diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 7b3fb2fa..287c7598 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ 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 v0.0.0-20261012174513-8b2d65072cd8
+replace github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012175109-5c8e768ef520
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index d621159d..a4648937 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012174513-8b2d65072cd8 h1:MgLaqpvAcE8rkl+QAXv4nwYYcm7JIfirh+StGE+krQA=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012174513-8b2d65072cd8/go.mod h1:tcTK4LMs1d6JpZUwy3hSHMFG/MIuDr/XFs7/nbeaW/c=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012175109-5c8e768ef520 h1:e6rbPYADZmKr7StQOrBozzVoI+Qu47Q22yRFDXGU5cU=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012175109-5c8e768ef520/go.mod h1:tcTK4LMs1d6JpZUwy3hSHMFG/MIuDr/XFs7/nbeaW/c=
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c h1:l5onJwoIeH8yE/PjVlEeoPyXBsHp2NQiWLllz2fwX7s=
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261010191001-33917f91ac3c/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
diff --git a/testdata/beside/CAPTURED b/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
index 20f261ae..a65f54b6 100644
--- a/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
+++ b/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ private addresses. That is acceptable while mesh-controller is private; if it ev
 a second place to clean besides the catalogue itself.
 
 mesh-catalog  b9de001833b1b61b297182b8e3bcdae1cbdeace9  modules/*/module.json, modules/nats/Dockerfile
-mesh-host     8b2d65072cd825ba3ebe9a8b1e94ebc7ce046b59  examples/foundation-first-node-nats.lock
+mesh-host     5c8e768ef52001624abe0425e05eb356ca337584  examples/foundation-first-node-nats.lock
 mesh-sdk      33917f91ac3cc213b879b32f3c70e2aa70395f98  conformance/events/module-event.json
 
 To move them, from this repository's root, with the two repositories checked out beside it:
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 9ff611fb..fc1ff8a1 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ 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 v0.0.0-20261012174513-8b2d65072cd8
+# github.com/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0 => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012175109-5c8e768ef520
 ## explicit; go 1.26.0
 github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration
 github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch
@@ -135,4 +135,4 @@ 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 v0.0.0-20261012174513-8b2d65072cd8
+# github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261012175109-5c8e768ef520