cmd/mesh-controller/desk_secret.go

@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ var askOperatorChannel = func(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) (json.Ra
 func announceSecretGiven(ctx context.Context, node, module, name, how, askedBy string) error {
 	at := time.Now()
 	body := map[string]any{
-		"headline": fmt.Sprintf("A password was entered for %s's %s", module, secretNameWords(name)),
+		"headline": fmt.Sprintf("A password was entered for %s's %s on %s", module, secretNameWords(name), node),
+		"subject":  node,
 		"lines": []string{
 			fmt.Sprintf("%s at %s, asked by %s.", how, at.Local().Format("15:04"), askedByName(askedBy)),
 			"If that was not you, give it again yourself at the controller's terminal.",

cmd/mesh-controller/desk_secret_test.go

@@ -594,9 +594,12 @@ func TestASecretGivenAtTheDeskIsToldOnceAndOpensNoCondition(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("told the operator %d times, want exactly 1: %v", len(*calls), *calls)
 	}
 	call := (*calls)[0]
-	if call["headline"] != "A password was entered for telegram's telegram token" {
+	if call["headline"] != "A password was entered for telegram's telegram token on anchor" {
 		t.Errorf("headline %v", call["headline"])
 	}
+	if call["subject"] != "anchor" {
+		t.Errorf("subject %v", call["subject"])
+	}
 	lines, _ := call["lines"].([]string)
 	if len(lines) != 2 || !strings.Contains(lines[0], "at the desk on laptop at") ||
 		!strings.Contains(lines[0], "asked by mail-seats-835@novox") ||
@@ -678,3 +681,47 @@ func TestATrustedPartysSecretAtTheTerminalIsNotKeptWhenTellAndTheConditionBothFa
 		t.Error("the value was kept despite the failure")
 	}
 }
+
+// Review round 2 of mesh-controller (feat/mail-seats, head 5f24a47d): ADR 0380 §9's fallback — raising the
+// secret-given condition — answers only link.ErrNothingServes and link.ErrGrantRefused. Any other failure of
+// the operator channel's `tell` (the holder itself refusing, or answering something unreadable) is the
+// announcement's own failure, surfaced to the caller, and opens no condition.
+func TestAnOperatorChannelFailureOtherThanNothingServesOrGrantRefusedSurfacesAndRaisesNoCondition(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	k, _ := withConditionsInMemory(t)
+	refused := errors.New("operator-channel.tell refused: too many lines")
+	askOperatorChannelFake(t, func(map[string]any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, refused })
+	if err := announceSecretGiven(ctx, "anchor", "telegram", "telegram-token", "at the desk on laptop", "me"); err != refused {
+		t.Fatalf("announceSecretGiven = %v, want the refusal itself surfaced", err)
+	}
+	open, err := k.Open(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(open) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a condition was raised though the failure was neither ErrNothingServes nor ErrGrantRefused: %+v", open)
+	}
+}
+
+// Review round 2 of mesh-controller: a secret accepted at the controller's terminal writes a hand act naming
+// who asked, where and when it was given — and never the value (novox/hq ADR 0380 §6).
+func TestASecretAcceptedAtTheTerminalWritesAHandActNamingWhoWhereAndNeverTheValue(t *testing.T) {
+	act := terminalGiveHandAct("anchor", "telegram", "telegram-token", "mail-seats-835@novox")
+	if act.Verb != "secret accept" || act.Cause != "given-at-the-terminal" {
+		t.Fatalf("act %+v", act)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(act.Why, "at the controller's terminal") {
+		t.Errorf("the act does not name where: %q", act.Why)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(act.Why, "asked by mail-seats-835@novox") {
+		t.Errorf("the act does not name who: %q", act.Why)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(act.Why, typed) {
+		t.Error("the act carries the value")
+	}
+	// When is RecordHandAct's own job (it stamps At with time.Now when the act leaves none, and By with the
+	// caller when the act leaves that empty too): this act leaves both for it to fill.
+	if act.By != "" || !act.At.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("the act sets its own who/when instead of leaving them to RecordHandAct: %+v", act)
+	}
+}

cmd/mesh-controller/secret.go

@@ -172,9 +172,7 @@ func secretCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	}
 	// The giving is recorded, never the value (novox/hq ADR 0380 §6): the desk already logs its own act; the
 	// terminal's own secret accept did not until now.
-	act := link.HandAct{Verb: "secret accept", Args: []string{node, module, name},
-		Why:   fmt.Sprintf("the operator gave %s for %s on %s at the controller's terminal", name, module, node),
-		Cause: "given-at-the-terminal"}
+	act := terminalGiveHandAct(node, module, name, askedBy)
 	if err := onTheBus(func(conn *nats.Conn) error {
 		_, err := link.RecordHandAct(ctx, conn, act)
 		return err
@@ -558,6 +556,16 @@ func whoAsked() string {
 	return "the mesh"
 }
 
+// terminalGiveHandAct is the hand-act log's entry for a secret accepted at the controller's terminal
+// (novox/hq ADR 0380 §6): who asked, where and that it happened — never the value, which the act never
+// carries a field for.
+func terminalGiveHandAct(node, module, name, askedBy string) link.HandAct {
+	return link.HandAct{Verb: "secret accept", Args: []string{node, module, name},
+		Why: fmt.Sprintf("the operator gave %s for %s on %s at the controller's terminal, asked by %s", name, module,
+			node, askedByName(askedBy)),
+		Cause: "given-at-the-terminal"}
+}
+
 // keepGiven keeps a value given at the controller's terminal, and announces it on the operator's channels
 // (the confirmation review of 2026-10-09, N1-give). **A trusted party's — a module running as an account of its
 // own: the router, a verified channel — is announced before it is kept, and not kept when the announcement