diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a95e38a3..9552fa38 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ modules/mesh-build-image/cmd/mesh-build-image/mesh-build-image
 /checks/paths/paths
 /modules/mesh-build-go/mesh-build-go
 /modules/mesh-delivery-gate/mesh-delivery-gate
+modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/mesh-config
+checks/placement/placement
 
 # Built by their modules' build step (issue 1577), never committed.
 modules/forticlient/cmd/forticlient-tools/forticlient-tools
diff --git a/checks/placement/go.mod b/checks/placement/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..676b2ed7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/placement/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+module checks/placement
+
+go 1.26.0
+
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026183837-9713c3023a18
diff --git a/checks/placement/go.sum b/checks/placement/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..790d7b5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/placement/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026171759-a431746c0e8c h1:zaSfYTJd03b0pF29QTZ6G5ajfjOXRXjHIpOiGu/niHA=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026171759-a431746c0e8c/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026172611-5b1e990eb4bb h1:Mo+XdKBGFhUbH1XLSyMdkqIL/JhMIUAucjT+ipZoTfg=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026172611-5b1e990eb4bb/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026173336-9789c8379a74 h1:+LrIwBeG0eCN6xOS9jhzL6ag0ipXHZ1vfCFEJqtT1eI=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026173336-9789c8379a74/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026174406-6df0dfe208c6 h1:sIagBHevPfpISBRK2r5EemnhHEGubdfEx/l3K6ujomo=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026174406-6df0dfe208c6/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026180300-f1d7c7377dc4 h1:rKDfp+IHnv903jcCujf5IdTrWd3mnudpNCfKaKvqp3w=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026180300-f1d7c7377dc4/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026181846-91413de33516 h1:xbbss6kQFrAiyy8UEvqh2Ddi2KP+O9oTUSh7GkqmCYU=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026181846-91413de33516/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026182519-53c2def1a520 h1:twiziR88X6ttKmw5JTd3aW6xb5bMZZ3Bl7WS2QOP3PE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026182519-53c2def1a520/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026183837-9713c3023a18 h1:HWNPfnT9YT9O6xHPLy2y6Q+LYT8XRjvLnZw9O61NETk=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261026183837-9713c3023a18/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0 h1:a3C1ke2ohxFymNlb2HWAHjDeKCI90scRskErZkR0ezA=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.20.0/go.mod h1:LUdAzn7YLVvxLpc7y3V1m40wESHTgc1422pwwBSKYuI=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0 h1:vsXoOxjHp/GmPUN+EcI7uOf/uB+iAP+kEsAFNQN0yzA=
+github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0/go.mod h1:y+DZoD1oBOYfZTU681eTUiUjI0vbqYGixNVFHcjHJ0k=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16 h1:rd5oAuLOb8mnAycB0xleuEBNS1pVVnN0fv/FF34Eypg=
+github.com/nats-io/nkeys v0.4.16/go.mod h1:llLgWoI0o4z/Q57q2R1kHfmocyhGV6VG/U18Glg1Afs=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1 h1:5iA8DT8V7q8WK2EScv2padNa/rTESc1KdnPw4TC2paw=
+github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1/go.mod h1:19wcPz3Ph3q0Jbyiqsd0kePYG7A95tJPxeL+1OSON2c=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 h1:3ZVCjf8Ggz7zneR/EHRVx68Ctf+2pmIMP2UFhh9cC6M=
+golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0/go.mod h1:Fdz0i5U6CoizGwLda9DttjSk6qlZo25zYNtR+ycvuZA=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 h1:bbX/i/6MgT9BVLM9RT1thmxL04yeTAhbEz4SyadbXoo=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0/go.mod h1:hNLxWAXmnKAxqDtdwIYC4bM9oQPEecfsnNMuSxOs3og=
diff --git a/checks/placement/main.go b/checks/placement/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..659edcc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/placement/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+// Command placement is the catalogue's check of its placement files (novox/hq ADR 0549 §1, ADR 0555; issue 1126): every
+// `placement/<node>.json` reads as a placement of the node its name says, and the files together are refused, every
+// finding named at once, for two modules of one node on one host port, a pin, binding or holding naming a provider not
+// placed where it says, a seat held once for the mesh held twice, two nodes with one address on the private network, or
+// more than one hub (mesh-sdk delivery.CheckPlacements).
+//
+// A module the catalogue does not hold and a node not enrolled are the composition check's to refuse: placement names
+// modules of every repository the indexer reads and the nodes the mesh enrolled, neither of which this tree holds.
+//
+//	go run . <catalogue root>
+//
+// Exits 1 on a finding.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sort"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// Check reads every placement file under root and answers each finding; none is a catalogue whose placement holds. A
+// catalogue with no placement directory has none to check.
+func Check(root string) ([]string, error) {
+	dir := filepath.Join(root, delivery.PlacementDir)
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(dir)
+	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var found []string
+	placements := map[string]delivery.Placement{}
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		rel := delivery.PlacementDir + "/" + e.Name()
+		node, ok := delivery.PlacementFileNode(rel)
+		if e.IsDir() || !ok {
+			found = append(found, fmt.Sprintf("%s is not a placement file: the directory holds only <node>.json, one per node", rel))
+			continue
+		}
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(dir, e.Name()))
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(raw)
+		if err != nil {
+			found = append(found, fmt.Sprintf("%s does not read as a placement: %v", rel, err))
+			continue
+		}
+		if p.Revision != "" {
+			found = append(found, fmt.Sprintf("%s names a revision, which only the indexer writes into the key", rel))
+		}
+		placements[node] = p
+	}
+	all := func(string) bool { return true }
+	found = append(found, delivery.CheckPlacements(placements, all, all)...)
+	sort.Strings(found)
+	return found, nil
+}
+
+func main() {
+	if len(os.Args) != 2 {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, "usage: placement <catalogue root>")
+		os.Exit(2)
+	}
+	found, err := Check(os.Args[1])
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
+		os.Exit(2)
+	}
+	for _, f := range found {
+		fmt.Println(f)
+	}
+	if len(found) > 0 {
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/checks/placement/main_test.go b/checks/placement/main_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88e45aca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/placement/main_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The catalogue's placement files as the merge check reads them (ADR 0549 §1, ADR 0555): the real tree holds every
+// rule, and a tree that breaks them is refused with every finding named at once.
+func TestPlacementFiles(t *testing.T) {
+	found, err := Check("../..")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, f := range found {
+		t.Errorf("%s (novox/hq ADR 0549 §1)", f)
+	}
+
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	write := func(name, body string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(root, "placement"), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, "placement", name), []byte(body), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	if found, err := Check(root); err != nil || len(found) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a catalogue with no placement directory: %v, %v", found, err)
+	}
+	write("ace.json", `{"v":1,"node":"ace","decided":{"hub":true,"address":"10.77.0.1"},"modules":[{"module":"a","ports":{"80":8080}},{"module":"b","ports":{"81":8080}}]}`)
+	write("g14.json", `{"v":1,"node":"g14","decided":{"hub":true,"address":"10.77.0.1"},"modules":[{"module":"c","bindings":{"pg":{"node":"ace","module":"pg"}}}]}`)
+	write("novox.json", `{"v":1,"node":"shanks","modules":[]}`)
+	write("bad.json", `{"v":1,"node":"bad","modules":{}}`)
+	write("dated.json", `{"v":1,"node":"dated","revision":"abc","modules":[]}`)
+	write("notes.md", "x")
+	found, err = Check(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"a and b are both published on host port 8080", "bound to ace/pg", "both have the address 10.77.0.1",
+		"ace, g14 are each placed as it", "placement file of novox names the node", "bad.json does not read", "dated.json names a revision",
+		"notes.md is not a placement file"} {
+		hit := false
+		for _, f := range found {
+			hit = hit || strings.Contains(f, want)
+		}
+		if !hit {
+			t.Errorf("no finding says %q; found %v", want, found)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/checks/placement/reads-outside b/checks/placement/reads-outside
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f6b2d871
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/placement/reads-outside
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+These tests read files outside this directory (the whole catalogue, the repository, or its root files): mesh-build-go never keeps this package's verdict (issue 1935).
diff --git a/modules/gitea/client.ts b/modules/gitea/client.ts
index a36e113f..2a6fe912 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/client.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/client.ts
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ export class GiteaClient {
    *  **A listing the forge cut is no listing** (it says `truncated` on a page with nothing more to read, or the pages
    *  run past a bound): the call fails naming the repository and the commit, never answering the directories it did
    *  see, since a directory left out would be taken for one without a module. Reads only. */
-  async commitTrees(owner: string, repo: string, sha: string, paths?: Record<string, string[]>): Promise<{ root: string; trees: Record<string, string>; paths?: Record<string, Record<string, string>> }> {
+  async commitTrees(owner: string, repo: string, sha: string, paths?: Record<string, string[]>, listed?: string[]): Promise<{ root: string; trees: Record<string, string>; paths?: Record<string, Record<string, string>>; listed?: Record<string, Record<string, string>> }> {
     const base = `${repoPath(owner, repo)}/git/trees/${commitSegment(sha)}?recursive=true`;
     const cut = (why: string) => new Error(`the forge's tree listing of ${owner}/${repo} at ${sha} was cut (${why}); no trees are answered from a part`);
     const entries: any[] = [];
@@ -567,7 +567,23 @@ export class GiteaClient {
       if (!tree) throw new Error(`the forge's tree listing of ${owner}/${repo} at ${sha} holds ${e.path} but not the tree of ${dir}`);
       trees[dir] = tree;
     }
-    if (paths === undefined) return { root, trees };
+    // **Listed directories** (novox/hq ADR 0549 §2, issue 1126): each asked directory's files directly under it, by name
+    // to blob id, from the same listing: how the forge bridge finds the catalogue's placement files, one per node, at a
+    // merge. A directory the commit lacks lists nothing (the catalogue before its first placement file).
+    let files: Record<string, Record<string, string>> | undefined;
+    if (listed !== undefined) {
+      files = {};
+      for (const dir of listed) {
+        files[dir] = {};
+        const prefix = dir === "" ? "" : `${dir}/`;
+        for (const e of entries) {
+          if (e?.type !== "blob" || typeof e.path !== "string" || !e.path.startsWith(prefix)) continue;
+          const name = e.path.slice(prefix.length);
+          if (name !== "" && !name.includes("/")) files[dir][name] = String(e.sha);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    if (paths === undefined) return files === undefined ? { root, trees } : { root, trees, listed: files };
     // **Named paths** (novox/hq ADR 0499 §3, issue 1758): each asked path's git object id at the commit, a file's or a
     // directory's, from the same listing, by directory and by path relative to it. A path the listing lacks fails
     // naming both, and nothing is answered in part.
@@ -582,7 +598,7 @@ export class GiteaClient {
         named[dir][p] = id;
       }
     }
-    return { root, trees, paths: named };
+    return files === undefined ? { root, trees, paths: named } : { root, trees, paths: named, listed: files };
   }
 
   /** Whether a repository holds a file at a commit: true, false for a 404, thrown when the forge cannot say. */
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/commit-trees.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/commit-trees.test.ts
index e685a5c0..f1ae6b7e 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/commit-trees.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/commit-trees.test.ts
@@ -183,6 +183,15 @@ test("named paths: each asked path's git object id at the commit, a file's or a
     });
     assert.deepEqual(got.trees, { "": ROOT, "modules/a": h("4"), "modules/b/c": h("8") });
     assert.equal((await client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT)).paths, undefined, "no paths asked, none answered");
+    // Listed directories (ADR 0549 §2, issue 1126): the files directly under each, not deeper; a missing one lists none.
+    const listed = await client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT, undefined, ["modules/a", "modules/b", "", "placement"]);
+    assert.deepEqual(listed.listed, {
+      "modules/a": { "main.go": h("6"), "module.json": h("5") },
+      "modules/b": {},
+      "": { "README.md": h("1"), "module.json": h("2") },
+      placement: {},
+    });
+    assert.equal((await client.commitTrees("novox", "hq", COMMIT)).listed, undefined, "no directory asked, none listed");
   } finally {
     server.close();
   }
@@ -209,7 +218,12 @@ test("gitea_commit_trees takes paths as {directory: [paths]} and refuses another
   const { client, server, asked } = await serve([{ sha: COMMIT, url: "u", tree: LISTING, truncated: false, page: 1, total_count: LISTING.length }]);
   try {
     const tool = getGiteaTools(client).find((t) => t.name === "gitea_commit_trees")!;
-    assert.ok("paths" in tool.input, "the tool names the argument");
+    assert.ok("paths" in tool.input && "listed" in tool.input, "the tool names the arguments");
+    const listedAnswer: any = await tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "hq", sha: COMMIT, listed: ["modules/d"] } as any);
+    assert.deepEqual(listedAnswer.listed, { "modules/d": { "notes.md": h("b") } });
+    for (const bad of ["modules/d", ["../x"], ["/abs"], [1]]) {
+      await assert.rejects(tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "hq", sha: COMMIT, listed: bad } as any), /listed/, JSON.stringify(bad));
+    }
     const got: any = await tool.run({ owner: "novox", repo: "hq", sha: COMMIT, paths: { "modules/a": ["main.go"] } } as any);
     assert.deepEqual(got.paths, { "modules/a": { "main.go": h("6") } });
     const before = asked.length;
diff --git a/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts b/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts
index 8f21cdb1..cfacfce5 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/tools/index.ts
@@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ function namedPaths(raw: unknown): Record<string, string[]> | undefined {
   return out;
 }
 
+/** The `listed` argument of gitea_commit_trees: [directory], each plain (no `.` or `..` segment, not absolute, the root
+ *  the empty name); anything else is refused before the forge is asked. Absent is absent. */
+function listedDirs(raw: unknown): string[] | undefined {
+  if (raw === undefined || raw === null) return undefined;
+  if (!Array.isArray(raw) || raw.some((d) => typeof d !== "string")) throw new Error("listed is [directory, ...]");
+  for (const d of raw as string[]) {
+    if (d !== "" && d.split("/").some((seg) => seg === "" || seg === "." || seg === "..")) throw new Error(`listed: ${JSON.stringify(d)} is not a plain relative directory`);
+  }
+  return raw as string[];
+}
+
 export function getGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefinition[] {
   return namesChecked(allGiteaTools(gitea, admin));
 }
@@ -550,19 +561,20 @@ function allGiteaTools(gitea: GiteaClient, admin?: () => GiteaAdmin): ToolDefini
     },
     {
       name: "gitea_commit_trees",
-      description: "A commit's trees from the forge's one recursive listing: the root tree, and the tree of every directory that holds a module.json (the root as an empty name), each by its git hash. What the forge bridge puts in a merge's message (novox/hq ADR 0437 §5). With paths, {directory: [path relative to it]}, the answer also carries paths, {directory: {path: git object id}} of each named file or directory at the commit (novox/hq ADR 0499 §3); a path the commit lacks fails naming the directory and the path. The commit is a full 40-hex sha. A listing the forge cut is refused, never answered in part. Reads only.",
+      description: "A commit's trees from the forge's one recursive listing: the root tree, and the tree of every directory that holds a module.json (the root as an empty name), each by its git hash. What the forge bridge puts in a merge's message (novox/hq ADR 0437 §5). With paths, {directory: [path relative to it]}, the answer also carries paths, {directory: {path: git object id}} of each named file or directory at the commit (novox/hq ADR 0499 §3); a path the commit lacks fails naming the directory and the path. The commit is a full 40-hex sha. With listed, [directory], the answer also carries listed, {directory: {name: git blob id}} of the files directly under each (the catalogue's placement files, novox/hq ADR 0549 §2). A listing the forge cut is refused, never answered in part. Reads only.",
       input: {
         owner: { type: "string", description: "the repository owner" },
         repo: { type: "string", description: "the repository name" },
         sha: { type: "string", description: "the commit, its full 40-hex sha" },
         paths: { type: "object", description: "optional, {directory: [path relative to it]}: the git object id of each named file or directory is answered under paths; the root directory is the empty name" },
+        listed: { type: "array", items: { type: "string" }, description: "optional, [directory]: the files directly under each, {directory: {name: git blob id}}, are answered under listed; a directory the commit lacks lists none" },
       },
       run: async (args) => {
         const owner = String(args.owner ?? "").trim(), repo = String(args.repo ?? "").trim();
         const sha = String(args.sha ?? "").trim();
         if (!owner || !repo) throw new Error("name the repository: owner and repo");
         if (!/^[0-9a-f]{40}$/i.test(sha)) throw new Error("sha is a commit's full 40-hex sha");
-        return gitea.commitTrees(owner, repo, sha, namedPaths(args.paths));
+        return gitea.commitTrees(owner, repo, sha, namedPaths(args.paths), listedDirs(args.listed));
       },
     },
     {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go
index 1334b097..63428e01 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ func resolving(c *Config) {
 		}
 		return nil
 	}
-	for _, read := range []string{AssignmentsRead, DeclaredConfigRead, PredefinedRead} {
+	for _, read := range []string{AssignmentsRead, PlacementRead, DeclaredConfigRead, PredefinedRead} {
 		go func(read string) {
 			for wait := 2 * time.Second; ; wait = min(wait*2, time.Minute) {
 				time.Sleep(wait)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/pulled_in_test.go b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/pulled_in_test.go
index e4120e2c..dbf9ebfb 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/pulled_in_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/pulled_in_test.go
@@ -21,4 +21,16 @@ func TestAModulePulledInHasItsValuesResolvedOnItsNode(t *testing.T) {
 	if r, _ := c.Reconcile(); len(r.Moved) != 4 || !r.Moved[0].Gone {
 		t.Errorf("a module no longer pulled in moved %+v", r.Moved)
 	}
+
+	// 1126 (ADR 0549 §3, §5): a module the catalogue's placement names on a node resolves there as an assigned one does,
+	// while the two sources stand; it goes when neither names it.
+	m.mirror(t, PlacementRead, "placement.ace", `{"v":1,"node":"ace","modules":[{"module":"dunst"}]}`)
+	if r, err := c.Reconcile(); err != nil || len(r.Moved) != 4 {
+		t.Fatalf("a placed module's values moved %+v (%v)", r.Moved, err)
+	}
+	expect(t, m, "ace", "10", SourceDefault)
+	_ = m.Delete(PlacementRead, "placement.ace")
+	if r, _ := c.Reconcile(); len(r.Moved) != 4 || !r.Moved[0].Gone {
+		t.Errorf("a module no longer placed moved %+v", r.Moved)
+	}
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/resolve.go b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/resolve.go
index bc21ec61..ccf35335 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/resolve.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/resolve.go
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ const (
 	PredefinedState = "predefined"
 	ProposalsState  = "proposals"
 
-	AssignmentsRead    = "mesh-controller.assignments"
+	AssignmentsRead = "mesh-controller.assignments"
+	// PlacementRead is the indexer's placement, read from the catalogue at each merge (novox/hq ADR 0549 §2, §3): each
+	// node's key `placement.<node>` with the modules placed there.
+	PlacementRead      = "mesh-delivery-indexer.placement"
 	DeclaredConfigRead = "mesh-controller.declared-config"
 	PredefinedRead     = "mesh-controller.predefined"
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/sources.go b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/sources.go
index df6292dc..34f8dddf 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/sources.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/sources.go
@@ -27,6 +27,38 @@ func (c *Config) sources() (Sources, error) {
 	}); err != nil {
 		return s, fmt.Errorf("the assignments cannot be read: %w", err)
 	}
+	// And every module the catalogue's placement names on a node (ADR 0549 §3): until ADR 0547's third milestone both
+	// sources stand (ADR 0549 §5), so a pair either names is resolved, and none loses its values while the two differ.
+	// Placement that cannot be read yet (the indexer's state not on the bus) leaves the assignments alone, said.
+	standing := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, a := range s.Assignments {
+		standing[a.Node+"."+a.Module] = true
+	}
+	if err := c.each(PlacementRead, func(key string, raw []byte) error {
+		node, ok := strings.CutPrefix(key, "placement.")
+		if !ok {
+			return nil
+		}
+		var p struct {
+			Node    string `json:"node"`
+			Modules []struct {
+				Module string `json:"module"`
+			} `json:"modules"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &p); err != nil || p.Node != node {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("the placement %s is not one", key))
+			return nil
+		}
+		for _, m := range p.Modules {
+			if m.Module != "" && !standing[node+"."+m.Module] {
+				standing[node+"."+m.Module] = true
+				s.Assignments = append(s.Assignments, Assignment{Node: node, Module: m.Module})
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	}); err != nil {
+		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("the catalogue's placement cannot be read, so the assignments alone are resolved: %v", err))
+	}
 	if err := c.each(DeclaredConfigRead, func(key string, raw []byte) error {
 		m, err := ParseModuleDeclarations(raw)
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/module.json b/modules/mesh-config/module.json
index f93497e1..d6b5bdd0 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/module.json
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
   ],
   "reads": [
     "mesh-controller.assignments",
+    "mesh-delivery-indexer.placement",
     "mesh-controller.declared-config",
     "mesh-controller.predefined"
   ],
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/nodekey_test.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/nodekey_test.go
index e266dc3d..5a0c738c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/nodekey_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/nodekey_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ package main
 // key (or a first one) raises `secret-changed` for the machine's core secrets, the same key says nothing.
 
 import (
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
+
 	"encoding/json"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -100,14 +102,17 @@ authorization {
   users = [
     { user: "novox.mesh-vault", password: "pw", permissions: {
         publish: { deny: [">"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.*"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.*", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.*"] }
         allow_responses: true } }
     { user: "node.ace", password: "pw", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.node_ace"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.node_ace", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.node_ace"] }
         subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.node.ace.>"] } } }
     { user: "node.g14", password: "pw", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.node_g14"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.node_g14", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.node_g14"] }
         subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.node.g14.>"] } } }
+    { user: "controller", password: "pw", permissions: {
+        publish: { allow: ["mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.controller"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.controller.>"] } } }
   ]
 }
 `
@@ -135,39 +140,47 @@ func TestOnARealBusANodeEngineStatesOnlyItsOwnKey(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Cleanup(s.Shutdown)
 
 	v := newVault(t, nil)
-	tool := toolNamed(t, definitions(&Env{Vault: v.Vault}), Seat+".node-key")
+	tools := map[string]toolDef{"node-key": toolNamed(t, definitions(&Env{Vault: v.Vault}), Seat+".node-key"),
+		"own": toolNamed(t, definitions(&Env{Vault: v.Vault}), Seat+".own")}
 	vaultConn := connectAs(t, s.ClientURL(), "novox.mesh-vault")
-	if _, err := vaultConn.Subscribe("mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.*", func(m *nats.Msg) {
+	serve := func(m *nats.Msg) {
 		parts := strings.Split(m.Subject, ".")
 		var args map[string]any
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(m.Data, &args)
 		answer := busAnswer{}
-		if got, err := tool.runAs(untoken(parts[len(parts)-1]), args); err != nil {
+		if got, err := tools[parts[len(parts)-2]].runAs(untoken(parts[len(parts)-1]), args); err != nil {
 			answer.Error = err.Error()
 		} else {
 			answer.Result, _ = json.Marshal(got)
 		}
 		raw, _ := json.Marshal(answer)
 		_ = m.Respond(raw)
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, verb := range []string{"node-key", "own"} {
+		if _, err := vaultConn.Subscribe("mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call."+verb+".*", serve); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
 	}
 	_ = vaultConn.Flush()
 
-	say := func(user, subject, key string) (string, error) {
-		raw, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{"key": key})
+	call := func(user, subject string, args any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(args)
 		msg, err := connectAs(t, s.ClientURL(), user).Request(subject, raw, 3*time.Second)
 		if err != nil {
-			return "", err
+			return nil, err
 		}
 		var a busAnswer
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &a)
 		if a.Error != "" {
-			return a.Error, errString(a.Error)
+			return nil, errString(a.Error)
 		}
-		return "", nil
+		return a.Result, nil
 	}
-	aceKey, _ := aSealingKey(t)
+	say := func(user, subject, key string) (string, error) {
+		_, err := call(user, subject, map[string]string{"key": key})
+		return "", err
+	}
+	aceKey, acePriv := aSealingKey(t)
 	g14Key, _ := aSealingKey(t)
 	if _, err := say("node.ace", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.node-key.node_ace", aceKey); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -188,4 +201,32 @@ func TestOnARealBusANodeEngineStatesOnlyItsOwnKey(t *testing.T) {
 	if got, held, _ := v.Store.NodeKey("g14"); !held || got != g14Key {
 		t.Errorf("g14's key is %q, %v", got, held)
 	}
+
+	// Issue 1126 (ADR 0547 §2, ADR 0550 §5): `own` on the same bus. node.ace asks its own and gets its module's secret
+	// sealed to the key it stated, opening with its key alone; g14 cannot ask in ace's name, and asking in its own gets
+	// none of ace's; the controller is refused, as no node-engine.
+	if _, err := moveIn(t, v, "node.ace", MoveOf{Node: "ace", Module: "web", Name: "password", Origin: "made", Generation: "g-1",
+		SealingKey: aceKey}, "ace-web-pw"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	raw, err := call("node.ace", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.node_ace", map[string]any{})
+	var own OwnAnswer
+	if err != nil || json.Unmarshal(raw, &own) != nil || own.Node != "ace" || len(own.Own) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("ace's own over the bus: %s, %v", raw, err)
+	}
+	if value, err := seal.Open(own.Own[0].Sealed, acePriv); err != nil || string(value) != "ace-web-pw" {
+		t.Errorf("ace's secret does not open with ace's key: %q, %v", value, err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(raw), "ace-web-pw") {
+		t.Error("ace's secret crossed the bus in the clear")
+	}
+	if _, err := call("node.g14", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.node_ace", map[string]any{}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("node.g14 asked ace's own in ace's name")
+	}
+	if raw, err := call("node.g14", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.node_g14", map[string]any{}); err != nil || strings.Contains(string(raw), "web") {
+		t.Errorf("g14 asking its own was answered %s, %v", raw, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := call("controller", "mesh.seat.mesh-vault.call.own.controller", map[string]any{}); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not a node-engine") {
+		t.Errorf("the controller asking own: %v", err)
+	}
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fb71a9c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+package main
+
+// A machine's node-engine composes its own modules (novox/hq ADR 0547 §2, issue 1126), and asks the vault for their own
+// secrets sealed to its own key (ADR 0349 §11, ADR 0550 §5): the verb `own`, answered to the node-engine of a machine
+// alone, about that machine alone (the machine is the caller's, as the bus proved it, never an argument). Each value is
+// sealed to the sealing key the machine's engine stated (`node-key`), so what crosses the bus opens on that machine only,
+// and the composition carries it sealed (no composition carries a secret in the clear). A module handed to the
+// provisioner is left out: its client fills its secrets from `get` (ADR 0349 §17).
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
+)
+
+// NodeOwnSecret is one own secret of a module on the asking machine, sealed to the machine's key.
+type NodeOwnSecret struct {
+	Module     string   `json:"module"`
+	Name       string   `json:"name"`
+	Origin     string   `json:"origin"`
+	Generation int      `json:"generation"`
+	Sealed     seal.Box `json:"sealed"`
+}
+
+// OwnAnswer is what `own` answers: the machine, the sealing key every value is sealed to (raw X25519, base64, as its
+// engine stated it), each own secret of its modules, and each pair credential it asked for that the vault holds.
+type OwnAnswer struct {
+	Node        string            `json:"node"`
+	Key         string            `json:"key"`
+	Own         []NodeOwnSecret   `json:"own"`
+	Credentials []NodeCredential  `json:"credentials,omitempty"`
+	Missing     []CredentialAsked `json:"missing,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// CredentialAsked names one pair credential by its ends, as a node composing its own asks for it (mesh-sdk
+// compose.CredentialKey): Role is `consumer` when the asking machine consumes it, `provider` when it grants it.
+type CredentialAsked struct {
+	Role           string `json:"role"`
+	Provision      string `json:"provision"`
+	Consumer       string `json:"consumer"`
+	ConsumerModule string `json:"consumer_module"`
+	Provider       string `json:"provider"`
+	Local          string `json:"local,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// NodeCredential is one pair credential answered, sealed to the asking machine's key, with the name the vault keeps it
+// under (`pair/...` per pair, `provision/<provider>/<provision>/<node>/<module>` issued for one holder, or the provision's
+// one shared value `provision/<provider>/<provision>`).
+type NodeCredential struct {
+	CredentialAsked
+	Name       string   `json:"name"`
+	Generation int      `json:"generation"`
+	Sealed     seal.Box `json:"sealed"`
+}
+
+// credentialNames are the names a pair credential may be kept under, the most particular first.
+func credentialNames(c CredentialAsked) []string {
+	pair := "pair/" + c.Provider + "/" + c.Provision + "/" + c.Consumer + "/" + c.ConsumerModule
+	if c.Local != "" {
+		pair += "/" + c.Local
+	}
+	return []string{pair, "provision/" + c.Provider + "/" + c.Provision + "/" + c.Consumer + "/" + c.ConsumerModule,
+		"provision/" + c.Provider + "/" + c.Provision}
+}
+
+// credentialRefusal says why node may not have c, or "": a consumer's credential to the machine its consuming module
+// stands on, a provider's to the providing machine, and nothing to a machine that is neither.
+func (v *Vault) credentialRefusal(node string, c CredentialAsked) string {
+	for _, part := range []string{c.Provision, c.Consumer, c.ConsumerModule, c.Provider} {
+		if !namePart.MatchString(part) {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("%q is not a name the mesh writes", part)
+		}
+	}
+	if c.Local != "" && !namePart.MatchString(c.Local) {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("%q is not a name the mesh writes", c.Local)
+	}
+	switch c.Role {
+	case "consumer":
+		if c.Consumer != node {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("%s asks as a consumer on %s, and is not that machine", node, c.Consumer)
+		}
+		if d, ok := v.Askers.(Declared); ok && d.Read != nil {
+			if raw, err := standing(d.Read)(node + "." + c.ConsumerModule); err == nil && raw == nil {
+				return fmt.Sprintf("%s is not on %s: neither assigned there nor required by a module there", c.ConsumerModule, node)
+			}
+		}
+		return ""
+	case "provider":
+		if c.Provider != node {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("%s asks as the provider %s, and is not that machine", node, c.Provider)
+		}
+		return ""
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("the role %q is not consumer or provider", c.Role)
+}
+
+// composeOrigin is the vault's origin of a value as the composition reads it: made by the mesh, or given (accepted at a
+// terminal, typed at a desk, issued by a provider's software).
+func composeOrigin(origin string) string {
+	if origin == "" || origin == OriginMade {
+		return OriginMade
+	}
+	return OriginAccepted
+}
+
+// OwnOfNode answers the node-engine of a machine the own secrets of its modules, each sealed to the machine's stated key.
+func (v *Vault) OwnOfNode(caller string, asked ...CredentialAsked) (OwnAnswer, error) {
+	node, ok := nodeEngineOf(caller)
+	if !ok {
+		if caller == "" || caller == stdio.Unproven {
+			caller = "an unproven caller"
+		}
+		return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("own answers a machine's node-engine alone, about its own machine; %s is not a node-engine", caller)
+	}
+	key, had, err := v.Store.NodeKey(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return OwnAnswer{}, err
+	}
+	if !had {
+		return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("the vault holds no secret named own/%s yet: %s's node-engine has stated no sealing key "+
+			"(node-key), so there is no key of its own to seal to", node, node)
+	}
+	to, err := publicPEM(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s's sealing key as recorded is not usable: %w", node, err)
+	}
+	all, err := v.Store.List()
+	if err != nil {
+		return OwnAnswer{}, err
+	}
+	out := OwnAnswer{Node: node, Key: key}
+	for _, r := range all {
+		parts := strings.Split(r.Name, "/")
+		if len(parts) != 4 || parts[0] != "own" || parts[1] != node {
+			continue
+		}
+		if v.handed(node, parts[2]) {
+			continue
+		}
+		value, err := seal.Open(r.AtRest, v.Own.PrivateKey)
+		if err != nil {
+			return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s does not open with the vault's key: %w", r.Name, err)
+		}
+		sealed, err := seal.Seal(value, to)
+		if err != nil {
+			return OwnAnswer{}, err
+		}
+		if err := v.recordHanding(Handing{To: caller, Name: r.Name, Generation: r.Generation, Outcome: "handed"}); err != nil {
+			return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s is not handed out: who was handed it could not be recorded: %w", r.Name, err)
+		}
+		out.Own = append(out.Own, NodeOwnSecret{Module: parts[2], Name: parts[3], Origin: composeOrigin(r.Origin),
+			Generation: r.Generation, Sealed: sealed})
+	}
+	sort.Slice(out.Own, func(i, j int) bool {
+		if out.Own[i].Module != out.Own[j].Module {
+			return out.Own[i].Module < out.Own[j].Module
+		}
+		return out.Own[i].Name < out.Own[j].Name
+	})
+	for _, c := range asked {
+		if why := v.credentialRefusal(node, c); why != "" {
+			return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s may not ask for the credential of %s from %s to %s on %s: %s", caller,
+				c.Provision, c.Provider, c.ConsumerModule, c.Consumer, why)
+		}
+		found := false
+		for _, name := range credentialNames(c) {
+			r, held, err := v.Store.Read(name)
+			if err != nil {
+				return OwnAnswer{}, err
+			}
+			if !held {
+				continue
+			}
+			value, err := seal.Open(r.AtRest, v.Own.PrivateKey)
+			if err != nil {
+				return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s does not open with the vault's key: %w", name, err)
+			}
+			sealed, err := seal.Seal(value, to)
+			if err != nil {
+				return OwnAnswer{}, err
+			}
+			if err := v.recordHanding(Handing{To: caller, Name: name, Generation: r.Generation, Outcome: "handed"}); err != nil {
+				return OwnAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("%s is not handed out: who was handed it could not be recorded: %w", name, err)
+			}
+			out.Credentials = append(out.Credentials, NodeCredential{CredentialAsked: c, Name: name, Generation: r.Generation, Sealed: sealed})
+			found = true
+			break
+		}
+		if !found {
+			out.Missing = append(out.Missing, c)
+		}
+	}
+	v.log("handed %s's node-engine the %d own secrets of its modules and %d credentials (%d not held), sealed to its key",
+		node, len(out.Own), len(out.Credentials), len(out.Missing))
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// handed says the plan of module on node hands it to the provisioner, so its secrets are filled from `get`, not composed.
+// Where the plans cannot be read, nothing counts as handed: the composer leaves out a handed module's secrets itself.
+func (v *Vault) handed(node, module string) bool {
+	d, ok := v.Askers.(Declared)
+	if !ok || d.Read == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	raw, err := standing(d.Read)(node + "." + module)
+	if err != nil || raw == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	var a plannedSecrets
+	return json.Unmarshal(raw, &a) == nil && a.Provisioning != nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode_test.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7693bb36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
+)
+
+// Issue 1126 (ADR 0547 §2, ADR 0550 §5): `own` answers a machine's node-engine the own secrets of its modules, sealed to
+// the key that machine's engine stated, about that machine alone; another caller, another machine's secrets and a
+// machine with no stated key get nothing.
+func TestOwnAnswersAMachineItsModulesSecretsSealedToItsKey(t *testing.T) {
+	v := newVault(t, nil)
+	anchorPub, anchorPriv := aSealingKey(t)
+	laptopPub, _ := aSealingKey(t)
+	for _, m := range []struct {
+		caller string
+		of     MoveOf
+		value  string
+	}{
+		{"node.anchor", MoveOf{Node: "anchor", Module: "web", Name: "password", Origin: "made", Generation: "g-1", SealingKey: anchorPub}, "anchor-web-pw"},
+		{"node.anchor", MoveOf{Node: "anchor", Module: "web", Name: "api-key", Origin: "accepted", Generation: "g-1", SealingKey: anchorPub}, "anchor-web-key"},
+		{"node.laptop", MoveOf{Node: "laptop", Module: "web", Name: "password", Origin: "made", Generation: "g-1", SealingKey: laptopPub}, "laptop-web-pw"},
+	} {
+		if _, err := moveIn(t, v, m.caller, m.of, m.value); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	got, err := v.OwnOfNode("node.anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got.Node != "anchor" || got.Key != anchorPub || len(got.Own) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("anchor was answered %+v", got)
+	}
+	want := map[string][2]string{"api-key": {"accepted", "anchor-web-key"}, "password": {"made", "anchor-web-pw"}}
+	for _, s := range got.Own {
+		w, ok := want[s.Name]
+		if !ok || s.Module != "web" || s.Origin != w[0] || s.Generation < 1 {
+			t.Errorf("anchor's %s: %+v", s.Name, s)
+			continue
+		}
+		value, err := seal.Open(s.Sealed, anchorPriv)
+		if err != nil || string(value) != w[1] {
+			t.Errorf("anchor's %s does not open to its value with anchor's key: %q, %v", s.Name, value, err)
+		}
+	}
+	for caller, says := range map[string]string{
+		"controller":   "is not a node-engine",
+		"anchor.web":   "is not a node-engine",
+		"":             "an unproven caller",
+		"node.unknown": "no secret named own/unknown yet",
+	} {
+		if _, err := v.OwnOfNode(caller); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), says) {
+			t.Errorf("%q: %v, want a refusal saying %q", caller, err, says)
+		}
+	}
+	if laptop, err := v.OwnOfNode("node.laptop"); err != nil || len(laptop.Own) != 1 || laptop.Own[0].Name != "password" {
+		t.Errorf("laptop was answered %+v, %v; want its one secret alone", laptop, err)
+	}
+
+	// A pair credential: laptop's web consumes anchor's postgres. Each end is answered the one value sealed to its own key;
+	// a credential the vault holds none of is named missing; a machine at neither end is refused.
+	if _, err := moveIn(t, v, "node.laptop", MoveOf{Provider: "anchor", Provision: "postgres", Consumer: "laptop",
+		ConsumerModule: "web", Origin: "made", Generation: "g-1", SealingKey: laptopPub}, "pg-pair"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	pair := CredentialAsked{Provision: "postgres", Consumer: "laptop", ConsumerModule: "web", Provider: "anchor"}
+	asConsumer, asProvider := pair, pair
+	asConsumer.Role, asProvider.Role = "consumer", "provider"
+	none := CredentialAsked{Role: "consumer", Provision: "redis", Consumer: "laptop", ConsumerModule: "web", Provider: "anchor"}
+	laptop, err := v.OwnOfNode("node.laptop", asConsumer, none)
+	if err != nil || len(laptop.Credentials) != 1 || len(laptop.Missing) != 1 || laptop.Missing[0] != none {
+		t.Fatalf("laptop as consumer: %+v, %v", laptop, err)
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(laptop.Credentials[0].Name, "pair/anchor/postgres/laptop/web") {
+		t.Errorf("laptop's credential is kept as %s", laptop.Credentials[0].Name)
+	}
+	anchor, err := v.OwnOfNode("node.anchor", asProvider)
+	if err != nil || len(anchor.Credentials) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("anchor as provider: %+v, %v", anchor, err)
+	}
+	if value, err := seal.Open(anchor.Credentials[0].Sealed, anchorPriv); err != nil || string(value) != "pg-pair" {
+		t.Errorf("anchor's copy does not open to the value with its key: %q, %v", value, err)
+	}
+	for who, c := range map[string]CredentialAsked{"node.anchor": asConsumer, "node.laptop": asProvider} {
+		if _, err := v.OwnOfNode(who, c); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "is not that machine") {
+			t.Errorf("%s asking %+v: %v", who, c, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/tools.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/tools.go
index 1bd6fe9f..2ef64c8d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/tools.go
@@ -251,6 +251,34 @@ func definitions(env *Env) []toolDef {
 				// clause 9, adopt.go): a public half, never the private one.
 				return map[string]any{"recorded": true, "vault_key": v.Own.PublicKey}, nil
 			}},
+		{Name: Seat + ".own",
+			Description: "The own secrets of this machine's modules, each sealed to the machine's sealing key (novox/hq ADR 0547 §2, " +
+				"ADR 0550 §5, issue 1126): from the node-engine of the machine alone, about its own machine (the bus proves which), " +
+				"for the compositions it makes itself. Answers the machine, the key each value is sealed to, and per module and " +
+				"name the origin, the generation and the sealed value; a module handed to the provisioner is left out. With credentials, " +
+				"also each pair credential the machine consumes or grants, sealed the same way. Never a value in the clear.",
+			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{
+				"credentials": map[string]any{"type": "array", "description": "the pair credentials the machine's composition " +
+					"reads, each {role: consumer|provider, provision, consumer, consumer_module, provider, local}: answered " +
+					"sealed to the machine's key when the machine is that consumer's or that provider, and named missing when " +
+					"the vault holds none", "items": map[string]any{"type": "object"}}}},
+			run: func(caller string, a map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				v, err := env.ready()
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				var asked []CredentialAsked
+				if raw, ok := a["credentials"]; ok && raw != nil {
+					b, err := json.Marshal(raw)
+					if err == nil {
+						err = json.Unmarshal(b, &asked)
+					}
+					if err != nil {
+						return nil, fmt.Errorf("credentials is a list of {role, provision, consumer, consumer_module, provider, local}: %w", err)
+					}
+				}
+				return v.OwnOfNode(caller, asked...)
+			}},
 		{Name: Seat + ".move-asks",
 			Description: "Copy rows of the controller's record of asks at a desk into the vault's, as they are and once " +
 				"(design 57's V3): from the controller alone, at most 500 at a time. No value is in any of them.",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/module.json b/modules/mesh-vault/module.json
index cdff2835..304b95df 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/module.json
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@
         "rotate",
         "move-in",
         "node-key",
-        "move-asks"
+        "move-asks",
+        "own"
       ]
     }
   ]