The running provisioner account is kept only for a client held this pass, and rows hold the guard (issue 774, review)

The review removed the guard and the suite still passed. The guard is now provisionerHeld, a placed client held as
its stand-in, rather than any placed client, so one placed and not held that composes no account keeps none stale.
Rows in the held client's table: the client taken out of the node's placement while what runs names the account, read
from the running own composition and from the client's running process, names no account; a placed client whose
process names no user names none. With the guard removed the first three fail; with it reduced to "placed", the last.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KG7AfSdh6FP8VrBqCn

internal/compose/frombus/frombustest/frombustest_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ package frombustest
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"reflect"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -223,7 +225,11 @@ func TestTheProvisionedMeshHandsAPlanWithItsProvision(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, c := range before {
 		running = append(running, c)
 	}
-	for _, own := range []bool{true, false} {
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		own, placed bool // the account read from the running own composition, else the client's running process; the client placed
+		userless    bool // the client placed and not held, its process naming no user: it composes no account
+	}{{true, true, false}, {false, true, false}, {true, false, false}, {false, false, false}, {true, true, true}} {
+		own := row.own
 		runs := running
 		if !own { // what runs names no account of its own: the client's running process says it
 			runs = nil
@@ -234,16 +240,47 @@ func TestTheProvisionedMeshHandsAPlanWithItsProvision(t *testing.T) {
 				runs = append(runs, c)
 			}
 		}
-		b.Builds["mesh-provisioner-client "+fps["mesh-provisioner-client"]] = &delivery.BuilderBuild{State: delivery.BuildBuilding}
+		bb, err := Provisioned()
-		after, _, held, err := frombus.Compose(context.Background(), b, frombus.Mesh{}, frombus.Scope{Node: Node, Running: runs}, fps)
+		if err != nil {
-		if _, isHeld := held["mesh-provisioner-client"]; err != nil || !isHeld {
+			t.Fatal(err)
-			t.Fatalf("the client with no done build is not held: %v %v", held, err)
 		}
-		if got := after[ownKey].Own.Provisioner; got != account {
+		want := account
-			t.Errorf("the client held (account from its own composition: %v): the node's own names %q, want %q", own, got, account)
+		if row.userless {
+			// placed and not held, composing no account of its own: no stale account is kept from what runs
+			mod := bb.Module["mesh-provisioner-client"]
+			var m map[string]any
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(bb.Manifests[mod.Manifest], &m); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			for _, r := range m["resources"].([]any) {
+				delete(r.(map[string]any), "user")
+			}
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(m)
+			mod.Manifest = delivery.ManifestDigest(raw)
+			bb.Module["mesh-provisioner-client"], bb.Manifests[mod.Manifest] = mod, raw
+			built := *bb.Builds["mesh-provisioner-client "+fps["mesh-provisioner-client"]]
+			built.Manifest = mod.Manifest
+			bb.Builds["mesh-provisioner-client "+fps["mesh-provisioner-client"]] = &built
+			want = ""
+		} else if row.placed {
+			// held: its build not done while it runs
+			bb.Builds["mesh-provisioner-client "+fps["mesh-provisioner-client"]] = &delivery.BuilderBuild{State: delivery.BuildBuilding}
+		} else {
+			// taken out of the node's placement while what runs still names it: the account goes with it, never kept stale
+			p := bb.Placement[Node]
+			p.Modules = slices.DeleteFunc(slices.Clone(p.Modules), func(m delivery.PlacedModule) bool { return m.Module == "mesh-provisioner-client" })
+			bb.Placement[Node] = p
+			want = ""
 		}
-		if !reflect.DeepEqual(after[resticKey].Filled, before[resticKey].Filled) {
+		after, _, held, err := frombus.Compose(context.Background(), bb, frombus.Mesh{}, frombus.Scope{Node: Node, Running: runs}, fps)
-			t.Errorf("the client held (account from its own composition: %v): restic's filled files %v, want %v", own, after[resticKey].Filled, before[resticKey].Filled)
+		if _, isHeld := held["mesh-provisioner-client"]; err != nil || isHeld != (row.placed && !row.userless) {
+			t.Fatalf("%+v: held %v: %v", row, held, err)
+		}
+		if got := after[ownKey].Own.Provisioner; got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%+v: the node's own names %q, want %q", row, got, want)
+		}
+		if row.placed && !row.userless && !reflect.DeepEqual(after[resticKey].Filled, before[resticKey].Filled) {
+			t.Errorf("%+v: restic's filled files %v, want %v", row, after[resticKey].Filled, before[resticKey].Filled)
 		}
 	}
 }

internal/compose/rendering.go

@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ func (c *composer) places(nodeName string, resolved Resolved) (Placed, error) {
 	// not sent the field they would refuse.
 	r.Hands = takesHanded(node)
 	r.Provisioner = provisionerAccount(plan)
-	if r.Provisioner == "" && provisionerPlaced(plan) {
+	if r.Provisioner == "" && provisionerHeld(plan) {
-		// The provisioner's client is placed here but composes no account this pass (held as its stub, which runs no
+		// The provisioner's client is placed here and held this pass (its stub, or carried as it runs, composes no process
-		// process of its own composition): it keeps running as it runs, so the account it runs as stays named, and every
+		// of its own): it keeps running as it runs, so the account it runs as stays named, and every module stays handed
-		// module stays handed to it.
+		// to it. A client not held that composes no account, or none placed, names none: no stale account is kept.
 		r.Provisioner = node.RunningProvisioner
 	}
 	r.Assigned = node.Handed
@@ -196,11 +196,11 @@ func provisionerAccount(plan catalogue.Resolution) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
-// provisionerPlaced says the plan places a module claiming the provisioner client's seat on the machine, whether or not
+// provisionerHeld says the plan places a module claiming the provisioner client's seat on the machine that this pass
-// it composes the client's process this pass.
+// holds (its stand-in: Stub, or Carried as it runs), which composes none of the client's process.
-func provisionerPlaced(plan catalogue.Resolution) bool {
+func provisionerHeld(plan catalogue.Resolution) bool {
 	for _, m := range plan.Modules {
-		if m.ClaimsSeat(NodeProvisionerSeat) {
+		if m.Stubbed && m.ClaimsSeat(NodeProvisionerSeat) {
 			return true
 		}
 	}