node-tools is a module beside mesh-tools: the runtime as a bundle, and serve is the console (hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP3)

One repository, two modules (ADR 0069). `node-tools/` holds the runtime — its code, tests, package
and the manifest of the module the controller composes a process for on every machine it is
assigned to: a bundle of `src/main.js`, the interpreter as a package, a place for the node's
credential, the loopback port the console declared, and leave to call every tool. Nothing about
how it runs: which bundles to load, where the credential is and whose machine it is are the
controller's to compose (WP2). The root module `mesh-tools` keeps the two images TypeScript
bundles are compiled in and a module's own service may run in; it is no longer how tools reach a
node.

As node-tools, `serve` is also the console (ADR 0175 §6): the same process answers MCP on
loopback for whoever is on the machine, through which the tools it serves can be called. A
module's own runtime in a container keeps serving without a listener.

The toolchain image now carries /app/runtime — a package.json saying the compiled files are ES
modules and the production node_modules — for the builder to copy into every TypeScript bundle,
so a bundle unpacked on a machine starts (ADR 0188 §5; the builder's side is the controller's).
Proven here by compiling node-tools with the toolchain's exact flags and starting the result.
The AMQP probe script is gone with the bus it probed.
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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";
/**
* 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;
}
/** 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]);
}
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);
}
// Import each bundle, guarded (ADR 0175: one faulty bundle must not take the node's tools down).
// Importing the entrypoint runs its registerModuleTools(...) — that is the whole handshake — and
// the registrations it adds are the ones that appear after it, which is how each is attributed
// to the module whose bundle made it.
// A bundle that is not plain JavaScript — or is marked executable — is launched as a process
// and spoken to over MCP on stdio instead (ADR 0188); what it lists is registered the same way.
const failed = new Map<string, string>();
const owner: string[] = []; // registration index → the module whose bundle registered it
const launched: { module: string; owner: string; tools: ToolDefinition[] }[] = [];
const children: Array<() => void> = [];
for (const [module, entrypoints] of served) {
for (const entry of entrypoints) {
const path = resolve(entry);
try {
if (launches(path)) {
const child = await launch(module, path);
children.push(child.stop);
for (const r of child.registrations) launched.push({ ...r, owner: module });
continue;
}
const before = collectTools().length;
await import(pathToFileURL(path).href);
const after = collectTools().length;
for (let i = before; i < after; i++) owner[i] = 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, i) => ({ ...r, owner: owner[i] ?? 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` : ""));
stops.push(await serveClaimedSeats(runtime, [...served.keys()], self, opts.credential, registrations));
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<() => void> {
if (typeof broker.handleSubject !== "function") return () => {};
// 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>>>();
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: where the mesh issued the verb when
// it has; the derived shape until then.
if (module !== self) continue;
for (const claim of credential?.claims ?? []) {
for (const verb of claim.serves ?? []) {
const subject = m?.seats?.find((s) => s.seat === claim.seat && s.verb === verb)?.subject
?? seatToolSubject(claim.seat, verb, claim.scope, credential?.node);
add({ seat: claim.seat, verb, subject, holder: module });
}
}
}
return out;
};
let stops: (() => void)[] = [];
const serve = async (): Promise<void> => {
stops.forEach((s) => s());
stops = [];
for (const v of wanted()) {
const run = implementations.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));
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 () => stops.forEach((s) => s());
}