diff --git a/modules/gitea/README.md b/modules/gitea/README.md
index 853e59a1..09c8fada 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/README.md
+++ b/modules/gitea/README.md
@@ -275,12 +275,17 @@ reported no key gets no entry, and its client says it waits. Keys titled `mesh:`
 a key added by hand never is. Every consumer is made again every ten minutes and at once when a key changes.
 `go test ./cmd/forge-account-provider ./internal/forgeaccount` runs it against a fake forge.
 
-## The tools' account reads every repository (the operator, 2026-10-26)
+## The mesh's accounts read every repository (the operator, 2026-10-26)
 
 The tools act as the plain account `mesh-tools` (ADR 0365 §2, issue 469), which writes to the organisation `novox`
-through its team. Any other repository it saw only when public, so a private repository of a user answered every tool
-404 and was missing from every list. `readall.ts` makes the account a collaborator that **reads only** on each
-repository it cannot read: one repository at a time, no organisation membership, the least the forge offers.
+through its team; the build modules fetch over ssh as `nox-builder` (ADR 0466 §3), in a team that reads the
+organisation's code; the machines' agents use `nox-agent` (ADR 0410 §1). Any other repository each saw only when public,
+so a private repository of a user answered every tool 404 and every build's fetch "not authorized to read". `readall.ts`
+makes each of these accounts (one list, `meshAccounts` in `tools-account.ts`, whose two Go names
+`internal/forgeaccount`'s test holds to its own constants) a collaborator that **reads only** on each repository it
+cannot read: one repository at a time, no organisation membership, the least the forge offers. An account the forge
+does not hold yet (the forge-account provider makes `nox-builder` and `nox-agent` when their first consumer asks) is
+named and asked nothing; the start's pass is run again ten minutes apart until every account was there once.
 
 - **When:** one pass over every repository of every user and organisation at the start (a forge not answering yet is
   asked again a minute apart until one pass ran), and on the forge's system webhook: `forge.repository.created` and
@@ -292,11 +297,12 @@ repository it cannot read: one repository at a time, no organisation membership,
   the forge will not answer is named as refused (or, in the listing, with permission `unknown`) and the pass goes on.
 - **With what:** the site administrator's login (`MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE`), because adding a collaborator asks a
   repository's administration, which on another user's repository only the site administrator holds. It is used for
-  four calls alone: list every repository, read one, read the account's permission on one, add the account as a read
-  collaborator. The tools' own calls keep their token.
-- **Tools:** `gitea_unreadable_repos` (every repository the account cannot read, the permission the forge gives it
-  there and why) and `gitea_grant_read` (the same grant by hand, now, on every repository or on those named; each grant
-  read back from the forge, a refusal answered in the forge's own words).
+  five calls alone: list every repository, read one, whether an account exists, read an account's permission on one,
+  add an account as a read collaborator. The tools' own calls keep their token.
+- **Tools:** `gitea_unreadable_repos` (per account, every repository it cannot read, the permission the forge gives
+  it there and why, a count per account and the accounts the forge does not hold) and `gitea_grant_read` (the same
+  grant by hand, now, on every repository or on those named, for every account or those named; each grant read back
+  from the forge, a refusal answered in the forge's own words).
 
 ## Files it does not know
 
diff --git a/modules/gitea/client.ts b/modules/gitea/client.ts
index c62dc857..418c3e49 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/client.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/client.ts
@@ -1013,6 +1013,15 @@ export class GiteaAdmin {
     return forgeRepository(res.body);
   }
 
+  /** Whether the forge holds an account of this name. */
+  async accountExists(user: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    const path = `/users/${encodeURIComponent(user)}`;
+    const res = await this.request(path);
+    if (res.status === 404) return false;
+    if (res.status !== 200) GiteaAdmin.fail(path, res);
+    return true;
+  }
+
   /** What the forge itself says an account may do on a repository: none, read, write, admin or owner. */
   async repositoryPermission(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<string> {
     const path = `${repoPath(owner, repo)}/collaborators/${encodeURIComponent(user)}/permission`;
diff --git a/modules/gitea/index.ts b/modules/gitea/index.ts
index 4d2e39fb..70577358 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/index.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/index.ts
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ import { keepSiblings, noteComposed, noteVerdict, readSiblings, siblingsFile, si
 import { bindInBackground } from "./bind.js";
 import { announcementOf, keepTook, lateVerdictComment, outOfDateWords, sameCommit, tookFile, weighTrunks } from "./trunk.js";
 import { ReadAll, readAllTools } from "./readall.js";
-import { TOOLS_ACCOUNT } from "./tools-account.js";
+import { TOOLS_ACCOUNT, meshAccounts } from "./tools-account.js";
 
 // Without a way to a token — configured, or mintable with the admin account (token.ts) — there is
 // nothing to watch; log and stay quiet rather than crash the runtime. With one, the first poll mints
@@ -502,11 +502,12 @@ if (!gitea) pace.unheard("the forge is not watched: no way to a token", false);
 // Said with `emit`, not the SDK's `keeps`, which the toolchain's SDK does not have yet: switch to `keeps` once that SDK is 0.1.15 or later (issue 1852).
 await emit("states", statesAnnouncement(process.env.MESH_MODULE || "gitea", process.env.MESH_NODE));
 
-// **The tools' account reads every repository** (readall.ts; the operator, 2026-10-26): granted with the site
+// **The mesh's accounts read every repository** (readall.ts; the operator, 2026-10-26): the tools', the build modules'
+// and the machines' agents' (meshAccounts, tools-account.ts), granted with the site
 // administrator's login, which the module holds for setting the forge up and uses here for that grant alone. Made on
 // first use, so a module whose admin login is missing still serves the rest and the tools say why.
 let readAllOnce: ReadAll | null = null;
-const readAll = (): ReadAll => (readAllOnce ??= new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(), process.env.MESH_GITEA_TOOLS_USER || TOOLS_ACCOUNT));
+const readAll = (): ReadAll => (readAllOnce ??= new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(), meshAccounts(process.env.MESH_GITEA_TOOLS_USER || TOOLS_ACCOUNT)));
 
 // gitea_events is served whether or not the forge is watched: it says so (novox/hq issue 729).
 registerModuleTools("gitea", () => [eventsTool(pace), ...readAllTools(readAll), ...(gitea ? [commitStatusTool({
@@ -554,7 +555,7 @@ async function listenForForge(client: GiteaClient): Promise<boolean> {
       act: async (event) => {
         // A repository made, or one not yet seen readable, is granted read before anything acts on it (readall.ts).
         await Promise.resolve().then(() => readAll().onEvent(event)).catch((err) =>
-          console.error(`[gitea] whether ${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} reads the repository of ${event.name} could not be settled — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`));
+          console.error(`[gitea] whether the mesh's accounts read the repository of ${event.name} could not be settled — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`));
         await actOn(client, event);
       } });
     await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
@@ -609,15 +610,20 @@ if (gitea) {
   void listenForForge(client);
   // The start's one pass over every repository (readall.ts), not awaited for the same reason. A forge not answering yet
   // is asked again, a minute apart, until one pass has run; after that only the forge's events grant.
-  const readAllAtStart = (): void => void Promise.resolve().then(() => readAll().atStart()).catch((err) => {
-    console.error(`[gitea] whether ${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} reads every repository could not be settled; asked again in a minute — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`);
+  // An account of the list the forge does not hold yet (the forge-account provider makes nox-builder and nox-agent when
+  // their first consumer asks, and the forge sends no event for a user made) is looked for again ten minutes apart
+  // until every account was granted once; the line of each pass names it.
+  const readAllAtStart = (): void => void Promise.resolve().then(() => readAll().atStart()).then((r) => {
+    if (r.absent.length) setTimeout(readAllAtStart, 600_000);
+  }, (err) => {
+    console.error(`[gitea] whether the mesh's accounts read every repository could not be settled; asked again in a minute — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`);
     setTimeout(readAllAtStart, 60_000);
   });
   try {
     readAll();
     readAllAtStart();
   } catch (err) {
-    console.error(`[gitea] ${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} is not given read on every repository: no site administrator's login — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`);
+    console.error(`[gitea] the mesh's accounts are not given read on every repository: no site administrator's login — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`);
   }
   // Main takes no push and only the tools' account merges, in every repository, kept and not only when a token is
   // minted: at the start and every ten minutes after, so a repository made later gets it too (issue 948, ADR 0398 §2).
diff --git a/modules/gitea/internal/forgeaccount/user_test.go b/modules/gitea/internal/forgeaccount/user_test.go
index d1df3f91..d60c91e0 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/internal/forgeaccount/user_test.go
+++ b/modules/gitea/internal/forgeaccount/user_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package forgeaccount
 
-import "testing"
+import (
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"testing"
+)
 
 func TestForgeUserOfAMachineAccountIsTheOneAgentUser(t *testing.T) {
 	if got := ForgeUser("g14", "machine"); got != "nox-agent" {
@@ -15,6 +19,18 @@ func TestForgeUserOfAMachineAccountIsTheOneAgentUser(t *testing.T) {
 	if got := NodeAccount("g14"); got != "agent-g14" {
 		t.Fatalf("the token tool's per-node account = %q", got)
 	}
+	// The accounts that read every repository (readall.ts, meshAccounts in tools-account.ts) name these two users: the
+	// list is held to the Go constants here, so the two cannot drift apart (the operator, 2026-10-26).
+	ts, err := os.ReadFile("../../tools-account.ts")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for name, want := range map[string]string{"BUILDER_ACCOUNT": BuilderUser, "AGENT_ACCOUNT": AgentUser} {
+		m := regexp.MustCompile(`export const ` + name + ` = "([^"]+)";`).FindSubmatch(ts)
+		if m == nil || string(m[1]) != want {
+			t.Errorf("tools-account.ts %s = %q, want %q (internal/forgeaccount)", name, m, want)
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 func TestRemoveKeysTitledTakesOnlyTheMeshKeysOfThatTitle(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/modules/gitea/readall.ts b/modules/gitea/readall.ts
index cd9d411d..c2b63fd6 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/readall.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/readall.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
-// The tools' account reads every repository on the forge (the operator, 2026-10-26: "the mesh's forge account should
-// get read access to all repositories").
+// The mesh's own forge accounts read every repository on the forge (the operator, 2026-10-26: "the mesh's forge account
+// should get read access to all repositories"; and "why wouldn't the forge account get access to all repo's?").
+//
+// **Every account the mesh's parts use, from one list** (MESH_ACCOUNTS, tools-account.ts): the tools' `mesh-tools`, the
+// build modules' `nox-builder` (their fetch over ssh, ADR 0466 §3) and the machines' `nox-agent` (ssh-client's key,
+// ADR 0410 §1). The first pass granted the tools' account alone, so the build modules' fetch of jschoubben/car-hunter
+// still failed on ace and g14 ("nox-builder ... is not authorized to read"). The two Go names are the ones of
+// internal/forgeaccount, whose test holds the list to them. An account the forge does not hold yet (its consumer never
+// asked) is said and left out, never a refusal per repository.
 //
 // Since issue 469 the tools act as the plain account `mesh-tools`, which writes to the organisation novox's
 // repositories through its team (tools-account.ts). Every other repository it saw only when public: a private
@@ -32,12 +39,15 @@ import type { ForgeRepository } from "./client.js";
 export interface ReadAllForge {
   everyRepository(): Promise<ForgeRepository[]>;
   repository(owner: string, repo: string): Promise<ForgeRepository | null>;
+  /** Whether the forge holds the account at all. */
+  accountExists(user: string): Promise<boolean>;
   repositoryPermission(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<string>;
   addReadCollaborator(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<void>;
 }
 
-/** A repository the account cannot read, and why. */
+/** A repository an account cannot read, and why. */
 export interface Unreadable {
+  account: string;
   repository: string;
   permission: string;
   private: boolean;
@@ -46,16 +56,22 @@ export interface Unreadable {
 }
 
 export interface Granted {
-  /** Repositories looked at. */
+  /** Repositories looked at (for each account). */
   checked: number;
-  /** Made readable now, by a read collaborator. */
-  granted: string[];
-  /** The forge refused the grant: each repository and the forge's own words. */
-  refused: { repository: string; why: string }[];
+  /** The accounts looked at: those the forge holds. */
+  accounts: string[];
+  /** Accounts of the list the forge does not hold yet: nothing is granted to them until it does. */
+  absent: string[];
+  /** Made readable now, by a read collaborator: each repository and the account. */
+  granted: { account: string; repository: string }[];
+  /** The forge refused the grant: each repository, the account and the forge's own words. */
+  refused: { account: string; repository: string; why: string }[];
 }
 
 const READS = new Set(["read", "write", "admin", "owner"]);
 
+const said = (err: unknown): string => (err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
+
 /** Why the account cannot read a repository, from what the forge says of it. */
 export function whyUnreadable(repo: ForgeRepository, account: string): string {
   const parts: string[] = [];
@@ -68,31 +84,53 @@ export function whyUnreadable(repo: ForgeRepository, account: string): string {
 }
 
 export class ReadAll {
-  /** Repositories this process has seen the account read, by full name: an event of one of them asks nothing more. */
-  readonly readable = new Set<string>();
+  /** Per account, the repositories this process has seen it read, by full name: an event of a repository every account
+   *  was seen reading asks nothing more. */
+  readonly readable = new Map<string, Set<string>>();
+  readonly accounts: readonly string[];
 
-  constructor(private readonly forge: ReadAllForge, readonly account: string,
-    private readonly log: (line: string) => void = (l) => console.log(`[gitea] ${l}`)) {}
-
-  /** Every repository the account cannot read, and why, as the forge says it now. */
-  async unreadable(): Promise<{ checked: number; unreadable: Unreadable[] }> {
-    const repos = await this.forge.everyRepository();
-    const out: Unreadable[] = [];
-    for (const repo of repos) {
-      try {
-        const u = await this.judge(repo);
-        if (u) out.push(u);
-      } catch (err) {
-        // A permission the forge would not answer is said for that repository; the rest are still looked at.
-        out.push({ repository: repo.full_name, permission: "unknown", private: repo.private, archived: repo.archived,
-          why: `the forge did not answer ${this.account}'s permission on it — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}` });
-      }
-    }
-    return { checked: repos.length, unreadable: out };
+  constructor(private readonly forge: ReadAllForge, accounts: readonly string[] | string,
+    private readonly log: (line: string) => void = (l) => console.log(`[gitea] ${l}`)) {
+    this.accounts = [...new Set(typeof accounts === "string" ? [accounts] : accounts)];
+    if (!this.accounts.length) throw new Error("no forge account to give read: the list is empty");
+    for (const a of this.accounts) this.readable.set(a, new Set());
   }
 
-  /** Grant read on every repository the account cannot read (or on those named, `owner/name`). */
-  async grant(only?: string[]): Promise<Granted> {
+  /** The accounts of the list (or of those named) the forge holds, and those it does not hold yet. */
+  private async present(only?: string[]): Promise<{ accounts: string[]; absent: string[] }> {
+    const wanted = only && only.length ? only : [...this.accounts];
+    for (const a of wanted) if (!this.accounts.includes(a)) throw new Error(`"${a}" is not one of the mesh's accounts: ${this.accounts.join(", ")}`);
+    const accounts: string[] = [];
+    const absent: string[] = [];
+    for (const a of wanted) ((await this.forge.accountExists(a)) ? accounts : absent).push(a);
+    return { accounts, absent };
+  }
+
+  /** Every repository each account cannot read, and why, as the forge says it now. */
+  async unreadable(only?: string[]): Promise<{ checked: number; accounts: { account: string; unreadable: number }[]; absent: string[]; unreadable: Unreadable[] }> {
+    const { accounts, absent } = await this.present(only);
+    const repos = await this.forge.everyRepository();
+    const out: Unreadable[] = [];
+    for (const account of accounts) {
+      for (const repo of repos) {
+        try {
+          const u = await this.judge(repo, account);
+          if (u) out.push(u);
+        } catch (err) {
+          // A permission the forge would not answer is said for that repository; the rest are still looked at.
+          out.push({ account, repository: repo.full_name, permission: "unknown", private: repo.private, archived: repo.archived,
+            why: `the forge did not answer ${account}'s permission on it — ${said(err)}` });
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return { checked: repos.length, accounts: accounts.map((account) => ({ account, unreadable: out.filter((u) => u.account === account).length })),
+      absent, unreadable: out };
+  }
+
+  /** Grant read on every repository an account cannot read (or on those named, `owner/name`), for every account of the
+   *  list the forge holds (or for those named). */
+  async grant(only?: string[], accountsOnly?: string[]): Promise<Granted> {
+    const { accounts, absent } = await this.present(accountsOnly);
     let repos: ForgeRepository[];
     if (only && only.length) {
       repos = [];
@@ -104,36 +142,39 @@ export class ReadAll {
         repos.push(repo);
       }
     } else repos = await this.forge.everyRepository();
-    const result: Granted = { checked: repos.length, granted: [], refused: [] };
-    for (const repo of repos) {
-      let u: Unreadable | null;
-      try {
-        u = await this.judge(repo);
-      } catch (err) {
-        // One repository whose permission cannot be read is a refusal of its own, never the end of the pass.
-        result.refused.push({ repository: repo.full_name, why: `its permission could not be read — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}` });
-        continue;
-      }
-      if (!u) continue;
-      try {
-        await this.forge.addReadCollaborator(repo.owner, repo.name, this.account);
-      } catch (err) {
-        result.refused.push({ repository: repo.full_name, why: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) });
-        continue;
-      }
-      // Read back: the forge's own word that the account reads it now, never the grant's answer alone.
-      let after: string;
-      try {
-        after = await this.forge.repositoryPermission(repo.owner, repo.name, this.account);
-      } catch (err) {
-        result.refused.push({ repository: repo.full_name, why: `granted, but its permission could not be read back — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}` });
-        continue;
-      }
-      if (READS.has(after)) {
-        this.readable.add(repo.full_name);
-        result.granted.push(repo.full_name);
-      } else {
-        result.refused.push({ repository: repo.full_name, why: `the grant was answered, but the forge still gives ${this.account} "${after}"` });
+    const result: Granted = { checked: repos.length, accounts, absent, granted: [], refused: [] };
+    for (const account of accounts) {
+      for (const repo of repos) {
+        const repository = repo.full_name;
+        let u: Unreadable | null;
+        try {
+          u = await this.judge(repo, account);
+        } catch (err) {
+          // One repository whose permission cannot be read is a refusal of its own, never the end of the pass.
+          result.refused.push({ account, repository, why: `its permission could not be read — ${said(err)}` });
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (!u) continue;
+        try {
+          await this.forge.addReadCollaborator(repo.owner, repo.name, account);
+        } catch (err) {
+          result.refused.push({ account, repository, why: said(err) });
+          continue;
+        }
+        // Read back: the forge's own word that the account reads it now, never the grant's answer alone.
+        let after: string;
+        try {
+          after = await this.forge.repositoryPermission(repo.owner, repo.name, account);
+        } catch (err) {
+          result.refused.push({ account, repository, why: `granted, but its permission could not be read back — ${said(err)}` });
+          continue;
+        }
+        if (READS.has(after)) {
+          this.readable.get(account)!.add(repository);
+          result.granted.push({ account, repository });
+        } else {
+          result.refused.push({ account, repository, why: `the grant was answered, but the forge still gives ${account} "${after}"` });
+        }
       }
     }
     return result;
@@ -142,69 +183,81 @@ export class ReadAll {
   /** The start's one pass: grant what is missing and say it. Answers the result; a failure is the caller's to say. */
   async atStart(): Promise<Granted> {
     const r = await this.grant();
-    this.log(`${this.account} reads every repository: ${r.checked} looked at, ${r.granted.length} granted read now` +
-      `${r.granted.length ? ` (${r.granted.join(", ")})` : ""}${r.refused.length ? `, ${r.refused.length} refused: ` +
-        r.refused.map((x) => `${x.repository} — ${x.why}`).join("; ") : ""}`);
+    const per = r.accounts.map((a) => {
+      const g = r.granted.filter((x) => x.account === a).map((x) => x.repository);
+      return `${a} ${g.length} granted read now${g.length ? ` (${g.join(", ")})` : ""}`;
+    });
+    this.log(`the mesh's accounts read every repository: ${r.checked} looked at; ${per.join("; ")}` +
+      `${r.absent.length ? `; not on the forge yet, so not granted: ${r.absent.join(", ")}` : ""}` +
+      `${r.refused.length ? `; ${r.refused.length} refused: ` + r.refused.map((x) => `${x.account} on ${x.repository} — ${x.why}`).join("; ") : ""}`);
     return r;
   }
 
-  /** A forge event: a repository made (or forked), or the first event of one not seen readable, is granted read now. */
+  /** A forge event: a repository made (or forked), or the first event of one some account was not seen reading, is
+   *  granted read now to every account that cannot read it. */
   async onEvent(event: { name: string; body: unknown }): Promise<void> {
     const b = (event.body ?? {}) as { owner?: string; repo?: string };
     if (!b.owner || !b.repo) return;
     const full = `${b.owner}/${b.repo}`;
     if (event.name === "forge.repository.deleted") {
-      this.readable.delete(full);
+      for (const seen of this.readable.values()) seen.delete(full);
       return;
     }
     const made = event.name === "forge.repository.created" || event.name === "forge.fork";
-    // Seen readable once, its events ask nothing: so a repository made private after that is not caught here (the
-    // forge says no change of visibility), only at the next start or by gitea_grant_read.
-    if (!made && this.readable.has(full)) return;
+    // Seen readable once by every account, its events ask nothing: so a repository made private after that is not
+    // caught here (the forge says no change of visibility), only at the next start or by gitea_grant_read.
+    if (!made && [...this.readable.values()].every((seen) => seen.has(full))) return;
     const r = await this.grant([full]);
-    if (r.granted.length) this.log(`${this.account} was given read on ${full}, on the forge's ${event.name}`);
-    for (const x of r.refused) this.log(`${this.account} could not be given read on ${x.repository} — ${x.why}`);
+    for (const x of r.granted) this.log(`${x.account} was given read on ${full}, on the forge's ${event.name}`);
+    for (const x of r.refused) this.log(`${x.account} could not be given read on ${x.repository} — ${x.why}`);
   }
 
-  private async judge(repo: ForgeRepository): Promise<Unreadable | null> {
-    const permission = await this.forge.repositoryPermission(repo.owner, repo.name, this.account);
+  private async judge(repo: ForgeRepository, account: string): Promise<Unreadable | null> {
+    const permission = await this.forge.repositoryPermission(repo.owner, repo.name, account);
+    const seen = this.readable.get(account)!;
     if (READS.has(permission)) {
-      this.readable.add(repo.full_name);
+      seen.add(repo.full_name);
       return null;
     }
-    this.readable.delete(repo.full_name);
-    return { repository: repo.full_name, permission, private: repo.private, archived: repo.archived, why: whyUnreadable(repo, this.account) };
+    seen.delete(repo.full_name);
+    return { account, repository: repo.full_name, permission, private: repo.private, archived: repo.archived, why: whyUnreadable(repo, account) };
   }
 }
 
 type Tool = { name: string; description: string; input: Record<string, unknown>; run: (args: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>) => Promise<unknown> };
 
-/** The two tools: what the account cannot read and why, and the grant now. */
+const strings = (v: unknown): string[] | undefined => (Array.isArray(v) ? v.map(String) : undefined);
+
+/** The two tools: what each account cannot read and why, and the grant now. */
 export function readAllTools(readAll: () => ReadAll): Tool[] {
   return [
     {
       name: "gitea_unreadable_repos",
-      description: "Every repository on the forge the tools' own account (mesh-tools) cannot read, and why: the " +
-        "permission the forge gives it there, whether the repository is private or archived, and in words the reason " +
-        "(a private repository of a user with the account no collaborator, an owner not public). Empty when it reads " +
-        "every repository. Read with the site administrator's login, which alone sees every repository.",
-      input: {},
-      run: async () => readAll().unreadable(),
+      description: "Every repository on the forge one of the mesh's own forge accounts cannot read, and why, per account: " +
+        "the tools' (mesh-tools), the build modules' fetch over ssh (nox-builder) and the machines' agents' (nox-agent). " +
+        "For each, the permission the forge gives it there, whether the repository is private or archived, and in words " +
+        "the reason (a private repository of a user with the account no collaborator, an owner not public); a count per " +
+        "account, and the accounts the forge does not hold yet. Empty when every account reads every repository. Read " +
+        "with the site administrator's login, which alone sees every repository.",
+      input: {
+        accounts: { type: "array", items: { type: "string" }, description: "the accounts to look at; empty or absent, every one of the mesh's" },
+      },
+      run: async (args) => readAll().unreadable(strings(args.accounts)),
     },
     {
       name: "gitea_grant_read",
-      description: "Give the tools' own account (mesh-tools) read on every repository it cannot read now, or on the " +
-        "repositories named: each becomes a collaborator that reads only, the least the forge offers. The module does " +
-        "this itself at its start and on the forge's event of a repository made; this is the same act by hand. Answers " +
-        "how many were looked at, which were granted (each read back from the forge) and which the forge refused, in its " +
-        "own words. Needs the site administrator's login, used for this grant alone.",
+      description: "Give each of the mesh's own forge accounts (mesh-tools, nox-builder, nox-agent) read on every " +
+        "repository it cannot read now, or on the repositories named, or for the accounts named: each becomes a " +
+        "collaborator that reads only, the least the forge offers. The module does this itself at its start and on the " +
+        "forge's event of a repository made; this is the same act by hand, such as when a build's fetch says its account " +
+        "is not authorized to read a repository. Answers how many were looked at, which were granted to which account " +
+        "(each read back from the forge), which the forge refused, in its own words, and the accounts it does not hold " +
+        "yet. Needs the site administrator's login, used for this grant alone.",
       input: {
         repositories: { type: "array", items: { type: "string" }, description: "owner/name of each repository; empty or absent, every repository" },
+        accounts: { type: "array", items: { type: "string" }, description: "the accounts to grant; empty or absent, every one of the mesh's" },
       },
-      run: async (args) => {
-        const named = Array.isArray(args.repositories) ? args.repositories.map(String) : undefined;
-        return readAll().grant(named);
-      },
+      run: async (args) => readAll().grant(strings(args.repositories), strings(args.accounts)),
     },
   ];
 }
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts
index 2e4c1083..5d275189 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ import { join } from "node:path";
 
 import { MintedToken } from "../dist/token.js";
 import { GiteaClient } from "../dist/client.js";
-import { TOOLS_ACCOUNT, TOOLS_TEAM_UNITS } from "../dist/tools-account.js";
+import { TOOLS_ACCOUNT, TOOLS_TEAM_UNITS, BUILDER_ACCOUNT, AGENT_ACCOUNT, meshAccounts } from "../dist/tools-account.js";
 import { repoCheckFacts } from "../dist/pulls.js";
 
 const ADMIN = "mesh-admin";
@@ -447,12 +447,15 @@ test("a mint with keep-main-rules false (the default) writes no branch protectio
   assert.deepEqual(writes, []);
 });
 
-// The tools' account reads every repository (readall.ts; the operator, 2026-10-26): jschoubben/car-hunter and
-// jschoubben/snake, private repositories of a user, answered the tools 404 while that user's public ones were seen.
+// The mesh's accounts read every repository (readall.ts; the operator, 2026-10-26): jschoubben/car-hunter and
+// jschoubben/snake, private repositories of a user, answered the tools 404 while that user's public ones were seen; and
+// once the tools' account read them, the build modules' fetch as nox-builder still could not.
 
-test("the start's pass gives the tools' account read, as a collaborator that reads only, on each repository it could not read, and on no other", async () => {
+test("the start's pass gives each of the mesh's accounts read, as a collaborator that reads only, on each repository it could not read, and on no other; an account the forge does not hold is said, not refused", async () => {
   const env = await environment();
   await fresh(env).listRepos(); // the account and its team exist, as after any mint
+  forge.users.set(BUILDER_ACCOUNT, { admin: false, password: "unused", active: true }); // made by the forge-account provider
+  forge.users.delete(AGENT_ACCOUNT); // no machine's key asked for it yet
   forgeRepos.splice(0);
   addRepo("novox/hq", true);
   addRepo("jschoubben/txt-game", false);
@@ -463,14 +466,24 @@ test("the start's pass gives the tools' account read, as a collaborator that rea
   const { GiteaAdmin } = await import("../dist/client.js");
   const { ReadAll, readAllTools } = await import("../dist/readall.js");
   const lines: string[] = [];
-  const readAll = new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(env), TOOLS_ACCOUNT, (l: string) => lines.push(l));
+  const readAll = new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(env), meshAccounts(), (l: string) => lines.push(l));
+  assert.deepEqual(readAll.accounts, [TOOLS_ACCOUNT, BUILDER_ACCOUNT, AGENT_ACCOUNT]);
   const [unreadableTool, grantTool] = readAllTools(() => readAll);
 
-  // What the tool says before: the four the account cannot read, each with why.
+  // What the tool says before, per account: the four the tools' account cannot read, each with why; the builders'
+  // account, in no write team here, also not novox/hq; nox-agent not on the forge.
   const before = await unreadableTool.run({}) as any;
   assert.equal(before.checked, 6);
-  assert.deepEqual(before.unreadable.map((u: any) => u.repository).sort(),
-    ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "shy/open"]);
+  const of = (account: string) => before.unreadable.filter((u: any) => u.account === account).map((u: any) => u.repository).sort();
+  assert.deepEqual(of(TOOLS_ACCOUNT), ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "shy/open"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(of(BUILDER_ACCOUNT), ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "novox/hq", "shy/open"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(before.accounts, [{ account: TOOLS_ACCOUNT, unreadable: 4 }, { account: BUILDER_ACCOUNT, unreadable: 5 }]);
+  assert.deepEqual(before.absent, [AGENT_ACCOUNT]);
+  assert.match(before.unreadable.find((u: any) => u.account === BUILDER_ACCOUNT && u.repository === "jschoubben/car-hunter").why,
+    /a private repository of jschoubben, on which nox-builder is no collaborator/);
+  const builderOnly = await unreadableTool.run({ accounts: [BUILDER_ACCOUNT] }) as any;
+  assert.deepEqual(builderOnly.accounts, [{ account: BUILDER_ACCOUNT, unreadable: 5 }]);
+  await assert.rejects(unreadableTool.run({ accounts: ["someone"] }), /not one of the mesh's accounts/);
   assert.match(before.unreadable.find((u: any) => u.repository === "jschoubben/car-hunter").why,
     /a private repository of jschoubben, on which mesh-tools is no collaborator/);
   assert.match(before.unreadable.find((u: any) => u.repository === "shy/open").why, /visibility is limited/);
@@ -484,13 +497,27 @@ test("the start's pass gives the tools' account read, as a collaborator that rea
 
   const from = forge.calls.length;
   const r = await readAll.atStart();
-  assert.deepEqual(r.granted.sort(), ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "shy/open"]);
+  const grantedTo = (account: string) => r.granted.filter((x: any) => x.account === account).map((x: any) => x.repository).sort();
+  assert.deepEqual(grantedTo(TOOLS_ACCOUNT), ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "shy/open"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(grantedTo(BUILDER_ACCOUNT), ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "novox/hq", "shy/open"]);
   assert.deepEqual(r.refused, []);
+  assert.deepEqual(r.absent, [AGENT_ACCOUNT]);
   const puts = forge.calls.slice(from).filter((c) => c.startsWith("PUT "));
-  assert.equal(puts.length, 4, "the repositories it read already were left alone");
+  assert.equal(puts.length, 9, "the repositories each read already were left alone, and the absent account was asked nothing");
+  assert.ok(!puts.some((c) => c.includes(AGENT_ACCOUNT)));
   assert.ok(puts.every((c) => c.endsWith(` as ${ADMIN}`)), "only the administrator's login grants");
-  for (const repo of forgeRepos.filter((x) => x.collaborators.size)) assert.equal(repo.collaborators.get(TOOLS_ACCOUNT), "read", `${repo.full} reads only`);
-  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /6 looked at, 4 granted read now/);
+  for (const repo of forgeRepos.filter((x) => x.collaborators.size)) {
+    for (const [account, permission] of repo.collaborators) assert.equal(permission, "read", `${account} on ${repo.full} reads only`);
+  }
+  assert.equal(forgeRepos.find((x) => x.full === "jschoubben/car-hunter")!.collaborators.get(BUILDER_ACCOUNT), "read");
+  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /6 looked at; mesh-tools 4 granted read now .*; nox-builder 5 granted read now .*; not on the forge yet, so not granted: nox-agent/);
+
+  // The account made later is granted by hand (or at the next pass), its rows like any other.
+  forge.users.set(AGENT_ACCOUNT, { admin: false, password: "unused", active: true });
+  const agent = await grantTool.run({ accounts: [AGENT_ACCOUNT], repositories: ["jschoubben/car-hunter"] }) as any;
+  assert.deepEqual(agent.granted, [{ account: AGENT_ACCOUNT, repository: "jschoubben/car-hunter" }]);
+  assert.deepEqual(agent.absent, []);
+  forge.users.delete(AGENT_ACCOUNT);
 
   // After: the account's own token sees every repository, and the tool names none.
   assert.equal((await fresh(env).listAllRepos()).length, 6);
@@ -509,7 +536,8 @@ test("on the forge's events: a repository made is granted read at once, a known
   const { GiteaAdmin } = await import("../dist/client.js");
   const { ReadAll, readAllTools } = await import("../dist/readall.js");
   const lines: string[] = [];
-  const readAll = new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(env), TOOLS_ACCOUNT, (l: string) => lines.push(l));
+  forge.users.set(BUILDER_ACCOUNT, { admin: false, password: "unused", active: true });
+  const readAll = new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(env), [TOOLS_ACCOUNT, BUILDER_ACCOUNT], (l: string) => lines.push(l));
   await readAll.atStart();
 
   const cases: { name: string; event: string; repo: string; make?: boolean; refuse?: boolean; unanswered?: boolean; asks: boolean; reads: string }[] = [
@@ -528,17 +556,20 @@ test("on the forge's events: a repository made is granted read at once, a known
     const [owner, repo] = c.repo.split("/");
     await readAll.onEvent({ name: c.event, body: { owner, repo } });
     assert.equal(forge.calls.length > from, c.asks, `${c.name}: asks the forge`);
-    assert.equal(forgeRepos.find((x) => x.full === c.repo)!.collaborators.get(TOOLS_ACCOUNT) ?? (c.make ? "none" : "read"), c.reads, c.name);
+    for (const account of [TOOLS_ACCOUNT, BUILDER_ACCOUNT]) {
+      assert.equal(forgeRepos.find((x) => x.full === c.repo)!.collaborators.get(account) ?? (c.make ? "none" : "read"), c.reads, `${c.name}: ${account}`);
+    }
   }
-  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /could not be given read on jschoubben\/stuck — .*422/);
+  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /mesh-tools could not be given read on jschoubben\/stuck — .*422/);
+  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /nox-builder was given read on someone\/fork, on the forge's forge.fork/);
   const named = await (readAllTools(() => readAll)[1].run({ repositories: ["jschoubben/stuck"] })) as any;
-  assert.deepEqual(named.refused.map((x: any) => x.repository), ["jschoubben/stuck"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(named.refused.map((x: any) => `${x.account} ${x.repository}`), [`${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} jschoubben/stuck`, `${BUILDER_ACCOUNT} jschoubben/stuck`]);
   await assert.rejects(readAllTools(() => readAll)[1].run({ repositories: ["no-slash"] }), /not a repository/);
   assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /could not be given read on jschoubben\/mute — its permission could not be read — .*500/);
   // A whole pass goes past the repository it cannot judge: every other one is still granted, and the listing names it.
   addRepo("jschoubben/after-mute", true);
   const pass = await readAll.grant();
-  assert.ok(pass.granted.includes("jschoubben/after-mute"), "the pass did not stop at the repository it could not judge");
+  assert.ok(pass.granted.some((x: any) => x.repository === "jschoubben/after-mute" && x.account === BUILDER_ACCOUNT), "the pass did not stop at the repository it could not judge");
   assert.ok(pass.refused.some((x: any) => x.repository === "jschoubben/mute" && /permission could not be read/.test(x.why)));
   const listed = await readAllTools(() => readAll)[0].run({}) as any;
   assert.equal(listed.unreadable.find((u: any) => u.repository === "jschoubben/mute").permission, "unknown");
diff --git a/modules/gitea/tools-account.ts b/modules/gitea/tools-account.ts
index 8fdd6956..6aff73f6 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/tools-account.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/tools-account.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@
 import { keepMainRules } from "./mainrules.js";
 
 export const TOOLS_ACCOUNT = "mesh-tools";
+/** The build modules' account, whose keys fetch over ssh (internal/forgeaccount BuilderUser, ADR 0466 §3). */
+export const BUILDER_ACCOUNT = "nox-builder";
+/** The machines' agents' account, whose keys ssh-client reports (internal/forgeaccount AgentUser, ADR 0410 §1). */
+export const AGENT_ACCOUNT = "nox-agent";
+/** Every forge account the mesh's own parts use: each reads every repository on the forge (readall.ts; the operator,
+ *  2026-10-26). internal/forgeaccount's test holds the two Go names to its own constants. */
+export function meshAccounts(tools: string = TOOLS_ACCOUNT): string[] {
+  return [tools, BUILDER_ACCOUNT, AGENT_ACCOUNT];
+}
 /** The organisation whose repositories are the mesh's, and the team through which the tools' account writes there. */
 export const TOOLS_ORG = "novox";
 export const TOOLS_TEAM = "mesh-tools";
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/candidate.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/candidate.go
index 38a27ad6..4379d3ca 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/candidate.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/candidate.go
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ import (
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/forgekey"
 )
 
 // The runners of a digest or test step: this installed program, or the candidate's compiled from the workspace.
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ func (m *Module) mergeCommit(ctx context.Context, workspace string) (string, err
 	r := m.Run(ctx, nil, "git", "-C", filepath.Join(m.Work, workspace, "tree"), "rev-parse", "HEAD")
 	commit := strings.TrimSpace(r.Stdout)
 	if r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" || commit == "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("the workspace's commit: git rev-parse: %s", firstLine(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the workspace's commit: git rev-parse: %s", forgekey.Said(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
 	}
 	return commit, nil
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/fetch.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/fetch.go
index 710d5cee..2b166c9e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/fetch.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/fetch.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/forgekey"
 )
 
 var commitOK = regexp.MustCompile(`^[0-9a-f]{40}$`)
@@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ func (m *Module) downloadAndVerify(ctx context.Context, dir, d string) error {
 func (m *Module) goModDirs(ctx context.Context, tree string) ([]string, error) {
 	r := m.Run(ctx, nil, "git", "-C", tree, "ls-files", "--", "go.mod", "*/go.mod")
 	if r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("git ls-files: %s", firstLine(r.Err+" "+r.Stderr))
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("git ls-files: %s", forgekey.Said(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
 	}
 	dirs := []string{}
 	for _, l := range strings.Split(r.Stdout, "\n") {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror.go
index 0ad17fda..7cd7dfad 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/forgekey"
 )
 
 // mirrorLocks hold one mutex per mirror of this process; the lock file beside the mirror holds off another process.
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ func (m *Module) dissociate(ctx context.Context, dir string) error {
 		return nil // no mirror was used
 	}
 	if r := m.Run(ctx, []string{"GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0"}, "git", "-C", dir, "repack", "-a", "-d", "-q"); r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("git repack in %s: %s", dir, firstLine(r.Err+" "+r.Stderr))
+		return fmt.Errorf("git repack in %s: %s", dir, forgekey.Said(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
 	}
 	return os.Remove(alternates)
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror_test.go
index 6721155e..32b8d595 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/mirror_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buildstep"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
@@ -121,20 +122,35 @@ func TestTwoUpdatesOfOneMirrorNeverRunAtOnce(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// A mirror that cannot be updated does not fail the fetch: the fetch goes on without it.
+// A mirror that cannot be updated does not fail the fetch: the fetch goes on without it, and the line saying so carries
+// git's own words. The forge's refusal of a repository its account cannot read came out as "git -C: error:" (ace,
+// 2026-10-26: git writes a bare "error:" line before the forge's message).
 func TestAMirrorThatCannotBeUpdatedLetsTheFetchGoOnWithoutIt(t *testing.T) {
 	f := &fakeStep{gomods: "go.mod\n"}
 	f.rule = func(line string) (r runAnswer, ok bool) {
 		if strings.Contains(line, "mirror") && strings.Contains(line, " fetch ") {
-			return runAnswer{Status: 1, Stderr: "fatal: no space left\n"}, true
+			return runAnswer{Status: 128, Stderr: "error: \nerror: User: 22:nox-builder with Key: 30:mesh:ace.mesh-build-go is not authorized to read jschoubben/car-hunter.\nerror: \nfatal: Could not read from remote repository.\n"}, true
 		}
 		return r, false
 	}
 	m, states := fetchModule(t, f)
+	var mu sync.Mutex
+	var said []string
+	m.Say = func(format string, a ...any) {
+		mu.Lock()
+		defer mu.Unlock()
+		said = append(said, fmt.Sprintf(format, a...))
+	}
 	ws := fetchOnce(t, m, states, fetchArgs).Workspace
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(m.Work, ws, "tree", ".git", "objects", "info", "alternates")); err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("the workspace borrows from a mirror that is not there")
 	}
+	mu.Lock()
+	defer mu.Unlock()
+	all := strings.Join(said, "\n")
+	if !strings.Contains(all, "is not used: git fetch: error: User: 22:nox-builder with Key: 30:mesh:ace.mesh-build-go is not authorized to read jschoubben/car-hunter.; fatal: Could not read from remote repository.") {
+		t.Errorf("the mirror's line lost git's words:\n%s", all)
+	}
 }
 
 func sleepABit() { time.Sleep(30 * time.Millisecond) }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go
index 4247d447..52532d6f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import (
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/forgekey"
 )
 
 const forgePrefix = "git.novox.be/novox/"
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ func (m *Module) placePin(ctx context.Context, root string, p pin, failure strin
 	repository := "novox/" + p.repo
 	r := m.Run(ctx, []string{"GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0"}, "git", "-c", "credential.helper=", "ls-remote", m.remote(repository), "refs/pull/*/head")
 	if r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("the pin of %s at commit %s: listing the pull requests of %s: %s", p.module, p.short, repository, firstLine(r.Err+" "+r.Stderr))
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the pin of %s at commit %s: listing the pull requests of %s: %s", p.module, p.short, repository, forgekey.Said(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
 	}
 	commit, ref := "", ""
 	for _, l := range strings.Split(r.Stdout, "\n") {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/go.mod b/modules/mesh-build-go/go.mod
index 1a012772..868b22d2 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module meshbuildgo
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f
 	github.com/distribution/distribution/v3 v3.1.2
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/go.sum b/modules/mesh-build-go/go.sum
index a005d55c..c86aa01f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d h1:7F/dFerm01wvuGLPgJ67/VfdcvDexc+BQEE3qzOrlu4=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f h1:GYLCvz2x+JNUOTbXzyh2QwzX0sTzvRlXR7lGocWjk3A=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2 v2.35.0 h1:QwLphYqCEAo1eu1TqPRN2jgVMPBweeQcR21jeqDCONI=
 github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2 v2.35.0/go.mod h1:TcL7YfarKPGDAthEtl5NBeHZfeUQj6OXMm/+iu5cLMM=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-image/go.mod b/modules/mesh-build-image/go.mod
index 9adfce92..52658707 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-image/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-image/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module meshbuildimage
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 )
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-image/go.sum b/modules/mesh-build-image/go.sum
index 0728d2e9..ba65afa3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-image/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-image/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d h1:7F/dFerm01wvuGLPgJ67/VfdcvDexc+BQEE3qzOrlu4=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f h1:GYLCvz2x+JNUOTbXzyh2QwzX0sTzvRlXR7lGocWjk3A=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go
index 35b1eeab..5f712e16 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ func (m *Module) fetchInto(ctx context.Context, req buildstep.FetchRequest, grou
 func (m *Module) typeScriptModules(ctx context.Context, tree string) (dirs []string, packages map[string]bool, err error) {
 	r := m.Run(ctx, m.baseEnv(), "git", "-C", tree, "ls-files", "--", "module.json", "*/module.json")
 	if r.Status != 0 || r.Err != "" {
-		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("git ls-files: %s", firstLine(r.Err+" "+r.Stderr))
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("git ls-files: %s", forgekey.Said(r.Err+"\n"+r.Stderr))
 	}
 	packages = map[string]bool{}
 	for _, l := range strings.Split(r.Stdout, "\n") {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/go.mod b/modules/mesh-build-node/go.mod
index 7976769a..e79f663b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-node/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module meshbuildnode
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f
 	github.com/distribution/distribution/v3 v3.1.2
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 )
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/go.sum b/modules/mesh-build-node/go.sum
index af033231..28122ac9 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-node/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d h1:7F/dFerm01wvuGLPgJ67/VfdcvDexc+BQEE3qzOrlu4=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026134601-17b7cc480d6d/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f h1:GYLCvz2x+JNUOTbXzyh2QwzX0sTzvRlXR7lGocWjk3A=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026142629-ff81bdf8cc8f/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2 v2.35.0 h1:QwLphYqCEAo1eu1TqPRN2jgVMPBweeQcR21jeqDCONI=
 github.com/alicebob/miniredis/v2 v2.35.0/go.mod h1:TcL7YfarKPGDAthEtl5NBeHZfeUQj6OXMm/+iu5cLMM=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=