dev/v0 package

Package dev is the chain as a Plan 9 device tree.

In Plan 9 a device is not storage, it is code behind a name: reading /dev/time runs a function. Everything a gno realm normally reaches through an import of chain/runtime is published here as a file instead, so it can be read, listed, bound and unioned like anything else:

1cat /dev/sysname     the chain id
2cat /dev/height      the block height
3cat /dev/session     what a delegated key is allowed to touch

The tree is posted to gno.land/r/moul/x/plan9/ns's /srv at deploy time, so any account can bind it into their own namespace, and nobody has to import this realm to use it. That is the cross-realm mount the whole experiment turns on: an interface value published by one realm, stored by another, and called later from a read-only Render.

It is READ-ONLY, like every synthetic tree: the files have no Write, so grafting this into a stranger's namespace cannot be turned into a write against this realm.

/dev/session is the one to look at. A gno.land account session is a delegated key scoped to a list of path prefixes, which is Plan 9's "the namespace IS the capability" rediscovered thirty-four years later. Printing it as a file makes that visible.

NOTICE. Plan 9 from Bell Labs is the work of the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs; the name and the marks are theirs, and the copyright is held by the Plan 9 Foundation (https://p9f.org). This realm is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by them, and contains no Plan 9 code: it borrows the vocabulary so that the design reads without a glossary, and it is an homage, asking what that ecosystem's spirit looks like on a chain. Full attribution: NOTICE.md at the root of moul/gno-contracts.