A follower joining a watched state hears its current values, and a templates archive is fetched once

A read could start a state's watch before its follower joined, and a change landing in that gap woke nothing (review
of ADR 0580 §2): a joining follower now runs over the copy's current values before any later change. The watched
reader keeps each archive once per URL, and both caches are bounded.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL

go/announce/announce.go

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ const KeptBucket = "mesh-controller_states-announced"
 var name = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$`)
 
 // Key is module's key in KeptBucket: the module itself, which must be one plain name, since a module's name is part of
-// its buckets' names (catalogue.StateProblems).
+// its buckets' names (the indexer's judge, novox/hq ADR 0578 §1).
 func Key(module string) (string, error) {
 	if !name.MatchString(module) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("announce: %q is not a module that keeps state: lower-case letters, digits and hyphens", module)

go/asks/asks.go

@@ -571,3 +571,8 @@ type ProofAnswer struct {
 	Accepted bool   `json:"accepted"`
 	Words    string `json:"words"`
 }
+
+// EngineAsker is the asker name a node's engine asks the operator under (novox/hq ADR 0563 §3, which changes ADR 0259
+// §2 to admit a node's engine as an asker): `node-engine-<node>`, the last token of the by-caller subjects granted to that
+// node's engine account alone, so no engine acts on another node's warrant.
+func EngineAsker(node string) string { return "node-engine-" + node }

go/buildstep/askrun.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"maps"
 	"path"
 	"slices"
 	"sort"
@@ -42,14 +43,30 @@ type AskSteps struct {
 // RunAsk runs ask's job with steps and answers a delivery.BuildAnswer or a delivery.CheckAnswer.
 func RunAsk(ctx context.Context, steps AskSteps, ask delivery.StepAsk) (any, error) {
 	if ask.Build != nil {
-		return steps.build(ctx, *ask.Build)
+		job := *ask.Build
+		job.Fetch = withPackages(job.Fetch, ask.Packages)
+		return steps.build(ctx, job)
 	}
 	if ask.Check != nil {
-		return steps.check(ctx, *ask.Check)
+		job := *ask.Check
+		job.Fetch = withPackages(job.Fetch, ask.Packages)
+		return steps.check(ctx, job)
 	}
 	return nil, Refuse("the ask %s holds no job", ask.ID)
 }
 
+// withPackages is the fetch's arguments with the ask's package versions (novox/hq ADR 0573 §2), which the build module
+// writes into the workspace it fetches; a copy, so the ask is left as it was. An ask with none, or a copy alone that
+// fetches nothing, is left as it is.
+func withPackages(fetch map[string]any, packages delivery.PackageVersions) map[string]any {
+	if len(packages) == 0 || fetch == nil {
+		return fetch
+	}
+	out := maps.Clone(fetch)
+	out["packages"] = maps.Clone(packages)
+	return out
+}
+
 func raw(v any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 	if r, ok := v.(json.RawMessage); ok {
 		return r, nil
@@ -228,8 +245,10 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(r, &t)
 		return t.Passed, nil
 	}
-	// Every test step of the level runs, also after one that did not pass, so one check names every failing test of the
-	// level and not only the first (issue 1921); the level as a whole passes only when each of its steps did.
+	// The packages (or Node directories) whose tests the change touches run first, and a failure among them ends the level
+	// there, so a change's own failing test is answered without the rest of the suite (issue 1289; ADR 0444). Past them every
+	// test step of the level runs, also after one that did not pass, so one check names every failing test of the rest of
+	// the level and not only the first (issue 1921); the level passes only when each of its steps did.
 	all := true
 	if s.Digest == nil {
 		// A module with no digest (Node) tests each module directory of the tree, those whose tests changed first.
@@ -244,6 +263,9 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 				}
 				all = all && passed
 			}
+			if !all {
+				return false, nil // the change's own tests failed: the others are not run (issue 1289)
+			}
 		}
 		return all, nil
 	}
@@ -279,7 +301,10 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 		if err != nil {
 			return false, fmt.Errorf("the %s level: %w", level, err)
 		}
-		all = all && passed // the packages left still run (issue 1921)
+		all = all && passed // past the change's own packages the others still run (issue 1921)
+		if priority && !all {
+			return false, nil // the change's own tests failed: the others are not run (issue 1289)
+		}
 	}
 	return all, nil
 }

go/buildstep/askrun_test.go

@@ -74,15 +74,21 @@ func TestRunAskBuilds(t *testing.T) {
 	steps := r.steps()
 	var released []string
 	steps.Release = func(ws string) error { released = append(released, ws); return nil }
-	out, err := RunAsk(context.Background(), steps, ask(delivery.BuildJob{Module: "m", Path: "modules/m", Publish: true,
+	// Issue 1585: the ask's package versions reach the fetch, and the ask's own fetch arguments stay as they were.
+	a := ask(delivery.BuildJob{Module: "m", Path: "modules/m", Publish: true,
 		Fetch:     map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "commit": runCommit},
-		Artifacts: []delivery.AskArtifact{{Artifact: "base", From: "registry/b@sha256:00"}, {Artifact: "bundle"}, {Artifact: "lib"}}}))
+		Artifacts: []delivery.AskArtifact{{Artifact: "base", From: "registry/b@sha256:00"}, {Artifact: "bundle"}, {Artifact: "lib"}}})
+	a.Packages = delivery.PackageVersions{"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go": runCommit}
+	out, err := RunAsk(context.Background(), steps, a)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	if _, put := a.Build.Fetch["packages"]; put {
+		t.Error("the ask's fetch arguments were changed")
+	}
 	got := strings.Join(r.calls, "\n")
 	want := `copy {"artifact":"base","from":"registry/b@sha256:00","module":"m"}
-fetch {"commit":"` + runCommit + `","repository":"novox/x"}
+fetch {"commit":"` + runCommit + `","packages":{"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go":"` + runCommit + `"},"repository":"novox/x"}
 build {"artifact":"bundle","module":"modules/m","publish":true,"workspace":"/w/1"}
 build {"artifact":"lib","module":"modules/m","publish":true,"workspace":"/w/1"}`
 	if got != want {
@@ -91,9 +97,9 @@ build {"artifact":"lib","module":"modules/m","publish":true,"workspace":"/w/1"}`
 	if len(released) != 1 || released[0] != "/w/1" {
 		t.Errorf("released %v, want the one workspace", released)
 	}
-	a := out.(delivery.BuildAnswer)
-	if len(a.Artifacts) != 3 || a.Artifacts[1].Reference != "artifact-store://bundle" {
-		t.Fatalf("answer %+v", a)
+	answer := out.(delivery.BuildAnswer)
+	if len(answer.Artifacts) != 3 || answer.Artifacts[1].Reference != "artifact-store://bundle" {
+		t.Fatalf("answer %+v", answer)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -113,7 +119,7 @@ func TestRunAskRefusesAnotherToolchain(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // 1887/A3, A5a: a check ask runs the levels of one check after one fetch: it digests the unit level, takes the kept
-// verdicts, tests the packages whose tests changed first, then the rest also after a failure (issue 1921), and runs no
+// verdicts, tests the packages whose tests changed first and, when one of them fails, no other (issue 1289), and runs no
 // level after one that did not pass (ADR 0484 clause 13).
 func TestRunAskChecksTheLevelsOfOneCheck(t *testing.T) {
 	r := &recorder{
@@ -129,8 +135,7 @@ func TestRunAskChecksTheLevelsOfOneCheck(t *testing.T) {
 	got := strings.Join(r.calls, "\n")
 	want := `fetch {"base":"` + runCommit + `","commit":"` + runCommit + `","repository":"novox/x"}
 digest {"level":"unit","workspace":"/w"}
-test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/b"],"workspace":"/w"}
-test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/a"],"workspace":"/w"}`
+test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/b"],"workspace":"/w"}`
 	if got != want {
 		t.Fatalf("calls:\n%s\nwant:\n%s", got, want)
 	}
@@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/a"],"workspace":"/w"}`
 		t.Fatalf("levels %+v, want the unit level alone", a.Levels)
 	}
 	u := a.Levels[0]
-	if u.Level != delivery.LevelUnit || len(u.Kept) != 1 || u.Kept[0].Package != "x/pkg/k" || u.Kept[0].Tests != 7 || len(u.Tests) != 2 || u.Digest == nil {
+	if u.Level != delivery.LevelUnit || len(u.Kept) != 1 || u.Kept[0].Package != "x/pkg/k" || u.Kept[0].Tests != 7 || len(u.Tests) != 1 || u.Digest == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the unit level %+v", u)
 	}
 
@@ -254,41 +259,64 @@ func TestRunAskChecksNodeModulesAndConflicts(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Issue 1921: a failure in the packages whose tests changed does not stop the level: the other packages still run, so two
-// failing packages, one changed and one not, are two test results of the one level, and the level does not pass. A Node
-// check runs every module directory after one fails too.
-func TestRunAskRunsEveryPackageAfterAFailure(t *testing.T) {
-	r := &recorder{
-		fetch:   map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "changed": []string{"pkg/b/b_test.go"}},
-		digests: map[string]string{"x/pkg/a": "d-a", "x/pkg/b": "d-b"},
-		tests:   map[string]bool{"x/pkg/a": false, "x/pkg/b": false},
-	}
-	out, err := RunAsk(context.Background(), r.steps(), ask(delivery.CheckJob{Levels: []string{delivery.LevelIntegration, delivery.LevelUnit},
-		Fetch: map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "commit": runCommit}}))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	a := out.(delivery.CheckAnswer)
-	if len(a.Levels) != 1 || len(a.Levels[0].Tests) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("levels %+v, want the one level with both packages' results", a.Levels)
-	}
-	for i, raw := range a.Levels[0].Tests {
-		var res struct{ Passed bool }
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &res); err != nil || res.Passed {
-			t.Errorf("result %d %s, want a failure", i, raw)
+// Issue 1289: a failure in the packages whose tests changed ends the level there, the others are not run, and no later level
+// runs. Issue 1921: past the change's own packages every package still runs, so two failing packages none of which the
+// change touched are two test results of the one level. A Node check does the same with its module directories.
+func TestRunAskStopsAtTheChangesOwnFailureAndRunsTheRestAfterOthers(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		name    string
+		changed []string
+		tests   map[string]bool
+		want    []string // the packages tested, in order
+	}{
+		{"the change's own test fails: nothing else runs", []string{"pkg/b/b_test.go"}, map[string]bool{"x/pkg/a": false, "x/pkg/b": false}, []string{"x/pkg/b"}},
+		{"the change's own test passes: the rest runs, also after a failure", []string{"pkg/b/b_test.go"}, map[string]bool{"x/pkg/a": false, "x/pkg/b": true, "x/pkg/c": false}, []string{"x/pkg/b", "x/pkg/a x/pkg/c"}},
+		{"no test changed: every failure is named", nil, map[string]bool{"x/pkg/a": false, "x/pkg/b": false}, []string{"x/pkg/a x/pkg/b"}},
+	} {
+		r := &recorder{fetch: map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "changed": row.changed}, tests: row.tests,
+			digests: map[string]string{"x/pkg/a": "d-a", "x/pkg/b": "d-b"}}
+		if _, ok := row.tests["x/pkg/c"]; ok {
+			r.digests["x/pkg/c"] = "d-c"
+		}
+		out, err := RunAsk(context.Background(), r.steps(), ask(delivery.CheckJob{Levels: []string{delivery.LevelUnit, delivery.LevelIntegration},
+			Fetch: map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "commit": runCommit}}))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var got []string
+		for _, c := range r.calls[1:] {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(c, "test ") {
+				var a struct{ Packages []string }
+				_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(strings.TrimPrefix(c, "test ")), &a)
+				got = append(got, strings.Join(a.Packages, " "))
+			}
+		}
+		// the passing row goes on to the integration level, which tests the same packages again; the first level is what is judged
+		if n := len(row.want); len(got) < n || fmt.Sprint(got[:n]) != fmt.Sprint(row.want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: tested %v, want %v first", row.name, got, row.want)
+		}
+		a := out.(delivery.CheckAnswer)
+		failed := false
+		for _, raw := range a.Levels[0].Tests {
+			var res struct{ Passed bool }
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &res)
+			failed = failed || !res.Passed
+		}
+		if failed && (len(a.Levels) != 1 || len(got) != len(row.want)) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: a failed level went on: levels %d, tests %v", row.name, len(a.Levels), got)
 		}
 	}
 
-	r = &recorder{fetch: map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "modules": []string{"a", "b"}, "changed": []string{"b/test/x.test.ts"}},
+	r := &recorder{fetch: map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "modules": []string{"a", "b"}, "changed": []string{"b/test/x.test.ts"}},
 		tests: map[string]bool{"a": true, "b": false}}
 	s := r.steps()
 	s.Digest = nil
-	out, err = RunAsk(context.Background(), s, ask(delivery.CheckJob{Levels: []string{delivery.LevelUnit, delivery.LevelIntegration},
+	out, err := RunAsk(context.Background(), s, ask(delivery.CheckJob{Levels: []string{delivery.LevelUnit, delivery.LevelIntegration},
 		Fetch: map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "commit": runCommit}}))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if a := out.(delivery.CheckAnswer); len(r.calls) != 3 || len(a.Levels) != 1 || len(a.Levels[0].Tests) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("calls %v, levels %+v: want both directories of the unit level and no integration level", r.calls, a.Levels)
+	if a := out.(delivery.CheckAnswer); len(r.calls) != 2 || len(a.Levels) != 1 || len(a.Levels[0].Tests) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("calls %v, levels %+v: want the changed directory b alone and no integration level", r.calls, a.Levels)
 	}
 }

go/buildstep/request.go

@@ -2,9 +2,12 @@ package buildstep
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"maps"
 	"path"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -27,6 +30,10 @@ type FetchRequest struct {
 	Base       string   `json:"base,omitempty"`
 	Dir        string   `json:"dir,omitempty"`
 	Paths      []string `json:"paths,omitempty"`
+	// Packages are the version of each mesh package the build or the check builds against (delivery.StepAsk.Packages,
+	// novox/hq ADR 0573 §2, §4): the build module writes each into the workspace's go.mod and go.sum, whatever version
+	// the repository names, checksum-verified, and names them in its log.
+	Packages delivery.PackageVersions `json:"packages,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // FetchRequestProperties are the JSON schema properties of FetchRequest's dir and paths, for a fetch tool's Input.
@@ -35,6 +42,8 @@ func FetchRequestProperties() map[string]any {
 		"dir": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the module's directory in the repository (\".\" for its root), with paths"},
 		"paths": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
 			"description": "the paths the module names, relative to dir, from the indexer's kept inputs: the build sees only these, the manifest and its lock files"},
+		"packages": map[string]any{"type": "object", "additionalProperties": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
+			"description": "optional: the version (a full commit) of each mesh package to build against, by its module path, whatever version go.mod names (novox/hq ADR 0573 §2); the builder and the checker fill it"},
 	}
 }
 
@@ -49,6 +58,12 @@ func (r FetchRequest) Args() map[string]any {
 	if len(r.Paths) > 0 {
 		args["paths"] = append([]string(nil), r.Paths...)
 	}
+	if len(r.Packages) > 0 {
+		args["packages"] = map[string]any{}
+		for p, v := range r.Packages {
+			args["packages"].(map[string]any)[p] = v
+		}
+	}
 	return args
 }
 
@@ -78,9 +93,42 @@ func ParseFetchRequest(args map[string]any) (FetchRequest, error) {
 	default:
 		return FetchRequest{}, fmt.Errorf("paths is a list of strings")
 	}
+	packages, err := PackagesArg(args["packages"])
+	if err != nil {
+		return FetchRequest{}, err
+	}
+	r.Packages = packages
 	return r, r.Check()
 }
 
+// PackagesArg reads a tool call's packages argument, an object of strings (as JSON gives it) or the map an ask gives;
+// nil for none.
+func PackagesArg(v any) (delivery.PackageVersions, error) {
+	out := delivery.PackageVersions{}
+	switch v := v.(type) {
+	case nil:
+		return nil, nil
+	case delivery.PackageVersions:
+		maps.Copy(out, v)
+	case map[string]string:
+		maps.Copy(out, v)
+	case map[string]any:
+		for p, version := range v {
+			s, ok := version.(string)
+			if !ok {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("packages is an object of versions (strings), by package")
+			}
+			out[p] = s
+		}
+	default:
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("packages is an object of versions (strings), by package")
+	}
+	if len(out) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return out, out.Check()
+}
+
 // Check is what ParseFetchRequest refuses.
 func (r FetchRequest) Check() error {
 	if !requestRepositoryOK.MatchString(r.Repository) || strings.Contains(r.Repository, "..") {

go/buildstep/request_test.go

@@ -10,11 +10,15 @@ import (
 // from the indexer's kept inputs and the build module reads them from the call, never from the manifest (ADR 0495
 // clause 1). The request survives the trip through a tool call's arguments.
 func TestAFetchRequestCarriesTheNamedPathsThroughTheToolCall(t *testing.T) {
+	// And the versions of the mesh packages to build against (novox/hq ADR 0573 §2; issue 1585 S4).
 	req := FetchRequest{Repository: "novox/mesh-sdk", Commit: strings.Repeat("a", 40), Ref: "refs/pull/7/head",
-		Dir: ".", Paths: []string{"package.json", "src"}}
+		Dir: ".", Paths: []string{"package.json", "src"}, Packages: map[string]string{"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go": strings.Repeat("d", 40)}}
 	args := req.Args()
-	// A tool call's arguments arrive as JSON: lists of any.
+	// A tool call's arguments arrive as JSON: lists of any, objects of any.
 	args["paths"] = []any{"package.json", "src"}
+	if p, ok := args["packages"].(map[string]any); !ok || p["git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"] != strings.Repeat("d", 40) {
+		t.Fatalf("the packages are not in the call's arguments: %v", args["packages"])
+	}
 	got, err := ParseFetchRequest(args)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -42,6 +46,9 @@ func TestAFetchRequestCarriesTheNamedPathsThroughTheToolCall(t *testing.T) {
 		{map[string]any{"dir": "../a", "paths": []any{"src"}}, "leaves the repository"},
 		{map[string]any{"dir": "modules/a", "paths": []any{3}}, "paths is a list of strings"},
 		{map[string]any{"dir": "modules/a"}, "names a module directory and no path"},
+		{map[string]any{"packages": map[string]any{"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go": "v0.1.7"}}, "no full commit"},
+		{map[string]any{"packages": map[string]any{"a b": strings.Repeat("d", 40)}}, "no module path"},
+		{map[string]any{"packages": []any{"x"}}, "packages is an object"},
 	} {
 		args := map[string]any{}
 		for k, v := range ok {

go/buildstep/trees.go

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ type ModuleTree struct {
 	// Paths are, of a module whose every artifact names its paths, each named path's git object id at the commit; Tree
 	// is then their delivery.NamedTree with Manifest (novox/hq ADR 0499 clause 2). Absent otherwise.
 	Paths map[string]string `json:"paths,omitempty"`
+	// Packages are the mesh packages the directory's go.sum names (delivery.MeshPackagesOf, novox/hq ADR 0573 §2).
+	Packages []string `json:"packages,omitempty"`
 }
 
 var lockFiles = []string{"go.sum", "package-lock.json"}
@@ -67,6 +69,9 @@ func ModuleTrees(ctx context.Context, run forgekey.Runner, env []string, dir, co
 					mt.Locks = map[string]string{}
 				}
 				mt.Locks[lock] = sha256Hex(raw)
+				if lock == "go.sum" {
+					mt.Packages = delivery.MeshPackagesOf(raw) // the mesh packages it uses (novox/hq ADR 0573 §2)
+				}
 			}
 		}
 		trees[mdir] = mt
@@ -75,11 +80,12 @@ func ModuleTrees(ctx context.Context, run forgekey.Runner, env []string, dir, co
 }
 
 // narrow sets mt's Paths and its named Tree when the module's manifest names paths on every artifact (novox/hq ADR 0499
-// clause 2): one `git ls-tree -z` gives each named path's object at commit. The merge preview reads the manifest here, as
-// the indexer does, with catalogue.ParseManifestForInputs (issue 1751), and no other build step reads paths from one (ADR 0495 clause 1). A manifest that does not parse
-// is not narrowed: the indexer gives it none. A named path absent at commit fails, naming the module and the path.
+// clause 2): one `git ls-tree -z` gives each named path's object at commit. The merge preview decodes the manifest here
+// (catalogue.Decode: a build step judges no manifest, novox/hq ADR 0578 §3), and no other build step reads paths from one
+// (ADR 0495 clause 1). A manifest that does not decode is not narrowed: the indexer gives it none. A named path absent at
+// commit fails, naming the module and the path.
 func narrow(ctx context.Context, run forgekey.Runner, env []string, dir, commit, mdir string, raw []byte, mt *ModuleTree) error {
-	m, err := catalogue.ParseManifestForInputs(raw)
+	m, err := catalogue.Decode(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil
 	}

go/buildstep/trees_named_test.go

@@ -75,20 +75,17 @@ func TestModuleTreesFailsNamingANamedPathAbsentAtTheCommit(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A manifest whose config value falls back to a predefined key is narrowed here as the indexer narrows it: both read it
-// with catalogue.ParseManifestForInputs (issue 1751), so a build module holding no published list computes the same
-// tree (ADR 0499 clause 2).
+// A manifest whose config value falls back to a predefined key is narrowed here: the merge preview decodes it and judges
+// nothing (novox/hq ADR 0578 §3), so a build module holding no published list computes the tree the indexer does (ADR
+// 0499 clause 2; issue 1751).
 func TestModuleTreesNarrowsAManifestFallingBackToAPredefinedKey(t *testing.T) {
 	was := catalogue.ReplacePublished(nil) // the build modules' case: no published list
 	defer catalogue.ReplacePublished(was)
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	raw := `{"module":"xterm","version":"1","config":{"size":{"type":"number","description":"The text size.","predefined":"font-size","default":12,"runtime":true}},` +
 		`"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"lib","kind":"package","language":"typescript","paths":["src"]}]}}`
-	if _, err := catalogue.ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("ParseManifest reads the manifest with no list; the test proves nothing")
-	}
-	if _, err := catalogue.ParseManifestForInputs([]byte(raw)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the indexer's read refuses the manifest: %v", err)
+	if _, err := catalogue.Decode([]byte(raw)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the preview's read refuses the manifest: %v", err)
 	}
 	writeTreeFile(t, root, "module.json", raw)
 	run := func(ctx context.Context, env []string, name string, args ...string) forgekey.Ran {

go/buildstep/trees_test.go

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ func TestModuleTreesAnswersTreeManifestAndLocksPerModuleDirectory(t *testing.T)
 	writeTreeFile(t, root, "module.json", `{"root":1}`)
 	writeTreeFile(t, root, "go.sum", "rootsum")
 	writeTreeFile(t, root, "modules/a/module.json", `{"a":1}`)
-	writeTreeFile(t, root, "modules/a/go.sum", "asum")
+	asum := "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7 h1:x=\ngit.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7/go.mod h1:y=\ngithub.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.0.0 h1:z=\n"
+	writeTreeFile(t, root, "modules/a/go.sum", asum)
 	writeTreeFile(t, root, "modules/a/package-lock.json", "alock")
 	writeTreeFile(t, root, "modules/b/module.json", `{"b":1}`)
 	merge := strings.Repeat("c", 40)
@@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ func TestModuleTreesAnswersTreeManifestAndLocksPerModuleDirectory(t *testing.T)
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	want := map[string]ModuleTree{
-		".":         {Tree: "tree-of-" + merge + "^{tree}", Manifest: hexOf(`{"root":1}`), Locks: map[string]string{"go.sum": hexOf("rootsum")}},
-		"modules/a": {Tree: "tree-of-" + merge + ":modules/a", Manifest: hexOf(`{"a":1}`), Locks: map[string]string{"go.sum": hexOf("asum"), "package-lock.json": hexOf("alock")}},
+		".": {Tree: "tree-of-" + merge + "^{tree}", Manifest: hexOf(`{"root":1}`), Locks: map[string]string{"go.sum": hexOf("rootsum")}},
+		"modules/a": {Tree: "tree-of-" + merge + ":modules/a", Manifest: hexOf(`{"a":1}`), Locks: map[string]string{"go.sum": hexOf(asum), "package-lock.json": hexOf("alock")},
+			Packages: []string{"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"}}, // issue 1585: the mesh packages its go.sum names
 		"modules/b": {Tree: "tree-of-" + merge + ":modules/b", Manifest: hexOf(`{"b":1}`)},
 	}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {

go/buscompose/accounts.go

@@ -0,0 +1,249 @@
+package buscompose
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// **The accounts the grants part wants, and the one shape a held account takes** (novox/hq ADR 0561 §1, §2; issue 774).
+//
+// The bus composer derives every user from placement, the manifests and the wants. For each account the mesh mints (a
+// module's, a module's process's, a machine's provisioner client's), the grants part writes one key of its state
+// `accounts`, keyed by the bus user, holding the account's fields that are not secret: what the controller's credential
+// carries today beside the password. The vault watches that state, mints the user it holds no value for, and keeps the
+// value as the module's own secret on that node, built by HeldCredential, which gives byte for byte the controller's
+// shape, so a runtime reads it unchanged. The state is read by the vault alone (NamedReaders), as `bus-accounts` is read
+// by the grants part alone.
+//
+// The node accounts, the controller's own, an enrolment user and a person are never wanted here: the vault mints none
+// of them (ADR 0561 §4, §5).
+
+// AccountsState is the grants part's state of wanted accounts, by bus user.
+const AccountsState = "accounts"
+
+// GrantsAccounts is that state as a reader names it (`<owner>.<name>`).
+const GrantsAccounts = GrantsModule + "." + AccountsState
+
+// AccountsBucket is the bucket the state lives in.
+var AccountsBucket = BucketName(GrantsModule, AccountsState)
+
+// AccountsSubject is the subject of one wanted account's key: `$KV.mesh-grants_accounts.<user>`.
+func AccountsSubject(user string) string { return "$KV." + AccountsBucket + "." + user }
+
+// AccountIssuedEvent is what the vault says when it minted an account: AccountIssued, never a value or a hash.
+const AccountIssuedEvent = "account-issued"
+
+// AccountIssuedSubject is where it says it, as the runtime addresses mesh-vault's events.
+const AccountIssuedSubject = "mesh.mod." + VaultSeat + ".event." + AccountIssuedEvent
+
+// ClaimedSeat is one seat a module claims, as its runtime needs it (the controller's seatClaimed): the name, the scope (a
+// node-scoped seat's verb carries the machine) and the verbs the runtime serves for it.
+type ClaimedSeat struct {
+	Seat   string   `json:"seat"`
+	Scope  string   `json:"scope"`
+	Serves []string `json:"serves,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// WantedAccount is one key of the grants part's state `accounts`: an account the mesh needs, without its password.
+type WantedAccount struct {
+	User string `json:"user"`
+	// Kind is KindModule (KindNodeTools for the runtime, named as a module is), KindProcess or KindProvisioner.
+	Kind   Kind   `json:"kind"`
+	Node   string `json:"node"`
+	Module string `json:"module"`
+	// Process is a KindProcess account's process id.
+	Process string `json:"process,omitempty"`
+	// URL is the bus's address as that node reaches it, `nats://<host>:<port>`; Fingerprint the bus certificate's.
+	URL         string `json:"url"`
+	Fingerprint string `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
+	// Claims are a module's claims with the verbs each seat promises: none for a process or a provisioner client.
+	Claims []ClaimedSeat `json:"claims,omitempty"`
+	// At is when the grants part wrote the key: not compared (Same).
+	At time.Time `json:"at"`
+}
+
+// mintedKinds are the kinds of account the vault mints (ADR 0561 §1).
+var mintedKinds = []Kind{KindModule, KindNodeTools, KindProcess, KindProvisioner}
+
+// principal is the account as the composer names it.
+func (w WantedAccount) principal() Principal {
+	return Principal{Kind: w.Kind, Node: w.Node, Module: w.Module, Process: w.Process}
+}
+
+// Valid says why w is not an account the vault may mint, or nil: a kind it mints, every name a subject token, the user
+// the one the composer derives from them, and an address to reach the bus at.
+func (w WantedAccount) Valid() error {
+	if !slices.Contains(mintedKinds, w.Kind) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is a %s account, which the vault never mints (ADR 0561 §4)", w.User, w.Kind)
+	}
+	for what, v := range map[string]string{"node": w.Node, "module": w.Module} {
+		if !safeSubject.MatchString(v) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s: the %s %q is not a name the mesh writes", w.User, what, v)
+		}
+	}
+	if w.Kind == KindProcess && !safeSubject.MatchString(w.Process) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s: the process %q is not a name the mesh writes", w.User, w.Process)
+	}
+	if w.Kind != KindProcess && w.Process != "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s: only a process's account names a process", w.User)
+	}
+	if want := w.principal().Username(); w.User != want {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not the user of a %s account of %s on %s (that is %s)", w.User, w.Kind, w.Module, w.Node, want)
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(w.URL, "nats://") || len(w.URL) == len("nats://") {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s names no bus address (url, nats://<host>:<port>)", w.User)
+	}
+	if len(w.Claims) > 0 && w.Kind != KindModule && w.Kind != KindNodeTools {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s: a %s account holds no seat, so it carries no claims", w.User, w.Kind)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Same says whether two wanted accounts want the same account: every field but when it was written.
+func (w WantedAccount) Same(o WantedAccount) bool {
+	a, b := w, o
+	a.At, b.At = time.Time{}, time.Time{}
+	ra, _ := json.Marshal(a)
+	rb, _ := json.Marshal(b)
+	return string(ra) == string(rb)
+}
+
+// OwnSecret is the module's own secret the account is held in: `broker`, `broker-<process id>` or `provisioner-broker`
+// (the controller's names, ADR 0436 §2, ADR 0349 §11).
+func (w WantedAccount) OwnSecret() string {
+	switch w.Kind {
+	case KindProcess:
+		return "broker-" + w.Process
+	case KindProvisioner:
+		return "provisioner-broker"
+	}
+	return "broker"
+}
+
+// ReadWantedAccount reads the key user of the state: refused when it is not a valid wanted account of that user.
+func ReadWantedAccount(user string, raw []byte) (WantedAccount, error) {
+	var w WantedAccount
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &w); err != nil {
+		return WantedAccount{}, fmt.Errorf("%s %s is not a wanted account: %w", GrantsAccounts, user, err)
+	}
+	if w.User != user {
+		return WantedAccount{}, fmt.Errorf("%s %s names the user %q", GrantsAccounts, user, w.User)
+	}
+	return w, w.Valid()
+}
+
+// AccountIssued is the vault's account-issued: which account it minted, and its generation. Never a value or a hash.
+type AccountIssued struct {
+	User       string    `json:"user"`
+	Kind       Kind      `json:"kind"`
+	Node       string    `json:"node"`
+	Module     string    `json:"module"`
+	Process    string    `json:"process,omitempty"`
+	Generation int       `json:"generation"`
+	At         time.Time `json:"at"`
+}
+
+// HeldCredential is the value the account's holder reads, exactly as the controller builds it today (issueWith,
+// sealProcess and sealProvisionerClient): a module's `{url, fingerprint, node, module, user, password, claims}`, a
+// process's without claims, a provisioner client's without module or claims; an empty fingerprint or claims left out.
+func HeldCredential(w WantedAccount, password string) ([]byte, error) {
+	if err := w.Valid(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if password == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: an account is held with its password", w.User)
+	}
+	switch w.Kind {
+	case KindProcess:
+		return json.Marshal(struct {
+			URL         string `json:"url"`
+			Fingerprint string `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
+			Node        string `json:"node"`
+			Module      string `json:"module"`
+			User        string `json:"user"`
+			Password    string `json:"password"`
+		}{URL: w.URL, Fingerprint: w.Fingerprint, Node: w.Node, Module: w.Module, User: w.User, Password: password})
+	case KindProvisioner:
+		return json.Marshal(struct {
+			URL         string `json:"url"`
+			Fingerprint string `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
+			Node        string `json:"node"`
+			User        string `json:"user"`
+			Password    string `json:"password"`
+		}{URL: w.URL, Fingerprint: w.Fingerprint, Node: w.Node, User: w.User, Password: password})
+	}
+	return json.Marshal(struct {
+		URL         string        `json:"url"`
+		Fingerprint string        `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
+		Node        string        `json:"node"`
+		Module      string        `json:"module"`
+		User        string        `json:"user"`
+		Password    string        `json:"password"`
+		Claims      []ClaimedSeat `json:"claims,omitempty"`
+	}{URL: w.URL, Fingerprint: w.Fingerprint, Node: w.Node, Module: w.Module, User: w.User, Password: password,
+		Claims: w.Claims})
+}
+
+// **The lease write** (novox/hq ADR 0561 §3, §6). The controller's lease is the one key `holder` of its bucket
+// (LeaseBucket). The operator's credential hands it away by writing a value that names its new holder in `handed-to`;
+// while the key holds that, the grants part creates the durable consumers an account needs, the assigner reads the grants
+// part's grants (delivery.GrantSource), and the vault retires and rotates accounts. A controller's value, a key deleted or
+// expired, or one that cannot be read or parsed, turn those off. No clock and no setting turns it.
+//
+// **Minting is no longer on the lease** (issue 774, research 072's gap "vault mints after the lease"): the vault is the
+// one issuer of every account the grants part wants, whoever holds the lease, and the controller mints none once a vault
+// is installed (it forwards `module issue` to the vault's issue-account). One issuer at every moment holds by who mints,
+// not by the lease: an account whose value the vault holds is never minted anew, and a value the controller hands or
+// moves never replaces one the vault minted.
+
+// ControllerLease is the lease's bucket as a reader names it; the vault and the grants part alone read it
+// (NamedReaders), the controller's announcement marking it readable by nobody.
+const ControllerLease = ControllerSeat + ".lease"
+
+// ControllerLeaseKey is the lease's one key.
+const ControllerLeaseKey = leaseKey
+
+// LeaseHolder is the lease key's value: a controller instance's (mesh-controller internal/lease Holder), or, once handed
+// away, one naming its holder in HandedTo.
+type LeaseHolder struct {
+	Instance string    `json:"instance,omitempty"`
+	Host     string    `json:"host,omitempty"`
+	Epoch    uint64    `json:"epoch,omitempty"`
+	Taken    time.Time `json:"taken,omitzero"`
+	Renewed  time.Time `json:"renewed,omitzero"`
+	// HandedTo is who holds the lease once the controller handed it away: never a controller instance.
+	HandedTo string `json:"handed-to,omitempty"`
+	// HandedBy is the credential that wrote it (the operator's), and Why its reason.
+	HandedBy string `json:"handed-by,omitempty"`
+	Why      string `json:"why,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// LeaseHandedAway reads the lease key as a getter answered it (its value, whether it was there, the read's error) and
+// says whether it is handed to a holder that is no controller, with why either way.
+func LeaseHandedAway(raw []byte, found bool, readErr error) (bool, string) {
+	switch {
+	case readErr != nil:
+		return false, "the controller's lease cannot be read (" + readErr.Error() + "), so it is not handed away"
+	case !found || len(raw) == 0 || string(raw) == "null":
+		return false, "no lease is written (expired, deleted, or never taken): a controller may take it, so it is not handed away"
+	}
+	var h LeaseHolder
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &h); err != nil {
+		return false, "the controller's lease is not readable as a holder (" + err.Error() + "), so it is not handed away"
+	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(h.HandedTo) == "" {
+		who := h.Instance
+		if who == "" {
+			who = "an instance that names itself not"
+		}
+		return false, "the controller holds the lease (" + who + "), so it is not handed away (ADR 0561 §3)"
+	}
+	if h.Instance != "" {
+		return false, "the lease names both a controller instance (" + h.Instance + ") and a holder it is handed to (" +
+			h.HandedTo + "), so it is not handed away"
+	}
+	return true, "the lease is handed to " + h.HandedTo + " (ADR 0561 §3)"
+}

go/buscompose/announced.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package buscompose
 
 import (
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -41,16 +42,12 @@ func ControllerAnnouncement(node string) announce.States {
 	return s
 }
 
-// ReadsAnnounced splits a reader's `reads` (`<owner>.<name>`) by what each owner announced: granted when the owner
-// announced the state readable, or announced nothing yet (the transition); refused when the owner announced and did
-// not announce that state readable.
-func ReadsAnnounced(reads []string, announced map[string]announce.States) (granted, refused []string) {
-	return ReadsAnnouncedBy("", reads, announced)
-}
-
-// ReadsAnnouncedBy is ReadsAnnounced for one reader module, which also honours the readers an owner named for a state
-// (announce.State.Readers) and the composer's named readers (NamedReaders, ADR 0547 clause 9): a read named for other
-// modules is refused. An empty reader is judged by the readable mark alone.
+// ReadsAnnouncedBy splits one reader module's `reads` (`<owner>.<name>`) by what each owner announced: granted when the
+// owner announced the state readable (by this reader, where it named its readers: announce.State.Readers), when the
+// composer names the reader among the state's readers (NamedReaders, ADR 0547 clause 9), or when the owner announced
+// nothing yet (the transition); refused otherwise, and a read named for other modules is refused. There is no judgement
+// without the reader (issue 774): one made without it refused every named reader, and Users judges again for the
+// reader whatever split it is given (withAnnouncedReads). An empty reader is judged by the readable mark alone.
 func ReadsAnnouncedBy(reader string, reads []string, announced map[string]announce.States) (granted, refused []string) {
 	for _, r := range reads {
 		owner, name, ok := strings.Cut(r, ".")
@@ -58,6 +55,10 @@ func ReadsAnnouncedBy(reader string, reads []string, announced map[string]announ
 		switch {
 		case reader != "" && !ReaderMay(reader, r):
 			refused = append(refused, r)
+		case reader != "" && namedReader(reader, r):
+			// A state the composer names its readers for is theirs whatever its owner announced (ADR 0561 §3: the
+			// controller's lease, which its announcement marks readable by nobody).
+			granted = append(granted, r)
 		case reader != "" && ok && said && s.Keeps(name):
 			if s.ReadableBy(name, reader) {
 				granted = append(granted, r)
@@ -95,3 +96,8 @@ func NotAnnounced(r Records) []string {
 	sort.Strings(out)
 	return out
 }
+
+// namedReader says the composer names module among the readers of read (NamedReaders).
+func namedReader(module, read string) bool {
+	return slices.Contains(NamedReaders[strings.TrimSpace(read)], module)
+}

go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package buscompose
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"reflect"
@@ -9,8 +10,14 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 )
 
 // Defends issue 1377 and novox/hq ADR 0547 §5: this is the controller's bus composer copied, and it composes byte for
@@ -29,8 +36,17 @@ var createdAdvisory = regexp.MustCompile(`"\$JS\.EVENT\.ADVISORY\.STREAM\.CREATE
 // grants part's list is the one the bus loads; a hand-back loads the controller's, which lacks these reads, and the nodes
 // keep applying without composing their own until the next take-over. Each principal's hearing of its buckets' creation
 // (issue 1790) is the other row beyond, matched by createdAdvisory.
+//
+// And the watchman's dead letters and watchdogs (novox/hq ADR 0564 clauses 4, 5, issue 1952 S5): its own consumer on
+// DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES, a read of DEAD_LETTERS, and the words its watchdogs hear, the controller's jobs until the lease
+// write.
 func beyondTheControllers(user string) map[string]bool {
 	out := map[string]bool{}
+	if strings.HasSuffix(user, "."+WatchmanModule) {
+		for _, s := range append(WatchmanDeadLetterGrants(nil), WatchmanHears()...) {
+			out[s] = true
+		}
+	}
 	node, ok := strings.CutPrefix(user, "node.")
 	if !ok {
 		return out
@@ -44,6 +60,22 @@ func beyondTheControllers(user string) map[string]bool {
 // mayBeyondTheControllers is what the copy may grant beyond the controller's where the records allow it, and need not
 // where they do not: a node's ask of the vault's `own` while the vault serves it (issue 1126, ADR 0550 §5).
 func mayBeyondTheControllers(user string) map[string]bool {
+	// A runtime's read of its membership from the grants part's state (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 7): its own key, or the
+	// tool runner's node's.
+	if parts := strings.Split(user, "."); len(parts) == 2 && parts[0] != "node" {
+		key := user
+		if parts[1] == RuntimeModule {
+			key = parts[0] + ".*"
+		}
+		out := map[string]bool{}
+		if membership.GrantsBucket != GrantsMembershipsBucket || membership.GrantsKey("a", "b") != MembershipKey("a", "b") {
+			panic("the membership package's grants bucket does not agree with buscompose's") // FollowMembership reads it
+		}
+		for _, s := range readGrants(GrantsMembershipsBucket, key) {
+			out[s] = true
+		}
+		return out
+	}
 	if _, ok := strings.CutPrefix(user, "node."); !ok {
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -51,6 +83,34 @@ func mayBeyondTheControllers(user string) map[string]bool {
 		VaultSecretChanged: true}
 }
 
+// engineBeyond is a node's engine holding its node seat and asking the operator in its own name (novox/hq ADR 0563 §1,
+// §3), beyond the controller's on purpose: its own node's verbs, events and discovery, the bus's discovery asked, and
+// the router's seat traffic under node-engine-<node>.
+func engineBeyond(user, g string) bool {
+	node, ok := strings.CutPrefix(user, "node.")
+	if !ok {
+		return false
+	}
+	return strings.HasPrefix(g, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".") && strings.Contains(g, "."+node) ||
+		strings.HasPrefix(g, "$SRV.") || strings.Contains(g, ".node-engine-"+node) ||
+		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+EngineActsBucket) || strings.HasPrefix(g, "$KV."+EngineActsBucket+"."+node+".") ||
+		// And its node's declared packages (novox/hq ADR 0565 clause 6).
+		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+EnginePackagesBucket) || g == "$KV."+EnginePackagesBucket+"."+node ||
+		// And its own health report (issue 774).
+		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+delivery.NodeHealthBucket) || g == "$KV."+delivery.NodeHealthBucket+"."+node ||
+		// And the provisions of its node's modules, read (novox/hq ADR 0570 clause 6).
+		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+provisions.ProvisionsBucket) ||
+		// And its node's placed modules' data items, its own node's keys (novox/hq ADR 0577 clause 1).
+		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+EngineDataBucket) || strings.HasPrefix(g, "$KV."+EngineDataBucket+"."+node+".")
+}
+
+// createsAnAccountsConsumer is the grants part's create and read of a durable consumer an account needs, by its stream
+// and name (novox/hq ADR 0561 §6): beyond the controller's on purpose, since the controller made them alone.
+func createsAnAccountsConsumer(user, g string) bool {
+	return strings.HasSuffix(user, "."+GrantsModule) &&
+		(strings.HasPrefix(g, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.") || strings.HasPrefix(g, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."))
+}
+
 // quotedToken is a quoted token of a composed list.
 var quotedToken = regexp.MustCompile(`"[^"]*"`)
 
@@ -97,12 +157,18 @@ func grantsAsTheControllers(t *testing.T, got, want string) {
 		}
 		intended := beyondTheControllers(user)
 		for g := range was {
-			if !now[g] {
+			// A runtime's direct get of its membership from the assignments stream went with the stream (research 072
+			// row 33): it reads the grants part's state memberships instead (ADR 0571 clause 7).
+			if !now[g] && !strings.HasPrefix(g, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+AssignmentsStream+".mesh.assignment."+strings.SplitN(user, ".", 2)[0]+".") {
 				t.Errorf("%s: the copy does not grant %s, which the controller's does", user, g)
 			}
 		}
 		for g := range now {
-			if !was[g] && !intended[g] && !mayBeyondTheControllers(user)[g] && !createdAdvisory.MatchString(`"`+g+`", `) {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(g, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+AssignmentsStream+".") && !strings.HasSuffix(user, "."+GrantsModule) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the copy grants %s, a read of the assignments stream, which goes at the lease write", user, g)
+			}
+			if !was[g] && !intended[g] && !mayBeyondTheControllers(user)[g] && !createdAdvisory.MatchString(`"`+g+`", `) &&
+				!createsAnAccountsConsumer(user, g) && !engineBeyond(user, g) {
 				t.Errorf("%s: the copy grants %s beyond the controller's, and no decision names it", user, g)
 			}
 		}
@@ -119,6 +185,8 @@ func grantsAsTheControllers(t *testing.T, got, want string) {
 	}
 }
 
+const SignersBucketName = "mesh-vault_signers"
+
 func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 	// ADR 0567 §3, §9: a node reads every key of the seat's placement and its candidates (it composes with the whole
 	// proposal laid over), and none of its open proposals; it writes neither.
@@ -185,6 +253,7 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 			if err := json.Unmarshal(want[i].Memberships, &wasM); err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
+			heldEventsBeyond(gotM, wasM)
 			if !reflect.DeepEqual(gotM, wasM) {
 				t.Errorf("the memberships differ from the controller's:\n%s", raw)
 			}
@@ -221,6 +290,70 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Error("a user of a seat not pulled by kind reads DEAD_LETTERS")
 		}
 	})
+	// ADR 0563 §1, §3, §6: each node's engine alone answers its own node's node-engine verbs and says its events, any
+	// runtime may call them, and it asks the operator under node-engine-<node> alone.
+	t.Run("a node's engine holds its node seat and asks in its own name", func(t *testing.T) {
+		router := Seat{Name: AsksSeat, Accepts: []string{"ask", "cancel"}, Emits: []string{"decided"},
+			ByCaller: []string{"ask", "cancel", "decided"}, Records: []string{"messenger_asks"}}
+		users, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"one", "two"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{
+			"one": {{Module: "messenger", Holds: []Seat{router}, Invokes: []string{"seat:" + EngineSeat + ".root-free"}}},
+			"two": {{Module: RuntimeModule}, {Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"*"}}}}})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, u := range users {
+			perms, err := PermissionsFor(u)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			answers := MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".tool.root-free.one") ||
+				MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".call.root-free.one.messenger~one")
+			if engineOne := u.Kind == KindNode && u.Node == "one"; answers != engineOne {
+				t.Errorf("%s answers one's root-free: %v", u.Username(), answers)
+			}
+			switch {
+			case u.Kind == KindNode && u.Node == "one":
+				for subject, want := range map[string]bool{
+					"mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.ask.node-engine-one":                               true,
+					"mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.cancel.node-engine-one":                            true,
+					"mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.ask.node-engine-two":                               false,
+					"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_messenger_asks.$KV.messenger_asks.node-engine-one.hand-over-1": true,
+					"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_messenger_asks.$KV.messenger_asks.node-engine-two.hand-over-1": false,
+					"mesh.seat." + EngineSeat + ".event.done.one":                                         true,
+					"mesh.seat." + EngineSeat + ".event.done.two":                                         false,
+					"$SRV.INFO": true,
+				} {
+					if got := MayPublish(perms, subject); got != want {
+						t.Errorf("node one may publish %s: %v, want %v", subject, got, want)
+					}
+				}
+				if !MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.node-engine-one") ||
+					MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.node-engine-two") ||
+					!MaySubscribe(perms, "$SRV.INFO."+EngineSeat) || MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".tool.hand-over.two") {
+					t.Errorf("node one hears %v", perms.Subscribe)
+				}
+				// A verb or an event the seat's contract gains later is its engine's on its own node without a release of
+				// the grants part (2026-10-31: mesh-host #184's optional verb composition was refused on every node, the
+				// grants part's mesh-sdk pin predating it): the seat's subjects on its node, any verb, any event.
+				for _, verb := range []string{"composition", "compose", "a-verb-added-later"} {
+					if !MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".tool."+verb+".one") ||
+						!MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".call."+verb+".one.messenger~one") ||
+						MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".tool."+verb+".two") ||
+						MaySubscribe(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".call."+verb+".two.messenger~one") {
+						t.Errorf("node one does not answer %s on its own node alone: %v", verb, perms.Subscribe)
+					}
+				}
+				if !MayPublish(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".event.an-event-added-later.one") ||
+					MayPublish(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".event.an-event-added-later.two") {
+					t.Errorf("node one does not say a later event on its own node alone: %v", perms.Publish)
+				}
+			case u.Kind == KindNodeTools || u.Module == "messenger":
+				if !MayPublish(perms, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".tool.root-free.one") {
+					t.Errorf("%s cannot call one's root-free", u.Username())
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	})
 	// Issue 1126 (ADR 0550 §5): a node's engine asks the vault's `own` in its own name while the vault serves it, and no
 	// other node's.
 	t.Run("a node asks the vault its own secrets", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -239,6 +372,21 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 		if !slices.Contains(perms.Subscribe, VaultSecretChanged) {
 			t.Errorf("node one does not hear the vault's secret-changed: %v", perms.Subscribe)
 		}
+		// L3 s6 (ADR 0550 §2): while the vault serves `sign`, a node asks it in its own name alone, and reads the vault's
+		// `signers` and the lease key, never writing either.
+		signs, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "one", AsksTheVaultToSign: true})
+		signersGet := "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_" + SignersBucketName + ".$KV." + SignersBucketName + ".key"
+		leaseGet := "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_" + LeaseBucket + ".$KV." + LeaseBucket + ".holder"
+		for subject, want := range map[string]bool{VaultSignCall(one): true, signersGet: true, leaseGet: true,
+			VaultSignCall(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "two"}): false, "$KV." + SignersBucketName + ".key": false,
+			"$KV." + LeaseBucket + ".holder": false} {
+			if MayPublish(signs, subject) != want {
+				t.Errorf("a node asking sign may publish %s: %v, want %v", subject, !want, want)
+			}
+		}
+		if MayPublish(perms, VaultSignCall(one)) || MayPublish(perms, signersGet) {
+			t.Error("a node asks sign or reads signers while the vault does not serve sign")
+		}
 		// And what a module on another node serves from its settings, that key alone (mailu's smtp domain, issue 1126).
 		users, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"one", "two"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{
 			"two": {{Module: "mailer", Served: []string{"domain", "not.a.token"}}}}})
@@ -293,4 +441,529 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 		grantsAsTheControllers(t, got, string(want))
 	})
+	// 774/AC2 (novox/hq ADR 0561 §2): a wanted account round-trips through the grants part's state `accounts`, keyed by
+	// its user, at the subject `$KV.mesh-grants_accounts.<user>`, read by the vault alone; and the vault's account-issued
+	// names the account, never a value.
+	t.Run("a wanted account is kept by its user and read by the vault alone", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for _, w := range []WantedAccount{
+			{User: "ace.mesh-build-go", Kind: KindModule, Node: "ace", Module: "mesh-build-go", URL: "nats://novox.mesh:4222",
+				Fingerprint: "ab", Claims: []ClaimedSeat{{Seat: "node-build-go", Scope: "node", Serves: []string{"build"}}}},
+			{User: "novox.mesh-mail.send", Kind: KindProcess, Node: "novox", Module: "mesh-mail", Process: "send",
+				URL: "nats://novox.mesh:4222"},
+			{User: "provisioner.g14", Kind: KindProvisioner, Node: "g14", Module: "mesh-provisioner-client",
+				URL: "nats://novox.mesh:4222", Fingerprint: "ab"},
+		} {
+			if err := w.Valid(); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("%s: %v", w.User, err)
+			}
+			raw, err := json.Marshal(w)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			back, err := ReadWantedAccount(w.User, raw)
+			if err != nil || !back.Same(w) {
+				t.Errorf("%s does not round-trip: %+v, %v", w.User, back, err)
+			}
+			if got := AccountsSubject(w.User); got != "$KV.mesh-grants_accounts."+w.User {
+				t.Errorf("%s is kept at %s", w.User, got)
+			}
+			if _, err := ReadWantedAccount("someone.else", raw); err == nil {
+				t.Errorf("%s was read under another user's key", w.User)
+			}
+		}
+		for _, bad := range []WantedAccount{
+			{User: "ace.x", Kind: KindModule, Node: "ace", Module: "y", URL: "nats://a:1"},
+			{User: "ace.x.p", Kind: KindProcess, Node: "ace", Module: "x", URL: "nats://a:1"},
+			{User: "node.ace", Kind: KindNode, Node: "ace", URL: "nats://a:1"},
+			{User: "controller", Kind: KindController, URL: "nats://a:1"},
+			{User: "ace.x", Kind: KindModule, Node: "ace", Module: "x"},
+		} {
+			if bad.Valid() == nil {
+				t.Errorf("%+v is taken as a wanted account", bad)
+			}
+		}
+		if ReaderMay("mesh-delivery-assigner", GrantsAccounts) || !ReaderMay(VaultSeat, GrantsAccounts) {
+			t.Errorf("%s is read by %v alone, want the vault's", GrantsAccounts, NamedReaders[GrantsAccounts])
+		}
+		e := AccountIssued{User: "ace.x", Kind: KindModule, Node: "ace", Module: "x", Generation: 1}
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(e)
+		if strings.Contains(string(raw), "password") || strings.Contains(string(raw), "hash") ||
+			AccountIssuedSubject != "mesh.mod.mesh-vault.event.account-issued" {
+			t.Errorf("account-issued says %s at %s", raw, AccountIssuedSubject)
+		}
+	})
+	// 774/AC3 (novox/hq ADR 0561 §2): the account the vault seals is, byte for byte, what the controller hands for each of
+	// its three kinds: testdata/controller-credentials.json was written by the controller's own code (its "how").
+	t.Run("a held account is the controller's shape byte for byte", func(t *testing.T) {
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("testdata", "controller-credentials.json"))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var captured struct {
+			Rows []struct{ Name, Held string }
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &captured); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		vault := ClaimedSeat{Seat: "mesh-vault", Scope: "mesh", Serves: []string{"get", "accept", "secret-ask", "issued",
+			"rotate", "move-in", "node-key", "own", "move-asks"}}
+		controller := ClaimedSeat{Seat: "mesh-controller", Scope: "mesh", Serves: strings.Split("tools,calls,status,nodes,"+
+			"node,placement-export,modules,seats,builds,plans,delivery-plan,delivery-order,delivery-check,deliver,"+
+			"delivery-stop,delivery-backups-again,delivery-walks,plan,assign,unassign,pin,unpin,push,rotate,give,issued,"+
+			"secret-move,secret-ask,issue,token,settings,command,queue,cancel,clear,replay,try,kill,pause,resume,hand-act,"+
+			"drill,warranted,hand-acts,durations,conditions,healers,doctor,upgrade,bus,retire,cleanup,judge-directories,"+
+			"root-free,dead-letters,data,build,artifacts,held,collect,move-placement,move-config,mirrors,images", ",")}
+		at := "nats://10.0.0.1:4222"
+		wanted := map[string]struct {
+			w        WantedAccount
+			password string
+		}{
+			"module": {WantedAccount{User: "laptop.cap-bot", Kind: KindModule, Node: "laptop", Module: "cap-bot", URL: at,
+				Fingerprint: "ab:cd", Claims: []ClaimedSeat{vault, {Seat: "node-service-manager", Scope: "node",
+					Serves: []string{"status"}}, controller, {Seat: "no-such-seat", Scope: "node"}}}, "pw-module"},
+			"module-no-claims-no-fingerprint": {WantedAccount{User: "laptop.cap-plain", Kind: KindModule, Node: "laptop",
+				Module: "cap-plain", URL: at}, "pw-plain"},
+			"provisioner": {WantedAccount{User: "provisioner.laptop", Kind: KindProvisioner, Node: "laptop", Module: "nats",
+				URL: at, Fingerprint: "ab:cd"}, "pw-prov"},
+			"process": {WantedAccount{User: "laptop.mesh-mail.send", Kind: KindProcess, Node: "laptop", Module: "mesh-mail",
+				Process: "send", URL: at, Fingerprint: "ab:cd"}, "pw-proc"},
+		}
+		if len(captured.Rows) != len(wanted) {
+			t.Fatalf("%d rows captured, %d wanted", len(captured.Rows), len(wanted))
+		}
+		for _, row := range captured.Rows {
+			c, ok := wanted[row.Name]
+			if !ok {
+				t.Fatalf("no wanted account for the captured %s", row.Name)
+			}
+			got, err := HeldCredential(c.w, c.password)
+			if err != nil || string(got) != row.Held {
+				t.Errorf("%s:\n got %s (%v)\nwant %s", row.Name, got, err, row.Held)
+			}
+		}
+		if _, err := HeldCredential(wanted["module"].w, ""); err == nil {
+			t.Error("an account was held with no password")
+		}
+	})
+	// 774 subtasks 6 and 8 (novox/hq ADR 0561 §3, §6): minting and the grants part's consumers turn on only while the
+	// lease is handed to a holder that is no controller; the vault and the grants part alone read the lease, whatever the
+	// controller announced; a module's consumer is created as the controller's EnsureConsumer creates it.
+	t.Run("the lease turns minting on only when handed away; a consumer is created as the controller's", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for _, row := range []struct {
+			name  string
+			raw   string
+			found bool
+			err   error
+			on    bool
+		}{
+			{"a controller holds it", `{"instance":"novox/1234/2026-10-27T20:00:00Z","epoch":57}`, true, nil, false},
+			{"handed away", `{"handed-to":"the operator's hand-over","handed-by":"person.jochen"}`, true, nil, true},
+			{"expired or deleted", ``, false, nil, false},
+			{"unreadable", ``, false, errors.New("refused"), false},
+			{"not a holder", `[1]`, true, nil, false},
+			{"both a controller and a handed holder", `{"instance":"novox/1","handed-to":"x"}`, true, nil, false},
+		} {
+			if on, why := LeaseHandedAway([]byte(row.raw), row.found, row.err); on != row.on || why == "" {
+				t.Errorf("%s: on %v (%s), want %v", row.name, on, why, row.on)
+			}
+			// The assigner's grants source follows it: the grants part's bucket only for a handed-away lease (issue 774).
+			on, _ := LeaseHandedAway([]byte(row.raw), row.found, row.err)
+			if bucket, _ := delivery.GrantSource(on); (bucket == delivery.PartGrantsBucket) != row.on {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the grants source is %s", row.name, bucket)
+			}
+		}
+		announced := map[string]announce.States{ControllerSeat: ControllerAnnouncement("novox")}
+		for reader, want := range map[string]bool{VaultSeat: true, GrantsModule: true, "mesh-delivery-assigner": true, "mesh-delivery-view": false} {
+			granted, _ := ReadsAnnouncedBy(reader, []string{ControllerLease}, announced)
+			if (len(granted) == 1) != want {
+				t.Errorf("%s reads the lease: %v, want %v", reader, granted, want)
+			}
+		}
+		// Issue 774 (sweep item 2): Users judges every read for its reader again, whatever split the caller made: the
+		// controller's own reader-less copy refused the vault the lease and the grants part's accounts it is named for.
+		announced["mesh-grants"] = announce.States{Module: "mesh-grants", States: []announce.State{{Name: "accounts", Readers: []string{VaultSeat}}}}
+		announced["disk-load"] = announce.States{Module: "disk-load", States: []announce.State{{Name: "readings"}}}
+		judged, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"a"}, Announced: announced, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{"a": {
+			{Module: VaultSeat, ReadsRefused: []string{ControllerLease, GrantsAccounts}},
+			{Module: "mesh-config", ReadsRefused: []string{ControllerLease}},
+			{Module: "restic", ReadsRefused: []string{"disk-load.readings"}},
+			{Module: "messenger", Reads: []string{ControllerLease, GrantsAccounts}}}}})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		reads := map[string]string{}
+		for _, u := range judged {
+			if u.Kind == KindModule {
+				reads[u.Module] = strings.Join(u.Reads, ",")
+			}
+		}
+		if reads[VaultSeat] != ControllerLease+","+GrantsAccounts || reads["mesh-config"] != ControllerLease || reads["restic"] != "" || reads["messenger"] != "" {
+			t.Errorf("the reads granted for their readers: %v", reads)
+		}
+		// AccountsEntry is the very lines ComposeAccounts writes for a user, so a writer of kept users repeats none.
+		filled, _ := WithPasswords(judged, map[string]string{judged[0].Username(): "$2a$11$h"})
+		list, err := ComposeAccounts(filled[:1])
+		perms, perr := PermissionsFor(filled[0])
+		if err != nil || perr != nil || !strings.Contains(list, "    users = [\n"+AccountsEntry(filled[0].Username(), "$2a$11$h", perms)+"    ]\n") {
+			t.Errorf("the accounts entry is not ComposeAccounts' own: %v %v\n%s", err, perr, list)
+		}
+		c, _ := ConsumerFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "a", Module: "m", Consumes: []string{"x.happened"}})
+		cfg := ConsumerConfig(c)
+		if cfg.Durable != "a_m" || cfg.AckPolicy != jetstream.AckExplicitPolicy || cfg.AckWait != 30*time.Second ||
+			cfg.MaxDeliver != 5 || cfg.DeliverPolicy != jetstream.DeliverNewPolicy || len(cfg.FilterSubjects) != 2 ||
+			cfg.Description == "" {
+			t.Errorf("a module's consumer is created as %+v", cfg)
+		}
+		// The grants part is granted the create of each account's consumer by its stream and name, and no other.
+		users, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"a"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{"a": {
+			{Module: GrantsModule}, {Module: "m", Consumes: []string{"x.happened"}}, {Module: "quiet"}}}})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, u := range users {
+			if u.Module != GrantsModule || u.Kind != KindModule {
+				continue
+			}
+			perms, err := PermissionsFor(u)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if !MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.EVENTS.a_m") || MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.EVENTS.a_quiet") ||
+				MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.EVENTS.a_m") || MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.EVENTS.a_m.mesh.mod.x.event.happened") {
+				t.Errorf("the grants part creates consumers as %v", u.CreatesConsumers)
+			}
+		}
+		// 1952 S5 (novox/hq ADR 0564 clauses 2, 5, 8; Limits 2, 4, 8): the health holders' credentials.
+		healthChecks(t)
+		q := ConsumerConfig(QueueConsumer(Principal{Kind: KindProcess, Node: "a", Module: "m", Process: "p"},
+			QueueOwner{Process: "p", Stream: "M_WORK", MaxDeliver: 3}))
+		if q.Durable != "a_m_p" || q.FilterSubject != "" || q.MaxDeliver != 3 || q.DeliverPolicy != jetstream.DeliverAllPolicy {
+			t.Errorf("a process's queue consumer is created as %+v", q)
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+// healthChecks are the health holders' credential cases (ADR 0564 clauses 2, 5, 8; Limits 2, 4, 8; issue 1952 S5).
+func healthChecks(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Helper()
+	announced := map[string]announce.States{ControllerSeat: ControllerAnnouncement("novox"),
+		"mesh-healers": {Module: "mesh-healers", States: []announce.State{{Name: "attempts", Readable: true}, {Name: "would", Readable: true}}}}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		reader, read string
+		may          bool
+	}{
+		{"mesh-conditions", ControllerLease, true}, {"mesh-healers", ControllerLease, true}, {WatchmanModule, ControllerLease, true},
+		{"mesh-self-check", ControllerLease, false}, {"messenger", ControllerLease, false}, {ArtifactStoreTools, ControllerLease, true},
+		{"mesh-conditions", ControllerConditions, true}, {"mesh-healers", ControllerConditions, false}, {"messenger", ControllerConditions, false},
+		{"mesh-healers", ControllerHandActs, true}, {"mesh-conditions", ControllerHandActs, false},
+		// ADR 0565 clauses 10, 11 (issue 1953 L5-S4): mesh-hand-acts reads the controller's log beside its own.
+		{"mesh-hand-acts", ControllerHandActs, true},
+		{"mesh-conditions", "mesh-healers.attempts", true}, {"mesh-conditions", HealersWould, false}, {"mesh-delivery-view", HealersWould, false},
+		// ADR 0577 clause 1: the node-engine's data items are disk-load's alone to read.
+		{"disk-load", delivery.EngineDataRead, true}, {"restic", delivery.EngineDataRead, false},
+	} {
+		granted, _ := ReadsAnnouncedBy(c.reader, []string{c.read}, announced)
+		if (len(granted) == 1) != c.may {
+			t.Errorf("%s reads %s: %v, want %v", c.reader, c.read, granted, c.may)
+		}
+	}
+	bucket := func(m, n string) Bucket { return Bucket{Module: m, Name: n} }
+	users, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"a"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{"a": {
+		{Module: "mesh-conditions", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-conditions", "conditions"), bucket("mesh-conditions", "takeover")},
+			Reads: []string{"mesh-self-check.findings", "mesh-healers.attempts", ControllerConditions}},
+		{Module: "mesh-self-check", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-self-check", "findings")}, Reads: []string{"restic.good"}},
+		// Issue 1955 L7: the grants part keeps the hearings it withholds; the self-check reads them.
+		{Module: GrantsModule, State: []Bucket{bucket(GrantsModule, GrantsWithheldState)}},
+		{Module: "mesh-healers", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-healers", "findings"), bucket("mesh-healers", "attempts"), bucket("mesh-healers", "would")}},
+		{Module: WatchmanModule, State: []Bucket{bucket(WatchmanModule, "findings")}, Reads: []string{delivery.NodeHealthRead}},
+		{Module: "mesh-hand-acts", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-hand-acts", "warrants")}, Logs: []Log{{Module: "mesh-hand-acts", Name: "acts"}}},
+		// ADR 0570 clauses 1, 8 (issue 1954 L6-P5): mesh-provisioner keeps provisions and plans; the vault and a provider
+		// read them.
+		{Module: "mesh-provisioner", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-provisioner", "provisions"), bucket("mesh-provisioner", "plans"),
+			bucket("mesh-provisioner", "registry")}},
+		{Module: "mesh-vault", Reads: []string{"mesh-provisioner.provisions", "mesh-provisioner.plans"}},
+		{Module: "postgres", Reads: []string{"mesh-provisioner.provisions", "mesh-provisioner.plans"}},
+		// The node's provisioner client reads its machine's plans and records no needs (ADR 0570 clause 2; its V3).
+		{Module: "mesh-provisioner-client", ProvisionsNode: true},
+		// ADR 0571 clauses 2, 4 (issue 1955): the seat mesh-artifact-sweep says artifacts-gone; the assigner keeps seat-holders.
+		{Module: "artifact-store-tools", Holds: []Seat{{Name: "mesh-artifact-sweep", Emits: []string{"artifacts-gone"}}},
+			Reads: []string{delivery.SeatHoldersRead}},
+		{Module: delivery.AssignerModule, State: []Bucket{bucket(delivery.AssignerModule, delivery.SeatHoldersState)}},
+		// ADR 0571 clause 3: disk-load keeps the readings; the backup holder reads them.
+		// ADR 0577 clause 1: and it reads its own node's keys of the node-engine's data items, which restic may not.
+		{Module: "disk-load", State: []Bucket{bucket("disk-load", "readings")}, Reads: []string{delivery.EngineDataRead}},
+		{Module: "restic", Reads: []string{"disk-load.readings", delivery.EngineDataRead}, State: []Bucket{bucket("restic", "good")}},
+		// ADR 0571 clauses 1, 9: the indexer reads the builder's log through its own consumer; the catalogue module asks
+		// the builder's tool.
+		{Module: delivery.BuilderModule, Logs: []Log{{Module: delivery.BuilderModule, Name: delivery.BuilderLog, MaxAgeDays: 30}}},
+		{Module: delivery.IndexerModule, Reads: []string{delivery.BuildLogRead}},
+		{Module: "mesh-catalog", Invokes: []string{delivery.BuilderModule + "." + delivery.BuildsSinceTool}},
+		{Module: "telegram", Holds: []Seat{{Name: "telegram-sender", Accepts: []string{"send"}}},
+			Processes: []ProcessPrincipal{{Process: "w", Queues: []QueueOwner{{Process: "w", Stream: "M_WORK"}, {Process: "w", Stream: "KV_x"}}}}},
+		{Module: "nats", SnapshotsTheBus: true, Processes: []ProcessPrincipal{{Process: "nats-tools",
+			Removes: []string{catalogue.RemovesControllerDeadLetterConsumer, catalogue.RemovesEngineActs, catalogue.RemovesAssignmentsStream}}, {Process: "other"}}},
+		{Module: "shop", Processes: []ProcessPrincipal{{Process: "nats-tools", Removes: []string{catalogue.RemovesEngineActs}}}},
+	}}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	may := map[string][]string{
+		"a.mesh-conditions":  {"$KV.mesh-conditions_conditions.machine.g14.silent"},
+		"a.mesh-provisioner": {"$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.postgres-database", "$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak"},
+		"a.mesh-vault": {"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-provisioner_provisions.$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.postgres-database",
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-provisioner_plans.$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak"},
+		"a.mesh-hand-acts": {"$KV.mesh-hand-acts_warrants.mesh-config.ask-1", "mesh.log.mesh-hand-acts.acts.act-1"},
+		"a.disk-load": {"$KV.disk-load_readings.a.pg.data", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_data.$KV.mesh-host_data.a.pg",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_mesh-host_data.c1.$KV.mesh-host_data.a.*"},
+		"provisioner.a": {"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-provisioner_plans.$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_mesh-provisioner_plans.c1.$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak",
+			// Every machine's plans, as the client V3 watches them (issue 774, 2026-10-30).
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_mesh-provisioner_plans.c1.$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.>",
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-provisioner_plans.$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.b.keycloak",
+			// The needs, for the client before V3, until the lease write (review round 3).
+			"$KV." + ProvisionerNeedsBucket + ".a.keycloak.db.x"},
+		// ADR 0571 clause 3: restic's bundle writes each item's last good night as its own state; the self-check reads it.
+		"a.mesh-self-check": {"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_restic_good.$KV.restic_good.a.pg.data"},
+		"a.mesh-grants":     {"$KV.mesh-grants_withheld.reader.mail.a"},
+		"a.restic": {"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_disk-load_readings.$KV.disk-load_readings.a.pg.data", "$KV.restic_good.a.pg.data",
+			// ADR 0571 clause 7: its own membership from the grants part's state.
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-grants_memberships.$KV.mesh-grants_memberships.a.restic"},
+		"a.mesh-delivery-indexer": {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.LOG_mesh-delivery-builder_build-log.r1.mesh.log.mesh-delivery-builder.build-log.letta",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.LOG_mesh-delivery-builder_build-log.r1", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.LOG_mesh-delivery-builder_build-log.r1",
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.LOG_mesh-delivery-builder_build-log.mesh.log.mesh-delivery-builder.build-log.letta"},
+		"a.mesh-delivery-builder": {"mesh.log.mesh-delivery-builder.build-log.letta"},
+		"a.mesh-catalog":          {"mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-builder.tool.builder_builds_since"},
+		WatchmanModule: {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES." + WatchmanModule, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES." + WatchmanModule,
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller", "$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.DEAD_LETTERS"},
+		WatchmanModule + " sources": {"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.EVENTS", "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER",
+			"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.M_WORK", "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.EVENTS", "mesh.events.dead.EVENTS.a_m"},
+		"a.nats.nats-tools": {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller",
+			"$KV.mesh-host_acts.g14.a1", "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_mesh-host_acts",
+			// Research 072 row 33: the ASSIGNMENTS stream is read and removed at the lease write.
+			"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.ASSIGNMENTS", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.ASSIGNMENTS"},
+	}
+	mayNot := map[string][]string{
+		// The keeper writes no findings and no attempts; no observer writes the keeper's buckets (clause 2).
+		"a.mesh-conditions": {"$KV.mesh-self-check_findings.x", "$KV.mesh-healers_attempts.x", "$KV.mesh-controller_conditions.x"},
+		"a.mesh-self-check": {"$KV.mesh-conditions_conditions.x", "$KV.mesh-conditions_takeover.switch", "$KV.restic_good.a.pg.data",
+			"$KV.mesh-grants_withheld.reader.mail.a", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.PING.node-tools",
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-grants_withheld.$KV.mesh-grants_withheld.reader.mail.a"},
+		// Only mesh-provisioner writes provisions and plans, and it writes none of the grants part's states (ADR 0570
+		// clauses 1, 8).
+		"a.mesh-provisioner": {"$KV.mesh-grants_accounts.a.m", "$KV.mesh-grants_user-list.sealed"},
+		"a.mesh-vault": {"$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.postgres-database", "$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak",
+			"mesh.seat.mesh-artifact-sweep.event.artifacts-gone"},
+		// Each writes its own state alone, and these users are composed.
+		"a.disk-load": {"$KV.restic_good.a.pg.data", "$KV.mesh-host_data.a.pg",
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_data.$KV.mesh-host_data.b.pg", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_mesh-host_data.c1.$KV.mesh-host_data.b.*"},
+		"a.mesh-delivery-builder": {"$KV.disk-load_readings.a.pg.data"},
+		// It reads every machine's plans (a provider's consumers are bound there, ADR 0373) but writes none, nor another
+		// machine's needs, which it keeps for the client before V3 until the lease write.
+		"provisioner.a": {"$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak", "$KV." + ProvisionerNeedsBucket + ".b.keycloak.db.x"},
+		// Only the assigner writes seat-holders.
+		"a.artifact-store-tools": {"$KV.mesh-delivery-assigner_seat-holders.mesh-broker"},
+		// Only disk-load writes its readings.
+		"a.restic":   {"$KV.disk-load_readings.a.pg.data", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_data.$KV.mesh-host_data.a.pg"},
+		"a.postgres": {"$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.postgres-database", "$KV.mesh-provisioner_plans.a.keycloak"},
+		// Nor mesh-hand-acts' log and warrants, which it alone writes (ADR 0565 clause 10).
+		"a.mesh-healers": {"$KV.mesh-conditions_conditions.x", "$KV.mesh-conditions_takeover.switch",
+			"$KV.mesh-hand-acts_warrants.x", "mesh.log.mesh-hand-acts.acts.x"},
+		// The watchman never deletes or changes the controller's consumer (clause 5).
+		// Its reads and deletes of a message are on the streams a dead letter comes from, named, never a bucket's
+		// (the lead, 2026-10-29).
+		WatchmanModule + " sources": {"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.KV_mesh-vault_bus-accounts", "$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.KV_x",
+			"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.DELETE.KV_mesh-host_acts", "$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.OBJ_mesh-grants-user-list", "$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET.OTHER",
+			// In L4 it neither delivers again nor drops (clause 5, the lead 2026-10-29).
+			"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.DELETE.EVENTS", "$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.DELETE.DEAD_LETTERS", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.DEAD_LETTERS.x",
+			"mesh.again.a_m.x"},
+		WatchmanModule: {"$KV.mesh-conditions_conditions.x", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES." + WatchmanModule},
+		// The bus module's tools remove the one consumer and the acts' keys, nothing else (Limits 4); its other accounts
+		// remove nothing; an account is granted the removals its bus declares and no other (the catalogue refuses them
+		// outside the bus module).
+		"a.nats.nats-tools": {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.other", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.EVENTS.a_m",
+			"$KV.mesh-conditions_conditions.x", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.KV_mesh-host_acts", "$JS.API.STREAM.PURGE.KV_mesh-host_acts",
+			"$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.EVENTS", "$JS.API.STREAM.PURGE.ASSIGNMENTS", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.ASSIGNMENTS_X"},
+		"a.nats.other":      {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.g14.a1"},
+		"a.nats":            {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.g14.a1"},
+		"a.shop.nats-tools": {"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller", "$KV.mesh-conditions_conditions.x", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.ASSIGNMENTS"},
+	}
+	// ADR 0571 clause 1: a read naming another module's log is issued to the reader as a log it reads, never writes.
+	if m := MembershipFor("a", Declared{Module: delivery.IndexerModule, Reads: []string{delivery.BuildLogRead, "x.y"}},
+		Placements{Logs: map[string]bool{delivery.BuildLogRead: true}}); len(m.Logs) != 1 || m.Logs[0].Writes ||
+		m.Logs[0].Stream != "LOG_mesh-delivery-builder_build-log" || m.Logs[0].Name != delivery.BuildLogRead {
+		t.Errorf("the indexer's membership issues the logs %+v", m.Logs)
+	}
+	// ADR 0565 clauses 6, 7 (issue 1953 L5-S4): a node's engine writes its own packages key and no other node's; only the
+	// assigner writes its policies.
+	for _, u := range users {
+		perms, err := PermissionsFor(u)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		// ADR 0570 clause 6: a node's engine reads its own node's provision keys, and no other node's, and writes none.
+		if u.Kind == KindNode && (!MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-provisioner_provisions.$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.db") ||
+			MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-provisioner_provisions.$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.b.keycloak.db") ||
+			MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.db")) {
+			t.Errorf("node %s reads the provisions %v", u.Node, perms.Publish)
+		}
+		// Issue 774: a node's engine writes its own health report's key and no other node's.
+		if u.Kind == KindNode && (!MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_health.a") || MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_health.b")) {
+			t.Errorf("node %s writes the health reports %v", u.Node, perms.Publish)
+		}
+		if u.Kind == KindModule && u.Module == WatchmanModule && (!MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_health.$KV.mesh-host_health.b") ||
+			MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_health.b")) {
+			t.Errorf("the watchman reads the health reports %v, %v", MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_health.$KV.mesh-host_health.b"), perms.Publish)
+		}
+		if u.Kind == KindNode && (!MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_packages.a") || MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_packages.b")) {
+			t.Errorf("node %s writes the packages keys %v", u.Node, perms.Publish)
+		}
+		if u.Kind == KindModule && MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-delivery-assigner_policies.x") {
+			t.Errorf("%s writes the assigner's policies", u.Username())
+		}
+	}
+	// 1953 S-age (ADR 0565 §10): a log that says an age keeps its entries that long and no longer; one that says none, as
+	// long as the log (ADR 0297).
+	if aged, kept := (Log{Module: "mesh-hand-acts", Name: "acts", MaxAgeDays: 400}).Config(), (Log{Module: "m", Name: "l"}).Config(); aged.MaxAge != 400*24*time.Hour || kept.MaxAge != 0 || !aged.DenyDelete {
+		t.Errorf("an aged log's stream keeps %s, an unaged one %s", aged.MaxAge, kept.MaxAge)
+	}
+	// The tools account's secret is the module's own broker-<binary>, which its manifest's own-secrets names and the
+	// vault keeps by that name (AccountSecret).
+	if w := (WantedAccount{User: "a.nats.nats-tools", Kind: KindProcess, Node: "a", Module: "nats", Process: "nats-tools",
+		URL: "nats://a:4222"}); w.Valid() != nil || w.OwnSecret() != "broker-nats-tools" {
+		t.Errorf("the tools account is held in %q (%v)", w.OwnSecret(), w.Valid())
+	}
+	// Issue 1952: a module that holds a seat says its own seat's events, also when the tool runner carries it, so the
+	// self-check's `checked`, the keeper's condition events and the healers' `healer-acted` reach their hearers. Its
+	// membership lists them, the runtime is granted them; a user of the seat is not, nor a machine's event on a node seat
+	// (granted per machine, to the holder's own account only).
+	selfCheck := Declared{Module: "mesh-self-check", Holds: []Seat{{Name: "mesh-self-check", Scope: "mesh", Emits: []string{"checked"}}}}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		name    string
+		d       Declared
+		subject string
+		may     bool
+	}{
+		{"the self-check says checked", selfCheck, "mesh.seat.mesh-self-check.event.checked", true},
+		{"the keeper says a condition raised", Declared{Module: "mesh-conditions", Holds: []Seat{{Name: "mesh-conditions", Scope: "mesh",
+			Emits: []string{"condition-raised", "condition-cleared"}}}}, "mesh.seat.mesh-conditions.event.condition-cleared", true},
+		{"a user does not say the seat's events", Declared{Module: "mesh-delivery-view", Uses: []Seat{{Name: "mesh-self-check",
+			Scope: "mesh", Emits: []string{"checked"}}}}, "mesh.seat.mesh-self-check.event.checked", false},
+		{"the holder says no other seat's", selfCheck, "mesh.seat.mesh-conditions.event.condition-raised", false},
+		{"a machine's event on a node seat is not composed here", Declared{Module: "pause", Holds: []Seat{{Name: "node-power",
+			Scope: "node", Emits: []string{"paused.*"}}}}, "mesh.seat.node-power.event.paused.b", false},
+	} {
+		m := MembershipFor("a", c.d, Placements{})
+		listed := m.SeatTraffic != nil && slices.ContainsFunc(m.SeatTraffic.Publish, func(p string) bool { return p == c.subject })
+		perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNodeTools, Node: "a", Carries: []Declared{c.d}})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", c.name, err)
+		}
+		if listed != c.may || MayPublish(perms, c.subject) != c.may {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the membership lists %s %v and the runtime may publish it %v, want %v", c.name, c.subject, listed,
+				MayPublish(perms, c.subject), c.may)
+		}
+	}
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, u := range users {
+		name := u.Username()
+		if u.Module == WatchmanModule && u.Kind == KindModule {
+			name = WatchmanModule
+		}
+		perms, err := PermissionsFor(u)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", name, err)
+		}
+		if name == WatchmanModule {
+			// It hears its watchdogs' words on core subjects (Limits 3, 11).
+			for _, subject := range []string{"mesh.mod.power.event.sleeping", "mesh.control.g14.tools-alive",
+				"mesh.seat.mesh-self-check.event.checked", "mesh.mod.keycloak.event.provisioner.failing",
+				"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.slow-consumer", "prov.applied.g14.keycloak"} {
+				if !MaySubscribe(perms, subject) {
+					t.Errorf("the watchman may not hear %s", subject)
+				}
+			}
+			// Never the bus's API audit, which carries every API answer in the account (the lead, 2026-10-29).
+			if MaySubscribe(perms, "$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.API") || MaySubscribe(perms, "$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.API.x") {
+				t.Error("the watchman hears the bus's API audit")
+			}
+			if !MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.PROV_APPLIED.prov.applied.g14.keycloak") {
+				t.Error("the watchman may not read the newest provisioner report")
+			}
+		}
+		subjects := append(append([]string(nil), may[name]...), may[name+" sources"]...)
+		denied := append(append([]string(nil), mayNot[name]...), mayNot[name+" sources"]...)
+		if len(may[name+" sources"]) > 0 {
+			seen[name+" sources"] = true
+		}
+		for _, subject := range subjects {
+			seen[name] = true
+			if !MayPublish(perms, subject) {
+				t.Errorf("%s may not publish %s", name, subject)
+			}
+		}
+		for _, subject := range denied {
+			seen[name] = true
+			if MayPublish(perms, subject) {
+				t.Errorf("%s may publish %s", name, subject)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	// Every row names a user that was composed, in either table: a row for a user absent would pass for nothing.
+	for _, table := range []map[string][]string{may, mayNot} {
+		for name := range table {
+			if !seen[name] {
+				t.Errorf("no user %s was composed", name)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// heldEventsBeyond takes out of the copy's memberships the one row they list beyond the controller's on purpose (issue
+// 1952): a held seat's own events in its holder's seat traffic, so a module the tool runner carries may say them. The
+// controller's composer is frozen; any other difference is still a fault.
+func heldEventsBeyond(got, was any) {
+	gotAll, _ := got.(map[string]any)
+	wasAll, _ := was.(map[string]any)
+	for key, m := range gotAll {
+		gm, _ := m.(map[string]any)
+		traffic, _ := gm["seat-traffic"].(map[string]any)
+		if traffic == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		listedBefore := map[string]bool{}
+		if wm, _ := wasAll[key].(map[string]any); wm != nil {
+			if wt, _ := wm["seat-traffic"].(map[string]any); wt != nil {
+				for _, p := range asStrings(wt["publish"]) {
+					listedBefore[p] = true
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		var kept []any
+		for _, p := range asStrings(traffic["publish"]) {
+			if parts := strings.Split(p, "."); !listedBefore[p] && len(parts) == 5 && parts[0] == "mesh" && parts[1] == "seat" && parts[3] == "event" {
+				continue
+			}
+			kept = append(kept, p)
+		}
+		if kept == nil {
+			delete(traffic, "publish")
+		} else {
+			traffic["publish"] = kept
+		}
+		if len(traffic) == 0 {
+			delete(gm, "seat-traffic")
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func asStrings(v any) []string {
+	list, _ := v.([]any)
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(list))
+	for _, x := range list {
+		if s, ok := x.(string); ok {
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
 }

go/buscompose/create.go

@@ -86,3 +86,30 @@ func ModuleStreamConfig(m ModuleStream) jetstream.StreamConfig {
 	}
 	return cfg
 }
+
+// ConsumerConfig is a pull consumer as the controller's EnsureConsumer creates it (mesh-controller internal/broker
+// JetStream.EnsureConsumer, a consumer not there yet): its durable name, explicit acks, its ack wait, max deliver and max
+// ack pending, its description, one filter or several, and from the stream's end when it is made FromNow. The grants part
+// creates a module's and a process's consumers with it from the lease write (novox/hq ADR 0561 §6): a create alone,
+// never an update of one the bus holds. A push consumer or a queue group is the controller's own and never made here.
+func ConsumerConfig(c Consumer) jetstream.ConsumerConfig {
+	cfg := jetstream.ConsumerConfig{
+		Durable:       c.Name,
+		AckPolicy:     jetstream.AckExplicitPolicy,
+		AckWait:       time.Duration(c.AckWaitSeconds) * time.Second,
+		MaxDeliver:    c.MaxDeliver,
+		MaxAckPending: c.MaxAckPending,
+		Description:   c.Why,
+	}
+	switch len(c.Filters) {
+	case 0:
+	case 1:
+		cfg.FilterSubject = c.Filters[0]
+	default:
+		cfg.FilterSubjects = c.Filters
+	}
+	if c.FromNow {
+		cfg.DeliverPolicy = jetstream.DeliverNewPolicy
+	}
+	return cfg
+}

go/buscompose/creates_streams_test.go

@@ -22,7 +22,13 @@ func TestTheGrantsPartCreatesOnlyDeclaredStreams(t *testing.T) {
 				Streams: []ModuleStream{{Module: "mesh-delivery-builder", Name: "BUILDASKS", Events: []string{"ask"}}}},
 			{Module: GrantsModule, State: []Bucket{{Module: GrantsModule, Name: "assertions"}}, Reads: []string{VaultBusAccounts}},
 			{Module: RuntimeModule},
+			// The node-engine's manifest as a placement names it (issue 774, met twice on 2026-10-30): no account of its
+			// own, so the runner would carry it, and its state is the node's to write alone.
+			{Module: EngineModule, NoAccount: true, Consumes: []string{"restic.backed-up"},
+				State: []Bucket{{Module: EngineModule, Name: "health"}, {Module: EngineModule, Name: EngineActsState}}},
 		}},
+		// The node-engine's own manifest, placed on every node though no node is assigned it (novox/hq ADR 0563 §2, §3).
+		Engine: &Declared{Module: EngineModule, State: []Bucket{{Module: EngineModule, Name: EngineActsState}}},
 	}
 	users, err := Users(records)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -30,6 +36,9 @@ func TestTheGrantsPartCreatesOnlyDeclaredStreams(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	perms := map[string]Permissions{}
 	for _, u := range users {
+		if u.Module == EngineModule {
+			t.Errorf("the node-engine's manifest composed a user of its own: %s", u.Username())
+		}
 		if u.Kind == KindNode || u.Kind == KindNodeTools {
 			p, err := PermissionsFor(u)
 			if err != nil {
@@ -62,8 +71,24 @@ func TestTheGrantsPartCreatesOnlyDeclaredStreams(t *testing.T) {
 		{GrantsModule, "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.KV_mesh-delivery-builder_undeclared", false},
 		{GrantsModule, "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.EVENTS", false},
 		{GrantsModule, "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.ASSIGNMENTS", false},
+		// Research 072 row 33: a runtime reads its membership from the grants part's state, never the assignments stream.
+		{"mesh-delivery-builder", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.novox.mesh-delivery-builder", false},
 		{GrantsModule, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.EVENTS", false},
 		{"mesh-delivery-builder", "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.KV_mesh-delivery-builder_steps", false},
+		// The node-engine's acts: created by the grants part, written by each node's engine under its own keys alone.
+		{GrantsModule, "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.KV_mesh-host_acts", true},
+		{"node.ace", "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.KV_mesh-host_acts", false},
+		{"node.ace", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.ace.act.hand-over-1", true},
+		{"node.ace", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.ace.open.hand-over.abc", true},
+		{"node.ace", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.novox.act.hand-over-1", false},
+		{"node.ace", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_acts.$KV.mesh-host_acts.ace.ask.hand-over-1", true},
+		{"node.ace", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_acts.$KV.mesh-host_acts.novox.ask.hand-over-1", false},
+		{"novox.node-tools", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.novox.act.hand-over-1", false},
+		// The runner never carries the engine (issue 774): its health report is the node's own key alone.
+		{"novox.node-tools", "$KV.mesh-host_health.novox", false},
+		{"novox.node-tools", "$KV.mesh-host_acts.novox.ask.x", false},
+		{"node.novox", "$KV.mesh-host_health.novox", true},
+		{"node.novox", "$KV.mesh-host_health.ace", false},
 		// The sealed user list (ADR 0547 clause 7): the grants part writes its own bucket and no other.
 		{GrantsModule, "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.OBJ_mesh-grants-user-list", true},
 		{GrantsModule, "$O.mesh-grants-user-list.C.abc", true},

go/buscompose/derived.go

@@ -247,6 +247,30 @@ func ConsumersOf(users []Principal) []ModuleConsumer {
 	return out
 }
 
+// AccountConsumers are the durable consumers an account needs (novox/hq ADR 0561 §6): of ConsumersOf, each module's on
+// EVENTS and each process's on its own work queue, never one on a module stream it hears (those the controller makes with
+// the stream's grant). The grants part creates them from the lease write, with these configurations.
+func AccountConsumers(users []Principal) []ModuleConsumer {
+	queues := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, p := range users {
+		for _, q := range p.Queues {
+			queues[q.Stream] = true
+		}
+		for _, d := range p.Carries {
+			for _, q := range d.Queues {
+				queues[q.Stream] = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	var out []ModuleConsumer
+	for _, mc := range ConsumersOf(users) {
+		if mc.Consumer.Stream == consumerStream(Principal{Kind: KindModule}) || queues[mc.Consumer.Stream] {
+			out = append(out, mc)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // HolderConsumerFor is the worker a seat's holders share on that seat's work queue.
 //
 // **One worker for every holder, and each holder pulls one ask when it is idle** (novox/hq ADR

go/buscompose/engine.go

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+package buscompose
+
+import (
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
+)
+
+// The node seat node-engine (novox/hq ADR 0563 §1): every node's engine holds it on its own bus account, and no module
+// claims it. Its verbs and events are the catalogue's (catalogue.EngineVerbs), read here rather than copied.
+
+// EngineSeat is the seat.
+const EngineSeat = catalogue.EngineSeat
+
+// EngineModule is the node-engine's manifest's module name, and EngineActsState its state the acts asked through the
+// node seat and its own asks are kept in (ADR 0563 §2, §3: "the engine's own state"): the bucket mesh-host_acts, keys
+// `<node>.act.<id>`, `<node>.open.<act>.<digest>` and `<node>.ask.<id>`, each written by that node's engine alone.
+const (
+	EngineModule    = "mesh-host"
+	EngineActsState = "acts"
+)
+
+// EngineActsBucket is that state's bucket.
+var EngineActsBucket = BucketName(EngineModule, EngineActsState)
+
+// EnginePackagesBucket is the engine's state of its node's declared packages (novox/hq ADR 0565 clause 6): one key, the
+// node's name, written by that node's engine alone.
+var EnginePackagesBucket = BucketName(EngineModule, delivery.EnginePackagesState)
+
+// EngineDataBucket is the engine's state of its node's placed modules' data items (novox/hq ADR 0577 clause 1): one
+// key `<node>.<module>` per module, written by that node's engine alone.
+var EngineDataBucket = delivery.EngineDataBucket
+
+// EnginePackagesGrants is what a node's engine publishes to keep its node's key of the packages bucket: the key alone,
+// and its read.
+func EnginePackagesGrants(node string) []string {
+	return append([]string{"$KV." + EnginePackagesBucket + "." + node}, readGrants(EnginePackagesBucket, node)...)
+}
+
+// engineGrants is what a node's engine is granted to hold its node seat and to ask the operator (ADR 0563 §1, §3): it
+// answers its own node's verbs (the caller-named subjects are added beside them with every principal's), says the
+// seat's events about its node, answers discovery for the seat, asks who answers what (the login shell's execute, ADR
+// 0563 §6), and asks the operator under asks.EngineAsker(node) on the router's seat as its holder declares it, as any
+// user of that seat is granted.
+//
+// Its verbs and events are granted as any verb and any event of the seat on its own node, not as the contract's list:
+// the list is compiled into whichever mesh-sdk the grants part pins, so a verb the engine gained before the grants part
+// was released was refused on every node and the engine reopened its link every few minutes (2026-10-31, the optional
+// verb composition of mesh-host #184). As a module answers `mesh.mod.<module>.tool.>`, nothing is given away: no other
+// principal may subscribe this seat's subjects of this node, and a caller is still granted each verb by name.
+func engineGrants(p Principal) (pub, sub []string) {
+	sub = append(sub, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".tool.*."+p.Node)
+	pub = append(pub, "mesh.seat."+EngineSeat+".event.*."+p.Node)
+	sub = append(sub, announcing(EngineSeat)...)
+	pub = append(pub, discovering()...)
+	tp, ts := seatTrafficGrants(SeatTrafficOf(asks.EngineAsker(p.Node), nil, p.Uses, nil))
+	// And its acts and asks, under its own node's keys alone; never the bucket's creation, which is the grants part's.
+	if own, err := NodeKeysGrants(EngineActsBucket, p.Node); err == nil {
+		pub = append(pub, own...)
+	}
+	// And the provisions its node's modules consume, its own node's keys alone, read (novox/hq ADR 0570 clause 6: the
+	// consuming engine checks the vault's name and generation of what it is handed).
+	if safeSubject.MatchString(p.Node) {
+		pub = append(pub, readGrants(provisions.ProvisionsBucket, p.Node+".>")...)
+	}
+	// And its node's own health report, its key `<node>` alone (issue 774, the operator's alert table): what the watchman
+	// reads for the machine's alerts.
+	if safeSubject.MatchString(p.Node) {
+		pub = append(pub, append([]string{"$KV." + delivery.NodeHealthBucket + "." + p.Node},
+			readGrants(delivery.NodeHealthBucket, p.Node)...)...)
+	}
+	// And its node's placed modules' data items, its own node's keys alone (ADR 0577 clause 1).
+	if own, err := NodeKeysGrants(EngineDataBucket, p.Node); err == nil {
+		pub = append(pub, own...)
+	}
+	// And its node's declared packages, its own key alone (ADR 0565 clause 6).
+	if safeSubject.MatchString(p.Node) {
+		pub = append(pub, EnginePackagesGrants(p.Node)...)
+	}
+	return append(pub, tp...), append(sub, ts...)
+}

go/buscompose/health_grants.go

@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+package buscompose
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+)
+
+// **The health holders' grants** (novox/hq ADR 0564 clauses 2, 5 and 8, Limits 2, 4 and 8; issue 1952 S5).
+//
+//   - The condition keeper reads the controller's open conditions until the lease write, for what clauses 8 and 9 carry
+//     from them, and mesh-healers the controller's hand-act log, for S15 (Limits 2): both buckets the controller
+//     announces readable by nobody, so each is read by its named reader alone. The keeper, mesh-healers and the
+//     watchman read the controller's lease (Limits 8). Nobody reads mesh-healers' `would` (clause 8): what the healers
+//     would have done reaches no condition. Every observer's `findings`, the healers' `attempts`, the wants and the
+//     haves are read through `reads` as any announced state is; and no module writes another's state, so an observer
+//     can never write the keeper's buckets (clause 2).
+//   - The watchman makes its own consumer on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES, by its own name, pulled, and reads whether the
+//     controller's consumer `controller` still stands; it may neither delete nor change that consumer (clause 5). It
+//     lists and shows DEAD_LETTERS, which is all it does before the lease write.
+//   - The bus module's tools run on an account of their own, declared by their bundle's `bus` with `removes`
+//     (catalogue.BusAccounts), which may remove only the consumer `controller` on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES and keys of the
+//     node-engine's acts bucket (Limits 4), never the backup's account `broker`, which only reads (ADR 0235).
+
+// The states the composer names its readers for, beside the lease (NamedReaders).
+var (
+	// ControllerConditions is the controller's open conditions, read by the keeper alone (ADR 0564 clauses 8, 9).
+	ControllerConditions = ControllerSeat + ".conditions"
+	// ControllerHandActs is the controller's hand-act log, read by mesh-healers alone of the four health holders (ADR
+	// 0564 Limits 2).
+	ControllerHandActs = ControllerSeat + ".hand-acts"
+	// HealersWould is what mesh-healers would have done while the lease names a controller: read by nobody (clause 8).
+	HealersWould = health.HealersModule + "." + health.WouldState
+)
+
+// BusRemovalGrants are the whole authority of an account whose bus declares removals (ADR 0564 Limits 4, issue 1952
+// notes 6 and 7), each removal its grant: the controller's consumer on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES read and deleted (the lease
+// write's step, clause 5); the node-engine's acts bucket read (STREAM.INFO with a subject filter lists what a removal
+// would take, so the tools read before they remove) and its keys removed, which nothing else may empty when it fills; the ASSIGNMENTS stream read and deleted whole (the lease
+// write, research 072 row 33). A
+// removal outside the set is refused, as the indexer's judge refuses it in a manifest (novox/hq ADR 0578 §1).
+func BusRemovalGrants(removes []string) ([]string, error) {
+	var out []string
+	for _, r := range removes {
+		switch r {
+		case catalogue.RemovesControllerDeadLetterConsumer:
+			out = append(out, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."+DeadLetterNoticesStream+"."+ControllerName,
+				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+DeadLetterNoticesStream+"."+ControllerName)
+		case catalogue.RemovesEngineActs:
+			out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_"+EngineActsBucket, "$KV."+EngineActsBucket+".>")
+		case catalogue.RemovesAssignmentsStream:
+			out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+AssignmentsStream, "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE."+AssignmentsStream)
+		default:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("a bus account removes %q, which is not one of %s (novox/hq ADR 0564 Limits 4)", r,
+				strings.Join([]string{catalogue.RemovesControllerDeadLetterConsumer, catalogue.RemovesEngineActs,
+					catalogue.RemovesAssignmentsStream}, ", "))
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// removesAssignmentsStream is an account declared to remove the stream ASSIGNMENTS: the writers table's one exemption from
+// stream definitions being the controller's, for deleting that one stream at the lease write (research 072 row 33).
+func removesAssignmentsStream(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
+	return p.Kind == KindProcess && slices.Contains(p.Removes, catalogue.RemovesAssignmentsStream) &&
+		pattern == "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE."+AssignmentsStream
+}
+
+// removesEngineActs is an account declared to remove keys of the node-engine's acts bucket: the writers table's one
+// exemption from a node's engine being the only writer of its keys, for removal (ADR 0564 Limits 4).
+func removesEngineActs(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
+	return p.Kind == KindProcess && slices.Contains(p.Removes, catalogue.RemovesEngineActs) && pattern == "$KV."+EngineActsBucket+".>"
+}
+
+// WatchmanDeadLetterConsumer is the watchman's own consumer on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES, made only once the lease names no
+// controller and `controller` is gone (ADR 0564 clause 5).
+const WatchmanDeadLetterConsumer = WatchmanModule
+
+// WatchmanDeadLetterGrants are what the watchman may publish for the dead letters in L4 (ADR 0564 clause 5), at least
+// privilege: its own pulled consumer on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES (made, read, pulled, acknowledged); whether `controller`
+// still stands (read only); a read of DEAD_LETTERS (its information and one kept message); a copy kept
+// (`mesh.events.dead.>`); and on each stream a notice can name (sources: EVENTS, the seats' work queues and the
+// modules' own), its information, for a source's age (ADR 0376), and the message given up on, each stream by its name.
+// Never a wildcard over the streams and never a bucket's or an object store's stream: a read of any message would read
+// every bucket (the lead, 2026-10-29, on issue 1952 S5). Delivering again and dropping stay refused in L4, so it may
+// neither delete a message nor publish `mesh.again.>`.
+func WatchmanDeadLetterGrants(sources []string) []string {
+	own := DeadLetterNoticesStream + "." + WatchmanDeadLetterConsumer
+	out := []string{
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO." + DeadLetterNoticesStream,
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO." + DeadLetterNoticesStream + "." + ControllerName,
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE." + own,
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO." + own,
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT." + own,
+		"$JS.ACK." + own + ".>",
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO." + DeadLettersStream,
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET." + DeadLettersStream,
+		deadLetterPrefix + ">",
+		// And the provisioner clients' reports, the newest per subject read at its start (S21, ADR 0362 §3).
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO." + ProvAppliedStream,
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET." + ProvAppliedStream,
+		"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET." + ProvAppliedStream + ".>",
+	}
+	for _, s := range DeadLetterSources(sources) {
+		out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+s, "$JS.API.STREAM.MSG.GET."+s)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// WatchmanHears are the core subjects the watchman subscribes, with no durable consumer (ADR 0564 clauses 4, 5 and
+// Limits 3, 11): the power seat's words (S1, ADR 0211), the providers' failing and recovered words (S8), each tool
+// runner's beat (S11), the self-check's checked (S10), a consumer deleted and the bus module's slow consumers and closed
+// connections (S9), the provisioner clients' reports (S21), and the dead letters kept. Never the bus's API audit
+// (`$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.API`): it carries every API call's request and answer in the account, the vault's hashes among
+// them (the lead, 2026-10-29).
+func WatchmanHears() []string {
+	return []string{
+		"mesh.mod.power.event.*",
+		"mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.failing",
+		"mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.recovered",
+		"mesh.control.*.tools-alive",
+		"mesh.seat.mesh-self-check.event." + health.EventChecked,
+		"$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.CONSUMER.DELETED.>",
+		"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.slow-consumer",
+		"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.connection-closed",
+		ProvAppliedSubjects,
+		deadLetterPrefix + ">",
+	}
+}
+
+// DeadLetterSources are the streams of names a dead letter may come from, sorted, none twice: each a plain name, never a
+// bucket's (KV_) or an object store's (OBJ_) stream, the dead letters' own two streams, or a pattern.
+func DeadLetterSources(names []string) []string {
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	var out []string
+	for _, n := range names {
+		switch {
+		case seen[n], !safeSubject.MatchString(n), strings.HasPrefix(n, "KV_"), strings.HasPrefix(n, "OBJ_"),
+			n == DeadLettersStream, n == DeadLetterNoticesStream:
+			continue
+		}
+		seen[n] = true
+		out = append(out, n)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
+
+// deadLetterSourcesOf are the streams the records' consumers give up on: EVENTS, the work queue of every seat that
+// accepts work, and every module's and process's own work queue.
+func deadLetterSourcesOf(r Records) []string {
+	out := []string{EventsStream}
+	for _, mods := range r.Assigned {
+		for _, d := range mods {
+			for _, s := range append(append([]Seat(nil), d.Holds...), d.Uses...) {
+				if len(s.Accepts) > 0 {
+					out = append(out, seatStreamName(s.Name))
+				}
+			}
+			for _, q := range d.Queues {
+				out = append(out, q.Stream)
+			}
+			for _, pr := range d.Processes {
+				for _, q := range pr.Queues {
+					out = append(out, q.Stream)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return DeadLetterSources(out)
+}
+
+// keepsDeadLetters is the watchman keeping the dead letters: a second writer of the copies beside the controller, which
+// keeps them until its lease is handed away and the watchman after (ADR 0564 clause 5). Delivering again stays the
+// controller's in L4.
+func keepsDeadLetters(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
+	return isController(p, pattern) ||
+		(p.Kind == KindModule && p.Module == WatchmanModule && pattern == deadLetterPrefix+">")
+}

go/buscompose/log.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 )
@@ -14,8 +15,10 @@ import (
 // A log follows a bucket in every respect (ADR 0201): the module names it locally, the mesh derives
 // its stream and subjects, the controller creates it from the catalogue on every raise and from
 // registration, never a module, and **no path of the mesh removes one** — a log whose declaration
-// is gone is reported, as a bucket is. Unlike a bucket, a log is its owner's alone: no other module
-// reads it, so there is no read of a log to grant or issue.
+// is gone is reported, as a bucket is. Only its owner appends to it. Another module reads it when its manifest's
+// `reads` names it, `<module>.<log>` (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 1; the lead, 2026-10-29): by direct gets, and through an
+// ordered consumer of its own it creates and lets go of to read from a time or the newest per key and then follow new
+// entries; never a durable consumer, never a write.
 //
 // Pure, but for the stream's configuration, which is the server's own type so that what is tested
 // is exactly what is sent; jetstream.go is the part that asks a server.
@@ -37,6 +40,8 @@ type Log struct {
 	Name   string
 	// MaxMiB is its cap in MiB; zero is LogDefaultMiB.
 	MaxMiB int
+	// MaxAgeDays is how long an entry is kept; zero is as long as the log (catalogue.LogDeclaration).
+	MaxAgeDays int
 }
 
 // LogStreamPrefix starts every log's stream name, which no other stream of the mesh's starts with.
@@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ func (l Log) Why() string {
 }
 
 // Config is the stream a log is, field by field as novox/hq ADR 0297 fixes it: a file stream kept by
-// limits, with no maximum age and no cap per key, whose message is an entry's value and 4 KiB of
+// limits, with no maximum age unless the log says one (ADR 0565 §10) and no cap per key, whose message is an entry's value and 4 KiB of
 // headers at most, that refuses a new entry when full rather than
 // drop an old one, and that refuses deleting an entry or purging it. Direct gets are allowed, which
 // is how the runtime reads it.
@@ -85,7 +90,7 @@ func (l Log) Config() jetstream.StreamConfig {
 		Subjects:          []string{l.Subject() + ".>"},
 		Storage:           jetstream.FileStorage,
 		Retention:         jetstream.LimitsPolicy,
-		MaxAge:            0,
+		MaxAge:            time.Duration(l.MaxAgeDays) * 24 * time.Hour,
 		MaxMsgs:           -1,
 		MaxMsgsPerSubject: -1,
 		MaxBytes:          l.MaxBytes(),
@@ -135,6 +140,59 @@ func logGrants(module string, names []string) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
+// DeclaredLogs is every log a module placed anywhere declares, as a read names it: `<module>.<log>`.
+func DeclaredLogs(r Records) map[string]bool {
+	out := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, ds := range r.Assigned {
+		for _, d := range ds {
+			for _, l := range d.Logs {
+				out[d.Module+"."+l.Name] = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// withReadLogs is d with ReadLogs set: of its reads, those naming a log of logs.
+func withReadLogs(d Declared, logs map[string]bool) Declared {
+	d.ReadLogs = nil
+	for _, r := range d.Reads {
+		if logs[strings.TrimSpace(r)] {
+			d.ReadLogs = append(d.ReadLogs, strings.TrimSpace(r))
+		}
+	}
+	return d
+}
+
+// readLogGrants is what a reader of other modules' logs publishes, for each `<module>.<log>` read: the stream's info,
+// direct gets (an entry by sequence, the last of a key), and an ordered consumer of its own (created with any name and
+// filter, pulled, read and deleted). No append, no purge, no delete of an entry: the log's stream refuses those anyway.
+func readLogGrants(reads []string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, r := range reads {
+		module, name, ok := strings.Cut(r, ".")
+		if !ok || !safeSubject.MatchString(module) || !safeSubject.MatchString(name) {
+			continue
+		}
+		stream := LogStreamName(module, name)
+		out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+stream, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT."+stream+".*",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."+stream+".*", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+stream+".*")
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// readLogsIssuedFor is every other module's log a module's code reads, as its membership lists them: by the read's
+// name, never written.
+func readLogsIssuedFor(d Declared) []LogIssued {
+	var out []LogIssued
+	for _, r := range d.ReadLogs {
+		module, name, _ := strings.Cut(r, ".")
+		out = append(out, LogIssued{Name: r, Stream: LogStreamName(module, name), Subject: LogSubject(module, name)})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // logNames is the local names of a module's logs.
 func logNames(logs []Log) []string {
 	out := make([]string, 0, len(logs))

go/buscompose/membership.go

@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ type Placements struct {
 	Interchangeable map[string]bool
 	// Kinds is every kind held of a kinded bench, by whom and with what capabilities (ADR 0259 §5).
 	Kinds []KindHeld
+	// Logs is every log a module placed anywhere declares, `<module>.<log>` (DeclaredLogs): a read naming one is issued
+	// as a log read (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 1).
+	Logs map[string]bool
 }
 
 // AnswersForTheModule says whether an instance of a module on one machine is issued the module's
@@ -58,7 +61,7 @@ func MembershipFor(node string, d Declared, where Placements) Membership {
 		}
 	}
 	m.State = stateIssuedFor(d, node)
-	m.Logs = logsIssuedFor(d)
+	m.Logs = append(logsIssuedFor(d), readLogsIssuedFor(withReadLogs(d, where.Logs))...)
 	m.Streams = streamsIssuedFor(d)
 	m.Hears = HeardIssuedFor(node, d)
 	m.Waits = waitsIssuedFor(d)
@@ -103,7 +106,7 @@ func MembershipFor(node string, d Declared, where Placements) Membership {
 
 // PlacementsOf reads where everything runs from the records the bus's accounts are composed from.
 func PlacementsOf(r Records, interchangeable map[string]bool) Placements {
-	p := Placements{Nodes: map[string][]string{}, Interchangeable: interchangeable}
+	p := Placements{Nodes: map[string][]string{}, Interchangeable: interchangeable, Logs: DeclaredLogs(r)}
 	for node, declared := range r.Assigned {
 		for _, d := range declared {
 			p.Nodes[d.Module] = append(p.Nodes[d.Module], node)

go/buscompose/modstreams.go

@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ func (s ModuleStream) Stream() Stream {
 
 // QueueOwner is the one process of a module that is the durable consumer of one of its own work-queue
 // streams (novox/hq ADR 0436 §1, §2, §6): named in that process's bus.queues, and checked at registration
-// to be the only one (catalogue.WorkQueueStreamProblems).
+// to be the only one (the indexer's judge, novox/hq ADR 0578 §1).
 type QueueOwner struct {
 	// Process is the process resource's id — its bus account's name, with the node and module (novox/hq ADR
 	// 0436 §2).

go/buscompose/nats.go

@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ type Principal struct {
 	KeyedReads []KeyedRead
 	// Logs is the local names of the logs this principal's module keeps (novox/hq ADR 0297).
 	Logs []string
+	// ReadLogs are, of Reads, those naming another module's log (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 1).
+	ReadLogs []string
 	// Streams are the streams this principal's module owns, and Hears the module streams it hears with the
 	// subjects it was granted (novox/hq ADR 0363).
 	Streams []ModuleStream
@@ -196,6 +198,12 @@ type Principal struct {
 	// whole authority is BusSnapshotGrants: it copies the streams for the night's backup and nothing
 	// else — not its declarations, which the node's tool runtime serves for it.
 	SnapshotsTheBus bool
+	// Removes are, for a process or tools bundle account whose bus declares them, what it may remove from the bus
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0564 Limits 4): its whole authority is then BusRemovalGrants of them.
+	Removes []string
+	// DeadLetterSources are, for the watchman, the streams a dead letter it keeps may come from, by name
+	// (deadLetterSourcesOf, novox/hq ADR 0564 clause 5): never a bucket's.
+	DeadLetterSources []string
 
 	// WitnessesController is a machine principal whose node-engine witnesses the controller's upgrades:
 	// the machine runs the controller (novox/hq ADR 0236, lease/witness.go). It may read the lease's one
@@ -217,6 +225,11 @@ type Principal struct {
 	// ADR 0547 §2, ADR 0550 §5, issue 1126): its modules' own secrets sealed to its key, for the compositions it makes
 	// itself. Set while the vault's holder serves it.
 	AsksItsOwnSecrets bool
+	// AsksTheVaultToSign is a machine principal whose node-engine may ask the vault's `sign` in its own name, read the
+	// vault's public signing halves (`signers`) and the controller's lease key (novox/hq ADR 0550 §2): its own node's
+	// certificate, the keys it trusts, and the lease write that drops the controller's key. Set while the vault's holder
+	// serves `sign`.
+	AsksTheVaultToSign bool
 	// ServedReads are, for a machine principal, the keys of mesh-config's resolved values that other nodes' modules serve
 	// from (`<node>.<module>.<key>`, catalogue.ServedSettings): what every consumer is told, and so what a node composing
 	// its own modules reads of a provider elsewhere (issue 1126), each key alone. Sorted, none twice.
@@ -232,6 +245,10 @@ type Principal struct {
 	// by name. Created only, never updated or deleted: a new module state is on the bus when the grants part hears its
 	// manifest, not at the controller's next start (issue 1790).
 	CreatesStreams []string
+	// CreatesConsumers are the durable consumers the grants part's principal alone may create beside the controller
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0561 §6): each placed module's on EVENTS and each process's on its work queue (AccountConsumers), by
+	// stream and name. Created only, never updated or deleted.
+	CreatesConsumers []ModuleConsumer
 
 	// PasswordHash is the bcrypt hash the mesh minted. The plaintext is sealed to the principal
 	// and never appears here: this file is written to a node's disk and read by a server, and a
@@ -356,6 +373,10 @@ var VaultNodeKey = SeatVerb{Seat: "mesh-vault", Verb: "node-key"}
 // key (issue 1126, ADR 0550 §5); granted as Principal.AsksItsOwnSecrets says.
 var VaultOwn = SeatVerb{Seat: "mesh-vault", Verb: "own"}
 
+// VaultSign is the vault's verb a machine's node-engine asks in its own name for its own node's certificate (novox/hq
+// ADR 0550 §2); granted as Principal.AsksTheVaultToSign says.
+var VaultSign = SeatVerb{Seat: "mesh-vault", Verb: delivery.SignVerb}
+
 // VerbsTheControllerActsOnAWarrant are the other seat verbs the controller calls when the operator's warrant
 // chooses them (novox/hq ADR 0259): a machine's service restarted, and a walk started or stopped through the
 // controller's own `plans`, a machine's held builds sent by its own `push` and the builds held after a failed release
@@ -642,6 +663,19 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		return Permissions{Publish: pub, Subscribe: []string{p.inbox()}}, nil
 	}
 
+	if p.Kind == KindProcess && len(p.Removes) > 0 {
+		pub, err := BusRemovalGrants(p.Removes)
+		if err != nil {
+			return Permissions{}, err
+		}
+		sort.Strings(pub)
+		if err := CheckWriters(p, pub); err != nil {
+			return Permissions{}, err
+		}
+		// Its own inbox for the answers, and nothing else (Limits 4).
+		return Permissions{Publish: pub, Subscribe: []string{p.inbox()}}, nil
+	}
+
 	var pub, sub []string
 	switch p.Kind {
 	case KindController:
@@ -952,6 +986,18 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 			// on it rather than at the next unrelated change (ADR 0547 §2).
 			sub = append(sub, VaultSecretChanged)
 		}
+		// And, while the vault serves `sign`, its own node's certificate in its own name, the vault's public signing
+		// halves, read and watched, and the controller's lease key, read and watched, which says when the controller's key
+		// is no longer trusted (ADR 0550 §2). Read only.
+		if p.AsksTheVaultToSign {
+			pub = append(pub, VaultSignCall(p))
+			pub = append(pub, readGrants(delivery.SignersBucket, "")...)
+			pub = append(pub, readGrants(LeaseBucket, leaseKey)...)
+		}
+		// And its node seat, node-engine, and its asks to the operator in its own name (novox/hq ADR 0563 §1, §3).
+		ep, es := engineGrants(p)
+		pub = append(pub, ep...)
+		sub = append(sub, es...)
 		// And, on the node holding mesh-broker, the grants part's sealed user list it follows from take-over (novox/hq ADR
 		// 0547 clause 7): one key, and an object by its name.
 		if p.FollowsGrantsUserList {
@@ -963,6 +1009,10 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		if p.Module == WatchmanModule {
 			sub = append(sub, BusConnectSubject, BusDisconnectSubject)
 			pub = append(pub, BusConnzSubject)
+			// And the dead letters, from its own consumer, never the controller's (novox/hq ADR 0564 clause 5).
+			pub = append(pub, WatchmanDeadLetterGrants(p.DeadLetterSources)...)
+			// And the words its watchdogs hear (ADR 0564 clause 4, Limits 3, 11).
+			sub = append(sub, WatchmanHears()...)
 		}
 		// The grants part alone publishes the modules' memberships into the assignments stream (novox/hq ADR 0547 §5;
 		// the operator, 2026-10-25 22:31): one per subject, `mesh.assignment.<node>.<module>`, reading the last one of each
@@ -972,6 +1022,8 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 			// And creating each stream a manifest declares, by its own name (the operator, 2026-10-26 08:54; issue
 			// 1790): the create and the read of that one stream, never an update, a delete or a stream not declared.
 			pub = append(pub, CreateStreamGrants(p.CreatesStreams)...)
+			// And creating each durable consumer an account needs, by its stream and name (ADR 0561 §6).
+			pub = append(pub, CreateConsumerGrants(p.CreatesConsumers)...)
 			// And its own object bucket, where it writes the user list sealed to the bus node (ADR 0547 clause 7).
 			pub = append(pub, GrantsUserListWrites()...)
 		}
@@ -1009,10 +1061,11 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 			}
 		}
 		sub = append(sub, announcing(announced...)...)
-		// Its own membership (ADR 0160): the one subject a runtime derives for itself, read
-		// directly from the stream and followed live. Nothing else's.
+		// Its own membership (ADR 0160): the one subject a runtime derives for itself, heard live. Nothing else's.
 		sub = append(sub, MembershipSubject(p.Node, p.Module))
-		pub = append(pub, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+AssignmentsStream+"."+MembershipSubject(p.Node, p.Module))
+		// And from the grants part's state memberships, its own key (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 7): its one read of it,
+		// since the assignments stream's direct get went with the stream (research 072 row 33).
+		pub = append(pub, readGrants(GrantsMembershipsBucket, MembershipKey(p.Node, p.Module))...)
 
 		// 1b. The tools it calls, if its manifest says it calls any (novox/hq ADR 0152). The same
 		//     grant a person gets and derived the same way, so "what may this module ask" is
@@ -1130,6 +1183,7 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		sub = append(sub, stateCreatedHeard(kept)...)
 		// And its logs (novox/hq ADR 0297): appended to and read directly, its own alone.
 		pub = append(pub, logGrants(p.Module, p.Logs)...)
+		pub = append(pub, readLogGrants(p.ReadLogs)...)
 
 		// 6. Its traffic on seats that name their caller or their kind, ask proofs or keep records
 		//    (novox/hq ADR 0259 §3).
@@ -1172,11 +1226,11 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		// Every assigned module's membership on this node (ADR 0160): one per module, read
-		// directly from the stream and followed live. This node's and no other's — the one token
+		// Every assigned module's membership on this node (ADR 0160): one per module, heard live and read from the
+		// grants part's state memberships (ADR 0571 clause 7). This node's and no other's — the one token
 		// that varies is the module, so the pattern is the machine's own assignments.
 		sub = append(sub, "mesh.assignment."+p.Node+".*")
-		pub = append(pub, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+AssignmentsStream+".mesh.assignment."+p.Node+".*")
+		pub = append(pub, readGrants(GrantsMembershipsBucket, p.Node+".*")...)
 		// And that it is there (novox/hq to-be 45 §3, S11): its own heartbeat, under its machine's
 		// name and no other's, on core NATS like the host's.
 		pub = append(pub, "mesh.control."+p.Node+".tools-alive")
@@ -1233,6 +1287,7 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// runtime's to keep, from the logs each membership lists.
 		for _, d := range p.Carries {
 			pub = append(pub, logGrants(d.Module, logNames(d.Logs))...)
+			pub = append(pub, readLogGrants(d.ReadLogs)...)
 		}
 		// **And the event families a session may wait on** (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2): the tool runner's module's own,
 		// named one by one in its manifest, as a plain subscription — no consumer is made for them, and no
@@ -1622,17 +1677,7 @@ func ComposeAccounts(principals []Principal) (string, error) {
 		if p.PasswordHash == "" {
 			return "", fmt.Errorf("%s has no password hash: a user without one is a user anybody is", p.Username())
 		}
-		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "      { user: %q, password: %q, permissions: {\n", p.Username(), p.PasswordHash)
-		if len(perms.PublishDeny) > 0 {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        publish: { allow: [%s], deny: [%s] }\n", quoted(perms.Publish), quoted(perms.PublishDeny))
-		} else {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        publish: { allow: [%s] }\n", quoted(perms.Publish))
-		}
-		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        subscribe: { allow: [%s] }\n", quoted(perms.Subscribe))
-		if perms.AllowResponses {
-			fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: \"%dm\" }\n", int(ResponseTTL/time.Minute))
-		}
-		b.WriteString("      } }\n")
+		b.WriteString(AccountsEntry(p.Username(), p.PasswordHash, perms))
 	}
 	b.WriteString("    ]\n  }\n")
 	b.WriteString(systemAccount)
@@ -1640,6 +1685,25 @@ func ComposeAccounts(principals []Principal) (string, error) {
 	return b.String(), nil
 }
 
+// AccountsEntry is one user of the accounts block, as ComposeAccounts writes each: its name, its password hash and its
+// permissions, in the lines the bus reads. Exported so a writer that keeps a user from grants it holds rather than
+// composes (mesh-grants' refused users) writes the same lines, never a copy of them (issue 774).
+func AccountsEntry(user, passwordHash string, perms Permissions) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "      { user: %q, password: %q, permissions: {\n", user, passwordHash)
+	if len(perms.PublishDeny) > 0 {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        publish: { allow: [%s], deny: [%s] }\n", quoted(perms.Publish), quoted(perms.PublishDeny))
+	} else {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        publish: { allow: [%s] }\n", quoted(perms.Publish))
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        subscribe: { allow: [%s] }\n", quoted(perms.Subscribe))
+	if perms.AllowResponses {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "        allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: \"%dm\" }\n", int(ResponseTTL/time.Minute))
+	}
+	b.WriteString("      } }\n")
+	return b.String()
+}
+
 // WatchmanModule is the one module whose principal hears the bus's connect and disconnect events and asks its list of
 // connections (novox/hq ADR 0431 §2, issue 1147): the watchman of the repository mesh-delivery, which writes presence
 // from them. No other principal is granted the subjects below, and nothing is a wildcard over them.
@@ -1659,10 +1723,40 @@ func CreateStreamGrants(streams []string) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
+// CreateConsumerGrants are the subjects that create each consumer by its stream and name, and read its info back: the
+// create of the client library's CreateConsumer for a consumer with no filter or several, never one filter's form (a
+// wildcard in a filter would widen the grant), an update or a delete.
+func CreateConsumerGrants(consumers []ModuleConsumer) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, mc := range consumers {
+		c := mc.Consumer
+		if !safeSubject.MatchString(c.Stream) || !safeSubject.MatchString(c.Name) || len(c.Filters) == 1 {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+c.Stream+"."+c.Name, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."+c.Stream+"."+c.Name)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // GrantsModule is the one module whose principal publishes the modules' memberships (novox/hq ADR 0547 §5): the grants
 // part, which composes them from the manifests and placement. It defines no stream and is granted no other subject here.
 const GrantsModule = "mesh-grants"
 
+// The grants part's state memberships (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 7): one key per assignment, `<node>.<module>`, its
+// membership (Membership) bare, as the assignments stream carries it, written only when it differs. A module's runtime
+// reads its own key, the tool runner its node's; the grants part alone writes it. Both sides go through
+// membership.EncodeGrantsMembership and membership.DecodeGrantsMembership (or BareGrantsMembership for a reader with a
+// type of its own), never json of a type of their own: the grants part once wrote its wrapper here and every reader
+// served nothing (issue 774). The decoder still reads that wrapper, for the transition.
+const (
+	GrantsMembershipsState  = "memberships"
+	GrantsMembershipsBucket = GrantsModule + "_" + GrantsMembershipsState
+	GrantsMembershipsRead   = GrantsModule + "." + GrantsMembershipsState
+)
+
+// MembershipKey is an assignment's key in the grants part's memberships: `<node>.<module>`.
+func MembershipKey(node, module string) string { return node + "." + module }
+
 // The bus's own events, imported into MESH from the default system account `$SYS` under subjects of MESH's own
 // (novox/hq ADR 0431 §1, issue 1147): the server says an account's connections opening and closing only to the system
 // account, and the list of an account's connections only to a request made there. `$SYS` holds no user, so nobody
@@ -1827,6 +1921,11 @@ func VaultOwnCall(p Principal) string {
 	return "mesh.seat." + VaultOwn.Seat + "." + CallKind + "." + VaultOwn.Verb + "." + CallerToken(p.Username())
 }
 
+// VaultSignCall is the subject a machine principal's node-engine asks the vault's `sign` on, in its own name.
+func VaultSignCall(p Principal) string {
+	return "mesh.seat." + VaultSign.Seat + "." + CallKind + "." + VaultSign.Verb + "." + CallerToken(p.Username())
+}
+
 // VaultSecretChanged is the vault's event that a secret changed (a name and its generation, never a value), which a
 // node composing its own hears to compose again (issue 1126, ADR 0547 §2).
 var VaultSecretChanged = "mesh.mod." + VaultOwn.Seat + ".event.secret-changed"

go/buscompose/provisioner.go

@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@ package buscompose
 import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"strings"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
+
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 )
 
@@ -34,15 +36,19 @@ var ConfigResolvedBucket = BucketName("mesh-config", "resolved")
 // ProvisionerReads are the domains' buckets a provisioner client reads its own machine's keys of, each keyed
 // `<node>.…` (research 051): placement, the controller's assignments mirror (`<node>.<module>`), whose value carries
 // the provisioner's plan of a module handed to it (inventory.Provisioning, design 57 P5); and config,
-// mesh-config's resolved values. **Named one by one**, as the controller's asks are: a domain that moves to the
+// mesh-config's resolved values; and the seat mesh-provisioner's plans of its machine, `<node>.<module>` (novox/hq ADR
+// 0570 clause 2). **Named one by one**, as the controller's asks are: a domain that moves to the
 // provisioner adds its bucket here, and a bucket not named is one the client cannot read.
 var ProvisionerReads = []string{ConfigResolvedBucket}
 
 // ProvisionerReadsWhole are the buckets a provisioner client reads every key of: the controller's assignments mirror,
 // where a provider's consumers are bound to it in their own machines' plans, which the provider machine's client
 // reads to fill ${consumers:<provision>} with each one's credential (novox/hq ADR 0373, issue 679). It holds placement
-// and plans, never a secret's value; the client writes none of it.
-var ProvisionerReadsWhole = []string{AssignmentsBucket}
+// and plans, never a secret's value; the client writes none of it. **The seat's plans are read whole for the same
+// reason** (2026-10-30 recovery, issue 774): the client V3 watches every machine's plans to bind a provider's
+// consumers, and granted only its own machine's keys it read none. ADR 0570 clause 3 has providers act on the seat's
+// provision keys instead; once the client does, plans go back to its own machine's keys.
+var ProvisionerReadsWhole = []string{AssignmentsBucket, provisions.PlansBucket}
 
 // BoundState is a providing module's state of entries, one per consumer (mesh-sdk go/provider, issue 678): a
 // consumer's machine's client reads its own keys of it, `<node>.<module>.<provision>[.<local>]`, to fill
@@ -68,8 +74,13 @@ var (
 )
 
 // ProvisionerWrites are the server's buckets a client writes, and reads, its own machine's keys of (`<node>.>`)
-// and no other's: the needs it records, what it applied, and the items of the collections on its machine. A
-// client cannot write another machine's needs, or say another machine applied a file.
+// and no other's: the needs it records, what it applied, and the items of the collections on its machine. A client
+// cannot write another machine's needs, or say another machine applied a file.
+//
+// **The needs stay granted for one release, and are removed after the lease write** (review round 3 of design 47's
+// release): the client's V3 reads its machine's plans from the seat mesh-provisioner's `plans` (novox/hq ADR 0570 clause
+// 2) and records no needs, but the client before it still runs on a node until its delivery reaches it, and it writes
+// them.
 var ProvisionerWrites = []string{ProvisionerNeedsBucket, ProvisionerAppliedBucket, ProvisionerCollectBucket}
 
 // VerbsTheProvisionerAsksTheVault are the vault's verbs a provisioner client asks in its own name (ADR 0349

go/buscompose/seattraffic.go

@@ -58,6 +58,20 @@ func SeatTrafficOf(module string, holds, uses, watches []Seat) SeatTraffic {
 	var t SeatTraffic
 	for _, s := range holds {
 		if !s.isNewTraffic() {
+			// **A holder says its own seat's events** (novox/hq ADR 0564 clause 6, issue 1952): its own account is
+			// granted them by the held seats' rule (PermissionsFor, step 3), and a module the tool runner carries had
+			// no way to, so the self-check's `checked` was never said. Listed here, the membership names them for the
+			// runtime and the runtime is granted them. A machine's event on a node seat carries the machine, which
+			// only the holder's own account is composed with, so it is left to that rule.
+			if servedOnlyByTheController(s) {
+				continue
+			}
+			for _, e := range s.Emits {
+				if s.Scope == "node" && perMachineEvents[e] {
+					continue
+				}
+				t.Publish = append(t.Publish, seatSubject(s, "event", e))
+			}
 			continue
 		}
 		kind := ""

go/buscompose/state.go

@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ func stateGrants(a stateAccess) []string {
 	}
 	for _, r := range a.Reads {
 		if bucket, ok := bucketOfRead(r); ok {
+			if NodeKeyedReads[r] {
+				if machineKey != "" {
+					read(bucket, machineKey+".>")
+				}
+				continue
+			}
 			read(bucket, "")
 		}
 	}
@@ -167,6 +173,11 @@ func stateGrants(a stateAccess) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
+// NodeKeyedReads are the states keyed `<node>.>` whose reader reads its own machine's keys alone, whatever its `reads`
+// names: the node-engine's data items, each node's disk-load reading its own node's (novox/hq ADR 0577 clause 1). A
+// machine with no usable name reaches none of them.
+var NodeKeyedReads = map[string]bool{delivery.EngineDataRead: true}
+
 // StreamCreatedAdvisory is the subject the bus says a stream was created on (the server's own advisory), here for a
 // bucket's stream KV_<bucket>.
 func StreamCreatedAdvisory(bucket string) string {

go/buscompose/streams.go

@@ -171,14 +171,9 @@ func MeshStreams() []Stream {
 			Why: "one declaration per node, always the newest; a node that sees sequence n refuses " +
 				"n-1 by construction (issue 107)",
 		},
-		{
-			Name:      AssignmentsStream,
-			Subjects:  []string{"mesh.assignment.*.*"},
-			Retention: RetentionLastPerSubject,
-			Direct:    true,
-			Why: "one membership per assignment, always the newest: what the mesh issued this module " +
-				"on this machine to serve and to reach (ADR 0160); read directly by the runtime it is for",
-		},
+		// The assignments stream (ADR 0160) is no longer the mesh's: a runtime reads its membership from the grants
+		// part's state memberships (ADR 0571 clause 7), and the bus module's tools delete the stream at the lease write
+		// (research 072 row 33), so it is not declared here, which would make it again.
 		{
 			Name: EventsStream,
 			// A seat's own events ride here too: they are 1:many like any event, and the

go/buscompose/testdata/controller-credentials.json

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+ "how": "Written by mesh-controller 0fbb5ef's own issueWith, sealProvisionerClient and heldProcessAccount (cmd/mesh-controller), run unchanged in a scratch integration test against a local store with the default seats seeded, on 2026-10-27 (issue 774): each row is the exact value the controller handed the vault. Never edit a row by hand: capture it again.",
+ "rows": [
+  {
+   "name": "module",
+   "held": "{\"url\":\"nats://10.0.0.1:4222\",\"fingerprint\":\"ab:cd\",\"node\":\"laptop\",\"module\":\"cap-bot\",\"user\":\"laptop.cap-bot\",\"password\":\"pw-module\",\"claims\":[{\"seat\":\"mesh-vault\",\"scope\":\"mesh\",\"serves\":[\"get\",\"accept\",\"secret-ask\",\"issued\",\"rotate\",\"move-in\",\"node-key\",\"own\",\"move-asks\"]},{\"seat\":\"node-service-manager\",\"scope\":\"node\",\"serves\":[\"status\"]},{\"seat\":\"mesh-controller\",\"scope\":\"mesh\",\"serves\":[\"tools\",\"calls\",\"status\",\"nodes\",\"node\",\"placement-export\",\"modules\",\"seats\",\"builds\",\"plans\",\"delivery-plan\",\"delivery-order\",\"delivery-check\",\"deliver\",\"delivery-stop\",\"delivery-backups-again\",\"delivery-walks\",\"plan\",\"assign\",\"unassign\",\"pin\",\"unpin\",\"push\",\"rotate\",\"give\",\"issued\",\"secret-move\",\"secret-ask\",\"issue\",\"token\",\"settings\",\"command\",\"queue\",\"cancel\",\"clear\",\"replay\",\"try\",\"kill\",\"pause\",\"resume\",\"hand-act\",\"drill\",\"warranted\",\"hand-acts\",\"durations\",\"conditions\",\"healers\",\"doctor\",\"upgrade\",\"bus\",\"retire\",\"cleanup\",\"judge-directories\",\"root-free\",\"dead-letters\",\"data\",\"build\",\"artifacts\",\"held\",\"collect\",\"move-placement\",\"move-config\",\"mirrors\",\"images\"]},{\"seat\":\"no-such-seat\",\"scope\":\"node\"}]}"
+  },
+  {
+   "name": "module-no-claims-no-fingerprint",
+   "held": "{\"url\":\"nats://10.0.0.1:4222\",\"node\":\"laptop\",\"module\":\"cap-plain\",\"user\":\"laptop.cap-plain\",\"password\":\"pw-plain\"}"
+  },
+  {
+   "name": "provisioner",
+   "held": "{\"url\":\"nats://10.0.0.1:4222\",\"fingerprint\":\"ab:cd\",\"node\":\"laptop\",\"user\":\"provisioner.laptop\",\"password\":\"pw-prov\"}"
+  },
+  {
+   "name": "process",
+   "held": "{\"url\":\"nats://10.0.0.1:4222\",\"fingerprint\":\"ab:cd\",\"node\":\"laptop\",\"module\":\"mesh-mail\",\"user\":\"laptop.mesh-mail.send\",\"password\":\"pw-proc\"}"
+  }
+ ]
+}

go/buscompose/userlist_switch.go

@@ -3,8 +3,12 @@ package buscompose
 import (
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/handacts"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 )
 
 // **The grants part's user list, sealed to the bus node** (novox/hq ADR 0547 clause 7, issue 1945). The grants part writes
@@ -77,8 +81,30 @@ func grantsOwnObjects(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
 // readers too (announce.State.Readers); both are honoured.
 const VaultBusAccounts = "mesh-vault.bus-accounts"
 
-// NamedReaders are the states only the modules named may read, by `<owner>.<name>`.
-var NamedReaders = map[string][]string{VaultBusAccounts: {GrantsModule}}
+// ArtifactStoreTools is the module holding the seat mesh-artifact-sweep (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 2).
+const ArtifactStoreTools = "artifact-store-tools"
+
+// ConfigModule is the module that holds the seat mesh-config, a reader of the controller's lease (NamedReaders).
+const ConfigModule = "mesh-config"
+
+// NamedReaders are the states only the modules named may read, by `<owner>.<name>`: the grants part's wanted accounts
+// are read by the vault alone (novox/hq ADR 0561 §2).
+// The controller's lease is read by the parts that turn on at its write (ADR 0561 §3, §6), and by the assigner, which
+// reads the catalogue's placement alone from then (ADR 0549 §5, issue 774).
+//
+// The health holders (novox/hq ADR 0564 Limits 2 and 8, clauses 8 and 9): the condition keeper, mesh-healers and the
+// watchman read the lease; the keeper alone the controller's conditions; mesh-healers and mesh-hand-acts its hand-act log
+// (ADR 0565 clauses 10, 11: every reader of acts reads both logs); and nobody the healers' `would` (health_grants.go).
+var NamedReaders = map[string][]string{VaultBusAccounts: {GrantsModule}, GrantsAccounts: {VaultSeat},
+	ControllerLease: {VaultSeat, GrantsModule, delivery.AssignerModule, health.KeeperModule, health.HealersModule, WatchmanModule,
+		// ADR 0571 clause 2: the artifact store's seat sweeps only once the lease names no controller.
+		ArtifactStoreTools,
+		// ADR 0561 §3: mesh-config takes over the config only once the lease is handed away (its takeover.go leaseAway).
+		ConfigModule},
+	ControllerConditions: {health.KeeperModule}, ControllerHandActs: {health.HealersModule, handacts.Module}, HealersWould: {},
+	// ADR 0577 clause 1: the node-engine's data items are read by disk-load alone, each node's its own node's keys
+	// (NodeKeyedReads); the engine announces nothing of its own, so its readers are named here.
+	delivery.EngineDataRead: {health.DiskLoadModule}}
 
 // ReaderMay says whether module may read the state read (`<owner>.<name>`) by the named readers: always, for a state
 // that names none.
@@ -99,6 +125,23 @@ func readsNamed(module string, reads []string) (granted, refused []string) {
 	return granted, refused
 }
 
+// withAnnouncedReads is d with its reads judged for d's module (ReadsAnnouncedBy) against what the owners announced:
+// every read its manifest names, granted or refused by the caller, judged again here, so a caller that split them
+// without the reader (the controller's own copy of a reader-less judgement, issue 774: the vault, the assigner, the
+// grants part and the artifact store's tools refused the lease they are named for) cannot refuse a read the reader is
+// named for, nor grant one named for another. With no announcements read it is withNamedReaders.
+func withAnnouncedReads(d Declared, announced map[string]announce.States) Declared {
+	if announced == nil {
+		return withNamedReaders(d)
+	}
+	all := append(append([]string(nil), d.Reads...), d.ReadsRefused...)
+	if len(all) == 0 {
+		return d
+	}
+	d.Reads, d.ReadsRefused = ReadsAnnouncedBy(d.Module, all, announced)
+	return d
+}
+
 // withNamedReaders is d with the reads named for other modules moved to its refused reads.
 func withNamedReaders(d Declared) Declared {
 	granted, refused := readsNamed(d.Module, d.Reads)
@@ -109,3 +152,30 @@ func withNamedReaders(d Declared) Declared {
 	d.ReadsRefused = append(append([]string(nil), d.ReadsRefused...), refused...)
 	return d
 }
+
+// **The hearings the grants part withholds, on the bus** (issue 1955 L7, mesh-delivery e564eaf): a hearing of a restricted
+// stream a module asks in the tool runner, withheld because only an account of its own may hear it (ADR 0376 §2), kept
+// in the grants part's state `withheld`, one key `<module>.<stream, lower case>.<machine>` (the controller's condition id
+// of it), written on change only and deleted once heard; the grants part's tools read it (D-heard was dropped on
+// 2026-10-30, so no other module reads it).
+const (
+	GrantsWithheldState  = "withheld"
+	GrantsWithheldBucket = GrantsModule + "_" + GrantsWithheldState
+	GrantsWithheldRead   = GrantsModule + "." + GrantsWithheldState
+	WithheldVersion      = 1
+)
+
+// WithheldHearing is one withheld hearing: the machine, the module, the restricted stream and its emitter, the plain
+// words of it and the remedy (Withheld.Said), and when the grants part first wrote it as it stands.
+type WithheldHearing struct {
+	V       int       `json:"v"`
+	Node    string    `json:"node"`
+	Module  string    `json:"module"`
+	Stream  string    `json:"stream"`
+	Emitter string    `json:"emitter"`
+	Said    string    `json:"said"`
+	At      time.Time `json:"at"`
+}
+
+// WithheldKey is a withheld hearing's key: `<module>.<stream, lower case>.<machine>`.
+func WithheldKey(w Withheld) string { return w.Module + "." + strings.ToLower(w.Stream) + "." + w.Node }

go/buscompose/users.go

@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ type Declared struct {
 	// ReadsRefused are the reads its manifest names that the owner's announcement does not make readable (novox/hq ADR
 	// 0495 clause 3, issue 1790): granted nothing, kept to be said.
 	ReadsRefused []string
+	// ReadLogs are, of its reads, those naming another module's log (`<module>.<log>`, novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 1): filled
+	// by Users and PlacementsOf from the logs the modules placed anywhere declare, never by a caller.
+	ReadLogs []string
 	// KeyedReads are keys of other modules' state it reads, each one key alone: what a seat's holder is
 	// granted for the pieces the modules beside it offer (novox/hq ADR 0260).
 	KeyedReads []KeyedRead
@@ -105,6 +108,9 @@ type ProcessPrincipal struct {
 	Emits []string
 	// Queues are the module's own work-queue streams this process is the one consumer of.
 	Queues []QueueOwner
+	// Removes are what its account may remove from the bus, as its bus declares them (the indexer's judge refuses any other; novox/hq
+	// ADR 0564 Limits 4): a tools bundle's account, whose whole authority is then BusRemovalGrants.
+	Removes []string
 	// State is the module's own state, by local name, this process reads and writes.
 	State []string
 	// Asks says whether this process reads the records of its module's own asks (novox/hq ADR 0259 §3), on
@@ -134,6 +140,11 @@ type Records struct {
 	// account agents run as, judged unable to become root by its node-engine, and serves no login shell
 	// execute. A machine absent is not free: no record of a pass is no pass.
 	RootFree map[string]bool
+	// Engine is the node-engine's own declaration, from its manifest (EngineModule): placed on every node though no node is
+	// assigned it, since every node runs it (novox/hq ADR 0563 §2, §3). Its state, logs and streams are created by the
+	// grants part as a placed module's are; it adds no principal, since each node's engine speaks as the node's account.
+	// Nil where its manifest was not read.
+	Engine *Declared
 	// Announced is each module's last announcement of the states it keeps (novox/hq ADR 0495, issue 1790), as the
 	// controller keeps it; a module absent has announced nothing yet. Nil where none was read.
 	Announced map[string]announce.States
@@ -149,6 +160,8 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 		AsksTheConfig: servedOf(r, VerbsTheControllerAsksTheConfig), FilesFor: sortedCopy(r.Nodes)}}
 
 	served := servedReadsOf(r)
+	logs := DeclaredLogs(r)
+	grants := -1
 	for _, node := range sortedCopy(r.Nodes) {
 		witness := false
 		var checks []string
@@ -164,7 +177,7 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 		}
 		out = append(out, Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: node, WitnessesController: witness, Checks: checks,
 			MovesIntoTheVault: servesMoveIn(r), StatesItsKeyToTheVault: servesVerb(r, VaultNodeKey),
-			AsksItsOwnSecrets:     servesVerb(r, VaultOwn),
+			AsksItsOwnSecrets: servesVerb(r, VaultOwn), AsksTheVaultToSign: servesVerb(r, VaultSign), Uses: asksSeatOf(r),
 			FollowsGrantsUserList: bus, ServedReads: servedOn(served, node)})
 		// **And the machine's provisioner client, on an account of its own** (novox/hq ADR 0349 clause 11): one
 		// per machine that runs it, delivered to the module running it.
@@ -187,9 +200,14 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 			}
 		}
 		for _, d := range r.Assigned[node] {
-			// A state with named readers is read by them alone (ADR 0547 clause 9): a read named for another module is
-			// granted nothing, here and in the runtime carrying the module.
-			d = withNamedReaders(d)
+			// **The node-engine's manifest is no placed module's** (novox/hq ADR 0563 §2, §3; issue 774): where a placement
+			// names it, it adds no user, no process and nothing the runner carries; its grants are the node's account's.
+			if !Composed(d) {
+				continue
+			}
+			// A state with named readers is read by them alone (ADR 0547 clause 9), and a read is granted what its owner
+			// announced (ADR 0495 clause 3): judged here, for this reader, whatever split the caller made (issue 774).
+			d = withReadLogs(withAnnouncedReads(d, r.Announced), logs)
 			// **A process account is its own, delivered in its own secret** (broker-<process id>, novox/hq
 			// ADR 0436 §1, §2), never the module's `broker` — so it is composed whether or not the module
 			// itself has an account, and is never carried by the machine's runtime, which runs as the
@@ -198,7 +216,7 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 				out = append(out, Principal{
 					Kind: KindProcess, Node: node, Module: d.Module, Process: pr.Process,
 					Emits: pr.Emits, Queues: pr.Queues, State: pr.State, Uses: d.Uses, Asks: pr.Asks,
-					Invokes: pr.Invokes,
+					Invokes: pr.Invokes, Removes: pr.Removes,
 				})
 			}
 			if runtimeHere && d.Module == RuntimeModule {
@@ -217,14 +235,18 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 				Kind: KindModule, Node: node, Module: d.Module,
 				Emits: d.Emits, Consumes: d.Consumes, Serves: d.Serves,
 				Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches, Invokes: d.Invokes,
-				State: stateNames(d.State), Reads: d.Reads, SnapshotsTheBus: d.SnapshotsTheBus,
+				State: stateNames(d.State), Reads: d.Reads, ReadLogs: d.ReadLogs, SnapshotsTheBus: d.SnapshotsTheBus,
 				PerMachine: perMachineNames(d.State), KeyedReads: d.KeyedReads,
 				Logs: logNames(d.Logs), Streams: d.Streams, Hears: ComposedHears(d), Queues: d.Queues,
 			})
 			// **The grants part creates what a manifest declares** (novox/hq ADR 0547 §5; the operator, 2026-10-26
 			// 08:54): every placed module's buckets, logs and streams, each by its stream's name.
+			if d.Module == WatchmanModule {
+				out[len(out)-1].DeadLetterSources = deadLetterSourcesOf(r)
+			}
 			if d.Module == GrantsModule {
 				out[len(out)-1].CreatesStreams = declaredStreamsOf(r)
+				grants = len(out) - 1
 			}
 			// **The vault's holder asks the desks and the issuing providers itself** (issue 723), under the
 			// account its own runtime runs on (ADR 0259 §8's runs-as): the one module granted it.
@@ -236,8 +258,8 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 		if runtimeHere {
 			var carried []Declared
 			for _, d := range r.Assigned[node] {
-				if d.RunsAs == "" && runnerServes(d) {
-					d = withNamedReaders(d)
+				if CarriedByRunner(d) {
+					d = withReadLogs(withAnnouncedReads(d, r.Announced), logs)
 					// Never a restricted stream for what the tool runner carries (novox/hq ADR 0376 §1).
 					d.Hears = ComposedHears(d)
 					carried = append(carried, d)
@@ -258,6 +280,11 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 		out = append(out, p)
 	}
 
+	// The grants part creates the durable consumers the accounts need (novox/hq ADR 0561 §6), by stream and name.
+	if grants >= 0 {
+		out[grants].CreatesConsumers = AccountConsumers(out)
+	}
+
 	// Refused here rather than discovered by the server. Two users with one name is a file the
 	// server reads as one of them, and which one depends on the order — so a module assigned to a
 	// node twice, or a person named after nothing, is a composition that must not be written.
@@ -428,6 +455,18 @@ func boundBucketsOf(r Records) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
+// Composed says a placed module is composed as one: its own user, its processes and what the runner carries of it.
+// The node-engine's manifest (EngineModule) is not, though a placement may name it: each node's engine speaks as the
+// node's account, which alone writes the engine's state under its own key (engineGrants, novox/hq ADR 0563 §2, §3), and
+// Records.Engine creates that state. Granted to another account it is a second writer, and the writers table refuses
+// the whole list (issue 774: met for mesh-host_acts and then mesh-host_health, 2026-10-30).
+func Composed(d Declared) bool { return d.Module != EngineModule }
+
+// CarriedByRunner says the machine's tool runner carries this placed module: a module composed at all (Composed) that
+// runs as no account of its own and has something for the runner to serve (runnerServes). The one test of what the
+// runner's grants are composed from.
+func CarriedByRunner(d Declared) bool { return Composed(d) && d.RunsAs == "" && runnerServes(d) }
+
 // runnerServes says the machine's tool runner has something of this module to serve (novox/hq ADR 0436 §1,
 // ADR 0437 §4, issue 1329): tools or loads it answers, a seat it holds, event families a session waits on,
 // a bundle the runtime loads (Loads), or a check its health asks. A module with none of these is a process of its own on its own credential, and
@@ -444,7 +483,15 @@ func runnerServes(d Declared) bool {
 // name. What the grants part may create, and nothing beside.
 func declaredStreamsOf(r Records) []string {
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	placed := [][]Declared{}
 	for _, mods := range r.Assigned {
+		placed = append(placed, mods)
+	}
+	// The node-engine's manifest is placed on every node (ADR 0563): its declared state is created as a placed module's.
+	if r.Engine != nil {
+		placed = append(placed, []Declared{*r.Engine})
+	}
+	for _, mods := range placed {
 		for _, d := range mods {
 			for _, b := range d.State {
 				seen["KV_"+b.Bucket()] = true

go/buscompose/writers.go

@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ func createsDeclared(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
 	if isController(p, pattern) {
 		return true
 	}
+	if removesAssignmentsStream(p, pattern) {
+		return true
+	}
 	name, ok := strings.CutPrefix(pattern, "$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.")
 	if ok && p.Kind == KindModule && p.Module == GrantsModule && name == GrantsUserListObjectStream {
 		return true
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 		Subjects: []string{"$JS.API.STREAM.CREATE.>", "$JS.API.STREAM.UPDATE.>", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.>",
 			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DURABLE.CREATE.>"},
 		Writes: createsDeclared,
-		Shared: "the grants part creates a stream a manifest declares, by its name, and never updates or deletes one (novox/hq ADR 0547 §5; the operator, 2026-10-26 08:54)"},
+		Shared: "the grants part creates a stream a manifest declares, by its name, and never updates or deletes one (novox/hq ADR 0547 §5; the operator, 2026-10-26 08:54); the bus module's tools account deletes the stream ASSIGNMENTS at the lease write, and no other (research 072 row 33)"},
 	{State: "builds and their outcomes", Writer: "the build seat's holder", KeptIn: "its own state",
 		Others:   "the controller asks",
 		Subjects: []string{"mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built"},
@@ -220,7 +223,8 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 	// and delivered again or dropped only through its verb, with why.
 	{State: "a message a consumer gave up on", Writer: "controller", KeptIn: "the bus, the stream " + DeadLettersStream,
 		Others:   "read, delivered again or dropped through the controller's dead-letters verb",
-		Subjects: []string{deadLetterPrefix + ">", againPrefix + ">"}, Writes: isController},
+		Subjects: []string{deadLetterPrefix + ">", againPrefix + ">"}, Writes: keepsDeadLetters,
+		Shared: "the watchman keeps the copies from the controller's lease write, the controller before it; delivering again stays the controller's (novox/hq ADR 0564 clause 5)"},
 	// The record mirrors (novox/hq ADR 0289 §9, design 54 §2): rows of this table, so a grant that lets
 	// anything else write them is refused at composition. Built so far: the assignments and each registered
 	// module's declared config (design 57 F3), and the list of predefined keys kept (design 57 K3).
@@ -245,6 +249,27 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 	{State: "a machine's have", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, under its own keys `<node>.>`",
 		KeptIn: "key-value " + delivery.HaveBucket + ", twenty revisions of each key",
 		Others: "read through `reads` as node-engine.have", Subjects: kvOf(delivery.HaveBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
+	// The acts a node's engine was asked through its node seat, and its own asks (novox/hq ADR 0563 §2, §3): the
+	// node-engine's declared state, created by the grants part, written by each node's engine under its own keys.
+	// A node's own health report (issue 774): its engine's own key, read by the watchman.
+	{State: "a machine's health report", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, its key `<node>` alone",
+		KeptIn: "key-value " + delivery.NodeHealthBucket, Others: "read by the watchman through `reads`",
+		Subjects: kvOf(delivery.NodeHealthBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
+	// A node's declared packages (novox/hq ADR 0565 clause 6): its engine's own key, read by pacman's verbs.
+	{State: "a machine's declared packages", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, its key `<node>` alone",
+		KeptIn: "key-value " + EnginePackagesBucket, Others: "read by pacman through `reads`",
+		Subjects: kvOf(EnginePackagesBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
+	// A node's placed modules' data items (novox/hq ADR 0577 clause 1): its engine's own keys, read by that node's disk-load.
+	{State: "a machine's data items", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, under its own keys `<node>.>`",
+		KeptIn: "key-value " + EngineDataBucket, Others: "read by the node's disk-load through `reads`, its own node's keys alone",
+		Subjects: kvOf(EngineDataBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
+	{State: "a machine's hand acts", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, under its own keys `<node>.>`, compare-and-set",
+		KeptIn: "key-value " + EngineActsBucket + ", the node-engine's declared state acts",
+		Others: "read through the node seat's verb acts", Subjects: kvOf(EngineActsBucket),
+		Writes: func(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
+			return ownNodeKeys(p, pattern) || removesEngineActs(p, pattern)
+		},
+		Shared: "the bus module's tools account removes keys of a full bucket, for removal only (novox/hq ADR 0564 Limits 4)"},
 	// The contents of a declaration's files over 64 KiB (novox/hq ADR 0486 §2): the controller alone writes the bucket, each
 	// object under the digest of its content; a node-engine reads one by its name, with no list and no write.
 	{State: "a declaration's large files", Writer: "controller, each object under the sha256 digest of its content; the " +

go/busretry/busretry.go

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+// Package busretry waits out a bus that answers nothing for a few seconds (issue 774, the sweep of 2026-10-30: bus
+// blackouts at every user-list reload). nats-server 2.11's reloadAuthorization rebuilds the accounts, and for a few
+// seconds the mesh's account has none of its imports, $JS.API.> among them: every request is answered "no responders"
+// and every JetStream call "jetstream not enabled". A write or a call made in that window failed, and was lost.
+//
+// Only an error that says the request reached no one is waited out (Undelivered): nothing was done, so asking again
+// is safe even for a write that is not idempotent. A timeout, or any answer, is never asked again: the request may
+// have been delivered. The wait is bounded (Bound, about 30 s, backing off), and said on standard error when it ends
+// without an answer.
+//
+// This is the quick fix. The thorough one is a reload that keeps the account's imports, in the bus's holder.
+package busretry
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+)
+
+// Bound is how long a request that reached no one is asked again; FirstWait the first pause, doubled to MostWait.
+var (
+	Bound     = 30 * time.Second
+	FirstWait = 250 * time.Millisecond
+	MostWait  = 4 * time.Second
+)
+
+// Undelivered says err means the request reached no one: no responders, JetStream not enabled (for the account), or
+// no response from the stream after the client's own retries on no responders; also said in words by a runtime that
+// passed the error on.
+func Undelivered(err error) bool {
+	var answered *Answered
+	if err == nil || errors.As(err, &answered) {
+		return false
+	}
+	if errors.Is(err, nats.ErrNoResponders) || errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrJetStreamNotEnabled) ||
+		errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrJetStreamNotEnabledForAccount) || errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrNoStreamResponse) ||
+		errors.Is(err, nats.ErrJetStreamNotEnabled) || errors.Is(err, nats.ErrJetStreamNotEnabledForAccount) {
+		return true
+	}
+	words := strings.ToLower(err.Error())
+	return strings.Contains(words, "no responders") || strings.Contains(words, "jetstream not enabled")
+}
+
+// Answered is an error a callee answered with: the request was delivered, whatever its words say ("jetstream not
+// enabled" in a callee's own answer), so Undelivered never counts it and Do never asks it again.
+type Answered struct{ Words string }
+
+func (a *Answered) Error() string { return a.Words }
+
+// Do runs try, and again while its error says the request reached no one, until Bound has passed. blackout, when
+// given, is asked after each such error and Do stops waiting when it says the bus is not blacked out: a call nobody
+// answers because its callee is not running fails at once, as before. what names the request in the error.
+func Do[T any](what string, try func() (T, error), blackout func() bool) (T, error) {
+	v, err := try()
+	if !Undelivered(err) || (blackout != nil && !blackout()) {
+		return v, err
+	}
+	start, wait := time.Now(), FirstWait
+	for time.Since(start) < Bound {
+		time.Sleep(wait)
+		wait = min(wait*2, MostWait)
+		v, err = try()
+		if !Undelivered(err) || (blackout != nil && !blackout()) {
+			return v, err
+		}
+	}
+	err = fmt.Errorf("%s: the bus answered nothing for %s, asked again until then (a user-list reload drops the "+
+		"account's imports for a few seconds; this was longer): %w", what, time.Since(start).Round(time.Second), err)
+	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[mesh-sdk] %v\n", err)
+	return v, err
+}

go/busretry/busretry_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package busretry
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+)
+
+// Issue 774 (bus blackouts at every user-list reload): only a request that reached no one is asked again, within the
+// bound; a blackout probe that says the bus answers ends the wait at once.
+func TestABusThatAnswersNothingIsWaitedOut(t *testing.T) {
+	Bound, FirstWait, MostWait = 60*time.Millisecond, time.Millisecond, 4*time.Millisecond
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		name      string
+		errs      []error // what each try answers; the last repeats
+		blackout  func() bool
+		tries     int // at least
+		atMost    int
+		delivered bool
+	}{
+		{"no responders, then an answer", []error{nats.ErrNoResponders, nats.ErrNoResponders, nil}, nil, 3, 3, true},
+		{"jetstream not enabled, then an answer", []error{jetstream.ErrJetStreamNotEnabled, nil}, nil, 2, 2, true},
+		{"said in words by a runtime", []error{errors.New("nats: no responders available for request"), nil}, nil, 2, 2, true},
+		{"a timeout may have been delivered: never asked again", []error{context.DeadlineExceeded}, nil, 1, 1, false},
+		{"an answer that refuses is an answer", []error{errors.New("refused")}, nil, 1, 1, false},
+		{"nobody answers on a bus that answers: the callee is not running", []error{nats.ErrNoResponders}, func() bool { return false }, 1, 1, false},
+		{"blacked out past the bound: said", []error{jetstream.ErrJetStreamNotEnabledForAccount}, func() bool { return true }, 3, 1000, false},
+	} {
+		tries := 0
+		_, err := Do("the test", func() (int, error) {
+			e := row.errs[min(tries, len(row.errs)-1)]
+			tries++
+			return tries, e
+		}, row.blackout)
+		if tries < row.tries || tries > row.atMost || (err == nil) != row.delivered {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %d tries, %v", row.name, tries, err)
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(row.name, "blacked out") && (!Undelivered(err) || !strings.Contains(fmt.Sprint(err), "the bus answered nothing")) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %v", row.name, err)
+		}
+	}
+}

go/caller_test.go

@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ func TestACallerInTheArgumentsIsNeverTheCaller(t *testing.T) {
 	if got != "shanks.node-tools" {
 		t.Fatalf("with a caller in the arguments the tool read %q, want the runtime's", got)
 	}
+	// A module's trusted list of callers (issue 774, ADR 0563 §8) grants the callers it names as the runtime proved them:
+	// a module on any machine, <machine>.<module> exactly, person.<name> exactly; no wildcard, never one unproven.
+	callers, err := ParseCallers([]byte(`{"callers":["node-tools","ace.claude-code","person.jo","*"]}`))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for caller, want := range map[string]bool{"shanks.node-tools": true, "ace.claude-code": true, "g14.claude-code": false,
+		"person.jo": true, "person.node-tools": false, Unproven: false, "": false, "novox.mesh-vault": false} {
+		if callers.Allows(caller) != want {
+			t.Errorf("%q allowed: %v, want %v", caller, !want, want)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := ParseCallers([]byte(`{"callers":["x"],"more":1}`)); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a list with a field it does not know was read")
+	}
 }
 
 // A runtime that names no caller — one from before issue 365, or a call on the subject that names none — is

go/callers.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+package stdio
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Callers is a module's trusted list of who may call a verb of its (novox/hq ADR 0459 §2, ADR 0563 §8), as the mesh
+// writes a list setting into a file the module reads: `{"callers": [...]}`. An entry is a module's name (that module on
+// any machine), exactly <machine>.<module>, or exactly person.<name>. Each caller is the runtime's proof (CallerOf), never
+// an argument; nobody beyond the list is granted, a wildcard is no entry, and an unproven caller never matches.
+type Callers []string
+
+// ParseCallers reads a callers file: the list under `callers`, and nothing else.
+func ParseCallers(raw []byte) (Callers, error) {
+	var f struct {
+		Callers Callers `json:"callers"`
+	}
+	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(raw))
+	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
+	if err := dec.Decode(&f); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the callers setting is not a list of callers: %v", err)
+	}
+	return f.Callers, nil
+}
+
+// Allows says whether caller, as the runtime proved it, is one the list names.
+func (c Callers) Allows(caller string) bool {
+	if caller == "" || caller == Unproven {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, entry := range c {
+		if entry == "" || strings.ContainsAny(entry, "*> ") {
+			continue
+		}
+		if entry == caller {
+			return true
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(entry, ".") {
+			if _, module, ok := strings.Cut(caller, "."); ok && module == entry && !strings.HasPrefix(caller, "person.") {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}

go/catalogue/a_service_process_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ func aServiceModule(t *testing.T) Manifest {
 	  "build": {"artifacts": [{"name": "code", "kind": "bundle", "language": "go", "system": "arch",
 	    "from": "cmd/svc", "binary": "svc"}]}
 	}`
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(raw))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the service's manifest is refused: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -145,22 +144,3 @@ func TestWhatAProcessReplacesIsNamedAsTheHostRecordedIt(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the process replaces %s", got)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestWhatReplacesMayNameIsRefusedNearItsAuthor(t *testing.T) {
-	for what, resource := range map[string]string{
-		"a container":        `{"id":"c","type":"container","name":"c","image":"x@` + aServiceDigest + `","replaces":["old"]}`,
-		"a step":             `{"id":"p","type":"process","name":"p","run":["./p"],"run-once":true,"replaces":["old"]}`,
-		"something declared": `{"id":"p","type":"process","name":"p","run":["./p"],"replaces":["p"]}`,
-		"another module's":   `{"id":"p","type":"process","name":"p","run":["./p"],"replaces":["other.old"]}`,
-		"not a list":         `{"id":"p","type":"process","name":"p","run":["./p"],"replaces":"old"}`,
-	} {
-		raw := `{"module":"m","version":"1","resources":[` + resource + `]}`
-		if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "replace") {
-			t.Errorf("replaces on %s was accepted: %v", what, err)
-		}
-	}
-	ok := `{"module":"m","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"p","type":"process","name":"p","run":["./p"],"replaces":["old"]}]}`
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(ok)); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("a process replacing what its module no longer declares was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/accesses_test.go

@@ -76,33 +76,3 @@ func TestAModuleMayNotOwnWhatAnotherAccesses(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the refusal does not explain the ownership conflict: %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-// A manifest states an access's extent, the way a listening port states its source. An absolute
-// path and a mode of read or read-write; anything else is refused rather than acted on wrongly.
-func TestAnAccessIsValidated(t *testing.T) {
-	good := []byte(`{"module":"m","accesses":[{"path":"/services/media","mode":"read-write"}]}`)
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(good); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a valid access was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	// Mode is optional and narrows to read — the safe default, because the danger with an access
-	// is being given more than was meant, not less.
-	bare := []byte(`{"module":"m","accesses":[{"path":"/services/media"}]}`)
-	m, err := ParseManifest(bare)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("an access with no mode was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	if m.Accesses[0].At() != AccessRead {
-		t.Errorf("an access with no mode is %q, want %q", m.Accesses[0].At(), AccessRead)
-	}
-
-	relative := []byte(`{"module":"m","accesses":[{"path":"services/media","mode":"read"}]}`)
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(relative); err == nil {
-		t.Error("a relative access path was accepted")
-	}
-
-	wrong := []byte(`{"module":"m","accesses":[{"path":"/services/media","mode":"append"}]}`)
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(wrong); err == nil {
-		t.Error("an access with an unknown mode was accepted")
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/adoption_test.go

@@ -258,15 +258,6 @@ WantedBy=multi-user.target
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAGuardedPortMustBeAPort(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"postgres","guards":[5432]}`)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("guards is refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"postgres","guards":[0]}`)); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("guarding port 0 was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
 func keys[V any](m map[string]V) []string {
 	return sortedKeys(m)
 }

go/catalogue/agent_account_test.go

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ const agentModule = `{"module": "agent", "version": "1", "resources": [
 ]}`
 
 func TestTheAgentAccountIsDeclaredNeverRootOnlyToAnEngineThatJudgesIt(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(agentModule))
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(agentModule))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -83,37 +83,3 @@ func TestTheAgentAccountIsDeclaredNeverRootOnlyToAnEngineThatJudgesIt(t *testing
 		t.Errorf("with no agent account, the agent's directory is the operator's: %v", home)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestTheRuntimeIsToldTheAgentAccount(t *testing.T) {
-	with := Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101",
-		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{RuntimeModule: {"broker": "sealed-credential"}}}
-	envOf := func(r Resolution) map[string]string {
-		t.Helper()
-		r.Node, r.Modules = "anchor", []Manifest{aToolsModule(t, "nftables", "tools/index.js"), theRuntime(t)}
-		out, err := r.Declaration(with)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		process := fileNamed(out, RuntimeModule+"."+RuntimeProcessID())
-		if process == nil {
-			t.Fatal("no runtime process was composed")
-		}
-		return process["env"].(map[string]string)
-	}
-	env := envOf(Resolution{Account: "ops", AgentAccount: "agent"})
-	if env[RuntimeAgentAccount] != "agent" || env[RuntimeAgentHome] != "/home/agent" || env[RuntimeOperatorAccount] != "ops" {
-		t.Errorf("the runtime is not told whom agents run as: %v", env)
-	}
-	env = envOf(Resolution{Account: "ops"})
-	if env[RuntimeAgentAccount] != "ops" || env[RuntimeAgentHome] != "/home/ops" {
-		t.Errorf("with no agent account, agents run as the operator: %v", env)
-	}
-	env = envOf(Resolution{})
-	if _, set := env[RuntimeAgentAccount]; set {
-		t.Errorf("a machine with no account names an agent account: %v", env)
-	}
-	if problems := bundleEnvProblems("x", Artifact{Name: "b", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Loads: []string{"x"},
-		Env: map[string]string{RuntimeAgentAccount: "me"}}); len(problems) == 0 {
-		t.Error("a bundle may tell the runtime whom agents run as")
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/amqp_is_not_a_provision_test.go

@@ -14,22 +14,6 @@ import (
 // the old wire protocol asks for the one server being retired, so both directions are refused at the
 // parser — this is judged from the manifest alone, no store needed.
 
-func TestAManifestProvidingAmqpIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	raw := []byte(`{"module":"old-broker","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"amqp","scope":"mesh"}]}`)
-	_, err := ParseManifest(raw)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `provides "amqp", which is not a provision`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a module providing amqp was not refused, or not for the reason: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAManifestRequiringAmqpIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	raw := []byte(`{"module":"forwarder","version":"1","requires":["amqp"]}`)
-	_, err := ParseManifest(raw)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), `requires "amqp", which is not a provision`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a module requiring amqp was not refused, or not for the reason: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // And the catalogue (internal/beside) names it nowhere — the three modules that did are removed under
 // design 28 task 5.4, not converted.
 func TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAmqp(t *testing.T) {

go/catalogue/artifact_sweep_seat.go

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package catalogue
+
+// **The artifact sweep, out of the controller** (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 2, issue 1955): what the artifact store keeps
+// and lets go of, the seat `mesh-artifact-sweep` (named for its scope, ADR 0121 §1; the operator, 2026-10-29), held
+// once for the mesh by artifact-store-tools, serves what the controller served of its store (artifacts, held, mirrors, images, collect) and says `artifacts-gone`. Its keep set is the store's own listing joined
+// with every want's fingerprint and each module's five newest builds from the builder's log (ADR 0526 §1); it lets go
+// of nothing until the controller's lease names a holder that is no controller.
+
+// ArtifactSweepSeat is the seat artifact-store-tools holds. Not the seat mesh-artifact-store, the store itself held by
+// distribution, and not the provision artifact-store it delivers.
+const ArtifactSweepSeat = "mesh-artifact-sweep"
+
+// artifactSweepVerbs are the seat's verbs, with the controller's arguments so a caller changes only the seat it asks.
+func artifactSweepVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "artifacts", Description: "Every artifact the mesh made that lives in its artifact store, each with its " +
+			"repository, digest, kind (image or archive) and state: kept, and why (a want names it, or one of the five " +
+			"newest builds of its module in the builder's log), eligible (made, kept for no reason, not yet let go), or " +
+			"unrecorded (in the store and named by nothing the mesh made: never removed). Reads only.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"repository": "only this repository's references, as <module>/<artifact> (the counts stay whole)",
+				"collected":  "\"true\": list the collected references too (counted always)",
+			}, nil, "collected")},
+		{Name: "held", Description: "Whether the artifact store holds each reference given, asked with one HEAD each: " +
+			"held, gone (the store answered 404) or unknown with why. The builder asks it before it reuses a done key. " +
+			"Reads only.",
+			Input: listed(schema(map[string]string{
+				"references": "the artifacts' references, artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>/blobs/sha256:<hex>: a list, " +
+					"or one text separated by commas",
+			}, []string{"references"}), "references")},
+		{Name: "collect", Description: "The artifact store's sweep, now: what is eligible is let go of. Without confirm a " +
+			"dry run: what would be let go, nothing held or deleted. With confirm and why: every kept archive held first, " +
+			"then each eligible artifact let go of, oldest first, an index with the platform manifests no kept index " +
+			"names, each deletion recorded in the hand-act log. Bounded by most (500 by default, at most 5000) and 45 " +
+			"seconds; what is left is said. Never touches a digest the mesh did not make.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"confirm": "\"true\": let go of what is eligible (needs why); without it nothing is done",
+				"why":     "with confirm: why, required and recorded",
+				"most":    "let go of at most this many (500 by default, at most 5000)",
+			}, nil, "confirm")},
+		{Name: "mirrors", Description: "The bases the mesh copied into its artifact store, each kept (a kept build stood on " +
+			"it), eligible (only builds no longer kept stood on it) or unrecorded (no build the builder's log holds stood on " +
+			"it: never removed), by what the builder's log says each build stood on. Records nothing by hand.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+		{Name: "images", Description: "Every container image one machine's want and have name, each with the resources " +
+			"naming it: what the machine keeps when it prunes its images. Reads only.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine's name"}, []string{"node"})},
+	}
+}

go/catalogue/backup_test.go

@@ -5,28 +5,16 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// A backup contribution written by hand still names its module's own directories; one it does not
-// declare is refused where it is written rather than reaching the holder as the literal text. (The
-// catalogue check refuses a hand-written backup line at all since ADR 0233; parsing still reads one,
-// because a module on the shelf was written before.)
-func TestABackupNamingAnUndeclaredDirectoryIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"pg","version":"1",
-		"contributions":[{"seat":"node-backup","kind":"backup","content":"path ${dir:nowhere}"}]}`))
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "nowhere") {
-		t.Fatalf("a backup of an undeclared directory was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // A module on the shelf from before ADR 0233, which writes its backup lines by hand and declares no
 // data, is still backed up: its lines are placed as written, each module's under a comment naming it.
 func TestHandWrittenBackupLinesOfAnOlderModuleArePlaced(t *testing.T) {
-	pg, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"pg","version":"1",
+	pg, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"pg","version":"1",
 		"resources":[{"id":"dumps","type":"directory","path":"/srv/pg/dumps","mode":"0700"}],
 		"contributions":[{"seat":"node-backup","kind":"backup","content":"run pg-dump-all\npath ${dir:dumps}"}]}`))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	mail, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mail","version":"1",
+	mail, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"mail","version":"1",
 		"resources":[{"id":"spool","type":"directory","mode":"0700"}],
 		"contributions":[{"seat":"node-backup","kind":"backup","content":"path ${dir:spool}"}]}`))
 	if err != nil {

go/catalogue/bootstrap_cycle_test.go

@@ -1,34 +1,12 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// The module that provides the artifact store may not be delivered through it.
-//
-// Building publishes to the store and the builder will not start without one, so a module that
-// provides the store and also builds something asks the mesh to put an artifact into the thing
-// that artifact is needed to create. On a mesh new enough to have no registry, that is a build
-// that never returns (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/029).
-func TestTheArtifactStoreCannotBeDeliveredThroughItself(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"registry","version":"1",` +
-		`"provides":[{"name":"artifact-store","scope":"mesh"}],` +
-		`"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"registry","kind":"upstream","from":"registry:2"}]},` +
-		`"resources":[{"id":"store","type":"container","name":"mesh-registry",` +
-		`"artifact":"registry","ports":["5000:5000"]}]}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a registry module that builds its own image was accepted; the build has " +
-			"nowhere to publish until the module it belongs to is already running")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "artifact-store") {
-		t.Fatalf("refused without naming the provision the cycle turns on: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // Naming the image directly is the way out, and must stay accepted.
 func TestAnArtifactStoreThatNamesItsImageIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"registry","version":"1",` +
+	_, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"registry","version":"1",` +
 		`"provides":[{"name":"artifact-store","scope":"mesh"}],` +
 		`"resources":[{"id":"store","type":"container","name":"mesh-registry",` +
 		`"image":"registry@sha256:` +
@@ -41,7 +19,7 @@ func TestAnArtifactStoreThatNamesItsImageIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
 
 // And an ordinary module still builds whatever it likes.
 func TestAModuleThatDoesNotProvideTheStoreStillBuilds(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"forge","version":"1",` +
+	_, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"forge","version":"1",` +
 		`"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"forge","kind":"upstream","from":"gitea/gitea:1.22"}]},` +
 		`"resources":[{"id":"run","type":"container","name":"forge","artifact":"forge"}]}`))
 	if err != nil {

go/catalogue/brokered_test.go

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ func TestALocalRequirementIsStillAnsweredLocally(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTheShortFormStillMeansHere(t *testing.T) {
 	// `"provides": ["shell"]` must keep meaning what it meant, or every existing manifest
 	// silently changes meaning.
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"zsh","version":"1","provides":["shell"]}`))
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"zsh","version":"1","provides":["shell"]}`))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -183,19 +183,6 @@ func TestTheShortFormStillMeansHere(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestASiteScopedProvisionIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	// Meaningful for a claim — one DHCP server per segment — and not yet meaningful for a
-	// provision, because nothing knows how to reach "the one at my site".
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(
-		`{"module":"dns","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"resolver","scope":"site"}]}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a site-scoped provision was accepted")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "site") {
-		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // Being told, which is the difference between knowing and being able to.
 
 func boundShelf() map[string]Manifest {
@@ -308,25 +295,3 @@ func TestBindingSomethingAnsweredHereWritesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-func TestBindingWhatYouDoNotRequireIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"app","version":"1",
-		"binds":{"postgres-database":"/etc/app/db.json"}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a module was told about something it never asked for")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not require") {
-		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestServingWhatYouDoNotProvideIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"app","version":"1",
-		"serves":{"postgres-database":{"port":5432}}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a module served something it does not provide")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not provide") {
-		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/bucket_shares_test.go

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ func TestAMalformedShareIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		"other require":  `{"name":"route","shares":[{"to":"a","methods":["get"]}]}`,
 	}
 	for name, entry := range cases {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"files","version":"1","requires":[` + entry + `]}`))
+		_, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"files","version":"1","requires":[` + entry + `]}`))
 		if err == nil {
 			t.Errorf("%s: accepted", name)
 			continue
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ func TestAMalformedShareIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 	// The stored form is held to the same rules.
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"files","version":"1","requires":["s3-bucket"],
+	_, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"files","version":"1","requires":["s3-bucket"],
 		"requires-shares":{"s3-bucket":[{"to":"a","methods":[]}]}}`))
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "ADR 0468 §8") {
 		t.Errorf("the stored form was accepted: %v", err)
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func TestChangingOnlyTheSharesDoesNotRecreateTheConsumer(t *testing.T) {
 
 // 1591/AC5: a consumer whose contributes to s3-bucket names `shares` itself is refused.
 func TestAConsumerCannotContributeSharesItself(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"files","version":"1",
+	_, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"files","version":"1",
 		"contributes":{"s3-bucket":{"shares":"x"}},
 		"requires":[{"name":"s3-bucket","shares":[{"to":"a","methods":["get"]}]}]}`))
 	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "ADR 0468 §8") {

go/catalogue/build.go

@@ -2,10 +2,7 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"net"
-	"net/url"
 	"path"
-	"regexp"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 )
@@ -126,23 +123,7 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
 				continue
 			}
 			made := by[a.Name]
-			// What the runtime loads: what the artifact said, else every entrypoint of a module
-			// that declares tools, else nothing (the field's own rule; see Artifact.Loads).
-			//
-			// **Never, unasked, a bundle one of the module's own resources runs** (novox/hq issue 213).
-			// A process the host runs is the module's service, not its tools: the controller declares
-			// the verbs it answers as `tools` and serves them itself, and its bundle would otherwise
-			// have been launched a second time by the node's runtime, as an MCP child it is not.
-			loads := append([]string(nil), a.Loads...)
-			if a.Loads == nil && len(m.Tools) > 0 && !run[a.Name] {
-				loads = append([]string(nil), a.Entrypoints...)
-				// A bundle compiled to a binary has no entrypoints: the binary is what it is, and what
-				// the runtime starts to serve it (novox/hq ADR 0193). So a Go tools bundle is served
-				// as Go — the runtime execs it — exactly as a TypeScript one is through its launcher.
-				if bin := BinaryOf(a); bin != "" {
-					loads = []string{bin}
-				}
-			}
+			loads := BundleLoads(m, a, run)
 			// **Kept, never routed** (ADR 0155): the builder publishes to the store at the address
 			// it reached it by, and a manifest carrying that address names an installation —
 			// registration refused node-tools for exactly this on 2026-10-02. The build record
@@ -152,7 +133,7 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
 				Name: a.Name, Source: Recorded(made.Reference), Digest: made.Digest,
 				Language: a.Language, Entrypoints: append([]string(nil), a.Entrypoints...),
 				Loads: loads, Env: copyWords(a.Env), Launchers: copyWords(made.Launchers),
-				Binary: BinaryOf(a),
+				Binary: BinaryOf(a), Bus: a.Bus,
 			})
 		}
 		sort.Slice(out.Bundles, func(i, j int) bool { return out.Bundles[i].Name < out.Bundles[j].Name })
@@ -253,152 +234,6 @@ func withVersion(value any, version string) any {
 	return value
 }
 
-// checkBuild is the manifest's own account of what it builds.
-func (b *Build) problems(module string) []string {
-	if b == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, a := range b.Artifacts {
-		if a.Name == "" {
-			problems = append(problems, module+" builds an artifact with no name")
-			continue
-		}
-		if seen[a.Name] {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s builds two artifacts called %q, and a resource naming it could mean either",
-				module, a.Name))
-		}
-		seen[a.Name] = true
-		switch a.Kind {
-		case ArtifactImage, ArtifactArchive, ArtifactUpstream, ArtifactBundle, ArtifactPackage:
-		default:
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q is a %q, and an artifact is %q, %q, %q or %q",
-				module, a.Name, a.Kind, ArtifactImage, ArtifactArchive, ArtifactUpstream,
-				ArtifactBundle+", "+ArtifactPackage))
-		}
-		// **A bundle is built from the module itself, so it says a language instead.** Everything
-		// else names what it is built from: a Dockerfile, a directory, somebody else's reference.
-		// A bundle's source is the module's own directory by definition, and what it needs to say
-		// is which compiler — because the mesh chooses that, and cannot choose for a module that
-		// has not said.
-		if len(a.External) > 0 && (a.Kind != ArtifactBundle || a.Language != "typescript") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q names packages it keeps external, and only a TypeScript bundle is bundled into "+
-					"one file with some kept out (novox/hq ADR 0193)", module, a.Name))
-		}
-		if len(a.Env) > 0 && a.Kind != ArtifactBundle {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q is a %q and says what it is given (env). Only a bundle the node's runtime "+
-					"serves is given words (novox/hq ADR 0192); a container says its own environment",
-				module, a.Name, a.Kind))
-		}
-		if a.Kind == ArtifactBundle || a.Kind == ArtifactPackage {
-			// **Except for a language that compiles to a binary, where it names which one**
-			// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142). A bundle in an interpreted language is the module's own
-			// directory compiled whole, and naming a source would be describing its own build. A
-			// repository written in a compiled language holds several commands — the host and its
-			// bootstrap live in one, and the mesh needs the host — and "the module's own directory"
-			// is then not a package at all. So the compiled case may say which package, and says
-			// the module root by saying nothing.
-			if a.From != "" && !compilesToABinary(a.Language) {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q is a bundle and names what it is built from (%q). A bundle is built "+
-						"from the module's own directory; what it says is the language",
-					module, a.Name, a.From))
-			}
-			if strings.TrimSpace(a.Language) == "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q is a bundle and says no language, so nothing can choose a compiler "+
-						"for it", module, a.Name))
-			}
-			problems = append(problems, bundleEnvProblems(module, a)...)
-			// What the runtime loads is among what was compiled (ADR 0175): a name here that is
-			// not an entrypoint is a file the bundle does not contain, and the runtime would
-			// fail to import it on every machine rather than here.
-			for _, load := range a.Loads {
-				found := false
-				for _, e := range a.Entrypoints {
-					found = found || e == load
-				}
-				// A bundle compiled to a binary is one executable: the runtime loads that or nothing
-				// (novox/hq ADR 0193).
-				if bin := BinaryOf(a); bin != "" {
-					found = load == bin
-				}
-				if !found {
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s: %q says the runtime loads %q, which is not among its entrypoints — "+
-							"what is loaded is compiled, so it is named there too", module, a.Name, load))
-				}
-			}
-			// **A system, for a language that compiles to a binary** (novox/hq ADR 0142). A binary
-			// is pinned to one operating system at link time so a host refuses to touch a machine
-			// it was not built for (novox/hq ADR 0005); an artifact that says nothing would be
-			// compiled for whatever the build machine happened to be, which reads as portable and
-			// is not.
-			if compiled := compilesToABinary(a.Language); compiled && strings.TrimSpace(a.System) == "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q is compiled to a binary and says no system, so it would be built for "+
-						"whatever the build machine happens to be. Declare one artifact per "+
-						"system: %s", module, a.Name, spokenSystems()))
-			} else if !compiled && strings.TrimSpace(a.System) != "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q names the system %q and is written in %q, which compiles to code that "+
-						"runs anywhere — a system that decides nothing reads as though it did",
-					module, a.Name, a.System, a.Language))
-			} else if compiled && !knownSystem(a.System) {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q is built for %q, and a system is %s",
-					module, a.Name, a.System, spokenSystems()))
-			}
-		} else {
-			if a.From == "" && a.URL == "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q says nothing about what it is built from", module, a.Name))
-			}
-			if a.Language != "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q is a %q and names a language. Only a bundle is compiled by the mesh; "+
-						"everything else brings its own recipe", module, a.Name, a.Kind))
-			}
-		}
-		if a.Compiles != "" {
-			if a.Kind != ArtifactImage {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q is a %q and names a Go package it compiles. Only an image's recipe is "+
-						"told which; a bundle names its package in from (novox/hq ADR 0267)", module, a.Name, a.Kind))
-			} else if c := strings.TrimSpace(a.Compiles); strings.HasPrefix(c, "/") || c == ".." ||
-				strings.HasPrefix(c, "../") || strings.Contains(c, "/../") || strings.HasSuffix(c, "/..") {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s: %q compiles %q, which leaves the tree it is built in", module, a.Name, a.Compiles))
-			}
-		}
-		// An upstream image is named, not read from the repository, so the path rule does not
-		// apply to it — and applying it anyway would refuse every reference with a registry host
-		// in it.
-		if a.Kind != ArtifactUpstream &&
-			(strings.HasPrefix(a.From, "/") || strings.Contains(a.From, "..")) {
-			// A build reads its own repository and nothing else. A path leaving it would make
-			// what gets built depend on whatever happens to be on the machine building it.
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q is built from %q, which is outside its own repository",
-				module, a.Name, a.From))
-		}
-		if a.Kind == ArtifactUpstream && !strings.Contains(a.From, ":") {
-			// Without a tag or digest, what gets mirrored is whatever `latest` means today, and
-			// a module pinned to that is not pinned.
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q mirrors %q, which names no tag or digest", module, a.Name, a.From))
-		}
-		problems = append(problems, upstreamFileProblems(module, a)...)
-		problems = append(problems, pathsProblems(module, a)...)
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // NamedPaths are the paths a module's fingerprint takes its tree from (novox/hq ADR 0499 clause 2): the union of the
 // paths its artifacts name, cleaned and sorted, and every true only when the module builds something and every artifact
 // names paths; otherwise none, and the module keeps its directory's tree.
@@ -426,122 +261,6 @@ func (m Manifest) NamedPaths() (paths []string, every bool) {
 	return paths, true
 }
 
-// pathsProblems is what is wrong with an artifact's `paths` (novox/hq ADR 0499 clause 1): named on a kind whose build
-// source is derived or named otherwise, or a path that leaves the module's directory, is its whole directory, or is a
-// pattern.
-func pathsProblems(module string, a Artifact) []string {
-	if a.Paths == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	switch {
-	case a.Kind == ArtifactBundle && a.Language == "go":
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q is a Go program and names paths: its build source is derived from the "+
-			"package it compiles (novox/hq ADR 0267 clause 1, ADR 0499 clause 1)", module, a.Name)}
-	case a.Kind != ArtifactBundle && a.Kind != ArtifactPackage:
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q is a %q and names paths; only a package or a bundle in a language other "+
-			"than Go names the paths it is built from (novox/hq ADR 0499 clause 1)", module, a.Name, a.Kind)}
-	case len(a.Paths) == 0:
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q names no path in paths; leave the word out to build from the module's "+
-			"directory", module, a.Name)}
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	for _, p := range a.Paths {
-		clean := path.Clean(p)
-		switch {
-		case strings.TrimSpace(p) == "":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q names an empty path", module, a.Name))
-		case strings.HasPrefix(p, "/") || clean == ".." || strings.HasPrefix(clean, "../"):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q names the path %q, which leaves the module's directory",
-				module, a.Name, p))
-		case clean == ".":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q names the module's whole directory (%q) as a path; leave "+
-				"the word out for that", module, a.Name, p))
-		case strings.ContainsAny(p, "*?[]{}\\"):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q names %q, which is a pattern; paths names files and "+
-				"directories", module, a.Name, p))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// reservedSuffixes are names no public vendor publishes under: an installation's own and documentation's.
-var reservedSuffixes = []string{".internal", ".local", ".lan", ".home", ".corp", ".localhost", ".home.arpa",
-	".test", ".invalid", ".example", ".intranet", ".private"}
-
-// notAPublicHost says why a host is not a public vendor's name, or "".
-func notAPublicHost(host string) string {
-	h := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSuffix(host, "."))
-	if net.ParseIP(h) != nil {
-		return "an address rather than a name"
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(h, ".") {
-		return "a name with no domain"
-	}
-	for _, s := range reservedSuffixes {
-		if strings.HasSuffix(h, s) {
-			return "a name under " + s + ", which is nobody's public domain"
-		}
-	}
-	return ""
-}
-
-// sha256Hex is a pinned sha256 as a manifest writes it: 64 lower-case hexadecimal characters.
-var sha256Hex = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-f]{64}$`)
-
-// upstreamFileProblems is what is wrong with an archive pinned by URL (novox/hq ADR 0316 §2, §6): it is an
-// archive, fetched over https, pinned by a sha256 and a version, and it names no directory of the repository
-// besides; a file name or a directory within is a plain path that stays where it is put.
-func upstreamFileProblems(module string, a Artifact) []string {
-	pinned := a.URL != "" || a.SHA256 != "" || a.Version != "" || a.File != "" || a.Within != ""
-	if !pinned {
-		return nil
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	say := func(format string, args ...any) {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %q ", module, a.Name)+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
-	}
-	if a.Kind != ArtifactArchive {
-		say("is a %q and names an upstream file (url, sha256, version, file, within): only an archive is "+
-			"mirrored from one (novox/hq ADR 0316)", a.Kind)
-		return problems
-	}
-	if a.URL == "" {
-		say("names a sha256, a version, a file or a directory within, and no url to fetch it from")
-		return problems
-	}
-	if a.From != "" {
-		say("is built from %q and fetched from %s: an archive is one or the other", a.From, a.URL)
-	}
-	if u, err := url.Parse(a.URL); err != nil || u.Scheme != "https" || u.Host == "" {
-		say("is fetched from %q, and an upstream file is fetched over https from a named host", a.URL)
-	} else if why := notAPublicHost(u.Hostname()); why != "" {
-		say("is fetched from %s, %s: an upstream file is somebody else's release, published under a public name", a.URL, why)
-	}
-	if !sha256Hex.MatchString(a.SHA256) {
-		say("is fetched from %s without a pinned sha256 (64 lower-case hexadecimal characters): what that "+
-			"address serves changes under the mesh, and only the digest says it is what was reviewed", a.URL)
-	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(a.Version) == "" {
-		say("pins %s and says no version, so a person reading the pin cannot tell which release it is", a.URL)
-	}
-	if a.File != "" && a.Within != "" {
-		say("names a file (%q) and a directory within (%q): a file is kept whole, a directory is taken out "+
-			"of an archive", a.File, a.Within)
-	}
-	for field, p := range map[string]string{"file": a.File, "within": a.Within} {
-		if p == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		clean := path.Clean(p)
-		if clean != p || strings.HasPrefix(p, "/") || clean == "." || clean == ".." || strings.HasPrefix(clean, "../") ||
-			(field == "file" && strings.Contains(p, "/")) {
-			say("names %s %q, which is not a plain relative %s", field, p, map[string]string{
-				"file": "file name", "within": "directory"}[field])
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // oneOrOther keeps the message readable for one artifact and for several, because a message that
 // says "neither" about one thing reads as a bug in the message.
 func oneOrOther(n int) string {
@@ -551,30 +270,6 @@ func oneOrOther(n int) string {
 	return "them"
 }
 
-// Systems the mesh builds binaries for, which is the set a host may be pinned to (novox/hq ADR 0005).
-//
-// **A closed list, and the host's own, not the compiler's.** These are not the values a Go toolchain
-// would call an operating system — the difference between two of them is a C library, not a kernel.
-// They are what a machine reports itself to be and what a host is linked to refuse, so the list that
-// matters is the one the host understands.
-var systems = []string{"alpine", "android", "arch"}
-
-// knownSystem is whether the mesh builds for it.
-func knownSystem(system string) bool {
-	want := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(system))
-	for _, s := range systems {
-		if s == want {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// spokenSystems is the list as a refusal says it, so a reader is one edit from right.
-func spokenSystems() string {
-	return strings.Join(systems, ", ")
-}
-
 // compilesToABinary is whether this language's bundle is a binary for one operating system rather
 // than code that runs wherever its interpreter does.
 //
@@ -615,42 +310,6 @@ func versionOf(digest string) string {
 	return hex
 }
 
-// bundleEnvWords are the words the runtime sets for itself; a bundle that named one would be
-// telling the runtime what it is, which is the mesh's to say (novox/hq ADR 0192).
-var bundleEnvWords = map[string]bool{
-	RuntimeToolModules: true, RuntimeBrokerFile: true, RuntimeOperatorAccount: true,
-	RuntimeOperatorHome: true, RuntimeToolEnv: true, RuntimeAgentAccount: true, RuntimeAgentHome: true,
-}
-
-// bundleEnvProblems says what is wrong with what a bundle says it is given (novox/hq ADR 0192):
-// a value is a path or a constant written with the references a container's environment may use
-// for a place or a port, and never a secret's content or another module's binding — a secret
-// reaches a tool as a file whose path is named.
-func bundleEnvProblems(module string, a Artifact) []string {
-	if len(a.Env) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	for _, word := range sortedKeys(a.Env) {
-		value := a.Env[word]
-		if bundleEnvWords[word] {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q gives itself %s, which the node's runtime sets for itself; a bundle is "+
-					"given its own words beside the runtime's, never in place of them (novox/hq ADR 0192)",
-				module, a.Name, word))
-		}
-		rest := ofPort.ReplaceAllString(dirRef.ReplaceAllString(value, ""), "")
-		if strings.Contains(rest, "${") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s: %q gives %s the value %q. A bundle's word is a path or a constant, written with "+
-					"${dir:…} and ${port:…} only; a secret reaches a tool as a file the mesh places, "+
-					"named by its path, never as its content (novox/hq ADR 0192)",
-				module, a.Name, word, value))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 func copyWords(in map[string]string) map[string]string {
 	if len(in) == 0 {
 		return nil
@@ -691,27 +350,30 @@ func runByAResource(m Manifest) map[string]bool {
 	return named
 }
 
-// undeliveredBundles says which of a module's bundles nothing would ever put on a machine (novox/hq
-// 04-ISSUES/216). A bundle reaches a machine three ways: the node's runtime serves it (it says
-// `loads`, or its module declares `tools`), a resource names it (a process, a step, an archive), or
-// it is the runtime itself. One reached by none of them was built, recorded and pushed as success,
-// and was simply absent — seven modules' tools went missing that way on 2026-10-03. Refused here,
-// naming the field that would deliver it.
-func undeliveredBundles(m Manifest) []string {
-	if m.Build == nil || m.Module == RuntimeModule {
-		return nil
-	}
-	named := runByAResource(m)
-	var problems []string
-	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
-		if a.Kind != ArtifactBundle || named[a.Name] || len(a.Loads) > 0 || len(m.Tools) > 0 {
-			continue
+// BundleLoads is what the runtime loads of the bundle artifact a of m (run: the bundles one of m's own resources runs,
+// runByAResource): what the artifact said, else every entrypoint of a module that declares tools, else nothing; a
+// bundle compiled to a binary is served by its binary. The rule a build's resolution keeps on Bundle.Loads, and what a
+// module composed as what runs of it reads again when the runtime already dropped it (issue 1126).
+func BundleLoads(m Manifest, a Artifact, run map[string]bool) []string {
+	// What the runtime loads: what the artifact said, else every entrypoint of a module
+	// that declares tools, else nothing (the field's own rule; see Artifact.Loads).
+	//
+	// **Never, unasked, a bundle one of the module's own resources runs** (novox/hq issue 213).
+	// A process the host runs is the module's service, not its tools: the controller declares
+	// the verbs it answers as `tools` and serves them itself, and its bundle would otherwise
+	// have been launched a second time by the node's runtime, as an MCP child it is not.
+	loads := append([]string(nil), a.Loads...)
+	if a.Loads == nil && len(m.Tools) > 0 && !run[a.Name] {
+		loads = append([]string(nil), a.Entrypoints...)
+		// A bundle compiled to a binary has no entrypoints: the binary is what it is, and what
+		// the runtime starts to serve it (novox/hq ADR 0193). So a Go tools bundle is served
+		// as Go — the runtime execs it — exactly as a TypeScript one is through its launcher.
+		if bin := BinaryOf(a); bin != "" {
+			loads = []string{bin}
 		}
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"%s: the bundle %q would be built and never reach a machine: nothing loads it, runs it or "+
-				"unpacks it. A tools bundle says `loads` (the entrypoints the node's runtime serves) or its "+
-				"module lists its `tools`; a daemon or a step is a resource naming it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/216)",
-			m.Module, a.Name))
 	}
-	return problems
+	return loads
 }
+
+// RunByAResource is the bundles of m one of its own resources runs (its service, not its tools).
+func RunByAResource(m Manifest) map[string]bool { return runByAResource(m) }

go/catalogue/build_system_test.go

@@ -1,82 +1,8 @@
 package catalogue
 
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
 // bundleFor is a manifest whose one artifact is a bundle in the given language and system.
 func bundleFor(language, system string) Manifest {
 	return Manifest{Module: "a-component", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
 		{Name: "binary", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: language, System: system},
 	}}}
 }
-
-func problemsOf(t *testing.T, m Manifest) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	return strings.Join(m.Build.problems(m.Module), "\n")
-}
-
-// **A language that compiles to a binary must say which system.**
-//
-// A binary is pinned to one operating system at link time, so a host refuses to touch a machine it
-// was not built for. An artifact that says nothing would be compiled for whatever the build machine
-// happened to be — which reads as portable and is not, and is the fault this check exists for.
-func TestABinaryMustSayWhichSystemItIsFor(t *testing.T) {
-	got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("go", ""))
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "says no system") {
-		t.Fatalf("a compiled bundle with no system was accepted:\n%s", got)
-	}
-	// And the refusal names what it could have said, so a reader is one edit from right.
-	for _, system := range []string{"alpine", "android", "arch"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(got, system) {
-			t.Fatalf("the refusal does not name %q as a choice:\n%s", system, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestABinaryThatNamesASystemIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
-	if got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("go", "arch")); got != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("a compiled bundle naming a system was refused:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}
-
-// A system the mesh does not build for is refused where it is written. These are the host's own
-// names, not a compiler's: the difference between two of them is a C library rather than a kernel,
-// so a value that looks like an operating system to a toolchain is still wrong here.
-func TestASystemTheMeshDoesNotBuildForIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, wrong := range []string{"linux", "debian", "darwin"} {
-		got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("go", wrong))
-		if !strings.Contains(got, "and a system is") {
-			t.Fatalf("%q was accepted as a system:\n%s", wrong, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// **And a language that runs anywhere must not name one.** A system that decides nothing reads as
-// though it did, which is the same fault as a restriction that restricts nothing (novox/hq ADR 0045).
-func TestAPortableBundleMayNotNameASystem(t *testing.T) {
-	got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("typescript", "arch"))
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "runs anywhere") {
-		t.Fatalf("a portable bundle was allowed to name a system:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAPortableBundleNamingNoSystemIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
-	if got := problemsOf(t, bundleFor("typescript", "")); got != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("an ordinary bundle was refused:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}
-
-// One component, one artifact per system: the shape the mesh's own binaries are declared in, and the
-// reason the target is the artifact's rather than the recipe's.
-func TestOneArtifactPerSystemIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "the-host", Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
-		{Name: "arch", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "arch"},
-		{Name: "alpine", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "alpine"},
-		{Name: "android", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "android"},
-	}}}
-	if got := problemsOf(t, m); got != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("one artifact per system was refused:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/build_test.go

@@ -108,68 +108,8 @@ func TestAModuleThatBuildsNothingIsOrdinary(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestTwoArtifactsWithOneNameAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[
-		{"name":"x","kind":"image","from":"Dockerfile"},
-		{"name":"x","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("two artifacts with one name were accepted")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "could mean either") {
-		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnArtifactBuiltFromOutsideItsRepositoryIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	// A build reads its own repository and nothing else. A path leaving it would make what gets
-	// built depend on whatever happens to be on the machine doing the building.
-	for _, from := range []string{"/etc/passwd", "../elsewhere"} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[
-			{"name":"x","kind":"archive","from":"` + from + `"}]}}`))
-		if err == nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%q was accepted as a build input", from)
-		}
-		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "outside its own repository") {
-			t.Fatalf("refused for the wrong reason: %v", err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnArtifactOfAnUnknownKindIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[
-		{"name":"x","kind":"binary","from":"main.go"}]}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("an artifact of an unknown kind was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAPackageParsesLikeABundleAndNeedsALanguage(t *testing.T) {
-	// The SDK's shape: a package built from the module's own directory, naming a language.
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mesh-sdk","version":"1","slug":"sdk",
-		"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"lib","kind":"package","language":"typescript"}]},
-		"resources":[]}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the SDK's package manifest did not parse: %v", err)
-	}
-	if m.Build.Artifacts[0].Kind != ArtifactPackage {
-		t.Fatalf("expected a package artifact, got %q", m.Build.Artifacts[0].Kind)
-	}
-
-	// A package that names what it is built from is refused, exactly as a bundle is: it is built
-	// from the module's own directory.
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[
-		{"name":"lib","kind":"package","language":"typescript","from":"Dockerfile"}]}}`)); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a package naming a source was accepted")
-	}
-	// A package with no language cannot choose a toolchain.
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[
-		{"name":"lib","kind":"package"}]}}`)); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a package with no language was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
 func TestAResourceNamingAPackageIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","slug":"a",
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","slug":"a",
 		"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"lib","kind":"package","language":"typescript"}]},
 		"resources":[{"id":"svc","type":"container","name":"a","artifact":"lib"}]}`))
 	if err != nil {
@@ -180,24 +120,3 @@ func TestAResourceNamingAPackageIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("a resource backed by a package was accepted; a package is not a resource")
 	}
 }
-
-// An image names the Go package its recipe compiles (novox/hq ADR 0267): within the tree it is built in,
-// and only an image says one.
-func TestOnlyAnImageNamesThePackageItCompilesWithinItsTree(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[
-		{"name":"x","kind":"image","from":"Dockerfile","compiles":"cmd/x"}]}}`))
-	if err != nil || m.Build.Artifacts[0].Compiles != "cmd/x" {
-		t.Fatalf("an image naming its package was refused or lost it: %v", err)
-	}
-	for _, c := range []struct{ artifact, says string }{
-		{`{"name":"x","kind":"archive","from":"files","compiles":"cmd/x"}`, "Only an image"},
-		{`{"name":"x","kind":"image","from":"Dockerfile","compiles":"../x"}`, "leaves the tree"},
-		{`{"name":"x","kind":"image","from":"Dockerfile","compiles":"/x"}`, "leaves the tree"},
-		{`{"name":"x","kind":"image","from":"Dockerfile","compiles":"a/../../x"}`, "leaves the tree"},
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"a","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[` + c.artifact + `]}}`))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.says) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v, wanted a refusal saying %q", c.artifact, err, c.says)
-		}
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/bus_snapshot_test.go

@@ -9,40 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/internal/beside"
 )
 
-// The module holding mesh-broker is the bus, and its account is granted the bus's snapshot API and
-// nothing else (novox/hq ADR 0235). Anything it declared to say or hear on the bus would be granted
-// nothing, so it is refused at the parser rather than silently dropped.
-func TestTheBussAccountSaysNothingOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
-	raw := []byte(`{"module":"bus","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"mesh-bus","scope":"mesh"}],
-		"claims":[{"name":"mesh-broker","scope":"mesh"}],"own-secrets":{"broker":"/run/broker"},
-		"emits":["something.happened"]}`)
-	_, err := ParseManifest(raw)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "granted the bus's snapshot API and nothing else") {
-		t.Fatalf("a bus module declaring what it emits was not refused, or not for the reason: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	// Its tools bundle says what it emits (novox/hq ADR 0357): the node's runtime carries the bundle and is
-	// granted the module's events, so a bus module that ships one may declare them.
-	bundled := []byte(`{"module":"bus","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"mesh-bus","scope":"mesh"}],
-		"claims":[{"name":"mesh-broker","scope":"mesh"}],"own-secrets":{"broker":"/run/broker"},
-		"emits":["bus.slow-consumer"],"tools":["bus_streams"],
-		"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"tools","kind":"bundle","language":"go","system":"arch","from":"cmd/t","binary":"t"}]}}`)
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(bundled); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a bus module whose tools bundle declares what it emits was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	quiet := []byte(`{"module":"bus","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"mesh-bus","scope":"mesh"}],
-		"claims":[{"name":"mesh-broker","scope":"mesh"}],"own-secrets":{"broker":"/run/broker"},
-		"tools":["bus_streams"]}`)
-	m, err := ParseManifest(quiet)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a bus module with an account and tools was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !m.ClaimsSeat(BrokerSeat) {
-		t.Fatal("it does not read as holding the broker seat")
-	}
-}
-
 // The catalogue's bus protects its streams by the snapshot, not as live files: its streams' item is a
 // dump into its snapshots, it has the account the dump runs as, and the dump runs the snapshot
 // program in the bus's own container.
@@ -51,7 +17,7 @@ func TestTheCataloguesBusIsBackedUpBySnapshot(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	m, err := ParseManifest(raw)
+	m, err := decodeForTest(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

go/catalogue/busy.go

@@ -80,34 +80,6 @@ func ReadBusy(r map[string]any) (Busy, bool, []string) {
 	return b, true, problems
 }
 
-// busyProblems is everything wrong with a manifest's `busy` fields, in the manifest's words: a command on
-// one line, a timeout within its bounds, and only on a container that stays up.
-func busyProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		b, has, read := ReadBusy(r)
-		if !has {
-			continue
-		}
-		where := m.Module + ": " + fmt.Sprint(r["id"])
-		for _, p := range read {
-			problems = append(problems, m.Module+": "+p)
-		}
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "container" || !LongRunning(r) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s declares busy and is not a container that stays up: busy is "+
-				"asked of a running container before it is replaced (ADR 0335)", where))
-		}
-		if b.Command == "" {
-			problems = append(problems, where+"'s busy names no command: one run inside the container, exiting 0 "+
-				"while it is busy")
-		}
-		if strings.ContainsAny(b.Command, "\n\r") {
-			problems = append(problems, where+"'s busy command is one line")
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // busyInto composes a container's `busy` into the node-engine's words, or takes it away: for an engine that
 // reads it, the command and its timeout written out; for one that does not, the field is not sent, and the
 // container is replaced at once, as before.

go/catalogue/busy_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/validate"
@@ -32,35 +31,8 @@ func busyManifest(t *testing.T, on string, busy any) []byte {
 	return out
 }
 
-func TestABusyIsHeldToItsShape(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(busyManifest(t, "agent", map[string]any{"command": "mesh-builder busy"})); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a well-formed busy was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(busyManifest(t, "agent", map[string]any{"command": "x", "timeout": "30s"})); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a busy with its timeout was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	for name, c := range map[string]struct {
-		on   string
-		busy any
-		says string
-	}{
-		"text":           {"agent", "mesh-builder busy", "it is an object"},
-		"no command":     {"agent", map[string]any{"timeout": "5s"}, "names no command"},
-		"two lines":      {"agent", map[string]any{"command": "a\nb"}, "one line"},
-		"a long timeout": {"agent", map[string]any{"command": "x", "timeout": "5m"}, "at most 1m0s"},
-		"an unknown key": {"agent", map[string]any{"command": "x", "every": "1m"}, `says "every"`},
-		"on a step":      {"seed", map[string]any{"command": "x"}, "not a container that stays up"},
-		"on a service":   {"daemon", map[string]any{"command": "x"}, "not a container that stays up"},
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest(busyManifest(t, c.on, c.busy))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.says) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: want a refusal saying %q, got %v", name, c.says, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 func TestABusyIsSentOnlyToAnEngineThatReadsIt(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest(busyManifest(t, "agent", map[string]any{"command": "mesh-builder busy"}))
+	m, err := decodeForTest(busyManifest(t, "agent", map[string]any{"command": "mesh-builder busy"}))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

go/catalogue/catalogue_check_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/internal/beside"
@@ -45,78 +44,3 @@ func TestEveryCatalogueManifestParses(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("no endpoint in the catalogue is named, so this proved nothing")
 	}
 }
-
-// TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAnInstallation is ADR 0112's check, run over the real catalogue: no
-// definition names a domain or a public address the mesh acts on, and every value that must for now
-// carries its reason (novox/hq ADR 0155, issue 134). The list it prints is the one that shrinks.
-func TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAnInstallation(t *testing.T) {
-	_, found := catalogueManifests(t)
-	var named []string
-	for _, r := range found {
-		m, err := r.manifest, r.err
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v", r.path, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		named = append(named, InstallationProblems(m)...)
-	}
-	if len(named) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("%d value(s) name an installation:\n  %s", len(named), strings.Join(named, "\n  "))
-	}
-}
-
-// TestEveryCatalogueModuleDeclaresItsData is ADR 0233's check over the real catalogue (it replaced ADR
-// 0214's store list): every provider that grants says what it keeps for its consumers, nothing writes a
-// backup line by hand, every directory a container writes is declared, and every irreplaceable item is
-// backed up — so a store added is a store backed up, without a list of stores to keep in step.
-func TestEveryCatalogueModuleDeclaresItsData(t *testing.T) {
-	_, found := catalogueManifests(t)
-	shelf := Shelf{}
-	granting := 0
-	for _, r := range found {
-		m, err := r.manifest, r.err
-		if err != nil {
-			continue // TestEveryCatalogueManifestParses says why
-		}
-		if len(m.Grants) > 0 {
-			granting++
-		}
-		shelf[m.Module] = m
-	}
-	for _, problem := range DataProblems(shelf) {
-		t.Error(problem)
-	}
-	if granting == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("no module in the catalogue grants a provision, so this proved nothing")
-	}
-}
-
-// TestEveryCatalogueIdentityFitsWhatItRequires is ADR 0225's check over the real catalogue: every
-// module's identity, on the longest machine name, fits the bound of every provision it wants. An
-// overflow fails here, in the pull request that introduces it, rather than on the provider's machine
-// the first time a real machine's name meets the module's (issue 263).
-func TestEveryCatalogueIdentityFitsWhatItRequires(t *testing.T) {
-	_, found := catalogueManifests(t)
-	shelf := Shelf{}
-	for _, r := range found {
-		m, err := r.manifest, r.err
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", r.path, err)
-		}
-		shelf[m.Module] = m
-	}
-	for _, p := range IdentityProblems(shelf, DefaultLongestMachine) {
-		t.Error(p)
-	}
-	// The night it was found: the resolver provision bounds nothing, and the object store still 20.
-	if dns, ok := shelf["dnsmasq"]; ok {
-		if b := dns.IdentityBoundOf("wildcard-resolution"); b.Bounded() {
-			t.Errorf("the resolver provision bounds its consumers' identities: %+v", b)
-		}
-	}
-	if store, ok := shelf["minio"]; ok {
-		if b := store.IdentityBoundOf("s3-bucket"); b.Max != 20 {
-			t.Errorf("the object store's access key is not bounded at 20: %+v", b)
-		}
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/checker_seat.go

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package catalogue
+
+// The delivery's checker (novox/hq ADR 0547 §10, issue 774): one holder for the mesh, the module
+// mesh-delivery-checker, which judges a pull request's head and a pushed head the same way. The try the
+// controller forwarded to it is a verb of this seat, answered by the checker with the verdict it gives a pull
+// request, so the try outlives the controller.
+
+// CheckerSeat is the seat mesh-delivery-checker holds.
+const CheckerSeat = "mesh-delivery-checker"
+
+// checkerVerbs are the checker seat's verbs: ask a try, read one, end one by hand. Optional until the checker serves them
+// everywhere.
+func checkerVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "try", Optional: true, Description: "Try a pushed head before its pull request is opened: the checker " +
+			"judges it as it judges a pull request's head, merged onto its trunk's head, its unit and integration " +
+			"levels through the build modules, and owes the forge nothing. Answers the try's id at once; try-read " +
+			"reads where it stands. A try of the same head that waits or runs is the answer to a second ask; at most " +
+			"4 wait or run at once, mesh-wide.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"repository": "<owner>/<name>",
+				"head":  "the full commit to try, 40 or 64 hex digits",
+				"trunk": "the trunk commit to merge it onto, or the trunk's branch for its head now; the trunk's head when absent",
+				"tests": "a go test -run pattern: only those tests run, and nothing is kept",
+				"level": "unit or integration: only this level; both when absent"},
+				[]string{"repository", "head"}),
+			Replaces: []string{"sh merge-check.sh", "docker run postgres"}},
+		{Name: "try-read", Optional: true, Description: "Where a try stands, as stored: queued, running, or its end " +
+			"(pass, fail, or error when it could not run), with what was said of it, the head and the trunk commit " +
+			"it was merged onto, the time it took and what failed first. Read-only.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"id": "the try's id, try-<digits>"}, []string{"id"})},
+		{Name: "try-end", Optional: true, Description: "End a try that waits or runs, as error, by hand: say why (kept in " +
+			"what it says). Its place among the tries is free at once and the next try of its head asks anew with a new " +
+			"id. A try that ended already is refused.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"id": "the try's id, try-<digits>", "why": "why it is ended, in words"},
+				[]string{"id", "why"})},
+	}
+}

go/catalogue/collections.go

@@ -113,12 +113,7 @@ var oldCollectionNamespaces = []string{"shell", "environment", "contribution"}
 
 var (
 	// ofCollected is where a collector places a collection. Loose inside the braces, so a misspelt name is refused.
-	ofCollected = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{collected:([^}]*)\}`)
-	// collectionName is words joined by colons, so an old namespace's placeholder names its collection as it reads.
-	collectionName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)*$`)
-	// itemName, attributeKey and attributeValue are the words an item's name and attributes are made of; none holds
-	// a colon, a comma or an equals sign, which tell a selector from a collection's name.
-	itemName       = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$`)
+	ofCollected    = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{collected:([^}]*)\}`)
 	attributeKey   = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z][a-z0-9-]*$`)
 	attributeValue = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_.-]*$`)
 )
@@ -242,190 +237,6 @@ func placerOfOld(name string) string {
 	return canonicalSeat(seat)
 }
 
-// collectionProblems is what is wrong with a module's collections and items, from the manifest alone.
-func collectionProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	declared := map[string]bool{}
-	for i, c := range m.Collections {
-		switch {
-		case !collectionName.MatchString(c.Name):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's collection %d is %q, which is not a collection's name: "+
-				"words of lower-case letters, digits and hyphens, joined by colons", m.Module, i+1, c.Name))
-		case declared[c.Name]:
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s collects %s twice", m.Module, c.Name))
-		}
-		if _, old, _ := oldCollection(c.Name, false); old {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s collects %s, which is read from its placeholder: a module "+
-				"places it as ${%s} where it holds the seat that places it, and declares nothing", m.Module, c.Name,
-				c.Name))
-		}
-		if strings.ContainsAny(c.Comment, "\n\r") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's collection %s has a comment holding a line break",
-				m.Module, c.Name))
-		}
-		declared[c.Name] = true
-	}
-	// A collection declared and placed nowhere is a word read by nothing; judged where every file's text is here.
-	if !m.Templated() {
-		named := map[string]bool{}
-		for _, r := range m.Resources {
-			if text, ok := r["content"].(string); ok {
-				for _, f := range ofCollected.FindAllStringSubmatch(text, -1) {
-					base, _ := splitSelector(f[1])
-					named[base] = true
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		for _, c := range m.Collections {
-			if !named[c.Name] && collectionName.MatchString(c.Name) {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s collects %s and no file of its places it as "+
-					"${collected:%s}", m.Module, c.Name, c.Name))
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	contributed := map[string]bool{}
-	for i, it := range m.Items {
-		where := fmt.Sprintf("%s's item %d", m.Module, i+1)
-		if !collectionName.MatchString(it.Collection) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is to %q, which is not a collection's name", where,
-				it.Collection))
-		} else if _, old, wrong := oldCollection(it.Collection, true); old && wrong != nil {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %v", where, wrong))
-		}
-		switch {
-		case it.Name != "" && !itemName.MatchString(it.Name):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: the name %q is not a name: lower-case letters, digits and "+
-				"hyphens", where, it.Name))
-		case contributed[it.key()]:
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s contributes to %s twice; a module contributes one item to "+
-				"a collection, or several each with a name of its own", m.Module, it.key()))
-		case it.Name == "" && slices.ContainsFunc(m.Items, func(o Item) bool {
-			return o.Collection == it.Collection && o.Name != ""
-		}):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s contributes several items to %s and %s has no name; each "+
-				"of several items has a name of its own", m.Module, it.Collection, where))
-		}
-		contributed[it.key()] = true
-		problems = append(problems, itemAttributeProblems(m.Module, where, it)...)
-		if it.Collection == EnvironmentCollection {
-			problems = append(problems, environmentItemProblems(where, it)...)
-		}
-		switch {
-		case it.Template == "" && it.Content == "":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s names no template: an item is a template of the module's "+
-				"own, \"template\": \"%s/<name>\" (novox/hq ADR 0349 §13)", where, m.TemplatesDir()))
-		case it.Template != "" && it.Content != "":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s names its template and says its content too", where))
-		case it.Template != "":
-			if wrong := itemTemplateProblem(m, it.Template); wrong != "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", where, wrong))
-			}
-			// **Filled by the provisioner's client alone**: the controller renders no item.
-			if !m.Moved {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: an item is filled by the provisioner's client of the "+
-					"node its contributor is placed on, so a module contributing one is marked moved "+
-					"(\"moved\": true; novox/hq ADR 0349 §13, §17)", where))
-			}
-		}
-		if it.Content != "" {
-			problems = append(problems, itemTextProblems(m.Module, it)...)
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// itemAttributeProblems is what is wrong with an item's attributes and capability. The attributes of an item of a kind
-// received as data are the fields its shape places by (and `order`), each with a value the shape takes.
-func itemAttributeProblems(module, where string, it Item) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, k := range sortedKeys(it.Attributes) {
-		v := it.Attributes[k]
-		switch {
-		case !attributeKey.MatchString(k):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: the attribute %q is not a name: lower-case letters, digits "+
-				"and hyphens", where, k))
-			continue
-		case !attributeFits(it.Collection, k, v):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s=%q is not a value: lower-case letters, digits, hyphens, "+
-				"dots and underscores (an environment variable's name, letters, digits and underscores)", where, k, v))
-			continue
-		}
-		if n, err := strconv.Atoi(v); k == OrderAttribute && (err != nil || n < 0 || n > 99) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: order=%q is not a whole number from 0 to 99", where, v))
-		}
-	}
-	if namespace, key, _ := strings.Cut(it.Collection, ":"); namespace == "contribution" {
-		seat, kind, _ := strings.Cut(key, ":")
-		if _, r, ok := receivable(seat, kind); ok && r.Shape != nil {
-			for _, k := range sortedKeys(it.Attributes) {
-				var place *PlaceField
-				for i := range r.Shape.Places {
-					if r.Shape.Places[i].Field == k {
-						place = &r.Shape.Places[i]
-					}
-				}
-				switch {
-				case k == OrderAttribute:
-				case place == nil:
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s is placed by %s, and %q is none of them", where,
-						it.Collection, placeFields(r), k))
-				case !oneOf(place.Values, it.Attributes[k]):
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s=%s; %s is one of %s", where, k, it.Attributes[k], k,
-						strings.Join(place.Values, ", ")))
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	switch {
-	case it.IfCapability == "":
-	case !capabilityName.MatchString(it.IfCapability):
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: if-capability %q is not a capability's name", where, it.IfCapability))
-	case !oneOf(KnownCapabilities, it.IfCapability):
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: if-capability %q is one no machine reports; the node-engine "+
-			"detects %s", where, it.IfCapability, strings.Join(KnownCapabilities, ", ")))
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// AttributeFits is whether an item's attribute is of the shape its collection allows: words of lower case, except
-// the environment's `name`, which is a variable's name (design 57 L3, issue 795). The same rule is mesh-catalog's
-// provisioner client's, and the inventory's.
-func attributeFits(collection, k, v string) bool {
-	if collection == EnvironmentCollection && k == "name" {
-		return variableName.MatchString(v)
-	}
-	return attributeKey.MatchString(k) && attributeValue.MatchString(v)
-}
-
-// environmentItemProblems is what is wrong with an item of the environment collection: typed by `kind`, a variable
-// with its `name`, a PATH entry `at` the start or the end, and no attribute besides `order`.
-func environmentItemProblems(where string, it Item) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, k := range sortedKeys(it.Attributes) {
-		if !slices.Contains([]string{"kind", "name", "at", OrderAttribute}, k) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s is typed by kind, name and at, and %q is none of them",
-				where, it.Collection, k))
-		}
-	}
-	switch kind := it.Attributes["kind"]; kind {
-	case "variable":
-		if it.Attributes["name"] == "" || it.Attributes["at"] != "" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: a variable names itself with name=<NAME> and has no at", where))
-		} else if it.Attributes["name"] == "PATH" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: PATH is not a variable; a PATH entry is kind=path", where))
-		}
-	case "path":
-		if it.Attributes["name"] != "" || (it.Attributes["at"] != PathAtStart && it.Attributes["at"] != PathAtEnd) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: a PATH entry is at=%s or at=%s and has no name", where,
-				PathAtStart, PathAtEnd))
-		}
-	default:
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: an item of %s is kind=variable or kind=path, not %q", where,
-			it.Collection, kind))
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // itemTemplateProblem is what is wrong with an item's template path, or "".
 func itemTemplateProblem(m Manifest, name string) string {
 	dir := m.TemplatesDir()
@@ -437,26 +248,6 @@ func itemTemplateProblem(m Manifest, name string) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
-// itemTextProblems is what an item's text may not name: a secret or a bound value, since an item is kept in a
-// bucket and no secret is (ADR 0349 clause 7), and a collection, since an item is not a collector. And every
-// placeholder no pass fills, as in a file's content.
-func itemTextProblems(module string, it Item) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, f := range templatePlaceholder.FindAllStringSubmatch(it.Content, -1) {
-		namespace, key := f[1], f[2]
-		switch _, collection := collectionOfPlaceholder(namespace, key); {
-		case namespace == "secret" || namespace == "bound":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's item of %s names %s: an item is kept in a bucket, where "+
-				"no secret is (novox/hq ADR 0349 §7)", module, it.Collection, f[0]))
-		case collection:
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's item of %s names %s: an item is not a collector",
-				module, it.Collection, f[0]))
-		}
-	}
-	return append(problems, unconsumedPlaceholders(module, map[string]any{"id": "item:" + it.key(),
-		"type": "file", "content": it.Content})...)
-}
-
 // isOld is whether a collection's name is an old namespace's.
 func isOld(name string) bool {
 	_, old, _ := oldCollection(name, true)

go/catalogue/collections_l3_test.go

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func TestASelectorIsRefusedWhenMalformedOrNamingACollectionNotCollected(t *testi
 		raw := strings.Replace(barCollector, `"template":"files/bars"`, `"content":"`+placeholder+`"`, 1)
 		raw = strings.Replace(raw, `"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]},`, "", 1)
 		raw = strings.Replace(raw, `"moved":true,`, "", 1)
-		m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
+		m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(raw))
 		if err == nil {
 			_, err = (Resolution{Node: "n", Modules: []Manifest{m}}).Declaration(Rendering{})
 		}
@@ -82,33 +82,6 @@ func TestASelectorIsRefusedWhenMalformedOrNamingACollectionNotCollected(t *testi
 	}
 }
 
-func TestItemNamesAttributesAndCapabilitiesAreJudged(t *testing.T) {
-	item := func(extra string) string {
-		return `{"module":"p","moved":true,"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]},` +
-			`"items":[` + extra + `]}`
-	}
-	for items, want := range map[string]string{
-		`{"collection":"c","name":"a","template":"files/a"},{"collection":"c","template":"files/b"}`:            "has no name",
-		`{"collection":"c","name":"a","template":"files/a"},{"collection":"c","name":"a","template":"files/b"}`: "twice",
-		`{"collection":"c","name":"Big","template":"files/a"}`:                                                  "is not a name",
-		`{"collection":"c","attributes":{"order":"100"},"template":"files/a"}`:                                  "0 to 99",
-		`{"collection":"c","attributes":{"bar":"a b"},"template":"files/a"}`:                                    "is not a value",
-		`{"collection":"c","if-capability":"batery","template":"files/a"}`:                                      "no machine reports",
-		`{"collection":"contribution:node-bar:block","attributes":{"bar":"left"},"template":"files/a"}`:         "bar=left",
-		`{"collection":"contribution:node-bar:block","attributes":{"colour":"red"},"template":"files/a"}`:       `"colour" is none of them`,
-		`{"collection":"c","name":"a","template":"files/a","colour":"red"}`:                                     "colour",
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(item(items)))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v, want %q", items, err, want)
-		}
-	}
-	ok := item(`{"collection":"contribution:node-bar:block","name":"a","attributes":{"bar":"top","place":"status","order":"5"},"if-capability":"battery","template":"files/a"}`)
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(ok)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-}
-
 // A moved contributor's items, selected by the old placeholder's pair, render in the old order (order, module, item
 // name) and with the same lines as the contributions they replace.
 func TestASelectedMovedItemRendersIntoTheOldBarPlaceholderAsTheContributionDid(t *testing.T) {

go/catalogue/collections_test.go

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func collectionsOn(t *testing.T) Resolution {
 	t.Helper()
 	zsh := held(t, collectorZsh, builtWith("zsh", map[string]string{"zshrc": zshrcText}))
 	prompt := held(t, contributorP10k, builtWith("prompt", map[string]string{"zsh": contributorText}))
-	aliases, err := ParseManifest([]byte(oldFormAliases))
+	aliases, err := decodeForTest([]byte(oldFormAliases))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -141,39 +141,3 @@ func TestAMovedContributorsItemRendersAsItsOldFormDid(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-func TestCollectionsAndItemsAreJudged(t *testing.T) {
-	for name, c := range map[string]struct{ raw, says string }{
-		"an item of a module not moved": {`{"module":"m","version":"1",
-  "items":[{"collection":"shell:zsh:normal","template":"files/x"}],
-  "build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]}}`, "is marked moved"},
-		"two items to one collection": {`{"module":"m","version":"1","moved":true,
-  "items":[{"collection":"a","template":"files/x"},{"collection":"a","template":"files/y"}],
-  "build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]}}`, "contributes to a twice"},
-		"an item to no slot": {`{"module":"m","version":"1","moved":true,
-  "items":[{"collection":"shell:zsh:middle","template":"files/x"}],
-  "build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]}}`, "is no slot"},
-		"an item outside the templates": {`{"module":"m","version":"1","moved":true,
-  "items":[{"collection":"a","template":"x"}],
-  "build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]}}`, "is not a file under files/"},
-		"an item naming a secret": {`{"module":"m","version":"1",
-  "items":[{"collection":"a","content":"t=${secret:token}"}]}`, "where no secret is"},
-		"a collection not declared": {`{"module":"m","version":"1",
-  "resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","path":"/f","content":"${collected:a}"}]}`, "does not collect"},
-		"an old namespace declared": {`{"module":"m","version":"1","collections":[{"name":"shell:zsh:normal"}],
-  "resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","path":"/f","content":"x"}]}`, "read from its placeholder"},
-		"a collection placed nowhere": {`{"module":"m","version":"1","collections":[{"name":"a"}],
-  "resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","path":"/f","content":"x"}]}`, "no file of its places it"},
-		"a collection in a path": {`{"module":"m","version":"1","collections":[{"name":"a"}],
-  "resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","path":"/${collected:a}","content":"${collected:a}"}]}`,
-			"only in a file's content"},
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(c.raw))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.says) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v, want it to say %q", name, err, c.says)
-		}
-	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(collectorZsh)); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("a collector: %v", err)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/computed_test.go

@@ -104,19 +104,6 @@ func TestAGeneratorThisControlPlaneDoesNotHaveIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAModuleIsEitherWrittenOrComputedNotBoth(t *testing.T) {
-	// Otherwise nobody could say where a given file on a machine came from.
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"mesh-network","version":"1",
-		"computed":"mesh-network",
-		"resources":[{"id":"a","type":"package","package":"wireguard-tools"}]}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a module that both ships files and has them computed was accepted")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "one or the other") {
-		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestSettingsApplyToAComputedModuleToo(t *testing.T) {
 	// Being computed is about where the files come from, not about whether they are configurable.
 	// A line drawn there would be arbitrary and nobody could predict it.

go/catalogue/config.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"regexp"
 	"slices"
-	"strings"
 )
 
 // A module declares its config (novox/hq ADR 0348 §1, §4, §5, §6, §8, §11; design 57 package K1, issue 660).
@@ -123,26 +122,6 @@ func toConfigForm(raw []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 	return raw, nil
 }
 
-// inConfigWords is a refusal said of a module in the config form in its words: `${config:<key>}` and
-// takes-config, where the rules shared with the settings form say `${setting:<key>}` and takes-settings.
-func inConfigWords(problem string) string {
-	problem = settingRef.ReplaceAllStringFunc(problem, func(ref string) string {
-		return "${config:" + settingRef.FindStringSubmatch(ref)[1] + "}"
-	})
-	return strings.ReplaceAll(problem, TakesSettingsField, TakesConfigField)
-}
-
-// MixedFormProblems is a manifest using both forms, said with the words of each (ADR 0348 §1).
-func MixedFormProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	if len(m.forms.config) == 0 || len(m.forms.settings) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s mixes the config form (%s) with the settings form (%s): a module uses one form "+
-		"or the other, never both; write %s, %s and ${config:<key>} throughout (novox/hq ADR 0348 §1)",
-		m.Module, strings.Join(m.forms.config, ", "), strings.Join(m.forms.settings, ", "),
-		ConfigField, TakesConfigField)}
-}
-
 // configDeclaration is the config form's declaration as written: nothing of the settings form's, and nothing
 // unsaid.
 type configDeclaration struct {
@@ -171,166 +150,6 @@ func (d SettingDeclaration) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 		Default: d.Default, Required: d.Required, Runtime: d.Runtime})
 }
 
-// configShaped is whether a declaration says anything of the config form's.
-func configShaped(d SettingDeclaration) bool {
-	return d.Type != "" || d.Description != "" || len(d.Enum) > 0 || d.Minimum != nil || d.Maximum != nil ||
-		d.Pattern != "" || d.Trusted || d.Predefined != "" || d.Required || d.Runtime
-}
-
-// TypedSettingProblems is a declaration under `settings` that says what only `config` says: a value with a type,
-// a description and its validation is declared in the config form (ADR 0348 §1, §4).
-func TypedSettingProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, key := range sortedSettingKeys(m.Settings) {
-		if configShaped(m.Settings[key]) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's setting %q says its type, description or validation "+
-				"under %s: a value declared with those is declared under config, with ${config:<key>} and "+
-				"takes-config, never under %s (novox/hq ADR 0348 §1, §4)", m.Module, key, SettingsField, SettingsField))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// ConfigProblems is every way a module in the config form declares its config wrongly, each said by name with
-// what to do (ADR 0348 How it is checked, design 57 package K1).
-func ConfigProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	if !m.DeclaresConfig() {
-		return nil
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	placed := configPlaced(m)
-	fallsBack := fileFallsBack(m)
-	renamed := renamedTaken(m)
-	for _, key := range sortedSettingKeys(m.Settings) {
-		d := m.Settings[key]
-		say := func(format string, args ...any) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's config value %q: ", m.Module, key)+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
-		}
-		if !settingRef.MatchString("${setting:" + key + "}") {
-			say("not a usable key: lower-case letters, digits, dots, dashes and underscores")
-			continue
-		}
-		if meshWords[key] || accountFacts[key] {
-			say("%q is placement, which the mesh decides, never a config value (novox/hq ADR 0348 §11)", key)
-			continue
-		}
-		if d.Kind != "" || d.Why != "" {
-			say("kind and why are the settings form's; under config a value says its type and its description " +
-				"(novox/hq ADR 0348 §1, §4)")
-		}
-		switch d.Type {
-		case ConfigNumber, ConfigString, ConfigBoolean:
-		case ConfigObject, ConfigList:
-			if !d.Trusted {
-				say("is %s and not trusted: an object or a list decides more than one value can say, so it is "+
-					"trusted, \"trusted\": true, or split into numbers, strings and booleans (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)", d.Type)
-			}
-		case "":
-			say("no type: say \"type\": number, string or boolean, or object or list when trusted (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)")
-		default:
-			say("type %q is none of number, string, boolean, object and list (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)", d.Type)
-		}
-		if strings.TrimSpace(d.Description) == "" {
-			say("no description: say in a sentence what the value is, including its unit (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)")
-		}
-		switch {
-		case d.Required && d.Default != nil:
-			say("both a default and required: a required value is the operator's own and has no default; give " +
-				"one or the other (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)")
-		case !d.Required && d.Default == nil:
-			say("neither a default nor required: give a default, or say \"required\": true for a value that is " +
-				"the operator's own (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)")
-		}
-		if as := renamed[key]; as != "" && d.Required {
-			say("is laid into its file as %q, and only when it is set, so the file and its code fall back when "+
-				"it is not: it is never required; give it the file's default, the empty value of its type "+
-				"(novox/hq issue 751)", as)
-		}
-		for _, wrong := range validationProblems(d) {
-			say("%s", wrong)
-		}
-		if word := operatorsWord(key); word != "" && d.Default != nil && !fallsBack[key] {
-			say("a key naming %q is the operator's value: declare it \"required\": true, with no default, "+
-				"unless a mergeable file takes it and no placeholder asks for it, where the file falls back "+
-				"(novox/hq ADR 0348 §4, ADR 0112, issue 735)", word)
-		}
-		if d.Predefined != "" {
-			p, listed := m.predefined[d.Predefined]
-			switch {
-			case m.predefined == nil:
-				say("falls back to the predefined key %q, and the list of predefined keys (%s at the root of "+
-					"the catalogue's repository) is not present where it is judged: a value falls back only to a "+
-					"key on that list; judge it in the catalogue, or leave \"predefined\" out (novox/hq ADR 0348 §7)",
-					d.Predefined, PredefinedFile)
-			case !listed:
-				say("falls back to %q, which is not on the list of predefined keys: name a key on it, or leave "+
-					"\"predefined\" out (novox/hq ADR 0348 §7)", d.Predefined)
-			default:
-				if p.Type != d.Type {
-					say("falls back to the predefined key %q, which is a %s, and this value is a %s: a value falls "+
-						"back only to a key of its own type (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4)", d.Predefined, p.Type, d.Type)
-				}
-				if p.Trusted && !d.Trusted {
-					say("falls back to the trusted predefined key %q and is not trusted itself: a value that falls "+
-						"back to a trusted key is trusted, \"trusted\": true (novox/hq ADR 0348 §8)", d.Predefined)
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		// A template's text is not here yet. Resolve fills it from the build, WithTemplatesFrom from the tree; neither
-		// judges again itself, but WithTemplatesFrom parses its result again, and a resolved build is parsed again
-		// where it is registered, and this is judged then.
-		if !placed[key] && !d.Runtime && !m.Templated() {
-			say("placed nowhere: no file says ${config:%s} or takes it under %s, and it is not marked "+
-				"\"runtime\": true for a value the module's code reads itself (novox/hq ADR 0348 §5)", key, TakesConfigField)
-		}
-	}
-	used := settingKeysUsedBy(m)
-	for _, key := range sortedKeys(used) {
-		if _, declared := m.Settings[key]; !declared {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s says ${config:%s} and declares no such value under %s: "+
-				"declare %q with its type, description and a default or required (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4, §5)",
-				m.Module, key, ConfigField, key))
-		}
-	}
-	problems = append(problems, configTakesProblems(m)...)
-	problems = append(problems, reflectsProblems(m)...)
-	return problems
-}
-
-// configPlaced is every value a file, a unit, a directory's owner, a contribution or a served fact asks for, and
-// every value a mergeable file takes.
-func configPlaced(m Manifest) map[string]bool {
-	placed := settingKeysUsedBy(m)
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		for _, k := range takenKeyList(r) {
-			placed[k] = true
-		}
-	}
-	return placed
-}
-
-// fileFallsBack is every value a mergeable file takes and no placeholder asks for. Unset, such a value is simply
-// not laid over the file: the file's own content, or the module's code reading the file, falls back. So one named
-// after the operator's value (a url, a user, an address) is not `required`, and its default is the file's: its
-// value in the content, else the empty value of its type, never laid over the file (the operator's decision on
-// issue 664, issue 735). A placeholder has no such fallback: its default would be filled in where the operator's
-// value belongs (ADR 0112).
-func fileFallsBack(m Manifest) map[string]bool {
-	asked := settingKeysUsedBy(m)
-	out := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if how, _ := r["merge"].(string); how == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, k := range takenKeyList(r) {
-			if !asked[k] {
-				out[k] = true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 // renamedTaken is every value a mergeable file takes under a name of its own, with that name (issue 751).
 func renamedTaken(m Manifest) map[string]string {
 	out := map[string]string{}
@@ -417,88 +236,3 @@ func ofType(v any, kind string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
-
-// configTakesProblems is what ADR 0348 §11 adds for a module in the config form: an account fact in
-// takes-config (the mesh's own words are refused for both forms by TakenSettingsProblems), and a mergeable file
-// naming no keys where none of the module's does (where one does, TakenSettingsProblems names every one that
-// does not).
-func configTakesProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems, silent []string
-	naming := false
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if how, _ := r["merge"].(string); how == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if _, said := r[TakesSettingsField]; !said {
-			silent = append(silent, fmt.Sprint(r["id"]))
-			continue
-		}
-		naming = true
-		for _, k := range takenKeyList(r) {
-			_, declared := m.Settings[k]
-			switch {
-			case accountFacts[k]:
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %v names %q in %s, and %q is an account fact the "+
-					"mesh places, never a config value (novox/hq ADR 0348 §11)", m.Module, r["id"], k,
-					TakesConfigField, k))
-			case meshWords[k]:
-				// Refused for both forms by TakenSettingsProblems, in its words.
-			case !declared:
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %v names %q in %s and declares no such value under "+
-					"%s: a value a file takes is declared like every other, with its type, description and a "+
-					"default or required, or the config verb could never set it (novox/hq ADR 0348 §4, §11)",
-					m.Module, r["id"], k, TakesConfigField, ConfigField))
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if !naming {
-		for _, id := range silent {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's mergeable %s names no %s: a module that declares config "+
-				"names the keys each mergeable file takes, an empty list for none (novox/hq ADR 0348 §11)",
-				m.Module, id, TakesConfigField))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// meshMadeIDs are the resources the mesh composes into a module's own set, which its `restart-on` may name
-// without declaring them; meshMadePrefixes are those named after what they are for.
-var (
-	meshMadeIDs      = []string{ComposedJailsID(), FilteringID(), CertificateID(), AuthorityID(), BusUsersID()}
-	meshMadePrefixes = []string{NeedID(""), SecretID(""), strings.TrimSuffix(GrantID("", ""), "-"), BoundID(""), ReceivedID(""), AccessID("/")}
-)
-
-// reflectsProblems is a `reload-on` or `restart-on` naming a file the module does not declare (ADR 0348 §6): not
-// one of its own resources, not one the mesh composes for it, and not another module's, which is named
-// `<module>.<id>`.
-func reflectsProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	own := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		own[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = true
-	}
-	meshMade := func(id string) bool {
-		if slices.Contains(meshMadeIDs, id) {
-			return true
-		}
-		for _, p := range meshMadePrefixes {
-			if strings.HasPrefix(id, p) && len(id) > len(p) {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-		return false
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		for _, field := range []string{"reload-on", "restart-on"} {
-			for _, id := range stringsOf(r[field]) {
-				if strings.Contains(id, ".") || own[id] || meshMade(id) {
-					continue
-				}
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %v names %q in its %s, and %s declares no such "+
-					"file: name a file of its own, or another module's as <module>.<id> (novox/hq ADR 0348 §6)",
-					m.Module, r["id"], id, field, m.Module))
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}

go/catalogue/config_rename_test.go

@@ -143,43 +143,7 @@ func TestARenamedEntryIsWrittenBackAsItWasSaid(t *testing.T) {
 	if !strings.Contains(string(raw), `"takes-config":["position","theme",{"as":"NOTIFIER_URL","key":"url"}]`) {
 		t.Fatalf("written back as %s", raw)
 	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(raw); err != nil {
+	if _, err := decodeForTest(raw); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("read again: %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestARenamedEntryIsRefusedWhereItCouldNotHold(t *testing.T) {
-	entry := func(m map[string]any, e any) map[string]any {
-		resourceOf(m, "rules")["takes-config"] = []any{"position", "theme", e}
-		return m
-	}
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "url"}), "notifier's rules", `"key" and "as"`)
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "url", "as": "NOTIFIER_URL", "when": "set"}), `"key" and "as"`)
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "URL", "as": "NOTIFIER_URL"}), "not a usable key")
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "url", "as": "NOTIFIER URL"}), "not a usable name")
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "url", "as": "endpoints"}), `"endpoints"`, "the mesh reads")
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "url", "as": "theme"}), `"theme"`, "twice")
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "theme", "as": "THEME"}), `"theme"`, "twice")
-	refused(t, entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "nothing", "as": "NOTHING"}), `"nothing"`, "declares no such value")
-
-	kept := entry(renaming(), map[string]any{"key": "url", "as": "NOTIFIER_URL"})
-	resourceOf(kept, "rules")["protected"] = []any{"NOTIFIER_URL"}
-	refused(t, kept, `"NOTIFIER_URL"`, "protected")
-
-	// Laid only when set, so the code's own fallback holds: never required.
-	required := renaming()
-	declaration(required, "url")["required"] = true
-	delete(declaration(required, "url"), "default")
-	refused(t, required, `"url"`, "only when it is set", "never required")
-}
-
-func TestARenamedEntryIsTheConfigFormsOnly(t *testing.T) {
-	m := map[string]any{
-		"module": "notifier", "version": "1",
-		"resources": []any{
-			map[string]any{"id": "rules", "type": "file", "path": "/x/rules.json", "merge": "json", "content": "{}",
-				"takes-settings": []any{map[string]any{"key": "url", "as": "NOTIFIER_URL"}}},
-		},
-	}
-	refused(t, m, "notifier's rules", "config form")
-}

go/catalogue/config_test.go

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ func parseRaw(t *testing.T, m map[string]any) (Manifest, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	return ParseManifest(raw)
+	return decodeForTest(raw)
 }
 
 // refused is that the manifest is refused with every one of these words.
@@ -97,66 +97,6 @@ func TestAModuleInTheConfigFormRegisters(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Rule 1: a value without type or description.
-func TestConfigRefusesAValueWithoutTypeOrDescription(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	delete(declaration(m, "width"), "type")
-	refused(t, m, `notifier's config value "width"`, "no type")
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "width")["type"] = "colour"
-	refused(t, m, `"width"`, `type "colour"`)
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	delete(declaration(m, "width"), "description")
-	refused(t, m, `"width"`, "no description")
-}
-
-// Rule 2: a value with neither a default nor required.
-func TestConfigRefusesAValueWithNeitherDefaultNorRequired(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	delete(declaration(m, "width"), "default")
-	refused(t, m, `"width"`, "neither a default nor required")
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "sender")["default"] = "noreply@example.org"
-	refused(t, m, `"sender"`, "both a default and required")
-}
-
-// Rule 3: a default failing its validation.
-func TestConfigRefusesADefaultFailingItsValidation(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct {
-		key   string
-		value any
-		said  string
-	}{
-		{"font-size", 4, "below its minimum"},
-		{"font-size", 41, "above its maximum"},
-		{"font-size", "10", "not a number"},
-		{"position", "bottom", "not one of"},
-		{"theme", "Dark", "does not match"},
-	} {
-		m := inConfigForm()
-		declaration(m, c.key)["default"] = c.value
-		refused(t, m, `"`+c.key+`"`, c.said)
-	}
-}
-
-// Rule 4: an object or a list not trusted.
-func TestConfigRefusesAnObjectOrListNotTrusted(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, kind := range []string{"object", "list"} {
-		m := inConfigForm()
-		def := any(map[string]any{"a": 1})
-		if kind == "list" {
-			def = []any{"a"}
-		}
-		m["config"].(map[string]any)["rules"] = map[string]any{"type": kind, "description": "the rules, as " + kind,
-			"default": def, "runtime": true}
-		refused(t, m, `"rules"`, "is "+kind+" and not trusted")
-		m["config"].(map[string]any)["rules"].(map[string]any)["trusted"] = true
-		if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("a trusted %s is refused: %v", kind, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // withPredefined is the list of predefined keys the mesh published, for the length of a test.
 func withPredefined(t *testing.T, keys PredefinedList) {
 	t.Helper()
@@ -164,127 +104,6 @@ func withPredefined(t *testing.T, keys PredefinedList) {
 	t.Cleanup(func() { ReplacePublished(was) })
 }
 
-// Rule 5: a predefined key not on the list, or of another type. Where no list is present, a value naming one is
-// refused saying so.
-func TestConfigRefusesAPredefinedKeyNotOnTheListOrOfAnotherType(t *testing.T) {
-	withPredefined(t, nil)
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "font-size")["predefined"] = "font-size"
-	refused(t, m, `"font-size"`, "the list of predefined keys", "is not present")
-
-	withPredefined(t, map[string]PredefinedKey{"font-size": {Type: "number"}, "accent": {Type: "string"}})
-	if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a value falling back to a listed key of its type is refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "font-size")["predefined"] = "font-scale"
-	refused(t, m, `"font-size"`, `"font-scale"`, "not on the list")
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "font-size")["predefined"] = "accent"
-	refused(t, m, `"font-size"`, `"accent"`, "is a string")
-}
-
-// Rule 6: an untrusted value falling back to a trusted predefined key.
-func TestConfigRefusesAnUntrustedValueFallingBackToATrustedKey(t *testing.T) {
-	withPredefined(t, nil)
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "theme")["predefined"] = "theme"
-	refused(t, m, `"theme"`, "is not present")
-
-	withPredefined(t, map[string]PredefinedKey{"theme": {Type: "string", Trusted: true}})
-	refused(t, m, `"theme"`, "trusted", "is not")
-	declaration(m, "theme")["trusted"] = true
-	if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a trusted value falling back to a trusted key is refused: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// Rule 7: a value neither placed in a template nor read at runtime.
-func TestConfigRefusesAValueNeitherPlacedNorReadAtRuntime(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	delete(declaration(m, "history"), "runtime")
-	refused(t, m, `"history"`, "${config:history}", `"runtime": true`)
-	// Taken by a mergeable file is placed.
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-}
-
-// Rule 8: a placeholder naming an undeclared value.
-func TestConfigRefusesAPlaceholderNamingAnUndeclaredValue(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	resourceOf(m, "configuration")["content"] = "font = ${config:font-size}\nwidth = ${config:width}\n" +
-		"from = ${config:sender}\ncolour = ${config:colour}\n"
-	refused(t, m, "${config:colour}", "declares no such value")
-}
-
-// Rule 9: a reload-on or restart-on naming a file the module does not declare.
-func TestConfigRefusesAReloadOrRestartOnNamingAnUndeclaredFile(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	resourceOf(m, "notifier")["reload-on"] = []any{"configuration", "dunstrc"}
-	refused(t, m, "reload-on", `"dunstrc"`, "declares no such")
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	resourceOf(m, "notifier")["restart-on"] = []any{"rule"}
-	refused(t, m, "restart-on", `"rule"`)
-	// Another module's file, and one the mesh makes for the module, are not the module's to declare.
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	resourceOf(m, "notifier")["restart-on"] = []any{"rules", "resolver.fact-zones", "secret-mail", "composed-jails"}
-	if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("refused: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// Rule 10: a moved module's mergeable file not naming its keys under takes-config.
-func TestConfigRefusesAMergeableFileNotNamingItsKeys(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	delete(resourceOf(m, "rules"), "takes-config")
-	// position and theme are then placed nowhere; say they are read at runtime so only the file's rule speaks.
-	declaration(m, "position")["runtime"] = true
-	declaration(m, "theme")["runtime"] = true
-	refused(t, m, "rules", "names no takes-config")
-}
-
-// Rule 11: a mesh word, puid or pgid in takes-config.
-func TestConfigRefusesAMeshWordOrAnAccountFactInTakesConfig(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, word := range []string{"ports", "expose", "reach", "endpoints", "places", "accesses", "networks", "puid", "pgid"} {
-		m := inConfigForm()
-		resourceOf(m, "rules")["takes-config"] = []any{"position", "theme", word}
-		refused(t, m, `"`+word+`"`, "takes-config")
-	}
-}
-
-// A module uses one form or the other, never both.
-func TestAManifestMixingTheConfigAndSettingsFormsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	resourceOf(m, "configuration")["content"] = "font = ${config:font-size}\nwidth = ${setting:width}\nfrom = ${config:sender}\n"
-	refused(t, m, "mixes", "${setting:", "config")
-
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	delete(resourceOf(m, "rules"), "takes-config")
-	resourceOf(m, "rules")["takes-settings"] = []any{"position", "theme"}
-	refused(t, m, "mixes", "takes-settings")
-
-	m = inConfigForm()
-	m["settings"] = map[string]any{"colour": map[string]any{"kind": "preference", "default": "red", "why": "red"}}
-	refused(t, m, "mixes", "settings")
-}
-
-// The settings form keeps its own declaration; the config form's has no kind or why.
-func TestEachFormKeepsItsOwnDeclaration(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	declaration(m, "width")["why"] = "fits a title"
-	refused(t, m, `"width"`, "why")
-
-	err := parsed(t, Manifest{Module: "notifier",
-		Settings: map[string]SettingDeclaration{"width": {Kind: KindPreference, Default: float64(250),
-			Why: "fits a title", Type: "number"}},
-		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "c", "type": "file", "path": "/x", "content": "${setting:width}"}}})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "under config") {
-		t.Fatalf("a typed value under settings: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // What the mesh holds is what was written: a module in the config form is written back in it, and read again
 // the same.
 func TestAConfigManifestIsWrittenBackInItsOwnForm(t *testing.T) {
@@ -306,7 +125,7 @@ func TestAConfigManifestIsWrittenBackInItsOwnForm(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("written back with %s: %s", unsaid, raw)
 		}
 	}
-	again, err := ParseManifest(raw)
+	again, err := decodeForTest(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -365,7 +184,7 @@ const configDunst = `{"module": "dunst", "version": "1",
 func TestAModuleRewrittenFromSettingsToConfigComposesByteIdentically(t *testing.T) {
 	composed := func(manifest string, layers []Layer) []byte {
 		t.Helper()
-		m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(manifest))
+		m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(manifest))
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
@@ -404,14 +223,6 @@ func TestAModuleRewrittenFromSettingsToConfigComposesByteIdentically(t *testing.
 	}
 }
 
-// A key a mergeable file takes is a config value like every other: one not declared under config is refused by
-// name (ADR 0348 §4, review of mesh-controller#320).
-func TestConfigRefusesATakesConfigKeyNotDeclared(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	resourceOf(m, "rules")["takes-config"] = []any{"position", "theme", "urgency"}
-	refused(t, m, `"urgency"`, "takes-config", "declares no such value under config")
-}
-
 // A required value nothing sets is refused at composition in the config form's words: ${config:<key>} and the
 // config verb, never `settings set` (review of mesh-controller#320). The settings form's words are unchanged.
 func TestAnUnsetRequiredValueIsRefusedInTheConfigFormsWords(t *testing.T) {
@@ -466,36 +277,6 @@ func TestAnUnsetRequiredValueIsRefusedInTheConfigFormsWords(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A value named after the operator's own (a url, a user, an address) is `required` where nothing falls back when
-// it is unset; where a mergeable file takes it and no placeholder asks for it, the file's own content (or the
-// module's code reading the file) falls back, so it keeps a default and stays optional, as it is today: the
-// operator's decision on issue 664's second question (issue 735).
-func TestAnOperatorNamedValueAFileFallsBackOnMayHaveADefault(t *testing.T) {
-	m := inConfigForm()
-	m["config"].(map[string]any)["url"] = map[string]any{"type": "string",
-		"description": "the address the notifier posts to, a URL; empty for the one the file's software picks",
-		"default":     ""}
-	resourceOf(m, "rules")["takes-config"] = []any{"position", "theme", "url"}
-	if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a taken value named after the operator's, with a default, was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	// A placeholder asking for it has no fallback but the default, which would put a value in the definition
-	// where the operator's belongs (ADR 0112).
-	asked := inConfigForm()
-	asked["config"].(map[string]any)["url"] = map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "a URL", "default": ""}
-	resourceOf(asked, "rules")["takes-config"] = []any{"position", "theme", "url"}
-	resourceOf(asked, "configuration")["content"] = "font = Inter ${config:font-size}\nwidth = ${config:width}\n" +
-		"from = ${config:sender}\npost = ${config:url}\n"
-	refused(t, asked, `"url"`, `a key naming "url" is the operator's value`)
-
-	// Read by the module's code alone, nothing in the definition says it falls back.
-	runtime := inConfigForm()
-	runtime["config"].(map[string]any)["url"] = map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "a URL",
-		"default": "", "runtime": true}
-	refused(t, runtime, `"url"`, `a key naming "url" is the operator's value`)
-}
-
 // 1658/AC1: a value whose only placement is ${config:key} in an item's text is placed.
 func TestConfigCountsAnItemsTextAsAPlacement(t *testing.T) {
 	m := map[string]any{
@@ -509,15 +290,3 @@ func TestConfigCountsAnItemsTextAsAPlacement(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a value placed only in an item's text is refused: %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-// 1658/AC2: a declared value placed nowhere, with an item that does not say it, is still refused.
-func TestConfigStillRefusesAValueNoItemPlaces(t *testing.T) {
-	m := map[string]any{
-		"module": "m", "version": "1",
-		"config": map[string]any{
-			"k": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "a word nothing says", "default": "x"},
-		},
-		"items": []any{map[string]any{"collection": "a", "content": "k = fixed\n"}},
-	}
-	refused(t, m, `"k"`, "placed nowhere")
-}

go/catalogue/consumer_into_serves.go

@@ -124,55 +124,6 @@ func asDNSLabel(as string) string {
 	return strings.ReplaceAll(as, "_", "-")
 }
 
-// CheckServes refuses a `serves` block that names a consumer fact or an alphabet the mesh does not
-// have, when the definition is parsed rather than when a consumer is resolved.
-//
-// A provision nobody consumes yet still has its rule read: a definition that would be refused the
-// first time somebody required it is a definition that is wrong now.
-func CheckServes(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, provision := range sortedServes(m.Serves) {
-		for _, key := range sortedAnyKeys(m.Serves[provision]) {
-			text, ok := m.Serves[provision][key].(string)
-			if !ok {
-				// A provider's own name is filled only in a value of its own (novox/hq ADR 0346): one
-				// nested in a list or an object would be served as the placeholder, unsaid.
-				problems = append(problems, nestedOwnNames(m, provision, key, m.Serves[provision][key])...)
-				continue
-			}
-			// A probe identity, because what is checked is the shape of the statement and not
-			// what any consumer is called.
-			if _, err := consumerInto(text, "mesh_node_module"); err != nil {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s serves %s, and the value it serves as %q %s", m.Module, provision, key, err))
-			}
-			// And the provider's own names it may serve (novox/hq ADR 0346).
-			problems = append(problems, checkServedOwnNames(m, provision, key, text)...)
-			// A label longer than DNS keeps is not truncated here (asDNSLabel), so the offer's own
-			// bound has to keep the identity inside one (ADR 0225).
-			if strings.Contains(text, "${consumer:as:dns}") {
-				if b := m.IdentityBoundOf(provision); !b.Bounded() || b.Max > dnsLabelLimit {
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s serves %s's consumers their identity as a DNS label in %q, and bounds "+
-							"that identity at %s: a label keeps %d — state an `identity` of at most %d",
-						m.Module, provision, key, boundWords(b), dnsLabelLimit, dnsLabelLimit))
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// dnsLabelLimit is the longest DNS label (RFC 1035 §2.3.4).
-const dnsLabelLimit = 63
-
-func boundWords(b IdentityBound) string {
-	if !b.Bounded() {
-		return "nothing"
-	}
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%d", b.Max)
-}
-
 func sortedServes(serves map[string]map[string]any) []string {
 	out := make([]string, 0, len(serves))
 	for k := range serves {

go/catalogue/consumes_start_test.go

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import (
 func TestAConsumesEntryAskingWhereItStartsIsRefused(t *testing.T) { // 1279/AC4
 	for _, key := range []string{"from", "start", "deliver"} {
 		raw := `{"module":"audit","version":"1","consumes":[{"event":"shop.order.placed","` + key + `":"beginning"}]}`
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
+		_, err := decodeForTest([]byte(raw))
 		if err == nil {
 			t.Fatalf("a consumes entry with %q was accepted", key)
 		}
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ func TestAConsumesEntryAskingWhereItStartsIsRefused(t *testing.T) { // 1279/AC4
 			t.Errorf("the refusal for %q does not name the key and the field: %v", key, err)
 		}
 	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"audit","version":"1","consumes":["shop.order.placed"]}`)); err != nil {
+	if _, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"audit","version":"1","consumes":["shop.order.placed"]}`)); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("a plain consumes entry was refused: %v", err)
 	}
 }

go/catalogue/contributes_test.go

@@ -218,30 +218,6 @@ func TestASettingReachesAContributionOnlyWhereItDeclaresTheKey(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestReceivingWhatYouDoNotProvideIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	// It would create a file nobody ever writes to, on a machine where nothing asked for it.
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"traefik","version":"1",
-		"receives":{"reverse-proxy":"/etc/traefik/mesh.json"}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a module received contributions to something it does not provide")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not provide") {
-		t.Fatalf("unhelpful refusal: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnEmptyContributionIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	// Either a mistake or a requirement written the long way round, and both are better said.
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"board","version":"1",
-		"contributes":{"reverse-proxy":{}}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a module contributed nothing and was accepted")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "require it") {
-		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not say what to do instead: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // A provision answered from anywhere in the mesh has consumers on other machines, and the
 // provider has to know who they are. Contributions were node-local until this, which meant the
 // one case that most needed them was the one they did not reach.

go/catalogue/contribution_dependencies_test.go

@@ -113,24 +113,3 @@ func TestAPackageDeclaredPresentAndAbsentIsRefusedNamingBoth(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("an unrelated assignment is refused for a contradiction already there: %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestCodeForAPowerMomentDependsOnThePowerSeat(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, moment := range powerMoments {
-		m := mod("laptop", nil, nil, nil)
-		m.Shell = []ShellCode{{For: moment, Slot: "normal", Code: "true"}}
-		if got := DependsOn(nil, m); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{PowerSeat}) {
-			t.Errorf("code for %s depends on %v, want %s", moment, got, PowerSeat)
-		}
-		if p := m.shellProblems(); len(p) != 0 {
-			t.Errorf("code for %s is refused: %v", moment, p)
-		}
-	}
-	m := mod("laptop", nil, nil, nil)
-	m.Shell = []ShellCode{{For: "after-lunch", Slot: "normal", Code: "true"}}
-	if p := m.shellProblems(); len(p) == 0 {
-		t.Error("code for a moment that does not exist was accepted")
-	}
-	if s, ok := SeatNamed(PowerSeat); !ok || s.Scope != ScopeNode {
-		t.Errorf("%s is not a node seat of the mesh's own: %+v %v", PowerSeat, s, ok)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/control_records_seats.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package catalogue
+
+// **The control records, out of the controller** (novox/hq ADR 0565 clause 1, issue 1953): two seats at mesh scope,
+// each held once, and the node seat's verb `packages`.
+//
+//   - mesh-wants, held by the assigner (mesh-delivery-assigner): a person's upgrade policy and the bus step (clauses 7,
+//     8, 9);
+//   - mesh-hand-acts, held by the module mesh-hand-acts: the hand-act log and the warrants recorded (clause 10).
+//
+// Their events are their holders' to say on the seat; their layouts are go/handacts' and go/delivery's.
+
+// The two seats.
+const (
+	WantsSeat    = "mesh-wants"
+	HandActsSeat = "mesh-hand-acts"
+)
+
+// controlRecordsDecision is the record that made the two seats.
+const controlRecordsDecision = "novox/hq ADR 0565"
+
+// wantsVerbs are the assigner's verbs on mesh-wants (ADR 0565 clauses 7, 8, 9, 15).
+func wantsVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "upgrade", Description: "Whether each module's new builds wait for a person: its policy (roll, together or record) " +
+			"and where it comes from (a person, the module, the bus, its irreplaceable data, the default); the bus is never " +
+			"rolled. With module, that one; with module, policy and why, a person's choice for it, recorded as a hand act; " +
+			"with policy default, the choice taken back. With compare, every module whose policy differs from the one the " +
+			"controller writes beside its compositions.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"module":  "one module",
+				"policy":  "with module: roll, together, record, or default to take a person's choice back",
+				"why":     "with policy: why, required and kept",
+				"compare": "\"true\": every module whose policy at the assigner differs from the controller's",
+			}, nil, "compare")},
+		{Name: "bus", Description: "What a bus upgrade would do: the fingerprint of the bus module each node runs against the " +
+			"indexer's newest, and the last bus steps from the hand-act log and the assigner's puts of the bus. Read-only: " +
+			"the step itself is the put on the operator's warrant.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+	}
+}
+
+// handActsVerbs are mesh-hand-acts' verbs (ADR 0565 clause 10), as the controller's took them.
+func handActsVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "hand-act", Description: "Record one act done by hand: what, why, its cause in a word or a condition's kind " +
+			"(the word a second act for the same reason uses) and the condition it addresses. Who did it is the caller the " +
+			"runtime proves, never said by the caller. Said as act-recorded.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"what":      "what was done, in a line",
+				"why":       "why it had to be done by hand",
+				"cause":     "the cause in a word, or a condition's kind",
+				"condition": "the key of the condition it addressed, if any (optional)",
+				"verb":      "the act's verb in the log: a repair when absent, `hand-act drill` for a drill, or a recorder's own",
+			}, []string{"what", "why"})},
+		{Name: "hand-acts", Description: "What was done by hand lately, over this log and the controller's: who, why and the " +
+			"cause of each, and the causes recorded twice within a fortnight (a healer is wanted).",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"days": "how many days back (default 14)", "cause": "only this cause",
+				"who": "only acts whose who contains this", "warrants": "\"true\": every warrant recorded"}, nil, "warrants")},
+		{Name: "warranted", Description: "Record what a module did on the operator's warrant: who chose, through which channel, " +
+			"with which proofs and which answer read from the router's own record of that module's ask, never from the " +
+			"caller; once per ask. Refused for an ask still open, ended without a choice, or not that module's.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"asker": "the module that asked", "ask": "its ask's id"}, []string{"asker", "ask"})},
+	}
+}

go/catalogue/core_credentials_test.go

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ const provisionerClient = `{"module":"mesh-provisioner-client","version":"1",
 
 func clientOn(t *testing.T) Resolution {
 	t.Helper()
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(provisionerClient))
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(provisionerClient))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

go/catalogue/cron.go

@@ -13,80 +13,3 @@ package catalogue
 // The ordinary five fields — minute, hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week — with `*`, lists
 // (`,`), ranges (`-`) and steps (`/`). No names (jan, mon): a numeric cron is what the host
 // evaluates, and refusing a name here is refusing it near whoever wrote it.
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-)
-
-// validateCron reports why a string is not a five-field cron expression, or nil if it is one.
-func validateCron(expr string) error {
-	fields := strings.Fields(expr)
-	if len(fields) != 5 {
-		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"a schedule is a five-field cron expression (minute hour day-of-month month "+
-				"day-of-week), and this has %d field(s)", len(fields))
-	}
-	bounds := []struct {
-		name     string
-		min, max int
-	}{
-		{"minute", 0, 59},
-		{"hour", 0, 23},
-		{"day-of-month", 1, 31},
-		{"month", 1, 12},
-		{"day-of-week", 0, 7}, // 0 and 7 are both Sunday, the convention every cron keeps
-	}
-	for i, b := range bounds {
-		if err := validateCronField(fields[i], b.min, b.max); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%s field: %w", b.name, err)
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// validateCronField checks one field's elements are within range and well-formed.
-func validateCronField(spec string, min, max int) error {
-	if spec == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("is empty")
-	}
-	for _, part := range strings.Split(spec, ",") {
-		if part == "" {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%q has an empty element between commas", spec)
-		}
-
-		rangePart := part
-		if slash := strings.IndexByte(part, '/'); slash >= 0 {
-			rangePart = part[:slash]
-			n, err := strconv.Atoi(part[slash+1:])
-			if err != nil || n < 1 {
-				return fmt.Errorf("step in %q is not a positive number", part)
-			}
-		}
-
-		switch {
-		case rangePart == "*":
-			// Any value; nothing to bound.
-		case strings.IndexByte(rangePart, '-') >= 0:
-			dash := strings.IndexByte(rangePart, '-')
-			lo, errLo := strconv.Atoi(rangePart[:dash])
-			hi, errHi := strconv.Atoi(rangePart[dash+1:])
-			if errLo != nil || errHi != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("range %q is not two numbers", rangePart)
-			}
-			if lo < min || hi > max || lo > hi {
-				return fmt.Errorf("range %q is outside the allowed %d-%d", part, min, max)
-			}
-		default:
-			v, err := strconv.Atoi(rangePart)
-			if err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a number", rangePart)
-			}
-			if v < min || v > max {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%q is outside the allowed range %d-%d", part, min, max)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}

go/catalogue/data.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"regexp"
-	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -305,182 +304,6 @@ func keepsByClass(class string) bool {
 	return class == ClassIrreplaceable || class == ClassValuable || class == ClassRebuildable
 }
 
-// dataID is what an item's id may be: it is a token in a condition's key and a word on a line.
-var dataID = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$`)
-
-// dataPathRef is an item's path: one of the module's directories or accesses, and optionally a path
-// beneath it.
-var dataPathRef = regexp.MustCompile(`^\$\{(dir|access):([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\}(/[^\s$]*)?$`)
-
-// dataProblems is what is wrong with the `data` section itself, from the manifest alone: judged at
-// registration as every other per-manifest problem is. Whether a module declares what it should is
-// the catalogue check's (DataProblems), because a module already running was written before it.
-func (m Manifest) dataProblems() []string {
-	if m.Data == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	say := func(format string, args ...any) {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's data: ", m.Module)+fmt.Sprintf(format, args...))
-	}
-	dirs := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) == "directory" {
-			dirs[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = true
-		}
-	}
-	accesses := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, a := range m.Accesses {
-		if a.ID != "" {
-			accesses[a.ID] = true
-		}
-	}
-	ids := map[string]DataItem{}
-	paths := map[string]string{}
-	for i, it := range m.Data.Own {
-		label := it.ID
-		if label == "" {
-			label = fmt.Sprintf("item %d", i+1)
-		}
-		if !dataID.MatchString(it.ID) {
-			say("%s has no usable id: lower-case letters, digits and dashes", label)
-		} else if _, twice := ids[it.ID]; twice {
-			say("%s is declared twice", it.ID)
-		}
-		ids[it.ID] = it
-		ref := dataPathRef.FindStringSubmatch(it.Path)
-		switch {
-		case ref == nil:
-			say("%s's path %q is not one of the module's directories or accesses: ${dir:<id>} or ${access:<id>}, "+
-				"or a path beneath one (a definition names no machine path, novox/hq ADR 0112)", label, it.Path)
-		case ref[1] == "dir" && !dirs[ref[2]]:
-			say("%s's path names ${dir:%s}, and %s declares no directory %q", label, ref[2], m.Module, ref[2])
-		case ref[1] == "access" && !accesses[ref[2]]:
-			say("%s's path names ${access:%s}, and %s declares no access %q", label, ref[2], m.Module, ref[2])
-		case strings.Contains(it.Path, ".."):
-			say("%s's path %q climbs out of its directory", label, it.Path)
-		}
-		if other, twice := paths[it.Path]; twice && it.Path != "" {
-			say("%s and %s name the same path %s", other, label, it.Path)
-		}
-		paths[it.Path] = label
-		switch it.Class {
-		case ClassIrreplaceable, ClassValuable, ClassRebuildable, ClassCache:
-		case ClassNone:
-			say("%s is class none, which only a provision keeping nothing of its consumers' is; own data "+
-				"that is disposable is cache", label)
-		default:
-			say("%s's class %q is not one the mesh protects by: irreplaceable, valuable, rebuildable or cache",
-				label, it.Class)
-		}
-		if it.Class == ClassIrreplaceable && !it.BackedUp() && strings.TrimSpace(it.Redundancy) == "" {
-			say("%s is irreplaceable and is neither backed up nor said to be protected by redundancy; the only "+
-				"copy of something is protected one way or the other (novox/hq ADR 0233) — copy it, dump it into "+
-				"another item, or say `redundancy` with why that is enough", label)
-		}
-		if it.Class == ClassCache && it.Backup != nil && !it.Backup.None {
-			say("%s is a cache and asks to be backed up; a cache is disposable, or it is not a cache", label)
-		}
-		if it.Class == ClassCache && it.Redundancy != "" {
-			say("%s is a cache and says it is protected by redundancy; a cache is not protected", label)
-		}
-		switch it.Measure {
-		case "", MeasureWalk, MeasureDataset, MeasureShallow:
-		default:
-			say("%s's measure %q is walk, dataset or shallow", label, it.Measure)
-		}
-		if _, err := ParseDataDuration(it.Within); err != nil {
-			say("%s's within: %v", label, err)
-		}
-		if _, err := ParseDataDuration(it.Active); err != nil {
-			say("%s's active: %v", label, err)
-		}
-		if it.Within != "" && !it.BackedUp() {
-			say("%s states within, and is not backed up", label)
-		}
-		if it.Active != "" && !Watched(it.Class) {
-			say("%s is %s and expects writes; only irreplaceable and valuable data is watched", label, it.Class)
-		}
-	}
-	// Dumps go into an item of the same module, declared, and not into themselves.
-	for _, it := range m.Data.Own {
-		if it.Backup == nil || it.Backup.Copy || it.Backup.None {
-			continue
-		}
-		switch into, ok := ids[it.Backup.Into]; {
-		case strings.TrimSpace(it.Backup.Dump) == "":
-			say("%s's backup names no dump command", it.ID)
-		case it.Backup.Into == "":
-			say("%s's dump says no item it writes into", it.ID)
-		case !ok:
-			say("%s's dump writes into %q, which is not one of the module's data items", it.ID, it.Backup.Into)
-		case into.ID == it.ID:
-			say("%s's dump writes into itself; a dump is copied from where it lands", it.ID)
-		case into.Class == ClassCache:
-			say("%s's dump writes into %s, a cache; what is copied must not be disposable", it.ID, into.ID)
-		}
-		if it.Backup.Dump != "" {
-			declared := map[string]string{}
-			for d := range dirs {
-				declared[d] = ""
-			}
-			if _, err := dirFill(it.Backup.Dump, declared, m.Module); err != nil {
-				say("%s's dump: %v", it.ID, err)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	provided := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, o := range m.Provides {
-		provided[o.Name] = true
-	}
-	wants := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, w := range m.Wants() {
-		wants[w] = true
-	}
-	for _, provision := range sortedKeys(m.Data.Consumers) {
-		c := m.Data.Consumers[provision]
-		if !provided[provision] {
-			say("says what it keeps for the consumers of %q, which it does not provide", provision)
-		}
-		switch c.Class {
-		case ClassIrreplaceable, ClassValuable, ClassRebuildable, ClassCache, ClassNone:
-		default:
-			say("its consumers' %s is class %q; one of irreplaceable, valuable, rebuildable, cache or none", provision, c.Class)
-		}
-		switch {
-		case c.Class == ClassNone && c.In != "":
-			say("its consumers' %s keeps nothing and says where it is kept (%s)", provision, c.In)
-		case keepsByClass(c.Class) && c.In == "":
-			say("its consumers' %s is %s and says nowhere it lives: `in` names one of the module's items, or a "+
-				"provision it requires", provision, c.Class)
-		case c.In != "":
-			if own, ok := ids[c.In]; ok {
-				if c.Class == ClassIrreplaceable && !own.BackedUp() && own.Redundancy == "" {
-					say("its consumers' %s is irreplaceable and lives in %s, which is not protected", provision, c.In)
-				}
-				if classRank[own.Class] < classRank[c.Class] {
-					say("its consumers' %s is %s and lives in %s, which is only %s", provision, c.Class, c.In, own.Class)
-				}
-			} else if !wants[c.In] {
-				say("its consumers' %s lives in %q, which is neither one of its data items nor a provision it "+
-					"requires", provision, c.In)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	for _, provision := range sortedKeys(m.Data.KeptBy) {
-		k := m.Data.KeptBy[provision]
-		if !wants[provision] {
-			say("says it keeps data with the provider of %q, which it does not require", provision)
-		}
-		switch k.Class {
-		case ClassIrreplaceable, ClassValuable, ClassRebuildable, ClassCache:
-		default:
-			say("what it keeps with %s is class %q; one of irreplaceable, valuable, rebuildable or cache", provision, k.Class)
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // KeepsConsumerData is whether this module, providing a provision, keeps what each consumer writes
 // there (novox/hq ADR 0232, ADR 0233): whether a consumer bound to it is bound to its data.
 //
@@ -596,196 +419,9 @@ func (m Manifest) allContributions() []SeatContribution {
 
 // --- the catalogue check ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-// DataProblems is what the catalogue check refuses about the data a module declares (novox/hq ADR
-// 0233), judged over the manifests given together:
-//
-//   - a provider that grants a provision says what it keeps for that provision's consumers;
-//   - nobody says it on the offer any more (`keeps-consumer-data`): the data section is the one place;
-//   - nobody writes a backup line by hand: it is derived from the data section;
-//   - a directory a container writes, mounted whole, is a data item of some class;
-//   - consumer data said to live in a required provision lives where that provision's provider keeps
-//     its consumers' data, as preciously, when the provider is given;
-//   - data a consumer keeps with a provider as irreplaceable is protected there, when the provider is
-//     given.
-//
-// **The check's, not registration's**, as ADR 0214's backup rule was: a module already on the shelf
-// was written before the rule, and refusing it there would refuse the very providers whose data the
-// rule protects. Each module meets it where it is written.
-func DataProblems(shelf Shelf) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, name := range shelfOrder(shelf) {
-		m := shelf[name]
-		for _, provision := range sortedKeys(m.Grants) {
-			if _, said := m.ConsumerDataOf(provision); !said {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s grants %s and does not say what it keeps for its consumers: data.consumers.%s with a "+
-						"class — irreplaceable, valuable, rebuildable, cache, or none (novox/hq ADR 0233)", name, provision, provision))
-			}
-		}
-		for _, o := range m.Provides {
-			if o.KeepsConsumerData != nil {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s says keeps-consumer-data on its offer of %s; it is said once, in data.consumers.%s, with a "+
-						"class (novox/hq ADR 0233)", name, o.Name, o.Name))
-			}
-		}
-		for i, c := range m.Contributions {
-			if s, known := SeatNamed(c.Seat); known && s.Name == BackupSeat {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s's contribution %d is a backup line written by hand; backups are derived from the data "+
-						"section — declare the data, with its class and how it is protected (novox/hq ADR 0233)", name, i+1))
-			}
-		}
-		for _, dir := range writtenDirectories(m) {
-			if !coversDirectory(m, dir) {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s mounts its directory %q into a container to be written, and declares no data in it: "+
-						"data.own with a class — cache if it is disposable (novox/hq ADR 0233)", name, dir))
-			}
-		}
-		if m.Data == nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, provision := range sortedKeys(m.Data.Consumers) {
-			c := m.Data.Consumers[provision]
-			if c.In == "" {
-				continue
-			}
-			if _, own := m.DataItem(c.In); own {
-				continue
-			}
-			for _, pname := range shelfOrder(shelf) {
-				p := shelf[pname]
-				pc, said := p.ConsumerDataOf(c.In)
-				if !said || !providesName(p, c.In) {
-					continue
-				}
-				if classRank[pc.Class] < classRank[c.Class] {
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s keeps its consumers' %s, %s, in %s — and %s keeps its consumers' %s as %s, "+
-							"so it is not protected as %s", name, provision, c.Class, c.In, pname, c.In, pc.Class, c.Class))
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		for _, provision := range sortedKeys(m.Data.KeptBy) {
-			k := m.Data.KeptBy[provision]
-			if k.Class != ClassIrreplaceable {
-				continue
-			}
-			for _, pname := range shelfOrder(shelf) {
-				p := shelf[pname]
-				pc, said := p.ConsumerDataOf(provision)
-				if !said || !providesName(p, provision) {
-					continue
-				}
-				if !keepsByClass(pc.Class) {
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s keeps irreplaceable data with %s, and %s keeps its consumers' %s as %s — nothing of it is "+
-							"protected there", name, provision, pname, provision, pc.Class))
-					continue
-				}
-				if in, own := p.DataItem(pc.In); own && !in.BackedUp() && in.Redundancy == "" {
-					problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-						"%s keeps irreplaceable data with %s, and %s keeps it in %s, which is neither backed up nor "+
-							"on declared redundancy", name, provision, pname, pc.In))
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-func providesName(m Manifest, provision string) bool {
-	for _, o := range m.Provides {
-		if o.Name == provision {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// writtenDirectories are the module's directories a container mounts whole and may write: a volume
-// `${dir:<id>}:<target>` without `:ro`, or a directory stated by an absolute path mounted the same
-// way. A file beneath a directory, or a read-only mount, is configuration the mesh wrote.
-func writtenDirectories(m Manifest) []string {
-	absolute := map[string]string{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "directory" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if p, ok := r["path"].(string); ok && strings.HasPrefix(p, "/") {
-			absolute[strings.TrimRight(p, "/")] = fmt.Sprint(r["id"])
-		}
-	}
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "container" {
-			continue
-		}
-		vols, _ := r["volumes"].([]any)
-		for _, v := range vols {
-			s, _ := v.(string)
-			mount := volumeMount.FindStringSubmatch(s)
-			if mount == nil || volumeReadOnly(mount[3]) {
-				continue
-			}
-			src := strings.TrimRight(mount[1], "/")
-			if ref := dirPlain.FindStringSubmatch(src); ref != nil {
-				seen[ref[1]] = true
-			} else if id, ok := absolute[src]; ok {
-				seen[id] = true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	out := make([]string, 0, len(seen))
-	for id := range seen {
-		out = append(out, id)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out
-}
-
 // volumeMount is a container's volume, `<source>:<target>[:<options>]`, its source possibly a
 // `${dir:<id>}` — whose own colon is not the separator.
 var volumeMount = regexp.MustCompile(`^(\$\{(?:dir|access):[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*\}[^:]*|[^:]+):([^:]+)(?::(.*))?$`)
 
-// volumeReadOnly is whether a volume's options mount it read-only.
-func volumeReadOnly(options string) bool {
-	for _, o := range strings.Split(options, ",") {
-		if strings.TrimSpace(o) == "ro" {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
 // dirPlain is a whole directory, `${dir:<id>}` and nothing after it.
 var dirPlain = regexp.MustCompile(`^\$\{dir:([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\}$`)
-
-// coversDirectory is whether a data item names the directory, a path within it, or a directory it
-// is placed beneath.
-func coversDirectory(m Manifest, dir string) bool {
-	parents := map[string]string{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "directory" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if p, ok := r["path"].(string); ok {
-			if ref := dirRef.FindStringSubmatch(p); ref != nil && strings.HasPrefix(p, "${dir:") {
-				parents[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = ref[1]
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	for _, it := range m.DataItems() {
-		ref := dataPathRef.FindStringSubmatch(it.Path)
-		if ref == nil || ref[1] != "dir" {
-			continue
-		}
-		for d, hops := dir, 0; d != "" && hops < 4; d, hops = parents[d], hops+1 {
-			if ref[2] == d {
-				return true
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}

go/catalogue/data_placed.go

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// **The data items of a node's modules, placed, read from the composition** (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 3, ADR 0233 §22 to
+// §25): disk-load measures each item every module on its node declares, and the node-backup holder, mounts and nfs-server
+// read the readings. Each item is its module's declaration with its path resolved to this node's place, its protection
+// and how it is measured: the same lines the node-backup holder is handed as `${backup:data}`, composed by the same
+// function, so a reader that composes from the bus and a holder handed the file read one list.
+
+// PlacedDataItem is one data item a module on a node declares, as placed on that node.
+type PlacedDataItem struct {
+	Module string `json:"module"`
+	ID     string `json:"item"`
+	Class  string `json:"class"`
+	// Path is the item's place on the node; CoveredBy the path whose snapshot keeps it (the item, or the item its dump
+	// writes into), empty when it is not backed up.
+	Path      string `json:"path"`
+	CoveredBy string `json:"covered_by,omitempty"`
+	// Protection is backup, redundancy, both or none; Measure walk, dataset or shallow.
+	Protection string `json:"protection,omitempty"`
+	Measure    string `json:"measure,omitempty"`
+}
+
+var (
+	dataModuleHeader = regexp.MustCompile(`^#\s*([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)$`)
+	dataSafePath     = regexp.MustCompile(`^/[^\s'"\\$` + "`" + `]*$`)
+)
+
+// ParseDataItems reads the node-backup holder's data text (`${backup:data}`: a `# <module>` line, then one line per item,
+// `item <id> <class> <path> <covered-by or -> <protection> <measure>`) into each module's items, in order. A line it does
+// not read is refused, naming the module: a path with a space or a quote is never handed to a measuring shell.
+func ParseDataItems(text string) (map[string][]PlacedDataItem, error) {
+	out := map[string][]PlacedDataItem{}
+	module := ""
+	for _, raw := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
+		line := strings.TrimSpace(raw)
+		if line == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if m := dataModuleHeader.FindStringSubmatch(line); m != nil {
+			module = m[1]
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") || module == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		f := strings.Fields(line)
+		if len(f) < 5 || len(f) > 7 || f[0] != "item" || !dataSafePath.MatchString(f[3]) || (f[4] != "-" && !dataSafePath.MatchString(f[4])) {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s declares a data line that is not read: %s", module, line)
+		}
+		it := PlacedDataItem{Module: module, ID: f[1], Class: f[2], Path: f[3], Measure: MeasureWalk}
+		if len(f) >= 6 {
+			it.Protection = f[5]
+		}
+		if len(f) == 7 {
+			it.Measure = f[6]
+		}
+		if it.Measure != MeasureWalk && it.Measure != MeasureDataset && it.Measure != MeasureShallow {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s declares a data line that is not read: %s", module, line)
+		}
+		if f[4] != "-" {
+			it.CoveredBy = f[4]
+		}
+		out[module] = append(out[module], it)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// DataItems is every data item the resolution's modules declare, placed on its node with the rendering given: the text
+// the node-backup holder is handed, read. A module left out of the node's declaration keeps its items, as its data is
+// still on the node (ADR 0262); an item that cannot be placed is said in unplaced and left out.
+func (r Resolution) DataItems(with Rendering) (items map[string][]PlacedDataItem, unplaced []string, err error) {
+	left := r.LeftOut(with.Settings, with.Adopted)
+	for module, why := range with.NotPlaced {
+		if _, already := left[module]; !already {
+			left[module] = why
+		}
+	}
+	modules := make([]Manifest, 0, len(r.Modules))
+	for _, m := range r.Modules {
+		if _, isLeft := left[m.Module]; isLeft {
+			m = backupView(m)
+		}
+		modules = append(modules, m)
+	}
+	text, unplaced, err := seatContributions(modules, Manifest{}, BackupSeat+":"+BackupKindData, with,
+		machineFacts(r, with.Names, with.MeshRange), r.Capabilities)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, unplaced, err
+	}
+	items, err = ParseDataItems(text)
+	return items, unplaced, err
+}

go/catalogue/data_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"slices"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -24,111 +23,13 @@ const declaredStore = `{"module":"pg","version":"1",
 
 func mustParse(t *testing.T, raw string) Manifest {
 	t.Helper()
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(raw))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("refused: %v", err)
 	}
 	return m
 }
 
-func TestADeclaredStoreParsesAndPassesTheCheck(t *testing.T) {
-	m := mustParse(t, declaredStore)
-	if problems := DataProblems(Shelf{"pg": m}); len(problems) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a store declaring its data was refused: %v", problems)
-	}
-	if !m.KeepsConsumerData("postgres-database") {
-		t.Fatal("an irreplaceable consumer class does not keep the consumer's data")
-	}
-	if it, _ := m.DataItem("store"); !it.BackedUp() || it.BackupWithin() != DefaultBackupWithin || it.ActiveWithin().Hours() != 24 {
-		t.Fatalf("the store item reads %+v", it)
-	}
-	if it, _ := m.DataItem("dumps"); it.BackedUp() {
-		t.Fatal("a rebuildable item that says none is backed up")
-	}
-}
-
-// Every rule of the section itself, refused at parse in the words of the module.
-func TestTheDataSectionIsRefusedWhereItIsWrong(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ name, data, want string }{
-		{"a class it does not know", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"precious"}]}`, "not one the mesh protects by"},
-		{"an access it does not have", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${access:media}","class":"irreplaceable","redundancy":"an array"}]}`, "declares no access"},
-		{"irreplaceable and protected by nothing", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"irreplaceable","backup":"none"}]}`, "protected one way or the other"},
-		{"a cache on redundancy", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"cache","redundancy":"an array"}]}`, "a cache is not protected"},
-		{"kept with something not required", `{"kept-by":{"s3-bucket":{"class":"irreplaceable"}}}`, "does not require"},
-		{"a measure it does not know", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"cache","measure":"du"}]}`, "walk, dataset or shallow"},
-		{"a cache expecting writes", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"cache","active":"1d"}]}`, "only irreplaceable and valuable"},
-		{"a machine path", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"/srv/a","class":"cache"}]}`, "names no machine path"},
-		{"a directory it does not declare", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:nowhere}","class":"cache"}]}`, "declares no directory"},
-		{"a cache backed up", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"cache","backup":"copy"}]}`, "disposable"},
-		{"a dump into nothing", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"irreplaceable","backup":{"dump":"x","into":"b"}}]}`, "not one of the module's data items"},
-		{"a dump into itself", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"irreplaceable","backup":{"dump":"x","into":"a"}}]}`, "into itself"},
-		{"a bad duration", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"irreplaceable","within":"soon"}]}`, "not a duration"},
-		{"the same id twice", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"cache"},{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}/x","class":"cache"}]}`, "declared twice"},
-		{"own data of class none", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"none"}]}`, "only a provision"},
-		{"consumers of something not provided", `{"consumers":{"s3-bucket":{"class":"cache"}}}`, "does not provide"},
-		{"consumer data that lives nowhere", `{"consumers":{"q":{"class":"irreplaceable"}}}`, "says nowhere it lives"},
-		{"consumer data in an item less precious", `{"own":[{"id":"a","path":"${dir:d}","class":"rebuildable"}],"consumers":{"q":{"class":"irreplaceable","in":"a"}}}`, "which is only rebuildable"},
-		{"consumer data in something unknown", `{"consumers":{"q":{"class":"rebuildable","in":"elsewhere"}}}`, "neither one of its data items"},
-	} {
-		raw := `{"module":"m","version":"1","provides":["q"],"resources":[{"id":"d","type":"directory","mode":"0700"}],"data":` + c.data + `}`
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v, want %q", c.name, err, c.want)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// The catalogue check: a granting provider says what it keeps, says it in one place, writes no backup
-// line by hand, and every directory a container writes is declared (novox/hq ADR 0233).
-func TestTheCatalogueCheckAsksEveryModuleForItsData(t *testing.T) {
-	unsaid := mustParse(t, `{"module":"q","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"queue","scope":"mesh"}],
-		"grants":{"queue":"${dir:g}"},"resources":[{"id":"g","type":"directory","mode":"0700"}]}`)
-	onTheOffer := mustParse(t, `{"module":"r","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"resolver","scope":"mesh","keeps-consumer-data":false}]}`)
-	byHand := mustParse(t, `{"module":"h","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"d","type":"directory","mode":"0700"}],
-		"contributions":[{"seat":"node-backup","kind":"backup","content":"path ${dir:d}"}]}`)
-	writes := mustParse(t, `{"module":"w","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"d","type":"directory","mode":"0700"},
-		{"id":"c","type":"directory","mode":"0700"},
-		{"id":"app","type":"container","image":"x@sha256:aa","volumes":["${dir:d}:/data","${dir:c}:/etc/app:ro","${dir:d}/f:/f"]}]}`)
-	problems := strings.Join(DataProblems(Shelf{"q": unsaid, "r": onTheOffer, "h": byHand, "w": writes}), "\n")
-	for _, want := range []string{
-		"q grants queue and does not say what it keeps",
-		"r says keeps-consumer-data on its offer",
-		"h's contribution 1 is a backup line written by hand",
-		`w mounts its directory "d" into a container to be written`,
-	} {
-		if !strings.Contains(problems, want) {
-			t.Errorf("the check does not say %q:\n%s", want, problems)
-		}
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(problems, `"c"`) {
-		t.Errorf("a read-only mount was taken for written data:\n%s", problems)
-	}
-	// The same module declaring the directory, as a cache, passes.
-	declared := mustParse(t, `{"module":"w","version":"1","data":{"own":[{"id":"d","path":"${dir:d}","class":"cache"}]},
-		"resources":[{"id":"d","type":"directory","mode":"0700"},
-		{"id":"app","type":"container","image":"x@sha256:aa","volumes":["${dir:d}:/data"]}]}`)
-	if p := DataProblems(Shelf{"w": declared}); len(p) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a declared directory is still refused: %v", p)
-	}
-}
-
-// Consumer data said to live in a provision the module requires is protected only as well as that
-// provision's provider protects its consumers' data.
-func TestConsumerDataInARequiredProvisionIsJudgedAgainstItsProvider(t *testing.T) {
-	idp := mustParse(t, `{"module":"idp","version":"1","requires":["postgres-database"],
-		"provides":[{"name":"oidc-client","scope":"mesh"}],"grants":{"oidc-client":"${dir:g}"},
-		"resources":[{"id":"g","type":"directory","mode":"0700"}],
-		"data":{"consumers":{"oidc-client":{"class":"irreplaceable","in":"postgres-database"}}}}`)
-	cachy := mustParse(t, strings.Replace(declaredStore, `"consumers":{"postgres-database":{"class":"irreplaceable","in":"store"}}`,
-		`"consumers":{"postgres-database":{"class":"cache"}}`, 1))
-	if p := strings.Join(DataProblems(Shelf{"idp": idp, "pg": cachy}), "\n"); !strings.Contains(p, "not protected as irreplaceable") {
-		t.Fatalf("irreplaceable data kept in a cache passed: %s", p)
-	}
-	if p := DataProblems(Shelf{"idp": idp, "pg": mustParse(t, declaredStore)}); len(p) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("refused against a provider that keeps its consumers' data: %v", p)
-	}
-}
-
 // What a binding is sticky by follows the class (ADR 0232, generalised by 0233): a cache's consumers
 // move freely, a store's do not; an older definition saying nothing still follows its grant.
 func TestKeepingConsumerDataFollowsTheClass(t *testing.T) {
@@ -192,6 +93,16 @@ func TestTheBackupHoldersLinesAreDerivedFromTheData(t *testing.T) {
 	if data != want {
 		t.Fatalf("data lines:\n%s\nwant:\n%s", data, want)
 	}
+	// ADR 0571 clause 3: the same text, read into items, as disk-load and the backup holder read it; a path a shell
+	// would split is refused.
+	items, err := ParseDataItems(data)
+	if err != nil || len(items) != 3 || items["media"][0] != (PlacedDataItem{Module: "media", ID: "films", Class: "irreplaceable",
+		Path: "/tank/films", Protection: "redundancy", Measure: MeasureDataset}) || items["pg"][0].CoveredBy != "/srv/store/dumps" {
+		t.Fatalf("the data lines read as %+v: %v", items, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := ParseDataItems("# a\nitem x cache /a b - none walk\n"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a path with a space was read")
+	}
 	if _, _, err := seatContributions([]Manifest{agent}, Manifest{}, BackupSeat+":"+BackupKindData, Rendering{}, nil, nil); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a home directory with no account on the machine reached the holder as a placeholder")
 	}
@@ -205,23 +116,3 @@ func TestTheBackupHoldersLinesAreDerivedFromTheData(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("an operator's path reads %+v", it)
 	}
 }
-
-// Data a consumer keeps with a provider as irreplaceable must be protected there: the check refuses a
-// provider that keeps its consumers' data as a cache, or in an item with no protection.
-func TestIrreplaceableDataKeptWithAProviderMustBeProtectedThere(t *testing.T) {
-	photos := mustParse(t, `{"module":"photos","version":"1","requires":["s3-bucket"],
-		"data":{"kept-by":{"s3-bucket":{"class":"irreplaceable"}}}}`)
-	store := func(backup string) Manifest {
-		return mustParse(t, `{"module":"objects","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"s3-bucket","scope":"mesh"}],
-			"grants":{"s3-bucket":"${dir:g}"},
-			"data":{"own":[{"id":"data","path":"${dir:data}","class":"valuable","backup":"`+backup+`"}],
-				"consumers":{"s3-bucket":{"class":"valuable","in":"data"}}},
-			"resources":[{"id":"g","type":"directory","mode":"0700"},{"id":"data","type":"directory","mode":"0700"}]}`)
-	}
-	if p := DataProblems(Shelf{"photos": photos, "objects": store("copy")}); len(p) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a provider backing its consumers' data up was refused: %v", p)
-	}
-	if p := strings.Join(DataProblems(Shelf{"photos": photos, "objects": store("none")}), "\n"); !strings.Contains(p, "neither backed up") {
-		t.Fatalf("irreplaceable photos in an unprotected store passed: %s", p)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/declaration.go

@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ type Rendering struct {
 	// They win over anything the mesh would assign and over a manifest's own long-form mapping.
 	Given map[string]map[int]int
 
+	// Planned says this rendering composes the plans the seat mesh-provisioner keeps (compose.Planning). A contribution a
+	// plan carries is then refused where its port is none the module listens on: no machine port stands for it, and its
+	// provider dials what the plan says (issue 774, research 072 row 34).
+	Planned bool
+
 	// Taken is the modules taken on this adopted node (novox/hq ADR 0100). The guard is derived
 	// from these only (ADR 0103): a port of a module assigned but not taken may still be the
 	// predecessor's.
@@ -277,6 +282,10 @@ type Rendering struct {
 	// templated files are handed to the client (handed.go); without either, it composes as before.
 	Hands       bool
 	Provisioner string
+	// Assigned is, by module, whether the vault judged it handed (AssignmentHands of the plan in its assignment), as the
+	// vault answered the node composing itself; where it names a module, Handing follows it alone (issue 774). Nil, or a
+	// module it does not name, is judged by the manifest and the machine, as the composer of the plans does.
+	Assigned map[string]bool
 }
 
 // RootField is a user resource's field saying the account must never become root without a person
@@ -700,13 +709,7 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 		handsSecrets := with.Handing(m)
 		for _, name := range sortedKeys(m.OwnSecrets.Plain()) {
 			if handsSecrets {
-				owner := m.SecretsOwner
-				if m.Module == RuntimeModule && r.Account != "" {
-					owner = r.Account
-				}
-				if o := m.OwnSecrets[name].Owner; o != "" {
-					owner = o
-				}
+				owner := r.ownSecretOwner(m, name)
 				first = append(first, ownedBy(owner, map[string]any{
 					"id": NeedID(name), "type": "file", "path": m.OwnSecrets[name].Path, HandedSecretField: name,
 				}))
@@ -718,13 +721,7 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 				if string(box) == string(ForeseenVaultBox) {
 					*foreseen = append(*foreseen, m.Module+"/"+name)
 				}
-				owner := m.SecretsOwner
-				if m.Module == RuntimeModule && r.Account != "" {
-					owner = r.Account
-				}
-				if o := m.OwnSecrets[name].Owner; o != "" {
-					owner = o
-				}
+				owner := r.ownSecretOwner(m, name)
 				first = append(first, ownedBy(owner, map[string]any{
 					"id": NeedID(name), "type": "file", "path": m.OwnSecrets[name].Path, VaultSealedField: box,
 				}))
@@ -754,14 +751,7 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 			// the manifest, because a manifest cannot say ${machine:account} safely — a node with no
 			// account has nothing to resolve it to, and then the runtime runs as root and the file
 			// stays root's.
-			owner := m.SecretsOwner
-			if m.Module == RuntimeModule && r.Account != "" {
-				owner = r.Account
-			}
-			if o := m.OwnSecrets[name].Owner; o != "" {
-				owner = o
-			}
-			first = append(first, ownedBy(owner, map[string]any{
+			first = append(first, ownedBy(r.ownSecretOwner(m, name), map[string]any{
 				"id": NeedID(name), "type": "file", "path": m.OwnSecrets[name].Path, "sealed": sealed,
 			}))
 		}
@@ -1084,15 +1074,22 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		// **What the mesh calls the module through each provision it requires** (issue 792): the names its binding
-		// file carries, composed by the same call, handed to the provider through the plan's entry.
-		if _, ok := handed.plans[m.Module]; ok && handing != nil {
+		// **A plan for what the seat keys of it all the same** (catalogue.Keyed, issue 774): a module not handed whose
+		// provider's helper answers a provision of it, its route the commonest, has that provision in a plan of its own,
+		// so the seat keys it and the helper hears it.
+		keyedOnly := handing == nil && handed.keyed(r.Node, m, r.Needs)
+		if _, ok := handed.plans[m.Module]; ok && (handing != nil || keyedOnly) {
 			for _, to := range requirementsContributedTo(m) {
 				own, err := r.ownNames(m, to, with.Settings[m.Module])
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}
 				handed.name(m.Module, to, own)
+				contributed, err := r.contributedOf(m, to, with)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				handed.contribute(m.Module, to, contributed)
 			}
 		}
 		// A handed collector is filled from items alone: each old form its collections would have held is said
@@ -1103,6 +1100,9 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 		}
 		for _, unsettled := range resources {
 			if pr, ok := unsettled[HandedProvisionField].(PlanProvision); ok {
+				if handing == nil && m.Stubbed {
+					continue // held: its credential file is what runs of it, left out (issue 1126)
+				}
 				if handing == nil {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: its credential of %s is handed to the provisioner and the module is "+
 						"not: nothing would fill it", m.Module, pr.Provision)
@@ -1127,6 +1127,9 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 				continue
 			}
 			if unsettled[HandedSecretField] != nil {
+				if handing == nil && m.Stubbed {
+					continue // held: its own secret's file is what runs of it, left out (issue 1126)
+				}
 				if handing == nil {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: its own secret %v is handed to the provisioner and the module is "+
 						"not: nothing would fill it", m.Module, unsettled[HandedSecretField])
@@ -1362,8 +1365,10 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		owner[fmt.Sprint(process["id"])] = RuntimeModule
-		out = append(out, process)
+		if process != nil { // none for a held runtime's stand-in: what runs of it is carried
+			owner[fmt.Sprint(process["id"])] = RuntimeModule
+			out = append(out, process)
+		}
 		// And a runtime of its own for each module of its own account, after it (novox/hq ADR 0259 §8).
 		owns, err := r.ownRuntimes(with)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -1388,7 +1393,7 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 			words[m.Module] = w
 		}
 		// And a file a module's words name is one the runtime is restarted for when it changes.
-		if named := givenTo(out, owner, words, r.Account); len(named) > 0 {
+		if named := givenTo(out, owner, words, r.Account); len(named) > 0 && process != nil {
 			restarts, _ := process["restart-on"].([]any)
 			seen := map[string]bool{}
 			for _, id := range restarts {
@@ -1671,6 +1676,19 @@ func (r Resolution) provisionsAs(m Manifest) string {
 	return m.SecretsOwner
 }
 
+// ownSecretOwner is who one of a module's own secret files belongs to: the account the manifest names for it, else the
+// runtime's account for the runtime's own credential and for a tools bundle's bus account (ToolsBusSecret; novox/hq ADR
+// 0564 Limits 4), which the runtime runs that bundle as, else the module's secrets-owner (root when none).
+func (r Resolution) ownSecretOwner(m Manifest, name string) string {
+	if o := m.OwnSecrets[name].Owner; o != "" {
+		return o
+	}
+	if r.Account != "" && (m.Module == RuntimeModule || ToolsBusSecret(m, name)) {
+		return r.Account
+	}
+	return m.SecretsOwner
+}
+
 // grantPath is where one consumer's sealed credential lands on the providing machine.
 //
 // Suffixed, so the directory can also hold whatever the module writing it keeps there and so a
@@ -1819,6 +1837,82 @@ func (r Resolution) contributions(settings SettingsBy, grants []Grant,
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+// contributedOf is each contribution m makes to one requirement, composed as its provider receives it in a received
+// file (contributions: the one of `contributes` with what the module shares of its bucket, then each of several by
+// local name), with where m's machine is, encoded for PlanProvision.Contributed (issue 774): one composition, so a
+// plan and a file cannot say different things. Nil where m contributes nothing to it.
+//
+// **Its port is the one the machine published** (atAssignedPort): a plan is read on whatever machine its provider runs,
+// which cannot redirect the number as a received file on this machine is redirected (atMachinePort), so the plan
+// carries the machine port already. route-proxy dialled gitea's 3000 for git (published at 20000) and grafana's 3000
+// on another machine (published at 20012) until it did (2026-10-31).
+func (r Resolution) contributedOf(m Manifest, to string, with Rendering) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	layers := with.Settings[m.Module]
+	form := ContributedForm{At: r.At}
+	add := func(local string, values map[string]any) error {
+		values, err := r.atAssignedPort(m, to, values, with)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		raw, err := json.Marshal(values)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s contributing to %s: %w", m.Module, to, err)
+		}
+		form.Each = append(form.Each, ContributedOne{Local: local, Values: raw})
+		return nil
+	}
+	if raw, ok := m.Contributes[to]; ok {
+		values, err := r.composed(m, to, raw, layers, m.Module+" contributing to "+to)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if values, err = withShares(m, to, values); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if err := add("", values); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	for _, local := range sortedKeys(m.ContributesMany[to]) {
+		values, err := r.composed(m, to, m.ContributesMany[to][local], layers, m.Module+" contributing "+local+" to "+to)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if err := add(local, values); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	if len(form.Each) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return EncodeContributed(form)
+}
+
+// atAssignedPort is a contribution of m with its port where this machine publishes it for m: the number
+// `${port:<software port>}` gives m itself and its declaration publishes (machinePort, port_into.go), the placement's
+// assignment where it holds one and the software's own number where it holds none (a bare port not yet moved, a fixed
+// mapping, the host's network). What its provider dials, on this machine over loopback and from another at m's address.
+//
+// **Refused where a plan carries a port m does not listen on** (with.Planned): no machine port stands for it, so the
+// provider would dial a number nothing on the machine is known to publish. Elsewhere (a declaration, a composition
+// with no ports) such a port is left as it is, as machinePort leaves it.
+func (r Resolution) atAssignedPort(m Manifest, to string, values map[string]any, with Rendering) (map[string]any, error) {
+	number, ok := asPort(values["port"])
+	if !ok {
+		return values, nil
+	}
+	_, given := with.Given[m.Module][number]
+	_, placed := with.Ports[m.Module][number]
+	if !given && !placed {
+		if with.Planned {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s contributing to %s: its port %d on %s is none of the ports it listens on, so no "+
+				"machine port stands for it", m.Module, to, number, r.Node)
+		}
+		return values, nil
+	}
+	return atMachinePort(values, m.Module, map[string]map[int]int{m.Module: {number: with.machinePort(m.Module, number)}}), nil
+}
+
 // composed is one contribution as its provider receives it: settled with this node's settings, its
 // endpoint's port filled in, and its names composed from the label.
 //

go/catalogue/decode.go

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Decode reads a manifest leniently, as every part but the judge reads one (novox/hq ADR 0578 §3): every field the
+// contract knows as it declares it, and a field it does not know set aside and named (SetAside), never refused. It
+// judges nothing: no name, seat, bus or catalogue rule is applied, since the indexer judged the manifest once and its
+// verdict is in the indexer's state (delivery.VerdictsBucket); a reader takes the verdict beside it
+// (delivery.TakeVerdict). An error is only bytes that are no manifest: not JSON, or a field of the wrong shape.
+func Decode(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
+	var m Manifest
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+		return Manifest{}, err
+	}
+	return m, nil
+}
+
+// SetAside names what Decode set aside of this manifest: each field it does not know, as the decoder words the first
+// and with the path of every one it read without, or "" when it knew every field. A reader says it in its own words
+// (its journal, its finding) and reads the rest; the part that needs the field takes the newer package (ADR 0578 §6).
+func (m Manifest) SetAside() string { return m.unknown }
+
+// ReadNoFurther is whether Decode could not read past a field it does not know, so the manifest holds its name and
+// version alone: a reader holds such a module, as it holds a refused one, and names why (SetAside).
+func (m Manifest) ReadNoFurther() bool { return strings.Contains(m.unknown, readNoFurther) }
+
+// readNoFurther marks, in what a manifest set aside, that it was not read past it.
+const readNoFurther = "(read no further: "
+
+// Predefined is the list of predefined keys the manifest was read with (ReadTreeManifestWritten, or the judge's
+// SetPredefined), nil when none: data of the contract a judge reads, never a rule.
+func (m Manifest) Predefined() PredefinedList { return m.predefined }
+
+// SetPredefined keeps the list of predefined keys a manifest is read with, for what reads it after (the judge).
+func (m *Manifest) SetPredefined(list PredefinedList) { m.predefined = list }
+
+// FormsWritten is the fields the manifest's config was written with, in the config form (`config`, `takes-config`,
+// `${config:…}`) and in the settings form (novox/hq ADR 0348 §1): data a judge reads to say a manifest mixes them.
+func (m Manifest) FormsWritten() (config, settings []string) { return m.forms.config, m.forms.settings }

go/catalogue/decode_for_test_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package catalogue
+
+// decodeForTest builds a manifest for a test as every reader reads one (Decode); the judge's own tests are in
+// mesh-delivery's judge (novox/hq ADR 0578 §4).
+func decodeForTest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) { return Decode(raw) }
+
+// decodeWithForTest is decodeForTest keeping the list of predefined keys it was read with.
+func decodeWithForTest(raw []byte, list PredefinedList) (Manifest, error) {
+	m, err := Decode(raw)
+	m.SetPredefined(list)
+	return m, err
+}

go/catalogue/derived_for_consumer_test.go

@@ -193,32 +193,6 @@ func TestASettingComposesWithADerivedValue(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A fact or an alphabet the mesh does not have is refused where the definition is, not where a
-// consumer happens to be resolved — and the refusal says what may be said instead.
-func TestAServedValueNamingSomethingTheMeshDoesNotHaveIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ value, says string }{
-		{"${consumer:node}", "as"},
-		{"${consumer:as:punycode}", "dns"},
-	} {
-		m := store()
-		m.Serves["s3-bucket"]["bucket"] = c.value
-		raw, err := json.Marshal(m)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		_, err = ParseManifest(raw)
-		if err == nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%s was accepted", c.value)
-		}
-		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.value) {
-			t.Errorf("the refusal of %s does not quote it: %v", c.value, err)
-		}
-		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.says) {
-			t.Errorf("the refusal of %s does not say what may be said (%q): %v", c.value, c.says, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // `dns` is checked against an identity the mesh actually mints, not an invented string.
 func TestTheDNSAlphabetIsTheMintedIdentityWithItsSeparatorRewritten(t *testing.T) {
 	as := ConsumerIdentity("anchor", IdentitySource("ncloud", "nextcloud"))

go/catalogue/dir_into.go

@@ -106,14 +106,6 @@ func dirsFor(m Manifest, with Rendering) map[string]string {
 	return dirs
 }
 
-// placedOrAbsolute says a path is usable where the mesh needs one: absolute already, or
-// beginning with a placed reference — resolution makes it absolute before anything reads it.
-// (unknownDirRefs is what checks the reference names a real directory.)
-func placedOrAbsolute(path string) bool {
-	return strings.HasPrefix(path, "/") ||
-		(strings.HasPrefix(path, "${dir:") && dirRef.MatchString(path))
-}
-
 // dirFill resolves every ${dir:…} in one string, or refuses a reference naming no directory.
 func dirFill(s string, dirs map[string]string, module string) (string, error) {
 	var missing error
@@ -260,109 +252,6 @@ func dirInto(resource map[string]any, dirs map[string]string, module string) err
 	return nil
 }
 
-// unknownDirRefs is every ${dir:…} in the definition that names no directory the definition
-// declares — refused where the author is, not at composition on some later day (the same
-// near-versus-far reasoning as the host's strict parse).
-func (m Manifest) unknownDirRefs() []string {
-	declared := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) == "directory" {
-			declared[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])] = true
-		}
-	}
-	referenced := func(s string) []string {
-		var ids []string
-		for _, match := range dirRef.FindAllStringSubmatch(s, -1) {
-			ids = append(ids, match[1])
-		}
-		return ids
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		place, said := r["place"].(string)
-		if !said {
-			continue
-		}
-		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) != "directory" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s says place on %v, which is not a directory — only a directory is placed",
-				m.Module, r["id"]))
-			continue
-		}
-		if path, stated := r["path"].(string); stated && path != "" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s states both path and place on %v — a stated path IS the placement",
-				m.Module, r["id"]))
-		}
-		if place != placeOwn && place != placeMesh {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s says place %q on %v, and the places are %q — the assignment's own root — and "+
-					"%q — where the mesh keeps what it writes for the module",
-				m.Module, place, r["id"], placeOwn, placeMesh))
-		}
-	}
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	refuse := func(id string, where any) {
-		if declared[id] || seen[id] {
-			return
-		}
-		seen[id] = true
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"%s says ${dir:%s} in %v, and declares no directory %q — a reference the mesh "+
-				"cannot place would reach the machine as a literal path",
-			m.Module, id, where, id))
-	}
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		for _, field := range []string{"path", "content"} {
-			if s, ok := r[field].(string); ok {
-				for _, id := range referenced(s) {
-					refuse(id, r["id"])
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		for _, field := range []string{"volumes", "env-file"} {
-			if list, ok := r[field].([]any); ok {
-				for _, v := range list {
-					if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-						for _, id := range referenced(s) {
-							refuse(id, r["id"])
-						}
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		if env, ok := r["env"].(map[string]any); ok {
-			for _, v := range env {
-				if s, ok := v.(string); ok {
-					for _, id := range referenced(s) {
-						refuse(id, r["id"])
-					}
-				}
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	maps := map[string]map[string]string{
-		"receives": m.Receives, "binds": m.Binds, "secrets": m.Secrets,
-		"own-secrets": m.OwnSecrets.Paths(), "grants": m.Grants,
-	}
-	for field, entries := range maps {
-		for _, value := range entries {
-			for _, id := range referenced(value) {
-				refuse(id, field)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	for to, locals := range m.SecretsMany {
-		for _, value := range locals {
-			for _, id := range referenced(value) {
-				refuse(id, "secrets."+to)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(problems)
-	return problems
-}
-
 func namesOfDirs(dirs map[string]string) []string {
 	var names []string
 	for id := range dirs {

go/catalogue/dir_into_test.go

@@ -110,18 +110,6 @@ func TestFillingForOneNodeLeaksIntoNoOther(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAReferenceToNoDirectoryRefusesAtTheManifest(t *testing.T) {
-	m := placedModule()
-	m.Resources[2]["volumes"] = []any{"${dir:date}:/data"} // a typo, the likely shape
-	problems := m.unknownDirRefs()
-	if len(problems) != 1 || !strings.Contains(problems[0], `${dir:date}`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a reference naming no directory is a manifest problem; got %v", problems)
-	}
-	if got := placedModule().unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a correct definition has none; got %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestAReferenceToNoDirectoryRefusesAtCompositionToo(t *testing.T) {
 	m := placedModule()
 	container := shallowCopy(m.Resources[2])
@@ -188,39 +176,6 @@ func TestTheManifestsMapsArePlaced(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAMapReferenceToNoDirectoryRefusesAtTheManifest(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{
-		Module:    "photos",
-		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "state", "type": "directory", "place": "."}},
-		Binds:     map[string]string{"route": "${dir:stat}/route.json"},
-	}
-	problems := m.unknownDirRefs()
-	if len(problems) != 1 || !strings.Contains(problems[0], `${dir:stat}`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a map naming no directory is a manifest problem; got %v", problems)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestPlaceIsValidatedAtTheManifest(t *testing.T) {
-	both := Manifest{Module: "x", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "d", "type": "directory", "place": ".", "path": "/somewhere"},
-	}}
-	if got := both.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], "both path and place") {
-		t.Fatalf("path beside place refuses; got %v", got)
-	}
-	elsewhere := Manifest{Module: "x", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "f", "type": "file", "place": ".", "path": "/somewhere", "content": ""},
-	}}
-	if got := elsewhere.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], "not a directory") {
-		t.Fatalf("place on a file refuses; got %v", got)
-	}
-	wrong := Manifest{Module: "x", Resources: []map[string]any{
-		{"id": "d", "type": "directory", "place": "sub/dir"},
-	}}
-	if got := wrong.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], `the places are "."`) {
-		t.Fatalf("a place that is neither root refuses; got %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestTheMeshsDirectoryForAModuleIsAPlace(t *testing.T) {
 	// novox/hq issue 174. What the mesh writes for a module — its bus credential, its bindings —
 	// is the mesh's plumbing under <root>/mesh/<module>, and the definition names it by id.
@@ -234,9 +189,6 @@ func TestTheMeshsDirectoryForAModuleIsAPlace(t *testing.T) {
 		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"broker": {Path: "${dir:mesh-state}/broker"}},
 		Binds:      map[string]string{"route": "${dir:state}/route.json"},
 	}
-	if got := m.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("place %q is a place; got %v", "mesh", got)
-	}
 	dirs := dirsFor(m, Rendering{})
 	if dirs["mesh-state"] != "/var/lib/mesh/umami" || dirs["state"] != "/var/lib/umami" {
 		t.Fatalf("the mesh's directory sits beside the module's, not in it; got %v", dirs)
@@ -301,9 +253,6 @@ func TestADirectoryBeneathAPlacedOneIsPlacedWithIt(t *testing.T) {
 		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "image": "x@sha256:aa",
 			"volumes": []any{"${dir:runtime-state}:/data"}},
 	}}
-	if got := m.unknownDirRefs(); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a path beneath a placed directory is well formed; got %v", got)
-	}
 	dirs := dirsFor(m, Rendering{DataRoot: "/srv"})
 	if dirs["runtime-state"] != "/srv/mesh/gitea/state" {
 		t.Fatalf("the subdirectory follows the placed one; got %v", dirs)

go/catalogue/endpoint_test.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -100,52 +99,6 @@ func TestTwoEndpointsOfDifferentShapesAreConfiguredSeparately(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A route naming an endpoint the module does not declare reaches nothing, and is refused where it is
-// written rather than resolving to no port and serving nothing.
-func TestARouteNamingAnEndpointTheModuleLacksIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	m := aMediaServer()
-	m.Contributes["route"][RouteEndpoint] = "absent"
-	got := strings.Join(RouteProblems(m), "\n")
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "does not declare") {
-		t.Fatalf("a route naming an absent endpoint was accepted:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}
-
-// **Two endpoints called the same would make an assignment configure whichever was read last.** The
-// point of a name is that it identifies one thing.
-func TestTwoEndpointsWithOneNameAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "twice", Listens: []Listening{
-		{Name: "web", Port: 80, From: FromMesh},
-		{Name: "web", Port: 8080, From: FromMesh},
-	}}
-	got := strings.Join(endpointNameProblems(m), "\n")
-	if !strings.Contains(got, "could mean either") {
-		t.Fatalf("two endpoints with one name were accepted:\n%s", got)
-	}
-}
-
-// A name that is not a name is refused where it is written: it ends up in something a person types.
-func TestAnEndpointNameIsHeldToItsShape(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, wrong := range []string{"Web", "web port", "3000", "-web", "web_surface"} {
-		m := Manifest{Module: "odd", Listens: []Listening{{Name: wrong, Port: 80, From: FromMesh}}}
-		if got := strings.Join(endpointNameProblems(m), "\n"); !strings.Contains(got, "a name is lowercase") {
-			t.Fatalf("%q was accepted as an endpoint name:\n%s", wrong, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// **Every endpoint in the catalogue is unnamed today, and must stay valid.** The word ships one
-// release before anything uses it.
-func TestAnUnnamedEndpointIsStillValid(t *testing.T) {
-	m := Manifest{Module: "ordinary", Listens: []Listening{{Port: 443, From: FromEverywhere}}}
-	if got := endpointNameProblems(m); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("an unnamed endpoint was refused: %v", got)
-	}
-	if got := RouteProblems(m); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a module with no route was refused: %v", got)
-	}
-}
-
 // **A route that names an endpoint still carries that endpoint's port.**
 //
 // Everything downstream reads the port: the provider is told where to reach the consumer, and the

go/catalogue/engine_guard_test.go

@@ -1,71 +1 @@
 package catalogue
-
-import (
-	"go/ast"
-	"go/parser"
-	"go/token"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"slices"
-	"strconv"
-	"testing"
-
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/internal/beside"
-)
-
-// The controller refuses a definition's resolved path by the node-engine's own rules, no more (novox/hq issue
-// 496): the same lists, read here from mesh-host's internal/apply/placement_guard.go — in a merge check the clone
-// beside it at the commit the mesh runs, elsewhere the copy captured in testdata/beside. When the engine's lists
-// move, this fails until the controller's move with them, so the gate never refuses what the engine applies nor
-// passes what it refuses by path alone.
-func TestTheResolvedPathRulesAreTheNodeEnginesOwn(t *testing.T) {
-	file := filepath.Join(beside.Dir(t, "mesh-host"), "internal", "apply", "placement_guard.go")
-	parsed, err := parser.ParseFile(token.NewFileSet(), file, nil, 0)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the node-engine's guard does not parse: %v", err)
-	}
-	lists := map[string][]string{}
-	consts := map[string]string{}
-	ast.Inspect(parsed, func(n ast.Node) bool {
-		spec, ok := n.(*ast.ValueSpec)
-		if !ok {
-			return true
-		}
-		for i, name := range spec.Names {
-			if i >= len(spec.Values) {
-				continue
-			}
-			switch v := spec.Values[i].(type) {
-			case *ast.CompositeLit:
-				for _, elt := range v.Elts {
-					if lit, ok := elt.(*ast.BasicLit); ok && lit.Kind == token.STRING {
-						s, _ := strconv.Unquote(lit.Value)
-						lists[name.Name] = append(lists[name.Name], s)
-					}
-				}
-			case *ast.BasicLit:
-				if v.Kind == token.STRING {
-					consts[name.Name], _ = strconv.Unquote(v.Value)
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		return true
-	})
-	for name, ours := range map[string][]string{
-		"protectedRoots": protectedRoots, "forbiddenBelow": forbiddenBelow, "engineTrees": engineTrees,
-	} {
-		theirs := lists[name]
-		if len(theirs) == 0 {
-			t.Errorf("the node-engine's guard names no %s any more; read it and say where its rule went", name)
-			continue
-		}
-		a, b := slices.Clone(ours), slices.Clone(theirs)
-		slices.Sort(a)
-		slices.Sort(b)
-		if !slices.Equal(a, b) {
-			t.Errorf("%s differs from the node-engine's:\n controller %v\n node-engine %v", name, a, b)
-		}
-	}
-	if consts["engineModule"] != engineModule {
-		t.Errorf("the node-engine's own module is %q there and %q here", consts["engineModule"], engineModule)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/engine_seat.go

@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package catalogue
+
+// The node seat node-engine (novox/hq ADR 0563 §1): held on every node by that node's engine (mesh-host), which serves
+// its verbs on its own bus account. No module claims it and no assignment holds it: what the mesh knows of its holder
+// is the node's record and the engine's haves (ADR 0563 §1 changes ADR 0110 §6 and §7 for this one seat).
+//
+// Its verbs carry no signature (§7): the runtime proves the caller, which matters only for the record. The read-only
+// ones change nothing or are bounded in the engine's own state (§2); hand-over and access-act perform nothing on the
+// call, and act only on the operator's warrant to the engine's own ask (§3).
+
+// EngineSeat is the node seat every node's engine holds.
+const EngineSeat = "node-engine"
+
+// EngineVerbs are the node-engine seat's verbs, in the order ADR 0563 §1 names them.
+func EngineVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "hand-over", Description: "Hand a directory this machine uses as found to the mesh (novox/hq ADR 0563 §3, " +
+			"§5): the engine judges the path as it does every hand-over (absolute, as it states it, used as found, " +
+			"reached through no link) and refuses in words, or asks the operator on their channel at the level approve, " +
+			"binding the owner, group and mode it will set. Nothing changes on the call: only the operator's yes hands " +
+			"it over. One ask is open per path; acts shows where it stands.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"path": "the directory's absolute path, as the engine states it",
+				"why": "why it is asked, in words the operator reads"}, []string{"path"})},
+		{Name: "access-act", Description: "Ask the operator for the take act on a library whose root holds data outside its " +
+			"group (novox/hq ADR 0328 §7, ADR 0563 §3, §4), on the library's home engine: the access as declared and its " +
+			"root as last declared, judged and refused in words or asked at the level approve. Only the operator's yes " +
+			"sets the library's group, group write and setgid under its root. One ask is open per access.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"act": "the act: take", "access": "the access, library:<name>",
+				"why": "why it is asked, in words the operator reads"}, []string{"act", "access"})},
+		{Name: "judge-directories", Description: "Which of this machine's declared directories the engine would refuse to " +
+			"make or keep, one line each (novox/hq ADR 0563 §2). Read-only: changes no owner or mode.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+		{Name: "setuid-search", Description: "Throw away the engine's last search for setuid programs and start a full one " +
+			"(novox/hq ADR 0563 §2); until it completes root-free answers that the machine is not judged yet. Refused while " +
+			"one runs, and when one was started within the hour, naming when the next may start.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"why": "why it is asked, in words"}, nil)},
+		{Name: "root-free", Description: "Whether this machine is root-free (novox/hq ADR 0259 §8, ADR 0563 §6): free only " +
+			"on the engine's own verdict, at most fifteen minutes old, that the account agents run as cannot become root " +
+			"without a person, and the login shell's execute not served here. Anything else is no pass, and says why. " +
+			"Answered by this machine's engine alone.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+		{Name: "acts", Description: "Every act this machine's engine was asked through this seat (novox/hq ADR 0563 §9): " +
+			"each hand-over, access act and setuid search, open, done or refused, with who asked, the ask and the " +
+			"operator's warrant. Read-only.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"limit": "at most this many, newest", "id": "one act, by its id"}, nil)},
+		// The packages this node's compositions declare (novox/hq ADR 0565 §6, §15): optional until every engine serves it.
+		{Name: "packages", Optional: true, Description: "The packages this machine's compositions declare, present or absent, " +
+			"each with the modules that declare it, as the engine keeps them in its key of `packages`; until the controller " +
+			"hands its lease away, beside the controller's mirror for this machine and their difference. With write, the " +
+			"key written again from what the engine composed.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"write": "\"true\": write this machine's key again from what the engine composed"}, nil, "write")},
+		// Read-only (issue 774): why a module waits for a yes, or what its next apply would change. Optional until every
+		// engine serves it.
+		{Name: "composition", Optional: true, Description: "One module's composition on this machine beside what runs of " +
+			"it, read-only: the composition its want's build has in the bucket composed-<node> (the latest revision, or the " +
+			"one whose digest is given, from the revisions the bucket keeps), the digest of each kept revision, what runs " +
+			"(applied, its have, or the kept declaration), its want and have (phase running, failed, held or waiting-yes, " +
+			"and the digest that waits for a yes), and the move's judgement with its words: why a record module waits for " +
+			"a yes. With diff, every resource added, removed or changed, a provider's received file naming the consumers " +
+			"that join or leave.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"module": "the module, as placed on this machine; node for the node's own",
+				"digest": "a composition's digest (sha256:…), to read that revision rather than the latest",
+				"diff":   "\"true\": list the resources that differ from what runs"}, []string{"module"})},
+		// The recovery of a composition that failed (issue 774, 2026-10-31: ace kept route-proxy failed for a vault that
+		// answered again a minute later). Optional until every engine serves it.
+		{Name: "compose", Optional: true, Description: "Compose this machine's modules now and say how it went, so a " +
+			"composition that failed, or a module held, recovers without a restart: what the pass refused or held, each " +
+			"with why, and when the engine composes again on its own after a seat that did not answer (a deadline, no " +
+			"responders: retried with a growing wait; a refusal never). With module, that module's apply is also tried " +
+			"again. Changes only what a pass the engine makes on its own would change.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"module": "a module placed on this machine whose apply is also tried again (optional)"}, nil)},
+	}
+}
+
+// EngineEvents are what the seat says of an act, each naming the act, the path or access, the caller as the runtime
+// proved it and the ask (ADR 0563 §1).
+var EngineEvents = []string{"asked", "done", "refused"}
+
+// engineSeat is the seat's row in the closed set.
+func engineSeat() Seat {
+	return Seat{Name: EngineSeat, Scope: ScopeNode, Serves: EngineVerbs(), Emits: append([]string(nil), EngineEvents...),
+		HeldByTheEngine: true, Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0563"}
+}

go/catalogue/environment_into.go

@@ -114,64 +114,6 @@ var (
 	ofContributed = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{(shell|contribution|backup):([^}]*)\}`)
 )
 
-// variableName is a POSIX shell variable name, which is also what environment.d accepts.
-var variableName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*$`)
-
-// environmentProblems is what is wrong with this module's environment contribution, from the
-// manifest alone.
-func (m Manifest) environmentProblems() []string {
-	if m.Environment == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	for _, n := range sortedKeys(m.Environment.Variables) {
-		switch {
-		case !variableName.MatchString(n):
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s sets the variable %q, which is not a name a shell accepts: a letter or an "+
-					"underscore, then letters, digits and underscores", m.Module, n))
-			continue
-		case n == "PATH":
-			// PATH is the one variable every module shares, so no module may set it whole: a second
-			// setter would replace the first's entries, and the account's own PATH with them.
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s sets PATH as a variable; a module adds an entry under environment.path, at the "+
-					"start or the end, and PATH is composed from every module's (novox/hq ADR 0203)", m.Module))
-			continue
-		}
-		if why := literalProblem(m.Environment.Variables[n]); why != "" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s sets %s to %q, which %s — %s", m.Module, n, m.Environment.Variables[n], why, literalRule))
-		}
-	}
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	for i, p := range m.Environment.Path {
-		switch {
-		case p.Entry == "":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's PATH entry %d names no directory", m.Module, i+1))
-		case strings.Contains(ofMachine.ReplaceAllString(p.Entry, ""), ":"):
-			// A colon is PATH's own separator, so an entry holding one is two entries, and the
-			// check that it is already present would look for the wrong thing.
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s puts %q on PATH, which holds a colon, PATH's own separator", m.Module, p.Entry))
-		case seen[p.Entry]:
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s puts %q on PATH twice", m.Module, p.Entry))
-		default:
-			if why := literalProblem(p.Entry); why != "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-					"%s puts %q on PATH, which %s — %s", m.Module, p.Entry, why, literalRule))
-			}
-		}
-		seen[p.Entry] = true
-		if p.At != PathAtStart && p.At != PathAtEnd {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s puts %q on PATH at %q; an entry goes at %q or %q of the account's PATH",
-				m.Module, p.Entry, p.At, PathAtStart, PathAtEnd))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // literalRule is why a value must be literal, said with every refusal of one.
 const literalRule = "a value is literal, so a POSIX shell and the service manager read it alike, and " +
 	"names the machine only through the mesh's own ${machine:…} facts (novox/hq ADR 0203)"
@@ -195,46 +137,6 @@ func literalProblem(v string) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
-// shellProblems is what is wrong with this module's shell code, from the manifest alone. The code
-// itself is not judged: it is the shell's syntax, which the controller does not read.
-func (m Manifest) shellProblems() []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for i, c := range m.Shell {
-		if !oneOf(contributionTargets(), c.For) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s's shell code %d is for %q; the shells are %s, the session's files %s, and the power "+
-					"moments %s", m.Module, i+1, c.For, strings.Join(knownShells, ", "),
-				strings.Join(sessionFiles, ", "), strings.Join(powerMoments, ", ")))
-		}
-		if !oneOf(knownSlots, c.Slot) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s's shell code %d goes in the slot %q; the slots are %s", m.Module, i+1, c.Slot,
-				strings.Join(knownSlots, ", ")))
-		}
-		if strings.TrimSpace(c.Code) == "" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's shell code %d has no code", m.Module, i+1))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// contributionPlaceholderProblems is every place this module's resources name the environment or
-// the shell's code and may not — judged from the manifest, so the catalogue check refuses it before
-// a mesh does, and again at composition in the same words.
-func (m Manifest) contributionPlaceholderProblems() []string {
-	var problems []string
-	for _, r := range m.Resources {
-		problems = append(problems, placeholderProblems(m, r)...)
-		problems = append(problems, seatPlaceholderProblems(m, r)...)
-		problems = append(problems, collectedPlaceholderProblems(m, r)...)
-		problems = append(problems, consumersPlaceholderProblems(m, r)...)
-		// And every placeholder no pass fills where it stands: a misspelt namespace, a key its
-		// namespace cannot take, or a field its pass does not read (novox/hq issue 231).
-		problems = append(problems, unconsumedPlaceholders(m.Module, r)...)
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // placeholderProblems is what is wrong with one resource's ${environment:…} and ${shell:…}.
 //
 // **The seat authorises it, not the placeholder** (novox/hq ADR 0203 §5, ADR 0204 §3), as the seat

go/catalogue/environment_into_test.go

@@ -276,102 +276,6 @@ func TestTheEnvironmentHolderPlacesBothRenderings(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// ADR 0203 §5 and ADR 0204 §3: a placeholder outside the seat's holder is refused — by the parser,
-// which is what the catalogue check and registration run, and again at composition, in the same words.
-func TestAPlaceholderOutsideTheHolderIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ content, want string }{
-		{"${environment:posix}", "toolchain's resource rc names ${environment:posix} and toolchain does not claim node-environment"},
-		{"${shell:zsh:normal}", "toolchain's resource rc names ${shell:zsh:normal} and toolchain does not claim node-login-shell"},
-	} {
-		raw := `{"module":"toolchain","resources":[{"id":"rc","type":"file","path":"/etc/rc","content":"` + c.content + `"}]}`
-		if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("the catalogue check accepted %s outside its holder: %v", c.content, err)
-		}
-		m := Manifest{Module: "toolchain", Resources: []map[string]any{
-			{"id": "rc", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/rc", "content": c.content}}}
-		r := Resolution{Node: "workstation", Account: "op", Modules: []Manifest{m}}
-		if _, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{}); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("composition accepted %s outside its holder: %v", c.content, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// A key nobody renders is refused, not left in the file as a literal.
-func TestAnUnknownPlaceholderKeyIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ content, want string }{
-		{"${environment:foo}", "names ${environment:foo}; the environment is ${environment:posix} or ${environment:systemd}"},
-		{"${shell:zsh:middle}", "names ${shell:zsh:middle}; shell code is ${shell:<shell>:<slot>}"},
-		{"${shell:tcsh:first}", "names ${shell:tcsh:first}; shell code is ${shell:<shell>:<slot>}"},
-		{"${shell:zsh}", "names ${shell:zsh}; shell code is ${shell:<shell>:<slot>}"},
-	} {
-		raw := `{"module":"holder","claims":[{"name":"node-environment","scope":"node"},{"name":"node-login-shell","scope":"node"}],` +
-			`"resources":[{"id":"rc","type":"file","path":"/etc/rc","content":"` + c.content + `"}]}`
-		if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s was accepted: %v", c.content, err)
-		}
-	}
-	// And outside a file's content, where nothing could be placed.
-	raw := `{"module":"holder","claims":[{"name":"node-environment","scope":"node"}],` +
-		`"resources":[{"id":"rc","type":"file","path":"/etc/${environment:posix}","content":"x"}]}`
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil ||
-		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "names ${environment:posix} in its path; the environment and the shell's code are placed only in a file's content") {
-		t.Errorf("a placeholder in a path was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// What ADR 0203 §2 allows a contribution to say, refused at parse when it says anything else.
-func TestAMalformedEnvironmentIsRefusedAtParse(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ environment, want string }{
-		{`{"variables":{"1X":"a"}}`, `tool sets the variable "1X", which is not a name a shell accepts`},
-		{`{"variables":{"MY-VAR":"a"}}`, `tool sets the variable "MY-VAR", which is not a name a shell accepts`},
-		{`{"variables":{"PATH":"/bin"}}`, `tool sets PATH as a variable; a module adds an entry under environment.path`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"$HOME/x"}}`, `tool sets A to "$HOME/x", which holds a $ that is not one of the machine's ${machine:…} facts`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"${HOME}/x"}}`, `tool sets A to "${HOME}/x", which holds a $`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"it's"}}`, `tool sets A to "it's", which holds a quote`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"say \"hi\""}}`, `which holds a quote`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"a\\b"}}`, `which holds a backslash`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"a\nb"}}`, `which holds a line break`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"a\u0000b"}}`, `which holds a NUL`},
-		{`{"path":[{"entry":"","at":"start"}]}`, `tool's PATH entry 1 names no directory`},
-		{`{"path":[{"entry":"/a:/b","at":"start"}]}`, `tool puts "/a:/b" on PATH, which holds a colon`},
-		{`{"path":[{"entry":"$HOME/bin","at":"start"}]}`, `tool puts "$HOME/bin" on PATH, which holds a $`},
-		{`{"path":[{"entry":"/a","at":"middle"}]}`, `tool puts "/a" on PATH at "middle"; an entry goes at "start" or "end"`},
-		{`{"path":[{"entry":"/a"}]}`, `tool puts "/a" on PATH at ""`},
-		{`{"path":[{"entry":"/a","at":"start"},{"entry":"/a","at":"end"}]}`, `tool puts "/a" on PATH twice`},
-		{`{"variables":{"A":"x"},"paths":[]}`, `unknown field "paths"`},
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"tool","environment":` + c.environment + `}`))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: want %q, got %v", c.environment, c.want, err)
-		}
-	}
-	// What is allowed: a literal, and the machine's own facts.
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"tool","environment":{` +
-		`"variables":{"GOPATH":"${machine:account-home}/go","DISABLE_X":"1","ANSWER":"a b+c=d"},` +
-		`"path":[{"entry":"${machine:account-home}/go/bin","at":"start"},{"entry":"/opt/x","at":"end"}]}}`)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a well-formed environment was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestMalformedShellCodeIsRefusedAtParse(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ shell, want string }{
-		{`[{"for":"tcsh","slot":"normal","code":"x"}]`, `tool's shell code 1 is for "tcsh"; the shells are zsh, bash, fish`},
-		{`[{"for":"zsh","slot":"middle","code":"x"}]`, `tool's shell code 1 goes in the slot "middle"; the slots are first, normal, last`},
-		{`[{"for":"zsh","slot":"last","code":"x"},{"for":"zsh","slot":"last","code":" \n"}]`, `tool's shell code 2 has no code`},
-		{`[{"for":"zsh","slot":"last","code":"x","order":1}]`, `unknown field "order"`},
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"tool","shell":` + c.shell + `}`))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: want %q, got %v", c.shell, c.want, err)
-		}
-	}
-	// The code itself is never judged: a shell's own `${…}` is not the mesh's.
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"tool","shell":[{"for":"zsh","slot":"first",` +
-		`"code":"source \"${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/p10k-instant-prompt-${(%):-%n}.zsh\""}]}`)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("shell code was judged as if it were the mesh's: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // ADR 0203 §1 and ADR 0204 §1: both seats are the mesh's own, held once per machine; the login
 // shell's contract is `execute`, described and with a schema an agent can call.
 func TestTheSeatTableCarriesTheEnvironmentAndTheLoginShell(t *testing.T) {
@@ -396,29 +300,3 @@ func TestTheSeatTableCarriesTheEnvironmentAndTheLoginShell(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("execute takes no timeout: %v", props)
 	}
 }
-
-// ADR 0204 §1: the login shell is the mesh's, so no module declares it — neither under the mesh's
-// name nor under the name a module gave it before.
-func TestNoModuleMayDeclareTheLoginShell(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, n := range []string{"login-shell", "node-login-shell", "node-environment"} {
-		raw := `{"module":"zsh","seats":[{"name":"` + n + `","scope":"node","serves":["execute"]}],"tools":["execute"]}`
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
-		if err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("a module declaring %q was accepted", n)
-		}
-	}
-	got := strings.Join(declaredSeatProblems(Manifest{Module: "zsh",
-		DefinesSeats: []SeatDeclaration{{Name: "login-shell", Scope: ScopeNode}}}), "; ")
-	if !strings.Contains(got, `zsh declares a seat named "login-shell"; the login shell is the mesh's own seat node-login-shell`) {
-		t.Fatalf("declaring login-shell was not refused by name: %q", got)
-	}
-	// And a shell module claiming the mesh's seat, serving execute, is what the seat is for.
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"zsh","tools":["execute"],` +
-		`"claims":[{"name":"node-login-shell","scope":"node"}]}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := CanHold(m, Seat{Name: LoginShellSeat, Scope: ScopeNode, Serves: loginShellVerbs()}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a shell module claiming the seat cannot hold it: %v", err)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/environment_items_test.go

@@ -129,31 +129,7 @@ func TestTheEnvironmentOfTheCatalogueIsTheSameHandedOrNot(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAnEnvironmentItemIsTypedAndNamesWhatItNeeds(t *testing.T) {
-	item := func(attrs map[string]string) []string {
-		return environmentItemProblems("x", Item{Collection: "environment", Attributes: attrs})
-	}
-	for _, ok := range []map[string]string{
-		{"kind": "variable", "name": "GTK_THEME"},
-		{"kind": "path", "at": "end", "order": "10"},
-	} {
-		if p := item(ok); len(p) != 0 {
-			t.Errorf("%v is refused: %v", ok, p)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, bad := range []map[string]string{
-		nil, {"kind": "other"}, {"kind": "variable"}, {"kind": "variable", "name": "PATH"},
-		{"kind": "path"}, {"kind": "path", "at": "middle"}, {"kind": "path", "at": "start", "name": "X"},
-		{"kind": "variable", "name": "A", "color": "red"},
-	} {
-		if p := item(bad); len(p) == 0 {
-			t.Errorf("%v is taken", bad)
-		}
-	}
-	if !attributeFits("environment", "name", "GTK_THEME") || attributeFits("shell:zsh:normal", "name", "GTK_THEME") ||
-		attributeFits("environment", "kind", "Variable") {
-		t.Error("an upper-case name is the environment's name alone")
-	}
+func TestTwoModulesSettingOneVariableAreRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	// A module that sets a variable twice, in two modules, is refused as the old form refused it.
 	a := Manifest{Module: "a", Items: []Item{{Collection: "environment", Content: "1\n",
 		Attributes: map[string]string{"kind": "variable", "name": "X"}}}}

go/catalogue/events.go

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"regexp"
 	"slices"
-	"strings"
 )
 
 // What a module may call an event, and what a consumer may ask for.
@@ -36,131 +34,6 @@ const (
 	TheRest = "**"
 )
 
-// EventProblems is what is wrong with a manifest's events.
-//
-// Refused at registration, because the alternative is a module that installs, starts, connects and
-// reacts to nothing — and every log line says it is fine.
-func EventProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-
-	for _, e := range m.Emits {
-		if was, stale := staleEventForm(e, m.Module); stale {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s emits %q, which is the old bus's routing key. An event is named locally now, so "+
-					"write %q — the mesh derives the subject (novox/hq design 29 §1)",
-				m.Module, was, strings.TrimPrefix(was, "module."+m.Module+".")))
-			continue
-		}
-		if strings.HasPrefix(e, "module.") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s emits %q: `module.` is reserved, because it is how the old bus spelled a "+
-					"routing key and an event named that way derives into a namespace nobody owns",
-				m.Module, e))
-			continue
-		}
-		if err := localName(e); err != nil {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s emits %q: %v", m.Module, e, err))
-			continue
-		}
-		// **Its own name, never another's.** The bus enforces that a namespace belongs to the module
-		// it is named for, so an event named for somebody else cannot be published at all. If the
-		// event is about a role rather than about this module, it belongs on the seat: a name that
-		// is stable across whoever fills it (04-ISSUES/127).
-		if first, _, split := strings.Cut(e, "."); split && isAModuleNameOtherThan(first, m.Module) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s emits %q, which reads as another module's event. A module publishes under its "+
-					"own name only. If this is about a role rather than about %s, declare it on that "+
-					"seat, where the name survives the holder changing",
-				m.Module, e, m.Module))
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, c := range m.Consumes {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(c, "module.") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s consumes %q, which is the old bus's pattern. A consumed event names its emitter "+
-					"and the event: write %q", m.Module, c, strings.TrimPrefix(c, "module.")))
-			continue
-		}
-		if c == "#" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s consumes %q, which is the old bus's wildcard for everything. Write %q",
-				m.Module, c, TheRest))
-			continue
-		}
-		if err := consumePattern(c); err != nil {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s consumes %q: %v", m.Module, c, err))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// staleEventForm says an emitted name is this module's own old routing key, and what it was.
-func staleEventForm(event, module string) (string, bool) {
-	return event, module != "" && strings.HasPrefix(event, "module."+module+".")
-}
-
-// isAModuleNameOtherThan says a first token names some module of this mesh that is not this one.
-//
-// Only the mesh's own seats and the catalogue could answer this properly, and neither is reachable
-// from a parser given one manifest. So this catches the case that actually happened — a name that
-// is a *provision* the mesh defines, which is where "another module's event" comes from in practice
-// — and the whole-catalogue check catches the rest.
-func isAModuleNameOtherThan(first, module string) bool {
-	if first == module || first == "" {
-		return false
-	}
-	if _, isASeat := SeatNamed(first); isASeat {
-		return true
-	}
-	if _, isASeat := SeatDelivering(first); isASeat {
-		return true
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// localName checks one event name: dot-separated names, no wildcards, nothing else.
-func localName(event string) error {
-	if event == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("an event needs a name")
-	}
-	for _, part := range strings.Split(event, ".") {
-		if part == OneName || part == TheRest {
-			return fmt.Errorf("an emitted event names one event, so it carries no wildcard")
-		}
-		if !eventName.MatchString(part) {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a usable name: lower-case letters, digits and dashes", part)
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// consumePattern checks a consumed pattern: the emitter, then the event, with wildcards.
-func consumePattern(pattern string) error {
-	if pattern == "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("a consumed event needs an emitter and an event")
-	}
-	parts := strings.Split(pattern, ".")
-	for i, part := range parts {
-		switch {
-		case part == TheRest:
-			if i != len(parts)-1 {
-				return fmt.Errorf("%q stands for the rest of a name, so nothing may follow it", TheRest)
-			}
-		case part == OneName:
-		case !eventName.MatchString(part):
-			return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a usable name: lower-case letters, digits and dashes", part)
-		}
-	}
-	// `**` alone is every event from every module, which the audit logger wants and says plainly.
-	if len(parts) == 1 && parts[0] != TheRest {
-		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"%q names an emitter and no event. Write <emitter>.<event>, or %q for every event",
-			pattern, TheRest)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // The events a provider says about its consumers (novox/hq ADR 0224): a consumer it has failed
 // without one success for minutes, and that consumer succeeding again or being withdrawn. The
 // controller follows them from every module and `status` names a consumer failing until it recovers.

go/catalogue/files.go

@@ -98,16 +98,6 @@ func filesVerbs() []Verb {
 	)
 }
 
-// FilesHolderProblems is what a holder of node-files is held to (novox/hq ADR 0394 §2): it runs as the tool
-// runner's account, the node's operator account, so it declares no runs-as.
-func FilesHolderProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	if !m.ClaimsSeat(FilesSeat) || m.RunsAs == "" {
-		return nil
-	}
-	return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s claims %s and declares runs-as %q: its holder runs as the tool runner's account, "+
-		"the node's operator account (novox/hq ADR 0394 §2)", m.Module, FilesSeat, m.RunsAs)}
-}
-
 // ownedPaths is every path a module owns on this node, as the holder is told (novox/hq ADR 0394 §5): the
 // paths every seat declares (ADR 0287) with the module holding the seat here, and the paths and files each
 // module's manifest places (declaredPaths). A seat's path wins where both name one.

go/catalogue/files_test.go

@@ -46,20 +46,6 @@ func TestNodeFilesIsANodeSeatWithEveryVerbOfADR0394(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// issue 900, ADR 0394 §2: a holder of node-files runs as the tool runner's account, so it declares no runs-as.
-func TestAHolderOfNodeFilesDeclaringRunsAsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	p := FilesHolderProblems(Manifest{Module: "files", RunsAs: "mesh-files", Claims: []Claim{{Name: FilesSeat}}})
-	if len(p) != 1 || !strings.Contains(p[0], "0394") || !strings.Contains(p[0], "runs-as") {
-		t.Errorf("a holder declaring runs-as was not refused: %v", p)
-	}
-	if p := FilesHolderProblems(Manifest{Module: "files", Claims: []Claim{{Name: FilesSeat}}}); len(p) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("a holder declaring none was refused: %v", p)
-	}
-	if p := FilesHolderProblems(Manifest{Module: "other", RunsAs: "x"}); len(p) != 0 {
-		t.Errorf("a non-holder was judged: %v", p)
-	}
-}
-
 // issue 900, ADR 0394 §4: the holder is told the secret places and the paths modules own on its node.
 func TestTheHolderOfNodeFilesIsToldSecretPlacesAndOwnedPaths(t *testing.T) {
 	files := Manifest{Module: "files", Version: "1", Claims: []Claim{{Name: FilesSeat}},

go/catalogue/filtering.go

@@ -1000,32 +1000,6 @@ func Reaches(m Manifest, layers []Layer) (map[int]string, error) {
 // route that names the endpoint says what it means, and the mesh looks the port up.
 const RouteEndpoint = "endpoint"
 
-// RouteProblems holds a module's route contributions to naming an endpoint it actually has.
-//
-// A route naming an endpoint the module does not declare reaches nothing, and is refused where it is
-// written rather than resolving to no port and serving nothing — the fault this repository names most
-// often, a declaration that reads as though it did something.
-func RouteProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	check := func(where string, values map[string]any) {
-		name, ok := values[RouteEndpoint].(string)
-		if !ok || strings.TrimSpace(name) == "" {
-			return
-		}
-		if _, found := EndpointPort(m, name); !found {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s routes %s to the endpoint %q, which it does not declare", m.Module, where, name))
-		}
-	}
-	if values, ok := m.Contributes["route"]; ok {
-		check("a name", values)
-	}
-	for local, values := range m.ContributesMany["route"] {
-		check(local, values)
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // EndpointsSetting is the settings key that configures a module's endpoints by name, per node
 // (novox/hq ADR 0138):
 //

go/catalogue/filtering_test.go

@@ -7,22 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// A manifest key nothing reads is worse than a key that is refused: five HAL manifests carried
-// `scope:`, which read as a restriction and restricted nothing (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/003). The host's
-// declaration parser has always refused unknown keys; manifests never did.
-func TestAManifestKeyNothingReadsIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"web","scope":"mesh"}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a manifest with a key nothing reads was accepted, which is how scope: survived")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "scope") {
-		t.Fatalf("refused without naming the key, which leaves the author guessing: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 // The same discipline must not refuse a manifest that is merely ordinary.
 func TestAnOrdinaryManifestIsStillAccepted(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(
 		`{"module":"web","listens":[{"port":443,"from":"anywhere","why":"the site"}]}`))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("an ordinary manifest was refused: %v", err)
@@ -32,24 +19,6 @@ func TestAnOrdinaryManifestIsStillAccepted(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A rule with no source is open, and must say so rather than appear to restrict something.
-func TestAPortWithNoSourceIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"web","listens":[{"port":443}]}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a port that never said who may reach it was accepted; it reads as a restriction")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "from where") {
-		t.Fatalf("refused without saying what is missing: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestASourceNobodyDefinedIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"web","listens":[{"port":443,"from":"lan"}]}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a source the mesh cannot render was accepted, and would be silently dropped")
-	}
-}
-
 // The derivation is over the whole node, not one module.
 func TestTheRuleSetIsEveryAssignedModulesPorts(t *testing.T) {
 	r := Resolution{Modules: []Manifest{
@@ -357,13 +326,6 @@ func TestTheModuleAskingForTheRuleSetGetsEveryModulesPorts(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAskingForTheRuleSetWithNowhereToPutItIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"firewall","filtering":{"into":""}}`))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a module asked for the rule set and named no path; it would receive nothing")
-	}
-}
-
 // nftables matches the two address families separately, and one set holding both is a syntax
 // error — so the file fails to load, the service reports a fault, and the machine filters nothing.
 func TestAMeshOnBothAddressFamiliesRendersBoth(t *testing.T) {

go/catalogue/go_bundle_test.go

@@ -1,37 +1,6 @@
 package catalogue
 
-import "testing"
-
 // A bundle is the module's own directory compiled whole, and naming a source would be describing its
 // own build. That holds for an interpreted language and cannot hold for a compiled one: a repository
 // written in Go carries several commands — the host and its bootstrap live in one — and "the module's
 // own directory" is then not a package at all (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142).
-
-func TestAGoBundleMayNameItsCommand(t *testing.T) {
-	b := &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{
-		Name: "host-arch", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "arch",
-		From: "cmd/mesh-host",
-	}}}
-	if p := b.problems("mesh-host"); len(p) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a go bundle naming its command was refused: %v", p)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAnInterpretedBundleStillMayNotNameASource(t *testing.T) {
-	b := &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{
-		Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "typescript", From: "src",
-	}}}
-	p := b.problems("something")
-	if len(p) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("an interpreted bundle naming what it is built from was accepted")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestACompiledBundleStillMustSayItsSystem(t *testing.T) {
-	b := &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{
-		Name: "host", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", From: "cmd/mesh-host",
-	}}}
-	if len(b.problems("mesh-host")) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("a compiled bundle with no system was accepted")
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/graphical_session_test.go

@@ -61,14 +61,6 @@ func TestTheGraphicalSessionsSeatsAreTheMeshsOwnWithTheirVerbs(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// §2: a module may claim one of them, and may not declare it as its own.
-func TestNoModuleMayDeclareAGraphicalSessionSeat(t *testing.T) {
-	raw := `{"module":"xorg","seats":[{"name":"node-display-server","scope":"node"}]}`
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "mesh's own namespace") {
-		t.Fatalf("a module declared node-display-server as its own: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
 func displayServer(name, display string, claims ...string) Manifest {
 	m := Manifest{Module: name, Provides: []Offer{{Name: display, Reach: ReachMachine}}}
 	for _, c := range claims {
@@ -126,29 +118,6 @@ func TestAMachineReachRequirementIsNotPulledInNorAnsweredFromAnotherNode(t *test
 	}
 }
 
-func TestTheMachinesReachIsAProvisionsOnlyReachAndIsNodeScoped(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, c := range []struct{ provides, want string }{
-		{`{"name":"x11-display","reach":"internal"}`, `with reach "internal"; a provision's reach is "machine" or nothing`},
-		{`{"name":"x11-display","scope":"mesh","reach":"machine"}`, `at scope "mesh" with the machine's reach`},
-	} {
-		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"xorg","provides":[` + c.provides + `]}`))
-		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s: want %q, got %v", c.provides, c.want, err)
-		}
-	}
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"xorg","provides":[{"name":"x11-display","reach":"machine"}]}`))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !m.Provides[0].MachineReach() {
-		t.Fatal("the reach was not read")
-	}
-	back, _ := json.Marshal(m.Provides[0])
-	if string(back) != `{"name":"x11-display","reach":"machine"}` {
-		t.Errorf("written back as %s", back)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestACatalogueDisagreeingAboutAProvisionsReachIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	cat := shelf(windowManager(), displayServer("xorg", "x11-display"),
 		Manifest{Module: "fake-x", Provides: Offers("x11-display")})
@@ -157,57 +126,3 @@ func TestACatalogueDisagreeingAboutAProvisionsReachIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a provision with and without the machine's reach gave %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-// §4: xinitrc and xresources slots, placed by the display server's holder alone.
-func TestTheSessionsFilesArePlacedByTheDisplayServersHolderAlone(t *testing.T) {
-	xorg := Manifest{Module: "xorg", Claims: []Claim{{Name: DisplayServerSeat}},
-		Shell: []ShellCode{{For: "xinitrc", Slot: "first", Code: "xset s off"}},
-		Resources: []map[string]any{
-			{"id": "xinitrc", "type": "file", "path": "/home/op/.xinitrc",
-				"content": "${shell:xinitrc:first}${shell:xinitrc:normal}${shell:xinitrc:last}"},
-			{"id": "xresources", "type": "file", "path": "/home/op/.Xresources",
-				"content": "${shell:xresources:normal}"},
-		}}
-	i3 := Manifest{Module: "i3", Shell: []ShellCode{{For: "xinitrc", Slot: "last", Code: "exec i3"}}}
-	theme := Manifest{Module: "theme", Shell: []ShellCode{
-		{For: "xresources", Slot: "normal", Code: "Xft.dpi: 96"},
-		{For: "zsh", Slot: "normal", Code: "not for the session"},
-	}}
-	r := Resolution{Node: "workstation", Account: "op", Modules: []Manifest{xorg, i3, theme}}
-	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	by := map[string]any{}
-	for _, res := range out {
-		by[res["id"].(string)] = res["content"]
-	}
-	if got := by["xorg.xinitrc"]; got != "# xorg\nxset s off\n# i3\nexec i3\n" {
-		t.Errorf("the .xinitrc is %q", got)
-	}
-	if got := by["xorg.xresources"]; got != "# theme\nXft.dpi: 96\n" {
-		t.Errorf("the .Xresources is %q", got)
-	}
-
-	// The contributions parse; the placeholders parse only in the holder.
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"i3","shell":[{"for":"xinitrc","slot":"last","code":"exec i3"},` +
-		`{"for":"xresources","slot":"normal","code":"i3.font: x"}]}`)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a session contribution was refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	for _, c := range []struct{ claims, content, want string }{
-		{``, "${shell:xinitrc:normal}", "does not claim node-display-server; every module's xinitrc is placed by the display server's holder alone"},
-		{`{"name":"node-login-shell"}`, "${shell:xresources:normal}", "does not claim node-display-server"},
-		{`{"name":"node-display-server"}`, "${shell:zsh:normal}", "does not claim node-login-shell"},
-		{`{"name":"node-display-server"}`, "${shell:xsession:normal}", "the session's file one of xinitrc, xresources"},
-	} {
-		raw := `{"module":"holder","claims":[` + c.claims + `],"resources":[{"id":"rc","type":"file","path":"/etc/rc","content":"` +
-			c.content + `"}]}`
-		if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s with claims [%s]: want %q, got %v", c.content, c.claims, c.want, err)
-		}
-	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"xorg","claims":[{"name":"node-display-server"}],` +
-		`"resources":[{"id":"rc","type":"file","path":"/home/op/.xinitrc","content":"${shell:xinitrc:last}"}]}`)); err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("the display server's holder could not place the session's slots: %v", err)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/groups_test.go

@@ -58,26 +58,6 @@ func TestAGroupThatIsNotAWholeNumberAboveZeroIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A manifest in the config form registers with the group a config value fills, and the value is placed (a container's
-// groups count as a place for it); a placeholder in any other shape is refused where the manifest is read.
-func TestAManifestWhoseContainerTakesItsGroupFromConfigRegisters(t *testing.T) {
-	m := map[string]any{
-		"module": "n8n", "version": "1",
-		"config": map[string]any{"media-gid": map[string]any{"type": "number", "minimum": 1, "required": true,
-			"description": "the group that owns the media library on this machine"}},
-		"resources": []any{aContainerWithGroups("${config:media-gid}")},
-	}
-	if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	for _, shape := range []string{"x${config:media-gid}", "${config:media-gid}:1", "${config:other}"} {
-		m["resources"] = []any{aContainerWithGroups(shape)}
-		if _, err := parseRaw(t, m); err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("groups %q registered", shape)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // 1636/AC3 composed for a machine, the way a push writes it: n8n's group is the number the machine's config value
 // says, written as a number, and the module is left out by name when the machine says none.
 func TestAComposedMachineGetsTheGroupTheConfigValueNames(t *testing.T) {

go/catalogue/handed.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"maps"
@@ -66,6 +67,16 @@ type Plan struct {
 	Provisions []PlanProvision `json:"provisions,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// Hands is whether the plan hands its module to the provisioner: it names something the node's provisioner client fills
+// (a template archive, a file, an own secret or an item), and the node composes none of it. A plan naming provisions alone
+// hands nothing (catalogue.Keyed, issue 774): the seat keys what a provider's helper answers of a module not handed, and
+// that module's files and own secrets stay its node's composition. The one rule every reader of a plan asks; whether a
+// plan exists is never it (on 2026-10-30 the vault read every route-only plan as handed and answered twenty modules'
+// own secrets to nobody).
+func (p Plan) Hands() bool {
+	return p.Templates.Source != "" || len(p.Files) > 0 || len(p.Secrets) > 0 || len(p.Items) > 0
+}
+
 // PlanItem is one item the module contributes: to which collection, and its template inside the archive.
 //
 // A named item has its Name and Attributes (design 57 L3, issue 777): the client records them with the item and
@@ -124,16 +135,91 @@ type PlanProvision struct {
 	// alone knows the node's domains, and carried unchanged by the provider's helper into the consumer's entry. Nil
 	// where the consumer contributes nothing to the provision, and the entry is then as it was.
 	Names map[string]string `json:"names,omitempty"`
+	// Contributed is what the consumer gives its provider through this provision, opaque here (issue 774, research
+	// 072 row 34): the bytes of a ContributedForm, each contribution composed as its provider receives it and where
+	// the consumer's machine is. What a contribution's values mean is the provider's own contract, published by the
+	// provider's repository (route-proxy's for a route), which decodes them; the seat, its plans, its client and the
+	// helper carry them unread. On the provision's first entry alone; nil where the consumer contributes nothing to it.
+	Contributed json.RawMessage `json:"contributed,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// ContributedVersion is the version of ContributedForm this SDK writes and reads.
+const ContributedVersion = 1
+
+// ContributedForm is the generic form of PlanProvision.Contributed: every contribution one consumer makes to one
+// requirement, composed (settled with its node's settings, its endpoint's port filled in, its names joined to the
+// node's domains: Resolution.composed, the one composition a received file was written from), and At, where the
+// consumer's machine is on the private network, empty when it is on none. The provisioner knows no field of any
+// contribution: Values are the bytes of an object in the provider's contract.
+type ContributedForm struct {
+	V    int              `json:"v"`
+	At   string           `json:"at,omitempty"`
+	Each []ContributedOne `json:"each"`
+}
+
+// ContributedOne is one contribution: Local its local name among several (`contributes` naming several), empty for a
+// requirement's one, and Values the contribution's object.
+type ContributedOne struct {
+	Local  string          `json:"local,omitempty"`
+	Values json.RawMessage `json:"values"`
+}
+
+// EncodeContributed is f as the bytes PlanProvision.Contributed carries, refused where DecodeContributed would refuse
+// them, so a plan never carries what its reader cannot take.
+func EncodeContributed(f ContributedForm) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	f.V = ContributedVersion
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(f)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if _, err := DecodeContributed(raw); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return raw, nil
+}
+
+// DecodeContributed reads PlanProvision.Contributed strictly: this version, no field it does not know, at least one
+// contribution, each local name once, each value a JSON object. What a value says is not judged here.
+func DecodeContributed(raw json.RawMessage) (ContributedForm, error) {
+	var f ContributedForm
+	dec := json.NewDecoder(strings.NewReader(string(raw)))
+	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
+	if err := dec.Decode(&f); err != nil {
+		return ContributedForm{}, fmt.Errorf("what a consumer contributed is not readable: %w", err)
+	}
+	if dec.More() {
+		return ContributedForm{}, errors.New("what a consumer contributed carries more than one document")
+	}
+	if f.V != ContributedVersion {
+		return ContributedForm{}, fmt.Errorf("what a consumer contributed is of version %d, this SDK reads %d", f.V,
+			ContributedVersion)
+	}
+	if len(f.Each) == 0 {
+		return ContributedForm{}, errors.New("what a consumer contributed holds no contribution")
+	}
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, one := range f.Each {
+		if seen[one.Local] {
+			return ContributedForm{}, fmt.Errorf("what a consumer contributed names %q twice", one.Local)
+		}
+		seen[one.Local] = true
+		var object map[string]json.RawMessage
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(one.Values, &object); err != nil || object == nil {
+			return ContributedForm{}, fmt.Errorf("the contribution %q is not a JSON object", one.Local)
+		}
+	}
+	return f, nil
 }
 
 // provisionsOf is, from a resolution's needs, each provision module requires and its provider, by provision then
 // local name. A need answered by a record (a licence) or by no module names no provider on a machine and is left
 // out: the vault has no provider's value to make for it.
-func provisionsOf(needs []Needed, module, as string, contributes map[string]map[string]any,
+func provisionsOf(needs []Needed, module string, handed bool, as string, contributes map[string]map[string]any,
 	named map[string]bool) []PlanProvision {
 	var out []PlanProvision
 	for _, n := range needs {
-		if n.For != module || n.ByRecord || n.Module == "" || n.From == "" {
+		// **The one rule** (Keyed, issue 774): what the seat keys and the want waits for.
+		if n.For != module || !Keyed(handed, n) {
 			continue
 		}
 		p := PlanProvision{Provision: n.Name, Local: n.Local, Provider: n.From, ProviderModule: n.Module,
@@ -219,43 +305,6 @@ func takesOf(m Manifest, id string) string {
 	return takes
 }
 
-// movedProblems is what is wrong with a module's mark: a moved module must name a template (as written) or carry
-// what its build kept (as held), and Handed is the build's word, never a repository's.
-func movedProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	switch {
-	case m.Handed != nil && !m.Moved:
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s carries what a moved module's build keeps (handed) and is not marked moved",
-			m.Module)}
-	case m.Handed != nil && m.Build != nil:
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s says handed in its repository: that is what its build keeps, never "+
-			"written by hand (novox/hq ADR 0349 §2)", m.Module)}
-	case m.Moved && m.Handed == nil && !m.Templated():
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s is marked moved and names no template: a moved module's files are filled "+
-			"from template files of its own, `\"template\": \"%s/<name>\"` (novox/hq ADR 0349 §2)", m.Module,
-			m.TemplatesDir())}
-	}
-	if !m.Moved {
-		return nil
-	}
-	// **A moved module's secrets are the vault's, handed to its machine's client** (design 57 V4): a secret the
-	// mesh makes, by name. A family's members and a value issued outside the mesh are given by a person and may be
-	// absent, which the client cannot tell from one the vault does not hold yet; they move with a package of their
-	// own.
-	var problems []string
-	if fams := m.OwnSecrets.Families(); len(fams) > 0 {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is marked moved and keeps a secret family (%s): a moved module's "+
-			"secrets are handed by the vault by name, and a family's members are not yet (design 57 V4)", m.Module,
-			strings.Join(fams, ", ")))
-	}
-	for _, name := range sortedKeys(m.OwnSecrets.Plain()) {
-		if m.OwnSecrets[name].IssuedBy == IssuedOutside {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is marked moved and its secret %s is issued outside the mesh: "+
-				"a value that may not be given is not yet handed by the vault (design 57 V4)", m.Module, name))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
 // handedBy is what a moved module's build keeps, from its templates archive as built, or nil for a module not
 // moved.
 func handedBy(m Manifest, archive Built) *Handed {
@@ -283,16 +332,43 @@ func handedBy(m Manifest, archive Built) *Handed {
 	return h
 }
 
-// handing is whether this composition hands the module's templated files to the provisioner.
+// handing is whether this composition hands the module's templated files to the provisioner: handed (Handing), with
+// the templates its build kept. A module the vault judged handed whose build kept none is refused where its secrets
+// are placed ("nothing would fill it"), never composed with values the vault does not answer.
 func (with Rendering) handing(m Manifest) bool {
-	return m.Moved && m.Handed != nil && with.Hands && with.Provisioner != ""
+	return with.Handing(m) && m.Handed != nil
 }
 
 // Handing is whether a machine composed with this rendering hands the module to the provisioner, its files and
 // its own secrets (design 57 P6, V4): a moved module there, assigned or only pulled in by another (issue 765), on a
 // machine that can take it. The controller makes and seals none of such a module's secrets for that machine: its
 // client asks the vault.
-func (with Rendering) Handing(m Manifest) bool { return with.handing(m) }
+//
+// **Where the vault judged the module, its word is the rule** (Rendering.Assigned, issue 774): the vault leaves a
+// module's own secrets out of `own` exactly when the plan in its assignment hands it (AssignmentHands), so a node
+// composing itself hands exactly those, whatever its own reading of the manifest and the machine says. On 2026-10-31
+// postgres on novox was held: its plan handed its secrets, the vault answered none of them, and the node, judging by
+// the manifest and the machine, composed them itself and refused for want of `reader`. Two readers, one rule.
+func (with Rendering) Handing(m Manifest) bool {
+	if hands, judged := with.Assigned[m.Module]; judged {
+		return hands
+	}
+	return m.Moved && m.Handed != nil && with.Hands && with.Provisioner != ""
+}
+
+// AssignmentHands is whether a module's value in the seat mesh-provisioner's plans (the assignments mirror's shape,
+// `{"provisioning": <Plan>}`) hands its module to the provisioner: Plan.Hands of the plan it carries, false with no
+// plan. A value that does not read is an error, never "not handed". The one rule the vault judges `own` by and a node
+// composing itself follows (Rendering.Assigned, issue 774).
+func AssignmentHands(raw []byte) (bool, error) {
+	var a struct {
+		Provisioning *Plan `json:"provisioning"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &a); err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	return a.Provisioning != nil && a.Provisioning.Hands(), nil
+}
 
 // requiredByWords begins why a module only pulled in by another is on a machine (Resolution.Because): `required by
 // <module>`.
@@ -589,6 +665,56 @@ type handedFiles struct {
 	required   map[string]map[string]bool
 	// names is the names composed for each handed module through each requirement it contributes to (issue 792).
 	names map[string]map[string]map[string]string
+	// keyedOnly is each module with a plan only for what Keyed keys of a consumer not handed: a provision its
+	// provider's helper answers (issue 774), such as a route.
+	keyedOnly map[string]bool
+	// contributed is what each handed module gives each requirement's provider, encoded (PlanProvision.Contributed).
+	contributed map[string]map[string]json.RawMessage
+}
+
+// contribute records what a handed module gives one requirement's provider, encoded; nothing for none.
+func (h *handedFiles) contribute(module, provision string, raw json.RawMessage) {
+	if len(raw) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	if h.contributed == nil {
+		h.contributed = map[string]map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+	}
+	if h.contributed[module] == nil {
+		h.contributed[module] = map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+	}
+	h.contributed[module][provision] = raw
+}
+
+// keyed starts the plan of a module begin started none for, when the composition keys any of its needs as a consumer
+// not handed (Keyed, issue 774): one whose provider's helper answers a provision of it (grafana's route). A module
+// handed that keeps no template or item (a held one's stub, issue 1126) is not handed here either: what it keeps
+// stays the controller's but for what a helper answers. Its plan names provisions alone: no templates, files or
+// secrets. Answers whether it started one.
+func (h *handedFiles) keyed(node string, m Manifest, needs []Needed) bool {
+	if _, started := h.plans[m.Module]; started {
+		return false
+	}
+	if !slices.ContainsFunc(needs, func(n Needed) bool { return n.For == m.Module && Keyed(false, n) }) {
+		return false
+	}
+	if h.identities == nil {
+		h.identities = map[string]string{}
+		h.required = map[string]map[string]bool{}
+	}
+	h.identities[m.Module] = ConsumerIdentity(node, IdentitySource(m.Slug, m.Module))
+	h.plans[m.Module] = Plan{}
+	if h.keyedOnly == nil {
+		h.keyedOnly = map[string]bool{}
+	}
+	h.keyedOnly[m.Module] = true
+	if len(m.Contributes) > 0 {
+		if h.contributes == nil {
+			h.contributes = map[string]map[string]map[string]any{}
+		}
+		h.contributes[m.Module] = m.Contributes
+	}
+	return true
 }
 
 // name records the names composed for a handed module through one requirement, as its binding file carries them.
@@ -768,7 +894,8 @@ func (h *handedFiles) finished(needs []Needed) map[string]Plan {
 	for module, plan := range h.plans {
 		// **Every provision it requires, with its provider** (issue 760); a credential the vault keeps for it alone
 		// is that provision's entry, with its name and file (issue 757).
-		provisions := provisionsOf(needs, module, h.identities[module], h.contributes[module], h.required[module])
+		provisions := provisionsOf(needs, module, !h.keyedOnly[module], h.identities[module], h.contributes[module],
+			h.required[module])
 		for _, credential := range h.provisions[module] {
 			i := slices.IndexFunc(provisions, func(p PlanProvision) bool {
 				return p.Provision == credential.Provision && p.Local == credential.Local
@@ -784,6 +911,15 @@ func (h *handedFiles) finished(needs []Needed) map[string]Plan {
 			provisions[i].Names = maps.Clone(h.names[module][provisions[i].Provision])
 		}
 		sortProvisions(provisions)
+		// **What the consumer contributes, on the provision's first entry** (issue 774): a provider serving from the
+		// plans alone reads each contribution once, however many local names the requirement has.
+		gave := map[string]bool{}
+		for i := range provisions {
+			if raw := h.contributed[module][provisions[i].Provision]; len(raw) > 0 && !gave[provisions[i].Provision] {
+				gave[provisions[i].Provision] = true
+				provisions[i].Contributed = slices.Clone(raw)
+			}
+		}
 		plan.Provisions = provisions
 		h.plans[module] = plan
 	}

go/catalogue/handed_consumers_test.go

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ func TestWhatAConsumersPlaceholderMayNotBeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		"a file the program keeps": {strings.Replace(handedProvider, `"mode":"0600","template"`,
 			`"mode":"0600","create-once":true,"template"`, 1), consumersText, "owned"},
 	} {
-		m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(c.raw))
+		m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(c.raw))
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", why, err)
 		}
@@ -103,32 +101,3 @@ func TestAProvidersConsumersFileIsLeftOutWhereItIsNotHanded(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("handed: said %q, filled %v", c.HandedOnly, c.Filled)
 	}
 }
-
-// What `module check` and the merge gate judge: the provider read from its tree, its text inline. Judged by the same
-// rules, a provider naming a provision it does not provide is refused there too, and one that does composes.
-func TestAProviderReadFromItsTreeIsJudgedByTheSameRules(t *testing.T) {
-	read := func(text string) (Manifest, error) {
-		dir := t.TempDir()
-		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "files"), 0o755); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "files", "consumers.json"), []byte(text), 0o644); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(handedProvider))
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		return WithTemplatesFrom(m, dir)
-	}
-	filled, err := read(consumersText)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a provider read from its tree is refused: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := notifierOn(t, filled).Compose(handingTo("store:5000")); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a provider read from its tree does not compose where it would be handed: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := read("${consumers:cache}"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "does not provide") {
-		t.Fatalf("a provider read from its tree naming a provision it does not provide: %v", err)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/handed_providers_test.go

@@ -42,9 +42,10 @@ func consumerOn(t *testing.T, m Manifest, w World) Resolution {
 	node := workstation()
 	node.At = "workstation.internal"
 	stores := shelf(m,
-		Manifest{Module: "store", Version: "1", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "postgres-database", Scope: ScopeMesh}},
+		Manifest{Module: "store", Version: "1", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "postgres-database", Scope: ScopeMesh,
+			Credential: &OfferCredential{Form: CredentialFormPair}}},
 			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"postgres-database": {"port": 5432}}},
-		Manifest{Module: "store-two", Version: "1", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "postgres-database", Scope: ScopeMesh}},
+		Manifest{Module: "store-two", Version: "1", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "postgres-database", Scope: ScopeMesh, Credential: &OfferCredential{Form: CredentialFormPair}}},
 			Serves: map[string]map[string]any{"postgres-database": {"port": 5434}}})
 	r, err := Resolve(stores, []string{m.Module}, node, w)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -115,46 +116,6 @@ func TestAHandedModulesIssuedCredentialIsItsProvisionsOneEntry(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Each entry names the credential form the provider's offer declares (issue 768), from the provider's manifest, so
-// the vault makes a first value in that form for a provider it holds no row of: one of its own secrets shared by
-// every consumer, a login per consumer when the offer says no credential, issued by its software, or given by a
-// person (the offer's own secret issued outside).
-func TestAHandedModulesPlanNamesTheCredentialFormOfItsProvidersOffer(t *testing.T) {
-	storeOffering := func(credential string) Manifest {
-		raw := `{"module":"store","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"postgres-database","scope":"mesh"` +
-			credential + `}],"serves":{"postgres-database":{"port":5432}}`
-		if strings.Contains(credential, `"own"`) {
-			raw += `,"own-secrets":{"admin":{"path":"/var/lib/store/admin","taken":"at-start"},` +
-				`"token":{"path":"/var/lib/store/token","taken":"at-start","issued-by":"outside"}}`
-		}
-		return mustParse(t, raw+`}`)
-	}
-	for credential, want := range map[string]string{
-		``:                                      CredentialFormPair,
-		`,"credential":{"own":"admin"}`:         CredentialFormShared,
-		`,"credential":{"own":"token"}`:         CredentialFormGiven,
-		`,"credential":{"issued-by":"outside"}`: CredentialFormGiven,
-		`,"credential":{"issued-by":"software","tool":"store_issued_token"}`: CredentialFormIssued,
-	} {
-		node := workstation()
-		node.At = "workstation.internal"
-		consumer := notifierConsumer(t, true, false)
-		r, err := Resolve(shelf(consumer, storeOffering(credential)), []string{consumer.Module}, node, twoStores("anchor"))
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		r.Account = "op"
-		c, _ := composeWith(t, r, handingTo("store:5000"))
-		got := c.Plans["notify"].Provisions
-		if len(got) != 1 || got[0].CredentialForm != want {
-			t.Errorf("an offer with %q: the plan names %+v, want the form %q", credential, got, want)
-		}
-	}
-	if got := (Manifest{Module: "x"}).CredentialFormOf("postgres-database"); got != "" {
-		t.Errorf("a module offering nothing has the credential form %q", got)
-	}
-}
-
 // A consumer's plan entry carries what its manifest contributes to that provision (issue 776), so the provider's
 // helper learns a database's name from the bus; a consumer contributing nothing has the entry it had.
 func TestAHandedModulesPlanEntryCarriesWhatItContributesToItsProvider(t *testing.T) {
@@ -164,7 +125,9 @@ func TestAHandedModulesPlanEntryCarriesWhatItContributesToItsProvider(t *testing
 	want := []PlanProvision{{Provision: "postgres-database", Provider: "anchor", ProviderModule: "store",
 		CredentialForm: CredentialFormPair, Contributes: map[string]any{"name": "nextcloud"}, At: "anchor.internal", From: "anchor", As: ConsumerIdentity("workstation", "notify"),
 		// What the binding file says as `${bound:postgres-database:name}` (issue 792).
-		Names: map[string]string{"name": "nextcloud"}}}
+		Names: map[string]string{"name": "nextcloud"},
+		// And what a received file carried of it, composed, with where its machine is: opaque bytes (issue 774).
+		Contributed: json.RawMessage(`{"v":1,"at":"workstation.internal","each":[{"values":{"name":"nextcloud"}}]}`)}}
 	if got := c.Plans["notify"].Provisions; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) {
 		t.Fatalf("the plan names %+v, want %+v", got, want)
 	}
@@ -233,7 +196,7 @@ func TestAnOfferAnsweredByTheHelperIsReadAndHandsNoFile(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil || !strings.Contains(string(raw), `"answered-by":"helper"`) {
 		t.Fatalf("written back as %s: %v", raw, err)
 	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(strings.Replace(with, `"helper"`, `"harness"`, 1))); err == nil {
+	if _, err := decodeForTest([]byte(strings.Replace(with, `"helper"`, `"harness"`, 1))); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("an unknown answerer was accepted")
 	}
 	c1, before := composeWith(t, notifierOn(t, held(t, without, builtNotifier())), handingTo("store:5000"))

go/catalogue/handed_pulled_in_test.go

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func providing(raw string) string {
 // onWorkstation resolves m on the workstation either assigned beside desk, or pulled in by desk alone.
 func onWorkstation(t *testing.T, m Manifest, assigned bool) Resolution {
 	t.Helper()
-	desk, err := ParseManifest([]byte(pulledInBy))
+	desk, err := decodeForTest([]byte(pulledInBy))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

go/catalogue/handed_secrets_test.go

@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ func TestAHandedModulesSecretsAreNamedAndNoValueIsSealed(t *testing.T) {
 	if want := []PlanSecret{{Name: "token", Path: path}}; !reflect.DeepEqual(c.Plans["bot"].Secrets, want) {
 		t.Fatalf("the plan names secrets %+v, want %+v", c.Plans["bot"].Secrets, want)
 	}
+	// Issue 774 (postgres on novox, 2026-10-31): where the vault judged it handed, its secrets are the vault's even on a
+	// machine the node reads as not taking a filled file, and nothing is refused for a value the vault never answers.
+	judged, err := r.Compose(Rendering{ArtifactStore: "store:5000", Assigned: map[string]bool{"bot": true}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a module the vault judged handed is refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if want := []PlanSecret{{Name: "token", Path: path}}; !reflect.DeepEqual(judged.Plans["bot"].Secrets, want) {
+		t.Errorf("judged handed by the vault, the plan names secrets %+v, want %+v", judged.Plans["bot"].Secrets, want)
+	}
 	// A process naming the token's file still restarts when its client writes it.
 	for _, res := range c.Resources {
 		if res["id"] == "bot.daemon" && !strings.Contains(strings.Join(stringsIn(res["restart-on"]), " "), "bot.needs-token") {
@@ -99,6 +108,9 @@ func TestAMovedModulesSecretsAreSealedAsBeforeWhereItIsNotHanded(t *testing.T) {
 	for name, with := range map[string]Rendering{
 		"an engine that does not take a filled file alone": {Provisioner: "mesh-provisioner-client", ArtifactStore: "store:5000"},
 		"no provisioner client on the machine":             {Hands: true, ArtifactStore: "store:5000"},
+		// Issue 774: where the vault judged the module not handed, the node composes it so, whatever else it reads.
+		"the vault judged it not handed": {Hands: true, Provisioner: "mesh-provisioner-client", ArtifactStore: "store:5000",
+			Assigned: map[string]bool{"bot": false}},
 	} {
 		c, got := composeWith(t, notifierOn(t, held(t, botMoved(), builtBot(botText))), sealedForBot(with))
 		if got != before {
@@ -111,37 +123,6 @@ func TestAMovedModulesSecretsAreSealedAsBeforeWhereItIsNotHanded(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestWhatAHandedModuleCannotHaveFromTheVaultIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	// A template naming a credential the module requires: a binding's, which moves with its provider.
-	requires := strings.Replace(botMoved(), `"own-secrets":`, `"requires":["database"],"secrets":{"database":"/etc/bot/db"},"own-secrets":`, 1)
-	r, err := Resolve(shelf(held(t, requires, builtBot("db = ${secret:database}\n")),
-		Manifest{Module: "db", Version: "1", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "database", Scope: ScopeNode}}}),
-		[]string{"bot"}, workstation(), World{})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	r.Account = "op"
-	if _, err := r.Compose(handingTo("store:5000")); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "moves with its provider") {
-		t.Errorf("a template naming a required credential: %v", err)
-	}
-	// A file with its text inline naming a secret, in a handed module.
-	inline := strings.Replace(botMoved(), `{"id":"daemon"`,
-		`{"id":"legacy","type":"file","path":"/etc/bot/legacy","content":"t = ${secret:token}\n"},{"id":"daemon"`, 1)
-	r = notifierOn(t, held(t, inline, builtBot(botText)))
-	if _, err := r.Compose(handingTo("store:5000")); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "keep it in a template") {
-		t.Errorf("an inline file naming a secret in a handed module: %v", err)
-	}
-	// A family and a secret issued outside the mesh are not handed by name yet: the mark is refused.
-	for why, raw := range map[string]string{
-		"a family":       strings.Replace(botMoved(), `"own-secrets":{"token":"${dir:state}/token"}`, `"own-secrets":{"token":"${dir:state}/token","key-*":"${dir:state}/keys"}`, 1),
-		"issued outside": strings.Replace(botMoved(), `"own-secrets":{"token":"${dir:state}/token"}`, `"own-secrets":{"token":{"path":"${dir:state}/token","issued-by":"outside"}}`, 1),
-	} {
-		if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "design 57 V4") {
-			t.Errorf("a moved module with %s: %v", why, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // A credential of what a handed module requires that the vault keeps for it alone (issue 757): the forge's read
 // token for one agent, issued by the forge's software per holder. Where the module is handed, its file is declared
 // placed and without a value, and the plan names it with its provision and provider; anywhere else, and for a
@@ -185,6 +166,22 @@ func TestAHandedModulesCredentialIssuedForItIsNamedInItsPlanAndNoValueIsSealed(t
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(c.Plans["bot"].Provisions, want) {
 		t.Fatalf("the plan names %+v, want %+v", c.Plans["bot"].Provisions, want)
 	}
+	// Issue 1126 (novox's seed: "gitea: its credential of postgres-database is handed to the provisioner and the module
+	// is not"): held, the module is composed as its stub, with no template and no item, so nothing is handed. Its
+	// credential and its own secret are what runs of it, left out, and the composition is not refused.
+	r := forgeReader(t, true, true)
+	for i := range r.Modules {
+		if r.Modules[i].Module == "bot" {
+			h := *r.Modules[i].Handed
+			h.Templates = nil
+			r.Modules[i].Handed, r.Modules[i].Stubbed, r.Modules[i].Build = &h, true, nil
+			r.Modules[i].Resources = slices.DeleteFunc(r.Modules[i].Resources, func(x map[string]any) bool { return x["type"] != "directory" })
+		}
+	}
+	c, got = composeWith(t, r, handingTo("store:5000"))
+	if strings.Contains(got, SecretID("forge-read")) || strings.Contains(got, NeedID("token")) || c.Plans["bot"].Provisions != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a held module's handed credential or own secret is composed: %s", got)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestACredentialIssuedForAHolderIsSealedAsBeforeWhereItsModuleIsNotHanded(t *testing.T) {

go/catalogue/handed_test.go

@@ -141,24 +141,6 @@ func TestAMovedModulesTemplatedFileIsHandedToTheProvisioner(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestAMovedModulesMarkIsJudged(t *testing.T) {
-	for name, raw := range map[string]string{
-		"marked moved and naming no template": `{"module":"bare","version":"1","moved":true,
-  "resources":[{"id":"conf","type":"file","path":"/etc/bare","content":"x"}]}`,
-		"handed written in a repository": `{"module":"bare","version":"1","moved":true,
-  "handed":{"source":"s","digest":"d","templates":{}},
-  "build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]},
-  "resources":[{"id":"conf","type":"file","path":"/etc/bare","template":"files/bare"}]}`,
-		"handed and not moved": `{"module":"bare","version":"1",
-  "handed":{"source":"s","digest":"d","templates":{}},
-  "resources":[{"id":"conf","type":"file","path":"/etc/bare","content":"x"}]}`,
-	} {
-		if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s: accepted", name)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
 // What `module check` and the merge gate judge: a moved module read from its tree, its text inline. It is still
 // marked moved, and composes as before, since nothing of its build's archive is there to hand.
 func TestAMovedModuleReadFromItsTreeIsJudgedAsItComposesUnhanded(t *testing.T) {
@@ -169,7 +151,7 @@ func TestAMovedModuleReadFromItsTreeIsJudgedAsItComposesUnhanded(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "files", "rc"), []byte(notifierText), 0o644); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(notifierMoved()))
+	m, err := decodeForTest([]byte(notifierMoved()))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}

go/catalogue/health.go

@@ -174,207 +174,6 @@ func ReadHealth(r map[string]any) (Health, bool, []string) {
 	return h, true, problems
 }
 
-// healthProblems is everything wrong with a manifest's `health` fields, in the manifest's words (to-be
-// 48 §8): a field on something that does not stay up, a kind its resource cannot have, an endpoint the
-// module does not declare, a port or an address, a timing outside its bounds, a tool the module does not
-// serve, and a tool check with no check of another kind beside it on the module.
-func healthProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	endpoints := map[string]Listening{}
-	for _, l := range m.Listens {
-		if n := strings.TrimSpace(l.Name); n != "" {
-			endpoints[n] = l
-		}
-	}
-	tools := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, t := range m.Tools {
-		tools[t] = true
-	}
-	wants := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, w := range m.Wants() {
-		wants[w] = true
-	}
-	var toolChecks []string
-	otherKinds := 0
-	resources := m.Resources
-	// A module's own runtime is judged as the process the controller writes for it (novox/hq ADR 0366 §1),
-	// and only a module that runs as its own account has one.
-	own, hasOwn := OwnRuntimeHealth(m)
-	if hasOwn {
-		if m.RunsAs == "" {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s declares runtime-health and runs as no account of its own "+
-				"(runs-as): only a module served by a runtime of its own has that runtime's health to declare "+
-				"(novox/hq ADR 0366 §1)", m.Module))
-			hasOwn = false
-		} else {
-			resources = append(append([]map[string]any(nil), m.Resources...), own)
-		}
-	}
-	for i, r := range resources {
-		h, has, read := ReadHealth(r)
-		if !has {
-			continue
-		}
-		ownRuntime := hasOwn && i == len(resources)-1
-		id, typ := fmt.Sprint(r["id"]), fmt.Sprint(r["type"])
-		where := m.Module + ": " + id
-		if ownRuntime {
-			where = m.Module + ": its runtime-health"
-		}
-		for _, p := range read {
-			problems = append(problems, m.Module+": "+p)
-		}
-		if !LongRunning(r) {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s declares health and does not stay up: a step, anything on a "+
-				"schedule and a service not stated running are judged by their step and their schedule (ADR 0240 rule 1)", where))
-			continue
-		}
-		switch h.Kind {
-		case HealthRuntime, HealthExec:
-			if typ != "container" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is a %s and its health is %q, which only a container has: "+
-					"the runtime runs it inside the container", where, typ, h.Kind))
-			}
-		case HealthUnit:
-			if typ == "container" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is a container and its health is %q, which is a service's "+
-					"or a process's own readiness", where, h.Kind))
-			}
-		case HealthHTTP, HealthTCP, HealthTool:
-		case "":
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s declares health with no kind: %s", where, healthKindsWords()))
-		default:
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s declares health of kind %q: %s", where, h.Kind, healthKindsWords()))
-		}
-		switch h.Kind {
-		case HealthHTTP, HealthTCP:
-			l, declared := endpoints[h.Endpoint]
-			switch {
-			case h.Endpoint == "":
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check names no endpoint: it names one the module "+
-					"declares under listens, by its name", where, h.Kind))
-			case !declared:
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check names the endpoint %q, which %s does not declare "+
-					"under listens (%s)", where, h.Kind, h.Endpoint, m.Module, namedEndpointsWords(endpoints)))
-			case l.At() != "tcp":
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check names %q, which is %s: a check connects over tcp",
-					where, h.Kind, h.Endpoint, l.At()))
-			}
-		default:
-			if h.Endpoint != "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check names an endpoint, which only an http or tcp check "+
-					"looks at", where, h.Kind))
-			}
-		}
-		if h.Kind != HealthHTTP && (h.Path != "" || h.Status != 0 || h.Body != "" || h.Scheme != "") {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check says a path, a status, a body or a scheme, which "+
-				"only an http check has", where, h.Kind))
-		}
-		if h.Kind == HealthHTTP {
-			if h.Path != "" && !strings.HasPrefix(h.Path, "/") {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's http check asks %q; a path starts with /", where, h.Path))
-			}
-			if h.Status != 0 && (h.Status < 100 || h.Status > 599) {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's http check expects status %d, which is not one", where, h.Status))
-			}
-			if h.Scheme != "" && h.Scheme != "http" && h.Scheme != "https" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's http check is over %q; it is http or https", where, h.Scheme))
-			}
-		}
-		if (h.Command != "") != (h.Kind == HealthExec) {
-			if h.Kind == HealthExec {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's exec check says no command", where))
-			} else {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check says a command, which only an exec check runs",
-					where, h.Kind))
-			}
-		}
-		if h.Kind == HealthTool {
-			switch {
-			case h.Tool == "":
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's tool check names no tool", where))
-			case !tools[h.Tool]:
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's tool check asks %q, which %s does not serve (its tools: %s)",
-					where, h.Tool, m.Module, orNoneWords(m.Tools)))
-			}
-			// Its own runtime being alive, judged by the node-engine, is the check the module does not run
-			// itself that this tool check stands beside (novox/hq ADR 0366 §2).
-			if !ownRuntime {
-				toolChecks = append(toolChecks, id)
-			}
-		} else {
-			if h.Tool != "" {
-				problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's %s check names a tool, which only a tool check asks", where, h.Kind))
-			}
-			if h.Kind != "" {
-				otherKinds++
-			}
-		}
-		if h.Needs != "" && !wants[h.Needs] {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's check needs %q, which %s does not require: a check names "+
-				"the provision it exercises, among those the module requires", where, h.Needs, m.Module))
-		}
-		problems = append(problems, healthTimingProblems(where, h)...)
-	}
-	if len(toolChecks) > 0 && otherKinds == 0 {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s judges itself only by its own tool (%s): a tool check is for "+
-			"function no endpoint shows, and only beside a check of another kind the module does not run itself "+
-			"(ADR 0227 rule 8, ADR 0240 rule 2)", m.Module, strings.Join(toolChecks, ", ")))
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-// healthTimingProblems holds a check's timing to its bounds.
-func healthTimingProblems(where string, h Health) []string {
-	var problems []string
-	if h.Interval < HealthIntervalFloor {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s looks every %s; a check looks no more often than every %s — "+
-			"the mesh is a guest on the machine (ADR 0240 rule 2)", where, h.Interval, HealthIntervalFloor))
-	}
-	if h.Timeout <= 0 || h.Timeout >= h.Interval {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s gives a look %s, which must be more than nothing and under its "+
-			"interval of %s", where, h.Timeout, h.Interval))
-	}
-	if h.Looks < HealthLooksFloor {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is unhealthy after %d failing look(s); it is at least %d — one "+
-			"look can be wrong (issue 277)", where, h.Looks, HealthLooksFloor))
-	}
-	if h.Grace < 0 {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s has a grace of %s", where, h.Grace))
-	}
-	if h.Looks >= HealthLooksFloor && h.Interval >= HealthIntervalFloor {
-		if took := h.Grace + time.Duration(h.Looks)*h.Interval; took > HealthWithin {
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s is said unhealthy at the earliest %s after it starts (a grace "+
-				"of %s and %d looks every %s); it is at most %s, so a resource broken from its start is said within "+
-				"the gate's bound", where, took, h.Grace, h.Looks, h.Interval, HealthWithin))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}
-
-func healthKindsWords() string {
-	return "a check is runtime (the image's own, adopted by name), http, tcp, exec, unit or tool"
-}
-
-func namedEndpointsWords(endpoints map[string]Listening) string {
-	if len(endpoints) == 0 {
-		return "it names none"
-	}
-	names := make([]string, 0, len(endpoints))
-	for n := range endpoints {
-		names = append(names, n)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	return "it names " + strings.Join(names, ", ")
-}
-
-func orNoneWords(names []string) string {
-	if len(names) == 0 {
-		return "none"
-	}
-	return strings.Join(names, ", ")
-}
-
 // Undeclared is every long-running resource of the manifest without `health`, by id (ADR 0240 rule 8):
 // what the catalogue's count counts.
 func Undeclared(m Manifest) []string {

go/catalogue/health_seats.go

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+package catalogue
+
+// **The mesh's health, out of the controller** (novox/hq ADR 0564 clause 1, issue 1952): four seats at mesh scope, each
+// held once, each holder a process on its own bus credential that writes only its own state.
+//
+//   - mesh-conditions, held by the module mesh-conditions (the condition keeper): the one writer of the open conditions,
+//     raised from the observers' findings and cleared when they go (clauses 2, 3, 9, 13);
+//   - mesh-watchdogs, held by the watchman (mesh-delivery-watchman): the signals as keys that expire, its stuck keys and
+//     presence as findings, and the dead letters from the lease write (clauses 4, 5);
+//   - mesh-self-check, held by the module mesh-self-check: the probes, every five minutes (clause 6);
+//   - mesh-healers, held by the module mesh-healers: the healers, acting on the keeper's events (clauses 7, 8).
+//
+// Their events keep the controller's names and bodies (go/health), so a reader changes only the seat it hears.
+
+// The four health seats.
+const (
+	ConditionsSeat = "mesh-conditions"
+	WatchdogsSeat  = "mesh-watchdogs"
+	SelfCheckSeat  = "mesh-self-check"
+	HealersSeat    = "mesh-healers"
+)
+
+// healthDecision is the record that made the four seats.
+const healthDecision = "novox/hq ADR 0564"
+
+// conditionsVerbs are the condition keeper's verbs (ADR 0564 clauses 3, 9, 12).
+func conditionsVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "conditions", Description: "What is wrong with the mesh now: every open condition, urgent first, then oldest, " +
+			"raised from the observers' findings (the watchman, the self-check, the healers, the assigner) and cleared when " +
+			"the finding goes, never by hand. Given a key, that one whole with its evidence; with history, every transition " +
+			"lately, the controller's before the take-over included.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"key":      "a condition's key: that one whole; with history, only its transitions",
+				"scope":    "only this scope: machine, plan, call, build, merge, provider, seat, bus, core, probe, mesh, delivery or module",
+				"severity": "only urgent, or only warning",
+				"machine":  "only those about this machine",
+				"history":  "\"true\": every raising, change, silence and clearing lately, oldest first",
+				"days":     "with history: how many days back (default 7, at most 90)",
+			}, nil, "history")},
+		{Name: "silence", Description: "Stop one condition's messages for a while, a hand act with why: it stays open and in " +
+			"status, and the silence is kept as its transition in history.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"key":   "the condition's key",
+				"for":   "how long: 30m, 4h, 2d; at most 7d",
+				"why":   "why, required and recorded",
+				"cause": "the cause in a word (the condition's kind when absent)",
+			}, []string{"key", "for", "why"})},
+		{Name: "compare", Description: "The keeper's open conditions against the controller's: every key open in one and not " +
+			"the other, or open in both with another severity, each with its reason; the kinds that end with the controller " +
+			"and the keys held while their module is delivered listed apart and not counted. The take-over waits for it empty.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+		{Name: "take-over", Description: "Ask the operator's Approve to switch who the router, the grants part and " +
+			"mesh-watcher hear from the controller to the keeper; refused while compare shows a difference. On the warrant " +
+			"the keeper writes its take-over key.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"why": "why now, shown to the operator"}, []string{"why"})},
+		{Name: "hand-back", Description: "Switch the readers back to the controller's conditions, until the controller's " +
+			"lease is handed away; refused after it.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"why": "why, kept with the switch"}, []string{"why"})},
+		{Name: "resync", Description: "Read every observer's findings again and raise and clear what differs from the open " +
+			"conditions: the recovery of a keeper that missed a change.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+	}
+}
+
+// watchdogsVerbs are the watchman's verbs (ADR 0564 clauses 4, 5, 12).
+func watchdogsVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "signals", Description: "Every watchdog of the signals table the watchman keeps, each a key that expires unless " +
+			"its signal renews it: its row, what renews it, its bound, the age of its newest signal, and the finding its " +
+			"expiry wrote.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"row": "one row, e.g. S1"}, nil)},
+		{Name: "stuck", Description: "Every want, build or step the watchman says stopped moving past its bound, with since " +
+			"when and the words of its finding.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"machine": "only those on this machine"}, nil)},
+		{Name: "presence", Description: "Every machine and tool runner the watchman sees connected, with its last word, and " +
+			"those it says silent; a machine that said it sleeps is shown as sleeping, not silent.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"machine": "one machine"}, nil)},
+		{Name: "dead-letters", Description: "Every message a consumer on the bus gave up on, kept in DEAD_LETTERS: whose " +
+			"consumer, the subject, how often it was handed over and when it was given up, newest first. With id: that one " +
+			"whole. With deliver or drop, a hand act with why, taken only once the controller's lease is handed away; " +
+			"before, refused naming the controller's verb.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"id":       "a dead letter's id, as the list gives it: that one whole, with its message",
+				"consumer": "a consumer's name, or <stream>.<consumer>: only what that one gave up on",
+				"limit":    "how many to list, newest first (default 50); only when listing",
+				"deliver":  "a dead letter's id: deliver it again to the consumer that gave it up (needs why)",
+				"drop":     "a dead letter's id: drop it for good (needs why)",
+				"why":      "with deliver or drop: why, required and recorded",
+				"cause":    "with deliver or drop: the cause in a word (dead-letter when absent)",
+			}, nil)},
+		{Name: "resync", Description: "Rebuild presence from the bus's connections, and the pulses and findings from the keys " +
+			"the watchman watches, and take every dead-letter notice waiting: the recovery of a watchman that missed a change.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+	}
+}
+
+// selfCheckVerbs are the self-check's verbs (ADR 0564 clause 6).
+func selfCheckVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "doctor", Description: "The self-check: the last run's verdict at once, each probe passed, failed, deferred " +
+			"(its facts not on the bus yet, named) or could not run, and how long ago. With run, a run now; with probe, one " +
+			"probe's verdict whole. Runs every five minutes on its own; each failure is a finding.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"run":   "\"true\": run every probe now and answer the verdict",
+				"probe": "one probe's id (D6): its verdict alone, with every finding",
+			}, nil, "run")},
+		{Name: "probes", Description: "The registry: what each probe asserts, where it reads its facts, and the finding it writes.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{}, nil)},
+	}
+}
+
+// healersVerbs are the healers' verbs (ADR 0564 clauses 7, 8).
+func healersVerbs() []Verb {
+	return []Verb{
+		{Name: "healers", Description: "The healers: each registered response to one kind of condition, its repair, its " +
+			"budget and what happens when it is spent; every act taken lately with its outcome, the acts it would have " +
+			"taken while the controller's lease names a controller, and the mesh-wide brake.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{"days": "how many days of acts back (default 7)"}, nil)},
+		{Name: "heal", Description: "Take one healer's act for one open condition now, within its budget and the brake.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"key": "the condition's key",
+				"why": "why now, kept with the act",
+			}, []string{"key", "why"})},
+		{Name: "drill", Description: "Record a drill: something broken on purpose to see the mesh raise and clear it, with " +
+			"what it tests. A drill is never a repair: no healer is wanted for it however often it is run.",
+			Input: schema(map[string]string{
+				"what":      "what was done on purpose, in a line",
+				"why":       "what the drill tests",
+				"condition": "the key of the condition the drill is meant to raise, if any (optional)",
+			}, []string{"what", "why"})},
+	}
+}

go/catalogue/health_test.go

@@ -53,78 +53,24 @@ func TestAWellFormedHealthIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
 		{"kind": "runtime"},
 		{"kind": "exec", "command": "pg_isready -q", "grace": "4m", "looks": 2, "interval": "30s"},
 	} {
-		if _, err := ParseManifest(healthManifest(t, "server", h)); err != nil {
+		if _, err := decodeForTest(healthManifest(t, "server", h)); err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("%v was refused: %v", h, err)
 		}
 	}
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(healthManifest(t, "daemon", map[string]any{"kind": "unit"})); err != nil {
+	if _, err := decodeForTest(healthManifest(t, "daemon", map[string]any{"kind": "unit"})); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("a service's own readiness was refused: %v", err)
 	}
 	// A tool beside a check of another kind on the module.
 	raw := healthManifest(t, "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web"},
 		map[string]any{"id": "admin", "type": "service", "unit": "app-admin.service", "state": "running",
 			"health": map[string]any{"kind": "tool", "tool": "app_status"}})
-	if _, err := ParseManifest(raw); err != nil {
+	if _, err := decodeForTest(raw); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("a tool check beside an http check was refused: %v", err)
 	}
 }
 
-func TestEveryOutOfBoundsHealthIsRefusedByName(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		name   string
-		on     string
-		health map[string]any
-		says   string
-	}{
-		{"no kind", "server", map[string]any{"endpoint": "web"}, "with no kind"},
-		{"an unknown kind", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "ping"}, `of kind "ping"`},
-		{"a port", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "port": 8080}, "names a port"},
-		{"an address", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "address": "127.0.0.1"}, "names a address"},
-		{"a url", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "url": "http://localhost:8080/"}, "names a url"},
-		{"an unknown key", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "retries": 3}, `"retries"`},
-		{"no endpoint", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http"}, "names no endpoint"},
-		{"an undeclared endpoint", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "admin"}, "does not declare"},
-		{"a udp endpoint", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "beacon"}, "a check connects over tcp"},
-		{"an interval under the floor", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "interval": "5s", "timeout": "1s"}, "no more often than every 10s"},
-		{"a timeout of the interval", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "interval": "10s", "timeout": "10s"}, "under its interval"},
-		{"one failing look", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "looks": 1}, "at least 2"},
-		{"a grace and looks past five minutes", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "grace": "4m", "looks": 3, "interval": "30s"}, "at most 5m0s"},
-		{"a duration that is not one", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "interval": "often"}, "is a duration"},
-		{"looks that are not a number", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "looks": "three"}, "whole number"},
-		{"a path without a slash", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "path": "health"}, "starts with /"},
-		{"a status that is not one", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "status": 700}, "is not one"},
-		{"a scheme that is not one", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "scheme": "ftp"}, "http or https"},
-		{"a status on a tcp check", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "status": 200}, "only an http check has"},
-		{"an exec with no command", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "exec"}, "says no command"},
-		{"a command on an http check", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "command": "true"}, "only an exec check runs"},
-		{"a runtime check on a service", "daemon", map[string]any{"kind": "runtime"}, "only a container has"},
-		{"a unit check on a container", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "unit"}, "a service's or a process's"},
-		{"a tool the module does not serve", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tool", "tool": "app_admin"}, "does not serve"},
-		{"a tool check alone", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tool", "tool": "app_status"}, "judges itself only by its own tool"},
-		{"needs not required", "server", map[string]any{"kind": "tcp", "endpoint": "web", "needs": "redis"}, "does not require"},
-		{"health on a step", "seed", map[string]any{"kind": "runtime"}, "does not stay up"},
-		{"health on a schedule", "sweep", map[string]any{"kind": "runtime"}, "does not stay up"},
-		{"health that is not an object", "server", nil, "is an object"},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			raw := healthManifest(t, c.on, c.health)
-			if c.health == nil {
-				raw = []byte(strings.Replace(string(raw), `"name":"app-server"`, `"name":"app-server","health":"tcp"`, 1))
-			}
-			_, err := ParseManifest(raw)
-			if err == nil {
-				t.Fatalf("%s was accepted", c.name)
-			}
-			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.says) {
-				t.Errorf("refused, but not for saying %q: %v", c.says, err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
 func TestHealthIsComposedAsThePortThisMachineGaveTheEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest(healthManifest(t, "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "path": "/healthz",
+	m, err := decodeForTest(healthManifest(t, "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web", "path": "/healthz",
 		"needs": "postgres-database"}))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -163,7 +109,7 @@ func TestHealthIsComposedAsThePortThisMachineGaveTheEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestTheUndeclaredAreTheLongRunningWithoutHealth(t *testing.T) {
-	m, err := ParseManifest(healthManifest(t, "server", map[string]any{"kind": "runtime"}))
+	m, err := decodeForTest(healthManifest(t, "server", map[string]any{"kind": "runtime"}))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -176,7 +122,7 @@ func TestATooledHealthIsGrantedToTheEngine(t *testing.T) {
 	raw := healthManifest(t, "server", map[string]any{"kind": "http", "endpoint": "web"},
 		map[string]any{"id": "admin", "type": "service", "unit": "app-admin.service", "state": "running",
 			"health": map[string]any{"kind": "tool", "tool": "app_status"}})
-	m, err := ParseManifest(raw)
+	m, err := decodeForTest(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -194,7 +140,7 @@ func TestEveryComposedHealthIsOneTheNodeEngineTakes(t *testing.T) {
 		{"kind": "runtime"},
 		{"kind": "exec", "command": "pg_isready -q"},
 	} {
-		m, err := ParseManifest(healthManifest(t, "server", h,
+		m, err := decodeForTest(healthManifest(t, "server", h,
 			map[string]any{"id": "admin", "type": "service", "unit": "app-admin.service", "state": "running",
 				"health": map[string]any{"kind": "tool", "tool": "app_status"}}))
 		if err != nil {

go/catalogue/identity.go

@@ -174,47 +174,3 @@ func (r Resolution) Overflowing() []Overflow {
 // passes on every machine that mesh has. `module check --longest-machine-name` says another mesh's;
 // a mesh that names a longer machine raises this in the same change (ADR 0225).
 const DefaultLongestMachine = 6
-
-// IdentityProblems is every module whose identity would overflow a provision it wants, on a machine
-// whose name is `longestMachine` characters — judged before merge, over the catalogue alone, so the
-// pull request that introduces an overflow is the one refused (novox/hq ADR 0225, issue 263). A
-// provision no module in the shelf offers is not judged: its bound is not known here.
-func IdentityProblems(shelf Shelf, longestMachine int) []string {
-	offeredBy := map[string][]string{}
-	for _, name := range shelfOrder(shelf) {
-		for _, o := range shelf[name].Offers() {
-			offeredBy[o] = append(offeredBy[o], name)
-		}
-	}
-	machine := strings.Repeat("n", longestMachine)
-	var problems []string
-	for _, name := range shelfOrder(shelf) {
-		m := shelf[name]
-		source := IdentitySource(m.Slug, m.Module)
-		for _, want := range m.Wants() {
-			// The tightest bound among the modules offering it: whichever one answers on a given
-			// machine, the identity has to fit it.
-			tightest, by := IdentityBound{}, ""
-			for _, provider := range offeredBy[want] {
-				if provider == name {
-					continue // a module answering its own requirement is not its own consumer
-				}
-				b := shelf[provider].IdentityBoundOf(want)
-				if b.Bounded() && (!tightest.Bounded() || b.Max < tightest.Max) {
-					tightest, by = b, provider
-				}
-			}
-			if CheckIdentityWithin(machine, source, tightest) == nil {
-				continue
-			}
-			got := ConsumerIdentity(machine, source)
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-				"%s wants %s, and %s keeps its consumers' identities in %s of at most %d characters: "+
-					"on a machine with a %d-character name it is identified as %q, %d — give %s a "+
-					"`slug` of at most %d characters",
-				name, want, by, tightest.In, tightest.Max, longestMachine, got, len(got), name,
-				tightest.Max-len(IdentityPrefix)-longestMachine-1))
-		}
-	}
-	return problems
-}

go/catalogue/identity_bound_test.go

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -61,97 +60,6 @@ func TestAnUnstatedBoundFollowsWhatTheProviderIsTold(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// The field reads as written and writes back the same, and refuses what says nothing.
-func TestAnOffersIdentityIsParsedStrictly(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, raw := range []string{
-		`{"name":"s3-bucket","scope":"mesh","identity":{"max":20,"in":"an S3 access key"}}`,
-		`{"name":"wildcard-resolution","scope":"mesh","identity":false}`,
-		`{"name":"redis-cache","scope":"mesh","identity":{"in":"a Redis ACL user"}}`,
-	} {
-		var o Offer
-		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(raw), &o); err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", raw, err)
-		}
-		back, err := json.Marshal(o)
-		if err != nil || string(back) != raw {
-			t.Errorf("did not round-trip:\n%s\n%s (%v)", raw, back, err)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, raw := range []string{
-		`{"name":"x","identity":true}`,
-		`{"name":"x","identity":{"max":20,"in":"y","most":3}}`,
-	} {
-		var o Offer
-		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(raw), &o); err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("accepted %s", raw)
-		}
-	}
-	bad := Manifest{Module: "bad", Version: "1", Provides: []Offer{
-		{Name: "unsaid", Scope: ScopeMesh, Identity: &OfferIdentity{Max: 20}},
-		{Name: "tiny", Scope: ScopeMesh, Identity: &OfferIdentity{Max: 4, In: "nothing usable"}},
-	}}
-	raw, err := json.Marshal(bad)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	_, err = ParseManifest(raw)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "without saying what keeps them") ||
-		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the shortest the mesh makes") {
-		t.Fatalf("a bound with no `in`, or too short for any identity, was accepted: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// Refused before merge: the catalogue check judges each module's identity, on the longest machine
-// name, against the bound of every provision it wants — and names the module and the slug to set.
-func TestTheCatalogueCheckRefusesAnIdentityThatOverflowsWhatItRequires(t *testing.T) {
-	shelf := Shelf{
-		"objects": {Module: "objects", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "s3-bucket", Scope: ScopeMesh,
-			Identity: &OfferIdentity{Max: 20, In: "an S3 access key"}}},
-			Receives: map[string]string{"s3-bucket": "/var/lib/mesh/objects/mesh.json"}},
-		"photoalbum": {Module: "photoalbum", Requires: []string{"s3-bucket"}},
-		"files":      {Module: "files", Requires: []string{"s3-bucket"}},
-	}
-	problems := IdentityProblems(shelf, 6)
-	if len(problems) != 1 || !strings.Contains(problems[0], "photoalbum wants s3-bucket") ||
-		!strings.Contains(problems[0], `"mesh_nnnnnn_photoalbum", 22`) ||
-		!strings.Contains(problems[0], "`slug` of at most 8 characters") {
-		t.Fatalf("one overflow, named with its remedy, was expected: %q", problems)
-	}
-	// A longer machine name refuses more: the check is about the mesh's machines, not one.
-	if got := IdentityProblems(shelf, 10); len(got) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("on a 10-character name both overflow (mesh_nnnnnnnnnn_files is 21): %q", got)
-	}
-	// And a slug is the remedy it names.
-	album := shelf["photoalbum"]
-	album.Slug = "album"
-	shelf["photoalbum"] = album
-	if got := IdentityProblems(shelf, 6); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a slug that fits is still refused: %q", got)
-	}
-}
-
-// Tonight's case (issue 263): networkmanager, no slug, requiring the mesh's resolver provision on a
-// machine with a six-character name. Under ADR 0049's one bound it was refused, and its provider's
-// whole machine with it; the resolver keeps no name, so it is not refused at all.
-func TestARequirementOnAKeylessProvisionComposesWithALongName(t *testing.T) {
-	shelf := Shelf{
-		"resolver":       {Module: "resolver", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "wildcard-resolution", Scope: ScopeMesh}}},
-		"networkmanager": {Module: "networkmanager", Requires: []string{"wildcard-resolution"}},
-	}
-	if CheckIdentity("laptop", "networkmanager") == nil {
-		t.Fatal("the regression is not reproduced: mesh_laptop_networkmanager fits the old global bound")
-	}
-	if got := IdentityProblems(shelf, 6); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a requirement on a keyless provision was refused for its length: %q", got)
-	}
-	r := Resolution{Node: "laptop", Modules: []Manifest{shelf["networkmanager"]},
-		Needs: []Needed{{Name: "wildcard-resolution", From: "anchor", For: "networkmanager",
-			Identity: shelf["resolver"].IdentityBoundOf("wildcard-resolution")}}}
-	if got := r.Overflowing(); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a keyless requirement is reported as overflowing: %+v", got)
-	}
-}
-
 // The consumer's side of the same judgement the provider's composition makes: what `status` says.
 func TestAnOverflowingRequirementIsNamedFromTheConsumersSide(t *testing.T) {
 	bound := IdentityBound{Max: 20, In: "an S3 access key"}
@@ -174,17 +82,3 @@ func TestAnOverflowingRequirementIsNamedFromTheConsumersSide(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the overflow does not say what keeps it or the remedy: %s", said)
 	}
 }
-
-// An identity served as a DNS label is never truncated, so the offer's bound must keep it in one.
-func TestAnIdentityServedAsADNSLabelIsBoundedToOne(t *testing.T) {
-	serves := map[string]map[string]any{"bucket": {"name": "${consumer:as:dns}"}}
-	wide := Manifest{Module: "wide", Serves: serves, Provides: []Offer{{Name: "bucket", Scope: ScopeMesh,
-		Identity: &OfferIdentity{Max: 255, In: "a client id"}}}}
-	if got := CheckServes(wide); len(got) != 1 || !strings.Contains(got[0], "a label keeps 63") {
-		t.Fatalf("a 255-character bound on a DNS label passed: %q", got)
-	}
-	unsaid := Manifest{Module: "unsaid", Serves: serves, Provides: []Offer{{Name: "bucket", Scope: ScopeMesh}}}
-	if got := CheckServes(unsaid); len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the default bound (20) on a DNS label was refused: %q", got)
-	}
-}

go/catalogue/installation.go

@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
 package catalogue
 
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"net"
-	"regexp"
-	"sort"
-	"strings"
-)
-
 // A definition names no installation (novox/hq ADR 0112, ADR 0155, issues 122 and 134).
 //
 // A module definition holds what is true of the module everywhere; what is particular to one mesh —
@@ -34,203 +25,3 @@ import (
 // NamesOnPurpose is the catalogue-level word a resource carries for the names it means to name:
 // each name mapped to its reason. The host never sees it.
 const NamesOnPurpose = "names-on-purpose"
-
-// prose is every key whose value the mesh never reads.
-var prose = map[string]bool{"why": true, "description": true}
-
-// Registries the world runs, which an image may name because an image reference must say where it
-// is pulled from. Anything else in an image reference is a registry of some installation.
-var worldsRegistries = map[string]bool{
-	"docker.io": true, "registry-1.docker.io": true, "index.docker.io": true, "ghcr.io": true,
-	"quay.io": true, "gcr.io": true, "registry.k8s.io": true, "k8s.gcr.io": true,
-	"mcr.microsoft.com": true, "lscr.io": true, "public.ecr.aws": true, "registry.gitlab.com": true,
-	"codeberg.org": true, "cgr.dev": true,
-}
-
-// Services the world runs that a definition may name as a policy default, the way it may name a
-// public resolver: the public certificate authorities' ACME directories. Anything else a served
-// fact or a file names is somebody's installation.
-var worldsServices = map[string]bool{
-	"acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org": true, "acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org": true,
-	"api.buypass.com": true, "api.test4.buypass.no": true, "dv.acme-v02.api.pki.goog": true,
-	"acme.zerossl.com": true,
-}
-
-// Resolvers the world runs, which a machine's resolver may forward to as a policy default.
-var worldsResolvers = map[string]bool{
-	"1.1.1.1": true, "1.0.0.1": true, "8.8.8.8": true, "8.8.4.4": true, "9.9.9.9": true,
-	"149.112.112.112": true, "208.67.222.222": true, "208.67.220.220": true,
-}
-
-// hostname is a dotted name whose last label is a top-level domain a real installation would have.
-// Not every dotted token: `module.json`, `index.html` and `docker.sock` are dotted and name nothing.
-// Boundaries are checked by hand rather than in the pattern, because two names one character apart
-// — `a.example.tld,b.example.tld` — would otherwise share the delimiter and the second would be lost.
-var hostname = regexp.MustCompile(
-	`(?i)(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+` +
-		`(?:be|nl|de|fr|uk|eu|com|net|org|io|dev|app|cloud|site|online|me|co|ch|at|lu|` +
-		`internal|example|tld|test|invalid)`)
-
-// upstreamVersion is where an artifact pinned by URL says which release it is (Artifact.Version).
-var upstreamVersion = regexp.MustCompile(`^build\.artifacts\[[0-9]+\]\.version$`)
-
-// address is a dotted quad.
-var address = regexp.MustCompile(`(?:[0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}`)
-
-// isName is whether a byte may be part of a name; a match bordered by one is a longer token.
-func isName(b byte) bool {
-	return b == '.' || b == '-' || (b >= 'a' && b <= 'z') || (b >= 'A' && b <= 'Z') || (b >= '0' && b <= '9')
-}
-
-// standalone are the matches of re in value that are whole tokens, not parts of a longer one.
-func standalone(re *regexp.Regexp, value string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, span := range re.FindAllStringIndex(value, -1) {
-		if span[0] > 0 && isName(value[span[0]-1]) {
-			continue
-		}
-		if span[1] < len(value) && isName(value[span[1]]) {
-			continue
-		}
-		out = append(out, value[span[0]:span[1]])
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// InstallationProblems is every value of a definition that names an installation, in the
-// definition's own words: where it is, and what it names.
-func InstallationProblems(m Manifest) []string {
-	raw, err := json.Marshal(m)
-	if err != nil {
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s could not be read back: %v", m.Module, err)}
-	}
-	var tree any
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &tree); err != nil {
-		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s could not be read back: %v", m.Module, err)}
-	}
-	var problems []string
-	// The module's own name is a value too: a module named after the domain it serves is a
-	// definition that can only be installed there (issue 134).
-	for _, name := range namesIn(m.Module) {
-		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
-			"%s is named after %s, and a module is named for what it is, not for where it runs", m.Module, name))
-	}
-	walk(tree, "", nil, func(at string, value string, meant map[string]bool, isImage bool) {
-		for _, name := range namesIn(value) {
-			if (isImage && worldsRegistries[strings.ToLower(name)]) || meant[name] {
-				continue
-			}
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s names %s at %s", m.Module, name, at))
-		}
-		for _, ip := range addressesIn(value) {
-			// An upstream pin's version may have four dotted numbers (Owl 1.5.6.1), which is no address; a name
-			// in it is still judged above. Its URL is judged whole: the vendor's host goes through the artifact's
-			// names-on-purpose like any name a definition means (novox/hq ADR 0316).
-			if meant[ip] || upstreamVersion.MatchString(at) {
-				continue
-			}
-			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s names the public address %s at %s", m.Module, ip, at))
-		}
-	})
-	sort.Strings(problems)
-	return problems
-}
-
-// walk visits every string in the tree with its path, the names the enclosing resource means to
-// name (with a reason), and whether it is an image reference.
-func walk(node any, at string, meant map[string]bool, visit func(at, value string, meant map[string]bool, isImage bool)) {
-	switch v := node.(type) {
-	case map[string]any:
-		if declared, has := v[NamesOnPurpose].(map[string]any); has {
-			widened := map[string]bool{}
-			for name := range meant {
-				widened[name] = true
-			}
-			for name, reason := range declared {
-				if r, ok := reason.(string); ok && strings.TrimSpace(r) != "" {
-					widened[strings.ToLower(name)] = true
-				}
-			}
-			meant = widened
-		}
-		keys := make([]string, 0, len(v))
-		for k := range v {
-			keys = append(keys, k)
-		}
-		sort.Strings(keys)
-		for _, k := range keys {
-			// Prose is a string a person reads. A key that is called `why` or `description` and holds
-			// anything else — a setting of that name, whose default the mesh writes — is walked like any
-			// other (novox/hq ADR 0262).
-			if _, isString := v[k].(string); (prose[k] && isString) || k == NamesOnPurpose || (at == "" && k == "module") {
-				continue
-			}
-			child := at + "." + k
-			if at == "" {
-				child = k
-			}
-			if s, isString := v[k].(string); isString {
-				visit(child, s, meant, k == "image")
-				continue
-			}
-			walk(v[k], child, meant, visit)
-		}
-	case []any:
-		for i, item := range v {
-			child := fmt.Sprintf("%s[%d]", at, i)
-			if s, isString := item.(string); isString {
-				visit(child, s, meant, false)
-				continue
-			}
-			walk(item, child, meant, visit)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// namesIn is every hostname in a value that could belong to an installation.
-func namesIn(value string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, found := range standalone(hostname, value) {
-		name := strings.ToLower(found)
-		switch {
-		case strings.HasSuffix(name, ".docker.internal"):
-			// The container runtime's alias for its own host: every machine running it has one.
-		case worldsServices[name]:
-			// A public authority named as a policy default, true of any mesh that wants it.
-		case name == "example.tld", strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.tld"),
-			name == "example.com", name == "example.net", name == "example.org",
-			strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.com"), strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.net"),
-			strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example.org"), strings.HasSuffix(name, ".example"),
-			strings.HasSuffix(name, ".test"), strings.HasSuffix(name, ".invalid"):
-			// Documentation names, which is what a definition's own example should use.
-		default:
-			out = append(out, name)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// addressesIn is every public address in a value: not a private range, loopback, link-local, the
-// unspecified address, a documentation range, or a resolver the world runs.
-func addressesIn(value string) []string {
-	var out []string
-	for _, found := range standalone(address, value) {
-		ip := net.ParseIP(found)
-		if ip == nil || ip.IsPrivate() || ip.IsLoopback() || ip.IsLinkLocalUnicast() ||
-			ip.IsUnspecified() || ip.IsMulticast() || worldsResolvers[found] || documentation(ip) {
-			continue
-		}
-		out = append(out, found)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func documentation(ip net.IP) bool {
-	for _, cidr := range []string{"192.0.2.0/24", "198.51.100.0/24", "203.0.113.0/24", "100.64.0.0/10"} {
-		_, block, _ := net.ParseCIDR(cidr)
-		if block.Contains(ip) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}