diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go
index 0162459ff..f36a0d549 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/insteadof_test.go
@@ -105,6 +105,13 @@ func TestTheMeshsToolsAreReadFromTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	if got := strings.Join(addresses, ","); got != "mesh-module-assigner.placement,node-service-manager.status,node-service-manager.journal,docker.docker_logs" {
 		t.Errorf("replacements: %s", got)
 	}
+	t.Run("the again tool answers the operator and the healers only", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for caller, refused := range map[string]bool{"person.jochen": false, "shanks.mesh-healers": false, "shanks.mesh-config": true} {
+			if err := seatlist.Refusal("claude_code_seat_list_again", seatListAgainCallers, caller); (err != nil) != refused {
+				t.Errorf("%s: refused=%v, err %v", caller, refused, err)
+			}
+		}
+	})
 	t.Run("the seats are the seat list read from the bus", func(t *testing.T) {
 		// A table made from what the seat mesh-catalog answers (ADR 0635 §1): no compiled list, so before the reader
 		// has started nothing replaces a command, and after it the seats' verbs are the seat's own.
@@ -116,13 +123,11 @@ func TestTheMeshsToolsAreReadFromTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 		startSeatList(listBus{"mesh-module-assigner": someSeats()[0], "node-service-manager": someSeats()[1]})
 		defer func() { seatListMu.Lock(); seatList = nil; seatListMu.Unlock() }()
-		// The reader reads on its own goroutine: wait for the change it tells (no sleeping).
-		for !seatList.Status().Heard {
-			select {
-			case <-meshChanged:
-			case <-time.After(10 * time.Second):
-				t.Fatalf("the seat list was not read: %+v", seatList.Status())
-			}
+		// The reader's first read ends when Ready closes (no sleeping).
+		select {
+		case <-seatList.Ready():
+		case <-time.After(10 * time.Second):
+			t.Fatalf("the seat list was not read: %+v", seatList.Status())
 		}
 		got, err := ReadMeshToolsFrom(aMesh(t), definedSeats(), resolving)
 		var addrs []string
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go
index 40a2a206e..3fd46e20c 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/main.go
@@ -661,11 +661,14 @@ func refusals(n int) string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf(" (after %d refusal(s))", n)
 }
 
+// seatListAgainCallers may read the seat list again: every operator's session and the healers (ADR 0636 §7).
+var seatListAgainCallers = []string{stdio.AnyPerson, "mesh-healers"}
+
 // seatListTools are the seat list reader's two tools: what the list holds and what it waits for, and a read now. The
 // reader starts once the runtime serves, after the tools are listed, so each tool finds it when it is called.
 func seatListTools() []stdio.Tool {
 	names := []string{"claude_code_seat_list", "claude_code_seat_list_again"}
-	callers := stdio.Callers{"mesh-healers"}
+	callers := seatListAgainCallers
 	shape := seatlist.Tools(&seatlist.Reader{}, names[0], names[1], callers)
 	for i := range shape {
 		run := i