mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-controller → novox; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed
mesh/delivery delivered
mesh/delivery-group group fix/458-restarts-say-what-they-count delivered: every member is delivered
The engine reports its own count, kept across recreates and starts by hand, not systemd's NRestarts or the runtime's RestartCount (novox/hq issue 458).