diff --git a/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/main.go b/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/main.go
index 5ca869a5f..1bb5cfe0c 100644
--- a/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/main.go
+++ b/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/main.go
@@ -259,8 +259,12 @@ func tools() []stdio.Tool {
 	return []stdio.Tool{
 		verb("licences", "Every licence the manager holds — account, kind, when its token and its refresh token expire, failures in a row, which consumers are bound to it. Never a token.",
 			nil, func(ctx context.Context, m *Manager, _ map[string]any) (any, error) { return m.Licences(ctx) }),
-		verb("bindings", "Which licence each consumer (a node's agent, by the node's name) is bound to, and the generation it was last given.",
-			nil, func(ctx context.Context, m *Manager, _ map[string]any) (any, error) { return m.Store.Bindings(ctx) }),
+		verb("bindings", "Which licence each consumer (a node's agent, by the node's name) is bound to, and the generation it was last given; with consumer, that consumer's alone.",
+			map[string]any{"consumer": str("a consumer; absent for every one")},
+			func(ctx context.Context, m *Manager, a map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				c, _ := a["consumer"].(string)
+				return m.BindingsOf(ctx, strings.TrimSpace(c))
+			}),
 		verb("bind", "Bind a consumer — a node's agent, by the node's name — to a licence. Its node fetches the licence's token at once.",
 			map[string]any{"consumer": consumer, "licence": str("a licence, as `licences` names it")},
 			func(ctx context.Context, m *Manager, a map[string]any) (any, error) {
@@ -334,14 +338,14 @@ func tools() []stdio.Tool {
 			nil, func(_ context.Context, m *Manager, _ map[string]any) (any, error) {
 				return map[string]any{"public_key": m.Keys.PublicKey}, nil
 			}),
-		verb("current", "For a consumer's agent module (ADR 0206): its token, sealed to the public key it sends, with the licence, kind and generation. Null when it is bound to nothing.",
-			map[string]any{"consumer": consumer, "public_key": str("the consumer's public key, PEM")},
+		verb("current", "For a consumer's agent module: which licence it is bound to, the licence's key, kind and generation, its health (ok, failing or expiring) and when its access token expires; never the token, which the vault hands. Null when it is bound to nothing.",
+			map[string]any{"consumer": consumer},
 			func(ctx context.Context, m *Manager, a map[string]any) (any, error) {
-				c, k, err := two(a, "consumer", "public_key")
+				c, err := text(a, "consumer")
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}
-				return m.Current(ctx, c, k)
+				return m.Current(ctx, c)
 			}),
 	}
 }
diff --git a/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager.go b/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager.go
index 1fa28f126..98a960d8d 100644
--- a/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager.go
+++ b/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager.go
@@ -636,47 +636,57 @@ func (m *Manager) ReadUsage(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 // ---- the seat's verbs --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-// Current is a consumer's token sealed to the key it sent (ADR 0206 §6): for a subscription the access
-// token and its expiries only — never the refresh token, which no node holds. Nil when it is bound to
+// Current is which licence a consumer is bound to and its health, never the token (design 39 bus-and-switch §18, B7,
+// B19): the licence, its key (the name of its secrets in the vault), kind, generation, health and accessExpiresAt, and
+// for a subscription the account's identity the agent module points its account file at. Nil when it is bound to
 // nothing.
-func (m *Manager) Current(ctx context.Context, consumer, publicKey string) (map[string]any, error) {
-	if !strings.Contains(publicKey, "PUBLIC KEY") {
-		return nil, errors.New("current seals to the consumer's public key, and none was given")
-	}
+func (m *Manager) Current(ctx context.Context, consumer string) (map[string]any, error) {
 	b, err := m.Store.Binding(ctx, consumer)
 	if err != nil || b == nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	l, err := m.Store.Licence(ctx, b.Licence)
-	if err != nil || l == nil || l.Sealed == "" {
+	if err != nil || l == nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	plain, err := m.Crypt.Open(l.Sealed)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+	out := map[string]any{"licence": l.Name, "key": KeyFor(l.Name), "kind": l.Kind, "generation": b.Generation,
+		"health": Health(*l, m.Now(), m.Settings)}
+	if l.AccessExpiresAt != 0 {
+		out["accessExpiresAt"] = time.UnixMilli(l.AccessExpiresAt).UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)
 	}
-	handed := plain
-	if l.Kind == "subscription" {
-		var g FullGrant
-		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(plain), &g); err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		access, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"accessToken": g.AccessToken, "expiresAt": g.ExpiresAt,
-			"refreshTokenExpiresAt": g.RefreshTokenExpiresAt, "scopes": g.Scopes,
-			"subscriptionType": g.SubscriptionType, "rateLimitTier": g.RateLimitTier})
-		handed = string(access)
-	}
-	box, err := Seal(handed, publicKey)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	out := map[string]any{"licence": l.Name, "kind": l.Kind, "generation": b.Generation, "sealed": box}
 	if l.AccountUUID != "" {
 		out["identity"] = Identity{AccountUUID: l.AccountUUID, EmailAddress: l.Email, OrganizationUUID: l.OrganizationUUID}
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+// Health is a licence's health (B19): `failing` once its refresh failed failures_to_notify times in a row, `expiring`
+// when its refresh token expires within refresh_warn_days, else `ok`.
+func Health(l Licence, now time.Time, s Settings) string {
+	switch {
+	case l.Failures >= s.FailuresToNotify:
+		return "failing"
+	case l.RefreshExpiresAt != 0 && l.RefreshExpiresAt-now.UnixMilli() < s.RefreshWarn.Milliseconds():
+		return "expiring"
+	}
+	return "ok"
+}
+
+// BindingsOf is every binding, or the one of consumer when one is named (B10): a list either way, unpaged.
+func (m *Manager) BindingsOf(ctx context.Context, consumer string) ([]Binding, error) {
+	all, err := m.Store.Bindings(ctx)
+	if err != nil || consumer == "" {
+		return all, err
+	}
+	out := []Binding{}
+	for _, b := range all {
+		if b.Consumer == consumer {
+			out = append(out, b)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
 // Bind binds or switches a consumer: a person's act (ADR 0183), told to the consumer as a new generation, and
 // recorded with the cause ctx carries — the verb and its proven caller (novox/hq issue 625).
 func (m *Manager) Bind(ctx context.Context, consumer, licence string) (map[string]any, error) {
diff --git a/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager_test.go b/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager_test.go
index 4f8103fba..e8b808d7a 100644
--- a/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager_test.go
+++ b/modules/claude-licence-manager/cmd/claude-licence-manager/manager_test.go
@@ -253,32 +253,39 @@ func TestARotationAndASwitchEachGiveANewerGeneration(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestCurrentHandsAnAccessTokenOnlySealedToTheConsumersKey(t *testing.T) {
+// design 39 bus-and-switch §18, B7, B19: no answer of current holds a token; it names the licence's key and health.
+func TestCurrentHoldsNoToken(t *testing.T) {
 	mm := newMesh(t)
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	_, _ = mm.m.Consider(ctx, []Holdings{mm.login("laptop", "rt-a", true, t0)})
-	node, _ := GenerateKeyPair()
-	answer, err := mm.m.Current(ctx, "laptop", node.PublicKey)
-	if err != nil || answer["kind"] != "subscription" {
+	answer, err := mm.m.Current(ctx, "laptop")
+	if err != nil || answer["kind"] != "subscription" || answer["key"] != KeyFor(licence1) || answer["health"] != "ok" ||
+		answer["accessExpiresAt"] == nil || answer["identity"] == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("%v %v", answer, err)
 	}
-	box := answer["sealed"].(SealedBox)
-	plain, err := Open(box, node.PrivateKey)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(answer)
+	for _, token := range []string{"rt-", "at-", "sealed"} {
+		if strings.Contains(string(raw), token) {
+			t.Fatalf("current answered %s: %s", token, raw)
+		}
 	}
-	var handed map[string]any
-	_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(plain), &handed)
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(handed["accessToken"].(string), "at-") || handed["refreshToken"] != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("handed %v", handed)
+	l, _ := mm.store.Licence(ctx, licence1)
+	for failures, health := range map[int]string{0: "ok", 3: "failing"} {
+		l.Failures = failures
+		if got := Health(*l, mm.now, mm.m.Settings); got != health {
+			t.Errorf("%d failures: %s, want %s", failures, got, health)
+		}
 	}
-	other, _ := GenerateKeyPair()
-	if _, err := Open(box, other.PrivateKey); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("the hand-over opened with another key")
+	l.Failures, l.RefreshExpiresAt = 0, mm.now.Add(48*time.Hour).UnixMilli()
+	if got := Health(*l, mm.now, mm.m.Settings); got != "expiring" {
+		t.Errorf("a refresh token expiring in two days: %s", got)
 	}
-	if a, _ := mm.m.Current(ctx, "nobody", node.PublicKey); a != nil {
+	if a, _ := mm.m.Current(ctx, "nobody"); a != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("a consumer bound to nothing was answered %v", a)
 	}
+	if bs, _ := mm.m.BindingsOf(ctx, "laptop"); len(bs) != 1 || bs[0].Consumer != "laptop" {
+		t.Fatalf("bindings of laptop: %v", bs)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestNothingTheManagerPublishesKeepsOrListsCarriesAToken(t *testing.T) {