The gate sits on both handlers the runner serves, a module's tools (its ledger repairs among them) and the seat verbs its modules hold, before the bundle. The same call again is judged on the router's own record of its act's newest ask: held to the warrant (operatorchannelclient.For), the option and the act it bound (Performs), within 30 minutes of the choice, and claimed by compare-and-set (Client.Take) before it runs, so one approval runs one call. A later call is told it still waits, was declined (not asked again for 10 minutes), or asks anew after expired, approved too long ago or already run. A runner's own tool marked is refused unasked; with no state approvals bound a marked call is refused and an unmarked one runs. The gate's reach (state, publish, the router's record) is the runner's own connection, in one place; it waits for the catalog half's first view on the events the runner hears. Builds: design 46 7-approval-mark §13, §14, §15, §17, §20 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.