A bundle stands on the toolchain it is compiled in (hq issue 211)

A manifest names its toolchain by language, not in build.on, so the planner did not know a bundle
depends on the module that publishes its toolchain and built the two in one tier: the bundle
against the old toolchain, recorded as built from the new commit. The edge is read from the
manifest, so it holds before any build recorded it, and a toolchain that moves rebuilds every
bundle compiled in it.

cmd/mesh-controller/build.go

@@ -530,15 +530,6 @@ func takeIn(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, result link.BuildResu
 	if result.Source != nil && result.Source.Seat != "" {
 		recorded.Repository, recorded.Seat = result.Source.Repository, result.Source.Seat
 	}
-	// **A build at a commit does not change the branch a module follows** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/215):
-	// the commit is built and recorded as what it was built from, and the module keeps following
-	// what it followed before — the repository's default branch for one new to the catalogue.
-	if followedBranch(result.Ref) == "" && result.Ref != "" {
-		recorded.Ref = ""
-		if was, err := inv.SourceOf(ctx, manifest.Module); err == nil {
-			recorded.Ref = followedBranch(was.Ref)
-		}
-	}
 	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)

cmd/mesh-controller/build_test.go

@@ -63,40 +63,3 @@ func TestABuildHeardIsRecordedAndRegistered(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a failure is said in the builder's words: %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/215: a build asked at a commit is recorded as built from that commit, and the
-// module keeps following the branch it followed — a new one, the default branch.
-func TestABuildAtACommitKeepsTheBranchTheModuleFollows(t *testing.T) {
-	open := aMesh(t)
-	ctx := t.Context()
-	manifest, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"module": "unifi", "version": "1"})
-	result := func(id, ref, commit string) link.BuildResult {
-		return link.BuildResult{ID: id, Repository: "http://forge.internal:20000/novox/mesh-catalog.git",
-			Path: "modules/unifi", Ref: ref, On: "anchor", Commit: commit, Manifest: manifest,
-			Source: &link.SourceOnSeat{Seat: "git", Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog"}}
-	}
-	if _, _, err := takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, result("b-1", "main", "1111111aaaa")); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, _, err := takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, result("b-2", "9c97a8a", "9c97a8a1d2c3")); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	src, err := open.inventory.SourceOf(ctx, "unifi")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if src.Ref != "main" || src.BuiltFrom != "9c97a8a1d2c3" {
-		t.Errorf("after a build at a commit the module follows %q, built from %q; want main, 9c97a8a1d2c3", src.Ref, src.BuiltFrom)
-	}
-
-	// One new to the catalogue, first built at a commit, follows the default branch.
-	other, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"module": "letta", "version": "1"})
-	r := result("b-3", "deadbeef", "deadbeefcafe")
-	r.Manifest, r.Path = other, "modules/letta"
-	if _, _, err := takeIn(ctx, open.inventory, r); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if src, _ := open.inventory.SourceOf(ctx, "letta"); src.Ref != "" {
-		t.Errorf("a module first built at a commit follows %q, want the default branch", src.Ref)
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go

@@ -266,12 +266,6 @@ func TestTheResolverIsToldEveryMachineOnTheNetworkAndToldAgainWhenOneLeaves(t *t
 	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", "dnsmasq"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	// Its bus credential, as assigning issues it where the bus is reachable (novox/hq issue 203):
-	// no bus is known to this test, so it is minted here, or composing refuses the placeholder.
-	if _, err := open.inventory.MintBusPassword(ctx, inventory.BusUser{
-		Username: "anchor.dnsmasq", Kind: inventory.BusModule, Node: "anchor", Module: "dnsmasq"}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
 	zones := func() string {
 		t.Helper()
 		for _, r := range composed(t, open, "anchor").Resources {

cmd/mesh-controller/order_test.go

@@ -211,27 +211,3 @@ func TestWhatAHandedOverModuleRecordsAboutItsSource(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/215: a module once built at a commit still follows its branch — a merge into it
-// matches the module, and a plan re-asks the branch, not the old commit.
-func TestAModuleBuiltAtACommitStillFollowsItsBranch(t *testing.T) {
-	m := link.SourceMoved{Owner: "novox", Repo: "mesh-catalog", Base: "main"}
-	pinned := inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Seat: "git", Ref: "9c97a8a"}
-	if !sourceIs(pinned, m) {
-		t.Error("a module whose record names a commit is left out of a merge into its branch")
-	}
-	full := inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Seat: "git", Ref: "9c97a8a1d2c3b4a5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8f9012"}
-	if !sourceIs(full, m) {
-		t.Error("a full commit hash is read as a branch")
-	}
-	if got := followedBranch("9c97a8a"); got != "" {
-		t.Errorf("a plan would re-ask the old commit %q", got)
-	}
-	if got := followedBranch("release"); got != "release" {
-		t.Errorf("a branch is not followed as named: %q", got)
-	}
-	// A module that follows another branch is still not this merge's.
-	if sourceIs(inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Seat: "git", Ref: "release"}, m) {
-		t.Error("a module following another branch was matched")
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan.go

@@ -272,8 +272,7 @@ func askTier(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, p *inventory.Plan) e
 		}
 		source := buildSource{Repository: e.Source.Repository, Seat: e.Source.Seat}
 		fmt.Printf("  tier %d: ", p.Tier)
-		// The branch it follows, never a commit a build once named (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/215).
-		if err := buildOne(ctx, source, e.Source.Path, followedBranch(e.Source.Ref), 0); err != nil {
+		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
@@ -400,24 +399,6 @@ func advanceOnce(ctx context.Context, open *stores, p *inventory.Plan,
 		}
 		return true, nil
 	}
-	// **Asked: settle from the build records first** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/214). An outcome is taken
-	// in by whichever controller hears it, and a merge to the controller's own repository replaces
-	// the controller in its first tier: the build that produced the new one is recorded, and the
-	// plan never hears it. The record is the fact; a build recorded after the ask is that tier's
-	// outcome, whoever was listening.
-	recorded := map[string][]inventory.Build{}
-	for _, m := range tier {
-		if s := p.Modules[m]; s != nil && s.State == "asked" {
-			builds, err := inv.Builds(ctx, m, 5)
-			if err != nil {
-				return false, err
-			}
-			recorded[m] = builds
-		}
-	}
-	if settleFromRecords(p, tier, recorded) {
-		return true, nil
-	}
 	// Asked: wait for every build.
 	var latest time.Time
 	for _, m := range tier {
@@ -774,41 +755,3 @@ func splitList(s string) []string {
 	}
 	return out
 }
-
-// settleFromRecords marks every module of the tier still `asked` built — or failed — from a build
-// recorded after it was asked, and says whether it changed anything (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/214).
-// Newest first, as Builds answers: the first record after the ask is the outcome of that ask.
-func settleFromRecords(p *inventory.Plan, tier []string, recorded map[string][]inventory.Build) bool {
-	changed := false
-	for _, m := range tier {
-		s := p.Modules[m]
-		if s == nil || s.State != "asked" || s.AskedAt == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		var outcome *inventory.Build
-		for i := range recorded[m] {
-			b := recorded[m][i]
-			if b.At.Before(*s.AskedAt) {
-				break
-			}
-			outcome = &b
-		}
-		if outcome == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		at := outcome.At
-		if outcome.Worked() {
-			s.State = "built"
-			s.BuiltAt = &at
-			s.Commit = outcome.Commit
-		} else {
-			s.State = "failed"
-			s.Why = outcome.Failed
-			p.State = inventory.PlanFailed
-			p.Note = fmt.Sprintf("%s failed to build in tier %d", m, p.Tier)
-		}
-		fmt.Printf("%s: %s settled from the build records as %s (%s)\n", p.ID, m, s.State, outcome.ID)
-		changed = true
-	}
-	return changed
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan_test.go

@@ -126,40 +126,3 @@ func TestABundleIsPlannedAfterTheToolchainItIsCompiledIn(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the toolchain, then the bundle: %v", p.Tiers)
 	}
 }
-
-// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/214: a plan whose build outcome was recorded while no controller followed it —
-// the controller rebuilding itself — settles from the build records instead of waiting for ever.
-func TestAPlanSettlesAnAskedBuildFromTheRecords(t *testing.T) {
-	asked := time.Date(2026, 10, 3, 19, 20, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	p := inventory.Plan{ID: "plan-1", Tiers: [][]string{{"mesh-controller", "builder"}, {"route-proxy"}},
-		Modules: map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{
-			"mesh-controller": {State: "asked", AskedAt: &asked},
-			"builder":         {State: "asked", AskedAt: &asked},
-		}}
-	records := map[string][]inventory.Build{
-		// Newest first, as Builds answers: the build after the ask is the outcome.
-		"mesh-controller": {
-			{ID: "build-2", Commit: "2ebbb799", At: asked.Add(4 * time.Minute)},
-			{ID: "build-1", Commit: "06ea2168", At: asked.Add(-10 * time.Minute)},
-		},
-		// Only a build from before the ask: not this ask's outcome.
-		"builder": {{ID: "build-0", Commit: "06ea2168", At: asked.Add(-time.Hour)}},
-	}
-	if !settleFromRecords(&p, p.Tiers[0], records) {
-		t.Fatal("nothing settled, though the controller's build is recorded after the ask")
-	}
-	if s := p.Modules["mesh-controller"]; s.State != "built" || s.Commit != "2ebbb799" || s.BuiltAt == nil {
-		t.Errorf("the controller's ask is %+v, want built from 2ebbb799", s)
-	}
-	if s := p.Modules["builder"]; s.State != "asked" {
-		t.Errorf("an ask with no record after it was settled: %+v", s)
-	}
-
-	// A failure recorded after the ask fails the plan, as hearing it would have.
-	q := inventory.Plan{ID: "plan-2", Tiers: [][]string{{"x"}},
-		Modules: map[string]*inventory.PlanModule{"x": {State: "asked", AskedAt: &asked}}}
-	settleFromRecords(&q, q.Tiers[0], map[string][]inventory.Build{"x": {{ID: "b", Failed: "no", At: asked.Add(time.Minute)}}})
-	if q.State != inventory.PlanFailed || q.Modules["x"].State != "failed" {
-		t.Errorf("a recorded failure did not fail the plan: %+v %+v", q, q.Modules["x"])
-	}
-}

cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go

@@ -402,22 +402,19 @@ func seatAnnouncement(handlers map[string]link.ToolHandler) micro.Info {
 	var endpoints []micro.EndpointInfo
 	for _, verb := range verbs {
 		schema, _ := json.Marshal(about[verb].Input)
-		// The same shape every tool runtime announces in (node-tools' announce package): the name is
-		// `<seat>__<verb>`, as the protocol's characters allow; the metadata is what identifies it.
 		endpoints = append(endpoints, micro.EndpointInfo{
-			Name:       catalogue.ControllerSeatName + "__" + verb,
+			Name:       verb,
 			Subject:    link.SeatToolSubject(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, verb),
 			QueueGroup: "seat." + catalogue.ControllerSeatName,
 			Metadata: map[string]string{
-				"kind": "seat", "module": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "tool": verb,
-				"seat": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "scope": "mesh", "interchangeable": "false",
 				"description": about[verb].Description, "schema": string(schema),
+				"seat": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "scope": "mesh",
 			},
 		})
 	}
 	return micro.Info{
 		ServiceIdentity: micro.ServiceIdentity{
-			Name: catalogue.ControllerSeatName, ID: "controller", Version: "0.1.0",
+			Name: catalogue.ControllerSeatName, ID: "controller", Version: "1.0.0",
 			Metadata: map[string]string{"seat": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "scope": "mesh"},
 		},
 		Description: "the mesh's own verbs, answered by the holder of the mesh-controller seat",

cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go

@@ -281,14 +281,10 @@ func TestTheControllerAnnouncesTheVerbsItServes(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("%d endpoints announced for %d verbs served", len(info.Endpoints), len(handlers))
 	}
 	for _, e := range info.Endpoints {
-		verb := e.Metadata["tool"]
-		if _, served := handlers[verb]; !served || e.Name != catalogue.ControllerSeatName+"__"+verb {
-			t.Errorf("%s (%s) is announced and not served under that name", e.Name, verb)
+		if _, served := handlers[e.Name]; !served {
+			t.Errorf("%s is announced and not served", e.Name)
 		}
-		if e.Metadata["kind"] != "seat" || e.Metadata["seat"] != catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
-			t.Errorf("%s is not announced as the seat's verb: %v", e.Name, e.Metadata)
-		}
-		if e.Subject != link.SeatToolSubject(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, verb) || e.QueueGroup != "seat."+catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
+		if e.Subject != link.SeatToolSubject(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, e.Name) || e.QueueGroup != "seat."+catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
 			t.Errorf("%s is announced on %s/%s, not where it is served", e.Name, e.Subject, e.QueueGroup)
 		}
 		if e.Metadata["description"] == "" || e.Metadata["schema"] == "" || e.Metadata["scope"] != "mesh" {

cmd/mesh-controller/upgrades.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -284,14 +283,6 @@ func (f following) SourceMoved(ctx context.Context, m link.SourceMoved) error {
 	if isHistory(m.MergedAt, lastLookAt(entries, m)) {
 		packaging = nil
 	}
-	// Said, never silent (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/215): a module built from this repository that follows
-	// another branch is not part of this merge, and whoever is waiting for its change should read why.
-	for _, e := range entries {
-		if sameRepository(e.Source.Repository, m) && !sourceIs(e.Source, m) {
-			fmt.Printf("  %s is built from %s/%s and follows %s, not %s; this merge leaves it out\n",
-				e.Manifest.Module, m.Owner, m.Repo, e.Source.Ref, m.Base)
-		}
-	}
 	touched := whatTheMergeTouched(from, entries, m)
 	for _, e := range touched {
 		if err := inv.SourceMoved(ctx, e.Manifest.Module, m.Commit); err != nil {
@@ -354,24 +345,7 @@ func sourceIs(s inventory.Source, m link.SourceMoved) bool {
 	if !sameRepository(s.Repository, m) {
 		return false
 	}
-	ref := followedBranch(s.Ref)
-	return ref == "" || ref == m.Base
-}
-
-// commitRef is a ref that names a commit rather than a branch: what `build --ref <commit>` asks for.
-var commitRef = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-f]{7,40}$`)
-
-// followedBranch is the branch a recorded ref means a module follows (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/215). **A
-// commit is never a branch to follow.** A build asked at a commit — to try one, or to pin it during a
-// fix — recorded that commit as the module's ref; every merge after it then failed to match the
-// module, its plan left it out without saying so, and every plan that rebuilt it asked for that same
-// old commit again. A commit recorded so is read as the repository's default branch, which is what
-// the module followed before it; a branch is followed as named.
-func followedBranch(ref string) string {
-	if commitRef.MatchString(strings.TrimSpace(ref)) {
-		return ""
-	}
-	return ref
+	return s.Ref == "" || s.Ref == m.Base
 }
 
 // sameRepository is whether a recorded repository is the one a merge names, in either spelling it

examples/route-proxy/forwarded_test.go

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"crypto/tls"
-	"net/http"
-	"net/http/httptest"
-	"net/url"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// A backend behind the proxy learns the client used TLS and which name it asked for, so the addresses
-// it writes into its own pages are the ones a client can use (2026-10-03: a forge's Go import tag
-// named an http clone URL, and Go refused the module path).
-func TestABackendIsToldTheRequestWasHTTPSAndForWhichName(t *testing.T) {
-	var proto, host, fwdHost, fwdFor string
-	backend := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		proto, host, fwdHost, fwdFor = r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Proto"), r.Host, r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-Host"), r.Header.Get("X-Forwarded-For")
-	}))
-	defer backend.Close()
-	where, _ := url.Parse(backend.URL)
-	req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "https://git.example.org/novox/mesh-sdk/go?go-get=1", nil)
-	req.TLS = &tls.ConnectionState{}
-	req.Host = "git.example.org"
-	req.RemoteAddr = "192.0.2.7:51000"
-	towards(where).ServeHTTP(httptest.NewRecorder(), req)
-	if proto != "https" || fwdHost != "git.example.org" || host != "git.example.org" || fwdFor != "192.0.2.7" {
-		t.Errorf("the backend was told proto=%q host=%q forwarded-host=%q for=%q", proto, host, fwdHost, fwdFor)
-	}
-}

examples/route-proxy/main.go

@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ func (t *table) set(routes map[string][]rule, public map[string]bool) {
 				log.Printf("route %s points at %q, which is not a URL: %v", host, r.target, err)
 				continue
 			}
-			r.to = towards(where)
+			r.to = httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy(where)
 			if r.insecure {
 				r.to.Transport = &http.Transport{TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true}}
 			}
@@ -1060,17 +1060,3 @@ func asPort(v any) (int, bool) {
 	}
 	return 0, false
 }
-
-// towards proxies to one backend and tells it what the client asked: **X-Forwarded-Proto, -Host and
-// -For**, set from the request this proxy received. A backend that builds its own addresses — a forge
-// writing its clone URL into a page, a login redirect — otherwise sees the plain HTTP hop from this
-// proxy and writes `http://`, though every client reached it over TLS: Go refused the forge's module
-// path for exactly that on 2026-10-03, its import tag naming an http clone URL.
-// The standard library's NewSingleHostReverseProxy sets only X-Forwarded-For.
-func towards(where *url.URL) *httputil.ReverseProxy {
-	return &httputil.ReverseProxy{Rewrite: func(pr *httputil.ProxyRequest) {
-		pr.SetURL(where)
-		pr.Out.Host = pr.In.Host
-		pr.SetXForwarded()
-	}}
-}

internal/broker/nats.go

@@ -465,28 +465,10 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		pub = append(pub, invoked...)
 		// It says what it serves and may ask what answers (novox/hq ADR 0197): the runtime answers
 		// discovery for each module and seat it carries, and the console it is asks the bus.
-		// One service per runtime process, named for the runtime: the bus lets a principal answer each
-		// request once, so the runtime announces everything it carries under its own name.
-		sub = append(sub, announcing(append([]string{RuntimeModule}, serves...)...)...)
+		sub = append(sub, announcing(serves...)...)
 		pub = append(pub, discovering()...)
-		// **And it consumes for the modules it carries** (novox/hq ADR 0198, which changes ADR 0175's
-		// "it consumes nothing"): a module's long-running code is a bundle this runtime launches, and
-		// the runtime is its bus — it reads the module's own durable consumer and acknowledges what
-		// the module's code took. Exactly the grants the module's own principal has for that consumer,
-		// on its name and no other's: asking about it, pulling from it, acknowledging it. The
-		// consumer is still the controller's to make, from the module's own principal.
-		for _, d := range p.Carries {
-			own := Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: p.Node, Module: d.Module, Emits: d.Emits,
-				Consumes: d.Consumes, Serves: d.Serves, Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches}
-			if _, consumes := ConsumerFor(own); !consumes {
-				continue
-			}
-			stream, durable := consumerStream(own), consumerDurable(own)
-			pub = append(pub,
-				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."+stream+"."+durable,
-				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT."+stream+"."+durable,
-				"$JS.ACK."+stream+"."+durable+".>")
-		}
+		// Nothing about consumers: it consumes nothing. A module's reactions to events are its
+		// own long-lived process, which ADR 0175 leaves where it is; what moves here is tools.
 		sub = unique(sub)
 		pub = unique(pub)
 	}
@@ -811,14 +793,12 @@ func invokedSubjects(invokes []string) ([]string, error) {
 // protocol's discovery (novox/hq ADR 0197): the questions asked of every service, and those asked of
 // each name it serves — its own and no other's, so it cannot answer for a service it is not.
 func announcing(names ...string) []string {
-	out := []string{"$SRV.PING", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.STATS"}
+	out := []string{"$SRV.PING", "$SRV.INFO"}
 	for _, n := range names {
 		if !safeSubject.MatchString(n) {
 			continue
 		}
-		for _, verb := range []string{"PING", "INFO", "STATS"} {
-			out = append(out, "$SRV."+verb+"."+n, "$SRV."+verb+"."+n+".>")
-		}
+		out = append(out, "$SRV.PING."+n, "$SRV.PING."+n+".>", "$SRV.INFO."+n, "$SRV.INFO."+n+".>")
 	}
 	return out
 }

internal/broker/nats_test.go

@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ func TestAModulePullsItsOwnConsumerAndNoOthers(t *testing.T) {
 // their tools (novox/hq ADR 0175): every carried module's tool namespace, every held seat's verbs
 // on this node, every module's membership on this node, and a call to anything. Nothing it
 // consumes, because it reacts to nothing.
-func TestTheRuntimeServesTheUnionAndConsumesForItsModules(t *testing.T) {
+func TestTheRuntimeServesTheUnionAndConsumesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 	filter := Seat{Name: "node-packet-filter", Scope: "node", Serves: []string{"rules", "reload"}}
 	p := Principal{Kind: KindNodeTools, Node: "anchor", Module: RuntimeModule, Carries: []Declared{
 		{Module: "nftables", Holds: []Seat{filter}, Serves: []string{"firewall_rules"}},
@@ -408,33 +408,22 @@ func TestTheRuntimeServesTheUnionAndConsumesForItsModules(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("the runtime may not publish %s: %v", want, perms.Publish)
 		}
 	}
-	// It reads the consumer of every carried module that consumes — that module's, by its name, as
-	// the module's own principal could (novox/hq ADR 0198) — and of no module that consumes nothing.
-	for _, want := range []string{
-		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.anchor_zsh",
-		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.anchor_zsh",
-		"$JS.ACK.EVENTS.anchor_zsh.>",
-	} {
-		if !contains(perms.Publish, want) {
-			t.Errorf("the runtime may not read zsh's consumer: %s missing from %v", want, perms.Publish)
+	// Nothing of what a carried module consumes, and no consumer of its own to ack.
+	for _, s := range perms.Subscribe {
+		if strings.Contains(s, ".event.") || strings.HasPrefix(s, "_DELIVER.") {
+			t.Errorf("the runtime was granted a delivery it has no consumer for: %s", s)
 		}
 	}
 	for _, s := range perms.Publish {
-		if (strings.HasPrefix(s, "$JS.ACK.") || strings.Contains(s, "CONSUMER")) && !strings.Contains(s, "anchor_zsh") {
-			t.Errorf("the runtime was granted a consumer no carried module of it consumes on: %s", s)
-		}
-	}
-	// It pulls; nothing is pushed to it, and it subscribes no event subject directly.
-	for _, s := range perms.Subscribe {
-		if strings.Contains(s, ".event.") || strings.HasPrefix(s, "_DELIVER.") {
-			t.Errorf("the runtime was granted a delivery: %s", s)
+		if strings.HasPrefix(s, "$JS.ACK.") || strings.Contains(s, "CONSUMER") {
+			t.Errorf("the runtime was granted a consumer's subject and has no consumer: %s", s)
 		}
 	}
 	if !perms.AllowResponses {
 		t.Error("the runtime answers what it is asked, and may not reply")
 	}
 	if _, needed := ConsumerFor(p); needed {
-		t.Error("a consumer would be made for the runtime itself; it reads its modules' consumers, never one of its own")
+		t.Error("a consumer would be made for the runtime, which consumes nothing")
 	}
 	// Each subject once in each list: the file is read as the mesh's authority model. One subject may
 	// stand in both — the runtime answers discovery on `$SRV.INFO` and, as the console, asks it

internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ accounts {
     users = [
       { user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.mesh-controller", "$SRV.STATS.mesh-controller.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller.>", "_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.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "enrol.one", password: "$2a$11$eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", permissions: {
@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ accounts {
       } }
       { 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.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.delivered", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.failed"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.telegram", "$SRV.INFO.telegram.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.telegram", "$SRV.PING.telegram.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.telegram", "$SRV.STATS.telegram.>", "_INBOX.one.telegram.>", "mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.mod.telegram.tool.>", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.telegram", "$SRV.INFO.telegram.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.telegram", "$SRV.PING.telegram.>", "_INBOX.one.telegram.>", "mesh.assignment.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: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.audit", "$SRV.INFO.audit.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.audit", "$SRV.PING.audit.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.audit", "$SRV.STATS.audit.>", "_INBOX.two.audit.>", "mesh.assignment.two.audit", "mesh.mod.audit.tool.>", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.audit", "$SRV.INFO.audit.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.audit", "$SRV.PING.audit.>", "_INBOX.two.audit.>", "mesh.assignment.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: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.shop", "$SRV.INFO.shop.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.shop", "$SRV.PING.shop.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.shop", "$SRV.STATS.shop.>", "_INBOX.two.shop.>", "mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.>"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.shop", "$SRV.INFO.shop.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.shop", "$SRV.PING.shop.>", "_INBOX.two.shop.>", "mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.>"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
     ]

internal/catalogue/build.go

@@ -87,12 +87,6 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
 			loads := append([]string(nil), a.Loads...)
 			if a.Loads == nil && len(m.Tools) > 0 {
 				loads = append([]string(nil), a.Entrypoints...)
-				// A bundle compiled to a binary has no entrypoints: the binary is what it is, and what
-				// the runtime starts to serve it (novox/hq ADR 0193). So a Go tools bundle is served
-				// as Go — the runtime execs it — exactly as a TypeScript one is through its launcher.
-				if bin := BinaryOf(a); bin != "" {
-					loads = []string{bin}
-				}
 			}
 			// **Kept, never routed** (ADR 0155): the builder publishes to the store at the address
 			// it reached it by, and a manifest carrying that address names an installation —
@@ -248,11 +242,6 @@ func (b *Build) problems(module string) []string {
 				for _, e := range a.Entrypoints {
 					found = found || e == load
 				}
-				// A bundle compiled to a binary is one executable: the runtime loads that or nothing
-				// (novox/hq ADR 0193).
-				if bin := BinaryOf(a); bin != "" {
-					found = load == bin
-				}
 				if !found {
 					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 						"%s: %q says the runtime loads %q, which is not among its entrypoints — "+
@@ -447,33 +436,3 @@ func BinaryOf(a Artifact) string {
 	}
 	return a.Name
 }
-
-// undeliveredBundles says which of a module's bundles nothing would ever put on a machine (novox/hq
-// 04-ISSUES/216). A bundle reaches a machine three ways: the node's runtime serves it (it says
-// `loads`, or its module declares `tools`), a resource names it (a process, a step, an archive), or
-// it is the runtime itself. One reached by none of them was built, recorded and pushed as success,
-// and was simply absent — seven modules' tools went missing that way on 2026-10-03. Refused here,
-// naming the field that would deliver it.
-func undeliveredBundles(m Manifest) []string {
-	if m.Build == nil || m.Module == RuntimeModule {
-		return nil
-	}
-	named := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if a, ok := r["artifact"].(string); ok && a != "" {
-			named[a] = true
-		}
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
-		if a.Kind != ArtifactBundle || named[a.Name] || len(a.Loads) > 0 || len(m.Tools) > 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"%s: the bundle %q would be built and never reach a machine: nothing loads it, runs it or "+
-				"unpacks it. A tools bundle says `loads` (the entrypoints the node's runtime serves) or its "+
-				"module lists its `tools`; a daemon or a step is a resource naming it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/216)",
-			m.Module, a.Name))
-	}
-	return problems
-}

internal/catalogue/manifest.go

@@ -1373,7 +1373,6 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 		}
 	}
 	problems = append(problems, m.Build.problems(m.Module)...)
-	problems = append(problems, undeliveredBundles(m)...)
 	// **What provides the artifact store cannot be delivered through it** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/029).
 	//
 	// Building publishes to the store, and the builder will not start without one. So a module

internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go

@@ -389,71 +389,3 @@ func TestARuntimeCompiledToABinaryRunsItself(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the Go runtime is not told what to serve or whose it is: %v %v", env, process["user"])
 	}
 }
-
-// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/216: a bundle nothing loads, runs or unpacks is refused at registration; saying
-// `loads`, listing `tools`, or a resource naming it admits it.
-func TestABundleNothingDeliversIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	base := func() Manifest {
-		return Manifest{Module: "baserow", Version: "1", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
-			{Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "typescript", Entrypoints: []string{"tools/index.js"}}}}}
-	}
-	if p := undeliveredBundles(base()); len(p) != 1 || !strings.Contains(p[0], "never reach a machine") {
-		t.Fatalf("a bundle nothing delivers was admitted: %v", p)
-	}
-	loads := base()
-	loads.Build.Artifacts[0].Loads = []string{"tools/index.js"}
-	tools := base()
-	tools.Tools = []string{"baserow_list_rows"}
-	run := base()
-	run.Resources = []map[string]any{{"id": "daemon", "type": "process", "artifact": "tools", "run": []any{"node", "tools/index.js"}}}
-	runtime := base()
-	runtime.Module = RuntimeModule
-	for name, m := range map[string]Manifest{"loads": loads, "tools": tools, "a process": run, "the runtime": runtime} {
-		if p := undeliveredBundles(m); len(p) != 0 {
-			t.Errorf("a bundle delivered by %s was refused: %v", name, p)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// novox/hq ADR 0193: a Go tools bundle is served — its binary is what the runtime starts, delivered
-// like any tools bundle, named to the runtime where a TypeScript bundle names its launcher.
-func TestAGoToolsBundleIsServedByItsBinary(t *testing.T) {
-	with := Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101",
-		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{RuntimeModule: {"broker": "sealed-credential"}}}
-	lamp := Manifest{Module: "lamp", Version: "1", Tools: []string{"on"},
-		Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go",
-			System: "arch", From: "cmd/lamp-tools"}}}}
-	if p := lamp.Build.problems("lamp"); len(p) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a Go tools bundle was refused: %v", p)
-	}
-	lamp, err := lamp.Resolve([]Built{{Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle,
-		Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + "lamp/tools/blobs/" + bundleDigest, Digest: bundleDigest}})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if fmt.Sprint(lamp.Bundles[0].Loads) != "[lamp-tools]" {
-		t.Fatalf("the runtime loads %v from a Go bundle, want its binary", lamp.Bundles[0].Loads)
-	}
-	out, err := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Account: "ops", Modules: []Manifest{lamp, theRuntime(t)}}.Declaration(with)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if fileNamed(out, "lamp."+BundleID("tools")) == nil {
-		t.Errorf("the Go bundle is not delivered: %v", ids(out))
-	}
-	env := fileNamed(out, RuntimeModule+"."+RuntimeProcessID())["env"].(map[string]string)
-	if env[RuntimeToolModules] != "lamp="+BundlePath("lamp", "tools")+"/lamp-tools" {
-		t.Errorf("the runtime is told %q, want the binary", env[RuntimeToolModules])
-	}
-
-	// An artifact may say it explicitly; naming anything but the binary is refused.
-	said := Manifest{Module: "lamp", Version: "1", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{Name: "tools",
-		Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "arch", Binary: "lamp", Loads: []string{"lamp"}}}}}
-	if p := said.Build.problems("lamp"); len(p) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("loads naming the binary was refused: %v", p)
-	}
-	said.Build.Artifacts[0].Loads = []string{"tools/index.js"}
-	if p := said.Build.problems("lamp"); len(p) == 0 {
-		t.Error("a Go bundle loading a file it does not contain was admitted")
-	}
-}

internal/inventory/busrecords.go

@@ -49,12 +49,6 @@ func (i *Inventory) BusRecords(ctx context.Context) (broker.Records, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Who holds each seat held once for the mesh, where the mesh recorded it (novox/hq issue 218).
-	holdings, err := i.Holdings(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return broker.Records{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot read who holds the mesh's seats: %w", err)
-	}
-
 	out := broker.Records{Assigned: map[string][]broker.Declared{}, People: map[string][]string{},
 		Interchangeable: map[string]bool{}}
 	for _, n := range nodes {
@@ -78,9 +72,7 @@ func (i *Inventory) BusRecords(ctx context.Context) (broker.Records, error) {
 					"%s is assigned to %s and is not in the catalogue, so what it may say cannot "+
 						"be derived", module, n.Name)
 			}
-			d := declaredFor(m, seats)
-			d.Holds = heldHere(d.Holds, holdings, n.Name, module)
-			out.Assigned[n.Name] = append(out.Assigned[n.Name], d)
+			out.Assigned[n.Name] = append(out.Assigned[n.Name], declaredFor(m, seats))
 			if m.Instances == catalogue.InstancesInterchangeable {
 				out.Interchangeable[m.Module] = true
 			}
@@ -191,33 +183,3 @@ func (i *Inventory) NodesWithALiveToken(ctx context.Context) ([]string, error) {
 	}
 	return out, rows.Err()
 }
-
-// heldHere keeps of what a module claims only the seats it holds on this machine (novox/hq issue 218).
-// A seat held once per machine is held by every assignment that claims it. A seat held once for the
-// mesh is held by one assignment: where the mesh recorded who holds it, a claim on any other machine
-// grants nothing and issues nothing — or the module would serve the role's verbs from a machine that
-// is not the role's, and a question to the mesh's store would be answered from the wrong database. A
-// mesh seat with no holder on record is left as it was derived.
-func heldHere(claimed []broker.Seat, holdings []catalogue.Held, node, module string) []broker.Seat {
-	recorded := map[string][]catalogue.Held{}
-	for _, h := range holdings {
-		if h.Scope == catalogue.ScopeMesh {
-			recorded[h.Claim] = append(recorded[h.Claim], h)
-		}
-	}
-	var out []broker.Seat
-	for _, s := range claimed {
-		holders, onRecord := recorded[s.Name]
-		if s.Scope != catalogue.ScopeMesh || !onRecord {
-			out = append(out, s)
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, h := range holders {
-			if h.Node == node && h.Module == module {
-				out = append(out, s)
-				break
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}

internal/inventory/heldhere_test.go

@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-package inventory
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
-)
-
-// novox/hq issue 218: a seat held once for the mesh is granted and issued only to the holder on record;
-// a node seat to every machine's claimant; a mesh seat with no holder on record as derived.
-func TestOnlyTheRecordedHolderHoldsAMeshSeat(t *testing.T) {
-	claimed := []broker.Seat{
-		{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh},
-		{Name: "node-packet-filter", Scope: catalogue.ScopeNode},
-		{Name: "unrecorded", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh},
-	}
-	holdings := []catalogue.Held{{Claim: "mesh-store", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh, Node: "control", Module: "postgres"}}
-	names := func(ss []broker.Seat) (out []string) {
-		for _, s := range ss {
-			out = append(out, s.Name)
-		}
-		return
-	}
-	if got := names(heldHere(claimed, holdings, "control", "postgres")); len(got) != 3 {
-		t.Errorf("the holder lost a seat: %v", got)
-	}
-	got := names(heldHere(claimed, holdings, "other", "postgres"))
-	if len(got) != 2 || got[0] != "node-packet-filter" || got[1] != "unrecorded" {
-		t.Errorf("a claimant on another machine holds %v; want the node seat and the unrecorded one, not the store", got)
-	}
-}

internal/inventory/people_test.go

@@ -44,15 +44,8 @@ func TestAPersonMayCallToolsAndNothingElse(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 		// The one tool, both ways it is addressed (novox/hq ADR 0159): to whichever instance
 		// answers, and to the instance on one machine. Nothing else.
-		// And asking what answers (novox/hq ADR 0197), which claims nothing and calls nothing.
-		var tools []string
-		for _, s := range perms.Publish {
-			if !strings.HasPrefix(s, "$SRV.") {
-				tools = append(tools, s)
-			}
-		}
-		if len(tools) != 2 || tools[0] != "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.tool.catalog_tools" ||
-			tools[1] != "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.tool.catalog_tools.*" {
+		if len(perms.Publish) != 2 || perms.Publish[0] != "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.tool.catalog_tools" ||
+			perms.Publish[1] != "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.tool.catalog_tools.*" {
 			t.Errorf("ada may publish %v, which should be the one tool, both ways addressed, and nothing else", perms.Publish)
 		}
 		for _, s := range perms.Publish {

internal/link/announce.go

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 // DiscoverySubjects are where one service instance is asked to say what it is.
 func DiscoverySubjects(name, id string) []string {
 	var out []string
-	for _, verb := range []string{"PING", "INFO", "STATS"} {
+	for _, verb := range []string{"PING", "INFO"} {
 		out = append(out, "$SRV."+verb, "$SRV."+verb+"."+name, "$SRV."+verb+"."+name+"."+id)
 	}
 	return out
@@ -35,16 +35,6 @@ func (b OverNATS) Announce(info micro.Info, logger *log.Logger) (func(), error)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	// Statistics the protocol asks for; the controller keeps none per verb, so it answers its
-	// identity and its endpoints with nothing counted — an honest zero, not a refusal.
-	stats := micro.Stats{ServiceIdentity: info.ServiceIdentity, Type: micro.StatsResponseType}
-	for _, e := range info.Endpoints {
-		stats.Endpoints = append(stats.Endpoints, &micro.EndpointStats{Name: e.Name, Subject: e.Subject, QueueGroup: e.QueueGroup})
-	}
-	statsBody, err := json.Marshal(stats)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 	var subs []*nats.Subscription
 	done := make(chan struct{})
 	stop := func() {
@@ -56,11 +46,8 @@ func (b OverNATS) Announce(info micro.Info, logger *log.Logger) (func(), error)
 	for _, subject := range DiscoverySubjects(info.Name, info.ID) {
 		subject := subject
 		body := infoBody
-		switch {
-		case len(subject) >= 9 && subject[:9] == "$SRV.PING":
+		if len(subject) >= 9 && subject[:9] == "$SRV.PING" {
 			body = pingBody
-		case len(subject) >= 10 && subject[:10] == "$SRV.STATS":
-			body = statsBody
 		}
 		bind := func() (*nats.Subscription, error) {
 			return b.Conn.Subscribe(subject, func(msg *nats.Msg) {