diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan_test.go
index c2eeb27..5bbccbd 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/release_plan_test.go
@@ -115,3 +115,14 @@ func TestACycleIsOneLastTierAndSaidSo(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a cycle should be one tier of two, said: %v", tiers)
 	}
 }
+
+// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/211: a merge moving the toolchain and a bundle compiled in it builds the
+// bundle a tier after the toolchain, not beside it.
+func TestABundleIsPlannedAfterTheToolchainItIsCompiledIn(t *testing.T) {
+	edges := []inventory.Edge{{From: "node-tools", To: "mesh-tools", Kind: inventory.EdgeStandsOn}}
+	p := planOfMerge(link.SourceMoved{Owner: "novox", Repo: "mesh-tools", Commit: "abc"},
+		[]string{"mesh-tools", "node-tools"}, edges)
+	if len(p.Tiers) != 2 || p.Tiers[0][0] != "mesh-tools" || p.Tiers[1][0] != "node-tools" {
+		t.Fatalf("the toolchain, then the bundle: %v", p.Tiers)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go
index 523ab08..e16601a 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs.go
@@ -402,19 +402,22 @@ func seatAnnouncement(handlers map[string]link.ToolHandler) micro.Info {
 	var endpoints []micro.EndpointInfo
 	for _, verb := range verbs {
 		schema, _ := json.Marshal(about[verb].Input)
+		// The same shape every tool runtime announces in (node-tools' announce package): the name is
+		// `<seat>__<verb>`, as the protocol's characters allow; the metadata is what identifies it.
 		endpoints = append(endpoints, micro.EndpointInfo{
-			Name:       verb,
+			Name:       catalogue.ControllerSeatName + "__" + verb,
 			Subject:    link.SeatToolSubject(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, verb),
 			QueueGroup: "seat." + catalogue.ControllerSeatName,
 			Metadata: map[string]string{
+				"kind": "seat", "module": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "tool": verb,
+				"seat": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "scope": "mesh", "interchangeable": "false",
 				"description": about[verb].Description, "schema": string(schema),
-				"seat": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "scope": "mesh",
 			},
 		})
 	}
 	return micro.Info{
 		ServiceIdentity: micro.ServiceIdentity{
-			Name: catalogue.ControllerSeatName, ID: "controller", Version: "1.0.0",
+			Name: catalogue.ControllerSeatName, ID: "controller", Version: "0.1.0",
 			Metadata: map[string]string{"seat": catalogue.ControllerSeatName, "scope": "mesh"},
 		},
 		Description: "the mesh's own verbs, answered by the holder of the mesh-controller seat",
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go
index df3177f..edfdb8e 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/seatverbs_test.go
@@ -281,10 +281,14 @@ func TestTheControllerAnnouncesTheVerbsItServes(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("%d endpoints announced for %d verbs served", len(info.Endpoints), len(handlers))
 	}
 	for _, e := range info.Endpoints {
-		if _, served := handlers[e.Name]; !served {
-			t.Errorf("%s is announced and not served", e.Name)
+		verb := e.Metadata["tool"]
+		if _, served := handlers[verb]; !served || e.Name != catalogue.ControllerSeatName+"__"+verb {
+			t.Errorf("%s (%s) is announced and not served under that name", e.Name, verb)
 		}
-		if e.Subject != link.SeatToolSubject(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, e.Name) || e.QueueGroup != "seat."+catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
+		if e.Metadata["kind"] != "seat" || e.Metadata["seat"] != catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
+			t.Errorf("%s is not announced as the seat's verb: %v", e.Name, e.Metadata)
+		}
+		if e.Subject != link.SeatToolSubject(catalogue.ControllerSeatName, verb) || e.QueueGroup != "seat."+catalogue.ControllerSeatName {
 			t.Errorf("%s is announced on %s/%s, not where it is served", e.Name, e.Subject, e.QueueGroup)
 		}
 		if e.Metadata["description"] == "" || e.Metadata["schema"] == "" || e.Metadata["scope"] != "mesh" {
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index f547d03..c5c01c8 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -465,7 +465,9 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		pub = append(pub, invoked...)
 		// It says what it serves and may ask what answers (novox/hq ADR 0197): the runtime answers
 		// discovery for each module and seat it carries, and the console it is asks the bus.
-		sub = append(sub, announcing(serves...)...)
+		// One service per runtime process, named for the runtime: the bus lets a principal answer each
+		// request once, so the runtime announces everything it carries under its own name.
+		sub = append(sub, announcing(append([]string{RuntimeModule}, serves...)...)...)
 		pub = append(pub, discovering()...)
 		// Nothing about consumers: it consumes nothing. A module's reactions to events are its
 		// own long-lived process, which ADR 0175 leaves where it is; what moves here is tools.
@@ -793,12 +795,14 @@ func invokedSubjects(invokes []string) ([]string, error) {
 // protocol's discovery (novox/hq ADR 0197): the questions asked of every service, and those asked of
 // each name it serves — its own and no other's, so it cannot answer for a service it is not.
 func announcing(names ...string) []string {
-	out := []string{"$SRV.PING", "$SRV.INFO"}
+	out := []string{"$SRV.PING", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.STATS"}
 	for _, n := range names {
 		if !safeSubject.MatchString(n) {
 			continue
 		}
-		out = append(out, "$SRV.PING."+n, "$SRV.PING."+n+".>", "$SRV.INFO."+n, "$SRV.INFO."+n+".>")
+		for _, verb := range []string{"PING", "INFO", "STATS"} {
+			out = append(out, "$SRV."+verb+"."+n, "$SRV."+verb+"."+n+".>")
+		}
 	}
 	return out
 }
diff --git a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
index 45d607f..4c7b32e 100644
--- a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
+++ b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ accounts {
     users = [
       { user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller", "$SRV.INFO.mesh-controller.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller", "$SRV.PING.mesh-controller.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.mesh-controller", "$SRV.STATS.mesh-controller.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "enrol.one", password: "$2a$11$eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", permissions: {
@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ accounts {
       } }
       { user: "one.telegram", password: "$2a$11$tttttttttttttttttttttt", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.one_telegram.>", "$JS.ACK.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.one_telegram", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.one_telegram", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER.SEAT_TELEGRAM_SENDER_worker", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.delivered", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.event.failed"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.telegram", "$SRV.INFO.telegram.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.telegram", "$SRV.PING.telegram.>", "_INBOX.one.telegram.>", "mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.mod.telegram.tool.>", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.telegram", "$SRV.INFO.telegram.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.telegram", "$SRV.PING.telegram.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.telegram", "$SRV.STATS.telegram.>", "_INBOX.one.telegram.>", "mesh.assignment.one.telegram", "mesh.mod.telegram.tool.>", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "two.audit", password: "$2a$11$aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.two_audit.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.two_audit", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.two_audit", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.two.audit"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.audit", "$SRV.INFO.audit.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.audit", "$SRV.PING.audit.>", "_INBOX.two.audit.>", "mesh.assignment.two.audit", "mesh.mod.audit.tool.>", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.audit", "$SRV.INFO.audit.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.audit", "$SRV.PING.audit.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.audit", "$SRV.STATS.audit.>", "_INBOX.two.audit.>", "mesh.assignment.two.audit", "mesh.mod.audit.tool.>", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "two.shop", password: "$2a$11$ssssssssssssssssssssss", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.EVENTS.two_shop.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO.EVENTS.two_shop", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT.EVENTS.two_shop", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.ASSIGNMENTS.mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.event.order.placed", "mesh.seat.telegram-sender.accept.send"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.shop", "$SRV.INFO.shop.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.shop", "$SRV.PING.shop.>", "_INBOX.two.shop.>", "mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.>"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$SRV.INFO", "$SRV.INFO.shop", "$SRV.INFO.shop.>", "$SRV.PING", "$SRV.PING.shop", "$SRV.PING.shop.>", "$SRV.STATS", "$SRV.STATS.shop", "$SRV.STATS.shop.>", "_INBOX.two.shop.>", "mesh.assignment.two.shop", "mesh.mod.shop.tool.>"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
     ]
diff --git a/internal/inventory/dependencies.go b/internal/inventory/dependencies.go
index 580586c..ef38cf6 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/dependencies.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/dependencies.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/builder"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
 )
 
@@ -96,6 +97,21 @@ func dependenciesOf(entries []Entry, against map[string][]string, read map[strin
 					add(name, on.Module, EdgeDeclared)
 				}
 			}
+			// **A bundle stands on the toolchain it is compiled in** (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/211). A
+			// manifest names its toolchain by language, not in `build.on`, so the edge was implicit
+			// and a merge that moved the toolchain and a bundle together built both in one tier —
+			// the bundle against the toolchain as it was, recorded as built from the new commit. Read
+			// from the manifest, so it holds before any build has recorded what it stood on; and a
+			// toolchain that moves rebuilds every bundle compiled in it, which is what a toolchain
+			// carrying a bundle's dependencies requires.
+			for _, a := range e.Manifest.Build.Artifacts {
+				if a.Kind != catalogue.ArtifactBundle {
+					continue
+				}
+				if chain, err := builder.ToolchainFor(a.Language); err == nil {
+					add(name, chain.Base, EdgeStandsOn)
+				}
+			}
 		}
 		for _, ref := range against[name] {
 			if rest, ok := strings.CutPrefix(ref, catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme); ok {
diff --git a/internal/inventory/dependencies_test.go b/internal/inventory/dependencies_test.go
index 1109d34..144595a 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/dependencies_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/dependencies_test.go
@@ -62,3 +62,41 @@ func TestDependenciesAreOneRelationWithTheirKinds(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// novox/hq 04-ISSUES/211: a bundle stands on the toolchain it is compiled in, so a merge moving both
+// builds the toolchain first — read from the manifest, before any build recorded it.
+func TestABundleStandsOnTheToolchainItIsCompiledIn(t *testing.T) {
+	entries := []Entry{
+		{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: "mesh-tools"}, Source: Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-tools"}},
+		{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: "mesh-tools-go"}, Source: Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-tools-go"}},
+		{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: "node-tools", Build: &catalogue.Build{Artifacts: []catalogue.Artifact{
+			{Name: "runtime", Kind: catalogue.ArtifactBundle, Language: "go", System: "arch", From: "cmd/node-tools"}}}},
+			Source: Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-tools"}},
+		{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: "nftables", Build: &catalogue.Build{Artifacts: []catalogue.Artifact{
+			{Name: "tools", Kind: catalogue.ArtifactBundle, Language: "typescript", Entrypoints: []string{"tools/index.js"}}}}},
+			Source: Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog"}},
+		{Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: "photos", Build: &catalogue.Build{Artifacts: []catalogue.Artifact{
+			{Name: "server", Kind: catalogue.ArtifactImage, From: "Dockerfile"}}}},
+			Source: Source{Repository: "novox/photos"}},
+	}
+	edges := dependenciesOf(entries, nil, nil)
+	has := func(from, to string) bool {
+		for _, e := range edges {
+			if e.From == from && e.To == to && e.Kind == EdgeStandsOn {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+	if !has("nftables", "mesh-tools") {
+		t.Errorf("a TypeScript bundle does not stand on the TypeScript toolchain: %v", edges)
+	}
+	if !has("node-tools", "mesh-tools-go") {
+		t.Errorf("a Go bundle does not stand on the Go toolchain: %v", edges)
+	}
+	for _, e := range edges {
+		if e.From == "photos" && e.Kind == EdgeStandsOn {
+			t.Errorf("an image stands on a toolchain it is not compiled in: %v", e)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/announce.go b/internal/link/announce.go
index f822100..70c039a 100644
--- a/internal/link/announce.go
+++ b/internal/link/announce.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 // DiscoverySubjects are where one service instance is asked to say what it is.
 func DiscoverySubjects(name, id string) []string {
 	var out []string
-	for _, verb := range []string{"PING", "INFO"} {
+	for _, verb := range []string{"PING", "INFO", "STATS"} {
 		out = append(out, "$SRV."+verb, "$SRV."+verb+"."+name, "$SRV."+verb+"."+name+"."+id)
 	}
 	return out
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ func (b OverNATS) Announce(info micro.Info, logger *log.Logger) (func(), error)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
+	// Statistics the protocol asks for; the controller keeps none per verb, so it answers its
+	// identity and its endpoints with nothing counted — an honest zero, not a refusal.
+	stats := micro.Stats{ServiceIdentity: info.ServiceIdentity, Type: micro.StatsResponseType}
+	for _, e := range info.Endpoints {
+		stats.Endpoints = append(stats.Endpoints, &micro.EndpointStats{Name: e.Name, Subject: e.Subject, QueueGroup: e.QueueGroup})
+	}
+	statsBody, err := json.Marshal(stats)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	var subs []*nats.Subscription
 	done := make(chan struct{})
 	stop := func() {
@@ -46,8 +56,11 @@ func (b OverNATS) Announce(info micro.Info, logger *log.Logger) (func(), error)
 	for _, subject := range DiscoverySubjects(info.Name, info.ID) {
 		subject := subject
 		body := infoBody
-		if len(subject) >= 9 && subject[:9] == "$SRV.PING" {
+		switch {
+		case len(subject) >= 9 && subject[:9] == "$SRV.PING":
 			body = pingBody
+		case len(subject) >= 10 && subject[:10] == "$SRV.STATS":
+			body = statsBody
 		}
 		bind := func() (*nats.Subscription, error) {
 			return b.Conn.Subscribe(subject, func(msg *nats.Msg) {