mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
mesh/delivery covered after its failure: a later walk that contains it was delivered: plan-1791657606681868190 (novox/mesh-host at 9d8aa9d6 into main, do…
SetuidCache compared the caller's now with a time read from the wall clock when the search finished. When the caller's clock ran behind the wall clock, a search was never due again: TestTheSetuidSearchRunsInTheBackgroundAndIsKeptForItsInterval, whose clock is a fixed date, has failed on main and every branch since 2026-10-09 18:00 UTC. A search's time is now the now it was started at; a result reads at most one search older than it is, which errs towards searching again.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
The search kept a two-minute limit of its own inside its 15-minute bound, so
a long walk always ended incomplete; pacman was asked once per path; and find
exiting with an error but some output was read as a complete walk. The bound
and the not-judged reasons move to the public rootsearch package so the
controller reads the same values (the review of 2026-10-09).
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
A search over a large disk ran inside the look, holding the judge's lock and
stalling the health statement; it now runs apart, serving its last result,
backing off after a failure, and saying not judged until it has one. And a
rule naming a user, or a comment, no longer hides another rule's
unconditional yes (hq ADR 0266).
A hard link swapped in for ~/.claude would have had root chown another
account's file; fstat on the descriptor now refuses a second link, a fifo or
an unexpected kind before anything is changed (hq ADR 0266, the re-review).
The judge also finds polkit rules for every account, a runtime's API on TCP,
setgid-to-root programs whoever owns them, setuid programs on every suid
filesystem, and unprotected links; the rest is listed as not judged.
An account could replace ~/.claude with a link to /etc and have the
node-engine chown, chmod or write through it on the next apply. Below a
person's or an agent's home every component is now opened without
following a link, and a link refuses the resource in words.
The root judge also reads doas and polkit rules, the container runtimes'
sockets with their ACLs, ACLs on the secrets, and setuid-root programs no
package owns, in the C locale; Judged and NotJudged write down exactly
what it covers (hq ADR 0266 review).
An account an agent runs as (novox/hq ADR 0266) is read on every look for a
uid of 0, a group that grants root, any sudo rule and a mesh secret it can
read; any way found is unhealthy and said, a read that fails is unknown.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
A module puts the operator's account in a group by declaring the account with that group alone.
The node-engine now records each group it added, takes back only those when nothing declared still
asks for them, refuses a group the machine lacks before usermod runs, and states each such account
as its module's resource of kind account: relogin needed while the running session lacks the group.
jochen