diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/config_test.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/config_test.go
index 73072d929..f443507ea 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/config_test.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/config_test.go
@@ -270,11 +270,17 @@ func TestTheManifestListsEveryToolServed(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	var m struct {
 		Tools   []string `json:"tools"`
-		Invokes []string `json:"invokes"`
+		Invokes  []string `json:"invokes"`
+		Reads    []string `json:"reads"`
+		Consumes []string `json:"consumes"`
 	}
 	_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &m)
-	if !slices.Equal(m.Invokes, []string{"seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted"}) {
-		t.Errorf("invokes = %v, want the hand-act seat's warranted alone", m.Invokes)
+	// The hand-act seat's warranted and hand-act, and the owners' read tools of the three followed states; no verb of
+	// the controller, and no read of the indexer's or the assigner's state (ADR 0615 §1): their views are consumed.
+	if !slices.Equal(m.Invokes, []string{"seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted", "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act", ModulesTool, ManifestsTool, PlacementTool}) ||
+		!slices.Equal(m.Reads, []string{"claude-licence-manager.bindings"}) ||
+		!slices.Equal(m.Consumes, []string{"mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests", "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.placement"}) {
+		t.Errorf("invokes = %v, reads = %v, consumes = %v", m.Invokes, m.Reads, m.Consumes)
 	}
 	if src, _ := os.ReadFile("proposals.go"); !strings.Contains(string(src), `"seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted"`) ||
 		strings.Contains(string(src), "seat:mesh-controller.warranted") {
@@ -285,6 +291,7 @@ func TestTheManifestListsEveryToolServed(t *testing.T) {
 		listed[n] = true
 	}
 	p, _ := node(t, "laptop")
+	meshViews = newMeshViews()
 	served := tools(p, nil, NewServerView(p), memConfig{}, NewConfigView(p))
 	for _, tool := range served {
 		if !listed[tool.Name] {
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go
index a157fc7fe..8e5815001 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go
@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
 
 // aBus is the states claude-code reads, as a test holds them: by read, key and value.
@@ -192,6 +196,40 @@ func TestTheMachinesRunningAModuleAreReadFromPlacement(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// ADR 0615 §1: the tools and the placement come from the owners' first views and their views events, never their state.
+// A reader whose first views are answered from the fixture reads what the state read gave, and a views event changes
+// what it reads (CAT-CC3).
+func TestTheMeshIsReadFromTheOwnersFirstViews(t *testing.T) {
+	bus := aMesh(t)
+	r := newMeshViews()
+	for _, name := range []string{ModulesRead, ManifestsRead, PlacementRead} {
+		state := strings.TrimPrefix(name, strings.Split(name, ".")[0]+".")
+		values := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+		for k, v := range bus[name] {
+			values[k] = v
+		}
+		f := r.Follow(strings.Split(name, ".")[0], state, "x")
+		f.Ask = func(context.Context, string) (views.Answer, error) {
+			return views.Answer{V: views.Version, Owner: f.Owner, State: state, Revision: 5, Created: time.Unix(1, 0), Values: values, At: time.Now()}, nil
+		}
+		if err := f.Start(context.Background()); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	want, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(bus, seats.List(), resolving)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(viewStates{r}, seats.List(), resolving)
+	if err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(got, want) || len(got.Replacements) == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("from the views: %+v, %v\nfrom the state: %+v", got, err, want)
+	}
+	// A reader not yet answered says so, and reads nothing.
+	if _, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(viewStates{newMeshViews()}, seats.List(), resolving); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no first view") {
+		t.Fatalf("an unanswered first view: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
 // Issue 1126 B13 AC1 (ADR 0590): over the seats the mesh defines, the rendered instructions, their table among them,
 // name no address of the controller, which is not placed: each job is named by the seat that owns it now.
 func TestTheRenderedInstructionsNameNoControllerAddress(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go
index 6dfa03c7f..61e23ad57 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -24,6 +25,9 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats"
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/handacts"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
 
 func say(format string, args ...any) {
@@ -205,23 +209,46 @@ func (s stateOf) Get(key string) (json.RawMessage, bool, error) {
 	return e.Value, true, nil
 }
 
-// nodesRunningMe is the nodes claude-code runs on, from the seat mesh-placement's placement — for the register
-// tool's question.
-func nodesRunningMe() ([]string, error) { return NodesRunning(busStates{}, "claude-code") }
+// nodesRunningMe is the nodes claude-code runs on, from the assigner's placement — for the register tool's question.
+func nodesRunningMe() ([]string, error) { return NodesRunning(viewStates{meshViews}, "claude-code") }
 
-// busStates reads the states the manifest declares in its reads through the runtime.
-type busStates struct{}
+// The owners' read tools of the states this module follows, which the manifest invokes (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1).
+const (
+	ModulesTool   = delivery.IndexerModule + ".indexer_read_modules"
+	ManifestsTool = delivery.IndexerModule + ".indexer_read_manifests"
+	PlacementTool = delivery.AssignerModule + ".assigner_read_placement"
+)
 
-func (busStates) Keys(read string) ([]string, error) { return stdio.State(read).Keys() }
+// meshViews is this module's picture of the indexer's modules and manifests and the assigner's placement: each asked
+// once of the owner's read tool, then followed on the owner's views family. It reads none of their state.
+var meshViews *views.Reader
 
-func (busStates) Get(read, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) {
-	e, err := stdio.State(read).Get(key)
-	if err != nil || e == nil {
-		return nil, false, err
-	}
-	return e.Value, true, nil
+// meshChanged is told, without waiting, that a followed state changed: the instructions' table is read again.
+var meshChanged = make(chan struct{}, 1)
+
+// newMeshViews builds the reader of those three states; Start asks them.
+func newMeshViews() *views.Reader {
+	v := &views.Reader{Module: Module, Logf: func(f string, a ...any) { say(f, a...) }, Findings: views.OwnFindings{},
+		Acts: handacts.Recorder{Ask: stdio.Ask},
+		Changed: func(string, string, json.RawMessage, bool) {
+			select {
+			case meshChanged <- struct{}{}:
+			default:
+			}
+		}}
+	v.Follow(delivery.IndexerModule, "modules", ModulesTool)
+	v.Follow(delivery.IndexerModule, "manifests", ManifestsTool)
+	v.Follow(delivery.AssignerModule, "placement", PlacementTool)
+	return v
 }
 
+// viewStates reads the followed states from the reader's pictures, never from the owners' state.
+type viewStates struct{ v *views.Reader }
+
+func (s viewStates) Keys(read string) ([]string, error) { return s.v.Keys(read) }
+
+func (s viewStates) Get(read, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) { return s.v.Get(read, key) }
+
 func fingerprintOfFile(path string) any {
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -291,7 +318,7 @@ func tools(p Paths, servers ServerState, view *ServerView, config ConfigState, c
 			Description: "Write Claude Code's managed directory now, from the mesh's facts, this module's settings and the servers registered here — after reading the bus again for what each tool replaces and which machines the mesh has (the instructions' table and the shell's guard).",
 			Run: func(map[string]any) (any, error) {
 				answer := map[string]any{}
-				if m, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(busStates{}, seats.List(), lookup); err != nil {
+				if m, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(viewStates{meshViews}, seats.List(), lookup); err != nil {
 					answer["asked"] = "the bus could not be read in full (" + err.Error() + "); what was kept is rendered"
 				} else {
 					KeepMeshTools(p, m)
@@ -377,6 +404,7 @@ func tools(p Paths, servers ServerState, view *ServerView, config ConfigState, c
 		return stdio.Emit("judged", e, stdio.EmitOptions{MessageID: id})
 	}
 	out = append(out, judgeTool(judge), judgedTool(judge))
+	out = append(out, meshViews.Tools("claude_code")...)
 	return append(out, configTools(p, config, configView)...)
 }
 
@@ -422,6 +450,7 @@ func main() {
 		return
 	}
 	p, launched := PathsFrom(os.Getenv)
+	meshViews = newMeshViews()
 	if launched {
 		fsys = FilesFor(p)
 	}
@@ -451,6 +480,7 @@ func main() {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	meshViews.Start(context.Background())
 	go refreshMeshTools(p)
 	servers := stateOf{stdio.State("servers")}
 	view := NewServerView(p)
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/mesh.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/mesh.go
index ba1b40600..380cf1366 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/mesh.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/mesh.go
@@ -334,13 +334,23 @@ func guardFiles(p Paths, m *MeshTools) *GuardFiles {
 	return &GuardFiles{Exe: exe, Data: GuardDataOf(p, m), WaitsDir: WaitsDirPath(p)}
 }
 
-// MeshToolsEvery is how often the bus is read again.
+// MeshToolsEvery is how often the machines' addresses are resolved again; the tools and the placement are read again
+// when their followed states change (a views event), not on this timer.
 const MeshToolsEvery = 10 * time.Minute
 
-// refreshMeshTools reads the bus at start and every few minutes, and renders when what it said changed.
+// MeshToolsFirst is how long the first read waits for the first views to be answered.
+const MeshToolsFirst = 2 * time.Minute
+
+// refreshMeshTools reads the pictures once the first views are answered, and again whenever one changes (and the
+// machines' addresses every few minutes), and renders when what it said changed.
 func refreshMeshTools(p Paths) {
+	select {
+	case <-meshViews.Ready():
+	case <-time.After(MeshToolsFirst):
+		say("the first views of the tools and the placement were not answered in %s; reading what is held", MeshToolsFirst)
+	}
 	for {
-		m, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(busStates{}, seats.List(), lookup)
+		m, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(viewStates{meshViews}, seats.List(), lookup)
 		if err != nil {
 			say("reading what each tool replaces and which machines the mesh has: %v", err)
 		}
@@ -351,7 +361,15 @@ func refreshMeshTools(p Paths) {
 				say("the mesh's tools changed: %d replace a command, %d machines; rendered", len(m.Replacements), len(m.Machines))
 			}
 		}
-		time.Sleep(MeshToolsEvery)
+		select {
+		case <-meshChanged:
+			time.Sleep(2 * time.Second) // a burst of events is one read
+			select {
+			case <-meshChanged:
+			default:
+			}
+		case <-time.After(MeshToolsEvery):
+		}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/go.work.sum b/modules/claude-code/go.work.sum
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd0eee143
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/claude-code/go.work.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.1 h1:T7kKElXUMXrUJ2E9QhQhxFtcK5rPyLdsGZvdbLMPdiQ=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.1/go.mod h1:LUdAzn7YLVvxLpc7y3V1m40wESHTgc1422pwwBSKYuI=
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/module.json b/modules/claude-code/module.json
index 0f890ac6b..3ecf0dfab 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/module.json
+++ b/modules/claude-code/module.json
@@ -23,7 +23,16 @@
     "operator-channel"
   ],
   "invokes": [
-    "seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted"
+    "seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted",
+    "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.indexer_read_modules",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.indexer_read_manifests",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.assigner_read_placement"
+  ],
+  "consumes": [
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.placement"
   ],
   "state": [
     "servers",
@@ -32,16 +41,14 @@
     "proposals",
     "questions",
     "memory",
-    "waits"
+    "waits",
+    "findings"
   ],
   "emits": [
     "judged"
   ],
   "reads": [
-    "claude-licence-manager.bindings",
-    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests"
+    "claude-licence-manager.bindings"
   ],
   "tools": [
     "claude_code_status",
@@ -92,7 +99,9 @@
     "claude_code_home_removed",
     "claude_code_home_restore",
     "claude_code_judge",
-    "claude_code_judged"
+    "claude_code_judged",
+    "claude_code_first_views",
+    "claude_code_first_view_again"
   ],
   "data": {
     "own": [