diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers.go
index 65067bff1..32c4c36b3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers.go
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate"
+
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 )
 
@@ -23,13 +25,13 @@ const toolRunnerModule = "node-tools"
 
 // ledgersSecret is the vault's name of node's `ledgers`.
 func ledgersSecret(node string) (string, error) {
-	return OwnSecret(node, toolRunnerModule, buscompose.LedgersSecret)
+	return OwnSecret(node, toolRunnerModule, grantsstate.LedgersSecret)
 }
 
 // isLedgersSecret says secret is a machine's `ledgers`: `own/<node>/node-tools/ledgers`.
 func isLedgersSecret(secret string) bool {
 	parts := strings.Split(secret, "/")
-	return len(parts) == 4 && parts[0] == "own" && parts[2] == toolRunnerModule && parts[3] == buscompose.LedgersSecret
+	return len(parts) == 4 && parts[0] == "own" && parts[2] == toolRunnerModule && parts[3] == grantsstate.LedgersSecret
 }
 
 // toolRunnerNodes are the machines whose tool runner is wanted, sorted.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers_test.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers_test.go
index 3ded3b55a..116f53911 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ledgers_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"testing"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate"
+
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
 )
@@ -12,14 +14,14 @@ import (
 // ledger of ledger.go (ADR 0085), which is another thing.
 
 // nodeToolsWant is the wanted account of a machine's tool runner, as the grants part writes it.
-func nodeToolsWant(node string) buscompose.WantedAccount {
+func nodeToolsWant(node string) grantsstate.WantedAccount {
 	w := aWant("node-tools")
 	w.Kind, w.Node, w.User = buscompose.KindNodeTools, node, node+".node-tools"
 	return w
 }
 
 // ledgerWant is the wanted ledger account of a module on a machine.
-func ledgerWant(node, module string) buscompose.WantedAccount {
+func ledgerWant(node, module string) grantsstate.WantedAccount {
 	w := aWant(module)
 	w.Kind, w.Node, w.User, w.Claims = buscompose.KindLedger, node, "ledger."+node+"."+module, nil
 	return w
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ func ledgersOf(t *testing.T, v testVault, priv string) (map[string]json.RawMessa
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	for _, o := range own.Own {
-		if o.Module == "node-tools" && o.Name == buscompose.LedgersSecret {
+		if o.Module == "node-tools" && o.Name == grantsstate.LedgersSecret {
 			value, err := seal.Open(o.Sealed, priv)
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint.go
index c550b8c90..05d05a56c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint.go
@@ -32,11 +32,13 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate"
+
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 )
 
 // WantedRead is the grants part's state of wanted accounts, as the vault's manifest reads it.
-const WantedRead = buscompose.GrantsAccounts
+const WantedRead = grantsstate.GrantsAccounts
 
 // AccountIssuedEvent is what the vault says when it minted an account (mesh-sdk buscompose.AccountIssued).
 const AccountIssuedEvent = buscompose.AccountIssuedEvent
@@ -46,7 +48,7 @@ const AccountIssuedEvent = buscompose.AccountIssuedEvent
 type minting struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
 	// wants are the wanted accounts, by user, as last heard.
-	wants map[string]buscompose.WantedAccount
+	wants map[string]grantsstate.WantedAccount
 	// heldBack are the wanted users the vault did not mint, with why (vault_status).
 	heldBack map[string]string
 	// owed are the wanted users whose mint failed, tried again at the pass (MintOwed).
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ func (v *Vault) MintState() MintState {
 	m := &v.minting
 	m.mu.Lock()
 	out := MintState{On: true, Why: mintingWhy, Wanted: len(m.wants), HeldBack: map[string]string{}, Minted: []Minted{}}
-	wants := map[string]buscompose.WantedAccount{}
+	wants := map[string]grantsstate.WantedAccount{}
 	for u, why := range m.heldBack {
 		out.HeldBack[u] = why
 		if w, ok := m.wants[u]; ok {
@@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ func (v *Vault) MintState() MintState {
 }
 
 // holdsAccount says the vault holds a bus account as w's own secret: a value that is an account.
-func (v *Vault) holdsAccount(w buscompose.WantedAccount) bool {
+func (v *Vault) holdsAccount(w grantsstate.WantedAccount) bool {
 	secret, err := AccountSecret(w)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ func (v *Vault) busAccount(secret, value string) bool {
 
 // AccountSecret is the vault's name of the own secret a wanted account is held in.
 // A ledger account is the exception: it is kept as LedgerAccountSecret, and its machine's `ledgers` is made of it.
-func AccountSecret(w buscompose.WantedAccount) (string, error) {
+func AccountSecret(w grantsstate.WantedAccount) (string, error) {
 	if w.Kind == buscompose.KindLedger {
 		return LedgerAccountSecret(w.Node, w.Module)
 	}
@@ -186,7 +188,7 @@ func (v *Vault) WantHeard(user string, raw []byte, deleted bool) {
 		v.wantGone(user)
 		return
 	}
-	w, err := buscompose.ReadWantedAccount(user, raw)
+	w, err := grantsstate.ReadWantedAccount(user, raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		v.log("the wanted account %s is not read, so nothing is minted for it: %v", user, err)
 		v.holdBack(user, "its wanted key is not readable: "+err.Error())
@@ -194,7 +196,7 @@ func (v *Vault) WantHeard(user string, raw []byte, deleted bool) {
 	}
 	v.minting.mu.Lock()
 	if v.minting.wants == nil {
-		v.minting.wants = map[string]buscompose.WantedAccount{}
+		v.minting.wants = map[string]grantsstate.WantedAccount{}
 	}
 	v.minting.wants[user] = w
 	v.minting.mu.Unlock()
@@ -218,7 +220,7 @@ func (e errHeldBack) Error() string { return e.why }
 
 // mintWanted mints w when minting is on, the vault holds no value for it and adopted no hash of it; otherwise it says
 // why not and, where that is a hold, keeps it for vault_status.
-func (v *Vault) mintWanted(w buscompose.WantedAccount, by string) (Minted, error) {
+func (v *Vault) mintWanted(w grantsstate.WantedAccount, by string) (Minted, error) {
 	m, err := v.mintOnce(w, by)
 	var held errHeldBack
 	v.owe(w.User, err != nil && !errors.As(err, &held) && w.Valid() == nil)
@@ -226,7 +228,7 @@ func (v *Vault) mintWanted(w buscompose.WantedAccount, by string) (Minted, error
 }
 
 // mintOnce is one try of mintWanted.
-func (v *Vault) mintOnce(w buscompose.WantedAccount, by string) (Minted, error) {
+func (v *Vault) mintOnce(w grantsstate.WantedAccount, by string) (Minted, error) {
 	v.minting.mintMu.Lock()
 	defer v.minting.mintMu.Unlock()
 	if err := w.Valid(); err != nil {
@@ -274,7 +276,7 @@ func (v *Vault) mintOnce(w buscompose.WantedAccount, by string) (Minted, error)
 	if _, err := rand.Read(raw); err != nil {
 		return Minted{}, err
 	}
-	value, err := buscompose.HeldCredential(w, base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(raw))
+	value, err := grantsstate.HeldCredential(w, base64.RawURLEncoding.EncodeToString(raw))
 	if err != nil {
 		v.holdBack(w.User, err.Error())
 		return Minted{}, err
@@ -407,7 +409,7 @@ func (v *Vault) IssueAccount(caller, user string) (any, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the grants part holds no wanted account %s: the vault mints only what placement composes "+
 			"(grants_accounts lists them)", user)
 	}
-	w, err := buscompose.ReadWantedAccount(user, raw)
+	w, err := grantsstate.ReadWantedAccount(user, raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -427,7 +429,7 @@ func (v *Vault) wantedUsers() []string {
 	return out
 }
 
-func (v *Vault) wanted(user string) (buscompose.WantedAccount, bool) {
+func (v *Vault) wanted(user string) (grantsstate.WantedAccount, bool) {
 	v.minting.mu.Lock()
 	defer v.minting.mu.Unlock()
 	w, ok := v.minting.wants[user]
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_integration_test.go
index a7b4549ad..0a8d18aaa 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_integration_test.go
@@ -26,13 +26,14 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate"
+
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
 	"golang.org/x/crypto/nacl/box"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/identity-and-access/go/seats/meshvault"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/testbus"
 )
@@ -592,7 +593,7 @@ func TestTheVaultWholeMintsOnTheBusWhoeverHoldsTheLease(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	var held struct{ Password string }
 	_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(value), &held)
-	shape, _ := buscompose.HeldCredential(x, held.Password)
+	shape, _ := grantsstate.HeldCredential(x, held.Password)
 	if value != string(shape) {
 		t.Errorf("the minted value %q is not the controller's shape %q", value, shape)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_test.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_test.go
index 697ab9011..94e5fe336 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/mint_test.go
@@ -6,17 +6,19 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate"
+
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
 )
 
 // aWant is a wanted account of a module on ace, as the grants part writes it.
-func aWant(module string) buscompose.WantedAccount {
-	return buscompose.WantedAccount{User: "ace." + module, Kind: buscompose.KindModule, Node: "ace", Module: module,
-		URL: "nats://novox.mesh:4222", Fingerprint: "ab:cd", Claims: []buscompose.ClaimedSeat{{Seat: "s", Scope: "node"}}}
+func aWant(module string) grantsstate.WantedAccount {
+	return grantsstate.WantedAccount{User: "ace." + module, Kind: buscompose.KindModule, Node: "ace", Module: module,
+		URL: "nats://novox.mesh:4222", Fingerprint: "ab:cd", Claims: []grantsstate.ClaimedSeat{{Seat: "s", Scope: "node"}}}
 }
 
-func wantRaw(t *testing.T, w buscompose.WantedAccount) []byte {
+func wantRaw(t *testing.T, w grantsstate.WantedAccount) []byte {
 	t.Helper()
 	raw, err := json.Marshal(w)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ func TestTheVaultMintsAWantedAccountOnceAndNothingItHolds(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	var got struct{ Password string }
 	_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(value), &got)
-	shape, _ := buscompose.HeldCredential(w, got.Password)
+	shape, _ := grantsstate.HeldCredential(w, got.Password)
 	if len(got.Password) != 40 || value != string(shape) {
 		t.Errorf("the minted value is %q, not the controller's shape %q", value, shape)
 	}
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ func TestTheVaultMintsAWantedAccountOnceAndNothingItHolds(t *testing.T) {
 			{"a ledger account no longer wanted leaves ledgers", func(t *testing.T, v testVault, accounts *fakeAccounts, priv string) {
 				clock := time.Date(2026, 11, 3, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
 				v.Now = func() time.Time { return clock }
-				for _, w := range []buscompose.WantedAccount{nodeToolsWant("ace"), ledgerWant("ace", "m"), ledgerWant("ace", "k")} {
+				for _, w := range []grantsstate.WantedAccount{nodeToolsWant("ace"), ledgerWant("ace", "m"), ledgerWant("ace", "k")} {
 					v.WantHeard(w.User, wantRaw(t, w), false)
 				}
 				v.WantsRead()
@@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ func TestTheVaultMintsWhoeverHoldsTheLease(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	// An older controller's covered account, handed with origin issued: refused, the vault's value kept.
 	x := aWant("mod-x")
-	theirs, _ := buscompose.HeldCredential(x, "the-controllers-password")
+	theirs, _ := grantsstate.HeldCredential(x, "the-controllers-password")
 	if _, err := handIssued(t, v, ControllerCaller, "own/ace/mod-x/broker", string(theirs)); err == nil ||
 		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the vault minted") {
 		t.Errorf("a controller's issued value over the vault's mint: %v", err)
@@ -258,7 +260,7 @@ func TestTheVaultMintsWhoeverHoldsTheLease(t *testing.T) {
 	v.minting.wants[z.User] = z
 	v.minting.mu.Unlock()
 	v.holdBack(z.User, "held back for a reason that has passed")
-	value, _ := buscompose.HeldCredential(z, "moved-in")
+	value, _ := grantsstate.HeldCredential(z, "moved-in")
 	if _, err := v.keep("own/ace/mod-z/broker", string(value), "the move", ControllerCaller, OriginMade); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/vault_test.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/vault_test.go
index 30c44b300..bb086b76f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/vault_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/vault_test.go
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate"
+
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
@@ -935,7 +937,7 @@ func TestABusAccountIsKeptOnlyAsAnAccount(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s: kept %v, err %v", row.name, err == nil, err)
 		}
 	}
-	w := buscompose.WantedAccount{User: "novox.nats.nats-tools", Kind: buscompose.KindProcess, Node: "novox",
+	w := grantsstate.WantedAccount{User: "novox.nats.nats-tools", Kind: buscompose.KindProcess, Node: "novox",
 		Module: "nats", Process: "nats-tools", URL: "nats://novox.mesh:4222", Fingerprint: "ab:cd"}
 	if err := w.Valid(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod b/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod
index 9ad0c80ff..1918a6a07 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ module mesh-vault
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/containerimageregistryclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/containerimageregistry v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/ociartifactregistry v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/builds v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/grantsstate v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/nodeengine v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/nodeengineclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/placement/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/module.json b/modules/mesh-vault/module.json
index 1312f04c1..1e3f51004 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/module.json
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 {
   "module": "mesh-vault",
   "version": "1",
+  "packages": {
+    "grantsstate": "0.1"
+  },
   "runs-as": "mesh-vault",
   "provides": [
     {