mesh_wait goes through the runner's approval gate (node-tools/internal/approval, Gate.Waited): a wait whose
subjects overlap a marked subject of any module the catalog half lists (the newest entry of every followed
branch, with the served entry of each module this runner serves) is an act of the runner's own module and
build (MESH_FINGERPRINT at its start), asked once on operator-channel as "Wait on <names> on <node>?", and
held, subscribing nothing but its ask's decided, until its timeout, its caller's going or the choice. On a
warrant it subscribes, its timeout running from then, and answers {answer, approval}. Before the marks are
read nothing is asked; a wait from a seat is never marked. The state fixture moves to meshtest so the
console's table can hold a gate.
Builds: design 34 every-event §34, §35, §36, §37; design 47 G lead answer A-168
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfGKaxw984XyAPfLm4h
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.