diff --git a/checks/readable/go.mod b/checks/readable/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6226f1c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/readable/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+module checks/readable
+
+go 1.26.0
+
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030001116-2da0de75c3f0
diff --git a/checks/readable/go.sum b/checks/readable/go.sum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8bfbd2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/readable/go.sum
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030001116-2da0de75c3f0 h1:lKU3HjNXGiVbLW2hUgFjU/TMTUYMlNnnmZxG5T7biQA=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030001116-2da0de75c3f0/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
diff --git a/checks/readable/main.go b/checks/readable/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8fa81fba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/readable/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,333 @@
+// Command readable refuses a catalogue where a module reads another module's state that the owner does not announce
+// readable (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 3, issue 1790): the controller grants a read only from the owner's announcement, so
+// such a read is refused on the live mesh, said only in the controller's journal. The sweep of 2026-10-30 (issue 774)
+// found three: gitea's `bound` (read by mesh-provisioner, so no forge account was bound), disk-load's `readings` (read by
+// restic, nfs-server and mounts) and restic's `good` (read by the self-check). The merge gate's check of reads against
+// the owner's manifest went with clause 5, and announcetest holds a module to its own list, not to its readers.
+//
+// An owner announces from its code. A Go module announces when its code imports mesh-sdk's go/announce: every
+// announce.State literal there is read, its Name a string, a constant of the package, or a constant of mesh-sdk this
+// check knows (Known). A TypeScript module announces when its code says the event `states` or calls the SDK's keeps:
+// every `{ name: "...", readable: true }` there is read. An owner that announces nothing from code is read as before
+// on the mesh, and is not judged; neither is an owner outside the catalogue (another repository's).
+//
+//	go run . <catalog root>
+//
+// Exits 1 on a finding.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"go/ast"
+	"go/parser"
+	"go/token"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
+)
+
+// Known are the mesh-sdk constants an announcement may name a state by, by the selector the code writes.
+var Known = map[string]string{
+	"health.GoodState":     health.GoodState,
+	"health.ReadingsState": health.ReadingsState,
+}
+
+const announcePkg = `"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"`
+
+// Announced is what one owner's code announces: each state, readable or not.
+type Announced map[string]bool
+
+// Findings is every refusal in the catalogue at root, sorted.
+func Findings(root string) ([]string, error) {
+	manifests, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(root, "modules", "*", "module.json"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	dirs := map[string]string{}
+	reads := map[string][]string{}
+	for _, path := range manifests {
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		var m struct {
+			Module string            `json:"module"`
+			Reads  []json.RawMessage `json:"reads"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", path, err)
+		}
+		dirs[m.Module] = filepath.Dir(path)
+		for _, r := range m.Reads {
+			var s string
+			if json.Unmarshal(r, &s) == nil {
+				reads[m.Module] = append(reads[m.Module], s)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	var out []string
+	owners := map[string]Announced{}
+	for reader, rs := range reads {
+		for _, r := range rs {
+			owner, state, ok := strings.Cut(r, ".")
+			dir, inCatalogue := dirs[owner]
+			if !ok || !inCatalogue || owner == reader {
+				continue
+			}
+			a, seen := owners[owner]
+			if !seen {
+				var problems []string
+				a, problems, err = AnnouncedBy(dir)
+				if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				owners[owner] = a
+				for _, p := range problems {
+					out = append(out, owner+": "+p)
+				}
+			}
+			if a == nil {
+				continue // announces nothing from code: read as before
+			}
+			readable, keeps := a[state]
+			switch {
+			case !keeps:
+				out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s reads %s.%s, which %s's code does not announce: the read is refused on the mesh", reader, owner, state, owner))
+			case !readable:
+				out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s reads %s.%s, which %s's code announces not readable: the read is refused on the mesh; announce it readable", reader, owner, state, owner))
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return dedupe(out), nil
+}
+
+func dedupe(in []string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for i, s := range in {
+		if i == 0 || s != in[i-1] {
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+var (
+	tsAnnounces = regexp.MustCompile(`emit\(\s*"states"|\bkeeps\(`)
+	tsState     = regexp.MustCompile(`\{\s*name:\s*"([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)"\s*(,\s*readable:\s*(true|false)\s*)?\}`)
+)
+
+// AnnouncedBy is what the module in dir announces from its code, nil when it announces nothing; problems are
+// announcements whose state's name cannot be read.
+func AnnouncedBy(dir string) (Announced, []string, error) {
+	var out Announced
+	var problems []string
+	pkgs := map[string][]*ast.File{}
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()
+	err := filepath.WalkDir(dir, func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() {
+			if n := d.Name(); path != dir && (n == "node_modules" || n == "dist" || n == "test" || n == "testdata" || strings.HasPrefix(n, ".")) {
+				return filepath.SkipDir
+			}
+			return nil
+		}
+		name := d.Name()
+		switch {
+		case strings.HasSuffix(name, ".go") && !strings.HasSuffix(name, "_test.go"):
+			f, err := parser.ParseFile(fset, path, nil, 0)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			pkgs[filepath.Dir(path)] = append(pkgs[filepath.Dir(path)], f)
+		case strings.HasSuffix(name, ".ts") && !strings.HasSuffix(name, ".d.ts") && !strings.HasSuffix(name, ".test.ts"):
+			raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if !tsAnnounces.Match(raw) && !strings.Contains(string(raw), "KEPT") {
+				return nil
+			}
+			for _, m := range tsState.FindAllStringSubmatch(string(raw), -1) {
+				if out == nil {
+					out = Announced{}
+				}
+				out[m[1]] = out[m[1]] || m[3] == "true"
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	for _, files := range pkgs {
+		imports := false
+		consts := map[string]ast.Expr{}
+		for _, f := range files {
+			for _, im := range f.Imports {
+				if im.Path.Value == announcePkg && (im.Name == nil || im.Name.Name == "announce") {
+					imports = true
+				}
+			}
+			for _, decl := range f.Decls {
+				g, ok := decl.(*ast.GenDecl)
+				if !ok || g.Tok != token.CONST {
+					continue
+				}
+				for _, spec := range g.Specs {
+					v := spec.(*ast.ValueSpec)
+					for i, n := range v.Names {
+						if i < len(v.Values) {
+							consts[n.Name] = v.Values[i]
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		if !imports {
+			continue
+		}
+		if out == nil {
+			out = Announced{}
+		}
+		for _, f := range files {
+			ast.Inspect(f, func(n ast.Node) bool {
+				lit, ok := n.(*ast.CompositeLit)
+				if !ok {
+					return true
+				}
+				states := []*ast.CompositeLit{}
+				switch {
+				case isAnnounceState(lit.Type):
+					states = append(states, lit)
+				case isStateSlice(lit.Type):
+					for _, e := range lit.Elts {
+						if c, ok := e.(*ast.CompositeLit); ok && (c.Type == nil || isAnnounceState(c.Type)) {
+							states = append(states, c)
+						}
+					}
+				default:
+					return true
+				}
+				for _, s := range states {
+					name, readable, problem := stateOf(s, consts)
+					if problem != "" {
+						problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", fset.Position(s.Pos()), problem))
+						continue
+					}
+					out[name] = out[name] || readable
+				}
+				return false
+			})
+		}
+	}
+	return out, problems, nil
+}
+
+func isAnnounceState(e ast.Expr) bool {
+	s, ok := e.(*ast.SelectorExpr)
+	if !ok {
+		return false
+	}
+	x, ok := s.X.(*ast.Ident)
+	return ok && x.Name == "announce" && s.Sel.Name == "State"
+}
+
+func isStateSlice(e ast.Expr) bool {
+	a, ok := e.(*ast.ArrayType)
+	return ok && isAnnounceState(a.Elt)
+}
+
+// stateOf is one announce.State literal's name and whether it is readable (Readable true, or Readers named).
+func stateOf(lit *ast.CompositeLit, consts map[string]ast.Expr) (string, bool, string) {
+	var name string
+	var readable bool
+	named := false
+	for _, e := range lit.Elts {
+		kv, ok := e.(*ast.KeyValueExpr)
+		if !ok {
+			return "", false, "an announce.State without field names cannot be read; name its fields"
+		}
+		key, _ := kv.Key.(*ast.Ident)
+		if key == nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		switch key.Name {
+		case "Name":
+			v, ok := resolve(kv.Value, consts, 0)
+			if !ok {
+				return "", false, fmt.Sprintf("the state's name %s cannot be read: name it by a string, a constant of the package, or a mesh-sdk constant in checks/readable's Known", exprString(kv.Value))
+			}
+			name, named = v, true
+		case "Readable":
+			if id, ok := kv.Value.(*ast.Ident); ok {
+				readable = readable || id.Name == "true"
+			}
+		case "Readers":
+			readable = true
+		}
+	}
+	if !named {
+		return "", false, "an announce.State without a Name"
+	}
+	return name, readable, ""
+}
+
+func resolve(e ast.Expr, consts map[string]ast.Expr, depth int) (string, bool) {
+	if depth > 8 {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	switch v := e.(type) {
+	case *ast.BasicLit:
+		if v.Kind == token.STRING {
+			s, err := strconv.Unquote(v.Value)
+			return s, err == nil
+		}
+	case *ast.Ident:
+		if c, ok := consts[v.Name]; ok {
+			return resolve(c, consts, depth+1)
+		}
+	case *ast.SelectorExpr:
+		s, ok := Known[exprString(v)]
+		return s, ok
+	}
+	return "", false
+}
+
+func exprString(e ast.Expr) string {
+	switch v := e.(type) {
+	case *ast.Ident:
+		return v.Name
+	case *ast.SelectorExpr:
+		return exprString(v.X) + "." + v.Sel.Name
+	case *ast.BasicLit:
+		return v.Value
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%T", e)
+}
+
+func main() {
+	root := "."
+	if len(os.Args) > 1 {
+		root = os.Args[1]
+	}
+	found, err := Findings(root)
+	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/readable/main_test.go b/checks/readable/main_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3a15e322
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/readable/main_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// A read of another module's state is refused here when the owner's code announces that state not readable, or not at
+// all (the sweep of 2026-10-30, issue 774); an owner that announces nothing from code, or lives in another repository,
+// is not judged.
+func TestFindings(t *testing.T) {
+	const goOwner = "package main\n\nimport \"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce\"\n\n"
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		name  string
+		files map[string]string
+		want  string // empty: clean
+	}{
+		{"go, readable by a constant", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json":        `{"module":"r","reads":["o.s"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json":        `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main.go":      goOwner + "const S = \"s\"\n\nvar _ = announce.State{Name: S, Readable: true}\n",
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main_test.go": goOwner + "var _ = announce.State{Name: \"s\"}\n"}, ""},
+		{"go, not readable", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json":   `{"module":"r","reads":["o.s"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json":   `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main.go": goOwner + "var Kept = []announce.State{{Name: \"t\", Readable: true}, {Name: \"s\"}}\n"},
+			"r reads o.s, which o's code announces not readable"},
+		{"go, a known mesh-sdk name and readers", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json":   `{"module":"r","reads":["o.good","o.s"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json":   `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main.go": goOwner + "var _ = []announce.State{{Name: health.GoodState, Readable: true}, {Name: \"s\", Readers: []string{\"r\"}}}\n"}, ""},
+		{"go, a name that cannot be read", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json":   `{"module":"r","reads":["o.s"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json":   `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main.go": goOwner + "var _ = announce.State{Name: other.S, Readable: true}\n"},
+			"the state's name other.S cannot be read"},
+		{"go, a state not announced", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json":   `{"module":"r","reads":["o.s"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json":   `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main.go": goOwner + "var _ = announce.State{Name: \"t\"}\n"},
+			"r reads o.s, which o's code does not announce"},
+		{"typescript, not readable", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json": `{"module":"r","reads":["o.bound"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json": `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/kept.ts":     `export const KEPT = [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound" }];`},
+			"r reads o.bound, which o's code announces not readable"},
+		{"typescript, readable", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json": `{"module":"r","reads":["o.bound"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json": `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/index.ts":    `await keeps([{ name: "bound", readable: true }]);`}, ""},
+		{"an owner that announces nothing, and one outside the catalogue", map[string]string{
+			"modules/r/module.json":   `{"module":"r","reads":["o.s","mesh-controller.lease"]}`,
+			"modules/o/module.json":   `{"module":"o"}`,
+			"modules/o/cmd/o/main.go": "package main\n\nvar _ = 1\n"}, ""},
+	} {
+		t.Run(row.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			root := t.TempDir()
+			for path, text := range row.files {
+				p := filepath.Join(root, path)
+				if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755); err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+				if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(text), 0o644); err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+			}
+			got, err := Findings(root)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			joined := strings.Join(got, "\n")
+			if row.want == "" && len(got) != 0 || row.want != "" && !strings.Contains(joined, row.want) {
+				t.Errorf("findings %q, want %q", joined, row.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// The catalogue itself: every state a module reads of another module that announces from code is announced readable.
+func TestTheCatalogueReadsOnlyWhatItsOwnersAnnounceReadable(t *testing.T) {
+	got, err := Findings(filepath.Join("..", ".."))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, f := range got {
+		t.Error(f)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/checks/readable/reads-outside b/checks/readable/reads-outside
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6cf17846
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/readable/reads-outside
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# What these tests read outside their package, as paths from the repository's root (issue 1936).
+# every manifest, for what it reads; and every module's Go and TypeScript code, for the states it announces.
+modules/*/module.json
+modules/*/cmd
+modules/*/*.go
+modules/*/*.ts
diff --git a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go
index 2eeff0b8..578539fc 100644
--- a/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go
+++ b/modules/disk-load/cmd/disk-load/main.go
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ import (
 func logf(format string, args ...any) { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[disk-load] "+format+"\n", args...) }
 
 func main() {
-	if err := stdio.Keeps(announce.State{Name: StateReadings}); err != nil {
+	// Readable: restic, nfs-server, mounts and the self-check read it (their manifests' `reads`); checks/readable holds it.
+	if err := stdio.Keeps(announce.State{Name: StateReadings, Readable: true}); err != nil {
 		logf("%v", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/gitea/kept.ts b/modules/gitea/kept.ts
index fccc5514..5f83f73a 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/kept.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/kept.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 // The states this module keeps on the bus and whether other modules may read them (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2; issue
 // 1790): the module says it itself, from its code, as it starts (index.ts calls keeps with this list), and a reader is
-// granted what it said (clause 3). A state is readable when another module's manifest reads it; none reads gitea's.
-// test/kept.test.ts holds the list to the manifest's `state`.
+// granted what it said (clause 3). A state is readable when another module's manifest reads it: mesh-provisioner reads
+// `bound` (the forge accounts it binds). test/kept.test.ts holds the list to the manifest's `state`, and the catalogue's
+// checks/readable every state another manifest reads to a readable announcement.
 export const KEPT: readonly { readonly name: string; readonly readable?: boolean }[] = [
   { name: "announced" },
-  { name: "bound" },
+  { name: "bound", readable: true },
 ];
 
 /** The announcement of these states, in the layout mesh-sdk's go/announce reads (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2): version 1,
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts
index 5702f8e1..f0ca9ec9 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts
@@ -2,20 +2,21 @@ import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 import { test } from "node:test";
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
-// 1790: the states the module announces are the states its manifest declares, no more, no fewer; none is readable
-// because no other module's manifest reads one of them.
+// 1790: the states the module announces are the states its manifest declares, no more, no fewer; `bound` is readable,
+// because mesh-provisioner's manifest reads it (the sweep of 2026-10-30, issue 774: announced unreadable, the read was
+// refused and no forge account was bound).
 test("the states the module announces are the states its manifest declares", async () => {
   const { KEPT } = await import("../kept.ts");
   const manifest = JSON.parse(readFileSync(new URL("../module.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"));
   const declared = (manifest.state as (string | { name: string })[]).map((s) => (typeof s === "string" ? s : s.name)).sort();
   assert.deepEqual(KEPT.map((k) => k.name).sort(), declared);
-  assert.ok(KEPT.every((k) => !k.readable), "no other module's manifest reads a state of gitea");
+  assert.deepEqual(KEPT.filter((k) => k.readable).map((k) => k.name), ["bound"], "bound alone is readable: mesh-provisioner reads it");
 });
 
 test("the announcement has the layout mesh-sdk's go/announce reads: version 1, the module, the node, the states sorted by name", async () => {
   const { statesAnnouncement } = await import("../kept.ts");
-  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", "ace"), { v: 1, module: "gitea", node: "ace", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound" }] });
-  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", undefined), { v: 1, module: "gitea", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound" }] });
+  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", "ace"), { v: 1, module: "gitea", node: "ace", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound", readable: true }] });
+  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", undefined), { v: 1, module: "gitea", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound", readable: true }] });
 });
 
 test("index.ts says the announcement as the event `states` before the tools are served", () => {
diff --git a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go
index 20c0a76b..7da0a7cb 100644
--- a/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go
+++ b/modules/restic/cmd/restic-backups/main.go
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ func main() {
 	case "awake":
 		counting(b)
 	case "":
-		if err := stdio.Keeps(announce.State{Name: health.GoodState}); err != nil {
+		// Readable: the self-check reads it (its manifest's `reads`); checks/readable holds it.
+		if err := stdio.Keeps(announce.State{Name: health.GoodState, Readable: true}); err != nil {
 			say("%v", err)
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}