mesh-delivery-checker claims its seat and serves try, try-read and try-end by the tools' own code, so the try outlives the controller (ADR 0547 §10, issue 774)

modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker-tools/main.go

@@ -170,6 +170,21 @@ func TryTools(tr Trying) []stdio.Tool {
 	}
 }
 
+// Seat is the seat the checker holds (novox/hq ADR 0547 §10, issue 774); its verbs are served as tools named <seat>.<verb>.
+const Seat = "mesh-delivery-checker"
+
+// SeatTryTools are the try's tools as the seat's verbs: try, try-read and try-end, run by the same code as checker_try,
+// checker_try_read and checker_try_end, so the answer is the same. The module tools stay beside them.
+func SeatTryTools(tr Trying) []stdio.Tool {
+	verbs := map[string]string{check.TryTool: "try", check.TryReadTool: "try-read", check.TryEndTool: "try-end"}
+	var out []stdio.Tool
+	for _, t := range TryTools(tr) {
+		t.Name = Seat + "." + verbs[t.Name]
+		out = append(out, t)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // Tools are the read tools over the checker's states.
 func Tools(r check.Reader) []stdio.Tool {
 	return []stdio.Tool{
@@ -277,7 +292,7 @@ func main() {
 		return err
 	}}
 	trying := Trying{Tries: store, Ender: store, Trunks: trunks}
-	if err := stdio.Serve("", logged(append(Tools(r), TryTools(trying)...))); err != nil {
+	if err := stdio.Serve("", logged(append(append(Tools(r), TryTools(trying)...), SeatTryTools(trying)...))); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[mesh-delivery-checker-tools] %v\n", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}

modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker-tools/main_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"reflect"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -93,3 +94,40 @@ func TestTheTryToolsAskAndReadATry(t *testing.T) { // ADR 0501 §5, the agreed i
 		t.Errorf("hq: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// The seat's verbs answer as the tools do (ADR 0547 §10, issue 774): the same ask gives the same try, read and ended alike.
+func TestTheSeatVerbsAnswerLikeTheTools(t *testing.T) {
+	store := &memStore{vals: map[string]json.RawMessage{}}
+	tr := Trying{Tries: store, Ender: store, Now: func() time.Time { return time.Unix(1, 5) },
+		Trunks: func() (map[string]string, error) {
+			return map[string]string{"novox/mesh-delivery": strings.Repeat("a", 40)}, nil
+		}}
+	tools, verbs := TryTools(tr), SeatTryTools(tr)
+	if len(verbs) != len(tools) {
+		t.Fatalf("%d verbs for %d tools", len(verbs), len(tools))
+	}
+	for i, want := range []string{"try", "try-read", "try-end"} {
+		if verbs[i].Name != Seat+"."+want {
+			t.Errorf("verb %d = %s", i, verbs[i].Name)
+		}
+	}
+	ask := map[string]any{"repository": "novox/mesh-delivery", "head": strings.Repeat("1", 40), "trunk": "main"}
+	a, err := tools[0].Run(ask)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b, err := verbs[0].Run(ask) // a second ask of a head that waits is the first's answer
+	if err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(a, b) {
+		t.Errorf("verb try = %v, %v; tool = %v", b, err, a)
+	}
+	id := a.(map[string]any)["id"].(string)
+	ra, _ := tools[1].Run(map[string]any{"id": id})
+	rb, err := verbs[1].Run(map[string]any{"id": id})
+	if err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(ra, rb) {
+		t.Errorf("verb try-read = %v, %v; tool = %v", rb, err, ra)
+	}
+	if _, err := verbs[0].Run(map[string]any{"repository": "novox/hq", "head": strings.Repeat("1", 40)}); err == nil ||
+		err.Error() != "no level of novox/hq is checked by the checker" {
+		t.Errorf("hq: %v", err)
+	}
+}

modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.mod

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-checker
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261027193820-8ad9372b1952
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261027214944-9fdd33b03edc
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 )

modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.sum

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261027193820-8ad9372b1952 h1:TmveT3Bija643RGWkilvkzP/h8UWlVvHFZZtQfJK5oU=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261027193820-8ad9372b1952/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261027214944-9fdd33b03edc h1:3/wLzFyz4vJvt2TqDNGvLt7X9gF6JVBBPSS8l6+z6Zs=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261027214944-9fdd33b03edc/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=

modules/mesh-delivery-checker/manifest_test.go

@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ type stream struct {
 }
 
 type manifest struct {
+	Claims []struct {
+		Name   string   `json:"name"`
+		Scope  string   `json:"scope"`
+		Serves []string `json:"serves"`
+	} `json:"claims"`
 	Streams  []stream `json:"streams"`
 	Tools    []string `json:"tools"`
 	Module   string   `json:"module"`
@@ -128,7 +133,12 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1678/AC1
 	if want := []string{"checker_kept", "checker_previews", "checker_pull", "checker_status", "checker_try", "checker_try_end", "checker_try_read", "checker_verdicts"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Tools), want) {
 		t.Errorf("tools = %v, want %v", m.Tools, want)
 	}
-	for _, k := range []string{"logs", "emits", "claims", "provides", "requires", "defines-seats", "seat", "seats", "bus", "config"} {
+	// The try is the checker's own seat's verbs (ADR 0547 §10, issue 774), served beside the tools by the same code.
+	if len(m.Claims) != 1 || m.Claims[0].Name != "mesh-delivery-checker" || m.Claims[0].Scope != "mesh" ||
+		!reflect.DeepEqual(m.Claims[0].Serves, []string{"try", "try-read", "try-end"}) {
+		t.Errorf("claims = %+v, want the mesh seat mesh-delivery-checker serving try, try-read and try-end", m.Claims)
+	}
+	for _, k := range []string{"logs", "emits", "provides", "requires", "defines-seats", "seat", "seats", "bus", "config"} {
 		if _, ok := top[k]; ok {
 			t.Errorf("the manifest declares %q: the checker has none", k)
 		}

modules/mesh-delivery-checker/module.json

@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
   "module": "mesh-delivery-checker",
   "version": "1",
   "slug": "checker",
+  "claims": [
+    {
+      "name": "mesh-delivery-checker",
+      "scope": "mesh",
+      "serves": [
+        "try",
+        "try-read",
+        "try-end"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
   "consumes": [
     "mesh-build-go.toolchain.reported",
     "mesh-build-node.toolchain.reported"