diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go
index fcf182c..8c282ac 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"sort"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
@@ -23,8 +24,8 @@ type sendable struct {
 }
 
 // adoptionEnvelope is what an adopted node is told about its mode. Taken is every module taken on
-// it that it runs; Untaken is, for every module it runs that is not taken, the ids of that module's
-// files and containers — the resources the host keeps as found until the module is taken. Ids
+// it that it runs; Untaken is, for every module it runs that is not taken, the ids of every one of
+// that module's resources — what the host keeps as found until the module is taken (ADR 0103). Ids
 // rather than a rule to split them by, because a module's name may contain a dot.
 type adoptionEnvelope struct {
 	Taken   []string            `json:"taken"`
@@ -75,12 +76,11 @@ func adoptionFor(plan catalogue.Resolution, taken []string,
 	for _, r := range composed.Resources {
 		id, _ := r["id"].(string)
 		module, owned := composed.Owner[id]
-		if !owned || !runs[module] || isTaken[module] {
-			continue
-		}
-		switch r["type"] {
-		case "file", "container":
-		default:
+		// Every kind, not only files and containers (novox/hq ADR 0103): a directory, a service, a
+		// container mounting what was found and an action run in a held container all reach what
+		// the machine already has. What the mesh declares of its own is never held.
+		if !owned || !runs[module] || isTaken[module] ||
+			strings.HasPrefix(id, catalogue.AdoptionPrefix) {
 			continue
 		}
 		if out.Untaken == nil {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go
index 72d9ffb..cecfbe0 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable_test.go
@@ -84,8 +84,10 @@ func TestAnAdoptedDeclarationCarriesItsModeAndWhatWasTaken(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("an adopted node's declaration does not say it is adopted")
 	}
 	untaken := declared.Adoption.Untaken["hello-web"]
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(untaken, []string{"hello-web.page", "hello-web.server"}) {
-		t.Fatalf("hello-web's files and containers are not named untaken: %v", declared.Adoption)
+	// Every kind — its directory too (novox/hq ADR 0103).
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(untaken, []string{"hello-web.page", "hello-web.server",
+		"hello-web.served"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("hello-web's resources are not all named untaken: %v", declared.Adoption)
 	}
 	if len(declared.Adoption.Taken) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("nothing was taken, and the declaration says %v", declared.Adoption.Taken)