node-tools/internal/console/address.go

@@ -299,7 +299,9 @@ func indexOn(conn *bus.Conn) (*index, error) {
 				continue
 			}
 			for _, n := range m.On {
-				if !announced[m.Module][n] {
+				// A holder of a seat held once for the mesh announces no machine — the seat is the mesh's,
+				// not a machine's — so what it announced without one answers for wherever it is assigned.
+				if !announced[m.Module][n] && !announced[m.Module][""] {
 					l.NotAnswering = append(l.NotAnswering, m.Module+" on "+n)
 				}
 			}

node-tools/internal/console/address_test.go

@@ -91,11 +91,12 @@ func TestTheMeshsToolsAreFoundByAddress(t *testing.T) {
 	serve("modules", func() any {
 		return out(fmt.Sprintf(`[{"module":"alpha","on":["desk"],"tools":true},{"module":"beta","on":["desk"],"tools":true},`+
 			`{"module":"gamma","on":%s,"tools":true},{"module":"delta","on":["desk"],"tools":false},`+
-			`{"module":"epsilon","on":["bench"],"tools":true}]`, gammaOn.Load().(string)))
+			`{"module":"epsilon","on":["bench"],"tools":true},{"module":"mesh-controller","on":["bench"],"tools":true}]`, gammaOn.Load().(string)))
 	})
 	stopAnn, err := announce.Serve(controller, announce.Service{Name: "mesh-controller", ID: "bench"}, func() []announce.Endpoint {
 		return []announce.Endpoint{{Kind: announce.KindSeat, Module: "mesh-controller", Seat: "mesh-controller", Scope: "mesh",
-			Tool: "nodes", Node: "bench", Description: "Every machine the mesh knows.", Schema: json.RawMessage(`{}`),
+			// As the live controller announces: a mesh seat's holder names no machine.
+			Tool: "nodes", Node: "", Description: "Every machine the mesh knows.", Schema: json.RawMessage(`{}`),
 			Subject: "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.nodes"}}
 	})
 	if err != nil {
@@ -136,6 +137,9 @@ func TestTheMeshsToolsAreFoundByAddress(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	// Silence is named only where tools should have answered: epsilon declares tools on bench and
 	// nothing there announced it; delta declares none and is never a name.
+	if strings.Contains(overview, "mesh-controller on bench") {
+		t.Errorf("a mesh seat's holder that announced no machine is called silent on its machine:\n%s", overview)
+	}
 	if !strings.Contains(overview, "epsilon on bench") || strings.Contains(overview, "delta") {
 		t.Errorf("not answering: %s", overview)
 	}