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 - [ ] 3.3 the fixtures restated on NATS, and the capability each implementation claims
 - [ ] 3.4 the controller's link on NATS
 - [ ] 3.5 the host's link on NATS — mirroring, still importing nothing
-- [ ] 3.6 the tool runtime's client on NATS, behind the unchanged sdk contract
+- [x] 3.6 the tool runtime's client on NATS, behind the unchanged sdk contract — round-tripped
+      against a real server: a tool answered across two connections, a throwing handler reaching
+      the caller as an error rather than a timeout, an event delivered once with its key, body,
+      node and event id intact. Ships beside the AMQP client and is selected at the rollout,
+      because steps 1 to 4 leave every node on AMQP.
+
+      **A constraint it surfaced, recorded where somebody issuing a certificate will look.** The
+      AMQP client pinned the exact certificate and switched hostname verification off, which is
+      sound because a fingerprint is stronger than a name. The NATS client exposes no equivalent
+      hook — its TLS options are PEM strings with no verify callback — so the pin still happens
+      before dialling and the library's own name check happens beside it. **The bus's certificate
+      must carry a subject-alternative name matching the address nodes dial it by**, or the
+      connection is refused by a library error rather than by anything the mesh says.
 - [ ] 3.7 the sdk's three stale comments, and nothing else in it
 - [ ] 3.8 **the declaration model** of [design 29](29-what-a-module-declares.md): local names
       derived to subjects, the three namespaces, permissions computed from a declaration, and a