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# mesh-tools
The Novox Mesh **tool runtime** — the per-node process that makes a module's tools actually serve.
A module ships its tools (built on [`@novox/mesh-sdk`](https://git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk)); this
runtime is what loads them and puts them on the mesh. It:
1. connects the mesh broker (novox/hq ADR 0001) — a concrete AMQP implementation of the sdk's
`Broker` contract;
2. imports the assigned modules' compiled tool entrypoints, each of which registers its tools as it
loads;
3. serves them through the sdk's `serveTools` harness, answering `tools.invoke` over the broker.
Everything hard — dispatch, collection, duplicate-name safety — is the sdk's. This is the thin
wrapper that binds the broker and loads the modules. Keeping the AMQP client here, out of the sdk,
is deliberate: a broker-client change never rebuilds a module (ADR 0039).
## Running it
```
MESH_BROKER_URL amqp://… the mesh broker
MESH_TOOL_MODULES /a/tools/index.js,… the assigned modules' compiled tool entrypoints
```
`node dist/main.js`, or the container (`Dockerfile`). On a node the host resolves both variables
and starts it like any other supervised workload.
## Verified
`npm test` stands up LavinMQ (the mesh's broker) and proves the whole path over real AMQP: the
runtime serves a registered tool, a separate connection invokes it by name and gets the result, and
an unknown tool is refused over the wire.