Public repo hygiene: scrub local identifiers from the design doc and the usage
examples/tests. docs/design-nested.md loses the hostname, the maintainer name, a
model name, and internal system/agent names (the rejected shared-store router is
now described generically, not by product name); its stale wire line is corrected
to netstring(argc) while there. Usage comments and test fixtures switch real fleet
hostnames/container names to host1/host2/app/db. No behaviour change; all tests green.
Decision 3 (Markus, deployment simplicity): drop the proposed sic-run helper. sicd is already
a pure v2 frame-peeler, so the inner-hop command is just sicd (incus exec <c> -- sicd) and one
binary deploys instead of two. Verified empirically, not assumed: sicd invoking sicd against a
two-layer nested frame delivered the payload to the inner hop with correct exit status and clean
stderr. Prerequisite is only that sicd is present in every container a chain traverses.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the 2026-07-23 bullpen design session (room msgs 865-877): the v2 client model
(client builds the whole onion, servers peel one hop each), and two decisions with their
rejected alternatives so a future reader sees the reasoning, not just the outcome.
Decision 1 — chain resolution = static per-client hosts.toml, fail-loud, no mutable store in
the routing path. mneme-as-router was proposed and REJECTED: mutable shared store = a
supply-chain RCE vector (poison one chain entry, reroute a hop's exec); staleness fails
silently into the wrong container vs a loud connection-refused; dies when boltzmann sleeps;
and adds nothing over a flat file since the client needs a local mneme address regardless.
mneme stays the fleet MEMORY store — this is narrowly about routing.
Decision 2 — migration = daemon dual-read (sniff first byte: 0x00=v2, digit=v1-legacy),
daemon-first, no flag day.
Escape hatch (documented, not built): signed manifests out-of-band if redeploy friction ever
exceeds the trust cost.
Scribed by noether from the room debate; @architect/@skeptic (deepseek) argued it, Markus
initiated and made the calls. Not code — no review gate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude (noether)