The records send the operator to "the controller's terminal", and nothing reaches it (hq issue 343). mesh-cli holds no credential: it asks the engine on its own machine over a socket. The engine reads the asking account from the kernel (SO_PEERCRED), never from the program, and asks the controller on mesh.control.<node>.cli, its own node's subject, so the bus server says which node asked. The controller decides what the line may do; nothing received on the socket is run or applied here, and the socket has no network address (ADR 0004 stands). The local protocol is the SDK's go/cli package, at a pseudo-version of its branch until that merges and is tagged go/v0.1.8.