The gate digests a marked call's act (address, node, module and tool or seat and verb, build, each argument as itself or its canonical JSON), refuses at once and asks nothing for a secret's shape or more than 16 KiB of arguments, and otherwise asks through operator-channel's client under the marked module's name, its ask kept in the runner's state approvals under the machine's keys with the act and the whole arguments, the act's key naming it. The ask shows each argument whole only where it may leave the mesh, and the first call answers Not run, with the router's record or without it within 5 seconds. Builds: design 46 7-approval-mark §8, §9, §10, §11, §12, §13 (keys) 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.