Stage 1 — the host reports what a machine is and can do

Tier 0's first slice, per novox/hq 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md. It
applies nothing, connects to nothing, listens on nothing. 2.9 MB, static, no
dynamic dependencies: copy it onto a machine and run it is the whole install,
which is the property ADR 0041 rests on.

A capability is detected, never assumed. Every detector runs something that only
succeeds if the thing FUNCTIONS — the daemon is asked for its version, the
package database is queried, the firewall is asked to list a ruleset, which
needs the privilege as well as the tool. 04-ISSUES/007 is the fault this
prevents: a client on disk with its daemon down looks exactly like a working
runtime, and a node assigned work on that basis fails when the work arrives.

Every verdict carries the reason and the method. A capability reported absent
with no reason is the same fault in a new place: something nobody can act on.

Two bugs found by running rather than reasoning, both silent:

systemctl is-system-running exits non-zero for every state except `running` —
including `degraded`, which means units failed and the init is emphatically
there. Reading the exit code reported NO service manager on a machine whose init
it was. That is 007 in the mirror, and both directions place work wrongly. A
verdict now reads what a tool says about itself, not only how it exited.

And `mesh-host inventory --json` printed text: the standard library stops
parsing at the first non-flag argument, so the flag sat unread and the command
exited 0 having ignored what was asked. The parser now takes the subcommand off
the front, and a stray or mistyped argument is refused rather than dropped.

Detection deliberately does NOT follow ADR 0008. That rule governs applying
state, where a failed step means the machine is not what was asked for. A failed
probe is a finding — "absent, because the probe failed" — and aborting would
replace one legible absence with total ignorance of the rest.

25 tests: structure and logic with a fake runner, and the same detectors against
this machine, because a test that fakes the system under detection asserts only
that the fake behaves as expected.
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// Package inventory answers: what is this machine, and what does it hold?
//
// Reported upward and never asked downward (novox/hq 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md).
// Everything here is read from the machine at the moment of asking — nothing is remembered,
// nothing is derived from a file that says what the machine ought to be
// (novox/hq ADR 0035).
package inventory
import (
"context"
"os"
"runtime"
"strconv"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/profile"
)
// Inventory is what a machine reports about itself.
//
// Deliberately small. Everything here is either needed to identify the machine or needed to
// decide what may be placed on it; anything else would be a fact the mesh stores and nothing
// reads, which is the shape 04-ISSUES/003 records.
type Inventory struct {
// Machine is what this machine calls itself. NOT its node name — a node's name is assigned
// by the mesh, and a host that named itself would be deciding something.
Machine string `json:"machine"`
OS string `json:"os"`
Architecture string `json:"architecture"`
Kernel string `json:"kernel,omitempty"`
Distribution string `json:"distribution,omitempty"`
CPUs int `json:"cpus"`
MemoryKB int64 `json:"memory_kb,omitempty"`
Profile profile.Profile `json:"profile"`
// ObservedAt is when this was read. An inventory with no timestamp cannot be told from a
// stale one, and a node that has been unreachable for a week is an ordinary situation
// (novox/hq ADR 0036) rather than an error — so the age of the observation is part of it.
ObservedAt time.Time `json:"observed_at"`
// Unreadable lists what could not be determined, and why. An absent field and a field that
// failed to read are different facts, and collapsing them loses the one worth acting on.
Unreadable []string `json:"unreadable,omitempty"`
}
// Reader supplies the machine's own files. Replaced in tests only for the parsing layer; the
// real reader is exercised against this machine as well.
type Reader func(path string) ([]byte, error)
// Collect reads the machine. It never fails: a fact that cannot be read is recorded as
// unreadable rather than aborting, because an inventory missing one field is useful and an
// inventory that refused to be taken is not.
func Collect(ctx context.Context, read Reader, detectors []profile.Detector, timeout time.Duration) Inventory {
if read == nil {
read = os.ReadFile
}
inv := Inventory{
OS: runtime.GOOS,
Architecture: runtime.GOARCH,
CPUs: runtime.NumCPU(),
ObservedAt: time.Now().UTC(),
}
if name, err := os.Hostname(); err == nil {
inv.Machine = name
} else {
inv.Unreadable = append(inv.Unreadable, "machine name: "+err.Error())
}
if b, err := read("/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease"); err == nil {
inv.Kernel = strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
} else {
inv.Unreadable = append(inv.Unreadable, "kernel: "+err.Error())
}
if b, err := read("/etc/os-release"); err == nil {
inv.Distribution = distributionFrom(string(b))
} else {
inv.Unreadable = append(inv.Unreadable, "distribution: "+err.Error())
}
if b, err := read("/proc/meminfo"); err == nil {
if kb, ok := memoryFrom(string(b)); ok {
inv.MemoryKB = kb
} else {
inv.Unreadable = append(inv.Unreadable, "memory: MemTotal not found in /proc/meminfo")
}
} else {
inv.Unreadable = append(inv.Unreadable, "memory: "+err.Error())
}
inv.Profile = profile.Detect(ctx, detectors, timeout)
return inv
}
// distributionFrom pulls the human name out of an os-release file.
//
// Prefers PRETTY_NAME, falls back to ID. Values may be quoted or not, and a line may contain
// an `=` in the value, so the split is on the first only.
func distributionFrom(osRelease string) string {
fields := map[string]string{}
for _, line := range strings.Split(osRelease, "\n") {
line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
if line == "" || strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
continue
}
key, value, found := strings.Cut(line, "=")
if !found {
continue
}
fields[strings.TrimSpace(key)] = strings.Trim(strings.TrimSpace(value), `"'`)
}
if pretty := fields["PRETTY_NAME"]; pretty != "" {
return pretty
}
return fields["ID"]
}
// memoryFrom reads MemTotal, in kilobytes, from a meminfo file.
func memoryFrom(meminfo string) (int64, bool) {
for _, line := range strings.Split(meminfo, "\n") {
if !strings.HasPrefix(line, "MemTotal:") {
continue
}
parts := strings.Fields(line)
if len(parts) < 2 {
return 0, false
}
kb, err := strconv.ParseInt(parts[1], 10, 64)
if err != nil {
return 0, false
}
return kb, true
}
return 0, false
}
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package inventory
import (
"context"
"errors"
"os"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/profile"
)
func TestAnUnreadableFactIsRecordedNotFatal(t *testing.T) {
// An inventory missing one field is useful; an inventory that refused to be taken is not.
// And an absent fact and a fact that failed to read are different things — collapsing them
// loses the one worth acting on.
failing := func(string) ([]byte, error) { return nil, errors.New("permission denied") }
inv := Collect(context.Background(), failing, nil, time.Second)
if inv.Machine == "" && len(inv.Unreadable) == 0 {
t.Fatal("nothing was read and nothing was reported unreadable")
}
if len(inv.Unreadable) == 0 {
t.Fatal("every file failed and nothing was recorded as unreadable")
}
for _, u := range inv.Unreadable {
if !strings.Contains(u, ":") {
t.Errorf("unreadable entry does not say which fact failed: %q", u)
}
}
if inv.Architecture == "" || inv.CPUs == 0 {
t.Error("facts that need no file were lost along with the ones that did")
}
}
func TestDistributionIsReadFromTheMachineNotAssumed(t *testing.T) {
cases := map[string]string{
"PRETTY_NAME=\"Arch Linux\"\nID=arch\n": "Arch Linux",
"ID=arch\n": "arch",
"# a comment\n\nID=debian\nPRETTY_NAME='Debian 13'\n": "Debian 13",
"NAME=Weird\nPRETTY_NAME=\"Has=Equals\"\n": "Has=Equals",
"": "",
}
for input, want := range cases {
if got := distributionFrom(input); got != want {
t.Errorf("distributionFrom(%q) = %q, want %q", input, got, want)
}
}
}
func TestMemoryIsReadOrReportedMissing(t *testing.T) {
if kb, ok := memoryFrom("MemTotal: 32762868 kB\nMemFree: 1 kB\n"); !ok || kb != 32762868 {
t.Errorf("memoryFrom returned %d, %v", kb, ok)
}
// A meminfo without MemTotal must not read as zero memory — a machine reporting no memory
// would be excluded from placement for a parsing failure.
if _, ok := memoryFrom("MemFree: 1 kB\n"); ok {
t.Error("a meminfo with no MemTotal was read as a successful measurement")
}
if _, ok := memoryFrom("MemTotal: not-a-number kB\n"); ok {
t.Error("an unparseable MemTotal was read as a successful measurement")
}
}
func TestTheInventorySaysWhenItWasTaken(t *testing.T) {
// A node unreachable for a week is an ordinary situation (novox/hq ADR 0036), so an
// inventory that cannot be told from a stale one is missing the fact that matters.
before := time.Now().UTC()
inv := Collect(context.Background(), nil, nil, time.Second)
if inv.ObservedAt.IsZero() {
t.Fatal("the inventory does not say when it was observed")
}
if inv.ObservedAt.Before(before.Add(-time.Second)) || inv.ObservedAt.After(time.Now().UTC().Add(time.Second)) {
t.Errorf("ObservedAt is not the moment of observation: %s", inv.ObservedAt)
}
}
func TestTheHostDoesNotNameTheNode(t *testing.T) {
// A node's name is assigned by the mesh. A host that named itself would be deciding
// something, which is precisely what novox/hq ADR 0037 forbids it to do.
inv := Collect(context.Background(), nil, nil, time.Second)
hostname, _ := os.Hostname()
if inv.Machine != hostname {
t.Errorf("Machine is %q, not the machine's own hostname %q", inv.Machine, hostname)
}
}
// --- against this machine ---------------------------------------------------------------
func TestAgainstThisMachine_inventoryIsTrue(t *testing.T) {
// novox/hq ADR 0034: behaviour against a real system is tested alongside, not mocked.
inv := Collect(context.Background(), nil, profile.Default(nil), 10*time.Second)
if inv.Machine == "" {
t.Error("this machine did not report a name")
}
if inv.CPUs < 1 {
t.Errorf("this machine reported %d cpus", inv.CPUs)
}
if inv.OS == "linux" {
if inv.Kernel == "" {
t.Error("a linux machine reported no kernel version")
}
if inv.MemoryKB <= 0 {
t.Error("a linux machine reported no memory")
}
}
if len(inv.Profile.Capabilities) == 0 {
t.Error("the inventory carries no profile")
}
t.Logf("machine=%s dist=%q kernel=%s arch=%s cpus=%d mem=%dMB unreadable=%v",
inv.Machine, inv.Distribution, inv.Kernel, inv.Architecture,
inv.CPUs, inv.MemoryKB/1024, inv.Unreadable)
}