diff --git a/modules/gitea/README.md b/modules/gitea/README.md
index 4e51081c..e0410c81 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/README.md
+++ b/modules/gitea/README.md
@@ -275,6 +275,25 @@ reported no key gets no entry, and its client says it waits. Keys titled `mesh:`
 a key added by hand never is. Every consumer is made again every ten minutes and at once when a key changes.
 `go test ./cmd/forge-account-provider ./internal/forgeaccount` runs it against a fake forge.
 
+## The tools' account reads every repository (the operator, 2026-10-26)
+
+The tools act as the plain account `mesh-tools` (ADR 0365 §2, issue 469), which writes to the organisation `novox`
+through its team. Any other repository it saw only when public, so a private repository of a user answered every tool
+404 and was missing from every list. `readall.ts` makes the account a collaborator that **reads only** on each
+repository it cannot read: one repository at a time, no organisation membership, the least the forge offers.
+
+- **When:** one pass over every repository of every user and organisation at the start (a forge not answering yet is
+  asked again a minute apart until one pass ran), and on the forge's system webhook: `forge.repository.created` and
+  `forge.fork` at once, and the first event of any repository this process has not seen readable (a repository made
+  private later sends no creation). Nothing polls for it.
+- **With what:** the site administrator's login (`MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE`), because adding a collaborator asks a
+  repository's administration, which on another user's repository only the site administrator holds. It is used for
+  four calls alone: list every repository, read one, read the account's permission on one, add the account as a read
+  collaborator. The tools' own calls keep their token.
+- **Tools:** `gitea_unreadable_repos` (every repository the account cannot read, the permission the forge gives it
+  there and why) and `gitea_grant_read` (the same grant by hand, now, on every repository or on those named; each grant
+  read back from the forge, a refusal answered in the forge's own words).
+
 ## Files it does not know
 
 Each directory or archive this module declares says how it treats a file it did not write (ADR 0422, ADR 0416).
diff --git a/modules/gitea/client.ts b/modules/gitea/client.ts
index db1faaa8..c62dc857 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/client.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/client.ts
@@ -853,6 +853,25 @@ interface AdminResponse {
   readonly body: any;
 }
 
+/** A repository as the site administrator sees it: what saying why an account cannot read it needs (readall.ts). */
+export interface ForgeRepository {
+  full_name: string;
+  owner: string;
+  name: string;
+  private: boolean;
+  archived: boolean;
+  /** The owner's own visibility: public, limited or private. A public repository of an owner not public is hidden
+   *  from whoever is no member. */
+  owner_visibility: string;
+}
+
+function forgeRepository(r: any): ForgeRepository {
+  const owner = String(r?.owner?.login ?? r?.owner?.username ?? "");
+  const name = String(r?.name ?? "");
+  return { full_name: String(r?.full_name ?? `${owner}/${name}`), owner, name, private: r?.private === true,
+    archived: r?.archived === true, owner_visibility: String(r?.owner?.visibility ?? "public") };
+}
+
 /**
  * The forge's admin client, over **basic auth** — gitea's own code, living in the module, used only
  * by the provisioner (novox/hq ADR 0048/0076).
@@ -970,6 +989,47 @@ export class GiteaAdmin {
     return repos;
   }
 
+  // ---- The tools' account reads every repository (readall.ts) ----
+
+  /** Every repository on the forge, of every user and organisation: the search as the site administrator, whom the
+   *  forge answers every repository, private ones and those of private owners included. Only a read. */
+  async everyRepository(): Promise<ForgeRepository[]> {
+    const all: ForgeRepository[] = [];
+    for (let page = 1; page <= 200; page++) {
+      const res = await this.request(`/repos/search?limit=50&page=${page}`);
+      if (res.status !== 200) GiteaAdmin.fail("/repos/search", res);
+      const list: any[] = Array.isArray(res.body?.data) ? res.body.data : [];
+      all.push(...list.map(forgeRepository));
+      if (list.length < 50) break;
+    }
+    return all;
+  }
+
+  /** One repository as the site administrator sees it, or null when the forge holds none by that name. */
+  async repository(owner: string, repo: string): Promise<ForgeRepository | null> {
+    const res = await this.request(repoPath(owner, repo));
+    if (res.status === 404) return null;
+    if (res.status !== 200) GiteaAdmin.fail(repoPath(owner, repo), res);
+    return forgeRepository(res.body);
+  }
+
+  /** What the forge itself says an account may do on a repository: none, read, write, admin or owner. */
+  async repositoryPermission(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<string> {
+    const path = `${repoPath(owner, repo)}/collaborators/${encodeURIComponent(user)}/permission`;
+    const res = await this.request(path);
+    if (res.status !== 200) GiteaAdmin.fail(path, res);
+    return String(res.body?.permission ?? "none");
+  }
+
+  /** Make an account a collaborator of a repository that reads only. The forge asks a repository's administrator for
+   *  it, which on a repository of another user only the site administrator is. Idempotent: the forge answers 204 again. */
+  async addReadCollaborator(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<void> {
+    const path = `${repoPath(owner, repo)}/collaborators/${encodeURIComponent(user)}`;
+    const res = await this.request(path, { method: "PUT", body: JSON.stringify({ permission: "read" }) });
+    if (res.status === 204 || res.status === 200) return;
+    GiteaAdmin.fail(path, res);
+  }
+
   /** Ensure the npm-owner org exists. 201 created, 2xx/404-then-created, and 422/409 (a concurrent
    *  create won the race) are all success. */
   async ensureOrg(name: string): Promise<void> {
diff --git a/modules/gitea/index.ts b/modules/gitea/index.ts
index d1e29d8d..4d2e39fb 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/index.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/index.ts
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ import { HOOK_PATH, HOOK_PORT, Pace, claimHead, ensureSystemHook, eventsTool, ke
 import { keepSiblings, noteComposed, noteVerdict, readSiblings, siblingsFile, siblingsOf, weighSiblings } from "./siblings.js";
 import { bindInBackground } from "./bind.js";
 import { announcementOf, keepTook, lateVerdictComment, outOfDateWords, sameCommit, tookFile, weighTrunks } from "./trunk.js";
+import { ReadAll, readAllTools } from "./readall.js";
+import { TOOLS_ACCOUNT } from "./tools-account.js";
 
 // Without a way to a token — configured, or mintable with the admin account (token.ts) — there is
 // nothing to watch; log and stay quiet rather than crash the runtime. With one, the first poll mints
@@ -500,8 +502,14 @@ if (!gitea) pace.unheard("the forge is not watched: no way to a token", false);
 // Said with `emit`, not the SDK's `keeps`, which the toolchain's SDK does not have yet: switch to `keeps` once that SDK is 0.1.15 or later (issue 1852).
 await emit("states", statesAnnouncement(process.env.MESH_MODULE || "gitea", process.env.MESH_NODE));
 
+// **The tools' account reads every repository** (readall.ts; the operator, 2026-10-26): granted with the site
+// administrator's login, which the module holds for setting the forge up and uses here for that grant alone. Made on
+// first use, so a module whose admin login is missing still serves the rest and the tools say why.
+let readAllOnce: ReadAll | null = null;
+const readAll = (): ReadAll => (readAllOnce ??= new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(), process.env.MESH_GITEA_TOOLS_USER || TOOLS_ACCOUNT));
+
 // gitea_events is served whether or not the forge is watched: it says so (novox/hq issue 729).
-registerModuleTools("gitea", () => [eventsTool(pace), ...(gitea ? [commitStatusTool({
+registerModuleTools("gitea", () => [eventsTool(pace), ...readAllTools(readAll), ...(gitea ? [commitStatusTool({
   setCommitStatus: (owner, repo, sha, status) => (gitea as GiteaClient).setCommitStatus(owner, repo, sha, status),
   gates,
 }), mergeTool(gitea, { gates })] : [])]);
@@ -543,7 +551,12 @@ async function listenForForge(client: GiteaClient): Promise<boolean> {
     const server = receiver({ secret, port, heard: (kind, delivery) => pace.heard(kind, delivery),
       refused: (reason, from) => pace.refused(reason, from),
       publish: (event) => emit(event.name, event.body),
-      act: (event) => actOn(client, event) });
+      act: async (event) => {
+        // A repository made, or one not yet seen readable, is granted read before anything acts on it (readall.ts).
+        await Promise.resolve().then(() => readAll().onEvent(event)).catch((err) =>
+          console.error(`[gitea] whether ${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} reads the repository of ${event.name} could not be settled — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`));
+        await actOn(client, event);
+      } });
     await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
       server.once("error", reject);
       server.listen(port, host, () => resolve());
@@ -594,6 +607,18 @@ if (gitea) {
   // of the node starts left gitea_commit_status, gitea_merge_pull_request and gitea_events served nowhere. Until it is
   // listening, Pace keeps the polls at 30 s, so nothing is missed meanwhile; listenForForge says its own failure.
   void listenForForge(client);
+  // The start's one pass over every repository (readall.ts), not awaited for the same reason. A forge not answering yet
+  // is asked again, a minute apart, until one pass has run; after that only the forge's events grant.
+  const readAllAtStart = (): void => void Promise.resolve().then(() => readAll().atStart()).catch((err) => {
+    console.error(`[gitea] whether ${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} reads every repository could not be settled; asked again in a minute — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`);
+    setTimeout(readAllAtStart, 60_000);
+  });
+  try {
+    readAll();
+    readAllAtStart();
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(`[gitea] ${TOOLS_ACCOUNT} is not given read on every repository: no site administrator's login — ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : err}`);
+  }
   // Main takes no push and only the tools' account merges, in every repository, kept and not only when a token is
   // minted: at the start and every ten minutes after, so a repository made later gets it too (issue 948, ADR 0398 §2).
   // Only while the setting keep-main-rules is true (mainrules.ts); false, the default, leaves every repository's rule as set.
diff --git a/modules/gitea/readall.ts b/modules/gitea/readall.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..869d5762
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/gitea/readall.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+// The tools' account reads every repository on the forge (the operator, 2026-10-26: "the mesh's forge account should
+// get read access to all repositories").
+//
+// Since issue 469 the tools act as the plain account `mesh-tools`, which writes to the organisation novox's
+// repositories through its team (tools-account.ts). Every other repository it saw only when public: a private
+// repository of a user (jschoubben/car-hunter, jschoubben/snake) answered its tools 404 and was missing from every
+// list, while that user's public ones were there. So the module makes its account a collaborator that reads only on
+// each repository it cannot read, the least the forge offers: one repository, read, no organisation membership.
+//
+//   - **at the start**, one pass over every repository of every user and organisation;
+//   - **on the forge's own event** (the system webhook, webhook.ts): `forge.repository.created` and `forge.fork` at
+//     once, and the first event of any repository this process has not yet seen readable, since the forge may not
+//     send a repository's creation for every owner, and a repository made private later sends no creation at all.
+//     Nothing polls for it.
+//
+// **The grant needs the site administrator's login.** Adding a collaborator asks the repository's administration,
+// which on another user's repository only the site administrator holds; the module holds that login for setting the
+// forge up (MESH_GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD_FILE). Here it is used through `ReadAllForge` alone: list the repositories, read
+// the account's permission on one, add the account as a collaborator that reads. Nothing else, and never for the tools'
+// own calls, which keep their token.
+//
+// What the forge refuses (a repository that went meanwhile, an archived one if the forge will not take a collaborator
+// on it) is said per repository and not retried; the tool `gitea_unreadable_repos` shows what is left, and
+// `gitea_grant_read` grants again now.
+
+import type { ForgeRepository } from "./client.js";
+
+/** What the module asks of the forge for this, with the site administrator's login (GiteaAdmin, client.ts). */
+export interface ReadAllForge {
+  everyRepository(): Promise<ForgeRepository[]>;
+  repository(owner: string, repo: string): Promise<ForgeRepository | null>;
+  repositoryPermission(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<string>;
+  addReadCollaborator(owner: string, repo: string, user: string): Promise<void>;
+}
+
+/** A repository the account cannot read, and why. */
+export interface Unreadable {
+  repository: string;
+  permission: string;
+  private: boolean;
+  archived: boolean;
+  why: string;
+}
+
+export interface Granted {
+  /** Repositories looked at. */
+  checked: number;
+  /** Made readable now, by a read collaborator. */
+  granted: string[];
+  /** The forge refused the grant: each repository and the forge's own words. */
+  refused: { repository: string; why: string }[];
+}
+
+const READS = new Set(["read", "write", "admin", "owner"]);
+
+/** Why the account cannot read a repository, from what the forge says of it. */
+export function whyUnreadable(repo: ForgeRepository, account: string): string {
+  const parts: string[] = [];
+  if (repo.private) parts.push(`a private repository of ${repo.owner}, on which ${account} is no collaborator and in no team that covers it`);
+  else if (repo.owner_visibility !== "public") {
+    parts.push(`a public repository of ${repo.owner}, whose own visibility is ${repo.owner_visibility}: the forge shows it to members only`);
+  } else parts.push(`the forge answers ${account} no read on it`);
+  if (repo.archived) parts.push("archived");
+  return parts.join("; ");
+}
+
+export class ReadAll {
+  /** Repositories this process has seen the account read, by full name: an event of one of them asks nothing more. */
+  readonly readable = new Set<string>();
+
+  constructor(private readonly forge: ReadAllForge, readonly account: string,
+    private readonly log: (line: string) => void = (l) => console.log(`[gitea] ${l}`)) {}
+
+  /** Every repository the account cannot read, and why, as the forge says it now. */
+  async unreadable(): Promise<{ checked: number; unreadable: Unreadable[] }> {
+    const repos = await this.forge.everyRepository();
+    const out: Unreadable[] = [];
+    for (const repo of repos) {
+      const u = await this.judge(repo);
+      if (u) out.push(u);
+    }
+    return { checked: repos.length, unreadable: out };
+  }
+
+  /** Grant read on every repository the account cannot read (or on those named, `owner/name`). */
+  async grant(only?: string[]): Promise<Granted> {
+    let repos: ForgeRepository[];
+    if (only && only.length) {
+      repos = [];
+      for (const full of only) {
+        const [owner, name, ...rest] = full.split("/");
+        if (!owner || !name || rest.length) throw new Error(`"${full}" is not a repository: say owner/name`);
+        const repo = await this.forge.repository(owner, name);
+        if (!repo) throw new Error(`the forge holds no repository ${full}`);
+        repos.push(repo);
+      }
+    } else repos = await this.forge.everyRepository();
+    const result: Granted = { checked: repos.length, granted: [], refused: [] };
+    for (const repo of repos) {
+      const u = await this.judge(repo);
+      if (!u) continue;
+      try {
+        await this.forge.addReadCollaborator(repo.owner, repo.name, this.account);
+      } catch (err) {
+        result.refused.push({ repository: repo.full_name, why: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err) });
+        continue;
+      }
+      // Read back: the forge's own word that the account reads it now, never the grant's answer alone.
+      const after = await this.forge.repositoryPermission(repo.owner, repo.name, this.account);
+      if (READS.has(after)) {
+        this.readable.add(repo.full_name);
+        result.granted.push(repo.full_name);
+      } else {
+        result.refused.push({ repository: repo.full_name, why: `the grant was answered, but the forge still gives ${this.account} "${after}"` });
+      }
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  /** The start's one pass: grant what is missing and say it. Answers the result; a failure is the caller's to say. */
+  async atStart(): Promise<Granted> {
+    const r = await this.grant();
+    this.log(`${this.account} reads every repository: ${r.checked} looked at, ${r.granted.length} granted read now` +
+      `${r.granted.length ? ` (${r.granted.join(", ")})` : ""}${r.refused.length ? `, ${r.refused.length} refused: ` +
+        r.refused.map((x) => `${x.repository} — ${x.why}`).join("; ") : ""}`);
+    return r;
+  }
+
+  /** A forge event: a repository made (or forked), or the first event of one not seen readable, is granted read now. */
+  async onEvent(event: { name: string; body: unknown }): Promise<void> {
+    const b = (event.body ?? {}) as { owner?: string; repo?: string };
+    if (!b.owner || !b.repo) return;
+    const full = `${b.owner}/${b.repo}`;
+    if (event.name === "forge.repository.deleted") {
+      this.readable.delete(full);
+      return;
+    }
+    const made = event.name === "forge.repository.created" || event.name === "forge.fork";
+    if (!made && this.readable.has(full)) return;
+    const r = await this.grant([full]);
+    if (r.granted.length) this.log(`${this.account} was given read on ${full}, on the forge's ${event.name}`);
+    for (const x of r.refused) this.log(`${this.account} could not be given read on ${x.repository} — ${x.why}`);
+  }
+
+  private async judge(repo: ForgeRepository): Promise<Unreadable | null> {
+    const permission = await this.forge.repositoryPermission(repo.owner, repo.name, this.account);
+    if (READS.has(permission)) {
+      this.readable.add(repo.full_name);
+      return null;
+    }
+    this.readable.delete(repo.full_name);
+    return { repository: repo.full_name, permission, private: repo.private, archived: repo.archived, why: whyUnreadable(repo, this.account) };
+  }
+}
+
+type Tool = { name: string; description: string; input: Record<string, unknown>; run: (args: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>) => Promise<unknown> };
+
+/** The two tools: what the account cannot read and why, and the grant now. */
+export function readAllTools(readAll: () => ReadAll): Tool[] {
+  return [
+    {
+      name: "gitea_unreadable_repos",
+      description: "Every repository on the forge the tools' own account (mesh-tools) cannot read, and why: the " +
+        "permission the forge gives it there, whether the repository is private or archived, and in words the reason " +
+        "(a private repository of a user with the account no collaborator, an owner not public). Empty when it reads " +
+        "every repository. Read with the site administrator's login, which alone sees every repository.",
+      input: {},
+      run: async () => readAll().unreadable(),
+    },
+    {
+      name: "gitea_grant_read",
+      description: "Give the tools' own account (mesh-tools) read on every repository it cannot read now, or on the " +
+        "repositories named: each becomes a collaborator that reads only, the least the forge offers. The module does " +
+        "this itself at its start and on the forge's event of a repository made; this is the same act by hand. Answers " +
+        "how many were looked at, which were granted (each read back from the forge) and which the forge refused, in its " +
+        "own words. Needs the site administrator's login, used for this grant alone.",
+      input: {
+        repositories: { type: "array", items: { type: "string" }, description: "owner/name of each repository; empty or absent, every repository" },
+      },
+      run: async (args) => {
+        const named = Array.isArray(args.repositories) ? args.repositories.map(String) : undefined;
+        return readAll().grant(named);
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+}
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts
index 6d27aefd..f31139b6 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/tools-account.test.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,18 @@ interface Account { admin: boolean; password: string; active: boolean }
 interface Token { id: number; name: string; sha1: string; user: string; scopes: string[] }
 interface Team { id: number; name: string; units: any; members: Set<string> }
 
+interface ForgeRepo { owner: string; name: string; full: string; private: boolean; archived?: boolean; ownerVisibility: string; collaborators: Map<string, string> }
+const forgeRepos: ForgeRepo[] = [];
+const repoFaults = { refuse: new Set<string>() };
+function addRepo(full: string, isPrivate: boolean, ownerVisibility = "public"): ForgeRepo {
+  const [owner, name] = full.split("/");
+  const r = { owner, name, full, private: isPrivate, ownerVisibility, collaborators: new Map<string, string>() };
+  forgeRepos.push(r);
+  return r;
+}
+const repoJSON = (r: ForgeRepo) => ({ full_name: r.full, name: r.name, owner: { login: r.owner, visibility: r.ownerVisibility },
+  private: r.private, archived: r.archived === true });
+
 function fakeForge() {
   const users = new Map<string, Account>([[ADMIN, { admin: true, password: PASSWORD, active: true }]]);
   const tokens: Token[] = [];
@@ -61,6 +73,13 @@ function fakeForge() {
     return null;
   };
   const isAdmin = (u: string | null) => u !== null && users.get(u)?.admin === true;
+  const permissionOf = (u: string | null, r: ForgeRepo): string => {
+    if (isAdmin(u)) return "admin";
+    if (u === r.owner) return "owner";
+    if (r.owner === "novox" && teams.some((t) => t.members.has(u ?? "") && t.units.units_map?.["repo.code"] === "write")) return "write";
+    if (u && r.collaborators.has(u)) return r.collaborators.get(u)!;
+    return !r.private && r.ownerVisibility === "public" ? "read" : "none";
+  };
 
   const server = createServer(async (req, res) => {
     const url = new URL(req.url ?? "/", "http://fake");
@@ -176,7 +195,31 @@ function fakeForge() {
       if (!writes) return json(res, 403, { message: "write on code required" });
       return json(res, 201, { context: (await read(req)).context, creator: { login: me } });
     }
-    if (req.method === "GET" && p === "/repos/search") return json(res, 200, { data: [] });
+    // Every repository of every owner, and who reads it (readall.ts): the site administrator reads all; the tools' account
+    // a repository of novox through its team, a public one of a public owner, and one it is a collaborator of.
+    if (req.method === "GET" && p === "/repos/search") {
+      const page = Number(url.searchParams.get("page") ?? "1");
+      const seen = forgeRepos.filter((r) => permissionOf(me, r) !== "none");
+      return json(res, 200, { data: page === 1 ? seen.map(repoJSON) : [] });
+    }
+    m = p.match(/^\/repos\/([^/]+)\/([^/]+)(?:\/collaborators\/([^/]+)(\/permission)?)?$/);
+    if (m) {
+      const repo = forgeRepos.find((r) => r.owner === decodeURIComponent(m![1]) && r.name === decodeURIComponent(m![2]));
+      if (!repo || permissionOf(me, repo) === "none") return json(res, 404, { message: "repository does not exist" });
+      if (req.method === "GET" && !m[3]) return json(res, 200, repoJSON(repo));
+      const user = decodeURIComponent(m[3] ?? "");
+      if (req.method === "GET" && m[4]) {
+        if (!isAdmin(me) && me !== user) return json(res, 403, { message: "only the user or an administrator" });
+        return json(res, 200, { permission: permissionOf(user, repo) });
+      }
+      if (req.method === "PUT" && !m[4]) {
+        // gitea's reqAdmin: the repository's administration, which on a repository of another user the site administrator alone holds.
+        if (!isAdmin(me) && me !== repo.owner) return json(res, 403, { message: "user should be an owner or a collaborator with admin write of a repository" });
+        if (repoFaults.refuse.has(repo.full)) return json(res, 422, { message: "the forge would not have it" });
+        repo.collaborators.set(user, (await read(req))?.permission ?? "write");
+        return json(res, 204, null);
+      }
+    }
     return json(res, 404, { message: "no such route in the fake" });
   });
   return new Promise<{ url: string; users: typeof users; tokens: typeof tokens; teams: typeof teams; calls: string[]; mainRules: typeof mainRules;
@@ -402,3 +445,91 @@ test("a mint with keep-main-rules false (the default) writes no branch protectio
   const writes = forge.calls.slice(from).filter((c: string) => /branch_protections/.test(c) && !/^GET /.test(c) && !/^(GET|HEAD) /.test(c));
   assert.deepEqual(writes, []);
 });
+
+// The tools' account reads every repository (readall.ts; the operator, 2026-10-26): jschoubben/car-hunter and
+// jschoubben/snake, private repositories of a user, answered the tools 404 while that user's public ones were seen.
+
+test("the start's pass gives the tools' account read, as a collaborator that reads only, on each repository it could not read, and on no other", async () => {
+  const env = await environment();
+  await fresh(env).listRepos(); // the account and its team exist, as after any mint
+  forgeRepos.splice(0);
+  addRepo("novox/hq", true);
+  addRepo("jschoubben/txt-game", false);
+  addRepo("jschoubben/car-hunter", true);
+  addRepo("jschoubben/snake", true);
+  addRepo("shy/open", false, "limited");
+  addRepo("elsewhere/secret", true);
+  const { GiteaAdmin } = await import("../dist/client.js");
+  const { ReadAll, readAllTools } = await import("../dist/readall.js");
+  const lines: string[] = [];
+  const readAll = new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(env), TOOLS_ACCOUNT, (l: string) => lines.push(l));
+  const [unreadableTool, grantTool] = readAllTools(() => readAll);
+
+  // What the tool says before: the four the account cannot read, each with why.
+  const before = await unreadableTool.run({}) as any;
+  assert.equal(before.checked, 6);
+  assert.deepEqual(before.unreadable.map((u: any) => u.repository).sort(),
+    ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "shy/open"]);
+  assert.match(before.unreadable.find((u: any) => u.repository === "jschoubben/car-hunter").why,
+    /a private repository of jschoubben, on which mesh-tools is no collaborator/);
+  assert.match(before.unreadable.find((u: any) => u.repository === "shy/open").why, /visibility is limited/);
+  assert.deepEqual((await fresh(env).listAllRepos()).map((r) => r.full_name).sort(), ["jschoubben/txt-game", "novox/hq"]);
+
+  // The account's own token cannot grant itself: the forge asks the repository's administration (the reason for the admin login).
+  const own = (await readFile(join(env.MESH_GITEA_STATE_DIR, "token"), "utf8")).trim();
+  const self = await fetch(`${forge.url}/api/v1/repos/jschoubben/car-hunter/collaborators/${TOOLS_ACCOUNT}`,
+    { method: "PUT", headers: { Authorization: `token ${own}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ permission: "read" }) });
+  assert.equal(self.status, 404, "a repository the account cannot read is not even there for it");
+
+  const from = forge.calls.length;
+  const r = await readAll.atStart();
+  assert.deepEqual(r.granted.sort(), ["elsewhere/secret", "jschoubben/car-hunter", "jschoubben/snake", "shy/open"]);
+  assert.deepEqual(r.refused, []);
+  const puts = forge.calls.slice(from).filter((c) => c.startsWith("PUT "));
+  assert.equal(puts.length, 4, "the repositories it read already were left alone");
+  assert.ok(puts.every((c) => c.endsWith(` as ${ADMIN}`)), "only the administrator's login grants");
+  for (const repo of forgeRepos.filter((x) => x.collaborators.size)) assert.equal(repo.collaborators.get(TOOLS_ACCOUNT), "read", `${repo.full} reads only`);
+  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /6 looked at, 4 granted read now/);
+
+  // After: the account's own token sees every repository, and the tool names none.
+  assert.equal((await fresh(env).listAllRepos()).length, 6);
+  assert.deepEqual(((await unreadableTool.run({})) as any).unreadable, []);
+  // Granting again asks nothing of the forge but reads.
+  const again = forge.calls.length;
+  assert.deepEqual(((await grantTool.run({})) as any).granted, []);
+  assert.ok(forge.calls.slice(again).every((c) => c.startsWith("GET ")));
+});
+
+test("on the forge's events: a repository made is granted read at once, a known readable one asks nothing, a refusal is said, not thrown", async () => {
+  const env = await environment();
+  await fresh(env).listRepos();
+  forgeRepos.splice(0);
+  addRepo("jschoubben/txt-game", false);
+  const { GiteaAdmin } = await import("../dist/client.js");
+  const { ReadAll, readAllTools } = await import("../dist/readall.js");
+  const lines: string[] = [];
+  const readAll = new ReadAll(GiteaAdmin.fromEnv(env), TOOLS_ACCOUNT, (l: string) => lines.push(l));
+  await readAll.atStart();
+
+  const cases: { name: string; event: string; repo: string; make?: boolean; refuse?: boolean; asks: boolean; reads: string }[] = [
+    { name: "a repository made", event: "forge.repository.created", repo: "jschoubben/new-private", make: true, asks: true, reads: "read" },
+    { name: "a fork made", event: "forge.fork", repo: "someone/fork", make: true, asks: true, reads: "read" },
+    { name: "a push to a repository seen readable", event: "forge.push", repo: "jschoubben/txt-game", asks: false, reads: "read" },
+    { name: "a push to a private repository never seen", event: "forge.push", repo: "jschoubben/quiet", make: true, asks: true, reads: "read" },
+    { name: "a repository the forge refuses the grant on", event: "forge.repository.created", repo: "jschoubben/stuck", make: true, refuse: true, asks: true, reads: "none" },
+  ];
+  for (const c of cases) {
+    if (c.make) addRepo(c.repo, true);
+    if (c.refuse) repoFaults.refuse.add(c.repo);
+    const from = forge.calls.length;
+    const [owner, repo] = c.repo.split("/");
+    await readAll.onEvent({ name: c.event, body: { owner, repo } });
+    assert.equal(forge.calls.length > from, c.asks, `${c.name}: asks the forge`);
+    assert.equal(forgeRepos.find((x) => x.full === c.repo)!.collaborators.get(TOOLS_ACCOUNT) ?? (c.make ? "none" : "read"), c.reads, c.name);
+  }
+  assert.match(lines.join("\n"), /could not be given read on jschoubben\/stuck — .*422/);
+  const named = await (readAllTools(() => readAll)[1].run({ repositories: ["jschoubben/stuck"] })) as any;
+  assert.deepEqual(named.refused.map((x: any) => x.repository), ["jschoubben/stuck"]);
+  await assert.rejects(readAllTools(() => readAll)[1].run({ repositories: ["no-slash"] }), /not a repository/);
+  repoFaults.refuse.clear();
+});