A seat verb whose holder announced an empty schema was judged as taking nothing: shanks' tool runner refused "mesh-module-assigner.propose takes no argument changes, why — it takes nothing". The console now judges such a call by the verb's input in the seat's definition this runner holds; where it holds none (it waits for the seat list, holding only the bootstrapped definitions), the arguments go to the holder, which judges its own input, and mesh_describe says the definition is not held instead of showing an empty schema. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFfQ4Z9UE5jK32PmE5
node-tools
The node's tool runtime as a module (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP3). Assigned to a machine, it is one process the host runs from this bundle, as the operator's account: it serves every assigned module's tools and every held seat's verbs on the bus, and answers MCP on the machine's loopback — the console (design 34). The mesh composes the process (which bundles to load, where the credential is, whose machine it is); this manifest says only what the machine must have for it: the interpreter, a place for the credential, the loopback port, and leave to call every tool.
The code is the mesh-tools package in this directory; the module at the repository root,
mesh-tools, builds the images TypeScript bundles are compiled in. See the repository README.