diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/compose_bench_test.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/compose_bench_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b901b32..00000000
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/compose_bench_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,225 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-// BenchmarkComposeNode times ComposeNode of an unchanged node over a mesh captured from the bus (issue 1954): the
-// placement, wants, haves, the indexer's modules and manifests, the builder's builds, mesh-config's resolved values and
-// the templates archives, read with the read tools (mesh-placement.placement, mesh-delivery-view.assigner_wants,
-// node_haves, indexer_modules, builder_build, mesh-config.config) and the manifests and archives by digest. The capture
-// is not kept in this repository (a few megabytes, and the mesh's own addresses and keys): the benchmark reads the
-// directory MESH_COMPOSE_CAPTURE names and is skipped without it. MESH_COMPOSE_NODE names the node (novox when unset).
-//
-// The capture's layout: placement.json, wants.json, haves.json, modules.json and config.json as those tools answer,
-// builds/<module>.<hex>.json as builder_build answers, manifests/<digest> and archives/<hex> as their bytes.
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"sync/atomic"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/frombus"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/fromruntime"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
-)
-
-// countingStore counts the holder's reads of its own states (and the providers' entries), each a bus request live.
-type countingStore struct {
-	Store
-	gets, keys atomic.Int64
-}
-
-func (c *countingStore) Get(state, key string) (*Entry, error) {
-	c.gets.Add(1)
-	return c.Store.Get(state, key)
-}
-
-func (c *countingStore) Keys(state string) ([]string, error) {
-	c.keys.Add(1)
-	return c.Store.Keys(state)
-}
-
-// captured is the captured mesh as the states the holder reads, and the archives by digest.
-func captured(b *testing.B, dir string) (map[string]map[string][]byte, map[string][]byte) {
-	b.Helper()
-	read := func(name string, into any) {
-		raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, name))
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, into); err != nil {
-			b.Fatalf("%s: %v", name, err)
-		}
-	}
-	states := map[string]map[string][]byte{}
-	put := func(state, key string, raw []byte) {
-		if states[state] == nil {
-			states[state] = map[string][]byte{}
-		}
-		states[state][key] = raw
-	}
-	var placement struct {
-		Keys map[string]struct {
-			Placement json.RawMessage `json:"placement"`
-		} `json:"keys"`
-	}
-	read("placement.json", &placement)
-	for node, k := range placement.Keys {
-		var p delivery.Placement
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(k.Placement, &p); err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		p.Node = node
-		raw, err := delivery.EncodePlacement(p)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		put(PlacementRead, "placement."+node, raw)
-	}
-	var wants struct {
-		Wants map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"wants"`
-	}
-	read("wants.json", &wants)
-	for k, v := range wants.Wants {
-		put(WantsRead, k, v)
-	}
-	var haves struct {
-		Keys map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"keys"`
-	}
-	read("haves.json", &haves)
-	for k, v := range haves.Keys {
-		put(HaveRead, k, v)
-	}
-	var modules struct {
-		Modules map[string]json.RawMessage `json:"modules"`
-	}
-	read("modules.json", &modules)
-	for m, v := range modules.Modules {
-		key, err := delivery.ModulesKey(m)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		put(ModulesRead, key, v)
-	}
-	var config struct {
-		Resolved []struct {
-			Key, Module, Node, Source string
-			Value                     any
-		} `json:"resolved"`
-	}
-	read("config.json", &config)
-	for _, r := range config.Resolved {
-		raw, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"value": r.Value, "source": r.Source})
-		put(ResolvedRead, r.Node+"."+r.Module+"."+r.Key, raw)
-	}
-	manifests, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dir, "manifests", "*"))
-	for _, f := range manifests {
-		raw, err := os.ReadFile(f)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		digest := filepath.Base(f)
-		v, err := delivery.EncodeManifest(delivery.Manifest{Module: "captured", JSON: string(raw)})
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		key, err := delivery.ManifestsKey(digest)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		put(ManifestsRead, key, v)
-	}
-	builds, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dir, "builds", "*.json"))
-	for _, f := range builds {
-		var bb struct {
-			Module      string          `json:"module"`
-			Fingerprint string          `json:"fingerprint"`
-			Build       json.RawMessage `json:"build"`
-		}
-		read(strings.TrimPrefix(f, dir+"/"), &bb)
-		key, err := delivery.BuilderBuildKey(bb.Module, bb.Fingerprint)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		put(BuildsRead, key, bb.Build)
-	}
-	archives := map[string][]byte{}
-	files, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dir, "archives", "*"))
-	for _, f := range files {
-		raw, err := os.ReadFile(f)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		archives[filepath.Base(f)] = raw
-	}
-	return states, archives
-}
-
-func BenchmarkComposeNode(b *testing.B) {
-	dir := os.Getenv("MESH_COMPOSE_CAPTURE")
-	if dir == "" {
-		b.Skip("MESH_COMPOSE_CAPTURE names no captured mesh")
-	}
-	node := os.Getenv("MESH_COMPOSE_NODE")
-	if node == "" {
-		node = "novox"
-	}
-	states, archives := captured(b, dir)
-	ws := stdio.WatchedStatesOver(func(state string, handle func(stdio.StateChange) error) error {
-		for k, v := range states[state] {
-			if err := handle(stdio.StateChange{State: state, Key: k, Op: stdio.OpPut, Value: v, Current: true}); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-		}
-		return nil
-	}, func(state, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) {
-		v, ok := states[state][key]
-		return v, ok, nil
-	})
-	fetch := fromruntime.KeptFetch(func(_ context.Context, url string) ([]byte, error) {
-		_, hex, _ := strings.Cut(url, "sha256:")
-		raw, ok := archives[hex]
-		if !ok {
-			return nil, os.ErrNotExist
-		}
-		return raw, nil
-	})
-	own := &countingStore{Store: newStore()}
-	h := &Holder{Store: Watching(own, ws), Compose: composerOver(frombus.StatesReader(fromruntime.Watched{WatchedStates: ws}, fetch)),
-		Now: time.Now, Logf: func(string, ...any) {}}
-	// Composed twice before it is timed: a provision's state follows the states of those it depends on, which the first
-	// composition writes, so the second may still change a key; from then on nothing changes.
-	first, err := h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), node)
-	if err != nil {
-		b.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if second, err := h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), node); err != nil {
-		b.Fatal(err)
-	} else if len(second.Changed) > 0 {
-		b.Logf("the second composition of %s changed %v", node, second.Changed)
-	}
-	b.Logf("first composition of %s: %d plans written, %d held, %d problems, %d keys changed", node, len(first.Plans),
-		len(first.Held), len(first.Problems), len(first.Changed))
-	for _, p := range first.Problems {
-		b.Logf("problem: %s", p)
-	}
-	own.gets.Store(0)
-	own.keys.Store(0)
-	b.ResetTimer()
-	var c Composed
-	for b.Loop() {
-		c, err = h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), node)
-		if err != nil {
-			b.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if len(c.Plans)+len(c.Gone)+len(c.Changed) > 0 {
-			b.Fatalf("an unchanged node composed changes: %+v", c)
-		}
-	}
-	b.Logf("the last composition of %s: %s", node, TookSaid(c.Took))
-	b.ReportMetric(float64(own.gets.Load())/float64(b.N), "own-gets/op")
-	b.ReportMetric(float64(own.keys.Load())/float64(b.N), "own-keys/op")
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/composed_test.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/composed_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88eeaafd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/composed_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+package main
+
+// The provisioner makes every plan from the provisions the node-engine's published compositions carry (novox/hq ADR
+// 0593 §6, §8), with the plans and provisions it wrote when it composed them itself.
+//
+// The fixtures were captured on 2026-11-02 from the holder as it stood before (frombus.PlansHeldTwice over mesh-sdk's
+// frombustest.Provisioned mesh: restic on n1 requiring postgres-database from postgres there, the vault on n2):
+// testdata/<case>today-composed.json is what that composition answered at the node's wants and at its newest builds,
+// testdata/<case>today-states.golden.json what the holder then wrote. "ahead-" has restic wanted at an older build
+// that requires nothing, so its key is ahead of its want and carries its plan entry (issue 1126 review 1).
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// today is a captured composition: the node, the builds its wants named, and the plans at them and at the newest.
+type today struct {
+	Node    string            `json:"node"`
+	KeptAt  map[string]string `json:"kept-at"`
+	AtWants struct {
+		Plans map[string]catalogue.Plan `json:"Plans"`
+		Held  map[string]string         `json:"Held"`
+	} `json:"at-wants"`
+	Newest struct {
+		Plans map[string]catalogue.Plan `json:"Plans"`
+	} `json:"newest"`
+}
+
+// fpsOf is frombustest's modules and the fingerprints they are built at (frombustest.FPs).
+var fpsOf = map[string]string{"restic": "src2:" + strings.Repeat("3", 64), "mesh-provisioner-client": "src2:" + strings.Repeat("4", 64),
+	"store": "src2:" + strings.Repeat("5", 64), "postgres": "src2:" + strings.Repeat("8", 64)}
+
+// published puts on the store what n1's engine publishes for the captured case: each placed module at its newest done
+// build, and each wanted one at its want, each key carrying its plan.
+func published(t *testing.T, s *memStore, c today) {
+	t.Helper()
+	put := func(module, fp string, plan catalogue.Plan, has bool) {
+		v := map[string]any{"v": 1, "node": c.Node, "module": module, "fp": fp, "resources": []any{}}
+		if has {
+			v["plan"] = plan
+		}
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(v)
+		s.write(t, ComposedRead, mustKey(delivery.ComposedKey(c.Node, module, fp)), string(raw))
+	}
+	for module, fp := range fpsOf {
+		plan, has := c.Newest.Plans[module]
+		put(module, fp, plan, has)
+	}
+	for module, fp := range c.KeptAt {
+		plan, has := c.AtWants.Plans[module]
+		put(module, fp, plan, has)
+	}
+	s.write(t, ComposedRead, mustKey(delivery.ComposedNodeKey(c.Node)), `{"v":1,"node":"`+c.Node+`","resources":[]}`)
+}
+
+// goldenMesh is the store as the provisioner reads it for frombustest's mesh: the indexer's modules, n1's placement, the
+// vault's on n2, restic's want.
+func goldenMesh(t *testing.T, c today) *memStore {
+	t.Helper()
+	s := newStore()
+	for module, fp := range fpsOf {
+		// A provider's manifest says whether it keeps entries: postgres's, as frombustest has it, keeps none.
+		raw := `{"module":"` + module + `","version":"1"}`
+		if module == "postgres" {
+			raw = `{"module":"postgres","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"postgres-database","scope":"mesh"}],` +
+				`"serves":{"postgres-database":{"port":5432}}}`
+		}
+		digest := delivery.ManifestDigest([]byte(raw))
+		value, _ := delivery.EncodeManifest(delivery.Manifest{Module: module, JSON: raw})
+		s.write(t, ManifestsRead, mustKey(delivery.ManifestsKey(digest)), string(value))
+		s.write(t, ModulesRead, module, `{"v":1,"fp2":"`+fp+`","manifest":"`+digest+`"}`)
+	}
+	s.write(t, PlacementRead, "placement."+c.Node, `{"v":1,"node":"`+c.Node+`","decided":{},"modules":[{"module":"store"},`+
+		`{"module":"postgres"},{"module":"mesh-provisioner-client"},{"module":"restic"}]}`)
+	s.write(t, PlacementRead, "placement.n2", `{"v":1,"node":"n2","decided":{},"modules":[{"module":"mesh-vault"}]}`)
+	s.write(t, WantsRead, "want."+c.Node+".restic", `{"v":1,"fp":"`+c.KeptAt["restic"]+`","self":true}`)
+	return s
+}
+
+// The plans and provisions made from the published compositions are today's, value for value, with a key ahead of its
+// want carrying its plan entry; a pass over the same compositions writes nothing.
+func TestThePlansFromCompositionsAreTodays(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, name := range []string{"", "ahead-"} {
+		t.Run("case "+name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var c today
+			readJSON(t, "testdata/"+name+"today-composed.json", &c)
+			var golden map[string]map[string]json.RawMessage
+			readJSON(t, "testdata/"+name+"today-states.golden.json", &golden)
+			s := goldenMesh(t, c)
+			published(t, s, c)
+			now := time.Date(2026, 11, 2, 18, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+			h := &Holder{Store: s, Asks: &router{}, Logf: t.Logf, Now: func() time.Time { return now }}
+			h.Compose = FromCompositions(s)
+			out, err := h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), c.Node)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if len(out.Problems)+len(out.Held) > 0 {
+				t.Errorf("problems %v, held %v", out.Problems, out.Held)
+			}
+			for state, want := range golden {
+				keys, _ := s.Keys(state)
+				if len(keys) != len(want) {
+					t.Errorf("%s holds %v, today %d keys", state, keys, len(want))
+				}
+				for key, raw := range want {
+					e, _ := s.Get(state, key)
+					if e == nil || !sameBytes(t, e.Value, raw) {
+						t.Errorf("%s %s:\n got %s\nwant %s", state, key, valueOf(e), raw)
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			again, err := h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), c.Node)
+			if err != nil || len(again.Plans)+len(again.Gone)+len(again.Changed) > 0 {
+				t.Errorf("a second pass over the same compositions wrote %+v (%v)", again, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// A composition the engine refused at the wanted build holds its module, its last plan kept and its words in `refused`;
+// one the engine has not published yet holds it too, saying so; a module whose newest build is refused keeps its
+// plan at its want.
+func TestARefusedOrMissingCompositionHoldsItsModule(t *testing.T) {
+	var c today
+	readJSON(t, "testdata/today-composed.json", &c)
+	s := goldenMesh(t, c)
+	published(t, s, c)
+	h := &Holder{Store: s, Asks: &router{}, Logf: t.Logf, Now: time.Now}
+	h.Compose = FromCompositions(s)
+	if _, err := h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), c.Node); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	plan, _ := s.Get(PlansState, "n1.restic")
+	key := mustKey(delivery.ComposedKey("n1", "restic", fpsOf["restic"]))
+	s.write(t, ComposedRead, key, `{"v":1,"node":"n1","module":"restic","fp":"`+fpsOf["restic"]+`","resources":[],`+
+		`"refused":"restic requires postgres-database and no module offers it"}`)
+	out, err := h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), c.Node)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(out.Held["restic"], "no module offers it") {
+		t.Errorf("the refused module is held as %v", out.Held)
+	}
+	if e, _ := s.Get(PlansState, "n1.restic"); e == nil || string(e.Value) != string(plan.Value) {
+		t.Errorf("the held module's plan was not kept: %s", valueOf(e))
+	}
+	if e, _ := s.Get(RefusedState, "n1.restic"); e == nil || !strings.Contains(string(e.Value), "no module offers it") {
+		t.Errorf("refused says %s", valueOf(e))
+	}
+	if p, _ := s.Get(ProvisionsState, "n1.restic.postgres-database"); p == nil || strings.Contains(string(p.Value), "retiring") {
+		t.Errorf("the held module's key: %s", valueOf(p))
+	}
+	// Not published yet: the want moved to a build the engine has not composed.
+	other := "src2:" + strings.Repeat("9", 64)
+	s.write(t, WantsRead, "want.n1.restic", `{"v":1,"fp":"`+other+`","self":true}`)
+	out, err = h.ComposeNode(context.Background(), c.Node)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(out.Held["restic"], "not published") {
+		t.Errorf("the unpublished composition holds restic as %v", out.Held)
+	}
+	if e, _ := s.Get(PlansState, "n1.restic"); e == nil || string(e.Value) != string(plan.Value) {
+		t.Errorf("the plan was not kept while unpublished: %s", valueOf(e))
+	}
+}
+
+func readJSON(t *testing.T, path string, v any) {
+	t.Helper()
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, v); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func sameBytes(t *testing.T, a, b []byte) bool {
+	t.Helper()
+	var x, y any
+	if json.Unmarshal(a, &x) != nil || json.Unmarshal(b, &y) != nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	ra, _ := json.Marshal(x)
+	rb, _ := json.Marshal(y)
+	return string(ra) == string(rb)
+}
+
+func valueOf(e *Entry) string {
+	if e == nil {
+		return "(none)"
+	}
+	return string(e.Value)
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder.go
index fb00bf2b..196855de 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder.go
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 package main
 
-// The seat's holder (novox/hq ADR 0570 clauses 1 to 5, 7; issue 1954 H1-H3): mesh-provisioner composes every placed
-// module's provisioning plan and every provision from bus state, on change events and never on a timer, and keeps them
-// in its states `plans` (`<node>.<module>`) and `provisions` (`<node>.<consumer>.<provision>[.<local>]`), which it alone
-// writes.
+// The seat's holder (novox/hq ADR 0570 clauses 1 to 5, 7, as changed by ADR 0593 §8; issue 1954 H1-H3): mesh-provisioner
+// makes every placed module's provisioning plan and every provision from bus state, on change events and never on a
+// timer, and keeps them in its states `plans` (`<node>.<module>`) and `provisions`
+// (`<node>.<consumer>.<provision>[.<local>]`), which it alone writes. It composes nothing: each plan is the one the
+// node-engine's published composition carries (`composed-<node>`, ADR 0593 §6), the node-engine alone composing.
 //
-//   - **Composed per node.** A change of a node's placement or of one of its wants composes that node; a change of the
-//     indexer's module composes the nodes the module is placed on. Each node is composed twice: at the builds its wants
-//     name (its plans, what its client applies) and at the newest build of each placed module, so a build that adds a
-//     requirement has its key before its want (clause 2). A provision is needed while either needs it (clause 5).
+//   - **Made per node.** A change of a node's placement, of one of its wants or of one of its published compositions
+//     makes that node's plans again; a change of the indexer's module does it for the nodes the module is placed on.
+//     Each node's plans are read twice: at the builds its wants name (its plans, what its client applies) and at the
+//     newest build of each placed module, so a build that adds a requirement has its key before its want (clause 2).
+//     A provision is needed while either needs it (clause 5).
 //   - **A key's state comes from its provider's outcome alone** (clause 3, 7): the provider's own entry for that
 //     consumer, `<provider>_bound` under the same key: present is provided (the vault's generation carried into the
 //     reference, clause 6), refused is failed with why, waits is waits with what. The holder never sets provided by
@@ -32,8 +34,6 @@ import (
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
 	"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"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
 )
@@ -54,15 +54,15 @@ type Refusal struct {
 	Since  time.Time `json:"since"`
 }
 
-// The reads it composes from.
+// The reads it makes the plans from. ComposedRead is every node's published compositions, `composed-<node>` (ADR 0593
+// §6), read as the node-engine's named state: its keys are `<node>.<module>.<fingerprint hex>` and `<node>.node`.
 const (
 	PlacementRead = delivery.PlacementRead
 	WantsRead     = delivery.AssignerModule + ".wants"
 	ModulesRead   = delivery.IndexerModule + ".modules"
 	ManifestsRead = delivery.IndexerModule + ".manifests"
-	BuildsRead    = delivery.BuilderModule + ".builds"
 	HaveRead      = "node-engine.have"
-	ResolvedRead  = "mesh-config.resolved"
+	ComposedRead  = "mesh-host.composed"
 )
 
 // BoundReads are the providers' entries this module's manifest reads, `<module>.bound`, whose changes it hears. Which
@@ -75,17 +75,29 @@ var BoundReads = []string{"gitea", "keycloak", "postgres", "route-adapter", "rou
 // boundRead is a provider's entries as this module reads them.
 func boundRead(module string) string { return module + ".bound" }
 
-// Composer is a node's provisioning plans, composed from the bus over one read: at the builds keptAt names (module →
-// fingerprint, the newest build of every other placed module), and at the newest build of each placed module (issue
-// 1954: once, not twice). A module whose build or plan refuses is held (frombus.PlansHeld; issue 774, one bad module
-// must not drop its node): in held with why, none of its plan in plans; a scope's Err is a refusal that is no single
-// module's.
+// Composer is a node's provisioning plans: at the builds keptAt names (module → fingerprint, the newest build of every
+// other placed module), and at the newest build of each placed module. A module whose composition is refused, or not
+// published yet, is held (issue 774, one bad module must not drop its node): in held with why, none of its plan in
+// plans; a scope's Err is a failure that is no single module's.
 type Composer func(ctx context.Context, node string, keptAt map[string]string) Composition
 
 // Composition is a node's plans at its wanted builds and at its newest, and where the time went.
 type Composition struct {
-	AtWants, Newest frombus.HeldPlans
-	Took            []frombus.Phase
+	AtWants, Newest HeldPlans
+	Took            []Phase
+}
+
+// HeldPlans is one scope's plans by module, the modules held with why, and a failure that is no single module's.
+type HeldPlans struct {
+	Plans map[string]catalogue.Plan
+	Held  map[string]string
+	Err   error
+}
+
+// Phase is one step of reading a node's plans and how long it took.
+type Phase struct {
+	Name string
+	Took time.Duration
 }
 
 // Asker is the operator's channel as this module asks on it: publish an ask under its own name, and read the router's
@@ -1106,25 +1118,139 @@ func orSaid(words ...string) string {
 	return ""
 }
 
-// FromWatched is the holder's composer over one watched copy of its reads (novox/hq ADR 0580 clause 2): frombus's plans
-// of a node, at the builds keptAt names and at the newest over one read of the copy (placement, haves, modules,
-// resolved values), a build by key and a manifest once per digest; no state is read key by key per composition. A plan
-// names no value, so no own secret and no credential is read (compose.Planning).
-func FromWatched(ws *stdio.WatchedStates) Composer {
-	return composerOver(fromruntime.WatchedReader(ws))
-}
-
-// composerOver is the holder's composer over a reader: both scopes over one read (frombus.PlansHeldTwice).
-func composerOver(r frombus.Reader) Composer {
-	return func(ctx context.Context, node string, keptAt map[string]string) Composition {
-		at, newest, took := frombus.PlansHeldTwice(ctx, r, frombus.Mesh{}, frombus.Scope{Node: node, KeptAt: keptAt})
-		return Composition{AtWants: at, Newest: newest, Took: took}
+// FromCompositions is the holder's composer over the node-engine's published compositions (ADR 0593 §8): it composes
+// nothing, and takes each module's plan from the key of `composed-<node>` at the build it is read at. At the wanted
+// builds a module is read at the fingerprint keptAt names, else at the indexer's newest (FP2); at the newest, each placed
+// module at FP2. A key whose engine refused the module holds it with the engine's words; a key not published yet holds
+// it at its wanted build (its last plan kept, as for a refusal) and leaves it out of the newest, whose build the engine
+// writes once it is done (ADR 0593 §6). A plan absent from a key is a module that hands the provisioner nothing.
+func FromCompositions(s Store) Composer {
+	return func(_ context.Context, node string, keptAt map[string]string) Composition {
+		start := time.Now()
+		at, newest := HeldPlans{Plans: map[string]catalogue.Plan{}, Held: map[string]string{}},
+			HeldPlans{Plans: map[string]catalogue.Plan{}, Held: map[string]string{}}
+		published, err := publishedOn(s, node)
+		if err != nil {
+			at.Err, newest.Err = err, err
+			return Composition{AtWants: at, Newest: newest, Took: []Phase{{Name: "compositions read", Took: time.Since(start)}}}
+		}
+		placed, fp2 := placedModules(s, node)
+		atWants := map[string]string{}
+		for _, m := range placed {
+			atWants[m] = fp2[m]
+		}
+		for m, fp := range keptAt {
+			atWants[m] = fp
+		}
+		for _, m := range sortedKeys(atWants) {
+			fp := atWants[m]
+			if fp == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			c, ok := published[composedAt(node, m, fp)]
+			switch {
+			case !ok:
+				at.Held[m] = fmt.Sprintf("the composition of %s at %s is not published by the node-engine of %s yet", m, fp, node)
+			case c.Refused != "":
+				at.Held[m] = c.Refused
+			case c.Plan != nil:
+				at.Plans[m] = *c.Plan
+			}
+		}
+		for _, m := range placed {
+			if fp2[m] == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			c, ok := published[composedAt(node, m, fp2[m])]
+			switch {
+			case !ok:
+			case c.Refused != "":
+				newest.Held[m] = c.Refused
+			case c.Plan != nil:
+				newest.Plans[m] = *c.Plan
+			}
+		}
+		return Composition{AtWants: at, Newest: newest, Took: []Phase{{Name: "compositions read", Took: time.Since(start)}}}
 	}
 }
 
-// WatchedReads are the states the holder reads whole, each from the watched copy: what the composer reads and the
-// wants (ADR 0580 clause 2), and the providers' entries, whose watch is also what rejudges a key.
-var WatchedReads = append([]string{PlacementRead, WantsRead, ModulesRead, HaveRead, ResolvedRead}, boundReads()...)
+// publishedPlan is what the holder reads of a published composition (delivery.Composed): its plan, or the engine's
+// refusal. Read leniently, so a field the node-engine adds later is no failure here.
+type publishedPlan struct {
+	Plan    *catalogue.Plan `json:"plan"`
+	Refused string          `json:"refused"`
+}
+
+// composedAt is a module's key in its node's compositions, or "" for a fingerprint no key can name.
+func composedAt(node, module, fp string) string {
+	k, err := delivery.ComposedKey(node, module, fp)
+	if err != nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return k
+}
+
+// publishedOn is every module composition the node's engine publishes, by key.
+func publishedOn(s Store, node string) (map[string]publishedPlan, error) {
+	keys, err := s.Keys(ComposedRead)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the compositions the node-engines publish cannot be read: %w", err)
+	}
+	out := map[string]publishedPlan{}
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		n, _, _, isNode, err := delivery.ParseComposedKey(k)
+		if err != nil || isNode || n != node {
+			continue
+		}
+		e, err := s.Get(ComposedRead, k)
+		if err != nil || e == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		var c publishedPlan
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(e.Value, &c); err != nil {
+			c.Refused = fmt.Sprintf("its published composition %s does not read: %v", k, err)
+		}
+		out[k] = c
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// placedModules is every module placed on node, sorted, and the indexer's newest fingerprint (FP2) of each.
+func placedModules(s Store, node string) ([]string, map[string]string) {
+	raw := map[string][]byte{}
+	if keys, err := s.Keys(PlacementRead); err == nil {
+		for _, k := range keys {
+			if n, _, _, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(k); err != nil || n != node {
+				continue
+			}
+			if e, err := s.Get(PlacementRead, k); err == nil && e != nil {
+				raw[k] = e.Value
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	placements, _ := delivery.PlacementsOf(raw)
+	var placed []string
+	fp2 := map[string]string{}
+	for _, m := range placements[node].Modules {
+		placed = append(placed, m.Module)
+		mk, err := delivery.ModulesKey(m.Module)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if e, err := s.Get(ModulesRead, mk); err == nil && e != nil {
+			if mod, err := delivery.DecodeModule(e.Value); err == nil {
+				fp2[m.Module] = mod.FP2
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(placed)
+	return placed, fp2
+}
+
+// WatchedReads are the states the holder reads whole, each from the watched copy (ADR 0580 clause 2): the placement,
+// the wants, the indexer's modules, the haves and the published compositions, and the providers' entries, whose watch
+// is also what rejudges a key.
+var WatchedReads = append([]string{PlacementRead, WantsRead, ModulesRead, HaveRead, ComposedRead}, boundReads()...)
 
 // OwnStates are the states the holder alone writes (ADR 0570 clause 1), read from the watched copy too (issue 1954: some
 // 250 to 400 reads by key per composition): each of its own writes is taken into the copy at once (WatchedStates.Wrote),
@@ -1206,8 +1332,9 @@ func (w watchingStore) Delete(state, key string) error {
 	return w.ws.Removed(state, key)
 }
 
-// NodesOfNodeKey is the node a key that starts with it names: a resolved value's `<node>.<module>.<key>`, a have's
-// `<node>.<module>` or `<node>.node`. A change of either recomposes that node (ADR 0580 clause 2).
+// NodesOfNodeKey is the node a key that starts with it names: a have's `<node>.<module>` or `<node>.node`, a published
+// composition's `<node>.<module>.<fingerprint hex>` or `<node>.node`. A change of either makes that node's plans
+// again (ADR 0580 clause 2, ADR 0593 §8).
 func NodesOfNodeKey(key string) []string {
 	if n, _, ok := strings.Cut(key, "."); ok && n != "" {
 		return []string{n}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_integration_test.go
index e5a56156..6ab8f93e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_integration_test.go
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 
 package main
 
-// The holder against a real bus (novox/hq ADR 0570 clauses 1-3, 5; issue 1954 H5): its states and every input it reads
-// are a real nats-server's key-value buckets, its plans composed by mesh-sdk's composition from the watched copy of those
-// buckets (ADR 0580 clause 2) filled with the mesh frombustest gives (restic on n1, requiring postgres-database from
-// postgres there); no input is read key by key per composition. A placement and a
-// want compose the key; the providers' outcomes (the vault's entry for the credential, postgres's own have) turn it
-// provided; restic leaving the node makes it retiring and raises the ask.
+// The holder against a real bus (novox/hq ADR 0570 clauses 1-3, 5, as changed by ADR 0593 §8; issue 1954 H5): its
+// states and every input it reads are a real nats-server's key-value buckets, read through the watched copy of those
+// buckets (ADR 0580 clause 2); the plans come from n1's published compositions in `composed-n1` (ADR 0593 §6), as
+// captured from the composition of mesh-sdk's frombustest mesh (restic on n1, requiring postgres-database from postgres
+// there), and nothing is composed. A placement, a want and a published composition make the key; the providers'
+// outcomes (the vault's entry for the credential, postgres's own have) turn it provided; restic leaving the node makes
+// it retiring and raises the ask.
 
 import (
 	"context"
@@ -22,9 +23,6 @@ import (
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/frombus"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/frombus/frombustest"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/fromruntime"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/testbus"
@@ -37,6 +35,9 @@ type kvStore struct {
 }
 
 func bucketOf(state string) string {
+	if state == ComposedRead { // the node-engine's named state: here n1's bucket, the one node that composes
+		return delivery.ComposedBucketPrefix + "n1"
+	}
 	if owner, name, ok := strings.Cut(state, "."); ok {
 		return owner + "_" + name
 	}
@@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ func (a *asked) Publish(_ string, body any, id string) error {
 func (a *asked) Record(string) ([]byte, bool, error) { return nil, false, nil }
 
 // 1954/H5.
-func TestTheHolderComposesProvidesAndAsksOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
+func TestTheHolderPlansProvidesAndAsksOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	t.Cleanup(cancel)
 	nc, err := nats.Connect(testbus.URL(t))
@@ -122,85 +123,26 @@ func TestTheHolderComposesProvidesAndAsksOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	s := kvStore{ctx: ctx, js: js}
-	mesh, err := frombustest.Provisioned()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	node := frombustest.Node
-	// The bus as the holder reads it: the indexer's modules and manifests, a placement naming where the vault runs, the
-	// want of restic on n1.
-	for module, m := range mesh.Module {
-		m.V = 1
-		raw, _ := json.Marshal(m)
-		if err := s.Put(ModulesRead, module, json.RawMessage(raw)); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-	for digest, raw := range mesh.Manifests {
-		var named struct {
-			Module string `json:"module"`
-		}
-		_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &named)
-		value, _ := delivery.EncodeManifest(delivery.Manifest{Module: named.Module, JSON: string(raw)})
-		key, _ := delivery.ManifestsKey(digest)
-		if err := s.Put(ManifestsRead, key, json.RawMessage(value)); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-	// The vault keeps its outcomes as entries: its manifest declares `bound`.
-	vaultManifest := `{"module":"mesh-vault","version":"1","state":["bound"]}`
+	var c today
+	readJSON(t, "testdata/today-composed.json", &c)
+	node := c.Node
+	// The bus as the holder reads it: the indexer's modules and manifests, n1's placement and the vault's on n2, the
+	// want of restic on n1, and what n1's engine published.
+	mem := goldenMesh(t, c)
+	published(t, mem, c)
+	vaultManifest := `{"module":"mesh-vault","version":"1","state":["bound"]}` // the vault keeps its outcomes as entries
 	vaultDigest := delivery.ManifestDigest([]byte(vaultManifest))
 	vaultValue, _ := delivery.EncodeManifest(delivery.Manifest{Module: provisions.VaultModule, JSON: vaultManifest})
-	vaultKey, _ := delivery.ManifestsKey(vaultDigest)
-	if err := s.Put(ManifestsRead, vaultKey, json.RawMessage(vaultValue)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := s.Put(ModulesRead, provisions.VaultModule, map[string]any{"v": 1, "none2": "the test's", "manifest": vaultDigest,
-		"repository": "novox/mesh-catalog", "commit": "c1"}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	vault, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"v": 1, "node": "n2", "decided": map[string]any{},
-		"modules": []map[string]any{{"module": provisions.VaultModule}}})
-	if err := s.Put(PlacementRead, "placement.n2", json.RawMessage(vault)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	fp := frombustest.FPs()["restic"]
-	if err := s.Put(WantsRead, "want."+node+".restic", map[string]any{"v": 1, "fp": fp, "self": true}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	// The rest of the mesh on the bus as its writers keep it: n1's placement, its record in its have, the builds.
-	putPlacement := func() {
-		raw, err := delivery.EncodePlacement(mesh.Placement[node])
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if err := s.Put(PlacementRead, "placement."+node, json.RawMessage(raw)); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
+	mem.write(t, ManifestsRead, mustKey(delivery.ManifestsKey(vaultDigest)), string(vaultValue))
+	mem.write(t, ModulesRead, provisions.VaultModule, `{"v":1,"none2":"the test's","manifest":"`+vaultDigest+`"}`)
+	for state, keys := range mem.states {
+		for key, raw := range keys {
+			if err := s.Put(state, key, json.RawMessage(raw)); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
 		}
 	}
-	putPlacement()
-	for _, n := range []string{node, "n2"} { // n2, where the vault runs, has its record too
-		rec := mesh.Record[node]
-		rec.Node = n
-		recRaw, err := delivery.EncodeHaveNode(delivery.HaveNode{Record: &rec})
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if err := s.Put(HaveRead, mustKey(delivery.HaveNodeKey(n)), json.RawMessage(recRaw)); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-	for at, b := range mesh.Builds {
-		module, fp, _ := strings.Cut(at, " ")
-		raw, err := delivery.EncodeBuilderBuild(*b)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if err := s.Put(BuildsRead, mustKey(delivery.BuilderBuildKey(module, fp)), json.RawMessage(raw)); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-	// The watched copy over the real buckets: each state by one watch, a build and a manifest by key.
+	// The watched copy over the real buckets: each state by one watch, a manifest by key.
 	ws := stdio.WatchedStatesOver(func(state string, handle func(stdio.StateChange) error) error {
 		kv, err := s.kv(state)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -250,18 +192,9 @@ func TestTheHolderComposesProvidesAndAsksOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	fetch := func(_ context.Context, url string) ([]byte, error) {
-		for digest, body := range mesh.Archives {
-			if strings.HasSuffix(url, digest) {
-				return body, nil
-			}
-		}
-		return nil, errors.New("no archive at " + url)
-	}
-	reader := frombus.StatesReader(fromruntime.Watched{WatchedStates: ws}, fetch)
 	a := &asked{}
-	h := &Holder{Store: Watching(s, ws), Asks: a, Now: time.Now, Logf: t.Logf,
-		Compose: composerOver(reader)}
+	h := &Holder{Store: Watching(s, ws), Asks: a, Now: time.Now, Logf: t.Logf}
+	h.Compose = FromCompositions(h.Store)
 	state := func(key string) provisions.Provision {
 		e, _ := s.Get(ProvisionsState, key)
 		if e == nil {
@@ -286,7 +219,7 @@ func TestTheHolderComposesProvidesAndAsksOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 	}
-	if err := s.Put(HaveRead, node+".postgres", map[string]any{"v": 1, "fp": frombustest.FPs()["postgres"], "phase": "running",
+	if err := s.Put(HaveRead, node+".postgres", map[string]any{"v": 1, "fp": fpsOf["postgres"], "phase": "running",
 		"health": "ok"}); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -299,17 +232,11 @@ func TestTheHolderComposesProvidesAndAsksOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	if p := state(key); p.State != provisions.Provided {
 		t.Fatalf("the outcomes did not turn it provided: %+v", p)
 	}
-	// restic leaves the node and its want goes: retiring, one ask.
-	p := mesh.Placement[node]
-	var kept []delivery.PlacedModule
-	for _, m := range p.Modules {
-		if m.Module != "restic" {
-			kept = append(kept, m)
-		}
+	// restic leaves the node and its want goes: retiring, one ask. Its compositions stay until its engine deletes them.
+	if err := s.Put(PlacementRead, "placement."+node, json.RawMessage(`{"v":1,"node":"`+node+`","decided":{},`+
+		`"modules":[{"module":"store"},{"module":"postgres"},{"module":"mesh-provisioner-client"}]}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	p.Modules = kept
-	mesh.Placement[node] = p
-	putPlacement()
 	if err := s.Delete(WantsRead, "want."+node+".restic"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_test.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_test.go
index d737cc94..0ba670fc 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holder_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/frombus"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
 )
@@ -71,8 +70,8 @@ func newMesh() *mesh {
 		Now: func() time.Time { now = now.Add(time.Second); return now },
 		Compose: func(_ context.Context, node string, keptAt map[string]string) Composition {
 			m.composed = append(m.composed, node)
-			return Composition{AtWants: frombus.HeldPlans{Plans: m.atWant[node], Held: m.heldAt[node]},
-				Newest: frombus.HeldPlans{Plans: m.atNewest[node]}}
+			return Composition{AtWants: HeldPlans{Plans: m.atWant[node], Held: m.heldAt[node]},
+				Newest: HeldPlans{Plans: m.atNewest[node]}}
 		}}
 	// What each provider's manifest declares: postgres, keycloak and the vault keep entries, the others report by their
 	// have.
@@ -386,10 +385,10 @@ func TestAModuleHeldWithoutAWantIsComposedAtTheBuildItRuns(t *testing.T) {
 	var keptAt map[string]string
 	m.h.Compose = func(_ context.Context, node string, at map[string]string) Composition {
 		keptAt = at
-		return Composition{AtWants: frombus.HeldPlans{Plans: map[string]catalogue.Plan{"nats": {}}}}
+		return Composition{AtWants: HeldPlans{Plans: map[string]catalogue.Plan{"nats": {}}}}
 	}
 	// ADR 0580 clause 2: the reads come from one watched copy, each state watched once and none read key by key from the
-	// bus, and a change the copy takes wakes the node it touches (a resolved value its node).
+	// bus, and a change the copy takes wakes the node it touches (a published composition its node).
 	bus := &readsOf{Store: m.s, read: map[string]int{}}
 	handles, watches := map[string]func(stdio.StateChange) error{}, map[string]int{}
 	ws := stdio.WatchedStatesOver(func(state string, handle func(stdio.StateChange) error) error {
@@ -404,7 +403,7 @@ func TestAModuleHeldWithoutAWantIsComposedAtTheBuildItRuns(t *testing.T) {
 	}, func(string, string) ([]byte, bool, error) { return nil, false, nil })
 	m.h.Store = Watching(bus, ws)
 	wk := &work{pending: map[string]bool{}, wake: make(chan struct{}, 1)}
-	for _, r := range []string{ResolvedRead, HaveRead} {
+	for _, r := range []string{ComposedRead, HaveRead} {
 		ws.Follow(r, func(c stdio.StateChange) error { wk.add(NodesOfNodeKey(c.Key)...); return nil })
 	}
 	for i := range 2 {
@@ -429,12 +428,14 @@ func TestAModuleHeldWithoutAWantIsComposedAtTheBuildItRuns(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s was read %d times from the bus and watched %d times", r, bus.read[r], watches[r])
 		}
 	}
-	// The current haves queued their nodes when watched; a later change of a resolved value or a have queues its node.
+	// The current haves queued their nodes when watched; a later change of a published composition or a have
+	// queues its node.
 	wk.pending = map[string]bool{}
-	_ = handles[ResolvedRead](stdio.StateChange{Key: "g14.dunst.font-size", Op: stdio.OpPut, Value: []byte("13")})
+	_ = handles[ComposedRead](stdio.StateChange{Key: "g14.dunst." + strings.Repeat("ee", 32), Op: stdio.OpPut,
+		Value: []byte("{}")})
 	_ = handles[HaveRead](stdio.StateChange{Key: "ace.restic", Op: stdio.OpDelete})
 	if !wk.pending["g14"] || !wk.pending["ace"] || len(wk.pending) != 2 {
-		t.Errorf("a resolved value's and a have's change queued %v, want g14 and ace", wk.pending)
+		t.Errorf("a published composition's and a have's change queued %v, want g14 and ace", wk.pending)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holdertools.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holdertools.go
index 8690cd73..12b4c906 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holdertools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/holdertools.go
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 // The holder's tools (novox/hq ADR 0570 Consequences, ADR 0564 §12's rule): a read of every key of `provisions` and
-// `plans`, one key whole, each state's fill, composing one node now, and reading the operator's answers now.
+// `plans`, one key whole, each state's fill, making one node's plans now, and reading the operator's answers now.
 
 import (
 	"context"
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ func holderTools(h *Holder) []stdio.Tool {
 				return h.read(ProvisionsState, arg(a, "key"), arg(a, "node"), arg(a, "state"))
 			}},
 		{Name: PlansTool,
-			Description: "Every module's provisioning plan the seat composed, <node>.<module>, narrowed by node, with how many " +
-				"keys and bytes the state holds, and each placed module held with no plan composed and why (refused: its " +
-				"manifest or its plan refuses, the node's other modules composed); or one plan whole.",
+			Description: "Every module's provisioning plan the seat keeps, <node>.<module>, as the node-engine's published " +
+				"composition carries it (composed-<node>), narrowed by node, with how many keys and bytes the state holds, " +
+				"and each placed module held with its last plan kept and why (refused: the node-engine refused its " +
+				"composition, or has not published it at the wanted build yet); or one plan whole.",
 			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"key": str("one plan, <node>.<module>"),
 				"node": str("a node")}},
 			Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) {
@@ -54,8 +55,9 @@ func holderTools(h *Holder) []stdio.Tool {
 				return out, nil
 			}},
 		{Name: ComposeTool,
-			Description: "Compose one node's plans and provisions now from the bus, as a change event would, and say what " +
-				"was written, removed, changed and asked.",
+			Description: "Make one node's plans and provisions now from the node-engine's published compositions and the " +
+				"providers' outcomes, as a change event would (it composes nothing), and say what was written, removed, " +
+				"changed and asked, and where the time went.",
 			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"node": str("the node")},
 				"required": []string{"node"}},
 			Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/main.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/main.go
index 33d50c83..ad007f0d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/main.go
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // mesh-provisioner: the provisioner's server, holder of the mesh-provisioner seat once for the mesh (novox/hq ADR
 // 0349 clause 3, ADR 0570). A Go bundle served by a runtime of its own, on its own bus account (`runs-as`, ADR 0259
-// §8), keeping mesh-provisioner_provisions and _plans (every provision and every plan, composed from the bus on change
-// events, its alone), _registry (which domain answers which kind of placeholder, its alone), and _applied and
+// §8), keeping mesh-provisioner_provisions and _plans (every provision and every plan, made from the node-engines'
+// published compositions on change events, its alone; novox/hq ADR 0593 §8), _registry (which domain answers which kind of placeholder, its alone), and _applied and
 // _collect, which each machine's provisioner client writes for its own machine; _needs is retired and emptied at its
 // start. stdout is the MCP channel; what this module says, it says on stderr.
 package main
@@ -125,14 +125,15 @@ func slowest(took []Took) time.Duration {
 func main() {
 	s := runtimeStore{}
 	ws := stdio.NewWatchedStates() // one copy of what it reads, each state by its watch (ADR 0580 clause 2)
-	h := &Holder{Store: Watching(s, ws), Compose: FromWatched(ws), Asks: runtimeAsks{}, Now: time.Now, Logf: logf}
+	h := &Holder{Store: Watching(s, ws), Asks: runtimeAsks{}, Now: time.Now, Logf: logf}
+	h.Compose = FromCompositions(h.Store) // the node-engines' published compositions, from the copy (ADR 0593 §8)
 	w := &work{pending: map[string]bool{}, wake: make(chan struct{}, 1)}
 	go w.run(h)
 	go starting(h)
 	// Each watch's handler runs after the copy took its change, so a composition it wakes reads the copy that change made.
 	go ws.Follow(PlacementRead, func(c stdio.StateChange) error { w.add(NodesOfPlacement(c.Key)...); return nil })
 	go ws.Follow(WantsRead, func(c stdio.StateChange) error { w.add(NodesOfWant(c.Key)...); return nil })
-	go ws.Follow(ResolvedRead, func(c stdio.StateChange) error { w.add(NodesOfNodeKey(c.Key)...); return nil })
+	go ws.Follow(ComposedRead, func(c stdio.StateChange) error { w.add(NodesOfNodeKey(c.Key)...); return nil })
 	go ws.Follow(HaveRead, func(c stdio.StateChange) error { w.add(NodesOfNodeKey(c.Key)...); return nil })
 	go ws.Follow(ModulesRead, func(c stdio.StateChange) error {
 		if module, err := delivery.ParseModulesKey(c.Key); err == nil {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/provisioner_test.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/provisioner_test.go
index f717ea06..7ef2233a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/provisioner_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/provisioner_test.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/compose/frombus"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
 // memStore is the bus as mesh-provisioner reaches it, in memory: the states it keeps.
@@ -326,9 +326,15 @@ func TestTheManifestDeclaresWhatTheCodeKeeps(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("the manifest lists %s, which is not served", tool)
 		}
 	}
-	for _, r := range append([]string{WantsRead}, frombus.StatesReads...) { // what fromruntime.Reader reads
+	for _, r := range append(slices.Clone(WatchedReads), ManifestsRead) {
 		if !slices.Contains(m.Reads, r) {
-			t.Errorf("the manifest does not read %s, which the composition reads", r)
+			t.Errorf("the manifest does not read %s, which the holder reads", r)
+		}
+	}
+	// It composes nothing (ADR 0593 §8): no build, and no config value, is read to make a plan.
+	for _, r := range []string{delivery.BuilderModule + ".builds", "mesh-config.resolved"} {
+		if slices.Contains(m.Reads, r) {
+			t.Errorf("the manifest reads %s, which only a composer reads", r)
 		}
 	}
 	for _, p := range BoundReads {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/ahead-today-composed.json b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/ahead-today-composed.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a2275e76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/ahead-today-composed.json
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+{
+  "node": "n1",
+  "kept-at": {
+    "restic": "src2:2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222"
+  },
+  "at-wants": {
+    "Plans": {
+      "restic": {
+        "templates": {
+          "source": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/restic/files/blobs/e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e",
+          "digest": "e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e"
+        },
+        "files": [
+          {
+            "id": "declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/backups.conf",
+            "template": "backups.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "data-declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/data.conf",
+            "template": "data.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "retention",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/retention.conf",
+            "template": "retention.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          }
+        ],
+        "placement": {
+          "backup:data": "# restic\nitem repository rebuildable /var/lib/restic/repository - none walk\nitem state cache /var/lib/restic - none walk\n",
+          "backup:lines": ""
+        },
+        "secrets": [
+          {
+            "name": "repository",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/repository.secret"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    "Held": {},
+    "Err": null
+  },
+  "newest": {
+    "Plans": {
+      "restic": {
+        "templates": {
+          "source": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/restic/files/blobs/e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e",
+          "digest": "e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e"
+        },
+        "files": [
+          {
+            "id": "declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/backups.conf",
+            "template": "backups.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "data-declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/data.conf",
+            "template": "data.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "retention",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/retention.conf",
+            "template": "retention.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          }
+        ],
+        "placement": {
+          "backup:data": "# restic\nitem repository rebuildable /var/lib/restic/repository - none walk\nitem state cache /var/lib/restic - none walk\n",
+          "backup:lines": ""
+        },
+        "secrets": [
+          {
+            "name": "repository",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/repository.secret"
+          }
+        ],
+        "provisions": [
+          {
+            "provision": "postgres-database",
+            "provider": "n1",
+            "provider-module": "postgres",
+            "at": "127.0.0.1",
+            "from": "n1",
+            "as": "mesh_n1_restic"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    "Held": {},
+    "Err": null
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/ahead-today-states.golden.json b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/ahead-today-states.golden.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dd17dcc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/ahead-today-states.golden.json
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+{
+  "plans": {
+    "n1.restic": {
+      "v": 1,
+      "node": "n1",
+      "module": "restic",
+      "plan": {
+        "templates": {
+          "source": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/restic/files/blobs/e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e",
+          "digest": "e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e"
+        },
+        "files": [
+          {
+            "id": "declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/backups.conf",
+            "template": "backups.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "data-declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/data.conf",
+            "template": "data.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "retention",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/retention.conf",
+            "template": "retention.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          }
+        ],
+        "placement": {
+          "backup:data": "# restic\nitem repository rebuildable /var/lib/restic/repository - none walk\nitem state cache /var/lib/restic - none walk\n",
+          "backup:lines": ""
+        },
+        "secrets": [
+          {
+            "name": "repository",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/repository.secret"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "provisions": {
+    "n1.restic.postgres-database": {
+      "v": 1,
+      "provision": "postgres-database",
+      "consumer": {
+        "module": "restic",
+        "node": "n1"
+      },
+      "provider": {
+        "module": "postgres",
+        "node": "n1"
+      },
+      "state": "asked",
+      "why": "no plan names it yet: the newest build of restic requires it and its wanted build does not, so its provider binds it from this key's plan entry; waits for postgres on n1 to run: it says nothing yet",
+      "plan": {
+        "provision": "postgres-database",
+        "provider": "n1",
+        "provider-module": "postgres",
+        "at": "127.0.0.1",
+        "from": "n1",
+        "as": "mesh_n1_restic"
+      },
+      "at": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z"
+    }
+  },
+  "refused": {}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/today-composed.json b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/today-composed.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..537b17a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/today-composed.json
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+{
+  "node": "n1",
+  "kept-at": {
+    "restic": "src2:3333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333"
+  },
+  "at-wants": {
+    "Plans": {
+      "restic": {
+        "templates": {
+          "source": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/restic/files/blobs/e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e",
+          "digest": "e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e"
+        },
+        "files": [
+          {
+            "id": "declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/backups.conf",
+            "template": "backups.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "data-declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/data.conf",
+            "template": "data.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "retention",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/retention.conf",
+            "template": "retention.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          }
+        ],
+        "placement": {
+          "backup:data": "# restic\nitem repository rebuildable /var/lib/restic/repository - none walk\nitem state cache /var/lib/restic - none walk\n",
+          "backup:lines": ""
+        },
+        "secrets": [
+          {
+            "name": "repository",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/repository.secret"
+          }
+        ],
+        "provisions": [
+          {
+            "provision": "postgres-database",
+            "provider": "n1",
+            "provider-module": "postgres",
+            "at": "127.0.0.1",
+            "from": "n1",
+            "as": "mesh_n1_restic"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    "Held": {},
+    "Err": null
+  },
+  "newest": {
+    "Plans": {
+      "restic": {
+        "templates": {
+          "source": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/restic/files/blobs/e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e",
+          "digest": "e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e"
+        },
+        "files": [
+          {
+            "id": "declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/backups.conf",
+            "template": "backups.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "data-declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/data.conf",
+            "template": "data.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "retention",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/retention.conf",
+            "template": "retention.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          }
+        ],
+        "placement": {
+          "backup:data": "# restic\nitem repository rebuildable /var/lib/restic/repository - none walk\nitem state cache /var/lib/restic - none walk\n",
+          "backup:lines": ""
+        },
+        "secrets": [
+          {
+            "name": "repository",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/repository.secret"
+          }
+        ],
+        "provisions": [
+          {
+            "provision": "postgres-database",
+            "provider": "n1",
+            "provider-module": "postgres",
+            "at": "127.0.0.1",
+            "from": "n1",
+            "as": "mesh_n1_restic"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    "Held": {},
+    "Err": null
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/today-states.golden.json b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/today-states.golden.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0bd4fd51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/cmd/mesh-provisioner/testdata/today-states.golden.json
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+{
+  "plans": {
+    "n1.restic": {
+      "v": 1,
+      "node": "n1",
+      "module": "restic",
+      "plan": {
+        "templates": {
+          "source": "http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2/restic/files/blobs/e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e",
+          "digest": "e30dc95f314f1a9f5365deef50f14f7a36ccaaaa34038621bbfa3a13509fca2e"
+        },
+        "files": [
+          {
+            "id": "declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/backups.conf",
+            "template": "backups.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "data-declared",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/data.conf",
+            "template": "data.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          },
+          {
+            "id": "retention",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/retention.conf",
+            "template": "retention.conf",
+            "owner-at-runtime": "owned"
+          }
+        ],
+        "placement": {
+          "backup:data": "# restic\nitem repository rebuildable /var/lib/restic/repository - none walk\nitem state cache /var/lib/restic - none walk\n",
+          "backup:lines": ""
+        },
+        "secrets": [
+          {
+            "name": "repository",
+            "path": "/var/lib/restic/repository.secret"
+          }
+        ],
+        "provisions": [
+          {
+            "provision": "postgres-database",
+            "provider": "n1",
+            "provider-module": "postgres",
+            "at": "127.0.0.1",
+            "from": "n1",
+            "as": "mesh_n1_restic"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  },
+  "provisions": {
+    "n1.restic.postgres-database": {
+      "v": 1,
+      "provision": "postgres-database",
+      "consumer": {
+        "module": "restic",
+        "node": "n1"
+      },
+      "provider": {
+        "module": "postgres",
+        "node": "n1"
+      },
+      "state": "asked",
+      "why": "waits for postgres on n1 to run: it says nothing yet",
+      "at": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z"
+    }
+  },
+  "refused": {}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner/module.json b/modules/mesh-provisioner/module.json
index b7e6d8a5..05a747a8 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner/module.json
@@ -19,9 +19,8 @@
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.wants",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests",
-    "mesh-delivery-builder.builds",
     "node-engine.have",
-    "mesh-config.resolved",
+    "mesh-host.composed",
     "gitea.bound",
     "keycloak.bound",
     "postgres.bound",