diff --git a/modules/showcase/provisioner/index.ts b/modules/showcase/provisioner/index.ts
index 5e4b9bf8..aea284cd 100644
--- a/modules/showcase/provisioner/index.ts
+++ b/modules/showcase/provisioner/index.ts
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 // 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";
+// 0040). The mesh asks; this adapts that request to whatever the software actually needs. The
+// reconcile loop is the sdk's (`runProvisioner`); this writes only the per-service half.
+import { runProvisioner, type Provision } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/provisioner";
 
-await provisioner({
-  provision: "greeting",
-  async create({ consumer }: { consumer: string }) {
+runProvisioner("greeting", {
+  async create(p: Provision): Promise<void> {
     // 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}` } };
+    // nothing to create: what a consumer is told is the manifest's `serves` block, which the mesh
+    // fills for this consumer, seals and delivers (ADR 0048), so the consumer never sees this code.
+    console.log(`[showcase] greeting ready for ${p.consumer ?? p.as}`);
   },
-  async remove() {
+  async remove(): Promise<void> {
     // 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.
+    // to unassign a consumer without leaking whatever it was given. Nothing was made, so nothing goes.
   },
 });
diff --git a/modules/showcase/tools/index.ts b/modules/showcase/tools/index.ts
index 45243192..65e2dad8 100644
--- a/modules/showcase/tools/index.ts
+++ b/modules/showcase/tools/index.ts
@@ -1,25 +1,31 @@
 // 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";
+import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } 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" };
-  },
-});
+export function getShowcaseTools(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): ToolDefinition[] {
+  return [
+    {
+      name: "showcase_greet",
+      description: "Greet somebody, and say which machine did it.",
+      input: { type: "object", properties: { who: { type: "string" } } },
+      async run(args: Readonly<Record<string, unknown>>) {
+        const who = typeof args.who === "string" && args.who !== "" ? args.who : "world";
+        return { greeting: `hello ${who}`, from: env.MESH_NODE ?? "somewhere" };
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      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: env.SHOWCASE_GREETING ?? "",
+          database: env.SHOWCASE_DATABASE ?? "",
+        };
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+}
 
-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 ?? "",
-    };
-  },
-});
+registerModuleTools("showcase", (env) => getShowcaseTools(env));