go/compose/composed.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/overlay"
@@ -76,6 +77,42 @@ func compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode, appli
 	if !found {
 		return nil, nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("compose: the mesh has no node %q", node)
 	}
+	// A folded module built by a build of the old form (Node.RunsOwn) is left to the node: composed as a stub, so what
+	// it provides and requires still shapes the rest, and its resources are then the ones the node runs.
+	carried := map[string]bool{}
+	var runsOwn *delivery.Composed
+	for i := range reading.Nodes {
+		n := &reading.Nodes[i]
+		if n.Name != node || n.RunsOwn == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		runsOwn = n.RunsOwn
+		for m := range inOwn {
+			if !folds(m) {
+				continue
+			}
+			man, ok := n.Kept[m]
+			if !ok {
+				man, ok = reading.Catalogue[m]
+			}
+			if !ok || !NamesBuild(man) {
+				continue
+			}
+			carried[m] = true
+			kept := make(map[string]catalogue.Manifest, len(n.Kept)+1)
+			for k, v := range n.Kept {
+				kept[k] = v
+			}
+			kept[m] = Stub(man)
+			n.Kept = kept
+		}
+	}
+	isCarried := func(module, id string) bool {
+		if module == "" {
+			module, _ = declaration.ModuleGuess(id)
+		}
+		return carried[module]
+	}
 	d, problems, err := ComposeIn(reading, node, mode)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, nil, err
@@ -118,6 +155,7 @@ func compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode, appli
 	left := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, raw := range envelope.Resources {
 		var head struct {
+			ID     string `json:"id"`
 			Module string `json:"module"`
 			Type   string `json:"type"`
 			Path   string `json:"path"`
@@ -125,6 +163,9 @@ func compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode, appli
 		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &head); err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, nil, err
 		}
+		if isCarried(head.Module, head.ID) {
+			continue // what the stub composed of it: the node's own carries what runs of it instead
+		}
 		if folds(head.Module) {
 			// Into the node's own, in its place among the node's resources, its module taken off (mesh-controller's
 			// compositionsOf): the node's own composition is then the controller's, byte for byte.
@@ -151,6 +192,18 @@ func compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode, appli
 		}
 		kept = append(kept, raw)
 	}
+	// What runs of each carried module, in the node's own composition, each after the resource it runs after.
+	if len(carried) > 0 {
+		var err error
+		if kept, foldedPaths, err = carry(kept, foldedPaths, runsOwn, isCarried); err != nil {
+			return nil, nil, nil, err
+		}
+		for _, p := range runsOwn.Filled {
+			if foldedPaths[p] && !slices.Contains(envelope.Filled, p) {
+				envelope.Filled = append(envelope.Filled, p)
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	// A filled file of a module's own composition goes with that module (SplitComposed); one of a folded module goes with
 	// the node's own, after them, in the declaration's order; one of a module left out is dropped.
 	var filled, ownFilled []string
@@ -188,3 +241,76 @@ func compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode, appli
 	sort.Strings(skipped)
 	return out, skipped, stood, nil
 }
+
+// NamesBuild says a manifest names what a build makes: its build, or a resource naming an artifact. A node cannot
+// compose such a module folded into its own composition: the build of the old form it runs is held by the controller
+// alone (issue 1126).
+func NamesBuild(m catalogue.Manifest) bool {
+	if m.Build != nil {
+		return true
+	}
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if _, ok := r["artifact"]; ok {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// Stub is m with nothing to build and no resource: what it provides, requires, serves and grants still shape the rest of
+// the composition, and nothing of its own is composed (issue 1126).
+func Stub(m catalogue.Manifest) catalogue.Manifest {
+	m.Build = nil
+	m.Resources = nil
+	return m
+}
+
+// carry puts into the node's resources (kept, in the declaration's order) the resources of the node's own composition as
+// it runs (runs) that belong to a carried module, each after the resource it runs after, or first when that one is
+// not among them; a file among them is a folded path.
+func carry(kept []json.RawMessage, foldedPaths map[string]bool, runs *delivery.Composed, carried func(module, id string) bool) ([]json.RawMessage, map[string]bool, error) {
+	idOf := func(raw json.RawMessage) (string, string, string, string, error) {
+		var head struct {
+			ID     string `json:"id"`
+			Module string `json:"module"`
+			Type   string `json:"type"`
+			Path   string `json:"path"`
+		}
+		err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &head)
+		return head.ID, head.Module, head.Type, head.Path, err
+	}
+	present := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, raw := range kept {
+		if id, module, _, _, err := idOf(raw); err == nil && module == "" {
+			present[id] = true
+		}
+	}
+	// By the id of the resource of the node's own it runs after, "" for first: the last one before it that is composed.
+	after := map[string][]json.RawMessage{}
+	anchor := ""
+	for _, raw := range runs.Resources {
+		id, module, typ, path, err := idOf(raw)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("compose: a resource the node runs in its own composition: %w", err)
+		}
+		if !carried(module, id) {
+			if module == "" && present[id] {
+				anchor = id
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		after[anchor] = append(after[anchor], raw)
+		if typ == string(declaration.TypeFile) {
+			foldedPaths[path] = true
+		}
+	}
+	out := make([]json.RawMessage, 0, len(kept)+len(runs.Resources))
+	out = append(out, after[""]...)
+	for _, raw := range kept {
+		out = append(out, raw)
+		if id, module, _, _, err := idOf(raw); err == nil && module == "" {
+			out = append(out, after[id]...)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, foldedPaths, nil
+}

go/compose/frombus/answer.go

@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"regexp"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
@@ -32,7 +34,13 @@ func Answer(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, fps map[string]st
 	if err != nil {
 		return refuse(fmt.Errorf("frombus: placement: %w", err))
 	}
-	in, err := Input(ctx, r, mesh, s)
+	if s.Running == nil {
+		s.Running = running
+	}
+	// Every module it cannot compose is named, not the first only (issue 1126): a build it cannot read or take in, and
+	// below, a module the composition refuses, each composed as a stub so the rest is composed and compared.
+	failed := map[string]string{}
+	in, err := input(ctx, r, mesh, s, func(module string, err error) { failed[module] = err.Error() })
 	if err != nil {
 		return refuse(err)
 	}
@@ -63,8 +71,20 @@ func Answer(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, fps map[string]st
 		}
 	}
 	composed, skipped, stood, err := compose.CompositionsShadow(in, s.Node, fps)
-	if err != nil {
-		return refuse(err)
+	for err != nil {
+		module := culprit(in, s.Node, fps, failed, err)
+		if module == "" {
+			// Not one module's: the node's own (a value served elsewhere, the mesh's network), said once as the node's.
+			if len(failed) == 0 {
+				return refuse(err)
+			}
+			failed[delivery.HaveNodeWord] = err.Error()
+			composed, skipped, stood = nil, nil, nil
+			break
+		}
+		failed[module] = err.Error()
+		in = stubbed(in, s.Node, module)
+		composed, skipped, stood, err = compose.CompositionsShadow(in, s.Node, fps)
 	}
 	// The node's own composition is judged only where the node runs one: one that runs none applies it only once a want
 	// names it (the node agent's own composer hands it on that want alone), so a candidate does not add it.
@@ -79,8 +99,22 @@ func Answer(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, fps map[string]st
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	if _, whole := failed[delivery.HaveNodeWord]; whole {
+		// Nothing composed to compare: every refusal is said, and nothing else.
+		for _, m := range sortedKeys(failed) {
+			a.Refusals = append(a.Refusals, delivery.ModuleRefused{Module: m, Why: failed[m]})
+		}
+		a.Verdict = delivery.VerdictOf(a)
+		return a
+	}
 	cmp := delivery.CompareComposed(composed, running)
-	a.Same, a.Differs, a.Removed = cmp.Same, cmp.Differs, cmp.Removed
+	// A refused module was composed as a stub: what it composed is no difference; its refusal is said.
+	notFailed := func(m string) bool { _, ok := failed[m]; return !ok }
+	a.Same = slices.DeleteFunc(cmp.Same, func(m string) bool { return !notFailed(m) })
+	a.Removed = slices.DeleteFunc(cmp.Removed, func(m string) bool { return !notFailed(m) })
+	a.Differs = slices.DeleteFunc(cmp.Differs, func(d delivery.ModuleDiffers) bool { return !notFailed(d.Module) })
+	cmp.Added = slices.DeleteFunc(cmp.Added, func(d delivery.ModuleAdded) bool { return !notFailed(d.Module) })
+	skipped = slices.DeleteFunc(skipped, func(m string) bool { return !notFailed(m) })
 
 	// What the group adds, by node and module: placed by a candidate and not by the trunk on that node.
 	added := map[string]bool{}
@@ -138,8 +172,14 @@ func Answer(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, fps map[string]st
 		if _, isAdded := addedHere[m]; isAdded {
 			continue // a module the candidate adds here: what it lacks is said under Added
 		}
+		if _, isFailed := failed[m]; isFailed {
+			continue // said below, as why it could not be composed
+		}
 		a.Refusals = append(a.Refusals, delivery.ModuleRefused{Module: m, Why: "stands in for " + strings.Join(refusals[m], ", ")})
 	}
+	for _, m := range sortedKeys(failed) {
+		a.Refusals = append(a.Refusals, delivery.ModuleRefused{Module: m, Why: failed[m]})
+	}
 	sort.Slice(a.Refusals, func(i, j int) bool { return a.Refusals[i].Module < a.Refusals[j].Module })
 	a.Verdict = delivery.VerdictOf(a)
 	return a
@@ -170,3 +210,60 @@ func standsInFor(x, node string) (string, string) {
 	}
 	return node, ""
 }
+
+// culprit is the module placed on node whose composition the error is of: the first, in placement order, whose stub
+// (compose.Stub) makes the composition succeed or fail otherwise; empty when none does (the error is not one module's).
+// Modules already refused are passed over.
+func culprit(in compose.Input, node string, fps map[string]string, failed map[string]string, err error) string {
+	var assigned []string
+	for _, n := range in.Nodes {
+		if n.Name == node {
+			assigned = n.Assigned
+		}
+	}
+	// The modules the error names first: the words of a module's refusal open with its name.
+	order := make([]string, 0, len(assigned))
+	for _, m := range assigned {
+		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), m) {
+			order = append(order, m)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, m := range assigned {
+		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), m) {
+			order = append(order, m)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, m := range order {
+		if _, done := failed[m]; done {
+			continue
+		}
+		if _, _, _, again := compose.CompositionsShadow(stubbed(in, node, m), node, fps); again == nil || again.Error() != err.Error() {
+			return m
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// stubbed is in with module composed as a stub on node alone (compose.Stub, as node's Kept).
+func stubbed(in compose.Input, node, module string) compose.Input {
+	out := in
+	out.Nodes = append([]compose.Node(nil), in.Nodes...)
+	for i := range out.Nodes {
+		if out.Nodes[i].Name != node {
+			continue
+		}
+		man, ok := out.Nodes[i].Kept[module]
+		if !ok {
+			if man, ok = in.Catalogue[module]; !ok {
+				return in
+			}
+		}
+		kept := make(map[string]catalogue.Manifest, len(out.Nodes[i].Kept)+1)
+		for k, v := range out.Nodes[i].Kept {
+			kept[k] = v
+		}
+		kept[module] = compose.Stub(man)
+		out.Nodes[i].Kept = kept
+	}
+	return out
+}

go/compose/frombus/answer_rows_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+package frombus
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"reflect"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/overlay"
+)
+
+// Issue 1126 (the seed's shadow, round 2): a node's answer names every module it cannot compose, not the first only;
+// and a module folded into its own composition that names a build of the old form (de-spiegel on novox, nats, photos,
+// systemd-resolved: their haves name a build-... id and no fingerprint) is left to the node, carried as it runs.
+func answerNamesEveryRefusalAndLeavesAnOldBuildToTheNode(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	image := "alpine@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)
+	manifest := func(module string) []byte {
+		return []byte(`{"module":"` + module + `","version":"1","capabilities":["container-runtime"],` +
+			`"resources":[{"id":"state","type":"directory","path":"/var/lib/` + module + `","mode":"0700"},` +
+			`{"id":"server","type":"container","name":"` + module + `","artifact":"site"}],` +
+			`"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"site","kind":"upstream","from":"` + image + `"}]}}`)
+	}
+	lemurs := []byte(`{"module":"lemurs","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"service","type":"service","unit":"lemurs.service","state":"running","boot":"enabled"}]}`)
+	fp := func(c string) string { return "src2:" + strings.Repeat(c, 64) }
+	mk := func(placed ...string) *bus {
+		p := delivery.Placement{Node: "n1", Decided: delivery.NodeDecided{Hub: true, Address: "10.77.0.1"}}
+		for _, m := range placed {
+			p.Modules = append(p.Modules, delivery.PlacedModule{Module: m})
+		}
+		b := &bus{placements: map[string]delivery.Placement{"n1": p},
+			records:   map[string]delivery.NodeRecord{"n1": {Node: "n1", TunnelKey: publicKey(t), SealingKey: "sk", Capabilities: []string{"systemd", "container-runtime"}}},
+			modules:   map[string]delivery.Module{"lemurs": {Manifest: delivery.ManifestDigest(lemurs)}},
+			manifests: map[string][]byte{delivery.ManifestDigest(lemurs): lemurs},
+			builds:    map[string]*delivery.BuilderBuild{}}
+		for _, m := range []string{"web", "api", "spiegel"} {
+			raw := manifest(m)
+			b.manifests[delivery.ManifestDigest(raw)] = raw
+			b.modules[m] = delivery.Module{Manifest: delivery.ManifestDigest(raw)}
+		}
+		// web and api are built, their keys done and waiting for the reference of their image; spiegel has no build of
+		// the new form at all.
+		for i, m := range []string{"web", "api"} {
+			mod := b.modules[m]
+			mod.FP2 = fp(string(rune('1' + i)))
+			b.modules[m] = mod
+			b.builds[m+" "+mod.FP2] = &delivery.BuilderBuild{State: delivery.BuildDone, Manifest: mod.Manifest,
+				Artifacts: []delivery.BuiltArtifact{{Name: "site", Kind: "image", Digest: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("b", 64)}}}
+		}
+		return b
+	}
+	given := func(b *bus) map[string]*delivery.Placement {
+		p := b.placements["n1"]
+		return map[string]*delivery.Placement{"n1": &p}
+	}
+
+	// Every refusal: two builds taken in, and a module the composition refuses (its image never built), each named.
+	b := mk("lemurs", "web", "api", "spiegel")
+	a := Answer(ctx, b, Mesh{}, Scope{Node: "n1", Placements: given(b)},
+		map[string]string{"lemurs": fp("e"), "web": fp("1"), "api": fp("2"), "spiegel": fp("3")}, nil, "h1", 3)
+	var refused []string
+	for _, r := range a.Refusals {
+		refused = append(refused, r.Module)
+	}
+	if a.Verdict != delivery.CandidateRefused || a.Refused != "" || !reflect.DeepEqual(refused, []string{"api", "spiegel", "web"}) {
+		t.Errorf("every refusal: %+v, want api, spiegel and web refused, each named", a)
+	}
+	for _, r := range a.Refusals {
+		want := map[string]string{"api": "waits for the reference of site", "web": "waits for the reference of site",
+			"spiegel": "spiegel has not been built for this mesh"}[r.Module]
+		if !strings.Contains(r.Why, want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s refused as %q, want %q", r.Module, r.Why, want)
+		}
+	}
+	if raw, err := delivery.EncodeHaveNode(delivery.HaveNode{Candidates: map[string]delivery.CandidateAnswer{"g": a}}); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("the answer is not one a have holds: %v (%s)", err, raw)
+	}
+	if lemursOK := slices.ContainsFunc(a.Added, func(m delivery.ModuleAdded) bool { return m.Module == "lemurs" }); !lemursOK {
+		t.Errorf("lemurs, which composes, is not answered beside the refusals: %+v", a)
+	}
+
+	// The fold: spiegel runs inside the node's own composition at a build of the old form. Its resources are carried as
+	// they run, each after the one it runs after: the node's own is the one it runs, and the node composes itself.
+	b = mk("lemurs", overlay.Name, "spiegel")
+	p := b.placements["n1"]
+	p.Decided.Endpoint = "n1.example:51820"
+	b.placements["n1"] = p
+	fps := map[string]string{"lemurs": fp("e")}
+	stub := Scope{Node: "n1"}
+	in, err := Input(ctx, b, Mesh{}, stub)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	in.Nodes[0].Kept = map[string]catalogue.Manifest{"spiegel": compose.Stub(in.Catalogue["spiegel"])}
+	base, _, err := compose.Compositions(in, "n1", fps, compose.Reading)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	ownKey, _ := delivery.ComposedNodeKey("n1")
+	own := base[ownKey]
+	carriedRes := []json.RawMessage{
+		json.RawMessage(`{"id":"spiegel.state","type":"directory","path":"/var/lib/spiegel","mode":"0700"}`),
+		json.RawMessage(`{"id":"spiegel.server","type":"container","name":"spiegel","image":"registry.example/spiegel@sha256:` + strings.Repeat("c", 64) + `"}`)}
+	// They run after the node's first own resource.
+	own.Resources = append(append(append([]json.RawMessage{}, own.Resources[:1]...), carriedRes...), own.Resources[1:]...)
+	var running []delivery.Composed
+	for k, c := range base {
+		if k == ownKey {
+			c = own
+		}
+		running = append(running, c)
+	}
+	scope := Scope{Node: "n1", InOwn: []string{"spiegel"}, Running: running}
+	got, _, err := Compose(ctx, b, Mesh{}, scope, fps)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the node does not compose itself with spiegel folded at a build of the old form: %v", err)
+	}
+	gotOwn, _ := json.Marshal(got[ownKey].Resources)
+	wantOwn, _ := json.Marshal(own.Resources)
+	if string(gotOwn) != string(wantOwn) {
+		t.Errorf("the node's own composition is\n%s\nwant what runs\n%s", gotOwn, wantOwn)
+	}
+	a = Answer(ctx, b, Mesh{}, Scope{Node: "n1", Placements: given(b), InOwn: []string{"spiegel"}}, fps, running, "h1", 3)
+	if a.Verdict != delivery.CandidateSame {
+		t.Errorf("the fold's answer: %+v, want the same", a)
+	}
+	// Without what runs, the fold composes spiegel from its manifest, as before, and the composition refuses it.
+	if _, _, err := Compose(ctx, b, Mesh{}, Scope{Node: "n1", InOwn: []string{"spiegel"}}, fps); err == nil ||
+		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "spiegel has not been built for this mesh") {
+		t.Errorf("composed spiegel without what runs: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A node that reaches no artifact store says what its composition holds of one (issue 1126: ace and g14 answered
+// "reaches no artifact store", and nothing said why).
+func noStoreReachedSaysWhy(t *testing.T) {
+	in := compose.Input{Catalogue: map[string]catalogue.Manifest{
+		"distribution": {Module: "distribution", Serves: map[string]map[string]any{catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision: {"port": 5000}}}},
+		Nodes: []compose.Node{{Name: "g14", Assigned: []string{"adwaita"}}, {Name: "novox", Assigned: []string{"distribution"}}}}
+	if got := storeSought(in); got != "the composition holds g14, novox; artifact-store is served by distribution on novox, none of it on the private network with a port" {
+		t.Errorf("said %q", got)
+	}
+	in.Nodes = in.Nodes[:1]
+	if got := storeSought(in); got != "the composition holds g14; no module placed there serves artifact-store" {
+		t.Errorf("said %q", got)
+	}
+}

go/compose/frombus/frombus.go

@@ -113,12 +113,17 @@ type Mesh struct {
 //
 // InOwn is the modules the composing node runs inside its own composition (InOwn of what it runs), composed there again
 // (compose.Node.InOwn) rather than cut out as modules no build is given for (issue 1126).
+//
+// Running is what the composing node runs; of it, its own composition (`<node>.node`) is given to the composition
+// (compose.Node.RunsOwn), so a module folded there that names a build of the old form is left to the node, carried
+// as it runs (issue 1126). Nil composes every folded module from its manifest.
 type Scope struct {
 	Node       string
 	Every      bool
 	KeptAt     map[string]string
 	Placements map[string]*delivery.Placement
 	InOwn      []string
+	Running    []delivery.Composed
 }
 
 // InOwn is, of the modules p places on its node, those whose resources the node's own composition it runs
@@ -154,6 +159,13 @@ func InOwn(running []delivery.Composed, p delivery.Placement) []string {
 
 // Input is the composition input for s, read through r.
 func Input(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope) (compose.Input, error) {
+	return input(ctx, r, mesh, s, nil)
+}
+
+// input is Input; with refuse set, a module placed on the composing node whose build cannot be read or taken in is
+// handed to refuse and composed as a stub (compose.Stub, kept for that node alone) rather than ending the read, so a
+// node's answer names every module it cannot compose (issue 1126).
+func input(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, refuse func(module string, err error)) (compose.Input, error) {
 	placements, err := r.Placements(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return compose.Input{}, fmt.Errorf("frombus: placement: %w", err)
@@ -280,6 +292,12 @@ func Input(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope) (compose.Input, er
 				}
 				n.InOwn[module] = true
 			}
+			for i := range s.Running {
+				if s.Running[i].Module == "" {
+					own := s.Running[i]
+					n.RunsOwn = &own
+				}
+			}
 		}
 		in.Nodes = append(in.Nodes, n)
 		in.Holdings = append(in.Holdings, p.Held()...)
@@ -309,7 +327,7 @@ func Input(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope) (compose.Input, er
 		if _, ok := records[s.Node]; !ok {
 			return compose.Input{}, fmt.Errorf("frombus: %s has written no record of itself yet", s.Node)
 		}
-		if err := fromBuilds(ctx, r, &in, s, placements[s.Node], modules, read, parse); err != nil {
+		if err := fromBuilds(ctx, r, &in, s, placements[s.Node], modules, read, parse, refuse); err != nil {
 			return compose.Input{}, err
 		}
 		// Its own modules' secrets, sealed to its own key by the vault: a composition carries them sealed (ADR 0550 §5).
@@ -358,7 +376,29 @@ func Compose(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, fps map[string]s
 // by the one take-in rule (takein.Manifest), a templates archive read in the artifact store as the node reaches it
 // (issue 1126).
 func fromBuilds(ctx context.Context, r Reader, in *compose.Input, s Scope, p delivery.Placement, modules map[string]delivery.Module,
-	read func(module, digest string) (catalogue.Manifest, error), parse func([]byte) (catalogue.Manifest, error)) error {
+	read func(module, digest string) (catalogue.Manifest, error), parse func([]byte) (catalogue.Manifest, error),
+	refuse func(module string, err error)) error {
+	// stub keeps a refused module in the composition as a stub for this node alone (compose.Stub): what it provides
+	// and requires still shapes the rest.
+	stub := func(module string, err error) {
+		refuse(module, err)
+		for i := range in.Nodes {
+			if in.Nodes[i].Name != s.Node {
+				continue
+			}
+			man, ok := in.Nodes[i].Kept[module]
+			if !ok {
+				man, ok = in.Catalogue[module]
+			}
+			if !ok {
+				return
+			}
+			if in.Nodes[i].Kept == nil {
+				in.Nodes[i].Kept = map[string]catalogue.Manifest{}
+			}
+			in.Nodes[i].Kept[module] = compose.Stub(man)
+		}
+	}
 	address, addressErr := "", error(nil)
 	addressed := false
 	archive := func(ctx context.Context, reference, digest string) ([]byte, error) {
@@ -370,7 +410,7 @@ func fromBuilds(ctx context.Context, r Reader, in *compose.Input, s Scope, p del
 		case addressErr != nil:
 			return nil, addressErr
 		case address == "":
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s reaches no artifact store", s.Node)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s reaches no artifact store (%s)", s.Node, storeSought(*in))
 		}
 		return r.Archive(ctx, catalogue.Routed(reference, address), digest)
 	}
@@ -409,14 +449,23 @@ func fromBuilds(ctx context.Context, r Reader, in *compose.Input, s Scope, p del
 		}
 		b, err := r.Build(ctx, pm.Module, m.FP2)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("frombus: the build of %s at %s: %w", pm.Module, m.FP2, err)
+			err = fmt.Errorf("frombus: the build of %s at %s: %w", pm.Module, m.FP2, err)
+			if refuse == nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			stub(pm.Module, err)
+			continue
 		}
 		if b == nil || b.State != delivery.BuildDone {
 			continue // no done build at the trunk's: composed from the indexer's manifest, as before
 		}
 		resolved, err := built(pm.Module, m.FP2, b)
 		if err != nil {
-			return err
+			if refuse == nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			stub(pm.Module, err)
+			continue
 		}
 		in.Catalogue[pm.Module] = resolved
 	}
@@ -427,15 +476,22 @@ func fromBuilds(ctx context.Context, r Reader, in *compose.Input, s Scope, p del
 		for _, module := range sortedKeys(s.KeptAt) {
 			fp := s.KeptAt[module]
 			b, err := r.Build(ctx, module, fp)
-			if err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("frombus: the build of %s at %s: %w", module, fp, err)
+			switch {
+			case err != nil:
+				err = fmt.Errorf("frombus: the build of %s at %s: %w", module, fp, err)
+			case b == nil || b.State != delivery.BuildDone:
+				err = fmt.Errorf("frombus: %s is wanted at %s, of which the builder holds no done build", module, fp)
 			}
-			if b == nil || b.State != delivery.BuildDone {
-				return fmt.Errorf("frombus: %s is wanted at %s, of which the builder holds no done build", module, fp)
+			var resolved catalogue.Manifest
+			if err == nil {
+				resolved, err = built(module, fp, b)
 			}
-			resolved, err := built(module, fp, b)
 			if err != nil {
-				return err
+				if refuse == nil {
+					return err
+				}
+				stub(module, err)
+				continue
 			}
 			if in.Nodes[i].Kept == nil {
 				in.Nodes[i].Kept = map[string]catalogue.Manifest{}
@@ -613,3 +669,27 @@ func sortedKeys[V any](m map[string]V) []string {
 	sort.Strings(out)
 	return out
 }
+
+// storeSought says, for a node that reaches no artifact store, what the composition holds of one: the nodes it holds and
+// where each module serving the artifact store is placed, so the refusal names why (issue 1126).
+func storeSought(in compose.Input) string {
+	var nodes, where []string
+	for _, n := range in.Nodes {
+		nodes = append(nodes, n.Name)
+		for _, a := range n.Assigned {
+			if m, ok := in.Catalogue[a]; ok {
+				if _, serves := m.Serves[catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision]; serves {
+					where = append(where, a+" on "+n.Name)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(nodes)
+	sort.Strings(where)
+	said := "the composition holds " + strings.Join(nodes, ", ")
+	if len(where) == 0 {
+		return said + "; no module placed there serves " + catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision
+	}
+	return said + "; " + catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision + " is served by " + strings.Join(where, ", ") +
+		", none of it on the private network with a port"
+}

go/compose/frombus/frombus_test.go

@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ func publicKey(t *testing.T) string {
 // controller's store fills for compose's own two-machine mesh (compose's aMesh: anchor the hub, laptop), and that Input
 // composes; a node reads only its own config values; what cannot be composed is refused, naming it.
 func TestInput(t *testing.T) {
+	// Issue 1126, the seed's shadow: every refusal named, an old-form module left to the node, and no store reached
+	// saying why (answer_rows_test.go).
+	t.Run("every refusal, and an old build left to the node", answerNamesEveryRefusalAndLeavesAnOldBuildToTheNode)
+	t.Run("no store reached says why", noStoreReachedSaysWhy)
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	xterm, err := os.ReadFile("../../catalogue/testdata/catalogue-835bf22b-xterm.module.json")
 	if err != nil {

go/compose/input.go

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
 // Input is everything the composition reads. Each field is what one read of the controller's inventory answers, named
@@ -194,6 +195,11 @@ type Node struct {
 	// resources into the node's own, as the controller's composed writer does, unless fps gives one of the new form.
 	// The private network's module (overlay.Name), which nobody builds, is folded whether or not it is named here.
 	InOwn map[string]bool
+	// RunsOwn is the node's own composition (`<node>.node`) as it runs, when the node composes itself: a module folded
+	// there (InOwn) whose manifest names a build (NamesBuild) runs a build of the old form only the controller holds,
+	// so it is left to the node: Compositions composes it as a stub (Stub) and carries its resources as they run, each
+	// after the resource it runs after (issue 1126). Nil composes every folded module from its manifest, as before.
+	RunsOwn *delivery.Composed
 }
 
 // Place is where a node is, as its placement says (inv.Overlay).

go/delivery/delivery.go

@@ -410,8 +410,20 @@ type HaveNode struct {
 	// its shadow composer whenever an answer changes, removed when the candidate key goes. The node applies nothing of a
 	// candidate.
 	Candidates map[string]CandidateAnswer `json:"candidates,omitempty"`
+	// Composes is whose compositions the node applies: its own (ComposesOwn, the catalogue places it) or the
+	// controller's (ComposesController); ComposesWhy says why in words. Written by the node agent at each start, so a
+	// node returning to the controller's compositions when its placement key is deleted says so (issue 1126). Empty
+	// from an engine older than the field.
+	Composes    string `json:"composes,omitempty"`
+	ComposesWhy string `json:"composes-why,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// Whose compositions a node applies (HaveNode.Composes).
+const (
+	ComposesOwn        = "own"
+	ComposesController = "controller"
+)
+
 // Presence is whether a node or a part's instance is online; the entry's own time says since when. The watchman
 // writes it.
 type Presence struct {
@@ -506,6 +518,11 @@ func DecodeHave(data []byte) (Have, error) {
 }
 
 func (n HaveNode) check() error {
+	switch n.Composes {
+	case "", ComposesOwn, ComposesController:
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a node composes %q, neither %s nor %s", n.Composes, ComposesOwn, ComposesController)
+	}
 	for group, a := range n.Candidates {
 		if group == "" {
 			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a node's candidate answer names no group")
@@ -590,7 +607,8 @@ func SameHaveNode(a, b HaveNode) bool {
 	return a.V == b.V && a.Composed == b.Composed && sameJSON(a.Windows, b.Windows) && sameJSON(a.Busy, b.Busy) &&
 		sameJSON(a.Strays, b.Strays) && sameJSON(a.Filters, b.Filters) && sameJSON(a.Profile, b.Profile) &&
 		(a.Record == nil) == (b.Record == nil) && (a.Record == nil || SameNodeRecord(*a.Record, *b.Record)) &&
-		jsonEqual(a.Sealed, b.Sealed) && jsonEqual(a.Candidates, b.Candidates)
+		jsonEqual(a.Sealed, b.Sealed) && jsonEqual(a.Candidates, b.Candidates) && a.Composes == b.Composes &&
+		a.ComposesWhy == b.ComposesWhy
 }
 
 // SamePresence says whether two presences are the same value.

go/delivery/placement_candidate.go

@@ -132,8 +132,17 @@ type CandidateAnswer struct {
 	Refusals []ModuleRefused `json:"refusals,omitempty"`
 	// Refused is why the node could not compose with the candidate at all; Refusals is then empty.
 	Refused string `json:"refused,omitempty"`
+	// Returns is, for a head that deletes the node's placement file, what the node does then: it returns to the
+	// controller's compositions (ReturnsToController), as a node the catalogue does not place composes none of its own
+	// (issue 1126: the seed's revert). Same, Differs, Added and Removed then compare the controller's compositions at
+	// the node's wants with what it runs, and the verdict is theirs; a want the controller holds no composition for is
+	// refused (Refused, without Returns).
+	Returns string `json:"returns,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// ReturnsToController is what a node answers a head that deletes its placement file.
+const ReturnsToController = "the head deletes this node's placement: it returns to the controller's compositions"
+
 // ModuleDiffers is one module the node runs and the candidate still places whose composition is not the one it runs:
 // both digests (Composed with the candidate, Running what runs), the first resource that differs by its id, or empty
 // when every resource is equal, and why in words.
@@ -187,6 +196,10 @@ func (a CandidateAnswer) check() error {
 	if a.Refused != "" && len(a.Same)+len(a.Differs)+len(a.Added)+len(a.Removed)+len(a.Refusals) > 0 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a candidate the node could not compose names modules")
 	}
+	if a.Returns != "" && (a.Refused != "" || len(a.Refusals) > 0) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a candidate the node returns to the controller's compositions on is compared, never refused: " +
+			"a composition the controller holds none of is refused without returning")
+	}
 	for _, d := range a.Differs {
 		if d.Module == "" || d.Why == "" {
 			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a candidate difference names no module or no why")

go/delivery/placement_test.go

@@ -229,19 +229,33 @@ func TestPlacement(t *testing.T) {
 			"refused": {Head: "h1", Revision: 3, Verdict: CandidateRefused, Refused: "unbound postgres"},
 			"added":   {Head: "h1", Verdict: CandidateDiffers, Same: []string{"node"}, Added: []ModuleAdded{{Module: "app", Unissued: []string{"app/token"}}}, Removed: []string{"old"}},
 			"a value": {Head: "h1", Verdict: CandidateRefused, Same: []string{"node"}, Refusals: []ModuleRefused{{Module: "db", Why: "stands in for db/password"}}},
+			// A head that deletes the node's placement file: the node returns to the controller's compositions (issue 1126,
+			// the seed's revert, mesh-catalog #526).
+			"returns": {Head: "h1", Verdict: CandidateSame, Returns: ReturnsToController, Same: []string{"app", "node"}},
+			"returns, the controller's differs": {Head: "h1", Verdict: CandidateDiffers, Returns: ReturnsToController, Same: []string{"node"},
+				Differs: []ModuleDiffers{{Module: "app", Resource: "file:/etc/app", Why: "the resource differs"}}, Removed: []string{"old"}},
 		}
-		n := HaveNode{Composed: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64), Sealed: []string{"box"}, Candidates: answers}
+		n := HaveNode{Composed: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64), Sealed: []string{"box"}, Candidates: answers,
+			Composes: ComposesOwn, ComposesWhy: "the catalogue places it (placement.n1)"}
 		raw, err := EncodeHaveNode(n)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		back, err := DecodeHaveNode(raw)
-		if err != nil || !SameHaveNode(back, HaveNode{V: Version, Composed: n.Composed, Sealed: n.Sealed, Candidates: answers}) {
+		if err != nil || !SameHaveNode(back, HaveNode{V: Version, Composed: n.Composed, Sealed: n.Sealed, Candidates: answers,
+			Composes: ComposesOwn, ComposesWhy: n.ComposesWhy}) {
 			t.Fatalf("a node's answers changed on the way: %+v, %v", back, err)
 		}
-		if SameHaveNode(back, HaveNode{V: Version, Composed: n.Composed, Sealed: n.Sealed}) {
+		if SameHaveNode(back, HaveNode{V: Version, Composed: n.Composed, Sealed: n.Sealed, Composes: ComposesOwn, ComposesWhy: n.ComposesWhy}) {
 			t.Error("a node's have without its answers counts as the same")
 		}
+		if SameHaveNode(back, HaveNode{V: Version, Composed: n.Composed, Sealed: n.Sealed, Candidates: answers,
+			Composes: ComposesController, ComposesWhy: n.ComposesWhy}) {
+			t.Error("a node's have composing otherwise counts as the same")
+		}
+		if _, err := EncodeHaveNode(HaveNode{Composes: "both"}); err == nil {
+			t.Error("a node composing neither its own nor the controller's was taken")
+		}
 		// CompareComposed: the bus's user list is left out on both sides; anything else that differs is named.
 		file := func(id, content string) json.RawMessage {
 			return json.RawMessage(`{"id":"` + id + `","type":"file","module":"nats","path":"/etc/` + id + `","mode":"0600","content":"` + content + `"}`)
@@ -285,6 +299,8 @@ func TestPlacement(t *testing.T) {
 			"same with an added":  {Head: "h", Verdict: CandidateSame, Added: []ModuleAdded{{Module: "a"}}},
 			"differs refusing":    {Head: "h", Verdict: CandidateDiffers, Removed: []string{"a"}, Refusals: []ModuleRefused{{Module: "b", Why: "x"}}},
 			"refused and modules": {Head: "h", Verdict: CandidateRefused, Refused: "x", Same: []string{"a"}},
+			"returns refusing":    {Head: "h", Verdict: CandidateRefused, Returns: ReturnsToController, Refusals: []ModuleRefused{{Module: "b", Why: "x"}}},
+			"returns refused":     {Head: "h", Verdict: CandidateRefused, Returns: ReturnsToController, Refused: "x"},
 		} {
 			if _, err := EncodeHaveNode(HaveNode{Candidates: map[string]CandidateAnswer{"g": a}}); err == nil {
 				t.Errorf("%s: taken", name)