diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/asker_wire.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/asker_wire.go
index aadff952..d6ba3be5 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/asker_wire.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/asker_wire.go
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ func routerRecordOf(conn *nats.Conn, inv *inventory.Inventory) func(ctx context.
 }
 
 // asksRecords is the bucket the asks seat's declarer keeps its record of asks in.
-func asksRecords(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) (string, error) {
+func asksRecords(ctx context.Context, inv catalogueReader) (string, error) {
 	declared, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go
index a7565d8c..f7799028 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go
@@ -389,10 +389,31 @@ func (f *sourceForms) onTheForge(repository, seat string) (owner, name string, o
 //     least one required status, no administrator merging past one.
 //
 // Anything else only when the build request was kept as asked at the controller's terminal, for this very
-// repository and path. path is the module's directory as built; branch the trunk it is registered from.
+// repository and path; or, for the build of a merge, when mesh-delivery announced it on the operator's Approve of
+// that head (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7 for a moved module, ADR 0432 for a new one), the forge's checks still holding. path is the module's directory as built; branch the trunk it is registered from.
 func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module string, built inventory.Source,
 	buildID, path, branch string) (int64, error) {
-	forms := newSourceForms(ctx, inv)
+	return mayRegisterIn(ctx, inv, newSourceForms(ctx, inv), module, built, buildID, path, branch)
+}
+
+// catalogueReader is the catalogue's manifests, as the router's records are found in them.
+type catalogueReader interface {
+	Catalogue(ctx context.Context) (map[string]catalogue.Manifest, error)
+}
+
+// registrations is what a registration's decision reads of the mesh: *inventory.Inventory, or a test's stand-in.
+type registrations interface {
+	catalogueReader
+	SourceOf(ctx context.Context, module string) (inventory.Source, error)
+	SourceIdentity(ctx context.Context, module string) (int64, error)
+	Catalogued(ctx context.Context) ([]inventory.Entry, error)
+	BuildRequestByID(ctx context.Context, id string) (inventory.BuildRequest, bool, error)
+	MergeOf(ctx context.Context, repository, commit string) (inventory.BatchedMerge, bool, error)
+}
+
+// mayRegisterIn is mayRegisterFrom on what it reads of the mesh handed in.
+func mayRegisterIn(ctx context.Context, inv registrations, forms *sourceForms, module string, built inventory.Source,
+	buildID, path, branch string) (int64, error) {
 	was, err := inv.SourceOf(ctx, module)
 	isNew := errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNoSuchModule)
 	if err != nil && !isNew {
@@ -404,7 +425,8 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 	}
 	refuse := func(why string) (int64, error) {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s. A module is registered from such a source only by a build asked at the "+
-			"controller's terminal, never through a verb: a registered module is what the next push sends, and whoever "+
+			"controller's terminal, or by the build of a merge mesh-delivery announced on the operator's Approve of that "+
+			"head, never through a verb: a registered module is what the next push sends, and whoever "+
 			"may call a verb includes agents (novox/hq ADR 0266)", errNotItsSource, why)
 	}
 
@@ -438,8 +460,11 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 	// **Or the move the operator approved** (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025): a known module built from another
 	// repository by a merge, whose pull request mesh-delivery merged on the operator's Approve of that head.
 	// A verb alone, or a merge with no such warrant, is refused as before.
+	// **Or a new module from a repository nothing registered is built from, on the same warrant** (novox/hq ADR 0432,
+	// issue 1146): the build of a merge mesh-delivery announced on the operator's Approve of that head registers it.
+	// The forge's protection and the repository's identity are checked below as for every registration.
 	movedWhy := ""
-	if why != "" && !terminal && !isNew {
+	if why != "" && !terminal {
 		accepted, err := approvedMove(ctx, inv, forms, buildID, built)
 		switch {
 		case err == nil:
@@ -507,7 +532,10 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 				owner, name, m, facts.ID, m, id))
 		}
 	}
-	if movedWhy != "" {
+	if movedWhy != "" && isNew {
+		fmt.Printf("%s: %s is new, from %s/%s — registered at the operator's Approve: %s\n", buildID, module, owner, name,
+			movedWhy)
+	} else if movedWhy != "" {
 		fmt.Printf("%s: %s moved from %s to %s/%s — registered at the operator's Approve: %s\n", buildID, module,
 			sourceWords(was.Repository, was.Seat), owner, name, movedWhy)
 	}
@@ -516,7 +544,7 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 
 // askedHereFor says the build was asked at the controller's terminal, for this repository and this path: a kept
 // request marked so, whose source is the outcome's (novox/hq ADR 0266).
-func askedHereFor(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, forms *sourceForms, buildID string,
+func askedHereFor(ctx context.Context, inv registrations, forms *sourceForms, buildID string,
 	built inventory.Source, path string) (bool, error) {
 	r, found, err := inv.BuildRequestByID(ctx, buildID)
 	if err != nil || !found || !r.AtTerminal {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_integration_test.go
index 8bc6ded9..07857b98 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_integration_test.go
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ func TestAModuleMovesOnTheOperatorsApproveOfTheMergeThatMovedIt(t *testing.T) {
 		keptDeliveryMerge = func(_ context.Context, owner, repo string, number int, head string) (deliveryMerge, bool, error) {
 			return a.merge, !c.unkept && owner == "novox" && repo == "mesh-host" && number == 7 && head == a.merge.HeadSHA, nil
 		}
-		routerAskOf = func(_ context.Context, _ *inventory.Inventory, id string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+		routerAskOf = func(_ context.Context, _ catalogueReader, id string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
 			if id != a.merge.AskID {
 				t.Errorf("%s: the router was asked for %q", c.what, id)
 			}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/modules_wire_store_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/modules_wire_store_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a708ddcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/modules_wire_store_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+)
+
+// 1145/AC1 on a store: declarationWith itself sets the module of each resource and the build of each module for a
+// node recorded as reading them, and for no other. Skips without a store.
+func TestAComposedDeclarationCarriesModulesAndBuildsOnlyForANodeThatReadsThem(t *testing.T) {
+	open := aMesh(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	inv := open.inventory
+	start := time.Now().Add(-time.Hour)
+	manifest := resticFixture(false)
+	manifest["module"], manifest["version"] = "restic", "1"
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(manifest)
+	b := link.BuildResult{ID: link.NewBuildID(start), Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Path: "modules/restic",
+		On: "anchor", Module: "restic", Commit: "c1", Manifest: raw,
+		Source: &link.SourceOnSeat{Seat: "git", Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog"}}
+	if _, _, err := takeIn(ctx, inv, asTheOperator(t, inv, b)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, n := range []string{"anchor", "laptop"} {
+		if _, err := inv.Assign(ctx, n, "restic"); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	anchor, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, "anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RecordReadsModules(ctx, anchor.ID, true); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	wantBuild, err := inv.BuildOf(ctx, "restic", "c1")
+	if err != nil || wantBuild == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("the build of restic at c1 is %q (%v)", wantBuild, err)
+	}
+
+	declare := func(node string) sendable {
+		t.Helper()
+		plan, settings, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		gens, err := generators(ctx, open)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		d, err := declarationWith(ctx, open, node, plan, settings, gens, Allocating)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return d
+	}
+	reads := bodyKeys(t, declare("anchor"))
+	builds, _ := reads["builds"].(map[string]any)
+	if builds["restic"] != wantBuild {
+		t.Errorf("1145/AC1: anchor reads modules and was sent builds %v, want restic at %s", reads["builds"], wantBuild)
+	}
+	owned := 0
+	for _, r := range reads["resources"].([]any) {
+		r := r.(map[string]any)
+		if strings.HasPrefix(r["id"].(string), "restic.") {
+			owned++
+			if r["module"] != "restic" {
+				t.Errorf("1145/AC1: resource %v carries module %v, want restic", r["id"], r["module"])
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if owned == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("1145/AC1: no resource of restic was composed")
+	}
+
+	plain := bodyKeys(t, declare("laptop"))
+	if _, there := plain["builds"]; there {
+		t.Errorf("1145/AC1: laptop never said it reads modules and was sent builds %v", plain["builds"])
+	}
+	for _, r := range plain["resources"].([]any) {
+		if _, there := r.(map[string]any)["module"]; there {
+			t.Fatalf("1145/AC1: laptop was sent a module on %v", r)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/modules_wire_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/modules_wire_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..518ab17f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/modules_wire_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/chain"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/validate"
+)
+
+// The module of each resource and the build of each module (novox/hq issue 1145, design 47 release 1-2). The
+// composer's owner of an id and the module's build go on the wire only to a machine whose node-engine said it reads
+// them: an older one decodes strictly and refuses a key it does not know, whole.
+
+func modulesDeclaration(reads bool) sendable {
+	return sendable{
+		Resources: []map[string]any{
+			{"id": "web.app.conf", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/app.conf", "content": "x\n"},
+			{"id": "web.app.data", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/data", "content": "d\n"},
+			{"id": "mesh.guard", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/guard", "content": "g\n"}},
+		moduleOf:     map[string]string{"web.app.conf": "web.app", "web.app.data": "web.app"},
+		buildIDs:     map[string]string{"web.app": "build-7"},
+		ReadsModules: reads,
+	}
+}
+
+// 1145/AC1
+func TestAMachineThatReadsModulesIsSentEachResourcesModuleAndEachModulesBuild(t *testing.T) {
+	keys := bodyKeys(t, modulesDeclaration(true))
+	builds, _ := keys["builds"].(map[string]any)
+	if len(builds) != 1 || builds["web.app"] != "build-7" {
+		t.Fatalf("1145/AC1: the body carries builds %v", keys["builds"])
+	}
+	want := map[string]any{"web.app.conf": "web.app", "web.app.data": "web.app", "mesh.guard": nil}
+	for _, r := range keys["resources"].([]any) {
+		r := r.(map[string]any)
+		if r["module"] != want[r["id"].(string)] {
+			t.Errorf("1145/AC1: resource %v carries module %v, want %v", r["id"], r["module"], want[r["id"].(string)])
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// 1145/AC2: the body is byte for byte what it is today.
+func TestAMachineThatDoesNotReadModulesIsSentTheBodyItWasSentBefore(t *testing.T) {
+	d := modulesDeclaration(false)
+	got, err := d.Body()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	before := sendable{Resources: d.Resources}
+	want, _ := before.Body()
+	if string(got) != string(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("1145/AC2: the body changed:\n%s\nwas\n%s", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1145/AC4: the node-engine's own validator, as the gate runs it, takes the two words.
+func TestTheNodeEnginesValidatorTakesAModulePerResourceAndABuildPerModule(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := modulesDeclaration(true).Body()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var generic map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &generic); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if problems := validate.Declaration(raw); len(problems) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("1145/AC4: refused: %q\n%s", problems, fmt.Sprint(generic))
+	}
+}
+
+// The build a module carries is the one its assignment names when that is the commit carried, else the one built from
+// the commit carried; none when neither is known.
+func TestTheBuildOfACarriedCommitIsTheAssignmentsOrTheOneBuiltFromIt(t *testing.T) {
+	runs := map[string]chain.Ref{"a": {Build: "b-a", Commit: "c1"}, "b": {Build: "b-old", Commit: "c0"}}
+	looked := map[string]string{"b/c2": "b-new"}
+	got, err := wireBuilds(map[string]string{"a": "c1", "b": "c2", "c": "c3", "d": ""}, runs,
+		func(module, commit string) (string, error) { return looked[module+"/"+commit], nil })
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	want := map[string]string{"a": "b-a", "b": "b-new"}
+	if len(got) != len(want) || got["a"] != want["a"] || got["b"] != want["b"] {
+		t.Fatalf("1145: builds %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go
index 7c111ce0..456f166b 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ var keptDeliveryMerge = func(ctx context.Context, owner, repo string, number int
 
 // routerAskOf is the router's record of one of mesh-delivery's asks: the ask as published and its warrant. A
 // variable so a test can hand it one.
-var routerAskOf = func(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+var routerAskOf = func(ctx context.Context, inv catalogueReader, id string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
 	serving := servingBus.Load()
 	if serving == nil {
 		return nil, nil, errors.New("only the serving controller reads the router's record")
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ var errNotAMerge = errors.New("the build is not of a merge")
 // (ADR 0420 §7): the build is of a merge, that merge is a pull request mesh-delivery announced it made, and the
 // ask it made it on holds an Approve by the operator of that head. Answers why it was accepted; an error says why
 // it was not, and the refusal of ADR 0266 stands.
-func approvedMove(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, forms *sourceForms, buildID string,
+func approvedMove(ctx context.Context, inv registrations, forms *sourceForms, buildID string,
 	built inventory.Source) (string, error) {
 	r, found, err := inv.BuildRequestByID(ctx, buildID)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/new_module_approved_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/new_module_approved_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c442a8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/new_module_approved_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+)
+
+// **The operator's Approve of a merge registers a new module from its repository** (novox/hq ADR 0432, issue 1146).
+// The mesh as the decision reads it, with nothing registered from the repository, and the build request and merge the
+// controller kept.
+type anEmptyMesh struct {
+	request inventory.BuildRequest
+	asked   bool
+	merge   inventory.BatchedMerge
+}
+
+func (m *anEmptyMesh) Catalogue(context.Context) (map[string]catalogue.Manifest, error) {
+	return nil, nil
+}
+func (m *anEmptyMesh) SourceOf(context.Context, string) (inventory.Source, error) {
+	return inventory.Source{}, inventory.ErrNoSuchModule
+}
+func (m *anEmptyMesh) SourceIdentity(context.Context, string) (int64, error) { return 0, nil }
+func (m *anEmptyMesh) Catalogued(context.Context) ([]inventory.Entry, error) { return nil, nil }
+func (m *anEmptyMesh) BuildRequestByID(_ context.Context, id string) (inventory.BuildRequest, bool, error) {
+	return m.request, m.asked && id == m.request.ID, nil
+}
+func (m *anEmptyMesh) MergeOf(context.Context, string, string) (inventory.BatchedMerge, bool, error) {
+	return m.merge, true, nil
+}
+
+// aDeliveryMergeOf is the Approved merge of a pull request of novox/mesh-delivery, its heads keyed by that repository,
+// and the ask and warrant bound to exactly those heads (the digest the Approve left covers them).
+func aDeliveryMergeOf(t *testing.T, head string, covered map[string]string) anApprovedMerge {
+	t.Helper()
+	a := approvedMerge(t)
+	a.merge.Owner, a.merge.Repo, a.merge.Number, a.merge.HeadSHA = "novox", "mesh-delivery", 7, head
+	a.merge.Heads = covered
+	for n := range a.ask.Options {
+		d, err := asks.ActDigest(mergeAct(a.merge.AskID, a.ask.Options[n].ID, covered))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		a.ask.Options[n].Binds = d
+	}
+	a.warrant.AskDigest = a.ask.Digest()
+	return a
+}
+
+func TestANewModuleIsRegisteredOnTheOperatorsApproveOfItsMergeAndRefusedOtherwise(t *testing.T) {
+	const commit, head = "c0ffee0123456789", "a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1"
+	built := inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Seat: "git"}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		what     string
+		change   func(*anApprovedMerge)
+		request  string // "merge", or "build" through a verb
+		unkept   bool
+		forge    any // what the forge says of the repository; nil is protected
+		built    *inventory.Source
+		accepted bool
+		ac       string
+	}{
+		{what: "the Approve of the merged head, a protected trunk on the forge", request: "merge", accepted: true, ac: "1146/AC1"},
+		{what: "a build asked through a verb", request: "build", ac: "1146/AC2"},
+		{what: "a merge with no warrant", request: "merge", unkept: true, ac: "1146/AC2"},
+		{what: "a merged head the Approve did not cover", request: "merge", ac: "1146/AC2", change: func(a *anApprovedMerge) {
+			*a = aDeliveryMergeOf(t, head, map[string]string{
+				"novox/mesh-delivery@eeeeeeeeeeee": "e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5"})
+		}},
+		{what: "heads other than the ones the Approve was bound to", request: "merge", ac: "1146/AC2", change: func(a *anApprovedMerge) {
+			a.merge.Heads = map[string]string{"novox/mesh-delivery@eeeeeeeeeeee": "e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5"}
+		}},
+		{what: "a repository not on the mesh's forge", request: "merge", ac: "1146/AC3",
+			built: &inventory.Source{Repository: "http://elsewhere.example/x/y.git"}},
+		{what: "a forge that cannot be asked", request: "merge", ac: "1146/AC3", forge: errors.New("connection refused")},
+		{what: "an unprotected trunk", request: "merge", ac: "1146/AC3", forge: forgeFacts{ID: 9, Guarded: false, Why: "direct push"}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(c.ac+" "+c.what, func(t *testing.T) {
+			a := aDeliveryMergeOf(t, head, map[string]string{"novox/mesh-delivery@a1a1a1a1a1a1": head})
+			if c.change != nil {
+				c.change(&a)
+			}
+			wasKept, wasAsk := keptDeliveryMerge, routerAskOf
+			t.Cleanup(func() { keptDeliveryMerge, routerAskOf = wasKept, wasAsk })
+			keptDeliveryMerge = func(context.Context, string, string, int, string) (deliveryMerge, bool, error) {
+				return a.merge, !c.unkept, nil
+			}
+			routerAskOf = func(context.Context, catalogueReader, string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+				return &a.ask, &a.warrant, nil
+			}
+			if c.forge != nil {
+				theForge.Store("novox/mesh-delivery", c.forge)
+				t.Cleanup(func() { theForge.Delete("novox/mesh-delivery") })
+			}
+			event, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"owner": "novox", "repo": "mesh-delivery", "base": "main", "number": 7,
+				"head_sha": head, "merge_commit_sha": commit})
+			mesh := &anEmptyMesh{asked: true, merge: inventory.BatchedMerge{Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Branch: "main",
+				Commit: commit, Merged: time.Now(), Event: event},
+				request: inventory.BuildRequest{ID: "build-1", Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Seat: "git", Path: "",
+					Ref: "main", Commit: commit, For: c.request}}
+			forms := &sourceForms{bases: map[string]string{}, base: func(seat string) string {
+				if seat == "git" {
+					return "http://forge.internal:20000"
+				}
+				return ""
+			}}
+			src := built
+			if c.built != nil {
+				src = *c.built
+			}
+			id, err := mayRegisterIn(t.Context(), mesh, forms, "mesh-delivery-view", src, "build-1", "", "main")
+			switch {
+			case c.accepted && err != nil:
+				t.Fatalf("%s: the Approved merge's new module was refused: %v", c.ac, err)
+			case c.accepted && id == 0:
+				t.Fatalf("%s: registered with no forge identity to record", c.ac)
+			case !c.accepted && !errors.Is(err, errNotItsSource):
+				t.Fatalf("%s: %s was not refused: %v", c.ac, c.what, err)
+			case !c.accepted && c.ac == "1146/AC2" &&
+				(!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "controller's terminal") || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "Approve")):
+				t.Fatalf("%s: the refusal does not name both ways in: %v", c.ac, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// A second new module from a repository whose first was registered is the case ADR 0266 §44 already has —
+// "alongside": registered through a verb with no warrant asked of the router (1146/AC5).
+type aMeshWithOneAlready struct{ anEmptyMesh }
+
+func (m *aMeshWithOneAlready) Catalogued(context.Context) ([]inventory.Entry, error) {
+	e := inventory.Entry{Source: inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Seat: "git"}}
+	e.Manifest.Module = "mesh-delivery-view"
+	return []inventory.Entry{e}, nil
+}
+
+func TestASecondNewModuleFromARepositoryIsJudgedAlongsideAndAsksNoWarrant(t *testing.T) {
+	wasKept, wasAsk := keptDeliveryMerge, routerAskOf
+	t.Cleanup(func() { keptDeliveryMerge, routerAskOf = wasKept, wasAsk })
+	keptDeliveryMerge = func(context.Context, string, string, int, string) (deliveryMerge, bool, error) {
+		t.Error("1146/AC5: the announced merges were asked for a module judged alongside")
+		return deliveryMerge{}, false, nil
+	}
+	routerAskOf = func(context.Context, catalogueReader, string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+		t.Error("1146/AC5: the router was asked for a module judged alongside")
+		return nil, nil, nil
+	}
+	mesh := &aMeshWithOneAlready{anEmptyMesh{asked: true,
+		request: inventory.BuildRequest{ID: "build-2", Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Seat: "git", For: "build"}}}
+	forms := &sourceForms{bases: map[string]string{}, base: func(string) string { return "http://forge.internal:20000" }}
+	built := inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Seat: "git"}
+	if id, err := mayRegisterIn(t.Context(), mesh, forms, "mesh-delivery-watchman", built, "build-2", "", "main"); err != nil || id == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("1146/AC5: a second module from a repository the catalogue builds from was refused (id %d): %v", id, err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/new_module_bus_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/new_module_bus_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c2e88074
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/new_module_bus_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,127 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/testbus"
+)
+
+// 1146/AC4: a new module from a repository nothing registered is built from, whole against a real bus and the store
+// (novox/hq ADR 0432, issue 1146; the warrant is read as for a move, ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025): mesh-delivery's word that it
+// merged a pull request is published on the subject the controller consumes and kept in its bucket; the router's
+// record of the ask is read back from the router's bucket by a direct get; and the build of a module from the
+// repository that merge was made in is registered from there only when that record holds the operator's Approve of
+// the merged head. Store-backed: skips without one.
+func TestANewModuleFromANewRepositoryIsRegisteredOnlyOnTheOperatorsApproveOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		what   string
+		answer bool // the router holds the operator's Approve of the merged heads
+		moved  bool
+	}{
+		{what: "the router holds the operator's Approve", answer: true, moved: true},
+		{what: "the router holds no record of the ask"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(c.what, func(t *testing.T) {
+			open := theCatalogue(t)
+			ctx := t.Context()
+			inv := open.inventory
+			// The module declaring the router's records, as the controller finds them.
+			if err := inv.RegisterModule(ctx, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "operator-channel", Version: "1",
+				DefinesSeats: []catalogue.SeatDeclaration{{Name: broker.AsksSeat, Records: []string{"asks"}}}},
+				inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Seat: "git", Path: "modules/operator-channel", BuiltFrom: "c0ffee"}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			js, err := broker.Dial(testbus.URL(t))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			t.Cleanup(js.Close)
+			if err := broker.AssertMeshStreams(js); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if err := js.EnsureControllerBuckets(); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			api, err := jetstream.New(js.Conn())
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			records, err := api.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: broker.BucketName("operator-channel", "asks")})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			a := aDeliveryMergeOf(t, "a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1",
+				map[string]string{"novox/mesh-delivery@a1a1a1a1a1a1": "a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1"})
+			if c.answer {
+				record, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"state": "closed", "ask": a.ask, "warrant": a.warrant})
+				if _, err := records.Put(ctx, theDelivery+"."+a.merge.AskID, record); err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+			}
+
+			server := link.ConnectNats(js, nil, noListener{})
+			if err := server.KeepsDeliveryMerges(keepingDeliveryMerges{js: server.JetStream}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			// The events consumer exists, from now on, before the word is published: Receive would make it too late.
+			if err := broker.AssertServingConsumers(js); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			serving, stop := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+			done := make(chan struct{})
+			go func() { defer close(done); _ = server.Serve(serving) }()
+			t.Cleanup(func() { stop(); <-done })
+			servingBus.Store(js)
+			t.Cleanup(func() { servingBus.Store(nil) })
+
+			// mesh-delivery says it merged the pull request, and the controller keeps what it said.
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(a.merge)
+			if _, err := js.Context().Publish(broker.DeliveryMergedSubject, body); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			becomes(t, 15*time.Second, "the merge being kept", func() bool {
+				_, kept, err := keptDeliveryMerge(ctx, "novox", "mesh-delivery", 7, a.merge.HeadSHA)
+				return err == nil && kept
+			})
+
+			// The forge's merge of that pull request, as the controller heard it, and the build it asked for.
+			const commit = "c0ffee0123456789"
+			event, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"owner": "novox", "repo": "mesh-delivery", "base": "main", "number": 7,
+				"head_sha": a.merge.HeadSHA, "merge_commit_sha": commit})
+			if _, err := inv.AddMerge(ctx, inventory.BatchedMerge{Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Branch: "main", Commit: commit,
+				Merged: time.Now(), Heard: time.Now(), Event: event}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			id := fmt.Sprintf("build-%d", time.Now().Add(time.Hour).UnixNano())
+			if err := inv.RecordBuildRequest(ctx, inventory.BuildRequest{ID: id, Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Seat: "git",
+				Path: "modules/mesh-delivery-view", Ref: "main", Commit: commit, For: "merge"}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			moved := onTrunk(id, "novox/mesh-delivery", "git", "modules/mesh-delivery-view", map[string]any{"module": "mesh-delivery-view", "version": "2"})
+			moved.Commit = commit
+			_, _, err = takeIn(ctx, inv, moved)
+			src, _ := inv.SourceOf(ctx, "mesh-delivery-view")
+			if c.moved && (err != nil || src.Repository != "novox/mesh-delivery") {
+				t.Fatalf("the Approved move was not registered from its repository: %v (built from %q)", err, src.Repository)
+			}
+			if !c.moved && (!errors.Is(err, errNotItsSource) || src.Repository != "") {
+				t.Fatalf("a new module with no Approve was not refused as it is: %v (built from %q)", err, src.Repository)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
index 82b58544..a0efccf0 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/chain"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/licences"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
@@ -500,33 +501,75 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// And which build of each module it carries, for the send to record (novox/hq issue 259, ADR
 	// 0221). Read only on the send path: a question about what would be sent records nothing.
 	if choosing == Allocating {
-		current, err := open.inventory.CurrentBuilds(ctx)
+		carried, err := carriedOn(ctx, open, node, plan, composed.LeftOut, true)
 		if err != nil {
 			return sendable{}, err
 		}
-		before, known, err := open.inventory.SentBuilds(ctx, node)
-		if err != nil {
-			return sendable{}, err
-		}
-		if !known {
-			before = nil
-		}
-		names := make([]string, 0, len(plan.Modules))
-		for _, m := range plan.Modules {
-			names = append(names, m.Module)
-		}
-		out.Builds = carriedBuilds(names, composed.LeftOut, current, before)
-		// A recorded module kept at the build the machine runs is recorded as carrying that one (ADR 0245).
-		kept, err := recordedKept(ctx, open, node)
-		if err != nil {
-			return sendable{}, err
-		}
-		for m, was := range kept {
-			if _, carried := out.Builds[m]; carried {
-				out.Builds[m] = was
+		out.Builds = carried
+		out.Bindings = boundToData(plan, composed.LeftOut)
+	}
+	// And the module of each resource and the build of each module, to a machine whose node-engine said it reads them
+	// (novox/hq issue 1145) and to no other; the same whatever the composition is for, so what a question about the
+	// send digests is what the send digests.
+	reads, err := open.inventory.ReadsModules(ctx, record.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return sendable{}, err
+	}
+	if reads {
+		carried := out.Builds
+		if choosing != Allocating {
+			if carried, err = carriedOn(ctx, open, node, plan, composed.LeftOut, false); err != nil {
+				return sendable{}, err
 			}
 		}
-		out.Bindings = boundToData(plan, composed.LeftOut)
+		runs, err := open.inventory.AssignmentRuns(ctx, node)
+		if err != nil {
+			return sendable{}, err
+		}
+		builds, err := wireBuilds(carried, runs, func(module, commit string) (string, error) {
+			return open.inventory.BuildOf(ctx, module, commit)
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			return sendable{}, err
+		}
+		out.ReadsModules, out.moduleOf, out.buildIDs = true, composed.Owner, builds
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// carriedOn is the build of each module a declaration for node carries (see carriedBuilds), the module kept at the
+// build a machine runs included (ADR 0245). Only a send (strict) fails for a kept module that cannot be read: a question
+// about it is answered without.
+func carriedOn(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, plan catalogue.Resolution, leftOut map[string]string,
+	strict bool) (map[string]string, error) {
+	current, err := open.inventory.CurrentBuilds(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	before, known, err := open.inventory.SentBuilds(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !known {
+		before = nil
+	}
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(plan.Modules))
+	for _, m := range plan.Modules {
+		names = append(names, m.Module)
+	}
+	out := carriedBuilds(names, leftOut, current, before)
+	// A recorded module kept at the build the machine runs is recorded as carrying that one (ADR 0245).
+	kept, err := recordedKept(ctx, open, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		if strict {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		kept = nil
+	}
+	for m, was := range kept {
+		if _, carried := out[m]; carried {
+			out[m] = was
+		}
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
@@ -2109,3 +2152,27 @@ func sortedNames[V any](m map[string]V) []string {
 	sort.Strings(out)
 	return out
 }
+
+// wireBuilds is the build of each carried module that goes on the wire (novox/hq issue 1145): the build its assignment
+// names when that assignment is of the commit carried, else the build made from that commit; a module with neither
+// is not named.
+func wireBuilds(carried map[string]string, runs map[string]chain.Ref, lookup func(module, commit string) (string, error)) (map[string]string, error) {
+	out := map[string]string{}
+	for module, commit := range carried {
+		if commit == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if ref, ok := runs[module]; ok && ref.Commit == commit && ref.Build != "" {
+			out[module] = ref.Build
+			continue
+		}
+		build, err := lookup(module, commit)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if build != "" {
+			out[module] = build
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go
index 264a46c2..6bea488a 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/sendable.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
@@ -38,6 +39,13 @@ type sendable struct {
 	// the send; never on the wire.
 	composedFrom int64
 	actingEpoch  uint64
+	// ReadsModules says the machine's node-engine reads a module per resource and a build per module (novox/hq issue
+	// 1145): only then are they sent, because an older node-engine refuses a key it does not know, whole.
+	ReadsModules bool
+	// moduleOf is the composer's owner of each resource id, and buildIDs the build each module carries (its id):
+	// kept beside the resources, and on the wire only to a machine that reads them.
+	moduleOf map[string]string
+	buildIDs map[string]string
 	// modules are the modules this declaration names, for the record of the send; never on the wire.
 	modules []string
 	// localNetwork is every port admitted from the local network and what it resolved to (novox/hq ADR
@@ -111,6 +119,28 @@ type adoptionEnvelope struct {
 // Body is the declaration's bytes, as sent and as digested.
 func (s sendable) Body() ([]byte, error) {
 	envelope := map[string]any{"declaration": 1, "resources": s.Resources}
+	if s.ReadsModules {
+		// The module of each resource the composer owns (what the mesh adds of its own has none), and the build of each
+		// module (novox/hq issue 1145): to a machine that said it reads them, and no other.
+		named := make([]map[string]any, len(s.Resources))
+		for n, r := range s.Resources {
+			module, owned := s.moduleOf[fmt.Sprint(r["id"])]
+			if !owned {
+				named[n] = r
+				continue
+			}
+			with := make(map[string]any, len(r)+1)
+			for k, v := range r {
+				with[k] = v
+			}
+			with["module"] = module
+			named[n] = with
+		}
+		envelope["resources"] = named
+		if len(s.buildIDs) > 0 {
+			envelope["builds"] = s.buildIDs
+		}
+	}
 	if s.Adoption != nil {
 		envelope["adoption"] = s.Adoption
 	}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 109adb60..09302453 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module github.com/novox/mesh-controller
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261018164924-2b420603fe83
 	github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.10.0
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ require (
 // committed. Every build (the build agent's `go build`, the Dockerfile) compiles from vendor/ and
 // fetches nothing; go refuses to build when vendor/ and this file disagree, so a pin moved without
 // `go mod vendor` fails loudly, at once, everywhere.
-replace github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261017162006-6469e8238443
+replace github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261018171808-9d9e3a46c4f5
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 77e26bb7..24293698 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261017162006-6469e8238443 h1:zUtpGbiH9DLjCPY+KJsm+PZ25yW6k/NmGVS3haGFfMM=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261017162006-6469e8238443/go.mod h1:5QOm3cIfu/k9fN6QqgDbKGCcDst7Ul1UlcfsiMVm9j4=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19 h1:mAMt3KFmrHzDiBv4MLL94opWcG9y73ISMrBUyisapQE=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261018171808-9d9e3a46c4f5 h1:E5stfIeCN6uYgA9TCv+4K8JgaURg3zQppvUgJLaDMP4=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261018171808-9d9e3a46c4f5/go.mod h1:4wyoCr6IIIIarEUuROThWDj7DAvJvIidqMjWcpSnOwE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261018164924-2b420603fe83 h1:BrHyE3ifFMUQLIza6I/iNlEgdcysB9/Y+1FO6Q9xws8=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261018164924-2b420603fe83/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
diff --git a/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go b/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go
index 1535ecb3..29ce9439 100644
--- a/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go
+++ b/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 )
 
@@ -189,14 +190,15 @@ func IsControllerBucket(bucket string) bool {
 		bucket == ConditionHistoryBucket || bucket == LeaseBucket || bucket == AskedBucket ||
 		bucket == AssignmentsBucket || bucket == DeclaredConfigBucket || bucket == PredefinedBucket ||
 		bucket == MergeWindowBucket || bucket == RolloutSilentBucket || bucket == CheckRunningBucket ||
-		bucket == DeliveryMergesBucket || bucket == BuildsBucket || bucket == RolloutsBucket
+		bucket == DeliveryMergesBucket || bucket == BuildsBucket || bucket == RolloutsBucket ||
+		bucket == delivery.HaveBucket
 }
 
 // ControllerBuckets are the controller's own buckets, in the order they are asserted.
 func ControllerBuckets() []string {
 	return []string{LeaseBucket, CallsBucket, HandActsBucket, ConditionsBucket, ConditionHistoryBucket, AskedBucket,
 		AssignmentsBucket, DeclaredConfigBucket, PredefinedBucket, MergeWindowBucket, RolloutSilentBucket, CheckRunningBucket,
-		DeliveryMergesBucket, BuildsBucket, RolloutsBucket}
+		DeliveryMergesBucket, BuildsBucket, RolloutsBucket, delivery.HaveBucket}
 }
 
 // ControllerBucketsAsserter is what raising the controller's buckets needs of a connection.
@@ -370,6 +372,12 @@ func (j *JetStream) EnsureControllerBuckets() error {
 			return fmt.Errorf("asserting bucket %s: %w", c.bucket, err)
 		}
 	}
+	// **The have bucket: what each machine has of each module** (ADR 0429 §1, issue 1136). Twenty revisions of each key and
+	// no age. Asserted by the controller, written by each machine's node-engine under its own node's keys and by nobody
+	// else: the controller's grant leaves it out.
+	if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateKeyValue(ctx, HaveBucketConfig()); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("asserting bucket %s: %w", delivery.HaveBucket, err)
+	}
 	// **The assignments keep the marker age they had as a mirror.** A stream that allows messages an age cannot be
 	// made to disallow them (the server refuses: "message TTL status can not be disabled"), so the bucket that was
 	// the assignments mirror is asserted with the age it was made with. Nothing is purged from it, so no marker is ever
@@ -439,3 +447,18 @@ func EnsureLeaseBucket(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// HaveBucketConfig is the options of the have bucket (novox/hq ADR 0429 §1): delivery.HaveHistory revisions of each
+// key, no age, a value under a kilobyte (a have is JSON of about 500 bytes), 64 MiB on disk like the assignments.
+func HaveBucketConfig() jetstream.KeyValueConfig {
+	return jetstream.KeyValueConfig{
+		Bucket: delivery.HaveBucket,
+		Description: "what each machine has of each module, one key `<node>.<module>` (and `<node>.node` for the machine's " +
+			"own facts) (novox/hq ADR 0429, design 47): written by each machine's node-engine under its own node's keys " +
+			"alone, never by the controller; read by the delivery view and the watchman",
+		History:      delivery.HaveHistory,
+		MaxValueSize: 4 << 10,
+		MaxBytes:     64 << 20,
+		Storage:      jetstream.FileStorage,
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/have_bucket_live_test.go b/internal/broker/have_bucket_live_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5bdf4431
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/broker/have_bucket_live_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package broker
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
+)
+
+// **Each node's credential writes its own have keys and no other** (novox/hq ADR 0429 §1, issue 1136, 1136/AC4): on a
+// real server whose users are composed as the controller composes them, node alpha's put of alpha.zsh is taken, its
+// put of beta.zsh is refused by the server, a module reading node-engine.have is refused any put and its watch sees
+// alpha.zsh.
+func TestNatsANodePutsOnlyItsOwnHaveKeys(t *testing.T) { // 1136/AC4
+	hash, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte("pw"), bcrypt.MinCost)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	users, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"alpha", "beta"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{
+		"alpha": {{Module: RuntimeModule}, {Module: "mesh-delivery-view", Reads: []string{"node-engine.have"}}},
+		"beta":  {{Module: RuntimeModule}},
+	}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for i := range users {
+		users[i].PasswordHash = string(hash)
+	}
+	accounts, err := ComposeAccounts(users)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	conf := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "bus.conf")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(conf, []byte("listen: 127.0.0.1:-1\njetstream { store_dir: "+
+		`"`+t.TempDir()+`"`+" }\n"+accounts), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	opts, err := server.ProcessConfigFile(conf)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the composed accounts do not parse: %v", err)
+	}
+	opts.NoLog, opts.NoSigs = true, true
+	s, err := server.NewServer(opts)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	go s.Start()
+	if !s.ReadyForConnections(10 * time.Second) {
+		t.Fatal("the bus did not come up")
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(s.Shutdown)
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+	connect := func(user string) (*nats.Conn, chan error) {
+		t.Helper()
+		refused := make(chan error, 8)
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(s.ClientURL(), nats.UserInfo(user, "pw"), nats.CustomInboxPrefix("_INBOX."+user),
+			nats.ErrorHandler(func(_ *nats.Conn, _ *nats.Subscription, err error) { refused <- err }))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s cannot connect: %v", user, err)
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
+		return nc, refused
+	}
+	controller, _ := connect(ControllerName)
+	cjs, err := jetstream.New(controller)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := cjs.CreateOrUpdateKeyValue(ctx, HaveBucketConfig()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the controller cannot make %s: %v", delivery.HaveBucket, err)
+	}
+
+	alpha, _ := connect("node.alpha")
+	ajs, err := jetstream.New(alpha)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	akv, err := ajs.KeyValue(ctx, delivery.HaveBucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("node alpha cannot bind %s: %v", delivery.HaveBucket, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := akv.Put(ctx, "alpha.zsh", []byte(`{"v":1}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("node alpha cannot put alpha.zsh: %v", err)
+	}
+	if e, err := akv.Get(ctx, "alpha.zsh"); err != nil || string(e.Value()) != `{"v":1}` {
+		t.Errorf("node alpha reads %v (%v) of its own key", e, err)
+	}
+
+	reader, readerRefused := connect("alpha.mesh-delivery-view")
+	for _, other := range []struct {
+		name string
+		nc   *nats.Conn
+		ch   chan error
+		key  string
+	}{{"node alpha putting beta.zsh", alpha, nil, "beta.zsh"},
+		{"the reading module putting alpha.zsh", reader, readerRefused, "alpha.zsh"}} {
+		ch := other.ch
+		if ch == nil {
+			// alpha's own refusals arrive on its own handler: reconnect with one that is watched.
+			var nc *nats.Conn
+			nc, ch = connect("node.alpha")
+			other.nc = nc
+		}
+		if err := other.nc.Publish("$KV."+delivery.HaveBucket+"."+other.key, []byte(`{"v":99}`)); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		_ = other.nc.Flush()
+		select {
+		case err := <-ch:
+			if !errors.Is(err, nats.ErrPermissionViolation) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the server said %v, want a permissions violation", other.name, err)
+			}
+		case <-time.After(3 * time.Second):
+			t.Errorf("the server did not refuse %s", other.name)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// The reader watches and sees alpha.zsh, and beta.zsh was never taken.
+	rjs, err := jetstream.New(reader)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	rkv, err := rjs.KeyValue(ctx, delivery.HaveBucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a module reading node-engine.have cannot bind it: %v", err)
+	}
+	w, err := rkv.WatchAll(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the reading module cannot watch: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer w.Stop()
+	seen := map[string]string{}
+	for e := range w.Updates() {
+		if e == nil {
+			break
+		}
+		seen[e.Key()] = string(e.Value())
+	}
+	if seen["alpha.zsh"] != `{"v":1}` || len(seen) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the reading module's watch sees %v, want alpha.zsh alone", seen)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/have_bucket_test.go b/internal/broker/have_bucket_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb584a68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/broker/have_bucket_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+package broker
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+)
+
+// 1136/AC1: the controller's start asserts node-engine_have with the history delivery keeps, and the bucket is one of
+// the controller's own, so raising the buckets does not name it undeclared (ADR 0429 §1).
+func TestTheHaveBucketIsTheControllersAndKeepsTwentyRevisions(t *testing.T) { // 1136/AC1
+	cfg := HaveBucketConfig()
+	if cfg.Bucket != delivery.HaveBucket || cfg.History != delivery.HaveHistory || delivery.HaveHistory != 20 {
+		t.Fatalf("the have bucket is asserted as %q with history %d, want %q with 20", cfg.Bucket, cfg.History, delivery.HaveBucket)
+	}
+	if cfg.Storage != jetstream.FileStorage || cfg.MaxBytes <= 0 || cfg.MaxValueSize <= 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the have bucket is not bounded on disk: %+v", cfg)
+	}
+	if !IsControllerBucket(delivery.HaveBucket) || !slices.Contains(ControllerBuckets(), delivery.HaveBucket) {
+		t.Fatalf("%s is not among the controller's buckets", delivery.HaveBucket)
+	}
+	undeclared, err := RaiseBuckets(fakeBuckets{names: []string{delivery.HaveBucket}}, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(undeclared) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%v are raised as undeclared", undeclared)
+	}
+}
+
+// 1136/AC2: a node may write and read the keys of its own node of the have bucket, with what a get, create, update and
+// watch of them need, and no other key of it; the controller does not write it; an unsafe node name is refused.
+func TestANodeWritesAndReadsOnlyItsOwnHaveKeys(t *testing.T) { // 1136/AC2
+	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "one", PasswordHash: "x"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b, stream := delivery.HaveBucket, "KV_"+delivery.HaveBucket
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		"$KV." + b + ".one.>",
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO." + stream,
+		"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET." + stream + ".$KV." + b + ".one.>",
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE." + stream + ".*.$KV." + b + ".one.>",
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE." + stream + ".>",
+		"$JS.FC." + stream + ".>",
+	} {
+		has(t, perms.Publish, want)
+	}
+	for _, p := range perms.Publish {
+		if !strings.Contains(p, delivery.HaveBucket) {
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(p, "KV."+b+".>") || strings.Contains(p, "KV."+b+".two") || strings.HasSuffix(p, "."+b+".*") ||
+			strings.Contains(p, "DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>") || strings.Contains(p, "CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>") {
+			t.Errorf("the node is granted %q, which reaches keys of other nodes", p)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := CheckWriters(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "one"}, perms.Publish); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the node's own have keys are refused as a second writer: %v", err)
+	}
+	controller, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindController, PasswordHash: "x"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, p := range controller.Publish {
+		if SubjectsOverlap(p, "$KV."+b+".one.zsh") {
+			t.Errorf("the controller may write the have keys through %q", p)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{"on.e", "one.>", "*", "o>ne"} {
+		if _, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: bad, PasswordHash: "x"}); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("node %q was accepted as part of a have subject", bad)
+		}
+	}
+	// A principal that is not a node writes no have key: the writers table refuses it.
+	if err := CheckWriters(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Module: "billing", Node: "one"}, []string{"$KV." + b + ".one.>"}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a module granted the have keys of a node is not refused as a second writer")
+	}
+	if err := CheckWriters(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "two"}, []string{"$KV." + b + ".one.>"}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a node granted another node's have keys is not refused as a second writer")
+	}
+}
+
+// 1136/AC3: a module whose manifest reads node-engine.have, mesh-controller.assignments and mesh-controller.builds may
+// watch and get every key of the three and write none.
+func TestAModuleReadingHaveAssignmentsAndBuildsReadsAndWritesNone(t *testing.T) { // 1136/AC3
+	perms, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "mesh-delivery-view", PasswordHash: "x",
+		Reads: []string{"node-engine.have", "mesh-controller.assignments", "mesh-controller.builds"}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, b := range []string{delivery.HaveBucket, AssignmentsBucket, BuildsBucket} {
+		stream := "KV_" + b
+		has(t, perms.Publish, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+stream)
+		has(t, perms.Publish, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>")
+		has(t, perms.Publish, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>")
+		for _, p := range perms.Publish {
+			if SubjectsOverlap(p, "$KV."+b+".any.key") {
+				t.Errorf("the reading module may write %s through %q", b, p)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index 9408ee8a..ecec2bba 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/lease"
 )
 
@@ -712,6 +713,9 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// hand, which it alone writes. A put is a publish to the bucket's subject, which `$JS.API.>`
 		// does not cover; each bucket named, not `$KV.>`, which would let it write any module's state.
 		for _, bucket := range ControllerBuckets() {
+			if bucket == delivery.HaveBucket {
+				continue // each node's node-engine writes its own keys of it, the controller none (ADR 0429 §1)
+			}
 			pub = append(pub, "$KV."+bucket+".>")
 		}
 		// **And what the bus says about itself, read-only** (novox/hq to-be 45 §3, S9): a durable
@@ -800,6 +804,13 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// contract is lease/witness.go): it asks its own machine's node tools PING, and, where the
 		// machine runs the controller, reads the lease's one key — read, never written.
 		pub = append(pub, WitnessSubjects(p)...)
+		// And the keys of its own node in the have bucket, which it alone writes (novox/hq ADR 0429 §1, issue 1136):
+		// what the node has of each module, read by the view and the watchman. Never the controller's.
+		haveKeys, err := NodeKeysGrants(delivery.HaveBucket, p.Node)
+		if err != nil {
+			return Permissions{}, err
+		}
+		pub = append(pub, haveKeys...)
 		// And, while the vault serves it, the vault's move-in in its own name and nobody else's (issue 676): the
 		// values sealed to this machine, which only it opens, handed in sealed to the vault's key for the call.
 		if p.MovesIntoTheVault {
@@ -812,6 +823,11 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		}
 
 	case KindModule:
+		// 0. The watchman alone hears who connects and disconnects, and asks who is connected (ADR 0431 §2).
+		if p.Module == WatchmanModule {
+			sub = append(sub, BusConnectSubject, BusDisconnectSubject)
+			pub = append(pub, BusConnzSubject)
+		}
 		// 1. Its own namespace: it publishes its events there and serves its tools there. Nothing
 		//    else may publish into it, so an event's source is a fact the server enforces rather
 		//    than a claim in the body (design 29 §2).
@@ -1436,7 +1452,9 @@ func ComposeAccounts(principals []Principal) (string, error) {
 	// JetStream is enabled per account once accounts exist at all: with only the global block set,
 	// a user in MESH is told "JetStream not enabled for account" the first time it binds a
 	// consumer, which is the first thing every host does (2026-09-28).
-	b.WriteString("accounts {\n  MESH {\n    jetstream: enabled\n    users = [\n")
+	b.WriteString("accounts {\n  MESH {\n    jetstream: enabled\n")
+	b.WriteString(meshSystemImports)
+	b.WriteString("    users = [\n")
 	for _, p := range sorted {
 		perms, err := PermissionsFor(p)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -1457,10 +1475,45 @@ func ComposeAccounts(principals []Principal) (string, error) {
 		}
 		b.WriteString("      } }\n")
 	}
-	b.WriteString("    ]\n  }\n}\n")
+	b.WriteString("    ]\n  }\n")
+	b.WriteString(systemAccount)
+	b.WriteString("}\n")
 	return b.String(), nil
 }
 
+// WatchmanModule is the one module whose principal hears the bus's connect and disconnect events and asks its list of
+// connections (novox/hq ADR 0431 §2, issue 1147): the watchman of the repository mesh-delivery, which writes presence
+// from them. No other principal is granted the subjects below, and nothing is a wildcard over them.
+const WatchmanModule = "mesh-delivery-watchman"
+
+// The bus's own events, imported into MESH from the default system account `$SYS` under subjects of MESH's own
+// (novox/hq ADR 0431 §1, issue 1147): the server says an account's connections opening and closing only to the system
+// account, and the list of an account's connections only to a request made there. `$SYS` holds no user, so nobody
+// gains its other requests and events; it exports exactly these three, to MESH alone.
+const (
+	BusConnectSubject    = "mesh.bus.connect"
+	BusDisconnectSubject = "mesh.bus.disconnect"
+	BusConnzSubject      = "mesh.bus.connz"
+)
+
+// meshSystemImports is what MESH imports from $SYS: the two event streams and the one service.
+const meshSystemImports = "    imports = [\n" +
+	"      { stream: { account: \"$SYS\", subject: \"$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNECT\" }, to: \"" + BusConnectSubject + "\" }\n" +
+	"      { stream: { account: \"$SYS\", subject: \"$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.DISCONNECT\" }, to: \"" + BusDisconnectSubject + "\" }\n" +
+	"      { service: { account: \"$SYS\", subject: \"$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ\" }, to: \"" + BusConnzSubject + "\" }\n" +
+	"    ]\n"
+
+// systemAccount is the account `$SYS`, the server's default system account by its own name (a config that declares an
+// account of that name makes it the system account), with no user and the three exports to MESH. Quoted, because an
+// unquoted `$` begins a variable in the server's config grammar.
+const systemAccount = "  \"$SYS\" {\n" +
+	"    exports = [\n" +
+	"      { stream: \"$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNECT\", accounts: [\"MESH\"] }\n" +
+	"      { stream: \"$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.DISCONNECT\", accounts: [\"MESH\"] }\n" +
+	"      { service: \"$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ\", accounts: [\"MESH\"] }\n" +
+	"    ]\n" +
+	"  }\n"
+
 // unique is a sorted list with each subject once. Two carried modules holding seats with the same
 // verb, or the runtime module itself carried beside the others, would otherwise write a grant twice
 // — harmless to the server, and noise in a file that is read as the mesh's authority model.
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats_golden_test.go b/internal/broker/nats_golden_test.go
index 01571741..55c6fbd7 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats_golden_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats_golden_test.go
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ func TestTheComposedConfigMatchesTheGolden(t *testing.T) {
 				Emits: []string{"order.placed"}, PasswordHash: "$2a$11$ssssssssssssssssssssss"},
 			{Kind: KindModule, Node: "two", Module: "audit",
 				Consumes: []string{"shop.order.placed"}, PasswordHash: "$2a$11$aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"},
+			// The watchman alone hears the bus's connections (novox/hq ADR 0431 §2, issue 1147).
+			{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: WatchmanModule, PasswordHash: "$2a$11$wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"},
 			// The bus's own module: the snapshot API and its inbox, nothing else (novox/hq ADR 0235).
 			{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "nats", SnapshotsTheBus: true,
 				Serves: []string{"nats_streams"}, PasswordHash: "$2a$11$bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"},
diff --git a/internal/broker/state.go b/internal/broker/state.go
index f78ddd09..32a169f9 100644
--- a/internal/broker/state.go
+++ b/internal/broker/state.go
@@ -65,6 +65,37 @@ func bucketOfRead(read string) (string, bool) {
 	return BucketName(module, name), true
 }
 
+// readGrants is what reaching a bucket's keys needs: binding to it, a direct get, an ordered consumer for listing and
+// watching and the deletion of that consumer and its flow control. key is one key's subject tail, a pattern such as
+// `one.>` for a prefix of keys, or empty for every key. The bucket is made with AllowDirect, so a get is the direct get
+// and never the stream's message get.
+func readGrants(bucket, key string) []string {
+	stream := "KV_" + bucket
+	out := []string{"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO." + stream}
+	if key == "" {
+		out = append(out,
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>",
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>")
+	} else {
+		out = append(out,
+			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".$KV."+bucket+"."+key,
+			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".*.$KV."+bucket+"."+key)
+	}
+	return append(out,
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+stream+".>",
+		"$JS.FC."+stream+".>")
+}
+
+// NodeKeysGrants is what a node's node-engine is granted of a bucket it writes by node, `<node>.>` and no other key
+// (novox/hq ADR 0429 §1: each key one writer, enforced by credentials): the writes of those keys and what a get,
+// create, update and watch of them need. The node name is checked as every subject token is.
+func NodeKeysGrants(bucket, node string) ([]string, error) {
+	if !safeSubject.MatchString(node) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%q cannot be part of a subject: a permission is a subject pattern, and this would widen it", node)
+	}
+	return append([]string{"$KV." + bucket + "." + node + ".>"}, readGrants(bucket, node+".>")...), nil
+}
+
 // stateGrants is what a principal publishes to reach the state its modules keep and read: for every
 // bucket, binding to it, reading a key directly, and an ordered consumer for listing and watching,
 // created and deleted on the bucket's own stream, with its flow control answered; for a bucket an
@@ -84,22 +115,7 @@ func bucketOfRead(read string) (string, bool) {
 // consumer (named at random by the client) and flow control; none of them reads or writes a value.
 func stateGrants(a stateAccess) []string {
 	var out []string
-	read := func(bucket, key string) {
-		stream := "KV_" + bucket
-		out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+stream)
-		if key == "" {
-			out = append(out,
-				"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>",
-				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>")
-		} else {
-			out = append(out,
-				"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".$KV."+bucket+"."+key,
-				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".*.$KV."+bucket+"."+key)
-		}
-		out = append(out,
-			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+stream+".>",
-			"$JS.FC."+stream+".>")
-	}
+	read := func(bucket, key string) { out = append(out, readGrants(bucket, key)...) }
 	machineKey := ""
 	if safeSubject.MatchString(a.Node) {
 		machineKey = a.Node
diff --git a/internal/broker/system_exports_live_test.go b/internal/broker/system_exports_live_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2b53441e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/broker/system_exports_live_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package broker
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt"
+)
+
+// **The system account's exports reach MESH on a reload, with no restart** (novox/hq ADR 0431 §3, issue 1147,
+// 1147/AC3): the embedded pinned server starts with today's composed accounts (no `$SYS`, no import); the new file is
+// written and the server reloaded; the reload succeeds; a user with the watchman's grants hears another user's connect
+// and disconnect and gets an answer to `mesh.bus.connz` that lists the open connections; another module's user is
+// refused a subscribe on `mesh.bus.connect`.
+func TestNatsTheSystemAccountsExportsReachMeshOnAReload(t *testing.T) { // 1147/AC3
+	hash, err := bcrypt.GenerateFromPassword([]byte("pw"), bcrypt.MinCost)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	users, err := Users(Records{Nodes: []string{"one"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{
+		"one": {{Module: RuntimeModule}, {Module: WatchmanModule}, {Module: "gitea"}, {Module: "shop"}},
+	}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for i := range users {
+		users[i].PasswordHash = string(hash)
+	}
+	accounts, err := ComposeAccounts(users)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Today's file: the same accounts without the system account's exports and MESH's imports.
+	today := strings.Replace(strings.Replace(accounts, meshSystemImports, "", 1), systemAccount, "", 1)
+	if today == accounts || strings.Contains(today, "$SYS") {
+		t.Fatal("today's composed file could not be derived from the new one")
+	}
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	conf := filepath.Join(dir, "bus.conf")
+	write := func(accounts string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		if err := os.WriteFile(conf, []byte("listen: 127.0.0.1:-1\njetstream { store_dir: "+`"`+dir+`/js"`+" }\n"+accounts), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	write(today)
+	opts, err := server.ProcessConfigFile(conf)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("today's accounts do not parse: %v", err)
+	}
+	opts.NoLog, opts.NoSigs = true, true
+	s, err := server.NewServer(opts)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	go s.Start()
+	if !s.ReadyForConnections(10 * time.Second) {
+		t.Fatal("the bus did not come up")
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(s.Shutdown)
+
+	connect := func(user string) (*nats.Conn, chan error) {
+		t.Helper()
+		refused := make(chan error, 8)
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(s.ClientURL(), nats.UserInfo(user, "pw"), nats.CustomInboxPrefix("_INBOX."+user),
+			nats.ErrorHandler(func(_ *nats.Conn, _ *nats.Subscription, err error) { refused <- err }))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s cannot connect: %v", user, err)
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
+		return nc, refused
+	}
+	// A connection open across the reload: the reload must not drop it.
+	shop, _ := connect("one.shop")
+
+	write(accounts)
+	if err := s.Reload(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the server does not take the system account's exports on a reload: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !shop.IsConnected() {
+		t.Error("the reload dropped a connection that was open")
+	}
+
+	watchman, _ := connect("one." + WatchmanModule)
+	connects := make(chan *nats.Msg, 16)
+	disconnects := make(chan *nats.Msg, 16)
+	if _, err := watchman.ChanSubscribe(BusConnectSubject, connects); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := watchman.ChanSubscribe(BusDisconnectSubject, disconnects); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := watchman.Flush(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// Another user connects and disconnects: the watchman hears both, and the events name that user.
+	gitea, _ := connect("one.gitea")
+	hears := func(ch chan *nats.Msg, what string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		select {
+		case m := <-ch:
+			if !strings.Contains(string(m.Data), "one.gitea") {
+				t.Errorf("the %s event does not name the user that connected: %s", what, m.Data)
+			}
+		case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+			t.Errorf("the watchman did not hear another user's %s", what)
+		}
+	}
+	hears(connects, "connect")
+	// The answer to the connections request lists the open connections, the shop's among them. The server names the
+	// account from the subject the export clamps (MESH), but leaves the user's name out unless the request asks for it
+	// with "auth": true (monitor.go ConnzOptions.Username), so the watchman asks so.
+	reply, err := watchman.Request(BusConnzSubject, []byte(`{"auth":true}`), 5*time.Second)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("mesh.bus.connz is not answered: %v", err)
+	}
+	var answer struct {
+		Data struct {
+			Connections []struct {
+				AuthorizedUser string `json:"authorized_user"`
+			} `json:"connections"`
+		} `json:"data"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(reply.Data, &answer); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the connections answer is not JSON: %v: %s", err, reply.Data)
+	}
+	var listed bool
+	for _, c := range answer.Data.Connections {
+		listed = listed || c.AuthorizedUser == "one.shop"
+	}
+	if !listed {
+		t.Errorf("the connections answer does not list the shop's connection: %s", reply.Data)
+	}
+	gitea.Close()
+	hears(disconnects, "disconnect")
+
+	// Another module's user is refused a subscribe on the events and a publish on the request.
+	other, refused := connect("one.shop")
+	for _, act := range []func() error{
+		func() error { _, err := other.SubscribeSync(BusConnectSubject); return err },
+		func() error { _, err := other.SubscribeSync(BusDisconnectSubject); return err },
+		func() error { return other.Publish(BusConnzSubject, []byte(`{}`)) },
+	} {
+		if err := act(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		_ = other.Flush()
+		select {
+		case err := <-refused:
+			if !errors.Is(err, nats.ErrPermissionViolation) {
+				t.Errorf("the server said %v, want a permissions violation", err)
+			}
+		case <-time.After(3 * time.Second):
+			t.Error("the server did not refuse another module's user the bus's connection subjects")
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/system_exports_test.go b/internal/broker/system_exports_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebce219e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/broker/system_exports_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+package broker
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
+)
+
+// 1147/AC1: the composed accounts file declares $SYS with no user, exporting only the connect and disconnect events of
+// MESH and the request listing MESH's connections, and MESH imports exactly those three as mesh.bus.connect,
+// mesh.bus.disconnect and mesh.bus.connz (novox/hq ADR 0431 §1); the server's own grammar takes it with $SYS as its
+// system account; the golden file shows it (TestTheComposedConfigMatchesTheGolden).
+func TestTheComposedAccountsExportMeshsConnectionEventsFromTheSystemAccount(t *testing.T) { // 1147/AC1
+	text, err := ComposeAccounts([]Principal{{Kind: KindNode, Node: "one", PasswordHash: "x"}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	sys := between(text, `"$SYS" {`, "\n  }\n")
+	if sys == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("no account $SYS in the composed accounts:\n%s", text)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(sys, "users") || strings.Contains(sys, "user:") {
+		t.Errorf("$SYS holds a user:\n%s", sys)
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		`{ stream: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNECT", accounts: ["MESH"] }`,
+		`{ stream: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.DISCONNECT", accounts: ["MESH"] }`,
+		`{ service: "$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ", accounts: ["MESH"] }`,
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(sys, want) {
+			t.Errorf("$SYS does not export %s:\n%s", want, sys)
+		}
+	}
+	if n := strings.Count(sys, "{ stream:") + strings.Count(sys, "{ service:"); n != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("$SYS exports %d things, want exactly 3:\n%s", n, sys)
+	}
+	mesh := between(text, "  MESH {", "    users = [")
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		`{ stream: { account: "$SYS", subject: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNECT" }, to: "mesh.bus.connect" }`,
+		`{ stream: { account: "$SYS", subject: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.DISCONNECT" }, to: "mesh.bus.disconnect" }`,
+		`{ service: { account: "$SYS", subject: "$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ" }, to: "mesh.bus.connz" }`,
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(mesh, want) {
+			t.Errorf("MESH does not import %s:\n%s", want, mesh)
+		}
+	}
+	if n := strings.Count(mesh, "{ stream:") + strings.Count(mesh, "{ service:"); n != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("MESH imports %d things, want exactly 3:\n%s", n, mesh)
+	}
+
+	// The pinned server's grammar takes it, and makes $SYS its system account.
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "accounts.conf")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(text), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	opts, err := server.ProcessConfigFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the server refuses the composed accounts: %v", err)
+	}
+	var found bool
+	for _, a := range opts.Accounts {
+		if a.Name != "$SYS" {
+			continue
+		}
+		found = true
+		if !a.IsExportService("$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ") {
+			t.Error("$SYS does not export the connections request as a service")
+		}
+	}
+	if !found {
+		t.Error("the server read no account $SYS")
+	}
+	for _, u := range opts.Users {
+		if u.Account != nil && u.Account.Name == "$SYS" {
+			t.Errorf("user %s is in $SYS", u.Username)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// between is the text from the first start to the first end after it, or empty.
+func between(s, start, end string) string {
+	i := strings.Index(s, start)
+	if i < 0 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	rest := s[i:]
+	j := strings.Index(rest[len(start):], end)
+	if j < 0 {
+		return rest
+	}
+	return rest[:len(start)+j]
+}
+
+// 1147/AC2: only mesh-delivery-watchman's principal may subscribe to mesh.bus.connect and mesh.bus.disconnect and
+// publish to mesh.bus.connz; no other principal's grant covers them by a wildcard (ADR 0431 §2).
+func TestOnlyTheWatchmanHearsTheBusConnectionEvents(t *testing.T) { // 1147/AC2
+	builder := Seat{Name: "node-build-agent", Scope: "node", Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"built"}}
+	watchman := Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "mesh-delivery-watchman", PasswordHash: "x"}
+	others := []Principal{
+		{Kind: KindController, PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindNode, Node: "one", PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindEnrolment, Node: "two", PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindPerson, Module: "jochen", Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindProvisioner, Node: "one", PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "gitea", Emits: []string{"pull.merged"}, PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "mesh-delivery-view", PasswordHash: "x",
+			Reads: []string{"node-engine.have"}, Consumes: []string{"mesh-delivery-watchman.presence"}},
+		{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "build-agent", Holds: []Seat{builder}, PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "nats", SnapshotsTheBus: true, PasswordHash: "x"},
+		{Kind: KindNodeTools, Node: "one", Module: RuntimeModule, PasswordHash: "x", Carries: []Declared{
+			{Module: "mesh-delivery-watchman"}, {Module: "build-agent", Holds: []Seat{builder}}}},
+	}
+	heard := []string{"mesh.bus.connect", "mesh.bus.disconnect"}
+	perms, err := PermissionsFor(watchman)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, s := range heard {
+		has(t, perms.Subscribe, s)
+	}
+	has(t, perms.Publish, "mesh.bus.connz")
+	for _, s := range append(heard, "mesh.bus.connz") {
+		for _, p := range perms.Subscribe {
+			if p != s && SubjectsOverlap(p, s) && !strings.HasPrefix(p, "_INBOX.") {
+				t.Errorf("the watchman's subscription %q reaches %s beyond naming it", p, s)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for _, p := range others {
+		perms, err := PermissionsFor(p)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", p.Username(), err)
+		}
+		for _, s := range append(heard, "mesh.bus.connz") {
+			for _, g := range append(append([]string(nil), perms.Publish...), perms.Subscribe...) {
+				if SubjectsOverlap(g, s) {
+					t.Errorf("%s is granted %q, which covers %s", p.Username(), g, s)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
index fc21c54a..f0d25f8d 100644
--- a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
+++ b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ jetstream {
 accounts {
   MESH {
     jetstream: enabled
+    imports = [
+      { stream: { account: "$SYS", subject: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNECT" }, to: "mesh.bus.connect" }
+      { stream: { account: "$SYS", subject: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.DISCONNECT" }, to: "mesh.bus.disconnect" }
+      { service: { account: "$SYS", subject: "$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ" }, to: "mesh.bus.connz" }
+    ]
     users = [
       { user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller-merges.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "$KV.SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE_cancelled.>", "$KV.SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT_cancelled.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_asked.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_assignments.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_builds.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_calls.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_checks-running.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_condition-history.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_conditions.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_declared-config.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_delivery-merges.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_hand-acts.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_lease.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_merge-window.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_predefined.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_rollout-silent.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_rollouts.>", "$SRV.INFO", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.again.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.events.dead.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.tool.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.assignment-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.checked", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-cleared", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-raised", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.declared-config-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.doctor-heartbeat", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.healer-acted", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.plan-moved", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.predefined-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.rolled-back", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.secret-replaced", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.sent", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.plans", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.close", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.groups", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.release", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.stalled", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.stop", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.times", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.backed-up.*", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.now.*", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.check.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-intrusion-prevention.tool.banned.*", "mesh.seat.node-launcher.tool.secret.*", "mesh.seat.node-service-manager.tool.restart.*", "mesh.seat.operator-channel.tool.tell"] }
@@ -33,10 +38,15 @@ accounts {
         subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.enrol.one.>"] }
       } }
       { user: "node.one", password: "$2a$11$nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.NODES.one.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.NODES.one", "$SRV.PING.node-tools.one", "mesh.control.one.>"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.NODES.one.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_node-engine_have.*.$KV.node-engine_have.one.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.KV_node-engine_have.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.NODES.one", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_node-engine_have.$KV.node-engine_have.one.>", "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_node-engine_have", "$JS.FC.KV_node-engine_have.>", "$KV.node-engine_have.one.>", "$SRV.PING.node-tools.one", "mesh.control.one.>"] }
         subscribe: { allow: ["_DELIVER.one", "_DELIVER.one.>", "_INBOX.node.one.>", "mesh.node.one.ask.hand-over", "mesh.node.one.ask.judge-directories", "mesh.node.one.ask.move-secret", "mesh.node.one.ask.report", "mesh.node.one.ask.setuid-search", "mesh.node.one.declare"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
+      { user: "one.mesh-delivery-watchman", password: "$2a$11$wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww", permissions: {
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.one_mesh-delivery-watchman.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.one_mesh-delivery-watchman", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.one_mesh-delivery-watchman", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.one.mesh-delivery-watchman", "mesh.bus.connz"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-delivery-watchman", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-delivery-watchman.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.mesh-delivery-watchman", "$SRV.PING.mesh-delivery-watchman.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.mesh-delivery-watchman", "$SRV.STATS.mesh-delivery-watchman.>", "_INBOX.one.mesh-delivery-watchman.>", "mesh.assignment.one.mesh-delivery-watchman", "mesh.bus.connect", "mesh.bus.disconnect", "mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-watchman.call.>", "mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-watchman.tool.>"] }
+        allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
+      } }
       { user: "one.nats", password: "$2a$11$bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.*", "$JS.API.STREAM.NAMES", "$JS.API.STREAM.SNAPSHOT.*", "$JS.SNAPSHOT.ACK.>"] }
         subscribe: { allow: ["_INBOX.one.nats.>"] }
@@ -58,4 +68,11 @@ accounts {
       } }
     ]
   }
+  "$SYS" {
+    exports = [
+      { stream: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNECT", accounts: ["MESH"] }
+      { stream: "$SYS.ACCOUNT.MESH.DISCONNECT", accounts: ["MESH"] }
+      { service: "$SYS.REQ.ACCOUNT.MESH.CONNZ", accounts: ["MESH"] }
+    ]
+  }
 }
diff --git a/internal/broker/writers.go b/internal/broker/writers.go
index 2520359d..07984fdd 100644
--- a/internal/broker/writers.go
+++ b/internal/broker/writers.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
 // The writers table (novox/hq to-be 45 §1, ADR 0227 rule 1), compiled in.
@@ -92,6 +94,13 @@ func ownProvisioner(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
 	return p.Kind == KindProvisioner && len(tokens) > 3 && tokens[2] == p.Node
 }
 
+// ownNodeKeys is a node writing the have keys of its own node: `$KV.<bucket>.<node>.…`, the node in the third token
+// and no wildcard there (novox/hq ADR 0429 §1).
+func ownNodeKeys(p Principal, pattern string) bool {
+	tokens := strings.Split(pattern, ".")
+	return p.Kind == KindNode && len(tokens) > 2 && tokens[2] == p.Node
+}
+
 // kvOf is a bucket's write subjects.
 func kvOf(bucket string) []string { return []string{"$KV." + bucket + ".>"} }
 
@@ -205,6 +214,11 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 	{State: "the rollouts of the chain", Writer: "controller (lease holder), compare-and-set on the key's revision",
 		KeptIn: "key-value " + RolloutsBucket + ", sixty-four revisions of each key, none removed",
 		Others: "read through `reads` as mesh-controller." + ChainRollouts, Subjects: kvOf(RolloutsBucket), Writes: isController},
+	// What each machine has of each module (novox/hq ADR 0429 §1, design 47): written by that machine's node-engine under
+	// its own node's keys, never by the controller; the view and the watchman read it.
+	{State: "a machine's have", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, under its own keys `<node>.>`",
+		KeptIn: "key-value " + delivery.HaveBucket + ", twenty revisions of each key",
+		Others: "read through `reads` as node-engine.have", Subjects: kvOf(delivery.HaveBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
 	{State: "the declared-config mirror", Writer: "controller (lease holder), from its store, only on a change",
 		KeptIn: "key-value " + DeclaredConfigBucket, Others: "read through `reads` as mesh-controller." + MirrorDeclaredConfig,
 		Subjects: kvOf(DeclaredConfigBucket), Writes: isController},
diff --git a/internal/broker/writers_test.go b/internal/broker/writers_test.go
index 4ac55259..500e44b4 100644
--- a/internal/broker/writers_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/writers_test.go
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ var designRows = []string{
 	// The chain beside the assignments, the record itself and no mirror of one (ADR 0408, design 47, issue 1089).
 	"the builds of the chain",
 	"the rollouts of the chain",
+	// What each machine has of each module, written by its node-engine under its own keys (ADR 0429 §1, issue 1136).
+	"a machine's have",
 	"the declared-config mirror",
 	"the predefined-keys mirror",
 	// The provisioner client's word on what it placed (novox/hq ADR 0349 §4, design 57 P6).
diff --git a/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go b/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go
index 12a9b3ea..23914b94 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/store"
 )
 
 // **Migration 0105 refuses a store whose rows were not moved, and drops the tables of a moved one** (novox/hq ADR 0408 §8,
@@ -23,10 +24,17 @@ func TestMigration0105RefusesAStoreWhoseRowsWereNotMovedAndDropsTheTablesOfAMove
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	inv.ExecForTest(t, `insert into assignment (node, module) select id, 'ui' from node where name = 'anchor'`)
-	all, err := Migrations()
+	every, err := Migrations()
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	// Migration 105 alone: the ones after it (106, issue 1145) are not what this test judges.
+	var all []store.Migration
+	for _, m := range every {
+		if m.Number <= 105 {
+			all = append(all, m)
+		}
+	}
 	tables := func() map[string]bool {
 		t.Helper()
 		out := map[string]bool{}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/chain_source_test.go b/internal/inventory/chain_source_test.go
index d5f5cac2..4223f85f 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/chain_source_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/chain_source_test.go
@@ -88,16 +88,21 @@ func TestTheSourceScanFindsATablePlanted(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// **The last migration drops the tables of the chain, behind its guard** (issue 1096): it names each table, the column and
+// **Migration 105 drops the tables of the chain, behind its guard** (issue 1096; it was the last until issue 1145 added 106): it names each table, the column and
 // the function, drops no build_gate, and raises before it drops anything.
-func TestTheLastMigrationDropsTheTablesOfTheChain(t *testing.T) {
+func TestMigration105DropsTheTablesOfTheChain(t *testing.T) {
 	migrations, err := Migrations()
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	last := migrations[len(migrations)-1]
-	if last.Number < 105 {
-		t.Fatalf("the last migration is %d", last.Number)
+	var last struct{ Number int }
+	for _, m := range migrations {
+		if m.Number == 105 {
+			last.Number = m.Number
+		}
+	}
+	if last.Number != 105 {
+		t.Fatal("there is no migration 105")
 	}
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("migrations", migrationFile(t, last.Number)))
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/internal/inventory/migrations/0106-a-node-says-it-reads-modules.sql b/internal/inventory/migrations/0106-a-node-says-it-reads-modules.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0e9dd4e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/migrations/0106-a-node-says-it-reads-modules.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+-- Whether the machine's node-engine said it reads a module on each resource of a declaration and the build of each
+-- module (its reports' `reads_modules`, novox/hq issue 1145): until it has, it is sent neither, because an older
+-- node-engine refuses a key it does not know, whole. As reads_generation (migration 0094).
+alter table node add column reads_modules boolean not null default false;
diff --git a/internal/inventory/sends.go b/internal/inventory/sends.go
index db8b7095..6ed98725 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/sends.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/sends.go
@@ -75,6 +75,21 @@ func (i *Inventory) RecordReadsGeneration(ctx context.Context, id string, reads
 	return err
 }
 
+// ReadsModules says a machine's node-engine said it reads a module per resource and a build per module (issue 1145).
+func (i *Inventory) ReadsModules(ctx context.Context, id string) (bool, error) {
+	var reads bool
+	if err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx, `select reads_modules from node where id = $1`, id).Scan(&reads); err != nil {
+		return false, fmt.Errorf("reading whether %s reads modules: %w", id, err)
+	}
+	return reads, nil
+}
+
+// RecordReadsModules keeps what a machine's latest report said of reading modules.
+func (i *Inventory) RecordReadsModules(ctx context.Context, id string, reads bool) error {
+	_, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx, `update node set reads_modules = $2 where id = $1`, id, reads)
+	return err
+}
+
 // Send is one declaration sent to a machine, as the mesh records it.
 type Send struct {
 	// Node is the machine's id; NodeName its name, filled where it is read back.
diff --git a/internal/inventory/sends_test.go b/internal/inventory/sends_test.go
index aba20d88..f36cf94a 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/sends_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/sends_test.go
@@ -323,3 +323,20 @@ func TestAReportIsTheLastSendsAnswerOnlyWhenItIsAboutThatSend(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("an ordered report about sequence 21 is not its answer: %q", a)
 	}
 }
+
+// 1145/AC3: whether a machine reads modules is its latest word, as whether it reads a generation is.
+func TestWhetherAMachineReadsModulesIsItsLatestWord(t *testing.T) {
+	inv, node := aNodeWithModules(t)
+	record, err := inv.NodeByName(t.Context(), node)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, reads := range []bool{false, true, false} {
+		if err := inv.RecordReadsModules(t.Context(), record.ID, reads); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if got, err := inv.ReadsModules(t.Context(), record.ID); err != nil || got != reads {
+			t.Fatalf("1145/AC3: recorded %v, read %v (%v)", reads, got, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/enrolment.go b/internal/link/enrolment.go
index 63a5c9c0..f9b6ee84 100644
--- a/internal/link/enrolment.go
+++ b/internal/link/enrolment.go
@@ -460,6 +460,10 @@ func (e Enrolment) Heard(ctx context.Context, report Report) (news bool, err err
 		if err := e.Inventory.RecordReadsGeneration(ctx, node.ID, report.ReadsGeneration); err != nil {
 			return false, err
 		}
+		// And whether it reads a module per resource and a build per module (novox/hq issue 1145), the same way.
+		if err := e.Inventory.RecordReadsModules(ctx, node.ID, report.ReadsModules); err != nil {
+			return false, err
+		}
 	}
 	if report.Ordered() {
 		account := AccountOf(report)
diff --git a/internal/link/generation_test.go b/internal/link/generation_test.go
index 7a25283b..b93e41f4 100644
--- a/internal/link/generation_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/generation_test.go
@@ -31,3 +31,18 @@ func TestTheGenerationOnTheWire(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a node-engine that never said it reads a generation reads as one that does: %+v", older)
 	}
 }
+
+// 1145/AC3: a report's word that the node-engine reads a module per resource and a build per module, as mesh-host's
+// report writes it: `reads_modules`, on every report of a node-engine that reads them.
+func TestWhetherTheNodeEngineReadsModulesIsOnItsReport(t *testing.T) {
+	var reads, older Report
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"node":"anchor","applied":["a"],"report_sequence":8,"reads_modules":true}`), &reads); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"node":"anchor","applied":["a"],"report_sequence":3}`), &older); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !reads.ReadsModules || older.ReadsModules {
+		t.Fatalf("1145/AC3: reads %v, an older node-engine reads %v", reads.ReadsModules, older.ReadsModules)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/protocol.go b/internal/link/protocol.go
index 276516be..0687ee60 100644
--- a/internal/link/protocol.go
+++ b/internal/link/protocol.go
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@ type Report struct {
 	// so, because an older node-engine refuses a key it does not know, whole. Mirrors mesh-host
 	// internal/link/messages.go.
 	ReadsGeneration bool `json:"reads_generation,omitempty"`
+	// ReadsModules says the node-engine reads a module on each resource of a declaration and the build of each module
+	// (novox/hq issue 1145), on every report it makes: the mesh sends them only to a machine that said so. Mirrors
+	// mesh-host internal/link/messages.go.
+	ReadsModules bool `json:"reads_modules,omitempty"`
 	// OlderGeneration is set on a report refusing a declaration composed from an older assignment
 	// generation than the machine applied (novox/hq issue 234). The refused declaration is the report's
 	// own Declared and Order, and its sender is read from the record of sends by that sequence.
diff --git a/testdata/beside/CAPTURED b/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
index afa9389a..7d0bb872 100644
--- a/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
+++ b/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ private addresses. That is acceptable while mesh-controller is private; if it ev
 a second place to clean besides the catalogue itself.
 
 mesh-catalog  e0bc919d4945bb5f13f971f74643a0b714cf45da  modules/*/module.json, modules/nats/Dockerfile
-mesh-host     bff1ac14a198a1e2181053582728024c758bb800  examples/foundation-first-node.lock
-mesh-sdk      d3e182503c19a73c91ddc7b845651e020dbae22d  conformance/events/module-event.json
+mesh-host     9d9e3a46c4f5943cfffb413d962ce48b75e2fd39  examples/foundation-first-node.lock
+mesh-sdk      2b420603fe835d6b80e2c98080ab3094c6896c50  conformance/events/module-event.json
 
 To move them, from this repository's root, with the two repositories checked out beside it:
 
diff --git a/testdata/store-tests b/testdata/store-tests
index 3d2db5be..4bf968a0 100644
--- a/testdata/store-tests
+++ b/testdata/store-tests
@@ -161,3 +161,5 @@
 ./cmd/mesh-controller TestNoTableOfTheControllersStoreHoldsBuildsRolloutsOrAssignments
 ./internal/inventory TestTheColumnOfASentMachineIsCopiedOntoItsKeysAndEmptied
 ./internal/inventory TestASendEmptiesTheColumnSoALaterCopyLeavesAClearedKeyBare
+./internal/inventory TestWhetherAMachineReadsModulesIsItsLatestWord
+./cmd/mesh-controller TestAComposedDeclarationCarriesModulesAndBuildsOnlyForANodeThatReadsThem
diff --git a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery/delivery.go b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery/delivery.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9abf833
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery/delivery.go
@@ -0,0 +1,378 @@
+// Package delivery is the one home of the keys and values the parts of delivery read and write on the bus
+// (novox/hq ADR 0429 §2: the key layouts another repository reads live in mesh-sdk; research 063 section 01). The
+// node-engine writes the have keys, the watchman of the repository mesh-delivery writes presence and pulse, the
+// view reads all of them, and the controller grants them; every one imports this package, and nothing else defines
+// these names.
+//
+// **Buckets** are named `<owner module>_<name>` as the broker names a module's state (provider.BucketOf): the
+// node-engine's `have`, and the watchman's `presence` and `pulse`.
+//
+// **Keys.** A have key is `<node>.<module>`, and a node's own facts are `<node>.node`, so a module may not be named
+// `node`. A presence key is `<node>` for a node and `part.<part>.<instance>` for a part's instance, so a node may
+// not be named `part`. A pulse key is `<bucket>.<key>`: the full name of the bucket watched, then that bucket's key,
+// which may hold dots, so it splits at the first dot. A name is refused when it is empty or holds a dot, a wildcard,
+// whitespace or a character a bus key refuses, and the error names it.
+//
+// **Values** are JSON of under about 500 bytes, each carrying its version in `v`. A reader refuses a value whose
+// version is missing or one it does not know, with an error that is ErrUnknownVersion (research 063 section 05
+// question 9 item 7): a writer writes a new version only once every reader's have shows a version that reads it. A
+// writer writes only when the new value differs from the one before (the Same functions).
+//
+// Standard library only.
+package delivery
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// The buckets of delivery's parts. Each is written by one owner: every node's node-engine writes the have keys of
+// its own node only, and the watchman writes presence and pulse.
+const (
+	HaveBucket     = "node-engine_have"
+	PresenceBucket = "mesh-delivery-watchman_presence"
+	PulseBucket    = "mesh-delivery-watchman_pulse"
+)
+
+// HaveHistory and PresenceHistory are the revisions the have and presence buckets keep per key (research 063
+// section 01).
+const (
+	HaveHistory     = 20
+	PresenceHistory = 20
+)
+
+// PulseMoveBound is how long a move may take: a pulse key lives for this time minus the move's age, and the bucket
+// expires it on its own (the server writes a delete marker), so a move that overruns it is seen to stall.
+const PulseMoveBound = 120 * time.Second
+
+// Version is the version of every value this package writes and the only one it reads.
+const Version = 1
+
+// ErrUnknownVersion is what a decode returns for a value whose version is missing or not Version. Test it with
+// errors.Is; the message names the version seen and the one read.
+var ErrUnknownVersion = errors.New("delivery: unknown value version")
+
+// Phase is how far a module's change has come on a node.
+type Phase string
+
+// The phases of a module's change on a node.
+const (
+	PhaseBackingUp Phase = "backing-up"
+	PhaseApplying  Phase = "applying"
+	PhaseChecking  Phase = "checking"
+	PhaseRunning   Phase = "running"
+	PhaseFailed    Phase = "failed"
+)
+
+// Health is what the module's own check says.
+type Health string
+
+// The healths a have carries.
+const (
+	HealthOK      Health = "ok"
+	HealthFailed  Health = "failed"
+	HealthWaits   Health = "waits"
+	HealthUnknown Health = "unknown"
+)
+
+var nameOK = regexp.MustCompile(`^[-/_=a-zA-Z0-9]+$`)
+
+// checkName refuses a name that is empty or holds a dot, a wildcard, whitespace or a character a bus key refuses.
+func checkName(kind, name string) error {
+	if name == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: the %s name is empty", kind)
+	}
+	if !nameOK.MatchString(name) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: the %s name %q holds a dot, a wildcard, whitespace or a character a key refuses", kind, name)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// HaveKey is the key, in HaveBucket, of a module's have on a node: `<node>.<module>`. A module named `node` is
+// refused, since `<node>.node` is the node's own facts.
+func HaveKey(node, module string) (string, error) {
+	if err := checkName("node", node); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if err := checkName("module", module); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if module == "node" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf(`delivery: the module name "node" is refused: %s.node is the node's own key`, node)
+	}
+	return node + "." + module, nil
+}
+
+// HaveNodeKey is the key, in HaveBucket, of a node's own facts: `<node>.node`.
+func HaveNodeKey(node string) (string, error) {
+	if err := checkName("node", node); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return node + ".node", nil
+}
+
+// ParseHaveKey is the inverse of HaveKey and HaveNodeKey: isNode is true for `<node>.node`, with module empty.
+func ParseHaveKey(key string) (node, module string, isNode bool, err error) {
+	node, module, ok := strings.Cut(key, ".")
+	if !ok {
+		return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a have key, <node>.<module>", key)
+	}
+	if err := checkName("node", node); err != nil {
+		return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a have key: %w", key, err)
+	}
+	if err := checkName("module", module); err != nil {
+		return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a have key: %w", key, err)
+	}
+	if module == "node" {
+		return node, "", true, nil
+	}
+	return node, module, false, nil
+}
+
+// PresenceNodeKey is the key, in PresenceBucket, of a node: `<node>`. A node named `part` is refused.
+func PresenceNodeKey(node string) (string, error) {
+	if err := checkName("node", node); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if node == "part" {
+		return "", errors.New(`delivery: the node name "part" is refused: part.<part>.<instance> is a part's key`)
+	}
+	return node, nil
+}
+
+// PresencePartKey is the key, in PresenceBucket, of a part's instance: `part.<part>.<instance>`.
+func PresencePartKey(part, instance string) (string, error) {
+	if err := checkName("part", part); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if err := checkName("instance", instance); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return "part." + part + "." + instance, nil
+}
+
+// ParsePresenceKey is the inverse of PresenceNodeKey and PresencePartKey: for a node's key part and instance are
+// empty, for a part's key node is.
+func ParsePresenceKey(key string) (node, part, instance string, err error) {
+	if !strings.Contains(key, ".") {
+		node, err = PresenceNodeKey(key)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a presence key: %w", key, err)
+		}
+		return node, "", "", nil
+	}
+	fields := strings.Split(key, ".")
+	if len(fields) != 3 || fields[0] != "part" {
+		return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a presence key, <node> or part.<part>.<instance>", key)
+	}
+	if _, err := PresencePartKey(fields[1], fields[2]); err != nil {
+		return "", "", "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a presence key: %w", key, err)
+	}
+	return "", fields[1], fields[2], nil
+}
+
+// PulseKey is the key, in PulseBucket, of the move watched at key of bucket: `<bucket>.<key>`. The bucket is the
+// full bucket name and holds no dot; the key may.
+func PulseKey(bucket, key string) (string, error) {
+	if err := checkName("bucket", bucket); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if key == "" || strings.HasPrefix(key, ".") || strings.HasSuffix(key, ".") || strings.Contains(key, "..") {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: the pulse key %q is empty or has an empty part", key)
+	}
+	for _, part := range strings.Split(key, ".") {
+		if err := checkName("key", part); err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+	}
+	return bucket + "." + key, nil
+}
+
+// ParsePulseKey is the inverse of PulseKey, splitting at the first dot.
+func ParsePulseKey(pulseKey string) (bucket, key string, err error) {
+	bucket, key, ok := strings.Cut(pulseKey, ".")
+	if !ok {
+		return "", "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a pulse key, <bucket>.<key>", pulseKey)
+	}
+	if _, err := PulseKey(bucket, key); err != nil {
+		return "", "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: %q is not a pulse key: %w", pulseKey, err)
+	}
+	return bucket, key, nil
+}
+
+// PulseTTL is the time to live of a pulse key for a move of the given age: PulseMoveBound minus the age. At or past
+// the bound the move is stalled, with no time left and nothing to write: the watchman raises it at once.
+func PulseTTL(moveAge time.Duration) (ttl time.Duration, stalled bool) {
+	if moveAge >= PulseMoveBound {
+		return 0, true
+	}
+	return PulseMoveBound - moveAge, false
+}
+
+// Have is a module's state on a node, written by that node's node-engine under HaveKey. FP is the module's
+// fingerprint once the indexer exists (design 47 release 3); until then Build is the build the node was sent, and
+// the view compares by build.
+type Have struct {
+	V      int    `json:"v"`
+	FP     string `json:"fp,omitempty"`
+	Build  string `json:"build,omitempty"`
+	Phase  Phase  `json:"phase"`
+	Health Health `json:"health"`
+	Detail string `json:"detail,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// HaveNode is a node's own facts, written under HaveNodeKey. Each field is the node-engine's own JSON, carried whole:
+// this package names the facts and does not type them.
+type HaveNode struct {
+	V       int             `json:"v"`
+	Windows json.RawMessage `json:"windows,omitempty"`
+	Busy    json.RawMessage `json:"busy,omitempty"`
+	Strays  json.RawMessage `json:"strays,omitempty"`
+	Filters json.RawMessage `json:"filters,omitempty"`
+	Profile json.RawMessage `json:"profile,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// Presence is whether a node or a part's instance is online; the entry's own time says since when. The watchman
+// writes it.
+type Presence struct {
+	V      int  `json:"v"`
+	Online bool `json:"online"`
+}
+
+// Pulse is the value of a pulse key: the watched key mirrored, its revision, and who owes the next move (a node or
+// a part instance). The watchman writes it with the time to live PulseTTL gives.
+type Pulse struct {
+	V        int    `json:"v"`
+	Bucket   string `json:"bucket"`
+	Key      string `json:"key"`
+	Revision uint64 `json:"revision"`
+	Owes     string `json:"owes,omitempty"`
+}
+
+func checkVersion(data []byte) error {
+	var probe struct {
+		V *int `json:"v"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &probe); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: value is not JSON: %w", err)
+	}
+	if probe.V == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: no version in the value, this reader reads %d", ErrUnknownVersion, Version)
+	}
+	if *probe.V != Version {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: the value is version %d, this reader reads %d", ErrUnknownVersion, *probe.V, Version)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func decode(data []byte, into any) error {
+	if err := checkVersion(data); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, into); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: value does not fit its shape: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (h Have) check() error {
+	switch h.Phase {
+	case PhaseBackingUp, PhaseApplying, PhaseChecking, PhaseRunning, PhaseFailed:
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: phase %q is not backing-up, applying, checking, running or failed", h.Phase)
+	}
+	switch h.Health {
+	case HealthOK, HealthFailed, HealthWaits, HealthUnknown:
+	default:
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: health %q is not ok, failed, waits or unknown", h.Health)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// EncodeHave is h as JSON at Version; it refuses a phase or health outside the lists.
+func EncodeHave(h Have) ([]byte, error) {
+	if err := h.check(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	h.V = Version
+	return json.Marshal(h)
+}
+
+// DecodeHave reads a have; it refuses an unknown version (ErrUnknownVersion) and a phase or health outside the lists.
+func DecodeHave(data []byte) (Have, error) {
+	var h Have
+	if err := decode(data, &h); err != nil {
+		return Have{}, err
+	}
+	if err := h.check(); err != nil {
+		return Have{}, err
+	}
+	return h, nil
+}
+
+// EncodeHaveNode is n as JSON at Version.
+func EncodeHaveNode(n HaveNode) ([]byte, error) {
+	n.V = Version
+	return json.Marshal(n)
+}
+
+// DecodeHaveNode reads a node's facts; it refuses an unknown version (ErrUnknownVersion).
+func DecodeHaveNode(data []byte) (HaveNode, error) {
+	var n HaveNode
+	err := decode(data, &n)
+	return n, err
+}
+
+// EncodePresence is p as JSON at Version.
+func EncodePresence(p Presence) ([]byte, error) {
+	p.V = Version
+	return json.Marshal(p)
+}
+
+// DecodePresence reads a presence; it refuses an unknown version (ErrUnknownVersion).
+func DecodePresence(data []byte) (Presence, error) {
+	var p Presence
+	err := decode(data, &p)
+	return p, err
+}
+
+// EncodePulse is p as JSON at Version.
+func EncodePulse(p Pulse) ([]byte, error) {
+	p.V = Version
+	return json.Marshal(p)
+}
+
+// DecodePulse reads a pulse; it refuses an unknown version (ErrUnknownVersion).
+func DecodePulse(data []byte) (Pulse, error) {
+	var p Pulse
+	err := decode(data, &p)
+	return p, err
+}
+
+// SameHave says whether two haves are the same value, so a writer writes only when they differ.
+func SameHave(a, b Have) bool { return a == b }
+
+// SameHaveNode says whether two node facts are the same value, comparing each carried JSON without its spacing.
+func SameHaveNode(a, b HaveNode) bool {
+	return a.V == b.V && sameJSON(a.Windows, b.Windows) && sameJSON(a.Busy, b.Busy) &&
+		sameJSON(a.Strays, b.Strays) && sameJSON(a.Filters, b.Filters) && sameJSON(a.Profile, b.Profile)
+}
+
+// SamePresence says whether two presences are the same value.
+func SamePresence(a, b Presence) bool { return a == b }
+
+// SamePulse says whether two pulses are the same value.
+func SamePulse(a, b Pulse) bool { return a == b }
+
+func sameJSON(a, b json.RawMessage) bool {
+	var ca, cb bytes.Buffer
+	if json.Compact(&ca, a) != nil || json.Compact(&cb, b) != nil {
+		return bytes.Equal(a, b)
+	}
+	return bytes.Equal(ca.Bytes(), cb.Bytes())
+}
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration/declaration.go b/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration/declaration.go
index 0475d6ac..1fd3c5bc 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration/declaration.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration/declaration.go
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ type Resource interface {
 	// and not a hash of the content: it is what lets the store say *this is the same resource
 	// I applied last time*, which is what makes removal possible at all.
 	Identity() string
+	// DeclaredModule is the module the controller says the resource belongs to, or "" (issue 1132).
+	DeclaredModule() string
 	// Kind is the resource's type, for the store and for reporting.
 	Kind() Type
 	// Target is what the resource acts on, for a person reading a report.
@@ -115,12 +117,30 @@ type Resource interface {
 // strict decoder would otherwise refuse. `Kind()` returns the constant and is what anything
 // else should read.
 
+// DeclaredModule is on every kind: the module the controller says the resource belongs to, or "" when it does not say
+// (an older controller). Read through Declaration.ModuleOfID, which falls back to the guess.
+func (d *Directory) DeclaredModule() string { return d.Module }
+func (f *File) DeclaredModule() string      { return f.Module }
+func (u *User) DeclaredModule() string      { return u.Module }
+func (n *Network) DeclaredModule() string   { return n.Module }
+func (a *Access) DeclaredModule() string    { return a.Module }
+func (a *Archive) DeclaredModule() string   { return a.Module }
+func (d *Process) DeclaredModule() string   { return d.Module }
+func (s *Service) DeclaredModule() string   { return s.Module }
+func (o *Opening) DeclaredModule() string   { return o.Module }
+func (p *Package) DeclaredModule() string   { return p.Module }
+func (c *Container) DeclaredModule() string { return c.Module }
+func (a *Action) DeclaredModule() string    { return a.Module }
+
 // Directory is a directory that should exist, with a mode.
 type Directory struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
-	Path string `json:"path"`
-	Mode string `json:"mode,omitempty"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Path   string `json:"path"`
+	Mode   string `json:"mode,omitempty"`
 	// Owner is the user this belongs to, by name. Absent means root, which is what everything
 	// managed was until users existed.
 	Owner string `json:"owner,omitempty"`
@@ -201,8 +221,11 @@ func (d *Directory) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 
 // File is a file with literal content. The host renders nothing.
 type File struct {
-	ID      string `json:"id"`
-	Type    Type   `json:"type"`
+	ID   string `json:"id"`
+	Type Type   `json:"type"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module  string `json:"module,omitempty"`
 	Path    string `json:"path"`
 	Content string `json:"content"`
 	Mode    string `json:"mode,omitempty"`
@@ -520,7 +543,10 @@ func (f *File) checkOwnership(where string) []string {
 type User struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
-	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Name   string `json:"name"`
 
 	// Shell this user logs in with. Absent means the host asserts nothing and leaves whatever is
 	// there — the same rule Service.Boot follows, for the same reason: a field that always
@@ -571,7 +597,10 @@ const RootNever = "never"
 type Network struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
-	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Name   string `json:"name"`
 }
 
 func (n *Network) Identity() string { return n.ID }
@@ -616,7 +645,10 @@ const (
 type Access struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
-	Path string `json:"path"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Path   string `json:"path"`
 	// Mode is how this module reaches the path: read or read-write. Absent narrows to read.
 	Mode string `json:"mode,omitempty"`
 
@@ -743,6 +775,9 @@ func (u *User) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 type Archive struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
 	// Source is where to fetch it from.
 	Source string `json:"source"`
 	// Digest is sha256 of the archive, as "sha256:<hex>".
@@ -796,6 +831,9 @@ func (a *Archive) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 type Process struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
 	// Name is what the unit is called, and what an operator will see in the process table.
 	Name string `json:"name"`
 	// Source is where to fetch the bundle from, and Digest is what it must hash to. The same
@@ -985,7 +1023,10 @@ func (d *Process) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 type Service struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
-	Unit string `json:"unit"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Unit   string `json:"unit"`
 	// State is "running" or "stopped" — or absent, and then **the unit's lifecycle is the
 	// machine's; the mesh only reflects its triggers** (novox/hq ADR 0117). The uplink modules
 	// declare the machine's own network manager this way: the mesh writes into its configuration
@@ -1157,8 +1198,11 @@ func BlockMarkers(id string) (begin, end string) {
 // firewall sees a published port after the runtime has translated it, so a forwarded opening names
 // the container's own port in To as well as the machine's in Port.
 type Opening struct {
-	ID       string `json:"id"`
-	Type     Type   `json:"type"`
+	ID   string `json:"id"`
+	Type Type   `json:"type"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module   string `json:"module,omitempty"`
 	Port     int    `json:"port"`
 	Protocol string `json:"protocol"`
 	From     string `json:"from"`
@@ -1223,8 +1267,11 @@ func (o *Opening) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 // Present is the whole of what it asserts, never a version: version is the package manager's
 // business and the mesh does not hold a second opinion about it.
 type Package struct {
-	ID      string `json:"id"`
-	Type    Type   `json:"type"`
+	ID   string `json:"id"`
+	Type Type   `json:"type"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module  string `json:"module,omitempty"`
 	Package string `json:"package"`
 	// Absent declares that the package is NOT installed (novox/hq ADR 0180): the host removes it
 	// when it is, and leaves a machine that never had it alone. For the one case a module replaces
@@ -1249,7 +1296,10 @@ func (p *Package) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 type Container struct {
 	ID   string `json:"id"`
 	Type Type   `json:"type"`
-	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module string `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Name   string `json:"name"`
 	// Image is pinned by digest (novox/hq ADR 0006) — a tag moves and a digest does not.
 	Image string            `json:"image"`
 	Env   map[string]string `json:"env,omitempty"`
@@ -1555,8 +1605,11 @@ func (c *Container) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
 
 // Action runs something the bundle declared, and the host never learns what it means.
 type Action struct {
-	ID      string   `json:"id"`
-	Type    Type     `json:"type"`
+	ID   string `json:"id"`
+	Type Type   `json:"type"`
+	// Module is the module this resource belongs to, as the controller says it (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132). Absent
+	// is an older controller, and the module is then guessed from the id (ModuleGuess).
+	Module  string   `json:"module,omitempty"`
 	Command []string `json:"command"`
 	// Verify is not optional and is not a courtesy. It is the read-back AND the idempotency
 	// check: the host does not know what a database is, so "is it already there" is a question
@@ -1727,6 +1780,58 @@ type Declaration struct {
 	// the only account whose write of a filled file the node-engine's local write socket accepts. Absent is a
 	// controller that names none, and every such write is refused.
 	Provisioner string
+
+	// Builds is the build id of every module this declaration names, by module (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132).
+	Builds map[string]string
+
+	// declared is what each resource says of its module, by id; nil on a declaration built by hand.
+	declared map[string]string
+}
+
+// ModuleGuess is the module a resource id names when the declaration does not say: everything before its last dot.
+//
+// The mesh composes a module's resource ids as `<module>.<its own id>`, and **a module's name may contain a dot**
+// (`novox.be` is one on this mesh) while a resource's own id never does, so the owner is everything before the *last*
+// dot. False for what the mesh declares in its own right: the foundation's resources carry no dot, and the
+// adoption's are named for the mesh. This is the guess an older controller's declaration is read by; a declaration
+// that says `module` is read by ModuleOfID, which never guesses for a resource that says (issue 1132).
+func ModuleGuess(id string) (string, bool) {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(id, AdoptionPrefix) {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	at := strings.LastIndex(id, ".")
+	if at <= 0 {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	return id[:at], true
+}
+
+// ModuleOfID is the module a resource of this declaration belongs to: the module it says (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4,
+// issue 1132), and otherwise the guess from its id (ModuleGuess), so a declaration from an older controller reads as
+// it always did. False for what belongs to no module.
+func (d *Declaration) ModuleOfID(id string) (string, bool) {
+	if d != nil {
+		if d.declared == nil {
+			for _, r := range d.Resources {
+				if r.Identity() == id && r.DeclaredModule() != "" {
+					return r.DeclaredModule(), true
+				}
+			}
+		} else if m, ok := d.declared[id]; ok {
+			return m, true
+		}
+	}
+	return ModuleGuess(id)
+}
+
+// indexModules keeps what each resource says of its module, so ModuleOfID is a lookup.
+func (d *Declaration) indexModules() {
+	d.declared = map[string]string{}
+	for _, r := range d.Resources {
+		if m := r.DeclaredModule(); m != "" {
+			d.declared[r.Identity()] = m
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // checkProvisioner refuses a provisioner client's account that is no account name, or is root: the account whose
@@ -2126,6 +2231,10 @@ type envelope struct {
 	// Provisioner is optional too (novox/hq ADR 0349 §4). **An older host refuses this key**; a controller sends it
 	// only to a host whose health says link.ProvisionerContract.
 	Provisioner string `json:"provisioner_account,omitempty"`
+	// Builds is optional too (novox/hq ADR 0429 §4, issue 1132): the build id of each module the declaration names, and
+	// every resource's `module`. **An older host refuses these keys**; a controller sends them only to a host whose
+	// reports say `reads_modules`.
+	Builds map[string]string `json:"builds,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func parse(raw []byte, allowActions bool) (*Declaration, error) {
@@ -2145,7 +2254,7 @@ func parse(raw []byte, allowActions bool) (*Declaration, error) {
 	d := &Declaration{Version: env.Version, For: env.For, Adoption: env.Adoption, Sequence: env.Sequence,
 		Epoch: env.Epoch, LeftOut: env.LeftOut, Generation: env.Generation, PutBack: env.PutBack,
 		Identities: env.Identities, Groups: env.Groups, Libraries: env.Libraries, Filled: env.Filled,
-		Provisioner: env.Provisioner}
+		Provisioner: env.Provisioner, Builds: env.Builds}
 	problems := checkIdentities(env.Identities, env.Groups)
 	problems = append(problems, checkProvisioner(env.Provisioner)...)
 	problems = append(problems, checkLibraries(env.Groups, env.Libraries)...)
@@ -2264,6 +2373,7 @@ func parse(raw []byte, allowActions bool) (*Declaration, error) {
 	if len(problems) > 0 {
 		return nil, &RefusalError{Problems: problems}
 	}
+	d.indexModules()
 	return d, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 11f2dce0..62e347fd 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-# git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261015210729-d3e182503c19
+# git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261018164924-2b420603fe83
 ## explicit; go 1.22
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seal
 # github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op
 ## explicit; go 1.24.0
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ github.com/nats-io/nkeys
 # github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1
 ## explicit
 github.com/nats-io/nuid
-# github.com/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0 => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261017162006-6469e8238443
+# github.com/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0 => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261018171808-9d9e3a46c4f5
 ## explicit; go 1.26.0
 github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration
 github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch
@@ -139,4 +140,4 @@ golang.org/x/text/width
 # golang.org/x/time v0.15.0
 ## explicit; go 1.25.0
 golang.org/x/time/rate
-# github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261017162006-6469e8238443
+# github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261018171808-9d9e3a46c4f5