Merge pull request 'Feature 57 (config and provisioning): release mesh-tools' (#36) from release/57-config-and-provisioning into main

merge-check.sh

@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ if ! command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 || [ ! -d node_modules/@novox/mesh-sdk ]; t
 	# And what of the runtime launches no bundle: how a bundle's seat traffic reaches the bus, what its
 	# environment holds, what a runtime on a module's own account serves (novox/hq ADR 0259), and that a write
 	# by compare-and-set loses no update under contention (novox/hq research 042), and a module's log verbs
-	# (novox/hq ADR 0297), and a key's history (novox/hq ADR 0307).
-	runtimeless='^(TestALogAnswersEachVerbOnTheBus|TestALogPageIsBoundedByItsBytes|TestAnAppendAtAStaleExpectIsRefusedAsALostUpdate|TestALogNotIssuedIsRefusedWithTheReason|TestWhatALogCannotHoldIsRefusedWithTheReason|TestALogRefusesAValueNamingACredential|TestAKeysHistoryIsEveryValueKeptOldestFirst|TestAKeysHistoryIsRefusedToAModuleNotIssuedTheState|TestARuntimeOnAModulesOwnAccountServesThatModuleAlone|TestNoBusWordReachesABundle|TestAToolCallNeverReachesASeatsEventAcceptOrProof|TestABundlesSeatTrafficGoesThroughItsModulesBus|TestALostCompareAndSetCarriesItsCode|TestTwoWritersIncrementingOneCounterOnTheBusLoseNoUpdate|TestAStaleWriteIsRefusedAndWritesNothing|TestACallOnTheCallerNamedSubjectReachesTheModuleWithItsCaller|TestTheSubjectThatNamesNoCallerStillWorksAndNamesNone)$'
+	# (novox/hq ADR 0297), and a key's history (novox/hq ADR 0307), and a module's values asked of its machine's
+	# provisioner client (novox/hq ADR 0370).
+	runtimeless='^(TestALogAnswersEachVerbOnTheBus|TestALogPageIsBoundedByItsBytes|TestAnAppendAtAStaleExpectIsRefusedAsALostUpdate|TestALogNotIssuedIsRefusedWithTheReason|TestWhatALogCannotHoldIsRefusedWithTheReason|TestALogRefusesAValueNamingACredential|TestAKeysHistoryIsEveryValueKeptOldestFirst|TestAKeysHistoryIsRefusedToAModuleNotIssuedTheState|TestARuntimeOnAModulesOwnAccountServesThatModuleAlone|TestNoBusWordReachesABundle|TestAToolCallNeverReachesASeatsEventAcceptOrProof|TestABundlesSeatTrafficGoesThroughItsModulesBus|TestALostCompareAndSetCarriesItsCode|TestTwoWritersIncrementingOneCounterOnTheBusLoseNoUpdate|TestAStaleWriteIsRefusedAndWritesNothing|TestACallOnTheCallerNamedSubjectReachesTheModuleWithItsCaller|TestTheSubjectThatNamesNoCallerStillWorksAndNamesNone|TestABundleAsksForItsValuesAsItsOwnModule|TestABundlesWatchIsHandedTheValueAndEachChange)$'
 fi
 if command -v gcc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 	CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race -count=1 $packages

node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/alive"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/console"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/provide"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/runtime"
 )
 
@@ -62,6 +63,10 @@ func main() {
 		stopSaying = alive.Keep(conn, cred.Node, alive.Every, log.Printf)
 	}
 
+	// As the machine's runtime it is also the provider of `mcp-endpoint`: it answers its consumers through the
+	// SDK's helper wherever it runs, whether or not the module is handed (novox/hq ADR 0349 clause 12, issue 791).
+	stopProviding := provide.Start(conn, cred.Module, cred.Node, time.Minute, log.Printf)
+
 	listen := os.Getenv("MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN")
 	if listen == "" && cred.Module == runtimeModule {
 		listen = consoleListen
@@ -84,6 +89,7 @@ func main() {
 	signal.Notify(signals, syscall.SIGTERM, syscall.SIGINT)
 	<-signals
 	stopSaying()
+	stopProviding()
 	stop()
 	if up != nil {
 		_ = up.Close()

node-tools/go.mod

@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ require (
 )
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19
 	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
 	github.com/minio/highwayhash v1.0.4 // indirect
 	github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2 v2.8.1 // indirect
-	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17 // indirect
+	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 // indirect
 	github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 // indirect
-	go.uber.org/automaxprocs v1.6.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/time v0.15.0 // indirect
 )

node-tools/go.sum

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19 h1:mAMt3KFmrHzDiBv4MLL94opWcG9y73ISMrBUyisapQE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
 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=
@@ -16,8 +18,6 @@ github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 h1:rd5oAuLOb8mnAycB0xleuEBNS1pVVnN0fv/FF34Eypg=
 github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16/go.mod h1:llLgWoI0o4z/Q57q2R1kHfmocyhGV6VG/U18Glg1Afs=
 github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 h1:5iA8DT8V7q8WK2EScv2padNa/rTESc1KdnPw4TC2paw=
 github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1/go.mod h1:19wcPz3Ph3q0Jbyiqsd0kePYG7A95tJPxeL+1OSON2c=
-go.uber.org/automaxprocs v1.6.0 h1:O3y2/QNTOdbF+e/dpXNNW7Rx2hZ4sTIPyybbxyNqTUs=
-go.uber.org/automaxprocs v1.6.0/go.mod h1:ifeIMSnPZuznNm6jmdzmU3/bfk01Fe2fotchwEFJ8r8=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
 golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.21.0/go.mod h1:/VUhepiaJMQUp4+oa/7Zr1D23ma6VTLIYjOOTFZPUcA=

node-tools/internal/bus/provision.go

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+package bus
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+)
+
+// A module's code asks its machine's provisioner client for its values at runtime (novox/hq ADR 0349 clause 14 as
+// ADR 0370 changes it, issue 685).
+//
+// While a module's code runs here, its asks reach the bus under this runtime's account, and the bus proves only
+// that account. So the runtime asks its own machine's client on ProvisionAskSubject — which the controller grants
+// this machine's tool runner alone to publish (ADR 0370 §3) — naming the module itself, from the bundle that asks
+// and never from the module's code or arguments (§4). The client answers that module's config values, for what its
+// manifest declares, and no secret: the vault hands a secret only to a caller the bus proves (§2).
+
+// ProvisionAskSubject is where this machine's tool runner asks its provisioner client (mesh-controller
+// internal/broker ProvisionerAskSubject): `prov.ask.<node>`.
+func ProvisionAskSubject(node string) string { return "prov.ask." + node }
+
+// ProvisionChangedSubjects is every module's word of what moved on a machine (mesh-controller internal/broker
+// ProvisionerChangedSubject): `prov.changed.<node>.<module>`, a module's name dots and all.
+func ProvisionChangedSubjects(node string) string { return "prov.changed." + node + ".>" }
+
+// ProvisionTimeout bounds one ask of the client; a variable so a test need not wait.
+var ProvisionTimeout = 10 * time.Second
+
+// ProvisionChanged is what the client says moved of one module: the kind, and the key, or every key of the kind when
+// empty. Never the value.
+type ProvisionChanged struct {
+	Kind string `json:"kind"`
+	Key  string `json:"key,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// ProvisionRefused is the client's refusal, in its own words: a key the module does not declare, a module not placed
+// on the machine, a secret, a kind it does not answer yet.
+type ProvisionRefused struct{ Reason string }
+
+func (r *ProvisionRefused) Error() string { return r.Reason }
+
+// AskProvisioner asks this machine's provisioner client for one value of module: kind `config` or `bound`, and the
+// key. The module is the caller's to name from the bundle it runs; this never takes it from what a bundle sent.
+func (c *Conn) AskProvisioner(module, kind, key string) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if c.node == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("this runtime names no machine, so it has no provisioner client to ask")
+	}
+	body, err := json.Marshal(map[string]string{"module": module, "kind": kind, "key": key})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	msg, err := c.nc.Request(ProvisionAskSubject(c.node), body, ProvisionTimeout)
+	if errors.Is(err, nats.ErrNoResponders) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s's provisioner client does not answer: it is not running there, or the bus does "+
+			"not let %s ask it", c.node, c.cred.User)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("asking %s's provisioner client for %s's %s %s: %w", c.node, module, kind, key, err)
+	}
+	var answered struct {
+		Value json.RawMessage `json:"value"`
+		Error string          `json:"error"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &answered); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s's provisioner client answered something that is not its answer: %w", c.node, err)
+	}
+	if answered.Error != "" {
+		return nil, &ProvisionRefused{Reason: answered.Error}
+	}
+	if len(answered.Value) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s's provisioner client answered no value and no reason", c.node)
+	}
+	return answered.Value, nil
+}
+
+// OnProvisionChanged hands told every word of this machine's provisioner client of what moved, by module, until
+// stopped.
+func (c *Conn) OnProvisionChanged(told func(module string, changed ProvisionChanged)) (func(), error) {
+	if c.node == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("this runtime names no machine, so it hears no provisioner client")
+	}
+	prefix := "prov.changed." + c.node + "."
+	sub, err := c.nc.Subscribe(ProvisionChangedSubjects(c.node), func(m *nats.Msg) {
+		var changed ProvisionChanged
+		if json.Unmarshal(m.Data, &changed) != nil || changed.Kind == "" {
+			return
+		}
+		told(strings.TrimPrefix(m.Subject, prefix), changed)
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() }, c.nc.Flush()
+}

node-tools/internal/launch/event_answer_test.go

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ func (b *subscribing) Watch(json.RawMessage, func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(
 func (b *subscribing) Seat(string, json.RawMessage, func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error)) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 	return nil, nil
 }
+func (b *subscribing) Provision(string, json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, nil }
+func (b *subscribing) ProvisionWatch(json.RawMessage, func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error) {
+	return func() {}, nil
+}
 func (b *subscribing) Subscribe(d func(json.RawMessage) error) error {
 	b.mu.Lock()
 	defer b.mu.Unlock()

node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go

@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ type Bus interface {
 	// `take` and `answer` bind once and hand each message or proof on through handOn, to whichever child
 	// of the module asked last — a restarted child asks again as its code runs again.
 	Seat(verb string, params json.RawMessage, handOn func(method string, params any) (json.RawMessage, error)) (json.RawMessage, error)
+	// Provision answers a bundle's `get` of one of its module's values at runtime, and ProvisionWatch hands deliver
+	// that value now and each change after, as the module whose bundle asks and never a module the bundle names
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0349 §14, ADR 0370 §4): its config, and its bindings' values that are not secret.
+	Provision(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error)
+	ProvisionWatch(params json.RawMessage, deliver func(change json.RawMessage) error) (stop func(), err error)
 }
 
 // EventTimeout bounds how long a bundle has to handle one event before it is offered again.
@@ -307,6 +312,30 @@ func Start(module, entry string, env []string, mesh Bus, logf func(string, ...an
 							if answered, err = mesh.Log(strings.TrimPrefix(m.Method, "mesh/log."), m.Params); err == nil {
 								result = answered
 							}
+						case "mesh/provision.get":
+							var answered json.RawMessage
+							if answered, err = mesh.Provision("get", m.Params); err == nil {
+								result = answered
+							}
+						case "mesh/provision.watch":
+							// As a state's watch: each change asked of this child in order, naming the watch by the
+							// id the child asked it with, and answered once the current value is handed over.
+							var stop func()
+							watch := m.ID
+							stop, err = mesh.ProvisionWatch(m.Params, func(change json.RawMessage) error {
+								_, err := c.ask(module, "mesh/provision", map[string]any{"watch": watch, "change": change}, EventTimeout)
+								return err
+							})
+							if err == nil {
+								c.mu.Lock()
+								if c.why != nil {
+									c.mu.Unlock()
+									stop()
+								} else {
+									c.watches = append(c.watches, stop)
+									c.mu.Unlock()
+								}
+							}
 						case "mesh/state.watch":
 							// Each change is asked of this child, in order, naming the watch it is for by
 							// the id the child asked it with — two watches of one state are two handlers;

node-tools/internal/launch/provision_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+package launch
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// A bundle that asks for one of its values and watches it, and writes each change it is handed to $OUT.
+const provisionBundle = `#!/bin/sh
+while IFS= read -r line; do
+  id=$(printf '%s' "$line" | sed -n 's/.*"id":\([0-9]*\)[,}].*/\1/p')
+  case "$line" in
+    *'"method":"initialize"'*) printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{}}\n' "$id" ;;
+    *'"method":"tools/list"'*)
+      printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{"tools":[]}}\n' "$id"
+      printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"g1","method":"mesh/provision.get","params":{"kind":"config","key":"role"}}\n'
+      printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"w1","method":"mesh/provision.watch","params":{"kind":"config","key":"role"}}\n' ;;
+    *'"method":"mesh/provision"'*)
+      printf '%s\n' "$line" >> "$OUT"
+      printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{}}\n' "$id" ;;
+    *'"id":"g1"'*) printf '%s\n' "$line" >> "$OUT" ;;
+  esac
+done
+`
+
+type provisioning struct {
+	subscribing
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	asked []string
+}
+
+func (b *provisioning) Provision(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	defer b.mu.Unlock()
+	b.asked = append(b.asked, verb+" "+string(params))
+	return json.RawMessage(`"the build machine"`), nil
+}
+
+func (b *provisioning) ProvisionWatch(params json.RawMessage, deliver func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error) {
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	b.asked = append(b.asked, "watch "+string(params))
+	b.mu.Unlock()
+	return func() {}, deliver(json.RawMessage(`{"kind":"config","key":"role","value":"the build machine"}`))
+}
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0349 §14, ADR 0370 §4: a bundle's ask for its values reaches the runtime's bus from its own channel,
+// answered there, and a watch's change is handed to it naming the watch it asked.
+func TestABundleAsksForItsValuesAndIsHandedItsWatchsChanges(t *testing.T) {
+	entry := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "bundle")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(entry, []byte(provisionBundle), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	out := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "out")
+	b := &provisioning{}
+	l, err := Start("claude-code", entry, append(os.Environ(), "OUT="+out), b, t.Logf)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(l.Stop)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(10 * time.Second)
+	for {
+		said, _ := os.ReadFile(out)
+		if strings.Count(string(said), "\n") >= 2 {
+			// Each line as the bundle read it, by what it is: the get's answer, and the watch's change.
+			got := map[string]string{}
+			for _, line := range strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(string(said)), "\n") {
+				var m struct {
+					ID     any             `json:"id"`
+					Method string          `json:"method"`
+					Result json.RawMessage `json:"result"`
+					Params json.RawMessage `json:"params"`
+				}
+				if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(line), &m); err != nil {
+					t.Fatalf("the bundle read %s", line)
+				}
+				if m.Method != "" {
+					got[m.Method] = string(m.Params)
+				} else {
+					got["answer"] = string(m.Result)
+				}
+			}
+			if got["answer"] != `"the build machine"` {
+				t.Errorf("the get was answered %s", got["answer"])
+			}
+			if got["mesh/provision"] != `{"change":{"kind":"config","key":"role","value":"the build machine"},"watch":"w1"}` {
+				t.Errorf("the watch was handed %s", got["mesh/provision"])
+			}
+			break
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatalf("the bundle was handed %q", said)
+		}
+		time.Sleep(20 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	defer b.mu.Unlock()
+	slices.Sort(b.asked)
+	if len(b.asked) != 2 || b.asked[0] != `get {"kind":"config","key":"role"}` || b.asked[1] != `watch {"kind":"config","key":"role"}` {
+		t.Errorf("the runtime's bus was asked %q", b.asked)
+	}
+}

node-tools/internal/provide/provide.go

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+// Package provide is the runtime's half of node-tools being a provider of `mcp-endpoint`: it runs the mesh SDK's
+// provider helper, so a consumer handed to the provisioner (claude-code's `${bound:mcp-endpoint:port}`) is answered
+// from an entry node-tools writes in its own bucket, not from the controller's binding file (novox/hq ADR 0349
+// clause 12, issue 791).
+//
+// The offer carries no credential: the console's authority is the machine's login (ADR 0152, 0175), so the helper
+// reads nothing from the vault, needs no consumers' file and the entry names none. node-tools is not marked moved:
+// its manifest says `"answered-by": "helper"` for the provision, and the helper runs whenever the runtime does
+// (issue 791), as route-proxy's does (issue 792).
+package provide
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provider"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+)
+
+const (
+	// Module is the provider: the runtime's own module.
+	Module = "node-tools"
+	// Provision is what node-tools provides, as its manifest says.
+	Provision = "mcp-endpoint"
+	// ServedPort is the port its manifest serves (`serves.mcp-endpoint.port`): where the console listens.
+	ServedPort = 4270
+)
+
+// Offers is what node-tools serves, per provision.
+func Offers() map[string]provider.Offer {
+	return map[string]provider.Offer{Provision: {
+		Credential: provider.NoCredential,
+		Serves:     map[string]any{"port": ServedPort},
+	}}
+}
+
+// busOf is the helper's bus over the runtime's own state: the provider's bucket is its state `bound`, and the
+// controller's assignments are the state it reads, `mesh-controller.assignments` (both declared in the manifest).
+type busOf struct{ conn *bus.Conn }
+
+func (b busOf) state(bucket string) (string, error) {
+	switch bucket {
+	case provider.BucketOf(Module):
+		return "bound", nil
+	case provider.AssignmentsBucket:
+		return "mesh-controller.assignments", nil
+	}
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is not a bucket this provider keeps or reads", bucket)
+}
+
+func (b busOf) Watch(ctx context.Context, bucket string, handle func(key string, value []byte)) error {
+	name, err := b.state(bucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	stop, err := b.conn.StateWatch(Module, name, "", func(ch bus.StateChange) error {
+		if ch.Op == "delete" {
+			handle(ch.Key, nil)
+		} else {
+			handle(ch.Key, ch.Value)
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	go func() { <-ctx.Done(); stop() }()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (b busOf) Put(_ context.Context, bucket, key string, value []byte) error {
+	name, err := b.state(bucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = b.conn.StatePut(Module, name, key, json.RawMessage(value))
+	return err
+}
+
+func (b busOf) Delete(_ context.Context, bucket, key string) error {
+	name, err := b.state(bucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return b.conn.StateDelete(Module, name, key)
+}
+
+// New is the helper answering node-tools's consumers on node.
+func New(conn *bus.Conn, node string, every time.Duration, logf func(string, ...any)) *provider.Provider {
+	return provider.New(provider.Options{
+		Node:   node,
+		Module: Module,
+		Offers: Offers(),
+		Bus:    busOf{conn: conn},
+		Every:  every,
+		Logf:   logf,
+	})
+}
+
+// Run answers the consumers until ctx ends. The state is not reachable until the mesh has issued the runtime its
+// membership and made the buckets, so a start that cannot watch is tried again, not given up.
+func Run(ctx context.Context, conn *bus.Conn, node string, every time.Duration, logf func(string, ...any)) {
+	for delay := 2 * time.Second; ctx.Err() == nil; delay = min(delay*2, time.Minute) {
+		attempt, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
+		err := New(conn, node, every, logf).Run(attempt)
+		cancel()
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return
+		}
+		logf("[mesh-tools] the provider helper stopped: %v; trying again in %s", err, delay)
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+		case <-time.After(delay):
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Start runs the helper when this process is the machine's runtime (the node-tools credential, on a machine's
+// name), with no condition on the environment, and returns what ends it. A runtime on another credential, a module's
+// own in a test, is not the provider and answers nobody.
+func Start(conn *bus.Conn, module, node string, every time.Duration, logf func(string, ...any)) (stop func()) {
+	if module != Module || node == "" {
+		return func() {}
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	logf("[mesh-tools] answering %s's consumers of %s through the provider helper", Module, Provision)
+	go Run(ctx, conn, node, every, logf)
+	return cancel
+}

node-tools/internal/provide/provide_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+package provide
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
+)
+
+// claude-code's facts.json template, as the catalogue keeps it (modules/claude-code/files/facts.json).
+const factsTemplate = `{
+  "node": "${machine:name}",
+  "console": "http://127.0.0.1:${bound:mcp-endpoint:port}/mcp"
+}
+`
+
+// factsToday is that file as the controller composes it today, from the port node-tools serves.
+const factsToday = `{
+  "node": "anchor",
+  "console": "http://127.0.0.1:4270/mcp"
+}
+`
+
+// fill is what the consumer's client does with the template: the machine's name, and each ${bound:<provision>:<key>}
+// from the provider's entry.
+func fill(t *testing.T, template string, entry map[string]any) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	values, _ := entry["values"].(map[string]any)
+	out := strings.ReplaceAll(template, "${machine:name}", "anchor")
+	for key, v := range values {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(v)
+		out = strings.ReplaceAll(out, "${bound:mcp-endpoint:"+key+"}", string(raw))
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestTheRuntimeAnswersAHandedConsumersMcpEndpointThroughTheHelper(t *testing.T) {
+	mesh := mt.New(t)
+	bound := mesh.Bucket(t, "node-tools_bound")
+	assignments := mesh.Bucket(t, "mesh-controller_assignments")
+
+	mem := mt.MembershipOf("node-tools", "anchor", false, nil)
+	mem.State = []bus.StateIssued{
+		{Name: "bound", Bucket: "node-tools_bound", Writes: true},
+		{Name: "mesh-controller.assignments", Bucket: "mesh-controller_assignments"},
+	}
+	mesh.Issue(t, mem)
+
+	// claude-code, handed on this machine, is bound to node-tools here for mcp-endpoint (issue 788's plan entry).
+	plan := `{"node":"anchor","module":"claude-code","provisioning":{"provisions":[{"provision":"mcp-endpoint",` +
+		`"provider":"anchor","provider-module":"node-tools","at":"127.0.0.1","from":"anchor","as":"mesh_anchor_claude_code"}]}}`
+	if _, err := assignments.Put("anchor.claude-code", []byte(plan)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	conn, err := bus.Connect(bus.Credential{URL: mt.URL(t), Module: "node-tools", Node: "anchor"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	conn.Logf = func(string, ...any) {}
+	t.Cleanup(conn.Close)
+	conn.Follow("node-tools")
+
+	said := &mt.Logs{}
+	t.Cleanup(Start(conn, "node-tools", "anchor", 20*time.Millisecond, said.Logf))
+
+	var entry map[string]any
+	mt.Until(t, func() error {
+		kept, err := bound.Get("anchor.claude-code.mcp-endpoint")
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		return json.Unmarshal(kept.Value(), &entry)
+	})
+	values, _ := entry["values"].(map[string]any)
+	for key, want := range map[string]any{"port": float64(4270), "at": "127.0.0.1", "from": "anchor"} {
+		if values[key] != want {
+			t.Errorf("the entry's %s is %v, want %v (entry %v)", key, values[key], want, entry)
+		}
+	}
+	if entry["as"] != "mesh_anchor_claude_code" {
+		t.Errorf("the entry's as is %v", entry["as"])
+	}
+	if c, has := entry["credential"]; has {
+		t.Errorf("an offer with no credential names one: %v", c)
+	}
+	if got := fill(t, factsTemplate, entry); got != factsToday {
+		t.Errorf("claude-code's facts.json fills to\n%s\nwant today's\n%s", got, factsToday)
+	}
+}
+
+// The port the offer serves is the port the manifest serves and the console listens on.
+func TestTheOfferServesThePortTheManifestServes(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var m struct {
+		Serves   map[string]map[string]any `json:"serves"`
+		Moved    bool                      `json:"moved"`
+		Provides []struct {
+			Name       string `json:"name"`
+			AnsweredBy string `json:"answered-by"`
+		} `json:"provides"`
+		Resources []struct {
+			ID string `json:"id"`
+		} `json:"resources"`
+		Build struct {
+			Artifacts []struct {
+				Name string            `json:"name"`
+				Env  map[string]string `json:"env"`
+			} `json:"artifacts"`
+		} `json:"build"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := m.Serves[Provision]["port"]; got != float64(ServedPort) {
+		t.Errorf("the manifest serves %v for %s, the offer %d", got, Provision, ServedPort)
+	}
+	if m.Moved {
+		t.Error("node-tools is marked moved: that also hands the runtime's bus account to the vault (issue 791 round 1)")
+	}
+	if len(m.Provides) != 1 || m.Provides[0].Name != Provision || m.Provides[0].AnsweredBy != "helper" {
+		t.Errorf("node-tools does not say its %s is answered by the helper: %+v", Provision, m.Provides)
+	}
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r.ID == "consumers" {
+			t.Error("the manifest still carries a consumers file the helper does not need")
+		}
+	}
+	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+		if a.Name == "files" || len(a.Env) > 0 {
+			t.Errorf("the build still carries %+v, which only a moved module needs", a)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Only the machine's runtime is the provider: a process on another credential, or with no machine, answers nobody.
+func TestOnlyTheMachinesRuntimeStartsTheHelper(t *testing.T) {
+	said := &mt.Logs{}
+	for _, c := range []struct{ module, node string }{{"claude-code", "anchor"}, {"node-tools", ""}} {
+		Start(nil, c.module, c.node, time.Second, said.Logf)()
+	}
+}

node-tools/internal/runtime/provision.go

@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+)
+
+// A module's code reads its values at runtime (novox/hq ADR 0349 clause 14 as ADR 0370 changes it, issue 685).
+//
+// A bundle asks `mesh/provision.get` and `mesh/provision.watch` with `{kind, key}`; the runtime asks its machine's
+// provisioner client **as the module whose bundle asks** — the module this bus was made for, from the bundle it
+// launched, never a name the bundle sent (ADR 0370 §4) — and hands the answer back. A watch hands the current value
+// first and then each change: the client says which value moved, and the runtime asks again. A secret is refused
+// here, with the reason, and never asked: the client serves no secret on the tool runner's word (§2), and a module
+// under an account of its own asks the vault itself, which waits on issue 569.
+
+// The kinds a bundle may ask.
+const (
+	provisionConfig = "config"
+	provisionBound  = "bound"
+	provisionSecret = "secret"
+)
+
+// provisionAsked is what a bundle names. Anything else it sends, a module's name among it, is not read.
+type provisionAsked struct {
+	Kind string `json:"kind"`
+	Key  string `json:"key"`
+}
+
+// ProvisionChange is what a watch hands a bundle: the value, or, when it is no longer answered, why.
+type ProvisionChange struct {
+	Kind  string          `json:"kind"`
+	Key   string          `json:"key"`
+	Value json.RawMessage `json:"value,omitempty"`
+	// Refused is why the value is no longer answered: the module taken off the machine, the key no longer declared.
+	Refused string `json:"refused,omitempty"`
+}
+
+func readProvisionAsked(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (provisionAsked, error) {
+	var asked provisionAsked
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(params, &asked); err != nil || asked.Kind == "" || asked.Key == "" {
+		return asked, fmt.Errorf("mesh/provision.%s names no value: {kind, key}", verb)
+	}
+	switch asked.Kind {
+	case provisionConfig, provisionBound:
+		return asked, nil
+	case provisionSecret:
+		return asked, fmt.Errorf("the secret %s is not asked for at runtime while the module's code runs in the "+
+			"tool runner: the vault hands a secret only to a caller the bus proves, and the bus proves only the tool "+
+			"runner here (novox/hq ADR 0370 §2, ADR 0349 §11); the module's secrets reach it through its files, "+
+			"until it runs under a bus account of its own (issue 569)", asked.Key)
+	}
+	return asked, fmt.Errorf("mesh/provision.%s: %q is not a kind of value a module reads at runtime: config or bound",
+		verb, asked.Kind)
+}
+
+// Provision answers a bundle's `get` of one of its module's values.
+func (b *moduleBus) Provision(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if verb != "get" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runtime answers no mesh/provision.%s", verb)
+	}
+	asked, err := readProvisionAsked(verb, params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return b.all.conn.AskProvisioner(b.module, asked.Kind, asked.Key)
+}
+
+// ProvisionWatch hands deliver the value now and each change after, until stopped. A value not answered now is
+// refused now, with the client's reason.
+func (b *moduleBus) ProvisionWatch(params json.RawMessage, deliver func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error) {
+	asked, err := readProvisionAsked("watch", params)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	value, err := b.all.conn.AskProvisioner(b.module, asked.Kind, asked.Key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	w := &provisionWatch{bus: b, asked: asked, deliver: deliver, last: value}
+	if err := w.hand(ProvisionChange{Kind: asked.Kind, Key: asked.Key, Value: value}); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	stop, err := b.all.provisioned.add(b.all, b.module, w)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return stop, nil
+}
+
+// provisionWatch is one watch a bundle holds: what it asked, and what it was handed last.
+type provisionWatch struct {
+	bus     *moduleBus
+	asked   provisionAsked
+	deliver func(json.RawMessage) error
+	mu      sync.Mutex // one change at a time, in order
+	last    json.RawMessage
+	refused string
+	stopped bool
+}
+
+func (w *provisionWatch) hand(change ProvisionChange) error {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(change)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return w.deliver(raw)
+}
+
+// again asks once more after the client said something moved, and hands the bundle what changed.
+func (w *provisionWatch) again() {
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	if w.stopped {
+		return
+	}
+	value, err := w.bus.all.conn.AskProvisioner(w.bus.module, w.asked.Kind, w.asked.Key)
+	change := ProvisionChange{Kind: w.asked.Kind, Key: w.asked.Key}
+	var refused *bus.ProvisionRefused
+	switch {
+	case errors.As(err, &refused):
+		if w.refused == refused.Reason {
+			return
+		}
+		change.Refused = refused.Reason
+	case err != nil:
+		// The client not reached: asked again on its next word, which it says whenever it comes up.
+		w.bus.all.logf("[mesh-tools] %s's watch of its %s %s could not ask again: %v", w.bus.module, w.asked.Kind,
+			w.asked.Key, err)
+		return
+	default:
+		if w.refused == "" && bytes.Equal(value, w.last) {
+			return
+		}
+		change.Value = value
+	}
+	if err := w.hand(change); err != nil {
+		w.bus.all.logf("[mesh-tools] %s did not take a change of its %s %s: %v", w.bus.module, w.asked.Kind,
+			w.asked.Key, err)
+		return
+	}
+	w.last, w.refused = value, change.Refused
+}
+
+// provisionWatches is every watch on this runtime, by module, and the one subscription that hears the client.
+type provisionWatches struct {
+	mu   sync.Mutex
+	of   map[string]map[*provisionWatch]bool
+	stop func()
+}
+
+func (p *provisionWatches) add(all *consumers, module string, w *provisionWatch) (func(), error) {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+	if p.stop == nil {
+		stop, err := all.conn.OnProvisionChanged(func(module string, changed bus.ProvisionChanged) {
+			for _, w := range p.told(module, changed) {
+				go w.again()
+			}
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runtime cannot hear its machine's provisioner client: %w", err)
+		}
+		p.stop = stop
+	}
+	if p.of == nil {
+		p.of = map[string]map[*provisionWatch]bool{}
+	}
+	if p.of[module] == nil {
+		p.of[module] = map[*provisionWatch]bool{}
+	}
+	p.of[module][w] = true
+	return func() {
+		w.mu.Lock()
+		w.stopped = true
+		w.mu.Unlock()
+		p.mu.Lock()
+		defer p.mu.Unlock()
+		delete(p.of[module], w)
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// told is the watches of module that what moved concerns.
+func (p *provisionWatches) told(module string, changed bus.ProvisionChanged) []*provisionWatch {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+	var out []*provisionWatch
+	for w := range p.of[module] {
+		if w.asked.Kind == changed.Kind && (changed.Key == "" || changed.Key == w.asked.Key) {
+			out = append(out, w)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func (p *provisionWatches) stopAll() {
+	p.mu.Lock()
+	defer p.mu.Unlock()
+	for _, ws := range p.of {
+		for w := range ws {
+			w.mu.Lock()
+			w.stopped = true
+			w.mu.Unlock()
+		}
+	}
+	p.of = nil
+	if p.stop != nil {
+		p.stop()
+		p.stop = nil
+	}
+}

node-tools/internal/runtime/provision_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
+)
+
+// A module's code reads its values at runtime through moduleBus.Provision and ProvisionWatch (novox/hq ADR 0349
+// §14, ADR 0370, issue 685), against a real bus with a stand-in for the machine's provisioner client: the runtime
+// asks as the module whose bundle asks, whatever the bundle names; a watch hands the current value, then each change
+// the client says moved, and a refusal once; a secret is refused without asking.
+
+// standInClient answers prov.ask.<node> from its values, keyed `<module>.<kind>.<key>`, and keeps every ask.
+type standInClient struct {
+	mu     sync.Mutex
+	values map[string]string
+	asks   []string
+	nc     *nats.Conn
+}
+
+func aStandInClient(t *testing.T, node string, values map[string]string) *standInClient {
+	t.Helper()
+	nc, err := nats.Connect(mt.URL(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
+	c := &standInClient{values: values, nc: nc}
+	if _, err := nc.Subscribe("prov.ask."+node, func(m *nats.Msg) {
+		var a struct{ Module, Kind, Key string }
+		_ = json.Unmarshal(m.Data, &a)
+		c.mu.Lock()
+		c.asks = append(c.asks, string(m.Data))
+		v, ok := c.values[a.Module+"."+a.Kind+"."+a.Key]
+		c.mu.Unlock()
+		if !ok {
+			_ = m.Respond([]byte(`{"error":"` + a.Module + ` declares no config value ` + a.Key + `"}`))
+			return
+		}
+		_ = m.Respond([]byte(`{"value":` + v + `}`))
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_ = nc.Flush()
+	return c
+}
+
+func (c *standInClient) set(key, value string) {
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	defer c.mu.Unlock()
+	if value == "" {
+		delete(c.values, key)
+		return
+	}
+	c.values[key] = value
+}
+
+func (c *standInClient) asked() []string {
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	defer c.mu.Unlock()
+	return append([]string(nil), c.asks...)
+}
+
+func (c *standInClient) say(t *testing.T, node, module, body string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if err := c.nc.Publish("prov.changed."+node+"."+module, []byte(body)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestABundleAsksForItsValuesAsItsOwnModule(t *testing.T) {
+	client := aStandInClient(t, "anchor", map[string]string{
+		"claude-code.config.managed_settings": `{"spinnerTipsEnabled":false}`,
+		"dunst.config.managed_settings":       `"dunst's"`,
+	})
+	conn := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
+	all := &consumers{conn: conn, logf: t.Logf, of: map[string]*moduleEvents{}}
+	b := all.forModule("claude-code").(*moduleBus)
+
+	// Its own value, though the bundle names another module: the runtime names the module from the bundle.
+	got, err := b.Provision("get", json.RawMessage(`{"kind":"config","key":"managed_settings","module":"dunst"}`))
+	if err != nil || string(got) != `{"spinnerTipsEnabled":false}` {
+		t.Fatalf("answered %s, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if asks := client.asked(); len(asks) != 1 || asks[0] != `{"key":"managed_settings","kind":"config","module":"claude-code"}` {
+		t.Fatalf("the client was asked %v", asks)
+	}
+	// The client's refusal, in its words.
+	if _, err := b.Provision("get", json.RawMessage(`{"kind":"config","key":"nothing"}`)); err == nil ||
+		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "declares no config value nothing") {
+		t.Errorf("an undeclared key: %v", err)
+	}
+	// A secret, refused here and never asked; and what is not an ask.
+	before := len(client.asked())
+	for params, want := range map[string]string{
+		`{"kind":"secret","key":"gitea-read"}`: "the vault hands a secret only to a caller the bus proves",
+		`{"kind":"setting","key":"role"}`:      "not a kind of value",
+		`{"key":"role"}`:                       "names no value",
+	} {
+		if _, err := b.Provision("get", json.RawMessage(params)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %v, want %q", params, err, want)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := b.ProvisionWatch(json.RawMessage(`{"kind":"secret","key":"gitea-read"}`), func(json.RawMessage) error {
+		return nil
+	}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a secret was watched")
+	}
+	if n := len(client.asked()); n != before {
+		t.Errorf("the client was asked for what the runtime refuses: %v", client.asked()[before:])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestABundlesWatchIsHandedTheValueAndEachChange(t *testing.T) {
+	client := aStandInClient(t, "anchor", map[string]string{"claude-code.config.managed_settings": `{"a":1}`})
+	conn := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
+	all := &consumers{conn: conn, logf: t.Logf, of: map[string]*moduleEvents{}}
+	t.Cleanup(all.stopAll)
+	b := all.forModule("claude-code").(*moduleBus)
+
+	handed := make(chan ProvisionChange, 16)
+	stop, err := b.ProvisionWatch(json.RawMessage(`{"kind":"config","key":"managed_settings","module":"dunst"}`),
+		func(raw json.RawMessage) error {
+			var c ProvisionChange
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &c); err != nil {
+				t.Errorf("handed %s", raw)
+			}
+			handed <- c
+			return nil
+		})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	next := func(what string) ProvisionChange {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case c := <-handed:
+			return c
+		case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+			t.Fatalf("nothing handed: %s", what)
+		}
+		return ProvisionChange{}
+	}
+	nothing := func(what string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case c := <-handed:
+			t.Errorf("%s: handed %+v", what, c)
+		case <-time.After(300 * time.Millisecond):
+		}
+	}
+	if c := next("the current value"); string(c.Value) != `{"a":1}` || c.Kind != "config" || c.Key != "managed_settings" {
+		t.Fatalf("first handed %+v", c)
+	}
+
+	// A change, said by the client: asked again, handed.
+	client.set("claude-code.config.managed_settings", `{"a":2}`)
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config","key":"managed_settings"}`)
+	if c := next("the change"); string(c.Value) != `{"a":2}` {
+		t.Fatalf("after the change, handed %+v", c)
+	}
+	// Every key of the kind said to have moved, the value the same: nothing handed. Another module's or another
+	// key's word: not even asked.
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config"}`)
+	nothing("the same value again")
+	before := len(client.asked())
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "dunst", `{"kind":"config","key":"managed_settings"}`)
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config","key":"role"}`)
+	nothing("another's word")
+	if n := len(client.asked()); n != before {
+		t.Errorf("asked again for another's word: %v", client.asked()[before:])
+	}
+	// No longer answered: handed the refusal, once.
+	client.set("claude-code.config.managed_settings", "")
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config"}`)
+	if c := next("the refusal"); c.Refused == "" || len(c.Value) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("handed %+v, want the refusal", c)
+	}
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config"}`)
+	nothing("the same refusal again")
+	// Answered again, and then stopped: nothing after.
+	client.set("claude-code.config.managed_settings", `{"a":3}`)
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config"}`)
+	if c := next("answered again"); string(c.Value) != `{"a":3}` {
+		t.Fatalf("handed %+v", c)
+	}
+	stop()
+	client.set("claude-code.config.managed_settings", `{"a":4}`)
+	client.say(t, "anchor", "claude-code", `{"kind":"config"}`)
+	nothing("a stopped watch")
+	for _, a := range client.asked() {
+		if !strings.Contains(a, `"module":"claude-code"`) {
+			t.Errorf("asked as another module: %s", a)
+		}
+	}
+}

node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go

@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ type consumers struct {
 	of   map[string]*moduleEvents
 	// seatBound is each module's seat traffic bound once: a worker taken, a proof subject answered.
 	seatBound map[string]func()
+	// provisioned is every watch a module's code holds of its values at runtime (provision.go).
+	provisioned provisionWatches
 }
 
 type moduleEvents struct {
@@ -479,6 +481,7 @@ func (c *consumers) stopAll() {
 		stop()
 	}
 	c.seatBound = map[string]func(){}
+	c.provisioned.stopAll()
 }
 
 // forModule is the bus one launched bundle of a module reaches the mesh through.

node-tools/module.json

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
   "provides": [
     {
       "name": "mcp-endpoint",
-      "scope": "node"
+      "scope": "node",
+      "answered-by": "helper"
     }
   ],
   "serves": {
@@ -59,5 +60,11 @@
         "binary": "node-tools"
       }
     ]
-  }
+  },
+  "state": [
+    "bound"
+  ],
+  "reads": [
+    "mesh-controller.assignments"
+  ]
 }