The operator's decision of 2026-11-02 01:05, on mesh-sdk 4224665:
- issue takes overlay_key, the machine's tunnel public key as `nox-mesh-host key` prints it, and refuses a missing one. The
token's first tunnel is whole: key, address, range (the hub's tunnel range in placement, the one the controller's token
carries today; a hub with none is a finding, never a guess), hub key and hub endpoint.
- On the operator's yes the node is proposed into placement at once (add-node with its tunnel key alone, on the warrant), and
only then is the token made, so the hub peers it before redeem. Redeem writes no placement: it refuses a tunnel key other
than the one issued for, or a node placement does not hold yet, and the certificate's call carries all four keys presented.
- A revoke, a refusal or an expiry before confirm takes the node off placement (remove-node, same warrant) before the end is
said, and the end brings the token's drop.
- The assigner applies a remove-node: the node's key deleted at once, with no ask, placement-changed carrying the warrant.
- The tunnel key is kept as one more member of the node key's JSON, beside delivery.Enrolment, until the contract carries it.
Tests: rows in the existing tables and both integration tests (the token's Missing() is empty; the node is placed before
redeem and leaves placement when its enrolment expires); no function added, mesh-delivery stays at 816.
(issue 774)
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- 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
The holder's code over a real nats-server bucket with a time to live per key: issue, the operator's yes, redeem as enrol.ace,
the node confirming as the login its key of node-logins names (the stand-in vault writes it at node-account), node-enrolled
and placement-changed said on their subjects, the user enrol.ace composed while the key is live and gone with it, the token
dropped only after the end; and a token never redeemed expires on the bus, is heard, says enrolment-expired and is dropped.
Found by it: a bucket with a time to live per key must keep one revision per key, or the bus expires nothing (nats-server
2.11.17), so the state enrolments declares no history. Paid for: the integration test is paid by merging the builder's
archive-only and root-module integration tests into one table test; the module's ten unit tests by merging the assigner's
three small composition tests into one table (net 2 of 10 paid; the rest is for the lead, the repository being over budget).
(issue 774, 774/S60)
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propose takes the enrolment's warrant {node, address, ask, warrant} and refuses an add-node from any caller but
mesh-enrolment, with no warrant or with a warrant naming another node or address (delivery.AddNodeRefusal); the joining node
counts as having a record for this one change, as ADR 0587 §7 changes ADR 0567 §2. The assigner's process then writes
placement.<node> at once, with no node to answer and no ask raised, and says placement-changed carrying the enrolment's
warrant; the hand-act record of that warrant is the enrolment's, made when it was given. The holder of mesh-enrolment calls
propose with the change, the keys and the warrant read from the router's record of the ask. Tests: rows appended to the
seat's verbs test and a case to the whole-seat integration test; none added, so none to pay for (the budget is paid in
774/S60).
(issue 774, 774/S59)
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The integration tests put placement (not assignments) and the node's own composition (not the controller's) on the bus; the
three that tested the controller's judgements of a move (waiting for a composition, a record move, a user-list revision) go,
their unit counterparts standing. Run locally against the embedded bus, all of this module's integration tests pass.
Found by them: the answer to a failed backup was dropped from a placed node's want at every pass, because the carry-over
compared the want's digest, which a placed node's want does not carry; fixed in wants.go, with a case in the existing unit test.
Tests: three integration tests deleted, none added; one case added to an existing unit test.
(issue 774, 774/S26, 774/S27)
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The controller's placement-export is no longer called, its answer reader, the seed and the hand-back flow of the holder are
removed, and a seed or hand-back proposal a previous process left open ends at its next pass.
Tests: the adopt, hand-back and seed cases of the seat's verb test and of Propose are replaced by one gone-case; the export
reader's table and the seed test go.
(issue 774, 774/S28)
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mesh-controller.composed leaves the reads and the watches; upgrade compare lists the node composition digests of the haves
instead of comparing with the controller's policies, which the controller no longer writes.
(issue 774, 774/S27)
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Every handed-away branch is the only one: world.assigned is the placement, the pair comparison and its conditions go, the
lease and assignments buckets are no longer opened, watched or declared, and a proposal of any kind is taken.
Tests: the pair-comparison test and the controller-composition record-ask test are replaced by one placement test; the
rest are edited to place their modules instead of assigning them.
(issue 774, 774/S26)
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Drops callAll, the refused-call conditions and the pin reads; the conditions a previous process raised are cleared once.
Tests: deletes four (the refused-call condition, its clearing, the contract of the calls, the condition's shape) and adds one.
(issue 774, 774/S25)
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mesh/delivery-group group feat/l5-l7-main rejected: composed together: the checker's verdict at the members' heads (e32e2c9c4fea): integration: mesh-delivery-b…
One helper serves every part that reads whole states (ADR 0580 clause 3): the assigner's own watched mirror goes, its
compare reads the large states from stdio.WatchedStates and each manifest once per digest. mesh-sdk pinned at 8311ecb.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Issue 1585, S11: world and wants read with catalogue.Decode; a trunk refusal is held, named and handed to the
composer in its input; a proposal's composition read that fails is said, not dropped; a reader that cannot read a
changed field is a warning, no longer a failure.
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The holder writes a node's changed module keys, then its node key as the commit by compare-and-set at
the revision the proposal was laid over, then the placement.<node> mirror for readers not yet delivered.
Every reader assembles through mesh-sdk's PlacementKeys, which reads both forms.
On novox the asks of postgres, keycloak and mongodb were judged stale against the controller's compositions, taken away and made again under a new id every pass (8 s), so no answer could count; and every put is a change the node composes again on.
Quick fix: the stale check keeps a record ask whose digest the node's have waits on; the pass skips a put whose value the bucket holds.
Thorough fix beside it (not here, another branch owns the file): the node-engine's composer composes again only when a want's value changed.
Rule 8 asked a key for every `requires`, and the plans key only a handed module's needs and what a helper answers:
grafana waited on ace for oidc-client, which the controller still makes, and mesh-build-go for go-toolchain on its own
machine, for ever. MissingProvisions now takes catalogue.Awaited, the one rule the plan composition and mesh-provisioner
key by, judged against the providers placed somewhere.
Quick fix: drop the missing-key check. Thorough fix (chosen): the shared rule in mesh-sdk, so the three parts cannot
drift again. Needs mesh-sdk at 30098229b831.
mesh/check checking 8fe6442c4754 on c104e7500d21 | novox/mesh-delivery#118 in group fix/held-module-and-assigner-contract
A pin made by hand, as the condition's Needs asks, changed nothing the assigner looked at, so its urgent condition
never cleared, and a restart left every one raised. The assigner now reads the controller's pins (placement-export,
asked again only after the controller's compositions change, never on a timer) and clears a pin's condition once
they agree with the placement's after being seen differing, as a module's place already did. The first pass takes
over the call conditions a previous process raised, pins and places alike, and retries at the next pass when the
findings cannot be read.
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).
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On novox on 2026-10-29 the assigner wrote no want for de-spiegel and link2pay (rule 5: no provider of route runs
healthy) nor photos (rule 5: no provider of s3-bucket), and none where no node of a module was online (rule 3). A
module with no want is on no list and nothing applies it; a site runs while the proxy in front of it is down.
- Quick fix: skip rules 3 and 5 for the three modules' first wants. Leaves rule 5 holding every move and the
canary holding new assignments.
- Thorough fix, chosen: rule 5 holds no want; it is said per node (Outcome.Unreached, journaled once per words by the
pass). The canary (rule 3) no longer holds the first want of a node that does not run the module. A node that runs
it keeps the canary order: at an older composed and granted fingerprint of the new form its first want stays at what
it runs; at an old-form build it waits for the canary as before (issue 1945); at an older fingerprint with no
composition or grant it gets F. This departs from ADR 0429 §6, which makes every provider healthy a rule of every want.
Tests: rows changed in the existing rule tests, and rows for today's modules (route-proxy down: de-spiegel and
link2pay wanted; minio not healthy: photos moves; novox offline: a first want written, a move kept back).
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