefusesWhatIsNotNamed(t *testing.T) {
-	held := []inventory.Held{
-		{ID: "forge.server", Module: "forge", Kind: "container", Target: "forge", Facts: map[string]any{
-			"image": "forge:1.27.3", "image_created": "2026-09-17T10:00:00Z",
-			"declared_image": "forge:1.22.6", "declared_image_created": "2026-08-20T10:00:00Z", "downgrade": true,
-			"networks": map[string]any{"predecessor_default": []any{"office", "db"}},
-			"ports":    []any{"3000/tcp>0.0.0.0:3000"}, "declared_ports": []any{"3000:3000"},
-		}},
-		{ID: "forge.config", Module: "forge", Kind: "file", Target: "/etc/forge/app.ini", Kept: "/var/lib/mesh/kept/app.ini",
-			Facts: map[string]any{"differs": true, "difference": []any{"- private scope: local", "+ upstream: public"}}},
-		{ID: "other.server", Module: "other", Kind: "container", Target: "other"},
-	}
-	preview, refusals := comparisonOf(held, "forge", takeOptions{})
-	for _, want := range []string{"runs forge:1.27.3 (made 2026-09-17)", "declares forge:1.22.6 (made 2026-08-20)", "DOWNGRADE",
-		"on the network predecessor_default with office, db", "publishes 3000/tcp>0.0.0.0:3000; the module declares 3000:3000",
-		"- private scope: local", "original kept at /var/lib/mesh/kept/app.ini"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(preview, want) {
-			t.Errorf("the preview lacks %q:\n%s", want, preview)
-		}
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(preview, "other") {
-		t.Errorf("another module's held things are in the preview:\n%s", preview)
-	}
-	if len(refusals) != 2 || !strings.Contains(refusals[0], "--downgrade") || !strings.Contains(refusals[1], "--replace /etc/forge/app.ini") {
-		t.Fatalf("the downgrade and the differing file refuse, each naming its override: %v", refusals)
-	}
-	// Named, they pass.
-	if _, refusals := comparisonOf(held, "forge", takeOptions{Downgrade: true, Replace: map[string]bool{"/etc/forge/app.ini": true}}); len(refusals) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("named differences still refused: %v", refusals)
-	}
-	if _, refusals := comparisonOf(held, "forge", takeOptions{Downgrade: true, Replace: map[string]bool{"*": true}}); len(refusals) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("replace * did not cover the file: %v", refusals)
-	}
-	// A held thing with no facts yet — a host older than this — refuses nothing and says what it can.
-	if preview, refusals := comparisonOf(held, "other", takeOptions{}); len(refusals) != 0 || !strings.Contains(preview, "container other") {
-		t.Fatalf("a factless hold: %q %v", preview, refusals)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/untaken_test.go

@@ -1,122 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-)
-
-// A module assigned to an adopted machine and never taken runs none of what it declares, and every
-// surface called that success — a push reporting sent, a journal reporting applied, status reporting
-// a machine doing what it was told (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/125). The holds were only ever in the
-// machine's own state file.
-
-// heldOn makes a machine report that it is holding resources for a module, the way an adopted node
-// does after an apply.
-func heldOn(t *testing.T, open *stores, node, module string, ids ...string) {
-	t.Helper()
-	record, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), node)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	held := make([]inventory.Held, 0, len(ids))
-	for _, id := range ids {
-		held = append(held, inventory.Held{ID: id, Module: module, Kind: "container", Target: id})
-	}
-	if err := open.inventory.RecordAdoption(t.Context(), record.ID, held, "ufw", nil); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestStatusNamesAModuleHeldBecauseNothingTookIt(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	heldOn(t, open, "anchor", "route-proxy", "ca", "certs", "server")
-
-	asked, err := theThreeQuestions(t.Context(), open)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if got := asked.untaken["anchor"]["route-proxy"]; got != 3 {
-		t.Fatalf("status counted %d resources held for route-proxy, wanted 3", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAHeldModuleStopsTheMeshReadingAsWell(t *testing.T) {
-	// The whole of the fault. "all doing what they were told" was true throughout the outage, and
-	// true is not the same as safe to act on: the machine was doing what it was told, and what it
-	// was told had not started. Asserted against the production condition, not a copy of it.
-	quiet := answers{}
-	if !quiet.well() {
-		t.Fatal("a mesh with nothing to say does not read as well, so nothing below means anything")
-	}
-	holding := answers{untaken: map[string]map[string]int{"anchor": {"route-proxy": 3}}}
-	if holding.well() {
-		t.Fatal("a machine holding a module's resources still reads as doing what it was told, " +
-			"which is the sentence that cost every public name on the machine")
-	}
-	// And being adopted does not suppress it: that is a mode somebody chose, not work outstanding.
-	// Kept as an assertion so the difference between the two is deliberate rather than incidental.
-	if !quiet.well() {
-		t.Fatal("the well condition is not stable")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAHeldModuleIsFoundFromWhatTheMachineReported(t *testing.T) {
-	// End to end through the store, so the condition above is reached by real data and not only by
-	// a constructed value: the machine reports, the mesh records, status asks.
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	heldOn(t, open, "anchor", "route-proxy", "ca", "server")
-
-	asked, err := theThreeQuestions(t.Context(), open)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(asked.untaken) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("what the machine reported holding did not reach status")
-	}
-	if asked.well() {
-		t.Fatal("a mesh whose machine reported holds reads as well")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheJSONStatusCarriesWhatIsHeldAndForWhichModule(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	heldOn(t, open, "anchor", "route-proxy", "ca", "certs")
-
-	asked, err := theThreeQuestions(t.Context(), open)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	body, err := statusAsJSON(asked)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var doc struct {
-		Untaken []struct {
-			Node   string `json:"node"`
-			Module string `json:"module"`
-			Held   int    `json:"held"`
-		} `json:"untaken"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &doc); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(doc.Untaken) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("the document carries %d untaken rows, wanted 1: %s", len(doc.Untaken), body)
-	}
-	row := doc.Untaken[0]
-	if row.Node != "anchor" || row.Module != "route-proxy" || row.Held != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("the row is %+v, wanted anchor/route-proxy/2", row)
-	}
-	// Absent rather than empty when nothing is held, so a well mesh's document does not carry a
-	// field a reader has to interpret.
-	clean, err := statusAsJSON(answers{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(string(clean), "untaken") {
-		t.Fatalf("a mesh holding nothing still names untaken: %s", clean)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/upgrades.go

@@ -295,31 +295,17 @@ func (f following) SourceMoved(ctx context.Context, m link.SourceMoved) error {
 			"built from\n", m.Owner, m.Repo, m.Base, m.Commit)
 		return nil
 	}
-	// A merge produces a plan the mesh keeps (novox/hq ADR 0162): what moved and everything that
-	// depends on it, along the catalogue's one dependency relation, sorted into tiers. The plan is
-	// written before any build is asked; the first tier is asked; this returns. Outcomes advance it.
-	edges, err := inv.Dependencies(ctx)
+	against, err := inv.BuiltAgainst(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return notNow(err)
 	}
-	var movedNames []string
-	for _, e := range moved {
-		movedNames = append(movedNames, e.Manifest.Module)
+	ordered := orderByBases(moved, against)
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(ordered))
+	for _, e := range ordered {
+		names = append(names, e.Manifest.Module)
 	}
-	plan := planOfMerge(m, movedNames, edges)
-	if hasCycle(plan.Tiers, edges) {
-		fmt.Printf("  the last tier depends on itself: %s — built together, in no order\n",
-			strings.Join(plan.Tiers[len(plan.Tiers)-1], ", "))
-	}
-	if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, plan); err != nil {
-		return notNow(err)
-	}
-	var tiers []string
-	for i, t := range plan.Tiers {
-		tiers = append(tiers, fmt.Sprintf("%d: %s", i, strings.Join(t, ", ")))
-	}
-	fmt.Printf("%s/%s merged into %s (%.8s); plan %s, %d module(s) in %d tier(s)\n  %s\n",
-		m.Owner, m.Repo, m.Base, m.Commit, plan.ID, len(plan.Modules), len(plan.Tiers), strings.Join(tiers, "\n  "))
+	fmt.Printf("%s/%s merged into %s (%.8s); building %s\n",
+		m.Owner, m.Repo, m.Base, m.Commit, strings.Join(names, ", "))
 	if len(packaging) > 0 {
 		var also []string
 		for _, e := range packaging {
@@ -328,11 +314,22 @@ func (f following) SourceMoved(ctx context.Context, m link.SourceMoved) error {
 		fmt.Printf("  %s package source from it, so they are rebuilt and their own source record "+
 			"is left where it is\n", strings.Join(also, ", "))
 	}
-	if err := askTier(ctx, inv, &plan); err != nil {
-		return notNow(err)
+	var failed []string
+	for _, e := range ordered {
+		source := buildSource{Repository: e.Source.Repository, Seat: e.Source.Seat}
+		if err := buildOne(ctx, source, e.Source.Path, e.Source.Ref, 20*time.Minute); err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("  %s: %v\n", e.Manifest.Module, err)
+			failed = append(failed, e.Manifest.Module)
+			// A base that failed is a reason to stop: what stands on it would be built against
+			// the old one, and report success (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131).
+			if standsOn(ordered, e.Manifest.Module, against) {
+				fmt.Printf("  stopping: %s is a base of what was still to build\n", e.Manifest.Module)
+				break
+			}
+		}
 	}
-	if err := inv.SavePlan(ctx, plan); err != nil {
-		return notNow(err)
+	if len(failed) > 0 {
+		fmt.Printf("%d of %d not built: %s\n", len(failed), len(ordered), strings.Join(failed, ", "))
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -525,37 +522,3 @@ func isHistory(mergedAt string, seen time.Time) bool {
 	}
 	return at.Before(seen)
 }
-
-// dependentsOf is every catalogued module that stands on one of the moved modules, directly or
-// through another dependent, and is not itself among them — in the catalogue's order, so the
-// answer is the same each time. A module standing on nothing that moved is left alone: a merge
-// rebuilds what it changed and what is built on top of that, not the catalogue.
-func dependentsOf(moved, entries []inventory.Entry, against map[string][]string) []inventory.Entry {
-	bases := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, e := range moved {
-		bases[e.Manifest.Module] = true
-	}
-	var out []inventory.Entry
-	taken := map[string]bool{}
-	for grew := true; grew; {
-		grew = false
-		for _, e := range entries {
-			name := e.Manifest.Module
-			if bases[name] || taken[name] {
-				continue
-			}
-			for base := range bases {
-				if standsOnModule(e, base, against) {
-					taken[name] = true
-					out = append(out, e)
-					grew = true
-					break
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		for _, e := range out {
-			bases[e.Manifest.Module] = true
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/well_scope_test.go

@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"io"
-	"os"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
-)
-
-// "4 machine(s), all doing what they were told, all heard from, running what the mesh would send
-// them, and every module current with its source" was true for eleven hours of a mesh in which no
-// module could reach another (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/145). Every question it answers is about the mesh
-// and a machine agreeing; none of them dials anything.
-
-// printed captures what a function writes to stdout.
-func printed(t *testing.T, f func() error) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	old := os.Stdout
-	r, w, err := os.Pipe()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	os.Stdout = w
-	runErr := f()
-	_ = w.Close()
-	os.Stdout = old
-	var buf bytes.Buffer
-	if _, err := io.Copy(&buf, r); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if runErr != nil {
-		t.Fatal(runErr)
-	}
-	return buf.String()
-}
-
-func TestTheAllWellSentenceSaysWhatItDoesNotCover(t *testing.T) {
-	// A mesh with nothing to say. The sentence below was true of a mesh in which no module could
-	// reach another, for eleven hours.
-	got := printed(t, func() error {
-		return printStatus(answers{nodes: []inventory.Node{{Name: "anchor"}, {Name: "laptop"}}})
-	})
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "all doing what they were told") {
-		t.Fatalf("a mesh with nothing to say did not print the all-well sentence:\n%s", got)
-	}
-	// And now says what it is not a claim about.
-	for _, want := range []string{"Nothing here dials a provision", "04-ISSUES/145"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
-			t.Fatalf("the all-well sentence does not say %q:\n%s", want, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAMeshWithSomethingToSayDoesNotPrintTheScopeLine(t *testing.T) {
-	// The scope belongs to the all-well sentence. A mesh with something wrong has specific things to
-	// read, and appending a caveat to those is noise.
-	got := printed(t, func() error {
-		return printStatus(answers{
-			nodes:   []inventory.Node{{Name: "anchor"}},
-			untaken: map[string]map[string]int{"anchor": {"route-proxy": 3}},
-		})
-	})
-	if strings.Contains(got, "Nothing here dials a provision") {
-		t.Fatalf("a mesh with a held module printed the all-well scope line:\n%s", got)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(got, "all doing what they were told") {
-		t.Fatalf("a mesh with a held module printed the all-well sentence:\n%s", got)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "route-proxy") {
-		t.Fatalf("the held module is not named:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}

examples/route-proxy/main.go

@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httputil"
-	"net/netip"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -197,96 +196,6 @@ type table struct {
 	// pass ACME's own validation (it has no public DNS to prove it against), so asking for it is
 	// not merely pointless but the failing order onlyWhatTheMeshSaid exists to prevent.
 	public map[string]bool
-	// inside is the private network's range, where a request must come from to be served a name
-	// that is only internal. Set once at start, never replaced with the routes: it is what the
-	// private network is, not what is routed on it.
-	inside sources
-	// bridges is the machine's own container networks, read from its interfaces and refreshed with
-	// the routes, since a compose network can appear at any time.
-	bridges sources
-}
-
-// sources is the private network, as address ranges. The machine itself is always inside it —
-// anything on a machine may call anything on it (novox/hq ADR 0144) — so loopback needs no range.
-type sources []netip.Prefix
-
-// sourcesFrom reads the ranges the mesh wrote, separated by commas or spaces. A range that does not
-// parse is an error, not a range skipped: the proxy would otherwise serve internal names to fewer
-// machines than the mesh said, or start believing a typo.
-func sourcesFrom(text string) (sources, error) {
-	var out sources
-	for _, field := range strings.FieldsFunc(text, func(r rune) bool { return r == ',' || r == ' ' || r == '\n' || r == '\t' }) {
-		prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(field)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q is not an address range: %w", field, err)
-		}
-		out = append(out, prefix.Masked())
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// bridgesFrom is the address ranges of the machine's container bridges — the same interfaces the
-// mesh's guard names as the machine itself (docker0, and the br-* a compose network gets), so the
-// proxy and the guard agree on what "this machine" is (novox/hq ADR 0144).
-func bridgesFrom(interfaces map[string][]net.Addr) sources {
-	var out sources
-	for name, addrs := range interfaces {
-		if name != "docker0" && !strings.HasPrefix(name, "br-") {
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, a := range addrs {
-			if ipnet, ok := a.(*net.IPNet); ok {
-				if prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(ipnet.String()); err == nil {
-					out = append(out, prefix.Masked())
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// theseBridges reads this machine's interfaces for bridgesFrom. An interface that cannot be read
-// contributes nothing: fewer callers inside, never more.
-func theseBridges() sources {
-	interfaces, err := net.Interfaces()
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	named := map[string][]net.Addr{}
-	for _, i := range interfaces {
-		if addrs, err := i.Addrs(); err == nil {
-			named[i.Name] = addrs
-		}
-	}
-	return bridgesFrom(named)
-}
-
-// holds says whether a request from this remote address came from inside these ranges, or from
-// the machine itself.
-//
-// **By source, which the guard deliberately is not** — it names interfaces because a source
-// address can be claimed by whoever sends the packet. The proxy cannot see the interface a request
-// arrived on, and here the claim does not carry: a connection needs its replies, and replies to a
-// mesh or container address leave by the tunnel or a local bridge, never back to the claimant.
-func (s sources) holds(remote string) bool {
-	host := remote
-	if h, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(remote); err == nil {
-		host = h
-	}
-	addr, err := netip.ParseAddr(host)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	addr = addr.Unmap()
-	if addr.IsLoopback() {
-		return true
-	}
-	for _, prefix := range s {
-		if prefix.Contains(addr) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
 }
 
 func (t *table) set(routes map[string][]rule, public map[string]bool) {
@@ -405,41 +314,6 @@ func bareHost(host string) string {
 	return strings.ToLower(host)
 }
 
-// hiddenFrom says whether this host must look unrouted to a request from this address: it is
-// only an internal name, and the request did not come from the private network.
-//
-// **The proxy is the only way in to a routed endpoint, so it is what makes `internal` true**
-// (novox/hq ADR 0138, issue 191). It answers public names on the same listeners, so a request from
-// anywhere can carry any Host header; a name being internal keeps nobody out unless this check does.
-// Answered exactly as a name that was never routed, so an outsider learns nothing from asking.
-func (t *table) hiddenFrom(host, remote string) bool {
-	if !t.eligibleForInternalACME(host) {
-		return false
-	}
-	t.mu.RLock()
-	defer t.mu.RUnlock()
-	return !t.inside.holds(remote) && !t.bridges.holds(remote)
-}
-
-// setBridges replaces the machine's container networks.
-func (t *table) setBridges(bridges sources) {
-	t.mu.Lock()
-	t.bridges = bridges
-	t.mu.Unlock()
-}
-
-// namesSeenFrom is what this proxy says it serves to a request from this address — every routed
-// name, less the internal-only ones when the request came from outside.
-func (t *table) namesSeenFrom(remote string) []string {
-	out := []string{}
-	for _, name := range t.names() {
-		if !t.hiddenFrom(name, remote) {
-			out = append(out, name)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 func (t *table) names() []string {
 	t.mu.RLock()
 	defer t.mu.RUnlock()
@@ -469,18 +343,6 @@ func run() error {
 	}
 
 	held := newTable()
-	// Unset means only this machine and its containers are inside, which serves an internal-only
-	// name to nobody else — refused rather than served to everyone, which is what the proxy did
-	// before it knew.
-	inside, err := sourcesFrom(os.Getenv("INTERNAL_SOURCES"))
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("INTERNAL_SOURCES: %w", err)
-	}
-	if len(inside) == 0 {
-		log.Printf("INTERNAL_SOURCES is not set: a name that is only internal is served to this machine " +
-			"and its containers alone")
-	}
-	held.inside = inside
 	read := func() {
 		routes, public, err := routesFrom(path)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -491,7 +353,6 @@ func run() error {
 			return
 		}
 		held.set(routes, public)
-		held.setBridges(theseBridges())
 		log.Printf("serving %d route(s): %s", len(routes), strings.Join(held.names(), ", "))
 	}
 	read()
@@ -561,7 +422,19 @@ func run() error {
 	}()
 
 	tlsConfig := publicManager.TLSConfig()
-	tlsConfig.GetCertificate = certificateFor(held, tlsConfig.GetCertificate, internalManager)
+	if internalManager != nil {
+		// Dispatched by which authority may certify this name at all — the same question
+		// eligibleForInternalACME already answers, asked once more at handshake time rather than
+		// only when an order is placed, since a cached certificate is served here on every request
+		// and never goes through HostPolicy again.
+		fromPublic, fromInternal := tlsConfig.GetCertificate, internalManager.TLSConfig().GetCertificate
+		tlsConfig.GetCertificate = func(hello *tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error) {
+			if held.eligibleForInternalACME(hello.ServerName) {
+				return fromInternal(hello)
+			}
+			return fromPublic(hello)
+		}
+	}
 
 	server := &http.Server{
 		Addr:      secure,
@@ -719,33 +592,6 @@ func forThisAuthority(cache, directory string, root []byte) string {
 	return filepath.Join(cache, hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])[:16])
 }
 
-// certificateFor picks the certificate a handshake is answered with.
-//
-// Dispatched by which authority may certify this name at all — the same question
-// eligibleForInternalACME already answers, asked once more at handshake time rather than only when
-// an order is placed, since a cached certificate is served here on every request and never goes
-// through HostPolicy again. And refused, exactly as an unrouted name is, to a client outside the
-// private network asking for a name that is only internal: the certificate would name it.
-func certificateFor(held *table, fromPublic func(*tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error),
-	internalManager *autocert.Manager) func(*tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error) {
-	var fromInternal func(*tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error)
-	if internalManager != nil {
-		fromInternal = internalManager.TLSConfig().GetCertificate
-	}
-	return func(hello *tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error) {
-		if held.eligibleForInternalACME(hello.ServerName) {
-			if hello.Conn != nil && held.hiddenFrom(hello.ServerName, hello.Conn.RemoteAddr().String()) {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("no public route for %q in this mesh, so no certificate is asked for",
-					hello.ServerName)
-			}
-			if fromInternal != nil {
-				return fromInternal(hello)
-			}
-		}
-		return fromPublic(hello)
-	}
-}
-
 // newTable is an empty routing table.
 func newTable() *table {
 	return &table{to: map[string][]rule{}}
@@ -754,9 +600,8 @@ func newTable() *table {
 // handler is the proxy itself, separated so it can be driven by a test without a listener.
 func handler(held *table) http.Handler {
 	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		hidden := held.hiddenFrom(r.Host, r.RemoteAddr)
 		matched, known := held.find(r.Host, r.URL.Path)
-		if hidden || !known {
+		if !known {
 			// **Named, not a bare 404.** A route that was withdrawn and a name that never existed
 			// are different things, and a proxy that says only "not found" makes an operator go
 			// and read the mesh to tell them apart. What it is serving is the answer to both.
@@ -766,13 +611,13 @@ func handler(held *table) http.Handler {
 			// contradiction an operator would have to disbelieve the proxy to get past.
 			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8")
 			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNotFound)
-			if !hidden && held.routed(r.Host) {
+			if held.routed(r.Host) {
 				fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s is served here, but no route covers %q.\n",
 					bareHost(r.Host), r.URL.Path)
 				return
 			}
 			fmt.Fprintf(w, "no route for %q in this mesh.\nserving: %s\n",
-				r.Host, strings.Join(held.namesSeenFrom(r.RemoteAddr), ", "))
+				r.Host, strings.Join(held.names(), ", "))
 			return
 		}
 
@@ -871,12 +716,6 @@ func boolByte(b bool) byte {
 // routesFrom reads what the mesh wrote and turns it into host → the rules for that host, and
 // which of those hosts is a public name — the second is `name`, ACME-eligible; a host reached
 // only through `internal-name` never appears there.
-//
-// **A route may carry either name, or both** (novox/hq ADR 0138). How far an endpoint reaches
-// decides which names the mesh composes, so an endpoint that reaches only the private network
-// arrives with an `internal-name` and no `name`. That is a whole route, not a malformed one: it is
-// served under its internal name and certified by the internal authority. Only a route with
-// neither name has nothing to be served under (novox/hq issue 191).
 func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -891,18 +730,12 @@ func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 	public := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, c := range said.Given {
 		name, _ := c.Values["name"].(string)
-		name = strings.TrimSpace(name)
-		internal, _ := c.Values["internal-name"].(string)
-		internal = strings.TrimSpace(internal)
-		if name == "" && internal == "" {
+		if name == "" {
 			log.Printf("%s on %s asked for a route and named nothing; skipped", c.From, c.Node)
 			continue
 		}
-		// What the route is called in a log line: its public name when it has one.
-		called := name
-		if called == "" {
-			called = internal
-		}
+		host := strings.ToLower(name)
+		public[host] = true
 
 		made := rule{path: asPath(c.Values["path"])}
 		if p, ok := asWhole(c.Values["priority"]); ok {
@@ -919,7 +752,7 @@ func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 			if looksLikeACredential(named) {
 				log.Printf("%s on %s declared route %q with a credential in the declaration rather "+
 					"than the name of a secret; the whole route is refused (novox/hq ADR 0108)",
-					c.From, c.Node, called)
+					c.From, c.Node, name)
 				continue
 			}
 			users, err := usersFrom(named)
@@ -937,7 +770,7 @@ func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 			port, ok := asPort(c.Values["port"])
 			if !ok {
 				log.Printf("%s on %s asked for route %q and gave no usable port; skipped",
-					c.From, c.Node, called)
+					c.From, c.Node, name)
 				continue
 			}
 			// Where the mesh says that machine is. Empty means it is this one — a workload beside
@@ -958,7 +791,7 @@ func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 			}
 			if scheme != "http" && scheme != "https" {
 				log.Printf("%s on %s asked for route %q with scheme %q, which is neither http "+
-					"nor https; skipped", c.From, c.Node, called, scheme)
+					"nor https; skipped", c.From, c.Node, name, scheme)
 				continue
 			}
 			made.insecure, _ = c.Values["insecure"].(bool)
@@ -969,7 +802,7 @@ func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 				bytes, whole := asWhole(asked)
 				if !whole || bytes <= 0 {
 					log.Printf("%s on %s asked for route %q with a max-request-body of %v, which is "+
-						"not a whole positive number of bytes; skipped", c.From, c.Node, called, asked)
+						"not a whole positive number of bytes; skipped", c.From, c.Node, name, asked)
 					continue
 				}
 				made.maxRequestBody = int64(bytes)
@@ -977,20 +810,15 @@ func routesFrom(path string) (map[string][]rule, map[string]bool, error) {
 			made.target = fmt.Sprintf("%s://%s:%d", scheme, at, port)
 		}
 
-		if name != "" {
-			host := strings.ToLower(name)
-			out[host] = append(out[host], made)
-			public[host] = true
-		}
+		out[host] = append(out[host], made)
 
-		// The internal-network name, the same rule under a second host — a predecessor proxy
+		// The internal-network alias, the same rule under a second host — a predecessor proxy
 		// answered both for one route, as a convenience (reaching a service over the VPN without a
 		// public TLS round trip), not as an access boundary; composing it here restores exactly
 		// that, nothing more. Absent whenever the node composed no internal name (novox/hq ADR
 		// 0056's internalDomain half) — the same "nothing to join a label to" case the public name
-		// already has. And the only name, when the endpoint reaches no further than the private
-		// network.
-		if internal != "" {
+		// already has.
+		if internal, _ := c.Values["internal-name"].(string); strings.TrimSpace(internal) != "" {
 			out[strings.ToLower(internal)] = append(out[strings.ToLower(internal)], made)
 		}
 	}

examples/route-proxy/reach_test.go

@@ -1,183 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"crypto/tls"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"net"
-	"net/http"
-	"net/http/httptest"
-	"net/url"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// behind is a workload the proxy can send to, and a table routing one public name and one
-// internal-only name to it, with the private network set to inside.
-func behind(t *testing.T, inside string) *table {
-	t.Helper()
-	workload := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		io.WriteString(w, "the workload")
-	}))
-	t.Cleanup(workload.Close)
-	at, _ := url.Parse(workload.URL)
-	host, port, _ := net.SplitHostPort(at.Host)
-
-	routes, public, err := routesFrom(write(t, fmt.Sprintf(`{"given":[
-	  {"from":"app","node":"anchor","at":%q,
-	   "values":{"name":"app.example","internal-name":"app.anchor.internal","port":%s}},
-	  {"from":"admin","node":"anchor","at":%q,
-	   "values":{"internal-name":"admin.anchor.internal","port":%s}}
-	]}`, host, port, host, port)))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	held := newTable()
-	held.inside, err = sourcesFrom(inside)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	held.set(routes, public)
-	return held
-}
-
-// askFrom is what the proxy answers a request for host coming from remote.
-func askFrom(held *table, host, remote string) (int, string) {
-	r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "http://"+host+"/", nil)
-	r.RemoteAddr = remote
-	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
-	handler(held).ServeHTTP(w, r)
-	return w.Code, w.Body.String()
-}
-
-// **An internal-only name is served to the private network and to nobody else** (novox/hq ADR
-// 0138, issue 191). The proxy answers public names on the same listeners, so without this a name
-// being internal kept nobody out: a request from the internet only had to carry it.
-func TestAnInternalOnlyNameIsServedOnlyInsideThePrivateNetwork(t *testing.T) {
-	held := behind(t, "10.10.0.0/24")
-
-	if code, body := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "10.10.0.7:51000"); code != http.StatusOK ||
-		body != "the workload" {
-		t.Errorf("a request from the private network was not served: %d %q", code, body)
-	}
-	if code, body := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "127.0.0.1:51000"); code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Errorf("a request from the machine itself was not served: %d %q", code, body)
-	}
-
-	code, body := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "203.0.113.9:51000")
-	if code != http.StatusNotFound {
-		t.Fatalf("a request from outside the private network reached an internal-only name: %d %q",
-			code, body)
-	}
-	// Answered as a name never routed, and the list of what is served does not name it either —
-	// otherwise the refusal would tell an outsider exactly what to ask for from inside.
-	if strings.Contains(strings.SplitN(body, "\n", 2)[1], "admin.anchor.internal") {
-		t.Errorf("the refusal names the internal-only route to an outsider: %q", body)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(body, "app.example") {
-		t.Errorf("the refusal stopped listing the public names: %q", body)
-	}
-}
-
-// The internal name of a route that also has a public one is internal too: served inside, and to
-// an outsider only under the public name. Nothing is lost — the outsider has the public name — and a
-// name stays one thing whichever route it came from.
-func TestAnInternalAliasOfAPublicRouteIsServedInsideOnly(t *testing.T) {
-	held := behind(t, "10.10.0.0/24")
-	if code, body := askFrom(held, "app.anchor.internal", "10.10.0.7:51000"); code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Errorf("the internal alias stopped answering the private network: %d %q", code, body)
-	}
-	if code, _ := askFrom(held, "app.anchor.internal", "203.0.113.9:51000"); code != http.StatusNotFound {
-		t.Errorf("the internal alias was served to an outsider: %d", code)
-	}
-	if code, _ := askFrom(held, "app.example", "203.0.113.9:51000"); code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Errorf("the public name was refused to an outsider: %d", code)
-	}
-}
-
-// A container on this machine reaches the proxy from its bridge's range, and is the machine itself
-// (novox/hq ADR 0144): inside, though it is neither loopback nor the mesh.
-func TestAContainerOnThisMachineIsInside(t *testing.T) {
-	held := behind(t, "10.10.0.0/24")
-	_, bridge, _ := net.ParseCIDR("172.18.0.1/16")
-	bridge.IP = net.ParseIP("172.18.0.1")
-	_, other, _ := net.ParseCIDR("192.168.1.20/24")
-	other.IP = net.ParseIP("192.168.1.20")
-	held.setBridges(bridgesFrom(map[string][]net.Addr{
-		"br-0123456789ab": {bridge},
-		"eth0":            {other},
-	}))
-
-	if code, _ := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "172.18.0.5:51000"); code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Errorf("a container on this machine was refused: %d", code)
-	}
-	// The machine's own network is not a container bridge: a neighbour there is not the machine.
-	if code, _ := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "192.168.1.30:51000"); code != http.StatusNotFound {
-		t.Errorf("a neighbour on the machine's network was served an internal-only name: %d", code)
-	}
-}
-
-// With no private network said, only the machine itself is inside — refused to everyone else,
-// never served to everyone.
-func TestWithNoPrivateNetworkSaidAnInternalOnlyNameIsServedToTheMachineAlone(t *testing.T) {
-	held := behind(t, "")
-	if code, _ := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "10.10.0.7:51000"); code != http.StatusNotFound {
-		t.Errorf("an internal-only name was served with no private network said: %d", code)
-	}
-	if code, _ := askFrom(held, "admin.anchor.internal", "[::1]:51000"); code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Errorf("an internal-only name was refused to the machine itself: %d", code)
-	}
-}
-
-type from struct {
-	net.Conn
-	remote net.Addr
-}
-
-func (c from) RemoteAddr() net.Addr { return c.remote }
-
-// The handshake refuses an internal-only name to an outsider too: the certificate would name it,
-// and serving it would answer the question the routing refuses to.
-func TestTheHandshakeRefusesAnInternalOnlyNameToAnOutsider(t *testing.T) {
-	held := behind(t, "10.10.0.0/24")
-	served := &tls.Certificate{}
-	pick := certificateFor(held, func(*tls.ClientHelloInfo) (*tls.Certificate, error) { return served, nil }, nil)
-	hello := func(name, remote string) *tls.ClientHelloInfo {
-		addr, _ := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp", remote)
-		return &tls.ClientHelloInfo{ServerName: name, Conn: from{remote: addr}}
-	}
-
-	if _, err := pick(hello("admin.anchor.internal", "203.0.113.9:443")); err == nil {
-		t.Error("an outsider was handed a certificate for an internal-only name")
-	}
-	if got, err := pick(hello("admin.anchor.internal", "10.10.0.7:443")); err != nil || got != served {
-		t.Errorf("a client on the private network was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	if got, err := pick(hello("app.example", "203.0.113.9:443")); err != nil || got != served {
-		t.Errorf("a public name was refused to an outsider: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// A range the proxy cannot read stops it, rather than serving internal names to fewer machines
-// than the mesh said, or to a typo.
-func TestAPrivateNetworkThatDoesNotParseIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := sourcesFrom("10.10.0.0/24, not-a-range"); err == nil {
-		t.Error("a range that does not parse was accepted")
-	}
-	inside, err := sourcesFrom("10.10.0.0/24 fd00::/8")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	for remote, want := range map[string]bool{
-		"10.10.0.200:1":        true,
-		"[::ffff:10.10.0.3]:1": true,
-		"[fd00::1]:1":          true,
-		"10.11.0.1:1":          false,
-		"192.168.1.10:1":       false,
-		"not-an-address":       false,
-	} {
-		if inside.holds(remote) != want {
-			t.Errorf("%s inside the private network: got %v, want %v", remote, !want, want)
-		}
-	}
-}

examples/route-proxy/routes_test.go

@@ -90,50 +90,6 @@ func TestARouteWithAnInternalNameIsReachableUnderBoth(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A route whose endpoint reaches only the private network carries an internal name and no public
-// one (novox/hq ADR 0138), and is served under that name rather than skipped as naming nothing —
-// skipping it left every internal-only module unreachable by name (novox/hq issue 191).
-func TestARouteWithOnlyAnInternalNameIsServed(t *testing.T) {
-	routes, public, err := routesFrom(write(t, `{"given":[
-	  {"from":"app","node":"anchor","at":"anchor.internal",
-	   "values":{"internal-name":"App.Anchor.Internal","port":8443,"scheme":"https","insecure":true}}
-	]}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if targetOf(routes, "app.anchor.internal") != "https://anchor.internal:8443" {
-		t.Fatalf("the internal-only route is not served: %v", routes)
-	}
-	if len(routes) != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("an internal-only route made hosts it never named: %v", routes)
-	}
-	if len(public) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("an internal-only route made a name eligible for a public certificate: %v", public)
-	}
-
-	held := newTable()
-	held.set(routes, public)
-	if err := onlyInternalNamesTheMeshSaid(held)(context.Background(), "app.anchor.internal"); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("the internal authority refused the internal-only route's name: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := onlyWhatTheMeshSaid(held)(context.Background(), "app.anchor.internal"); err == nil {
-		t.Error("a public certificate was ordered for an internal-only name")
-	}
-}
-
-// A route with neither name has nothing to be served under, and is still skipped.
-func TestARouteWithNeitherNameIsSkipped(t *testing.T) {
-	routes, public, err := routesFrom(write(t, `{"given":[
-	  {"from":"app","node":"anchor","at":"anchor.internal","values":{"internal-name":"  ","port":8080}}
-	]}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(routes) != 0 || len(public) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("a route that named nothing was served: %v %v", routes, public)
-	}
-}
-
 // A route with no internal-name composed gets no second host — the ordinary case, unchanged.
 func TestARouteWithNoInternalNameGetsNoAlias(t *testing.T) {
 	routes, _, err := routesFrom(write(t, `{"given":[

internal/broker/agreement_catalogue_test.go

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ func TestTheAgreementCheckCatchesASubscriptionThatMatchesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 	// An event published under a seat's name is real even though no module declares it as its own.
 	if bad := Disagreements(nil,
 		[]AConsumer{{Module: "watcher", Consumes: []string{"mesh-artifact-store.image.pushed"}}},
-		[]DeclaredSeat{{Name: "mesh-artifact-store", Emits: []string{"image.pushed"}}}); len(bad) != 0 {
+		[]DeclaredSeat{{Name: "the-artifact-store", Emits: []string{"image.pushed"}}}); len(bad) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("an event a seat emits was reported as matching nothing: %v", bad)
 	}
 }

internal/broker/derived.go

@@ -40,14 +40,7 @@ type Consumer struct {
 	AckWaitSeconds int
 	// MaxDeliver before the message is dead-lettered; zero for the mesh's default.
 	MaxDeliver int
-	// MaxAckPending is how many deliveries the server lets stand unacknowledged at once; zero for
-	// the server's default, which is many. **One, for a consumer handled one at a time**
-	// (novox/hq issue 175): a handler that builds for minutes keeps its own message alive with a
-	// heartbeat, but everything handed over behind it times out unacknowledged and comes back —
-	// and a merge that came back rebuilt what it had just built, five times over on 2026-09-30.
-	// With one outstanding, the server holds the rest, and the heartbeat is keeping the message.
-	MaxAckPending int
-	Why           string
+	Why        string
 }
 
 // seatStreamName is the stream holding a seat's inbound work. Named after the seat rather than
@@ -161,15 +154,8 @@ func HolderConsumerFor(node, module string, seat DeclaredSeat) (Consumer, bool)
 		Queue:          "holders",
 		AckWaitSeconds: 60,
 		MaxDeliver:     5,
-		// **One in flight.** A holder works one ask at a time, so the server hands it one at a
-		// time: with the default of many, every ask behind the one being worked was delivered,
-		// left unacknowledged for the length of the work, redelivered after the ack wait, and
-		// after the fifth time dropped — on 2026-10-01 twenty-six of forty-three builds asked in
-		// two minutes were never built, and the queue read as empty (novox/hq issue 186).
-		MaxAckPending: 1,
 		Why: fmt.Sprintf("%s on %s holds %s; it acknowledges after the work is done, so a "+
-			"crash mid-work redelivers rather than loses; one in flight, so a queue of asks is a "+
-			"queue and not a race against the ack wait", module, node, seat.Name),
+			"crash mid-work redelivers rather than loses", module, node, seat.Name),
 	}, true
 }
 

internal/broker/derived_test.go

@@ -153,16 +153,3 @@ func TestANodesDeclarationConsumerIsWhatItsOwnGrantAllows(t *testing.T) {
 	has(t, perms.Publish, "$JS.ACK.NODES."+c.Name+".>")
 	has(t, perms.Subscribe, c.Filters[0])
 }
-
-// A holder works one ask at a time, so the server hands it one at a time (novox/hq issue 186):
-// asks queued behind the one being worked wait in the stream rather than being delivered,
-// left to expire and dropped after the fifth redelivery.
-func TestAHoldersWorkerTakesOneAskAtATime(t *testing.T) {
-	c, found := HolderConsumerFor("anchor", "builder", DeclaredSeat{Name: "mesh-build-machine", Accepts: []string{"build"}})
-	if !found {
-		t.Fatal("a seat that accepts work has no worker")
-	}
-	if c.MaxAckPending != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("the worker may have %d asks in flight; one, so a queue is a queue", c.MaxAckPending)
-	}
-}

internal/broker/invokes_test.go

@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-package broker
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A module that says it calls a tool may publish exactly that subject (novox/hq ADR 0152): the same
-// grant a person gets, derived the same way, so one list answers "what may this ask" for everybody.
-func TestAModuleMayAskOnlyTheToolsItInvokes(t *testing.T) {
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console",
-		Invokes: []string{"shop.price"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.shop.tool.price")
-	hasNot(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.shop.tool.refund")
-	hasNot(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
-}
-
-// The console's grant: every tool, as one subject, and it reads as one.
-func TestAModuleInvokingEverythingMayAskAnyTool(t *testing.T) {
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console",
-		Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
-}
-
-// **A grant to call widens nothing else.** A module that invokes may not publish an event it did not
-// declare, may not answer as another module, and subscribes nothing it did not consume — the
-// difference between the console and a person is that the console is on a machine, not that it may
-// do more.
-func TestInvokingGrantsNothingButTheCall(t *testing.T) {
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console",
-		Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	for _, p := range perms.Publish {
-		if strings.Contains(p, ".event.") {
-			t.Errorf("a module that only invokes may publish %q, an event it never declared", p)
-		}
-		// A role's tools are tools (ADR 0132); a role's work queue and events are not.
-		if strings.HasPrefix(p, "mesh.seat.") && !strings.Contains(p, ".tool.") {
-			t.Errorf("a module that only invokes may publish %q, a seat it neither holds nor uses", p)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, s := range perms.Subscribe {
-		if strings.Contains(s, ".tool.") && !strings.HasPrefix(s, "mesh.mod.mesh-console.") {
-			t.Errorf("a module that invokes may subscribe %q, another module's tools", s)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// A module that declares no invokes calls nothing, which is every module but the console.
-func TestAModuleThatInvokesNothingCallsNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "shop",
-		Emits: []string{"order.placed"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	for _, p := range perms.Publish {
-		if strings.Contains(p, ".tool.") {
-			t.Errorf("a module with no invokes may publish %q", p)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// The malformed entry is refused for a module as it is for a person, and in the same words.
-func TestAModulesToolGrantThatNamesNoToolIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "shop",
-		Invokes: []string{"telegram"}, PasswordHash: "x"}); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a grant naming a module but no tool was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
-// What a declaration says reaches the composed user, so a manifest's `invokes` is the grant.
-func TestADeclaredInvokeReachesTheComposedUser(t *testing.T) {
-	users, err := Users(Records{
-		Nodes:    []string{"desk"},
-		Assigned: map[string][]Declared{"desk": {{Module: "mesh-console", Invokes: []string{"*"}}}},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(users[len(users)-1])
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
-}
-
-// A module's tool is addressed two ways (novox/hq ADR 0159): to whichever instance answers, and to
-// the instance on one machine. A grant for the tool covers both and nothing wider.
-func TestInvokingAToolMayAddressTheMachineToo(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := invokedSubjects([]string{"postgres.postgres_query"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	want := []string{"mesh.mod.postgres.tool.postgres_query", "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.postgres_query.*"}
-	if len(got) != 2 || got[0] != want[0] || got[1] != want[1] {
-		t.Fatalf("the grant is %v, want %v", got, want)
-	}
-}

internal/broker/jetstream.go

@@ -144,7 +144,6 @@ func (j *JetStream) EnsureStream(s Stream) error {
 		MaxMsgsPerSubject: int64(s.MaxMsgsPerSubject),
 		Description:       s.Why,
 	}
-	want.AllowDirect = s.Direct
 	if s.Retention == RetentionLastPerSubject {
 		// Last-per-subject is a limits stream with one message kept per subject, not a
 		// retention policy of its own — the state shape, spelled the way the server spells it.
@@ -180,7 +179,6 @@ func (j *JetStream) EnsureConsumer(c Consumer) error {
 		AckPolicy:      nats.AckExplicitPolicy,
 		AckWait:        time.Duration(c.AckWaitSeconds) * time.Second,
 		MaxDeliver:     c.MaxDeliver,
-		MaxAckPending:  c.MaxAckPending,
 		DeliverGroup:   c.Queue,
 		DeliverSubject: "",
 		Description:    c.Why,

internal/broker/membership.go

@@ -1,131 +0,0 @@
-package broker
-
-import (
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// What the mesh issues an assignment to serve and to reach (novox/hq ADR 0160).
-//
-// A module's code names its tools and its events; **where they land is the mesh's to decide**, and
-// it decided it twice — once in the runtime, once here, by one rule compiled into both. Now the
-// controller composes a membership for every module on every machine and publishes it to a subject
-// only that assignment reads; the runtime serves exactly what the membership says, and the account's
-// grant is the same composition read the other way. The shape issued today is the shape the mesh
-// already had, so nothing moves when a membership first arrives; only who decides it moves.
-
-// Membership is one assignment's subjects: what this instance of a module on this machine serves,
-// and what it may reach.
-type Membership struct {
-	Node   string `json:"node"`
-	Module string `json:"module"`
-	// Serves is every address a tool of this instance answers on. `{tool}` stands for the tool's
-	// own name, which the module knows and the mesh does not need to: the mesh issues the address,
-	// the runtime fills the name. An address with a queue is shared with the module's other
-	// instances, and the bus hands each call to one of them; an address without is this instance's.
-	Serves []Served `json:"serves"`
-	// Seats is every verb of a seat this instance holds, at the subject the seat's callers use.
-	Seats []SeatServed `json:"seats,omitempty"`
-	// Emits is where an event of this module lands; `{event}` stands for the event's name.
-	Emits string `json:"emits"`
-	// Reaches is each tool this module may call, `<module>.<tool>`, to the subjects that reach it:
-	// the first is whichever instance answers, when the mesh issued one; the rest name a machine.
-	Reaches map[string][]string `json:"reaches,omitempty"`
-	// Tools is where this instance answers what it serves — the runtime's one verb of its own.
-	Tools string `json:"tools"`
-}
-
-// Served is one address a tool is answered on.
-type Served struct {
-	Subject string `json:"subject"`
-	Queue   string `json:"queue,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// SeatServed is one verb of a held seat, where its callers ask.
-type SeatServed struct {
-	Seat    string `json:"seat"`
-	Verb    string `json:"verb"`
-	Subject string `json:"subject"`
-}
-
-// MembershipSubject is the one address a runtime derives for itself: where its own membership is
-// published, from the two names its credential carries. Everything else is in the membership.
-func MembershipSubject(node, module string) string {
-	return "mesh.assignment." + node + "." + module
-}
-
-// Placements is where every module runs, for deciding which instance answers for the module.
-type Placements struct {
-	// Nodes is each module's machines.
-	Nodes map[string][]string
-	// Interchangeable is each module whose definition says its instances are the same anywhere,
-	// so the module's plain subject is issued to all of them in one queue.
-	Interchangeable map[string]bool
-}
-
-// AnswersForTheModule says whether an instance of a module on one machine is issued the module's
-// plain subject: when it is the only instance, or when the definition says instances are
-// interchangeable. A stateful module on two machines gets only its machines' subjects, so a call
-// that names none reaches nothing rather than the wrong store.
-func (p Placements) AnswersForTheModule(module string) bool {
-	return len(p.Nodes[module]) <= 1 || p.Interchangeable[module]
-}
-
-// MembershipFor composes one assignment's membership from what it declared and where everything
-// runs. The subjects are the ones PermissionsFor grants, derived here once more only until the
-// grant itself is read from the membership — which is the next step, not this one.
-func MembershipFor(node string, d Declared, where Placements) Membership {
-	own := "mesh.mod." + d.Module
-	m := Membership{
-		Node: node, Module: d.Module,
-		Emits: own + ".event.{event}",
-		Tools: own + ".tool.tools",
-	}
-	// This machine's address always; the module's when this instance answers for the module.
-	m.Serves = append(m.Serves, Served{Subject: own + ".tool.{tool}." + node})
-	if where.AnswersForTheModule(d.Module) {
-		m.Serves = append(m.Serves, Served{Subject: own + ".tool.{tool}", Queue: "serve." + d.Module})
-	}
-	for _, s := range d.Holds {
-		for _, verb := range s.Serves {
-			m.Seats = append(m.Seats, SeatServed{Seat: s.Name, Verb: verb, Subject: seatToolSubject(s, verb, node)})
-		}
-	}
-	if len(d.Invokes) > 0 {
-		m.Reaches = map[string][]string{}
-		for _, t := range d.Invokes {
-			if t == "*" || strings.HasPrefix(t, "seat:") {
-				continue // every tool, or a role's: addressed by name, not resolved per instance
-			}
-			module, tool, ok := strings.Cut(t, ".")
-			if !ok {
-				continue
-			}
-			var reach []string
-			if where.AnswersForTheModule(module) {
-				reach = append(reach, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool)
-			}
-			nodes := append([]string{}, where.Nodes[module]...)
-			sort.Strings(nodes)
-			for _, n := range nodes {
-				reach = append(reach, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool+"."+n)
-			}
-			m.Reaches[t] = reach
-		}
-	}
-	return m
-}
-
-// PlacementsOf reads where everything runs from the records the bus's accounts are composed from.
-func PlacementsOf(r Records, interchangeable map[string]bool) Placements {
-	p := Placements{Nodes: map[string][]string{}, Interchangeable: interchangeable}
-	for node, declared := range r.Assigned {
-		for _, d := range declared {
-			p.Nodes[d.Module] = append(p.Nodes[d.Module], node)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, nodes := range p.Nodes {
-		sort.Strings(nodes)
-	}
-	return p
-}

internal/broker/membership_test.go

@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-package broker
-
-import (
-	"reflect"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// The mesh issues an assignment's subjects (novox/hq ADR 0160): a module alone on one machine
-// answers for the module and for its machine; a stateful module on two machines answers only for
-// each machine; one that says its instances are interchangeable answers for the module everywhere;
-// a holder serves its seat's verbs; and what a module may reach is resolved the same way.
-func TestAMembershipIsIssuedFromWhereEverythingRuns(t *testing.T) {
-	records := Records{Assigned: map[string][]Declared{
-		"anchor": {
-			{Module: "postgres", Serves: []string{"query"}, Holds: []Seat{{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []string{"databases", "query"}}}},
-			{Module: "catalog", Invokes: []string{"postgres.query", "search.find"}},
-		},
-		"home-server": {
-			{Module: "postgres"},
-			{Module: "search"},
-			{Module: "dashboard", Invokes: []string{"postgres.query"}},
-		},
-		"laptop": {{Module: "search"}},
-	}, Interchangeable: map[string]bool{"search": true}}
-	where := PlacementsOf(records, records.Interchangeable)
-
-	pg := MembershipFor("anchor", records.Assigned["anchor"][0], where)
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(pg.Serves, []Served{{Subject: "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.{tool}.anchor"}}) {
-		t.Fatalf("a stateful module on two machines answers only for its machine: %+v", pg.Serves)
-	}
-	if len(pg.Seats) != 2 || pg.Seats[0].Subject != "mesh.seat.mesh-store.tool.databases" {
-		t.Fatalf("the holder serves the seat's verbs at the seat's subjects: %+v", pg.Seats)
-	}
-	if pg.Emits != "mesh.mod.postgres.event.{event}" || pg.Tools != "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.tools" {
-		t.Fatalf("events and the tools verb: %+v", pg)
-	}
-
-	search := MembershipFor("laptop", records.Assigned["laptop"][0], where)
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(search.Serves, []Served{
-		{Subject: "mesh.mod.search.tool.{tool}.laptop"},
-		{Subject: "mesh.mod.search.tool.{tool}", Queue: "serve.search"},
-	}) {
-		t.Fatalf("an interchangeable module answers for the module in the queue too: %+v", search.Serves)
-	}
-
-	dashboard := MembershipFor("home-server", records.Assigned["home-server"][2], where)
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(dashboard.Serves, []Served{
-		{Subject: "mesh.mod.dashboard.tool.{tool}.home-server"},
-		{Subject: "mesh.mod.dashboard.tool.{tool}", Queue: "serve.dashboard"},
-	}) {
-		t.Fatalf("a module alone on one machine answers for the module: %+v", dashboard.Serves)
-	}
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(dashboard.Reaches["postgres.query"],
-		[]string{"mesh.mod.postgres.tool.query.anchor", "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.query.home-server"}) {
-		t.Fatalf("reaching a stateful module names each machine and no plain subject: %v", dashboard.Reaches)
-	}
-	catalog := MembershipFor("anchor", records.Assigned["anchor"][1], where)
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(catalog.Reaches["search.find"],
-		[]string{"mesh.mod.search.tool.find", "mesh.mod.search.tool.find.home-server", "mesh.mod.search.tool.find.laptop"}) {
-		t.Fatalf("reaching an interchangeable module offers the plain subject first: %v", catalog.Reaches)
-	}
-	if MembershipSubject("anchor", "postgres") != "mesh.assignment.anchor.postgres" {
-		t.Fatal("the one subject a runtime derives for itself")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnAccountMayReadItsOwnMembershipAndNoOthers(t *testing.T) {
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "anchor", Module: "postgres", PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	has(t, perms.Subscribe, "mesh.assignment.anchor.postgres")
-	has(t, perms.Publish, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.anchor.postgres")
-	hasNot(t, perms.Subscribe, "mesh.assignment.>")
-}

internal/broker/nats.go

@@ -39,11 +39,7 @@ const (
 // Seat is a role on the bus as a principal relates to it: the subjects it accepts, and those it
 // emits (novox/hq ADR 0118, design 29 §5).
 type Seat struct {
-	Name string
-	// Scope is where the seat has one holder. A node-scoped seat's tool carries the node in its
-	// subject, because one subject reaching six machines' holders is not an address
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0132, design 33 §4). Empty reads as mesh.
-	Scope    string
+	Name     string
 	Accepts  []string
 	Emits    []string
 	Serves   []string
@@ -74,14 +70,12 @@ type Principal struct {
 	// a namespace no such module owns. Every service started and the graph stayed empty.
 	Watches []Seat
 
-	// Invokes are the tools this principal may call, as `<module>.<tool>`; a single `*` is every
-	// tool. A person's whole authority (design 25 §7), and a module's only if its manifest says so
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0152) — the console's does, and nothing else's.
+	// Invokes are the tools a person may call, as `<module>.<tool>`; a single `*` is every tool,
+	// for an administrator. Only meaningful for KindPerson.
 	//
 	// **A list, not a role.** A person is not a module and holds no seat: nothing is addressed
 	// to them, nothing is delivered to them, and they have no durable consumer to acknowledge.
-	// What they have is permission to ask. A module that invokes gains exactly the same
-	// permission and nothing beside it.
+	// What they have is permission to ask.
 	Invokes []string
 
 	// PasswordHash is the bcrypt hash the mesh minted. The plaintext is sealed to the principal
@@ -173,10 +167,8 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 	switch p.Kind {
 	case KindController:
 		// The controller owns the mesh's own traffic and the streams. It is the only writer of
-		// stream definitions (design 25 §3), so it alone reaches the JetStream API — and it alone
-		// issues memberships (novox/hq ADR 0160), which it publishes into the assignments stream
-		// after each push; refused by the server on 2026-10-01 until this line named them.
-		pub = []string{"mesh.control.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "$JS.API.>"}
+		// stream definitions (design 25 §3), so it alone reaches the JetStream API.
+		pub = []string{"mesh.control.>", "mesh.node.>", "$JS.API.>"}
 		// **And where its consumers deliver.** A push consumer delivers on `_DELIVER.<its name>`,
 		// and a client bound to it subscribes exactly that; the server refused it for every
 		// principal the first time one bound a consumer (2026-09-28). Each kind below is granted
@@ -203,13 +195,6 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// the new bus was refused the publish (2026-09-28).
 		pub = append(pub, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
 
-		// **And the mesh's own verbs, as the seat it holds** (novox/hq ADR 0132, ADR 0154):
-		// `status`, `push`, `assign` are the mesh-controller seat's tools, served by its holder. The
-		// whole verb namespace of its own seat rather than a list: the list is the seat's protocol,
-		// which this package mirrors rather than reads, and a verb the seat does not declare is a
-		// subject nothing publishes.
-		sub = append(sub, "mesh.seat."+ControllerSeat+".tool.>")
-
 		// The two events it reacts to, and its ack subject on the stream they arrive from
 		// (streams.go). **Each named, not a pattern**: `mesh.mod.*.event.>` would make the
 		// controller a subscriber to every event in the mesh, and its permission list would stop
@@ -239,11 +224,18 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 	case KindPerson:
 		// Tools, and nothing else. Every subject a person may publish is a tool call; a person
 		// who could publish an event would be able to claim a module said something.
-		invoked, err := invokedSubjects(p.Invokes)
-		if err != nil {
-			return Permissions{}, err
+		for _, t := range p.Invokes {
+			if t == "*" {
+				pub = append(pub, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
+				continue
+			}
+			module, tool, ok := strings.Cut(t, ".")
+			if !ok {
+				return Permissions{}, fmt.Errorf(
+					"%q does not name a tool: a person invokes <module>.<tool>, or * for every one", t)
+			}
+			pub = append(pub, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool)
 		}
-		pub = append(pub, invoked...)
 
 	case KindEnrolment:
 		// A leaked token is useless for anything but enrolling: it cannot read a declaration, hear
@@ -300,20 +292,6 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// away — no other principal may subscribe this namespace, and a caller's authority is
 		// still granted per tool, by name, on the publish side.
 		sub = append(sub, own+".tool.>")
-		// Its own membership (ADR 0160): the one subject a runtime derives for itself, read
-		// directly from the stream and followed live. Nothing else's.
-		sub = append(sub, MembershipSubject(p.Node, p.Module))
-		pub = append(pub, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+AssignmentsStream+"."+MembershipSubject(p.Node, p.Module))
-
-		// 1b. The tools it calls, if its manifest says it calls any (novox/hq ADR 0152). The same
-		//     grant a person gets and derived the same way, so "what may this module ask" is
-		//     answered by the one list that answers it for everybody. Publish only: an answer
-		//     arrives on its own inbox, which every principal has below.
-		invoked, err := invokedSubjects(p.Invokes)
-		if err != nil {
-			return Permissions{}, err
-		}
-		pub = append(pub, invoked...)
 
 		// 2. What it consumes, by the emitter's own subject — an event is addressed to its
 		//    emitter, because the emitter's identity is the meaning (ADR 0118).
@@ -360,7 +338,7 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 				pub = append(pub, seatSubject(s, "event", e))
 			}
 			for _, t := range s.Serves {
-				sub = append(sub, seatToolSubject(s, t, p.Node))
+				sub = append(sub, seatSubject(s, "tool", t))
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -372,7 +350,7 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 				pub = append(pub, seatSubject(s, "accept", a))
 			}
 			for _, t := range s.Serves {
-				pub = append(pub, seatToolSubject(s, t, "*"))
+				pub = append(pub, seatSubject(s, "tool", t))
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -422,18 +400,6 @@ func seatSubject(s Seat, kind, verb string) string {
 	return "mesh.seat." + s.Name + "." + kind + "." + verb
 }
 
-// seatToolSubject is where a role's tool is asked. Mesh-wide for a mesh-scoped seat; a node-scoped
-// seat carries the node it is asked of, because a flat subject would reach every machine's holder
-// and the queue group would silently pick a winner (novox/hq ADR 0132, design 33 §4). A holder
-// subscribes its own node's; a user publishes any node's (`*`) and names the machine in the subject.
-func seatToolSubject(s Seat, verb, node string) string {
-	base := seatSubject(s, "tool", verb)
-	if s.Scope == "node" && node != "" {
-		return base + "." + node
-	}
-	return base
-}
-
 // consumerStream and consumerDurable are the two halves of a consumer's identity, and they are
 // two functions because conflating them was a real bug.
 //
@@ -635,41 +601,3 @@ func quoted(values []string) string {
 	}
 	return strings.Join(out, ", ")
 }
-
-// invokedSubjects is the publish side of a grant to call tools: one subject per `<module>.<tool>`,
-// or the whole tool namespace for `*`. A person's authority and a module's `invokes` are both this
-// (novox/hq ADR 0152), so a malformed entry is refused in one place, before it could be widened into
-// something that happens to parse.
-func invokedSubjects(invokes []string) ([]string, error) {
-	var out []string
-	for _, t := range invokes {
-		if t == "*" {
-			// Every module's tools and every role's (novox/hq ADR 0132): a role's verb is a tool
-			// like any other, addressed to the seat instead of a module.
-			out = append(out, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.seat.*.tool.>")
-			continue
-		}
-		if rest, isSeat := strings.CutPrefix(t, "seat:"); isSeat {
-			// A role's tool, `seat:<seat>.<verb>`. Both address shapes, because the grant is
-			// written without knowing the seat's scope: a mesh seat's verb is flat and a node
-			// seat's carries the machine (design 33 §4).
-			seat, verb, ok := strings.Cut(rest, ".")
-			if !ok || seat == "" || verb == "" {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"%q does not name a role's tool: one invokes seat:<seat>.<verb>", t)
-			}
-			out = append(out, "mesh.seat."+seat+".tool."+verb, "mesh.seat."+seat+".tool."+verb+".*")
-			continue
-		}
-		module, tool, ok := strings.Cut(t, ".")
-		if !ok || module == "" || tool == "" {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"%q does not name a tool: one invokes <module>.<tool>, seat:<seat>.<verb>, or * for every one", t)
-		}
-		// Both ways a module's tool is addressed (novox/hq ADR 0159): to whichever instance
-		// answers, and to the instance on one machine, which is the same subject with the machine
-		// as its last token.
-		out = append(out, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool, "mesh.mod."+module+".tool."+tool+".*")
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}

internal/broker/nats_test.go

@@ -71,18 +71,6 @@ func TestHoldingASeatIsTheMirrorOfUsingIt(t *testing.T) {
 	hasNot(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send")
 }
 
-// A build machine may say everything about a build as it happens (novox/hq ADR 0157): that it
-// started, and every line under the build's own id — the seat's `log.*` becomes a publish over
-// one token, so a reader follows one build by subject and the holder can name no other subject.
-func TestTheBuildMachineMaySayWhatItDoesUnderTheBuildsId(t *testing.T) {
-	seat := Seat{Name: "mesh-build-machine", Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"started", "built", "log.*"}}
-	perms, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "anchor", Module: "builder",
-		Holds: []Seat{seat}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.started")
-	has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.log.*")
-	hasNot(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.>")
-}
-
 // Without an ack permission a durable consumer never really consumes: every message it receives is
 // redelivered forever, refused by the permission list it already has (design 25 §4).
 func TestAModuleMayAckItsOwnDeliveriesAndNoOthers(t *testing.T) {

internal/broker/seattools_test.go

@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-package broker
-
-import "testing"
-
-// A node-scoped seat's tool carries the node (novox/hq ADR 0132, design 33 §4): two nodes holding one
-// node-scoped seat derive two addresses, and a user of the seat may publish any node's.
-func TestTwoNodesHoldingOneNodeSeatDeriveTwoToolAddresses(t *testing.T) {
-	seat := Seat{Name: "node-dns-resolver", Scope: "node", Serves: []string{"lookup"}}
-	one, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "dnsmasq", Holds: []Seat{seat}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	two, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "two", Module: "dnsmasq", Holds: []Seat{seat}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	has(t, one.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-dns-resolver.tool.lookup.one")
-	has(t, two.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-dns-resolver.tool.lookup.two")
-	hasNot(t, one.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-dns-resolver.tool.lookup")
-	hasNot(t, one.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.node-dns-resolver.tool.lookup.two")
-
-	user, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "three", Module: "asker", Uses: []Seat{seat}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	has(t, user.Publish, "mesh.seat.node-dns-resolver.tool.lookup.*")
-}
-
-// A mesh-scoped seat's tool stays flat: nothing about it changes.
-func TestAMeshSeatsToolIsAddressedToTheSeatAlone(t *testing.T) {
-	seat := Seat{Name: "git", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []string{"list_repos"}}
-	holder, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "gitea", Holds: []Seat{seat}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	has(t, holder.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.git.tool.list_repos")
-	user, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "two", Module: "asker", Uses: []Seat{seat}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	has(t, user.Publish, "mesh.seat.git.tool.list_repos")
-}
-
-// The controller serves its own seat's verbs and may answer them (novox/hq ADR 0154).
-func TestTheControllerServesItsSeatsToolsAndMayAnswer(t *testing.T) {
-	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindController, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	has(t, perms.Subscribe, "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>")
-	if !perms.AllowResponses {
-		t.Fatal("the controller serves tools and may not answer one")
-	}
-}
-
-// A grant to every tool reaches a role's tools too, and a role's tool is granted by name.
-func TestAGrantReachesARolesTools(t *testing.T) {
-	all, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "desk", Module: "mesh-console", Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	has(t, all.Publish, "mesh.seat.*.tool.>")
-
-	one, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindPerson, Module: "jo", Invokes: []string{"seat:mesh-controller.status"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	has(t, one.Publish, "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.status")
-	hasNot(t, one.Publish, "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.push")
-	hasNot(t, one.Publish, "mesh.mod.*.tool.>")
-
-	if _, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindPerson, Module: "jo", Invokes: []string{"seat:mesh-controller"}, PasswordHash: "x"}); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a role grant naming no verb was accepted")
-	}
-}

internal/broker/streams.go

@@ -47,14 +47,8 @@ type Stream struct {
 	// Why is carried into the assertion so an operator reading the server's own state finds the
 	// reason there, rather than only in a repository they may not have.
 	Why string
-	// Direct lets a client read a subject's last message without a consumer, which is how a
-	// runtime reads its own membership with no JetStream API beyond one request (ADR 0160).
-	Direct bool
 }
 
-// AssignmentsStream holds every assignment's membership, the newest per subject.
-const AssignmentsStream = "ASSIGNMENTS"
-
 // MeshStreams is the foundation set, in the order a person reads it.
 //
 // **CONTROL names its subjects rather than taking `mesh.control.>`**, because heartbeats live
@@ -85,15 +79,7 @@ func MeshStreams() []Stream {
 				"n-1 by construction (issue 107)",
 		},
 		{
-			Name:      AssignmentsStream,
-			Subjects:  []string{"mesh.assignment.*.*"},
-			Retention: RetentionLastPerSubject,
-			Direct:    true,
-			Why: "one membership per assignment, always the newest: what the mesh issued this module " +
-				"on this machine to serve and to reach (ADR 0160); read directly by the runtime it is for",
-		},
-		{
-			Name: EventsStream,
+			Name: "EVENTS",
 			// A seat's own events ride here too: they are 1:many like any event, and the
 			// `event` token keeps them clear of both the seat's work queue (`accept`) and its
 			// tools (`tool`), which must not be persisted.
@@ -234,9 +220,6 @@ func seatEventSubject(seat, verb string) string {
 	return "mesh.seat." + seat + ".event." + verb
 }
 
-// EventsStream holds every module's and every role's events, a build's log among them.
-const EventsStream = "EVENTS"
-
 // MeshConsumers is what the controller consumes, in the order a person reads it.
 //
 // **Unlimited redelivery on CONTROL, deliberately.** The store window's bound is the controller's,
@@ -261,13 +244,8 @@ func MeshConsumers() []Consumer {
 			Push:           true,
 			AckWaitSeconds: 30,
 			MaxDeliver:     5,
-			// One at a time (novox/hq issue 175): acting on a merge builds for minutes, and an
-			// announcement handed over behind it must wait on the server, not time out on the
-			// client and come back to be acted on again.
-			MaxAckPending: 1,
-			Why: "the two events the mesh's own controller reacts to, one at a time; after " +
-				"max-deliver it dead-letters, because an announcement it cannot act on will not " +
-				"become actionable",
+			Why: "the two events the mesh's own controller reacts to; after max-deliver it " +
+				"dead-letters, because an announcement it cannot act on will not become actionable",
 		},
 	}
 }

internal/broker/streams_test.go

@@ -123,10 +123,9 @@ func subjectMatches(filter, subject string) bool {
 // Each relationship's retention is the thing that makes it what it is (design 29 §4).
 func TestEachStreamCarriesTheRetentionItsShapeNeeds(t *testing.T) {
 	want := map[string]Retention{
-		"CONTROL":     RetentionWorkQueue,
-		"NODES":       RetentionLastPerSubject,
-		"EVENTS":      RetentionLimits,
-		"ASSIGNMENTS": RetentionLastPerSubject,
+		"CONTROL": RetentionWorkQueue,
+		"NODES":   RetentionLastPerSubject,
+		"EVENTS":  RetentionLimits,
 	}
 	got := map[string]Retention{}
 	for _, s := range MeshStreams() {
@@ -261,14 +260,3 @@ func TestNoTwoConsumersDeliverOntoTheSameSubject(t *testing.T) {
 		seen[subject] = c.Name + " on " + c.Stream
 	}
 }
-
-// The controller's events consumer is handed one announcement at a time (novox/hq issue 175): a
-// merge's handler builds for minutes, and what is queued behind it must wait on the server rather
-// than time out on the client and be acted on twice.
-func TestTheControllerTakesOneAnnouncementAtATime(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range MeshConsumers() {
-		if c.Stream == "EVENTS" && c.Name == ControllerName && c.MaxAckPending != 1 {
-			t.Fatalf("the events consumer may have %d outstanding; one announcement at a time", c.MaxAckPending)
-		}
-	}
-}

internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf

@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ accounts {
     jetstream: enabled
     users = [
       { user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "enrol.one", password: "$2a$11$eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", permissions: {
@@ -37,18 +37,18 @@ accounts {
         subscribe: { allow: ["_DELIVER.one", "_DELIVER.one.>", "_INBOX.node.one.>", "mesh.node.one.declare"] }
       } }
       { user: "one.telegram", password: "$2a$11$tttttttttttttttttttttt", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.one_telegram.>", "$JS.ACK.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.one_telegram", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.one_telegram", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.delivered", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.failed"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["_DELIVER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "_DELIVER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker.>", "_INBOX.one.telegram.>", "mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.mod.telegram.tool.>", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.one_telegram.>", "$JS.ACK.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.one_telegram", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.one_telegram", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.delivered", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.failed"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["_DELIVER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "_DELIVER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker.>", "_INBOX.one.telegram.>", "mesh.mod.telegram.tool.>", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "two.audit", password: "$2a$11$aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.two_audit.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.two_audit", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.two_audit", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.two.audit"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.two.audit.>", "mesh.assignment.two.audit", "mesh.mod.audit.tool.>", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.two_audit.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.two_audit", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.two_audit"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.two.audit.>", "mesh.mod.audit.tool.>", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "two.shop", password: "$2a$11$ssssssssssssssssssssss", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.two_shop.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.two_shop", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.two_shop", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.two.shop.>", "mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.>"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.two_shop.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.two_shop", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.two_shop", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.two.shop.>", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.>"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
     ]

internal/broker/users.go

@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ type Declared struct {
 	Uses []Seat
 	// Watches are the seats whose events it consumes.
 	Watches []Seat
-	// Invokes are the tools it calls, `<module>.<tool>` or `*` (novox/hq ADR 0152).
-	Invokes []string
 }
 
 // Records is what composing a user list needs to know about the mesh, and nothing more.
@@ -47,9 +45,6 @@ type Records struct {
 	Enrolling []string
 	// People is each person's name against the tools they may invoke, `*` for an administrator.
 	People map[string][]string
-	// Interchangeable is each module whose definition says its instances are the same anywhere
-	// (ADR 0160), which decides whether the module's plain subject is issued to every instance.
-	Interchangeable map[string]bool
 }
 
 // Users is every user the composed file should contain, in the order it will be written.
@@ -66,7 +61,7 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 			out = append(out, Principal{
 				Kind: KindModule, Node: node, Module: d.Module,
 				Emits: d.Emits, Consumes: d.Consumes, Serves: d.Serves,
-				Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches, Invokes: d.Invokes,
+				Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches,
 			})
 		}
 	}

internal/builder/binary_name_test.go

@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-package builder
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// The name a machine runs a binary by is not always the name of the package that built it. The host's
-// command is cmd/mesh-host and every machine runs it as nox-mesh-host — the path it is installed at,
-// the name in its unit, and the name its launcher looks for inside a delivered version.
-//
-// A bundle carrying the package's name was delivered to a machine correctly, reported "created … 1
-// file(s)", and was invisible to the launcher (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142). Found by reading the delivered
-// directory rather than by trusting the line that said it worked.
-
-func TestACompiledArtifactNamesTheBinaryAMachineWillRun(t *testing.T) {
-	got := binaryName(catalogue.Artifact{
-		Name: "host-arch", From: "cmd/mesh-host", Binary: "nox-mesh-host",
-	})
-	if got != "nox-mesh-host" {
-		t.Fatalf("the binary is named %q, and the launcher looks for nox-mesh-host", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSayingNothingKeepsWhatTheCompilerWouldHaveChosen(t *testing.T) {
-	// go build names its output after the package, so an artifact that says nothing gets the same
-	// thing it got before this existed.
-	if got := binaryName(catalogue.Artifact{Name: "host-arch", From: "cmd/mesh-host"}); got != "mesh-host" {
-		t.Fatalf("an artifact naming no binary produced %q", got)
-	}
-	if got := binaryName(catalogue.Artifact{Name: "host-arch", From: "./cmd/agent/"}); got != "agent" {
-		t.Fatalf("a from with slashes produced %q", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestABundleBuiltFromTheModuleRootFallsBackToItsArtifactName(t *testing.T) {
-	// A single-command repository names no package, and `go build -o <dir>` would then write a file
-	// named after the module directory — which is not something the manifest states. The artifact's
-	// own name is what the manifest does state.
-	if got := binaryName(catalogue.Artifact{Name: "tool"}); got != "tool" {
-		t.Fatalf("a bundle built from the root produced %q", got)
-	}
-}

internal/builder/builder.go

@@ -90,13 +90,7 @@ type GitCredential struct {
 // records — reachable, unreferenced, and indistinguishable from something in use.
 func Build(ctx context.Context, run Runner, publish Publisher,
 	repository, path, ref, workspace string, held map[string]string, npmrc Npmrc,
-	forge GitCredential, log Log, seats ...map[string]string) (Result, error) {
-	// The clone base of each seat a context may name (novox/hq ADR 0155); variadic so the callers
-	// that hand none — tests of everything but contexts — read as they did.
-	var seatBases map[string]string
-	if len(seats) > 0 {
-		seatBases = seats[0]
-	}
+	forge GitCredential, log Log) (Result, error) {
 
 	say := logging(log)
 	say("clone", "%s%s at %s", repository, describePath(path), refOrHead(ref))
@@ -215,7 +209,7 @@ func Build(ctx context.Context, run Runner, publish Publisher,
 		sort.Slice(artifacts, func(i, j int) bool { return artifacts[i].Name < artifacts[j].Name })
 		for _, a := range artifacts {
 			say("artifact", "%s (%s%s) — starting", a.Name, a.Kind, langSuffix(a))
-			made, err := one(ctx, run, publish, manifest.Module, within, workspace, commit, credentials, a, args, held, npmrcPath, seatBases, say)
+			made, err := one(ctx, run, publish, manifest.Module, within, workspace, commit, credentials, a, args, held, npmrcPath, say)
 			if err != nil {
 				say("artifact", "%s FAILED: %v", a.Name, err)
 				return Result{}, err
@@ -252,18 +246,14 @@ func logging(log Log) func(step, format string, args ...any) {
 // module's own repository — a fresh tree, the same way the module's own is, keyed by artifact
 // name so two artifacts of one module naming different contexts do not collide.
 func contextFrom(ctx context.Context, run Runner, workspace, artifact, credentials string,
-	from catalogue.ArtifactContext, seats map[string]string, say func(step, format string, args ...any)) (string, error) {
-	url, err := contextURL(from, seats)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	say("context", "cloning %s at %s for %s", url, refOrHead(from.Ref), artifact)
+	from catalogue.ArtifactContext, say func(step, format string, args ...any)) (string, error) {
+	say("context", "cloning %s at %s for %s", from.Repository, refOrHead(from.Ref), artifact)
 	dir := filepath.Join(workspace, "context-"+artifact)
 	if err := os.RemoveAll(dir); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	if _, err := run(ctx, workspace, "git", cloneWith(credentials, "clone", "--quiet", url, dir)...); err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("cannot clone %s: %w", url, err)
+	if _, err := run(ctx, workspace, "git", cloneWith(credentials, "clone", "--quiet", from.Repository, dir)...); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("cannot clone %s: %w", from.Repository, err)
 	}
 	if from.Ref != "" {
 		if _, err := run(ctx, dir, "git", "checkout", "--quiet", from.Ref); err != nil {
@@ -274,23 +264,6 @@ func contextFrom(ctx context.Context, run Runner, workspace, artifact, credentia
 	return dir, nil
 }
 
-// contextURL is what a context is cloned from: its URL, or — for a context on a seat — the seat's
-// clone base the mesh sent with the request joined to the repository's path (novox/hq ADR 0155).
-// Refused, never guessed, when the mesh sent no base for that seat: a builder that guessed a forge
-// would be the literal this removes, one layer down.
-func contextURL(from catalogue.ArtifactContext, seats map[string]string) (string, error) {
-	if from.Seat == "" {
-		return from.Repository, nil
-	}
-	base, told := seats[from.Seat]
-	if !told || base == "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("the context is %s on the %s seat, and this build was told no clone "+
-			"base for that seat — nothing holds it in this mesh, or the control plane predates the word",
-			from.Repository, from.Seat)
-	}
-	return strings.TrimRight(base, "/") + "/" + strings.TrimSuffix(strings.Trim(from.Repository, "/"), ".git") + ".git", nil
-}
-
 // cloneWith is a git invocation that may offer a stored credential.
 //
 // The first `-c credential.helper=` clears every helper the environment might carry, so exactly
@@ -443,8 +416,7 @@ func wantsPackages(manifest catalogue.Manifest, within string) bool {
 
 func one(ctx context.Context, run Runner, publish Publisher,
 	module, tree, workspace, commit, credentials string, a catalogue.Artifact, args []string,
-	held map[string]string, npmrc string, seats map[string]string,
-	say func(step, format string, args ...any)) (catalogue.Built, error) {
+	held map[string]string, npmrc string, say func(step, format string, args ...any)) (catalogue.Built, error) {
 
 	switch a.Kind {
 	case catalogue.ArtifactUpstream:
@@ -521,7 +493,7 @@ func one(ctx context.Context, run Runner, publish Publisher,
 		recipePath := a.From
 		buildDir := tree
 		if a.Context != nil {
-			cloned, err := contextFrom(ctx, run, workspace, a.Name, credentials, *a.Context, seats, say)
+			cloned, err := contextFrom(ctx, run, workspace, a.Name, credentials, *a.Context, say)
 			if err != nil {
 				return catalogue.Built{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %s's context: %w", module, a.Name, err)
 			}
@@ -719,21 +691,6 @@ func short(commit string) string {
 	return commit
 }
 
-// Said is where the lines Command speaks go, beside the build's own Log: what runs, how long it
-// took, and that it failed. Nil prints them to stderr, as a build machine with nobody listening
-// should. The machine sets it per build so every line reaches the bus too (novox/hq ADR 0157) —
-// the step is "run", and the message is the line as it has always been printed.
-var Said Log
-
-func tell(step, format string, args ...any) {
-	message := fmt.Sprintf(format, args...)
-	if Said == nil {
-		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  %s\n", message)
-		return
-	}
-	Said(step, message)
-}
-
 // Command is a Runner that actually runs things.
 func Command(ctx context.Context, dir, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
 	// **Every command is echoed before it runs**, with where. On a build that hangs, the last line
@@ -741,23 +698,16 @@ func Command(ctx context.Context, dir, name string, args ...string) (string, err
 	// nothing" and "git clone is waiting on a network that will not answer". Silent on success is
 	// what made an empty workspace unreadable.
 	started := timeNow()
-	tell("run", "$ (%s) %s %s", short(filepath.Base(dir)), name, strings.Join(args, " "))
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  $ (%s) %s %s\n", short(filepath.Base(dir)), name, strings.Join(args, " "))
 	cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, name, args...)
 	cmd.Dir = dir
 	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
 	if err != nil {
-		tell("run", "! %s %s failed after %s", name, args[0], since(started))
-		// The command's own output is part of what a reader needs — the compiler's error, the
-		// clone's refusal — and a line per output line keeps it readable on the bus.
-		for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(string(out)), "\n") {
-			if line != "" {
-				tell("output", "%s", line)
-			}
-		}
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  ! %s %s failed after %s\n", name, args[0], since(started))
 		return string(out), fmt.Errorf("%s %s: %w\n%s",
 			name, strings.Join(args, " "), err, strings.TrimSpace(string(out)))
 	}
-	tell("run", "✓ %s %s (%s)", name, firstArg(args), since(started))
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "  ✓ %s %s (%s)\n", name, firstArg(args), since(started))
 	return string(out), nil
 }
 
@@ -911,15 +861,6 @@ func compile(ctx context.Context, run Runner, tree string, chain Toolchain,
 	// each other and then be packed together, so each bundle compiles and packs alone.
 	out := Out(a.Name)
 
-	// **The output directory exists before the compiler is told about it.** `tsc --outDir` makes
-	// one; `go build -o` writes a file into a directory and does not create it, failing with a
-	// message about a path rather than about a build. Made here for every toolchain, because which
-	// compilers happen to be forgiving is not a thing a reader should have to know
-	// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142).
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(tree, out), 0o755); err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("making the output directory for %s: %w", a.Name, err)
-	}
-
 	invocation := []string{
 		"run", "--rm",
 		"--volume", tree + ":" + within,
@@ -927,43 +868,13 @@ func compile(ctx context.Context, run Runner, tree string, chain Toolchain,
 		base,
 	}
 	invocation = append(invocation, chain.Compile...)
-	// **One `-ldflags`, composed here.** A repeated flag is not a merged one: the Go command takes
-	// the last and drops the first, so passing the toolchain's flags and then the system stamp as a
-	// second `-ldflags` produced a binary that knew its system and had lost `-s -w` — half again the
-	// size, with its debug info (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/161).
-	//
-	// What it was built for is the one thing taken from the artifact, and ADR 0142 says why: the
-	// target is a property of the artifact rather than of the recipe. A host with no system refuses
-	// every declaration before it applies anything.
-	linker := append([]string(nil), chain.LinkerFlags...)
-	if chain.SystemStamp != "" && strings.TrimSpace(a.System) != "" {
-		linker = append(linker, "-X", chain.SystemStamp+"="+strings.TrimSpace(a.System))
-	}
-	if len(linker) > 0 {
-		invocation = append(invocation, "-ldflags", strings.Join(linker, " "))
-	}
 	if chain.OutputFlag != "" {
-		// A compiler pointed at a package is told the file to write, not the directory: the name a
-		// machine runs it by is not always the name of the package that built it. The host's command
-		// is `cmd/mesh-host` and every machine runs it as `nox-mesh-host` — so a bundle carrying the
-		// package's name lands correctly, reports success, and is invisible to whatever looks for it
-		// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142).
-		target := out
-		if chain.Unit == UnitPackage {
-			target = filepath.Join(out, binaryName(a))
-		}
-		invocation = append(invocation, chain.OutputFlag, target)
+		invocation = append(invocation, chain.OutputFlag, out)
 	}
 	// What to compile. Named by the module rather than discovered, so adding a file does not
 	// silently change what a build produces.
-	switch {
-	case chain.Unit == UnitPackage:
-		// One directory, compiled whole: the thing the artifact is built `from`. Relative, because
-		// the compiler runs with the module's own root as its working directory and a package path
-		// that looked absolute would name one inside the toolchain image.
-		invocation = append(invocation, "./"+strings.Trim(a.From, "./"))
-	case len(a.Entrypoints) > 0:
-		invocation = append(invocation, sourcesFor(a.Entrypoints, out, chain.SourceExt)...)
+	if len(a.Entrypoints) > 0 {
+		invocation = append(invocation, sourcesFor(a.Entrypoints, out)...)
 	}
 	if _, err := run(ctx, tree, "docker", invocation...); err != nil {
 		return "", err
@@ -976,16 +887,14 @@ func compile(ctx context.Context, run Runner, tree string, chain Toolchain,
 // A module names what a tool host should LOAD — compiled paths under the bundle's root — because
 // that is the thing anything else needs to know. What to compile is the same list with the
 // language's own extension, which is the toolchain's business rather than the module's.
-func sourcesFor(entrypoints []string, out, ext string) []string {
+func sourcesFor(entrypoints []string, out string) []string {
 	sources := make([]string, 0, len(entrypoints))
 	for _, e := range entrypoints {
 		// An entrypoint is named as it will be FOUND — a path inside the unpacked bundle — so the
 		// source is the same path with the output directory taken off the front and the language's
-		// own extension on the end. **The extension is the toolchain's**, where it used to be the
-		// literal `.ts`: one language's file extension written into the code that serves every
-		// language is a wall the next one hits (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142).
+		// own extension on the end.
 		at := strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimPrefix(e, out), "/")
-		sources = append(sources, strings.TrimSuffix(at, filepath.Ext(at))+ext)
+		sources = append(sources, strings.TrimSuffix(at, filepath.Ext(at))+".ts")
 	}
 	return sources
 }
@@ -1141,15 +1050,3 @@ func readBy(manifest catalogue.Manifest) []catalogue.ArtifactContext {
 	})
 	return out
 }
-
-// binaryName is what a compiled bundle's executable is called: what the artifact says, or the name of
-// the package it is built from, which is what a compiler would have chosen anyway.
-func binaryName(a catalogue.Artifact) string {
-	if name := strings.TrimSpace(a.Binary); name != "" {
-		return name
-	}
-	if from := strings.Trim(a.From, "./"); from != "" {
-		return filepath.Base(from)
-	}
-	return a.Name
-}

internal/builder/context_test.go

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-package builder
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// A context on a seat is cloned from the base the mesh sent, joined to the repository's path; a
-// context by URL is itself; a seat the mesh sent no base for is refused by name (novox/hq ADR 0155).
-func TestAContextOnASeatIsClonedFromTheBaseTheMeshSent(t *testing.T) {
-	seats := map[string]string{"git": "http://forge.example.tld:3000"}
-	got, err := contextURL(catalogue.ArtifactContext{Seat: "git", Repository: "org/controller"}, seats)
-	if err != nil || got != "http://forge.example.tld:3000/org/controller.git" {
-		t.Fatalf("got %q, %v", got, err)
-	}
-	got, err = contextURL(catalogue.ArtifactContext{Repository: "https://elsewhere.example/x.git"}, seats)
-	if err != nil || got != "https://elsewhere.example/x.git" {
-		t.Fatalf("a URL context was changed: %q, %v", got, err)
-	}
-	_, err = contextURL(catalogue.ArtifactContext{Seat: "git", Repository: "org/controller"}, nil)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "git seat") {
-		t.Fatalf("a seat with no base was not refused by name: %v", err)
-	}
-}

internal/builder/go_toolchain_test.go

@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-package builder
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// Nothing could compile the mesh's own components, which is why nothing delivers the host
-// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142, and ADR 0141's own insight naming it). The toolchain list was a closed
-// set of typescript and python, and two things in the path beyond it assumed TypeScript.
-
-func TestTheMeshCanCompileGo(t *testing.T) {
-	chain, err := ToolchainFor("go")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	// Named, not pinned: the mesh answers with the copy it holds, so moving compiler is a build
-	// rather than an edit to this source (ADR 0044, 0142).
-	if chain.Base != "mesh-tools-go" || chain.Artifact != "build" {
-		t.Fatalf("the go toolchain is based on %s/%s", chain.Base, chain.Artifact)
-	}
-	joined := strings.Join(chain.Compile, " ")
-	// Static, because what a machine holds is a file and not a container: a binary needing a libc
-	// it did not bring is a delivery that works until a machine differs.
-	if !strings.Contains(joined, "CGO_ENABLED=0") {
-		t.Fatalf("the go toolchain does not build statically: %q", joined)
-	}
-	// Reproducible: a version comes from where a component sits, not from its linker (ADR 0142),
-	// so two builds of one commit should produce the same bytes.
-	if !strings.Contains(joined, "-trimpath") {
-		t.Fatalf("the go toolchain leaves build paths in the binary: %q", joined)
-	}
-	if chain.Unit != UnitPackage {
-		t.Fatalf("the go toolchain compiles %q, wanted a package", chain.Unit)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestEveryToolchainSaysWhatItIsPointedAt(t *testing.T) {
-	// The field exists because the compile path used to assume one language. A toolchain that says
-	// nothing would fall through to the entrypoint branch and compile a file list, which for a
-	// compiled language builds a program out of exactly those files and ignores the rest of the
-	// package — a missing symbol rather than a legible refusal.
-	for _, chain := range toolchains {
-		switch chain.Unit {
-		case UnitPackage:
-		case UnitSources:
-			if chain.SourceExt == "" {
-				t.Fatalf("%s compiles a file list and names no source extension", chain.Language)
-			}
-			if !strings.HasPrefix(chain.SourceExt, ".") {
-				t.Fatalf("%s's source extension %q is not an extension", chain.Language, chain.SourceExt)
-			}
-		default:
-			t.Fatalf("%s says it is pointed at %q, which is neither sources nor a package",
-				chain.Language, chain.Unit)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnEntrypointBecomesASourceInItsOwnLanguage(t *testing.T) {
-	// It used to become a `.ts` whatever the language was.
-	out := Out("build")
-	got := sourcesFor([]string{out + "/tools/index.js"}, out, ".ts")
-	if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "tools/index.ts" {
-		t.Fatalf("a typescript entrypoint became %v", got)
-	}
-	got = sourcesFor([]string{out + "/tools/index.js"}, out, ".py")
-	if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "tools/index.py" {
-		t.Fatalf("a python entrypoint became %v", got)
-	}
-}

internal/builder/system_stamp_test.go

@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-package builder
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A host built without knowing its system refuses every declaration before applying anything —
-// safely, totally, and with nothing reporting it. The mesh built one, delivered it, started it, and
-// it would have refused the first thing it was asked to do (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/161).
-
-func TestTheGoToolchainStampsTheArtifactsSystem(t *testing.T) {
-	chain, err := ToolchainFor("go")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if chain.SystemStamp != "main.builtFor" {
-		t.Fatalf("the go toolchain fills %q", chain.SystemStamp)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestALanguageWithNoPinnedSystemStampsNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	// Interpreted output is not pinned to a system, and a manifest declaring one for it is already
-	// refused. Nothing to fill.
-	for _, language := range []string{"typescript", "python"} {
-		chain, err := ToolchainFor(language)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if chain.SystemStamp != "" {
-			t.Fatalf("%s fills %q, and its output is not pinned to a system",
-				language, chain.SystemStamp)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheStampIsTheOneThingTakenFromTheArtifact(t *testing.T) {
-	// The toolchain accepts nothing else from the module — anything it could override it would be
-	// writing a Dockerfile to override. The system is the stated exception, because a compiled
-	// binary is per system and the artifact is what declares one (ADR 0142).
-	chain, err := ToolchainFor("go")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	joined := strings.Join(chain.Compile, " ")
-	if strings.Contains(joined, "${") || strings.Contains(joined, "%s") {
-		t.Fatalf("the compile line takes something from the module: %q", joined)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheLinkerIsToldOnceNotTwice(t *testing.T) {
-	// A repeated flag is not a merged one: the Go command takes the last -ldflags and drops the
-	// first. Passing the toolchain's flags and then the stamp separately produced a binary that knew
-	// its system and had lost -s -w — 12.2MB against 8.5MB, with its debug info (04-ISSUES/161).
-	chain, err := ToolchainFor("go")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	for _, arg := range chain.Compile {
-		if arg == "-ldflags" {
-			t.Fatal("the compile line carries -ldflags, so composing one here makes two")
-		}
-	}
-	if len(chain.LinkerFlags) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("the go toolchain passes no linker flags, so the binary keeps its debug info")
-	}
-	var stripped bool
-	for _, f := range chain.LinkerFlags {
-		if f == "-s" {
-			stripped = true
-		}
-	}
-	if !stripped {
-		t.Fatalf("the go toolchain does not strip: %v", chain.LinkerFlags)
-	}
-}

internal/builder/toolchain.go

@@ -35,50 +35,8 @@ type Toolchain struct {
 	Compile []string
 	// OutputFlag is how this compiler is told where to put its output.
 	OutputFlag string
-	// Unit is what this compiler is pointed at: UnitSources, the entrypoint files the module named,
-	// or UnitPackage, the one directory the artifact is built `from`.
-	//
-	// **The difference is the language and not the module.** A TypeScript bundle is a set of files
-	// compiled into a set of files, so what to compile is the module's entrypoints with their source
-	// extension. A Go bundle is a package compiled into one binary, and there is no per-file
-	// compilation to name — pointing `go build` at a file list builds a program out of exactly those
-	// files and ignores the rest of the package, which fails as a missing symbol rather than as a
-	// wrong instruction.
-	Unit string
-	// SourceExt is the extension an entrypoint has in the repository, for UnitSources. An entrypoint
-	// is named as it will be FOUND, inside the unpacked bundle, so the source is the same path with
-	// the output directory taken off the front and this on the end.
-	SourceExt string
-	// LinkerFlags are passed to the linker as one flag, together with the system stamp below.
-	//
-	// **Separate from Compile because a repeated flag is not a merged one.** They were in the compile
-	// line, and appending the stamp as a second `-ldflags` meant the Go command took the last and
-	// dropped the first — so the binary gained its system and lost `-s -w`, growing by half and
-	// carrying its debug info. The mistake was believing a comment rather than reading the file it
-	// produced (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/161).
-	LinkerFlags []string
-	// SystemStamp is the variable this language's linker fills with the artifact's declared system,
-	// for a language whose binaries are pinned to one at link time (novox/hq ADR 0005).
-	//
-	// **The one thing a toolchain takes from the artifact, and 0142 says why**: the target is a
-	// property of the artifact rather than of the recipe, because a compiled binary is per system
-	// and a toolchain that accepted it from the module would be accepting a build instruction. This
-	// is the narrow exception, named here rather than inferred.
-	//
-	// Empty for a language that compiles to nothing pinned. A host built without it refuses every
-	// declaration before applying anything — safely, totally, and with nothing reporting it
-	// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/161).
-	SystemStamp string
 }
 
-// What a toolchain is pointed at.
-const (
-	// UnitSources is a list of files, derived from the module's entrypoints.
-	UnitSources = "sources"
-	// UnitPackage is the single directory the artifact is built `from`, compiled whole.
-	UnitPackage = "package"
-)
-
 // Out is where one artifact's compiled output lands, inside the module's own directory.
 //
 // **Per artifact, never per toolchain.** A module is one piece of software and may still be
@@ -113,41 +71,6 @@ var toolchains = []Toolchain{
 			"--target", "ES2022",
 		},
 		OutputFlag: "--outDir",
-		Unit:       UnitSources,
-		SourceExt:  ".ts",
-	},
-	{
-		Language: "go",
-		Base:     "mesh-tools-go",
-		Artifact: "build",
-		// **The mesh's own components, and not modules.** The warning above this list — that every
-		// language is another implementation of the contracts modules share, so adding one commits
-		// to keeping N implementations in step — does not attach here. Go is how the host, the
-		// control plane and the builder are written, and none of them is a module in that sense:
-		// the host is what APPLIES modules. So there is no SDK obligation, and the reason this
-		// entry did not exist was that nothing needed to compile the mesh itself
-		// (novox/hq ADR 0142, and 04-ISSUES/142 where that is why nothing delivers the host).
-		//
-		// Static, because what a machine ends up holding is a file rather than a container, and a
-		// binary that needs a libc it did not bring is a delivery that works until a machine
-		// differs. Trimmed of its own paths for the same reason a version comes from where it sits
-		// rather than from the linker: two builds of one commit produce the same bytes.
-		Compile: []string{
-			"env", "CGO_ENABLED=0", "GOFLAGS=-trimpath",
-			"go", "build",
-		},
-		// Stripped of symbols and debug info: what a machine holds is a file it runs, not one it
-		// debugs, and the difference measured 12.2MB against 8.5MB.
-		LinkerFlags: []string{"-s", "-w"},
-		OutputFlag:  "-o",
-		// Pointed at the package the artifact is built `from`, compiled whole. Go writes the binary
-		// into the output directory, named after the package — so the bundle a machine unpacks is a
-		// directory holding one executable, which is what the delivery mechanism expects
-		// (novox/hq ADR 0141).
-		Unit: UnitPackage,
-		// The mesh's own Go components read the system they were built for from this variable, and
-		// refuse to touch a machine without one.
-		SystemStamp: "main.builtFor",
 	},
 	{
 		Language: "python",
@@ -159,8 +82,6 @@ var toolchains = []Toolchain{
 		// each actually does.
 		Compile:    []string{"python", "-m", "pip", "install", "--no-compile", "--target"},
 		OutputFlag: "",
-		Unit:       UnitSources,
-		SourceExt:  ".py",
 	},
 }
 

internal/catalogue/artifact_store_alias_test.go

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import "testing"
-
-// A claim written before the rename still holds (novox/hq ADR 0122, ADR 0156): with the store's
-// aliases loaded, the former name resolves to the seat.
-func TestTheArtifactStoresFormerNameResolvesToIt(t *testing.T) {
-	was := aliases
-	t.Cleanup(func() { aliases = was })
-	UseAliases(map[string]string{"the-artifact-store": "mesh-artifact-store"})
-	seat, known := SeatNamed("the-artifact-store")
-	if !known || seat.Name != "mesh-artifact-store" || seat.Delivers != "artifact-store" {
-		t.Fatalf("the former name did not resolve: %+v %v", seat, known)
-	}
-	if _, known := SeatNamed("mesh-artifact-store"); !known {
-		t.Fatal("the seat is not in the set under its name")
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/artifact_store_seat_test.go

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func TestASecondArtifactStoreAnywhereIsRefusedByName(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// A second one, on any other machine, is refused — and the refusal names the seat.
-	elsewhere := World{Held: []Held{{Claim: "mesh-artifact-store", Scope: ScopeMesh,
+	elsewhere := World{Held: []Held{{Claim: "the-artifact-store", Scope: ScopeMesh,
 		Node: "anchor", Module: "distribution"}}}
 	other := workstation()
 	other.Name = "laptop"
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ func TestASecondArtifactStoreAnywhereIsRefusedByName(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("a second store was accepted on another machine; it would offer artifact-store a " +
 			"second time and every consumer elsewhere would refuse to choose")
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "mesh-artifact-store") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "one per mesh") {
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the-artifact-store") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "one per mesh") {
 		t.Fatalf("refused without naming the seat: %v", err)
 	}
 }

internal/catalogue/broker_seat_test.go

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ func TestRenamingASeatDidNotRenameTheInterfaceItDelivers(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, pair := range []struct{ seat, delivers string }{
 		{"git", "git"},
 		{"npm-package-registry", "npm-package-registry"},
-		{"mesh-artifact-store", "artifact-store"},
+		{"the-artifact-store", "artifact-store"},
 		{"mesh-store", "postgres-database"},
 		{"mesh-broker", "mesh-bus"},
 	} {

internal/catalogue/brokered_test.go

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ func reachable() Node {
 func onNetwork(nodes ...string) map[string][]Provider {
 	out := make([]Provider, 0, len(nodes))
 	for _, n := range nodes {
-		out = append(out, Provider{Node: n, At: n + ".internal", Module: "postgres"})
+		out = append(out, Provider{Node: n, At: n + ".internal"})
 	}
 	return map[string][]Provider{"postgres-database": out}
 }
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ func TestSayingWhichOneSettlesIt(t *testing.T) {
 	got, err := Resolve(brokeredShelf(), []string{"meshboard"}, reachable(),
 		World{
 			Offered: onNetwork("anchor", "archive"),
-			Pinned:  map[string]Chosen{"postgres-database": {Node: "archive", Module: "postgres"}},
+			Pinned:  map[string]string{"postgres-database": "archive"},
 		})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ func TestBeingPointedAtAMachineThatDoesNotProvideItIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err := Resolve(brokeredShelf(), []string{"meshboard"}, reachable(),
 		World{
 			Offered: onNetwork("anchor", "archive"),
-			Pinned:  map[string]Chosen{"postgres-database": {Node: "somewhere-else", Module: "postgres"}},
+			Pinned:  map[string]string{"postgres-database": "somewhere-else"},
 		})
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a machine was silently given a different database from the one chosen")
@@ -131,12 +131,12 @@ func TestOneProviderDoesNotOverruleAChoice(t *testing.T) {
 	_, err := Resolve(brokeredShelf(), []string{"meshboard"}, reachable(),
 		World{
 			Offered: onNetwork("anchor"),
-			Pinned:  map[string]Chosen{"postgres-database": {Node: "archive", Module: "postgres"}},
+			Pinned:  map[string]string{"postgres-database": "archive"},
 		})
 	if err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("the only database was used although another was chosen")
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "only anchor/postgres provides it") {
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "only anchor provides it") {
 		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say what is available: %v", err)
 	}
 }

internal/catalogue/build.go

@@ -94,43 +94,12 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
 				m.Module, r["id"], named)
 		case ArtifactImage, ArtifactUpstream:
 			filled["image"] = artifact.Reference
-			// An image is not unpacked anywhere, so it has no directory to be named for its
-			// version and `${version}` has nothing to mean. Refused rather than left as literal
-			// text in a path, which is how it would reach a machine and be created as a directory
-			// called `${version}`.
-			for key, value := range filled {
-				if text, isText := value.(string); isText && strings.Contains(text, versionRef) {
-					return Manifest{}, fmt.Errorf(
-						"%s: %v says %s in %q, and %q is an image — an image is not unpacked, so "+
-							"it has no versioned place. %s is for an archive or a bundle",
-						m.Module, r["id"], versionRef, key, named, versionRef)
-				}
-			}
 		case ArtifactArchive, ArtifactBundle:
 			// The same on the wire: both are bytes fetched by digest and unpacked. They differ in
 			// how they were made — one packed as it stood, the other compiled first — and a
 			// machine has no reason to care which.
 			filled["source"] = artifact.Reference
 			filled["digest"] = artifact.Digest
-			// **And `${version}`, so a resource can name a place that is this build's alone**
-			// (novox/hq ADR 0141, 04-ISSUES/142). A component is unpacked into a directory named
-			// for its version so it can read its own version from its path — and until this,
-			// nothing could compose that path: an archive named a fixed one in the manifest and
-			// nothing interpolated the build into it, so nothing could ask for
-			// `…/versions/<version>/` and every machine took a hand-placed fallback.
-			//
-			// The version is the artifact's own digest, short. Not the commit: two builds of one
-			// commit are meant to be the same bytes (the toolchains are `-trimpath` for this), and
-			// a content-addressed version means an unchanged build resolves to the path it already
-			// had — so re-composing a declaration moves nothing, where a commit would move the
-			// path of an identical binary and recreate everything that reads it.
-			for key, value := range filled {
-				text, isText := value.(string)
-				if !isText || !strings.Contains(text, versionRef) {
-					continue
-				}
-				filled[key] = strings.ReplaceAll(text, versionRef, versionOf(artifact.Digest))
-			}
 		default:
 			return Manifest{}, fmt.Errorf("%s: %q is a %q, and an artifact is %q, %q, %q or %q",
 				m.Module, named, artifact.Kind, ArtifactImage, ArtifactArchive, ArtifactUpstream,
@@ -173,14 +142,7 @@ func (b *Build) problems(module string) []string {
 		// is which compiler — because the mesh chooses that, and cannot choose for a module that
 		// has not said.
 		if a.Kind == ArtifactBundle || a.Kind == ArtifactPackage {
-			// **Except for a language that compiles to a binary, where it names which one**
-			// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142). A bundle in an interpreted language is the module's own
-			// directory compiled whole, and naming a source would be describing its own build. A
-			// repository written in a compiled language holds several commands — the host and its
-			// bootstrap live in one, and the mesh needs the host — and "the module's own directory"
-			// is then not a package at all. So the compiled case may say which package, and says
-			// the module root by saying nothing.
-			if a.From != "" && !compilesToABinary(a.Language) {
+			if a.From != "" {
 				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 					"%s: %q is a bundle and names what it is built from (%q). A bundle is built "+
 						"from the module's own directory; what it says is the language",
@@ -290,28 +252,3 @@ func compilesToABinary(language string) bool {
 		return false
 	}
 }
-
-// versionRef is how a resource names the version of the artifact it uses: ${version}.
-//
-// No artifact name in it, because the resource already says which artifact it is for — a second
-// name would be a second thing to keep in step with the first.
-const versionRef = "${version}"
-
-// versionOf is an artifact's version as a path names it: its digest, short.
-//
-// **Content-addressed on purpose.** The alternative is the commit a build came from, and two builds
-// of one commit are meant to produce the same bytes — every toolchain here is `-trimpath` for that
-// reason. A commit-named path would move for an identical binary, and everything reading that path
-// would be recreated for a change that is not one. A digest-named path moves exactly when the bytes
-// do.
-//
-// Twelve hex characters: enough that two of this mesh's builds will not collide, short enough to
-// read in a path and in a journal line. The `sha256:` prefix goes, because a directory name carrying
-// a colon is a directory name people quote wrong.
-func versionOf(digest string) string {
-	hex := strings.TrimPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(digest), "sha256:")
-	if len(hex) > 12 {
-		return hex[:12]
-	}
-	return hex
-}

internal/catalogue/catalogue_check_test.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package catalogue
 import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -11,24 +10,11 @@ import (
 //
 // Not a fixture: the point is whether the manifests as written are accepted by the control plane that
 // will read them, and a copy of one manifest proves nothing about the other seventy-one.
-// catalogueRoot is the catalogue these checks run over: MESH_CATALOGUE when set, else the checkout
-// beside this one, the way the main layout has it. A check that only ran when somebody remembered a
-// variable was a check nobody ran (novox/hq issue 134, 2026-09-30); it skips only when there is no
-// catalogue to be found at all.
-func catalogueRoot(t *testing.T) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	if root := os.Getenv("MESH_CATALOGUE"); root != "" {
-		return root
-	}
-	sibling := filepath.Join("..", "..", "..", "mesh-catalog")
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(sibling, "modules")); err != nil {
-		t.Skip("no catalogue beside this checkout and MESH_CATALOGUE unset")
-	}
-	return sibling
-}
-
 func TestEveryCatalogueManifestParses(t *testing.T) {
-	root := catalogueRoot(t)
+	root := os.Getenv("MESH_CATALOGUE")
+	if root == "" {
+		t.Skip("set MESH_CATALOGUE to a catalogue checkout to run this")
+	}
 	found, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(root, "modules", "*", "module.json"))
 	if err != nil || len(found) == 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("no manifests under %s: %v", root, err)
@@ -59,30 +45,3 @@ func TestEveryCatalogueManifestParses(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("no endpoint in the catalogue is named, so this proved nothing")
 	}
 }
-
-// TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAnInstallation is ADR 0112's check, run over the real catalogue: no
-// definition names a domain or a public address the mesh acts on, and every value that must for now
-// carries its reason (novox/hq ADR 0155, issue 134). The list it prints is the one that shrinks.
-func TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAnInstallation(t *testing.T) {
-	root := catalogueRoot(t)
-	found, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(root, "modules", "*", "module.json"))
-	if err != nil || len(found) == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("no manifests under %s: %v", root, err)
-	}
-	var named []string
-	for _, p := range found {
-		raw, err := os.ReadFile(p)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", p, err)
-		}
-		m, err := ParseManifest(raw)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v", p, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		named = append(named, InstallationProblems(m)...)
-	}
-	if len(named) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("%d value(s) name an installation:\n  %s", len(named), strings.Join(named, "\n  "))
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/chosen.go

@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"sort"
-)
-
-// Chosen is the provider somebody named for a provision: the module, and the node it runs on. Both,
-// always (novox/hq #258) — a provision comes from a module, and the same module on two machines is
-// two answers, so neither half alone says which. Module is empty only on a record made before this
-// was asked, and such a record is honoured exactly as long as it is unambiguous.
-type Chosen struct {
-	Node   string
-	Module string
-}
-
-func (c Chosen) String() string {
-	if c.Module == "" {
-		return c.Node
-	}
-	return c.Node + "/" + c.Module
-}
-
-// matches is whether this provider is the one chosen.
-func (c Chosen) matches(p Provider) bool {
-	return p.Node == c.Node && (c.Module == "" || p.Module == c.Module)
-}
-
-// among is every offered provider the choice names — one, when the choice is whole.
-func (c Chosen) among(where []Provider) []Provider {
-	var out []Provider
-	for _, p := range where {
-		if c.matches(p) {
-			out = append(out, p)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// nameOf is how a refusal names a provider: the node and the module on it.
-func nameOf(p Provider) string {
-	return Chosen{Node: p.Node, Module: p.Module}.String()
-}
-
-// providerNames is every provider named, sorted, for a refusal to list.
-func providerNames(where []Provider) []string {
-	out := make([]string, 0, len(where))
-	for _, p := range where {
-		out = append(out, nameOf(p))
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out
-}
-
-// providersHere is which modules in this node's own set offer a provision, sorted.
-func providersHere(catalogue map[string]Manifest, here func(string) bool, want string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for name, m := range catalogue {
-		if !here(name) {
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, o := range m.Offers() {
-			if o == want {
-				out = append(out, name)
-				break
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out
-}
-
-// servedByOne is what one provider beside the consumer says a consumer needs to know, or nothing.
-//
-// Serving is *whether* a need is created at all when the provider is on this same machine (novox/hq
-// 04-ISSUES/038's sibling): a need never created is a binding the consumer never gets. The manifest
-// alone answers that; the values are settled later, with the node's settings.
-func servedByOne(m Manifest, want string) map[string]any {
-	if _, ok := m.Serves[want]; ok {
-		return ServedOn(m, want, nil)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// sharedByOne is the own secret that provider names as its credential (ADR 0158), or "" when it
-// gives each consumer its own.
-func sharedByOne(m Manifest, want string) string {
-	if own, shared := m.SharedCredentialOf(want); shared {
-		return own
-	}
-	return ""
-}
-
-func oneOf(list []string, s string) bool {
-	for _, x := range list {
-		if x == s {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}

internal/catalogue/contributes_test.go

@@ -197,27 +197,6 @@ func TestARouteCanBeSetPerMesh(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestASettingReachesAContributionOnlyWhereItDeclaresTheKey(t *testing.T) {
-	// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/173: the mail module's site name, set so its environment file could read
-	// it, arrived in every route it contributed. A setting overrides a key the contribution
-	// declares and adds none — the provider reads the contribution as a contract.
-	got, _ := Resolve(shelf(proxy(), published("board", "board", 8080)), []string{"board"}, workstation(), World{})
-
-	out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{Settings: SettingsBy{
-		"board": {{From: "the mesh", Values: map[string]any{"host": "dashboard", "sitename": "Board"}}},
-	}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	given := received(t, out)
-	if given[0].Values["host"] != "dashboard" {
-		t.Fatalf("the setting did not override the route's host: %v", given[0].Values)
-	}
-	if _, leaked := given[0].Values["sitename"]; leaked {
-		t.Fatalf("a setting the route never declared reached the proxy: %v", given[0].Values)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestReceivingWhatYouDoNotProvideIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	// It would create a file nobody ever writes to, on a machine where nothing asked for it.
 	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"traefik","version":"1",

internal/catalogue/declaration.go

@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 					"%s needs a secret called %q and none was made for it", m.Module, name)
 			}
 			first = append(first, ownedBy(m.SecretsOwner, map[string]any{
-				"id": NeedID(name), "type": "file", "path": m.OwnSecrets[name].Path, "sealed": sealed,
+				"id": NeedID(name), "type": "file", "path": m.OwnSecrets[name], "sealed": sealed,
 			}))
 		}
 		// Operator-owned paths this module is granted use of (novox/hq ADR 0051). Written before
@@ -473,15 +473,9 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 		// find each present — refusing clearly if the operator has not provided it — before it
 		// starts anything that depends on it. The mesh creates, chowns and reconciles none of it;
 		// an `access` resource says only *this path must exist, and this module reaches it*.
-		// Where each is on THIS machine is the assignment's (novox/hq issue 153): placed by id
-		// where the operator said, the definition's default otherwise, refused where neither.
-		accesses, accessPaths, err := accessesFor(m, with.Settings[m.Module])
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		for _, a := range accesses {
+		for _, a := range m.Accesses {
 			first = append(first, map[string]any{
-				"id": AccessID(a.Path), "type": "access", "path": a.Path, "mode": a.Mode,
+				"id": AccessID(a.Path), "type": "access", "path": a.Path, "mode": a.At(),
 			})
 		}
 		for _, to := range m.SecretRequirements() {
@@ -628,15 +622,17 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 		// merging earlier would throw away the files it still needs.
 		resources = append(append([]map[string]any{}, first...), resources...)
 
-		// No container is given the mesh's names (novox/hq ADR 0148). It used to be: every
-		// container got the whole roster as `--add-host` entries at creation, and a name that
-		// moved afterwards was wrong inside it for as long as it ran (issues 109, 135) — and once
-		// the roster was made part of a container's identity so that could be caught, one name
-		// moving anywhere replaced every container in the mesh (issue 151). A container resolves a
-		// mesh name through its machine's resolver at the moment it asks, which the runtime is
-		// told once per machine, as a file, by the resolver's own module. The names a module
-		// declares for itself are its own and stay exactly as written: they are part of what the
-		// module is, and the mesh does not know what they mean.
+		// Every container is given the mesh's names. Not a choice a module makes: a module that
+		// listed them would go stale the day a machine joins, and one that did not would be a
+		// module whose containers cannot reach anything by name.
+		//
+		// A container that was given names of its own keeps them and gets the mesh's beside them:
+		// the mesh does not know what else a workload needs to reach, and taking something away
+		// to add something is not what "also" means.
+		if len(with.Names) > 0 {
+			resources = withMeshNames(resources, with.Names)
+		}
+
 		// What this module may name from inside one of its own files. Gathered once per module
 		// rather than per file, because it is a fact about the module.
 		sealed, err := sealedFor(m, r.Needs, with)
@@ -676,12 +672,6 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 		}
 		// And where this node places the directories the module declared without a path
 		// (novox/hq ADR 0112) — resolved once per module, named by ${dir:…} from any resource.
-		// — and, on an adopted machine, where the assignment says they already are, with the
-		// owner the data already has (novox/hq issue 153). Malformed placements are refused here.
-		placed, err := Places(m, with.Settings[m.Module])
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
 		dirs := dirsFor(m, with)
 		// And the machine underneath, which no binding of its own can tell it.
 		thisMachine := machineFacts(r, with.Names, with.MeshRange)
@@ -708,13 +698,6 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 			// Said in the catalogue, not on the machine: the host parses strictly and knows no
 			// such field, and the reason is for a reader of the manifest.
 			delete(copied, SecretsInEnvironment)
-			delete(copied, NamesOnPurpose)
-			// **An operator's value, from the assignment** (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155): what a
-			// definition may not carry because it is true of one installation only. Filled from
-			// the same layers a mergeable file takes, and refused when no layer set it.
-			if err := settingInto(copied, with.Settings[m.Module], m.Module); err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
 			// **Placed before anything reads a path.** A pathless directory receives the path
 			// this node resolves for it, and every ${dir:…} — in paths, mounts, content and
 			// environment — becomes that path, so what follows sees only concrete places
@@ -722,12 +705,6 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 			if err := dirInto(copied, dirs, m.Module); err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
-			// The operator's data the same way: ${access:…} becomes where this node keeps it,
-			// and a placed directory takes the owner the assignment said (issue 153).
-			if err := accessInto(copied, accessPaths, m.Module); err != nil {
-				return nil, err
-			}
-			ownerInto(copied, placed)
 			// **After settings, and that is the whole reason it is here.** A module's file
 			// content is where a setting lands, so a placeholder may only exist once the setting
 			// has been put in — filling secrets first would look at content that is not yet what
@@ -1145,7 +1122,7 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 			// Settings reach a contribution the same way they reach a file. A route's hostname is
 			// exactly the kind of thing that differs between one mesh and the next, and a module
 			// that could not have it set would have to be edited to be reused.
-			values, err := r.composed(m, to, m.Contributes[to], settings[m.Module],
+			values, err := r.composed(m, m.Contributes[to], settings[m.Module],
 				m.Module+" contributing to "+to)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
@@ -1158,7 +1135,7 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 		// name always reaches the provider from here.
 		for _, to := range sortedKeys(m.ContributesMany) {
 			for _, local := range sortedKeys(m.ContributesMany[to]) {
-				values, err := r.composed(m, to, m.ContributesMany[to][local], settings[m.Module],
+				values, err := r.composed(m, m.ContributesMany[to][local], settings[m.Module],
 					m.Module+" contributing "+local+" to "+to)
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, err
@@ -1177,12 +1154,9 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 // file; the contributing module is told the same names in its own binding (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/122).
 // Composing them twice, in two places, is how the proxy would come to serve one name while the
 // module wrote another into its configuration.
-func (r Resolution) composed(m Manifest, to string, raw map[string]any, layers []Layer, what string) (
+func (r Resolution) composed(m Manifest, raw map[string]any, layers []Layer, what string) (
 	map[string]any, error) {
-	// Overridden, not merged: a setting changes a key the contribution declares and adds none.
-	// The provider reads the contribution as a contract, and a setting made for one of this
-	// module's files is no part of it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/173).
-	values, err := overridden(raw, layers, what)
+	values, err := settle(raw, layers, nil, what)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", what, err)
 	}
@@ -1195,7 +1169,7 @@ func (r Resolution) composed(m Manifest, to string, raw map[string]any, layers [
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", what, err)
 	}
 	portOfEndpoint(values, endpointPorts(m))
-	composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, servingAt(r, to), reaches, endpointPorts(m), blocks)
+	composeName(values, r.PublicDomain, r.At, reaches, endpointPorts(m), blocks)
 	return values, nil
 }
 
@@ -1222,7 +1196,7 @@ func (r Resolution) ownNames(m Manifest, to string, layers []Layer) (map[string]
 	}
 	out := map[string]any{}
 	if raw, ok := m.Contributes[to]; ok {
-		values, err := r.composed(m, to, raw, layers, m.Module+" contributing to "+to)
+		values, err := r.composed(m, raw, layers, m.Module+" contributing to "+to)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
@@ -1233,7 +1207,7 @@ func (r Resolution) ownNames(m Manifest, to string, layers []Layer) (map[string]
 	if locals := m.ContributesMany[to]; len(locals) > 0 {
 		many := map[string]any{}
 		for _, local := range sortedKeys(locals) {
-			values, err := r.composed(m, to, locals[local], layers,
+			values, err := r.composed(m, locals[local], layers,
 				m.Module+" contributing "+local+" to "+to)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
@@ -1341,24 +1315,6 @@ func composeName(values map[string]any, publicDomain, internalDomain string, rea
 	}
 }
 
-// servingAt is the private-network name of the node a contribution to `to` arrives at: the
-// provider's, when the provision is answered elsewhere, and this machine's own when it is answered
-// here or not yet settled.
-//
-// A route's internal name is composed under it (novox/hq ADR 0151, issue 139). `<label>.<node>.internal`
-// is answered by every machine's resolver as *anything under that node's name goes to that node* —
-// so the node in the name has to be the one whose proxy answers, or the name sends a client to a
-// machine with nothing listening while the public name, published at the serving node's address,
-// works. Where the proxy runs beside the module the two are the same machine and nothing changes.
-func servingAt(r Resolution, to string) string {
-	for _, n := range r.Needs {
-		if n.Name == to && n.At != "" {
-			return n.At
-		}
-	}
-	return r.At
-}
-
 // receivedFile is the file a provider is given its consumers' contributions in.
 func receivedFile(requirement, path string, given []Contribution) (map[string]any, error) {
 	if given == nil {
@@ -1622,6 +1578,43 @@ func (r Resolution) servedOnThisMachine(provision string, with Rendering) (map[s
 	return nil, false, nil
 }
 
+// withMeshNames gives every container in a set the mesh's names.
+//
+// Copied rather than edited in place: these maps come from a module's manifest, and mutating one
+// would change what the catalogue holds for every other machine running that module.
+//
+// A host-network container gets the names too. It was once skipped, on the belief that it "shares
+// the machine's hosts file already" — but it does not: `docker run --network host` still gives the
+// container its own /etc/hosts (localhost and its own id only), so every `<node>.internal` name the
+// mesh wrote for the machine is invisible inside it, and a client that dials one gets EAI_AGAIN. The
+// remedy is the same `--add-host` every other container gets — the runtime accepts it with
+// `--network host` (verified), and without it a host-network consumer cannot reach a provider by the
+// `.internal` address the mesh hands it as `${bound:...:at}`.
+func withMeshNames(resources []map[string]any, names map[string]string) []map[string]any {
+	out := make([]map[string]any, 0, len(resources))
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		if r["type"] != "container" {
+			out = append(out, r)
+			continue
+		}
+
+		copied := map[string]any{}
+		for k, v := range r {
+			copied[k] = v
+		}
+		var given []any
+		if already, ok := copied["hosts"].([]any); ok {
+			given = append(given, already...)
+		}
+		for _, name := range sortedKeys(names) {
+			given = append(given, name+":"+names[name])
+		}
+		copied["hosts"] = given
+		out = append(out, copied)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // pinned refuses an image that is not really pinned, on its way to a machine.
 //
 // **Here and not at parse** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/025). A manifest in a repository names artifacts
@@ -1700,23 +1693,14 @@ func publishedOn(resource map[string]any, module string, with Rendering) {
 			out = append(out, givenOuter(written, with.Given[module]))
 			continue
 		}
-		// A short form may carry the protocol — `"3478/udp"` — and the number is what the mesh
-		// assigns for; the protocol rides along. Read as one token, the `/udp` made the whole
-		// entry "not a port", and passing it through let the runtime publish it wherever it
-		// liked: unifi's STUN and discovery landed on random machine ports while every TCP pin
-		// beside them held.
-		mapping, protocol := written, ""
-		if cut := strings.LastIndex(written, "/"); cut >= 0 {
-			mapping, protocol = written[:cut], written[cut:]
-		}
-		wanted, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(mapping))
+		wanted, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(written))
 		if err != nil {
 			// Not a port at all. Passed through, so the host refuses it with its own words rather
 			// than this quietly dropping something somebody meant.
 			out = append(out, written)
 			continue
 		}
-		out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d%s", with.machinePort(module, wanted), wanted, protocol))
+		out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("%d:%d", with.machinePort(module, wanted), wanted))
 	}
 	resource["ports"] = out
 }

internal/catalogue/dir_into.go

@@ -20,12 +20,6 @@ import (
 // declared with the path as the exception it is, and everything else in the module names it by
 // id — so moving it later is one line, not a search.
 //
-// **The mesh's own files for a module are placed too** (novox/hq issue 174). What the mesh writes
-// *for* a module — its sealed bus credential, its merged configuration, its bindings — is the
-// mesh's plumbing, not the module's data, and sits under `<root>/mesh/<module>`. A directory
-// saying `"place": "mesh"` is that place; the definition names the files beneath it by
-// `${dir:<id>}` and states no path.
-//
 // **Resolved here, not on the machine.** The host receives concrete paths exactly as it always
 // has; nothing new reaches it and it learns no field. Which also means a resolved path changing
 // is a spec change like any other — and the spec comparison must see it (novox/hq issue 126).
@@ -33,15 +27,6 @@ import (
 // defaultDataRoot is where module data lands when a node states no root of its own.
 const defaultDataRoot = "/var/lib"
 
-// The two places a pathless directory may name, beside its own id.
-const (
-	// placeOwn is the assignment's own root, <root>/<module> — to-be 27's one directory per
-	// assignment, which every other placed thing of the module sits beneath.
-	placeOwn = "."
-	// placeMesh is where the mesh keeps what it writes for the module, <root>/mesh/<module>.
-	placeMesh = "mesh"
-)
-
 // dirRef is how a module names one of its placed directories: ${dir:<id>}.
 var dirRef = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{dir:([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\}`)
 
@@ -55,53 +40,26 @@ func dataRoot(with Rendering) string {
 
 // dirsFor is every placed directory of a module, id → the path it resolves to on this node.
 //
-// A pathless directory saying `"place": "."` is the assignment's own root, <root>/<module>; one
-// saying `"place": "mesh"` is the mesh's directory for the module, <root>/mesh/<module>; one
-// saying neither is <root>/<module>/<id>. At most one of each place makes sense; nothing enforces
-// one, because two ids resolving to one path is a mistake the module's own files make visible
-// immediately.
-//
-// A stated path may itself begin with a placed reference — `${dir:mesh-state}/state` — and is
-// filled after the directories it can name are resolved; one level, because a directory beneath
-// a placed one is the whole of what an adopted layout needs (issue 174's `state` and `out`).
+// A pathless directory saying `"place": "."` is the assignment's own root, <root>/<module> —
+// to-be 27's one directory per assignment, which every other placed thing sits beneath. At most
+// one makes sense; nothing enforces one, because two ids resolving to one path is a mistake the
+// module's own files make visible immediately.
 func dirsFor(m Manifest, with Rendering) map[string]string {
 	dirs := map[string]string{}
-	var beneath []map[string]any
-	// The assignment's placement wins over both (novox/hq issue 153). Refused elsewhere when
-	// malformed; here an invalid setting simply places nothing.
-	placed, _ := Places(m, with.Settings[m.Module])
 	for _, r := range m.Resources {
 		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "directory" {
 			continue
 		}
 		id := fmt.Sprint(r["id"])
-		if p, said := placed[id]; said {
-			dirs[id] = p.Path
-			continue
-		}
 		if path, stated := r["path"].(string); stated && path != "" {
-			if strings.HasPrefix(path, "${dir:") {
-				beneath = append(beneath, r)
-				continue
-			}
 			dirs[id] = strings.TrimRight(path, "/")
 			continue
 		}
-		switch place, _ := r["place"].(string); place {
-		case placeOwn:
+		if place, said := r["place"].(string); said && place == "." {
 			dirs[id] = dataRoot(with) + "/" + m.Module
-		case placeMesh:
-			dirs[id] = dataRoot(with) + "/mesh/" + m.Module
-		default:
-			dirs[id] = dataRoot(with) + "/" + m.Module + "/" + id
+			continue
 		}
-	}
-	for _, r := range beneath {
-		path := strings.TrimRight(r["path"].(string), "/")
-		// A reference to no directory is left as written and refused where the resource is
-		// placed (dirInto), with the message that names what exists.
-		filled, _ := dirFill(path, dirs, m.Module)
-		dirs[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = filled
+		dirs[id] = dataRoot(with) + "/" + m.Module + "/" + id
 	}
 	return dirs
 }
@@ -161,16 +119,8 @@ func placedManifest(m Manifest, with Rendering) (Manifest, error) {
 	if m.Secrets, err = fillMap(m.Secrets); err != nil {
 		return m, err
 	}
-	if len(m.OwnSecrets) > 0 {
-		own := make(OwnSecrets, len(m.OwnSecrets))
-		for name, s := range m.OwnSecrets {
-			filled, err := dirFill(s.Path, dirs, m.Module)
-			if err != nil {
-				return m, err
-			}
-			own[name] = OwnSecret{Path: filled, Taken: s.Taken}
-		}
-		m.OwnSecrets = own
+	if m.OwnSecrets, err = fillMap(m.OwnSecrets); err != nil {
+		return m, err
 	}
 	if m.Grants, err = fillMap(m.Grants); err != nil {
 		return m, err
@@ -294,11 +244,10 @@ func (m Manifest) unknownDirRefs() []string {
 				"%s states both path and place on %v — a stated path IS the placement",
 				m.Module, r["id"]))
 		}
-		if place != placeOwn && place != placeMesh {
+		if place != "." {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s says place %q on %v, and the places are %q — the assignment's own root — and "+
-					"%q — where the mesh keeps what it writes for the module",
-				m.Module, place, r["id"], placeOwn, placeMesh))
+				"%s says place %q on %v, and the only place is %q — the assignment's own root",
+				m.Module, place, r["id"], "."))
 		}
 	}
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
@@ -343,7 +292,7 @@ func (m Manifest) unknownDirRefs() []string {
 	}
 	maps := map[string]map[string]string{
 		"receives": m.Receives, "binds": m.Binds, "secrets": m.Secrets,
-		"own-secrets": m.OwnSecrets.Paths(), "grants": m.Grants,
+		"own-secrets": m.OwnSecrets, "grants": m.Grants,
 	}
 	for field, entries := range maps {
 		for _, value := range entries {

internal/catalogue/dir_into_test.go

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ func TestTheManifestsMapsArePlaced(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		Binds:      map[string]string{"route": "${dir:state}/route.json"},
 		Secrets:    map[string]string{"mongodb-database": "${dir:state}/database.secret"},
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"admin-key": {Path: "${dir:state}/admin-key.secret"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"admin-key": "${dir:state}/admin-key.secret"},
 		Receives:   map[string]string{"route": "${dir:state}/grants/mesh.json"},
 	}
 	placed, err := placedManifest(m, Rendering{})
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func TestTheManifestsMapsArePlaced(t *testing.T) {
 	if placed.Secrets["mongodb-database"] != "/var/lib/photos/database.secret" {
 		t.Fatalf("secrets are placed; got %v", placed.Secrets)
 	}
-	if placed.OwnSecrets["admin-key"].Path != "/var/lib/photos/admin-key.secret" {
+	if placed.OwnSecrets["admin-key"] != "/var/lib/photos/admin-key.secret" {
 		t.Fatalf("own-secrets are placed; got %v", placed.OwnSecrets)
 	}
 	if placed.Receives["route"] != "/var/lib/photos/grants/mesh.json" {
@@ -216,48 +216,8 @@ func TestPlaceIsValidatedAtTheManifest(t *testing.T) {
 	wrong := Manifest{Module: "x", Resources: []map[string]any{
 		{"id": "d", "type": "directory", "place": "sub/dir"},
 	}}
-	if got := wrong.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], `the places are "."`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a place that is neither root refuses; got %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheMeshsDirectoryForAModuleIsAPlace(t *testing.T) {
-	// novox/hq issue 174. What the mesh writes for a module — its bus credential, its bindings —
-	// is the mesh's plumbing under <root>/mesh/<module>, and the definition names it by id.
-	m := Manifest{Module: "umami",
-		Resources: []map[string]any{
-			{"id": "mesh-state", "type": "directory", "place": "mesh"},
-			{"id": "state", "type": "directory", "place": "."},
-			{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "x@sha256:aa",
-				"volumes": []any{"${dir:mesh-state}/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro"}},
-		},
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"broker": {Path: "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"}},
-		Binds:      map[string]string{"route": "${dir:state}/route.json"},
-	}
-	if got := m.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("place %q is a place; got %v", "mesh", got)
-	}
-	dirs := dirsFor(m, Rendering{})
-	if dirs["mesh-state"] != "/var/lib/mesh/umami" || dirs["state"] != "/var/lib/umami" {
-		t.Fatalf("the mesh's directory sits beside the module's, not in it; got %v", dirs)
-	}
-	dirs = dirsFor(m, Rendering{DataRoot: "/srv"})
-	if dirs["mesh-state"] != "/srv/mesh/umami" {
-		t.Fatalf("a node's root moves the mesh's files with the module's; got %v", dirs)
-	}
-	placed, err := placedManifest(m, Rendering{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if placed.OwnSecrets["broker"].Path != "/var/lib/mesh/umami/broker" {
-		t.Fatalf("own-secrets are placed under the mesh's directory; got %v", placed.OwnSecrets)
-	}
-	container := shallowCopy(m.Resources[2])
-	if err := dirInto(container, dirsFor(m, Rendering{}), m.Module); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if container["volumes"].([]any)[0] != "/var/lib/mesh/umami/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro" {
-		t.Fatalf("the mount's host side is placed; got %v", container["volumes"])
+	if got := wrong.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], `the only place is "."`) {
+		t.Fatalf("a place that is not the root refuses; got %v", got)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -290,36 +250,3 @@ func shallowCopy(resource map[string]any) map[string]any {
 	}
 	return copied
 }
-
-func TestADirectoryBeneathAPlacedOneIsPlacedWithIt(t *testing.T) {
-	// An adopted layout keeps a subdirectory the predecessor made under the mesh's directory
-	// (issue 174: a forge's runtime state, a manager's output). Stated as beneath the placed one,
-	// it moves with it — a node's root moves both, and the definition names no host path.
-	m := Manifest{Module: "gitea", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "mesh-state", "type": "directory", "place": "mesh"},
-		{"id": "runtime-state", "type": "directory", "path": "${dir:mesh-state}/state"},
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "x@sha256:aa",
-			"volumes": []any{"${dir:runtime-state}:/data"}},
-	}}
-	if got := m.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a path beneath a placed directory is well formed; got %v", got)
-	}
-	dirs := dirsFor(m, Rendering{DataRoot: "/srv"})
-	if dirs["runtime-state"] != "/srv/mesh/gitea/state" {
-		t.Fatalf("the subdirectory follows the placed one; got %v", dirs)
-	}
-	sub := shallowCopy(m.Resources[1])
-	if err := dirInto(sub, dirs, m.Module); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if sub["path"] != "/srv/mesh/gitea/state" {
-		t.Fatalf("the directory resource itself is resolved; got %v", sub["path"])
-	}
-	container := shallowCopy(m.Resources[2])
-	if err := dirInto(container, dirs, m.Module); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if container["volumes"].([]any)[0] != "/srv/mesh/gitea/state:/data" {
-		t.Fatalf("a reference to the subdirectory resolves whole; got %v", container["volumes"])
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/filtering_test.go

@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ func TestWhatTheMeshComputesIsAppliedBeforeWhatTheModuleDeclared(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAComputedModuleStillGetsWhatTheMeshMadeForIt(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module: "networking", Computed: "mesh-network",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"key": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/key"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"key": "/var/lib/mesh/key"},
 	}}}
 	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{
 		Needed:     map[string]map[string]string{"networking": {"key": "sealed"}},

internal/catalogue/go_bundle_test.go

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import "testing"
-
-// A bundle is the module's own directory compiled whole, and naming a source would be describing its
-// own build. That holds for an interpreted language and cannot hold for a compiled one: a repository
-// written in Go carries several commands — the host and its bootstrap live in one — and "the module's
-// own directory" is then not a package at all (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142).
-
-func TestAGoBundleMayNameItsCommand(t *testing.T) {
-	b := &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{
-		Name: "host-arch", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "arch",
-		From: "cmd/mesh-host",
-	}}}
-	if p := b.problems("mesh-host"); len(p) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a go bundle naming its command was refused: %v", p)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnInterpretedBundleStillMayNotNameASource(t *testing.T) {
-	b := &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{
-		Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "typescript", From: "src",
-	}}}
-	p := b.problems("something")
-	if len(p) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("an interpreted bundle naming what it is built from was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestACompiledBundleStillMustSayItsSystem(t *testing.T) {
-	b := &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{
-		Name: "host", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", From: "cmd/mesh-host",
-	}}}
-	if len(b.problems("mesh-host")) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("a compiled bundle with no system was accepted")
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/holdings_test.go

@@ -107,27 +107,6 @@ func TestCanHoldJudgesClaimScopeAndWhatTheSeatDelivers(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := CanHold(cannotAnswer, seat); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `does not provide "mesh-bus"`) {
 		t.Fatalf("a holder that cannot answer for the seat was allowed: %v", err)
 	}
-	// A holder's own tools need not be the seat's verbs: the claim may name what it serves for the
-	// role (ADR 0160), and then only those count — and only the seat's verbs may be named.
-	promising := seat
-	promising.Serves = []Verb{{Name: "databases"}, {Name: "query"}}
-	engine := newBroker()
-	engine.Tools = []string{"engine_list_databases", "engine_query"}
-	if err := CanHold(engine, promising); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not serve databases, query") {
-		t.Fatalf("a holder whose tools are not the seat's verbs was allowed without saying what it serves: %v", err)
-	}
-	engine.Claims[0].Serves = []string{"databases", "query"}
-	if err := CanHold(engine, promising); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a claim naming the seat's verbs was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	engine.Claims[0].Serves = []string{"databases"}
-	if err := CanHold(engine, promising); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not serve query") {
-		t.Fatalf("a claim naming half the verbs was allowed: %v", err)
-	}
-	engine.Claims[0].Serves = []string{"databases", "query", "engine_query"}
-	if err := CanHold(engine, promising); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not promise") {
-		t.Fatalf("a claim naming a verb the seat never promised was allowed: %v", err)
-	}
 	// And the judgement follows the store's row, not a compiled copy.
 	busSeatDelivering(t, "amqp")
 	seat, _ = SeatNamed("mesh-broker")
@@ -179,16 +158,3 @@ func TestAStoreRowWithoutAProtocolKeepsTheCompiledOne(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the store's own columns were not kept: %+v", got)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestARefusalWithNothingOnRecordNamesTheHandover(t *testing.T) {
-	busSeatDelivering(t, "mesh-bus")
-	elsewhere := []Held{{Claim: "mesh-broker", Scope: ScopeMesh, Node: "anchor", Module: "old-broker"}}
-
-	_, problems := checkClaims([]Manifest{newBroker()}, Node{Name: "laptop"}, elsewhere, nil)
-	if len(problems) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("two derived claimants across machines were not refused: %v", problems)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(problems[0], "`seat mesh-broker --to anchor/old-broker`") {
-		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not name the handover that records the holder: %s", problems[0])
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/installation.go

@@ -1,227 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"net"
-	"regexp"
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// A definition names no installation (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155, issues 122 and 134).
-//
-// A module definition holds what is true of the module everywhere; what is particular to one mesh —
-// a public name, a forge's address, a node's public address — is resolved at assignment. The rule
-// stood for a month with nothing checking it, and a sweep found thirty of seventy-one definitions
-// naming the installation they were written in. This is the check.
-//
-// **What is judged is what the mesh acts on, not what a person reads.** A domain in a `why` or a
-// `description` is documentation the mesh never reads; reporting it beside `KC_HOSTNAME` would teach
-// people to ignore the report. What is judged is every other string value: a name under a public
-// top-level domain, or a public address. Two families of name are the world's and not this mesh's,
-// and are allowed where they can only mean the world: the public registries an `image` may be pulled
-// from, and the public resolvers a machine may forward to. The container runtime's own alias for
-// its host is the runtime's, true on every machine that runs it.
-//
-// **A name that is right where it stands is declared, one by one, with its reason.** A federated
-// server's config names the federation's public directory; an application built outside the mesh
-// is pulled from the registry that built it, until the mesh builds it. The resource carries
-// `names-on-purpose`, a map from each such name to why — the shape `secrets-in-environment` has,
-// per name — so a reader sees which names a definition means to carry and why, a name the map does
-// not cover is still reported, and the catalogue-wide test is the list that shrinks as names move.
-
-// NamesOnPurpose is the catalogue-level word a resource carries for the names it means to name:
-// each name mapped to its reason. The host never sees it.
-const NamesOnPurpose = "names-on-purpose"
-
-// prose is every key whose value the mesh never reads.
-var prose = map[string]bool{"why": true, "description": true}
-
-// Registries the world runs, which an image may name because an image reference must say where it
-// is pulled from. Anything else in an image reference is a registry of some installation.
-var worldsRegistries = map[string]bool{
-	"docker.io": true, "registry-1.docker.io": true, "index.docker.io": true, "ghcr.io": true,
-	"quay.io": true, "gcr.io": true, "registry.k8s.io": true, "k8s.gcr.io": true,
-	"mcr.microsoft.com": true, "lscr.io": true, "public.ecr.aws": true, "registry.gitlab.com": true,
-	"codeberg.org": true, "cgr.dev": true,
-}
-
-// Services the world runs that a definition may name as a policy default, the way it may name a
-// public resolver: the public certificate authorities' ACME directories. Anything else a served
-// fact or a file names is somebody's installation.
-var worldsServices = map[string]bool{
-	"acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org": true, "acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org": true,
-	"api.buypass.com": true, "api.test4.buypass.no": true, "dv.acme-v02.api.pki.goog": true,
-	"acme.zerossl.com": true,
-}
-
-// Resolvers the world runs, which a machine's resolver may forward to as a policy default.
-var worldsResolvers = map[string]bool{
-	"1.1.1.1": true, "1.0.0.1": true, "8.8.8.8": true, "8.8.4.4": true, "9.9.9.9": true,
-	"149.112.112.112": true, "208.67.222.222": true, "208.67.220.220": true,
-}
-
-// hostname is a dotted name whose last label is a top-level domain a real installation would have.
-// Not every dotted token: `module.json`, `index.html` and `docker.sock` are dotted and name nothing.
-// Boundaries are checked by hand rather than in the pattern, because two names one character apart
-// — `a.example.tld,b.example.tld` — would otherwise share the delimiter and the second would be lost.
-var hostname = regexp.MustCompile(
-	`(?i)(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+` +
-		`(?:be|nl|de|fr|uk|eu|com|net|org|io|dev|app|cloud|site|online|me|co|ch|at|lu|` +
-		`internal|example|tld|test|invalid)`)
-
-// address is a dotted quad.
-var address = regexp.MustCompile(`(?:[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}`)
-
-// isName is whether a byte may be part of a name; a match bordered by one is a longer token.
-func isName(b byte) bool {
-	return b == '.' || b == '-' || (b >= 'a' && b <= 'z') || (b >= 'A' && b <= 'Z') || (b >= '0' && b <= '9')
-}
-
-// standalone are the matches of re in value that are whole tokens, not parts of a longer one.
-func standalone(re *regexp.Regexp, value string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, span := range re.FindAllStringIndex(value, -1) {
-		if span[0] > 0 && isName(value[span[0]-1]) {
-			continue
-		}
-		if span[1] < len(value) && isName(value[span[1]]) {
-			continue
-		}
-		out = append(out, value[span[0]:span[1]])
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// InstallationProblems is every value of a definition that names an installation, in the
-// definition's own words: where it is, and what it names.
-func InstallationProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	raw, err := json.Marshal(m)
-	if err != nil {
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s could not be read back: %v", m.Module, err)}
-	}
-	var tree any
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &tree); err != nil {
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s could not be read back: %v", m.Module, err)}
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	// The module's own name is a value too: a module named after the domain it serves is a
-	// definition that can only be installed there (issue 134).
-	for _, name := range namesIn(m.Module) {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"%s is named after %s, and a module is named for what it is, not for where it runs", m.Module, name))
-	}
-	walk(tree, "", nil, func(at string, value string, meant map[string]bool, isImage bool) {
-		for _, name := range namesIn(value) {
-			if (isImage && worldsRegistries[strings.ToLower(name)]) || meant[name] {
-				continue
-			}
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s names %s at %s", m.Module, name, at))
-		}
-		for _, ip := range addressesIn(value) {
-			if meant[ip] {
-				continue
-			}
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s names the public address %s at %s", m.Module, ip, at))
-		}
-	})
-	sort.Strings(problems)
-	return problems
-}
-
-// walk visits every string in the tree with its path, the names the enclosing resource means to
-// name (with a reason), and whether it is an image reference.
-func walk(node any, at string, meant map[string]bool, visit func(at, value string, meant map[string]bool, isImage bool)) {
-	switch v := node.(type) {
-	case map[string]any:
-		if declared, has := v[NamesOnPurpose].(map[string]any); has {
-			widened := map[string]bool{}
-			for name := range meant {
-				widened[name] = true
-			}
-			for name, reason := range declared {
-				if r, ok := reason.(string); ok && strings.TrimSpace(r) != "" {
-					widened[strings.ToLower(name)] = true
-				}
-			}
-			meant = widened
-		}
-		keys := make([]string, 0, len(v))
-		for k := range v {
-			keys = append(keys, k)
-		}
-		sort.Strings(keys)
-		for _, k := range keys {
-			if prose[k] || k == NamesOnPurpose || (at == "" && k == "module") {
-				continue
-			}
-			child := at + "." + k
-			if at == "" {
-				child = k
-			}
-			if s, isString := v[k].(string); isString {
-				visit(child, s, meant, k == "image")
-				continue
-			}
-			walk(v[k], child, meant, visit)
-		}
-	case []any:
-		for i, item := range v {
-			child := fmt.Sprintf("%s[%d]", at, i)
-			if s, isString := item.(string); isString {
-				visit(child, s, meant, false)
-				continue
-			}
-			walk(item, child, meant, visit)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// namesIn is every hostname in a value that could belong to an installation.
-func namesIn(value string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, found := range standalone(hostname, value) {
-		name := strings.ToLower(found)
-		switch {
-		case strings.HasSuffix(name, ".docker.internal"):
-			// The container runtime's alias for its own host: every machine running it has one.
-		case worldsServices[name]:
-			// A public authority named as a policy default, true of any mesh that wants it.
-		case name == "example.tld", strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.tld"),
-			name == "example.com", name == "example.net", name == "example.org",
-			strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.com"), strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.net"),
-			strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.org"), strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example"),
-			strings.HasSuffix(name, ".test"), strings.HasSuffix(name, ".invalid"):
-			// Documentation names, which is what a definition's own example should use.
-		default:
-			out = append(out, name)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// addressesIn is every public address in a value: not a private range, loopback, link-local, the
-// unspecified address, a documentation range, or a resolver the world runs.
-func addressesIn(value string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, found := range standalone(address, value) {
-		ip := net.ParseIP(found)
-		if ip == nil || ip.IsPrivate() || ip.IsLoopback() || ip.IsLinkLocalUnicast() ||
-			ip.IsUnspecified() || ip.IsMulticast() || worldsResolvers[found] || documentation(ip) {
-			continue
-		}
-		out = append(out, found)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func documentation(ip net.IP) bool {
-	for _, cidr := range []string{"192.0.2.0/24", "198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24", "100.64.0.0/10"} {
-		_, block, _ := net.ParseCIDR(cidr)
-		if block.Contains(ip) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}

internal/catalogue/installation_test.go

@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A definition names no installation (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155). What the mesh acts on is judged;
-// prose is not; the world's registries and resolvers are the world's; a declared exception is a
-// reason a reader sees.
-func TestADefinitionNamingAnInstallationIsNamedBack(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "idp", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "quay.io/keycloak/keycloak@sha256:aa",
-			"env": map[string]any{"KC_HOSTNAME": "https://login.mesh-one.be"}},
-		{"id": "env", "type": "file", "content": "REAL_IP_FROM=192.168.1.0/24,127.0.0.0/8,203.0.113.7,51.15.22.9\n"},
-	}, Listens: []Listening{{Port: 8080, From: FromMesh, Why: "the login page; login.mesh-one.be is a route grant"}}}
-	got := strings.Join(InstallationProblems(m), "\n")
-	for _, want := range []string{
-		"idp names login.mesh-one.be at resources[0].env.KC_HOSTNAME",
-		"idp names the public address 51.15.22.9 at resources[1].content",
-	} {
-		if !strings.Contains(got, want) {
-			t.Errorf("missing %q in:\n%s", want, got)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, mustNot := range []string{"quay.io", "why", "203.0.113.7", "192.168.1.0", "127.0.0.0"} {
-		if strings.Contains(got, mustNot) {
-			t.Errorf("%q was reported and should not be:\n%s", mustNot, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheWorldsNamesAreNotAnInstallations(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "resolver", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "conf", "type": "file", "content": "server=1.1.1.1\nserver=8.8.8.8\nlisten=127.0.0.55\n"},
-		{"id": "proxy", "type": "container", "image": "docker.io/library/traefik@sha256:bb"},
-		{"id": "adapter", "type": "file", "content": "{\"machine\": \"host.docker.internal\"}\n"},
-		{"id": "doc", "type": "file", "content": "root = https://git.example.tld/\n"},
-	}}
-	if got := InstallationProblems(m); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the world's names were reported: %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestANameMeantOnPurposeIsDeclaredWithItsReason(t *testing.T) {
-	// The federation's public directory in a homeserver's config: the world's, said so, and a name
-	// the map does not cover is still reported.
-	m := Manifest{Module: "homeserver", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "conf", "type": "file", "content": "trusted_key_servers: matrix.org\nwell_known: https://mesh-one.be\n",
-			NamesOnPurpose: map[string]any{"matrix.org": "the federation's public key server, the world's"}},
-	}}
-	got := InstallationProblems(m)
-	if len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], "mesh-one.be") {
-		t.Fatalf("got %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnImageFromAnInstallationsRegistryNeedsAReason(t *testing.T) {
-	bare := Manifest{Module: "site", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "registry.mesh-one.be/org/site@sha256:cc"},
-	}}
-	if got := InstallationProblems(bare); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], "registry.mesh-one.be") {
-		t.Fatalf("an image on an installation's registry was not named: %v", got)
-	}
-	excepted := Manifest{Module: "site", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "registry.mesh-one.be/org/site@sha256:cc",
-			NamesOnPurpose: map[string]any{"registry.mesh-one.be": "built outside the mesh until the site's repository is a build source here"}},
-	}}
-	if got := InstallationProblems(excepted); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a declared exception was still reported: %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAModuleNamedAfterADomainIsNamedBack(t *testing.T) {
-	got := InstallationProblems(Manifest{Module: "mesh-one.be"})
-	if len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], "named after mesh-one.be") {
-		t.Fatalf("got %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestABuildContextOnASeatNamesNoForge(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "packager", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
-		{Name: "server", Kind: "image", From: "Dockerfile",
-			Context: &ArtifactContext{Seat: "git", Repository: "org/controller", Ref: "main"}},
-	}}}
-	if got := InstallationProblems(m); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a context on a seat was reported: %v", got)
-	}
-	m.Build.Artifacts[0].Context = &ArtifactContext{Repository: "https://git.mesh-one.be/org/controller.git"}
-	if got := InstallationProblems(m); len(got) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("a context by URL was not reported: %v", got)
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/invokes_test.go

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A manifest may say which tools its module calls (novox/hq ADR 0152), and the parser accepts the
-// two shapes the grant has: a named tool, and every tool.
-func TestAManifestMaySayWhatItInvokes(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mesh-console","version":"1",` +
-		`"invokes":["mesh-catalog.catalog_modules","*"]}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(m.Invokes) != 2 || m.Invokes[1] != "*" {
-		t.Fatalf("invokes not read: %v", m.Invokes)
-	}
-}
-
-// An entry that names a module and no tool is refused at parse, in the manifest's words, rather than
-// at the composition of the bus's user list where it would stop the file for everybody.
-func TestAnInvokeThatNamesNoToolIsRefusedAtParse(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mesh-console","version":"1","invokes":["shop"]}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("an invoke naming no tool was accepted")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `invokes "shop", which does not name a tool`) {
-		t.Fatalf("refused for the wrong reason: %v", err)
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/manifest.go

@@ -42,32 +42,11 @@ var renamed = map[string]string{
 
 var name = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)*$`)
 
-// toolName is what a module calls one of its tools: the sdk's tools are `catalog_modules` and
-// `gitea_list_repos`, so an underscore is ordinary here and a dot is not — the dot is what separates
-// the module from the tool in `<module>.<tool>`, and a tool name carrying one would be two grants.
-var toolName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$`)
-
 // Claim is a singular resource a module takes over.
 type Claim struct {
 	Name string `json:"name"`
 	// Scope defaults to the node, which is where nearly everything singular is singular.
 	Scope string `json:"scope,omitempty"`
-	// Serves names the seat's verbs this module implements for the role, when its own tools are
-	// not the seat's (novox/hq ADR 0159, 0160): the store's `databases` is not postgres's
-	// `postgres_list_databases`, and a holder may well serve both. The runtime serves an
-	// implementation registered under the seat's name on the seat's subjects. Absent, the
-	// module's own `tools` must list every verb the seat promises, which is how a module named
-	// like its seat — the catalogue, the records — says they are one and the same.
-	Serves []string `json:"serves,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// ServesFor is what this claim offers a seat's protocol: the verbs it names, else the module's
-// own tools.
-func (c Claim) ServesFor(m Manifest) []string {
-	if len(c.Serves) > 0 {
-		return c.Serves
-	}
-	return m.Tools
 }
 
 // At is this claim's scope, with the default applied.
@@ -107,13 +86,8 @@ const (
 // If the path is absent when a machine applies, the host refuses clearly rather than creating it:
 // the mesh does not own it, so conjuring it would be a lie the host then acts on.
 type Access struct {
-	// ID is the name the module gives this access, which the assignment places
-	// (`accesses: {<id>: <path>}`, novox/hq ADR 0112, issue 153) and the module's mounts name as
-	// ${access:<id>}. The shape a definition should use: it names no path of any machine.
-	ID string `json:"id,omitempty"`
-	// Path is the absolute path on the machine. A definition carrying one names an installation;
-	// tolerated as the default the assignment may replace, for accesses declared before ids.
-	Path string `json:"path,omitempty"`
+	// Path is the absolute path on the machine, as the operator provides it.
+	Path string `json:"path"`
 	// Mode is "read" or "read-write". Absent narrows to read.
 	Mode string `json:"mode,omitempty"`
 }
@@ -143,38 +117,6 @@ type Offer struct {
 	Name string `json:"name"`
 	// Scope defaults to the node, which is where most things must be to be usable.
 	Scope string `json:"scope,omitempty"`
-	// Credential, when set, says this provision's credential is one of the provider's own secrets,
-	// shared by every consumer (novox/hq ADR 0158): software that holds one password or one key
-	// cannot give each consumer a login of its own. The named secret must say how it is taken.
-	Credential *OfferCredential `json:"credential,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// OfferCredential names which of the provider's own secrets a provision's consumers receive.
-type OfferCredential struct {
-	Own string `json:"own"`
-}
-
-// SharedCredentialOf is the own secret an offer of this module names as the provision's credential,
-// and whether it names one.
-func (m Manifest) SharedCredentialOf(provision string) (string, bool) {
-	for _, o := range m.Provides {
-		if o.Name == provision && o.Credential != nil && o.Credential.Own != "" {
-			return o.Credential.Own, true
-		}
-	}
-	return "", false
-}
-
-// ProvisionsSharing is every provision of this module whose credential is the named own secret.
-func (m Manifest) ProvisionsSharing(own string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, o := range m.Provides {
-		if o.Credential != nil && o.Credential.Own == own {
-			out = append(out, o.Name)
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out
 }
 
 // At is this offer's scope, with the default applied.
@@ -193,30 +135,26 @@ func (o *Offer) UnmarshalJSON(raw []byte) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 	var full struct {
-		Name       string           `json:"name"`
-		Scope      string           `json:"scope,omitempty"`
-		Credential *OfferCredential `json:"credential,omitempty"`
+		Name  string `json:"name"`
+		Scope string `json:"scope,omitempty"`
 	}
-	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(raw))
-	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
-	if err := dec.Decode(&full); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("a provided name is either a string or {name, scope, credential}: %w", err)
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &full); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("a provided name is either a string or {name, scope}: %w", err)
 	}
-	o.Name, o.Scope, o.Credential = full.Name, full.Scope, full.Credential
+	o.Name, o.Scope = full.Name, full.Scope
 	return nil
 }
 
 // MarshalJSON writes back the short form when there is nothing else to say, so a manifest that
 // went through the mesh comes out looking like the one that went in.
 func (o Offer) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
-	if o.Scope == "" && o.Credential == nil {
+	if o.Scope == "" {
 		return json.Marshal(o.Name)
 	}
 	return json.Marshal(struct {
-		Name       string           `json:"name"`
-		Scope      string           `json:"scope,omitempty"`
-		Credential *OfferCredential `json:"credential,omitempty"`
-	}{o.Name, o.Scope, o.Credential})
+		Name  string `json:"name"`
+		Scope string `json:"scope"`
+	}{o.Name, o.Scope})
 }
 
 // Manifest is everything a module says about itself.
@@ -309,22 +247,6 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// module claiming a seat answers what that seat's protocol promises (novox/hq ADR 0118).
 	Tools []string `json:"tools,omitempty"`
 
-	// Instances says whether this module's instances are the same anywhere — `interchangeable` —
-	// so a call that names no machine may be answered by any of them (novox/hq ADR 0160). A fact
-	// about the software, not about the bus: a stateless web tool says it; a database does not,
-	// and its instances are then each addressed by machine, never confused for one another.
-	Instances string `json:"instances,omitempty"`
-
-	// Invokes are the tools this module calls, each `<module>.<tool>` or a role's `seat:<seat>.<verb>`,
-	// or the single entry `*` for every tool on the mesh (novox/hq ADR 0152, ADR 0154).
-	//
-	// **A grant, and only a grant.** The bus lets this module publish exactly those tool subjects
-	// and nothing beside them — no event, no subscription, no seat. A module that declares none
-	// calls nothing, which is every module but the console today. ADR 0095 made the control plane
-	// the one caller and deferred this until a consumer asked; the console is that consumer, and a
-	// person's account (design 25 §7) already had the same shape.
-	Invokes []string `json:"invokes,omitempty"`
-
 	// Capabilities the machine must have. A different field from Requires because the remedy
 	// differs: a missing module can be assigned, and a missing capability means the wrong
 	// machine.
@@ -448,16 +370,7 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// module running on three machines has three passwords and the mesh can read none of them. A
 	// manifest carrying one instead would put the same secret on every machine that ever runs the
 	// module, in a file anybody can read, for ever.
-	//
-	// **And how the module takes it** (novox/hq ADR 0114, issue 180): `"admin": "<path>"` says
-	// where and nothing else; `"admin": {"path": "<path>", "taken": "at-start"}` says the module
-	// reads the file when it starts, so the mesh may rotate it by making a new value and starting
-	// the module again; `"taken": "applied"` says the module's own code applies it to a backend
-	// that takes it only once, so a rotation must be staged beside the current value — the form the
-	// mesh does not build yet, and refuses by name. A secret that says neither is not rotated by
-	// the mesh: the one fault worse than an unrotated credential is a rotated one the software
-	// never saw.
-	OwnSecrets OwnSecrets `json:"own-secrets,omitempty"`
+	OwnSecrets map[string]string `json:"own-secrets,omitempty"`
 
 	// SecretsOwner is who the files holding this module's secrets belong to on the machine —
 	// `uid:gid`, or a name — when its process is not root.
@@ -621,14 +534,8 @@ type BuildsOn struct {
 type ArtifactContext struct {
 	// Repository is cloned fresh, the same way the module's own repository is — a working tree
 	// nothing has touched, so what was built is reproducible from the two commits named rather
-	// than from whatever a previous build happened to leave behind. A URL, or — with Seat — a
-	// path on that seat's holder, `<owner>/<name>`.
+	// than from whatever a previous build happened to leave behind.
 	Repository string `json:"repository"`
-	// Seat is the seat the repository lives on: `git` for this mesh's own forge (novox/hq ADR 0111,
-	// ADR 0155). A context written as a URL names one installation's forge and can be built
-	// nowhere else; a path on the seat is composed by the mesh that builds it, whichever forge
-	// holds the seat there.
-	Seat string `json:"seat,omitempty"`
 	// Ref is the branch, tag or commit of that repository to build. Empty means its own default
 	// branch — the same meaning an empty module ref already has.
 	Ref string `json:"ref,omitempty"`
@@ -690,16 +597,6 @@ type Artifact struct {
 	// Empty for every other kind, which do not compile.
 	Language string `json:"language,omitempty"`
 
-	// Binary is what the compiled executable is called, for a bundle in a language that compiles to
-	// one. Empty means the package's own name, which is what a compiler does by default.
-	//
-	// **Because the name a machine runs it by is not always the name of the package that built it.**
-	// The host's command is `cmd/mesh-host` and every machine runs it as `nox-mesh-host` — the path
-	// it is installed at, the name in its unit, and the name its launcher looks for inside a
-	// delivered version. A bundle that carried the package's name was delivered correctly, reported
-	// success, and was invisible to the launcher (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142).
-	Binary string `json:"binary,omitempty"`
-
 	// Entrypoints are the compiled files a tool host should load from this module, relative to the
 	// bundle's root.
 	//
@@ -1195,33 +1092,11 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 				m.Module, r))
 		}
 	}
-	if m.Instances != "" && m.Instances != InstancesInterchangeable {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"%s says its instances are %q; the one word is %q, for a module that is the same on every machine",
-			m.Module, m.Instances, InstancesInterchangeable))
-	}
 	for _, offer := range m.Provides {
 		p := offer.Name
 		if !name.MatchString(p) {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%q is not a usable name to provide", p))
 		}
-		if offer.Credential != nil {
-			own, declared := m.OwnSecrets[offer.Credential.Own]
-			switch {
-			case offer.Credential.Own == "":
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s provides %q with a credential that names no own secret", m.Module, p))
-			case !declared:
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s provides %q with its own secret %q as the credential, and declares no such secret",
-					m.Module, p, offer.Credential.Own))
-			case own.Taken == "":
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s provides %q with its own secret %q as the credential every consumer receives, so "+
-						"the secret must say how the module takes it: \"taken\": \"at-start\" or \"applied\" (ADR 0158)",
-					m.Module, p, offer.Credential.Own))
-			}
-		}
 		if instead, generic := engineGeneric[p]; generic {
 			// A consumer is written against an engine, not a role (novox/hq ADR 0027). Providing
 			// the role means a requirement for it matches any engine, resolves as satisfied, and
@@ -1405,7 +1280,6 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 				"%s listens on %d over %q, which is tcp or udp", m.Module, l.Port, p))
 		}
 	}
-	problems = append(problems, invokeProblems(m)...)
 	problems = append(problems, endpointNameProblems(m)...)
 	problems = append(problems, RouteProblems(m)...)
 	for _, port := range m.Guards {
@@ -1508,20 +1382,14 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	for name, own := range m.OwnSecrets {
-		if !placedOrAbsolute(own.Path) {
+	for name, where := range m.OwnSecrets {
+		if !placedOrAbsolute(where) {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s needs %q at %q, which is neither an absolute path nor a placed one", m.Module, name, own.Path))
+				"%s needs %q at %q, which is neither an absolute path nor a placed one", m.Module, name, where))
 		}
 		if name == "" {
 			problems = append(problems, m.Module+" needs a secret with no name")
 		}
-		if own.Taken != "" && own.Taken != TakenAtStart && own.Taken != TakenApplied {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s says its secret %q is taken %q; a secret is taken %q (read when the module starts) "+
-					"or %q (applied by the module's own code to a backend that takes it once)",
-				m.Module, name, own.Taken, TakenAtStart, TakenApplied))
-		}
 	}
 	localOf := map[string]string{}
 	for _, to := range m.SecretRequirements() {
@@ -1625,16 +1493,7 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 		}
 	}
 	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		if a.ID == "" && a.Path == "" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s declares an access with neither an id nor a path — an id, which the assignment places",
-				m.Module))
-		}
-		if a.ID != "" && !accessRef.MatchString("${access:"+a.ID+"}") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s accesses %q; an access id is lowercase letters, digits and dashes", m.Module, a.ID))
-		}
-		if a.Path != "" && !strings.HasPrefix(a.Path, "/") {
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(a.Path, "/") {
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 				"%s accesses %q, which is not an absolute path", m.Module, a.Path))
 		}
@@ -1666,7 +1525,6 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 	// the time it sees the mount it is being asked to create the directory, which it can do.
 	problems = append(problems, m.undeclaredMounts()...)
 	problems = append(problems, m.unknownDirRefs()...)
-	problems = append(problems, m.unknownAccessRefs()...)
 
 	for i, r := range m.Resources {
 		id, _ := r["id"].(string)
@@ -1785,8 +1643,8 @@ func (m Manifest) undeclaredMounts() []string {
 			claim(fmt.Sprint(r["path"]))
 		}
 	}
-	for _, own := range m.OwnSecrets {
-		claim(own.Path)
+	for _, where := range m.OwnSecrets {
+		claim(where)
 	}
 	for _, to := range m.SecretRequirements() {
 		for _, f := range m.SecretFiles(to) {
@@ -1898,96 +1756,3 @@ func EndpointPort(m Manifest, name string) (int, bool) {
 	}
 	return 0, false
 }
-
-// invokeProblems judges what a module says it calls (novox/hq ADR 0152).
-//
-// Refused here, in the manifest's words, rather than at the next composition of the bus's user
-// list — where a bad entry would stop the whole file being written for everybody, as a person's
-// malformed grant would have (operator.go). An entry that names a module and no tool is the one
-// mistake worth naming: `shop` reads like a grant to a module's tools and would be a grant to nothing.
-func invokeProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, t := range m.Invokes {
-		if t == "*" {
-			continue
-		}
-		t = strings.TrimPrefix(t, "seat:")
-		module, tool, named := strings.Cut(t, ".")
-		if !named || !name.MatchString(module) || !toolName.MatchString(tool) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s invokes %q, which does not name a tool: a module invokes <module>.<tool>, or "+
-					"* for every tool on the mesh (novox/hq ADR 0152)", m.Module, t))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// How a module takes one of its own secrets (ADR 0114): read from the file when it starts, or
-// applied by its own code to a backend that takes it once.
-const (
-	TakenAtStart = "at-start"
-	TakenApplied = "applied"
-)
-
-// OwnSecret is where one of a module's own secrets lands, and how the module takes it.
-type OwnSecret struct {
-	Path  string
-	Taken string
-}
-
-// OwnSecrets is a module's own secrets by name. On the wire each is a path, or an object naming
-// the path and how it is taken; written back the way it was read, so a manifest the mesh holds
-// keeps its bytes.
-type OwnSecrets map[string]OwnSecret
-
-func (o *OwnSecrets) UnmarshalJSON(raw []byte) error {
-	var entries map[string]json.RawMessage
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &entries); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	out := make(OwnSecrets, len(entries))
-	for name, body := range entries {
-		var path string
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &path); err == nil {
-			out[name] = OwnSecret{Path: path}
-			continue
-		}
-		var long struct {
-			Path  string `json:"path"`
-			Taken string `json:"taken,omitempty"`
-		}
-		dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(body))
-		dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
-		if err := dec.Decode(&long); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("own-secrets.%s: a path, or {\"path\", \"taken\"}: %w", name, err)
-		}
-		out[name] = OwnSecret{Path: long.Path, Taken: long.Taken}
-	}
-	*o = out
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (o OwnSecrets) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
-	entries := make(map[string]any, len(o))
-	for name, s := range o {
-		if s.Taken == "" {
-			entries[name] = s.Path
-			continue
-		}
-		entries[name] = map[string]string{"path": s.Path, "taken": s.Taken}
-	}
-	return json.Marshal(entries)
-}
-
-// Paths is each own secret's path by name — the shape every placement and file walk reads.
-func (o OwnSecrets) Paths() map[string]string {
-	out := make(map[string]string, len(o))
-	for name, s := range o {
-		out[name] = s.Path
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// InstancesInterchangeable is the one value of a definition's `instances`: the module is the same
-// on every machine, so any instance may answer for the module.
-const InstancesInterchangeable = "interchangeable"

internal/catalogue/names_served.go

@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// Which machine serves each routed name (novox/hq ADR 0066, issue 178).
-//
-// A routed name is a label the mesh composed for a consumer's endpoint, and it is *served* by the
-// provider that answers requests for it — the proxy the consumer's route reaches. The same name is
-// composed into every labelled contribution the consumer makes, because a provider that must know
-// the consumer's public name (an identity provider composing a redirect) is told it the same way
-// (04-ISSUES/122). Attributing the name to whichever of those providers a map happened to yield
-// last sent a public name to the identity provider's machine on one plan and to the proxy's on the
-// next (forge issue 227), and the whole names region flipped with it.
-//
-// **The terminus serves the name.** Among the providers a name reaches, the one that serves it is
-// the one that is not itself routed: a provider that contributes a labelled name of its own to some
-// requirement is published through another provider, and is a consumer of names, not their end.
-// Name-agnostic — nothing here knows what "route" means — and structural: it reads the graph the
-// modules declared. Deterministic: names, requirements and nodes are walked in order, so two
-// plans of one mesh yield one region.
-
-// NamesServed is every routed name across the mesh and the node that serves it, from every node's
-// resolution and settings. A name several termini claim goes to the first node in name order, so
-// the answer is stable; a name nothing terminal claims is left out.
-func NamesServed(plans map[string]Resolution, settings map[string]SettingsBy) (map[string]string, error) {
-	nodes := make([]string, 0, len(plans))
-	for n := range plans {
-		nodes = append(nodes, n)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(nodes)
-
-	out := map[string]string{}
-	for _, node := range nodes {
-		plan := plans[node]
-		all, err := plan.contributions(settings[node], nil, nil)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		requirements := make([]string, 0, len(all))
-		for to := range all {
-			requirements = append(requirements, to)
-		}
-		sort.Strings(requirements)
-		for _, to := range requirements {
-			for _, given := range all[to] {
-				if given.Node != "" {
-					// Said from another machine; that machine's own resolution carries it.
-					continue
-				}
-				// A routed name, and only that: a contribution the mesh composed a name for from a
-				// label it was given. A grant that happens to carry a `name` of its own — a database
-				// name — carries no label and is left alone.
-				if _, labelled := given.Values["label"]; !labelled {
-					continue
-				}
-				name, _ := given.Values["name"].(string)
-				if name == "" {
-					continue
-				}
-				serving := servingNodeOf(plan, to, given.From, node)
-				if !servesNames(plans[serving], to) {
-					continue
-				}
-				name = strings.ToLower(name)
-				if held, taken := out[name]; !taken || serving < held {
-					out[name] = serving
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// servingNodeOf is the node answering one consumer's requirement: whoever the plan needs it from,
-// or this same node when the provider is beside the consumer.
-func servingNodeOf(plan Resolution, requirement, consumer, self string) string {
-	for _, need := range plan.Needs {
-		if need.Name == requirement && need.For == consumer && need.From != "" {
-			return need.From
-		}
-	}
-	return self
-}
-
-// servesNames says whether the module providing a requirement on a node is a terminus: it is not
-// itself published under a labelled name through some other provider. A node whose plan is not
-// known (it did not resolve) serves nothing.
-func servesNames(plan Resolution, requirement string) bool {
-	for _, m := range plan.Modules {
-		if !offers(m, requirement) {
-			continue
-		}
-		return !contributesALabel(m)
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-func offers(m Manifest, requirement string) bool {
-	for _, o := range m.Offers() {
-		if o == requirement {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-func contributesALabel(m Manifest) bool {
-	for _, values := range m.Contributes {
-		if _, labelled := values["label"]; labelled {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	for _, locals := range m.ContributesMany {
-		for _, values := range locals {
-			if _, labelled := values["label"]; labelled {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}

internal/catalogue/names_served_test.go

@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// The mesh of forge issue 227 (novox/hq issue 178): a dashboard on the home server contributes its
-// label to the route its proxy serves AND to the identity provider on the control node, which must
-// know the dashboard's public name to compose a redirect. Both contributions carry the composed
-// name; only the proxy serves it.
-func twoNodesOneName(t *testing.T) (map[string]Resolution, map[string]SettingsBy) {
-	t.Helper()
-	catalogue := shelf(
-		Manifest{Module: "route-adapter", Version: "1", Provides: Offers("route"),
-			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"route": {}}, Receives: map[string]string{"route": "/etc/adapter/mesh.json"}},
-		Manifest{Module: "route-proxy", Version: "1", Provides: Offers("route"),
-			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"route": {}}, Receives: map[string]string{"route": "/etc/proxy/mesh.json"}},
-		Manifest{Module: "keycloak", Version: "1", Provides: FromAnywhere("oidc-client"),
-			Serves:   map[string]map[string]any{"oidc-client": {"token-path": "/token"}},
-			Receives: map[string]string{"oidc-client": "/etc/keycloak/clients.json"},
-			Listens:  []Listening{{Port: 8080, From: FromMesh, Why: "the login page"}},
-			// Published through the proxy itself: the identity provider is routed, not a router.
-			Contributes: map[string]map[string]any{"route": {"label": "login", "endpoint": "web", "port": 8080}}},
-		Manifest{Module: "grafana", Version: "1",
-			Listens: []Listening{{Port: 3000, From: FromMesh, Why: "dashboards"}},
-			Contributes: map[string]map[string]any{
-				"route":       {"label": "grafana", "endpoint": "web", "port": 3000},
-				"oidc-client": {"label": "grafana", "endpoint": "web", "port": 3000, "callback": "/login"},
-			}},
-	)
-	home := withDomain("home.example")
-	home.Name, home.At = "home-server", "home-server.internal"
-	control := withDomain("control.example")
-	control.Name, control.At = "anchor", "anchor.internal"
-
-	onHome, err := Resolve(catalogue, []string{"grafana", "route-adapter"}, home, World{
-		Offered: map[string][]Provider{"oidc-client": {{Node: "anchor", At: "anchor.internal", Module: "keycloak"}}},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	onControl, err := Resolve(catalogue, []string{"keycloak", "route-proxy"}, control, World{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	return map[string]Resolution{"home-server": onHome, "anchor": onControl},
-		map[string]SettingsBy{"home-server": {}, "anchor": {}}
-}
-
-func TestANameResolvesToTheNodeWhoseProxyServesIt(t *testing.T) {
-	plans, settings := twoNodesOneName(t)
-	// Many times, because the fault was map order: one plan said one node, the next the other.
-	for i := 0; i < 25; i++ {
-		served, err := NamesServed(plans, settings)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if served["grafana.home.example"] != "home-server" {
-			t.Fatalf("run %d: the dashboard's name is served by %q, and its proxy is on the home server: %v",
-				i, served["grafana.home.example"], served)
-		}
-		if served["login.control.example"] != "anchor" {
-			t.Fatalf("run %d: the identity provider's own name is served by its proxy on the control node: %v", i, served)
-		}
-		if _, leaked := served["grafana.control.example"]; leaked {
-			t.Fatalf("a name composed for the identity provider's benefit is not one it serves: %v", served)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// A module that is routed several times names each route (ADR 0094's sibling for contributes);
-// every one of them is a name the mesh must resolve, and none reached the names region before.
-func TestEveryRouteOfAModuleWithSeveralIsANameServed(t *testing.T) {
-	catalogue := shelf(
-		Manifest{Module: "route-proxy", Version: "1", Provides: Offers("route"),
-			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"route": {}}, Receives: map[string]string{"route": "/etc/proxy/mesh.json"}},
-		Manifest{Module: "photos", Version: "1",
-			Listens: []Listening{{Port: 8102, From: FromMesh, Why: "web"}, {Port: 9102, From: FromMesh, Why: "api"}},
-			ContributesMany: map[string]map[string]map[string]any{"route": {
-				"site": {"label": "photos", "endpoint": "web", "port": 8102},
-				"api":  {"label": "photos-api", "endpoint": "api", "port": 9102},
-			}}},
-	)
-	node := withDomain("control.example")
-	node.Name, node.At = "anchor", "anchor.internal"
-	plan, err := Resolve(catalogue, []string{"photos", "route-proxy"}, node, World{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	served, err := NamesServed(map[string]Resolution{"anchor": plan}, map[string]SettingsBy{"anchor": {}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	for _, name := range []string{"photos.control.example", "photos-api.control.example"} {
-		if served[name] != "anchor" {
-			t.Fatalf("%s is not served by its proxy: %v", name, served)
-		}
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/names_test.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
-	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -31,38 +30,36 @@ func namesOf(r map[string]any) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
-// No mesh name is written into a container (novox/hq ADR 0148). It resolves them through its
-// machine's resolver at the moment it asks, so a name that moves is answered differently by the
-// next lookup, in every container, with nothing recreated.
+// A container does not inherit the machine's names, so the mesh gives them to it.
 //
-// Checked the way the record says: the declaration a container gets does not move when the mesh's
-// roster does. A roster with one machine and a roster with three produce the same container, byte
-// for byte, so the digest a host computes from it cannot move either — which is what stopped one
-// name moving from replacing every container in the mesh (issue 151).
-func TestAContainerIsTheSameWhateverTheMeshsRosterSays(t *testing.T) {
-	module := Manifest{Module: "app", Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "web", "type": "container",
-		"name": "web", "image": "registry.example/web@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)}}}
-	one := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "laptop", Modules: []Manifest{module}},
-		Rendering{Names: map[string]string{"laptop.internal": "10.42.0.2"}})
-	three := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "laptop", Modules: []Manifest{module}},
-		Rendering{Names: map[string]string{
-			"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1", "laptop.internal": "10.42.0.2", "git.example.tld": "10.42.0.1",
-		}})
-	if len(one) != 1 || len(three) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("expected one container each, got %d and %d", len(one), len(three))
+// It gets its own hosts file holding only its own hostname — every internal name the mesh wrote
+// for the machine is invisible to what the machine runs. A database client on one node could not
+// resolve another node, on a mesh where both names were correct and present on both machines.
+func TestEveryContainerIsGivenTheMeshsNames(t *testing.T) {
+	got := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "laptop", Modules: []Manifest{{
+		Module: "app",
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "web", "type": "container", "name": "web",
+			"image": "registry.example/web@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)}},
+	}}}, Rendering{Names: map[string]string{
+		"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1", "laptop.internal": "10.42.0.2",
+	}})
+	if len(got) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected one container, got %d", len(got))
 	}
-	if given := namesOf(three[0]); len(given) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the mesh's names were copied into the container: %v", given)
+	given := namesOf(got[0])
+	if len(given) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("the container was given %d name(s): %v", len(given), given)
 	}
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(one[0], three[0]) {
-		t.Fatalf("the container moved with the roster:\n%v\n%v", one[0], three[0])
+	if given[0] != "anchor.internal:10.42.0.1" {
+		t.Fatalf("the name is not in the form a runtime writes: %v", given)
 	}
 }
 
-// The names a module declares for itself are its own: part of what the module is, kept exactly as
-// written, and the mesh does not know what they mean. They are the one thing in a container's
-// hosts that does move its identity, because they do not move when the mesh's roster does.
-func TestAContainersOwnNamesAreKeptAsWritten(t *testing.T) {
+// A container that named its own keeps them and gets the mesh's beside them.
+//
+// The mesh does not know what else a workload needs to reach, and taking something away in order
+// to add something is not what "also" means.
+func TestAContainersOwnNamesAreKept(t *testing.T) {
 	got := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "laptop", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module: "app",
 		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "web", "type": "container", "name": "web",
@@ -71,15 +68,62 @@ func TestAContainersOwnNamesAreKeptAsWritten(t *testing.T) {
 	}}}, Rendering{Names: map[string]string{"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1"}})
 
 	given := namesOf(got[0])
-	if len(given) != 1 || given[0] != "something.else:203.0.113.9" {
-		t.Fatalf("the container's own names were not kept as written: %v", given)
+	if len(given) != 2 || given[0] != "something.else:203.0.113.9" {
+		t.Fatalf("the container's own names were lost: %v", given)
 	}
 }
 
-// No resource is given a `hosts` key it did not declare. A file or a service carrying one is a
-// declaration the host refuses outright — it takes no unknown field — so an invented key breaks
-// the whole machine rather than one resource.
-func TestNothingIsGivenNamesItDidNotDeclare(t *testing.T) {
+// A container on the machine's own network gets the names too — it does NOT share the machine's
+// hosts file. `docker run --network host` still gives the container its own /etc/hosts (localhost
+// and its own id only), so every `<node>.internal` name the mesh wrote is invisible inside it, and a
+// client that dials one gets EAI_AGAIN. It gets the same `--add-host` entries every other container
+// gets (the runtime accepts them with `--network host`), so a host-network consumer can reach a
+// provider by the `.internal` address the mesh hands it.
+func TestAContainerOnTheMachinesNetworkIsGivenTheNamesToo(t *testing.T) {
+	got := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{{
+		Module: "control",
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "c", "type": "container", "name": "c",
+			"image": "registry.example/c@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64), "network": "host"}},
+	}}}, Rendering{Names: map[string]string{"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1"}})
+
+	given := namesOf(got[0])
+	if len(given) != 1 || given[0] != "anchor.internal:10.42.0.1" {
+		t.Fatalf("a host-networked container was not given the mesh's names: %v", got[0])
+	}
+}
+
+// A mesh with no private network gives nothing, rather than a name with no address behind it.
+func TestAMeshWithNoNamesGivesNone(t *testing.T) {
+	got := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "alone", Modules: []Manifest{{
+		Module: "app",
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "web", "type": "container", "name": "web",
+			"image": "registry.example/web@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)}},
+	}}}, Rendering{})
+	if len(namesOf(got[0])) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("names were invented for a mesh that has none: %v", got[0])
+	}
+}
+
+// The catalogue's copy is not edited: these maps come from a manifest, and mutating one would
+// change what every other machine running that module is given.
+func TestGivingNamesDoesNotChangeTheCatalogue(t *testing.T) {
+	held := map[string]any{"id": "web", "type": "container", "name": "web",
+		"image": "registry.example/web@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)}
+	module := Manifest{Module: "app", Resources: []map[string]any{held}}
+
+	for _, node := range []string{"one", "two"} {
+		containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: node, Modules: []Manifest{module}},
+			Rendering{Names: map[string]string{"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1"}})
+	}
+	if _, changed := held["hosts"]; changed {
+		t.Fatal("the manifest the catalogue holds was edited, so every machine now carries this")
+	}
+}
+
+// Only containers. A file or a service given a `hosts` key is a declaration the host refuses
+// outright — it takes no unknown field — so getting this wrong breaks the whole machine rather
+// than one resource, and breaks it for something that was never about names.
+func TestNothingButAContainerIsGivenNames(t *testing.T) {
 	out, err := Resolution{Node: "laptop", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module: "app",
 		Resources: []map[string]any{
@@ -93,8 +137,11 @@ func TestNothingIsGivenNamesItDidNotDeclare(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	for _, r := range out {
+		if r["type"] == "container" {
+			continue
+		}
 		if _, given := r["hosts"]; given {
-			t.Fatalf("a %v was given names it never declared: %v", r["type"], r)
+			t.Fatalf("a %v was given names, which the host will refuse: %v", r["type"], r)
 		}
 	}
 }

internal/catalogue/needs_test.go

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import (
 func needy() Manifest {
 	return Manifest{
 		Module: "postgres", Version: "1",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"superuser": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/superuser"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"superuser": "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/superuser"},
 		Resources: []map[string]any{
 			{"id": "store", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-postgres", "image": "postgres@sha256:x"},
 		},
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func TestANeedIsAnAbsolutePath(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAModuleMayNeedSeveralThings(t *testing.T) {
 	// A password and a token, say. Telling them apart is the module's business, not the mesh's.
 	m := needy()
-	m.OwnSecrets["replication"] = OwnSecret{Path: "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/replication"}
+	m.OwnSecrets["replication"] = "/var/lib/mesh/postgres/replication"
 	got, _ := Resolve(shelf(m), []string{"postgres"}, reachable(), World{})
 	out, err := got.Declaration(Rendering{Needed: map[string]map[string]string{
 		"postgres": {"superuser": "b25l", "replication": "dHdv"},

internal/catalogue/own_secret_taken_test.go

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// An own secret says how the module takes it (novox/hq ADR 0114, issue 180): a path alone says
-// nothing of it, an object says `at-start` or `applied`, and the bytes the mesh holds are the bytes
-// it was given either way.
-func TestAnOwnSecretSaysHowItIsTaken(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"idp","version":"1","own-secrets":{
-		"broker":"/var/lib/mesh/idp/broker",
-		"admin":{"path":"/var/lib/idp/admin.secret","taken":"applied"},
-		"session":{"path":"/var/lib/idp/session.secret","taken":"at-start"}}}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if m.OwnSecrets["broker"] != (OwnSecret{Path: "/var/lib/mesh/idp/broker"}) {
-		t.Fatalf("a path alone is a path and nothing more: %+v", m.OwnSecrets["broker"])
-	}
-	if m.OwnSecrets["admin"].Taken != TakenApplied || m.OwnSecrets["session"].Taken != TakenAtStart {
-		t.Fatalf("the word was not kept: %+v", m.OwnSecrets)
-	}
-	// Written back the way it was read, so a registered manifest keeps its bytes.
-	out, err := json.Marshal(m.OwnSecrets)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var again OwnSecrets
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(out, &again); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(again) != 3 || again["admin"].Taken != TakenApplied || again["broker"].Taken != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("the round trip changed the secrets: %s", out)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(string(out), `"broker":"/var/lib/mesh/idp/broker"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a path alone is written back as a path: %s", out)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnOwnSecretTakenSomeOtherWayIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"idp","version":"1","own-secrets":{
-		"admin":{"path":"/var/lib/idp/admin.secret","taken":"sometimes"}}}`))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `taken "sometimes"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("an unknown word for how a secret is taken was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	_, err = ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"idp","version":"1","own-secrets":{
-		"admin":{"path":"/var/lib/idp/admin.secret","rotate":"yes"}}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("an unknown field on an own secret was accepted")
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/pin_names_module_test.go

@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// Two modules on one node both provide acme-ca — public-acme (Let's Encrypt) and step-ca (the
-// mesh's own authority) on novox — and a route-proxy elsewhere must get the public one (novox/hq
-// #258). A pin names the module as well as the node, so that it can say which.
-
-func issuerShelf() map[string]Manifest {
-	return shelf(
-		Manifest{Module: "public-acme", Version: "1", Provides: FromAnywhere("acme-ca"),
-			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"acme-ca": {"at": "acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org"}}},
-		Manifest{Module: "step-ca", Version: "1", Provides: FromAnywhere("acme-ca"),
-			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"acme-ca": {"at": "novox.internal"}}},
-		Manifest{Module: "route-proxy", Version: "1", Requires: []string{"acme-ca"}},
-	)
-}
-
-func twoIssuersOnOneNode() map[string][]Provider {
-	return map[string][]Provider{"acme-ca": {
-		{Node: "novox", At: "novox.internal", Module: "public-acme", Serves: map[string]any{"at": "acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org"}},
-		{Node: "novox", At: "novox.internal", Module: "step-ca", Serves: map[string]any{"at": "novox.internal"}},
-	}}
-}
-
-func TestTwoProvidersOnOneNodeAreRefusedWithBothNamed(t *testing.T) {
-	// The refusal must name the pair, because a node alone cannot tell them apart.
-	_, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy"}, reachable(),
-		World{Offered: twoIssuersOnOneNode()})
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("two providers on one node were resolved by picking")
-	}
-	for _, want := range []string{"novox/public-acme", "novox/step-ca", "<node> <module>"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
-			t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say %q: %v", want, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAPinNamesTheModule(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy"}, reachable(),
-		World{Offered: twoIssuersOnOneNode(),
-			Pinned: map[string]Chosen{"acme-ca": {Node: "novox", Module: "public-acme"}}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(got.Needs) != 1 || got.Needs[0].From != "novox" || got.Needs[0].Serves["at"] != "acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org" {
-		t.Fatalf("the named module was not the one taken: %+v", got.Needs)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestARecordNamingOnlyTheNodeIsRefusedWhenThatNodeAnswersTwice(t *testing.T) {
-	// A pin from before the module was asked for. It once took the last one listed — a coin flip.
-	_, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy"}, reachable(),
-		World{Offered: twoIssuersOnOneNode(), Pinned: map[string]Chosen{"acme-ca": {Node: "novox"}}})
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a node that answers twice was resolved by picking")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "provides it 2 times") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "pin workstation acme-ca novox <module>") {
-		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not ask for the module: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAPinNamingAModuleThatDoesNotProvideItIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy"}, reachable(),
-		World{Offered: twoIssuersOnOneNode(), Pinned: map[string]Chosen{"acme-ca": {Node: "novox", Module: "gitea"}}})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "novox/gitea does not provide it") {
-		t.Fatalf("a module that does not provide it was not refused by name: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTwoProvidersBesideTheConsumerAreRefusedUntilOneIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
-	// The same ambiguity on the consumer's own machine. This was settled by a map walk — random,
-	// per plan — which is how novox's own proxy got its issuer.
-	_, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy", "public-acme", "step-ca"}, reachable(), World{})
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("two providers beside the consumer were resolved by picking")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "workstation provides \"acme-ca\" 2 times") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "public-acme, step-ca") {
-		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not list them: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAPinSettlesTwoProvidersBesideTheConsumer(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy", "public-acme", "step-ca"}, reachable(),
-		World{Pinned: map[string]Chosen{"acme-ca": {Node: "workstation", Module: "public-acme"}}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var found bool
-	for _, n := range got.Needs {
-		if n.Name == "acme-ca" {
-			found = true
-			if n.Serves["at"] != "acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org" {
-				t.Fatalf("the named module was not the one taken: %+v", n)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if !found {
-		t.Fatalf("no need for acme-ca was created: %+v", got.Needs)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTheFirstPassDoesNotRefuseTwoProvidersBesideTheConsumer(t *testing.T) {
-	// The first pass answers only what a node offers. Refused there, the node vanishes from every
-	// other node's world — and the whole mesh loses its vault for an ambiguity one machine has to
-	// settle. The second pass is where it is refused, and the test above proves it is.
-	if _, err := Resolve(issuerShelf(), []string{"route-proxy", "public-acme", "step-ca"}, reachable(),
-		World{Unchecked: true}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the first pass refused what only the second may: %v", err)
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/placed_paths_test.go

@@ -1,180 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"reflect"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// TestPlacedDirectoriesKeepTheirPaths is the check novox/hq issue 119 asks for before a definition
-// stops naming where its data lives: a converted manifest, resolved on a node with the default root,
-// names exactly the paths the manifest before it named. Data that a service is using must not move
-// because a definition stopped saying where it was.
-//
-// Two checkouts: MESH_CATALOGUE_BEFORE, the catalogue as it was, and MESH_CATALOGUE, as it is now.
-// Every module in both is resolved with the controller's own rule (dirsFor, dirFill) and compared
-// whole — not only the directories, but every string a directory's id was written into. Both
-// sides are resolved, so a manifest converted in two steps (issue 119, then issue 174) is judged
-// against the paths it named, not the text it used to name them with.
-func TestPlacedDirectoriesKeepTheirPaths(t *testing.T) {
-	before, after := os.Getenv("MESH_CATALOGUE_BEFORE"), os.Getenv("MESH_CATALOGUE")
-	if before == "" || after == "" {
-		t.Skip("set MESH_CATALOGUE_BEFORE and MESH_CATALOGUE to two catalogue checkouts to run this")
-	}
-	found, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(after, "modules", "*", "module.json"))
-	compared := 0
-	for _, path := range found {
-		module := filepath.Base(filepath.Dir(path))
-		old, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(before, "modules", module, "module.json"))
-		if err != nil {
-			continue // new since; nothing to keep
-		}
-		now, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if string(old) == string(now) {
-			continue
-		}
-		m, err := ParseManifest(now)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v", module, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		earlier, err := ParseManifest(old)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s before: %v", module, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		var was, is any
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(old, &was); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(now, &is); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		// Both sides resolved: the manifest before may itself already place some directories
-		// (issue 119's conversion), and what must not move is the path a machine sees.
-		was = resolvedTree(was, dirsFor(earlier, Rendering{}), module, t)
-		resolved := resolvedTree(is, dirsFor(m, Rendering{}), module, t)
-		// An access named by id resolves to the path the definition still carries as its default
-		// (issue 153) — the same rule as a placed directory: an assignment that says nothing moves
-		// nothing.
-		was = accessesResolved(was, earlier)
-		resolved = accessesResolved(resolved, m)
-		if !reflect.DeepEqual(was, resolved) {
-			wasJSON, _ := json.MarshalIndent(was, "", "  ")
-			isJSON, _ := json.MarshalIndent(resolved, "", "  ")
-			t.Errorf("%s: resolved on the default root, the converted manifest is not the one before it\n--- before\n%s\n--- resolved now\n%s",
-				module, firstDifference(string(wasJSON), string(isJSON)), "")
-		}
-		compared++
-	}
-	t.Logf("%d converted manifest(s) resolve to the paths they named before", compared)
-}
-
-// resolvedTree is the manifest as a machine would see it: every ${dir:…} filled, a pathless
-// directory given the path it resolves to, and the placement word removed.
-func resolvedTree(node any, dirs map[string]string, module string, t *testing.T) any {
-	switch v := node.(type) {
-	case map[string]any:
-		out := map[string]any{}
-		for k, child := range v {
-			if k == "place" {
-				continue
-			}
-			out[k] = resolvedTree(child, dirs, module, t)
-		}
-		if out["type"] == "directory" {
-			if _, has := out["path"]; !has {
-				if id, ok := out["id"].(string); ok {
-					out["path"] = dirs[id]
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		return out
-	case []any:
-		out := make([]any, len(v))
-		for i, child := range v {
-			out[i] = resolvedTree(child, dirs, module, t)
-		}
-		return out
-	case string:
-		filled, err := dirFill(v, dirs, module)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Error(err)
-		}
-		return filled
-	}
-	return node
-}
-
-func firstDifference(a, b string) string {
-	al, bl := strings.Split(a, "\n"), strings.Split(b, "\n")
-	for i := range al {
-		if i >= len(bl) || al[i] != bl[i] {
-			from := i - 2
-			if from < 0 {
-				from = 0
-			}
-			to := i + 3
-			if to > len(al) {
-				to = len(al)
-			}
-			bt := i + 3
-			if bt > len(bl) {
-				bt = len(bl)
-			}
-			return "before:\n" + strings.Join(al[from:to], "\n") + "\nnow:\n" + strings.Join(bl[from:bt], "\n")
-		}
-	}
-	return "(the difference is beyond the shorter document)"
-}
-
-// accessesResolved fills every ${access:<id>} with the default path the definition carries for that
-// access, and drops the id, so a manifest that names its accesses is compared by the paths a machine
-// with no placement receives.
-func accessesResolved(node any, m Manifest) any {
-	defaults := map[string]string{}
-	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		if a.ID != "" && a.Path != "" {
-			defaults[a.ID] = a.Path
-		}
-	}
-	var walk func(any) any
-	walk = func(n any) any {
-		switch v := n.(type) {
-		case map[string]any:
-			out := map[string]any{}
-			for k, child := range v {
-				if k == "id" {
-					if _, isAccess := v["mode"]; isAccess && v["type"] == nil {
-						if _, hasPath := v["path"]; hasPath {
-							continue
-						}
-					}
-				}
-				out[k] = walk(child)
-			}
-			return out
-		case []any:
-			out := make([]any, len(v))
-			for i, child := range v {
-				out[i] = walk(child)
-			}
-			return out
-		case string:
-			return accessRef.ReplaceAllStringFunc(v, func(ref string) string {
-				if p, ok := defaults[accessRef.FindStringSubmatch(ref)[1]]; ok {
-					return p
-				}
-				return ref
-			})
-		}
-		return n
-	}
-	return walk(node)
-}

internal/catalogue/placement.go

@@ -1,382 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"regexp"
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// Where a module's data is on THIS machine is the assignment's (novox/hq ADR 0112, issue 153).
-//
-// A definition names no host path. It declares the directories it owns by id, and the operator's
-// shared data it needs by id too (an `access`, ADR 0051). A node has a default layout for the
-// former — <root>/<module>/<id> — and nothing at all for the latter, because shared data is
-// wherever the operator keeps it. An adopted machine keeps its data where the predecessor put it:
-// a 40 TB library on its own pool, a configuration on a second disk. Both halves are said on the
-// assignment, validated the way `endpoints` is — an id the module does not declare is refused,
-// because a setting that reaches nothing is a mistake — and resolved here, so the host receives
-// concrete paths exactly as it always has and learns no field.
-//
-//	{"places":   {"config": "/services/sonarr/config",
-//	              "data":   {"path": "/mnt/plex/data", "owner": "1000:1000"}},
-//	 "accesses": {"series": "/storage/media/series",
-//	              "downloads": "/storage/downloads"}}
-//
-// A placed directory is still the mesh's: created, chowned to the owner the assignment says (or
-// the manifest's), removed when empty and no longer declared. A placed access is still the
-// operator's: mounted, never created, chowned or removed.
-
-// PlacesSetting is the settings key that places a module's declared directories, by id.
-const PlacesSetting = "places"
-
-// AccessesSetting is the settings key that says where a module's accesses are on this node, by id.
-const AccessesSetting = "accesses"
-
-// Placement is what an assignment says about one of a module's directories.
-type Placement struct {
-	// Path is where the directory is on this machine. Absolute.
-	Path string
-	// Owner is "uid:gid" when the assignment overrides the manifest's — the predecessor's data is
-	// owned by whoever it ran as, and that is one machine's fact.
-	Owner string
-}
-
-var ownerShape = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9]+:[0-9]+$`)
-
-// accessRef is how a module names one of its accesses: ${access:<id>}.
-var accessRef = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{access:([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\}`)
-
-// Places reads where this node places the module's directories, by directory id.
-//
-// It refuses an id the module declares no directory for, a path that is not absolute, and an
-// owner that is not uid:gid. A directory the assignment does not mention keeps the manifest's
-// stated path or the node's default layout.
-func Places(m Manifest, layers []Layer) (map[string]Placement, error) {
-	declared := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) == "directory" {
-			declared[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = true
-		}
-	}
-	out := map[string]Placement{}
-	for _, layer := range layers {
-		raw, ok := layer.Values[PlacesSetting]
-		if !ok {
-			continue
-		}
-		blocks, ok := raw.(map[string]any)
-		if !ok {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %s is a { directory: path | { path, owner } } map, and %q set it to something else",
-				m.Module, PlacesSetting, layer.From)
-		}
-		for id, body := range blocks {
-			if !declared[id] {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"%s places the directory %q, which it does not declare — the setting reaches "+
-						"nothing. It declares %s", m.Module, id, orNothing(namesOfDirs(directoriesOf(m))))
-			}
-			p := out[id]
-			switch v := body.(type) {
-			case string:
-				p.Path = strings.TrimSpace(v)
-			case map[string]any:
-				if path, said := v["path"]; said {
-					text, _ := path.(string)
-					p.Path = strings.TrimSpace(text)
-				}
-				if owner, said := v["owner"]; said {
-					text, _ := owner.(string)
-					if !ownerShape.MatchString(strings.TrimSpace(text)) {
-						return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s places %q with owner %v; an owner is uid:gid, numeric",
-							m.Module, id, owner)
-					}
-					p.Owner = strings.TrimSpace(text)
-				}
-			default:
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s places %q with %v; a placement is a path, or { path, owner }",
-					m.Module, id, body)
-			}
-			if p.Path == "" {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s places %q without a path", m.Module, id)
-			}
-			if !strings.HasPrefix(p.Path, "/") {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s places %q at %q, which is not an absolute path", m.Module, id, p.Path)
-			}
-			p.Path = strings.TrimRight(p.Path, "/")
-			out[id] = p
-		}
-	}
-	if len(out) == 0 {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// AccessPlaces reads where this node keeps the operator's data the module accesses, by access id.
-//
-// It refuses an id the module declares no access under, and a path that is not absolute. An
-// access declared by path alone cannot be placed — it has no name to place it by.
-func AccessPlaces(m Manifest, layers []Layer) (map[string]string, error) {
-	declared := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		if a.ID != "" {
-			declared[a.ID] = true
-		}
-	}
-	out := map[string]string{}
-	for _, layer := range layers {
-		raw, ok := layer.Values[AccessesSetting]
-		if !ok {
-			continue
-		}
-		blocks, ok := raw.(map[string]any)
-		if !ok {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %s is a { access: path } map, and %q set it to something else",
-				m.Module, AccessesSetting, layer.From)
-		}
-		for id, body := range blocks {
-			if !declared[id] {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"%s places the access %q, which it does not declare — the setting reaches "+
-						"nothing. It declares %s", m.Module, id, orNothing(namesOfAccesses(m)))
-			}
-			path, _ := body.(string)
-			path = strings.TrimSpace(path)
-			if !strings.HasPrefix(path, "/") {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s places the access %q at %v, which is not an absolute path",
-					m.Module, id, body)
-			}
-			out[id] = strings.TrimRight(path, "/")
-		}
-	}
-	if len(out) == 0 {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// placedAccess is one access with the path it resolves to on this node.
-type placedAccess struct {
-	ID   string
-	Path string
-	Mode string
-}
-
-// accessesFor is every access of a module with its path on this node: the assignment's where it
-// placed one, the definition's where it carries a default, and refused where neither says — an
-// access that resolves to nowhere would reach the machine as a mount of nothing.
-func accessesFor(m Manifest, layers []Layer) ([]placedAccess, map[string]string, error) {
-	placed, err := AccessPlaces(m, layers)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, err
-	}
-	var out []placedAccess
-	byID := map[string]string{}
-	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		path := a.Path
-		if a.ID != "" {
-			if at, said := placed[a.ID]; said {
-				path = at
-			}
-		}
-		if path == "" {
-			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"%s accesses %q, and nothing says where that is on this node — the definition "+
-					"carries no path (it must not, novox/hq ADR 0112) and the assignment places "+
-					"none. Set %s: {%q: \"/where/it/is\"}",
-				m.Module, a.ID, AccessesSetting, a.ID)
-		}
-		out = append(out, placedAccess{ID: a.ID, Path: path, Mode: a.At()})
-		if a.ID != "" {
-			byID[a.ID] = path
-		}
-	}
-	return out, byID, nil
-}
-
-// accessFill resolves every ${access:…} in one string, or refuses a reference naming no access.
-func accessFill(s string, accesses map[string]string, module string) (string, error) {
-	var missing error
-	out := accessRef.ReplaceAllStringFunc(s, func(ref string) string {
-		id := accessRef.FindStringSubmatch(ref)[1]
-		path, has := accesses[id]
-		if !has {
-			missing = fmt.Errorf(
-				"%s says ${access:%s}, and %s declares no access %q. It declares %s",
-				module, id, module, id, orNothing(namesOfAccessIDs(accesses)))
-			return ref
-		}
-		return path
-	})
-	return out, missing
-}
-
-// accessInto fills every ${access:…} a resource carries — in its path, its content, its mounts,
-// its environment and its env-files — with the path this node resolved for it. The same walk as
-// dirInto, for the same reason: a literal `${access:x}` reaching the machine would be mounted as
-// a directory called that.
-func accessInto(resource map[string]any, accesses map[string]string, module string) error {
-	if !mentionsAccess(resource) {
-		return nil
-	}
-	fill := func(s string) (string, error) { return accessFill(s, accesses, module) }
-	var err error
-	if path, ok := resource["path"].(string); ok {
-		if resource["path"], err = fill(path); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	if content, ok := resource["content"].(string); ok {
-		if resource["content"], err = fill(content); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	for _, field := range []string{"volumes", "env-file"} {
-		list, ok := resource[field].([]any)
-		if !ok {
-			continue
-		}
-		filled := make([]any, len(list))
-		for i, v := range list {
-			filled[i] = v
-			if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-				if filled[i], err = fill(s); err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		resource[field] = filled
-	}
-	if env, ok := resource["env"].(map[string]any); ok {
-		filled := make(map[string]any, len(env))
-		for key, v := range env {
-			filled[key] = v
-			if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-				if filled[key], err = fill(s); err != nil {
-					return err
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		resource["env"] = filled
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func mentionsAccess(resource map[string]any) bool {
-	for _, field := range []string{"path", "content"} {
-		if s, ok := resource[field].(string); ok && accessRef.MatchString(s) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	for _, field := range []string{"volumes", "env-file"} {
-		if list, ok := resource[field].([]any); ok {
-			for _, v := range list {
-				if s, ok := v.(string); ok && accessRef.MatchString(s) {
-					return true
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if env, ok := resource["env"].(map[string]any); ok {
-		for _, v := range env {
-			if s, ok := v.(string); ok && accessRef.MatchString(s) {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// ownerInto gives a placed directory the owner the assignment said, where it said one. The
-// manifest's owner is what the image expects on any machine; the assignment's is what this
-// machine's data already is.
-func ownerInto(resource map[string]any, placed map[string]Placement) {
-	if fmt.Sprint(resource["type"]) != "directory" {
-		return
-	}
-	if p, ok := placed[fmt.Sprint(resource["id"])]; ok && p.Owner != "" {
-		resource["owner"] = p.Owner
-	}
-}
-
-// unknownAccessRefs is every ${access:…} in the definition that names no access the definition
-// declares by id — refused where the author is, as unknownDirRefs does for directories.
-func (m Manifest) unknownAccessRefs() []string {
-	declared := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		if a.ID != "" {
-			declared[a.ID] = true
-		}
-	}
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	var problems []string
-	refuse := func(s string, where any) {
-		for _, match := range accessRef.FindAllStringSubmatch(s, -1) {
-			id := match[1]
-			if declared[id] || seen[id] {
-				continue
-			}
-			seen[id] = true
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s says ${access:%s} in %v, and declares no access %q — a reference the mesh "+
-					"cannot place would reach the machine as a literal path",
-				m.Module, id, where, id))
-		}
-	}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		for _, field := range []string{"path", "content"} {
-			if s, ok := r[field].(string); ok {
-				refuse(s, r["id"])
-			}
-		}
-		for _, field := range []string{"volumes", "env-file"} {
-			if list, ok := r[field].([]any); ok {
-				for _, v := range list {
-					if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-						refuse(s, r["id"])
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		if env, ok := r["env"].(map[string]any); ok {
-			for _, v := range env {
-				if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-					refuse(s, r["id"])
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(problems)
-	return problems
-}
-
-func directoriesOf(m Manifest) map[string]string {
-	dirs := map[string]string{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) == "directory" {
-			dirs[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = ""
-		}
-	}
-	return dirs
-}
-
-func namesOfAccesses(m Manifest) []string {
-	var names []string
-	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		if a.ID != "" {
-			names = append(names, fmt.Sprintf("%q", a.ID))
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	return names
-}
-
-func namesOfAccessIDs(accesses map[string]string) []string {
-	var names []string
-	for id := range accesses {
-		names = append(names, fmt.Sprintf("%q", id))
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	return names
-}

internal/catalogue/placement_test.go

@@ -1,172 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// The case novox/hq issue 153 records: an adopted machine keeps its data where the predecessor put
-// it — a library on its own pool that must never move, a configuration on a second disk owned by
-// whoever the predecessor ran as. A definition may name none of that (ADR 0112); the assignment
-// says it, by the ids the definition declared, and the machine receives concrete paths as always.
-func placeable() Manifest {
-	m := mod("arr", nil, nil, nil)
-	m.Resources = []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "state", "type": "directory", "place": ".", "mode": "0700"},
-		{"id": "config", "type": "directory", "mode": "0755", "owner": "1000:1000"},
-		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "arr", "image": "arr:1",
-			"volumes": []any{"${dir:config}:/config", "${access:series}:/series", "${access:spool}:/downloads:ro"},
-			"env":     map[string]any{"SPOOL": "${access:spool}"}},
-	}
-	m.Accesses = []Access{{ID: "series", Mode: AccessReadWrite}, {ID: "spool"}}
-	return m
-}
-
-func placedBy(values map[string]any) Rendering {
-	return Rendering{Settings: SettingsBy{"arr": {{From: "node anchor", Values: values}}}}
-}
-
-func TestAnAssignmentPlacesDirectoriesAndAccesses(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := Resolve(shelf(placeable()), []string{"arr"}, workstation(), World{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	out, err := got.Declaration(placedBy(map[string]any{
-		PlacesSetting: map[string]any{
-			"config": map[string]any{"path": "/services/arr/config/", "owner": "1001:2000"},
-		},
-		AccessesSetting: map[string]any{
-			"series": "/storage/media/series",
-			"spool":  "/storage/downloads",
-		},
-	}))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	seen := map[string]map[string]any{}
-	for _, r := range out {
-		seen[r["id"].(string)] = r
-	}
-	config := seen["arr.config"]
-	if config["path"] != "/services/arr/config" || config["owner"] != "1001:2000" {
-		t.Fatalf("the placed directory is %v %v; want the assignment's path and owner", config["path"], config["owner"])
-	}
-	if seen["arr.state"]["path"] != "/var/lib/arr" {
-		t.Fatalf("an unplaced directory left the default layout: %v", seen["arr.state"]["path"])
-	}
-	var accesses []string
-	for _, r := range out {
-		if r["type"] == "access" {
-			accesses = append(accesses, r["path"].(string)+" "+r["mode"].(string))
-		}
-	}
-	if strings.Join(accesses, ",") != "/storage/media/series read-write,/storage/downloads read" {
-		t.Fatalf("the accesses reached the machine as %v", accesses)
-	}
-	server := seen["arr.server"]
-	mounts := server["volumes"].([]any)
-	if mounts[0] != "/services/arr/config:/config" || mounts[1] != "/storage/media/series:/series" ||
-		mounts[2] != "/storage/downloads:/downloads:ro" {
-		t.Fatalf("the mounts were not filled with the placed paths: %v", mounts)
-	}
-	if server["env"].(map[string]any)["SPOOL"] != "/storage/downloads" {
-		t.Fatalf("the environment was not filled: %v", server["env"])
-	}
-}
-
-// An access declared by id and placed by nobody resolves to nowhere, and that is refused with the
-// setting to write — not mounted as the literal, not skipped.
-func TestAnUnplacedAccessIsRefusedByName(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := Resolve(shelf(placeable()), []string{"arr"}, workstation(), World{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	_, err = got.Declaration(placedBy(map[string]any{
-		AccessesSetting: map[string]any{"series": "/storage/media/series"},
-	}))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `"spool"`) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), AccessesSetting) {
-		t.Fatalf("an access nobody placed was not refused by name: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// Validated like endpoints: an id the module does not declare reaches nothing, and the refusal
-// says what it does declare; a relative path and a non-numeric owner are refused too.
-func TestPlacementsAreValidated(t *testing.T) {
-	m := placeable()
-	layers := func(values map[string]any) []Layer { return placedBy(values).Settings["arr"] }
-
-	_, err := Places(m, layers(map[string]any{PlacesSetting: map[string]any{"data": "/mnt/data"}}))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not declare") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `"config"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("placing an undeclared directory was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	_, err = Places(m, layers(map[string]any{PlacesSetting: map[string]any{"config": "services/arr"}}))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "absolute") {
-		t.Fatalf("a relative placement was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	_, err = Places(m, layers(map[string]any{PlacesSetting: map[string]any{
-		"config": map[string]any{"path": "/services/arr", "owner": "media"}}}))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "uid:gid") {
-		t.Fatalf("a non-numeric owner was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	_, err = AccessPlaces(m, layers(map[string]any{AccessesSetting: map[string]any{"movies": "/storage/media/movies"}}))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not declare") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `"series"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("placing an undeclared access was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	_, err = AccessPlaces(m, layers(map[string]any{AccessesSetting: map[string]any{"series": "media/series"}}))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "absolute") {
-		t.Fatalf("a relative access was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	// And the two keys are never stray: they are validated here, not merged into a file.
-	if stray := UnusedSettings(m, layers(map[string]any{
-		PlacesSetting:   map[string]any{"config": "/services/arr/config"},
-		AccessesSetting: map[string]any{"series": "/storage/media/series"},
-	})); len(stray) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the placement keys were reported as unused: %v", stray)
-	}
-}
-
-// A definition that carries a path still works, as the default the assignment may replace — and
-// the assignment's placement wins where both say.
-func TestADefinitionsPathIsTheDefaultTheAssignmentReplaces(t *testing.T) {
-	m := placeable()
-	m.Accesses = []Access{{ID: "series", Path: "/services/media/series", Mode: AccessReadWrite}, {ID: "spool", Path: "/services/media/downloads"}}
-	got, err := Resolve(shelf(m), []string{"arr"}, workstation(), World{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	out, err := got.Declaration(placedBy(map[string]any{
-		PlacesSetting:   map[string]any{"config": "/services/arr/config"},
-		AccessesSetting: map[string]any{"series": "/storage/media/series"},
-	}))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var paths []string
-	for _, r := range out {
-		if r["type"] == "access" {
-			paths = append(paths, r["path"].(string))
-		}
-	}
-	if strings.Join(paths, ",") != "/storage/media/series,/services/media/downloads" {
-		t.Fatalf("placed one, defaulted the other: got %v", paths)
-	}
-}
-
-// A reference to an access the definition does not declare is refused where the author is.
-func TestAnUnknownAccessReferenceIsRefusedAtParse(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{
-	  "module": "arr", "version": "1",
-	  "accesses": [{"id": "series", "mode": "read-write"}],
-	  "resources": [
-	    {"id": "state", "type": "directory", "place": ".", "mode": "0700"},
-	    {"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "arr", "image": "arr:1",
-	     "volumes": ["${access:movies}:/movies"]}
-	  ]}`))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "${access:movies}") {
-		t.Fatalf("a reference to an undeclared access was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-	_, err = ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module": "arr", "version": "1", "accesses": [{"mode": "read"}]}`))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "neither an id nor a path") {
-		t.Fatalf("an access with no id and no path was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/port_into.go

@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ func portInto(resource map[string]any, module string, listens []Listening, with
 
 		// **A fresh map, and only when something changes.** This map came out of the module's
 		// manifest and the resource around it is a shallow copy, so filling a value in place would
-		// change what the catalogue holds for every other machine running the module.
+		// change what the catalogue holds for every other machine running the module — the trap
+		// withMeshNames is written to avoid, one field along.
 		var filled map[string]any
 		for _, key := range named {
 			written, ok := env[key].(string)

internal/catalogue/resolve.go

@@ -48,12 +48,11 @@ type World struct {
 	Holdings []Held
 	// Offered is what other nodes provide at mesh scope, and everything needed to use it.
 	Offered map[string][]Provider
-	// Pinned is which provider this machine was told to get a provision from, by name: a module and
-	// the node it runs on, both (novox/hq #258). Only consulted when more than one could answer -- a
-	// choice recorded before it was needed should not start meaning something the day a second
-	// provider appears, and one recorded and then made unnecessary should not quietly stop applying
-	// either.
-	Pinned map[string]Chosen
+	// Pinned is which node this machine was told to get a provision from, by name. Only consulted
+	// when more than one node could answer -- a choice recorded before it was needed should not
+	// start meaning something the day a second provider appears, and one recorded and then made
+	// unnecessary should not quietly stop applying either.
+	Pinned map[string]string
 	// Licences is every provision answered by a **record rather than a node**, by provision name.
 	//
 	// novox/hq ADR 0024: a hosted model is on nobody's machine and is reached over the public
@@ -180,10 +179,6 @@ type Needed struct {
 	// for one requirement (ADR 0094); empty for the ordinary one. Part of what identifies the pair
 	// credential, so two secrets from one provider to one module are two secrets.
 	Local string
-	// SharedOwn is set when the provision's credential is one of the provider's own secrets, shared
-	// by every consumer (novox/hq ADR 0158): the name of that secret in the provider's definition.
-	// The plan mints the pair's copy from the provider's value rather than a value of its own.
-	SharedOwn string
 	// Manager is set when this holder is a refreshable-grant licence's MANAGER, delivered the refresh
 	// token rather than an access token (novox/hq ADR 0050). It changes one thing downstream: an empty
 	// Sealed is tolerated — the manager has not adopted a refresh token yet, which is a real waiting
@@ -261,10 +256,6 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 	// still "choose one" after somebody has chosen one. That makes the remedy useless, and it is
 	// how this read when first used.
 	satisfied := map[string]bool{}
-	// Which modules a person assigned here, hostable. The walk marks a module chosen only when it
-	// reaches it, and a consumer may be reached before the provider beside it — so the provider of
-	// something already satisfied is looked for among these as well as among the chosen.
-	assignedHere := map[string]bool{}
 
 	// Everything a person assigned goes in first, except what this machine cannot run. Those are
 	// choices already made, and a requirement one of them answers is not a choice to put back to
@@ -289,7 +280,6 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 			for _, o := range m.Offers() {
 				satisfied[o] = true
 			}
-			assignedHere[a] = true
 		}
 		because[a] = "assigned"
 		queue = append(queue, a)
@@ -317,51 +307,6 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 		// commonest arrangement of all — a service and its database on one node — the weakest
 		// handling, silently.
 		if satisfied[want] && !isModule(catalogue, want) {
-			here := func(name string) bool { return chosen[name] || assignedHere[name] }
-			local := providersHere(catalogue, here, want)
-			// Which of them it matters to choose between. A plain capability — a shell, a display
-			// server — asks nothing of whoever answers it, and three shells beside an editor are
-			// not a choice to put to anybody. One that grants a credential, or serves a fact the
-			// consumer cannot guess, becomes a binding, and a binding is to one provider.
-			matter := local
-			if !brokered[want] {
-				matter = nil
-				for _, name := range local {
-					if _, ok := catalogue[name].Serves[want]; ok {
-						matter = append(matter, name)
-					}
-				}
-			}
-			var by Manifest
-			switch len(matter) {
-			case 0:
-				// Nothing to bind to; satisfied by its presence, as it was.
-			case 1:
-				by = catalogue[matter[0]]
-			default:
-				// Two modules on this machine answer it. Taking whichever a map walk met first
-				// was the rule until novox/hq #258 — random, per plan — and the same stance as
-				// across machines applies: ambiguity is refused, never resolved by picking.
-				//
-				// **Not in the first pass.** That pass exists only to answer *what does this node
-				// offer*, and refusing there makes the machine vanish rather than report a problem
-				// (the sibling case below says why): every other node then loses what this one
-				// provides — the vault, the identity provider — and refuses for a fault that is
-				// this node's to settle. The second pass refuses it properly, where it is asked.
-				if world.Unchecked {
-					continue
-				}
-				c, pinned := world.Pinned[want]
-				if !pinned || c.Node != node.Name || !oneOf(matter, c.Module) {
-					reported[want] = true
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s provides %q %d times, wanted by %s — say which with `pin %s %s %s <module>`: %s",
-						node.Name, want, len(matter), because[want], node.Name, want, node.Name,
-						strings.Join(matter, ", ")))
-					continue
-				}
-				by = catalogue[c.Module]
-			}
 			if brokered[want] {
 				// Answered here, and still a need: the provider is this node.
 				//
@@ -377,9 +322,8 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 				}
 				needs = append(needs, Needed{
 					Name: want, From: node.Name, At: at,
-					Serves: servedByOne(by, want), For: because[want],
-					SharedOwn: sharedByOne(by, want)})
-			} else if served := servedByOne(by, want); len(served) > 0 {
+					Serves: servedHere(catalogue, chosen, want), For: because[want]})
+			} else if served := servedHere(catalogue, chosen, want); len(served) > 0 {
 				// Answered here with no credential to mint, but the provider serves facts the
 				// consumer cannot guess — a port, a model name — and so still needs a binding.
 				// **The reachability rule does not apply**: both ends are on this same machine, so
@@ -409,7 +353,11 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 		if brokered[want] {
 			reported[want] = true
 			where := world.Offered[want]
-			names := providerNames(where)
+			names := make([]string, 0, len(where))
+			for _, p := range where {
+				names = append(names, p.Node)
+			}
+			sort.Strings(names)
 			take := func(p Provider) {
 				if node.At != "" && p.At == "" || node.At == "" && p.At != "" || node.At == "" && p.At == "" {
 					// One of them is not on the private network, so there is no path between
@@ -421,12 +369,8 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 						node.Name, want, p.Node, meshNetwork))
 					return
 				}
-				shared := ""
-				if pm, known := catalogue[p.Module]; known {
-					shared, _ = pm.SharedCredentialOf(want)
-				}
 				needs = append(needs, Needed{Name: want, From: p.Node, At: p.At,
-					Serves: p.Serves, For: because[want], SharedOwn: shared})
+					Serves: p.Serves, For: because[want]})
 			}
 			switch {
 			case world.Unchecked:
@@ -443,17 +387,17 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 					"nothing in this mesh provides %q, wanted by %s %s",
 					want, because[want], remedy))
 			case len(where) == 1:
-				if c, pinned := world.Pinned[want]; pinned && !c.matches(where[0]) {
+				if chosenNode, pinned := world.Pinned[want]; pinned && chosenNode != where[0].Node {
 					// One provider, and it is not the one this machine was told to use. Silently
 					// using the other would be the mesh overruling a choice somebody made.
 					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 						"%s was told to get %q from %s, and only %s provides it",
-						node.Name, want, c, nameOf(where[0])))
+						node.Name, want, chosenNode, where[0].Node))
 					break
 				}
 				take(where[0])
 			default:
-				c, pinned := world.Pinned[want]
+				chosenNode, pinned := world.Pinned[want]
 				if !pinned {
 					// **The seat's holder answers, when a seat delivers this** (novox/hq ADR 0110).
 					// Not a guess, which ADR 0009 refuses: the choice was made once, mesh-wide, by
@@ -465,32 +409,27 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 						break
 					}
 					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%d providers of %q, wanted by %s — say which with `pin %s %s <node> <module>`: %s",
+						"%d nodes provide %q, wanted by %s — say which with `pin %s %s <node>`: %s",
 						len(where), want, because[want], node.Name, want,
 						strings.Join(names, ", ")))
 					break
 				}
-				matching := c.among(where)
-				switch len(matching) {
-				case 0:
-					// Pointed at a provider that does not answer this. Refused rather than
+				var chosen *Provider
+				for i, w := range where {
+					if w.Node == chosenNode {
+						chosen = &where[i]
+					}
+				}
+				if chosen == nil {
+					// Pointed at a machine that does not answer this. Refused rather than
 					// falling back to another: a fallback would quietly move somebody's data to
 					// a machine they did not choose, which is the whole reason this is asked.
 					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 						"%s was told to get %q from %s, and %s does not provide it — these do: %s",
-						node.Name, want, c, c, strings.Join(names, ", ")))
-				case 1:
-					take(matching[0])
-				default:
-					// A record naming only the node, from before a pin named the module, and that
-					// node answers twice. This once took the last one listed (novox/hq #258): a
-					// coin flip, handed to whoever reads the certificate it chose.
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s was told to get %q from %s, and %s provides it %d times — say which with "+
-							"`pin %s %s %s <module>`: %s",
-						node.Name, want, c, c.Node, len(matching), node.Name, want, c.Node,
-						strings.Join(providerNames(matching), ", ")))
+						node.Name, want, chosenNode, chosenNode, strings.Join(names, ", ")))
+					break
 				}
+				take(*chosen)
 			}
 			continue
 		}
@@ -649,6 +588,17 @@ func Resolve(catalogue map[string]Manifest, assigned []string, node Node, world
 // need that is never created is a binding the consumer never gets. It is right about that from the
 // manifest alone, which is why walking the catalogue mid-resolution is enough here and is not
 // enough for the values.
+func servedHere(catalogue map[string]Manifest, chosen map[string]bool, want string) map[string]any {
+	for name, m := range catalogue {
+		if !chosen[name] {
+			continue
+		}
+		if _, ok := m.Serves[want]; ok {
+			return ServedOn(m, want, nil)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
 
 // isModule reports whether a name is a module in its own right rather than only something
 // modules provide.
@@ -757,14 +707,9 @@ func checkClaims(modules []Manifest, node Node, elsewhere []Held, holdings []Hel
 			}
 			switch h.Scope {
 			case ScopeMesh:
-				// Both claim and nobody is on record, or this refusal could not have happened.
-				// The remedy is the handover that records the holder (novox/hq ADR 0131,
-				// 04-ISSUES/170), so it is named here rather than left to be found.
 				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s on %s claims %q, which %s on %s already holds — one per mesh. Nothing is "+
-						"on record for it; `seat %s --to %s/%s` records the holder, and the other "+
-						"assignment then stands beside it, eligible and silent",
-					h.Module, node.Name, h.Claim, e.Module, e.Node, h.Claim, e.Node, e.Module))
+					"%s on %s claims %q, which %s on %s already holds — one per mesh",
+					h.Module, node.Name, h.Claim, e.Module, e.Node))
 			case ScopeSite:
 				if node.Site != "" && node.Site == e.Site {
 					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
@@ -841,9 +786,6 @@ func checkResources(modules []Manifest) []string {
 	// which is what lets the stack in 04-ISSUES/036 co-resolve.
 	for _, m := range modules {
 		for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-			if a.Path == "" {
-				continue // placed by the assignment; nothing to compare at registration
-			}
 			switch other := ownedPath[a.Path]; other {
 			case "":
 				// Nobody owns it — the ordinary, correct case for shared data.

internal/catalogue/resolver_manifests_test.go

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func TestTheResolverForwardsToFixedUpstreamsAndNeverReadsResolvConf(t *testing.T
 	}
 	for _, want := range []string{
 		"\nno-resolv\n", "\nserver=1.1.1.1\n", "\nserver=8.8.8.8\n",
-		"\nlisten-address=127.0.0.1\n", "\nlisten-address=${machine:address}\n", "\nbind-dynamic\n",
+		"\nlisten-address=127.0.0.1\n", "\ninterface=mesh0\n", "\nbind-dynamic\n",
 		"\ndomain-needed\n", "\nbogus-priv\n",
 		"\nconf-file=" + m.Facts["node-zones"].Path + "\n",
 	} {
@@ -56,14 +56,6 @@ func TestTheResolverForwardsToFixedUpstreamsAndNeverReadsResolvConf(t *testing.T
 			t.Errorf("the resolver's configuration lacks %q:\n%s", strings.TrimSpace(want), config)
 		}
 	}
-	// By address and never by interface: dnsmasq admits a query by the interface it arrives on
-	// when told one, and a container's query to the private address arrives on the runtime's
-	// bridge — `interface=mesh0` dropped every such query, silently (novox/hq issue 110).
-	for _, line := range strings.Split(config, "\n") {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "interface=") {
-			t.Errorf("the resolver answers by interface, so a container's query on a bridge is dropped: %s", line)
-		}
-	}
 	// Not .53 or .54, which systemd-resolved holds; and not .55 any more, which was a convention
 	// beside the one every machine already followed — the predecessor's resolv.conf says .1.
 	for _, taken := range []string{"127.0.0.53", "127.0.0.54", "127.0.0.55"} {
@@ -145,39 +137,23 @@ func TestTheResolverAndWhatAsksItComposeOnOneMachine(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the daemon does not restart on its configuration and the machines file both: %v", service["restart-on"])
 	}
 
-	// The runtime's own file, written into (novox/hq ADR 0102) with the keys this module states:
-	// where containers resolve, and that a restart keeps them running — because the runtime reads
-	// `dns` only when it starts, and the one restart that needs is the operator's (issue 110).
+	// The runtime's own file, written into (novox/hq ADR 0102) with the one key this module states.
 	runtime := ids["dnsmasq.runtime-dns"]
 	if runtime == nil || runtime["path"] != "/etc/docker/daemon.json" || runtime["into"] != "json" {
 		t.Fatalf("the runtime's dns is not written into its file: %v", runtime)
 	}
-	var keys map[string]any
+	var keys map[string][]string
 	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(runtime["content"].(string)), &keys); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the runtime's keys are not JSON: %v", err)
 	}
-	dns, _ := keys["dns"].([]any)
-	if len(keys) != 2 || len(dns) != 1 || dns[0] != "10.42.0.1" || keys["live-restore"] != true {
-		t.Errorf("the runtime is given %v; containers resolve at this machine's own private-network address, a restart keeps them, and nothing else is written", keys)
+	if len(keys) != 1 || len(keys["dns"]) != 1 || keys["dns"][0] != "10.42.0.1" {
+		t.Errorf("the runtime is pointed at %v; containers resolve at this machine's own private-network address, and nothing else is written", keys)
 	}
-	// The runtime is reloaded when that file changes, and never restarted: a restart stops every
-	// container on the machine (ADR 0102), and a reload is what turns live-restore on.
-	var reloaded bool
 	for _, r := range out {
-		if r["type"] != "service" || r["unit"] != "docker.service" {
-			continue
+		if r["type"] == "service" && r["unit"] == "docker.service" && r["id"] != "" &&
+			strings.HasPrefix(r["id"].(string), "dnsmasq.") {
+			t.Errorf("the resolver orders the runtime restarted or reloaded, which stops every container (ADR 0102) or does nothing for dns: %v", r)
 		}
-		if _, restarts := r["restart-on"]; restarts {
-			t.Errorf("the resolver orders the runtime restarted, which stops every container (ADR 0102): %v", r)
-		}
-		for _, on := range asStrings(r["reload-on"]) {
-			if on == "dnsmasq.runtime-dns" {
-				reloaded = true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if !reloaded {
-		t.Errorf("the runtime is not reloaded when its file changes, so live-restore never takes effect")
 	}
 
 	resolv := ids["resolv-conf.resolv"]

internal/catalogue/roster.go

@@ -162,13 +162,6 @@ func renderRoster(tmpl string, view rosterView) (string, error) {
 func entriesFrom(addresses, accounts map[string]string, suffix string) []rosterEntry {
 	out := make([]rosterEntry, 0, len(addresses))
 	for _, name := range sortedNames(addresses) {
-		if routed(name, suffix) {
-			// A routed name is already a full name under a public domain, and it has no mesh
-			// form: appending the suffix made `<name>.<suffix>`, which every machine's hosts file
-			// carried and nothing served (novox/hq issue 157). It is published as itself, once.
-			out = append(out, rosterEntry{Name: name, FQDN: name, Address: addresses[name], Account: accounts[name]})
-			continue
-		}
 		internal, bare := meshName(name, suffix)
 		// The account is looked up by whichever key the caller keys accounts on — the internal name
 		// or the bare one — so a template gets the right login however the maps were built.
@@ -194,14 +187,6 @@ func meshName(name, suffix string) (internal, bare string) {
 	return name + dotted, name
 }
 
-// routed says whether a name the mesh serves is a routed public name rather than a machine's: it
-// carries a domain of its own and not the mesh's suffix. A machine's name is bare (`homer`) or
-// internal (`homer.internal`); anything else with a dot in it was composed under a public domain.
-func routed(name, suffix string) bool {
-	dotted := "." + strings.TrimPrefix(suffixOr(suffix), ".")
-	return strings.Contains(name, ".") && !strings.HasSuffix(name, dotted)
-}
-
 // suffixOr is the suffix given, or the one the mesh composes names with when none was handed down.
 // The one place the default is written, so a fact and a name cannot disagree about it.
 func suffixOr(suffix string) string {

internal/catalogue/roster_test.go

@@ -258,24 +258,3 @@ func TestAHomeFactIsSkippedWhereThereIsNoAccount(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a home fact was placed on a machine with no operator account: %v", given)
 	}
 }
-
-// A routed name is already a full name under a public domain and has no mesh form. Appending the
-// suffix to it made `git.example.tld.internal` — carried by every machine's hosts file, served by
-// nothing, and refused by the proxy at the handshake (novox/hq issue 157). It is published as
-// itself, and only a machine has a bare name beside its full one.
-func TestARoutedNameIsPublishedAsItselfAndNotSuffixed(t *testing.T) {
-	names := map[string]string{"homer.internal": "10.42.0.1", "git.example.tld": "10.42.0.1"}
-	tmpl := RosterFile{Path: "/f", Template: "{{range .Names}}{{.FQDN}} {{.Name}}\n{{end}}"}
-	out, err := FactsInto(Manifest{Module: "a", Facts: map[string]RosterFile{"f": tmpl}},
-		Resolution{Node: "homer"}, names, map[string]string{"homer.internal": "10.42.0.1"}, nil, "internal")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	got := out[0]["content"].(string)
-	if strings.Contains(got, "tld.internal") {
-		t.Fatalf("the routed name was given a suffixed alias that nothing serves:\n%s", got)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "git.example.tld git.example.tld\n") || !strings.Contains(got, "homer.internal homer\n") {
-		t.Fatalf("the roster does not carry the routed name as itself beside the machine's two forms:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/routing_test.go

@@ -198,59 +198,37 @@ func TestTheApexLabelComposesToTheBarePrivateAddress(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// novox/hq ADR 0066 propagate, by ADR 0148's means: a granted route name is published into the
-// machine's roster mapped to the node that serves it, beside the `<node>.internal` names, and the
-// machine's resolver answers it to every container. Nothing is written into the container itself —
-// a routed name that moved would otherwise be wrong inside every container until each was recreated.
 func TestARoutedNameResolvesToTheServingNode(t *testing.T) {
-	names := map[string]string{
-		"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1",
-		"git.example.tld": "10.42.0.1",
-	}
+	// novox/hq ADR 0066 propagate: a granted route name is published into internal resolution,
+	// mapped to the node that serves it, alongside the `<node>.internal` names — so every
+	// container, and an in-mesh ACME validator, resolves a routed name to the proxy that serves it.
+	// The names map is what withMeshNames writes into every container as `--add-host`; a route name
+	// mapped to the serving node's address rides the same mechanism.
 	got := containersOf(t, Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module: "app",
 		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "web", "type": "container", "name": "web",
 			"image": "registry.example/web@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)}},
-	}}}, Rendering{Names: names})
+	}}}, Rendering{Names: map[string]string{
+		"anchor.internal": "10.42.0.1",
+		"git.example.tld": "10.42.0.1",
+	}})
 	if len(got) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("expected one container, got %d", len(got))
 	}
-	if given := namesOf(got[0]); len(given) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the routed name was copied into the container, where it would go stale: %v", given)
-	}
-	var sawRoute bool
-	for _, e := range entriesFrom(names, nil, "internal") {
-		if e.Name == "git.example.tld" && e.Address == "10.42.0.1" {
+	given := namesOf(got[0])
+	var sawNode, sawRoute bool
+	for _, h := range given {
+		if h == "anchor.internal:10.42.0.1" {
+			sawNode = true
+		}
+		if h == "git.example.tld:10.42.0.1" {
 			sawRoute = true
 		}
 	}
+	if !sawNode {
+		t.Fatalf("the container lost the mesh's node names: %v", given)
+	}
 	if !sawRoute {
-		t.Fatalf("the routed name is not in the roster the machine's resolver answers from")
-	}
-}
-
-// novox/hq issue 139, ADR 0151: `<label>.<node>.internal` is answered by every machine's resolver as
-// "anything under that node's name goes to that node", so the node in a route's internal name must
-// be the one whose proxy answers it. Composed under the consumer's own name, a route served from
-// another machine got an internal name that resolved to a machine with nothing listening, while the
-// public name — published at the serving node's address — worked.
-func TestARoutesInternalNameIsComposedUnderTheNodeThatServesIt(t *testing.T) {
-	hub := proxy()
-	hub.Provides = FromAnywhere("reverse-proxy")
-	got, err := Resolve(shelf(hub, labelled("board", "git", 8080)), []string{"board"},
-		withPrivateAddress("laptop.internal"), World{Offered: map[string][]Provider{
-			"reverse-proxy": {{Node: "anchor", At: "anchor.internal", Module: "traefik"}},
-		}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	// Gathered the way the control plane gathers a consumer's contribution for a provider on
-	// another machine.
-	values, asks, err := got.ContributionsFrom("reverse-proxy", "board", nil)
-	if err != nil || !asks {
-		t.Fatalf("the route was not contributed: %v %v", asks, err)
-	}
-	if values["internal-name"] != "git.anchor.internal" {
-		t.Fatalf("the internal name does not say where the request arrives: %v", values)
+		t.Fatalf("the routed name was not published to the serving node: %v", given)
 	}
 }

internal/catalogue/seats.go

@@ -37,9 +37,7 @@ type Seat struct {
 	// today — which the bus refuses, because a namespace belongs to who it is named for.
 	Accepts []string
 	Emits   []string
-	// Serves carries each verb in full — name, description, schema — because a role's tools are the
-	// mesh's to define and an agent's to call (novox/hq ADR 0132, design 33 §2).
-	Serves []Verb
+	Serves  []string
 	// Decision is the record that made it a seat.
 	Decision string
 }
@@ -53,37 +51,16 @@ var defaultSeats = []Seat{
 	// The control plane states what it did under the seat it holds (novox/hq ADR 0134): a role's
 	// events belong to the role, so they keep their address while the holder is replaced. No accepts,
 	// so no work queue is raised for it — only what its holder may say.
-	// And it serves the mesh's own verbs as the seat's tools (novox/hq ADR 0154): `status`, `push`,
-	// `assign` and the rest are a role's interface, not a container's, and stay addressable while
-	// the control plane is replaced.
-	{Name: ControllerSeatName, Scope: ScopeMesh, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079",
-		Emits:  []string{"applied", "refused", "built-before"},
-		Serves: ControllerVerbs},
-	// The store's first verbs (novox/hq ADR 0159): the smallest set that makes the store askable,
-	// served by whichever module holds the seat with tools of these names.
-	{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "postgres-database", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079",
-		Serves: []Verb{
-			{Name: "databases", Description: "Every database the store holds, with its on-disk size.",
-				Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
-			{Name: "query", Description: "One read-only statement against one database the store holds.",
-				Input: schema(map[string]string{"database": "the database to query", "sql": "the read-only statement"},
-					[]string{"database", "sql"})},
-		}},
+	{Name: "mesh-controller", Scope: ScopeMesh, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079",
+		Emits: []string{"applied", "refused", "built-before"}},
+	{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "postgres-database", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079"},
 	// **Delivers the mesh's own bus, not `amqp`.** Those were the same word until
 	// ADR 0127 separated them: `amqp` is a backing service a module may require, and this seat is
 	// the mesh's own transport. ADR 0128 then made that connection something a module requires
 	// rather than receives ambiently — 23 of the catalogue's modules never speak, and an ambient
 	// connection would mint a credential for each.
 	{Name: "mesh-broker", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "mesh-bus", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079"},
-	// The vault: the controller seals every minted credential with what it provides, which is the
-	// test for a seat of the mesh's own (novox/hq ADR 0161) — a second provider of `secret` is a
-	// second claimant, refused by name, rather than a candidate for a pin.
-	{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "secret", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0161"},
-	// Named for its scope since 2026-09-30 (novox/hq ADR 0156); `the-artifact-store` resolves to it as
-	// an alias on a mesh that predates the rename. It serves artifacts of every kind a build makes —
-	// images and archives, by digest — which is why the provision is the artifact store and not an
-	// image registry.
-	{Name: "mesh-artifact-store", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "artifact-store", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0075"},
+	{Name: "the-artifact-store", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "artifact-store", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0075"},
 	{Name: "mesh-catalog", Scope: ScopeMesh, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
 	// Deferred renames (novox/hq ADR 0121): these deliver a provision, so renaming them is a
 	// delivering-seat migration with a mesh-wide cascade if a holder stops resolving mid-flight.
@@ -93,11 +70,8 @@ var defaultSeats = []Seat{
 	// A build is work submitted to this role and its outcome is the role's own event (ADR 0129).
 	// One publish reaches whoever asked, the controller that records it, and the catalogue that
 	// places it in the graph — what the old bus's shared exchange did for free.
-	// A build says what it does as it does it (novox/hq ADR 0157): `started` when work is taken,
-	// `log.<build id>` for every line, `built` for the outcome. The log's tail token is the build's
-	// id, so a reader follows one build by subject alone.
 	{Name: "mesh-build-machine", Scope: ScopeMesh,
-		Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"started", "built", "log.*"}, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
+		Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"built"}, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
 	{Name: "node-dns-resolver", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
 	{Name: "node-intrusion-prevention", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
 	{Name: "node-packet-filter", Scope: ScopeNode, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0121"},
@@ -117,9 +91,8 @@ var defaultSeats = []Seat{
 // A system seat name is the control plane's namespace: `mesh-*` for a mesh-wide role, `node-*` for
 // a per-node one (novox/hq ADR 0121). A claim to a system name the mesh does not define is refused;
 // any other name is a module's own to define and claim. Some of the mesh's own seats predate this
-// convention and are not yet renamed (git, npm-package-registry, the-private-network) — those are
-// in the set, so they resolve by name, not by prefix. the-artifact-store was renamed on 2026-09-30
-// (novox/hq ADR 0156) and resolves through the alias table on a mesh that knew it.
+// convention and are not yet renamed (git, npm-package-registry, the-artifact-store,
+// the-private-network) — those are in the set, so they resolve by name, not by prefix.
 func isSystemSeatName(name string) bool {
 	return strings.HasPrefix(name, "mesh-") || strings.HasPrefix(name, "node-")
 }
@@ -296,22 +269,6 @@ func CanHold(m Manifest, seat Seat) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s claims %s, whose holder answers for %q, and %s does not provide %q at %s scope",
 			m.Module, seat.Name, seat.Delivers, m.Module, seat.Delivers, seat.Scope)
 	}
-	// **Serving the seat's tools is a condition of holding it** (novox/hq ADR 0132). A holder that
-	// does not answer what the role promises is every caller's timeout, found at registration and
-	// at handover instead, naming the verbs rather than the fact that something is missing.
-	if missing := unservedVerbs(claimed.ServesFor(m), seat.Serves); len(missing) > 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%s claims %s but does not serve %s, which that seat's protocol promises "+
-			"(novox/hq ADR 0132) — a holder names every verb its seat declares, under the claim's "+
-			"serves or among its own tools",
-			m.Module, seat.Name, strings.Join(missing, ", "))
-	}
-	// And nothing the seat does not promise: a verb named here that the protocol lacks is served
-	// to nobody, which is a typo the holder would otherwise discover as a caller's timeout.
-	if extra := unpromised(claimed.Serves, seat.Serves); len(extra) > 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%s claims %s and says it serves %s, which that seat's protocol does not "+
-			"promise — a claim's serves names the seat's verbs and nothing else",
-			m.Module, seat.Name, strings.Join(extra, ", "))
-	}
 	return nil
 }
 

internal/catalogue/seats_declared.go

@@ -38,9 +38,8 @@ type SeatDeclaration struct {
 	Accepts []string `json:"accepts,omitempty"`
 	// Emits are the verbs the holder publishes: 1:many, nobody obliged to act.
 	Emits []string `json:"emits,omitempty"`
-	// Serves are the verbs the holder answers: request and reply, awaited. A bare name, or the
-	// verb in full with its schema (novox/hq ADR 0132).
-	Serves []Verb `json:"serves,omitempty"`
+	// Serves are the verbs the holder answers: request and reply, awaited.
+	Serves []string `json:"serves,omitempty"`
 
 	// RetainSeconds is how long the inbound backlog survives with no holder, zero for the
 	// mesh's default. Retention belongs to whoever owns the namespace (design 29 §3) — a seat
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ func (s SeatDeclaration) At() string {
 func (s SeatDeclaration) verbs() []string {
 	out := append([]string{}, s.Accepts...)
 	out = append(out, s.Emits...)
-	return append(out, VerbNames(s.Serves)...)
+	return append(out, s.Serves...)
 }
 
 // declaredSeatProblems is what one manifest can be judged on alone.
@@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ func CatalogueProblems(shelf Shelf) []string {
 			}
 			// A holder that does not answer what the seat promises is a caller's timeout, found
 			// at assignment instead.
-			if missing := unserved(m, c, s); len(missing) > 0 {
+			if missing := unserved(m, s); len(missing) > 0 {
 				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 					"%s claims %s but does not serve %s, which that seat's protocol promises",
 					module, c.Name, strings.Join(missing, ", ")))
@@ -221,16 +220,16 @@ func CatalogueProblems(shelf Shelf) []string {
 
 // unserved is what a seat's protocol promises and the claimant does not answer. Only the tools
 // are checked: `accepts` and `emits` are wired by the runtime from the declaration, while a tool
-// is code the module either has or has not written — under the claim's serves, or among its own.
-func unserved(m Manifest, c Claim, s SeatDeclaration) []string {
+// is code the module either has or has not written.
+func unserved(m Manifest, s SeatDeclaration) []string {
 	has := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, t := range c.ServesFor(m) {
+	for _, t := range m.Tools {
 		has[t] = true
 	}
 	var missing []string
 	for _, t := range s.Serves {
-		if !has[t.Name] {
-			missing = append(missing, t.Name)
+		if !has[t] {
+			missing = append(missing, t)
 		}
 	}
 	return missing

internal/catalogue/seats_declared_test.go

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ func problemsFor(t *testing.T, shelf Shelf) string {
 func telegram() Manifest {
 	return Manifest{Module: "telegram", Tools: []string{"status"}, DefinesSeats: []SeatDeclaration{{
 		Name: "telegram-sender", Scope: ScopeMesh,
-		Accepts: []string{"send"}, Emits: []string{"delivered", "failed"}, Serves: []Verb{{Name: "status"}},
+		Accepts: []string{"send"}, Emits: []string{"delivered", "failed"}, Serves: []string{"status"},
 	}}, Claims: []Claim{{Name: "telegram-sender", Scope: ScopeMesh}}}
 }
 
@@ -70,22 +70,6 @@ func TestAHolderMustServeWhatItsSeatPromises(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// The claim may say what it serves for the role instead, when the module's own tools are not the
-// seat's verbs (ADR 0160).
-func TestAClaimMayNameWhatItServesForTheSeat(t *testing.T) {
-	m := telegram()
-	m.Tools = []string{"telegram_send"}
-	m.Claims = append([]Claim(nil), m.Claims...)
-	for i := range m.Claims {
-		if m.Claims[i].Name == "telegram-sender" {
-			m.Claims[i].Serves = []string{"status"}
-		}
-	}
-	if got := problemsFor(t, Shelf{"telegram": m}); strings.Contains(got, "does not serve") {
-		t.Fatalf("a claim naming the seat's verb was refused: %s", got)
-	}
-}
-
 // A seat with no protocol is a marker: which module is this node's showcase, or its packet filter.
 // Most node-scoped seats are markers, so refusing one would refuse the majority of the set.
 func TestASeatWithoutAProtocolIsAMarkerNotAMistake(t *testing.T) {

internal/catalogue/seats_test.go

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
 			delivered[s.Delivers] = s.Name
 		}
 	}
-	if len(Seats()) != 15 {
+	if len(Seats()) != 14 {
 		t.Errorf("the mesh defines %d seats rather than 14; the set is closed, so a change here is "+
 			"a decision (novox/hq ADR 0110): %s", len(Seats()), seatNames())
 	}
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ func TestAPinStillWinsOverTheSeat(t *testing.T) {
 	// A consumer coupled to one provider's contents has said so, and the seat does not overrule it.
 	got, err := Resolve(registryShelf(), []string{"builder"}, reachable(),
 		World{Offered: twoRegistries(), Held: giteaHoldsTheSeat(),
-			Pinned: map[string]Chosen{"npm-package-registry": {Node: "archive", Module: "verdaccio"}}})
+			Pinned: map[string]string{"npm-package-registry": "archive"}})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

internal/catalogue/secrets_in_environment_test.go

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ func aModuleWithAnEnvFileSecret(exception string) Manifest {
 	}
 	return Manifest{
 		Module: "app", Version: "1",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"token": {Path: "/var/lib/app/token.secret"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"token": "/var/lib/app/token.secret"},
 		Resources: []map[string]any{
 			{"id": "env", "type": "file", "path": "/var/lib/app/server.env", "mode": "0600",
 				"content": "APP_TOKEN=${secret:token}\n"},

internal/catalogue/secrets_into_files_test.go

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ func fileNamed(out []map[string]any, id string) map[string]any {
 func TestAFileGetsTheSecretItsContentAsksFor(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module:     "gitea",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"admin": {Path: "/var/lib/gitea/admin.env"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"admin": "/var/lib/gitea/admin.env"},
 		Resources: []map[string]any{{
 			"id": "conf", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/gitea/app.ini",
 			"content": "[security]\nSECRET_KEY = ${secret:admin}\n",
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func TestTwoConsumersOfOneProvisionEachGetTheirOwnInAPlaceholderFile(t *testing.
 func TestAFileNamingASecretTheModuleDoesNotHaveIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module:     "gitea",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"admin": {Path: "/var/lib/gitea/admin.env"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"admin": "/var/lib/gitea/admin.env"},
 		Resources: []map[string]any{{
 			"id": "conf", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/gitea/app.ini",
 			"content": "SECRET_KEY = ${secret:adnim}\n",
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ func TestAFileNamingASecretTheModuleDoesNotHaveIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 // One module may not read another's credential by guessing its name.
 func TestAFileCannotNameAnotherModulesSecret(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{
-		{Module: "postgres", OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"superuser": {Path: "/var/lib/postgres/su.env"}}},
+		{Module: "postgres", OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"superuser": "/var/lib/postgres/su.env"}},
 		{Module: "gitea", Resources: []map[string]any{{
 			"id": "conf", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/gitea/app.ini",
 			"content": "PASSWORD=${secret:superuser}\n",
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ func TestAFileCannotNameAnotherModulesSecret(t *testing.T) {
 func TestASettingThatCarriesAPlaceholderIsStillFilled(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Node: "workstation", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module:     "chat",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"api-token": {Path: "/home/operator/.config/chat/token"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"api-token": "/home/operator/.config/chat/token"},
 		Resources: []map[string]any{{
 			"id": "settings", "type": "file", "merge": "json",
 			"path": "/home/operator/.config/chat/settings.json", "content": "{}",
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ func TestANameMeaningTwoThingsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		Node: "anchor",
 		Modules: []Manifest{{
 			Module:     "thing",
-			OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"store": {Path: "/var/lib/thing/own.env"}},
+			OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"store": "/var/lib/thing/own.env"},
 			Secrets:    map[string]string{"store": "/var/lib/thing/granted.env"},
 		}},
 		Needs: []Needed{{Name: "store", From: "anchor", Sealed: "sealed-granted"}},
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ func TestANameMeaningTwoThingsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAFileWithNoPlaceholderIsLeftAlone(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{{
 		Module:     "gitea",
-		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"admin": {Path: "/var/lib/gitea/admin.env"}},
+		OwnSecrets: map[string]string{"admin": "/var/lib/gitea/admin.env"},
 		Resources: []map[string]any{{
 			"id": "conf", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/gitea/app.ini", "content": "RUN_MODE=prod\n",
 		}},

internal/catalogue/setting_into.go

@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"regexp"
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// An operator's value, where a definition needs one (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155, design 27).
-//
-// A mail server's domain, a site's name, the address a proxy forwards from: values that are true of
-// one installation and of no other, and that a module's software must be told. They had nowhere to
-// live but the definition, which is how a catalogue meant for any mesh came to name this one
-// (novox/hq issues 122, 134). ADR 0112 names the operator as one of the four providers; this is the
-// operator answering.
-//
-// `${setting:<key>}` in a file's content is filled from the module's settings layers — the mesh's,
-// then this node's — the same layers a mergeable JSON file and a contribution already take, so
-// `settings set <module>` is the one place a person's values go. **Refused when no layer sets it**,
-// naming the key and the remedy: a definition that carried a default for a mail domain would be
-// carrying the very literal this removes, and a blank written silently would be a service that
-// comes up wrong somewhere that names neither the module nor the key.
-
-// settingRef is how a definition asks for an operator's value: ${setting:<key>}.
-var settingRef = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{setting:([a-z0-9][a-z0-9_.-]*)\}`)
-
-// settingsUsed is every key a file's content asks for, once each, in order of first use.
-func settingsUsed(content string) []string {
-	var keys []string
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, m := range settingRef.FindAllStringSubmatch(content, -1) {
-		if !seen[m[1]] {
-			seen[m[1]] = true
-			keys = append(keys, m[1])
-		}
-	}
-	return keys
-}
-
-// settingInto fills a file's ${setting:…} placeholders from the layers over a module.
-//
-// The last layer setting a key wins, which is the node's over the mesh's — the same order settle
-// applies to a mergeable file. A value that is not a string is written the way a program would read
-// it (a number without a trailing .000000, a boolean as true/false).
-func settingInto(resource map[string]any, layers []Layer, module string) error {
-	if fmt.Sprint(resource["type"]) != "file" {
-		return nil
-	}
-	content, ok := resource["content"].(string)
-	if !ok {
-		return nil
-	}
-	for _, key := range settingsUsed(content) {
-		value, set := settingValue(layers, key)
-		if !set {
-			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"%s has a file that says ${setting:%s}, and nothing sets %q for it — an operator's "+
-					"value is the assignment's, never the definition's (novox/hq ADR 0112): "+
-					"`settings set %s <file>` with {%q: …}%s",
-				module, key, key, module, key, orNoSettings(layers))
-		}
-		content = strings.ReplaceAll(content, "${setting:"+key+"}", plainly(value))
-	}
-	resource["content"] = content
-	return nil
-}
-
-func settingValue(layers []Layer, key string) (any, bool) {
-	var value any
-	set := false
-	for _, layer := range layers {
-		if v, has := layer.Values[key]; has {
-			value, set = v, true
-		}
-	}
-	return value, set
-}
-
-func orNoSettings(layers []Layer) string {
-	var keys []string
-	for _, l := range layers {
-		for k := range l.Values {
-			keys = append(keys, k)
-		}
-	}
-	if len(keys) == 0 {
-		return "; no setting is set for this module"
-	}
-	sort.Strings(keys)
-	return "; set today: " + strings.Join(keys, ", ")
-}
-
-// settingKeysUsedBy is every key a module's files, contributions and served facts ask for, so a
-// setting that lands in one is not called stray.
-func settingKeysUsedBy(m Manifest) map[string]bool {
-	used := map[string]bool{}
-	note := func(s string) {
-		for _, k := range settingsUsed(s) {
-			used[k] = true
-		}
-	}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "file" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if content, ok := r["content"].(string); ok {
-			note(content)
-		}
-	}
-	inValues := func(values map[string]any) {
-		for _, v := range values {
-			if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-				note(s)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	for _, values := range m.Contributes {
-		inValues(values)
-	}
-	for _, locals := range m.ContributesMany {
-		for _, values := range locals {
-			inValues(values)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, values := range m.Serves {
-		inValues(values)
-	}
-	return used
-}

internal/catalogue/setting_into_test.go

@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// An operator's value reaches a file from the assignment's settings, the node's layer over the
-// mesh's (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155), and a value nothing set is refused by name.
-func TestASettingReachesAFileFromTheLayers(t *testing.T) {
-	file := map[string]any{"id": "env", "type": "file", "path": "/x/mail.env",
-		"content": "DOMAIN=${setting:domain}\nSITENAME=${setting:sitename}\nWORKERS=${setting:workers}\n"}
-	layers := []Layer{
-		{From: "the mesh", Values: map[string]any{"domain": "example.tld", "sitename": "Mesh", "workers": float64(4)}},
-		{From: "this node", Values: map[string]any{"sitename": "This one"}},
-	}
-	if err := settingInto(file, layers, "mail"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if file["content"] != "DOMAIN=example.tld\nSITENAME=This one\nWORKERS=4\n" {
-		t.Fatalf("filled as %q", file["content"])
-	}
-}
-
-func TestASettingNothingSetIsRefusedByName(t *testing.T) {
-	file := map[string]any{"id": "env", "type": "file", "content": "DOMAIN=${setting:domain}\n"}
-	err := settingInto(file, []Layer{{From: "the mesh", Values: map[string]any{"other": "x"}}}, "mail")
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a setting nothing set was written as something")
-	}
-	for _, want := range []string{"${setting:domain}", "settings set mail", "set today: other"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
-			t.Fatalf("the refusal lacks %q: %v", want, err)
-		}
-	}
-	// Left as it was: the literal placeholder must never reach a machine.
-	if file["content"] != "DOMAIN=${setting:domain}\n" {
-		t.Fatalf("content was changed on refusal: %q", file["content"])
-	}
-}
-
-// A key a file asks for is a destination, so setting it is not called stray.
-func TestASettingAFileAsksForIsNotStray(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "mail", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "env", "type": "file", "content": "DOMAIN=${setting:domain}\n"},
-	}}
-	layers := []Layer{{From: "the mesh", Values: map[string]any{"domain": "example.tld", "stray": "x"}}}
-	unused := strings.Join(UnusedSettings(m, layers), "; ")
-	if strings.Contains(unused, `"domain"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a key a file asks for was called stray: %s", unused)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(unused, `"stray"`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a key nothing reads was not named: %s", unused)
-	}
-}

internal/catalogue/settings.go

@@ -85,67 +85,17 @@ func ApplySettings(resource map[string]any, layers []Layer) (map[string]any, err
 	return out, nil
 }
 
-// Settle lays settings over what a provider serves. Exported because a served fact is settled where
-// the mesh is walked rather than where a node is declared.
-//
-// **A setting overrides a served key; it never adds one** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/173). What a consumer
-// is told is the provider's contract, and a setting made for one of the provider's files — a site
-// name, a public address — is not part of it. Before this, every setting of a module reached every
-// consumer of every provision it served.
+// Settle lays settings over a module's own values. Exported for what a provider serves, which is
+// settled where the mesh is walked rather than where a node is declared.
 func Settle(base map[string]any, layers []Layer) (map[string]any, error) {
-	return overridden(base, layers, "what is served")
-}
-
-// overridden lays settings over a map whose keys are its contract: a contribution, a served fact.
-// Only the keys the map already declares are touched; the rest of a layer is somebody else's
-// business (a file's, another destination's) and is left to reach it there.
-//
-// A declared value may itself be the operator's, `${setting:<key>}` (ADR 0155): a mail provider
-// serves its domain, an identity provider its issuer, and neither is the definition's to state.
-// Filled from the layers after the overrides, and refused by name when nothing sets it — a literal
-// placeholder handed to a consumer is a service configured against a string nobody meant.
-func overridden(base map[string]any, layers []Layer, what string) (map[string]any, error) {
-	kept := make([]Layer, 0, len(layers))
-	for _, layer := range layers {
-		values := map[string]any{}
-		for key, value := range layer.Values {
-			if _, declared := base[key]; declared {
-				values[key] = value
-			}
-		}
-		kept = append(kept, Layer{From: layer.From, Values: values})
-	}
-	merged, err := settle(base, kept, nil, what)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	for key, value := range merged {
-		s, ok := value.(string)
-		if !ok {
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, asked := range settingsUsed(s) {
-			v, set := settingValue(layers, asked)
-			if !set {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"%s says ${setting:%s} for %q, and nothing sets %q — an operator's value is the "+
-						"assignment's, never the definition's (novox/hq ADR 0112)%s",
-					what, asked, key, asked, orNoSettings(layers))
-			}
-			s = strings.ReplaceAll(s, "${setting:"+asked+"}", plainly(v))
-		}
-		merged[key] = s
-	}
-	return merged, nil
+	return settle(base, layers, nil, "what is served")
 }
 
 // settle lays the layers over a module's own values, in order.
 //
 // Shared by a file's content and a module's contributions, because they are the same act: the
 // module says what it means by default, and somebody says what it means here. A contribution that
-// could not be settled would have to be edited to be reused anywhere else. The two differ in one
-// respect, and the caller decides it: a file takes keys it did not declare (a setting may add to a
-// configuration), a contribution or served fact does not (overridden).
+// could not be settled would have to be edited to be reused anywhere else.
 func settle(base map[string]any, layers []Layer, protected map[string]bool, what string) (
 	map[string]any, error) {
 	merged := deepCopy(base)
@@ -199,22 +149,23 @@ func deepCopy(in map[string]any) map[string]any {
 	return out
 }
 
-// UnusedSettings names settings that reach nothing.
+// UnusedSettings names settings that reached no file.
 //
 // Somebody who sets a key on a module with nothing mergeable, or misspells one, has changed
 // nothing — and would find out by the machine not behaving differently, which is the slowest
 // way there is. This is what makes that visible at the moment they set it.
-//
-// Where a key can land: any mergeable file takes any key; a file asking for `${setting:<key>}`
-// takes that key (ADR 0155); a contribution or a served fact takes a key it declares, and no other
-// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/173); and the mesh's own words — `expose`, `ports`, `reach`, `endpoints` —
-// are read by the mesh. A key none of those takes is stray, and is said so rather than dropped.
 func UnusedSettings(m Manifest, layers []Layer) []string {
 	for _, r := range m.Resources {
 		if how, _ := r["merge"].(string); how != "" {
 			return nil
 		}
 	}
+	// A contribution is a destination too. A route's hostname is exactly the kind of thing that
+	// differs between one mesh and the next, and calling it stray would refuse the one setting
+	// most modules that publish anything will have.
+	if len(m.Contributes) > 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
 	// A computed module has no resources here to look at — they are worked out per node, and
 	// whether a setting lands is not knowable until then. Silence rather than a wrong answer:
 	// claiming every setting on the private network is stray would be worse than saying nothing.
@@ -222,30 +173,9 @@ func UnusedSettings(m Manifest, layers []Layer) []string {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	lands := settingKeysUsedBy(m)
-	for _, values := range m.Contributes {
-		for key := range values {
-			lands[key] = true
-		}
-	}
-	for _, locals := range m.ContributesMany {
-		for _, values := range locals {
-			for key := range values {
-				lands[key] = true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	for _, served := range m.Serves {
-		for key := range served {
-			lands[key] = true
-		}
-	}
 	var unused []string
 	for _, layer := range layers {
 		for key := range layer.Values {
-			if lands[key] {
-				continue
-			}
 			// `expose` is a real destination for a module that listens: it overrides a port's
 			// source (novox/hq ADR 0046), validated in Exposure, so it is not stray here.
 			if key == ExposeSetting && len(m.Listens) > 0 {
@@ -267,18 +197,9 @@ func UnusedSettings(m Manifest, layers []Layer) []string {
 			if key == EndpointsSetting && len(m.Listens) > 0 {
 				continue
 			}
-			// `places` puts a declared directory where this machine keeps it, `accesses` says where
-			// the operator's data is (novox/hq issue 153). Validated in Places and AccessPlaces.
-			if key == PlacesSetting && len(directoriesOf(m)) > 0 {
-				continue
-			}
-			if key == AccessesSetting && len(m.Accesses) > 0 {
-				continue
-			}
 			unused = append(unused, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s sets %q, and %s has no file that merges it, asks for no ${setting:%s}, and "+
-					"declares no %q in what it contributes or serves",
-				layer.From, key, m.Module, key, key))
+				"%s sets %q, and %s has no file or contribution to merge it into",
+				layer.From, key, m.Module))
 		}
 	}
 	sort.Strings(unused)