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 two finds on the control-node sit in the operator's home of mode 0700, which the agent account cannot
search. The search keeps every find; each judgement reads the modes on the way again, since an account can
open its own home without root. A find in a home is said by count, its path in the journal alone. Also
from review: a checkpoint racing SearchNow forgets the walk it just kept, and a walk kept by an older engine
says its counts as lower bounds.
