diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go
index 0f39abf..2220330 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ func showMode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node inventory.Node
 		return nil
 	}
 	fmt.Printf("  firewall found    %s\n", orNone(said.Firewall))
+	if err := showTunnel(ctx, inv, node.Name); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	if len(said.Held) == 0 {
 		fmt.Printf("  holding           nothing found\n")
 	}
@@ -63,6 +66,37 @@ func showMode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node inventory.Node
 	return nil
 }
 
+// showTunnel is the node show lines about the tunnel an adopted node found and carried (novox/hq
+// ADR 0105): what it presented at enrolment, and what it last said about taking it over.
+func showTunnel(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, name string) error {
+	tunnel, err := inv.TunnelOf(ctx, name)
+	if errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNoTunnel) {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("  tunnel found      %s on port %d, %s in %s, %d peer(s)\n",
+		tunnel.Interface, tunnel.Port, tunnel.Address, tunnel.Range, len(tunnel.Peers))
+	carried, said, err := inv.CarriedTunnelOf(ctx, name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	switch {
+	case !said:
+		fmt.Printf("  %-17s not yet taken over — the node has not said so\n", "")
+	case carried.Taken:
+		fmt.Printf("  %-17s taken over: %s is down and disabled, never flushed; the mesh's interface "+
+			"runs with its key, port and %d peer(s)\n", "", carried.Interface, carried.Peers)
+	default:
+		fmt.Printf("  %-17s NOT taken over: %s is still the interface the peers reach\n", "", carried.Interface)
+	}
+	if said && carried.Kept != "" {
+		fmt.Printf("  %-17s its configuration's original kept at %s\n", "", carried.Kept)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 func orNone(s string) string {
 	if s == "" {
 		return "none reported"
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
index 7f62c24..d371cc5 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"sort"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -21,11 +22,28 @@ import (
 // cheapest next step. That is how novox/hq ADR 0001 records `hal/sdk` reaching 34,636:
 // nothing in it was wrong, and no one edit was the one that should have been a new file.
 
-func overlayCIDR() string {
-	if v := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(OverlayCIDRVar)); v != "" {
-		return v
+// DefaultOverlayCIDR is the range the mesh allocates from when nothing says another.
+const DefaultOverlayCIDR = "10.42.0.0/16"
+
+// overlayRange is the range the mesh allocates node addresses from.
+//
+// **The adopted tunnel's range first** (novox/hq ADR 0105): a hub that took over the tunnel it
+// found is at that tunnel's address, its peers are at theirs, and every node's address is
+// composed from the same range — the hub's, and every binding, hosts entry and endpoint derived
+// from it. Those are readers of this; none of them stores the range. Without an adopted tunnel,
+// the range genesis was told, or the default.
+func overlayRange(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) (string, error) {
+	tunnel, _, adopted, err := inv.AdoptedTunnel(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
 	}
-	return "10.42.0.0/16"
+	if adopted {
+		return tunnel.Range, nil
+	}
+	if v := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(OverlayCIDRVar)); v != "" {
+		return v, nil
+	}
+	return DefaultOverlayCIDR, nil
 }
 
 func overlayCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
@@ -110,16 +128,46 @@ func overlayPlace(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, args []string)
 		}
 	}
 
+	// A hub that took over a tunnel listens on that tunnel's port — it is what the peers dial, and
+	// the reason the port is worth having (novox/hq ADR 0105). An endpoint on another port would
+	// have the mesh's interface up where no peer is listening for it.
+	found, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var tunnel inventory.Tunnel
+	adoptsTunnel := false
+	if *hub && found.Adopted {
+		if t, err := inv.TunnelOf(ctx, node); err == nil {
+			tunnel = t
+			placed, _ := inv.Overlays(ctx)
+			for _, o := range placed {
+				if o.Name == node && o.Key == t.PublicKey {
+					adoptsTunnel = true
+				}
+			}
+		} else if !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNoTunnel) {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+	if adoptsTunnel {
+		if port := portOfEndpoint(*endpoint); port != strconv.Itoa(tunnel.Port) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%s takes over the tunnel it found on %s, which listens on port %d, and "+
+				"its endpoint %q names another port: the peers dial the tunnel's port, so the hub's "+
+				"endpoint must be on it", node, tunnel.Interface, tunnel.Port, *endpoint)
+		}
+	}
+
 	// Declared, all three. The address is evidence of reachability and is not the fact, and hub
 	// election by address prefix fails silently (novox/hq ADR 0007).
 	if err := inv.SetPlace(ctx, node, *endpoint, *site, *hub, ""); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	found, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
+	cidr, err := overlayRange(ctx, inv)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	address, err := inv.AssignAddress(ctx, found.ID, overlayCIDR())
+	address, err := inv.AssignAddress(ctx, found.ID, cidr)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -128,6 +176,10 @@ func overlayPlace(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, args []string)
 	fmt.Println("  credentials issued for it before this placement keep their old broker address —" +
 		" `module issue` them again and push (novox/hq issue 059)")
 	switch {
+	case adoptsTunnel:
+		fmt.Printf("  the hub — it takes over the tunnel it found on %s: range %s, port %d, "+
+			"%d peer(s) carried until they enrol\n", tunnel.Interface, tunnel.Range, tunnel.Port,
+			len(tunnel.Peers))
 	case *hub:
 		fmt.Println("  the hub — every node not sharing a site routes through it")
 	case *endpoint == "":
@@ -154,15 +206,33 @@ func network(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, on map[string]bool,
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	// The tunnels adopted nodes take over, and the peers the hub's carries (novox/hq ADR 0105).
+	tunnels, err := inv.Tunnels(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	carried, err := inv.CarriedPeers(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	nodes := make([]overlay.Node, 0, len(places))
 	for _, p := range places {
 		if !on[p.Name] {
 			continue
 		}
-		nodes = append(nodes, overlay.Node{
+		n := overlay.Node{
 			Name: p.Name, Key: p.Key, Endpoint: p.Endpoint,
 			Site: p.Site, Hub: p.Hub, Address: p.Address,
-		})
+		}
+		if t, takes := tunnels[p.Name]; takes {
+			n.TakesOver = &overlay.TakeOver{Interface: t.Interface, Unit: t.Unit, Config: t.Config}
+		}
+		if p.Hub {
+			for _, c := range carried {
+				n.Carried = append(n.Carried, overlay.Carried{Key: c.PublicKey, Address: c.Address})
+			}
+		}
+		nodes = append(nodes, n)
 	}
 	if len(nodes) == 0 {
 		// Nobody was given it. An empty network is a legitimate mesh, not a broken one, so this
@@ -170,7 +240,11 @@ func network(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, on map[string]bool,
 		// "no hub" to somebody who never asked for a network would be a lie about the cause.
 		return overlay.Empty(), nil
 	}
-	g, err := overlay.From(nodes, overlayCIDR(), "")
+	cidr, err := overlayRange(ctx, inv)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	g, err := overlay.From(nodes, cidr, "")
 	if g != nil {
 		// The artifact store, as this network reaches it. Found rather than configured: the
 		// provider is whichever module offers it, on whichever machine holds that module — and if
@@ -292,6 +366,17 @@ func overlayShow(ctx context.Context, open *stores) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 
+	// The tunnel the hub took over, if any, and the peers carried from it (novox/hq ADR 0105):
+	// listed apart from the nodes, because they are peers of the tunnel and not nodes of the
+	// mesh until they enrol — and once one has, it is listed as the node it became.
+	tunnel, hubName, adopted, err := open.inventory.AdoptedTunnel(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	carried, err := open.inventory.CarriedPeers(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	for _, n := range nodes {
 		place := n.Address
 		if place == "" {
@@ -301,6 +386,12 @@ func overlayShow(ctx context.Context, open *stores) error {
 		}
 		fmt.Printf("%-16s %-14s", n.Name, place)
 		switch {
+		case n.Hub && adopted:
+			fmt.Printf("  hub — over the tunnel it took over on %s (range %s, port %d)",
+				tunnel.Interface, tunnel.Range, tunnel.Port)
+		case n.Hub && hubName == n.Name && tunnel.Interface != "":
+			fmt.Printf("  hub — found a tunnel on %s and did NOT take it over: its key is not the tunnel's",
+				tunnel.Interface)
 		case n.Hub:
 			fmt.Print("  hub")
 		case !n.Reachable():
@@ -309,14 +400,35 @@ func overlayShow(ctx context.Context, open *stores) error {
 		if n.Site != "" {
 			fmt.Printf("  at %s", n.Site)
 		}
+		if n.TakesOver != nil && !n.Hub {
+			fmt.Printf("  takes over %s", n.TakesOver.Interface)
+		}
 		fmt.Println()
 		for _, p := range computed[n.Name] {
 			fmt.Printf("    → %-14s %-18s %s\n", p.Name, p.Allowed, p.Why)
 		}
 	}
+	if len(carried) > 0 {
+		fmt.Printf("\npeers of the tunnel %s took over — not nodes of the mesh until they enrol:\n", hubName)
+		for _, c := range carried {
+			state := "not yet enrolled"
+			if c.EnrolledAs != "" {
+				state = "enrolled as " + c.EnrolledAs + ", which keeps this address"
+			}
+			fmt.Printf("  %-16s %-14s %s\n", overlay.CarriedName(c.PublicKey), c.Address, state)
+		}
+	}
 	return nil
 }
 
+// portOfEndpoint is the port in host:port, or empty.
+func portOfEndpoint(endpoint string) string {
+	if i := strings.LastIndex(endpoint, ":"); i >= 0 {
+		return endpoint[i+1:]
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
 // SilentFor is how long a node may be quiet before the mesh says so.
 //
 // A node speaks every minute, so three of them missed is a gap rather than a slow one. The number
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go
index ec42473..7a03fc4 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/network_test.go
@@ -108,3 +108,84 @@ func TestOnlyAMachineOnThePrivateNetworkIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a machine that left the network is still named, or the one that stayed is not: %v", names)
 	}
 }
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0105: the range every address is composed from is the adopted tunnel's, read from
+// the tunnel the hub holds — never stored anywhere else.
+func TestTheOverlaysRangeIsTheAdoptedTunnels(t *testing.T) {
+	open := aMesh(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	inv := open.inventory
+	t.Setenv(OverlayCIDRVar, "10.99.0.0/16")
+
+	before, err := overlayRange(ctx, inv)
+	if err != nil || before != "10.99.0.0/16" {
+		t.Fatalf("without an adopted tunnel the range is not what genesis said: %q %v", before, err)
+	}
+
+	// The hub becomes what genesis makes of a machine in use: adopted, enrolled with the found
+	// tunnel's key, and presenting the tunnel.
+	if err := inv.SetAdopted(ctx, "anchor", true); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	hub, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, "anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	const key = "THE-TUNNELS-KEY========================="
+	if err := inv.RecordOverlayKey(ctx, hub.ID, key); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordTunnel(ctx, hub.ID, inventory.Tunnel{
+		Interface: "wg0", Unit: "wg-quick@wg0", Config: "/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf", Port: 51900,
+		Address: "192.0.2.1/24", Range: "192.0.2.0/24", PublicKey: key,
+		Peers: []inventory.TunnelPeer{{PublicKey: "PEER-TWO", Address: "192.0.2.2"}},
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	after, err := overlayRange(ctx, inv)
+	if err != nil || after != "192.0.2.0/24" {
+		t.Fatalf("with an adopted tunnel the range is %q (%v), not the tunnel's", after, err)
+	}
+
+	// A placement whose endpoint is on another port than the tunnel's is refused: the peers dial
+	// the tunnel's port.
+	err = overlayPlace(ctx, inv, []string{"anchor", "--endpoint", "198.51.100.10:51820", "--site", "hosting", "--hub"})
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "51900") {
+		t.Fatalf("an endpoint off the tunnel's port was accepted: %v", err)
+	}
+	// On the tunnel's port, the hub is placed at the tunnel's address — whatever it had before.
+	if err := inv.SetPlace(ctx, "anchor", "", "", false, ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := overlayPlace(ctx, inv, []string{"anchor", "--endpoint", "198.51.100.10:51900", "--site", "hosting", "--hub"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if placed := placementOf(t, ctx, inv, "anchor"); placed.Address != "192.0.2.1" {
+		t.Fatalf("the hub was placed at %s, not the tunnel's own address", placed.Address)
+	}
+
+	// And the hub's declaration carries the peer and the takeover.
+	nodes, computed, err := graph(ctx, open)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var hubNode overlay.Node
+	for _, n := range nodes {
+		if n.Name == "anchor" {
+			hubNode = n
+		}
+	}
+	if hubNode.TakesOver == nil || hubNode.TakesOver.Unit != "wg-quick@wg0" {
+		t.Errorf("the hub is not told to take over the found tunnel: %+v", hubNode)
+	}
+	carried := false
+	for _, p := range computed["anchor"] {
+		if p.Key == "PEER-TWO" && p.Allowed == "192.0.2.2/32" {
+			carried = true
+		}
+	}
+	if !carried {
+		t.Errorf("the hub's peer list does not carry the tunnel's peer: %+v", computed["anchor"])
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/addresses.go b/internal/inventory/addresses.go
index 3826e0b..44214df 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/addresses.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/addresses.go
@@ -16,25 +16,64 @@ import (
 // node's peer list to chase it, and an address that moves is the thing declaring the hub was
 // meant to stop.
 //
-// Allocated in order from the range, taking the lowest free one. Not random: a person reading a
-// peer list should be able to guess which node an address belongs to, and reuse of a released
-// address is a smaller problem than a list nobody can hold in their head.
+// **The adopted tunnel's addresses come first** (novox/hq ADR 0105). The hub that took over a
+// tunnel is at the tunnel's own address. A node enrolling with a key the tunnel already routed
+// to keeps the address the tunnel had for it — nothing a peer knows changes. And an address the
+// tunnel holds for a peer that has not enrolled is never handed to anyone else: that peer is
+// still reaching the hub at it.
+//
+// The rest is allocated in order from the range, taking the lowest free one. Not random: a person
+// reading a peer list should be able to guess which node an address belongs to, and reuse of a
+// released address is a smaller problem than a list nobody can hold in their head.
 func (i *Inventory) AssignAddress(ctx context.Context, node, cidr string) (string, error) {
 	prefix, err := netip.ParsePrefix(cidr)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("%q is not a network the mesh can allocate from: %w", cidr, err)
 	}
 
-	var existing *string
+	var existing, key *string
+	var name string
+	var hub bool
 	if err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx,
-		`select host(overlay_address) from node where id = $1`, node).Scan(&existing); err != nil {
+		`select name, host(overlay_address), overlay_key, is_hub from node where id = $1`, node).
+		Scan(&name, &existing, &key, &hub); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	if existing != nil && *existing != "" {
 		return *existing, nil
 	}
 
+	tunnel, hubName, adopted, err := i.AdoptedTunnel(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if adopted && hub && hubName == name {
+		address, err := netip.ParsePrefix(tunnel.Address)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("the adopted tunnel's address %q: %w", tunnel.Address, err)
+		}
+		return i.place(ctx, node, address.Addr().String())
+	}
+	carried, err := i.CarriedPeers(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
 	taken := map[string]bool{}
+	if adopted {
+		// The tunnel's own address is the hub's whether or not the hub has been placed yet.
+		if address, err := netip.ParsePrefix(tunnel.Address); err == nil {
+			taken[address.Addr().String()] = true
+		}
+	}
+	for _, p := range carried {
+		if key != nil && p.PublicKey == *key {
+			// The tunnel already routes to this key: the node keeps that address, and the peer
+			// notices nothing when its machine enrols.
+			return i.place(ctx, node, p.Address)
+		}
+		taken[p.Address] = true
+	}
+
 	rows, err := i.store.Pool().Query(ctx,
 		`select host(overlay_address) from node where overlay_address is not null`)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -58,12 +97,7 @@ func (i *Inventory) AssignAddress(ctx context.Context, node, cidr string) (strin
 	candidate := prefix.Masked().Addr().Next()
 	for prefix.Contains(candidate) {
 		if !taken[candidate.String()] {
-			if _, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
-				`update node set overlay_address = $2::inet where id = $1`,
-				node, candidate.String()); err != nil {
-				return "", err
-			}
-			return candidate.String(), nil
+			return i.place(ctx, node, candidate.String())
 		}
 		candidate = candidate.Next()
 	}
@@ -72,5 +106,13 @@ func (i *Inventory) AssignAddress(ctx context.Context, node, cidr string) (strin
 	// halfway through assigning one node.
 	return "", fmt.Errorf(
 		"every address in %s is taken, so %s cannot be given one. The mesh has outgrown its "+
-			"range and renumbering it is a deliberate act", cidr, node)
+			"range and renumbering it is a deliberate act", cidr, name)
+}
+
+func (i *Inventory) place(ctx context.Context, node, address string) (string, error) {
+	if _, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
+		`update node set overlay_address = $2::inet where id = $1`, node, address); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return address, nil
 }
diff --git a/internal/inventory/migrations/0031-the-tunnel-a-node-found.sql b/internal/inventory/migrations/0031-the-tunnel-a-node-found.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88cb466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/migrations/0031-the-tunnel-a-node-found.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+-- The tunnel a node found on its machine, and the peers it carried (novox/hq ADR 0105).
+--
+-- On an adopted node that is the hub, the private network takes over the tunnel it finds: its
+-- key, its port, its address and range, and every peer. The node presents what it found when it
+-- enrols -- the same moment it presents its keys, because the found tunnel's key IS its key on the
+-- private network from then on -- and the mesh composes every address from it.
+
+-- What the node presented: interface, unit and configuration path, port, address and range, and
+-- the tunnel's public key. The private key never travels; the node keeps it as its own overlay
+-- key. Null on a node that found no tunnel, which is every converged one.
+alter table node add column tunnel jsonb;
+
+-- The node's last account of carrying it: the found interface down and disabled, the mesh's up
+-- in its place. Null until the node says so.
+alter table node add column tunnel_carried jsonb;
+
+-- The peers the found tunnel had: a public key and the address the tunnel routed to it. Peers of
+-- the tunnel, not nodes of the mesh, until they enrol -- a machine the mesh has no record of, whose
+-- identity precedes its enrolment. One row per key, and one address per key on one tunnel.
+create table tunnel_peer (
+    node        uuid        not null references node(id) on delete cascade,
+    public_key  text        not null,
+    address     inet        not null,
+    since       timestamptz not null default now(),
+    primary key (node, public_key),
+    unique (node, address)
+);
diff --git a/internal/inventory/tunnel.go b/internal/inventory/tunnel.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8987aea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/tunnel.go
@@ -0,0 +1,313 @@
+package inventory
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/netip"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5"
+)
+
+// The tunnel a node found on its machine, and the peers it carried (novox/hq ADR 0105).
+//
+// On an adopted node that is the hub, the private network takes over the tunnel it finds: its
+// private key, its port, its address and range, and every peer the found interface had. The node
+// presents what it found when it enrols, in the same breath as its keys — the found tunnel's key is
+// its key on the private network from then on — and the mesh composes every address from it: the
+// hub's is the tunnel's, the range is the tunnel's, and a peer that enrols keeps the address the
+// tunnel already had for its key.
+
+// Tunnel is what a node found on its machine, as it presented it. No private key: the node keeps
+// it as its own overlay key, sealed like any own secret, and the mesh records only the public half
+// — which is then the node's overlay key too.
+type Tunnel struct {
+	// Interface, Unit and Config are what the host takes over: the found interface, the unit
+	// that raised it, and its configuration file, which is kept like any held file.
+	Interface string `json:"interface"`
+	Unit      string `json:"unit"`
+	Config    string `json:"config"`
+	// Port is the port the found interface listened on — one the hosting provider already lets
+	// through, which is why it is worth taking.
+	Port int `json:"port"`
+	// Address is the interface's own address with its prefix length, 192.0.2.1/24; Range is the
+	// network that prefix names, 192.0.2.0/24.
+	Address string `json:"address"`
+	Range   string `json:"range"`
+	// PublicKey is the found interface's, which every peer knows the tunnel by.
+	PublicKey string `json:"public_key"`
+	// Peers are the found interface's peers: each a public key and the address the tunnel routed
+	// to it.
+	Peers []TunnelPeer `json:"peers,omitempty"`
+	// At is when the node presented it; zero on a tunnel not yet recorded.
+	At time.Time `json:"at,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// TunnelPeer is one peer of a found tunnel.
+type TunnelPeer struct {
+	PublicKey string `json:"public_key"`
+	// Address is the one host address the tunnel routed to the peer, without a prefix.
+	Address string `json:"address"`
+}
+
+// Carried is what a node last said about carrying the tunnel it found: the found interface down
+// and disabled, the mesh's up in its place with the found key.
+type Carried struct {
+	Interface string `json:"interface"`
+	Port      int    `json:"port"`
+	Range     string `json:"range"`
+	Peers     int    `json:"peers"`
+	// Taken is whether the found interface is down and the mesh's up with its key; Kept is where
+	// the found configuration's original was kept.
+	Taken bool      `json:"taken"`
+	Kept  string    `json:"kept,omitempty"`
+	At    time.Time `json:"at"`
+}
+
+// CarriedPeer is one peer of the adopted tunnel as the mesh holds it: a peer of the tunnel, and
+// — once a node enrols with that key — a node of the mesh as well.
+type CarriedPeer struct {
+	PublicKey string
+	Address   string
+	// EnrolledAs names the node that enrolled with this key, or is empty while none has.
+	EnrolledAs string
+}
+
+// ErrNoTunnel is asking about a tunnel on a node that presented none.
+var ErrNoTunnel = errors.New("that node presented no tunnel")
+
+// RecordTunnel keeps what a node presented, replacing what was there: the question is the tunnel
+// as the node found it now. The peers are replaced whole for the same reason.
+func (i *Inventory) RecordTunnel(ctx context.Context, nodeID string, t Tunnel) error {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(t.Interface) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(t.PublicKey) == "" {
+		return errors.New("a found tunnel names its interface and its public key, and this names neither")
+	}
+	if _, err := netip.ParsePrefix(t.Range); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the found tunnel's range %q is not a range: %w", t.Range, err)
+	}
+	address, err := netip.ParsePrefix(t.Address)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the found tunnel's address %q is not an address with a prefix: %w", t.Address, err)
+	}
+	peers := make([]TunnelPeer, 0, len(t.Peers))
+	for _, p := range t.Peers {
+		host, err := peerHost(p.Address)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the found tunnel's peer %s: %w", shortKey(p.PublicKey), err)
+		}
+		if !address.Masked().Contains(host) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the found tunnel's peer %s is routed at %s, outside the tunnel's %s",
+				shortKey(p.PublicKey), host, t.Range)
+		}
+		peers = append(peers, TunnelPeer{PublicKey: p.PublicKey, Address: host.String()})
+	}
+	t.Peers = nil
+	t.At = time.Now().UTC()
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(t)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	tx, err := i.store.Pool().Begin(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback(context.WithoutCancel(ctx)) }()
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(ctx, `update node set tunnel = $2 where id = $1`, nodeID, raw); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(ctx, `delete from tunnel_peer where node = $1`, nodeID); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	for _, p := range peers {
+		if _, err := tx.Exec(ctx,
+			`insert into tunnel_peer (node, public_key, address) values ($1, $2, $3::inet)`,
+			nodeID, p.PublicKey, p.Address); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("recording the found tunnel's peer %s: %w", shortKey(p.PublicKey), err)
+		}
+	}
+	return tx.Commit(ctx)
+}
+
+// peerHost is the one host address a peer's allowed address names: a bare address, or a /32
+// (or /128). A wider prefix is refused — a peer routed a whole range is not a machine with an
+// address the mesh could give a node.
+func peerHost(allowed string) (netip.Addr, error) {
+	allowed = strings.TrimSpace(allowed)
+	if a, err := netip.ParseAddr(allowed); err == nil {
+		return a, nil
+	}
+	p, err := netip.ParsePrefix(allowed)
+	if err != nil {
+		return netip.Addr{}, fmt.Errorf("%q is not an address", allowed)
+	}
+	if !p.IsSingleIP() {
+		return netip.Addr{}, fmt.Errorf("%q names a range, and a peer of the tunnel is one address", allowed)
+	}
+	return p.Addr(), nil
+}
+
+func shortKey(key string) string {
+	if len(key) > 8 {
+		return key[:8] + "…"
+	}
+	return key
+}
+
+// TunnelOf is the tunnel a node presented, with its peers, or ErrNoTunnel.
+func (i *Inventory) TunnelOf(ctx context.Context, name string) (Tunnel, error) {
+	var raw []byte
+	var id string
+	err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx,
+		`select id, tunnel from node where name = $1`, name).Scan(&id, &raw)
+	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+		return Tunnel{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrNoSuchNode, name)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return Tunnel{}, err
+	}
+	if len(raw) == 0 {
+		return Tunnel{}, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrNoTunnel, name)
+	}
+	var t Tunnel
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &t); err != nil {
+		return Tunnel{}, err
+	}
+	t.Peers, err = i.tunnelPeers(ctx, id)
+	return t, err
+}
+
+func (i *Inventory) tunnelPeers(ctx context.Context, nodeID string) ([]TunnelPeer, error) {
+	rows, err := i.store.Pool().Query(ctx,
+		`select public_key, host(address) from tunnel_peer where node = $1 order by address`, nodeID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var out []TunnelPeer
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var p TunnelPeer
+		if err := rows.Scan(&p.PublicKey, &p.Address); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out = append(out, p)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// AdoptedTunnel is the tunnel the mesh's private network runs over, if the hub adopted one: the
+// hub's found tunnel, when the hub is adopted and its overlay key is the tunnel's. Absent, the mesh
+// runs on its own range — and a hub that found a tunnel but holds another key did not adopt it,
+// which `overlay show` says.
+//
+// The condition on the key is the condition of the whole record: a hub raised with a key of its
+// own would drop every peer's packets on the found port (novox/hq ADR 0105, option 2), so the
+// tunnel is adopted only when the hub answers to the key its peers know.
+func (i *Inventory) AdoptedTunnel(ctx context.Context) (Tunnel, string, bool, error) {
+	var name string
+	var key *string
+	var adopted bool
+	err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx,
+		`select name, overlay_key, adopted from node where is_hub and tunnel is not null`).
+		Scan(&name, &key, &adopted)
+	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+		return Tunnel{}, "", false, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return Tunnel{}, "", false, err
+	}
+	t, err := i.TunnelOf(ctx, name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Tunnel{}, "", false, err
+	}
+	if !adopted || key == nil || *key != t.PublicKey {
+		return t, name, false, nil
+	}
+	return t, name, true, nil
+}
+
+// CarriedPeers is every peer of the adopted tunnel, with the node that enrolled under its key
+// where one has: peers of the tunnel, and nodes of the mesh once they enrol. Empty when the hub
+// adopted no tunnel.
+func (i *Inventory) CarriedPeers(ctx context.Context) ([]CarriedPeer, error) {
+	rows, err := i.store.Pool().Query(ctx,
+		`select p.public_key, host(p.address), coalesce(n.name, '')
+		   from tunnel_peer p
+		   join node hub on hub.id = p.node and hub.is_hub and hub.adopted
+		        and hub.tunnel is not null and hub.overlay_key = hub.tunnel->>'public_key'
+		   left join node n on n.overlay_key = p.public_key
+		  order by p.address`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var out []CarriedPeer
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var p CarriedPeer
+		if err := rows.Scan(&p.PublicKey, &p.Address, &p.EnrolledAs); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out = append(out, p)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// Tunnels is every adopted node's found tunnel by node name, for the ones whose overlay key is the
+// tunnel's — the ones whose private network takes it over. A found tunnel under another key is
+// left running beside the mesh's, and ADR 0100's rule that the ranges differ applies to it.
+func (i *Inventory) Tunnels(ctx context.Context) (map[string]Tunnel, error) {
+	rows, err := i.store.Pool().Query(ctx,
+		`select name, tunnel from node
+		  where adopted and tunnel is not null and overlay_key = tunnel->>'public_key'`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	out := map[string]Tunnel{}
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var name string
+		var raw []byte
+		if err := rows.Scan(&name, &raw); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		var t Tunnel
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &t); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out[name] = t
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}
+
+// RecordCarriedTunnel keeps what a node last said about carrying its found tunnel.
+func (i *Inventory) RecordCarriedTunnel(ctx context.Context, nodeID string, c Carried) error {
+	c.At = time.Now().UTC()
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx, `update node set tunnel_carried = $2 where id = $1`, nodeID, raw)
+	return err
+}
+
+// CarriedTunnelOf is a node's last account of carrying its found tunnel, and whether it ever gave one.
+func (i *Inventory) CarriedTunnelOf(ctx context.Context, name string) (Carried, bool, error) {
+	var raw []byte
+	err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx, `select tunnel_carried from node where name = $1`, name).Scan(&raw)
+	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+		return Carried{}, false, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrNoSuchNode, name)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return Carried{}, false, err
+	}
+	if len(raw) == 0 {
+		return Carried{}, false, nil
+	}
+	var c Carried
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &c); err != nil {
+		return Carried{}, false, err
+	}
+	return c, true, nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/tunnel_test.go b/internal/inventory/tunnel_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e447916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/tunnel_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+package inventory
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0105: the mesh adopts the predecessor's tunnel in place. The controller reads the
+// hub's address and range from the adopted tunnel, assigns an enrolling node the address its key
+// already had, and refuses to hand out an address the tunnel already holds.
+
+const (
+	tunnelKey = "TUNNEL-KEY-the-found-interfaces-public-key="
+	peerTwo   = "PEER-KEY-two============================="
+	peerThree = "PEER-KEY-three==========================="
+)
+
+// theFoundTunnel is what a hub presents at enrolment: the predecessor's interface on a
+// documentation range, with two peers each routed one address.
+func theFoundTunnel() Tunnel {
+	return Tunnel{
+		Interface: "wg0", Unit: "wg-quick@wg0", Config: "/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf",
+		Port: 51900, Address: "192.0.2.1/24", Range: "192.0.2.0/24", PublicKey: tunnelKey,
+		Peers: []TunnelPeer{{PublicKey: peerTwo, Address: "192.0.2.2/32"},
+			{PublicKey: peerThree, Address: "192.0.2.3"}},
+	}
+}
+
+// anAdoptedHub is an adopted node that enrolled with the found tunnel's key and presented the
+// tunnel, then was placed as the hub — the order genesis does it in.
+func anAdoptedHub(t *testing.T, inv *Inventory) Node {
+	t.Helper()
+	hub, err := inv.AddNodeAs(t.Context(), "anchor", true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordOverlayKey(t.Context(), hub.ID, tunnelKey); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordTunnel(t.Context(), hub.ID, theFoundTunnel()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.SetPlace(t.Context(), "anchor", "anchor.example:51900", "hosting", true, ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return hub
+}
+
+func TestTheHubsAddressAndRangeComeFromTheAdoptedTunnel(t *testing.T) {
+	inv := fresh(t)
+	hub := anAdoptedHub(t, inv)
+
+	tunnel, name, adopted, err := inv.AdoptedTunnel(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !adopted || name != "anchor" || tunnel.Range != "192.0.2.0/24" || tunnel.Port != 51900 {
+		t.Fatalf("the adopted tunnel did not read back: adopted=%t on %s, %+v", adopted, name, tunnel)
+	}
+	if len(tunnel.Peers) != 2 || tunnel.Peers[0].Address != "192.0.2.2" || tunnel.Peers[1].Address != "192.0.2.3" {
+		t.Fatalf("the peers did not read back as one host address each: %+v", tunnel.Peers)
+	}
+
+	// Whatever range the caller would allocate from, the hub is at the tunnel's own address.
+	address, err := inv.AssignAddress(t.Context(), hub.ID, "10.42.0.0/16")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if address != "192.0.2.1" {
+		t.Fatalf("the hub was given %s, not the address the tunnel it took over had", address)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnEnrollingNodeKeepsTheAddressTheTunnelHadForItsKey(t *testing.T) {
+	inv := fresh(t)
+	anAdoptedHub(t, inv)
+
+	// A predecessor machine enrols: its host took its found interface's key as its overlay key,
+	// which is the key the hub's tunnel already routes to.
+	peer, err := inv.AddNodeAs(t.Context(), "home-server", true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordOverlayKey(t.Context(), peer.ID, peerThree); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	address, err := inv.AssignAddress(t.Context(), peer.ID, "192.0.2.0/24")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if address != "192.0.2.3" {
+		t.Fatalf("the enrolling peer was given %s, not the 192.0.2.3 the tunnel had for its key", address)
+	}
+
+	carried, err := inv.CarriedPeers(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	byKey := map[string]CarriedPeer{}
+	for _, c := range carried {
+		byKey[c.PublicKey] = c
+	}
+	if byKey[peerThree].EnrolledAs != "home-server" || byKey[peerTwo].EnrolledAs != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("the registry cannot say which peer is a node now: %+v", carried)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAFreshNodeIsNeverGivenAnAddressTheTunnelHolds(t *testing.T) {
+	inv := fresh(t)
+	anAdoptedHub(t, inv)
+
+	// .1 is the hub, .2 and .3 are peers of the tunnel that have not enrolled: a new machine with
+	// a key of its own gets the next one, from the same range.
+	fresh, err := inv.AddNode(t.Context(), "laptop")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordOverlayKey(t.Context(), fresh.ID, "A-KEY-OF-ITS-OWN========================"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	address, err := inv.AssignAddress(t.Context(), fresh.ID, "192.0.2.0/24")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if address != "192.0.2.4" {
+		t.Fatalf("a fresh node was given %s; 192.0.2.2 and .3 are the tunnel's peers and .1 its hub", address)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestATunnelUnderAnotherKeyIsNotAdopted(t *testing.T) {
+	// A hub whose overlay key is not the found tunnel's would drop every peer's packets on the
+	// found port (ADR 0105, option 2). Such a tunnel is recorded and not adopted: the mesh keeps
+	// its own range, and ADR 0100's non-overlap rule stands for it.
+	inv := fresh(t)
+	hub, err := inv.AddNodeAs(t.Context(), "anchor", true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordOverlayKey(t.Context(), hub.ID, "THE-MESHS-OWN-KEY======================="); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordTunnel(t.Context(), hub.ID, theFoundTunnel()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.SetPlace(t.Context(), "anchor", "anchor.example:51820", "hosting", true, ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, _, adopted, err := inv.AdoptedTunnel(t.Context()); err != nil || adopted {
+		t.Fatalf("a tunnel under another key was adopted (err %v)", err)
+	}
+	if carried, err := inv.CarriedPeers(t.Context()); err != nil || len(carried) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("peers of a tunnel that was not adopted are carried: %+v (err %v)", carried, err)
+	}
+	if address, err := inv.AssignAddress(t.Context(), hub.ID, "10.42.0.0/16"); err != nil || address != "10.42.0.1" {
+		t.Fatalf("the hub was given %s (err %v); it should allocate from the mesh's own range", address, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPeerRoutedARangeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	inv := fresh(t)
+	hub, err := inv.AddNodeAs(t.Context(), "anchor", true)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	found := theFoundTunnel()
+	found.Peers = append(found.Peers, TunnelPeer{PublicKey: "WIDE", Address: "198.51.100.0/24"})
+	err = inv.RecordTunnel(t.Context(), hub.ID, found)
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "names a range") {
+		t.Fatalf("a peer routed a whole range was recorded as a machine with an address: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := inv.TunnelOf(t.Context(), "anchor"); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoTunnel) {
+		t.Fatalf("a refused tunnel was recorded anyway: %v", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/enrolment.go b/internal/link/enrolment.go
index d4d71aa..780b87f 100644
--- a/internal/link/enrolment.go
+++ b/internal/link/enrolment.go
@@ -124,6 +124,29 @@ func (e Enrolment) Enrol(ctx context.Context, request EnrolRequest) (reply Enrol
 				"%s's overlay key could not be recorded: %w", node.Name, err)
 		}
 	}
+	// And the tunnel it found, whose key is the overlay key above (novox/hq ADR 0105). Recorded
+	// before the token is spent for the same reason as the keys: the first declaration this node
+	// receives is composed from it, and a hub enrolled without its tunnel would be placed at an
+	// address of the mesh's choosing rather than the tunnel's.
+	if request.Tunnel != nil {
+		if request.Tunnel.PublicKey != request.OverlayKey {
+			return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf("%s presented a tunnel under key %s and an overlay key "+
+				"that is not it; a tunnel is taken over with its own key or not at all", node.Name,
+				request.Tunnel.PublicKey)
+		}
+		peers := make([]inventory.TunnelPeer, 0, len(request.Tunnel.Peers))
+		for _, p := range request.Tunnel.Peers {
+			peers = append(peers, inventory.TunnelPeer{PublicKey: p.PublicKey, Address: p.Address})
+		}
+		if err := e.Inventory.RecordTunnel(ctx, node.ID, inventory.Tunnel{
+			Interface: request.Tunnel.Interface, Unit: request.Tunnel.Unit,
+			Config: request.Tunnel.Config, Port: request.Tunnel.Port,
+			Address: request.Tunnel.Address, Range: request.Tunnel.Range,
+			PublicKey: request.Tunnel.PublicKey, Peers: peers,
+		}); err != nil {
+			return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf("%s's found tunnel could not be recorded: %w", node.Name, err)
+		}
+	}
 
 	// Spent once the node is complete in the store.
 	if err := e.Inventory.Spend(ctx, secret, by); err != nil {
@@ -219,6 +242,15 @@ func (e Enrolment) Heard(ctx context.Context, report Report) (err error) {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
+	// What it says about the tunnel it carried (novox/hq ADR 0105), whenever it says it.
+	if report.Tunnel != nil {
+		if err := e.Inventory.RecordCarriedTunnel(ctx, node.ID, inventory.Carried{
+			Interface: report.Tunnel.Interface, Port: report.Tunnel.Port, Range: report.Tunnel.Range,
+			Peers: report.Tunnel.Peers, Taken: report.Tunnel.Taken, Kept: report.Tunnel.Kept,
+		}); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
 
 	// A bare word that a node is there is not an account of what the machine did or holds: it
 	// moves last_seen and touches nothing else. This arrives every minute (link.AliveEvery),
diff --git a/internal/link/protocol.go b/internal/link/protocol.go
index 0a7227d..ad5ab38 100644
--- a/internal/link/protocol.go
+++ b/internal/link/protocol.go
@@ -71,12 +71,39 @@ type EnrolRequest struct {
 	// node's public key could replay the spent token (novox/hq issue 083, on review).
 	Proof []byte `json:"proof,omitempty"`
 
+	// Tunnel is the tunnel this node found on its machine and whose key it took as its overlay
+	// key (novox/hq ADR 0105): the interface, its port, address and range, and its peers. Presented
+	// with the keys because it is one of them — OverlayKey above is this tunnel's public key when
+	// it is set — and the mesh composes the hub's address, the range and every carried peer from
+	// it. Nil from a node that found none, which is every converged one.
+	Tunnel *Tunnel `json:"tunnel,omitempty"`
+
 	// Redelivered is set by the control plane, never sent: the broker handed this request over a
 	// second time. Such a request does not finish an enrolment already spent — the first time may
 	// have answered, and the node holds what it was told.
 	Redelivered bool `json:"-"`
 }
 
+// Tunnel is a found tunnel as a node presents it: everything but its private key, which the node
+// keeps as its own overlay key and never sends.
+type Tunnel struct {
+	Interface string       `json:"interface"`
+	Unit      string       `json:"unit"`
+	Config    string       `json:"config"`
+	Port      int          `json:"port"`
+	Address   string       `json:"address"`
+	Range     string       `json:"range"`
+	PublicKey string       `json:"public_key"`
+	Peers     []TunnelPeer `json:"peers,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// TunnelPeer is one peer of a found tunnel: its public key and the address the tunnel routed to
+// it.
+type TunnelPeer struct {
+	PublicKey string `json:"public_key"`
+	Address   string `json:"address"`
+}
+
 // Signed is a declaration and the signature over it.
 //
 // The signature is over Declaration exactly as it will arrive, bytes unchanged — a node verifies
@@ -129,6 +156,21 @@ type Report struct {
 	// Reachable is what can be reached on the machine now: every listening socket and every
 	// published container port. Only an adopted node reports it; it is what converging previews.
 	Reachable []Reach `json:"reachable,omitempty"`
+
+	// Tunnel is what an adopted node says about the tunnel it found and carried (novox/hq ADR
+	// 0105): the interface, its port, range and peer count, whether the found interface is down
+	// and the mesh's up in its place, and where the found configuration's original was kept.
+	Tunnel *CarriedTunnel `json:"tunnel,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// CarriedTunnel is a node's account of the tunnel it took over.
+type CarriedTunnel struct {
+	Interface string `json:"interface"`
+	Port      int    `json:"port"`
+	Range     string `json:"range"`
+	Peers     int    `json:"peers"`
+	Taken     bool   `json:"taken"`
+	Kept      string `json:"kept,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Held is one file or container found on an adopted node and kept as it was.
diff --git a/internal/overlay/declaration.go b/internal/overlay/declaration.go
index 0039fb4..65b4e30 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/declaration.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/declaration.go
@@ -43,6 +43,40 @@ func Declaration(node Node, peers []Peer, keyPath string) ([]byte, error) {
 		keyPath = DefaultKeyPath
 	}
 
+	up := Resource{
+		"id": "overlay-up", "type": "service", "unit": Unit,
+		"state": "running",
+		// Enabled, so the node comes back onto the network after a reboot without waiting to
+		// be told again. A node whose overlay only exists while something is watching is not
+		// a node that survives being switched off and on.
+		"boot": "enabled",
+		// And restarted when the peer list changes, because a running interface does not
+		// re-read its configuration.
+		//
+		// This is the whole of it: a node joins, every existing node's peer list changes,
+		// each file is replaced — and without this the service is already running, nothing
+		// reloads it, and every node keeps a network that no longer matches the mesh. It
+		// reports complete success. The lab found it the moment a third node arrived.
+		//
+		// Declared state rather than a command. The service must reflect the file; the host
+		// works out that it does not. A command to restart would be an action, and the link
+		// may not carry one (novox/hq ADR 0005) — the host refused exactly that, correctly,
+		// which is how this shape was arrived at.
+		"restart-on": []string{"overlay-config"},
+	}
+	if node.TakesOver != nil {
+		// The private network takes over the tunnel it found (novox/hq ADR 0105): before this
+		// unit starts, the host stops and disables the found one — never flushing it — and keeps
+		// its configuration like any held file. The key is already the found one: the node took
+		// it as its own overlay key when it enrolled, which is why the mesh's peer list for it
+		// carries the found peers under the key they know.
+		up["takes-over"] = map[string]any{
+			"interface": node.TakesOver.Interface,
+			"unit":      node.TakesOver.Unit,
+			"config":    node.TakesOver.Config,
+		}
+	}
+
 	resources := []Resource{
 		{
 			"id": "overlay-tools", "type": "package", "package": "wireguard-tools",
@@ -55,27 +89,7 @@ func Declaration(node Node, peers []Peer, keyPath string) ([]byte, error) {
 			"mode":    "0600",
 			"content": config(node, peers, keyPath),
 		},
-		{
-			"id": "overlay-up", "type": "service", "unit": Unit,
-			"state": "running",
-			// Enabled, so the node comes back onto the network after a reboot without waiting to
-			// be told again. A node whose overlay only exists while something is watching is not
-			// a node that survives being switched off and on.
-			"boot": "enabled",
-			// And restarted when the peer list changes, because a running interface does not
-			// re-read its configuration.
-			//
-			// This is the whole of it: a node joins, every existing node's peer list changes,
-			// each file is replaced — and without this the service is already running, nothing
-			// reloads it, and every node keeps a network that no longer matches the mesh. It
-			// reports complete success. The lab found it the moment a third node arrived.
-			//
-			// Declared state rather than a command. The service must reflect the file; the host
-			// works out that it does not. A command to restart would be an action, and the link
-			// may not carry one (novox/hq ADR 0005) — the host refused exactly that, correctly,
-			// which is how this shape was arrived at.
-			"restart-on": []string{"overlay-config"},
-		},
+		up,
 	}
 
 	// The names used to be appended here, on the argument that a node with peers and no names is
diff --git a/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go b/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
index 10ccdc6..8a941ff 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/declaration_test.go
@@ -223,3 +223,40 @@ func TestTheHubForwardsAndNobodyElseDoes(t *testing.T) {
 			"compromised one could do")
 	}
 }
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0105: a node whose private network takes over the tunnel it found is told so on
+// the interface's service, and nothing else about the declaration changes — the key is already
+// the found one, taken at enrolment.
+func TestTakingOverAFoundTunnelIsSaidOnTheInterfacesService(t *testing.T) {
+	node := Node{Name: "anchor", Key: "PUB", Address: "192.0.2.1", Hub: true,
+		Endpoint:  "198.51.100.1:51900",
+		TakesOver: &TakeOver{Interface: "wg0", Unit: "wg-quick@wg0", Config: "/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf"}}
+	config, resources := declarationFor(t, node, nil)
+
+	var up map[string]any
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		if r["type"] == "service" {
+			up = r
+		}
+	}
+	takes, ok := up["takes-over"].(map[string]any)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("the interface's service does not say what it takes over: %+v", up)
+	}
+	if takes["unit"] != "wg-quick@wg0" || takes["config"] != "/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf" || takes["interface"] != "wg0" {
+		t.Errorf("the takeover names the wrong tunnel: %+v", takes)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(config, "ListenPort = 51900") {
+		t.Errorf("the hub's interface does not listen on the tunnel's port:\n%s", config)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(config, "PrivateKey") {
+		t.Error("the found key travelled in the configuration; it is the node's own, set from its key file")
+	}
+
+	_, plain := declarationFor(t, Node{Name: "laptop", Key: "PUB", Address: "192.0.2.4"}, nil)
+	for _, r := range plain {
+		if _, says := r["takes-over"]; says {
+			t.Error("a node taking over nothing was told to take something over")
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/overlay/graph.go b/internal/overlay/graph.go
index 0f1fa01..66685cb 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/graph.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/graph.go
@@ -26,6 +26,40 @@ type Node struct {
 	Site     string
 	Hub      bool
 	Address  string
+
+	// Carried are the peers of the tunnel this node took over (novox/hq ADR 0105): machines the
+	// mesh has no record of, each known by the public key and the address the found tunnel routed
+	// to it. Only a hub has any. They stay in its peer list until a node enrols with that key —
+	// from then on the node is the peer.
+	Carried []Carried
+	// TakesOver names the found tunnel this node's private network replaces: its unit is stopped
+	// and disabled, never flushed, and its configuration kept, before the mesh's interface comes
+	// up with the found key. Nil on a node that raises the mesh's interface beside whatever it has.
+	TakesOver *TakeOver
+}
+
+// Carried is one peer of an adopted tunnel that has not enrolled: a peer of the tunnel, not a
+// node of the mesh.
+type Carried struct {
+	Key     string
+	Address string
+}
+
+// TakeOver is the found tunnel a node's private network takes over, as the host is told it.
+type TakeOver struct {
+	Interface string
+	Unit      string
+	Config    string
+}
+
+// CarriedName is how a carried peer is named in a peer list: it has no node name, so it is named
+// by the key its packets arrive under.
+func CarriedName(key string) string {
+	short := key
+	if len(short) > 8 {
+		short = short[:8] + "…"
+	}
+	return "a peer of the tunnel (" + short + ")"
 }
 
 // Reachable reports whether other nodes can dial this one. Declared, never inferred.
@@ -145,7 +179,9 @@ func Compute(nodes []Node, overlayCIDR string) (Graph, error) {
 			// The hub holds every node that does not share a site with it, because those nodes
 			// route through it and it must know where to send the replies. Ones it cannot dial
 			// will dial it.
+			enrolled := map[string]bool{}
 			for _, other := range usable {
+				enrolled[other.Key] = true
 				if other.Name == self.Name || (self.Site != "" && self.Site == other.Site) {
 					continue
 				}
@@ -156,6 +192,21 @@ func Compute(nodes []Node, overlayCIDR string) (Graph, error) {
 					Why:      "routes through this hub",
 				})
 			}
+			// And every peer of the tunnel it took over that has not enrolled (novox/hq ADR
+			// 0105): the same key and the same address the found tunnel had for it, so the
+			// machine behind it cannot tell the tunnel changed hands. No endpoint — it dials in,
+			// as it always did. Once a node enrols with that key, the node's entry above is the
+			// peer, and WireGuard takes one entry per key.
+			for _, c := range self.Carried {
+				if enrolled[c.Key] {
+					continue
+				}
+				peers = append(peers, Peer{
+					Name: CarriedName(c.Key), Key: c.Key,
+					Allowed: c.Address + "/32",
+					Why:     "carried from the tunnel this hub took over — a peer of the tunnel, not yet a node of the mesh",
+				})
+			}
 		}
 
 		sort.Slice(peers, func(i, j int) bool { return peers[i].Name < peers[j].Name })
diff --git a/internal/overlay/graph_test.go b/internal/overlay/graph_test.go
index 14b2592..5cfe6ea 100644
--- a/internal/overlay/graph_test.go
+++ b/internal/overlay/graph_test.go
@@ -304,3 +304,39 @@ func TestOneReachableNodeIsEnoughToPeerDirectly(t *testing.T) {
 			"nowhere to go")
 	}
 }
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0105: a hub that took over the predecessor's tunnel carries every peer that tunnel
+// had, under the key and at the address the peer knows, until a node enrols with that key.
+func TestTheHubCarriesTheTunnelsPeersUntilTheyEnrol(t *testing.T) {
+	hub := at("anchor", "hosting", "192.0.2.1", "198.51.100.1:51900", true)
+	hub.Carried = []Carried{
+		{Key: "key-home", Address: "192.0.2.2"},
+		{Key: "key-workstation", Address: "192.0.2.3"},
+	}
+	// The machine behind key-home enrolled: it is a node now, at the address it kept.
+	home := at("home", "house", "192.0.2.2", "", false)
+	home.Key = "key-home"
+
+	g, err := Compute([]Node{hub, home}, "192.0.2.0/24")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	peers := peersOf(t, g, "anchor")
+	carried, ok := peers[CarriedName("key-workstation")]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("the hub does not carry the peer that has not enrolled: %+v", g["anchor"])
+	}
+	if carried.Allowed != "192.0.2.3/32" || carried.Endpoint != "" || carried.Key != "key-workstation" {
+		t.Errorf("a carried peer is not the tunnel's own entry — same key, its one address, no endpoint: %+v", carried)
+	}
+	if _, twice := peers[CarriedName("key-home")]; twice {
+		t.Error("a peer that enrolled is carried as well as listed as a node: WireGuard takes one entry per key")
+	}
+	if node, ok := peers["home"]; !ok || node.Key != "key-home" || node.Allowed != "192.0.2.2/32" {
+		t.Errorf("the enrolled peer is not the node it became: %+v", node)
+	}
+	// Carried peers are the hub's business only: a spoke routes everything through the hub.
+	if _, leaked := peersOf(t, g, "home")[CarriedName("key-workstation")]; leaked {
+		t.Error("a carried peer appeared in a spoke's peer list")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/README.md b/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc7f357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+# Lab bed: the hub adopts the predecessor's tunnel (novox/hq ADR 0105)
+
+A scenario and an integration-test skeleton for the mesh-lab repository, kept here because this
+branch changes only the controller and the host. Move `adopt-the-tunnel.yml` to
+`mesh-lab/scenarios/` and `adopt-the-tunnel.test.ts` to `mesh-lab/test/integration/` when the
+feature lands; neither has been run. The skeleton follows `adoption.test.ts` and reuses its
+harness. Documentation addresses throughout; the bed is node-agnostic.
+
+## The bed, precisely
+
+Three machines on one public segment, `hosting` (192.0.2.0/24), inbound allowed on all (the
+anchor's firewall is the predecessor's, installed by the bed):
+
+| machine | address | role |
+|---|---|---|
+| `anchor` | 192.0.2.10 | the machine in use: the predecessor's hub, then the mesh adopted on it |
+| `peer-a` | 192.0.2.20 | a predecessor machine: reaches a service on the anchor through the tunnel; later **enrols and keeps its address** |
+| `peer-b` | 192.0.2.30 | a second predecessor machine: reaches the same service; **never enrols** — the peer that must notice nothing throughout |
+| `fresh` | 192.0.2.40 | a new machine: enrols later and **gets a fresh address from the same range** |
+
+**Prepared the way the predecessor leaves a hub** (before genesis, by the bed, on `anchor`):
+
+- `wireguard-tools` installed; a keypair made on each of `anchor`, `peer-a`, `peer-b`.
+- `/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf` on the anchor: `[Interface]` `PrivateKey = <anchor's>`,
+  `ListenPort = 51900`, `Address = 10.10.0.1/24`; two `[Peer]` sections — `peer-a`'s public
+  key with `AllowedIPs = 10.10.0.2/32`, `peer-b`'s with `AllowedIPs = 10.10.0.3/32`. Raised with
+  `systemctl enable --now wg-quick@wg0`. **10.10.0.0/24 is deliberately not the mesh's default
+  range** (10.42.0.0/16), so a hub address in 10.10.0.0/24 can only have come from the tunnel.
+- `wg0.conf` on each peer: its own key, `Address = 10.10.0.2/24` (resp. `.3/24`), one
+  `[Peer]` — the anchor's public key, `Endpoint = 192.0.2.10:51900`,
+  `AllowedIPs = 10.10.0.0/24`, `PersistentKeepalive = 25`. Raised the same way.
+- A service on the anchor the peers reach **only over the tunnel**: a container publishing
+  `10.10.0.1:8081:80` (bound to the tunnel address, so a call from 192.0.2.20 to 10.10.0.1:8081
+  proves the tunnel carried it). Under a name no catalogue module uses — this bed is about the
+  tunnel, not about taking a service.
+- The predecessor's firewall (`ufw`) allowing `51900/udp` and `22/tcp`, denying the rest — as ADR
+  0100's bed prepares it.
+- A record of the anchor's `wg0` public key and of `sha256sum /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf`, taken
+  before genesis, for the assertions below.
+
+**Genesis**, adopted, on the anchor: `mesh-bootstrap --adopted --node anchor --site hosting
+--endpoint 192.0.2.10:51900 …` — no `--hub-port`, no `--overlay-range`, no `--tunnel`: the
+installer finds `wg0` itself (one interface besides `mesh0`) and takes its port and range. The
+bed asserts genesis **says** it found and took the tunnel.
+
+## Assertions, in the record's order
+
+- **T1 — the tunnel changes hands and the peers notice nothing.** After genesis and the push
+  that raises the private network on the anchor:
+  - `wg show interfaces` on the anchor lists `mesh0` and not `wg0`;
+    `systemctl is-active wg-quick@wg0` is inactive and `is-enabled` disabled;
+  - `/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf` is on disk with the recorded digest (kept, never flushed), and
+    `node show anchor` names where its original was kept;
+  - `wg show mesh0 public-key` is the anchor's recorded `wg0` public key; `wg show mesh0
+    listen-port` is 51900; `ip -o addr show dev mesh0` carries `10.10.0.1`; `wg show mesh0 peers`
+    lists both peers' public keys with their `/32` allowed addresses;
+  - a loop on `peer-a` and `peer-b` calling `http://10.10.0.1:8081/` every second, started before
+    genesis, records **no window of failure longer than one WireGuard re-handshake** (measure and
+    assert an upper bound — the switch is one unit stop plus one unit start on the anchor); the
+    peers' `wg0.conf` digests are unchanged; the peers' `wg show wg0 latest-handshakes` advance
+    after the switch.
+  - `overlay show` lists `anchor` as the hub over the tunnel it took over, and both peers under
+    "peers of the tunnel … not nodes of the mesh", not yet enrolled.
+- **T2 — a peer enrols and keeps its address.** On `peer-a`: `node add peer-a --adopted`,
+  token issued, `mesh-host enrol --token …` **with the broker reached over the tunnel** (the
+  broker address in the token is `10.10.0.1:<bus>`, which only the tunnel routes); then `overlay
+  place peer-a --site house` and a push. Assert: `node show peer-a` says a tunnel `wg0` was
+  found and `overlay show` puts `peer-a` at **10.10.0.2**; the carried-peers list now says
+  `enrolled as peer-a`; the anchor's `mesh0` still has exactly one entry for `peer-a`'s key;
+  `peer-a`'s `wg0` is down and `mesh0` up with the same key; `peer-a` still reaches
+  `10.10.0.1:8081` and `peer-b` still does too, uninterrupted.
+- **T3 — a new machine gets a fresh address from the same range.** `fresh` enrols converged
+  (no tunnel), is placed, pushed. Assert its address is **10.10.0.4** (`.1` hub, `.2` and `.3`
+  the tunnel's), that it reaches `10.10.0.1` (the hub) and `10.10.0.2` (the enrolled peer) —
+  `ping -c1` over `mesh0` — and that `peer-b`, never enrolled, is still served.
+- **T4 — nothing derived from the address is stale.** `plan anchor --json` and `plan peer-a
+  --json` (and the rendered `/etc/hosts` on each node) name `10.10.0.1` for the anchor and
+  `10.10.0.2` for `peer-a`, and no address in `10.42.0.0/16`; the broker address handed to a
+  module issued on `peer-a` is `anchor.internal:<bus>` resolving to `10.10.0.1`; the same after a
+  second `push` of every node, byte for byte.
+- **N — the narrowed ADR 0100 check.** On `fresh`, a converged genesis dry-run with
+  `--overlay-range 10.10.0.0/24` while a *second* tunnel the bed raises there (`wg1` at
+  10.10.0.9/24, not adopted because the node is converged) is up, is refused naming `wg1` —
+  the non-overlap rule still applies where a tunnel is not adopted.
+
+## What is not asserted here
+
+- Taking a service over the tunnel (ADR 0100's bed does that).
+- IPv6 tunnels: the parser reads them, the bed prepares only IPv4.
diff --git a/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/adopt-the-tunnel.test.ts b/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/adopt-the-tunnel.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a3f479
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/adopt-the-tunnel.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+/**
+ * THE HUB ADOPTS THE PREDECESSOR'S TUNNEL (novox/hq ADR 0105). Skeleton — NOT YET RUN.
+ *
+ * The bed and every assertion are described in README.md beside this file; the numbered
+ * assertions here are that document's. Follows adoption.test.ts: same harness, same `on`/`must`
+ * helpers, same genesis wrapper.
+ *
+ *   MESH_LAB_INCUS='sudo -n incus'
+ *   MESH_LAB_HOST_BINARY=.../mesh-host/mesh-host
+ *   MESH_LAB_BUNDLE=.../mesh-host/examples/foundation-first-node.lock
+ *   MESH_LAB_CATALOG=.../mesh-catalog/modules
+ */
+import { test, before, after } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
+import { loadScenario } from "../../src/declaration/parse.ts";
+import { raise } from "../../src/lifecycle/raise.ts";
+import { destroy, exec } from "../../src/lifecycle/operate.ts";
+import { hostBinaryPath } from "../../src/lifecycle/place.ts";
+import { labIsUsable, destroyAll, catalogueIsPresent } from "./harness.ts";
+import { genesis } from "./genesis.ts";
+
+const capability = await labIsUsable();
+const binary = hostBinaryPath();
+const bundle = process.env["MESH_LAB_BUNDLE"] ?? "";
+const skip = !capability.usable ? `lab not usable: ${capability.why}`
+  : !binary || !existsSync(binary) ? "MESH_LAB_HOST_BINARY is not set to a built mesh-host"
+    : !bundle || !existsSync(bundle) ? "MESH_LAB_BUNDLE is not set to a foundation bundle"
+      : catalogueIsPresent();
+
+const SCENARIO = "adopt-the-tunnel";
+const ANCHOR = "anchor", PEER_A = "peer-a", PEER_B = "peer-b", FRESH = "fresh";
+const TUNNEL = { port: 51900, range: "10.10.0.0/24", hub: "10.10.0.1", a: "10.10.0.2", b: "10.10.0.3", fresh: "10.10.0.4" };
+const SERVICE = `http://${TUNNEL.hub}:8081/`;
+
+let instanceId = "";
+let wg0Key = "";      // the anchor's wg0 public key, recorded before genesis
+let wg0Digest = "";   // sha256 of /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf before genesis
+
+async function on(machine: string, command: string, timeoutMs?: number): Promise<{ out: string; ok: boolean }> {
+  const { stdout } = await exec(instanceId, machine, ["sh", "-c", `exec 2>&1\n${command}\necho "__exit=$?"`], timeoutMs);
+  const marker = stdout.lastIndexOf("__exit=");
+  if (marker < 0) return { out: stdout, ok: false };
+  return { out: stdout.slice(0, marker), ok: stdout.slice(marker + 7).trim() === "0" };
+}
+async function must(machine: string, command: string, timeoutMs?: number): Promise<string> {
+  const { out, ok } = await on(machine, command, timeoutMs);
+  if (!ok) throw new Error(`${machine}: ${command}\n${out}`);
+  return out;
+}
+/** The controller, a container on the anchor. */
+async function control(args: string): Promise<string> {
+  return must(ANCHOR, `docker exec mesh-controller mesh-controller ${args}`);
+}
+
+/** Prepares a machine the way the predecessor leaves it: a keypair and a wg0 — see README.md. */
+async function predecessorTunnelOn(machine: string, conf: (keys: Record<string, string>) => string, keys: Record<string, string>): Promise<void> {
+  await must(machine, "apt-get install -y wireguard-tools >/dev/null 2>&1 || pacman -S --noconfirm wireguard-tools >/dev/null");
+  await must(machine, `umask 077; printf '%s' '${conf(keys)}' > /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf`);
+  await must(machine, "systemctl enable --now wg-quick@wg0");
+}
+
+before(async () => {
+  if (skip) return;
+  await destroyAll(SCENARIO);
+  const scenario = loadScenario(`scenarios/${SCENARIO}.yml`);
+  instanceId = (await raise(scenario)).instanceId;
+
+  // Keys for the three predecessor machines, made where they live and never moved.
+  const keys: Record<string, string> = {};
+  for (const m of [ANCHOR, PEER_A, PEER_B]) {
+    await must(m, "umask 077; wg genkey > /etc/wireguard/predecessor.key");
+    keys[m] = (await must(m, "wg pubkey < /etc/wireguard/predecessor.key")).trim();
+  }
+  await predecessorTunnelOn(ANCHOR, k => [
+    "[Interface]", `PrivateKey = $(cat /etc/wireguard/predecessor.key)`, `ListenPort = ${TUNNEL.port}`, `Address = ${TUNNEL.hub}/24`,
+    "[Peer]", `PublicKey = ${k[PEER_A]}`, `AllowedIPs = ${TUNNEL.a}/32`,
+    "[Peer]", `PublicKey = ${k[PEER_B]}`, `AllowedIPs = ${TUNNEL.b}/32`,
+  ].join("\n"), keys);
+  for (const [m, addr] of [[PEER_A, TUNNEL.a], [PEER_B, TUNNEL.b]] as const) {
+    await predecessorTunnelOn(m, k => [
+      "[Interface]", `PrivateKey = $(cat /etc/wireguard/predecessor.key)`, `Address = ${addr}/24`,
+      "[Peer]", `PublicKey = ${k[ANCHOR]}`, `Endpoint = 192.0.2.10:${TUNNEL.port}`, `AllowedIPs = ${TUNNEL.range}`, "PersistentKeepalive = 25",
+    ].join("\n"), keys);
+  }
+  // A service reachable only over the tunnel, under a name no catalogue module uses.
+  await must(ANCHOR, `docker run -d --name predecessor-page -p ${TUNNEL.hub}:8081:80 nginx:alpine`);
+  // The predecessor's firewall: the tunnel's port and ssh, nothing else (as ADR 0100's bed).
+  await must(ANCHOR, `ufw --force reset >/dev/null; ufw default deny incoming; ufw allow 22/tcp; ufw allow ${TUNNEL.port}/udp; ufw --force enable`);
+  for (const m of [PEER_A, PEER_B]) assert.ok((await on(m, `curl -fsS --max-time 3 ${SERVICE}`)).ok, `${m} does not reach the service over the tunnel before genesis`);
+
+  wg0Key = (await must(ANCHOR, "wg show wg0 public-key")).trim();
+  wg0Digest = (await must(ANCHOR, "sha256sum /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf")).split(" ")[0];
+  // The probe the peers keep running through the switch: one call a second, failures counted.
+  for (const m of [PEER_A, PEER_B]) await must(m, `nohup sh -c 'while :; do curl -fsS --max-time 1 ${SERVICE} >/dev/null 2>&1 || date +%s >> /tmp/failed; sleep 1; done' >/dev/null 2>&1 &`);
+});
+
+after(async () => { if (instanceId) await destroy(instanceId); });
+
+test("T1 — adopted, the tunnel changes hands and the peers notice nothing", { skip }, async () => {
+  const ran = await genesis({ instanceId, machine: ANCHOR, node: ANCHOR, site: "hosting",
+    flags: ["--adopted", "--endpoint", `192.0.2.10:${TUNNEL.port}`] } as never);
+  assert.match(ran.said, /tunnel\s+wg0/i, `genesis did not say it found and took the tunnel:\n${ran.said}`);
+
+  const ifaces = await must(ANCHOR, "wg show interfaces");
+  assert.match(ifaces, /\bmesh0\b/); assert.doesNotMatch(ifaces, /\bwg0\b/);
+  assert.equal((await on(ANCHOR, "systemctl is-active wg-quick@wg0")).out.trim(), "inactive");
+  assert.equal((await on(ANCHOR, "systemctl is-enabled wg-quick@wg0")).out.trim(), "disabled");
+  assert.equal((await must(ANCHOR, "sha256sum /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf")).split(" ")[0], wg0Digest, "the found configuration was changed or flushed");
+  assert.equal((await must(ANCHOR, "wg show mesh0 public-key")).trim(), wg0Key, "the mesh's interface is not up with the found key");
+  assert.equal((await must(ANCHOR, "wg show mesh0 listen-port")).trim(), String(TUNNEL.port));
+  assert.match(await must(ANCHOR, "ip -o addr show dev mesh0"), new RegExp(TUNNEL.hub.replaceAll(".", "\\.")));
+  const peers = await must(ANCHOR, "wg show mesh0 allowed-ips");
+  assert.match(peers, new RegExp(`${TUNNEL.a}/32`)); assert.match(peers, new RegExp(`${TUNNEL.b}/32`));
+
+  for (const m of [PEER_A, PEER_B]) {
+    const failed = (await on(m, "cat /tmp/failed 2>/dev/null | wc -l")).out.trim();
+    assert.ok(Number(failed) <= 5, `${m} lost the service for ${failed} seconds through the switch`);
+    assert.ok((await on(m, `curl -fsS --max-time 3 ${SERVICE}`)).ok, `${m} does not reach the service after the switch`);
+  }
+  const shown = await control("overlay show");
+  assert.match(shown, /anchor.*hub.*took over on wg0/);
+  assert.match(shown, /peers of the tunnel/); assert.match(shown, /not yet enrolled/);
+  assert.match(await control(`node show ${ANCHOR}`), /tunnel found\s+wg0 on port 51900/);
+});
+
+test("T2 — a peer enrols over the tunnel and keeps its address", { skip }, async () => {
+  await control(`node add ${PEER_A} --adopted`);
+  const token = (await control(`token issue --node ${PEER_A}`)).match(/token\s+(\S+)/)?.[1] ?? "";
+  // The token's broker address is the hub's tunnel address: only the tunnel routes it.
+  await must(PEER_A, `mesh-host enrol --token '${token}'`);
+  await control(`overlay place ${PEER_A} --site house`);
+  await control(`assign ${PEER_A} networking`);
+  await control(`push ${PEER_A} --wait 2m`);
+
+  assert.match(await control("overlay show"), new RegExp(`${PEER_A}\\s+${TUNNEL.a.replaceAll(".", "\\.")}`));
+  assert.match(await control("overlay show"), new RegExp(`enrolled as ${PEER_A}`));
+  const onHub = await must(ANCHOR, "wg show mesh0 allowed-ips");
+  assert.equal(onHub.split("\n").filter(l => l.includes(`${TUNNEL.a}/32`)).length, 1, "the enrolled peer's key appears twice on the hub");
+  assert.doesNotMatch(await must(PEER_A, "wg show interfaces"), /\bwg0\b/);
+  assert.ok((await on(PEER_A, `curl -fsS --max-time 3 ${SERVICE}`)).ok);
+  assert.ok((await on(PEER_B, `curl -fsS --max-time 3 ${SERVICE}`)).ok, "the peer that never enrols lost the service");
+});
+
+test("T3 — a new machine gets a fresh address from the same range", { skip }, async () => {
+  await control(`node add ${FRESH}`);
+  const token = (await control(`token issue --node ${FRESH}`)).match(/token\s+(\S+)/)?.[1] ?? "";
+  await must(FRESH, `mesh-host enrol --token '${token}'`);
+  await control(`overlay place ${FRESH} --nothing`);
+  await control(`assign ${FRESH} networking`);
+  await control(`push ${FRESH} --wait 2m`);
+  assert.match(await control("overlay show"), new RegExp(`${FRESH}\\s+${TUNNEL.fresh.replaceAll(".", "\\.")}`));
+  assert.ok((await on(FRESH, `ping -c1 -W2 ${TUNNEL.hub}`)).ok, "the new machine does not reach the hub");
+  assert.ok((await on(FRESH, `ping -c1 -W2 ${TUNNEL.a}`)).ok, "the new machine does not reach the enrolled peer");
+  assert.ok((await on(PEER_B, `curl -fsS --max-time 3 ${SERVICE}`)).ok);
+});
+
+test("T4 — nothing derived from the address is stale", { skip }, async () => {
+  for (const n of [ANCHOR, PEER_A, FRESH]) {
+    const plan = await control(`plan ${n} --json`);
+    assert.doesNotMatch(plan, /10\.42\./, `${n}'s plan names the mesh's default range`);
+    assert.match(plan, new RegExp(TUNNEL.hub.replaceAll(".", "\\.")));
+    assert.match(await must(n, "cat /etc/hosts"), new RegExp(`${TUNNEL.hub.replaceAll(".", "\\.")}\\s+anchor\\.internal`));
+  }
+  const first = await control(`plan ${PEER_A} --json`);
+  await control("push");
+  assert.equal(await control(`plan ${PEER_A} --json`), first, "a push changed what the plan says");
+});
+
+test("N — where a tunnel is not adopted, the ranges must still differ (ADR 0100)", { skip }, async () => {
+  await must(FRESH, "umask 077; printf '[Interface]\\nPrivateKey = %s\\nAddress = 10.10.0.9/24\\n' \"$(wg genkey)\" > /etc/wireguard/wg1.conf; systemctl start wg-quick@wg1");
+  const ran = await genesis({ instanceId, machine: FRESH, node: FRESH, flags: ["--dry-run", "--overlay-range", TUNNEL.range], attempts: 1, verify: false, hostService: false } as never);
+  assert.match(ran.said, /wg1/, `a converged genesis did not refuse the overlapping tunnel it does not adopt:\n${ran.said}`);
+});
diff --git a/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/adopt-the-tunnel.yml b/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/adopt-the-tunnel.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba1b3bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lab/adopt-the-tunnel/adopt-the-tunnel.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# THE HUB ADOPTS THE PREDECESSOR'S TUNNEL (novox/hq ADR 0105). See README.md beside this file.
+#
+#   hosting (public)
+#     anchor   192.0.2.10   the predecessor's hub: wg0 on udp/51900, 10.10.0.1/24, two peers; then the
+#                           mesh adopted on it, taking the tunnel over
+#     peer-a   192.0.2.20   a predecessor machine reaching a service on the anchor over the tunnel;
+#                           enrols later and keeps 10.10.0.2
+#     peer-b   192.0.2.30   a predecessor machine that never enrols: must notice nothing, ever
+#     fresh    192.0.2.40   a new machine: enrols later and gets 10.10.0.4
+#
+# inbound: allow on every machine — the anchor's firewall is the predecessor's, installed by the bed.
+scenario: adopt-the-tunnel
+
+segments:
+  hosting:
+    kind: public
+    cidr: [192.0.2.0/24]
+
+machines:
+  anchor:
+    at: { segment: hosting, address: [192.0.2.10] }
+    egress: true
+    inbound: allow
+    memory: 12GiB
+    cpus: 6
+    disk: 60GiB
+  peer-a:
+    at: { segment: hosting, address: [192.0.2.20] }
+    egress: true
+    inbound: allow
+    memory: 3GiB
+    cpus: 2
+    disk: 20GiB
+  peer-b:
+    at: { segment: hosting, address: [192.0.2.30] }
+    egress: true
+    inbound: allow
+    memory: 2GiB
+    cpus: 2
+    disk: 15GiB
+  fresh:
+    at: { segment: hosting, address: [192.0.2.40] }
+    egress: true
+    inbound: allow
+    memory: 3GiB
+    cpus: 2
+    disk: 20GiB
+
+place:
+  all: [host, runtime]