diff --git a/modules/minio/client.ts b/modules/minio/client.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a0f29d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/minio/client.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,351 @@
+// The MinIO admin client — minio's own code, living in the module (novox/hq ADR 0044). Ported out
+// of the shared hal sdk, where a change to MinIO's surface rebuilt everything; here it rebuilds only
+// minio. This module's tools, its provisioner and its events entrypoint import it; nothing outside
+// minio does.
+//
+// It speaks two planes with node built-ins only (never the `minio` npm package):
+//   - the S3 data plane over `fetch`, signed with AWS Signature V4 (node:crypto) — bucket and object
+//     operations, and presigned URLs;
+//   - the admin plane through the `mc` CLI (node:child_process) — scoped service accounts, whose
+//     creation the MinIO admin REST API guards behind an encrypted payload `fetch` cannot form.
+// This mirrors hal's MinIOClient/MinIOAdmin split, folded into one client the module builds from env.
+
+import { createHash, createHmac, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
+import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, unlinkSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { promisify } from "node:util";
+
+const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
+
+export interface MinioBucket {
+  name: string;
+  creationDate?: Date;
+}
+
+export interface MinioObject {
+  name: string;
+  size: number;
+  lastModified: Date;
+  etag?: string;
+}
+
+export interface MinioObjectStat {
+  size: number;
+  lastModified: Date;
+  etag?: string;
+  contentType?: string;
+}
+
+export interface MinioBucketInfo {
+  name: string;
+  exists: boolean;
+  region: string;
+  /** Sampled from the first page of a listing (up to 1000 keys) — a summary, not an audit. */
+  sampledObjects: number;
+  sampledBytes: number;
+}
+
+/** A scoped credential a consumer receives: an access key/secret pair confined to one bucket. */
+export interface AccessKey {
+  accessKey: string;
+  secretKey: string;
+}
+
+interface MinioOptions {
+  endpoint: string;
+  rootUser: string;
+  rootPassword: string;
+  region: string;
+  mcBin: string;
+  mcConfigDir: string;
+}
+
+export class MinioClient {
+  readonly baseUrl: string;
+  readonly region: string;
+  private readonly rootUser: string;
+  private readonly rootPassword: string;
+  private readonly mcBin: string;
+  private readonly mcConfigDir: string;
+  private aliasReady = false;
+
+  constructor(opts: MinioOptions) {
+    this.baseUrl = opts.endpoint.replace(/\/$/, "");
+    this.region = opts.region;
+    this.rootUser = opts.rootUser;
+    this.rootPassword = opts.rootPassword;
+    this.mcBin = opts.mcBin;
+    this.mcConfigDir = opts.mcConfigDir;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Build from the module's resolved environment. The endpoint and root identity come from
+   * MESH_MINIO_*; the password may be given inline or as a mounted secret file (the manifest mounts
+   * root.secret), so the provisioner container needs nothing written by hand. Throws when
+   * unconfigured — an object store the module cannot reach is not a usable client.
+   */
+  static fromEnv(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env): MinioClient {
+    const endpoint = env.MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT;
+    const rootUser = env.MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER;
+    const passwordFile = env.MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE;
+    const rootPassword = env.MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD ?? (passwordFile ? readFileSync(passwordFile, "utf8").trim() : undefined);
+    if (!endpoint || !rootUser || !rootPassword) {
+      throw new Error("minio is not configured — set MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT, MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER and MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD");
+    }
+    return new MinioClient({
+      endpoint,
+      rootUser,
+      rootPassword,
+      region: env.MESH_MINIO_REGION ?? "us-east-1",
+      mcBin: env.MESH_MINIO_MC_BIN ?? "mc",
+      mcConfigDir: env.MESH_MINIO_MC_CONFIG ?? join(tmpdir(), ".mc-mesh"),
+    });
+  }
+
+  // --- S3 data plane (signed fetch) ---------------------------------------
+
+  async listBuckets(): Promise<MinioBucket[]> {
+    const { status, text } = await this.request("GET", "/");
+    if (status !== 200) throw new Error(`minio listBuckets: ${status} ${text}`);
+    const out: MinioBucket[] = [];
+    const re = /<Bucket>\s*<Name>([^<]+)<\/Name>\s*<CreationDate>([^<]*)<\/CreationDate>/g;
+    let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+    while ((m = re.exec(text)) !== null) {
+      out.push({ name: m[1], creationDate: m[2] ? new Date(m[2]) : undefined });
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  async bucketExists(bucket: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    const { status } = await this.request("HEAD", `/${bucket}`);
+    if (status === 200) return true;
+    if (status === 404) return false;
+    throw new Error(`minio bucketExists ${bucket}: ${status}`);
+  }
+
+  async createBucket(bucket: string): Promise<void> {
+    const { status, text } = await this.request("PUT", `/${bucket}`);
+    // 200 created; 409 BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou — idempotent, a re-provision must not fail.
+    if (status !== 200 && status !== 409) throw new Error(`minio createBucket ${bucket}: ${status} ${text}`);
+  }
+
+  async removeBucket(bucket: string): Promise<void> {
+    const { status, text } = await this.request("DELETE", `/${bucket}`);
+    // 204 removed; 404 already gone — removal is idempotent too.
+    if (status !== 204 && status !== 404) throw new Error(`minio removeBucket ${bucket}: ${status} ${text}`);
+  }
+
+  async listObjects(bucket: string, prefix = "", recursive = false, maxKeys = 100): Promise<MinioObject[]> {
+    const query: Record<string, string> = { "list-type": "2", "max-keys": String(maxKeys) };
+    if (prefix) query.prefix = prefix;
+    if (!recursive) query.delimiter = "/";
+    const { status, text } = await this.request("GET", `/${bucket}`, query);
+    if (status !== 200) throw new Error(`minio listObjects ${bucket}: ${status} ${text}`);
+    const out: MinioObject[] = [];
+    for (const block of text.split("<Contents>").slice(1)) {
+      const key = tag(block, "Key");
+      if (!key) continue;
+      out.push({
+        name: key,
+        size: Number(tag(block, "Size") ?? "0"),
+        lastModified: new Date(tag(block, "LastModified") ?? 0),
+        etag: tag(block, "ETag")?.replace(/&quot;|"/g, ""),
+      });
+    }
+    return out;
+  }
+
+  async statObject(bucket: string, object: string): Promise<MinioObjectStat> {
+    const { status, headers } = await this.request("HEAD", `/${bucket}/${object}`);
+    if (status !== 200) throw new Error(`minio statObject ${bucket}/${object}: ${status}`);
+    const lm = headers.get("last-modified");
+    return {
+      size: Number(headers.get("content-length") ?? "0"),
+      lastModified: lm ? new Date(lm) : new Date(0),
+      etag: headers.get("etag")?.replace(/"/g, "") ?? undefined,
+      contentType: headers.get("content-type") ?? undefined,
+    };
+  }
+
+  async bucketInfo(bucket: string): Promise<MinioBucketInfo> {
+    const exists = await this.bucketExists(bucket);
+    if (!exists) return { name: bucket, exists: false, region: this.region, sampledObjects: 0, sampledBytes: 0 };
+    const objects = await this.listObjects(bucket, "", true, 1000);
+    return {
+      name: bucket,
+      exists: true,
+      region: this.region,
+      sampledObjects: objects.length,
+      sampledBytes: objects.reduce((n, o) => n + o.size, 0),
+    };
+  }
+
+  /** A time-limited URL for GET (download) or PUT (upload) of one object — query-string SigV4. */
+  presignedUrl(method: "GET" | "PUT", bucket: string, object: string, expires = 86400): string {
+    const { amzDate, dateStamp } = this.stamp();
+    const scope = `${dateStamp}/${this.region}/s3/aws4_request`;
+    const host = new URL(this.baseUrl).host;
+    const params: Record<string, string> = {
+      "X-Amz-Algorithm": "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256",
+      "X-Amz-Credential": `${this.rootUser}/${scope}`,
+      "X-Amz-Date": amzDate,
+      "X-Amz-Expires": String(expires),
+      "X-Amz-SignedHeaders": "host",
+    };
+    const path = uriEncode(`/${bucket}/${object}`, false);
+    const canonicalQuery = encodeQuery(params);
+    const canonicalRequest = [method, path, canonicalQuery, `host:${host}\n`, "host", "UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD"].join("\n");
+    const stringToSign = ["AWS4-HMAC-SHA256", amzDate, scope, sha256hex(canonicalRequest)].join("\n");
+    const signature = hmac(this.signingKey(dateStamp), stringToSign).toString("hex");
+    return `${this.baseUrl}${path}?${canonicalQuery}&X-Amz-Signature=${signature}`;
+  }
+
+  // --- admin plane (mc CLI) ------------------------------------------------
+
+  /**
+   * Create a service account scoped to one bucket and return its credential. The MinIO admin REST
+   * API encrypts this request with a key derived (Argon2) from the root secret, which node built-ins
+   * cannot reproduce — so, as hal did, the module drives the `mc` CLI, which the provisioner image
+   * bundles.
+   */
+  async createAccessKey(bucket: string, accessKey: string): Promise<AccessKey> {
+    await this.ensureAlias();
+    const secretKey = randomBytes(20).toString("hex");
+    const policyPath = join(this.mcConfigDir, `policy-${accessKey}.json`);
+    writeFileSync(policyPath, bucketPolicy(bucket), { mode: 0o600 });
+    try {
+      await this.mc(
+        "admin", "user", "svcacct", "add", "mesh", this.rootUser,
+        "--access-key", accessKey,
+        "--secret-key", secretKey,
+        "--policy", policyPath,
+      );
+    } finally {
+      try { unlinkSync(policyPath); } catch { /* best effort */ }
+    }
+    return { accessKey, secretKey };
+  }
+
+  async removeAccessKey(accessKey: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.ensureAlias();
+    await this.mc("admin", "user", "svcacct", "rm", "mesh", accessKey);
+  }
+
+  private async ensureAlias(): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.aliasReady) return;
+    await this.mc("alias", "set", "mesh", this.baseUrl, this.rootUser, this.rootPassword);
+    this.aliasReady = true;
+  }
+
+  private async mc(...args: string[]): Promise<string> {
+    const { stdout } = await execFileAsync(this.mcBin, ["--config-dir", this.mcConfigDir, ...args], { timeout: 30_000 });
+    return stdout.trim();
+  }
+
+  // --- SigV4 request plumbing ---------------------------------------------
+
+  private async request(
+    method: string,
+    path: string,
+    query: Record<string, string> = {},
+  ): Promise<{ status: number; headers: Headers; text: string }> {
+    const { amzDate, dateStamp } = this.stamp();
+    const host = new URL(this.baseUrl).host;
+    const payloadHash = sha256hex(""); // no request bodies are sent on this client
+    const encodedPath = uriEncode(path, false);
+    const canonicalQuery = encodeQuery(query);
+    const signedHeaders = "host;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date";
+    const canonicalHeaders = `host:${host}\nx-amz-content-sha256:${payloadHash}\nx-amz-date:${amzDate}\n`;
+    const canonicalRequest = [method, encodedPath, canonicalQuery, canonicalHeaders, signedHeaders, payloadHash].join("\n");
+    const scope = `${dateStamp}/${this.region}/s3/aws4_request`;
+    const stringToSign = ["AWS4-HMAC-SHA256", amzDate, scope, sha256hex(canonicalRequest)].join("\n");
+    const signature = hmac(this.signingKey(dateStamp), stringToSign).toString("hex");
+    const authorization = `AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=${this.rootUser}/${scope}, SignedHeaders=${signedHeaders}, Signature=${signature}`;
+
+    const url = `${this.baseUrl}${encodedPath}${canonicalQuery ? `?${canonicalQuery}` : ""}`;
+    const res = await fetch(url, {
+      method,
+      // `host` is set by fetch from the URL; the wire header matches what we signed.
+      headers: { Authorization: authorization, "x-amz-content-sha256": payloadHash, "x-amz-date": amzDate },
+    });
+    const text = method === "HEAD" ? "" : await res.text();
+    return { status: res.status, headers: res.headers, text };
+  }
+
+  private signingKey(dateStamp: string): Buffer {
+    const kDate = hmac(`AWS4${this.rootPassword}`, dateStamp);
+    const kRegion = hmac(kDate, this.region);
+    const kService = hmac(kRegion, "s3");
+    return hmac(kService, "aws4_request");
+  }
+
+  private stamp(): { amzDate: string; dateStamp: string } {
+    const amzDate = new Date().toISOString().replace(/[:-]|\.\d{3}/g, "");
+    return { amzDate, dateStamp: amzDate.slice(0, 8) };
+  }
+}
+
+// --- module-scoped helpers -------------------------------------------------
+
+/** A deterministic 20-char access key id from a consumer name, so removal needs no stored state:
+ *  the provisioner recomputes the same id at teardown that it minted at creation. */
+export function accessKeyFor(consumer: string): string {
+  const chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
+  const digest = createHash("sha256").update(consumer).digest();
+  let out = "";
+  for (let i = 0; i < 20; i++) out += chars[digest[i] % chars.length];
+  return out;
+}
+
+/** A DNS-safe bucket name derived from a consumer — the removable identity of its storage. */
+export function bucketFor(consumer: string): string {
+  const name = consumer.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9-]+/g, "-").replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "").slice(0, 63);
+  return name.length >= 3 ? name : `mesh-${name}`;
+}
+
+function bucketPolicy(bucket: string): string {
+  return JSON.stringify({
+    Version: "2012-10-17",
+    Statement: [{
+      Effect: "Allow",
+      Action: ["s3:*"],
+      Resource: [`arn:aws:s3:::${bucket}`, `arn:aws:s3:::${bucket}/*`],
+    }],
+  });
+}
+
+function tag(xml: string, name: string): string | undefined {
+  const m = new RegExp(`<${name}>([^<]*)</${name}>`).exec(xml);
+  return m ? m[1] : undefined;
+}
+
+function hmac(key: Buffer | string, data: string): Buffer {
+  return createHmac("sha256", key).update(data, "utf8").digest();
+}
+
+function sha256hex(data: string): string {
+  return createHash("sha256").update(data, "utf8").digest("hex");
+}
+
+/** AWS canonical query: each key/value URI-encoded (slash included), sorted by encoded key. */
+function encodeQuery(params: Record<string, string>): string {
+  return Object.keys(params)
+    .map((k) => [uriEncode(k, true), uriEncode(params[k], true)] as const)
+    .sort((a, b) => (a[0] < b[0] ? -1 : a[0] > b[0] ? 1 : 0))
+    .map(([k, v]) => `${k}=${v}`)
+    .join("&");
+}
+
+/** RFC 3986 URI encoding, byte-correct via UTF-8. Path callers keep "/" literal; query callers don't. */
+function uriEncode(str: string, encodeSlash: boolean): string {
+  let out = "";
+  for (const byte of Buffer.from(str, "utf8")) {
+    const c = String.fromCharCode(byte);
+    if (/[A-Za-z0-9_.~-]/.test(c)) out += c;
+    else if (c === "/" && !encodeSlash) out += c;
+    else out += "%" + byte.toString(16).toUpperCase().padStart(2, "0");
+  }
+  return out;
+}
diff --git a/modules/minio/module.json b/modules/minio/module.json
index 12c285a..98b5cfa 100644
--- a/modules/minio/module.json
+++ b/modules/minio/module.json
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
   "capabilities": [
     "container-runtime"
   ],
+  "emits": [
+    "module.minio.bucket.created",
+    "module.minio.bucket.removed"
+  ],
   "listens": [
     {
       "port": 9000,
@@ -31,7 +35,8 @@
     "s3-bucket": "/var/lib/minio/grants"
   },
   "own-secrets": {
-    "root": "/var/lib/minio/root.secret"
+    "root": "/var/lib/minio/root.secret",
+    "broker": "/var/lib/minio/broker"
   },
   "resources": [
     {
@@ -94,9 +99,9 @@
       "network": "minio",
       "env": {
         "GRANTS": "/var/lib/minio/grants",
-        "MESH_OBJECTSTORE_URL": "http://minio:9000",
-        "MESH_OBJECTSTORE_ROOT_USER": "meshroot",
-        "MESH_OBJECTSTORE_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root"
+        "MESH_MINIO_ENDPOINT": "http://minio:9000",
+        "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_USER": "meshroot",
+        "MESH_MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/secrets/root"
       },
       "volumes": [
         "/var/lib/minio/grants:/var/lib/minio/grants:ro",
@@ -104,4 +109,4 @@
       ]
     }
   ]
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/modules/minio/package.json b/modules/minio/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1839d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/minio/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+  "name": "@novox/module-minio",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "minio — S3-compatible object store. Its admin client, tools, provisioner and events live here (novox/hq ADR 0044).",
+  "type": "module",
+  "private": true,
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@novox/mesh-sdk": "^0.1.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
+    "typescript": "^5.6.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/minio/provisioner/index.ts b/modules/minio/provisioner/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc999a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/minio/provisioner/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+// minio's provisioner — the adapter that makes minio a provider of the mesh `s3-bucket` interface
+// (the name in module.json's `provides`). The reconcile loop, sealing and grant-file handling are the
+// sdk harness's; this writes only the per-service half: how minio creates and removes a consumer's
+// bucket and its scoped access key (novox/hq ADR 0044/0045).
+//
+// The `s3-bucket` interface: a consumer receives `{ endpoint, bucket, accessKey, secretKey, region }`
+// — an S3 endpoint and a credential confined to its own bucket. It depends on `s3-bucket`, not on
+// minio, so any S3-compatible provider could serve it.
+//
+// The bucket and access-key id are derived deterministically from the consumer's identity, because
+// the harness hands `remove` only that identity (no stored values) — so teardown recomputes exactly
+// what creation minted, with nothing to persist. The emits fire here, at the real provisioning
+// points (novox/hq ADR 0046/0047); the module's events entrypoint (../index.ts) consumes them.
+
+import { runProvisioner, type Grant, type Credential } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/provisioner";
+import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+import { MinioClient, accessKeyFor, bucketFor } from "../client.js";
+
+const minio = MinioClient.fromEnv();
+
+runProvisioner("s3-bucket", {
+  async create(grant: Grant): Promise<Credential> {
+    const bucket = bucketFor(grant.consumer);
+    const accessKeyId = accessKeyFor(grant.consumer);
+
+    if (!(await minio.bucketExists(bucket))) await minio.createBucket(bucket);
+    // Re-mint the scoped key idempotently: drop any prior one under this id, then add fresh.
+    try { await minio.removeAccessKey(accessKeyId); } catch { /* none yet — first provision */ }
+    const key = await minio.createAccessKey(bucket, accessKeyId);
+
+    await emit("module.minio.bucket.created", {
+      bucket,
+      consumer: grant.consumer,
+      node: grant.node,
+      accessKey: key.accessKey, // the secret is never put on the bus — only the credential file carries it
+      endpoint: minio.baseUrl,
+    });
+
+    return {
+      fields: {
+        endpoint: minio.baseUrl,
+        bucket,
+        accessKey: key.accessKey,
+        secretKey: key.secretKey,
+        region: minio.region,
+      },
+    };
+  },
+
+  async remove(grant: Grant): Promise<void> {
+    const bucket = bucketFor(grant.consumer);
+    const accessKeyId = accessKeyFor(grant.consumer);
+
+    // Revoking the key is what cuts the consumer's access. The bucket is emptied-then-dropped only if
+    // empty; a bucket that still holds objects is left for an operator rather than erroring on every
+    // reconcile tick — access is already gone, and silently deleting a consumer's data would be worse.
+    try { await minio.removeAccessKey(accessKeyId); } catch { /* already gone */ }
+    try {
+      await minio.removeBucket(bucket);
+    } catch (err) {
+      console.error(`[minio] bucket ${bucket} not removed (likely non-empty), access revoked: ${err}`);
+    }
+
+    await emit("module.minio.bucket.removed", { bucket, consumer: grant.consumer, node: grant.node });
+  },
+});
diff --git a/modules/minio/tools/index.ts b/modules/minio/tools/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc218b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/minio/tools/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+// minio's tools — ported here from the shared sdk (novox/hq ADR 0044), importing minio's own client.
+// They return structured data; the mesh serves them through the sdk's tool harness. These are the
+// read/inspect operations useful to an operator; creating storage for a consumer is the provisioner's
+// job, not a tool's.
+
+import { registerModuleTools, type ToolDefinition } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
+import { MinioClient } from "../client.js";
+
+export function getMinioTools(minio: MinioClient): ToolDefinition[] {
+  return [
+    {
+      name: "minio_list_buckets",
+      description: "List every S3 bucket in the object store, with creation dates.",
+      input: {},
+      run: async () => {
+        const buckets = await minio.listBuckets();
+        return {
+          count: buckets.length,
+          buckets: buckets.map((b) => ({ name: b.name, createdAt: b.creationDate?.toISOString() })),
+        };
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: "minio_list_objects",
+      description: "List objects in a bucket, optionally under a prefix.",
+      input: {
+        bucket: { type: "string", description: "the bucket name" },
+        prefix: { type: "string", description: "only keys under this prefix (e.g. 'photos/')" },
+        recursive: { type: "boolean", description: "descend into nested prefixes (default false)" },
+        limit: { type: "number", description: "max keys to return (default 100)" },
+      },
+      run: async (args) => {
+        const bucket = String(args.bucket);
+        const objects = await minio.listObjects(
+          bucket,
+          args.prefix ? String(args.prefix) : "",
+          Boolean(args.recursive),
+          args.limit ? Number(args.limit) : 100,
+        );
+        return {
+          bucket,
+          count: objects.length,
+          objects: objects.map((o) => ({ key: o.name, size: o.size, lastModified: o.lastModified.toISOString(), etag: o.etag })),
+        };
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: "minio_bucket_info",
+      description: "Summary of one bucket: whether it exists, its region, and a sampled object count and size.",
+      input: { bucket: { type: "string", description: "the bucket name" } },
+      run: async (args) => minio.bucketInfo(String(args.bucket)),
+    },
+    {
+      name: "minio_presigned_url",
+      description: "A time-limited URL to download (GET) or upload (PUT) one object without credentials.",
+      input: {
+        bucket: { type: "string", description: "the bucket name" },
+        object: { type: "string", description: "the object key" },
+        method: { type: "string", description: "'GET' to download (default) or 'PUT' to upload" },
+        expires: { type: "number", description: "seconds until the URL expires (default 86400 = 24h)" },
+      },
+      run: async (args) => {
+        const method = String(args.method ?? "GET").toUpperCase() === "PUT" ? "PUT" : "GET";
+        const expires = args.expires ? Number(args.expires) : 86400;
+        const url = minio.presignedUrl(method, String(args.bucket), String(args.object), expires);
+        return { method, bucket: String(args.bucket), object: String(args.object), expiresInSeconds: expires, url };
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+}
+
+// The tools exist only when the object store is configured and reachable; without it minio
+// contributes none rather than failing the whole tool runtime.
+registerModuleTools("minio", (env) => {
+  try {
+    return getMinioTools(MinioClient.fromEnv(env));
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+});
diff --git a/modules/minio/tsconfig.json b/modules/minio/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c2a8df0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/minio/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "target": "ES2022",
+    "module": "NodeNext",
+    "moduleResolution": "NodeNext",
+    "strict": true,
+    "esModuleInterop": true,
+    "skipLibCheck": true,
+    "noEmit": true
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "client.ts",
+    "tools/index.ts",
+    "provisioner/index.ts"
+  ]
+}
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