diff --git a/checks/health/go.mod b/checks/health/go.mod
index f6437708..79cff051 100644
--- a/checks/health/go.mod
+++ b/checks/health/go.mod
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ module checks/health
 
 go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029214732-6b8c6943811a
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225351-7bd0f6c2bdf2
diff --git a/checks/health/go.sum b/checks/health/go.sum
index ea2abb0e..e3d09146 100644
--- a/checks/health/go.sum
+++ b/checks/health/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029214732-6b8c6943811a h1:elC2IjB+qbeXG+pWItLz71DenegbrdsqbcH5kyGo56Q=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029214732-6b8c6943811a/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225351-7bd0f6c2bdf2 h1:LXFwlVh0fGcOTU41PNkZDknHF070F/mhVy8Te6wKr3Q=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225351-7bd0f6c2bdf2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/.gitignore b/modules/disk-load/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..96984eae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/disk-load/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+disk-load
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/keeper.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/keeper.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..388ef136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/keeper.go
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+)
+
+// Store is the state `readings` as the keeper uses it.
+type Store interface {
+	Get(key string) (json.RawMessage, error)
+	Put(key string, value any) error
+	Keys() ([]string, error)
+}
+
+// busStore is the state through the runtime.
+type busStore struct{}
+
+func (busStore) Get(key string) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	e, err := stdio.State(StateReadings).Get(key)
+	if err != nil || e == nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return e.Value, nil
+}
+func (busStore) Put(key string, v any) error {
+	_, err := stdio.State(StateReadings).Put(key, v)
+	return err
+}
+func (busStore) Keys() ([]string, error) { return stdio.State(StateReadings).Keys() }
+
+// Keeper measures the items of its node and keeps the readings.
+type Keeper struct {
+	Node string
+	// Items is every data item the modules placed on this node declare, composed from the bus (frombus.DataItems).
+	Items    func(ctx context.Context) (map[string][]catalogue.PlacedDataItem, error)
+	Measurer Measurer
+	Store    Store
+	Say      func(string, ...any)
+
+	mu sync.Mutex // one round at a time
+}
+
+// Round measures every item that is not a cache, one at a time, and writes the readings that changed. An item
+// measured by a walk is walked only when walks is true or its last walk is older than WalkEvery: the hourly round
+// reads counters, and a walk runs at most once a day (ADR 0233 §22).
+func (k *Keeper) Round(ctx context.Context, walks bool) (written, kept int, err error) {
+	k.mu.Lock()
+	defer k.mu.Unlock()
+	items, err := k.Items(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, 0, err
+	}
+	modules := make([]string, 0, len(items))
+	for m := range items {
+		modules = append(modules, m)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(modules)
+	var failed []string
+	for _, module := range modules {
+		for _, it := range items[module] {
+			if it.Class == ClassCache {
+				continue
+			}
+			w, err := k.measureOne(ctx, it, walks)
+			if err != nil {
+				failed = append(failed, fmt.Sprintf("%s.%s: %v", module, it.ID, err))
+				continue
+			}
+			if w {
+				written++
+			} else {
+				kept++
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	retired, err := k.retireGone(items)
+	written += retired
+	if err != nil {
+		failed = append(failed, err.Error())
+	}
+	if len(failed) > 0 {
+		return written, kept, errors.New("readings not kept: " + strings.Join(failed, "; "))
+	}
+	return written, kept, nil
+}
+
+// retireGone marks retired every reading of this node whose item the node no longer declares — its module was unassigned
+// there, or is no longer pulled in — with when and why, and keeps it: the record of what the module left behind, until a
+// person deletes it (ADR 0233). It is cleared when the item is declared again (measureOne).
+func (k *Keeper) retireGone(declared map[string][]catalogue.PlacedDataItem) (int, error) {
+	keys, err := k.Store.Keys()
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	declaredNow := map[string]bool{}
+	for module, its := range declared {
+		for _, it := range its {
+			declaredNow[health.ReadingKey(k.Node, module, it.ID)] = true
+		}
+	}
+	now := k.Measurer.Now().UTC()
+	n := 0
+	for _, key := range keys {
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(key, k.Node+".") || declaredNow[key] {
+			continue
+		}
+		raw, err := k.Store.Get(key)
+		if err != nil || len(raw) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		r, err := health.DecodeReading(raw)
+		if err != nil || r.Node != k.Node || !r.RetiredAt.IsZero() {
+			continue
+		}
+		r.RetiredAt = now
+		r.RetiredWhy = fmt.Sprintf("no longer declared on %s: its module was unassigned there, or is no longer pulled in", k.Node)
+		if err := k.Store.Put(key, r); err != nil {
+			return n, err
+		}
+		n++
+	}
+	return n, nil
+}
+
+func (k *Keeper) measureOne(ctx context.Context, it catalogue.PlacedDataItem, walks bool) (bool, error) {
+	key := health.ReadingKey(k.Node, it.Module, it.ID)
+	var prev *health.Reading
+	raw, err := k.Store.Get(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	if len(raw) > 0 {
+		if p, err := health.DecodeReading(raw); err == nil {
+			prev = &p
+		}
+	}
+	now := k.Measurer.Now()
+	if prev != nil && prev.RetiredAt.IsZero() && it.Measure == catalogue.MeasureWalk && !walks && prev.MeasuredAt != nil && now.Sub(*prev.MeasuredAt) < WalkEvery {
+		return false, nil
+	}
+	m := k.Measurer.Measure(ctx, it)
+	next, changed := health.NextReading(prev, k.Node, it, m, now)
+	if prev != nil && !prev.RetiredAt.IsZero() {
+		// Declared again: it is no longer retired.
+		next.RetiredAt, next.RetiredWhy, changed = time.Time{}, "", true
+	}
+	if !changed {
+		return false, nil
+	}
+	return true, k.Store.Put(key, next)
+}
+
+// MeasureNow measures one item now, walk or not, and writes its reading when it changed.
+func (k *Keeper) MeasureNow(ctx context.Context, module, item string) (health.Reading, bool, error) {
+	k.mu.Lock()
+	defer k.mu.Unlock()
+	items, err := k.Items(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return health.Reading{}, false, err
+	}
+	for _, it := range items[module] {
+		if it.ID != item {
+			continue
+		}
+		if it.Class == ClassCache {
+			return health.Reading{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%s.%s is a cache, which is listed and never measured", module, item)
+		}
+		w, err := k.measureOne(ctx, it, true)
+		if err != nil {
+			return health.Reading{}, false, err
+		}
+		raw, err := k.Store.Get(health.ReadingKey(k.Node, module, item))
+		if err != nil {
+			return health.Reading{}, w, err
+		}
+		r, err := health.DecodeReading(raw)
+		return r, w, err
+	}
+	return health.Reading{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%s declares no data item %q on this machine", module, item)
+}
+
+// Loop runs a round after a few minutes and then every `every`, with the walks of the night's round when it is the
+// hour after the night; ctx ends it.
+func (k *Keeper) Loop(ctx context.Context, every time.Duration, first time.Duration) {
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		return
+	case <-time.After(first):
+	}
+	for {
+		w, kept, err := k.Round(ctx, false)
+		if err != nil {
+			k.Say("measuring the data declared here: %v", err)
+		} else {
+			k.Say("measured the data declared here: %d readings changed, %d unchanged", w, kept)
+		}
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-time.After(every):
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// RootRunner runs a command as root, through sudo without a prompt when this process is not root. A walk is bounded
+// by WalkFor itself; the runner's own bound is a little longer.
+func RootRunner(ctx context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, WalkFor+time.Minute)
+	defer cancel()
+	program, argv := name, args
+	if os.Getuid() != 0 {
+		program, argv = "sudo", append([]string{"-n", name}, args...)
+	}
+	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
+	cmd := exec.CommandContext(ctx, program, argv...)
+	cmd.Stdout, cmd.Stderr = &stdout, &stderr
+	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
+		said := strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String())
+		if said == "" {
+			said = strings.TrimSpace(stdout.String())
+		}
+		if program == "sudo" && strings.HasPrefix(said, "sudo:") {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("%s needs root and the runtime's account may not run it without a prompt: %s", name, said)
+		}
+		lines := strings.Split(said, "\n")
+		if len(lines) > 3 {
+			lines = lines[len(lines)-3:]
+		}
+		if said == "" {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", name, err)
+		}
+		return "", errors.New(strings.Join(lines, " / "))
+	}
+	return stdout.String(), nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go
index 92fd2ef4..2eeff0b8 100644
--- a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go
@@ -1,20 +1,61 @@
 // The disk-load module's Go bundle (novox/hq ADR 0188, ADR 0193, issue 312): a process the node's
 // runtime launches and speaks MCP over stdio to. It reads the machine's storage load from /proc and
 // /sys — iowait, pressure stall, each disk's busy share, throughput, IOPS, wait and queue depth, the
-// filesystems' space and the processes doing the I/O — and changes nothing.
+// filesystems' space and the processes doing the I/O — and changes nothing of the machine.
+//
+// It also measures the data items the modules of its node declare (ADR 0233) and keeps each reading and the item's
+// seven-day peak as its own state `readings` (ADR 0571 clause 3), composed from the bus (no file).
 package main
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/frombus"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/fromruntime"
 )
 
+func logf(format string, args ...any) { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[disk-load] "+format+"\n", args...) }
+
 func main() {
+	if err := stdio.Keeps(announce.State{Name: StateReadings}); err != nil {
+		logf("%v", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	node := os.Getenv("MESH_NODE")
+	k := &Keeper{Node: node, Store: busStore{}, Say: logf, Measurer: Measurer{Run: RootRunner, Now: time.Now},
+		Items: func(ctx context.Context) (map[string][]catalogue.PlacedDataItem, error) {
+			return placedItems(ctx, node)
+		}}
+	if node != "" {
+		every := time.Hour
+		if d, err := time.ParseDuration(os.Getenv("MESH_DISK_MEASURE_EVERY")); err == nil && d >= time.Minute {
+			every = d
+		}
+		go k.Loop(context.Background(), every, 3*time.Minute)
+	}
+	tools := append(Tools(Here()), ReadingTools(k)...)
 	// An empty name serves as the module the runtime names (MESH_SERVED_MODULE): disk-load.
-	if err := stdio.Serve("", Tools(Here())); err != nil {
+	if err := stdio.Serve("", tools); err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
 }
+
+// placedItems is every data item the modules placed on node declare, composed from the bus as the node composes itself.
+func placedItems(ctx context.Context, node string) (map[string][]catalogue.PlacedDataItem, error) {
+	items, unplaced, err := frombus.DataItems(ctx, fromruntime.Reader(), frombus.Mesh{}, frombus.Scope{Node: node})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if len(unplaced) > 0 {
+		logf("data items left out as not placeable: %s", strings.Join(unplaced, "; "))
+	}
+	return items, nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/measure.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/measure.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2973080b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/measure.go
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+package main
+
+// How an item is measured (novox/hq ADR 0233 §22 to §25), moved here from the backup holder, which only reads the
+// readings now (ADR 0571 clause 3). Never an unbounded walk of something large.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// The bounds on a walk: a walk is for small items, and one that meets a large one stops and says so.
+var (
+	WalkFor   = 10 * time.Minute
+	WalkFiles = 2_000_000
+	WalkEvery = 23 * time.Hour
+)
+
+// walkCommand sums the files under a path and finds its newest change, in one walk, bounded by time and by files.
+// One line out: "<bytes> <epoch seconds> <files>", then the status of find.
+func walkCommand(path string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("timeout %d find '%s' -xdev -printf '%%y %%s %%T@\\n' 2>/dev/null | head -n %d | "+
+		"awk 'BEGIN{s=0;m=0;n=0} {n++; if ($1==\"f\") s+=$2; if ($3>m) m=$3} END {printf \"%%d %%.0f %%d\\n\", s, m, n}'; "+
+		"echo \"${PIPESTATUS[0]:-0}\"", int(WalkFor.Seconds()), path, WalkFiles)
+}
+
+// topCommand is the newest change among a path and its top-level entries, and how many there are.
+func topCommand(path string) string {
+	return "timeout 60 find '" + path + "' -maxdepth 1 -printf '%T@\\n' 2>/dev/null | " +
+		"awk 'BEGIN{m=0;n=0} {n++; if ($1>m) m=$1} END {printf \"%.0f %d\\n\", m, n-1}'"
+}
+
+func epochTime(s string) *time.Time {
+	epoch, err := strconv.ParseInt(s, 10, 64)
+	if err != nil || epoch <= 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	t := time.Unix(epoch, 0).UTC()
+	return &t
+}
+
+// Measurer measures items through a runner that has the root the walks need.
+type Measurer struct {
+	Run Runner
+	Now func() time.Time
+}
+
+func (b Measurer) exists(ctx context.Context, path string) bool {
+	_, err := b.Run(ctx, "test", "-e", path)
+	return err == nil
+}
+
+// Measure is one item, measured now, by its own method.
+func (b Measurer) Measure(ctx context.Context, it catalogue.PlacedDataItem) health.Measured {
+	at := b.Now().UTC()
+	m := health.Measured{MeasuredAt: &at}
+	if !b.exists(ctx, it.Path) {
+		m.Error = it.Path + " does not exist"
+		zero := int64(0)
+		m.SizeBytes, m.Precision = &zero, "exact"
+		return m
+	}
+	m.Redundancy = b.redundancyOf(ctx, it.Path)
+	switch it.Measure {
+	case catalogue.MeasureDataset, catalogue.MeasureShallow:
+		out, err := b.Run(ctx, "bash", "-c", topCommand(it.Path))
+		if f := strings.Fields(out); err == nil && len(f) == 2 {
+			m.LastWrite = epochTime(f[0])
+		} else if err != nil {
+			m.Error = err.Error()
+		}
+		m.Precision = "no size: the newest change among its top-level entries only"
+		if it.Measure == catalogue.MeasureShallow {
+			return m
+		}
+		out, err = b.Run(ctx, "zfs", "list", "-Hp", "-o", "name,used", it.Path)
+		f := strings.Fields(out)
+		if err != nil || len(f) != 2 {
+			m.Precision = "no size: it is on no ZFS dataset to read one from; the newest change among its top-level entries only"
+			return m
+		}
+		used, err := strconv.ParseInt(f[1], 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			return m
+		}
+		m.SizeBytes = &used
+		m.Precision = "dataset " + f[0] + ": its whole size, from the filesystem's counters; the newest change among the top-level entries"
+		return m
+	}
+	out, err := b.Run(ctx, "bash", "-c", walkCommand(it.Path))
+	if err != nil {
+		m.Error = err.Error()
+		return m
+	}
+	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(out), "\n")
+	f := strings.Fields(lines[0])
+	if len(f) != 3 || len(lines) < 2 {
+		m.Error = "the measurement said " + strings.TrimSpace(out)
+		return m
+	}
+	size, err1 := strconv.ParseInt(f[0], 10, 64)
+	files, err2 := strconv.Atoi(f[2])
+	if err1 != nil || err2 != nil {
+		m.Error = "the measurement said " + strings.TrimSpace(out)
+		return m
+	}
+	m.SizeBytes, m.LastWrite = &size, epochTime(f[1])
+	m.Precision = "exact"
+	if status := strings.TrimSpace(lines[len(lines)-1]); status == "124" || files >= WalkFiles {
+		m.Precision = fmt.Sprintf("partial: measured partially — stopped after %s or %d files; the size is a lower bound, "+
+			"and this item wants measure: dataset or shallow", WalkFor, WalkFiles)
+	}
+	return m
+}
+
+// redundancyOf is the redundant storage a path is on: a ZFS pool's health, an md array's members, a btrfs
+// filesystem's error counters. Nil for storage with no redundancy it knows how to read.
+func (b Measurer) redundancyOf(ctx context.Context, path string) *health.Redundancy {
+	out, err := b.Run(ctx, "findmnt", "-no", "SOURCE,FSTYPE", "--target", path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	f := strings.Fields(out)
+	if len(f) < 2 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	source, fstype := f[0], f[1]
+	yes, no := true, false
+	switch {
+	case fstype == "zfs":
+		pool, _, _ := strings.Cut(source, "/")
+		r := &health.Redundancy{Kind: "zfs", Where: pool}
+		health, err := b.Run(ctx, "zpool", "list", "-H", "-o", "health", pool)
+		if err != nil {
+			r.Said = "zpool list: " + err.Error()
+			return r
+		}
+		status, err := b.Run(ctx, "zpool", "status", "-x", pool)
+		if err != nil {
+			r.Said = "zpool status: " + err.Error()
+			return r
+		}
+		health, status = strings.TrimSpace(health), strings.TrimSpace(status)
+		r.Said = "health " + health + "; " + firstLineOf(status)
+		if health == "ONLINE" && strings.Contains(status, "is healthy") {
+			r.Healthy = &yes
+		} else {
+			r.Healthy = &no
+			r.Said = "health " + health + "; " + oneLineOf(status)
+		}
+		return r
+	case strings.HasPrefix(source, "/dev/md"):
+		device := strings.TrimPrefix(source, "/dev/")
+		r := &health.Redundancy{Kind: "md", Where: device}
+		mdstat, err := b.Run(ctx, "cat", "/proc/mdstat")
+		if err != nil {
+			r.Said = err.Error()
+			return r
+		}
+		healthy, said, found := mdHealth(mdstat, device)
+		if !found {
+			r.Said = device + " is not in /proc/mdstat"
+			return r
+		}
+		r.Said = said
+		if healthy {
+			r.Healthy = &yes
+		} else {
+			r.Healthy = &no
+		}
+		return r
+	case fstype == "btrfs":
+		r := &health.Redundancy{Kind: "btrfs", Where: source}
+		stats, err := b.Run(ctx, "btrfs", "device", "stats", "--check", path)
+		if err != nil {
+			r.Healthy, r.Said = &no, "device errors: "+oneLineOf(err.Error())
+			return r
+		}
+		r.Healthy, r.Said = &yes, firstLineOf(stats)
+		return r
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+var mdMembers = regexp.MustCompile(`\[([U_]+)\]`)
+
+// mdHealth reads one array's block of /proc/mdstat: healthy when every member is up and it is not recovering.
+func mdHealth(mdstat, device string) (bool, string, bool) {
+	lines := strings.Split(mdstat, "\n")
+	for i, l := range lines {
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(l, device+" ") {
+			continue
+		}
+		block := l
+		for j := i + 1; j < len(lines) && strings.HasPrefix(lines[j], " "); j++ {
+			block += " " + strings.TrimSpace(lines[j])
+		}
+		members := mdMembers.FindStringSubmatch(block)
+		healthy := members != nil && !strings.Contains(members[1], "_") && !strings.Contains(block, "recovery")
+		return healthy, oneLineOf(block), true
+	}
+	return false, "", false
+}
+
+func firstLineOf(s string) string {
+	line, _, _ := strings.Cut(strings.TrimSpace(s), "\n")
+	return line
+}
+
+func oneLineOf(s string) string { return strings.Join(strings.Fields(s), " ") }
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3cad1734
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package main
+
+// The readings layout, their key and the peak are mesh-sdk's (health.Reading, health.NextReading; novox/hq ADR 0571
+// clause 3): disk-load measures each placed data item of its node and keeps the readings as its own state.
+
+import "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+
+// StateReadings is the state disk-load keeps.
+const StateReadings = health.ReadingsState
+
+// ClassCache is the class of an item that is listed and never measured.
+const ClassCache = "cache"
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings_test.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d934ad27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+)
+
+type memStore struct{ m map[string]json.RawMessage }
+
+func (s *memStore) Get(k string) (json.RawMessage, error) { return s.m[k], nil }
+func (s *memStore) Put(k string, v any) error {
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(v)
+	s.m[k] = raw
+	return nil
+}
+func (s *memStore) Keys() ([]string, error) {
+	var out []string
+	for k := range s.m {
+		out = append(out, k)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// A round measures what the data file declares but caches, keeps the readings, writes nothing the second time, and a
+// walk is not repeated within a day unless asked.
+func TestARoundMeasuresTheDeclaredItemsAndWritesWhatChanged(t *testing.T) {
+	text := "# pg\nitem data valuable /srv/pg /srv/pg backup walk\nitem tmp cache /srv/tmp - none\n# bad-line-module\nitem logs rebuildable /srv/logs - none shallow\n"
+	placed, err := catalogue.ParseDataItems(text)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	walks := 0
+	run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
+		switch {
+		case name == "test":
+			return "", nil
+		case name == "findmnt":
+			return "", os.ErrNotExist
+		case name == "bash" && strings.Contains(args[1], "-maxdepth 1"):
+			return "1760000000 2\n", nil
+		case name == "bash":
+			walks++
+			return "4096 1760000000 3\n0\n", nil
+		}
+		return "", os.ErrNotExist
+	}
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 29, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	store := &memStore{m: map[string]json.RawMessage{}}
+	k := &Keeper{Node: "ace", Items: func(context.Context) (map[string][]catalogue.PlacedDataItem, error) { return placed, nil }, Store: store, Say: func(string, ...any) {},
+		Measurer: Measurer{Run: run, Now: func() time.Time { return now }}}
+	w, kept, err := k.Round(context.Background(), false)
+	if err != nil || w != 2 || kept != 0 || len(store.m) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("first round: %d written %d kept %v, keys %d", w, kept, err, len(store.m))
+	}
+	now = now.Add(time.Hour)
+	if w, kept, _ := k.Round(context.Background(), false); w != 0 || kept != 2 || walks != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("second round: %d written, %d kept, %d walks; wanted none written and the walk not repeated", w, kept, walks)
+	}
+	if _, _, err := k.MeasureNow(context.Background(), "pg", "data"); err != nil || walks != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("measure now: %v, %d walks", err, walks)
+	}
+	// An item no longer declared is kept, retired with when and why; declared again, it is not retired any more.
+	delete(placed, "pg")
+	if _, _, err := k.Round(context.Background(), false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	gone, _ := health.DecodeReading(store.m["ace.pg.data"])
+	if gone.RetiredAt.IsZero() || !strings.Contains(gone.RetiredWhy, "no longer declared on ace") || gone.FirstSeen.IsZero() {
+		t.Fatalf("a reading of an item no longer declared: %+v", gone)
+	}
+	placed["pg"] = []catalogue.PlacedDataItem{{Module: "pg", ID: "data", Class: "valuable", Path: "/srv/pg", Measure: catalogue.MeasureWalk}}
+	if _, _, err := k.Round(context.Background(), false); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if back, _ := health.DecodeReading(store.m["ace.pg.data"]); !back.RetiredAt.IsZero() {
+		t.Fatalf("a reading declared again is still retired: %+v", back)
+	}
+	if _, _, err := k.MeasureNow(context.Background(), "pg", "tmp"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a cache was measured")
+	}
+}
+
+// The redundant storage under an item is read: a ZFS pool healthy, then degraded; an md array with a member missing; and
+// plain storage, which is no redundancy at all. A dataset is measured from the filesystem's counters and a shallow item
+// from its top-level entries only; a walk that meets more than its bound stops and says so.
+func TestTheStorageUnderAnItemAndTheLargeMethodsAreRead(t *testing.T) {
+	poolHealth, statusX, fs := "ONLINE\n", "pool 'storage' is healthy\n", "storage/media zfs\n"
+	run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
+		line := name + " " + strings.Join(args, " ")
+		switch {
+		case name == "test":
+			return "", nil
+		case name == "findmnt":
+			return fs, nil
+		case name == "zpool" && args[0] == "list":
+			return poolHealth, nil
+		case name == "zpool":
+			return statusX, nil
+		case name == "cat":
+			return "Personalities : [raid1]\nmd127 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]\n      976630464 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]\n\nunused devices: <none>\n", nil
+		case name == "zfs" && args[len(args)-1] == "/storage/media/movies":
+			return "storage/media\t97067690722560\n", nil
+		case name == "zfs":
+			return "", os.ErrNotExist
+		case name == "bash" && strings.Contains(line, "-maxdepth 1"):
+			return "1759744800 12673\n", nil
+		case name == "bash":
+			return "123 1759700000 2000000\n141\n", nil
+		}
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	m := Measurer{Run: run, Now: time.Now}
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	got := m.Measure(ctx, catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Module: "media", ID: "movies", Path: "/storage/media/movies", Measure: catalogue.MeasureDataset})
+	if got.SizeBytes == nil || *got.SizeBytes != 97067690722560 || !strings.HasPrefix(got.Precision, "dataset storage/media") ||
+		got.LastWrite == nil || got.Redundancy == nil || got.Redundancy.Kind != "zfs" || got.Redundancy.Healthy == nil || !*got.Redundancy.Healthy {
+		t.Fatalf("the library from its dataset: %+v", got)
+	}
+	poolHealth, statusX = "DEGRADED\n", "  pool: storage\n state: DEGRADED\nstatus: One or more devices has been removed\n"
+	if r := m.redundancyOf(ctx, "/storage/media/movies"); r.Healthy == nil || *r.Healthy || !strings.Contains(r.Said, "DEGRADED") {
+		t.Fatalf("a degraded pool: %+v", r)
+	}
+	fs = "/dev/md127 ext4\n"
+	if r := m.redundancyOf(ctx, "/srv/x"); r == nil || r.Kind != "md" || r.Healthy == nil || *r.Healthy {
+		t.Fatalf("an array missing a member: %+v", r)
+	}
+	fs = "/dev/nvme0n1p3 ext4\n"
+	if r := m.redundancyOf(ctx, "/var/lib/x"); r != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("plain storage read as redundant: %+v", r)
+	}
+	if s := m.Measure(ctx, catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Path: "/mnt/plex/config", Measure: catalogue.MeasureShallow}); s.SizeBytes != nil || !strings.HasPrefix(s.Precision, "no size") {
+		t.Fatalf("a shallow item: %+v", s)
+	}
+	if w := m.Measure(ctx, catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Path: "/srv/big", Measure: catalogue.MeasureWalk}); !strings.HasPrefix(w.Precision, "partial") {
+		t.Fatalf("a walk stopped at its bound: %+v", w)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings_tools.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings_tools.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..322fe275
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/readings_tools.go
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+)
+
+// ReadingTools are the tools over the state `readings`: every key, one key, how full the state is, and one item
+// measured now (a module's tools are its command line).
+func ReadingTools(k *Keeper) []stdio.Tool {
+	return []stdio.Tool{
+		{
+			Name: "disk_readings",
+			Description: "The data readings disk-load keeps for this machine's data items (ADR 0233, ADR 0571 clause 3): every key " +
+				"`<node>.<module>.<item>` with its size, newest write, measured-at, precision and seven-day peak, or one key with " +
+				"all it holds when `key` is given; and how full the state is: keys kept, their bytes, and the cap the bus puts on " +
+				"a state (none declared). Filter by `module`. (r)",
+			Input: map[string]any{
+				"key":    map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "one key, <node>.<module>.<item>, with everything it holds"},
+				"module": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "only this module's items"},
+			},
+			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				if key := text(args, "key"); key != "" {
+					raw, err := k.Store.Get(key)
+					if err != nil {
+						return nil, err
+					}
+					if len(raw) == 0 {
+						return nil, fmt.Errorf("no reading is kept at %q", key)
+					}
+					r, err := health.DecodeReading(raw)
+					return r, err
+				}
+				keys, err := k.Store.Keys()
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				sort.Strings(keys)
+				module := text(args, "module")
+				type line struct {
+					Key       string         `json:"key"`
+					SizeBytes *int64         `json:"size_bytes,omitempty"`
+					PeakBytes *int64         `json:"peak_bytes,omitempty"`
+					Precision string         `json:"precision,omitempty"`
+					Error     string         `json:"error,omitempty"`
+					Reading   health.Reading `json:"-"`
+				}
+				var lines []line
+				total := 0
+				for _, key := range keys {
+					raw, err := k.Store.Get(key)
+					if err != nil {
+						return nil, err
+					}
+					total += len(raw)
+					r, err := health.DecodeReading(raw)
+					if err != nil || (module != "" && r.Module != module) {
+						continue
+					}
+					lines = append(lines, line{Key: key, SizeBytes: r.SizeBytes, PeakBytes: r.Peak, Precision: r.Precision, Error: r.Error})
+				}
+				return map[string]any{"readings": lines, "fill": map[string]any{"keys": len(keys), "bytes": total,
+					"cap": "none declared: the bus's own limit on a state applies"}}, nil
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			Name: "disk_measure",
+			Description: "Measure one data item of this machine now, whatever its method (a walk too), and write its reading when it " +
+				"changed. Reads the disks as root: a walk is bounded by time and files and says when it was partial.",
+			Input: map[string]any{
+				"module": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the module that declares the item"},
+				"item":   map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the item's id"},
+			},
+			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				module, item := text(args, "module"), text(args, "item")
+				if module == "" || item == "" {
+					return nil, fmt.Errorf("module and item are required")
+				}
+				r, written, err := k.MeasureNow(context.Background(), module, item)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				return map[string]any{"written": written, "reading": r, "key": health.ReadingKey(k.Node, module, item),
+					"note": strings.TrimSpace(map[bool]string{true: "the reading changed and was written", false: "the reading had not changed"}[written])}, nil
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/tools_test.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/tools_test.go
index 88147715..672e6e94 100644
--- a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/tools_test.go
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/tools_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"os"
+	"regexp"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -35,9 +36,11 @@ func TestTheManifestNamesExactlyTheToolsTheBundleServesAndNoMachine(t *testing.T
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	var served []string
-	for _, tl := range Tools(newFake(t).machine()) {
+	k := &Keeper{Store: &memStore{m: map[string]json.RawMessage{}}}
+	for _, tl := range append(Tools(newFake(t).machine()), ReadingTools(k)...) {
 		served = append(served, tl.Name)
-		if !strings.HasSuffix(tl.Description, "(r)") {
+		// disk_measure writes the module's own state of readings and nothing else of the machine.
+		if !strings.HasSuffix(tl.Description, "(r)") && tl.Name != "disk_measure" {
 			t.Errorf("%s only reads and does not say so", tl.Name)
 		}
 	}
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ func TestTheManifestNamesExactlyTheToolsTheBundleServesAndNoMachine(t *testing.T
 		t.Errorf("the module only reads, and declares %d resources", len(m.Resources))
 	}
 	for _, banned := range []string{"g14", "novox", "ace", "shanks", "jochen", "/home/"} {
-		if strings.Contains(string(raw), banned) {
+		if regexp.MustCompile(`(^|[^a-z0-9-])` + regexp.QuoteMeta(banned) + `($|[^a-z0-9-])`).Match(raw) {
 			t.Errorf("the manifest says %q", banned)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/go.mod b/modules/disk-load/go.mod
index edf8078e..638fea42 100644
--- a/modules/disk-load/go.mod
+++ b/modules/disk-load/go.mod
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module diskload
 
-go 1.22
+go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225606-31e90aaa0f0d
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/go.sum b/modules/disk-load/go.sum
index 0dd60617..840941b2 100644
--- a/modules/disk-load/go.sum
+++ b/modules/disk-load/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,14 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6 h1:9qzdYONYbJdWcu6sxQcq9v1LI0JxcfkiKYkMUzJSkVQ=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225606-31e90aaa0f0d h1:HHSXxRS+GEYNgtdg9MFB8W2Y6ycPJF7YLF46y3oj7Ow=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225606-31e90aaa0f0d/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 h1:a3C1ke2ohxFymNlb2HWAHjDeKCI90scRskErZkR0ezA=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0/go.mod h1:LUdAzn7YLVvxLpc7y3V1m40wESHTgc1422pwwBSKYuI=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0 h1:vsXoOxjHp/GmPUN+EcI7uOf/uB+iAP+kEsAFNQN0yzA=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0/go.mod h1:y+DZoD1oBOYfZTU681eTUiUjI0vbqYGixNVFHcjHJ0k=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 h1:rd5oAuLOb8mnAycB0xleuEBNS1pVVnN0fv/FF34Eypg=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16/go.mod h1:llLgWoI0o4z/Q57q2R1kHfmocyhGV6VG/U18Glg1Afs=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 h1:5iA8DT8V7q8WK2EScv2padNa/rTESc1KdnPw4TC2paw=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1/go.mod h1:19wcPz3Ph3q0Jbyiqsd0kePYG7A95tJPxeL+1OSON2c=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 h1:bbX/i/6MgT9BVLM9RT1thmxL04yeTAhbEz4SyadbXoo=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0/go.mod h1:hNLxWAXmnKAxqDtdwIYC4bM9oQPEecfsnNMuSxOs3og=
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/module.json b/modules/disk-load/module.json
index 9b48041d..4b4313ca 100644
--- a/modules/disk-load/module.json
+++ b/modules/disk-load/module.json
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
     "disk_filesystems",
     "disk_folders",
     "disk_devices",
-    "cpu_top"
+    "cpu_top",
+    "disk_readings",
+    "disk_measure"
   ],
   "build": {
     "artifacts": [
@@ -23,5 +25,16 @@
         ]
       }
     ]
-  }
+  },
+  "state": [
+    "readings"
+  ],
+  "reads": [
+    "mesh-config.resolved",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
+    "mesh-delivery-builder.builds",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules",
+    "node-engine.have"
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images.go b/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images.go
index 49f75436..e15f7fdf 100644
--- a/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images.go
+++ b/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ package main
 //
 //   - every image a container on this machine uses, in any state;
 //   - every image this machine's declaration names — what the mesh would send it now and what it was
-//     last sent — as the controller's `images` verb answers. **No answer, no removal**: what the
+//     last sent — as the mesh-artifact-sweep seat's `images` verb answers. **No answer, no removal**: what the
 //     declaration names is the one thing that cannot be guessed;
 //   - every image younger than the floor (seven days, the weekly prune's week);
 //   - in each line of images holding one of those, the newest image besides them: the previous
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ type PruneImagesAsk struct {
 	Limit         int
 }
 
-// declaredImages is the controller's `images` answer (novox/hq ADR 0251 §5).
+// declaredImages is the mesh-artifact-sweep seat's `images` answer (novox/hq ADR 0251 §5).
 type declaredImages struct {
 	Node   string `json:"node"`
 	Images []struct {
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ func digestOf(ref string) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
-// askDeclared asks the controller what this machine's declarations name. An error means unknown.
+// askDeclared asks the mesh-artifact-sweep seat what this machine's declarations name. An error means unknown.
 func (c *Client) askDeclared() (*declaredImages, error) {
 	if c.Node == "" {
 		return nil, errors.New("the runtime did not say which machine this is (MESH_NODE is empty)")
@@ -137,20 +137,20 @@ func (c *Client) askDeclared() (*declaredImages, error) {
 	if c.Ask == nil {
 		return nil, errors.New("this bundle cannot ask the mesh")
 	}
-	raw, err := c.Ask("seat:mesh-controller.images", map[string]any{"node": c.Node})
+	raw, err := c.Ask("seat:mesh-artifact-sweep.images", map[string]any{"node": c.Node})
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller's images verb did not answer: %w", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the mesh-artifact-sweep seat's images verb did not answer: %w", err)
 	}
 	answer, output, ok := answerOf(raw)
 	if !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller refused images: %s", firstLine(output))
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the mesh-artifact-sweep seat refused images: %s", firstLine(output))
 	}
 	var d declaredImages
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(answer, &d); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller's images answer is not readable: %v", err)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the mesh-artifact-sweep seat's images answer is not readable: %v", err)
 	}
 	if d.Node != "" && d.Node != c.Node {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller answered for %q, not for this machine %q", d.Node, c.Node)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the mesh-artifact-sweep seat answered for %q, not for this machine %q", d.Node, c.Node)
 	}
 	return &d, nil
 }
diff --git a/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images_test.go b/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images_test.go
index 62a5d6c7..df019fed 100644
--- a/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images_test.go
+++ b/modules/docker/cmd/docker-tools/prune_images_test.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ func imagesMachine() *fake {
 
 func declaring(t *testing.T, answer string) Asker {
 	return func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-		if key != "seat:mesh-controller.images" {
+		if key != "seat:mesh-artifact-sweep.images" {
 			t.Errorf("asked %s", key)
 		}
 		if b, _ := body.(map[string]any); b["node"] != "laptop" {
diff --git a/modules/docker/go.mod b/modules/docker/go.mod
index 5faa536e..6f926752 100644
--- a/modules/docker/go.mod
+++ b/modules/docker/go.mod
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module docker
 
-go 1.22
+go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225351-7bd0f6c2bdf2
diff --git a/modules/docker/go.sum b/modules/docker/go.sum
index 0dd60617..e3d09146 100644
--- a/modules/docker/go.sum
+++ b/modules/docker/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6 h1:9qzdYONYbJdWcu6sxQcq9v1LI0JxcfkiKYkMUzJSkVQ=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225351-7bd0f6c2bdf2 h1:LXFwlVh0fGcOTU41PNkZDknHF070F/mhVy8Te6wKr3Q=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029225351-7bd0f6c2bdf2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
diff --git a/modules/docker/module.json b/modules/docker/module.json
index fae954c3..500faea6 100644
--- a/modules/docker/module.json
+++ b/modules/docker/module.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     "privileged"
   ],
   "invokes": [
-    "seat:mesh-controller.images"
+    "seat:mesh-artifact-sweep.images"
   ],
   "claims": [
     {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-image/.gitignore b/modules/mesh-build-image/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..00eb03a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-image/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mesh-build-image
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-image/mesh-build-image b/modules/mesh-build-image/mesh-build-image
deleted file mode 100755
index f7cf1852..00000000
Binary files a/modules/mesh-build-image/mesh-build-image and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/.gitignore b/modules/mesh-build-node/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7604aaa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mesh-build-node
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/mesh-build-node b/modules/mesh-build-node/mesh-build-node
deleted file mode 100755
index 1293e701..00000000
Binary files a/modules/mesh-build-node/mesh-build-node and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/modules/mesh-catalog/heard.ts b/modules/mesh-catalog/heard.ts
index eaa8f882..619639ed 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-catalog/heard.ts
+++ b/modules/mesh-catalog/heard.ts
@@ -45,13 +45,72 @@ export interface Built {
   branches?: string[];
 }
 
-/** The events a build outcome reaches this module on: the build seat's, as it happens, and the control plane's replay. */
-export const BUILD_EVENTS = [
-  // The build seat node-build-agent and the retired mesh-build-machine went with build-agent (novox/hq ADR 0524 §5,
-  // ADR 0525 §10): no build seat says `built` since R4g, so what the mesh holds is asked when this module starts.
-  // What the mesh already held, when this module asks what it missed (novox/hq ADR 0134).
-  "mesh-controller.built-before",
-] as const;
+/**
+ * Where a build outcome comes from now: the builder's log (novox/hq ADR 0571 clauses 1 and 9). The module asks the
+ * builder's tool for the builds that ended since a time, and again whenever the builder's state of done keys changes.
+ */
+export const BUILDER = "mesh-delivery-builder";
+export const BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL = "builder_builds_since";
+export const BUILDS_STATE = "mesh-delivery-builder.builds";
+export const MANIFESTS_STATE = "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests";
+
+/** One entry of the builder's log, an ended build (mesh-sdk delivery.BuildLogEntry). */
+export interface LogEntry {
+  event: string;
+  module: string;
+  fp: string;
+  repository: string;
+  directory: string;
+  commit: string;
+  ref?: string;
+  node?: string;
+  at: string;
+  /** done, failed or queued. */
+  outcome?: string;
+  /** The digest of the manifest built, read from the indexer's state of manifests. */
+  manifest?: string;
+  against?: string[];
+  made?: Made[];
+}
+
+/** The answer of the builder's tool: every ended build since a time, oldest first, and whether the log held more. */
+export interface BuildsSince {
+  since: string;
+  builds: LogEntry[];
+  more?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * What a tool answers, whether bare or wrapped as the runtime wraps a tool's reply ({output} or {content:[{text}]}).
+ */
+export function answerOf<T>(raw: unknown): T {
+  const r = raw as { output?: unknown; content?: { text?: string }[] } | null;
+  if (r && typeof r.output === "string") return JSON.parse(r.output) as T;
+  if (r && Array.isArray(r.content) && typeof r.content[0]?.text === "string") return JSON.parse(r.content[0].text) as T;
+  if (typeof raw === "string") return JSON.parse(raw) as T;
+  return raw as T;
+}
+
+/**
+ * A log entry as the build outcome the catalogue places: a build that is done is placed with its manifest, what it
+ * made and what it was built against; one that failed is passed over (placeable says so); one still queued has not
+ * ended and is not taken in. `replay` is set by the caller for history.
+ */
+export function builtFrom(e: LogEntry, manifest: unknown, replay: boolean): Built | undefined {
+  if (e.outcome === "queued") return undefined;
+  return {
+    module: e.module,
+    commit: e.commit,
+    repository: e.repository,
+    path: e.directory,
+    ref: e.ref ?? "",
+    manifest,
+    made: e.made ?? [],
+    against: e.against ?? [],
+    replay,
+    ...(e.outcome === "failed" ? { failed: "the builder's log says the build failed" } : {}),
+  };
+}
 
 /**
  * Whether a build outcome is a module-version to place in the graph, and why not when it is not.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-catalog/index.ts b/modules/mesh-catalog/index.ts
index 13a98d2d..cc034002 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-catalog/index.ts
+++ b/modules/mesh-catalog/index.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,15 @@
 // and appear the next time round, once whatever they were waiting for is registered. A chain and a
 // diamond need no special handling, and nothing holds a plan.
 
-import { on, emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+import { broker } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/messaging";
+import { invokeTool } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
+import { state } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/state";
 import { Graph } from "./store.js";
-import { BUILD_EVENTS, placeable, type Built } from "./heard.js";
+import {
+  answerOf, builtFrom, placeable, BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, BUILDS_STATE, MANIFESTS_STATE,
+  type Built, type BuildsSince, type LogEntry,
+} from "./heard.js";
 
 const graph = Graph.fromEnv();
 
@@ -77,18 +83,74 @@ const placeTheBuild = async (event: { body: unknown }): Promise<void> => {
   }
 };
 
-// As it happens — from the build seat that builds now, and the retired one while it still answers — and
-// what the mesh already held when this module asked what it missed (novox/hq issue 712).
-for (const heard of BUILD_EVENTS) await on(heard, placeTheBuild);
+// **From the builder's log** (novox/hq ADR 0571 clauses 1 and 9). The builder keeps every build's end in a log of its
+// own and answers the builds that ended since a time by its tool. This module asks at its start for what it missed (all
+// the log holds, taken in as history: registered, announced to nobody), and again whenever the builder's state of done
+// keys changes, for what ended since the last build it took in. Registering a build already held changes nothing, and a
+// build is taken in once per run of this module.
+const taken = new Set<string>();
+let since = new Date(0).toISOString();
+let caughtUp = false;
+let asking: Promise<void> | undefined;
+let askAgain = false;
 
-// **And ask for what was built before this catalogue existed** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/050).
-//
-// The queue above is durable, so nothing is missed once this is running. What it cannot have is
-// what was announced before it first ran — and on a fresh mesh that is never arbitrary: the shared
-// base, the store this runs on, and this module itself are each necessarily built BEFORE a
-// catalogue exists to hear about them. The graph's foundation is the part it never sees.
-//
-// Asked on every start, not only the first. A catalogue cannot tell whether it has a gap, and the
-// answer is idempotent: registering a build already held changes nothing and announces nothing.
-// Asked AFTER subscribing, so a build arriving during the replay is not lost between the two.
+const manifestOf = async (digest: string | undefined): Promise<unknown> => {
+  if (!digest) return {};
+  const held = await state<{ manifest?: string }>(MANIFESTS_STATE).get(digest);
+  if (!held?.value.manifest) return {};
+  return JSON.parse(held.value.manifest);
+};
+
+const takeIn = async (e: LogEntry, replay: boolean): Promise<void> => {
+  const key = `${e.module}/${e.fp}`;
+  if (taken.has(key)) return;
+  const built = builtFrom(e, await manifestOf(e.manifest), replay);
+  if (!built) return;
+  await placeTheBuild({ body: built });
+  taken.add(key);
+};
+
+const catchUp = async (): Promise<void> => {
+  for (;;) {
+    const answer = answerOf<BuildsSince>(
+      await invokeTool(broker(), BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, { since }),
+    );
+    for (const e of answer.builds ?? []) {
+      await takeIn(e, !caughtUp);
+      if (e.at > since) since = e.at;
+    }
+    if (!answer.more) break;
+  }
+  caughtUp = true;
+};
+
+/** One ask at a time; a change heard while asking is asked for again once, so none is missed. */
+const ask = (): Promise<void> => {
+  if (asking) {
+    askAgain = true;
+    return asking;
+  }
+  asking = (async () => {
+    try {
+      do {
+        askAgain = false;
+        await catchUp();
+      } while (askAgain);
+    } catch (err) {
+      console.error("mesh-catalog: the builder's builds since", since, "could not be taken in:", err);
+    } finally {
+      asking = undefined;
+    }
+  })();
+  return asking;
+};
+
+// Asked AFTER watching begins, so a build ending while the first ask runs asks again rather than being missed: the watch
+// hands every current key first (the start's ask), then every change.
+await state(BUILDS_STATE).watch(async (change) => {
+  if (!change.current) await ask();
+});
+await ask();
+
+// **And say that this catalogue has caught up** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/050).
 await emit("catching-up", {});
diff --git a/modules/mesh-catalog/module.json b/modules/mesh-catalog/module.json
index b8f45096..c5ad61a4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-catalog/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-catalog/module.json
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@
   "secrets": {
     "postgres-database": "${dir:state}/database.secret"
   },
-  "consumes": [
-    "mesh-controller.built-before"
-  ],
+  "consumes": [],
   "emits": [
     "registered",
     "upgraded",
@@ -92,5 +90,12 @@
         "from": "files"
       }
     ]
-  }
+  },
+  "invokes": [
+    "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_builds_since"
+  ],
+  "reads": [
+    "mesh-delivery-builder.builds",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests"
+  ]
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-catalog/test/heard.test.ts b/modules/mesh-catalog/test/heard.test.ts
index 84b91ac4..391cb5e9 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-catalog/test/heard.test.ts
+++ b/modules/mesh-catalog/test/heard.test.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { test } from "node:test";
 import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 
-import { BUILD_EVENTS, placeable } from "../heard.js";
+import { answerOf, builtFrom, placeable, BUILDER, BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL, BUILDS_STATE, MANIFESTS_STATE } from "../heard.js";
 
 // A walk's build as the build seat says it (mesh-controller's link.BuildResult), here mailu's of novox/hq issue 712.
 const walkBuild = {
@@ -20,14 +20,25 @@ const walkBuild = {
   made: [{ name: "code", kind: "bundle", reference: "artifact-store://mailu/code/blobs/sha256:d041" }],
 };
 
-test("the catalogue hears no retired build seat, and what the mesh held (issue 712, issue 1887 E2)", async () => {
-  for (const retired of ["node-build-agent.built", "mesh-build-machine.built"]) {
-    assert.ok(!(BUILD_EVENTS as readonly string[]).includes(retired), `${retired} is still heard`);
-  }
-  assert.ok(BUILD_EVENTS.includes("mesh-controller.built-before"));
-  // Subscribing is not enough: the mesh grants and routes only what the manifest consumes.
+test("the catalogue takes builds from the builder's log, and hears no controller event (ADR 0571 clause 9)", async () => {
   const manifest = JSON.parse(await readFile(new URL("../module.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
-  for (const heard of BUILD_EVENTS) assert.ok(manifest.consumes.includes(heard), `${heard} is not consumed`);
+  assert.deepEqual(manifest.consumes, []);
+  assert.ok(manifest.invokes.includes(`${BUILDER}.${BUILDS_SINCE_TOOL}`), "the builder's tool is not invoked");
+  for (const read of [BUILDS_STATE, MANIFESTS_STATE]) assert.ok(manifest.reads.includes(read), `${read} is not read`);
+  // A log entry is placed as a build: done with its manifest, made and against; failed passed over; queued not taken in.
+  const entry = { event: "build.ended", module: "mailu", fp: "fp1", repository: walkBuild.repository, directory: "modules/mailu",
+    commit: walkBuild.commit, ref: "main", at: "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", outcome: "done", manifest: "ab", against: ["img@sha256:1"],
+    made: walkBuild.made };
+  const done = builtFrom(entry, walkBuild.manifest, false);
+  assert.deepEqual(placeable(done!), { placed: "yes", module: "mailu", commit: walkBuild.commit });
+  assert.deepEqual([done!.path, done!.against, done!.replay], ["modules/mailu", ["img@sha256:1"], false]);
+  assert.equal(placeable(builtFrom({ ...entry, outcome: "failed" }, {}, true)!).placed, "no");
+  assert.equal(builtFrom({ ...entry, outcome: "queued" }, {}, true), undefined);
+  // The tool's answer is read bare or as the runtime wraps it.
+  const bare = { since: "x", builds: [entry] };
+  for (const raw of [bare, { output: JSON.stringify(bare) }, { content: [{ text: JSON.stringify(bare) }] }]) {
+    assert.equal(answerOf<typeof bare>(raw).builds[0].module, "mailu");
+  }
 });
 
 test("a walk's build is placed, under its module and commit", () => {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/main.go b/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/main.go
index 22914015..a4fb0b55 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/main.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 )
 
@@ -150,60 +151,46 @@ func roundTrip(node string) error {
 	}
 }
 
-// controlNodes reads which machines hold the controller and the bus.
+// controlNodes reads which machines hold the controller and the bus, from the placement seat's state of who holds
+// which seat (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 4).
 func controlNodes() ([]string, error) {
-	raw, err := stdio.Ask("seat:mesh-controller.seats", map[string]any{})
+	st := stdio.State(delivery.SeatHoldersRead)
+	names, err := st.Keys()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return holdersOf(raw, "mesh-controller", "mesh-broker")
+	keys := map[string][]byte{}
+	for _, k := range names {
+		e, err := st.Get(k)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if e != nil {
+			keys[k] = e.Value
+		}
+	}
+	return holderNodes(keys, "mesh-controller", "mesh-broker")
 }
 
-// holdersOf reads the seats verb's answer, bare or inside a tool reply, for the named seats' machines.
-func holdersOf(raw json.RawMessage, seats ...string) ([]string, error) {
-	var answer struct {
-		Seats []struct {
-			Seat    string `json:"seat"`
-			Holders []struct {
-				Node string `json:"node"`
-			} `json:"holders"`
-		} `json:"seats"`
-		Output  string `json:"output"`
-		Content []struct {
-			Text string `json:"text"`
-		} `json:"content"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &answer); err != nil {
-		var s string
-		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &s) == nil {
-			return holdersOf(json.RawMessage(s), seats...)
-		}
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the seats answer is not JSON")
-	}
-	if len(answer.Seats) == 0 {
-		switch {
-		case answer.Output != "":
-			return holdersOf(json.RawMessage(answer.Output), seats...)
-		case len(answer.Content) > 0:
-			return holdersOf(json.RawMessage(answer.Content[0].Text), seats...)
-		}
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the seats answer lists no seat")
-	}
+// holderNodes is the machines holding any of the seats, in the order the seats are named, each once.
+func holderNodes(keys map[string][]byte, seats ...string) ([]string, error) {
 	var out []string
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, s := range answer.Seats {
-		for _, want := range seats {
-			if s.Seat != want {
-				continue
-			}
-			for _, h := range s.Holders {
-				if !seen[h.Node] {
-					seen[h.Node] = true
-					out = append(out, h.Node)
-				}
+	for _, seat := range seats {
+		holders, err := delivery.HoldersOf(keys, seat, "")
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, h := range holders {
+			if !seen[h.Node] {
+				seen[h.Node] = true
+				out = append(out, h.Node)
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	if len(out) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the placement seat's state names no holder of %s", strings.Join(seats, " or "))
+	}
 	return out, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/manifest_test.go
index ee7f1c9e..ddefa504 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/manifest_test.go
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func TestTheManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Consumes, []string{ControllerSeat + "." + HeartbeatEvent, "mesh-self-check.checked"}) {
 		t.Fatalf("consumes %v", m.Consumes)
 	}
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, []string{m.Module + ".watcher_ping", "seat:mesh-controller.seats"}) {
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, []string{m.Module + ".watcher_ping"}) {
 		t.Fatalf("invokes %v", m.Invokes)
 	}
 	if len(m.Claims) != 0 {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/watcher_test.go b/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/watcher_test.go
index a335af11..bf77ce46 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/watcher_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-watcher/cmd/mesh-watcher/watcher_test.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -214,16 +213,18 @@ func TestOnTheControlNodeItSaysItIsMisplaced(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestTheSeatsAnswerIsReadInEitherShape(t *testing.T) {
-	bare := `{"seats":[{"seat":"mesh-controller","holders":[{"node":"n1","module":"mesh-controller"}]},
-		{"seat":"mesh-broker","holders":[{"node":"n1"},{"node":"n2"}]},{"seat":"git","holders":[{"node":"n3"}]}]}`
-	wrapped, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"content": []map[string]string{{"type": "text", "text": bare}}})
-	output, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"ok": true, "output": bare})
-	for _, raw := range []string{bare, string(wrapped), string(output)} {
-		got, err := holdersOf(json.RawMessage(raw), "mesh-controller", "mesh-broker")
-		if err != nil || strings.Join(got, ",") != "n1,n2" {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %v %v", raw, got, err)
-		}
+func TestTheHoldersAreReadFromThePlacementSeatsState(t *testing.T) {
+	keys := map[string][]byte{
+		"mesh-controller": []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"mesh-controller","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"mesh-controller","node":"n1"}]}`),
+		"mesh-broker":     []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"mesh-broker","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"nats","node":"n1"},{"module":"nats","node":"n2"}]}`),
+		"git":             []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"git","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"gitea","node":"n3"}]}`),
+	}
+	got, err := holderNodes(keys, "mesh-controller", "mesh-broker")
+	if err != nil || strings.Join(got, ",") != "n1,n2" {
+		t.Errorf("%v %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := holderNodes(map[string][]byte{}, "mesh-controller", "mesh-broker"); err == nil {
+		t.Error("no holder named, and no error")
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-watcher/go.mod b/modules/mesh-watcher/go.mod
index 168dd6c0..fae002dc 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-watcher/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-watcher/go.mod
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ module mesh-watcher
 
 go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029214732-6b8c6943811a
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121
diff --git a/modules/mesh-watcher/go.sum b/modules/mesh-watcher/go.sum
index ea2abb0e..eda36e26 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-watcher/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-watcher/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029214732-6b8c6943811a h1:elC2IjB+qbeXG+pWItLz71DenegbrdsqbcH5kyGo56Q=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029214732-6b8c6943811a/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121 h1:OsA1v6n736a7RqEV8Nkip8pf5ILMbzj0PWuKqcBOhK0=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
diff --git a/modules/mesh-watcher/module.json b/modules/mesh-watcher/module.json
index 26ed5097..ac05e105 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-watcher/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-watcher/module.json
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@
     "mesh-self-check.checked"
   ],
   "reads": [
-    "mesh-conditions.takeover"
+    "mesh-conditions.takeover",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.seat-holders"
   ],
   "invokes": [
-    "mesh-watcher.watcher_ping",
-    "seat:mesh-controller.seats"
+    "mesh-watcher.watcher_ping"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
     "telegram-token": "${dir:state}/telegram-token"
@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@
       "type": "file",
       "path": "${dir:state}/settings.json",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "takes-config": ["telegram-chat-id"],
+      "takes-config": [
+        "telegram-chat-id"
+      ],
       "merge": "json",
       "template": "files/settings.json"
     }
diff --git a/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/manifest_test.go b/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/manifest_test.go
index 34e5ebb9..58494c7f 100644
--- a/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/manifest_test.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ func manifest(t *testing.T) map[string]any {
 	return m
 }
 
-// 1516/AC6: minio claims object-store (scope mesh) serving link, invokes seat:mesh-controller.seats, builds the Go
+// 1516/AC6: minio claims object-store (scope mesh) serving link, reads the placement seat's seat-holders, builds the Go
 // bundle, and no tool named minio_presigned_url remains.
 func TestManifestClaimsTheSeat(t *testing.T) {
 	m := manifest(t)
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ func TestManifestClaimsTheSeat(t *testing.T) {
 	if c["name"] != "object-store" || c["scope"] != "mesh" || len(serves) != 1 || serves[0] != "link" {
 		t.Fatalf("claim: %v", c)
 	}
-	inv := m["invokes"].([]any)
-	if len(inv) != 1 || inv[0] != "seat:mesh-controller.seats" {
-		t.Fatalf("invokes: %v", inv)
+	reads, _ := m["reads"].([]any)
+	if _, invokes := m["invokes"]; invokes || len(reads) != 1 || reads[0] != "mesh-delivery-assigner.seat-holders" {
+		t.Fatalf("reads %v and invokes %v: it reads the placement seat's holders and calls nothing", reads, m["invokes"])
 	}
 	var goBundle map[string]any
 	for _, a := range m["build"].(map[string]any)["artifacts"].([]any) {
diff --git a/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server.go b/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server.go
index 9b4b59e5..789873b8 100644
--- a/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server.go
+++ b/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/objectlink"
 )
 
@@ -59,11 +60,11 @@ func linkKeyID(bucket string) string {
 type server struct {
 	configPath, linksDir, receives string
 	now                            func() time.Time
-	// seats asks the controller for its seats; a test replaces it.
-	seats func() (json.RawMessage, error)
+	// seats reads the placement seat's state of who holds which seat, every key; a test replaces it.
+	seats func() (map[string][]byte, error)
 
 	mu      sync.Mutex
-	holders map[string]bool // "<seat>/<node>.<module>"
+	keys    map[string][]byte // seat-holders, as read
 	readAt  time.Time
 	haveSet bool
 }
@@ -77,8 +78,23 @@ func newServer(config, links, receives string) (*server, error) {
 	return &server{configPath: config, linksDir: links, receives: receives, now: time.Now, seats: askSeats}, nil
 }
 
-func askSeats() (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	return stdio.Ask("seat:mesh-controller.seats", map[string]any{})
+func askSeats() (map[string][]byte, error) {
+	state := stdio.State(delivery.SeatHoldersRead)
+	names, err := state.Keys()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	keys := map[string][]byte{}
+	for _, k := range names {
+		e, err := state.Get(k)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if e != nil {
+			keys[k] = e.Value
+		}
+	}
+	return keys, nil
 }
 
 // link answers one ask.
@@ -206,7 +222,7 @@ func (s *server) allowed(g grant, node, module, method string) error {
 		if seat, isSeat := strings.CutPrefix(sh.To, "seat:"); isSeat {
 			held, err := s.holds(seat, node, module)
 			if err != nil {
-				return false, fmt.Errorf("a share names seat %s and the controller's seats cannot be read to tell whether this caller holds it: %w", seat, err)
+				return false, fmt.Errorf("a share names seat %s and the placement seat's holders cannot be read to tell whether this caller holds it: %w", seat, err)
 			}
 			return held, nil
 		}
@@ -249,58 +265,26 @@ func has(list []string, v string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-// holds says whether node.module holds the seat, from the controller's seats, read at most once a minute. A read that
-// failed is not cached: the next ask reads again.
+// holds says whether node.module holds the seat, from the placement seat's state of who holds which seat (novox/hq ADR
+// 0571 clause 4), read at most once a minute. A read that failed is not cached: the next ask reads again.
 func (s *server) holds(seat, node, module string) (bool, error) {
 	s.mu.Lock()
 	defer s.mu.Unlock()
 	if !s.haveSet || s.now().Sub(s.readAt) >= holdersFor {
-		raw, err := s.seats()
+		keys, err := s.seats()
 		if err != nil {
 			return false, err
 		}
-		set, err := holdersIn(raw)
-		if err != nil {
-			return false, err
-		}
-		s.holders, s.readAt, s.haveSet = set, s.now(), true
+		s.keys, s.readAt, s.haveSet = keys, s.now(), true
 	}
-	return s.holders[seat+"/"+node+"."+module], nil
-}
-
-// holdersIn reads the controller's `seats` answer (answer.seats[].holders[] of {node, module}, and answer.outside[] of
-// {Claim, Node, Module}) into "<seat>/<node>.<module>". The answer may arrive wrapped in {"answer": ...}.
-func holdersIn(raw json.RawMessage) (map[string]bool, error) {
-	var doc struct {
-		Answer json.RawMessage `json:"answer"`
-		Seats  []struct {
-			Seat    string `json:"seat"`
-			Holders []struct {
-				Node   string `json:"node"`
-				Module string `json:"module"`
-			} `json:"holders"`
-		} `json:"seats"`
-		Outside []struct {
-			Claim, Node, Module string
-		} `json:"outside"`
+	holders, err := delivery.HoldersOf(s.keys, seat, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
 	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &doc); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller's seats answer is not JSON: %w", err)
-	}
-	if len(doc.Answer) > 0 && string(doc.Answer) != "null" {
-		return holdersIn(doc.Answer)
-	}
-	if doc.Seats == nil && doc.Outside == nil {
-		return nil, errors.New("the controller's seats answer holds neither seats nor outside claims")
-	}
-	out := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, s := range doc.Seats {
-		for _, h := range s.Holders {
-			out[s.Seat+"/"+h.Node+"."+h.Module] = true
+	for _, h := range holders {
+		if h.Node == node && h.Module == module {
+			return true, nil
 		}
 	}
-	for _, o := range doc.Outside {
-		out[o.Claim+"/"+o.Node+"."+o.Module] = true
-	}
-	return out, nil
+	return false, nil
 }
diff --git a/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server_test.go b/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server_test.go
index 2f944a27..ba7bc956 100644
--- a/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server_test.go
+++ b/modules/minio/cmd/object-store/server_test.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"net/url"
 	"os"
@@ -25,12 +24,13 @@ const grantFile = `{
   ]
 }`
 
-// The seats answer is the controller's (mesh-controller.seats read on 2026-10-21): seats[].holders[] of {node, module},
-// and outside[] of {Claim, Node, Module}.
-const seatsAnswer = `{"answer": {"seats": [
-  {"seat": "node-files", "scope": "node", "holders": [{"node": "g14", "module": "mesh-files"}, {"node": "shanks", "module": "mesh-files"}]},
-  {"seat": "node-backup", "scope": "node", "holders": [{"node": "g14", "module": "restic"}]}
- ], "outside": [{"Claim": "printer", "Scope": "mesh", "Node": "shanks", "Module": "brother", "Site": "home", "Kind": ""}]}}`
+// The placement seat's state of who holds which seat (seat-holders): a key per node seat and node, a key per mesh seat.
+var seatHolderKeys = map[string][]byte{
+	"node-files.g14":    []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"node-files","scope":"node","node":"g14","holders":[{"module":"mesh-files","node":"g14"}]}`),
+	"node-files.shanks": []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"node-files","scope":"node","node":"shanks","holders":[{"module":"mesh-files","node":"shanks"}]}`),
+	"node-backup.g14":   []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"node-backup","scope":"node","node":"g14","holders":[{"module":"restic","node":"g14"}]}`),
+	"printer":           []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"printer","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"brother","node":"shanks"}]}`),
+}
 
 type rig struct {
 	s          *server
@@ -64,12 +64,12 @@ func newRig(t *testing.T) *rig {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	s.now = func() time.Time { return r.now }
-	s.seats = func() (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	s.seats = func() (map[string][]byte, error) {
 		r.seatsCalls++
 		if r.seatsErr != nil {
 			return nil, r.seatsErr
 		}
-		return json.RawMessage(seatsAnswer), nil
+		return seatHolderKeys, nil
 	}
 	r.s = s
 	return r
diff --git a/modules/minio/go.mod b/modules/minio/go.mod
index c09ccfda..4cf91848 100644
--- a/modules/minio/go.mod
+++ b/modules/minio/go.mod
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ module minio
 
 go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021122348-6c857e1c025f
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121
diff --git a/modules/minio/go.sum b/modules/minio/go.sum
index 9728ce93..05839926 100644
--- a/modules/minio/go.sum
+++ b/modules/minio/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,14 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021122348-6c857e1c025f h1:7J/9jOfSfjfYpf8MOj96HwQRViQUkBNMb71RHP2mjn8=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021122348-6c857e1c025f/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121 h1:OsA1v6n736a7RqEV8Nkip8pf5ILMbzj0PWuKqcBOhK0=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 h1:a3C1ke2ohxFymNlb2HWAHjDeKCI90scRskErZkR0ezA=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0/go.mod h1:LUdAzn7YLVvxLpc7y3V1m40wESHTgc1422pwwBSKYuI=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0 h1:vsXoOxjHp/GmPUN+EcI7uOf/uB+iAP+kEsAFNQN0yzA=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0/go.mod h1:y+DZoD1oBOYfZTU681eTUiUjI0vbqYGixNVFHcjHJ0k=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 h1:rd5oAuLOb8mnAycB0xleuEBNS1pVVnN0fv/FF34Eypg=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16/go.mod h1:llLgWoI0o4z/Q57q2R1kHfmocyhGV6VG/U18Glg1Afs=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 h1:5iA8DT8V7q8WK2EScv2padNa/rTESc1KdnPw4TC2paw=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1/go.mod h1:19wcPz3Ph3q0Jbyiqsd0kePYG7A95tJPxeL+1OSON2c=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 h1:bbX/i/6MgT9BVLM9RT1thmxL04yeTAhbEz4SyadbXoo=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0/go.mod h1:hNLxWAXmnKAxqDtdwIYC4bM9oQPEecfsnNMuSxOs3og=
diff --git a/modules/minio/module.json b/modules/minio/module.json
index 9136cd7d..60b40a4b 100644
--- a/modules/minio/module.json
+++ b/modules/minio/module.json
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
       ]
     }
   ],
-  "invokes": [
-    "seat:mesh-controller.seats"
+  "reads": [
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.seat-holders"
   ],
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
diff --git a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/bus.go b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/bus.go
index ce3d0057..92505ce8 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/bus.go
+++ b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/bus.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"time"
@@ -122,22 +123,22 @@ func (m *Machine) leave(p string, v any) error {
 // Asker calls a tool on the mesh as this module.
 type Asker func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)
 
-// DataVerb is the controller's verb that says where the mesh keeps data on a machine.
-const DataVerb = "seat:mesh-controller.data"
+// Readings reads disk-load's readings of one machine's data items (its state `readings`, ADR 0571 clause 3).
+type Readings func(node string) ([]health.Reading, error)
 
-// LeaveData asks the controller where the mesh keeps data on this machine and leaves the paths for the
+// LeaveData reads disk-load for where the mesh keeps data on this machine and leaves the paths for the
 // process (finding 4d). A failed ask keeps the last paths, with why; with none, the process sets up
 // nothing new.
-func (m *Machine) LeaveData(node string, ask Asker, now time.Time) []string {
-	if node == "" || ask == nil {
+func (m *Machine) LeaveData(node string, read Readings, now time.Time) []string {
+	if node == "" || read == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
 	previous, _ := readJSON[DataPaths](m, DataFile)
 	out := DataPaths{Machine: node, Asked: now.Format(time.RFC3339)}
-	raw, err := ask(DataVerb, map[string]any{"machine": node})
+	readings, err := read(node)
 	var paths []string
 	if err == nil {
-		paths, err = DataFrom(raw)
+		paths, err = PathsFrom(readings)
 	}
 	var said []string
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/data.go b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/data.go
index 803a1a84..02fc6da1 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/data.go
+++ b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/data.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ package main
 // mesh keeps data in on this machine, from the controller's `data` verb over the bus.
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -63,44 +63,16 @@ func sortWants(w []Want) {
 	}
 }
 
-// DataFrom reads the paths out of mesh-controller.data's answer: `answer.data`, `data`, or the same as
-// text in `output`. An answer with no data list is an error, never an empty list: an empty list would
-// let every mount point through.
-func DataFrom(raw json.RawMessage) ([]string, error) {
-	type item struct {
-		Path string `json:"path"`
-	}
-	var whole struct {
-		Answer *struct {
-			Data *[]item `json:"data"`
-		} `json:"answer"`
-		Data   *[]item `json:"data"`
-		Output string  `json:"output"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &whole); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller's data answer is not JSON: %v", err)
-	}
-	var items *[]item
-	switch {
-	case whole.Answer != nil && whole.Answer.Data != nil:
-		items = whole.Answer.Data
-	case whole.Data != nil:
-		items = whole.Data
-	case whole.Output != "":
-		var inner struct {
-			Data *[]item `json:"data"`
-		}
-		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(whole.Output), &inner); err == nil && inner.Data != nil {
-			items = inner.Data
-		}
-	}
-	if items == nil {
-		return nil, errors.New("the controller's data answer names no data list")
+// PathsFrom is the paths disk-load's readings name: where the mesh keeps data here. No reading is an error, never an
+// empty list: an empty list would let every mount point through.
+func PathsFrom(readings []health.Reading) ([]string, error) {
+	if len(readings) == 0 {
+		return nil, errors.New("disk-load keeps no reading of this machine's data yet")
 	}
 	paths := []string{}
-	for _, it := range *items {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(it.Path, "/") {
-			paths = append(paths, filepath.Clean(it.Path))
+	for _, r := range readings {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(r.Path, "/") {
+			paths = append(paths, filepath.Clean(r.Path))
 		}
 	}
 	return paths, nil
diff --git a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/main.go b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/main.go
index ea5b32c0..7a69b8d0 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/main.go
+++ b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/main.go
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
+	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
@@ -62,13 +64,36 @@ func shareOnTheBus(m *Machine) {
 		_, err := stdio.State(SharesState).Put(key, value)
 		return err
 	}
-	ask := func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return stdio.Ask(key, body) }
+	read := func(node string) ([]health.Reading, error) {
+		st := stdio.State(health.ReadingsRead)
+		keys, err := st.Keys()
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		var out []health.Reading
+		for _, k := range keys {
+			if !strings.HasPrefix(k, node+".") {
+				continue
+			}
+			e, err := st.Get(k)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			if e == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			if r, err := health.DecodeReading(e.Value); err == nil {
+				out = append(out, r)
+			}
+		}
+		return out, nil
+	}
 	last, lastSaid := "", ""
 	for n := 0; ; n++ {
 		said := m.Share(node, get, put, &last, time.Now())
 		// Where the mesh keeps data here changes only with an assignment: asked at start and every five minutes.
 		if n%10 == 0 {
-			said = append(said, m.LeaveData(node, ask, time.Now())...)
+			said = append(said, m.LeaveData(node, read, time.Now())...)
 		}
 		if s := fmt.Sprint(said); len(said) > 0 && s != lastSaid {
 			fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "mounts:", s)
diff --git a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/manifest_test.go b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/manifest_test.go
index 257ec6ce..43c6f67e 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/manifest_test.go
@@ -77,12 +77,10 @@ func TestTheManifestNamesWhatTheBundleServesAndWhatItNeeds(t *testing.T) {
 	if strings.Join(m.Requires, ",") != "nfs-share" {
 		t.Errorf("requires %v", m.Requires)
 	}
-	if strings.Join(m.Reads, ",") != ExportsState {
-		t.Errorf("the module reads nfs-server's exports from the bus: reads %v", m.Reads)
-	}
-	// It calls one verb: the controller's, for where the mesh keeps data on this machine (review finding 4d).
-	if strings.Join(m.Invokes, ",") != DataVerb {
-		t.Errorf("invokes %v, want %s", m.Invokes, DataVerb)
+	// It reads nfs-server's exports, and disk-load's readings for where the mesh keeps data on this machine (review
+	// finding 4d, ADR 0571 clause 3); it calls no verb.
+	if strings.Join(m.Reads, ",") != "disk-load.readings,"+ExportsState || len(m.Invokes) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("reads %v, invokes %v", m.Reads, m.Invokes)
 	}
 	if !strings.Contains(raw, `node=${machine:name}`) {
 		t.Error("the config gives the process this machine's name, so it never mounts a share onto the machine that serves it")
diff --git a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/review_test.go b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/review_test.go
index 9e1c4c68..34778bf1 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/review_test.go
+++ b/modules/mounts/cmd/mounts/review_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -198,18 +200,13 @@ func TestWithoutTheMeshsDataNothingNewIsSetUp(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTheBundleLeavesTheMeshsDataForTheProcess(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newSystem(t)
 	f.write(ConfigFile, libraryOnly)
-	answer := json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"data":[{"machine":"workstation","module":"plex","item":"data","path":"/mnt/plex/data"}]},"ok":true}`)
-	paths, err := DataFrom(answer)
+	rs := []health.Reading{{V: 1, Node: "workstation", PlacedDataItem: catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Module: "plex", ID: "data", Path: "/mnt/plex/data"}}}
+	paths, err := PathsFrom(rs)
 	if err != nil || len(paths) != 1 || paths[0] != "/mnt/plex/data" {
 		t.Fatalf("paths %q %v", paths, err)
 	}
-	// The controller's verbs also answer as text in output.
-	paths, err = DataFrom(json.RawMessage(`{"ok":true,"output":"{\"data\":[{\"path\":\"/srv/x\"}]}"}`))
-	if err != nil || len(paths) != 1 || paths[0] != "/srv/x" {
-		t.Fatalf("paths from output %q %v", paths, err)
-	}
-	if _, err := DataFrom(json.RawMessage(`{"ok":false}`)); err == nil {
-		t.Error("an answer with no data list is an error, not an empty list")
+	if _, err := PathsFrom(nil); err == nil {
+		t.Error("no reading is an error, not an empty list")
 	}
 }
 
@@ -287,23 +284,17 @@ func callVerb(t *testing.T, m *Machine, name string, args map[string]any) (any,
 func TestTheBundleKeepsTheLastDataWhenAnAskFails(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newSystem(t)
 	m := f.machine()
-	var asked []string
-	ok := func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-		raw, _ := json.Marshal(body)
-		asked = append(asked, key+" "+string(raw))
-		return json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"data":[{"path":"/mnt/plex/data"}]}}`), nil
+	ok := func(node string) ([]health.Reading, error) {
+		return []health.Reading{{V: 1, Node: node, PlacedDataItem: catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Module: "plex", ID: "data", Path: "/mnt/plex/data"}}}, nil
 	}
 	if said := m.LeaveData("workstation", ok, time.Now()); len(said) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("said %q", said)
 	}
-	if len(asked) != 1 || asked[0] != `seat:mesh-controller.data {"machine":"workstation"}` {
-		t.Errorf("asked %q", asked)
-	}
-	failing := func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, os.ErrDeadlineExceeded }
+	failing := func(string) ([]health.Reading, error) { return nil, os.ErrDeadlineExceeded }
 	said := m.LeaveData("workstation", failing, time.Now())
 	d, err := readJSON[DataPaths](m, DataFile)
 	if err != nil || len(d.Paths) != 1 || d.Paths[0] != "/mnt/plex/data" || d.Error == "" || len(said) == 0 {
-		t.Errorf("a failed ask keeps the last paths and says why: %+v %v %q", d, err, said)
+		t.Errorf("a failed read keeps the last paths and says why: %+v %v %q", d, err, said)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mounts/go.mod b/modules/mounts/go.mod
index 76732a34..3c0baeb5 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mounts/go.mod
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module mounts
 
-go 1.22
+go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029221656-196c5b6af277
diff --git a/modules/mounts/go.sum b/modules/mounts/go.sum
index e655124d..fc894705 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mounts/go.sum
@@ -1,8 +1,2 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6 h1:9qzdYONYbJdWcu6sxQcq9v1LI0JxcfkiKYkMUzJSkVQ=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.6/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7 h1:C0sTQmtTiyYH7bnqZb7PusXnqA37gKuT7Nqjn9gG47w=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010190644-622b6b4f556d h1:BR8uwv4BqyLaBwITuLylrd9DRUnu0D5DjJw0RuQSXbk=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010190644-622b6b4f556d/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c h1:l5onJwoIeH8yE/PjVlEeoPyXBsHp2NQiWLllz2fwX7s=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029221656-196c5b6af277 h1:ajjsH4MWcx45MGYASjUSRQKhLzEringuk3TA0oxZRCU=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029221656-196c5b6af277/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
diff --git a/modules/mounts/module.json b/modules/mounts/module.json
index 488ebb97..dc1e3785 100644
--- a/modules/mounts/module.json
+++ b/modules/mounts/module.json
@@ -5,11 +5,9 @@
     "nfs-share"
   ],
   "reads": [
+    "disk-load.readings",
     "nfs-server.exports"
   ],
-  "invokes": [
-    "seat:mesh-controller.data"
-  ],
   "capabilities": [
     "package-manager",
     "service-manager"
@@ -38,20 +36,20 @@
       "per-machine": true
     }
   ],
-    "config": {
-      "shares": {
-        "type": "string",
-        "description": "The shares of another machine this machine mounts: space-separated name=mountpoint, each optionally :ro, or none (novox/hq ADR 0263 rule 5).",
-        "trusted": true,
-        "default": "none"
-      },
-      "sources": {
-        "type": "string",
-        "description": "The occasional sources this machine mounts: space-separated name=smb://[<user>@]<host>/<share>@<mountpoint> or name=disk:<uuid>@<mountpoint>, each optionally :ro, or none (novox/hq ADR 0263 rule 6); an SMB source's username is in its entry, its password the secret smb-password-<name> (novox/hq ADR 0283).",
-        "trusted": true,
-        "default": "none"
-      }
+  "config": {
+    "shares": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The shares of another machine this machine mounts: space-separated name=mountpoint, each optionally :ro, or none (novox/hq ADR 0263 rule 5).",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": "none"
     },
+    "sources": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The occasional sources this machine mounts: space-separated name=smb://[<user>@]<host>/<share>@<mountpoint> or name=disk:<uuid>@<mountpoint>, each optionally :ro, or none (novox/hq ADR 0263 rule 6); an SMB source's username is in its entry, its password the secret smb-password-<name> (novox/hq ADR 0283).",
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": "none"
+    }
+  },
   "own-secrets": {
     "smb-password-*": {
       "path": "${dir:state}/smb-password-*.secret",
diff --git a/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/main.go b/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/main.go
index 4dcac6d8..933abbea 100644
--- a/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/main.go
+++ b/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/main.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func tools(monitor Monitor, users func(context.Context) ([]byte, error), written
 				return Subscriptions(subsz, connz, arg(a, "subject"), limitOf(a, 100))
 			}},
 		{Name: "nats_streams",
-			Description: "JetStream: every stream with its subjects, retention, message count and size — or, given one stream, every consumer on it with what it has pending, unacknowledged and redelivered.",
+			Description: "JetStream: every stream with its subjects, retention, message count, size and size cap (max_bytes, when it has one) — or, given one stream, every consumer on it with what it has pending, unacknowledged and redelivered.",
 			Input:       map[string]any{"stream": str("one stream, e.g. EVENTS, CONTROL, ASSIGNMENTS, SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT or KV_<bucket>")},
 			Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) {
 				doc, err := get(jsz)
diff --git a/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools.go b/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools.go
index e725a070..88d5b8b9 100644
--- a/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools.go
+++ b/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools.go
@@ -351,6 +351,10 @@ func Streams(jsz []byte, stream string) (map[string]any, error) {
 			if s.Config.MaxMsgsPerSubject > 0 {
 				row["max_per_subject"] = s.Config.MaxMsgsPerSubject
 			}
+			// The cap on the stream's size, so how full it is reads against it (-1 and 0 are no cap).
+			if s.Config.MaxBytes > 0 {
+				row["max_bytes"] = s.Config.MaxBytes
+			}
 			if stream != "" {
 				row["description"] = s.Config.Description
 				var consumers []map[string]any
diff --git a/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools_test.go b/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools_test.go
index 3e989242..2a2eca4a 100644
--- a/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools_test.go
+++ b/modules/nats/cmd/nats-tools/tools_test.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ const subsz = `{"num_subscriptions":3,"subscriptions_list":[
  {"subject":"mesh.node.anchor.declare","msgs":1,"cid":1}]}`
 
 const jsz = `{"streams":2,"consumers":2,"messages":12,"bytes":300,"account_details":[{"stream_detail":[
- {"name":"EVENTS","config":{"subjects":["mesh.mod.*.event.>"],"retention":"limits","max_age":604800000000000,"max_msgs_per_subject":10000},
+ {"name":"EVENTS","config":{"subjects":["mesh.mod.*.event.>"],"retention":"limits","max_age":604800000000000,"max_msgs_per_subject":10000,"max_bytes":1048576},
   "state":{"messages":10,"bytes":200,"num_subjects":3,"consumer_count":2,"last_ts":"2026-10-04T10:00:00Z"},
   "consumer_detail":[
    {"name":"anchor_audit","config":{"filter_subject":"mesh.mod.*.event.>"},"num_pending":5,"num_ack_pending":1,"num_redelivered":2,"delivered":{"last_active":"2026-10-04T10:00:00Z"}},
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func TestStreamsBacklogAndBuckets(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	one, _ := Streams([]byte(jsz), "EVENTS")
 	row := one["detail"].([]map[string]any)[0]
-	if row["max_age_hours"].(int64) != 168 || len(row["consumer_detail"].([]map[string]any)) != 2 {
+	if row["max_age_hours"].(int64) != 168 || row["max_bytes"].(int64) != 1048576 || len(row["consumer_detail"].([]map[string]any)) != 2 {
 		t.Fatalf("%v", row)
 	}
 	if _, err := Streams([]byte(jsz), "NOPE"); err == nil {
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/.gitignore b/modules/nfs-server/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3cbd8705
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+nfs-server
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup.go b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup.go
index 8bf3d6fd..99c7ba59 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup.go
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup.go
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ package main
 // been read, what is exported stays exported and the status says the list is not known: the bus being
 // slow is no reason to take the library away, and the look below still guards against a repository.
 //
-// The parsing of mesh-controller.data's answer is a small copy of the mounts module's (DataFrom). Shared
-// code belongs in mesh-sdk: moving both there is mesh-sdk issue 13.
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"sort"
@@ -46,68 +46,46 @@ type BackupFromBus struct {
 	Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// BackupFrom reads the holder of node-backup on one machine from mesh-controller.seats' answer, and the
-// paths that module keeps data in on that machine from mesh-controller.data's. A machine whose backup seat
-// nobody holds, and an answer with no data list, are errors: never an empty list read as "nothing to fear".
-func BackupFrom(machine string, seats, data json.RawMessage) (string, []string, error) {
-	var s struct {
-		Answer *struct {
-			Seats []struct {
-				Seat    string `json:"seat"`
-				Holders []struct {
-					Module string `json:"module"`
-					Node   string `json:"node"`
-				} `json:"holders"`
-			} `json:"seats"`
-		} `json:"answer"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(seats, &s); err != nil || s.Answer == nil {
-		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller's seats answer could not be read: %v", err)
+// BackupFrom reads the holder of node-backup on one machine from the placement seat's state of who holds which seat
+// (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 4), and the paths that module keeps data in on that machine from disk-load's readings
+// (clause 3). A machine whose backup seat nobody holds, and no readings at all, are errors: never an empty list read as
+// "nothing to fear".
+func BackupFrom(machine string, keys map[string][]byte, readings []health.Reading) (string, []string, error) {
+	holders, err := delivery.HoldersOf(keys, BackupSeat, machine)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, err
 	}
 	holder := ""
-	for _, seat := range s.Answer.Seats {
-		if seat.Seat != BackupSeat {
-			continue
-		}
-		for _, h := range seat.Holders {
-			if h.Node == machine {
-				holder = h.Module
-			}
+	for _, h := range holders {
+		if h.Node == machine {
+			holder = h.Module
 		}
 	}
 	if holder == "" {
 		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("no module holds %s on %s", BackupSeat, machine)
 	}
-	var d struct {
-		Answer *struct {
-			Data *[]struct {
-				Machine string `json:"machine"`
-				Module  string `json:"module"`
-				Path    string `json:"path"`
-			} `json:"data"`
-		} `json:"answer"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &d); err != nil || d.Answer == nil || d.Answer.Data == nil {
-		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("the controller's data answer holds no data list (%v)", err)
+	if len(readings) == 0 {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("disk-load keeps no reading of this machine's data yet")
 	}
 	var paths []string
-	for _, item := range *d.Answer.Data {
-		if item.Module == holder && (item.Machine == "" || item.Machine == machine) && path.IsAbs(item.Path) {
-			paths = append(paths, path.Clean(item.Path))
+	for _, r := range readings {
+		if r.Module == holder && (r.Node == "" || r.Node == machine) && path.IsAbs(r.Path) {
+			paths = append(paths, path.Clean(r.Path))
 		}
 	}
 	sort.Strings(paths)
 	return holder, paths, nil
 }
 
-// TakeBackup asks the controller over the bus, as the module, through the runtime.
+// TakeBackup reads the bus, as the module, through the runtime.
 func (m *Machine) TakeBackup(machine string) {
-	m.TakeBackupWith(machine, askBus)
+	m.TakeBackupWith(machine, readingsOf, seatHolderKeys)
 }
 
-// TakeBackupWith is TakeBackup with the ask given, for tests. A failed ask keeps the last holder and
+// TakeBackupWith is TakeBackup with the ask and the reading of the seat-holders state given, for tests. A failed ask keeps the last holder and
 // paths and adds why.
-func (m *Machine) TakeBackupWith(machine string, ask func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)) {
+func (m *Machine) TakeBackupWith(machine string, readings func(node string) ([]health.Reading, error),
+	holderKeys func() (map[string][]byte, error)) {
 	var last BackupFromBus
 	if text, err := m.Read(BackupFile); err == nil {
 		_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(text), &last)
@@ -115,10 +93,10 @@ func (m *Machine) TakeBackupWith(machine string, ask func(key string, body any)
 	next := last
 	next.Looked = m.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)
 	next.Error = ""
-	seats, err := ask("seat:mesh-controller.seats", map[string]any{})
-	var data json.RawMessage
+	seats, err := holderKeys()
+	var data []health.Reading
 	if err == nil {
-		data, err = ask("seat:mesh-controller.data", map[string]any{"machine": machine})
+		data, err = readings(machine)
 	}
 	if err == nil {
 		var holder string
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup_test.go b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup_test.go
index 7ae3298b..dd4da159 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup_test.go
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/backup_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -81,8 +83,8 @@ func TestWithoutTheBackupListTheExportsStayAndItIsSaid(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestBackupFromTheSeatsAndTheData(t *testing.T) {
-	seats := json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"seats":[{"seat":"node-backup","scope":"node","holders":[{"module":"restic","node":"ace"},{"module":"borg","node":"shanks"}]}]},"ok":true}`)
-	data := json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"data":[{"machine":"ace","module":"restic","item":"repository","path":"/storage/restic"},{"machine":"ace","module":"restic","item":"state","path":"/var/lib/restic"},{"machine":"ace","module":"plex","item":"data","path":"/mnt/plex/data"}]},"ok":true}`)
+	seats := backupHolders("ace", "restic")
+	data := readingsOfPaths("ace", map[string]string{"restic/repository": "/storage/restic", "restic/state": "/var/lib/restic", "plex/data": "/mnt/plex/data"})
 	holder, paths, err := BackupFrom("ace", seats, data)
 	if err != nil || holder != "restic" || strings.Join(paths, " ") != "/storage/restic /var/lib/restic" {
 		t.Errorf("got %q %v %v", holder, paths, err)
@@ -90,8 +92,8 @@ func TestBackupFromTheSeatsAndTheData(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, _, err := BackupFrom("g14", seats, data); err == nil {
 		t.Errorf("a machine whose backup seat nobody holds is not said")
 	}
-	if _, _, err := BackupFrom("ace", seats, json.RawMessage(`{"ok":true}`)); err == nil {
-		t.Errorf("an answer with no data list reads as an empty list")
+	if _, _, err := BackupFrom("ace", seats, nil); err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("no readings read as an empty list")
 	}
 }
 
@@ -99,13 +101,13 @@ func TestBackupFromTheSeatsAndTheData(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAFailedAskKeepsTheLastBackupPaths(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFake(t)
 	m := f.machine()
-	m.TakeBackupWith("ace", func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	m.TakeBackupWith("ace", func(string) ([]health.Reading, error) {
 		return nil, errors.New("no responders")
-	})
+	}, noHolders)
 	f.backup("restic", "/storage/restic")
-	m.TakeBackupWith("ace", func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	m.TakeBackupWith("ace", func(string) ([]health.Reading, error) {
 		return nil, errors.New("timeout")
-	})
+	}, func() (map[string][]byte, error) { return backupHolders("ace", "restic"), nil })
 	var b BackupFromBus
 	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(f.read(BackupFile)), &b); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -152,15 +154,13 @@ func TestAStaleOrUnknownBackupListIsSaidWithItsAge(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("an unknown backup list is not a warning in the health: %+v", h)
 	}
 
-	ok := func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-		if strings.Contains(key, "seats") {
-			return json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"seats":[{"seat":"node-backup","holders":[{"module":"restic","node":"hs"}]}]}}`), nil
-		}
-		return json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"data":[{"machine":"hs","module":"restic","path":"/srv/restic"}]}}`), nil
+	ok := func(string) ([]health.Reading, error) {
+		return readingsOfPaths("hs", map[string]string{"restic/repository": "/srv/restic"}), nil
 	}
-	m.TakeBackupWith("hs", ok)
+	m.TakeBackupWith("hs", ok, func() (map[string][]byte, error) { return backupHolders("hs", "restic"), nil })
 	now = now.Add(2 * time.Hour)
-	m.TakeBackupWith("hs", func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, errors.New("the bus did not answer") })
+	m.TakeBackupWith("hs", func(string) ([]health.Reading, error) { return nil, errors.New("the bus did not answer") },
+		func() (map[string][]byte, error) { return backupHolders("hs", "restic"), nil })
 	s := m.Pass(context.Background(), nil)
 	said := strings.Join(append(append([]string{}, s.Said...), s.Warnings...), "\n")
 	if !strings.Contains(said, "2h0m0s") || !strings.Contains(said, "the bus did not answer") {
@@ -171,3 +171,21 @@ func TestAStaleOrUnknownBackupListIsSaidWithItsAge(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the health does not say the backup list's age: %+v", h)
 	}
 }
+
+// backupHolders is the placement seat's state with one holder of node-backup on one node.
+func backupHolders(node, module string) map[string][]byte {
+	return map[string][]byte{"node-backup." + node: []byte(`{"v":1,"seat":"node-backup","scope":"node","node":"` + node +
+		`","holders":[{"module":"` + module + `","node":"` + node + `"}]}`)}
+}
+
+func noHolders() (map[string][]byte, error) { return nil, errors.New("the state is not read yet") }
+
+// readingsOfPaths is disk-load's readings of one node's items, by "<module>/<item>", each at its path.
+func readingsOfPaths(node string, items map[string]string) []health.Reading {
+	var out []health.Reading
+	for k, p := range items {
+		module, item, _ := strings.Cut(k, "/")
+		out = append(out, health.Reading{V: 1, Node: node, PlacedDataItem: catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Module: module, ID: item, Path: p}})
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/guards_test.go b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/guards_test.go
index add729ff..457af6f6 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/guards_test.go
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/guards_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -63,12 +63,10 @@ func TestAFailedReloadIsTriedAgainWhenNothingElseAsks(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestBackupFromRefusesAnAnswerWithoutADataList(t *testing.T) {
-	seats := json.RawMessage(`{"answer":{"seats":[{"seat":"node-backup","holders":[{"module":"restic","node":"ace"}]}]}}`)
-	for _, data := range []string{`{"answer":{}}`, `{"answer":{"data":null}}`} {
-		if _, paths, err := BackupFrom("ace", seats, json.RawMessage(data)); err == nil {
-			t.Errorf("%s was read as the empty list %v: never \"nothing to fear\"", data, paths)
-		}
+func TestBackupFromRefusesNoReadingsAtAll(t *testing.T) {
+	seats := backupHolders("ace", "restic")
+	if _, paths, err := BackupFrom("ace", seats, []health.Reading{}); err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("no readings were read as the empty list %v: never \"nothing to fear\"", paths)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/main.go b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/main.go
index 3406d5a8..6edda7de 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/main.go
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/main.go
@@ -16,10 +16,13 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
 	"sort"
+	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 )
 
 // ExportsState is the state the exports are kept in on the bus; MountsState the `mounts` modules' state,
@@ -88,9 +91,50 @@ func ShareExports(m *Machine) {
 	}
 }
 
-// askBus calls a seat's verb over the bus as this module, through the runtime.
-func askBus(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	return stdio.Ask(key, body)
+// readingsOf reads disk-load's readings of one machine's data items, every key `<node>.<module>.<item>`.
+func readingsOf(node string) ([]health.Reading, error) {
+	state := stdio.State(health.ReadingsRead)
+	names, err := state.Keys()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var out []health.Reading
+	for _, k := range names {
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(k, node+".") {
+			continue
+		}
+		e, err := state.Get(k)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if e == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if r, err := health.DecodeReading(e.Value); err == nil {
+			out = append(out, r)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// seatHolderKeys reads the placement seat's state of who holds which seat, every key.
+func seatHolderKeys() (map[string][]byte, error) {
+	state := stdio.State(delivery.SeatHoldersRead)
+	names, err := state.Keys()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	keys := map[string][]byte{}
+	for _, k := range names {
+		e, err := state.Get(k)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if e != nil {
+			keys[k] = e.Value
+		}
+	}
+	return keys, nil
 }
 
 // TakeWants reads every node's `mounts` state from the bus and writes what is asked of this machine to
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/manifest_test.go b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/manifest_test.go
index d43d5776..ae048eb2 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/cmd/nfs-server/manifest_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"regexp"
 	"sort"
@@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ func TestTheManifestCarriesGrantsTheRosterTheWantsAndTheRemovalOrder(t *testing.
 	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(raw), &full); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if len(full.Reads) != 1 || full.Reads[0] != MountsState {
+	if len(full.Reads) != 3 || full.Reads[0] != health.ReadingsRead || full.Reads[1] != delivery.SeatHoldersRead || full.Reads[2] != MountsState {
 		t.Errorf("reads: %v", full.Reads)
 	}
 	roster := full.Facts["machines"]
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/go.mod b/modules/nfs-server/go.mod
index 6e122025..47fb5666 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/go.mod
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/go.mod
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 module nfsserver
 
-go 1.22
+go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029221656-196c5b6af277
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/go.sum b/modules/nfs-server/go.sum
index b474419e..c0f109eb 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/go.sum
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,14 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7 h1:C0sTQmtTiyYH7bnqZb7PusXnqA37gKuT7Nqjn9gG47w=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.7/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029221656-196c5b6af277 h1:ajjsH4MWcx45MGYASjUSRQKhLzEringuk3TA0oxZRCU=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029221656-196c5b6af277/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 h1:a3C1ke2ohxFymNlb2HWAHjDeKCI90scRskErZkR0ezA=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0/go.mod h1:LUdAzn7YLVvxLpc7y3V1m40wESHTgc1422pwwBSKYuI=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0 h1:vsXoOxjHp/GmPUN+EcI7uOf/uB+iAP+kEsAFNQN0yzA=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0/go.mod h1:y+DZoD1oBOYfZTU681eTUiUjI0vbqYGixNVFHcjHJ0k=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 h1:rd5oAuLOb8mnAycB0xleuEBNS1pVVnN0fv/FF34Eypg=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16/go.mod h1:llLgWoI0o4z/Q57q2R1kHfmocyhGV6VG/U18Glg1Afs=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 h1:5iA8DT8V7q8WK2EScv2padNa/rTESc1KdnPw4TC2paw=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1/go.mod h1:19wcPz3Ph3q0Jbyiqsd0kePYG7A95tJPxeL+1OSON2c=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 h1:bbX/i/6MgT9BVLM9RT1thmxL04yeTAhbEz4SyadbXoo=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0/go.mod h1:hNLxWAXmnKAxqDtdwIYC4bM9oQPEecfsnNMuSxOs3og=
diff --git a/modules/nfs-server/module.json b/modules/nfs-server/module.json
index d9210c12..c7082176 100644
--- a/modules/nfs-server/module.json
+++ b/modules/nfs-server/module.json
@@ -48,12 +48,10 @@
     }
   ],
   "reads": [
+    "disk-load.readings",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.seat-holders",
     "mounts.shares"
   ],
-  "invokes": [
-    "seat:mesh-controller.seats",
-    "seat:mesh-controller.data"
-  ],
   "config": {
     "shares": {
       "type": "string",
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/.gitignore b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..066e2897
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+restic-backups
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/backups.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/backups.go
index 03a4e598..f0954581 100644
--- a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/backups.go
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/backups.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -188,6 +190,15 @@ type Backups struct {
 	// measuring run as processes of their own). Node is the machine's name, said in the events.
 	Emit func(event string, body any) error
 	Node string
+	// Readings is every reading disk-load keeps for this machine (its state `readings`, ADR 0571 clause 3); nil where the
+	// process has no runtime to read it.
+	Readings func() ([]health.Reading, error)
+	// PutGood writes one row of the state `good` (health.GoodRow): the night's process through its own bus account, the
+	// tools through the runtime; nil where there is no bus to write to.
+	PutGood func(key string, row health.GoodRow) error
+
+	goodMu    sync.Mutex
+	goodWrote map[string][]byte
 }
 
 // The locks, files in this module's state. The night runs in a process of its own and `now`, `restore` and a
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data.go
index a7a3d5fc..67fb4d46 100644
--- a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data.go
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data.go
@@ -1,26 +1,9 @@
-// The data the modules on this machine declare, measured (novox/hq ADR 0233).
+// The data the modules on this machine declare (novox/hq ADR 0233), and what the readings say of them.
 //
-// The mesh composes a second file beside the backup lines: every data item every module on the
-// machine declares, one line each,
-//
-//	item <id> <class> <path> <covered-by> <protection> <measure>
-//
-// where covered-by is the path whose snapshot keeps it (the item itself, or the directory its dump
-// writes into), or `-` when it is not backed up; protection is backup, redundancy, both, or none; and
-// measure is how the item is measured. This holder measures each item that is not a cache — its size,
-// its newest write, and the redundant storage it is on and whether that is healthy (ZFS, md, btrfs) —
-// and says it, with each module's last good backup and the precision of the measurement, in
-// `backed-up`.
-//
-// **Never an unbounded walk of something large.** Three methods, the item's own choice:
-//
-//   - `walk` (the default, for small items): every file summed and the newest change found, in one walk
-//     as root — at most once a day, and stopped after walkFor or walkFiles, said as "measured partially";
-//   - `dataset`: the ZFS dataset holding the path — its `used` from the filesystem's own counters — and
-//     the newest change among the path's top-level entries; hourly, and nothing is walked;
-//   - `shallow`: the newest change among the top-level entries only, and no size; hourly. The controller keeps the readings and says when an item shrinks, stops being written,
-//
-// goes without a backup, or is replaced by an empty copy of itself; this holder only measures.
+// The mesh composes a file beside the backup lines: every data item every module on the machine declares, one line
+// each, which mesh-sdk reads (catalogue.ParseDataItems). disk-load measures the items and keeps each reading and its
+// seven-day peak as its own state (ADR 0571 clause 3); this holder reads them there and says each, with each module's
+// last good backup, in `backed-up`.
 //
 // And it deletes, when a person has decided: an item the mesh retired — its module gone from this
 // machine — is removed by `backup_delete_retired`, and only after a last restore point of it has been
@@ -32,104 +15,32 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 )
 
-// Item is one data item a module declares.
-type Item struct {
-	// Measure is walk, dataset or shallow.
-	Measure    string `json:"measure,omitempty"`
-	Module     string `json:"-"`
-	ID         string `json:"item"`
-	Class      string `json:"class"`
-	Path       string `json:"path"`
-	CoveredBy  string `json:"covered_by,omitempty"`
-	Protection string `json:"protection,omitempty"`
-}
+// Item is one data item a module declares, as placed on this machine (mesh-sdk's reading of the holder's data text).
+type Item = catalogue.PlacedDataItem
 
-// Redundancy is the redundant storage an item is on, as read here.
-type Redundancy struct {
-	// Kind is zfs, md or btrfs.
-	Kind string `json:"kind"`
-	// Where is the pool, the array device or the filesystem.
-	Where string `json:"where"`
-	// Healthy is nil when its state could not be read.
-	Healthy *bool  `json:"healthy"`
-	Said    string `json:"said"`
-}
-
-// Measured is what one measurement found.
-type Measured struct {
-	SizeBytes  *int64     `json:"size_bytes,omitempty"`
-	LastWrite  *time.Time `json:"last_write,omitempty"`
-	MeasuredAt *time.Time `json:"measured_at,omitempty"`
-	// Precision says what the size is: "exact", "dataset <name>: its whole size", "partial: …" (a lower
-	// bound, never compared), or "no size: …".
-	Precision  string      `json:"precision,omitempty"`
-	Error      string      `json:"error,omitempty"`
-	Redundancy *Redundancy `json:"redundancy,omitempty"`
-}
-
-// ItemReport is one item as `backed-up` says it.
+// ItemReport is one item as `backed-up` says it: the item, its newest reading from disk-load (ADR 0571 clause 3) and
+// its newest good backup.
 type ItemReport struct {
 	Item
-	Measured
+	health.Measured
+	// Peak is the largest size in the last seven days, on PeakDay.
+	Peak       *int64     `json:"peak_bytes,omitempty"`
+	PeakDay    string     `json:"peak_day,omitempty"`
 	LastBackup *time.Time `json:"last_backup,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// The classes the mesh declares; a cache is listed and never measured.
-const classCache = "cache"
-
 var safePath = regexp.MustCompile(`^/[^\s'"\\$` + "`" + `]*$`)
 
-// parseItems reads the composed data file into each module's items. A line this holder does not read
-// is refused, naming the module, as a backup line is.
-func parseItems(text string) (map[string][]Item, error) {
-	out := map[string][]Item{}
-	module := ""
-	for _, raw := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
-		line := strings.TrimSpace(raw)
-		if line == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		if m := moduleHeader.FindStringSubmatch(line); m != nil {
-			module = m[1]
-			continue
-		}
-		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") || module == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		f := strings.Fields(line)
-		if len(f) < 5 || len(f) > 7 || f[0] != "item" || !safePath.MatchString(f[3]) || (f[4] != "-" && !safePath.MatchString(f[4])) {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s declares a data line this holder does not read: %s", module, line)
-		}
-		it := Item{Module: module, ID: f[1], Class: f[2], Path: f[3]}
-		if len(f) >= 6 {
-			it.Protection = f[5]
-		}
-		it.Measure = measureWalk
-		if len(f) == 7 {
-			it.Measure = f[6]
-		}
-		switch it.Measure {
-		case measureWalk, measureDataset, measureShallow:
-		default:
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s declares a data line this holder does not read: %s", module, line)
-		}
-		if f[4] != "-" {
-			it.CoveredBy = f[4]
-		}
-		out[module] = append(out[module], it)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
 // Items is what the modules on this machine declare; none when the mesh composed no data file — an
 // older controller, which composes none.
 func (b *Backups) Items() (map[string][]Item, error) {
@@ -143,257 +54,30 @@ func (b *Backups) Items() (map[string][]Item, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	return parseItems(string(raw))
+	return catalogue.ParseDataItems(string(raw))
 }
 
-func (b *Backups) measuredFile() string { return filepath.Join(b.Where.State, "measured.json") }
-
-// Measurements is the newest measurement of each item, by module and item.
-func (b *Backups) Measurements() map[string]map[string]Measured {
-	out := map[string]map[string]Measured{}
-	if raw, err := os.ReadFile(b.measuredFile()); err == nil {
-		_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &out)
+// Measurements is the newest reading disk-load keeps of each item on this machine, by module and item (its state
+// `readings`, ADR 0571 clause 3); none where it cannot be read, which `backed-up` then says as no reading.
+func (b *Backups) Measurements() map[string]map[string]health.Reading {
+	out := map[string]map[string]health.Reading{}
+	if b.Readings == nil {
+		return out
+	}
+	rs, err := b.Readings()
+	if err != nil {
+		b.Say("disk-load's readings could not be read: %v", err)
+		return out
+	}
+	for _, r := range rs {
+		if out[r.Module] == nil {
+			out[r.Module] = map[string]health.Reading{}
+		}
+		out[r.Module][r.ID] = r
 	}
 	return out
 }
 
-// The ways an item is measured.
-const (
-	measureWalk    = "walk"
-	measureDataset = "dataset"
-	measureShallow = "shallow"
-)
-
-// The bounds on a walk, and how often one runs: a walk is for small items, and one that meets a large
-// one stops and says so rather than loading the disks for hours.
-var (
-	walkFor   = 10 * time.Minute
-	walkFiles = 2_000_000
-	walkEvery = 23 * time.Hour
-)
-
-// walkCommand sums the files under a path and finds its newest change, in one walk, as root — bounded
-// by time and by files. One line out: "<bytes> <epoch seconds> <files> <complete 1|0>".
-func walkCommand(path string) string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("timeout %d find '%s' -xdev -printf '%%y %%s %%T@\\n' 2>/dev/null | head -n %d | "+
-		"awk 'BEGIN{s=0;m=0;n=0} {n++; if ($1==\"f\") s+=$2; if ($3>m) m=$3} END {printf \"%%d %%.0f %%d\\n\", s, m, n}'; "+
-		"echo \"${PIPESTATUS[0]:-0}\"", int(walkFor.Seconds()), path, walkFiles)
-}
-
-// topCommand is the newest change among a path and its top-level entries, and how many there are:
-// one directory read, bounded. "<epoch seconds> <entries>".
-func topCommand(path string) string {
-	return "timeout 60 find '" + path + "' -maxdepth 1 -printf '%T@\\n' 2>/dev/null | " +
-		"awk 'BEGIN{m=0;n=0} {n++; if ($1>m) m=$1} END {printf \"%.0f %d\\n\", m, n-1}'"
-}
-
-func epochTime(s string) *time.Time {
-	epoch, err := strconv.ParseInt(s, 10, 64)
-	if err != nil || epoch <= 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	t := time.Unix(epoch, 0).UTC()
-	return &t
-}
-
-// measure is one item, measured now, by its own method.
-func (b *Backups) measure(ctx context.Context, it Item) Measured {
-	at := b.Now().UTC()
-	m := Measured{MeasuredAt: &at}
-	if !b.exists(ctx, it.Path) {
-		m.Error = it.Path + " does not exist"
-		zero := int64(0)
-		m.SizeBytes, m.Precision = &zero, "exact"
-		return m
-	}
-	m.Redundancy = b.redundancyOf(ctx, it.Path)
-	switch it.Measure {
-	case measureDataset, measureShallow:
-		out, err := b.Run(ctx, "bash", "-c", topCommand(it.Path))
-		if f := strings.Fields(out); err == nil && len(f) == 2 {
-			m.LastWrite = epochTime(f[0])
-		} else if err != nil {
-			m.Error = err.Error()
-		}
-		m.Precision = "no size: the newest change among its top-level entries only"
-		if it.Measure == measureShallow {
-			return m
-		}
-		out, err = b.Run(ctx, "zfs", "list", "-Hp", "-o", "name,used", it.Path)
-		f := strings.Fields(out)
-		if err != nil || len(f) != 2 {
-			m.Precision = "no size: it is on no ZFS dataset to read one from; the newest change among its top-level entries only"
-			return m
-		}
-		used, err := strconv.ParseInt(f[1], 10, 64)
-		if err != nil {
-			return m
-		}
-		m.SizeBytes = &used
-		m.Precision = "dataset " + f[0] + ": its whole size, from the filesystem's counters; the newest change among the top-level entries"
-		return m
-	}
-	out, err := b.Run(ctx, "bash", "-c", walkCommand(it.Path))
-	if err != nil {
-		m.Error = err.Error()
-		return m
-	}
-	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(out), "\n")
-	f := strings.Fields(lines[0])
-	if len(f) != 3 || len(lines) < 2 {
-		m.Error = "the measurement said " + strings.TrimSpace(out)
-		return m
-	}
-	size, err1 := strconv.ParseInt(f[0], 10, 64)
-	files, err2 := strconv.Atoi(f[2])
-	if err1 != nil || err2 != nil {
-		m.Error = "the measurement said " + strings.TrimSpace(out)
-		return m
-	}
-	m.SizeBytes, m.LastWrite = &size, epochTime(f[1])
-	m.Precision = "exact"
-	if status := strings.TrimSpace(lines[len(lines)-1]); status == "124" || files >= walkFiles {
-		m.Precision = fmt.Sprintf("partial: measured partially — stopped after %s or %d files; the size is a lower bound, "+
-			"and this item wants measure: dataset or shallow", walkFor, walkFiles)
-	}
-	return m
-}
-
-// redundancyOf is the redundant storage a path is on, read as root: a ZFS pool's health and its own
-// verdict, an md array's members, a btrfs filesystem's error counters. Nil for storage with no
-// redundancy this holder knows how to read — which, for an item said to be protected by redundancy, the
-// controller says is no protection at all.
-func (b *Backups) redundancyOf(ctx context.Context, path string) *Redundancy {
-	out, err := b.Run(ctx, "findmnt", "-no", "SOURCE,FSTYPE", "--target", path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	f := strings.Fields(out)
-	if len(f) < 2 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	source, fstype := f[0], f[1]
-	yes, no := true, false
-	switch {
-	case fstype == "zfs":
-		pool, _, _ := strings.Cut(source, "/")
-		r := &Redundancy{Kind: "zfs", Where: pool}
-		health, err := b.Run(ctx, "zpool", "list", "-H", "-o", "health", pool)
-		if err != nil {
-			r.Said = "zpool list: " + err.Error()
-			return r
-		}
-		status, err := b.Run(ctx, "zpool", "status", "-x", pool)
-		if err != nil {
-			r.Said = "zpool status: " + err.Error()
-			return r
-		}
-		health, status = strings.TrimSpace(health), strings.TrimSpace(status)
-		r.Said = "health " + health + "; " + firstLineOf(status)
-		if health == "ONLINE" && strings.Contains(status, "is healthy") {
-			r.Healthy = &yes
-		} else {
-			r.Healthy = &no
-			r.Said = "health " + health + "; " + oneLineOf(status)
-		}
-		return r
-	case strings.HasPrefix(source, "/dev/md"):
-		device := strings.TrimPrefix(source, "/dev/")
-		r := &Redundancy{Kind: "md", Where: device}
-		mdstat, err := b.Run(ctx, "cat", "/proc/mdstat")
-		if err != nil {
-			r.Said = err.Error()
-			return r
-		}
-		healthy, said, found := mdHealth(mdstat, device)
-		if !found {
-			r.Said = device + " is not in /proc/mdstat"
-			return r
-		}
-		r.Said = said
-		if healthy {
-			r.Healthy = &yes
-		} else {
-			r.Healthy = &no
-		}
-		return r
-	case fstype == "btrfs":
-		r := &Redundancy{Kind: "btrfs", Where: source}
-		stats, err := b.Run(ctx, "btrfs", "device", "stats", "--check", path)
-		if err != nil {
-			r.Healthy, r.Said = &no, "device errors: "+oneLineOf(err.Error())
-			return r
-		}
-		r.Healthy, r.Said = &yes, firstLineOf(stats)
-		return r
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-var mdMembers = regexp.MustCompile(`\[([U_]+)\]`)
-
-// mdHealth reads one array's block of /proc/mdstat: healthy when every member is up and it is not
-// recovering.
-func mdHealth(mdstat, device string) (bool, string, bool) {
-	lines := strings.Split(mdstat, "\n")
-	for i, l := range lines {
-		if !strings.HasPrefix(l, device+" ") {
-			continue
-		}
-		block := l
-		for j := i + 1; j < len(lines) && strings.HasPrefix(lines[j], " "); j++ {
-			block += " " + strings.TrimSpace(lines[j])
-		}
-		members := mdMembers.FindStringSubmatch(block)
-		healthy := members != nil && !strings.Contains(members[1], "_") && !strings.Contains(block, "recovery")
-		return healthy, oneLineOf(block), true
-	}
-	return false, "", false
-}
-
-func firstLineOf(s string) string {
-	line, _, _ := strings.Cut(strings.TrimSpace(s), "\n")
-	return line
-}
-
-func oneLineOf(s string) string { return strings.Join(strings.Fields(s), " ") }
-
-// MeasureAll measures every item that is not a cache, one at a time, and keeps what it found. An item
-// measured by a walk is walked only when walks is true or its last walk is older than walkEvery: the
-// hourly round reads counters, and a walk runs at most once a day.
-func (b *Backups) MeasureAll(ctx context.Context, walks bool) error {
-	// The hourly round runs in its own process and the walk after a night in the night's (novox/hq issue 454).
-	release, err := b.hold(measureLock)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer release()
-	items, err := b.Items()
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	before := b.Measurements()
-	found := map[string]map[string]Measured{}
-	for module, its := range items {
-		for _, it := range its {
-			if it.Class == classCache {
-				continue
-			}
-			if found[module] == nil {
-				found[module] = map[string]Measured{}
-			}
-			if was, ok := before[module][it.ID]; ok && it.Measure == measureWalk && !walks && was.MeasuredAt != nil &&
-				b.Now().Sub(*was.MeasuredAt) < walkEvery {
-				found[module][it.ID] = was
-				continue
-			}
-			found[module][it.ID] = b.measure(ctx, it)
-		}
-	}
-	raw, _ := json.MarshalIndent(found, "", "  ")
-	return os.WriteFile(b.measuredFile(), append(raw, '\n'), 0o600)
-}
-
 func (b *Backups) goodFile() string { return filepath.Join(b.Where.State, "good.json") }
 
 // Good is each module's newest good night: what a night that failed since does not erase.
@@ -418,14 +102,18 @@ func (b *Backups) recordGood(module string, at time.Time) {
 	if err := os.WriteFile(b.goodFile(), append(raw, '\n'), 0o600); err != nil {
 		b.Say("recording %s's good night failed: %v", module, err)
 	}
+	b.keepGood()
 }
 
-// itemReports is every item of one module, with its newest measurement and its newest good backup: the
+// itemReports is every item of one module, with its newest reading and its newest good backup: the
 // module's newest good night, where that night keeps the path that covers the item.
-func itemReports(its []Item, measured map[string]Measured, paths []string, good time.Time) []ItemReport {
+func itemReports(its []Item, measured map[string]health.Reading, paths []string, good time.Time) []ItemReport {
 	out := []ItemReport{}
 	for _, it := range its {
-		r := ItemReport{Item: it, Measured: measured[it.ID]}
+		r := ItemReport{Item: it}
+		if m, ok := measured[it.ID]; ok {
+			r.Measured, r.Peak, r.PeakDay = m.Measured, m.Peak, m.PeakAt
+		}
 		if it.CoveredBy != "" && !good.IsZero() {
 			for _, p := range paths {
 				if p == it.CoveredBy {
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data_test.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data_test.go
index 0834ad61..9e41411d 100644
--- a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data_test.go
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/data_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
@@ -28,53 +29,34 @@ func withData(t *testing.T, declared, data string) Where {
 }
 
 func TestTheComposedDataFileIsReadIntoEachModulesItems(t *testing.T) {
-	got, err := parseItems(composedData)
+	b := &Backups{Where: withData(t, composed, composedData), Now: time.Now, Say: quiet}
+	got, err := b.Items()
 	must(t, err)
 	if len(got["postgres"]) != 2 || got["postgres"][0].CoveredBy != "/var/lib/mesh-store/dumps" || got["postgres"][1].CoveredBy != "" ||
 		got["searxng"][0].Class != "cache" {
 		t.Fatalf("%+v", got)
 	}
-	for _, bad := range []string{"# pg\nitem a irreplaceable relative -\n", "# pg\nitem a irreplaceable /x\n", "# pg\nitem a b /x; rm -rf / -\n"} {
-		if _, err := parseItems(bad); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "pg declares a data line") {
-			t.Errorf("%q: %v", bad, err)
-		}
-	}
-	// An older controller composes no data file: nothing is measured, nothing fails.
-	b := &Backups{Where: placed(t, composed), Now: time.Now, Say: quiet}
+	// An older controller composes no data file: nothing is declared, nothing fails.
+	b = &Backups{Where: placed(t, composed), Now: time.Now, Say: quiet}
 	if items, err := b.Items(); err != nil || len(items) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("%v, %v", items, err)
 	}
 }
 
-// Every item but a cache is measured — its files' size and its newest change, in one walk as root — and
-// `backed-up` says each with the newest good night of the module that keeps the path covering it.
-func TestEveryItemButACacheIsMeasuredAndSaidWithItsLastGoodBackup(t *testing.T) {
+// `backed-up` says every item with disk-load's newest reading and its peak, and the newest good night of the module that
+// keeps the path covering it; an item with no reading yet is said with none.
+func TestEveryItemIsSaidWithItsReadingAndItsLastGoodBackup(t *testing.T) {
 	where := withData(t, composed, composedData)
-	var mu sync.Mutex
-	var walked []string
-	run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
-		mu.Lock()
-		defer mu.Unlock()
-		switch {
-		case name == "test":
-			return "", nil
-		case name == "bash" && strings.Contains(args[1], "find '"):
-			walked = append(walked, args[1])
-			if strings.Contains(args[1], "'/var/lib/mesh-store'") {
-				return "1073741824 1759744800 4000\n0\n", nil
-			}
-			return "5000 1759700000 3\n0\n", nil
-		case name == "restic":
-			return "[]", nil
-		}
-		return "", nil
-	}
+	size, peak := int64(1<<30), int64(2<<30)
+	at := time.Date(2026, 10, 6, 4, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	write := time.Unix(1759744800, 0).UTC()
 	night := time.Date(2026, 10, 6, 3, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	b := &Backups{Where: where, Run: run, Now: func() time.Time { return night.Add(time.Hour) }, Say: quiet}
-	must(t, b.MeasureAll(context.Background(), true))
-	if len(walked) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("walked %d paths, want the two that are not a cache: %v", len(walked), walked)
-	}
+	b := &Backups{Where: where, Now: func() time.Time { return night.Add(time.Hour) }, Say: quiet,
+		Run: func(context.Context, string, ...string) (string, error) { return "[]", nil },
+		Readings: func() ([]health.Reading, error) {
+			return []health.Reading{{V: 1, Node: "ace", PlacedDataItem: catalogue.PlacedDataItem{Module: "postgres", ID: "store"},
+				Measured: health.Measured{SizeBytes: &size, LastWrite: &write, MeasuredAt: &at, Precision: "exact"}, Peak: &peak, PeakAt: "2026-10-05"}}, nil
+		}}
 	b.recordGood("postgres", night)
 	got, err := b.BackedUp(context.Background(), "")
 	must(t, err)
@@ -89,12 +71,23 @@ func TestEveryItemButACacheIsMeasuredAndSaidWithItsLastGoodBackup(t *testing.T)
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	if store == nil || store.SizeBytes == nil || *store.SizeBytes != 1<<30 || store.LastWrite == nil ||
-		store.LastWrite.Unix() != 1759744800 || store.LastBackup == nil || !store.LastBackup.Equal(night) {
+	if store == nil || store.SizeBytes == nil || *store.SizeBytes != 1<<30 || store.Peak == nil || *store.Peak != 2<<30 ||
+		store.LastWrite == nil || store.LastWrite.Unix() != 1759744800 || store.LastBackup == nil || !store.LastBackup.Equal(night) {
 		t.Fatalf("the store is said as %+v", store)
 	}
-	if dumps == nil || dumps.LastBackup != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("an item not backed up is said backed up: %+v", dumps)
+	if dumps == nil || dumps.LastBackup != nil || dumps.SizeBytes != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("an item with no reading or no backup is said with one: %+v", dumps)
+	}
+	// The same last good night is kept on the bus beside good.json, one row per item a backup path covers.
+	b.Node = "ace"
+	wrote := map[string]health.GoodRow{}
+	b.PutGood = func(k string, r health.GoodRow) error { wrote[k] = r; return nil }
+	b.recordGood("postgres", night) // a good night writes the rows, once; the same night again writes nothing
+	n := len(wrote)
+	b.recordGood("postgres", night)
+	row, ok := wrote[health.GoodKey("ace", "postgres", "store")]
+	if len(wrote) != 1 || n != 1 || !ok || !row.LastGood.Equal(night) || row.CoveredBy != "/var/lib/mesh-store/dumps" || row.V != health.GoodVersion {
+		t.Fatalf("the good rows are %+v", wrote)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -202,104 +195,3 @@ func TestARetiredItemIsDeletedOnlyAfterALastRestorePoint(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("%+v, %v", again, err)
 	}
 }
-
-// The redundant storage under an item is read: a ZFS pool healthy, then degraded; an md array with a
-// member missing; and plain storage, which is no redundancy at all.
-func TestTheRedundantStorageUnderAnItemIsRead(t *testing.T) {
-	health, statusX := "ONLINE\n", "pool 'storage' is healthy\n"
-	fs := "storage/media zfs\n"
-	run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
-		switch name {
-		case "findmnt":
-			return fs, nil
-		case "zpool":
-			if args[0] == "list" {
-				return health, nil
-			}
-			return statusX, nil
-		case "cat":
-			return "Personalities : [raid1]\nmd127 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]\n      976630464 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_]\n\nunused devices: <none>\n", nil
-		}
-		return "", nil
-	}
-	b := &Backups{Run: run, Now: time.Now, Say: quiet}
-	r := b.redundancyOf(context.Background(), "/storage/media/movies")
-	if r == nil || r.Kind != "zfs" || r.Where != "storage" || r.Healthy == nil || !*r.Healthy {
-		t.Fatalf("a healthy pool: %+v", r)
-	}
-	health, statusX = "DEGRADED\n", "  pool: storage\n state: DEGRADED\nstatus: One or more devices has been removed\n"
-	if r := b.redundancyOf(context.Background(), "/storage/media/movies"); r.Healthy == nil || *r.Healthy || !strings.Contains(r.Said, "DEGRADED") {
-		t.Fatalf("a degraded pool: %+v", r)
-	}
-	fs = "/dev/md127 ext4\n"
-	if r := b.redundancyOf(context.Background(), "/srv/x"); r == nil || r.Kind != "md" || r.Healthy == nil || *r.Healthy {
-		t.Fatalf("an array missing a member: %+v", r)
-	}
-	fs = "/dev/nvme0n1p3 ext4\n"
-	if r := b.redundancyOf(context.Background(), "/var/lib/x"); r != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("plain storage read as redundant: %+v", r)
-	}
-}
-
-// Large items are never walked: a dataset is measured from the filesystem's counters and its top-level
-// entries, a shallow item from its top-level entries only; a walk that meets more than its bound stops
-// and says so; and a walk runs at most once a day — the hourly round keeps the last one.
-func TestNothingLargeIsWalkedAndAWalkIsBoundedAndDaily(t *testing.T) {
-	data := "# media\nitem movies irreplaceable /storage/media/movies - redundancy dataset\n" +
-		"item meta rebuildable /mnt/plex/config /mnt/plex/config backup shallow\n" +
-		"item big valuable /srv/big /srv/big backup\n"
-	where := withData(t, composed, data)
-	var mu sync.Mutex
-	var walks []string
-	truncated := true
-	run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
-		mu.Lock()
-		defer mu.Unlock()
-		line := name + " " + strings.Join(args, " ")
-		switch {
-		case name == "test":
-			return "", nil
-		case name == "zfs" && args[len(args)-1] == "/storage/media/movies":
-			return "storage/media\t97067690722560\n", nil
-		case name == "zfs":
-			return "", errors.New("not a ZFS dataset")
-		case name == "bash" && strings.Contains(line, "-maxdepth 1"):
-			return "1759744800 12673\n", nil
-		case name == "bash":
-			walks = append(walks, line)
-			if strings.Contains(line, "-xdev") && !strings.Contains(line, "'/srv/big'") {
-				t.Errorf("walked something declared not to be walked: %s", line)
-			}
-			if truncated {
-				return fmt.Sprintf("123 1759700000 %d\n141\n", walkFiles), nil
-			}
-			return "999 1759700000 10\n0\n", nil
-		}
-		return "", nil
-	}
-	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 6, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	b := &Backups{Where: where, Run: run, Now: func() time.Time { return now }, Say: quiet}
-	must(t, b.MeasureAll(context.Background(), false))
-	got := b.Measurements()["media"]
-	if m := got["movies"]; m.SizeBytes == nil || *m.SizeBytes != 97067690722560 || !strings.HasPrefix(m.Precision, "dataset storage/media") || m.LastWrite == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the library from its dataset: %+v", m)
-	}
-	if m := got["meta"]; m.SizeBytes != nil || !strings.HasPrefix(m.Precision, "no size") || m.LastWrite == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a shallow item: %+v", m)
-	}
-	if m := got["big"]; !strings.HasPrefix(m.Precision, "partial") {
-		t.Fatalf("a walk stopped at its bound: %+v", m)
-	}
-	// An hour later the hourly round reads counters again and walks nothing.
-	now = now.Add(time.Hour)
-	truncated = false
-	must(t, b.MeasureAll(context.Background(), false))
-	if len(walks) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("walked %d times in two rounds an hour apart: %v", len(walks), walks)
-	}
-	// After the night, it walks.
-	must(t, b.MeasureAll(context.Background(), true))
-	if len(walks) != 2 || b.Measurements()["media"]["big"].Precision != "exact" {
-		t.Fatalf("%d walks, %+v", len(walks), b.Measurements()["media"]["big"])
-	}
-}
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/good.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/good.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ea3c180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/good.go
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+package main
+
+// **Each item's last good night, on the bus** (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 3, ADR 0564 §6): beside good.json, the module's
+// own state `good` (health.GoodRow), one key `<node>.<module>.<item>`, written when a night's files change, so the
+// self-check's probe of a stale backup reads it there.
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+	"unsafe"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+)
+
+// GoodRows is the rows of this machine (health.GoodRow): every item a module declares that a path of the module's backup
+// covers, with the module's newest good night.
+func (b *Backups) GoodRows() (map[string]health.GoodRow, error) {
+	items, err := b.Items()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	declared, err := b.Declared()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	paths := map[string][]string{}
+	for _, d := range declared {
+		paths[d.Module] = d.Paths
+	}
+	good := b.Good()
+	out := map[string]health.GoodRow{}
+	for module, its := range items {
+		for _, it := range its {
+			if it.Class == "cache" || it.CoveredBy == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			covered := false
+			for _, p := range paths[module] {
+				covered = covered || p == it.CoveredBy
+			}
+			if !covered {
+				continue
+			}
+			out[health.GoodKey(b.Node, module, it.ID)] = health.GoodRow{V: health.GoodVersion, Node: b.Node, Module: module,
+				Item: it.ID, CoveredBy: it.CoveredBy, LastGood: good[module].UTC()}
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// keepGood writes the rows that differ from what was last written, when a night succeeded (recordGood). A bus that
+// cannot be reached loses nothing: good.json is the local copy, and the next good night writes the rows again.
+func (b *Backups) keepGood() {
+	if b.PutGood == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	rows, err := b.GoodRows()
+	if err != nil {
+		b.Say("the last good nights could not be read: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	b.goodMu.Lock()
+	defer b.goodMu.Unlock()
+	if b.goodWrote == nil {
+		b.goodWrote = map[string][]byte{}
+	}
+	for k, r := range rows {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(r)
+		if string(b.goodWrote[k]) == string(raw) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := b.PutGood(k, r); err != nil {
+			b.Say("the last good night of %s was not put on the bus: %v", k, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		b.goodWrote[k] = raw
+	}
+}
+
+// watchGood writes the rows once at start and then each time the night's process changes what it keeps in the state
+// directory (good.json, the nights' file), as the file system says it: the night runs as the operator account, which a
+// process with a bus account of its own may not (ADR 0436 §2), so the tools' runtime, which has the module's account,
+// writes at the night's event instead of the night itself. No timer.
+func watchGood(b *Backups) {
+	time.Sleep(20 * time.Second) // the runtime serves first
+	b.keepGood()
+	for {
+		err := whenWritten(b.Where.State, func(name string) bool { return name == "good.json" || name == filepath.Base(b.nightsFile()) }, b.keepGood)
+		b.Say("watching the state directory for a night failed (%v); trying again in a minute", err)
+		time.Sleep(time.Minute)
+		b.keepGood()
+	}
+}
+
+// whenWritten calls then each time a file of dir that match names is written or put in place, until the watch fails.
+func whenWritten(dir string, match func(name string) bool, then func()) error {
+	fd, err := syscall.InotifyInit1(syscall.IN_CLOEXEC)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer syscall.Close(fd)
+	if _, err := syscall.InotifyAddWatch(fd, dir, syscall.IN_CLOSE_WRITE|syscall.IN_MOVED_TO); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	buf := make([]byte, 64*syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent+4096)
+	for {
+		n, err := syscall.Read(fd, buf)
+		if err != nil {
+			if err == syscall.EINTR {
+				continue
+			}
+			return err
+		}
+		heard := false
+		for off := 0; off+syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent <= n; {
+			ev := (*syscall.InotifyEvent)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf[off]))
+			name := strings.TrimRight(string(buf[off+syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent:off+syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent+int(ev.Len)]), "\x00")
+			heard = heard || match(name)
+			off += syscall.SizeofInotifyEvent + int(ev.Len)
+		}
+		if heard {
+			then()
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/health_test.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/health_test.go
index 838aa88e..76ce1550 100644
--- a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/health_test.go
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/health_test.go
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ func TestTheManifestRunsTheNightJudgedByItsHealthTool(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	env := m.Build.Artifacts[0].Env
 	want := map[string]struct{ run, kind, tool string }{
-		"night":   {"night", "tool", "backup_health"},
-		"measure": {"measure", "unit", ""},
+		"night": {"night", "unit", ""},
+		"awake": {"awake", "tool", "backup_health"},
 	}
 	for _, r := range m.Resources {
 		w, ok := want[r["id"].(string)]
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go
index f4e08e32..20c0a76b 100644
--- a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 )
 
 // Seat is the role this module holds.
@@ -46,20 +48,29 @@ func main() {
 	}
 	if way == "" {
 		b.Emit = func(event string, body any) error { return stdio.Emit(event, body) }
+		b.Readings = busReadings(b.Node)
 	}
 	switch way {
 	case "night":
 		nights(b)
-	case "measure":
-		measurements(b)
+	case "awake":
+		counting(b)
 	case "":
+		if err := stdio.Keeps(announce.State{Name: health.GoodState}); err != nil {
+			say("%v", err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+		b.PutGood = func(key string, row health.GoodRow) error {
+			_, err := stdio.State(health.GoodState).Put(key, row)
+			return err
+		}
+		go watchGood(b)
 		if err := stdio.Serve("", tools(b)); err != nil {
 			say("%v", err)
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 	default:
-		say("%q is not a way to run; with no argument it serves its tools, with night it runs the nights, with "+
-			"measure it measures the data declared here", way)
+		say("%q is not a way to run; with no argument it serves its tools, with night it runs the nights, with awake it counts how long the machine is up since a night", way)
 		os.Exit(2)
 	}
 }
@@ -72,7 +83,6 @@ func nights(b *Backups) {
 	if h, err := strconv.Atoi(os.Getenv("MESH_BACKUP_HOUR")); err == nil && h >= 0 && h < 24 {
 		hour = h
 	}
-	go counting(b)
 	if missedANight(b.Nights(), time.Now()) {
 		time.Sleep(10 * time.Minute)
 		night(b)
@@ -83,23 +93,6 @@ func nights(b *Backups) {
 	}
 }
 
-// measurements measures every declared item once an hour (MESH_BACKUP_MEASURE_EVERY to change it),
-// the first a few minutes after start — counters hourly, a walk at most daily — and every walk after
-// each night (novox/hq ADR 0233).
-func measurements(b *Backups) {
-	every := time.Hour
-	if d, err := time.ParseDuration(os.Getenv("MESH_BACKUP_MEASURE_EVERY")); err == nil && d >= time.Minute {
-		every = d
-	}
-	time.Sleep(3 * time.Minute)
-	for {
-		if err := b.MeasureAll(context.Background(), false); err != nil {
-			say("measuring the data declared here failed: %v", err)
-		}
-		time.Sleep(every)
-	}
-}
-
 func night(b *Backups) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	outcome, err := b.BackUp(ctx, "")
@@ -116,9 +109,6 @@ func night(b *Backups) {
 	if len(failed) > 0 {
 		say("the night left %s without a backup", strings.Join(failed, ", "))
 	}
-	if err := b.MeasureAll(ctx, true); err != nil {
-		say("measuring the data declared here failed: %v", err)
-	}
 	// Sundays, the repository's own integrity with a sample of the data read back.
 	if time.Now().Weekday() == time.Sunday {
 		if err := b.Check(ctx); err != nil {
@@ -204,3 +194,28 @@ func tools(b *Backups) []stdio.Tool {
 			Run:   func(a map[string]any) (any, error) { return b.DeletedOutcome(arg(a, "path")) }},
 	}
 }
+
+// busReadings reads disk-load's readings of this machine from its state, every key `<node>.<module>.<item>`.
+func busReadings(node string) func() ([]health.Reading, error) {
+	return func() ([]health.Reading, error) {
+		st := stdio.State(health.ReadingsRead)
+		keys, err := st.Keys()
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		var out []health.Reading
+		for _, k := range keys {
+			if !strings.HasPrefix(k, node+".") {
+				continue
+			}
+			e, err := st.Get(k)
+			if err != nil || e == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			if r, err := health.DecodeReading(e.Value); err == nil {
+				out = append(out, r)
+			}
+		}
+		return out, nil
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/restic/go.mod b/modules/restic/go.mod
index 7ec16d84..d387e111 100644
--- a/modules/restic/go.mod
+++ b/modules/restic/go.mod
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 module restic
 
-go 1.25.0
+go 1.26.0
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029223737-9f0bb1cfa4ba
+
+require (
+	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 // indirect
+	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0 // indirect
+	github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 // indirect
+	github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 // indirect
+)
diff --git a/modules/restic/go.sum b/modules/restic/go.sum
index dfc73823..360dc422 100644
--- a/modules/restic/go.sum
+++ b/modules/restic/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,26 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c h1:l5onJwoIeH8yE/PjVlEeoPyXBsHp2NQiWLllz2fwX7s=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029223737-9f0bb1cfa4ba h1:4By9fDPDDiJXX32ySd6+WjAMAIX9vkVTT+Zs9+vhcLk=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029223737-9f0bb1cfa4ba/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=
+github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8/go.mod h1:h9jEsEECg7gtLis0upRBQU+GhYVH6jMjrFxI8u6bVUY=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 h1:a3C1ke2ohxFymNlb2HWAHjDeKCI90scRskErZkR0ezA=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0/go.mod h1:LUdAzn7YLVvxLpc7y3V1m40wESHTgc1422pwwBSKYuI=
+github.com/minio/highwayhash v1.0.4 h1:asJizugGgchQod2ja9NJlGOWq4s7KsAWr5XUc9Clgl4=
+github.com/minio/highwayhash v1.0.4/go.mod h1:GGYsuwP/fPD6Y9hMiXuapVvlIUEhFhMTh0rxU3ik1LQ=
+github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2 v2.8.1 h1:V0xpGuD/N8Mi+fQNDynXohVvp7ZztevW5io8CUWlPmU=
+github.com/nats-io/jwt/v2 v2.8.1/go.mod h1:nWnOEEiVMiKHQpnAy4eXlizVEtSfzacZ1Q43LIRavZg=
+github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17 h1:GKEghcFK6A+aFx11Yf1LjgLC3txAwvyhnYzhBIQZA8I=
+github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17/go.mod h1:B1sFVz4StNosQ903ak4N1G01Fl/9f8e06mXpFIE2K24=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0 h1:vsXoOxjHp/GmPUN+EcI7uOf/uB+iAP+kEsAFNQN0yzA=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0/go.mod h1:y+DZoD1oBOYfZTU681eTUiUjI0vbqYGixNVFHcjHJ0k=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 h1:rd5oAuLOb8mnAycB0xleuEBNS1pVVnN0fv/FF34Eypg=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16/go.mod h1:llLgWoI0o4z/Q57q2R1kHfmocyhGV6VG/U18Glg1Afs=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 h1:5iA8DT8V7q8WK2EScv2padNa/rTESc1KdnPw4TC2paw=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1/go.mod h1:19wcPz3Ph3q0Jbyiqsd0kePYG7A95tJPxeL+1OSON2c=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 h1:bbX/i/6MgT9BVLM9RT1thmxL04yeTAhbEz4SyadbXoo=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0/go.mod h1:hNLxWAXmnKAxqDtdwIYC4bM9oQPEecfsnNMuSxOs3og=
+golang.org/x/time v0.15.0 h1:bbrp8t3bGUeFOx08pvsMYRTCVSMk89u4tKbNOZbp88U=
+golang.org/x/time v0.15.0/go.mod h1:Y4YMaQmXwGQZoFaVFk4YpCt4FLQMYKZe9oeV/f4MSno=
diff --git a/modules/restic/module.json b/modules/restic/module.json
index ea5ec8b9..05927fe2 100644
--- a/modules/restic/module.json
+++ b/modules/restic/module.json
@@ -41,40 +41,40 @@
       }
     ]
   },
-    "config": {
-      "keep-daily": {
-        "type": "number",
-        "description": "How many nightly restore points are kept, a count from 1 to 9999: two weeks undo a mistake noticed within a fortnight. Read by the night, which thins nothing while it does not read (novox/hq issue 416); lowering it deletes the restore points beyond the new count at the next night, and that cannot be undone.",
-        "minimum": 1,
-        "maximum": 9999,
-        "trusted": true,
-        "default": 14
-      },
-      "keep-weekly": {
-        "type": "number",
-        "description": "How many weekly restore points are kept behind the dailies, a count from 1 to 9999, refused by the night like keep-daily; lowering it deletes the restore points beyond the new count at the next night, and that cannot be undone.",
-        "minimum": 1,
-        "maximum": 9999,
-        "trusted": true,
-        "default": 8
-      },
-      "keep-monthly": {
-        "type": "number",
-        "description": "How many monthly restore points are kept behind the weeklies, a count from 1 to 9999, refused by the night like keep-daily; lowering it deletes the restore points beyond the new count at the next night, and that cannot be undone.",
-        "minimum": 1,
-        "maximum": 9999,
-        "trusted": true,
-        "default": 6
-      },
-      "keep-hand-taken-days": {
-        "type": "number",
-        "description": "How many days a restore point taken by hand (node-backup.now, or the mesh's before a module moves) is kept at least, a count from 1 to 9999; it is kept until a later good night of its module exists, and this many days in any case, so the next thinning never takes the one taken against a risky change (novox/hq issue 453). Lowering it lets go of the older ones taken by hand at the next thinning, and that cannot be undone.",
-        "minimum": 1,
-        "maximum": 9999,
-        "trusted": true,
-        "default": 7
-      }
+  "config": {
+    "keep-daily": {
+      "type": "number",
+      "description": "How many nightly restore points are kept, a count from 1 to 9999: two weeks undo a mistake noticed within a fortnight. Read by the night, which thins nothing while it does not read (novox/hq issue 416); lowering it deletes the restore points beyond the new count at the next night, and that cannot be undone.",
+      "minimum": 1,
+      "maximum": 9999,
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": 14
     },
+    "keep-weekly": {
+      "type": "number",
+      "description": "How many weekly restore points are kept behind the dailies, a count from 1 to 9999, refused by the night like keep-daily; lowering it deletes the restore points beyond the new count at the next night, and that cannot be undone.",
+      "minimum": 1,
+      "maximum": 9999,
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": 8
+    },
+    "keep-monthly": {
+      "type": "number",
+      "description": "How many monthly restore points are kept behind the weeklies, a count from 1 to 9999, refused by the night like keep-daily; lowering it deletes the restore points beyond the new count at the next night, and that cannot be undone.",
+      "minimum": 1,
+      "maximum": 9999,
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": 6
+    },
+    "keep-hand-taken-days": {
+      "type": "number",
+      "description": "How many days a restore point taken by hand (node-backup.now, or the mesh's before a module moves) is kept at least, a count from 1 to 9999; it is kept until a later good night of its module exists, and this many days in any case, so the next thinning never takes the one taken against a risky change (novox/hq issue 453). Lowering it lets go of the older ones taken by hand at the next thinning, and that cannot be undone.",
+      "minimum": 1,
+      "maximum": 9999,
+      "trusted": true,
+      "default": 7
+    }
+  },
   "resources": [
     {
       "id": "state",
@@ -139,22 +139,17 @@
         "MESH_BACKUP_DATA": "${dir:state}/data.conf"
       },
       "health": {
-        "kind": "tool",
-        "tool": "backup_health",
-        "interval": "60s",
-        "timeout": "20s",
-        "looks": 2,
-        "grace": "60s"
+        "kind": "unit"
       }
     },
     {
-      "id": "measure",
+      "id": "awake",
       "type": "process",
-      "name": "restic-measure",
+      "name": "restic-awake",
       "artifact": "tools",
       "run": [
         "./restic-backups",
-        "measure"
+        "awake"
       ],
       "user": "${machine:account}",
       "env": {
@@ -165,7 +160,12 @@
         "MESH_BACKUP_DATA": "${dir:state}/data.conf"
       },
       "health": {
-        "kind": "unit"
+        "kind": "tool",
+        "tool": "backup_health",
+        "interval": "60s",
+        "timeout": "20s",
+        "looks": 2,
+        "grace": "60s"
       }
     }
   ],
@@ -195,5 +195,11 @@
         "from": "files"
       }
     ]
-  }
+  },
+  "reads": [
+    "disk-load.readings"
+  ],
+  "state": [
+    "good"
+  ]
 }