A holder by derivation is recorded before an assignment can unsettle it (hq 170) #162

2026-09-30T12:40:02Z

mesh-admin commented

2026-09-30 12:40:02 +00:00

assign ace postgres made the control plane's own store unresolvable:
postgres's manifest claims mesh-store, nobody was ever recorded as its
holder, and with two eligible assignments and nothing on record both
claimed and both were refused — novox's included. ADR 0110 says the
assignment holds, by a deliberate act; ADR 0131 gave the record its force
but left a seat nobody handed over held by whichever assignment happened
to be alone.

Before acting on an assignment the controller now writes the derived
answer down: every mesh-scoped seat the store knows, resolved to exactly
one holder with nothing on record, gets that holder recorded — the same
record seat <name> --to <node>/<module> makes by hand. The next
assignment able to hold the seat then stands beside the holder, eligible
and silent. A seat with two derived claimants is left for a person; a
seat on record is never rewritten; seats the store does not list stay
held by derivation as before. And the refusal, when it still happens,
names the handover that records the holder.

Verified: catalogue tests against the real catalogue; the cmd suite
against a store (the only failure, TestConvergingPreviewsThenChanges…,
fails identically on main).

`assign ace postgres` made the control plane's own store unresolvable: postgres's manifest claims mesh-store, nobody was ever recorded as its holder, and with two eligible assignments and nothing on record both claimed and both were refused — novox's included. ADR 0110 says the assignment holds, by a deliberate act; ADR 0131 gave the record its force but left a seat nobody handed over held by whichever assignment happened to be alone. Before acting on an assignment the controller now writes the derived answer down: every mesh-scoped seat the store knows, resolved to exactly one holder with nothing on record, gets that holder recorded — the same record `seat <name> --to <node>/<module>` makes by hand. The next assignment able to hold the seat then stands beside the holder, eligible and silent. A seat with two derived claimants is left for a person; a seat on record is never rewritten; seats the store does not list stay held by derivation as before. And the refusal, when it still happens, names the handover that records the holder. Verified: catalogue tests against the real catalogue; the cmd suite against a store (the only failure, TestConvergingPreviewsThenChanges…, fails identically on main).

mesh-admin added 1 commit 2026-09-30 12:40:02 +00:00

A holder by derivation is recorded before an assignment can unsettle it (hq 170) 46f324b10b

`assign ace postgres` made the control plane's own store unresolvable:
postgres's manifest claims mesh-store, nobody was ever recorded as its
holder, and with two eligible assignments and nothing on record both
claimed and both were refused — novox's included. ADR 0110 says the
assignment holds, by a deliberate act; ADR 0131 gave the record its force
but left a seat nobody handed over held by whichever assignment happened
to be alone.

Before acting on an assignment the controller now writes the derived
answer down: every mesh-scoped seat the store knows, resolved to exactly
one holder with nothing on record, gets that holder recorded — the same
record `seat <name> --to <node>/<module>` makes by hand. The next
assignment able to hold the seat then stands beside the holder, eligible
and silent. A seat with two derived claimants is left for a person; a
seat on record is never rewritten; seats the store does not list stay
held by derivation as before. And the refusal, when it still happens,
names the handover that records the holder.

Verified: catalogue tests against the real catalogue; the cmd suite
against a store (the only failure, TestConvergingPreviewsThenChanges…,
fails identically on main).

mesh-admin merged commit 6cb285dd5c into main

2026-09-30 12:44:14 +00:00

mesh-admin deleted branch fix/170-a-derived-holder-is-recorded

2026-09-30 12:44:15 +00:00

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Reference: novox/mesh-controller#162