novox's mesh-vault has failed since 01:16 on 2026-10-29: its have says failed, so loadHad (fbea777) takes no
composition from it, and what runs falls back to the kept declaration, whose export (mesh-vault.kept) names
f099eaa1, an object the controller's sweep removed. The node wrote a newer export since. The composer carries that
file as it runs (mesh-sdk frombus keptOf), so what runs now names the digest and size of what is on disk, but only
where the node's record says it wrote exactly that content at that path (Applied.Wrote, Target). The apply then
finds the file in place and needs no object.
Quick fix weighed: have the controller put the object back. Thorough (chosen, in the node): what runs is what the node
wrote, never a guess from an older declaration. The rows join the existing whole-apply test; the test count stays.
On novox at 01:16 on 2026-10-29, after the node began composing its own modules, mesh-vault's apply failed while the
vault ran: its own composition carries the export as it runs (mesh-sdk frombus KeptRuns) by a digest whose object the
controller's sweep (mesh-controller cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_sweep.go, sweepNode and sweepDeclarationFiles)
had removed, since the sweep keeps only what the controller's compositions in composed-<node> and the wants name.
The node may only read its bucket (ADR 0486 §2), so the node keeps what it had: a file here that verifies, or an
object fetched, goes to <state dir>/objects under the object's name, and a kept one is used before the bus is asked.
An object unused for 14 days is let go. A fetch that still fails says the keep never held it, before its cause.
Quick fix weighed: re-put the object from the controller's store. Thorough (chosen): the node never depends on the
bucket for content it once had, for every module, since the sweep and a node composing its own can always disagree.
The whole-apply test gains three rows that fail on the old code; the test count stays.
The kept-declaration fallback built a composition without Data, so after a restart a data module (mongodb, mssql
on novox) was judged to move its data against its first composition and the operator was asked a false yes. Now
every such composition takes Data from the manifest (agent.Env.HoldsData, the composer's DataItems), and a module
whose manifest cannot be read is said to be unjudgeable rather than taken to hold none. The composition a have
names comes before the kept declaration in the judgement too.
loadHad takes a have only in the phases baseline takes as running (running, held, a composer's mark): one backing
up, applying, checking, failed or waiting names a composition not applied (review of 031e106). Two rows added to
the same table test; the count stays.
A held module on a node composing its own never gets a composition, so the agent never took it and the filling
judged its files by the kept declaration, older than power's three new drop-ins: refused from every engine start
on ace, g14 and shanks until some module settled (2026-10-29 00:09 UTC). The second meeting of issue 924.
Quick fix: knock the filling once the haves are read at the start. Thorough fix (chosen, the kind recurs for every
file added since the switch): what runs of such a module is the composition its have names, from the bucket or
its revisions, ahead of the kept declaration; the filling is knocked on every change of what runs, not only on a
settle. One unit test replaced by a table of four cases; the count stays.
The answer names its proposal and the revision of the node's own candidate key; a node with no key in a proposal is not asked. The watch for its own placement key is tried again until the seat's state exists, so the node switches when its key is written.
mesh/check being carried to bf667a602d21 on 58b4f8b6bc07 | from 9a8b3870bad0
A reboot left the have running, so a unit that failed to start at boot was never started again and nothing said so. Baseline now asks the machine; the judge's look calls Agent.Reconcile once per down edge, leaving held and unwanted modules alone.
mesh/check pass 24c23a1d066f on a548a61e86d7 | unit 2667 run, 590 kept, 36 skipped | integration 2676 run, 633 kept, 29 skipped | over bound: unit (sl…
frombus.Compose now holds a module refused alone (mesh-sdk 0de3006, the rule
its answer follows too): composed as what runs of it, with what depends on
how it is held held too. The composer hands every other module, keeps what it
handed of a held one, and tells the agent which modules it holds and why;
agent.NotComposedEach marks those alone and clears the rest. Only a refusal
of no single module still marks every module (NotComposed).
heldOut also holds out, of the node's own composition as it runs, the
resources of each module held alone, until a composition of its own is
handed: the node's own apply never removes a module leaving the fold with its
names unset (review of the apply, round 1; issue 1945 by a new path).
Pins mesh-sdk fix/1126-apply-culprit at 0de3006 (a group).
Met twice on 2026-10-28: shanks kept 'want.shanks.brother could not be read ... no
responders' as the own-secret step's last word, and ace kept 'the vault's own: not yet
... no responders' as its answer to seed-7, each until another input moved. Every bus
read of the composer (manifests, builds, archives, served values, the vault's own and
credentials, the have of what runs) is noted (BusFailed); an answer or a pass that met
one is made again after a growing bound (5 s to 5 min), and a pass is not handed when
the have of its sealed values did not answer. The own-secret step tells a read or an
ask that did not answer (Retry, taken again) from a key absent or the vault's word.
On shanks probe/1126-seed-7 was answered at revision 84 every 13-17 s: each look rewrote
the haves of its unhealthy modules with new words, and the shadow took any write of its
own module haves, placement, modules or config values as a change. Each answer loaded
the bus, the health tools timed out, the words moved again. Now only what an answer is
composed from wakes it (what runs, folded modules, a changed value), and each group is
answered again only when its keys' revisions or the node's inputs moved.
A new step, internal/ownresync, after each shadow answer: for each own secret masked as another value, while the node
applies the controller's compositions and runs the one its want names, it asks the vault's move-in with
replace_running: true and the running value sealed to the call's key, once per value, and says what it asked and what
the vault answered. The answer written to the node's have key carries values_differ. Pins the group's mesh-sdk head
1062b33 (go.sum is filled once that head is pushed).
A box is reused by slot (resource, field) after the composition, from what runs or the
have's slots; a have written before slots is reused within its module alone. Config
values are laid by mesh-sdk's one rule (never a default). The shadow answers the
newest candidate first and hands each answer as it lands, says when an answer starts,
every minute what it waits on, and when it ends, and fits an answer to the node's key.
Needs mesh-sdk fix/1126-seed-same (16b8d8a1).
Live 2026-10-28: the own run's last pass, failing on its run's end, marked
every module of the controller-mode agent that replaced it (ace 60, shanks 63),
and the marks dropped the build and digest because the have read failed in the
bus's reload pause. Now: the refusal hook is bound to the run's agent and ctx;
a pass whose context ended returns nothing; JetStream not enabled or no
responders are tried again after 1, 2 and 4 s before any mark; NotComposed reads
the have again while the bus does not answer and marks nothing it cannot read;
baseline takes a have a composer marked as what runs, so a mark it did not make
clears; each run's shadow lives with the run.
mesh/check checking 463626143567 on bb15aab50eda | novox/mesh-host#154 in group fix/1126-shadow-all
selfComposer took a KVHistory error for 'not placed': at any restart a timeout
or a bus not ready flipped a self-composing node to the controller's
compositions for a whole run. selfcompose.Placed chooses only on a read that
succeeds (a missing placement state is one), and tries again otherwise, said
once. The shadow's answer to a head deleting the placement reads the
controller's composition at each want in the node's bucket and compares it with
what runs; a want with none refuses, without returning.
The seed's revert (mesh-catalog #526) was refused on 'would stop running node',
while a self-composing node would have refused its placement's absence, kept
what runs and marked every have failed until a restart. endWhenUnplaced ends the
agent's run when the key goes, so it begins again on the controller's
compositions, as at a start without a key; the composer refuses nothing while
unplaced; the node's have says whose compositions it applies (Composes); the
shadow answers a deleted placement Returns, verdict same.
H8 found it: a module the node could not compose yet got a failed have naming
no fingerprint, which counted as run inside the node's own composition, so the
next composition took it from its manifest past its build.
The node read a behind module's source manifest digest and composed every module
from the indexer's raw manifest; frombus now takes the build itself (Scope.KeptAt,
a fingerprint). The reader gives frombus the builder's key, a templates archive
fetched as every archive is (apply.Fetch) once per digest and checked against it,
and another node's served keys one by one, as the node's grant allows them.
The fold's watch of every have key ('>') was refused (permissions violation on
CONSUMER.CREATE KV_node-engine_have), and every self-composing agent stopped
after the seed. The composer now watches '*.node' (records) and '<node>.>' (its
own haves), as buscompose grants a node; the shadow watches '<node>.>' too. The
selfcompose tests check every watch and get against PermissionsFor(KindNode),
and the agent's integration tests run the agent as the node under that grant.
mesh/check failed: unit: ..test: ✔ a transient empty list for four passes retires nothing; five stable passes retire, data kept (290.408814ms) | 58de6…
mesh/check failed: ace: novox/mesh-catalog#505: checks/placement/go.mod names mesh-sdk 91413de33516, which is neither on mesh-sdk's trunk nor the grou…
mesh/check failed: shanks: novox/mesh-catalog#505: checks/placement/go.mod names mesh-sdk 91413de33516, which is neither on mesh-sdk's trunk nor the g…
mesh/check failed: shanks: novox/mesh-catalog#505: checks/placement/go.mod names mesh-sdk f1d7c7377dc4, which is neither on mesh-sdk's trunk nor the g…
Merges fix/1945-adopt-hashes 1a190090. A new follower (one per link) waits for the grants part's key to catch up before
its first write, so a restart after take-over never writes the controller's list first. A refused or ended watch is
tried again on link.Backoff, the have says why it is not watched, and the key last heard, kept beside the node's state,
holds meanwhile. While the grants part's list is followed, the bus module's composition is applied with the list on the
machine in place of the controller's. The grants list is never handed to the vault. Pins mesh-sdk c2a410bb.
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