node hand-over: the terminal hands a directory used as found to the mesh, asked of the node's engine (hq issue 356) #187

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mesh-admin merged 3 commits from fix/356-node-hand-over-at-the-terminal into main 2026-10-09 17:57:17 +00:00
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jochen 081d9244d6 Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into fix/356-node-hand-over-at-the-terminal
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller, route-proxy → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it…
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery delivered
2026-10-09 19:44:55 +02:00
jochen b55a38ca9f Sign the hand-over ask, and fail the line on the engine's refusal (hq issue 356, review)
The subject proved nothing: the bus lets any principal allowed to answer reply to a message it received on the reply subject that message named, so a tool server — the operator's account, every agent — could deliver a hand-over to an engine. The controller now signs the ask with the mesh's key over a fixed context (node, path, who asked, a minute's expiry, a fresh nonce), as declarations are signed, and the engine verifies it. The writers table gains the row for mesh.node.*.ask.hand-over; the subject's comment no longer claims who the engine hears. The line's known-node check and the refusal branch are tested; every check was removed in turn and a test failed.
2026-10-09 19:44:55 +02:00
jochen 9006c82393 node hand-over: the terminal hands a directory used as found to the mesh, asked of the node's engine (hq issue 356)
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds build-agent, mesh-controller, route-proxy → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it…
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
A module's condition told the operator to run the node-engine's hand-over at the machine, as root (issue 339), and the mesh had no channel for it. Now node hand-over <node> <path> is the controller's terminal's — a node subcommand that is not a read, so every verb and mesh-cli outside the terminal refuse it — and asks that node's engine on mesh.node.<node>.ask.hand-over, a request only the controller may publish and only that node's engine may hear and answer (its grant gains the subject and the right to answer what it was asked). The line's node and path are judged before anything is asked; the engine's answer is printed, a refusal as a refusal. Every text addressed to the operator names the nox line (ADR 0272); the condition's words stay plain.
2026-10-09 18:38:09 +02:00