A settings proposal reached the phone with its values masked, so the operator could not
tell what they were approving. An ask now carries Whole, shown in place of Explanation on
a kind that proves its sender and carries the ask's answers, and Details, what the
Details answer shows. Both enter the digest only when given, so an ask without them
digests as before and a router and an asker of different builds still agree on it.
The coming issues module hands out issue numbers from its own state; two instances must never hand out one
number twice. Create and Update already write by compare-and-set (ADR 0259), so State(...).Increment reads,
writes one more at the revision read, and on a lost write reads and tries again, bounded by the caller's
attempts. A lost write past the bound is ErrChanged, any other refusal and a value that is no counter are
returned at once: nothing is reported counted that was not written.
Part of the issue tracker decision, hq research 042.
A handler takes an event by returning and asks for it again by throwing;
any mesh/event answer but an error is taken. Written down in the README
where event handling is, with what follows for a handler: throw only when
the work was not done, and be safe to run twice.
Both SDKs added the handler before asking the runtime and kept it when the
runtime refused, so a module that asks again until it is taken (every Go
consumer does) ran its handler once per attempt for every event. A refused
subscribe now removes its handler; one the Go runtime did not answer in
time is kept, since the runtime may have bound it.
Five passes are 25 s, shorter than a real hiccup. And a provider's remove can
destroy — a ledger file, a public DNS record — so an adapter without a retire
of its own is mark-only: the consumer keeps its access, is marked and said, and
remove is reached only by a person's delete (hq ADR 0230).
The hourly release let a mistaken bulk unassignment drain one consumer an hour
with nobody deciding. Per novox/hq ADR 0230 a consumer is retired (disabled,
marked, data kept) only after the same unasked set in five consecutive passes;
more than 3, or more than half of those held, waits for approve or reject.
Deletion is a separate act of a person, of a retired consumer only.
state(name) / stdio.State(name): get, put, delete, keys and watch over the
runtime's mesh/state verbs. A watch's handler is registered under the id it
is asked with, so its current values — which arrive before the watch is
answered — and its changes reach it and no other watch.
One name per thing, per the HQ glossary: the module/container/image/binary/repo
becomes mesh-controller, the seat the-controller, and the store+broker pair the
foundation (embedded base bundles, default template and example lock renamed with
their go:embed directives). No behaviour change — a pure vocabulary rename.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
Per novox/hq ADR 0044/0045: the sdk holds only what rarely changes and
is shared across modules; per-module code (a client, tool impls, a
create-a-resource adapter) lives in the module.
Five areas, real and tested:
- contracts: the runtime shapes module code touches (grant, credential,
a mesh Interface, tool + envelope types) — not the manifest schema,
which the control plane owns.
- provisioner: the reconcile harness every provider shares (watch grants,
create via the module's adapter, seal + write the credential, remove on
withdrawal). A module writes only the adapter.
- tools: registerModuleTools + collectTools — the serving harness; tools
and their client live in the module.
- messaging: the Broker/Envelope/event contract over the mesh broker; the
concrete binding is provided by the hosting runtime.
- primitives: AES-256-GCM seal/unseal, semver, resolved-env access.
Compiles (tsc, NodeNext) and passes tests: sealing round-trip + wrong-key
rejection, semver, tool registration (a thrower is skipped not fatal), and
the provisioner creating then removing a sealed grant.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
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