diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/addresses_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/addresses_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fbe76d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/addresses_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/licences"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+)
+
+// An address is read from the node's settings where it is used, never recorded with a port
+// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102). Three readers did not follow the setting; each is held to it here.
+
+var aDigest = "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("e", 64)
+
+// **A build is recorded by digest and path**, whatever address the builder pushed to — and only
+// what the build made is rewritten: an image the module runs from elsewhere is left where it says.
+func TestABuildIsRecordedWithoutTheStoresAddress(t *testing.T) {
+	manifest, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+		"module": "gitea", "version": "1",
+		"resources": []map[string]any{
+			{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-gitea",
+				"image": "anchor.internal:5100/gitea/server@" + aDigest},
+			{"id": "config", "type": "archive", "path": "/etc/gitea", "digest": aDigest,
+				"source": "http://anchor.internal:5100/v2/gitea/config/blobs/" + aDigest},
+			{"id": "cache", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-gitea-cache",
+				"image": "valkey/valkey@" + aDigest},
+		},
+	})
+	kept := buildFrom(link.BuildResult{
+		ID: "b1", Repository: "https://forge.example/gitea.git", Commit: "abc", On: "laptop",
+		Manifest: manifest,
+		Made: []link.MadeArtifact{
+			{Name: "server", Kind: "image", Reference: "anchor.internal:5100/gitea/server@" + aDigest},
+			{Name: "config", Kind: "archive", Reference: "http://anchor.internal:5100/v2/gitea/config/blobs/" + aDigest},
+		},
+		Against: []string{"anchor.internal:5100/mesh-tools/runtime@" + aDigest},
+	})
+	if kept.Module != "gitea" {
+		t.Fatalf("the module was not read from the recorded manifest: %q", kept.Module)
+	}
+	if kept.Made[0].Reference != catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/server@"+aDigest {
+		t.Errorf("the image is recorded as %q, address and all", kept.Made[0].Reference)
+	}
+	if kept.Made[1].Reference != catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/config/blobs/"+aDigest {
+		t.Errorf("the archive is recorded as %q, address and all", kept.Made[1].Reference)
+	}
+	recorded, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(kept.Manifest)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := recorded.Resources[0]["image"]; got != catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/server@"+aDigest {
+		t.Errorf("the recorded manifest's image is %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := recorded.Resources[1]["source"]; got != catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/config/blobs/"+aDigest {
+		t.Errorf("the recorded manifest's archive is %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := recorded.Resources[2]["image"]; got != "valkey/valkey@"+aDigest {
+		t.Errorf("an image the build did not make was rewritten: %v", got)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(kept.Manifest), "anchor.internal:5100") {
+		t.Errorf("the recorded manifest still carries the store's address:\n%s", kept.Manifest)
+	}
+	if kept.Against[0] != "anchor.internal:5100/mesh-tools/runtime@"+aDigest {
+		t.Errorf("what the build stood on was rewritten: %v", kept.Against)
+	}
+}
+
+// aStore is a module offering the artifact store on 5000, published the long way as the
+// distribution module does, so a node may be given another number for it.
+func aStore() catalogue.Manifest {
+	return catalogue.Manifest{Module: "distribution", Version: "1",
+		Provides: []catalogue.Offer{{Name: catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision, Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh}},
+		Serves:   map[string]map[string]any{catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision: {"port": float64(5000)}},
+		Listens:  []catalogue.Listening{{Port: 5000, From: catalogue.FromMesh}},
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "store", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-registry",
+			"ports": []any{"5000:5000"}, "image": "registry@" + aDigest}}}
+}
+
+// **The trust a machine writes for the store, and the address every built image is fetched
+// through, say the port the node gave the store** — not the catalogue's number.
+func TestTheRegistryTrustAndEveryImageFollowThePortTheNodeGaveTheStore(t *testing.T) {
+	open := aMesh(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	register(t, open, aStore())
+	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", "distribution"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := open.inventory.SetSettings(ctx, "anchor", "distribution",
+		map[string]any{catalogue.PortsSetting: map[string]any{"5000": 5101}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// A module the mesh built, recorded by digest and path, running on the other machine.
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordBuild(ctx, inventory.Build{
+		ID: "b1", Repository: "r", Module: "app", Commit: "abc",
+		Made: []inventory.Artifact{{Name: "server", Kind: "image",
+			Reference: catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "app/server@" + aDigest}},
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "app", Version: "1",
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-app",
+			"image": catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "app/server@" + aDigest}}})
+	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "app"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	on := map[string]bool{"anchor": true, "laptop": true}
+	node, port, found, err := artifactStoreOnNetwork(ctx, open.inventory, on)
+	if err != nil || !found || node != "anchor" || port != "5101" {
+		t.Fatalf("the store is found on %q:%q (%v, %v); the node put it on 5101", node, port, found, err)
+	}
+
+	var trust string
+	for _, r := range composed(t, open, "laptop").Resources {
+		if r["path"] == "/etc/docker/daemon.json" {
+			trust, _ = r["content"].(string)
+		}
+		if r["id"] == "app.server" && r["image"] != "anchor.internal:5101/app/server@"+aDigest {
+			t.Errorf("the image the mesh built is fetched as %v", r["image"])
+		}
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(trust, "anchor.internal:5101") || strings.Contains(trust, ":5000") {
+		t.Fatalf("the runtime is told to trust %q; the node put the store on 5101", trust)
+	}
+
+	// And a replay to the catalogue says where the store is now.
+	announced, err := following{open}.Announceable(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(announced) != 1 || announced[0].Made[0].Reference != "anchor.internal:5101/app/server@"+aDigest {
+		t.Fatalf("the replay announces %+v", announced)
+	}
+}
+
+// **The control plane's own connections say the port the node gave the store and the broker.**
+//
+// Composed from the control plane's own manifest against a real inventory: the store's module is
+// given 6852 on this node the way genesis or an operator gives it, and the control plane's
+// container is told so beside the sealed connection genesis wrote.
+func TestTheControlPlaneIsToldWhereTheNodePutTheStoreAndTheBroker(t *testing.T) {
+	open := aMesh(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	control, err := withSeatPorts(m).Resolve([]catalogue.Built{{Name: "server", Kind: catalogue.ArtifactImage,
+		Reference: "registry.example/control@" + aDigest}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	register(t, open, control)
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "postgres", Version: "1",
+		Claims:  []catalogue.Claim{{Name: "mesh-store", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh}},
+		Listens: []catalogue.Listening{{Port: 5432, From: catalogue.FromMesh}},
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-store",
+			"ports": []any{"5432:5432"}, "image": "pg@" + aDigest}}})
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "lavinmq", Version: "1",
+		Claims: []catalogue.Claim{{Name: "mesh-broker", Scope: catalogue.ScopeMesh}},
+		Listens: []catalogue.Listening{{Port: 5671, From: catalogue.FromMesh},
+			{Port: 5672, From: catalogue.FromMesh}},
+		Guards: []int{15672},
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-broker",
+			"ports": []any{"5671:5671", "5672:5672", "127.0.0.1:15672:15672"}, "image": "mq@" + aDigest}}})
+	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", "mesh-controller"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// The store's module is registered and given its port, and NOT assigned: the state genesis
+	// leaves a given-port node in before the foundation is adopted as modules (04-ISSUES/085).
+	if err := open.inventory.SetSettings(ctx, "anchor", "postgres",
+		map[string]any{catalogue.PortsSetting: map[string]any{"5432": 6852}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", "lavinmq"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := open.inventory.SetSettings(ctx, "anchor", "lavinmq",
+		map[string]any{catalogue.PortsSetting: map[string]any{"5672": 5679}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	var env map[string]any
+	for _, r := range composed(t, open, "anchor").Resources {
+		if r["id"] == "mesh-controller.server" {
+			env, _ = r["env"].(map[string]any)
+		}
+	}
+	if env == nil {
+		t.Fatal("the control plane's container is not in its own node's declaration")
+	}
+	for key, want := range map[string]string{
+		"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT": "6852",
+		"MESH_STORE_IDENTITY_PORT":  "6852",
+		"MESH_STORE_LICENCES_PORT":  "6852",
+		"MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT":     "5679",
+		// Neither given nor assigned by the mesh: the manifest's own number is NOT the answer,
+		// because the sealed value beside it carries the port genesis wrote (finding F3).
+		"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT":    "",
+		"MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_PORT": "",
+	} {
+		if env[key] != want {
+			t.Errorf("the control plane is told %s=%v; the node says %q", key, env[key], want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// withSeatPorts is the control plane's manifest with the seat placeholders in its environment —
+// added here until module.json carries them (the manifest lands one commit after the code that
+// fills it, so a control plane one build behind never sees a placeholder it cannot fill).
+func withSeatPorts(m catalogue.Manifest) catalogue.Manifest {
+	seatPorts := map[string]string{
+		"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT":   "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+		"MESH_STORE_IDENTITY_PORT":    "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+		"MESH_STORE_LICENCES_PORT":    "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+		"MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT":       "${seat:mesh-broker:5672}",
+		"MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_PORT": "${seat:mesh-broker:15672}",
+		"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT":    "${seat:mesh-broker:5671}",
+	}
+	out := m
+	out.Resources = nil
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r["type"] != "container" {
+			out.Resources = append(out.Resources, r)
+			continue
+		}
+		copied := map[string]any{}
+		for k, v := range r {
+			copied[k] = v
+		}
+		env := map[string]any{}
+		if had, ok := r["env"].(map[string]any); ok {
+			for k, v := range had {
+				env[k] = v
+			}
+		}
+		for k, v := range seatPorts {
+			if _, said := env[k]; !said {
+				env[k] = v
+			}
+		}
+		copied["env"] = env
+		out.Resources = append(out.Resources, copied)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// aLoneNode is one capable machine with nothing placed on any network — the control-node during
+// genesis, before the "network" step, which is after the store, the broker, the vault and the
+// catalogue have each been built and pushed (finding F2).
+func aLoneNode(t *testing.T) *stores {
+	t.Helper()
+	inventory.ForTest(t)
+	licences.ForTest(t)
+	open, err := openStores(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(open.Close)
+	for _, m := range provided {
+		if err := open.inventory.Provide(t.Context(), m); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	record, err := open.inventory.AddNode(t.Context(), "anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	reported, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"capabilities": []map[string]any{
+		{"name": "container-runtime", "present": true}}})
+	var profile map[string]any
+	_ = json.Unmarshal(reported, &profile)
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordProfile(t.Context(), record.ID, profile); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordSealingKey(t.Context(), record.ID, aPublicKey(t)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return open
+}
+
+// **Before the network exists, the store's own node reaches it by loopback** — never refused,
+// never handed the scheme: a genesis pushes the store, the broker, the vault and the catalogue to
+// a node on no network, and builds the catalogue on a base it must be able to pull.
+func TestOnANodeWithNoNetworkTheStoreIsReachedByLoopback(t *testing.T) {
+	open := aLoneNode(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	register(t, open, aStore())
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "builder", Version: "1",
+		Requires: []string{catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision},
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-builder",
+			"image": "registry.example/mesh-builder@" + aDigest}}})
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordBuild(ctx, inventory.Build{
+		ID: "b1", Repository: "r", Module: "postgres", Commit: "abc",
+		Made: []inventory.Artifact{{Name: "runtime", Kind: "image",
+			Reference: catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "postgres/runtime@" + aDigest}},
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "postgres", Version: "1",
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "runtime", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-postgres",
+			"image": catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + "postgres/runtime@" + aDigest}}})
+	for _, module := range []string{"distribution", "builder", "postgres"} {
+		if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", module); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := open.inventory.SetSettings(ctx, "anchor", "distribution",
+		map[string]any{catalogue.PortsSetting: map[string]any{"5000": 5100}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	var image any
+	for _, r := range composed(t, open, "anchor").Resources {
+		if r["id"] == "postgres.runtime" {
+			image = r["image"]
+		}
+	}
+	if image != "127.0.0.1:5100/postgres/runtime@"+aDigest {
+		t.Fatalf("on the store's own node, off any network, the image is fetched as %v", image)
+	}
+	held := heldBy(ctx)
+	if got := held["postgres/runtime"]; got != "127.0.0.1:5100/postgres/runtime@"+aDigest {
+		t.Fatalf("a builder beside the store is handed the base %q", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/build.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/build.go
index a612778..98dbf38 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/build.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/build.go
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ func buildCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 }
 
 // buildFrom turns what a builder said into what the mesh keeps.
+//
+// **By digest and path, never by where it was pushed** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102). The builder
+// says `<registry>:<port>/<module>/<artifact>@sha256:…`; the mesh records the artifact-store
+// reference and composes the store's address back in where a reference is used. `against` is kept
+// as announced: it is what the build stood on as the builder saw it, and the catalogue's edge.
 func buildFrom(result link.BuildResult) inventory.Build {
 	kept := inventory.Build{
 		ID: result.ID, Repository: result.Repository, Ref: result.Ref,
@@ -77,16 +82,21 @@ func buildFrom(result link.BuildResult) inventory.Build {
 		// edges, and it is not always listening when a build happens — on a fresh mesh it cannot
 		// be, for exactly the modules it needs most. Keeping them is what makes a replay able to
 		// rebuild the graph rather than a list of names.
-		Path: result.Path, Manifest: result.Manifest, Against: result.Against,
+		Path: result.Path, Against: result.Against,
 	}
+	var announced []inventory.Artifact
 	for _, made := range result.Made {
-		kept.Made = append(kept.Made, inventory.Artifact{
+		announced = append(announced, inventory.Artifact{
 			Name: made.Name, Kind: made.Kind, Reference: made.Reference,
 		})
+		kept.Made = append(kept.Made, inventory.Artifact{
+			Name: made.Name, Kind: made.Kind, Reference: catalogue.Recorded(made.Reference),
+		})
 	}
+	kept.Manifest = recordedManifest(result.Manifest, announced)
 	// The module name comes from the manifest, which only exists when the build got that far.
-	if len(result.Manifest) > 0 {
-		if m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(result.Manifest); err == nil {
+	if len(kept.Manifest) > 0 {
+		if m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(kept.Manifest); err == nil {
 			kept.Module = m.Module
 		}
 	}
@@ -378,7 +388,8 @@ func buildOne(ctx context.Context, repository, path, ref string, wait time.Durat
 	}
 	defer open.Close()
 	inv := open.inventory
-	if err := inv.RecordBuild(ctx, buildFrom(result)); err != nil {
+	kept := buildFrom(result)
+	if err := inv.RecordBuild(ctx, kept); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
@@ -388,13 +399,15 @@ func buildOne(ctx context.Context, repository, path, ref string, wait time.Durat
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s could not build %s:\n%s", result.On, result.Repository, result.Failed)
 	}
 
-	for _, made := range result.Made {
+	// Said as recorded: what each artifact is, not where this builder happened to push it.
+	for _, made := range kept.Made {
 		fmt.Printf("  %-12s %s %s\n", made.Name, made.Kind, made.Reference)
 	}
 
 	// Parsed with the same parser a hand-written manifest goes through. A second path would be a
-	// second thing to disagree about what a manifest is.
-	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(result.Manifest)
+	// second thing to disagree about what a manifest is. The manifest as recorded, so the catalogue
+	// holds references by digest and path and every declaration composes the store's address in.
+	manifest, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(kept.Manifest)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("%s built %s and what came back is not a manifest: %w",
 			result.On, result.Repository, err)
@@ -481,6 +494,9 @@ type answers struct {
 // all, and one that does gets a refusal naming exactly what is missing — which is a better sentence
 // than a build command refusing to start because a query did not run. So the store not opening is
 // reported and the build goes ahead without it.
+//
+// Routed through the artifact store as the network reaches it now (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102): a
+// base is recorded by digest and path, and a build machine needs something it can pull.
 func heldBy(ctx context.Context) map[string]string {
 	open, err := openStores(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -494,5 +510,18 @@ func heldBy(ctx context.Context) map[string]string {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "could not read what this mesh has built: %v\n", err)
 		return nil
 	}
-	return held
+	address, err := whereABuilderReachesTheStore(ctx, open.inventory)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "could not find the artifact store on this mesh's network, so a "+
+			"module naming a base will be handed a reference nothing can fetch: %v\n", err)
+		return held
+	}
+	if address == "" {
+		return held
+	}
+	routed := make(map[string]string, len(held))
+	for repository, reference := range held {
+		routed[repository] = catalogue.Rerouted(reference, address)
+	}
+	return routed
 }
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
index 7f62c24..681a124 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/network.go
@@ -440,8 +440,11 @@ func namesInTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 	return out, nil
 }
 
-// artifactStoreOnNetwork is the machine and port the mesh's artifact store answers on, when a
-// module providing it is assigned to a machine that is on the private network.
+// artifactStoreOnNetwork is the machine on this network that offers the artifact store, and the
+// port THAT MACHINE put it on — the node's setting when it was given one (novox/hq ADR 0100,
+// 04-ISSUES/102), the mesh's assignment when it made one, and the manifest's own number only when
+// neither says anything. Read exactly as a consumer's binding is, because the trust a machine
+// writes for the store and the address it pulls from are the same fact as what a consumer is told.
 //
 // A lookup failure is an error, never "not found": collapsing the two composed a declaration
 // without the trust whenever the inventory hiccuped, delivered by a push that reported success —
@@ -454,29 +457,87 @@ func artifactStoreOnNetwork(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("reading the catalogue: %w", err)
 	}
-	providers := map[string]string{} // module -> served port
+	providers := map[string]catalogue.Manifest{}
 	for name, m := range shelf {
-		served, offers := m.Serves[catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision]
-		if !offers {
-			continue
-		}
-		if p, ok := served["port"]; ok {
-			providers[name] = fmt.Sprintf("%v", p)
+		if _, offers := m.Serves[catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision]; offers {
+			providers[name] = m
 		}
 	}
 	if len(providers) == 0 {
 		return "", "", false, nil
 	}
+	// In a stated order, so two machines offering it would always answer the same one.
+	machines := make([]string, 0, len(on))
 	for machine := range on {
+		machines = append(machines, machine)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(machines)
+	for _, machine := range machines {
 		assigned, err := inv.Assigned(ctx, machine)
 		if err != nil {
 			return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("reading what %s is assigned: %w", machine, err)
 		}
 		for _, a := range assigned {
-			if p, ok := providers[a]; ok {
-				return machine, p, true, nil
+			m, offers := providers[a]
+			if !offers {
+				continue
+			}
+			serves, err := servedOnNode(ctx, inv, machine, m, catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision)
+			if err != nil {
+				return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("reading where %s puts the artifact store: %w", machine, err)
+			}
+			if p, ok := serves["port"]; ok {
+				return machine, fmt.Sprintf("%v", p), true, nil
 			}
 		}
 	}
 	return "", "", false, nil
 }
+
+// artifactStoreAddress is the artifact store as `forNode` reaches it: `<node>.internal:<port>`
+// over the private network, or — when nothing is on the network yet — `127.0.0.1:<port>` for the
+// node that holds the store itself, and "" for any other. The address composed into every
+// reference the mesh built, at the moment it is used and never before (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+//
+// **Genesis places the network after the store, the broker, the vault and the catalogue.** Each
+// of those is built and pushed to a node that is on no network, and the store is on that same
+// node; an answer of "no store" there would refuse every one of those pushes and hand every one
+// of those builds a base nothing can pull. Loopback is the truth on that machine, and it is the
+// address genesis itself reaches the store by.
+func artifactStoreAddress(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
+	shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest, forNode string) (string, error) {
+	onNetwork, err := whereEveryoneIs(ctx, inv, shelf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	on := map[string]bool{}
+	for name := range onNetwork {
+		on[name] = true
+	}
+	node, port, found, err := artifactStoreOnNetwork(ctx, inv, on)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if found {
+		return overlay.InternalName(node) + ":" + port, nil
+	}
+	holder, port, found, err := artifactStoreHolder(ctx, inv)
+	if err != nil || !found || holder != forNode {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return "127.0.0.1:" + port, nil
+}
+
+// artifactStoreHolder is whichever node is assigned a module offering the artifact store, on or
+// off the network, and the port that node put it on.
+func artifactStoreHolder(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) (node, port string, found bool, err error) {
+	nodes, err := inv.Nodes(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", "", false, err
+	}
+	all := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, n := range nodes {
+		all[n.Name] = true
+	}
+	return artifactStoreOnNetwork(ctx, inv, all)
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
index 4b5cbbf..d066c27 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go
@@ -229,28 +229,10 @@ func theRestOfTheMesh(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory,
 				// What that module says a consumer needs to know, with that node's settings on
 				// it: a port somebody moved on the provider is a port its consumers must be told
 				// about, and the two coming from different places is how they come to disagree.
-				assigned, err := portsOn(ctx, inv, o.node.Name, m.Module)
+				serves, err := servedOnNode(ctx, inv, o.node.Name, m, name)
 				if err != nil {
 					return catalogue.World{}, err
 				}
-				layers, err := inv.SettingsFor(ctx, o.node.Name, m.Module)
-				if err != nil {
-					return catalogue.World{}, err
-				}
-				// A port that node was given is where its consumers reach it (novox/hq ADR
-				// 0100). Unreadable given ports are that node's refusal to report, not this one's.
-				if given, err := catalogue.GivenPorts(m, layers); err == nil {
-					for wanted, at := range given {
-						assigned[wanted] = at
-					}
-				}
-				serves := catalogue.ServedOn(m, name, assigned)
-				if len(serves) > 0 {
-					serves, err = catalogue.Settle(serves, layers)
-					if err != nil {
-						return catalogue.World{}, err
-					}
-				}
 				offered[name] = append(offered[name], catalogue.Provider{
 					Node: o.node.Name, At: o.node.At, Serves: serves})
 			}
@@ -499,6 +481,22 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
 
+	// The artifact store as this node reaches it now — the address every image and archive the
+	// mesh built is fetched through, composed here and recorded nowhere — with what the mesh has
+	// built, so a reference recorded with an address before that is re-routed too.
+	artifactStore, err := artifactStoreAddress(ctx, inv, shelf, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
+	}
+	held, err := inv.Held(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
+	}
+	built := make(map[string]bool, len(held))
+	for repository := range held {
+		built[repository] = true
+	}
+
 	// And every machine's name, so a container can reach one. The same set that writes the
 	// machine's own hosts file — one reading, so a container and its machine cannot disagree
 	// about where another machine is.
@@ -566,11 +564,18 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 			taken[m] = true
 		}
 	}
+	// Where this node put the foundation's servers, for the control plane's own connections
+	// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102): read from the node's settings for whatever claims each seat,
+	// exactly as a consumer's binding is, never from what genesis wrote into a secret.
+	seats, err := seatsOn(ctx, inv, shelf, node, plan.Modules, record.Adopted, taken)
+	if err != nil {
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
+	}
 	return catalogue.Rendering{
 		Settings: settings, Generators: gens, Grants: grants, Needed: needed, Ports: ports,
 		Certificate: certificate, Authority: authority, Mesh: private, Names: names,
 		Suffix: overlay.Suffix(), Foundation: foundation, Kept: kept, Adopted: record.Adopted,
-		Given: given, Taken: taken,
+		Given: given, Taken: taken, Seats: seats, ArtifactStore: artifactStore, Built: built,
 	}, record, nil
 }
 
@@ -967,6 +972,119 @@ func managerPublicKeyFor(
 	return inv.SealingKeyOf(ctx, node)
 }
 
+// servedOnNode is what a module on a node tells a consumer of one of its provisions, with THAT
+// node's ports on it: the port the node was given (novox/hq ADR 0100) over the one the mesh
+// assigned over the manifest's own, settled with the node's settings layers.
+//
+// **The one derivation** for every reader of a provider's address — a consumer's binding, the
+// artifact store's trust and the references composed through it (04-ISSUES/102). Unreadable
+// given ports are that node's refusal to report, not this reader's.
+func servedOnNode(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node string,
+	m catalogue.Manifest, provision string) (map[string]any, error) {
+	ports, layers, err := portsGivenOn(ctx, inv, node, m)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	serves := catalogue.ServedOn(m, provision, ports)
+	if len(serves) > 0 {
+		serves, err = catalogue.Settle(serves, layers)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	return serves, nil
+}
+
+// portsGivenOn is where a node puts a module's ports — assigned, then given over them — and the
+// node's settings layers for the module, read once for both.
+func portsGivenOn(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node string,
+	m catalogue.Manifest) (map[int]int, []catalogue.Layer, error) {
+	ports, err := portsOn(ctx, inv, node, m.Module)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	layers, err := inv.SettingsFor(ctx, node, m.Module)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	if given, err := catalogue.GivenPorts(m, layers); err == nil {
+		for wanted, at := range given {
+			ports[wanted] = at
+		}
+	}
+	return ports, layers, nil
+}
+
+// seatsOn is where a node put the holder of each mesh-scoped seat, by seat and by the port the
+// holder's software uses — what ${seat:…} answers with (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+//
+// Read for every module in the catalogue that claims a seat, in this node's set or not: the store
+// and the broker are given their ports at genesis, as settings on a module that may be registered
+// and not yet assigned (04-ISSUES/085), and the control plane must follow that setting from the
+// first declaration it composes for itself. A holder in this node's set wins over one that is not.
+func seatsOn(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, shelf map[string]catalogue.Manifest,
+	node string, inSet []catalogue.Manifest, adopted bool, taken map[string]bool) (map[string]map[int]int, error) {
+	assigned := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, m := range inSet {
+		assigned[m.Module] = true
+	}
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(shelf))
+	for name := range shelf {
+		names = append(names, name)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(names)
+	seats := map[string]map[int]int{}
+	for _, name := range names {
+		m := shelf[name]
+		var claims []string
+		for _, c := range m.Claims {
+			if c.At() == catalogue.ScopeMesh {
+				claims = append(claims, c.Name)
+			}
+		}
+		if len(claims) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		// **Only a port the node was given or the mesh assigned — never the manifest's own
+		// number.** The sealed value the answer sits beside carries the port genesis wrote, which
+		// on a given-port node is the predecessor's; a manifest's long-form mapping is the
+		// catalogue's default, and answering with it would override the right number with one
+		// the mesh never checked (the contract in seat_into.go). And on an adopted node a holder
+		// assigned but not yet taken is the found container, on the ports it was found with, not
+		// the declaration's — so its mesh-assigned ports do not count there either; a given port
+		// does, because a given port is the found one by construction (ADR 0100).
+		ports, _, err := portsGivenOn(ctx, inv, node, m)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if adopted && !taken[name] {
+			layers, err := inv.SettingsFor(ctx, node, m.Module)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			ports = map[int]int{}
+			if given, err := catalogue.GivenPorts(m, layers); err == nil {
+				ports = given
+			}
+		}
+		if len(ports) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, seat := range claims {
+			if seats[seat] == nil {
+				seats[seat] = map[int]int{}
+			}
+			for wanted, at := range ports {
+				if _, said := seats[seat][wanted]; said && !assigned[name] {
+					continue
+				}
+				seats[seat][wanted] = at
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return seats, nil
+}
+
 // portsOn is one module's assignments on one machine, by the port the software uses.
 func portsOn(
 	ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node, module string,
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/references.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/references.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..202f2cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/references.go
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+)
+
+// What a build is recorded as, and what it is announced and handed on as.
+//
+// **Recorded by what it is; routed where it is used** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102). The builder
+// announces each artifact by the reference it pushed — `<registry>:<port>/<module>/<artifact>@sha256:…`
+// — and the manifest with those references in it. The mesh records the digest and the path
+// (catalogue.Recorded) and composes the store's address back in wherever a machine or a builder
+// needs a reference it can fetch: a declaration, a replay to the catalogue, the bases a build is
+// given. Nothing recorded carries a port, so moving the store is a settings change and not a
+// rebuild of everything the mesh has ever built.
+
+// recordedManifest is a build's manifest with the store's address taken off every reference the
+// build itself made. Other references — an image a module runs from a public registry — are what
+// they were, which is why this rewrites only what `made` names rather than everything that looks
+// like an address.
+func recordedManifest(raw json.RawMessage, made []inventory.Artifact) json.RawMessage {
+	announced := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, a := range made {
+		announced[a.Reference] = true
+	}
+	return withReferences(raw, func(ref string) (string, bool) {
+		if !announced[ref] {
+			return ref, false
+		}
+		return catalogue.Recorded(ref), true
+	})
+}
+
+// routedManifest is a recorded manifest with the store's address, as this network reaches it now,
+// composed into every reference the build made — recorded either way, before or after references
+// were kept without their address.
+func routedManifest(raw json.RawMessage, made []inventory.Artifact, address string) json.RawMessage {
+	recorded := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, a := range made {
+		recorded[catalogue.Recorded(a.Reference)] = true
+	}
+	return withReferences(raw, func(ref string) (string, bool) {
+		if !recorded[catalogue.Recorded(ref)] {
+			return ref, false
+		}
+		return catalogue.Rerouted(ref, address), true
+	})
+}
+
+// withReferences applies `rewrite` to each resource's `image` and `source`, and hands the manifest
+// back untouched — byte for byte — when nothing changed or it could not be read: what a manifest
+// is, is the parser's to say, and it says so with a better sentence than anything here would.
+func withReferences(raw json.RawMessage, rewrite func(string) (string, bool)) json.RawMessage {
+	if len(raw) == 0 {
+		return raw
+	}
+	var manifest map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &manifest); err != nil {
+		return raw
+	}
+	resources, _ := manifest["resources"].([]any)
+	changed := false
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		resource, ok := r.(map[string]any)
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, key := range []string{"image", "source"} {
+			if written, ok := resource[key].(string); ok {
+				if rewritten, did := rewrite(written); did && rewritten != written {
+					resource[key] = rewritten
+					changed = true
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !changed {
+		return raw
+	}
+	out, err := json.Marshal(manifest)
+	if err != nil {
+		return raw
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// routedArtifacts is a build's artifacts as something can fetch them now.
+func routedArtifacts(made []inventory.Artifact, address string) []inventory.Artifact {
+	if address == "" {
+		return made
+	}
+	out := make([]inventory.Artifact, 0, len(made))
+	for _, a := range made {
+		out = append(out, inventory.Artifact{Name: a.Name, Kind: a.Kind,
+			Reference: catalogue.Rerouted(a.Reference, address)})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// whereTheStoreIs is the artifact store's address as something on `forNode` reaches it, or "" —
+// read for a caller that has the inventory open and nothing else in hand. With no node named, the
+// store's own node: loopback when nothing is on the network yet.
+func whereTheStoreIs(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, forNode string) (string, error) {
+	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if forNode == "" {
+		if holder, _, found, err := artifactStoreHolder(ctx, inv); err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		} else if found {
+			forNode = holder
+		}
+	}
+	return artifactStoreAddress(ctx, inv, shelf, forNode)
+}
+
+// whereABuilderReachesTheStore is the store's address for the machine that builds: the network's
+// when there is one, else loopback on the store's own node — when that node also holds a module
+// requiring the store, which is what a builder is (genesis: one node holds both).
+func whereABuilderReachesTheStore(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory) (string, error) {
+	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	holder, _, found, err := artifactStoreHolder(ctx, inv)
+	if err != nil || !found {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	assigned, err := inv.Assigned(ctx, holder)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	besideIt := false
+	for _, a := range assigned {
+		for _, r := range shelf[a].Requires {
+			if r == catalogue.ArtifactStoreProvision {
+				besideIt = true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !besideIt {
+		holder = ""
+	}
+	return artifactStoreAddress(ctx, inv, shelf, holder)
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/upgrades.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/upgrades.go
index 3476864..d58d685 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/upgrades.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/upgrades.go
@@ -173,11 +173,21 @@ func sayUpgrade(module string, u inventory.Upgrade) string {
 // catalogue misses nothing — but the modules built before it first ran were announced to a queue
 // that did not exist, and on a fresh mesh those are always the same three: the shared base, the
 // store the catalogue runs on, and the catalogue itself.
+//
+// **Announced as fetchable, recorded as what it is** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102). A build is
+// recorded by digest and path; the catalogue hears the builder's own announcements, which name
+// the store's address, so a replay composes the address back in — the store's address as the
+// network reaches it NOW, which is the whole point of not having recorded the old one. With no
+// store on the network yet, the recorded form goes as it is.
 func (f following) Announceable(ctx context.Context) ([]link.Announcement, error) {
 	builds, err := f.open.inventory.Announceable(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	address, err := whereTheStoreIs(ctx, f.open.inventory, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	out := make([]link.Announcement, 0, len(builds))
 	for _, b := range builds {
 		a := link.Announcement{
@@ -186,8 +196,11 @@ func (f following) Announceable(ctx context.Context) ([]link.Announcement, error
 		}
 		if len(b.Manifest) > 0 {
 			a.Manifest = b.Manifest
+			if address != "" {
+				a.Manifest = routedManifest(b.Manifest, b.Made, address)
+			}
 		}
-		for _, made := range b.Made {
+		for _, made := range routedArtifacts(b.Made, address) {
 			a.Made = append(a.Made, link.MadeArtifact{
 				Name: made.Name, Kind: made.Kind, Reference: made.Reference,
 			})
diff --git a/internal/broker/broker.go b/internal/broker/broker.go
index 51e5c87..93d5b54 100644
--- a/internal/broker/broker.go
+++ b/internal/broker/broker.go
@@ -40,8 +40,12 @@ type Broker struct {
 var ErrNotConfigured = errors.New("this control plane has not been told about its broker")
 
 // FromEnvironment reads the two settings, if they are there.
+//
+// The address's port follows MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT when the node's settings moved the bus
+// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102): the address genesis wrote is a public name and the port genesis
+// chose, and only the port is the node's to move.
 func FromEnvironment() (Broker, error) {
-	address, err := envfile.Value(AddressVar)
+	address, err := envfile.Placed(AddressVar)
 	if err != nil {
 		return Broker{}, err
 	}
diff --git a/internal/broker/broker_test.go b/internal/broker/broker_test.go
index 94e8810..8baf100 100644
--- a/internal/broker/broker_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/broker_test.go
@@ -178,3 +178,32 @@ func TestBothTogetherGiveABroker(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("got %+v", known)
 	}
 }
+
+// The node moved the bus, and the address a token carries follows (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+func TestTheAddressPortFollowsThePortTwin(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(AddressVar, "broker.example:5671")
+	t.Setenv(AddressVar+"_FILE", "")
+	path, _ := writeCertificate(t)
+	t.Setenv(CertificateVar, path)
+	t.Setenv(AddressVar+"_PORT", "5679")
+	b, err := FromEnvironment()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if b.Address != "broker.example:5679" {
+		t.Fatalf("the address is %q; the node put the bus on 5679", b.Address)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheManagementPortFollowsThePortTwin(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(ManagementVar, "http://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:15672")
+	t.Setenv(ManagementVar+"_FILE", "")
+	t.Setenv(ManagementVar+"_PORT", "15673")
+	m, err := ManagementFromEnvironment()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if m.base.Host != "127.0.0.1:15673" {
+		t.Fatalf("the management API is at %q; the node put it on 15673", m.base.Host)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/management.go b/internal/broker/management.go
index cea2a44..2693b69 100644
--- a/internal/broker/management.go
+++ b/internal/broker/management.go
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ type Management struct {
 }
 
 // ManagementFromEnvironment reads where the management API is, if it is configured.
+//
+// On the port MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_PORT names when the node moved it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102);
+// the URL's own port otherwise.
 func ManagementFromEnvironment() (*Management, error) {
-	raw, err := envfile.Value(ManagementVar)
+	raw, err := envfile.Placed(ManagementVar)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/artifacts.go b/internal/catalogue/artifacts.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9a010d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/artifacts.go
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// What the mesh built, named by what it is rather than by where it was pushed.
+//
+// **An image is recorded by its digest and its path; the registry's address is a route to it**
+// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102). A build used to be recorded as `<registry>:<port>/<module>/<artifact>@sha256:…`
+// — the reference the builder pushed to, kept whole — and every declaration carried that literal.
+// Move the registry's port, or the registry, and every fresh pull of a mesh image fails: a new
+// node, a recreate after eviction. The digest is the identity; the address is the node's setting
+// for the module that serves the artifact store, and it is read from there when a reference is
+// composed, never written into a record.
+//
+// So a kept reference has a scheme of the mesh's own, named after the provision that answers it:
+//
+//	artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>@sha256:<hex>            an image
+//	artifact-store://<module>/<artifact>/blobs/sha256:<hex>      an archive
+//
+// No runtime knows the scheme. That is the point of it being one: a reference that leaks to a
+// machine uncomposed is refused by the runtime as malformed, in front of whoever sent it, rather
+// than pulled from a public registry that happens to have a repository by that name — which is
+// what an address-less `<module>/<artifact>@sha256:…` would be.
+
+// ArtifactStoreScheme marks a reference to something in the mesh's artifact store, kept without
+// the store's address.
+const ArtifactStoreScheme = ArtifactStoreProvision + "://"
+
+// Recorded is a reference as the mesh records it: the artifact store's address, if the builder wrote
+// one, taken off.
+//
+// For a reference the builder announced — one it pushed to the store — which is the only kind
+// this is called on. An image the builder named `<host>/<path>@sha256:…` is kept as its path; an
+// archive it named `http://<host>/v2/<path>/blobs/<digest>` likewise. A reference with no address
+// in it — an image id from a genesis build that had nowhere to publish, a package version — is
+// what it was.
+func Recorded(reference string) string {
+	if strings.HasPrefix(reference, ArtifactStoreScheme) {
+		return reference
+	}
+	if rest, isURL := strings.CutPrefix(reference, "http://"); isURL {
+		if _, path, ok := strings.Cut(rest, "/v2/"); ok && strings.Contains(path, "/blobs/") {
+			return ArtifactStoreScheme + path
+		}
+		return reference
+	}
+	host, path, ok := strings.Cut(reference, "/")
+	if !ok || !isRegistryHost(host) || !strings.Contains(path, "@sha256:") {
+		return reference
+	}
+	return ArtifactStoreScheme + path
+}
+
+// isRegistryHost is the runtime's own rule for reading the first component of a reference as a
+// registry rather than as a namespace: it has a dot or a port in it, or it is localhost.
+func isRegistryHost(component string) bool {
+	return component == "localhost" || strings.ContainsAny(component, ".:")
+}
+
+// InArtifactStore reports whether a reference is a kept one, and what it names there.
+func InArtifactStore(reference string) (path string, kept bool) {
+	return strings.CutPrefix(reference, ArtifactStoreScheme)
+}
+
+// Routed is a kept reference as a machine fetches it, through the artifact store at `address`
+// (host:port). A reference that is not a kept one is what it was.
+func Routed(reference, address string) string {
+	path, kept := InArtifactStore(reference)
+	if !kept {
+		return reference
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(path, "/blobs/") {
+		return "http://" + address + "/v2/" + path
+	}
+	return address + "/" + path
+}
+
+// Rerouted is a reference the mesh recorded, whichever way it was recorded, as a machine fetches
+// it now: a kept one composed with the store's address, and one recorded before references were
+// kept without their address — the builder's own `<host>/<path>@sha256:…` — re-routed to where
+// the store is now. Only for references that are the mesh's own: everything a build record
+// holds is, by construction.
+func Rerouted(reference, address string) string {
+	return Routed(Recorded(reference), address)
+}
+
+// artifactsInto composes the artifact store's address into a resource's `image` and `source`.
+//
+// **Composed here, at the last moment before a machine, and stored nowhere.** A kept reference is
+// routed through the store as this network reaches it now. A reference recorded with an address
+// before references were kept without one is re-routed the same way — but only when the mesh
+// built it (`with.Built` names every `<module>/<artifact>` it has), because a module may run an
+// image from a public registry under its own name and that one is exactly where it says.
+//
+// A kept reference with no store to route it through is refused: sent as it is, the runtime would
+// refuse the scheme on the machine, one push away from the reason.
+//
+// **What this does not reach: the images genesis pinned.** The installer builds the control plane
+// and the builder before the mesh exists, pushes them itself and pins their manifests to
+// `<registry>:<port>/mesh-controller@…` and `<registry>:<port>/mesh-builder@…` — single-segment
+// repositories with no build record, so `with.Built` does not name them and they are left as
+// written until each is rebuilt through the mesh, which records it by digest and path. Until then
+// a registry that moves strands exactly those two on a recreate, and the control plane's is the
+// one that cannot be repaired through the mesh. Rebuild both through `build` before moving the
+// store (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102, finding F4).
+func artifactsInto(resource map[string]any, module string, with Rendering) error {
+	for _, key := range []string{"image", "source"} {
+		written, ok := resource[key].(string)
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		if _, kept := InArtifactStore(written); kept {
+			if with.ArtifactStore == "" {
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"%s's %v names %s, which is in the mesh's artifact store, and this mesh has no "+
+						"artifact store on its network to fetch it from — nothing assigned offers "+
+						"%s, or the machine offering it is not on the private network",
+					module, resource["id"], written, ArtifactStoreProvision)
+			}
+			resource[key] = Routed(written, with.ArtifactStore)
+			continue
+		}
+		if with.ArtifactStore == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		recorded := Recorded(written)
+		if recorded == written {
+			continue
+		}
+		path, _ := InArtifactStore(recorded)
+		repository := path
+		if at := strings.IndexAny(path, "@"); at >= 0 {
+			repository = path[:at]
+		} else if blobs := strings.Index(path, "/blobs/"); blobs >= 0 {
+			repository = path[:blobs]
+		}
+		if with.Built[repository] {
+			resource[key] = Routed(recorded, with.ArtifactStore)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/artifacts_test.go b/internal/catalogue/artifacts_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3d0ae70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/artifacts_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// A build is recorded by what it is; where it is pushed is composed where it is used (novox/hq
+// 04-ISSUES/102).
+
+var digest = "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("d", 64)
+
+func TestAReferenceIsRecordedWithoutTheStoresAddress(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := map[string]string{
+		"anchor.internal:5100/gitea/server@" + digest:                 ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/server@" + digest,
+		"localhost:5000/gitea/server@" + digest:                       ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/server@" + digest,
+		"http://anchor.internal:5100/v2/gitea/config/blobs/" + digest: ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/config/blobs/" + digest,
+		ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/server@" + digest:                ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/server@" + digest,
+		digest:                  digest,
+		"@novox/sdk@1.2.3":      "@novox/sdk@1.2.3",
+		"gitea/gitea@" + digest: "gitea/gitea@" + digest,
+		"https://registry.example/v2/gitea/config/blobs/" + digest: "https://registry.example/v2/gitea/config/blobs/" + digest,
+	}
+	for announced, want := range cases {
+		if got := Recorded(announced); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("Recorded(%q) = %q, want %q", announced, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestARecordedReferenceIsRoutedThroughTheStoreAsItIsNow(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := Routed(ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/server@"+digest, "anchor.internal:5101"); got != "anchor.internal:5101/gitea/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("an image is fetched as %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := Routed(ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/config/blobs/"+digest, "anchor.internal:5101"); got != "http://anchor.internal:5101/v2/gitea/config/blobs/"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("an archive is fetched as %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := Routed("gitea/gitea@"+digest, "anchor.internal:5101"); got != "gitea/gitea@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("a reference that is not the store's was routed: %q", got)
+	}
+	// One recorded before references were kept without their address follows the store too.
+	if got := Rerouted("anchor.internal:5100/gitea/server@"+digest, "anchor.internal:5101"); got != "anchor.internal:5101/gitea/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("a reference recorded with the old address stays there: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// **The address is composed into a declaration, and the record never carries it.**
+func TestAnImageTheMeshBuiltIsRoutedThroughTheStoreWhenDeclared(t *testing.T) {
+	m := Manifest{Module: "gitea", Version: "1", Resources: []map[string]any{
+		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-gitea", "artifact": "server"},
+		{"id": "config", "type": "archive", "path": "/etc/gitea", "artifact": "config"},
+		{"id": "cache", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-gitea-cache", "image": "valkey/valkey@" + digest},
+	}, Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
+		{Name: "server", Kind: ArtifactImage, From: "Dockerfile"},
+		{Name: "config", Kind: ArtifactArchive, From: "config"},
+	}}}
+	resolved, err := m.Resolve([]Built{
+		{Name: "server", Kind: ArtifactImage, Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/server@" + digest},
+		{Name: "config", Kind: ArtifactArchive, Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/config/blobs/" + digest, Digest: digest},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{resolved}}
+
+	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "gitea.server")["image"]; got != "anchor.internal:5101/gitea/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("the image the mesh built is fetched as %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "gitea.config")["source"]; got != "http://anchor.internal:5101/v2/gitea/config/blobs/"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("the archive the mesh built is fetched from %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "gitea.cache")["image"]; got != "valkey/valkey@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("an image from a public registry was routed through the store: %v", got)
+	}
+	// The manifest the mesh holds still says what it is, not where it was fetched from.
+	if got := resolved.Resources[0]["image"]; got != ArtifactStoreScheme+"gitea/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("composing wrote the address into the catalogue's copy: %v", got)
+	}
+
+	// And the store moves: the same record, another address, without a rebuild.
+	out, err = r.Declaration(Rendering{ArtifactStore: "laptop.internal:5000"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "gitea.server")["image"]; got != "laptop.internal:5000/gitea/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("after the store moved, the image is still fetched as %v", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAnImageInTheStoreWithNoStoreToFetchItFromIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	m := Manifest{Module: "gitea", Version: "1", Resources: []map[string]any{
+		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-gitea",
+			"image": ArtifactStoreScheme + "gitea/server@" + digest},
+	}}
+	_, err := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{m}}.Declaration(Rendering{})
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no artifact store") {
+		t.Fatalf("a reference nothing can fetch was sent to a machine: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// **A reference recorded with an address before this follows the store too** — when the mesh
+// built it. A module running an image straight from a public registry under its own name is left
+// exactly where it says: `quay.io/keycloak/keycloak` is not the mesh's, whatever it is called.
+func TestAReferenceRecordedWithAnAddressFollowsTheStoreWhenTheMeshBuiltIt(t *testing.T) {
+	m := Manifest{Module: "keycloak", Version: "1", Resources: []map[string]any{
+		{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-keycloak",
+			"image": "anchor.internal:5100/keycloak/server@" + digest},
+		{"id": "upstream", "type": "container", "name": "mesh-keycloak-upstream",
+			"image": "quay.io/keycloak/keycloak@" + digest},
+	}}
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{m}}
+	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{
+		ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101",
+		Built:         map[string]bool{"keycloak/server": true},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "keycloak.server")["image"]; got != "anchor.internal:5101/keycloak/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("an image the mesh built, recorded with the old address, is fetched as %v", got)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "keycloak.upstream")["image"]; got != "quay.io/keycloak/keycloak@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("a public image was re-routed through the store: %v", got)
+	}
+	// Nothing known to be built: nothing re-routed, nothing refused.
+	out, err = r.Declaration(Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := fileNamed(out, "keycloak.server")["image"]; got != "anchor.internal:5100/keycloak/server@"+digest {
+		t.Errorf("with no build record, a reference was rewritten: %v", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/declaration.go b/internal/catalogue/declaration.go
index a9b5549..42d6938 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/declaration.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/declaration.go
@@ -143,6 +143,23 @@ type Rendering struct {
 	// from these only (ADR 0103): a port of a module assigned but not taken may still be the
 	// predecessor's.
 	Taken map[string]bool
+
+	// Seats is where this machine put each mesh-scoped seat's holder, by seat and by the port the
+	// holder's software uses (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102) — read from the node's settings and
+	// assignments for whichever module claims the seat, whether or not it is in this node's set.
+	// What ${seat:…} answers with; see seat_into.go for why the answer may be absent.
+	Seats map[string]map[int]int
+
+	// ArtifactStore is the mesh's artifact store as this network reaches it (host:port) — the
+	// node holding it and the port that node put it on — or empty when the mesh has none on its
+	// network yet. Composed into every image and archive the mesh built, at this moment and never
+	// stored (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+	ArtifactStore string
+
+	// Built is every `<module>/<artifact>` the mesh has built. What tells a reference recorded
+	// with an address — before references were kept without one — from an image a module runs
+	// straight from a public registry.
+	Built map[string]bool
 }
 
 // machinePort is where a module's port lives on this machine, or the port itself when the mesh has
@@ -539,6 +556,11 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 			if err := portInto(copied, m.Module, m.Listens, with); err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
+			// And where this machine put the foundation's servers, for the one module that
+			// reaches them by seat rather than by binding (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+			if err := seatInto(copied, m.Module, with); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
 			if err := machineInto(copied, thisMachine, m.Module); err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
@@ -550,6 +572,11 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 			if err := built(copied, m.Module); err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
+			// What the mesh built is kept by digest and path; the store's address is this
+			// network's now, composed here and never recorded (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+			if err := artifactsInto(copied, m.Module, with); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
 			publishedOn(copied, m.Module, with)
 			copied["id"] = m.Module + "." + fmt.Sprint(resource["id"])
 			// A service saying what it reflects names resources within its own module, so those
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seat_into.go b/internal/catalogue/seat_into.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c127c9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seat_into.go
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Telling a module where this machine put the holder of a seat.
+//
+// **The foundation's ports are the node's** (novox/hq ADR 0100): the port a foundation server was
+// given at genesis becomes that node's setting for the module that serves it, and every reader
+// follows the setting. Every consumer's binding did. The control plane's own connections did not
+// (04-ISSUES/102): they are written at genesis, before any module exists to bind to — full
+// connection strings, sealed, with the port inside — so when the node moved the store, the
+// control plane went on dialling where genesis had written and the mesh was headless.
+//
+// The control plane cannot open its own sealed connection to move the port, and it cannot bind
+// the store as a consumer would: a binding mints a credential, and what the control plane holds
+// is the foundation's superuser, made before the mesh. What it can do is read the node's settings
+// when it composes its own declaration — it is the thing that composes every other module's — and
+// say in its own environment which port this machine put the store at.
+//
+// So a module may ask about a **seat** (ADR 0079: a foundation seat is named after the server it
+// guards — `mesh-store`, `mesh-broker`). `${seat:mesh-store:5432}` is "the port this machine put
+// the holder of the mesh-store seat's 5432 at". Not a provision: nothing is required, nothing is
+// granted, no credential is minted. A seat is the mesh's own vocabulary for the store and the
+// broker, which is what makes this the control plane's way of naming them and not a way for a
+// module to reach a server it was not granted — the answer is a port number the mesh holds in the
+// clear, and the credential to use it is still the module's own to have.
+//
+// **The answer may be empty, and that is the one place a placeholder answers with nothing.** The
+// store and the broker are raised at genesis, before the mesh knows them as modules; a mesh raised
+// on the catalogue's own ports never gives them a setting at all. In both, the port genesis wrote
+// into the connection string is the right one, and the mesh has nothing to add. An empty answer
+// says exactly that, and what reads it — the control plane's `_PORT` twin — treats an empty value
+// as no value. Answering with the software's own port instead would override what genesis wrote
+// with a number the mesh never checked, on the one machine where that is a headless mesh.
+
+// ofSeat is where a module asks about a seat: ${seat:<seat>:<the port its holder's software uses>}.
+var ofSeat = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{seat:([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*):([0-9]+)\}`)
+
+// seatInto replaces a resource's ${seat:…} placeholders with where this machine put each seat's
+// holder — in a file's content, and in a value of a container's environment. The same two places
+// portInto fills, for the same reason: they are where a process reads a number from.
+func seatInto(resource map[string]any, module string, with Rendering) error {
+	switch fmt.Sprint(resource["type"]) {
+	case "file":
+		content, ok := resource["content"].(string)
+		if !ok || !ofSeat.MatchString(content) {
+			return nil
+		}
+		filled, err := seatsFilledInto(content, fmt.Sprintf("%s has a file that", module), with)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		resource["content"] = filled
+
+	case "container":
+		env, ok := resource["env"].(map[string]any)
+		if !ok {
+			return nil
+		}
+		named := make([]string, 0, len(env))
+		for key := range env {
+			named = append(named, key)
+		}
+		sort.Strings(named)
+
+		// A fresh map, and only when something changes — this map is the catalogue's, shared by
+		// every node running the module (see portInto).
+		var filled map[string]any
+		for _, key := range named {
+			written, ok := env[key].(string)
+			if !ok || !ofSeat.MatchString(written) {
+				continue
+			}
+			value, err := seatsFilledInto(written,
+				fmt.Sprintf("%s's container %s sets %s to something that",
+					module, resource["name"], key), with)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			if filled == nil {
+				filled = map[string]any{}
+				for k, v := range env {
+					filled[k] = v
+				}
+			}
+			filled[key] = value
+		}
+		if filled != nil {
+			resource["env"] = filled
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// seatsFilledInto answers every ${seat:…} in one written value.
+//
+// A port the seat's holder does not publish on this machine — or a seat nothing on it holds —
+// answers with nothing, for the reason the package comment gives. A port that is not one is
+// refused: it was written by a person and it is wrong.
+func seatsFilledInto(written, where string, with Rendering) (string, error) {
+	for _, m := range ofSeat.FindAllStringSubmatch(written, -1) {
+		seat, port := m[1], m[2]
+		wanted, err := strconv.Atoi(port)
+		if err != nil || wanted < 1 || wanted > 65535 {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("%s says ${seat:%s:%s}, and %s is not a port", where, seat, port, port)
+		}
+		answer := ""
+		if at, known := with.Seats[seat][wanted]; known {
+			answer = strconv.Itoa(at)
+		}
+		written = strings.ReplaceAll(written, m[0], answer)
+	}
+	return written, nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seat_into_test.go b/internal/catalogue/seat_into_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bb7dc6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seat_into_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,216 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The control plane's own addresses follow the node's ports (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+
+func TestASeatPlaceholderAnswersWhereThisMachinePutTheHolder(t *testing.T) {
+	control := map[string]any{
+		"type": "container", "id": "server", "name": "mesh-controller",
+		"env": map[string]any{
+			"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+			"MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT":     "${seat:mesh-broker:5672}",
+			"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT":  "${seat:mesh-broker:5671}",
+			"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_FILE": "/run/secrets/inventory",
+		},
+	}
+	with := Rendering{Seats: map[string]map[int]int{
+		"mesh-store": {5432: 6852}, "mesh-broker": {5672: 5679, 5671: 5671},
+	}}
+	if err := seatInto(control, "mesh-controller", with); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	env := control["env"].(map[string]any)
+	for key, want := range map[string]string{
+		"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT": "6852",
+		"MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT":     "5679",
+		"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT":  "5671",
+		"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_FILE": "/run/secrets/inventory",
+	} {
+		if env[key] != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %v, want %q", key, env[key], want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A seat nothing on this machine holds — or one whose holder the mesh has given no port — answers
+// with nothing, so the port genesis wrote into the connection string stands. Not the software's
+// own port: on a node given a port at genesis before the store's module exists, that would
+// override the right number with the catalogue's.
+func TestASeatTheMeshCannotPlaceAnswersWithNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	control := map[string]any{
+		"type": "container", "id": "server", "name": "mesh-controller",
+		"env": map[string]any{"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}"},
+	}
+	if err := seatInto(control, "mesh-controller", Rendering{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := control["env"].(map[string]any)["MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT"]; got != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("with nothing known, the seat answered %q", got)
+	}
+	file := map[string]any{"type": "file", "content": "port=${seat:mesh-store:5432}\n"}
+	if err := seatInto(file, "x", Rendering{Seats: map[string]map[int]int{"mesh-store": {5433: 1}}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := file["content"]; got != "port=\n" {
+		t.Fatalf("a port the holder does not publish answered %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestASeatPlaceholderNamingNoPortIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	file := map[string]any{"type": "file", "content": "${seat:mesh-store:99999}"}
+	if err := seatInto(file, "x", Rendering{}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("99999 was accepted as a port")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFillingASeatLeavesTheManifestAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	env := map[string]any{"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}"}
+	manifest := map[string]any{"type": "container", "id": "server", "env": env}
+	for _, at := range []int{6852, 5432} {
+		copied := map[string]any{}
+		for k, v := range manifest {
+			copied[k] = v
+		}
+		with := Rendering{Seats: map[string]map[int]int{"mesh-store": {5432: at}}}
+		if err := seatInto(copied, "mesh-controller", with); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	if env["MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT"] != "${seat:mesh-store:5432}" {
+		t.Fatalf("the module's own manifest was edited: %v", env)
+	}
+}
+
+// **The control plane's own manifest, composed through the whole path.**
+//
+// The store was given 6852 and the broker's plain port 5679 (the control-node's migration, novox/hq
+// 04-ISSUES/102). The control plane's own connections are sealed at genesis with the ports genesis
+// wrote; what its container is told beside them is where this machine put the store and the
+// broker now, read from the node's settings exactly as every consumer's binding is.
+func TestTheControlPlanesOwnAddressesFollowTheNodesPorts(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	m, err := ParseManifest(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the control plane's own manifest does not parse:\n%v", err)
+	}
+	// The manifest itself names them now; withSeatPorts is a no-op on it, and this holds it so.
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r["type"] != "container" {
+			continue
+		}
+		env, _ := r["env"].(map[string]any)
+		for key, want := range SeatPorts {
+			if env[key] != want {
+				t.Errorf("module.json says %s=%v, not %q", key, env[key], want)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	m = withSeatPorts(m)
+	control, err := m.Resolve([]Built{{
+		Name: "server", Kind: ArtifactImage,
+		Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + "mesh-controller/server@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("c", 64),
+	}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{control}}
+	needed := map[string]map[string]string{"mesh-controller": {}}
+	for name := range m.OwnSecrets {
+		needed["mesh-controller"][name] = "sealed-" + name
+	}
+	out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{
+		Needed:        needed,
+		ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5100",
+		Seats: map[string]map[int]int{
+			"mesh-store":  {5432: 6852},
+			"mesh-broker": {5671: 5671, 5672: 5679, 15672: 15673},
+		},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the control plane does not compose: %v", err)
+	}
+	server := fileNamed(out, "mesh-controller.server")
+	if server == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the control plane's container is not in the declaration: %v", out)
+	}
+	env, _ := server["env"].(map[string]any)
+	for key, want := range map[string]string{
+		"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT":   "6852",
+		"MESH_STORE_IDENTITY_PORT":    "6852",
+		"MESH_STORE_LICENCES_PORT":    "6852",
+		"MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT":       "5679",
+		"MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_PORT": "15673",
+		"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT":    "5671",
+	} {
+		if env[key] != want {
+			t.Errorf("the control plane is told %s=%v; the node put it on %s", key, env[key], want)
+		}
+	}
+	if got := server["image"]; got != "anchor.internal:5100/mesh-controller/server@sha256:"+strings.Repeat("c", 64) {
+		t.Errorf("the control plane's own image is %v, not routed through the store", got)
+	}
+
+	// And on a mesh where the foundation is where genesis raised it, nothing is added.
+	out, err = r.Declaration(Rendering{Needed: needed, ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5100"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	env, _ = fileNamed(out, "mesh-controller.server")["env"].(map[string]any)
+	if env["MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT"] != "" || env["MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT"] != "" {
+		t.Errorf("with no settings, the control plane is told %v", env)
+	}
+}
+
+// SeatPorts is what the control plane's manifest says beside each sealed connection: the port
+// this machine put the seat's holder at (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+var SeatPorts = map[string]string{
+	"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT":   "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+	"MESH_STORE_IDENTITY_PORT":    "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+	"MESH_STORE_LICENCES_PORT":    "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+	"MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT":       "${seat:mesh-broker:5672}",
+	"MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_PORT": "${seat:mesh-broker:15672}",
+	"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT":    "${seat:mesh-broker:5671}",
+}
+
+// withSeatPorts is the control plane's manifest with SeatPorts in its container's environment.
+//
+// **The manifest lands one commit after the code that fills it**, deliberately: a control plane
+// still running the previous build passes `${seat:…}` through unfilled, and the manifest may only
+// name the placeholder once every control plane that could compose it knows it. So the test does
+// not depend on module.json carrying these yet, and is a no-op once it does.
+func withSeatPorts(m Manifest) Manifest {
+	out := m
+	out.Resources = nil
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r["type"] != "container" {
+			out.Resources = append(out.Resources, r)
+			continue
+		}
+		copied := map[string]any{}
+		for k, v := range r {
+			copied[k] = v
+		}
+		env := map[string]any{}
+		if had, ok := r["env"].(map[string]any); ok {
+			for k, v := range had {
+				env[k] = v
+			}
+		}
+		for k, v := range SeatPorts {
+			if _, said := env[k]; !said {
+				env[k] = v
+			}
+		}
+		copied["env"] = env
+		out.Resources = append(out.Resources, copied)
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/internal/envfile/port.go b/internal/envfile/port.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e95f878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/envfile/port.go
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package envfile
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"os"
+	"regexp"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// The port a machine put something on, said beside the value that names it.
+//
+// **An address written down when a port was decided does not follow the port** (novox/hq
+// 04-ISSUES/102). The control plane's own store and broker connections are written at genesis —
+// full connection strings, password and all — and sealed, so the mesh cannot open them to move the
+// port inside. When the node's settings move that port, every consumer's binding follows and the
+// control plane's own connection does not: it goes on dialling the number genesis wrote, and the
+// mesh is headless.
+//
+// So a setting has a third twin. `NAME_FILE` says where the value is; `NAME_PORT` says which port
+// this machine put the thing at, composed into the control plane's environment from the node's
+// settings exactly as a consumer's binding is. The value's own port is what stands when the twin
+// says nothing — a mesh whose foundation is still where genesis raised it needs no override, and
+// an empty answer is the mesh saying it has nothing to add, not the mesh saying zero.
+//
+// Only the port. The host inside the value is the machine's own loopback, or the broker's public
+// name — a fact of the genesis, not of any node's settings — and the mesh has no better opinion
+// of it. What moves under ADR 0100 is the port.
+
+// PortVar is the twin saying which port this machine put the named thing at.
+func PortVar(name string) string { return name + "_PORT" }
+
+// Port is what NAME_PORT says, checked to be a port, or "" when it says nothing.
+//
+// Blank counts as unset, as it does for every other variable here: a container given an empty
+// string was given nothing, and refusing it as ambiguous would turn an omission into a puzzle.
+func Port(name string) (string, error) {
+	raw := strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(PortVar(name)))
+	if raw == "" {
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	if unfilled.MatchString(raw) {
+		// **A placeholder the mesh never filled, and this is the one place it must not be a
+		// fault.** The control plane composes its own declaration, so a manifest naming
+		// `${seat:…}` reaches a control plane one build older than the manifest — one that does
+		// not know the placeholder and passes it through as the value. Refusing it here would
+		// leave every command and the daemon unable to open a store: headless, on the machine
+		// that cannot be repaired through the mesh (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102). So it is what an
+		// empty answer is — nothing said, the sealed value stands — and it is said aloud, because
+		// a manifest ahead of its binary is worth a line on stderr and not worth an outage.
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s is %q, a placeholder nothing filled in — ignored; the port in "+
+			"%s stands. The control plane composing this declaration is older than the manifest "+
+			"naming it: rebuild and push it\n", PortVar(name), raw, name)
+		return "", nil
+	}
+	n, err := strconv.Atoi(raw)
+	if err != nil || n < 1 || n > 65535 {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is %q, which is not a port", PortVar(name), raw)
+	}
+	return strconv.Itoa(n), nil
+}
+
+// Placed is Value, with its port moved to where NAME_PORT says this machine put it.
+func Placed(name string) (string, error) {
+	value, err := Value(name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	port, err := Port(name)
+	if err != nil || port == "" {
+		return value, err
+	}
+	placed, err := WithPort(value, port)
+	if err != nil {
+		// Where it came from is said; what it says is not. The value is a connection string with
+		// a password in it, and every error here is written on the assumption it will be logged.
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s names a port to move %s to, and %s could not be read as "+
+			"something with a port in it: %w", PortVar(name), name, name, err)
+	}
+	return placed, nil
+}
+
+// keywordPort is `port=…` in a `key=value` connection string.
+var keywordPort = regexp.MustCompile(`(^|\s)port=\S*`)
+
+// unfilled is a value that is still a placeholder — `${…}` — rather than something a person or the
+// mesh wrote as a port.
+var unfilled = regexp.MustCompile(`^\$\{[^}]*\}$`)
+
+// WithPort is the value with its port replaced by `port`.
+//
+// Three shapes, because the control plane's settings come in three: a URL
+// (`scheme://[user:password@]host[:port][/…]`), a bare `host[:port]` (the broker's address) and
+// a `key=value` connection string (`host=… port=…`), which is what the store's driver accepts
+// beside a URL. An IPv6 host stays in its brackets. Nothing here parses the URL properly — a
+// password with a character a URL parser dislikes is still a working connection string, and
+// refusing it would refuse a value that has been dialling fine since genesis.
+func WithPort(value, port string) (string, error) {
+	value = strings.TrimSpace(value)
+	if value == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the value is empty")
+	}
+	if scheme, rest, isURL := strings.Cut(value, "://"); isURL {
+		// **The password may hold any of `/ ? # @`, so the host begins after the LAST `@`**, and
+		// the path only after that. Cutting at the first `/` would take a password's slash for the
+		// path's and put the new port on the user name — a connection string that dials the wrong
+		// host without a word. Genesis makes passwords that cannot do this; an accepted one can.
+		// The connection strings this reads — a store's, a broker's, a management API's — carry
+		// no `@` after their userinfo, which is what makes the last one the boundary.
+		userinfo, hostAndTail := "", rest
+		if at := strings.LastIndex(rest, "@"); at >= 0 {
+			userinfo, hostAndTail = rest[:at+1], rest[at+1:]
+		}
+		authority, tail := hostAndTail, ""
+		if end := strings.IndexAny(hostAndTail, "/?#"); end >= 0 {
+			authority, tail = hostAndTail[:end], hostAndTail[end:]
+		}
+		host, err := hostWithPort(authority, port)
+		if err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+		return scheme + "://" + userinfo + host + tail, nil
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(value, "=") && !strings.ContainsAny(value, "/") {
+		if keywordPort.MatchString(value) {
+			return keywordPort.ReplaceAllString(value, "${1}port="+port), nil
+		}
+		return value + " port=" + port, nil
+	}
+	return hostWithPort(value, port)
+}
+
+// hostWithPort is `host[:port]` with the port set, brackets kept around an IPv6 host.
+func hostWithPort(authority, port string) (string, error) {
+	if authority == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("there is no host to put a port on")
+	}
+	host, _, err := net.SplitHostPort(authority)
+	if err != nil {
+		// No port yet. A bracketed IPv6 host without a port is a shape SplitHostPort refuses, and
+		// a bare one carries colons of its own — both are a host, not an error.
+		host = strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimPrefix(authority, "["), "]")
+	}
+	return net.JoinHostPort(host, port), nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/envfile/port_test.go b/internal/envfile/port_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf5c485
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/envfile/port_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package envfile
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The control plane's own connections follow the port the node moved (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+
+func TestAPortTwinMovesTheValuesPort(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := map[string]string{
+		"postgres://mesh:s3cret@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory?sslmode=disable": "postgres://mesh:s3cret@127.0.0.1:6852/inventory?sslmode=disable",
+		"postgres://mesh:s3cret@127.0.0.1/inventory":                      "postgres://mesh:s3cret@127.0.0.1:6852/inventory",
+		"amqp://control:p%40ss@127.0.0.1:5672/":                           "amqp://control:p%40ss@127.0.0.1:6852/",
+		"amqp://control:p@ss:with@127.0.0.1:5672/":                        "amqp://control:p@ss:with@127.0.0.1:6852/",
+		"http://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:15672":                              "http://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:6852",
+		"postgres://mesh:a/b?c#d@e@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory":              "postgres://mesh:a/b?c#d@e@127.0.0.1:6852/inventory",
+		"http://[::1]:15672/api":                                          "http://[::1]:6852/api",
+		"broker.example:5671":                                             "broker.example:6852",
+		"broker.example":                                                  "broker.example:6852",
+		"host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 dbname=inventory":                       "host=127.0.0.1 port=6852 dbname=inventory",
+		"host=127.0.0.1 dbname=inventory":                                 "host=127.0.0.1 dbname=inventory port=6852",
+	}
+	for value, want := range cases {
+		got, err := WithPort(value, "6852")
+		if err != nil || got != want {
+			t.Errorf("WithPort(%q) = %q, %v; want %q", value, got, err, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestPlacedLeavesTheValueAloneWhenNothingSaysAPort(t *testing.T) {
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "value")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("postgres://m:p@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Setenv("MESH_P_FILE", path)
+	t.Setenv("MESH_P_PORT", "")
+	got, err := Placed("MESH_P")
+	if err != nil || got != "postgres://m:p@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %q, %v", got, err)
+	}
+	t.Setenv("MESH_P_PORT", " 6852 ")
+	got, err = Placed("MESH_P")
+	if err != nil || got != "postgres://m:p@127.0.0.1:6852/inventory" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %q, %v", got, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPortTwinThatIsNotAPortIsRefusedWithoutQuotingTheValue(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("MESH_Q", "postgres://m:hunter2@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory")
+	t.Setenv("MESH_Q_PORT", "many")
+	_, err := Placed("MESH_Q")
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a port that is not a number was accepted")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "hunter2") {
+		t.Fatalf("the value was quoted back: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Setenv("MESH_Q", "")
+	t.Setenv("MESH_Q_PORT", "6852")
+	if _, err := Placed("MESH_Q"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a port with no value to put it on was accepted")
+	}
+}
+
+// A placeholder nothing filled is nothing said, not a fault: the control plane composing the
+// declaration may be one build behind the manifest, and refusing would leave it headless.
+func TestAnUnfilledPlaceholderIsNothingSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv("MESH_R", "postgres://m:p@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory")
+	t.Setenv("MESH_R_PORT", "${seat:mesh-store:5432}")
+	got, err := Placed("MESH_R")
+	if err != nil || got != "postgres://m:p@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory" {
+		t.Fatalf("an unfilled placeholder was not ignored: %q, %v", got, err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/serve.go b/internal/link/serve.go
index 3bc2d76..925c237 100644
--- a/internal/link/serve.go
+++ b/internal/link/serve.go
@@ -146,8 +146,12 @@ func (s *Server) Answers(r Replayer) error {
 }
 
 // Connect opens the control plane's own connection to the broker.
+//
+// On the port MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT names when the node's settings moved the broker (novox/hq
+// 04-ISSUES/102) — the URL is genesis's, sealed, and its port is the one thing in it the node may
+// have moved since.
 func Connect(enroller Enroller, listener Listener) (*Server, error) {
-	url, err := envfile.Value(AMQPVar)
+	url, err := envfile.Placed(AMQPVar)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
diff --git a/internal/store/manifest_test.go b/internal/store/manifest_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a47e6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/store/manifest_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package store
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// **The manifest's placeholder, unfilled, reaches a store reader and changes nothing.**
+//
+// The control plane composes its own declaration, so the manifest naming `${seat:…}` can be
+// composed by a control plane one build older than it — one that passes the literal through as
+// the value. That is the state of the live control-node between this manifest landing and its
+// next build being pushed, and a reader that refused the literal would leave it headless
+// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102, finding F1). So the reader is held to ignoring exactly what
+// module.json says, not a placeholder shaped like it.
+func TestTheManifestsOwnPlaceholderUnfilledLeavesTheStoreWhereTheFileSays(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var m struct {
+		Resources []struct {
+			Type string            `json:"type"`
+			Env  map[string]string `json:"env"`
+		} `json:"resources"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var written string
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r.Type == "container" {
+			written = r.Env["MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT"]
+		}
+	}
+	if written == "" {
+		t.Fatal("module.json no longer names MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT")
+	}
+
+	alone(t)
+	t.Setenv(Variable(example), dsn)
+	t.Setenv(PortVariable(example), written)
+	opened, err := Open(t.Context(), example)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the unfilled placeholder was refused, which is a headless control plane: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer opened.Close()
+	if got := opened.Pool().Config().ConnConfig.Port; got != 5432 {
+		t.Fatalf("the store is on %d; with the placeholder unfilled, the file's port stands", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/store/settings_test.go b/internal/store/settings_test.go
index ece30c5..f9fcd5e 100644
--- a/internal/store/settings_test.go
+++ b/internal/store/settings_test.go
@@ -213,3 +213,55 @@ func mustNotLeak(t *testing.T, err error) {
 		t.Fatalf("the password is in the error: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// The node moved the store, and the control plane's own connection follows (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+//
+// The connection string is what genesis wrote, port and all; the port twin is what the node's
+// settings say now. The pool's configuration is the one place both meet.
+func TestThePortTwinMovesTheStoresPort(t *testing.T) {
+	alone(t)
+	t.Setenv(PortVariable(example), "")
+	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "inventory")
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(dsn+"\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Setenv(FileVariable(example), path)
+
+	opened, err := Open(t.Context(), example)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got := opened.Pool().Config().ConnConfig.Port; got != 5432 {
+		t.Fatalf("with nothing said, the store is on %d rather than what the file says", got)
+	}
+	opened.Close()
+
+	t.Setenv(PortVariable(example), "6852")
+	opened, err = Open(t.Context(), example)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a moved port was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer opened.Close()
+	if got := opened.Pool().Config().ConnConfig.Port; got != 6852 {
+		t.Fatalf("the store is on %d, and the node put it on 6852", got)
+	}
+	if got := opened.Pool().Config().ConnConfig.Password; got != "s3cret-in-here" {
+		t.Fatalf("moving the port changed the password to %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAPortTwinThatIsNotAPortNamesItselfAndNotTheSecret(t *testing.T) {
+	alone(t)
+	t.Setenv(Variable(example), dsn)
+	t.Setenv(PortVariable(example), "six")
+	_, err := Open(t.Context(), example)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a port that is not a number was accepted")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), PortVariable(example)) {
+		t.Errorf("the error does not name the variable: %v", err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "s3cret") {
+		t.Errorf("the error quotes the password: %v", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/store/store.go b/internal/store/store.go
index 9d8ab7b..d672bfb 100644
--- a/internal/store/store.go
+++ b/internal/store/store.go
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/jackc/pgx/v5/pgxpool"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/envfile"
 )
 
 // contextName is what a context may be called.
@@ -67,6 +69,17 @@ func Variable(context string) string {
 // raises the first one.
 func FileVariable(context string) string { return Variable(context) + "_FILE" }
 
+// PortVariable is the environment variable naming the PORT this machine put the store at — the
+// third twin, beside the value and the file.
+//
+// **The connection string is sealed and the port inside it is genesis's** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/102).
+// The control plane cannot open its own store secret to move the port, and a node's settings can
+// move the store (ADR 0100: the foundation's ports are the node's). Every consumer's binding
+// followed that setting; the control plane's own connection did not, and the mesh was headless. So
+// the port is composed into the control plane's environment from the node's settings, exactly as a
+// consumer's binding is, and the connection string's own port stands only when this says nothing.
+func PortVariable(context string) string { return envfile.PortVar(Variable(context)) }
+
 // Database is what a context's database is called.
 //
 // Named after the context, so that a person looking at a PostgreSQL server can see which
@@ -85,7 +98,7 @@ func Open(ctx context.Context, name string) (*Store, error) {
 				"name, so it must be lower-case letters and digits, starting with a letter", name)
 	}
 
-	dsn, from, err := settingsFor(name)
+	dsn, from, err := placed(name)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -169,6 +182,29 @@ func settingsFor(name string) (dsn, from string, err error) {
 	return direct, Variable(name), nil
 }
 
+// placed is a context's connection string with its port moved to where this machine put the
+// store, when the node's settings say so (PortVariable), and as it was otherwise.
+func placed(name string) (dsn, from string, err error) {
+	dsn, from, err = settingsFor(name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", "", err
+	}
+	port, err := envfile.Port(Variable(name))
+	if err != nil || port == "" {
+		return dsn, from, err
+	}
+	moved, err := envfile.WithPort(dsn, port)
+	if err != nil {
+		// The variable and the port are named; the connection string is not, for the same reason
+		// as everywhere else in this file.
+		return "", "", fmt.Errorf(
+			"%s says this machine put the %s store on port %s, and the connection settings in %s "+
+				"could not be read as something with a port in them: %w",
+			PortVariable(name), name, port, from, err)
+	}
+	return moved, from + ", on port " + port + " as " + PortVariable(name) + " says", nil
+}
+
 // Context is which context this store belongs to.
 func (s *Store) Context() string { return s.context }
 
diff --git a/module.json b/module.json
index dbb7f0c..936ca87 100644
--- a/module.json
+++ b/module.json
@@ -42,7 +42,13 @@
         "MESH_STORE_LICENCES_FILE": "/run/secrets/licences",
         "MESH_BROKER_AMQP_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
         "MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker-management",
-        "MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker-address"
+        "MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker-address",
+        "MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+        "MESH_STORE_IDENTITY_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+        "MESH_STORE_LICENCES_PORT": "${seat:mesh-store:5432}",
+        "MESH_BROKER_AMQP_PORT": "${seat:mesh-broker:5672}",
+        "MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT_PORT": "${seat:mesh-broker:15672}",
+        "MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS_PORT": "${seat:mesh-broker:5671}"
       },
       "volumes": [
         "mesh-broker-tls:/broker-tls:ro",