3 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/chat.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/chat.py
index 469e907..539284b 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/chat.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/chat.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ log = logging.getLogger("meshbay_node.ops")
 #
 # The key a group's chat archive is encrypted under. Generated here, by the
 # node, and never by a member — the C5b rule is about key material arriving from
-# outside, and this is the same rule that lets `gek_rotate` be a signed
+# outside, and this is the same rule that lets a group key rotation be an
 # instruction rather than a delivery.
 #
 # An *epoch* rather than a rotation, and the distinction is the whole design:
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/roots.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/roots.py
index 480fe63..9dbade4 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/roots.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/roots.py
@@ -174,11 +174,14 @@ async def update_root(state: dict, group_id: str, root_name: str, *,
                        writable=match.writable, removable=match.removable)
 
     # Update the live RootSet so GET /api/groups returns correct data
-    # immediately, without waiting for the async reload to finish.
+    # immediately, without waiting for the async reload to finish — and the
+    # indexer's, which is normally the same object but need not be, since it
+    # is the one the table pushed to every peer is read from.
     live_roots: RootSet | None = state.get("groups_ctx", {}).get(
         group_id, {}).get("roots")
-    if live_roots:
-        for lr in live_roots.roots:
+    indexer = state.get("indexers", {}).get(group_id)
+    for rootset in {id(x): x for x in (live_roots, indexer and indexer.roots) if x}.values():
+        for lr in rootset.roots:
             lr_name = lr.name or str(Path(lr.path).name)
             if fold(lr_name) == target:
                 if writable is not None:
@@ -187,6 +190,9 @@ async def update_root(state: dict, group_id: str, root_name: str, *,
                     lr.removable = removable
                 break
 
+    if indexer:
+        await indexer.publish_roots()
+
     # Built from config when there is no live set, never returned empty: an
     # empty list is a *valid answer* meaning "this group has no directories",
     # and the client cannot tell it from "the node could not say". It would
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/settings.py b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/settings.py
index eade6ca..906cd03 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/settings.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-node/src/meshbay_node/ops/settings.py
@@ -182,9 +182,9 @@ async def set_transfer_limits(state: dict, group_id: str,
 
     Same shape as every other operator setting: lives on the node (roster.db,
     not the hub and not node.toml, for the reason change 5 gives — a hub that
-    decided this would have authority over someone else's machine), signed
-    (webrtc_server checks the caller's admin authority before this runs), and
-    live, so the pools are updated in place rather than at the next restart.
+    decided this would have authority over someone else's machine), set on the
+    node's own machine (loopback API, CLI), and live, so the pools are updated
+    in place rather than at the next restart.
     """
     roster = _roster(state)
     ctx = _group_ctx(state, group_id)