diff --git a/checks/planhands/go.mod b/checks/planhands/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2949a160
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/planhands/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+module checks/planhands
+
+go 1.26.0
diff --git a/checks/planhands/planhands.go b/checks/planhands/planhands.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..389f6709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/planhands/planhands.go
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// Package planhands refuses a module's line that takes a plan existing for its module handed to the provisioner (issue
+// 774). Whether a plan hands its module is mesh-sdk's one rule, catalogue.Plan.Hands: since the seat mesh-provisioner keys a
+// provision its provider's helper answers for a module not handed, a plan naming provisions alone exists for modules
+// whose files and own secrets stay their node's (on 2026-10-30 the vault read every such plan as handed and answered
+// twenty modules' own secrets to nobody, and the provisioner client refused each as a plan it could not act on). A line
+// that tests whether a plan exists either asks Hands on the same line, or says "not handing": it reads only who binds
+// whom, or that there is no plan at all.
+package planhands
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io/fs"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"regexp"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// existence is a test of whether an assignment's or a plan's `provisioning` is there: nil, or an empty raw value.
+var existence = regexp.MustCompile(`Provisioning\s*[!=]=\s*nil|len\([^)]*Provisioning\)\s*[!=]=\s*0`)
+
+// Problems is each such line under root's modules/ that neither asks Hands nor says "not handing", as
+// `path:line: text`, sorted. Test files are left out: a test may build a plan by hand.
+func Problems(root string) ([]string, error) {
+	var out []string
+	err := filepath.WalkDir(filepath.Join(root, "modules"), func(p string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() || !strings.HasSuffix(p, ".go") || strings.HasSuffix(p, "_test.go") {
+			return nil
+		}
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(p)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		rel, _ := filepath.Rel(root, p)
+		for i, line := range strings.Split(string(raw), "\n") {
+			if existence.MatchString(line) && !strings.Contains(line, ".Hands()") && !strings.Contains(line, "not handing") {
+				out = append(out, fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d: %s", rel, i+1, strings.TrimSpace(line)))
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out, err
+}
diff --git a/checks/planhands/planhands_test.go b/checks/planhands/planhands_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..231126a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/planhands/planhands_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package planhands
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// A line that takes a plan existing for its module handed is refused and named; one that asks Hands, one marked "not
+// handing" and any test file pass; and the real catalogue is clean.
+func TestNoModuleTakesAPlanExistingForItsModuleHanded(t *testing.T) {
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	for f, body := range map[string]string{
+		"modules/vault/own.go":         "if a.Provisioning != nil {\n",
+		"modules/client/plan.go":       "if len(a.Provisioning) == 0 {\n",
+		"modules/vault/rule.go":        "return a.Provisioning != nil && a.Provisioning.Hands(), nil\n",
+		"modules/client/binds.go":      "if a.Provisioning != nil { // binds, not handing\n",
+		"modules/vault/own_test.go":    "if a.Provisioning == nil {\n",
+		"modules/client/notgo/plan.md": "if a.Provisioning == nil {\n",
+	} {
+		p := filepath.Join(root, f)
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(body), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	got, err := Problems(root)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != 2 || !strings.HasPrefix(got[0], "modules/client/plan.go:1:") || !strings.HasPrefix(got[1], "modules/vault/own.go:1:") {
+		t.Fatalf("refused %v, wanted the client's and the vault's existence tests alone", got)
+	}
+	real, err := Problems(filepath.Join("..", ".."))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(real) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a module takes a plan existing for its module handed; ask catalogue.Plan.Hands, or mark a line that reads "+
+			"only who binds whom \"not handing\":\n%s", strings.Join(real, "\n"))
+	}
+}
diff --git a/checks/planhands/reads-outside b/checks/planhands/reads-outside
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ee00f8dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/checks/planhands/reads-outside
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# What these tests read outside their package, as paths from the repository's root (issue 1936).
+# every module whole (a directory is read whole, so a module's Go source at any depth enters the digest), for a line that takes a plan existing for its module handed.
+modules
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/client_test.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/client_test.go
index 37650d8d..68ecc23f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/client_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/client_test.go
@@ -870,4 +870,11 @@ func TestAPlanOfProvisionsAloneFetchesNoTemplates(t *testing.T) {
 	if targets, wrong := fillTargets(Plan{}, texts); wrong != "" || len(targets) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("filled %v: %s", targets, wrong)
 	}
+	// And such a plan hands its module to nobody (catalogue.Plan.Hands): read as no plan, never refused as one that
+	// names no source, and the module's files stay its node's.
+	routeOnly := `{"node":"g14","module":"grafana","provisioning":{"templates":{"digest":"","source":""},"files":null,` +
+		`"provisions":[{"provision":"route","provider":"g14","provider-module":"route-proxy"}]}}`
+	if module, _, err := planOf("g14", "g14.grafana", []byte(routeOnly)); module != "grafana" || !errors.Is(err, errNoPlan) {
+		t.Fatalf("a plan of provisions alone reads as %s: %v, want no plan", module, err)
+	}
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/consumers.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/consumers.go
index 61e29d13..47c78b3b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/consumers.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/consumers.go
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func takeBinds(s *state, key string, value []byte, gone bool) bool {
 		return was != nil
 	}
 	b := binding{node: a.Node, module: a.Module}
-	if a.Provisioning != nil {
+	if a.Provisioning != nil { // binds, not handing: a plan of provisions alone still binds its consumer
 		b.provisions = a.Provisioning.Provisions
 	}
 	s.binds[key] = b
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/plan.go b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/plan.go
index 34caced4..f697d7d1 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/plan.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/cmd/mesh-provisioner-client/plan.go
@@ -178,7 +178,14 @@ func planOf(node, key string, value []byte) (string, Plan, error) {
 		return "", Plan{}, fmt.Errorf("the assignment %s names node %q and module %q, not its key's", key, a.Node,
 			a.Module)
 	}
-	if len(a.Provisioning) == 0 || string(a.Provisioning) == "null" {
+	if len(a.Provisioning) == 0 || string(a.Provisioning) == "null" { // no plan at all, not handing
+		return a.Module, Plan{}, errNoPlan
+	}
+	// **A plan that hands nothing is no plan of this client's** (mesh-sdk catalogue.Plan.Hands, issue 774): the seat keys
+	// a provision its provider's helper answers for a module not handed (grafana's route), and that plan names
+	// provisions alone. Read leniently for the rule; a plan that hands is read strictly below.
+	var rule catalogue.Plan
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(a.Provisioning, &rule); err == nil && !rule.Hands() {
 		return a.Module, Plan{}, errNoPlan
 	}
 	var p Plan
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.mod b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.mod
index be4b1a22..64bbcdee 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-provisioner-client
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030150314-9379e9a96ad4
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030225009-17fc9b9b8115
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0
diff --git a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.sum b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.sum
index ed602ece..78414b54 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-provisioner-client/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030150314-9379e9a96ad4 h1:CPUqC3FS/ezvBYdhVgVdsQg2DdN8xgtROQkSaHRKeOI=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030150314-9379e9a96ad4/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030225009-17fc9b9b8115 h1:ezKg8aAKQoZ5XEAWQQVk4y/x0h2qC73GcUKBmbqY5jw=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030225009-17fc9b9b8115/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/askers.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/askers.go
index cad8a1de..81783a8d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/askers.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/askers.go
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ func (d Declared) May(caller, name string) (bool, string) {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &a); err != nil || a.Node != node || a.Module != module {
 		return false, fmt.Sprintf("the assignment %s.%s is not the controller's", node, module)
 	}
-	if a.Provisioning == nil {
+	if !hands(raw) {
 		return false, fmt.Sprintf("%s on %s is not handed to the provisioner, so its secrets reach it in its "+
 			"declaration (novox/hq ADR 0349 §17)", module, node)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/outcomes.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/outcomes.go
index 8f4db79a..7b201386 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/outcomes.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/outcomes.go
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ func (v *Vault) outcomes() (map[string]BoundOutcome, error) {
 			continue
 		}
 		var a plannedProvisions
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &a); err != nil || a.Provisioning == nil {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &a); err != nil || a.Provisioning == nil { // binds, not handing
 			continue
 		}
 		consumer := provisions.End{Module: a.Module, Node: a.Node}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go
index ac97f4aa..d1af6800 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/ownnode.go
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal"
 )
 
@@ -348,23 +349,30 @@ func (p *planReader) handed(module string) (bool, error) {
 	if raw == nil {
 		return false, nil
 	}
-	var a struct {
-		Provisioning *struct {
-			Templates struct {
-				Source string `json:"source"`
-			} `json:"templates"`
-			Files   []json.RawMessage `json:"files"`
-			Secrets []json.RawMessage `json:"secrets"`
-			Items   []json.RawMessage `json:"items"`
-		} `json:"provisioning"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &a); err != nil {
+	hands, err := handsOf(raw)
+	if err != nil {
 		return false, fmt.Errorf("the assignment %s.%s is not the controller's: %w", node, module, err)
 	}
-	// **A plan that names provisions alone hands nothing** (catalogue.Keyed, issue 774): the seat keys a provision its
-	// provider's helper answers for a module not handed (grafana's route), and that module's own secrets are still
-	// composed by its node-engine from this answer. Handed is a plan that names something the client fills.
-	hands := a.Provisioning
-	return hands != nil && (hands.Templates.Source != "" || len(hands.Files) > 0 || len(hands.Secrets) > 0 ||
-		len(hands.Items) > 0), nil
+	return hands, nil
+}
+
+// handsOf is whether an assignment's value carries a plan that hands its module to the provisioner: mesh-sdk's one
+// rule, catalogue.Plan.Hands (issue 774). A plan naming provisions alone (a route the seat keys for a module not
+// handed) hands nothing, and that module's files and own secrets stay its node's composition. Whether a plan exists
+// is never the rule; a reader that asks only who binds whom reads the provisions and says so ("not handing", which
+// the catalogue check checks/planhands holds every module to).
+func handsOf(raw []byte) (bool, error) {
+	var a struct {
+		Provisioning *catalogue.Plan `json:"provisioning"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &a); err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	return a.Provisioning != nil && a.Provisioning.Hands(), nil
+}
+
+// hands is handsOf for a value already read as the controller's: one that cannot be read hands nothing.
+func hands(raw []byte) bool {
+	h, err := handsOf(raw)
+	return err == nil && h
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/pair.go b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/pair.go
index cc343e98..b155d487 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/pair.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/cmd/mesh-vault/pair.go
@@ -242,10 +242,10 @@ func readBindings(m Mirror) (bindings, error) {
 			return b, fmt.Errorf("the assignment %s is not the controller's", key)
 		}
 		b.assigned[key] = true
-		if a.Provisioning == nil {
+		if a.Provisioning == nil { // binds, not handing: a plan of provisions alone still binds its consumer
 			continue
 		}
-		b.handed[key] = true
+		b.handed[key] = hands(raw)
 		for _, p := range a.Provisioning.Provisions {
 			if !namePart.MatchString(p.Provider) || !namePart.MatchString(p.Provision) {
 				continue
@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ func sharedRefusal(store *Store, read AssignmentReader, node, provider, provisio
 		for _, m := range strings.Split(sh.ProviderModule, ",") {
 			if raw, err := read(node + "." + m); err == nil && raw != nil {
 				var a plannedProvisions
-				if json.Unmarshal(raw, &a) == nil && a.Node == node && a.Module == m && a.Provisioning != nil {
+				if json.Unmarshal(raw, &a) == nil && a.Node == node && a.Module == m && hands(raw) {
 					return ""
 				}
 			}
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ func sharedRefusal(store *Store, read AssignmentReader, node, provider, provisio
 			continue
 		}
 		var a plannedProvisions
-		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &a) != nil || a.Node != node || a.Module != parts[1] || a.Provisioning == nil {
+		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &a) != nil || a.Node != node || a.Module != parts[1] || !hands(raw) {
 			continue
 		}
 		for _, p := range a.Provisioning.Provisions {
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ func pairRowRefusal(read AssignmentReader, node string, parts []string) string {
 	if json.Unmarshal(raw, &a) != nil || a.Node != consumer || a.Module != module {
 		return fmt.Sprintf("the assignment %s.%s is not the controller's", consumer, module)
 	}
-	if a.Provisioning == nil {
+	if !hands(raw) {
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%s on %s is not handed to the provisioner, so its login reaches it in its declaration "+
 			"(ADR 0349 clause 17)", module, consumer)
 	}
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ func pairRowRefusal(read AssignmentReader, node string, parts []string) string {
 		if p.ProviderModule != "" {
 			if praw, err := read(provider + "." + p.ProviderModule); err == nil && praw != nil {
 				var pa plannedProvisions
-				if json.Unmarshal(praw, &pa) == nil && pa.Node == provider && pa.Provisioning != nil {
+				if json.Unmarshal(praw, &pa) == nil && pa.Node == provider && hands(praw) {
 					return ""
 				}
 			}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod b/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod
index 78371b50..b934e88b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-vault
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030174137-a37181261c24
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030225009-17fc9b9b8115
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0
diff --git a/modules/mesh-vault/go.sum b/modules/mesh-vault/go.sum
index 61230834..78414b54 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-vault/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-vault/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030174137-a37181261c24 h1:s0XXZtR7CFPBbnaDygWnE4/Q827iEFt0YfEzujk4Q9g=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030174137-a37181261c24/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030225009-17fc9b9b8115 h1:ezKg8aAKQoZ5XEAWQQVk4y/x0h2qC73GcUKBmbqY5jw=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030225009-17fc9b9b8115/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=