diff --git a/internal/builder/builder.go b/internal/builder/builder.go
index 4fdfc42..5fcbf54 100644
--- a/internal/builder/builder.go
+++ b/internal/builder/builder.go
@@ -1171,6 +1171,9 @@ func readBy(manifest catalogue.Manifest) []catalogue.ArtifactContext {
 // binaryName is what a compiled bundle's executable is called: what the artifact says, or the name of
 // the package it is built from, which is what a compiler would have chosen anyway.
 func binaryName(a catalogue.Artifact) string {
+	if name := catalogue.BinaryOf(a); name != "" {
+		return name
+	}
 	if name := strings.TrimSpace(a.Binary); name != "" {
 		return name
 	}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/build.go b/internal/catalogue/build.go
index 88f77ab..1bc31c6 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/build.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/build.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"path"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 )
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
 				Name: a.Name, Source: Recorded(made.Reference), Digest: made.Digest,
 				Language: a.Language, Entrypoints: append([]string(nil), a.Entrypoints...),
 				Loads: loads, Env: copyWords(a.Env), Launchers: copyWords(made.Launchers),
+				Binary: BinaryOf(a),
 			})
 		}
 		sort.Slice(out.Bundles, func(i, j int) bool { return out.Bundles[i].Name < out.Bundles[j].Name })
@@ -417,3 +419,20 @@ func copyWords(in map[string]string) map[string]string {
 	}
 	return out
 }
+
+// BinaryOf is what a bundle compiled to a binary is called once built: what the artifact names, else
+// the package it is built from, else the artifact's own name (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/142). Empty for a
+// language that does not compile to one. The builder writes the binary under this name, and the
+// composer runs it by it, so both ask here.
+func BinaryOf(a Artifact) string {
+	if !compilesToABinary(a.Language) {
+		return ""
+	}
+	if name := strings.TrimSpace(a.Binary); name != "" {
+		return name
+	}
+	if from := strings.Trim(a.From, "./"); from != "" {
+		return path.Base(from)
+	}
+	return a.Name
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
index 8acd381..01686d5 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
@@ -607,6 +607,9 @@ type Bundle struct {
 	// Launchers are the executables the build wrote beside its entrypoints, by entrypoint (novox/hq
 	// ADR 0193). A bundle built before them has none, and is served as it was built.
 	Launchers map[string]string `json:"launchers,omitempty"`
+	// Binary is the executable a bundle compiled to a binary is, at its root (novox/hq ADR 0193):
+	// what runs it, where an interpreted bundle names an interpreter and an entrypoint.
+	Binary string `json:"binary,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Build says how to produce this module's artifacts from its source.
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/runtime.go b/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
index 4a33cc7..65d326b 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
@@ -129,14 +129,22 @@ func (r Resolution) runtimeProcess(with Rendering) (map[string]any, error) {
 			RuntimeModule, r.Node, len(runtime.Bundles))
 	}
 	bundle := runtime.Bundles[0]
-	if len(bundle.Entrypoints) != 1 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"%s's bundle %q names %d entrypoint(s); the runtime is run from one, so the module "+
-				"declares exactly one (novox/hq to-be 38)", RuntimeModule, bundle.Name, len(bundle.Entrypoints))
-	}
-	interpreter, err := interpreterFor(bundle.Language)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+	// What runs it (novox/hq ADR 0193): a runtime compiled to a binary runs itself, from its own
+	// unpacked bundle; an interpreted one is its language's interpreter and its one entrypoint.
+	var run []any
+	if bundle.Binary != "" {
+		run = []any{"./" + bundle.Binary}
+	} else {
+		if len(bundle.Entrypoints) != 1 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+				"%s's bundle %q names %d entrypoint(s); the runtime is run from one, so the module "+
+					"declares exactly one (novox/hq to-be 38)", RuntimeModule, bundle.Name, len(bundle.Entrypoints))
+		}
+		interpreter, err := interpreterFor(bundle.Language)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		run = []any{interpreter, bundle.Entrypoints[0]}
 	}
 	credential, declared := runtime.OwnSecrets["broker"]
 	if !declared {
@@ -198,7 +206,7 @@ func (r Resolution) runtimeProcess(with Rendering) (map[string]any, error) {
 	process := map[string]any{
 		"id": RuntimeModule + "." + RuntimeProcessID(), "type": "process", "name": RuntimeModule,
 		"source": bundle.Source, "digest": bundle.Digest,
-		"run":        []any{interpreter, bundle.Entrypoints[0]},
+		"run":        run,
 		"env":        env,
 		"restart-on": toAny(restartOn),
 	}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go b/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go
index 0411124..fa4dc43 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go
@@ -362,3 +362,30 @@ func TestTheRuntimeStartsTheLauncherWhereTheBuildWroteOne(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the runtime is told %q, want %q", env[RuntimeToolModules], want)
 	}
 }
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0193: a runtime compiled to a binary runs itself from its own unpacked bundle.
+func TestARuntimeCompiledToABinaryRunsItself(t *testing.T) {
+	with := Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101",
+		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{RuntimeModule: {"broker": "sealed-credential"}}}
+	goRuntime := Manifest{Module: RuntimeModule, Version: "1",
+		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"broker": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/" + RuntimeModule + "/broker"}},
+		Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{Name: "runtime", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "go",
+			System: "arch", From: "cmd/node-tools"}}}}
+	goRuntime, err := goRuntime.Resolve([]Built{{Name: "runtime", Kind: ArtifactBundle,
+		Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + RuntimeModule + "/runtime/blobs/" + bundleDigest, Digest: bundleDigest}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	out, err := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Account: "ops", Modules: []Manifest{aToolsModule(t, "nftables", "tools/index.js"), goRuntime}}.Declaration(with)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	process := fileNamed(out, RuntimeModule+"."+RuntimeProcessID())
+	if fmt.Sprint(process["run"]) != "[./node-tools]" {
+		t.Errorf("a Go runtime is run as %v, want its own binary", process["run"])
+	}
+	env := process["env"].(map[string]string)
+	if env[RuntimeToolModules] == "" || process["user"] != "ops" {
+		t.Errorf("the Go runtime is not told what to serve or whose it is: %v %v", env, process["user"])
+	}
+}