diff --git a/modules/showcase/daemon/index.ts b/modules/showcase/daemon/index.ts
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+// showcase's long-running process — a `process` that stays up.
+//
+// **Runs on the machine rather than in a container**, which is the whole point of the process
+// resource: this is the mesh's own code, it needs no isolation from the mesh, and it should not
+// need an image to run.
+const greeting = process.env.SHOWCASE_GREETING ?? "hello";
+const every = Number(process.env.SHOWCASE_EVERY_SECONDS ?? "30") * 1000;
+
+console.log(`[showcase] up, saying ${greeting} every ${every / 1000}s`);
+
+// A daemon that stops is not a daemon, so this does not exit. The unit restarts it if it does,
+// which is the machine's job rather than this file's.
+setInterval(() => console.log(`[showcase] ${greeting}`), every);
diff --git a/modules/showcase/files/README.md b/modules/showcase/files/README.md
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+# showcase's packed files
+
+Packed as an `archive` artifact and unpacked onto the machine by an `archive` resource.
+
+This exists to exercise the case inlining cannot serve: a tree of files that belongs on a machine
+and would make a declaration enormous if it were carried inside one.
diff --git a/modules/showcase/files/marker.txt b/modules/showcase/files/marker.txt
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+showcase
diff --git a/modules/showcase/index.ts b/modules/showcase/index.ts
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+// showcase's event consumer — loaded by a tool host, not run on its own.
+//
+// **This is one of the four things a module's code can be**, and the one that is easiest to
+// forget: tools are called, a provisioner is invoked, a process runs, and a consumer simply reacts.
+// It is here so the module exercises the shape rather than describing it.
+import { on, emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+
+await on<{ who?: string }>("module.showcase.greeted", async (event) => {
+  console.log(`[showcase] greeted ${event.body.who ?? "somebody"}`);
+  // A consumer may emit, which is what makes an event graph rather than a list of sinks.
+  await emit("module.showcase.acknowledged", { who: event.body.who ?? "somebody" });
+});
diff --git a/modules/showcase/module.json b/modules/showcase/module.json
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+{
+  "module": "showcase",
+  "version": "1",
+  "slug": "show",
+
+  "capabilities": ["container-runtime"],
+
+  "provides": [{ "name": "greeting", "scope": "mesh" }],
+  "serves": { "greeting": { "path": "/greeting" } },
+  "requires": ["postgres-database"],
+  "binds": { "postgres-database": "/var/lib/showcase/database.json" },
+  "secrets": { "postgres-database": "/var/lib/showcase/database.secret" },
+  "own-secrets": { "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/showcase/broker" },
+
+  "claims": [{ "name": "the-showcase", "scope": "node" }],
+
+  "emits": ["module.showcase.acknowledged"],
+  "consumes": ["module.showcase.greeted"],
+
+  "listens": [
+    { "protocol": "tcp", "from": "mesh",
+      "why": "the showcase daemon answers here, so the mesh can reach it" }
+  ],
+
+  "build": {
+    "artifacts": [
+      { "name": "code", "kind": "bundle", "language": "typescript",
+        "entrypoints": ["index.js", "tools/index.js", "provisioner/index.js",
+                        "daemon/index.js", "step/index.js", "report/index.js"] },
+      { "name": "files", "kind": "archive", "from": "files" },
+      { "name": "helper", "kind": "upstream",
+        "from": "alpine@sha256:28bd5fe8b56d1bd048e5babf5b10710ebe0bae67db86916198a6eec434943f8b" }
+    ]
+  },
+
+  "resources": [
+    { "id": "account", "type": "user", "name": "showcase", "shell": "/usr/bin/nologin",
+      "home": "/var/lib/showcase" },
+
+    { "id": "logs", "type": "access", "path": "/var/log", "mode": "0755" },
+
+    { "id": "mesh-state", "type": "directory", "path": "/var/lib/mesh/showcase", "mode": "0700" },
+    { "id": "state", "type": "directory", "path": "/var/lib/showcase", "mode": "0755" },
+
+    { "id": "settings", "type": "file", "path": "/var/lib/showcase/showcase.env", "mode": "0600",
+      "content": "SHOWCASE_GREETING=hello\nSHOWCASE_EVERY_SECONDS=30\nSHOWCASE_STATE=/var/lib/showcase\nSHOWCASE_DATABASE=${bound:postgres-database:at}\n" },
+
+    { "id": "packed", "type": "archive", "path": "/opt/showcase", "artifact": "files" },
+
+    { "id": "net", "type": "network", "name": "showcase" },
+
+    { "id": "tooling", "type": "package", "package": "jq" },
+
+    { "id": "migrate", "type": "process", "name": "showcase-migrate", "artifact": "code",
+      "run": ["node", "step/index.js"], "run-once": true,
+      "env-file": ["/var/lib/showcase/showcase.env"] },
+
+    { "id": "server", "type": "process", "name": "showcase", "artifact": "code",
+      "run": ["node", "daemon/index.js"], "user": "showcase",
+      "env-file": ["/var/lib/showcase/showcase.env"],
+      "restart-on": ["settings"] },
+
+    { "id": "reporting", "type": "process", "name": "showcase-report", "artifact": "code",
+      "run": ["node", "report/index.js"], "schedule": "0 3 * * *",
+      "env-file": ["/var/lib/showcase/showcase.env"] },
+
+    { "id": "tools", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-showcase", "artifact": "helper",
+      "network": "showcase",
+      "volumes": ["/var/lib/mesh/showcase/broker:/run/secrets/broker:ro"],
+      "env": { "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker" },
+      "args": ["sleep", "infinity"] }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/modules/showcase/package.json b/modules/showcase/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "@novox/module-showcase",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "showcase — a module that exercises every capability a module has, so the module system has something that proves itself rather than a claim about what it supports.",
+  "type": "module",
+  "private": true,
+  "dependencies": { "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0" },
+  "devDependencies": { "@types/node": "^22.0.0", "typescript": "^5.6.0" }
+}
diff --git a/modules/showcase/provisioner/index.ts b/modules/showcase/provisioner/index.ts
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+// showcase's provisioner — how a consumer is given an instance of what this module provides.
+//
+// **A provider ships the provisioner that creates instances of the resource it offers** (ADR
+// 0040). The mesh asks; this adapts that request to whatever the software actually needs, and
+// hands back what the consumer is given.
+import { provisioner } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/provisioner";
+
+await provisioner({
+  provision: "greeting",
+  async create({ consumer }: { consumer: string }) {
+    // A real provider would create something here — a database, a vhost, an account. This one has
+    // nothing to create, so it returns what a consumer is told, which is the half that matters:
+    // the mesh seals it and delivers it, and the consumer never sees this code.
+    return { serves: { greeting: `hello ${consumer}` } };
+  },
+  async remove() {
+    // Removal is not optional. A provider that cannot take an instance back leaves the mesh unable
+    // to unassign a consumer without leaking whatever it was given.
+  },
+});
diff --git a/modules/showcase/report/index.ts b/modules/showcase/report/index.ts
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+// showcase's scheduled process — a `process` with a schedule, fired on a cadence.
+//
+// **Not a daemon that sleeps.** A daemon that sleeps is running between fires and holds whatever
+// it held; a scheduled process starts, does its work and exits, so what it costs between fires is
+// nothing.
+import { appendFileSync, mkdirSync } from "node:fs";
+
+const where = process.env.SHOWCASE_STATE ?? "/var/lib/showcase";
+mkdirSync(where, { recursive: true });
+appendFileSync(`${where}/report`, `${new Date().toISOString()} ran\n`);
+console.log("[showcase] report written");
diff --git a/modules/showcase/step/index.ts b/modules/showcase/step/index.ts
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+// showcase's run-once step — a `process` with run-once, run to completion at install.
+//
+// **What follows it is gated on it finishing.** A migration that did not happen must not be
+// followed by the thing that needed it, which is why a step is a mode rather than a daemon that
+// exits.
+import { mkdirSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+
+const where = process.env.SHOWCASE_STATE ?? "/var/lib/showcase";
+mkdirSync(where, { recursive: true });
+writeFileSync(`${where}/installed`, `${new Date().toISOString()}\n`);
+console.log(`[showcase] step complete, wrote ${where}/installed`);
diff --git a/modules/showcase/tools/index.ts b/modules/showcase/tools/index.ts
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+// showcase's tools — its operator-facing surface, served over the broker.
+//
+// Two of them, because one tool proves a tool can exist and two prove a module can have a surface.
+import { tool } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
+
+tool({
+  name: "showcase_greet",
+  description: "Greet somebody, and say which machine did it.",
+  input: { type: "object", properties: { who: { type: "string" } } },
+  async run({ who }: { who?: string }) {
+    return { greeting: `hello ${who ?? "world"}`, from: process.env.MESH_NODE ?? "somewhere" };
+  },
+});
+
+tool({
+  name: "showcase_state",
+  description: "What this module was configured with, so a test can read it back.",
+  input: { type: "object", properties: {} },
+  async run() {
+    return {
+      greeting: process.env.SHOWCASE_GREETING ?? "",
+      database: process.env.SHOWCASE_DATABASE ?? "",
+    };
+  },
+});
diff --git a/modules/showcase/tsconfig.json b/modules/showcase/tsconfig.json
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+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "target": "ES2022",
+    "module": "NodeNext",
+    "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
+    "strict": true,
+    "esModuleInterop": true,
+    "skipLibCheck": true,
+    "noEmit": true
+  },
+  "include": ["index.ts", "tools/index.ts", "provisioner/index.ts", "daemon/index.ts", "step/index.ts", "report/index.ts"]
+}