The check of 2026-11-02 22:35 on a loaded shanks failed two buildrun tests on wall-clock bounds of 60 ms, the
second failure of this kind tonight (the first: mesh-sdk's busretry tests, f02f142).
Quick fix: give the two buildrun asker tests bounds of seconds.
Thorough fix (chosen, because the kind recurs across every module of the repository): every test that raced a
wall clock now waits on an event, steps a clock it is given, or has a bound only a failing test reaches.
- buildrun asker tests: the steps' own times stand for the clock (bound an hour, starts and phases written in the
past), no goroutine paces phases with sleeps.
- builder: the decline bound reads Builder.Now; the decline test steps it; the stream-wait test waits for five
check reads instead of 100 ms.
- checker: the lost-ask try bounds an untaken ask at 200 ms only where that is what ends it; the program says when a
merge turn changes, and the integration test waits on that line instead of 300 ms.
- teller: the bed makes the teller's own ends bucket (a 10 s stall at start the tests raced by 0.5 s), waits for its
warrant subscription instead of 500 ms pauses, and the package-level now is restored with t.Cleanup.
- watchman: the recount, run in its own goroutine, is waited for instead of 10 ms.
- polls of 2-5 s become 10 s (unit) and 20 s (integration).
Under a throttled cgroup (half a core shared with two busy loops) beside the node-engine's suite, the buildrun
tests failed 5 of 20 runs before and passed 30 of 30 after; no test added.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
buildrun leaves mesh-sdk for the builder's own Go module (ADR 0593 §1); the
checker, assigner, indexer and watchman require it by a replace to the sibling
directory. Issue 1930's bound was already on mesh-sdk's main and moves with it.
The builder copies the imports a build module answers to the done key and the
log's end entry, where the indexer keeps them (§2; D7).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
The watchman held a node a control node, urgent after half an hour
silent, while its have named mesh-controller; the controller ended by
its unassignment (ADR 0590), so no node was one any more and the bus
node's silence stayed a warning. The control node is now the node whose
have holds the bus module, nats, which the watchman already hears by
that name.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
ADR 0590 supersedes the lease write: mesh-grants says no lease event any
more, so the watchman's lease-altered and removal-failed findings and
their row had nothing to hear. The ended controller's consumers are
removed as hand acts, so their deletion is no consumer lost; only the
one on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES is still read, since its removal hands the
notices to the watchman. The builder hears artifacts-gone from the
artifact sweep seat alone, and mesh-enrolment's tokens no longer report
an issuing gate that nothing can turn off.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
The controller ended by its unassignment, so its lease key is absent for
good and mesh-sdk reads that as not handed away: mesh-enrolment's issue
stayed off and the watchman never took DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES, whose notices
age out after a week. Both now act without reading the lease; the
watchman still waits, and says so, while the controller's consumer on the
notices stands. Neither manifest reads the lease any more.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
- redeem writes the node into placement before it asks the vault for the account and the certificate of the serving key
presented (the vault reads the node's address from placement); a retry by the same keys still finishes (blocker 3).
- loadedVia reads mesh-grants.user-list's pass as the part's whole Result, the list state under user_list; the fixture
testdata/grants-pass.json was written by mesh-grants' own Result, not by hand (blocker 4).
- enrolment-expired is delivery.EnrolmentExpiry with IssuedID, through its codec; a key that expired before its content was
seen names no issued event, so nothing is said and its token is dropped at once (blocker 6).
- issue builds the joining node's first tunnel from placement (the hub, its endpoint, the node's address) and the hub's
record (its tunnel key) and passes it to enrolment-token; no hub, or a hub with no key or endpoint, is a finding of issue
(ADR 0587 §3, insight of 2026-11-02).
- The assigner takes an add-node only from mesh-enrolment's own bus user (stdio.Callers), never person.mesh-enrolment.
- The watchman raises machine.<node>.node-account-fallback from a node's health report's fall back and clears it when the
report no longer carries one (ADR 0583 §6, blocker 7).
- mesh-enrolment's ten unit test functions are two table tests now (blocker 8): the repository is back at 816.
(issue 774)
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
mesh/check failed: mesh-build-go: the check of novox/mesh-catalog#590: the ask mvyhumdm860c7f's step on shanks did not end within 30m0s of its start |…
mesh/delivery merged: source.main moved to novox/mesh-delivery@9125fcc71206
ADR 0582 clauses 4 and 6: mesh-grants says lease-altered and removal-failed "as a finding the watchman raises".
The watchman hears the seat mesh-grants' three events on core subjects (mesh-sdk WatchmanHears, its grant and
its subscriptions from one list, rather than a consume and a durable consumer), raises lease-altered naming
what changed and clears it at the next lease-handed, and raises removal-failed naming what failed and clears it
once what it names reads gone: the controller's consumer of DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES by its deletion advisory
(heard already), the stream ASSIGNMENTS by its own. The finding DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller stays as it is.
Test: a row in TestTheWatchmansFindings; no new function.
(issue 774, 774/S22)
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
mesh/check checking edf7b3c0bf3a on b1f262d7d06e | novox/mesh-delivery#129 in group feat/judge-once
Issue 1585, R1: fresh holds the digests a take-in newly wrote (a new module, a changed manifest); a registered or
taken-in module is judged too; a start pass that fails is judged again at the next message heard, no timer.
R2: a module's verdict, problems and warnings are carried while its digest stands and are no part of the compare.
R3: the checker judges the trunk beside the change and fails on every problem the change case adds, an untouched
manifest's included. R4: the judge reads the indexer's kept predefined keys, or the catalogue member's when it
changes them. A log line names a package no held module publishes. Every module pins mesh-sdk 62cddf4.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
Issue 1585: the indexer keeps an accepted manifest accepted when a stricter judge re-judges it, its problems as
warnings carried in its value; a merge's new manifests are judged in full. The watchman raises manifest-outgrown as
a warning until mended. The checker fails only on a manifest the change adds or changes and names the rest as
warnings. Every module pins mesh-sdk 19c2042.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
Issue 1585, S6-S8: 192 judge-only declarations (the strict parser, every manifest problem function, the tables)
moved whole by an AST mover, methods becoming functions; 163 helpers composition keeps too are copied. 245 tests
move with them, reading the captured catalogue through a copy of internal/beside. judge.WithTemplatesFrom and
ReadTreeManifest judge what mesh-sdk's readers now only fill. mesh-delivery's own tests decode. Pinned to mesh-sdk 25a2cec.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
Issue 1585, S10: the watchman watches the indexer's modules and finds manifest-refused for a module whose value
carries a refusal, ending it once accepted. Its mesh-sdk pin moves to the group head, so it takes health.Finding's
Ref (issue 1952 renamed Token).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
At a restart a standing finding is observed again by the replayed failed have: kept, not confirmed again, and its urgent
signal runs on from the finding's Since; an urgent one stays urgent with no signal restarted.
Quick: skip the confirm when a finding stands. Thorough, chosen: the same, plus urgency read from the finding itself.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
A have that turned failed once and stayed unchanged was written once, so the old count of two writes never fired and the
finding was never written (fail2ban on novox). Confirm by time, with a signal, also at a restart.
Quick: raise the count to one write (loses the confirmation). Thorough, chosen: confirm by a time bound, as ADR 0564 s4's
signals are keys that expire, so no write count is needed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
The assigner added "why" to every assign, unassign, pin and unpin since 2026-10-28; the controller's seat contract
takes no such argument, so it refused each one and did nothing. No approved placement reached the controller's
assignments, no bus account was minted for a newly placed module, and the refusal was only a journal line.
Quick fix: drop "why" from ControllerCalls. Thorough fix: a contract test that every argument ControllerCalls gives,
for every verb, is declared (and every required one given) in catalogue.ControllerVerbs, plus an urgent condition per
pair whose call was refused (verb, node, module, the controller's words), cleared when a later call is answered or the
two sources agree. Chosen: both here; a caller-side check of arguments against the seat's contract for every seat
call belongs in mesh-sdk and is noted for the lead. The warrant stays in the assigner's own record (placement-changed,
the hand-act log).
Every module pins mesh-sdk eff81f1220e2 (in review).
A key that ages out of its bucket (the build seats' asks pass the stream's 168 h) leaves no marker a watch hears,
and one deleted while the watchman was down is not heard either: its stuck key stood unmoved for ever, and 26
stuck-key conditions of asks from 2026-10-21 were open on 10-30.
Quick fix: mark stuck keys older than the stream's maximum age moved.
Thorough fix, chosen because it covers every bucket the watchman mirrors and any way a key goes: at the start's
end, a stuck key not moved whose bucket was read whole at this start (each build seat's steps, the assigner's
wants) and whose key was not read standing is written moved, which clears its finding, and the closing is said
in the log. A bucket that could not be read closes nothing. A key that ages out while the watchman runs is
closed at its next start: a KV age-out emits no event, and no timer is added.
S1 is urgent after half an hour for a control node (the node running mesh-controller). S9 also hears the bus module's
slow consumers and closed connections, each closure counted once. S21 is one finding per heard machine from its failed
haves and its provisioner clients' reports (PROV_APPLIED). DEAD_LETTERS is counted again at a letter's age and every
five minutes while letters are held, on the watchman's own pulse. needs-operator waits for L6: its inputs are not on the
bus. Pins mesh-sdk b6ef01d.
The signals rows S1, S8, S9, S10, S11, S21 and the haves' unhealthy and needs-operator are pulses whose expiry is a finding;
stuck keys and presence are its own findings; it keeps the dead letters from the lease write on its own consumer, lists and
shows them, and refuses deliver and drop until the hand-act log's home (issue 1953). Tools read every state it keeps and
start resync. Pins mesh-sdk 2a04bf0.
mesh/check pass 4628ba26b41a on 73be3df28cd4 | unit 167 run, 443 kept | integration 177 run, 509 kept | composition passed on 3 machines
The open helpers were copied into seven parts; code shared between
modules lives in mesh-sdk, so they are mesh-sdk process's now and the
parts are pinned at fix/1945-optional-buckets (e0d1de04), moved to its
main once it merges, one delivery group with mesh-sdk.
Met twice on 2026-10-25: the builder of #48 exited on a refused read of
the gate's source and crash-looped, and its new reasks bucket would have
done the same. A grant reaches the bus with a delivery, so a refusal or a
timeout at start is often only a grant not there yet; exiting for it
stopped the whole part until a hand step on the bus.
Every startup open in the parts is now essential or optional. Essential
ones (a part's own state and the input it exists for) still stop the
start, with an error naming the bucket and its grant. Optional ones are
said and left: watches the bus refuses too. The builder builds trunk keys
without the gate's source, which it opens again at the next candidate
that asks a trunk head; toolchains and previews open again at their next
event, as a missing bucket did. builder_ask_again says that asking a
running step again builds it twice.
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