Merge pull request 'L3: the tool runner says it is the tool runner, and the dead TypeScript callers of the old catalog module are gone (ADR 0604)' (#58) from feat/l3b-bus into main

This commit was merged in pull request #58.
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32 changed files with 21 additions and 4336 deletions
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@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ marked executable — is **launched** rather than imported (novox/hq ADR 0188):
as a child with its own environment and speaks MCP over stdio to it, `tools/list` once and
`tools/call` per call. A tool it lists as `<seat>.<verb>` is the seat's implementation. A child that
exits is named in the log and started again on its next call. So a tools bundle may be written in
any language; the mesh's SDK for each is the stdio loop and nothing more (`node-tools/src/launch.ts`
is the runtime's side of it).
any language; the mesh's SDK for each is the stdio loop and nothing more (`node-tools/internal/launch` is the runtime's side of it).
Everything hard — dispatch, collection, duplicate-name safety — is the sdk's. This is the thin
wrapper that binds the bus and loads the modules. Keeping the bus client here, out of the sdk, is
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require (
)
require (
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103142843-f8bd12e4b7b1
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103174208-b7abe203a929
github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op // indirect
github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 // indirect
github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 // indirect
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103142843-f8bd12e4b7b1 h1:T66tg9T/1hHg6KN/bDScHPT41IHkxLAGGO8VJiAOlb8=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103142843-f8bd12e4b7b1/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103174208-b7abe203a929 h1:RtAFbUJRP1qO9AIMM2ue+cXNzqj7WZ7IOlSqNvttwuU=
git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103174208-b7abe203a929/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=
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@@ -1046,7 +1046,7 @@ func (c *Conn) AskAs(module, key string, body any) (Answered, error) {
// EventsStream is where every module's events land, and ConsumerOf the durable consumer the
// mesh makes for a module on a machine: the same names the module's own runtime bound
// (node-tools/src/broker-nats.ts), so moving the module into the node's runtime neither loses an
// (the retired TypeScript runtime's broker-nats.ts), so moving the module into the node's runtime neither loses an
// event nor sees one twice.
const EventsStream = "EVENTS"
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ func TestTheRepositoryHoldsNoCheckScriptAndNodeToolsIsItsOnlyModule(t *testing.T
if !d.IsDir() && d.Name() == "module.json" {
found = append(found, filepath.ToSlash(p))
}
// ADR 0604 section 4: the TypeScript that called the old catalog module's tools is gone, and nothing
// under node-tools names one (the needle is built so this file does not name it either).
if !d.IsDir() && strings.Contains(filepath.ToSlash(p), "/node-tools/") {
if body, rerr := os.ReadFile(p); rerr == nil && strings.Contains(string(body), "catalog"+"_modules") {
t.Errorf("%s names a catalog tool of the retired module", p)
}
}
return nil
})
if err != nil {
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@@ -206,7 +206,12 @@ func TestTheManifestNamesNothingOfTheController(t *testing.T) {
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if refused := catalogue.ManifestRefusals(map[string]catalogue.Manifest{Module: m}); len(refused) != 0 {
t.Errorf("the controller-dependence check refuses node-tools' manifest: %v", refused)
// Read as text, as mesh-catalog's controllerdeps check reads its own: mesh-sdk names no module (issue 774), and the
// manifest says it is the tool runner rather than being known by its name.
if strings.Contains(string(raw), "mesh-controller") {
t.Error("node-tools' manifest names the ended controller")
}
if !catalogue.IsToolRunner(m) {
t.Error("node-tools' manifest does not say it is the tool runner (\"tool-runner\": true)")
}
}
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
"module": "node-tools",
"version": "1",
"slug": "node-tools",
"tool-runner": true,
"invokes": [
"*"
],
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@@ -11,10 +11,6 @@
"@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.6",
"nats": "^2.29.0"
},
"bin": {
"mesh": "dist/mesh.js",
"mesh-tools": "dist/main.js"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@types/node": "^22.20.1",
"esbuild": "^0.25.0",
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@@ -1,17 +1,8 @@
{
"name": "@novox/mesh-tools",
"version": "0.1.0",
"description": "The Novox Mesh tool runtime \u2014 binds the mesh broker and serves the assigned modules' tools.",
"description": "The Novox Mesh tool runtime — binds the mesh broker and serves the assigned modules' tools.",
"type": "module",
"bin": {
"mesh-tools": "./dist/main.js",
"mesh": "./dist/mesh.js"
},
"scripts": {
"build": "tsc",
"pretest": "tsc",
"test": "node --test --test-concurrency=1 --experimental-strip-types 'test/*.test.ts'"
},
"dependencies": {
"@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.6",
"nats": "^2.29.0"
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// What a runtime serves, it announces (novox/hq ADR 0197): the NATS services protocol's discovery —
// `$SRV.PING`, `$SRV.INFO`, `$SRV.STATS`, and the same followed by the service's name and its id —
// answered in the io.nats.micro.v1 format with what is served at the moment of the request. Serving is
// unchanged; this only says what is served. One service per runtime process, because the bus admits
// one reply per request from each responder: one endpoint per tool per subject, its metadata saying
// which module, seat, scope and machine it is. The same shape the Go runtime answers.
import { StringCodec } from "nats";
import { asSchema } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/stdio";
import type { ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import type { RuntimeBroker } from "./broker-nats.js";
const sc = StringCodec();
export const VERSION = "0.1.0";
export const INFO_RESPONSE = "io.nats.micro.v1.info_response";
export const PING_RESPONSE = "io.nats.micro.v1.ping_response";
export const STATS_RESPONSE = "io.nats.micro.v1.stats_response";
/** One tool served on one subject, as announced. */
export interface Endpoint {
kind: "tool" | "seat";
module: string;
tool: string;
seat?: string;
scope?: "mesh" | "node";
node: string;
description: string;
schema: unknown;
interchangeable: boolean;
subject: string;
queue?: string;
}
/** A seat's verb as the runtime serves it, with the definition that answers it. */
export interface ServedSeatVerb {
seat: string;
verb: string;
subject: string;
holder: string;
tool: ToolDefinition;
}
export interface Service {
name: string;
id: string;
description: string;
metadata: Record<string, string>;
}
/** The endpoint's name as the protocol allows it; the metadata, not the name, identifies it. */
function nameOf(e: Endpoint): string {
const clean = (s: string) => s.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9_-]/g, "_");
return `${clean(e.kind === "seat" ? e.seat ?? "" : e.module)}__${clean(e.tool)}`;
}
/** The info_response for these endpoints. */
export function info(s: Service, endpoints: Endpoint[]): Record<string, unknown> {
return {
name: s.name, id: s.id, version: VERSION, metadata: s.metadata, type: INFO_RESPONSE, description: s.description,
endpoints: endpoints.map((e) => {
const metadata: Record<string, string> = {
kind: e.kind, module: e.module, tool: e.tool, node: e.node, description: e.description,
schema: JSON.stringify(e.schema ?? {}), interchangeable: e.interchangeable ? "true" : "false",
};
if (e.kind === "seat") {
metadata.seat = e.seat ?? "";
metadata.scope = e.scope ?? "mesh";
}
return { name: nameOf(e), subject: e.subject, queue_group: e.queue ?? "", metadata };
}),
};
}
/** Everything served now: each module's tools on every subject issued for them, and each held
* seat's verbs on the seat's subject. */
export function endpointsOf(
broker: RuntimeBroker,
own: { module: string; tools: ToolDefinition[] }[],
seats: ServedSeatVerb[],
): Endpoint[] {
const node = broker.node ?? "";
const out: Endpoint[] = [];
for (const { module, tools } of own) {
for (const t of tools) {
const served = broker.servedOn ? broker.servedOn(module, t.name) : [];
const interchangeable = served.some((s) => s.subject === `mesh.mod.${module}.tool.${t.name}`);
for (const s of served) {
out.push({ kind: "tool", module, tool: t.name, node, description: t.description, schema: asSchema(t.input),
interchangeable, subject: s.subject, queue: s.queue });
}
}
}
for (const v of seats) {
out.push({ kind: "seat", module: v.holder, tool: v.verb, seat: v.seat,
scope: node && v.subject.endsWith(`.${node}`) ? "node" : "mesh", node, description: v.tool.description,
schema: asSchema(v.tool.input), interchangeable: false, subject: v.subject });
}
return out;
}
/** Answer discovery for one service until stopped. */
export function announce(broker: RuntimeBroker, s: Service, current: () => Endpoint[]): () => void {
const started = new Date().toISOString();
const identity = { name: s.name, id: s.id, version: VERSION, metadata: s.metadata };
const answer = (subject: string): Uint8Array | undefined => {
const parts = subject.split(".");
if (parts[0] !== "$SRV" || parts.length < 2) return undefined;
if (parts.length >= 3 && parts[2] !== s.name) return undefined; // another service's
if (parts.length >= 4 && parts[3] !== s.id) return undefined; // another instance's
let v: unknown;
switch (parts[1]) {
case "PING":
v = { ...identity, type: PING_RESPONSE };
break;
case "INFO":
v = info(s, current());
break;
case "STATS":
v = { ...identity, type: STATS_RESPONSE, started, endpoints: current().map((e) => ({
name: nameOf(e), subject: e.subject, queue_group: e.queue ?? "", num_requests: 0, num_errors: 0,
last_error: "", processing_time: 0, average_processing_time: 0 })) };
break;
default:
return undefined;
}
return sc.encode(JSON.stringify(v));
};
const stops: (() => void)[] = [];
// Exactly the questions asked of every service and of this one by name and instance — what the
// grants allow (novox/hq ADR 0197). A wildcard is refused by the bus, and a refused subscription
// ends a runtime: on 2026-10-03 it crash-looped every container that announced itself.
for (const verb of ["PING", "INFO", "STATS"]) {
for (const subject of [`$SRV.${verb}`, `$SRV.${verb}.${s.name}`, `$SRV.${verb}.${s.name}.${s.id}`]) {
stops.push(broker.raw!(subject, (subj) => answer(subj)));
}
}
return () => stops.forEach((stop) => stop());
}
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// The tool runtime's broker client, on NATS.
//
// **The sdk's contract does not change** (novox/hq ADR 0106, ADR 0039): a module is written
// against `request`, `handle`, `publish`, `subscribe`, `close`, and the runtime implements them.
// That is why a module built before any of this runs on the new runtime without a rebuild, and
// why the sdk's own diff for the whole bus change is three comments.
//
// Underneath, everything is a subject and durability is JetStream (novox/hq design 25,
// design 29).
//
// mesh.mod.<module>.event.<type> an event this module emits
// mesh.mod.<module>.tool.<tool> a tool this module serves
// mesh.seat.<seat>.accept.<verb> work submitted to a role
//
// The module never writes one of those: it names its events and tools locally and the mesh
// derives the subject (design 29 §1), so reorganising the subject space leaves every module
// correct.
import { AsyncLocalStorage } from "node:async_hooks";
import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
import net from "node:net";
import tls from "node:tls";
import { connect as natsConnect, headers as natsHeaders, StringCodec, type JsMsg, type Subscription, type TlsOptions } from "nats";
import type { Broker, Envelope, EventHeaders } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
const sc = StringCodec();
/** Requests wait this long for an answer before failing. Unchanged from what modules already
* expect, so a module's timeout handling is not something the bus quietly redefines. */
const REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
export class PinMismatchError extends Error {}
/** A broker credential as the mesh delivers it (novox/hq ADR 0120): the bus's address, the
* fingerprint of the certificate it must present, and the node and module the account is scoped
* to — the runtime derives its subjects from those rather than being told them. */
export interface Credential {
url: string;
fingerprint?: string;
node?: string;
module?: string;
user?: string;
password?: string;
/** The seats this module claims, with the verbs each promises (novox/hq ADR 0159). The runtime
* serves each claimed seat's verbs with its tools of the same name; the bus admits only the
* holder's subscription, so claiming and not holding costs a refused subscription and nothing else. */
claims?: { seat: string; scope?: string; serves?: string[] }[];
}
/**
* What the mesh issued this assignment (novox/hq ADR 0160): where its tools are served, in which
* queue, the verbs of the seats it holds, where its events land, what it may reach. Read from the
* ASSIGNMENTS stream at `mesh.assignment.<node>.<module>` — the one subject a runtime derives for
* itself — and followed live. Absent for a mesh older than the membership, and then the runtime
* serves the shape it always derived, and says so.
*/
export interface Membership {
node: string;
module: string;
/** Addresses a tool is answered on; `{tool}` stands for the tool's name. */
serves: { subject: string; queue?: string }[];
seats?: { seat: string; verb: string; subject: string }[];
emits: string;
reaches?: Record<string, string[]>;
tools: string;
}
/** What a tool call answers: the module's own result, and which machine answered it
* (novox/hq ADR 0159) — a module on several machines is otherwise an answer from nowhere. */
export interface Answered<Res> {
result: Res;
node?: string;
}
/** The bus as the runtime sees it: the sdk's contract, and the few things only the runtime needs —
* an answer that says which machine gave it, serving a subject that is not a module's own tool
* (a seat's verb), and following the memberships of the modules it serves beside its own. */
export interface RuntimeBroker extends Broker {
/** Call a tool by key, or — when `on` names a subject the mesh listed for it (ADR 0160) — there. */
ask<Req, Res>(key: string, body: Req, on?: string): Promise<Answered<Res>>;
handleSubject<Req, Res>(subject: string, handler: (body: Req) => Promise<Res>): Promise<() => void>;
/**
* Serve another module's tools from this connection: read its membership on this machine and
* follow it, so `handle("<module>.<tool>")` is served where the mesh issued that module (novox/hq
* ADR 0175: one runtime per node, every assigned module's tools). The account must be allowed
* to read that membership and to subscribe its subjects — the node's is; a module's own is not,
* and is refused by the bus, not here.
*/
follow(module: string): Promise<void>;
/** What the mesh issued this assignment — this module's when none is named — or undefined when
* nothing has been issued yet. */
membership(module?: string): Membership | undefined;
/** Called when the mesh issues a new membership to any module this connection follows; the
* runtime re-serves on it. The membership says which module it is for. */
onMembership(handler: (m: Membership) => void): void;
/** The modules whose memberships this connection follows: its own and every one `follow` added. */
serving(): string[];
/** The module this connection is: what its credential named, and what a bare key serves as. */
readonly module: string;
/** Where a served module's tool is answered right now (ADR 0197: what it serves, it announces). */
servedOn?(module: string, tool: string): { subject: string; queue?: string }[];
/** Answer a subject in a format of its own, not a tool's reply envelope — the NATS services
* protocol's discovery (novox/hq ADR 0197). An undefined answer is no reply. */
raw?(subject: string, answer: (subject: string, data: Uint8Array) => Uint8Array | undefined): () => void;
/** The machine this connection serves on, when its credential names one. */
readonly node?: string;
}
/**
* Which module's tool is at work on this connection, when one is (novox/hq ADR 0175). One runtime
* carries many modules' tools, and an event a tool emits must land on the emitting *module's*
* subject, not the runtime's — so the runtime runs each tool inside this store, and `publish`
* reads the module from it. Outside a tool the connection's own module stands.
*/
export const atWork = new AsyncLocalStorage<{ module: string }>();
const ASSIGNMENTS_STREAM = "ASSIGNMENTS";
/** The one address a runtime derives for itself (ADR 0160). */
export function membershipSubject(node: string, module: string): string {
return `mesh.assignment.${node}.${module}`;
}
/** Whether a connection failure is worth retrying, or is a fact about this configuration that
* retrying cannot change. The runtime's supervisor asks this and does not need to know what it
* is connected to. */
export function fatalBrokerReason(err: unknown): string | null {
if (err instanceof PinMismatchError) return "the bus's certificate does not match the pin";
const e = err as { code?: string; message?: string };
const message = typeof e?.message === "string" ? e.message : String(err);
if (e?.code === "ERR_INVALID_URL" || /invalid url/i.test(message)) {
return "the bus address is not a usable URL";
}
if (/authorization violation|user authentication expired|permissions violation/i.test(message)) {
return "the bus refused this account";
}
return null;
}
/**
* Connect to the mesh bus and return a Broker.
*
* **A module's subjects come from its credential, not from its calls.** `node` and `module` name
* the account the mesh issued, and every subject this client publishes or subscribes is derived
* from them — so a module cannot name another's namespace even by mistake, and what it emits
* matches what the mesh authorised (ADR 0074's identity rule).
*/
export async function connectNats(
target: string | Credential,
opts: { module?: string } = {},
): Promise<RuntimeBroker> {
const cred: Credential = typeof target === "string" ? { url: target } : target;
const self = cred.module ?? opts.module;
if (!self) {
throw new Error(
"a broker credential with no module: the runtime derives its subjects from the account " +
"the mesh issued, and cannot guess which module it is",
);
}
const conn = await natsConnect({
servers: cred.url,
user: cred.user,
pass: cred.password,
name: `${cred.node ?? "?"}.${self}`,
tls: cred.fingerprint ? await pinnedTls(cred.url, cred.fingerprint) : undefined,
// Its own inbox, not a random one: every user's inbox is private to it (design 25 §4), and the
// grant names `_INBOX.<user>.>` — a reply space the client invented would be refused, and with
// it every pull for the next message and every answer to a tool call.
inboxPrefix: cred.user ? `_INBOX.${cred.user}` : undefined,
// Reconnect forever: the bus being restarted is an upgrade, not a reason for every module on
// the mesh to exit. `close()` stays the only thing that ends the connection.
maxReconnectAttempts: -1,
});
const js = conn.jetstream();
const subs: Subscription[] = [];
// Every registration, and the one reader that dispatches to them. A module has one durable
// consumer; the loop belongs to the connection rather than to a subscription.
const listeners: { pattern: string; handler: (env: Envelope<unknown>) => Promise<void> }[] = [];
let reading: Awaited<ReturnType<Awaited<ReturnType<typeof js.consumers.get>>["consume"]>> | undefined;
let closed = false;
const node = cred.node;
// The memberships, one per module this connection serves, each read once and followed. A
// module's own runtime follows one, its own; the node's runtime follows one per assigned module
// (novox/hq ADR 0175) — the same subject shape, the same stream, read as many times as there are
// modules, and nothing on the bus learns a new shape for it. A direct get is one request on the
// stream's API, which is the whole of what an account may ask JetStream for a subject it is
// granted; a 404 is a mesh that has not issued one, which is a fact to say and not an error to
// retry.
const issued = new Map<string, Membership | undefined>();
const issuedHandlers: ((m: Membership) => void)[] = [];
const follow = async (module: string): Promise<void> => {
if (!node || issued.has(module)) return;
issued.set(module, undefined);
const subjectOfTheirs = membershipSubject(node, module);
try {
// The subject-addressed form of a direct get — the stream, then the subject, nothing in
// the body — because that is the one address the mesh grants this account on the
// stream's API; the body form asks the stream's root, which it may not.
const got = await conn.request(`$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.${ASSIGNMENTS_STREAM}.${subjectOfTheirs}`,
new Uint8Array(0), { timeout: 5_000 });
const status = got.headers?.code ?? 0;
if (status === 0 && got.data.length > 0) {
issued.set(module, JSON.parse(sc.decode(got.data)) as Membership);
}
} catch {
// Not readable here: an older mesh, a stream not yet asserted, or no grant. Said below.
}
if (!issued.get(module)) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] no membership issued for ${module} on ${node} yet; serving the derived shape until one arrives`);
}
try {
const live = conn.subscribe(subjectOfTheirs);
subs.push(live);
void (async () => {
for await (const msg of live) {
try {
const m = JSON.parse(sc.decode(msg.data)) as Membership;
issued.set(module, m);
console.log(`[mesh-tools] ${module} on ${node} was issued a new membership; re-serving on it`);
for (const h of issuedHandlers) h(m);
} catch (err) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] a membership arrived that is not one: ${err}`);
}
}
})();
} catch {
// A subscription this account may not make is a mesh older than the membership.
}
};
await follow(self);
/** The subjects a tool of a served module is served on: from that module's membership when
* issued, derived otherwise (the shape the mesh issues on day one, so the two agree). */
const servedOn = (module: string, tool: string): { subject: string; queue?: string }[] => {
const m = issued.get(module);
if (m) {
const out = m.serves.map((s) => ({ subject: s.subject.replace("{tool}", tool), queue: s.queue }));
// The verb that lists what this module serves is answered on the mesh's plain address for it
// whatever the placement — one answer suffices, so a queue — and on this machine's beside it.
if (tool === "tools" && m.tools && !out.some((s) => s.subject === m.tools)) {
out.unshift({ subject: m.tools, queue: `serve.${module}` });
}
return out;
}
const base = `mesh.mod.${module}.tool.${tool}`;
const out: { subject: string; queue?: string }[] = [{ subject: base, queue: `serve.${module}` }];
if (node) out.push({ subject: `${base}.${node}` });
return out;
};
/** Where a call by key goes: a subject this connection's own membership says it reaches, when it
* says one — the machine's when named — else the derived shape. */
const reachedAt = (key: string): string => {
const [name, wanted] = key.split("@", 2);
const reach = issued.get(self)?.reaches?.[name];
if (reach && reach.length > 0) {
if (wanted) {
const at = reach.find((s) => s.endsWith(`.${wanted}`));
if (at) return at;
} else {
return reach[0];
}
}
return toolSubject(key, self);
};
/** Answer one subject with one handler, and say which machine answered (novox/hq ADR 0159). */
const answerOn = <Req, Res>(
subject: string,
queue: string | undefined,
handler: (body: Req) => Promise<Res>,
): (() => void) => {
const sub = conn.subscribe(subject, queue ? { queue } : {});
subs.push(sub);
void (async () => {
// **A refused subscription is said, never fatal** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/218, as 217 for the
// announcements). The grants are the mesh's word on what this account may answer; a subject
// they leave out — a seat claimed here and held elsewhere — costs that subject, never the
// module's other tools, its handlers and its provisioning. Unhandled, the refusal ended the
// process and a module's runtime crash-looped on 2026-10-04.
try {
for await (const msg of sub) {
let reply: { result?: Res; error?: string; node?: string };
try {
reply = { result: await handler(JSON.parse(sc.decode(msg.data)) as Req) };
} catch (err) {
// The caller is told, rather than left to time out: a handler that threw is a
// different failure from a tool nobody serves, and only one of them is worth retrying.
reply = { error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) };
}
if (node) reply.node = node;
msg.respond(sc.encode(JSON.stringify(reply)));
}
} catch (err) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] the bus refused ${subject}: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}; ` +
"not served here, and the rest serves on");
}
})();
return () => sub.unsubscribe();
};
/**
* Ask one question and await one answer, with the machine that gave it.
*
* Core NATS request/reply, not JetStream: a tool call must never be persisted (design 25 §3),
* and a lost one is a timeout the caller already handles. The reply travels on the inbox the
* request carries, which the responder may answer because its account has `allow_responses`
* — one reply to a message it actually received, and nothing wider.
*/
const ask = async <Req, Res>(key: string, body: Req, on?: string): Promise<Answered<Res>> => {
const msg = await conn.request(on ?? reachedAt(key), sc.encode(JSON.stringify(body)), {
timeout: REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS,
});
const reply = JSON.parse(sc.decode(msg.data)) as { result?: Res; error?: string; node?: string };
if (reply.error) throw new Error(reply.error);
return { result: reply.result as Res, node: reply.node };
};
return {
async request<Req, Res>(key: string, body: Req): Promise<Res> {
return (await ask<Req, Res>(key, body)).result;
},
ask,
/**
* Answer a question, two ways (novox/hq ADR 0159): on the module's subject in a queue group,
* so several machines may serve one tool and exactly one of them answers each call; and on the
* same subject with this machine as its last token, so a caller that names the machine reaches
* this instance and no other. A runtime that does not know its machine serves only the first,
* which is how it always behaved.
*/
async handle<Req, Res>(key: string, handler: (body: Req) => Promise<Res>): Promise<() => void> {
// A seat's verb named outright is served on the seat's subject as given, for a holder that
// knows its role without a membership; everything else is a served module's own tool, served
// where the mesh issued that module (ADR 0160). A key naming a module this connection does
// not follow is not served here at all: a module serves its own tools, and the node's
// runtime those of the modules it was given (ADR 0175) — never a stranger's.
if (key.startsWith("seat:")) {
const stop = answerOn(toolSubject(key, self), undefined, handler);
return () => stop();
}
const dot = key.indexOf(".");
const module = dot < 0 ? self : key.slice(0, dot);
if (!issued.has(module) && module !== self) {
throw new Error(
`${self} cannot serve ${key}: a module serves its own tools, and a runtime those of the ` +
"modules it follows",
);
}
const tool = dot < 0 ? key : key.slice(dot + 1);
let stops = servedOn(module, tool).map((s) => answerOn(s.subject, s.queue, handler));
// When that module's new membership arrives, serve where it now says and stop serving where
// it no longer does.
issuedHandlers.push((m) => {
if (m.module !== module) return;
stops.forEach((stop) => stop());
stops = servedOn(module, tool).map((s) => answerOn(s.subject, s.queue, handler));
});
return () => stops.forEach((stop) => stop());
},
module: self,
node,
servedOn,
raw(subject: string, answer: (subject: string, data: Uint8Array) => Uint8Array | undefined): () => void {
const sub = conn.subscribe(subject);
subs.push(sub);
void (async () => {
// **A refusal here is said, never fatal** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/217). This serves discovery —
// what the runtime says about itself — not the work; a bus that refuses it costs the mesh
// seeing this runtime, not the runtime's tools and handlers. Unhandled, the refusal ended the
// process and every per-module container crash-looped on 2026-10-03.
try {
for await (const msg of sub) {
const body = answer(msg.subject, msg.data);
if (body) msg.respond(body);
}
} catch (err) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] the bus refused ${subject}: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}; ` +
"discovery will not see this runtime there, and it serves on");
}
})();
return () => sub.unsubscribe();
},
follow,
serving: () => [...issued.keys()],
membership: (module?: string) => issued.get(module ?? self),
onMembership: (handler: (m: Membership) => void) => {
issuedHandlers.push(handler);
},
async handleSubject<Req, Res>(subject: string, handler: (body: Req) => Promise<Res>): Promise<() => void> {
return answerOn(subject, undefined, handler);
},
/**
* Emit an event.
*
* Published into JetStream and awaited, so a publish the bus never accepted fails the emit
* rather than vanishing — at-least-once starts at the emitter, not only the consumer
* (ADR 0042).
*
* `msgID` is the event's own id, so a redelivery after a crash between publishing and
* acknowledging is de-duplicated by the server inside its window rather than seen twice.
*/
async publish<T>(env: Envelope<T>): Promise<void> {
// **The body is the payload and the metadata rides as headers** (ADR 0042). That shape
// is what the conformance suite pins: an implementation that nested the whole envelope in
// the body would pass every one of its own tests and agree with nobody.
const meta = (env.headers ?? {}) as Record<string, string>;
const h = natsHeaders();
for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(meta)) {
if (v != null) h.set(k, String(v));
}
if (!meta["content-type"]) h.set("content-type", "application/json");
if (env.node) h.set("x-node", env.node);
// The emitting module's subject: the tool at work's when a served module's tool emits from
// the node's runtime (ADR 0175), this connection's own otherwise.
await js.publish(eventSubject(env.key, atWork.getStore()?.module ?? self), sc.encode(JSON.stringify(env.body)), {
headers: h,
// De-duplicated by the server inside its window, so a redelivery after a crash between
// publishing and acknowledging is not seen twice. Only the emitter can make this id.
msgID: meta["x-event-id"],
});
},
/**
* React to events.
*
* The durable consumer is the **mesh's** to create, from what this module declared it
* consumes (design 29 §3) — this binds to it and never creates one. A runtime that created
* its own would be a module deciding its own delivery semantics, and its account cannot
* reach the JetStream API to do it anyway.
*
* **One consumer, one loop, however many patterns a module registers.** A module has exactly one
* durable consumer, so two loops reading it would each take half the messages — and a loop that
* received one its own pattern does not match acknowledges it, which is the right answer for a
* filter wider than anything registered and silent loss when it is another handler's. Every
* registration is therefore dispatched from one reader, and a message is acknowledged once every
* handler it is for has taken it.
*/
async subscribe<T>(
pattern: string,
handler: (env: Envelope<T>) => Promise<void>,
): Promise<() => void> {
const listener = { pattern, handler: handler as (env: Envelope<unknown>) => Promise<void> };
listeners.push(listener);
if (!reading) {
const durable = `${cred.node ?? "?"}_${self}`;
const consumer = await js.consumers.get("EVENTS", durable);
const messages = await consumer.consume();
reading = messages;
void (async () => {
for await (const msg of messages) {
await deliver(msg, listeners);
}
})();
}
return () => {
const at = listeners.indexOf(listener);
if (at >= 0) listeners.splice(at, 1);
if (listeners.length === 0 && reading) {
void reading.close();
reading = undefined;
}
};
},
async close(): Promise<void> {
if (closed) return;
closed = true;
for (const sub of subs) sub.unsubscribe();
// Drain rather than close: an in-flight reply is finished instead of dropped, which for a
// tool call is the difference between an answer and an unexplained timeout at the caller.
await conn.drain();
},
};
}
/**
* Deliver one event to every handler it is for, acknowledging only once each has taken it.
*
* Several registrations share one durable consumer, so matching happens here rather than by having
* each registration read the stream: two readers of one consumer would split it between them, and a
* message that reached the wrong one would be acknowledged as not-for-me and lost.
*/
async function deliver(
msg: JsMsg,
listeners: { pattern: string; handler: (env: Envelope<unknown>) => Promise<void> }[],
): Promise<void> {
let env: Envelope<unknown>;
try {
env = toEnvelope<unknown>(msg);
} catch {
// Unparseable: terminate it. Redelivering a message no version of this code can read is
// an infinite loop, and what the mesh keeps of a message given up on (DEAD_LETTERS,
// novox/hq issue 330) is for handlers that fail, not for bytes that were never an envelope.
msg.term();
return;
}
const forThis = listeners.filter((l) => topicMatches(l.pattern, env.key));
if (forThis.length === 0) {
// The consumer's filters are the mesh's, derived from what the module declared it
// consumes, and may be wider than anything it registered a handler for. Acknowledge it, or it
// would be redelivered until it expired.
msg.ack();
return;
}
try {
for (const l of forThis) await l.handler(env);
msg.ack();
} catch {
// Negative-acknowledge with a delay, so a handler failing on a transient cause gets another
// attempt, and one failing permanently exhausts max-deliver rather than spinning: the consumer
// gives the event up, and the mesh keeps it in DEAD_LETTERS until a person delivers it
// again or drops it (novox/hq issue 330). Delivered again, it arrives under
// `mesh.again.<consumer>.…`, and keyFromSubject reads the same key from it. The consumer's
// limits are the mesh's; this only says "not done".
msg.nak(5_000);
}
}
/** Rebuild the envelope a module sees, from the subject, the headers and the payload — the
* mirror of publish, and the reason both live beside each other. */
function toEnvelope<T>(msg: JsMsg): Envelope<T> {
const headers: Record<string, string> = {};
if (msg.headers) {
for (const k of msg.headers.keys()) headers[k] = msg.headers.get(k);
}
return {
// The event's own key, recovered from the subject: `mesh.mod.<module>.event.<key>`. The
// module never sees the subject, only the key it declared.
key: keyFromSubject(msg.subject),
node: headers["x-node"] ?? "",
body: JSON.parse(sc.decode(msg.data)) as T,
headers: headers as EventHeaders,
};
}
/** The event key a module sees: the emitter and the event, which is exactly how its manifest names
* what it consumes (novox/hq design 29 §1, 04-ISSUES/127).
*
* **One vocabulary for the declaration and the handler.** This returned the event name alone, so a
* manifest declaring `consumes: builder.built` produced a handler pattern that could never match
* the key it was compared against — and a module consuming the same event from two emitters could
* not tell them apart except by reading a header. The subject already carries the emitter; naming it
* here makes a mismatch between manifest and code a typo rather than a category error. */
function keyFromSubject(subject: string): string {
const marker = ".event.";
const at = subject.indexOf(marker);
if (at < 0) return subject;
const event = subject.slice(at + marker.length);
// `mesh.mod.<emitter>.event.…` — the emitter is the token before the marker.
const before = subject.slice(0, at).split(".");
const emitter = before[before.length - 1];
return emitter ? `${emitter}.${event}` : event;
}
/** A module's own event subject. Derived, never taken from the caller: the module names its
* event and the mesh decides where it lands (design 29 §1). */
function eventSubject(type: string, self: string): string {
return `mesh.mod.${self}.event.${type}`;
}
/** A tool's subject. A bare name is this module's own tool; `<module>.<tool>` addresses
* another's, which is how a request reaches a module that is not this one; `seat:<seat>.<verb>`
* addresses a role's tool, answered by whoever holds the seat (novox/hq ADR 0132) — with
* `seat:<seat>.<verb>@<node>` for a node-scoped seat, whose tool carries the machine (design 33 §4). */
function toolSubject(key: string, self: string): string {
if (key.startsWith("seat:")) {
const rest = key.slice("seat:".length);
const dot = rest.indexOf(".");
if (dot < 0) throw new Error(`"${key}" names a seat and no verb: seat:<seat>.<verb>`);
const seat = rest.slice(0, dot);
const [verb, node] = rest.slice(dot + 1).split("@", 2);
return node ? `mesh.seat.${seat}.tool.${verb}.${node}` : `mesh.seat.${seat}.tool.${verb}`;
}
// `<module>.<tool>@<node>` names the machine (novox/hq ADR 0159): the same subject with the
// machine as its last token, which is what that instance serves beside the queue.
const [name, node] = key.split("@", 2);
const dot = name.indexOf(".");
const base = dot < 0
? `mesh.mod.${self}.tool.${name}`
: `mesh.mod.${name.slice(0, dot)}.tool.${name.slice(dot + 1)}`;
return node ? `${base}.${node}` : base;
}
/** A seat's verb, as its holder serves it: flat for a mesh seat, carrying the machine for a
* node-scoped one (design 33 §4) — the same shape the mesh grants. */
export function seatToolSubject(seat: string, verb: string, scope: string | undefined, node: string | undefined): string {
const base = `mesh.seat.${seat}.tool.${verb}`;
return scope === "node" && node ? `${base}.${node}` : base;
}
function normalizeFingerprint(fingerprint: string): string {
return fingerprint.replace(/^sha256:/i, "").replace(/:/g, "").toLowerCase();
}
/**
* Dial once to see the certificate, and refuse unless it is exactly the one the mesh pinned.
* A certificate authority is not consulted: the mesh issued this and knows its fingerprint,
* which is stronger than trusting whoever a machine's trust store happens to contain.
*
* **The pin is the only check.** What comes back is handed to the client as its TLS options, and
* the client's transport spreads them into Node's own `tls.connect` — so the pinned certificate
* is the one authority the handshake accepts, and the hostname check beside it is replaced with
* one that always passes. Pinning the exact certificate makes verifying its name redundant, and
* the bus's certificate names the seat (`mesh-broker`), not the address a machine happens to
* dial it by: every module on the mesh met "does not match certificate's altnames" the first time
* it reached the handshake (2026-09-28).
*/
async function pinnedTls(rawUrl: string, fingerprint: string): Promise<TlsOptions> {
const url = new URL(rawUrl.includes("://") ? rawUrl : `nats://${rawUrl}`);
const port = url.port ? Number(url.port) : 4222;
// **The bus speaks first, in the clear.** A NATS server sends its INFO line before TLS begins,
// and only then expects the client to start the handshake; a raw TLS connect to that port reads
// the INFO line as a TLS record and fails with "wrong version number" — which is what every
// module met the first time it dialled the bus being built (2026-09-28). So: connect, wait for
// INFO, then start TLS on the same socket, and read the certificate the server presents.
const certificate = await new Promise<tls.DetailedPeerCertificate>((resolve, reject) => {
const plain = net.connect({ host: url.hostname, port }, () => {});
let seenInfo = false;
let buffered = "";
plain.on("error", reject);
plain.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
if (seenInfo) return;
buffered += chunk.toString("utf8");
if (!buffered.includes("\r\n")) return;
seenInfo = true;
plain.removeAllListeners("data");
const secure = tls.connect(
{ socket: plain, rejectUnauthorized: false, servername: url.hostname },
() => {
const peer = secure.getPeerCertificate(true);
secure.end();
resolve(peer);
},
);
secure.on("error", reject);
});
});
const seen = createHash("sha256").update(certificate.raw).digest("hex");
if (seen !== normalizeFingerprint(fingerprint)) {
throw new PinMismatchError(
`the bus at ${url.hostname}:${port} presented ${seen}, not the pinned ${normalizeFingerprint(fingerprint)}`,
);
}
const pem = `-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----\n${certificate.raw.toString("base64").replace(/(.{64})/g, "$1\n")}\n-----END CERTIFICATE-----\n`;
// Node's option, not the client's: the transport passes the whole object on. `undefined` from
// checkServerIdentity is "the name is fine"; the pin above already decided the rest.
return { ca: pem, checkServerIdentity: () => undefined } as TlsOptions;
}
/** The mesh's topic matching: `*` is one token, `#` the rest. This is the module's vocabulary —
* a module's `consumes` pattern is matched here, and the subject it becomes is the mesh's
* business, not the module's. */
export function topicMatches(pattern: string, key: string): boolean {
return matchFrom(pattern.split("."), 0, key.split("."), 0);
}
function matchFrom(p: string[], pi: number, k: string[], ki: number): boolean {
if (pi === p.length) return ki === k.length;
// `**` is the mesh's wildcard for the rest of a name; `#` is the old bus's, accepted so a pattern
// written either way behaves the same while both buses ship (novox/hq design 29 §1).
if (p[pi] === "#" || p[pi] === "**") {
for (let skip = ki; skip <= k.length; skip++) {
if (matchFrom(p, pi + 1, k, skip)) return true;
}
return false;
}
if (ki === k.length) return false;
if (p[pi] !== "*" && p[pi] !== k[ki]) return false;
return matchFrom(p, pi + 1, k, ki + 1);
}
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/**
* The mesh's tools, for whoever is on a machine (novox/hq design 25 §7, design 34).
*
* Two surfaces over one thing. A command line, for somebody at a terminal; an MCP server, for an
* agent. Both are adapters over the same three calls — what tools are there, what does this one take,
* call it — because a second way of reaching a tool is a second thing to keep correct.
*
* **It uses the same client a module's runtime uses.** Not a second protocol and not a bridge: the
* caller connects as its own bus user — a person's, or the console's — publishes on the tool subjects
* that account permits, and the server refuses anything else. So "what may this ask" is answered by the
* same permission list that answers it for a module, and there is nothing here for an audit to read
* separately.
*
* What the caller may NOT do is the more interesting half, and none of it is enforced here — it is the
* account (design 25 §4): it cannot publish an event, so it cannot claim a module said something; it
* has no consumer, so there is no delivery to acknowledge; and it cannot answer a request, so it cannot
* impersonate a module on a bus where anyone may serve a tool.
*/
import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import type { Broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { connectNats, type Answered, type Credential } from "./broker-nats.js";
import { TOOLS_VERB, type ToolsAnswer } from "./runtime.js";
/** Where the catalogue answers which modules the mesh holds. */
const CATALOGUE_MODULES = "mesh-catalog.catalog_modules";
/** Where every role's tools are answered: the console on this machine, the Go runtime, which holds mesh-sdk's seat
* definitions and reads who holds each seat from placement (novox/hq ADR 0571 clauses 4 and 5). Asked over the loopback
* channel `mesh --console` already uses, by the method `mesh/seats` beside MCP's; never another record. */
export const SEATS_METHOD = "mesh/seats";
const DEFAULT_CONSOLE = "http://127.0.0.1:4270";
type SeatsAnswer = { seats?: { seat: string; scope?: string; tools?: ToolsAnswer["tools"] }[]; holders_why?: string };
/** Every role's tools from the console on this machine. */
async function seatsFromConsole(consoleUrl: string): Promise<SeatsAnswer> {
const endpoint = consoleUrl.endsWith("/mcp") ? consoleUrl : `${consoleUrl.replace(/\/$/, "")}/mcp`;
const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json", accept: "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: SEATS_METHOD }),
signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5_000),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`the console at ${endpoint} answered ${res.status}`);
const reply = (await res.json()) as { result?: SeatsAnswer; error?: { message: string } };
if (reply.error) throw new Error(reply.error.message);
return reply.result ?? {};
}
/** A tool as its module describes it. */
export interface Tool {
/** The module that serves it — or, for a role's tool, the seat. */
module: string;
name: string;
description?: string;
/** The JSON schema of what it takes, as the module declared it. */
input?: unknown;
/** True for a role's tool: addressed to the seat, answered by whoever holds it (ADR 0132). */
seat?: boolean;
/** A role's scope: `node` for a seat held once per machine, whose verb is asked of one machine
* (design 33 §4) and takes `node` for it; `mesh` or absent otherwise. */
scope?: string;
/** Where the tool is answered, as the mesh issued it (ADR 0160): the plain subject first when the
* module answers for itself anywhere, then one per machine. Absent for a runtime older than this. */
subjects?: string[];
}
/**
* What the mesh could say about its tools when asked (design 34 §3).
*
* **Silence is named, never dropped.** A module the catalogue holds and nothing answered for is in
* `notAnswering`, because a tool that is not offered looks exactly like a tool that does not exist,
* and those need different people to fix them.
*/
export interface Listing {
tools: Tool[];
/** Modules the catalogue holds whose runtime did not answer `tools`: not assigned, not up, or built
* before the runtime answered it. Each may still be called by name. The roles' tools are listed here, with the
* reason, when the console on this machine did not answer them. */
notAnswering: string[];
}
/** The seats and the verbs each declares, from the last listing, so a call can tell a role's tool
* from a module's when the two share a prefix (a module and a seat may share a name). */
export type Seats = Map<string, Set<string>>;
/** The roles' tools, keyed the way `toolKey` names them. */
export function seatsIn(have: Listing): Seats {
const seats: Seats = new Map();
for (const t of have.tools) {
if (!t.seat) continue;
if (!seats.has(t.module)) seats.set(t.module, new Set());
seats.get(t.module)!.add(t.name);
}
return seats;
}
/** The key a call uses for `<prefix>.<name>`: a role's when the prefix is a seat declaring that
* verb, a module's otherwise. Both names for one capability are deliberate and bounded (ADR 0132);
* the seat wins only for a verb it actually declares, so a module's own tool is never shadowed. */
export function toolKey(name: string, seats?: Seats): string {
if (name.startsWith("seat:")) return name;
const dot = name.indexOf(".");
if (dot < 0) return name;
const prefix = name.slice(0, dot);
const verb = name.slice(dot + 1);
if (seats?.get(prefix)?.has(verb)) return `seat:${prefix}.${verb}`;
return name;
}
/**
* A person's credential, as `operator issue` prints it.
*
* The same shape a module is handed, minus the parts a module needs and a person does not: no node,
* because a person is not on a machine, and no module, because they are not one.
*/
export interface PersonCredential extends Credential {
person?: string;
invokes?: string[];
}
/** Read the credential from the file `operator issue` produced. */
export async function credentialFrom(path: string): Promise<PersonCredential> {
const raw = await readFile(path, "utf8");
let held: PersonCredential;
try {
held = JSON.parse(raw) as PersonCredential;
} catch (e) {
throw new Error(
`${path} is not a credential this mesh issued: ${(e as Error).message}. ` +
"It is the JSON `operator issue` printed, saved verbatim.",
);
}
if (!held.url || !held.user || !held.password) {
throw new Error(
`${path} names no bus, user or password. It is the JSON \`operator issue\` printed, saved ` +
"verbatim — not an edited copy of it.",
);
}
return held;
}
/** Connect as this person. The module name the runtime wants is their own user, because every subject
* it derives is for a tool somebody else serves. */
export async function connectAs(held: PersonCredential): Promise<Broker> {
return connectNats({ ...held, module: held.user });
}
/**
* Connect as the console: the module credential the mesh delivered (novox/hq ADR 0152), read from
* the same variable every runtime reads. It names the node and the module, so the account's inbox
* and subjects derive from what the mesh authorised and from nothing in this process's environment.
*/
export async function connectAsTheConsole(path: string): Promise<{ bus: Broker; who: string }> {
const raw = await readFile(path, "utf8");
let held: Credential;
try {
held = JSON.parse(raw) as Credential;
} catch (e) {
throw new Error(`${path} is not a broker credential: ${(e as Error).message}`);
}
if (!held.url || !held.module || !held.user) {
throw new Error(
`${path} names no bus, module or user: the console runs on the credential the mesh sealed to ` +
"this machine for it, and nothing else",
);
}
return { bus: await connectNats(held), who: `${held.node ?? "?"}.${held.module}` };
}
/**
* What tools the mesh has, asked of the modules (design 34 §3).
*
* The catalogue says which modules the mesh holds; each module says what it serves, through the one
* verb its runtime answers for it. **Asked, not configured**: a client carrying its own list would be a
* list that goes stale the first time a module is assigned. Every module is asked at once, and the bus
* refuses at once a request nothing serves, so the cost is bounded by the modules that are up.
*/
export async function toolsOn(bus: Broker, consoleUrl: string = process.env.MESH_CONSOLE || DEFAULT_CONSOLE): Promise<Listing> {
let rolesWhy = "";
const [answered, roles] = await Promise.all([
bus.request<Record<string, never>, { modules?: { module: string }[] }>(CATALOGUE_MODULES, {}),
// The roles' tools, from the console on this machine (ADR 0571). Asked beside the modules rather than first: a
// console that is restarting must not hide every module's tools with it.
seatsFromConsole(consoleUrl).catch((e: unknown) => {
rolesWhy = e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e);
return undefined;
}),
]);
const names = (answered.modules ?? []).map((m) => m.module).filter((m) => typeof m === "string");
const asked = await Promise.allSettled(
names.map((module) => bus.request<Record<string, never>, ToolsAnswer>(`${module}.${TOOLS_VERB}`, {})),
);
const tools: Tool[] = [];
const notAnswering: string[] = [];
if (roles) {
for (const s of roles.seats ?? []) {
// A node-scoped seat's tool is asked of one machine (design 33 §4): listed with its scope, so
// a caller names the machine and the call carries it — `seat:<seat>.<verb>@<node>`. Left out
// of the listing, the verb never resolved as a seat's and nothing served it (ADR 0170).
for (const t of s.tools ?? []) {
tools.push({ module: s.seat, name: t.name, description: t.description, input: t.input, seat: true, scope: s.scope });
}
}
} else {
notAnswering.push(`the roles' tools (the console at ${consoleUrl} did not answer ${SEATS_METHOD}: ${rolesWhy})`);
}
asked.forEach((outcome, i) => {
const module = names[i]!;
if (outcome.status === "fulfilled" && typeof outcome.value?.failed === "string") {
// The runtime answered for it and serves nothing: the bundle failed to load (ADR 0175). Said
// with the reason, because "not answering" would send somebody to check an assignment that
// is fine.
notAnswering.push(`${module} (its tools bundle failed to load: ${outcome.value.failed})`);
} else if (outcome.status === "fulfilled" && Array.isArray(outcome.value?.tools)) {
for (const t of outcome.value.tools) {
tools.push({ module, name: t.name, description: t.description, input: t.input, subjects: t.subjects });
}
} else {
notAnswering.push(module);
}
});
tools.sort((a, b) => `${a.module}.${a.name}`.localeCompare(`${b.module}.${b.name}`));
notAnswering.sort();
return { tools, notAnswering };
}
/** Call one tool. The key is `<module>.<tool>`, which is what a person types and what the account
* permits — one vocabulary, so a refusal names the thing they asked for. */
/** Call a tool and learn which machine answered (novox/hq ADR 0159). `<module>.<tool>@<node>` asks
* the instance on one machine; without it, whichever instance answers first does, and the answer
* says which. */
export async function callTool(
bus: Broker,
key: string,
args: unknown,
seats?: Seats,
listing?: Listing,
): Promise<Answered<unknown>> {
const at = key.indexOf("@");
const name = at < 0 ? key : key.slice(0, at);
const node = at < 0 ? "" : key.slice(at + 1);
if (!name.includes(".")) {
throw new Error(
`"${key}" does not name a tool: write <module>.<tool>, as \`mesh tools\` lists them, ` +
"or <module>.<tool>@<node> for the instance on one machine",
);
}
const resolved = toolKey(name, seats) + (node ? `@${node}` : "");
// Where the tool is answered is the module's to say and the mesh's to issue (ADR 0160): when the
// listing carried subjects for it, the call goes to one of those and composes nothing.
const on = subjectListed(name, node, listing);
const asking = bus as Broker & { ask?: <Req, Res>(k: string, b: Req, on?: string) => Promise<Answered<Res>> };
if (typeof asking.ask === "function") return asking.ask<unknown, unknown>(resolved, args ?? {}, on);
return { result: await bus.request<unknown, unknown>(resolved, args ?? {}) };
}
/** The subject the listing says answers `<module>.<tool>` — the machine's when one is named, else
* the plain one — or undefined when the listing said none, and the key is composed as before. */
export function subjectListed(name: string, node: string, listing?: Listing): string | undefined {
if (!listing) return undefined;
const dot = name.indexOf(".");
const module = name.slice(0, dot);
const tool = name.slice(dot + 1);
const found = listing.tools.find((t) => t.module === module && t.name === tool && !t.seat);
const subjects = found?.subjects ?? [];
if (subjects.length === 0) return undefined;
if (node) return subjects.find((s) => s.endsWith(`.${node}`));
return subjects[0];
}
/**
* Why a call failed, said so that the remedy is in the words.
*
* Three answers a person actually gets, and they need different things done: nobody serves that tool,
* the mesh refused this account, or the tool itself failed. Without this they are one timeout and a
* stack trace.
*/
export function whyItFailed(key: string, err: unknown): string {
const message = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
if (/no responders|503/i.test(message)) {
return `nothing serves ${key}. The module may not be assigned to any machine, or it is down` +
(key.startsWith("seat:") ? ", or nothing holds that seat" : "") +
" — `mesh tools` lists what answered.";
}
if (/permissions violation|authorization/i.test(message)) {
return `this account may not call ${key}. What it may call was fixed when it was issued — a ` +
"person's by `operator issue`, the console's by its manifest.";
}
if (/timeout/i.test(message)) {
return `${key} did not answer in time. Something is serving it, so this is the tool being slow ` +
"rather than absent.";
}
return `${key} failed: ${message}`;
}
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/**
* The console's endpoint: MCP over HTTP, on a machine's loopback (novox/hq ADR 0152, design 34 §2).
*
* **Loopback is the authority boundary.** Whoever can connect is on the machine, and whoever is on the
* machine is the account that owns the mesh there (ADR 0034, ADR 0144). So there is no token and no
* login here, and the one thing this file enforces is that it binds nothing else: a console reachable
* from another machine would be authority over the mesh handed to whoever finds the port.
*
* The transport is the streamable-HTTP shape an agent host speaks: `POST /mcp` with one JSON-RPC
* message, answered with one JSON body. No session, because the surface holds nothing per caller; no
* event stream, because nothing here has anything to say unasked.
*/
import { createServer, type IncomingMessage, type ServerResponse } from "node:http";
import type { Broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { mcpSurface, type Reply, type Request } from "./mcp.js";
/** The most a request body may be. A tool's arguments are small; a megabyte is somebody else's file. */
const BODY_LIMIT = 1 << 20;
export interface Listening {
/** Where it listens, as `host:port`, with the port the machine actually gave. */
address: string;
close(): Promise<void>;
}
/** Hosts that are this machine and no other. */
const loopback = new Set(["127.0.0.1", "::1", "localhost", "[::1]"]);
/**
* Listen on `host:port`. Refused unless the host is loopback — said before binding, so a manifest or
* a flag that would open the console to a network is a startup failure rather than something
* discovered by whoever finds it.
*/
export async function serveMcpHttp(bus: Broker, who: string, listen: string): Promise<Listening> {
const at = listen.lastIndexOf(":");
if (at < 0) {
throw new Error(`"${listen}" is not host:port`);
}
const host = listen.slice(0, at);
const port = Number(listen.slice(at + 1));
if (!loopback.has(host)) {
throw new Error(
`the console listens on loopback and nowhere else (novox/hq ADR 0152): "${host}" is not this ` +
"machine's own address — whoever is on the machine owns the mesh there, and nobody else may reach this",
);
}
if (!Number.isInteger(port) || port < 0 || port > 65535) {
throw new Error(`"${listen.slice(at + 1)}" is not a port`);
}
const surface = mcpSurface(bus, who);
const server = createServer((req, res) => {
void route(req, res, surface.handle).catch((e) => {
json(res, 500, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: null, error: { code: -32603, message: String(e) } });
});
});
await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
server.once("error", reject);
server.listen(port, host.replace(/^\[|\]$/g, ""), () => resolve());
});
const bound = server.address();
const address = typeof bound === "object" && bound ? `${host}:${bound.port}` : listen;
return {
address,
close: () =>
new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
server.close(() => resolve());
}),
};
}
async function route(
req: IncomingMessage,
res: ServerResponse,
handle: (r: Request) => Promise<Reply | undefined>,
): Promise<void> {
const path = (req.url ?? "/").split("?")[0];
if (path === "/") {
res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8" });
res.end("the mesh's console: MCP over HTTP at POST /mcp (novox/hq design 34)\n");
return;
}
if (path !== "/mcp") {
json(res, 404, { error: "the console serves /mcp and nothing else" });
return;
}
switch (req.method) {
case "POST":
break;
case "DELETE":
// A host ending a session. There is no session to end; saying so is the truthful answer.
res.writeHead(204).end();
return;
case "GET":
// A host opening an event stream. The console has nothing to say unasked.
res.writeHead(405, { allow: "POST, DELETE" }).end();
return;
default:
res.writeHead(405, { allow: "POST, DELETE" }).end();
return;
}
let body: string;
try {
body = await read(req);
} catch (e) {
json(res, 413, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: null, error: { code: -32600, message: String(e) } });
return;
}
let parsed: unknown;
try {
parsed = JSON.parse(body);
} catch {
json(res, 400, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: null, error: { code: -32700, message: "the body is not JSON" } });
return;
}
// One message, or a batch of them; a batch is answered as a batch. A notification gets no reply
// and, alone, no body: 202 is how the transport says "heard".
if (Array.isArray(parsed)) {
const replies = (await Promise.all(parsed.map((r) => handle(r as Request)))).filter(Boolean);
if (replies.length === 0) {
res.writeHead(202).end();
} else {
json(res, 200, replies);
}
return;
}
const reply = await handle(parsed as Request);
if (!reply) {
res.writeHead(202).end();
return;
}
json(res, 200, reply);
}
function read(req: IncomingMessage): Promise<string> {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let size = 0;
const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
req.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
size += chunk.length;
if (size > BODY_LIMIT) {
reject(new Error(`the request is larger than ${BODY_LIMIT} bytes`));
req.destroy();
return;
}
chunks.push(chunk);
});
req.on("end", () => resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8")));
req.on("error", reject);
});
}
function json(res: ServerResponse, status: number, body: unknown): void {
const text = JSON.stringify(body);
res.writeHead(status, {
"content-type": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
"content-length": Buffer.byteLength(text),
});
res.end(text);
}
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// A tools bundle as a process the runtime launches (novox/hq ADR 0188).
//
// The runtime does not run a tool's code itself when the bundle is not JavaScript: it starts the
// bundle's executable as a child with the runtime's environment and speaks MCP over stdio to it —
// `initialize`, `tools/list` once, `tools/call` per call. A Rust binary, a Go binary, a Python
// script and a Node script are the same thing from here: a process that answers those. Everything
// the mesh adds — the subjects from the membership, the held seats, the `tools` answer, a bundle
// that failed named and the others serving — is the runtime's, outside this file.
//
// A tool the child lists as `<seat>.<verb>` is the module's implementation of that seat's verb;
// any other name is the module's own tool. The same rule the in-process registration follows.
import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import { accessSync, constants } from "node:fs";
import type { ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { broker, type Envelope } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { atWork } from "./broker-nats.js";
/** The protocol version this speaks; a bundle says the same. */
export const PROTOCOL = "2025-03-26";
/** How long a child has to answer `initialize` and `tools/list` before it is a failed bundle, and
* how long a call may take before the caller is told the tool is slow rather than absent. */
const HANDSHAKE_MS = 10_000;
const CALL_MS = 30_000;
/** Whether an entrypoint is launched as a process rather than imported: anything that is not a
* plain JavaScript file, and a JavaScript file marked executable — a bundle written against the
* protocol in TypeScript, served the same way as any other language. */
export function launches(entry: string): boolean {
const javascript = /\.(m|c)?js$/.test(entry);
let executable = false;
try {
accessSync(entry, constants.X_OK);
executable = true;
} catch {
// not executable, or not there — importing will say which
}
return !javascript || executable;
}
/** What a launched bundle registers: the groups the in-process path would have, by name. */
export interface Launched {
registrations: { module: string; tools: ToolDefinition[] }[];
stop(): void;
}
interface Pending {
resolve(v: any): void;
reject(e: Error): void;
timer: NodeJS.Timeout;
}
/**
* Launch a bundle and learn its tools. Rejects when the child cannot be started or does not complete
* the handshake, which the runtime records as the bundle having failed. A child that exits later is
* started again on the next call, once; a call in flight when it died is told so.
*/
export async function launch(module: string, entry: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): Promise<Launched> {
let child: ChildProcess | undefined;
let nextId = 1;
const pending = new Map<number, Pending>();
let stopped = false;
const start = async (): Promise<void> => {
const proc = spawn(entry, [], { stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"], env });
child = proc;
let buffered = "";
proc.stdout!.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
buffered += chunk.toString("utf8");
let at: number;
while ((at = buffered.indexOf("\n")) >= 0) {
const line = buffered.slice(0, at).trim();
buffered = buffered.slice(at + 1);
if (!line) continue;
let reply: { id?: number | string; method?: string; params?: unknown; result?: unknown; error?: { message?: string } };
try {
reply = JSON.parse(line);
} catch {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] ${module}'s bundle said something that is not a reply: ${line.slice(0, 120)}`);
continue;
}
// **The bundle asks the runtime to emit** (novox/hq ADR 0193): published on the bus as this
// module, and answered once the bus has accepted it, so the tool's emit means what it means
// in-process. Nothing else a bundle may ask.
if (typeof reply.method === "string") {
const id = reply.id;
const answer = (m: Record<string, unknown>) => proc.stdin!.write(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id, ...m }) + "\n");
if (reply.method !== "mesh/publish") {
if (id !== undefined) answer({ error: { code: -32601, message: `the runtime answers no ${reply.method} from a bundle` } });
continue;
}
atWork.run({ module }, () => broker().publish(reply.params as Envelope<unknown>))
.then(() => { if (id !== undefined) answer({ result: {} }); })
.catch((err: unknown) => { if (id !== undefined) answer({ error: { code: -32000, message: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) } }); });
continue;
}
const waiting = typeof reply.id === "number" ? pending.get(reply.id) : undefined;
if (!waiting) continue;
pending.delete(reply.id as number);
clearTimeout(waiting.timer);
if (reply.error) waiting.reject(new Error(reply.error.message ?? "the bundle refused the request"));
else waiting.resolve(reply.result);
}
});
// stderr is the bundle's log; kept under the module's name so a fault reads where it belongs.
// The last thing it said is kept, so a bundle that dies says why in its own words, not by code.
let lastSaid = "";
proc.stderr!.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => {
for (const line of chunk.toString("utf8").split("\n")) {
if (!line.trim()) continue;
console.log(`[${module}] ${line}`);
if (/\S/.test(line) && !/^\s+at\s/.test(line) && !/^Node\.js v/.test(line)) lastSaid = line.trim();
}
});
const exited = new Promise<never>((_, reject) => {
proc.once("error", (err) => reject(err));
proc.once("exit", (code, signal) => {
const why = `${module}'s bundle exited (${signal ?? code})` + (lastSaid ? `: ${lastSaid}` : "");
for (const [id, p] of pending) {
pending.delete(id);
clearTimeout(p.timer);
p.reject(new Error(why));
}
if (child === proc) child = undefined;
if (!stopped) console.log(`[mesh-tools] ${why}; started again on its next call`);
reject(new Error(why));
});
});
const ask = (method: string, params: unknown, ms: number): Promise<any> =>
Promise.race([
new Promise<any>((resolve, reject) => {
const id = nextId++;
const timer = setTimeout(() => {
pending.delete(id);
reject(new Error(`${module}'s bundle did not answer ${method} in ${ms / 1000}s`));
}, ms);
pending.set(id, { resolve, reject, timer });
proc.stdin!.write(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id, method, params }) + "\n");
}),
exited,
]);
exited.catch(() => {}); // observed through the race; never unhandled
(proc as ChildProcess & { ask?: typeof ask }).ask = ask;
await ask("initialize", { protocolVersion: PROTOCOL, capabilities: {}, clientInfo: { name: "node-tools", version: "1" } }, HANDSHAKE_MS);
proc.stdin!.write(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "notifications/initialized" }) + "\n");
};
const asking = async (method: string, params: unknown, ms: number): Promise<any> => {
if (!child) await start();
return (child as ChildProcess & { ask: (m: string, p: unknown, ms: number) => Promise<any> }).ask(method, params, ms);
};
await start();
const listed = (await asking("tools/list", {}, HANDSHAKE_MS)) as { tools?: { name: string; description?: string; inputSchema?: unknown }[] };
const groups = new Map<string, ToolDefinition[]>();
for (const t of listed.tools ?? []) {
const dot = t.name.indexOf(".");
const under = dot < 0 ? module : t.name.slice(0, dot);
const name = dot < 0 ? t.name : t.name.slice(dot + 1);
const tools = groups.get(under) ?? [];
tools.push({
name,
description: t.description ?? "",
input: (t.inputSchema as Record<string, unknown> | undefined) ?? {},
run: async (args) => {
const result = (await asking("tools/call", { name: t.name, arguments: args ?? {} }, CALL_MS)) as {
content?: { type: string; text?: string }[];
isError?: boolean;
};
const text = result?.content?.find((c) => c.type === "text")?.text ?? "";
if (result?.isError) throw new Error(text || `${module}.${t.name} failed`);
// The bundle's answer is JSON as text (that is what every MCP host renders); handed back as
// the value it encodes so a caller on the bus sees what an in-process tool would return.
try {
return JSON.parse(text);
} catch {
return text;
}
},
});
groups.set(under, tools);
}
return {
registrations: [...groups].map(([under, tools]) => ({ module: under, tools })),
stop: () => {
stopped = true;
child?.kill("SIGTERM");
child = undefined;
},
};
}
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// The runnable entrypoint. Three modes:
//
// mesh-tools serve — bind the broker and serve the assigned modules until
// stopped; as the node-tools module, also the console on loopback. A module entrypoint that subscribes to events (on("#"))
// starts consuming as it is imported, so this also runs consumers.
// mesh-tools emit TYPE [JSON] emit one event onto the mesh and exit — an operable primitive,
// and what an events test uses to put a message on the wire.
// mesh-tools prepare bring this module's state to the shape this version needs and exit
// — the runtime's answer to the word the mesh asks every module
// (novox/hq ADR 0135). The entrypoints come from MESH_PREPARE, which
// the module's own image names beside MESH_TOOL_MODULES.
// mesh-tools run ENTRYPOINT run one compiled module entrypoint to completion and exit — the
// runtime side of a run-once step (novox/hq ADR 0052). It imports
// the given entrypoint, whose top-level code does its work — seed a
// store, migrate, health-gate — and awaits it. It does NOT connect
// to the broker: a first-boot step runs offline, before the module
// has anything to talk to, and the host gates the container that
// depends on it on this process exiting 0.
//
// The broker, in order of preference:
// MESH_BROKER_FILE a sealed {url, fingerprint} the mesh delivered (novox/hq ADR 0043) — an
// amqps account scoped to this module. Preferred: a module holds its own.
// MESH_BROKER_URL a plain URL, for the bootstrap/admin case before a module has an account.
// MESH_TOOL_MODULES <module>=/path/a,… the modules to serve and their compiled entrypoints (serve
// mode; ADR 0175); a bare path is an entrypoint of the credential's own module
// MESH_PREPARE /path/a,/path/b,… compiled entrypoints that prepare this module's state
// MESH_MODULE / MESH_NODE the identity stamped onto emitted events (ADR 0042)
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
import { connectNats, fatalBrokerReason as fatalNatsReason, type Credential } from "./broker-nats.js";
import { takeToolEnvs, runTools, type ServedModule } from "./runtime.js";
import { serveMcpHttp, type Listening } from "./http.js";
/** The credential this process connected with, for what it says beyond the connection (ADR 0159). */
let lastCredential: Credential | undefined;
import { invokeTool } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { useBroker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import type { Broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
/**
* Connect the way this process is meant to: with its sealed credential if the mesh gave it one, and
* over the plain bootstrap URL otherwise. A scoped module assumes the foundation's exchanges exist —
* its account may not declare them (ADR 0043).
*/
// fatalBrokerReasonFor is the reason a connection failure is final rather than "not yet", for
// whichever bus this runtime is on — each transport knows its own refusals.
function fatalBrokerReasonFor(err: unknown): string | null {
return fatalNatsReason(err);
}
async function connectBroker(): Promise<Broker> {
const file = process.env.MESH_BROKER_FILE;
if (file) {
let credential: Credential;
try {
credential = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, "utf8")) as Credential;
lastCredential = credential;
} catch (err) {
console.error(`mesh-tools: cannot read the broker credential at ${file}: ${err}`);
process.exit(1);
}
if (!credential.url) {
console.error(`mesh-tools: ${file} carries no url — it is not a broker credential`);
process.exit(1);
}
// The mesh scoped this account to a node and module; take the runtime's identity from the
// credential so its queue and the events it emits match what the mesh authorised, no matter
// what the environment says.
if (credential.node) process.env.MESH_NODE = credential.node;
if (credential.module) process.env.MESH_MODULE = credential.module;
// **The credential names the bus.** A module moved to the bus being built was handed a
// credential for it — `nats://…` with user, password and fingerprint beside the address — and
// nothing else in its environment changed (design 25; novox/hq design 28 task 5.2). The scheme
// is enough to know which bus to speak; a runtime that always dialled the old one would keep
// serving and answer nobody.
// One bus (novox/hq ADR 0131, design 28 task 5.5): the credential names it, and it is this.
return connectNats(credential);
}
const url = process.env.MESH_BROKER_URL;
if (!url) {
console.error(
"mesh-tools: set MESH_BROKER_FILE (a sealed credential) or MESH_BROKER_URL — there is no broker to reach",
);
process.exit(1);
}
return connectNats({ url });
}
/**
* Connect for serve mode, retrying while the broker is merely not reachable yet. At startup that
* is the NORMAL case, not a failure: a container comes up in seconds and the overlay tunnel a
* moment later (novox/hq issue 058). Exiting instead delegated the retry to the container
* runtime, which read as a crash-loop to every restart-counting health check and every person
* watching. Retried indefinitely, aloud: the dependency appears or somebody reads why not.
*
* A failure that waiting cannot fix (see fatalBrokerReason) is thrown at once rather than retried —
* a permanent fault masquerading as "not reachable yet" is the silent non-progress this whole
* change exists to remove. Missing-file and empty-URL configuration errors exit inside
* connectBroker before they reach here; a malformed URL and a refused login are caught here.
*/
async function connectBrokerPatiently(): Promise<Broker> {
for (let delay = 2_000; ; delay = Math.min(delay * 2, 30_000)) {
try {
return await connectBroker();
} catch (err) {
const fatal = fatalBrokerReasonFor(err);
if (fatal !== null) {
console.error(`mesh-tools: ${fatal} — waiting will not fix this; giving up`);
throw err;
}
const why = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
// A little jitter so every module that was up when the broker bounced does not retry in
// lockstep and stampede it as it recovers.
const wait = delay + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1_000);
console.error(`mesh-tools: the broker is not reachable yet (${why}); retrying in ${Math.round(wait / 1000)}s`);
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, wait));
}
}
}
/**
* What MESH_TOOL_MODULES names (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP1): `<module>=<entrypoint>` entries,
* comma-separated, several per module allowed — the node's runtime serving every assigned module's
* bundle. A bare path is the one-module form the per-module containers still set: an entrypoint of
* the credential's own module. Both may appear; the result is one list of modules.
*/
export function servedModulesFrom(spec: string, own: string | undefined): { serves: ServedModule[]; moduleEntrypoints: string[] } {
const serves = new Map<string, string[]>();
const moduleEntrypoints: string[] = [];
for (const raw of spec.split(",")) {
const entry = raw.trim();
if (!entry) continue;
const eq = entry.indexOf("=");
if (eq < 0) {
moduleEntrypoints.push(entry);
continue;
}
const module = entry.slice(0, eq).trim();
const path = entry.slice(eq + 1).trim();
if (!module || !path) {
throw new Error(`MESH_TOOL_MODULES: "${entry}" is neither <module>=<entrypoint> nor an entrypoint of this module`);
}
if (module === own) {
moduleEntrypoints.push(path);
continue;
}
serves.set(module, [...(serves.get(module) ?? []), path]);
}
return { serves: [...serves].map(([module, entrypoints]) => ({ module, entrypoints })), moduleEntrypoints };
}
/** The module that is the node's tool runtime (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP3): on its credential,
* `serve` is also the console — MCP on the machine's loopback (design 34). */
export const RUNTIME_MODULE = "node-tools";
/** Where the console listens when the runtime is node-tools and nothing says otherwise: the port
* the module's manifest declares `from: machine`. MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN overrides it either way. */
const CONSOLE_LISTEN = "127.0.0.1:4270";
async function serve(): Promise<void> {
const broker = await connectBrokerPatiently();
// Parsed after connecting: a bare entrypoint belongs to the module the credential names.
const { serves, moduleEntrypoints } = servedModulesFrom(process.env.MESH_TOOL_MODULES ?? "", lastCredential?.module);
// Each module's environment, composed by the mesh (ADR 0192): taken before any bundle is imported.
const envs = takeToolEnvs();
const stop = await runTools({ broker, serves, moduleEntrypoints, credential: lastCredential, envs });
// The console is this runtime's serving mode (ADR 0175 §6): as node-tools, or wherever the
// listen address is given, the same process answers MCP on loopback for whoever is on the
// machine. A module's own runtime in a container on the machine's network does not — two of
// them on one port would be the fault, and the console is one per machine.
const listen = process.env.MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN ?? (lastCredential?.module === RUNTIME_MODULE ? CONSOLE_LISTEN : "");
let consoleUp: Listening | undefined;
if (listen) {
const who = `${lastCredential?.node ?? "?"}.${lastCredential?.module ?? RUNTIME_MODULE}`;
consoleUp = await serveMcpHttp(broker, who, listen);
console.log(`mesh console listening on http://${consoleUp.address}/mcp as ${who}`);
}
const shutdown = async (): Promise<void> => {
stop();
await consoleUp?.close();
await broker.close();
process.exit(0);
};
process.on("SIGTERM", () => void shutdown());
process.on("SIGINT", () => void shutdown());
}
async function emitOnce(type: string, bodyJson: string): Promise<void> {
let body: unknown = {};
if (bodyJson) {
try {
body = JSON.parse(bodyJson);
} catch {
console.error(`mesh-tools emit: body is not JSON: ${bodyJson}`);
process.exit(1);
}
}
const broker = await connectBroker();
useBroker(() => broker);
// emit awaits the broker's publish confirm (ADR 0042), so the event is accepted before we close.
await emit(type, body);
await broker.close();
}
async function invokeOnce(module: string, tool: string, argsJson: string): Promise<void> {
let args: Record<string, unknown> = {};
if (argsJson) {
try {
args = JSON.parse(argsJson) as Record<string, unknown>;
} catch {
console.error(`mesh-tools invoke: args are not JSON: ${argsJson}`);
process.exit(1);
}
}
const broker = await connectBroker();
const result = await invokeTool(broker, module, tool, args);
process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(result) + "\n");
await broker.close();
}
/**
* Run one compiled module entrypoint to completion — the runtime side of a run-once step
* (novox/hq ADR 0052). Importing it runs its top-level code and awaits any top-level await, so this
* returns only once the step's own code has finished; a step that throws rejects here and the
* process exits non-zero, which is how the host knows the step did not complete and must not start
* the container it gates. No broker is connected — a first-boot seed or migration runs offline.
*/
async function runEntry(entrypoint: string): Promise<void> {
if (!entrypoint) {
console.error("mesh-tools run <entrypoint> — a compiled module entrypoint path is required");
process.exit(1);
}
// A file URL, not a bare path: dynamic import of an absolute path is not portable, and the
// entrypoint the manifest names is an absolute path inside the image.
await import(pathToFileURL(entrypoint).href);
}
/**
* Bring this module's state to the shape this version needs, and exit — the runtime's answer to the
* one word the mesh asks every module (novox/hq ADR 0135).
*
* The entrypoints come from `MESH_PREPARE`, which a module's own image sets beside the entrypoints it
* already lists there: the module knows which of its files prepares its state, and nothing else could.
* Each is imported in the order given, to completion, with no broker — preparation runs before the
* version that would use it, so there is nothing yet to talk to.
*
* **An empty list is a failure, not a no-op.** The mesh only asks this of a module whose manifest says
* it prepares something; a module that says so and names nothing has been built wrong, and exiting 0
* would let that version serve against a state nobody shaped.
*/
async function prepareState(): Promise<void> {
const named = (process.env.MESH_PREPARE ?? "")
.split(",")
.map((entry) => entry.trim())
.filter((entry) => entry !== "");
if (named.length === 0) {
console.error(
"mesh-tools prepare: this module was asked to prepare its state and its image names nothing " +
"to do it with — set MESH_PREPARE to the compiled entrypoint(s) that prepare it, the way " +
"MESH_TOOL_MODULES names the ones it serves",
);
process.exit(1);
}
for (const entrypoint of named) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] preparing with ${entrypoint}`);
await runEntry(entrypoint);
}
console.log(`[mesh-tools] prepared: ${named.length} entrypoint(s) ran to completion`);
}
async function main(): Promise<void> {
const [command, ...rest] = process.argv.slice(2);
if (command === "run") {
await runEntry(rest[0] ?? "");
return;
}
if (command === "prepare") {
await prepareState();
return;
}
if (command === "invoke") {
const [module, tool] = rest;
if (!module || !tool) {
console.error("mesh-tools invoke <module> <tool> [json-args] — a module and tool are required");
process.exit(1);
}
await invokeOnce(module, tool, rest[2] ?? "");
return;
}
if (command === "emit") {
const type = rest[0];
if (!type) {
console.error("mesh-tools emit <type> [json-body] — a routing key is required");
process.exit(1);
}
await emitOnce(type, rest[1] ?? "");
return;
}
await serve();
}
// Only when run, so a test can import the pieces.
if (process.argv[1] && import.meta.url === new URL(`file://${process.argv[1]}`).href) {
void main();
}
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/**
* The mesh's tools as an MCP server (novox/hq design 25 §7, design 34).
*
* **A thin adapter and nothing more.** Every tool an agent sees is one a module answered for and one
* this account may call; the schema is the module's own; the answer is the module's own. Nothing here
* decides anything, which is why it is short — an MCP surface that reshaped arguments or summarised
* answers would be a second definition of what a tool is, and the module's code is the first.
*
* Implemented against the protocol directly rather than through a library: the surface is three
* methods and one framing, and a dependency here would be a dependency on every machine.
*
* One handler, two transports. Over stdio for a program a person starts (`mesh mcp`), over HTTP on a
* machine's loopback for the console the mesh assigns there (`mesh serve`, http.ts). The handler does
* not know which asked.
*/
import type { Broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { callTool, seatsIn, toolKey, toolsOn, whyItFailed, type Listing, type Seats } from "./client.js";
/** The protocol version this speaks. Stated, because a host that wants another should be told so
* rather than discovering it through a shape it did not expect. */
export const PROTOCOL = "2025-03-26";
export interface Request {
jsonrpc: string;
id?: number | string | null;
method: string;
params?: Record<string, unknown>;
}
export interface Reply {
jsonrpc: "2.0";
id: Request["id"];
result?: unknown;
error?: { code: number; message: string };
}
/** How long a fetched tool list is kept before the modules are asked again. An agent asks on every
* turn; the mesh changes on the order of minutes. */
export const LISTING_KEPT_MS = 30_000;
export interface Surface {
/** Answer one request; undefined for a notification, which expects none. */
handle(request: Request): Promise<Reply | undefined>;
}
/**
* The surface over one bus connection, as one account.
*
* The tool list is fetched when first asked and kept for a short while (design 34 §3): asking every
* module on every `tools/list` would fan out on every agent turn for something nobody changed, and
* never refreshing would hide a module assigned a moment ago.
*/
export function mcpSurface(bus: Broker, who: string): Surface {
let known: { listing: Listing; at: number } | undefined;
const answer = (id: Request["id"], result: unknown): Reply => ({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id, result });
const refuse = (id: Request["id"], code: number, message: string): Reply => ({
jsonrpc: "2.0",
id,
error: { code, message },
});
const listing = async (): Promise<Listing> => {
if (!known || Date.now() - known.at > LISTING_KEPT_MS) {
known = { listing: await toolsOn(bus), at: Date.now() };
}
return known.listing;
};
// The roles the last listing knew, so `<seat>.<verb>` resolves to the seat. Fetched once if a
// call arrives before any list did; a listing that failed leaves no roles, and the name is then
// a module's, which is the right fallback for a mesh whose control plane is away.
const roles = async (): Promise<Seats | undefined> => {
try {
return seatsIn(await listing());
} catch {
return undefined;
}
};
return {
async handle(request) {
// A notification has no id and expects no answer; `initialized` is the one every host sends.
const notification = request.id === undefined || request.id === null;
switch (request.method) {
case "initialize":
return answer(request.id, {
protocolVersion: PROTOCOL,
capabilities: { tools: {} },
serverInfo: { name: "mesh", version: "1" },
// Said in the handshake, because an agent that knows whose authority it is acting under
// can say so when a call is refused — and a refusal is the one thing here that is not
// the mesh's fault or the tool's.
instructions:
`These are the tools of a Novox mesh, reached as ${who}. Every call goes to the module ` +
`that serves it; what may be called was fixed when this account was issued, so a ` +
`refusal means the account, not the tool. The list is what the running modules ` +
`answered, plus every role's tools from the mesh's records — the mesh's own verbs ` +
`(mesh-delivery.deliveries, mesh-placement.propose …) among them; a module that did not answer ` +
`is named in the list's _meta and can still be called by <module>.<tool>.`,
});
case "notifications/initialized":
return undefined;
case "ping":
return notification ? undefined : answer(request.id, {});
case "tools/list": {
let have: Listing;
try {
have = await listing();
} catch (e) {
return refuse(request.id, -32603, whyItFailed("mesh-catalog.catalog_modules", e));
}
return answer(request.id, {
tools: have.tools.map((t) => ({
name: `${t.module}.${t.name}`,
description: t.description ?? `${t.name}, served by ${t.module}`,
// The module's own schema, passed through — with `node`, the machine to ask when
// the module runs on several (novox/hq ADR 0159); a seat's verb takes none, the
// seat's scope decides. An empty object is a tool that takes nothing, which is a
// real answer and not a missing one.
inputSchema: t.seat && t.scope !== "node" ? asSchema(t.input)
: t.seat ? withNode(asSchema(t.input), "the machine whose seat answers; required, the seat is held once per machine", true)
: withNode(asSchema(t.input)),
})),
// Silence, named (design 34 §3): the modules the catalogue holds and nothing answered
// for. Not a tool, so not in `tools`; not dropped either.
_meta: { notAnswering: have.notAnswering },
});
}
case "tools/call": {
const given = String(request.params?.name ?? "");
const args = { ...((request.params?.arguments as Record<string, unknown> | undefined) ?? {}) };
// The machine, when the caller names one, travels in the subject and never reaches the
// module's arguments (novox/hq ADR 0159) — for a module's tool. A seat's verb takes no
// machine from the console (the seat's scope decides), so a `node` among its arguments
// is the verb's own, as `push` and `assign` take one, and is handed through untouched.
const have = await listing().catch(() => undefined);
const roles = have && seatsIn(have);
const bare = given.split("@", 1)[0];
const isSeatVerb = roles ? toolKey(bare, roles).startsWith("seat:") : false;
// A node-scoped seat's verb is asked of one machine (design 33 §4, ADR 0170): `node`
// names it and travels in the subject, as for a module's tool.
const nodeScoped = isSeatVerb && (have?.tools.some((t) => t.seat && t.scope === "node" &&
`${t.module}.${t.name}` === bare) ?? false);
const takesNode = !isSeatVerb || nodeScoped;
const node = takesNode && typeof args.node === "string" && args.node !== "" ? args.node : "";
if (takesNode) delete args.node;
if (nodeScoped && !node && !given.includes("@")) {
return refuse(request.id, -32602, `${given} is a machine's seat's verb: name the machine with \`node\``);
}
const name = node && !given.includes("@") ? `${given}@${node}` : given;
try {
const { result, node: answeredBy } = await callTool(bus, name, args, roles, have);
// Text, because that is what every host renders. The content is the module's answer
// as JSON, unshaped: an adapter that flattened it would be deciding what matters in
// somebody else's answer. Which machine answered follows it as its own line.
const content: { type: string; text: string }[] = [
{ type: "text", text: JSON.stringify(result, null, 2) },
];
if (answeredBy) content.push({ type: "text", text: `answered by ${answeredBy}` });
return answer(request.id, { content });
} catch (e) {
// **An error the agent can act on, not a stack.** isError rather than a protocol
// failure, because the call was well-formed and the mesh answered it — with a refusal,
// an absence or a fault, and the words say which.
return answer(request.id, {
content: [{ type: "text", text: whyItFailed(name, e) }],
isError: true,
});
}
}
default:
return notification ? undefined : refuse(request.id, -32601, `mesh's MCP surface has no ${request.method}`);
}
},
};
}
/**
* A module's declared input as a JSON schema an agent can read.
*
* The sdk keeps a tool's input opaque, and the catalogue's modules write it as a bare map of
* property to description — `{ module: { type, description } }` — which is the `properties` of a
* schema rather than a schema. Wrapped here when that is what arrived; passed through when a module
* already wrote a schema; an empty object when it declared nothing. The module's words are kept
* either way.
*/
export function asSchema(input: unknown): Record<string, unknown> {
if (!input || typeof input !== "object" || Array.isArray(input)) {
return { type: "object", properties: {} };
}
const given = input as Record<string, unknown>;
if (given.type === "object" || "properties" in given) return given;
if (Object.keys(given).length === 0) return { type: "object", properties: {} };
return { type: "object", properties: given };
}
/**
* Serve over stdio until stdin closes, which is how a host ends a session.
*/
export async function serveMcp(bus: Broker, who: string): Promise<void> {
const surface = mcpSurface(bus, who);
const say = (message: unknown) => {
process.stdout.write(`${JSON.stringify(message)}\n`);
};
for await (const line of lines()) {
let request: Request;
try {
request = JSON.parse(line) as Request;
} catch {
// Unparseable, and with no id there is nobody to tell. Skipped rather than answered, because a
// reply to a request that was never framed is noise on the same channel.
continue;
}
const reply = await surface.handle(request);
if (reply) say(reply);
}
}
/** stdin as newline-framed messages, which is what MCP over stdio is. */
async function* lines(): AsyncGenerator<string> {
let buffered = "";
for await (const chunk of process.stdin) {
buffered += (chunk as Buffer).toString("utf8");
let at: number;
while ((at = buffered.indexOf("\n")) >= 0) {
const line = buffered.slice(0, at).trim();
buffered = buffered.slice(at + 1);
if (line !== "") yield line;
}
}
if (buffered.trim() !== "") yield buffered.trim();
}
/** Every module tool takes an optional `node`: the machine to ask when the module runs on several
* (novox/hq ADR 0159). Added to the listing, stripped before the call, never seen by the module. */
function withNode(schema: Record<string, unknown>, description?: string, required = false): Record<string, unknown> {
const properties = { ...((schema.properties as Record<string, unknown> | undefined) ?? {}) };
if (!("node" in properties)) {
properties.node = {
type: "string",
description: description ??
"the machine to ask, when this module runs on several; else whichever answers, and the answer says which",
};
}
const out: Record<string, unknown> = { ...schema, type: "object", properties };
if (required) {
const have = Array.isArray(schema.required) ? (schema.required as string[]) : [];
out.required = have.includes("node") ? have : [...have, "node"];
}
return out;
}
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#!/usr/bin/env node
/**
* `mesh` — the mesh's tools, for whoever is on a machine (novox/hq design 25 §7, design 34).
*
* Four verbs and nothing else. What tools are there, call one, serve the same two to an agent over
* stdio, and serve them on a machine's loopback as the console the mesh assigns. Deliberately thin:
* everything that could be a decision is one the mesh already made, and a client that grew opinions
* would be a second place the mesh's behaviour is defined.
*
* mesh tools what the running modules answer
* mesh call <module>.<tool> [json] call one, arguments as JSON on the command line or on stdin
* mesh mcp the same two, as an MCP server over stdio
* mesh serve [--listen host:port] the console: MCP over HTTP on this machine's loopback
*
* Who it speaks as, in order of preference:
* MESH_BROKER_FILE the module credential the mesh delivered — the console's (ADR 0152)
* MESH_CREDENTIAL / --credential <file> a person's, as `operator issue` printed it (design 25 §7)
* MESH_CONSOLE / --console <url> no credential: `tools` and `call` go through a console
* already running on this machine, over loopback HTTP
*/
import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import type { Broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import {
callTool,
connectAs,
connectAsTheConsole,
credentialFrom,
seatsIn,
toolsOn,
whyItFailed,
type Listing,
} from "./client.js";
import { serveMcpHttp } from "./http.js";
import { serveMcp } from "./mcp.js";
const usage = `mesh tools
mesh call <module>.<tool> [json]
mesh mcp
mesh serve [--listen host:port]
--credential <file> a person's credential, the JSON \`operator issue\` printed; default $MESH_CREDENTIAL
--console <url> a console on this machine to ask through instead; default $MESH_CONSOLE
--listen <host:port> where \`serve\` listens; loopback only; default $MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN or 127.0.0.1:4270
MESH_BROKER_FILE the module credential the mesh delivered, which \`serve\` runs on`;
/** What the console listens on when nothing says otherwise. */
const DEFAULT_LISTEN = "127.0.0.1:4270";
async function main(argv: string[]): Promise<number> {
const args = [...argv];
let credentialPath = process.env.MESH_CREDENTIAL ?? "";
let consoleUrl = process.env.MESH_CONSOLE ?? "";
let listen = process.env.MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN ?? DEFAULT_LISTEN;
for (let i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
const take = () => {
const v = args[i + 1] ?? "";
args.splice(i, 2);
i--;
return v;
};
if (args[i] === "--credential") credentialPath = take();
else if (args[i] === "--console") consoleUrl = take();
else if (args[i] === "--listen") listen = take();
}
const verb = args.shift();
if (!verb || verb === "help" || verb === "--help") {
console.log(usage);
return verb ? 0 : 1;
}
// Through a console already on this machine: no credential to hold, which is the point of one.
if (consoleUrl && (verb === "tools" || verb === "call")) {
return verb === "tools" ? listingVia(consoleUrl) : callingVia(consoleUrl, args);
}
const { bus, who } = await connecting(credentialPath, verb);
try {
switch (verb) {
case "tools":
return await listing(bus, who);
case "call":
return await calling(bus, args);
case "mcp":
// Serves until stdin closes, which is how an MCP host ends a session.
await serveMcp(bus, who);
return 0;
case "serve": {
const up = await serveMcpHttp(bus, who, listen);
console.log(`mesh console listening on http://${up.address}/mcp as ${who}`);
await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
process.once("SIGTERM", () => resolve());
process.once("SIGINT", () => resolve());
});
await up.close();
return 0;
}
default:
console.error(`mesh has no "${verb}".\n\n${usage}`);
return 1;
}
} finally {
await bus.close();
}
}
/**
* Who this process is on the bus. The module credential first: a console is started by the mesh with
* MESH_BROKER_FILE and nothing else, and must not fall back to a person's file lying around.
*/
async function connecting(credentialPath: string, verb: string): Promise<{ bus: Broker; who: string }> {
const delivered = process.env.MESH_BROKER_FILE;
if (delivered) {
return connectAsTheConsole(delivered);
}
if (!credentialPath) {
throw new Error(
verb === "serve"
? "no credential: the console runs on MESH_BROKER_FILE, the module credential the mesh " +
"delivered; to run it by hand, pass --credential <file> with a person's credential"
: "no credential: set MESH_CREDENTIAL or pass --credential <file> (the JSON `operator issue` " +
"printed, saved verbatim), or --console <url> to ask through a console on this machine",
);
}
const held = await credentialFrom(credentialPath);
return { bus: await connectAs(held), who: held.person ?? held.user ?? "somebody" };
}
function printListing(have: Listing, who?: string): void {
if (have.tools.length === 0) {
console.log("no running module answered with any tool");
}
// **What the modules answered, not what this account may call.** The two differ and the
// difference is the point: an account seeing only its own tools cannot tell "not installed" from
// "not yours", and those need different people to fix them.
for (const t of have.tools) {
const name = `${t.module}.${t.name}`;
const line = t.description ? `${name.padEnd(36)} ${t.description}` : name;
console.log(t.seat ? `${line} (a role's tool: answered by whoever holds the ${t.module} seat)` : line);
}
if (have.notAnswering.length > 0) {
console.log(
`\nheld by the mesh and not answering: ${have.notAnswering.join(", ")} — not assigned, not up, ` +
"or built before the runtime answered `tools`; each can still be called by name",
);
}
if (who) {
console.log(`\nasked as ${who}; what ${who} may call was fixed when the account was issued.`);
}
}
async function listing(bus: Broker, who?: string): Promise<number> {
let have: Listing;
try {
have = await toolsOn(bus);
} catch (e) {
console.error(whyItFailed("mesh-catalog.catalog_modules", e));
return 1;
}
printListing(have, who);
return 0;
}
async function calling(bus: Broker, args: string[]): Promise<number> {
const key = args.shift();
if (!key) {
console.error("mesh call <module>.<tool> [json]");
return 1;
}
const parsed = await argumentsFrom(args);
if (parsed === undefined) return 1;
try {
// `<seat>.<verb>` reaches the role when the mesh lists that verb for the seat; `seat:` says so
// outright and asks nothing first.
const have = key.startsWith("seat:") ? undefined : await toolsOn(bus).catch(() => undefined);
const { result, node } = await callTool(bus, key, parsed, have && seatsIn(have), have);
console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 2));
if (node) console.error(`answered by ${node}`);
return 0;
} catch (e) {
console.error(whyItFailed(key, e));
return 1;
}
}
/** The console's answer to one MCP request, over loopback HTTP. */
async function viaConsole(consoleUrl: string, method: string, params?: unknown): Promise<any> {
const endpoint = consoleUrl.endsWith("/mcp") ? consoleUrl : `${consoleUrl.replace(/\/$/, "")}/mcp`;
const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json", accept: "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method, params }),
});
if (!res.ok) {
throw new Error(`the console at ${endpoint} answered ${res.status}`);
}
const reply = (await res.json()) as { result?: any; error?: { message: string } };
if (reply.error) throw new Error(reply.error.message);
return reply.result;
}
async function listingVia(consoleUrl: string): Promise<number> {
try {
const result = await viaConsole(consoleUrl, "tools/list");
const have: Listing = {
tools: (result.tools ?? []).map((t: { name: string; description?: string; inputSchema?: unknown }) => {
const at = t.name.indexOf(".");
return { module: t.name.slice(0, at), name: t.name.slice(at + 1), description: t.description, input: t.inputSchema };
}),
notAnswering: result._meta?.notAnswering ?? [],
};
printListing(have);
return 0;
} catch (e) {
console.error(e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e));
return 1;
}
}
async function callingVia(consoleUrl: string, args: string[]): Promise<number> {
const key = args.shift();
if (!key) {
console.error("mesh call <module>.<tool> [json]");
return 1;
}
const parsed = await argumentsFrom(args);
if (parsed === undefined) return 1;
try {
const result = await viaConsole(consoleUrl, "tools/call", { name: key, arguments: parsed });
const text = result?.content?.[0]?.text ?? JSON.stringify(result);
if (result?.isError) {
console.error(text);
return 1;
}
console.log(text);
return 0;
} catch (e) {
console.error(e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e));
return 1;
}
}
/** A call's arguments: JSON on the command line, else on stdin, else nothing. Undefined when what
* was given is not JSON, after saying so. */
async function argumentsFrom(args: string[]): Promise<unknown> {
const raw = args.length > 0 ? args.join(" ") : await maybeStdin();
if (raw.trim() === "") return {};
try {
return JSON.parse(raw);
} catch (e) {
console.error(`the arguments are not JSON: ${(e as Error).message}`);
return undefined;
}
}
/** Arguments on stdin, for a call whose JSON is too long or too quoted to type. Empty when stdin is a
* terminal, so `mesh call x.y` with no arguments does not hang waiting for something nobody is
* typing. */
async function maybeStdin(): Promise<string> {
if (process.stdin.isTTY) return "";
const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
for await (const chunk of process.stdin) chunks.push(chunk as Buffer);
return Buffer.concat(chunks).toString("utf8");
}
// Only when run, so a test can import the pieces.
if (process.argv[1] && import.meta.url === new URL(`file://${process.argv[1]}`).href) {
main(process.argv.slice(2))
.then((code) => process.exit(code))
.catch((e) => {
console.error(e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e));
process.exit(1);
});
}
export { main, usage };
export const _readFile = readFile;
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// The tool runtime — the per-node process that makes the mesh's tools actually serve (novox/hq
// ADR 0175). It binds the mesh broker, loads the served modules' tool bundles (each of which calls
// registerModuleTools as it imports), and serves every module's tools on that module's subjects and
// every held seat's verbs on the seat's. Everything hard — dispatch, collection, duplicate-name
// safety — is the sdk's; this is the wrapper.
//
// One runtime, many modules. It was written for one module per process and ran that way in a
// container per module; it now serves a list, as the one process per node the host supervises,
// and the per-module shape is the list with one entry. A bundle that fails to import is named —
// in the log and in what `tools` answers for it — and the others serve.
import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
import { resolve } from "node:path";
import { useBroker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { collectTools, toolKey, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import type { Broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
import { atWork, seatToolSubject, type Credential, type RuntimeBroker } from "./broker-nats.js";
import { launch, launches } from "./launch.js";
import { announce, endpointsOf, type ServedSeatVerb } from "./announce.js";
/**
* The one verb every module's runtime answers for it (novox/hq ADR 0152, design 34 §3): the
* module's tool names, descriptions and argument schemas, from the code that answers them and
* from nowhere else. Discovery asks the module, because a copy kept anywhere else drifts.
*/
export const TOOLS_VERB = "tools";
/** What `tools` answers for one module. */
export interface ToolsAnswer {
module: string;
tools: {
name: string;
description: string;
input: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>;
/** Where this tool is answered, as the mesh issued it (ADR 0160): the module's plain subject
* first when there is one, then this machine's. A caller composes nothing. */
subjects?: string[];
}[];
/** Why this module serves nothing here, when its bundle failed to load (ADR 0175): said where
* discovery looks, so a module that is silent and one that is broken are told apart. */
failed?: string;
}
/** One module this runtime serves: its name and its compiled tool entrypoints. */
export interface ServedModule {
module: string;
/** Absolute paths to the module's compiled tool entrypoints (e.g. .../umami/tools/index.js). */
entrypoints: string[];
}
export interface RuntimeOptions {
/** The mesh broker to serve over. */
broker: Broker;
/** The modules to serve, each with its entrypoints. */
serves?: ServedModule[];
/** The credential's own module's entrypoints — the one-module form, which the per-module
* containers still use; the same as naming the credential's module in `serves`. */
moduleEntrypoints?: string[];
/** The credential the mesh delivered, for what it says about the seats this module claims
* (novox/hq ADR 0159). Absent for a runtime started by hand, which then serves no seat its
* memberships do not name. */
credential?: Credential;
/** What each served module's bundles are given (novox/hq ADR 0192): module → words, composed by
* the mesh per machine. A module absent here is given the runtime's own words and nothing more. */
envs?: ReadonlyMap<string, Readonly<Record<string, string>>>;
}
/** The variable the mesh composes every served module's environment into, as JSON (ADR 0192). Read
* once at start and removed from the process's environment, so no bundle finds another's there. */
export const TOOL_ENV = "MESH_TOOL_ENV";
/** Read and remove the composed environments from an environment (the process's, by default). */
export function takeToolEnvs(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): Map<string, Record<string, string>> {
const raw = env[TOOL_ENV];
delete env[TOOL_ENV];
const out = new Map<string, Record<string, string>>();
if (!raw) return out;
let parsed: unknown;
try {
parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
} catch {
throw new Error(`${TOOL_ENV} is not JSON; the mesh composes it as {"<module>": {"<word>": "<value>"}}`);
}
if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || Array.isArray(parsed)) {
throw new Error(`${TOOL_ENV} is not an object of modules`);
}
for (const [module, words] of Object.entries(parsed as Record<string, unknown>)) {
if (!words || typeof words !== "object" || Array.isArray(words)) {
throw new Error(`${TOOL_ENV}: ${module}'s environment is not an object of words`);
}
const own: Record<string, string> = {};
for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(words as Record<string, unknown>)) own[k] = String(v);
out.set(module, own);
}
return out;
}
/** Two environment words the mesh sets for the node's runtime and every tool reads from its
* environment: whose machine this is (novox/hq to-be 37 §3, ADR 0175). */
export const OPERATOR_ACCOUNT = "MESH_OPERATOR_ACCOUNT";
export const OPERATOR_HOME = "MESH_OPERATOR_HOME";
/** Load the modules, bind the broker, and serve. Returns a stop function that unhooks serving. */
export async function runTools(opts: RuntimeOptions): Promise<() => void> {
useBroker(() => opts.broker);
const runtime = opts.broker as RuntimeBroker;
// Whose runtime this is: the credential's module, or the connection's own when a runtime is
// started by hand without one — the broker was told its module when it connected.
const self = opts.credential?.module ?? (typeof runtime.module === "string" ? runtime.module : undefined);
// What to serve: the list, with the one-module form folded in as the credential's own entry.
const served = new Map<string, string[]>();
for (const s of opts.serves ?? []) {
served.set(s.module, [...(served.get(s.module) ?? []), ...s.entrypoints]);
}
const ownEntrypoints = opts.moduleEntrypoints ?? [];
if (opts.moduleEntrypoints?.length) {
if (!self) {
throw new Error(
"entrypoints were given with no module to serve them as: name the module (MESH_TOOL_MODULES " +
"as <module>=<entrypoint>) or connect on a credential that names one",
);
}
served.set(self, [...(served.get(self) ?? []), ...opts.moduleEntrypoints]);
}
// The operator's machine, said once so a tool's behaviour under it can be read back from the
// log. Tools read the two words from their own environment, which is this process's.
const account = process.env[OPERATOR_ACCOUNT];
if (account) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] the operator's account here is ${account}` +
(process.env[OPERATOR_HOME] ? ` (home ${process.env[OPERATOR_HOME]})` : ""));
}
// Follow every served module's membership before loading anything, so what each is issued is
// known when its tools are bound. A module's own runtime already follows its own.
if (typeof runtime.follow === "function") {
for (const module of served.keys()) await runtime.follow(module);
}
// What each module's bundles are given: the runtime's own words, and over them the module's own.
const envs = opts.envs ?? new Map<string, Record<string, string>>();
const envFor = (module: string): NodeJS.ProcessEnv => ({ ...process.env, ...(envs.get(module) ?? {}) });
// Every bundle this runtime serves is launched as a process and spoken to over MCP on stdio (ADR
// 0188, ADR 0193): given the runtime's words and its module's own, and told the module it serves
// it as. The runtime knows no language; an entrypoint that is not executable was not built to be
// served, and is refused by name. A bundle that fails to start is named, and the others serve
// (ADR 0175: one faulty bundle must not take the node's tools down).
//
// The one-module form — the credential's own module's entrypoints, which the per-module containers
// still use for their event handlers and provisioners until they move (to-be 38 WP4c) — is imported
// into this process as before: one module, one SDK, its container's own environment.
// The machine this runtime serves, which an event a launched tool emits is stamped with.
const node = opts.credential?.node ?? (typeof (runtime as unknown as { node?: unknown }).node === "string" ? (runtime as unknown as { node: string }).node : undefined);
const failed = new Map<string, string>();
const launched: { module: string; owner: string; tools: ToolDefinition[] }[] = [];
const children: Array<() => void> = [];
for (const [module, entrypoints] of served) {
const imported = module === self && ownEntrypoints.length > 0;
for (const entry of entrypoints) {
const path = resolve(entry);
try {
if (imported) {
await import(pathToFileURL(path).href);
continue;
}
if (!launches(path)) {
throw new Error(`${path} is not executable; a bundle the runtime serves is started, never imported, and its build makes it executable (novox/hq ADR 0193)`);
}
const child = await launch(module, path, {
...envFor(module), MESH_SERVED_MODULE: module, MESH_MODULE: module,
...(node ? { MESH_NODE: node } : {}),
});
children.push(child.stop);
for (const r of child.registrations) launched.push({ ...r, owner: module });
} catch (err) {
const why = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
failed.set(module, why);
console.log(`[mesh-tools] ${module}'s bundle ${entry} failed to load: ${why}; its tools are not served here`);
}
}
}
// A registration under a served module's name is that module's tools, served on its subjects.
// One under a seat's name is the module's implementation of that seat's verbs (ADR 0159, 0160):
// served on the seat's subjects by serveClaimedSeats where some served module claims the seat,
// never as a module's tools and never listed among them. A module named like its seat (the
// catalogue is the mesh-catalog seat) registers once and is both. Anything else is said and left
// out rather than fatal — on 2026-10-01 the credential of a module that had just learned to
// implement a seat did not yet name the claim, and the whole runtime restarted for it.
const claimed = seatsClaimed(served.keys(), self, opts.credential, runtime);
const registrations = [
...collectTools().map((r) => ({ ...r, owner: self ?? r.module })),
...launched,
];
const ownRegistrations = registrations.filter(({ module, owner: by }) => {
if (served.has(module)) return true;
if (claimed.has(module)) return false;
console.log(`[mesh-tools] ${by} registers tools under "${module}", which is neither a module served here nor a seat one of them claims; not served until the mesh issues the claim`);
return false;
});
const stops: Array<() => void> = [...children];
const stop = (): void => stops.splice(0).forEach((s) => s());
// Refused before anything is bound if a module named a tool of its own `tools`: one name
// answering two things is the fault nobody can diagnose afterwards, and the runtime is the only
// place that sees both. Likewise two tools of one module under one name.
for (const { module, tools: own } of ownRegistrations) {
if (own.some((t) => t.name === TOOLS_VERB)) {
throw new Error(
`${module} names a tool "${TOOLS_VERB}", which is the verb the runtime answers for every ` +
"module with what it serves (novox/hq ADR 0152) — refused, rename it",
);
}
const seen = new Set<string>();
for (const t of own) {
if (seen.has(t.name)) throw new Error(`${module} exposes two tools named ${t.name} — refused`);
seen.add(t.name);
}
}
// Each tool on its own key, namespaced by its module (ADR 0047); where that key is answered is
// the broker's to know from the module's membership (ADR 0160). A tool runs attributed to its
// module, so what it emits lands on the module's subject and not the runtime's.
const names: string[] = [];
for (const { module, tools: own } of ownRegistrations) {
for (const t of own) {
names.push(toolKey(module, t.name));
stops.push(await opts.broker.handle(toolKey(module, t.name), (args: Record<string, unknown> | undefined) =>
atWork.run({ module }, () => t.run(args ?? {}))));
}
}
// And, for every served module, the verb that says what it serves — nothing, and why, for a
// module whose bundle failed. A module that registered nothing and did not fail is a pure-events
// module (the audit logger), whose scoped account may not declare the serve queue; it is left
// silent as it always was.
const byModule = new Map<string, ToolDefinition[]>();
for (const { module, tools: own } of ownRegistrations) {
byModule.set(module, [...(byModule.get(module) ?? []), ...own]);
}
for (const module of served.keys()) {
const own = byModule.get(module) ?? [];
const why = failed.get(module);
if (own.length === 0 && !why) continue;
const subjectsOf = (tool: string): string[] | undefined => {
const m = typeof runtime.membership === "function" ? runtime.membership(module) : undefined;
if (!m) return undefined;
const plain = m.serves.filter((s) => s.queue).map((s) => s.subject.replace("{tool}", tool));
const mine = m.serves.filter((s) => !s.queue).map((s) => s.subject.replace("{tool}", tool));
return [...plain, ...mine];
};
stops.push(await opts.broker.handle(toolKey(module, TOOLS_VERB), async (): Promise<ToolsAnswer> => ({
module,
tools: own.map((t) => ({ name: t.name, description: t.description, input: t.input, subjects: subjectsOf(t.name) })),
...(why ? { failed: why } : {}),
})));
}
console.log(`[mesh-tools] serving ${names.length} tool(s) for ${served.size} module(s): ${names.join(", ") || "(none)"}` +
(failed.size ? `; not serving ${[...failed.keys()].join(", ")}, whose bundle(s) failed to load` : ""));
const seats = await serveClaimedSeats(runtime, [...served.keys()], self, opts.credential, registrations);
stops.push(seats.stop);
// **What it serves, it announces** (novox/hq ADR 0197), asked at the moment of the request.
if (typeof runtime.raw === "function") {
stops.push(announce(runtime, {
name: self ?? "runtime", id: runtime.node ?? self ?? "runtime",
description: `the tool runtime of ${self ?? "a module"}${runtime.node ? ` on ${runtime.node}` : ""}`,
metadata: runtime.node ? { node: runtime.node } : {},
}, () => endpointsOf(runtime, ownRegistrations, seats.serving())));
}
return () => stop();
}
/** The seats some served module claims: from the credential for its own module, and from every
* served module's membership (ADR 0160) — the node's runtime holds no claims of its own. */
function seatsClaimed(
modules: Iterable<string>,
self: string | undefined,
credential: Credential | undefined,
runtime: RuntimeBroker,
): Set<string> {
const out = new Set<string>();
for (const c of credential?.claims ?? []) if (credential?.module === self) out.add(c.seat);
for (const module of modules) {
const m = typeof runtime.membership === "function" ? runtime.membership(module) : undefined;
for (const s of m?.seats ?? []) out.add(s.seat);
}
return out;
}
/** One seat's verb, where its callers ask, and which served module holds the seat. */
interface SeatVerb {
seat: string;
verb: string;
subject: string;
holder: string;
}
/**
* Holding a seat means serving its tools (design 33 §3, novox/hq ADR 0159). What a served module
* claims and promises comes from its membership (ADR 0160) — and, for a module's own runtime, from
* its credential, which named the claims before memberships did. Each verb is served on the seat's
* own subject by the tool of the same name registered under the seat's name. Whether this instance
* *holds* the seat is the bus's to decide: only the holder's account may subscribe the seat's
* subjects, so a claimant that does not hold it here is refused the subscription and serves nothing
* — never a failure of its own tools.
*/
async function serveClaimedSeats(
broker: RuntimeBroker,
served: string[],
self: string | undefined,
credential: Credential | undefined,
registrations: { module: string; owner: string; tools: ToolDefinition[] }[],
): Promise<{ stop: () => void; serving: () => ServedSeatVerb[] }> {
if (typeof broker.handleSubject !== "function") return { stop: () => {}, serving: () => [] };
// A seat's verbs are the role's, not the software's (ADR 0159): implemented under the seat's
// name — `registerModuleTools("mesh-store", …)` — and never confused with the module's own tools.
const implementations = new Map<string, Map<string, (args: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<unknown>>>();
const definitions = new Map<string, Map<string, ToolDefinition>>();
for (const { module, tools } of registrations) {
const defs = definitions.get(module) ?? new Map<string, ToolDefinition>();
for (const t of tools) defs.set(t.name, t);
definitions.set(module, defs);
}
for (const { module, owner, tools } of registrations) {
const verbs = implementations.get(module) ?? new Map<string, (args: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<unknown>>();
for (const t of tools) verbs.set(t.name, (args) => atWork.run({ module: owner }, () => t.run(args)));
implementations.set(module, verbs);
}
/** Every verb of every seat a served module claims, where the mesh issued it. */
const wanted = (): SeatVerb[] => {
const out: SeatVerb[] = [];
const have = new Set<string>();
const add = (v: SeatVerb): void => {
if (have.has(v.subject)) return;
have.add(v.subject);
out.push(v);
};
for (const module of served) {
const m = typeof broker.membership === "function" ? broker.membership(module) : undefined;
for (const s of m?.seats ?? []) add({ seat: s.seat, verb: s.verb, subject: s.subject, holder: module });
// The credential's claims, for the module's own runtime, ONLY until the mesh issues a
// membership (novox/hq issue 218). The credential names what the module claims; the membership
// names what it holds on this machine. A seat held once for the mesh is claimed by every
// machine running the module and held by one, so once a membership exists it decides: a claim
// it leaves out is not held here, and serving it anyway announced the seat from a machine the
// bus then refused it on.
if (module !== self || m) continue;
for (const claim of credential?.claims ?? []) {
for (const verb of claim.serves ?? []) {
const subject = seatToolSubject(claim.seat, verb, claim.scope, credential?.node);
add({ seat: claim.seat, verb, subject, holder: module });
}
}
}
return out;
};
let stops: (() => void)[] = [];
let servingNow: ServedSeatVerb[] = [];
const serve = async (): Promise<void> => {
stops.forEach((s) => s());
stops = [];
servingNow = [];
for (const v of wanted()) {
const run = implementations.get(v.seat)?.get(v.verb);
const tool = definitions.get(v.seat)?.get(v.verb);
if (!run) {
console.log(`[mesh-tools] ${v.holder} claims ${v.seat} and implements no ${v.verb}, which that seat promises; not served`);
continue;
}
stops.push(await broker.handleSubject(v.subject, run));
if (tool) servingNow.push({ ...v, tool });
console.log(`[mesh-tools] serving ${v.seat}'s ${v.verb} on ${v.subject}, admitted where ${v.holder} holds the seat`);
}
};
await serve();
// A membership issued to any served module may add, move or withdraw a seat's verbs.
if (typeof broker.onMembership === "function") broker.onMembership(() => void serve());
return { stop: () => stops.forEach((s) => s()), serving: () => servingNow };
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/**
* What a runtime serves, it announces (novox/hq ADR 0197): the TypeScript runtime the per-module
* containers still run answers the NATS services protocol's discovery in the same shape as the Go
* tool runtime — its module's tools on every subject issued, and the seat verbs it serves.
*
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/announce.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import { connect, StringCodec } from "nats";
import { resetTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { connectNats, membershipSubject } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { runTools } from "../dist/runtime.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
const fixture = (name: string) => fileURLToPath(new URL(`./fixtures/${name}`, import.meta.url));
const sc = StringCodec();
test("the runtime answers $SRV.INFO with what it serves, in the services protocol's format", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const nc = await connect({ servers: url });
const jsm = await nc.jetstreamManager();
try {
await jsm.streams.delete("ASSIGNMENTS");
} catch {
// none yet
}
await jsm.streams.add({ name: "ASSIGNMENTS", subjects: ["mesh.assignment.>"], max_msgs_per_subject: 1, allow_direct: true } as never);
await nc.jetstream().publish(membershipSubject("anchor", "shop"), sc.encode(JSON.stringify({
node: "anchor", module: "shop",
serves: [{ subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}.anchor" }, { subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}", queue: "serve.shop" }],
emits: "mesh.mod.shop.event.{event}", tools: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.tools",
})));
const shop = await connectNats({ url, node: "anchor", module: "shop" });
let stop = () => {};
try {
stop = await runTools({ broker: shop, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("shop-tools.mjs")] });
const msg = await nc.request("$SRV.INFO.shop.anchor", sc.encode(""), { timeout: 2000 });
const info = JSON.parse(sc.decode(msg.data)) as {
type: string; name: string; id: string; version: string;
endpoints: { name: string; subject: string; queue_group: string; metadata: Record<string, string> }[];
};
assert.equal(info.type, "io.nats.micro.v1.info_response");
assert.equal(info.name, "shop");
assert.equal(info.id, "anchor");
assert.ok(info.version);
const price = info.endpoints.filter((e) => e.metadata.tool === "price").map((e) => `${e.subject}|${e.queue_group}`).sort();
assert.deepEqual(price, ["mesh.mod.shop.tool.price.anchor|", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.price|serve.shop"]);
const one = info.endpoints.find((e) => e.metadata.tool === "price")!;
assert.equal(one.metadata.kind, "tool");
assert.equal(one.metadata.module, "shop");
assert.equal(one.metadata.node, "anchor");
assert.equal(one.metadata.interchangeable, "true");
assert.ok(JSON.parse(one.metadata.schema).type === "object");
// Ping answers with the same identity; another service's request is not answered.
const ping = JSON.parse(sc.decode((await nc.request("$SRV.PING", sc.encode(""), { timeout: 2000 })).data));
assert.equal(ping.type, "io.nats.micro.v1.ping_response");
await assert.rejects(nc.request("$SRV.INFO.somebody-else", sc.encode(""), { timeout: 300 }));
} finally {
stop();
await shop.close();
await nc.close();
resetTools();
}
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/**
* A person's client, against a real bus.
*
* What is worth checking is not that a request/reply works — the runtime's own tests cover that — but
* that the two surfaces are the same thing. An agent and a person must see the same tools and get the
* same answers, or the MCP surface becomes a second definition of what a tool is.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/client.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
// The built output, not the source: the client imports its siblings as `.js`, which is what ships and
// what every other file here does, and cannot be loaded as TypeScript directly. `pretest` builds.
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { callTool, seatsIn, toolKey, toolsOn, whyItFailed } from "../dist/client.js";
import { aConsoleWithSeats } from "./console-seats.ts";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
/** A mesh as discovery sees it (design 34 §3): the catalogue holding three modules, two of them up
* and answering `tools`, one held and not running. Two connections, because a person and a module
* are different users even in a test. */
async function aMeshWithTools() {
const catalogue = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "mesh-catalog" });
const shop = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "shop" });
await catalogue.handle("catalog_modules", async () => ({
modules: [{ module: "shop" }, { module: "mesh-catalog" }, { module: "ghost" }],
}));
await catalogue.handle("tools", async () => ({
module: "mesh-catalog",
tools: [{ name: "catalog_modules", description: "what modules the mesh has", input: {} }],
}));
await shop.handle("tools", async () => ({
module: "shop",
tools: [{ name: "price", description: "what something costs", input: { type: "object" } }],
}));
await shop.handle("price", async (body: { of?: string }) => ({ of: body.of ?? "nothing", cost: 12 }));
// Every role's tools, from the console on this machine (ADR 0571), the method beside MCP's; the controller's
// verb answers a call of its seat and is never asked for the roles.
const controller = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "mesh-placement" });
let controllerToolsAsked = 0;
await controller.handle("seat:mesh-placement.tools", async () => {
controllerToolsAsked++;
return { seats: [] };
});
await controller.handle("seat:mesh-placement.status", async () => ({ output: "all quiet", ok: true }));
const local = await aConsoleWithSeats([
{ seat: "mesh-placement", scope: "mesh", tools: [{ name: "status", description: "what is wrong", input: {} }] },
{ seat: "node-dns-resolver", scope: "node", tools: [{ name: "lookup", description: "one machine's", input: {} }] },
]);
return {
async close() {
await catalogue.close();
await shop.close();
await controller.close();
await local.close();
assert.equal(controllerToolsAsked, 0, "the controller was asked for the roles' tools");
},
};
}
test("a person sees what the running modules answer, sorted, and who did not answer", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const mesh = await aMeshWithTools();
const person = await connectNats({ url, module: "person.ada" });
try {
const began = Date.now();
const have = await toolsOn(person);
assert.deepEqual(
have.tools.map((x) => `${x.module}.${x.name}`),
["mesh-catalog.catalog_modules", "mesh-placement.status", "node-dns-resolver.lookup", "shop.price"],
"the list is what the modules answered plus every role's tools, in a stable order",
);
// A role's tool is marked as one; a node-scoped seat's carries its scope, so a caller names
// the machine and the verb resolves as the seat's (design 33 §4, ADR 0170).
assert.ok(have.tools.find((x) => x.module === "mesh-placement")!.seat);
const lookup = have.tools.find((x) => x.module === "node-dns-resolver")!;
assert.ok(lookup.seat && lookup.scope === "node");
assert.equal(toolKey("node-dns-resolver.lookup", seatsIn(have)), "seat:node-dns-resolver.lookup");
// Silence is named, never dropped: a module the catalogue holds and nothing answered for.
assert.deepEqual(have.notAnswering, ["ghost"]);
// And at once: a module that is not running costs nothing, or the list is unusable.
assert.ok(Date.now() - began < 5_000, "an absent module waited out the timeout");
} finally {
await person.close();
await mesh.close();
}
});
test("a person calls a tool and gets the module's own answer, unshaped", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const mesh = await aMeshWithTools();
const person = await connectNats({ url, module: "person.ada" });
try {
const answer = await callTool(person, "shop.price", { of: "a hat" });
assert.deepEqual(answer.result, { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });
} finally {
await person.close();
await mesh.close();
}
});
test("a tool nobody serves says so at once, and says what to do about it", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const person = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "person.ada" });
try {
const began = Date.now();
await assert.rejects(() => callTool(person, "ghost.missing", {}));
// At once, not after the whole wait: "that module is down" and "that tool is slow" need
// different things done, and a timeout cannot tell them apart.
assert.ok(Date.now() - began < 5_000, "a tool nobody serves waited out the timeout");
} finally {
await person.close();
}
});
test("a name that is not <module>.<tool> is refused before anything is sent", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const person = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "person.ada" });
try {
await assert.rejects(() => callTool(person, "price", {}), /does not name a tool/);
} finally {
await person.close();
}
});
test("each way a call fails says what to do about it", () => {
// The three answers a person actually gets. Without this they are one timeout and a stack trace,
// and the remedies are in three different places.
assert.match(whyItFailed("shop.price", new Error("no responders")), /nothing serves shop\.price/);
assert.match(
whyItFailed("shop.price", new Error("Permissions Violation for Publish")),
/may not call shop\.price/,
);
assert.match(whyItFailed("shop.price", new Error("timeout")), /did not answer in time/);
assert.match(whyItFailed("shop.price", new Error("something else")), /something else/);
});
test("a role's tool is reached through the seat, and a module's own name is never shadowed", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const { seatsIn, toolKey } = await import("../dist/client.js");
const mesh = await aMeshWithTools();
const person = await connectNats({ url, module: "person.ada" });
try {
const roles = seatsIn(await toolsOn(person));
assert.equal(toolKey("mesh-placement.status", roles), "seat:mesh-placement.status");
assert.equal(toolKey("mesh-placement.other", roles), "mesh-placement.other", "a verb the seat does not declare is a module's");
assert.equal(toolKey("shop.price", roles), "shop.price");
const answer = await callTool(person, "mesh-placement.status", {}, roles);
assert.deepEqual(answer.result, { output: "all quiet", ok: true });
const direct = await callTool(person, "seat:mesh-placement.status", {});
assert.deepEqual(direct.result, { output: "all quiet", ok: true });
} finally {
await person.close();
await mesh.close();
}
});
// A module on two machines (novox/hq ADR 0159): a call names the machine and reaches that instance
// and no other; a call that names none reaches one of them and says which; a seat's verb is served
// by the claimant's tool of the same name on the seat's own subject.
test("a tool call names the machine it is for, and every answer says which machine answered", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const onAnchor = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "store", node: "anchor" });
const onHome = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "store", node: "home-server" });
const asker = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
try {
await onAnchor.handle("databases", async () => ({ at: "anchor" }));
await onHome.handle("databases", async () => ({ at: "home-server" }));
const home = await callTool(asker, "store.databases@home-server", {});
assert.deepEqual(home.result, { at: "home-server" });
assert.equal(home.node, "home-server");
const anchor = await callTool(asker, "store.databases@anchor", {});
assert.deepEqual(anchor.result, { at: "anchor" });
assert.equal(anchor.node, "anchor");
const whichever = await callTool(asker, "store.databases", {});
assert.ok(["anchor", "home-server"].includes(whichever.node ?? ""), `an unnamed call still says who answered: ${whichever.node}`);
assert.deepEqual(whichever.result, { at: whichever.node });
// A seat's verb, served by the claimant on the seat's subject; a mesh seat's is flat.
await onAnchor.handleSubject("mesh.seat.mesh-store.tool.databases", async () => ({ seat: "mesh-store", at: "anchor" }));
const viaSeat = await callTool(asker, "seat:mesh-store.databases", {});
assert.deepEqual(viaSeat.result, { seat: "mesh-store", at: "anchor" });
assert.equal(viaSeat.node, "anchor");
} finally {
await onAnchor.close();
await onHome.close();
await asker.close();
}
});
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// The TypeScript implementation, held to the shared fixtures (novox/hq ADR 0074, design 19).
//
// Run against a NATS server, because the question is what actually reaches the wire:
//
// docker run -d --rm --name c -p 14222:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
// node test/conformance.mjs
//
// **The runner lives with the implementation it exercises; the fixture does not.** It is read
// from the sdk's conformance directory by sibling path — the same file the Go suite reads. A
// fixture copied into each implementation is two fixtures, and two fixtures drift, which is the
// failure the suite exists to prevent.
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { connect } from "nats";
const clientPath = process.argv[2] ?? "../dist/broker-nats.js";
const { connectNats } = await import(clientPath);
const f = JSON.parse(readFileSync(new URL("../../mesh-sdk/conformance/events/module-event.json", import.meta.url)));
const URL_ = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS ?? "nats://127.0.0.1:14222";
let failed = 0;
const check = (ok, what) => { console.log(` ${ok ? "ok " : "FAIL"} ${what}`); if (!ok) failed++; };
const admin = await connect({ servers: URL_ });
const jsm = await admin.jetstreamManager();
await jsm.streams.add({ name: "EVENTS", subjects: ["mesh.mod.*.event.>", "mesh.seat.*.event.>"] });
const shop = await connectNats({ url: URL_, node: f.given.node, module: f.given.module });
await shop.publish({ key: f.given.key, node: f.given.node, body: f.given.body, headers: f.given.headers });
// What actually landed, read back from the stream rather than from the client that wrote it.
const msg = await jsm.streams.getMessage("EVENTS", { last_by_subj: f.wire.subject });
check(!!msg, `it lands on ${f.wire.subject}`);
if (msg) {
const got = {};
if (msg.header) for (const k of msg.header.keys()) got[k] = msg.header.get(k);
for (const h of f.wire.requiredHeaders) {
check(got[h] !== undefined && got[h] !== "", `${h} is set`);
}
check(got["content-type"] === f.wire.headerFormats["content-type"], "content-type is as pinned");
check(new RegExp(f.wire.headerFormats["x-event-id"]).test(got["x-event-id"]), "x-event-id is as pinned");
check(!Number.isNaN(Date.parse(got["x-time"])), "x-time parses as a date");
check(got["x-source"] === f.given.module, "x-source agrees with the subject's module");
const payload = JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(msg.data));
check(payload.envelope === undefined && payload.key === undefined,
"the payload is the body alone, not the envelope (the fixture refuses nesting)");
check(JSON.stringify(payload) === JSON.stringify(f.given.body),
"the body round-trips — semantic, not byte-exact, per the README");
}
await shop.close(); await admin.close();
console.log(failed ? `\n${failed} failed` : "\nall passed");
process.exit(failed ? 1 : 0);
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/**
* The console on this machine as a client asks it for every role's tools (novox/hq ADR 0571): the method `mesh/seats`
* beside MCP's, answered in the shape the Go console's `seatsAnswer` gives (internal/console/mcp.go). Sets
* MESH_CONSOLE to it, so a client, and a `mesh` it spawns, asks it.
*/
import { createServer } from "node:http";
import type { AddressInfo } from "node:net";
import { SEATS_METHOD } from "../dist/client.js";
export type SeatOfConsole = { seat: string; scope: string; tools: { name: string; description?: string; input?: unknown }[] };
export async function aConsoleWithSeats(seats: SeatOfConsole[]): Promise<{ url: string; close: () => Promise<void> }> {
const local = createServer((req, res) => {
let body = "";
req.on("data", (c) => (body += c));
req.on("end", () => {
const asked = JSON.parse(body) as { id: number; method: string };
res.setHeader("content-type", "application/json");
if (req.url !== "/mcp" || asked.method !== SEATS_METHOD) {
res.end(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: asked.id, error: { code: -32601, message: "no such method" } }));
return;
}
res.end(JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: asked.id, result: { seats: seats.map((s) => ({ ...s, holders: [] })) } }));
});
});
await new Promise<void>((done) => local.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", done));
const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${(local.address() as AddressInfo).port}`;
process.env.MESH_CONSOLE = url;
return { url, close: () => new Promise((done) => local.close(() => done())) };
}
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/**
* The console: the same surface over HTTP on loopback, started the way the mesh starts it — on the
* module credential in MESH_BROKER_FILE (novox/hq ADR 0152, design 34 §2).
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/http.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import { mkdtemp, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { serveMcpHttp } from "../dist/http.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
async function aMesh(t: { after: (fn: () => Promise<void> | void) => void }) {
const catalogue = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "mesh-catalog" });
const shop = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "shop" });
await catalogue.handle("catalog_modules", async () => ({ modules: [{ module: "shop" }] }));
await shop.handle("tools", async () => ({
module: "shop",
tools: [{ name: "price", description: "what something costs", input: {} }],
}));
await shop.handle("price", async (body: { of?: string }) => ({ of: body.of ?? "nothing", cost: 12 }));
t.after(async () => {
await catalogue.close();
await shop.close();
});
}
/** `mesh serve` as the mesh runs it: MESH_BROKER_FILE, a listen address, nothing else. */
async function aConsole(t: { after: (fn: () => Promise<void> | void) => void }): Promise<string> {
const dir = await mkdtemp("/tmp/mesh-console-");
const credential = join(dir, "broker");
await writeFile(credential, JSON.stringify({ url, node: "desk", module: "mesh-console", user: "desk.mesh-console", password: "x" }));
const child: ChildProcess = spawn(process.execPath, ["dist/mesh.js", "serve", "--listen", "127.0.0.1:0"], {
env: { ...process.env, MESH_BROKER_FILE: credential, MESH_CREDENTIAL: "" },
stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
});
t.after(() => {
child.kill("SIGTERM");
});
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
let out = "";
let err = "";
child.stdout!.on("data", (d) => {
out += d.toString();
const m = /listening on (http:\/\/[^/]+\/mcp)/.exec(out);
if (m) resolve(m[1]!);
});
child.stderr!.on("data", (d) => (err += d.toString()));
child.on("exit", (code) => reject(new Error(`serve exited ${code}: ${err}`)));
});
}
async function post(endpoint: string, body: unknown): Promise<{ status: number; json?: any }> {
const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json", accept: "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify(body),
});
const text = await res.text();
return { status: res.status, json: text ? JSON.parse(text) : undefined };
}
test("the console answers a host on loopback, as the account the mesh gave it", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
await aMesh(t);
const endpoint = await aConsole(t);
const hello = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} });
assert.equal(hello.status, 200);
assert.match(hello.json.result.instructions, /desk\.mesh-console/, "the handshake names the console's account");
const heard = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "notifications/initialized" });
assert.equal(heard.status, 202, "a notification is heard and not answered");
const listed = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 2, method: "tools/list" });
assert.deepEqual(listed.json.result.tools.map((x: { name: string }) => x.name), ["shop.price"]);
const called = await post(endpoint, {
jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 3, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "shop.price", arguments: { of: "a hat" } },
});
assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(called.json.result.content[0].text), { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });
// A person's client through the same endpoint, with no credential of its own.
const { main } = await import("../dist/mesh.js");
const logged: string[] = [];
const was = console.log;
console.log = (line: string) => logged.push(String(line));
try {
assert.equal(await main(["tools", "--console", endpoint]), 0);
} finally {
console.log = was;
}
assert.ok(logged.some((l) => l.startsWith("shop.price")), `the client did not list through the console: ${logged}`);
});
test("the console binds loopback and nowhere else", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const bus = await connectNats({ url, module: "mesh-console", node: "desk" });
try {
await assert.rejects(() => serveMcpHttp(bus, "desk.mesh-console", "0.0.0.0:0"), /loopback and nowhere else/);
const up = await serveMcpHttp(bus, "desk.mesh-console", "127.0.0.1:0");
assert.match(up.address, /^127\.0\.0\.1:\d+$/);
await up.close();
} finally {
await bus.close();
}
});
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/**
* The MCP surface, driven the way a host drives it.
*
* **The claim worth checking is that it is the same thing the command line is.** An agent and a
* person must see the same tools and get the same answers, or this becomes a second definition of what
* a tool is — which is exactly what a thin adapter is supposed to avoid.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/mcp.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
import { aConsoleWithSeats } from "./console-seats.ts";
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
/** A module answering the catalogue's list and one tool, plus a credential file the client reads. */
async function aMeshAndACredential(t: { after: (fn: () => Promise<void> | void) => void }) {
const catalogue = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "mesh-catalog" });
const shop = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "shop" });
await catalogue.handle("catalog_modules", async () => ({
modules: [{ module: "shop" }, { module: "ghost" }],
}));
await shop.handle("tools", async () => ({
module: "shop",
tools: [{ name: "price", description: "what something costs", input: { of: { type: "string" } } }],
}));
await shop.handle("price", async (body: { of?: string }) => ({ of: body.of ?? "nothing", cost: 12 }));
const controller = await connectNats({ url: url!, module: "mesh-placement" });
// Every role's tools, from the console on this machine (ADR 0571), which the spawned `mesh` asks through MESH_CONSOLE.
const local = await aConsoleWithSeats([
{ seat: "mesh-placement", scope: "mesh", tools: [
{ name: "status", description: "what is wrong", input: {} },
{ name: "push", description: "tell a machine", input: { node: { type: "string" } } },
] },
// A seat held once per machine (design 33 §4, ADR 0170): its verb is asked of one.
{ seat: "node-dns-resolver", scope: "node", tools: [{ name: "lookup", description: "one machine's", input: {} }] },
]);
await controller.handle("seat:node-dns-resolver.lookup@anchor", async () => ({ machine: "anchor", answered: true }));
await controller.handle("seat:mesh-placement.status", async () => ({ output: "all quiet", ok: true }));
await controller.handle("seat:mesh-placement.push", async (body: { node?: string }) => ({ told: body.node ?? "nobody" }));
t.after(async () => {
await catalogue.close();
await shop.close();
await controller.close();
await local.close();
});
const { mkdtemp, writeFile } = await import("node:fs/promises");
const { join } = await import("node:path");
const dir = await mkdtemp("/tmp/mesh-client-");
const path = join(dir, "credential.json");
await writeFile(
path,
JSON.stringify({ url, user: "person.ada", password: "x", person: "ada", invokes: ["shop.price"] }),
);
return path;
}
/** Drive `mesh mcp` over stdio and collect the replies, as a host would. */
function driving(credential: string, requests: unknown[]): Promise<Record<string, any>[]> {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const child = spawn(process.execPath, ["dist/mesh.js", "mcp", "--credential", credential], {
stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"],
});
let out = "";
let err = "";
child.stdout.on("data", (d) => (out += d.toString()));
child.stderr.on("data", (d) => (err += d.toString()));
child.on("error", reject);
child.on("close", () => {
const replies = out
.split("\n")
.filter((l) => l.trim() !== "")
.map((l) => JSON.parse(l) as Record<string, any>);
if (replies.length === 0 && err !== "") reject(new Error(err));
else resolve(replies);
});
for (const r of requests) child.stdin.write(`${JSON.stringify(r)}\n`);
child.stdin.end();
});
}
test("a host initialises, lists the mesh's tools and calls one", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const credential = await aMeshAndACredential(t);
const replies = await driving(credential, [
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} },
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "notifications/initialized" },
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 2, method: "tools/list" },
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 3, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "shop.price", arguments: { of: "a hat" } } },
]);
const byId = new Map(replies.map((r) => [r.id, r]));
// A notification is answered with nothing, or a host waiting on ids sees a reply it cannot match.
assert.equal(replies.length, 3, `expected three replies, got ${JSON.stringify(replies)}`);
const hello = byId.get(1)!.result;
assert.equal(hello.protocolVersion, "2025-03-26");
assert.ok(hello.capabilities.tools, "a server offering no tools is not this one");
assert.match(hello.instructions, /ada/, "the handshake says whose authority a call is made under");
const listed = byId.get(2)!.result.tools;
assert.deepEqual(listed.map((x: { name: string }) => x.name),
["mesh-placement.push", "mesh-placement.status", "node-dns-resolver.lookup", "shop.price"],
"the modules' tools and the roles', named the way a person names them");
// A node-scoped seat's verb takes the machine, and requires it (ADR 0170).
const lookup = listed[2];
assert.equal(lookup.inputSchema.properties.node.type, "string");
assert.deepEqual(lookup.inputSchema.required, ["node"]);
const price = listed[3];
assert.ok(price.inputSchema, "a tool with no schema is one an agent cannot call");
// A module's bare property map arrives as a schema an agent can read, its words kept — and
// `node`, the machine to ask when the module runs on several (novox/hq ADR 0159), beside them.
assert.deepEqual(price.inputSchema.properties.of, { type: "string" });
assert.equal(price.inputSchema.properties.node.type, "string", "a module's tool takes the machine to ask");
assert.ok(!listed[1].inputSchema.properties?.node, "a seat's verb takes no machine; the seat's scope decides");
assert.equal(listed[0].inputSchema.properties?.node?.type, "string", "a seat's verb that takes a node of its own keeps it");
// Silence is named: the module the catalogue holds and nothing answered for.
assert.deepEqual(byId.get(2)!.result._meta.notAnswering, ["ghost"]);
const called = byId.get(3)!.result;
assert.ok(!called.isError, `the call failed: ${JSON.stringify(called)}`);
// The module's own answer, unshaped. An adapter that summarised it would be deciding what matters
// in somebody else's answer.
assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(called.content[0].text), { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });
});
test("a tool nobody serves comes back as an error the agent can act on", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const credential = await aMeshAndACredential(t);
const replies = await driving(credential, [
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "ghost.missing", arguments: {} } },
]);
const result = replies[0].result;
// isError, not a protocol failure: the call was well-formed and the mesh answered it — with an
// absence. A JSON-RPC error would tell the agent its request was malformed, which it was not.
assert.ok(result?.isError, `expected a tool error, got ${JSON.stringify(replies[0])}`);
assert.match(result.content[0].text, /nothing serves ghost\.missing/);
});
test("a method this surface does not have is refused, and a notification is not", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const credential = await aMeshAndACredential(t);
const replies = await driving(credential, [
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "resources/list" },
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", method: "notifications/cancelled" },
]);
assert.equal(replies.length, 1, "a notification was answered");
assert.equal(replies[0].error.code, -32601);
assert.match(replies[0].error.message, /resources\/list/);
});
// A seat's verb that takes a machine as its own argument — `push <node>` — keeps it: the console
// moves `node` into the subject for a module's tool only (ADR 0159), never for a role's verb.
test("a seat's verb keeps a node of its own; only a module's tool gives it to the subject", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const credential = await aMeshAndACredential(t);
const replies = await driving(credential, [
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "mesh-placement.push", arguments: { node: "anchor" } } },
]);
const result = replies[0].result;
assert.ok(!result.isError, JSON.stringify(replies[0]));
assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(result.content[0].text), { told: "anchor" });
});
test("a host calls the mesh's own verb through the seat", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const credential = await aMeshAndACredential(t);
const replies = await driving(credential, [
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "mesh-placement.status", arguments: {} } },
]);
const result = replies[0].result;
assert.ok(!result.isError, JSON.stringify(replies[0]));
assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(result.content[0].text), { output: "all quiet", ok: true });
});
test("a node-scoped seat's verb is asked of the machine named, and refused without one", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const credential = await aMeshAndACredential(t);
const replies = await driving(credential, [
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "initialize", params: {} },
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 2, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "node-dns-resolver.lookup", arguments: { node: "anchor" } } },
{ jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 3, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "node-dns-resolver.lookup", arguments: {} } },
]);
const byId = new Map(replies.map((r) => [r.id, r]));
const answered = byId.get(2)!.result;
assert.ok(!answered.isError, JSON.stringify(answered));
assert.match(answered.content[0].text, /"machine": "anchor"/, "the machine's holder answered");
assert.match(byId.get(3)!.error?.message ?? JSON.stringify(byId.get(3)), /name the machine/);
});
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/**
* The mesh issues an assignment's subjects, and a runtime serves what it is issued (novox/hq ADR
* 0160). A runtime derives one address for itself — `mesh.assignment.<node>.<module>` — reads the
* membership there, serves exactly what it says, and re-serves when a new one arrives. Against a
* real bus with JetStream, because the membership is a direct get on a stream.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/membership.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import { connect, StringCodec } from "nats";
import { resetTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { connectNats, membershipSubject } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { callTool, subjectListed } from "../dist/client.js";
import { runTools } from "../dist/runtime.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
const fixture = (name: string) => fileURLToPath(new URL(`./fixtures/${name}`, import.meta.url));
const sc = StringCodec();
/** The ASSIGNMENTS stream as the controller asserts it: last-per-subject, readable by direct get. */
async function anAssignmentsStream() {
const nc = await connect({ servers: url! });
const jsm = await nc.jetstreamManager();
try {
await jsm.streams.delete("ASSIGNMENTS");
} catch {
// none yet
}
await jsm.streams.add({
name: "ASSIGNMENTS",
subjects: ["mesh.assignment.>"],
max_msgs_per_subject: 1,
allow_direct: true,
} as never);
return {
async issue(m: object & { node: string; module: string }) {
await nc.jetstream().publish(membershipSubject(m.node, m.module), sc.encode(JSON.stringify(m)));
},
async close() {
await nc.close();
},
};
}
test("a runtime serves exactly the subjects it is issued, and the listing carries them", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const stream = await anAssignmentsStream();
// The mesh placed shop on two machines that are not interchangeable: each is served by name only.
await stream.issue({
node: "anchor",
module: "shop",
serves: [{ subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}.anchor" }],
emits: "mesh.mod.shop.event.{event}",
tools: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.tools",
});
const shop = await connectNats({ url, node: "anchor", module: "shop" });
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
let stop = () => {};
try {
stop = await runTools({ broker: shop, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("shop-tools.mjs")] });
assert.equal(shop.membership()?.module, "shop", "the runtime read what the mesh issued");
// By name it answers; the plain subject was not issued, so nothing serves it.
const named = await callTool(asker, "shop.price@anchor", { of: "a hat" });
assert.deepEqual(named.result, { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });
assert.equal(named.node, "anchor");
await assert.rejects(callTool(asker, "shop.price", {}), /no responders|503/i, "a subject not issued is not served");
// The tools answer says where each is served, and the client composes nothing.
const tools = await asker.request<Record<string, never>, { tools: { name: string; subjects?: string[] }[] }>(
"shop.tools",
{},
);
assert.deepEqual(tools.tools.find((x) => x.name === "price")?.subjects, ["mesh.mod.shop.tool.price.anchor"]);
const listing = { tools: [{ module: "shop", name: "price", subjects: ["mesh.mod.shop.tool.price.anchor"] }], notAnswering: [] };
assert.equal(subjectListed("shop.price", "anchor", listing as never), "mesh.mod.shop.tool.price.anchor");
assert.equal(subjectListed("shop.price", "elsewhere", listing as never), undefined);
// The mesh re-issues the membership with the plain subject too (the modules became
// interchangeable); the runtime re-serves on it without a restart.
await stream.issue({
node: "anchor",
module: "shop",
serves: [{ subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}", queue: "serve.shop" }, { subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}.anchor" }],
emits: "mesh.mod.shop.event.{event}",
tools: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.tools",
});
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 300));
const plain = await callTool(asker, "shop.price", { of: "a coat" });
assert.deepEqual(plain.result, { of: "a coat", cost: 12 });
assert.equal(plain.node, "anchor");
} finally {
stop();
await asker.close();
await shop.close();
await stream.close();
}
});
test("a seat's verbs are implemented under the seat's name, served where issued, never listed as the module's", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const stream = await anAssignmentsStream();
await stream.issue({
node: "anchor",
module: "postgres",
serves: [{ subject: "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.{tool}", queue: "serve.postgres" }, { subject: "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.{tool}.anchor" }],
seats: [{ seat: "mesh-store", verb: "databases", subject: "mesh.seat.mesh-store.tool.databases" }],
emits: "mesh.mod.postgres.event.{event}",
tools: "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.tools",
});
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "postgres", claims: [{ seat: "mesh-store", scope: "mesh", serves: ["databases", "query"] }] };
const pg = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
let stop = () => {};
try {
stop = await runTools({ broker: pg, credential, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("store-seat.mjs")] });
// The module's own `databases` and the seat's are two tools: postgres's on its subject, the
// store's on the seat's, each answering as itself.
const own = await callTool(asker, "postgres.databases", {});
assert.deepEqual(own.result, { software: "postgres" });
const seat = await callTool(asker, "seat:mesh-store.databases", {});
assert.deepEqual(seat.result, { seat: "mesh-store" });
assert.equal(seat.node, "anchor");
// What the seat does not promise — creating a database — is postgres's tool and not the store's.
await assert.rejects(callTool(asker, "seat:mesh-store.postgres_create_database", {}), /no responders|503/i);
// And the module's `tools` lists only postgres's own, never the seat's implementation.
const tools = await asker.request<Record<string, never>, { module: string; tools: { name: string }[] }>("postgres.tools", {});
assert.deepEqual(tools.tools.map((x) => x.name).sort(), ["databases", "postgres_create_database"]);
await assert.rejects(asker.request("mesh-store.tools", {}), /no responders|503/i, "a seat is not a module with a tools verb");
} finally {
stop();
await asker.close();
await pg.close();
await stream.close();
}
});
// novox/hq issue 218: the store seat is claimed by every machine running postgres and held by one.
// Where the mesh issued a membership without the seat, the claim in the credential serves nothing:
// the module's own tools answer, the seat's verbs do not, and the runtime does not announce them.
test("a claimant the membership does not make the holder serves none of the seat's verbs", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const stream = await anAssignmentsStream();
await stream.issue({
node: "elsewhere",
module: "postgres",
serves: [{ subject: "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.{tool}.elsewhere" }],
emits: "mesh.mod.postgres.event.{event}",
tools: "mesh.mod.postgres.tool.tools",
});
const credential = { url, node: "elsewhere", module: "postgres", claims: [{ seat: "mesh-store", scope: "mesh", serves: ["databases", "query"] }] };
const pg = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
let stop = () => {};
try {
stop = await runTools({ broker: pg, credential, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("store-claimant.mjs")] });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "postgres.databases@elsewhere", {})).result, { software: "postgres" });
await assert.rejects(callTool(asker, "seat:mesh-store.databases", {}), /no responders|503/i, "the store is not held here");
} finally {
stop();
await asker.close();
await pg.close();
await stream.close();
}
});
test("a module named like its seat registers once, and answers as the module and as the seat", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const stream = await anAssignmentsStream();
await stream.issue({
node: "anchor",
module: "shop",
serves: [{ subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}", queue: "serve.shop" }, { subject: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.{tool}.anchor" }],
seats: [{ seat: "shop", verb: "price", subject: "mesh.seat.shop.tool.price" }],
emits: "mesh.mod.shop.event.{event}",
tools: "mesh.mod.shop.tool.tools",
});
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "shop", claims: [{ seat: "shop", scope: "mesh", serves: ["price"] }] };
const shop = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
let stop = () => {};
try {
stop = await runTools({ broker: shop, credential, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("shop-seat.mjs")] });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "shop.price", { of: "a hat" })).result, { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "seat:shop.price", { of: "a hat" })).result, { of: "a hat", cost: 12 });
const tools = await asker.request<Record<string, never>, { tools: { name: string }[] }>("shop.tools", {});
assert.deepEqual(tools.tools.map((x) => x.name), ["price", "refund"]);
} finally {
stop();
await asker.close();
await shop.close();
await stream.close();
}
});
test("a mesh that has issued nothing yet gets the derived shape, and says so", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
const stream = await anAssignmentsStream();
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
let lone;
try {
lone = await connectNats({ url, node: "home-server", module: "lone" });
} finally {
console.log = log;
}
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
try {
assert.equal(lone.membership(), undefined);
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /no membership issued for lone on home-server/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
await lone.handle("ping", async () => ({ pong: true }));
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "lone.ping", {})).result, { pong: true });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "lone.ping@home-server", {})).result, { pong: true });
} finally {
await asker.close();
await lone.close();
await stream.close();
}
});
// A module that implements a seat its credential does not (yet) claim is not served for it and does
// not fall over either: the runtime says so and serves the module's own tools.
test("a registration under a seat the credential does not claim is said and skipped, not fatal", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const stream = await anAssignmentsStream();
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "postgres" };
const pg = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
let stop = () => {};
try {
stop = await runTools({ broker: pg, credential, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("store-seat-unclaimed.mjs")] });
console.log = log;
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /registers tools under "mesh-store".*not served/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "postgres.databases", {})).result, { software: "postgres" });
await assert.rejects(callTool(asker, "seat:mesh-store.databases", {}), /no responders|503/i);
} finally {
console.log = log;
stop();
await asker.close();
await pg.close();
await stream.close();
}
});
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/**
* One runtime per node serves every assigned module's tools (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP1). The
* node's runtime is handed a list of modules and their bundles on the node's credential; it reads
* one membership per module, serves each module's tools on that module's subjects and each held
* seat's verbs on the seat's, names a bundle that fails to load without dropping the others, and
* re-serves a module whose membership is re-issued mid-run. Against a real bus with JetStream.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/node-runtime.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import { cpSync, mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, realpathSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
import { connect, StringCodec } from "nats";
import { resetTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { connectNats, membershipSubject } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { callTool, toolsOn } from "../dist/client.js";
import { servedModulesFrom } from "../dist/main.js";
import { runTools, takeToolEnvs } from "../dist/runtime.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
const fixture = (name: string) => fileURLToPath(new URL(`./fixtures/${name}`, import.meta.url));
const sc = StringCodec();
/** The controller's job, done by hand: the ASSIGNMENTS stream (last-per-subject, direct get) and an
* EVENTS stream for what a tool emits. */
async function aMesh() {
const nc = await connect({ servers: url! });
const jsm = await nc.jetstreamManager();
for (const name of ["ASSIGNMENTS", "EVENTS"]) {
try {
await jsm.streams.delete(name);
} catch {
// none yet
}
}
await jsm.streams.add({ name: "ASSIGNMENTS", subjects: ["mesh.assignment.>"], max_msgs_per_subject: 1, allow_direct: true } as never);
await jsm.streams.add({ name: "EVENTS", subjects: ["mesh.mod.*.event.>"] });
return {
async issue(m: object & { node: string; module: string }) {
await nc.jetstream().publish(membershipSubject(m.node, m.module), sc.encode(JSON.stringify(m)));
},
/** The next subject an event lands on, under a pattern. */
nextEvent(pattern: string): Promise<string> {
const sub = nc.subscribe(pattern, { max: 1 });
return (async () => {
for await (const m of sub) return m.subject;
throw new Error("no event");
})();
},
async close() {
await nc.close();
},
};
}
/** A membership as the controller issues one on a machine, with the module's own subject when it
* answers for the module anywhere, and the verbs of the node seats it holds. */
function membershipOf(module: string, node: string, opts: { plain?: boolean; seats?: Record<string, string[]> } = {}) {
const own = `mesh.mod.${module}`;
const serves: { subject: string; queue?: string }[] = [{ subject: `${own}.tool.{tool}.${node}` }];
if (opts.plain) serves.push({ subject: `${own}.tool.{tool}`, queue: `serve.${module}` });
const seats = Object.entries(opts.seats ?? {}).flatMap(([seat, verbs]) =>
verbs.map((verb) => ({ seat, verb, subject: `mesh.seat.${seat}.tool.${verb}.${node}` })));
return { node, module, serves, seats, emits: `${own}.event.{event}`, tools: `${own}.tool.tools` };
}
/** Wait for something to be served: the bus answers "no responders" at once until it is. */
async function until<T>(attempt: () => Promise<T>, tries = 50): Promise<T> {
for (let i = 0; ; i++) {
try {
return await attempt();
} catch (e) {
if (i >= tries) throw e;
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 100));
}
}
}
test("MESH_TOOL_MODULES names modules and their entrypoints; a bare path is the credential's own module's", () => {
const have = servedModulesFrom(" alpha=/a/tools/index.js, beta=/b/one.js ,beta=/b/two.js, /mine/index.js ,node-tools=/own/x.js", "node-tools");
assert.deepEqual(have.serves, [
{ module: "alpha", entrypoints: ["/a/tools/index.js"] },
{ module: "beta", entrypoints: ["/b/one.js", "/b/two.js"] },
]);
// The credential's own module, named or bare, is the one-module form either way.
assert.deepEqual(have.moduleEntrypoints, ["/mine/index.js", "/own/x.js"]);
assert.throws(() => servedModulesFrom("=/nothing.js", undefined), /neither <module>=<entrypoint>/);
assert.deepEqual(servedModulesFrom("", "x"), { serves: [], moduleEntrypoints: [] });
});
test("the node's runtime serves five modules' bundles on one credential — two of them launched, one broken — and follows a re-issued membership", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const mesh = await aMesh();
// Three modules assigned to the machine: alpha answers for itself anywhere, beta only here and
// holds the node-shelf seat, gamma's bundle is broken.
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("alpha", "anchor", { plain: true }));
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("beta", "anchor", { seats: { "node-shelf": ["list", "clear"] } }));
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("gamma", "anchor"));
// Two more, launched rather than loaded (ADR 0188): delta is Python and holds the node-lamp seat;
// epsilon is TypeScript written against the protocol and marked executable.
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("delta", "anchor", { seats: { "node-lamp": ["on"] } }));
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("epsilon", "anchor"));
// The node's credential: the runtime module's name, no claims (seats come from the memberships).
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "node-tools" };
const nodeTools = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
let stop = () => {};
try {
process.env.MESH_OPERATOR_ACCOUNT = "somebody";
process.env.MESH_OPERATOR_HOME = "/home/somebody";
stop = await runTools({
broker: nodeTools,
credential,
serves: [
{ module: "alpha", entrypoints: [fixture("many-alpha.serve.mjs")] },
{ module: "beta", entrypoints: [fixture("many-beta.serve.mjs")] },
{ module: "gamma", entrypoints: [fixture("many-broken.serve.mjs")] },
{ module: "delta", entrypoints: [fixture("many-delta.py")] },
{ module: "epsilon", entrypoints: [fixture("many-epsilon.mjs")] },
],
});
console.log = log;
assert.deepEqual(nodeTools.serving().sort(), ["alpha", "beta", "delta", "epsilon", "gamma", "node-tools"]);
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /the operator's account here is somebody \(home \/home\/somebody\)/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /gamma's bundle .*many-broken\.serve\.mjs failed to load: gamma's bundle exited \(1\): Error: gamma's bundle cannot find its client; its tools are not served here/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /serving 8 tool\(s\) for 5 module\(s\): alpha\.one, alpha\.two, beta\.three, beta\.four, beta\.five, delta\.greet, delta\.die, epsilon\.seven; not serving gamma/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
// Five tools answer, each where its module's membership says: alpha anywhere and here, beta here only.
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "alpha.one", {})).result, { alpha: 1 });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "alpha.one@anchor", {})).result, { alpha: 1 });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "beta.three@anchor", {})).result, { beta: 3 });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "beta.four@anchor", {})).result, { beta: 4 });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "beta.five@anchor", {})).result, { beta: 5 });
await assert.rejects(callTool(asker, "beta.three", {}), /no responders|503/i, "beta was not issued the module's plain subject");
// Two seat verbs answer on the seat's subjects, held by beta.
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "seat:node-shelf.list@anchor", {})).result, { shelf: ["a", "b"] });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "seat:node-shelf.clear@anchor", {})).result, { cleared: true });
// A bundle in another language answers the same way, its seat verb among them; so does a
// TypeScript bundle served through the protocol rather than imported.
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "delta.greet@anchor", { who: "mesh" })).result, { greeting: "hello mesh", language: "python" });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "seat:node-lamp.on@anchor", {})).result, { on: true, language: "python" });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "epsilon.seven@anchor", {})).result, { epsilon: 7, via: "stdio" });
// A child that exits mid-call tells the caller so and is started again on the next call.
await assert.rejects(callTool(asker, "delta.die@anchor", {}), /delta's bundle exited \(3\)/);
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "delta.greet@anchor", {})).result, { greeting: "hello world", language: "python" });
// A tool that emits does so as its module, not as the runtime.
const landed = mesh.nextEvent("mesh.mod.*.event.>");
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "alpha.two", {})).result, { alpha: 2 });
assert.equal(await landed, "mesh.mod.alpha.event.happened");
// `tools` answers for each: what alpha and beta serve, and why gamma serves nothing.
const gamma = await asker.request<Record<string, never>, { module: string; tools: unknown[]; failed?: string }>("gamma.tools@anchor", {});
assert.deepEqual(gamma, { module: "gamma", tools: [], failed: "gamma's bundle exited (1): Error: gamma's bundle cannot find its client" });
const beta = await asker.request<Record<string, never>, { tools: { name: string; subjects?: string[] }[] }>("beta.tools@anchor", {});
assert.deepEqual(beta.tools.map((x) => x.name), ["three", "four", "five"]);
assert.deepEqual(beta.tools[0]!.subjects, ["mesh.mod.beta.tool.three.anchor"]);
// And discovery says so, with the reason, beside the modules that answered.
const catalogue = await connectNats({ url, module: "mesh-catalog" });
await catalogue.handle("catalog_modules", async () => ({ modules: [{ module: "alpha" }, { module: "beta" }, { module: "gamma" }, { module: "delta" }, { module: "epsilon" }] }));
try {
// No console on this port: the roles' tools are said missing with the reason, never asked of the controller.
const have = await toolsOn(asker, "http://127.0.0.1:9");
assert.deepEqual(have.tools.map((x) => `${x.module}.${x.name}`), ["alpha.one", "alpha.two", "beta.five", "beta.four", "beta.three", "delta.die", "delta.greet", "epsilon.seven"]);
assert.equal(have.notAnswering[0], "gamma (its tools bundle failed to load: gamma's bundle exited (1): Error: gamma's bundle cannot find its client)");
assert.match(have.notAnswering[1] ?? "", /^the roles' tools \(the console at http:\/\/127\.0\.0\.1:9 did not answer mesh\/seats: /);
assert.equal(have.notAnswering.length, 2);
} finally {
await catalogue.close();
}
// The mesh re-issues beta's membership mid-run — now answering for the module anywhere — and
// the runtime serves the new subject without a restart.
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("beta", "anchor", { plain: true, seats: { "node-shelf": ["list", "clear"] } }));
assert.deepEqual((await until(() => callTool(asker, "beta.three", {}))).result, { beta: 3 });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "seat:node-shelf.list@anchor", {})).result, { shelf: ["a", "b"] });
} finally {
console.log = log;
delete process.env.MESH_OPERATOR_ACCOUNT;
delete process.env.MESH_OPERATOR_HOME;
stop();
await asker.close();
await nodeTools.close();
await mesh.close();
resetTools();
}
});
test("a bundle carrying its own copy of the SDK registers into the runtime's registry, and its tools are served (issue 209)", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
let dir = "";
let stop = () => {};
const closing: Array<() => Promise<void>> = [];
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
try {
// A bundle as the toolchain packs one: its compiled entrypoint, a package.json saying ES modules,
// and its dependencies copied in — the SDK among them, a second copy beside the runtime's own,
// and a dependency of the bundle's own that the runtime does not carry.
dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "mesh-bundle-"));
const sdk = realpathSync(fileURLToPath(new URL("../node_modules/@novox/mesh-sdk/", import.meta.url)));
cpSync(sdk, join(dir, "node_modules", "@novox", "mesh-sdk"), { recursive: true });
mkdirSync(join(dir, "node_modules", "zeta-flavour"), { recursive: true });
writeFileSync(join(dir, "node_modules", "zeta-flavour", "package.json"), '{"name":"zeta-flavour","type":"module","main":"index.js"}\n');
writeFileSync(join(dir, "node_modules", "zeta-flavour", "index.js"), 'export const flavour = "the bundle\'s own";\n');
writeFileSync(join(dir, "package.json"), '{"type":"module","private":true}\n');
writeFileSync(join(dir, "index.serve.mjs"),
'#!/usr/bin/env node\nimport { serveRegisteredOverStdio } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/stdio";\nawait import("./index.js");\nawait serveRegisteredOverStdio();\n', { mode: 0o755 });
writeFileSync(join(dir, "index.js"),
'import { registerModuleTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";\n' +
'import { flavour } from "zeta-flavour";\n' +
'registerModuleTools("zeta", () => [{ name: "probe", description: "answers", input: {}, run: async () => ({ zeta: true, flavour }) }]);\n');
const mesh = await aMesh();
closing.push(() => mesh.close());
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("zeta", "anchor"));
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "node-tools" };
const nodeTools = await connectNats(credential);
closing.push(() => nodeTools.close());
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
closing.push(() => asker.close());
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
stop = await runTools({ broker: nodeTools, credential, serves: [{ module: "zeta", entrypoints: [join(dir, "index.serve.mjs")] }] });
console.log = log;
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /serving 1 tool\(s\) for 1 module\(s\): zeta\.probe/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
// The SDK is the runtime's (the registration arrived); the bundle's other dependency is its own.
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "zeta.probe@anchor", {})).result, { zeta: true, flavour: "the bundle's own" });
} finally {
console.log = log;
stop();
for (const close of closing.reverse()) await close();
if (dir) rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
resetTools();
}
});
test("each bundle is given its own environment and none of another's, imported or launched (ADR 0192)", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const mesh = await aMesh();
for (const m of ["gamma", "delta", "zeta"]) await mesh.issue(membershipOf(m, "anchor"));
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "node-tools" };
const nodeTools = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
const log = console.log;
let stop = () => {};
const before = process.env.MESH_TOOL_ENV;
try {
process.env.MESH_OPERATOR_ACCOUNT = "somebody";
process.env.MESH_TOOL_ENV = JSON.stringify({
gamma: { GAMMA_CONFIG_FILE: "/var/lib/mesh/gamma/config.json" },
delta: { DELTA_TOKEN_FILE: "/var/lib/mesh/delta/token" },
zeta: { ZETA_URL: "http://127.0.0.1:3000" },
});
const envs = takeToolEnvs();
assert.equal(process.env.MESH_TOOL_ENV, undefined, "the composed environments were left in the process's");
console.log = () => {};
stop = await runTools({
broker: nodeTools, credential, envs,
serves: [
{ module: "gamma", entrypoints: [fixture("env-gamma.serve.mjs")] },
{ module: "delta", entrypoints: [fixture("env-delta.serve.mjs")] },
{ module: "zeta", entrypoints: [fixture("env-zeta.mjs")] },
],
});
console.log = log;
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "gamma.given@anchor", {})).result,
{ mine: "/var/lib/mesh/gamma/config.json", theirs: null, runtime: "somebody", composed: null });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "delta.given@anchor", {})).result,
{ mine: "/var/lib/mesh/delta/token", theirs: null });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "zeta.given@anchor", {})).result,
{ mine: "http://127.0.0.1:3000", theirs: null, composed: null });
} finally {
console.log = log;
if (before === undefined) delete process.env.MESH_TOOL_ENV; else process.env.MESH_TOOL_ENV = before;
delete process.env.MESH_OPERATOR_ACCOUNT;
stop();
await asker.close();
await nodeTools.close();
await mesh.close();
resetTools();
}
});
test("a launched bundle is told the module it serves, so its seat's verbs stay the seat's (ADR 0193)", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const mesh = await aMesh();
await mesh.issue(membershipOf("theta", "anchor", { seats: { "node-shelf": ["list"] } }));
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "node-tools" };
const nodeTools = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
const log = console.log;
let stop = () => {};
try {
console.log = () => {};
stop = await runTools({ broker: nodeTools, credential, envs: new Map([["theta", { THETA_WORD: "given" }]]),
serves: [{ module: "theta", entrypoints: [fixture("served-seat-first.mjs")] }] });
console.log = log;
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "theta.own@anchor", {})).result, { theta: "given" });
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "seat:node-shelf.list@anchor", {})).result, { shelf: ["x"] });
} finally {
console.log = log;
stop();
await asker.close();
await nodeTools.close();
await mesh.close();
resetTools();
}
});
test("an entrypoint that is not executable is refused by name, and the others serve (ADR 0193)", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const mesh = await aMesh();
for (const m of ["alpha", "plain"]) await mesh.issue(membershipOf(m, "anchor"));
const credential = { url, node: "anchor", module: "node-tools" };
const nodeTools = await connectNats(credential);
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "console", node: "workstation" });
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
let stop = () => {};
try {
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
stop = await runTools({ broker: nodeTools, credential, serves: [
{ module: "alpha", entrypoints: [fixture("many-alpha.serve.mjs")] },
{ module: "plain", entrypoints: [fixture("many-alpha.mjs")] },
] });
console.log = log;
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /plain's bundle .*many-alpha\.mjs failed to load: .* is not executable; a bundle the runtime serves is started, never imported/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "alpha.one@anchor", {})).result, { alpha: 1 });
} finally {
console.log = log;
stop();
await asker.close();
await nodeTools.close();
await mesh.close();
resetTools();
}
});
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/**
* The runtime as the node-tools module (novox/hq ADR 0175 §6, to-be 38 WP3): started the way the
* host starts it — `main.js` with the node's credential and MESH_TOOL_MODULES — it serves the bundles
* AND answers MCP on loopback as the console, through which a tool it serves can be called.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/node-tools-serve.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { spawn, type ChildProcess } from "node:child_process";
import { mkdtemp, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
const fixture = (name: string) => fileURLToPath(new URL(`./fixtures/${name}`, import.meta.url));
async function post(endpoint: string, body: unknown): Promise<any> {
const res = await fetch(endpoint, { method: "POST", headers: { "content-type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify(body) });
return res.json();
}
test("as node-tools, serve loads the bundles and is the console on loopback", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
// The catalogue, for discovery; the node credential names the runtime module and no claims.
const catalogue = await connectNats({ url, module: "mesh-catalog" });
await catalogue.handle("catalog_modules", async () => ({ modules: [{ module: "alpha" }] }));
t.after(() => catalogue.close());
const dir = await mkdtemp("/tmp/node-tools-");
const credential = join(dir, "broker");
await writeFile(credential, JSON.stringify({ url, node: "desk", module: "node-tools", user: "desk.node-tools", password: "x" }));
const child: ChildProcess = spawn(process.execPath, ["dist/main.js"], {
env: {
...process.env,
MESH_BROKER_FILE: credential,
MESH_TOOL_MODULES: `alpha=${fixture("many-alpha.serve.mjs")}`,
MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN: "127.0.0.1:0",
},
stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe"],
});
t.after(() => {
child.kill("SIGTERM");
});
const endpoint = await new Promise<string>((resolve, reject) => {
let out = "";
let err = "";
child.stdout!.on("data", (d) => {
out += d.toString();
const m = /listening on (http:\/\/[^/]+\/mcp) as desk\.node-tools/.exec(out);
if (m) resolve(m[1]!);
});
child.stderr!.on("data", (d) => (err += d.toString()));
child.on("exit", (code) => reject(new Error(`serve exited ${code}: ${err}`)));
});
const listed = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 1, method: "tools/list" });
assert.deepEqual(listed.result.tools.map((x: any) => x.name).filter((n: string) => n.startsWith("alpha.")), ["alpha.one", "alpha.two"]);
// A tool the same process serves on the bus, called through the console it also is.
const called = await post(endpoint, { jsonrpc: "2.0", id: 2, method: "tools/call", params: { name: "alpha.one", arguments: { node: "desk" } } });
assert.deepEqual(JSON.parse(called.result.content[0].text), { alpha: 1 });
});
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import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
import { test } from "node:test";
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { fatalBrokerReason, PinMismatchError, topicMatches } from "../src/broker-nats.ts";
// novox/hq issue 058 (and its review): serve mode retries a broker that is not up yet, but must
// give up at once on a failure waiting cannot fix — otherwise a permanent fault loops for ever
// disguised as "not reachable". This is the classifier that draws the line; the bed cannot test it
// (it starts the consumer only after the broker is up), so it is proven here.
test("a broker that is not up yet is retryable, not fatal", () => {
for (const err of [
Object.assign(new Error("connect ECONNREFUSED 10.42.0.1:5671"), { code: "ECONNREFUSED" }),
Object.assign(new Error("connect ETIMEDOUT"), { code: "ETIMEDOUT" }),
Object.assign(new Error("getaddrinfo EAI_AGAIN anchor.internal"), { code: "EAI_AGAIN" }),
new Error("timed out fetching the broker's certificate"),
]) {
assert.equal(fatalBrokerReason(err), null, `should retry: ${(err as Error).message}`);
}
});
test("a certificate that does not match the pin is fatal, by type not by message", () => {
// Typed, so rewording the message cannot turn an impostor back into an infinite retry.
assert.notEqual(fatalBrokerReason(new PinMismatchError("anything at all")), null);
// A plain Error with pin-ish words is NOT treated as the pin case — only the type is.
assert.equal(fatalBrokerReason(new Error("the pinned value was fine")), null);
});
test("a malformed broker URL is fatal — it never parses on the next try", () => {
assert.notEqual(fatalBrokerReason(Object.assign(new Error("Invalid URL"), { code: "ERR_INVALID_URL" })), null);
assert.notEqual(fatalBrokerReason(new Error("Invalid URL: not-a-url")), null);
});
test("a refused login is fatal — a wrong or revoked credential, not an absent broker", () => {
// The bus refuses a login in its own words; each is final, because the next try says the same.
for (const msg of ["Authorization Violation", "nats: user authentication expired", "Permissions Violation for Subscription to \"x\""]) {
assert.notEqual(fatalBrokerReason(new Error(msg)), null, `should be fatal: ${msg}`);
}
});
test("a non-Error value does not crash the classifier", () => {
assert.equal(fatalBrokerReason("just a string"), null);
assert.equal(fatalBrokerReason(undefined), null);
});
// **A module asked to prepare its state and naming nothing is a failure, not a no-op** (novox/hq
// ADR 0135). The mesh asks this only of a module whose manifest says it prepares something, so an
// image that names nothing was built wrong, and exiting 0 would let that version serve against a
// state nobody shaped.
test("preparing with nothing named fails rather than passing quietly", async () => {
const runtime = new URL("../dist/main.js", import.meta.url).pathname;
const ran = await new Promise<{ code: number | null; said: string }>((resolve) => {
const child = spawn(process.execPath, [runtime, "prepare"], {
env: { ...process.env, MESH_PREPARE: "" },
});
let said = "";
child.stderr.on("data", (chunk) => (said += String(chunk)));
child.on("close", (code) => resolve({ code, said }));
});
assert.notEqual(ran.code, 0, "a module that prepares nothing exited 0, so its version would serve");
assert.match(ran.said, /MESH_PREPARE/);
});
// **One durable consumer feeds one reader, however many patterns a module registers.**
//
// A module has exactly one consumer, so two readers of it would each take half the messages — and a
// reader that received one its own pattern does not match acknowledges it, which is right for a
// filter wider than anything registered and silent loss when it is another handler's. The matching is
// therefore pure and tested as such: what a message is for is decided by the patterns registered, not
// by which reader happened to fetch it.
test("a message is for every pattern that matches it, and nothing else", () => {
const registered = ["mesh-build-machine.built", "mesh-placement.built-before"];
const matched = (key: string) => registered.filter((p) => topicMatches(p, key));
assert.deepEqual(matched("mesh-build-machine.built"), ["mesh-build-machine.built"]);
assert.deepEqual(matched("mesh-placement.built-before"), ["mesh-placement.built-before"]);
// Nothing registered for it: the consumer's filter is the controller's and may be wider.
assert.deepEqual(matched("mesh-catalog.upgraded"), []);
// And a handler that asked for everything gets both, which is what the audit logger does.
assert.deepEqual(["#"].filter((p) => topicMatches(p, "mesh-placement.built-before")), ["#"]);
});
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/**
* A refused announcement is said and never fatal (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/217): against a bus whose
* permissions refuse one discovery subject, the runtime's raw subscription is refused, logged, and
* the process keeps serving — its tools still answer.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14233:4222 -v $PWD/test/fixtures/refusing-nats.conf:/c.conf nats:2.10-alpine -c /c.conf
* MESH_TEST_REFUSING_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14233 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/refused.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { callTool } from "../dist/client.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_REFUSING_NATS;
test("a refused discovery subscription is logged and the runtime serves on", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_REFUSING_NATS unset");
const bus = await connectNats({ url, user: "runtime", password: "runtime", module: "alpha", node: "anchor" });
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
const crashed: unknown[] = [];
const onRejection = (e: unknown) => crashed.push(e);
process.on("unhandledRejection", onRejection);
try {
(bus as unknown as { raw: (s: string, f: () => Uint8Array | undefined) => () => void }).raw("$SRV.PING.>", () => undefined);
const stop = await bus.handle("alpha.ping", async () => ({ pong: true }));
for (let i = 0; i < 50 && !said.some((s) => s.includes("the bus refused $SRV.PING.>")); i++) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 50));
console.log = log;
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /the bus refused \$SRV\.PING\.>.*serves on/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
assert.equal(crashed.length, 0, `the refusal escaped: ${String(crashed[0])}`);
stop();
} finally {
console.log = log;
process.off("unhandledRejection", onRejection);
await bus.close();
}
});
// novox/hq issue 218: a tool subject the grants leave out — a seat claimed here and held elsewhere —
// is refused, said, and the module's other tools still answer.
test("a refused tool subscription is logged and the module's other tools answer", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_REFUSING_NATS unset");
const bus = await connectNats({ url, user: "runtime", password: "runtime", module: "alpha", node: "anchor" });
const asker = await connectNats({ url, user: "runtime", password: "runtime", module: "console", node: "workstation" });
const said: string[] = [];
const log = console.log;
console.log = (...a: unknown[]) => said.push(a.join(" "));
const crashed: unknown[] = [];
const onRejection = (e: unknown) => crashed.push(e);
process.on("unhandledRejection", onRejection);
try {
const refused = await bus.handleSubject!("mesh.seat.held-elsewhere.tool.databases", async () => ({ seat: true }));
const stop = await bus.handle("alpha.ping", async () => ({ pong: true }));
for (let i = 0; i < 50 && !said.some((s) => s.includes("the bus refused mesh.seat.held-elsewhere")); i++) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 50));
console.log = log;
assert.ok(said.some((s) => /the bus refused mesh\.seat\.held-elsewhere\.tool\.databases.*serves on/.test(s)), said.join("\n"));
assert.equal(crashed.length, 0, `the refusal escaped: ${String(crashed[0])}`);
assert.deepEqual((await callTool(asker, "alpha.ping@anchor", {})).result, { pong: true });
stop();
refused();
} finally {
console.log = log;
process.off("unhandledRejection", onRejection);
await asker.close();
await bus.close();
}
});
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// Round-trip the runtime's NATS client against a real server: a tool call answered, and an
// event emitted and received with its envelope intact.
import { connect } from "nats";
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
const URL = "nats://127.0.0.1:14222";
// The mesh's job, done by hand here: the stream and the module's durable consumer.
const admin = await connect({ servers: URL });
const jsm = await admin.jetstreamManager();
await jsm.streams.add({ name: "EVENTS", subjects: ["mesh.mod.*.event.>", "mesh.seat.*.event.>"] });
await jsm.consumers.add("EVENTS", {
durable_name: "one_audit", ack_policy: "explicit",
filter_subjects: ["mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed"],
});
const shop = await connectNats({ url: URL, node: "one", module: "shop" });
const audit = await connectNats({ url: URL, node: "one", module: "audit" });
let failures = 0;
const check = (ok, what) => { console.log(` ${ok ? "ok " : "FAIL"} ${what}`); if (!ok) failures++; };
// A tool, served and called.
await shop.handle("price", async (body) => ({ total: body.qty * 3 }));
const answer = await audit.request("shop.price", { qty: 4 });
check(answer.total === 12, "a tool call is answered across two connections");
// A handler that throws reaches the caller as an error, not a timeout.
await shop.handle("boom", async () => { throw new Error("no"); });
let threw = null;
try { await audit.request("shop.boom", {}); } catch (e) { threw = e.message; }
check(threw === "no", "a handler that throws answers the caller instead of timing out");
// An event, emitted and received with its envelope intact.
const seen = [];
await audit.subscribe("order.placed", async (env) => { seen.push(env); });
await shop.publish({
key: "order.placed", node: "one", body: { id: "a1" },
headers: { "x-event-id": "e1", "x-node": "one", "content-type": "application/json" },
});
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 800));
check(seen.length === 1, `exactly one delivery (saw ${seen.length})`);
if (seen[0]) {
check(seen[0].key === "order.placed", "the key survives the subject round trip");
check(seen[0].body?.id === "a1", "the body is the payload, not the whole envelope");
check(seen[0].node === "one", "the node comes back from the headers");
check(seen[0].headers?.["x-event-id"] === "e1", "the event id survives as a header");
}
// A module cannot reach into another's namespace by naming its own event oddly.
await shop.publish({ key: "other", node: "one", body: {}, headers: { "x-event-id": "e2" } });
const msg = await jsm.streams.getMessage("EVENTS", { last_by_subj: "mesh.mod.shop.event.other" });
check(!!msg, "an event lands under the emitting module's own namespace");
await shop.close(); await audit.close(); await admin.close();
console.log(failures ? `\n${failures} failed` : "\nall passed");
process.exit(failures ? 1 : 0);
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/**
* Every module's runtime answers `tools` for it (novox/hq ADR 0152, design 34 §3): the names,
* descriptions and schemas from the code that answers them. Against a real bus, because the claim is
* what a second connection gets back.
*
* docker run -d --rm --name t -p 14232:4222 nats:2.10-alpine -js
* MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:14232 node --test --experimental-strip-types test/runtime-tools.test.ts
*/
import assert from "node:assert/strict";
import { test } from "node:test";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import { resetTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
import { connectNats } from "../dist/broker-nats.js";
import { runTools } from "../dist/runtime.js";
const url = process.env.MESH_TEST_NATS;
const fixture = (name: string) => fileURLToPath(new URL(`./fixtures/${name}`, import.meta.url));
test("a module registering two tools answers three names, the third being what it serves", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const shop = await connectNats({ url, node: "one", module: "shop" });
const asker = await connectNats({ url, module: "person.ada" });
const stop = await runTools({ broker: shop, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("shop-tools.mjs")] });
try {
const answer = await asker.request<Record<string, never>, { module: string; tools: { name: string; input: unknown }[] }>(
"shop.tools",
{},
);
assert.equal(answer.module, "shop");
assert.deepEqual(answer.tools.map((x) => x.name), ["price", "refund"]);
// The schema travels with the name: a name alone is not callable by something that has never
// seen the mesh before.
assert.deepEqual(answer.tools[0].input, { of: { type: "string", description: "the thing" } });
// And the tools themselves still answer beside it.
const priced = await asker.request<{ of: string }, { cost: number }>("shop.price", { of: "a hat" });
assert.equal(priced.cost, 12);
} finally {
stop();
await asker.close();
await shop.close();
}
});
test("a module naming a tool of its own `tools` is refused at load", async (t) => {
if (!url) return t.skip("MESH_TEST_NATS unset");
resetTools();
const clash = await connectNats({ url, node: "one", module: "clash" });
try {
await assert.rejects(
() => runTools({ broker: clash, moduleEntrypoints: [fixture("clash-tools.mjs")] }),
/names a tool "tools"/,
);
} finally {
resetTools();
await clash.close();
}
});
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{
"compilerOptions": {
"target": "ES2022",
"module": "NodeNext",
"moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
"declaration": true,
"outDir": "dist",
"rootDir": "src",
"strict": true,
"esModuleInterop": true,
"skipLibCheck": true,
"forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
},
"include": ["src/**/*.ts"]
}