diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files.go
index e64e3cd2..c87902ab 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files.go
@@ -159,14 +159,18 @@ func openBucket(ctx context.Context, conn *nats.Conn, node string) (busObjects,
 	if err != nil {
 		return busObjects{}, err
 	}
-	store, err := js.ObjectStore(ctx, broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node))
+	bucket, err := broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return busObjects{}, fmt.Errorf("the object bucket of node %q: %w", node, err)
+	}
+	store, err := js.ObjectStore(ctx, bucket)
 	if errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrBucketNotFound) {
 		if err = broker.EnsureDeclarationFiles(ctx, js, node); err == nil {
-			store, err = js.ObjectStore(ctx, broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node))
+			store, err = js.ObjectStore(ctx, bucket)
 		}
 	}
 	if err != nil {
-		return busObjects{}, fmt.Errorf("the object bucket %s: %w", broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node), err)
+		return busObjects{}, fmt.Errorf("the object bucket %s: %w", bucket, err)
 	}
 	return busObjects{store}, nil
 }
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files_integration_test.go
index fec206c0..b5b45baf 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_files_integration_test.go
@@ -105,7 +105,11 @@ func TestADeclarationOfMoreThanThreeMiBIsSentByReferenceOnARealBus(t *testing.T)
 	if err != nil || len(named) != 3 {
 		t.Fatalf("what the latest declaration names: %v %v", named, err)
 	}
-	store, err := api.ObjectStore(ctx, broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf("novox"))
+	novoxBucket, err := broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf("novox")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	store, err := api.ObjectStore(ctx, novoxBucket)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_sweep.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_sweep.go
index dcfd6f92..33bc2a79 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_sweep.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/declaration_sweep.go
@@ -247,7 +247,11 @@ func sweepNode(ctx context.Context, conn *nats.Conn, node string) (filesSweep, e
 	if err != nil {
 		return filesSweep{}, err
 	}
-	store, err := js.ObjectStore(working, broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node))
+	bucket, err := broker.DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return filesSweep{}, fmt.Errorf("the bucket of node %q: %w", node, err)
+	}
+	store, err := js.ObjectStore(working, bucket)
 	if errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrBucketNotFound) {
 		return filesSweep{}, nil // a node never sent a reference has no bucket yet
 	}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 16fdaefc..789215b2 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module github.com/novox/mesh-controller
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021124357-863a981e014e
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021134822-86f9a1a5c508
 	github.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.10.0
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 256fe77c..f065a84d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021093645-465beb4ea5e3 h1:OKxU64kH
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021093645-465beb4ea5e3/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021124357-863a981e014e h1:eq29ENikw3XfEXjxL5OdnTbavv5pu1/UnQhWWuf5V5I=
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021124357-863a981e014e/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021134822-86f9a1a5c508 h1:nTQN4W6gfIUR0fLpA1IYb06TGr3MtuW0xtznjbcMGLM=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021134822-86f9a1a5c508/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
diff --git a/internal/broker/declaration_files.go b/internal/broker/declaration_files.go
index b5261582..096684a2 100644
--- a/internal/broker/declaration_files.go
+++ b/internal/broker/declaration_files.go
@@ -23,14 +23,14 @@ import (
 // (`$O.<bucket>.M.<base64 of the name>`) and chunks (`$O.<bucket>.C.<nuid>`).
 
 // DeclarationFilesBucket is the prefix of the buckets' names, which mesh-sdk fixes for the node-engine and the controller alike.
-const DeclarationFilesBucket = declaration.FileBucket
+const DeclarationFilesBucket = declaration.FileBucketPrefix
 
-// DeclarationFilesBucketOf is the bucket a node's files are in. One function, so the name of a node's bucket is composed in one
-// place.
-func DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node string) string { return DeclarationFilesBucket + "-" + node }
+// DeclarationFilesBucketOf is the bucket a node's files are in: mesh-sdk's FileBucketFor, the one place the name is composed. A
+// node name it refuses (one that could carry a subject wildcard or separator into a grant) is an error, never a bucket.
+func DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node string) (string, error) { return declaration.FileBucketFor(node) }
 
-// DeclarationFilesStreamOf is the stream under a node's bucket.
-func DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node string) string { return "OBJ_" + DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node) }
+// DeclarationFilesStreamOf is the stream under a node's bucket: mesh-sdk's FileStreamFor.
+func DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node string) (string, error) { return declaration.FileStreamFor(node) }
 
 // DeclarationFilesMaxBytes is a bucket's size: the objects are immutable and regenerable, and one node's hold well under a hundred
 // megabytes.
@@ -41,7 +41,13 @@ const DeclarationFilesKeptFor = 24 * time.Hour
 
 // DeclarationFilesWrites is the one pattern the controller may publish to write a node's bucket: every object's metadata and
 // chunks. The server's API for the stream is the controller's `$JS.API.>`.
-func DeclarationFilesWrites(node string) string { return "$O." + DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node) + ".>" }
+func DeclarationFilesWrites(node string) (string, error) {
+	bucket, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return "$O." + bucket + ".>", nil
+}
 
 // DeclarationFilesReads is what a node-engine's account may publish to read an object of its own bucket by its name, and nothing
 // more. The set is the one node-engine's own call (mesh-host internal/link FileObject) makes, for B the node's bucket and S its
@@ -57,14 +63,21 @@ func DeclarationFilesWrites(node string) string { return "$O." + DeclarationFile
 // **Never granted:** STREAM.INFO (a `subjects_filter` of `>` lists every name), STREAM.MSG.GET (any message by its sequence), a
 // publish to `$O.B.>` (a write), and any subject of another node's stream. A literal `*` in a subject matches the grant's `*`: it
 // reaches the objects of this node's own bucket and no other (above).
-func DeclarationFilesReads(node string) []string {
-	stream, bucket := DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node), DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+func DeclarationFilesReads(node string) ([]string, error) {
+	bucket, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	stream, err := DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	return []string{
 		"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET." + stream + ".$O." + bucket + ".M.*",
 		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE." + stream + ".*.$O." + bucket + ".C.*",
 		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE." + stream + ".*",
 		"$JS.FC." + stream + ".>",
-	}
+	}, nil
 }
 
 // EnsureDeclarationFiles creates the buckets of these nodes if absent and brings their options to match. A bucket exists whenever the
@@ -82,21 +95,29 @@ func (j *JetStream) EnsureDeclarationFiles(nodes []string) error {
 // EnsureDeclarationFiles is the same on a JetStream the caller holds.
 func EnsureDeclarationFiles(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream, nodes ...string) error {
 	for _, node := range nodes {
-		if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateObjectStore(ctx, DeclarationFilesConfig(node)); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("asserting the object bucket %s: %w", DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node), err)
+		cfg, err := DeclarationFilesConfig(node)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateObjectStore(ctx, cfg); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("asserting the object bucket %s: %w", cfg.Bucket, err)
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
 // DeclarationFilesConfig is a node's bucket as the controller asserts it.
-func DeclarationFilesConfig(node string) jetstream.ObjectStoreConfig {
+func DeclarationFilesConfig(node string) (jetstream.ObjectStoreConfig, error) {
+	bucket, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return jetstream.ObjectStoreConfig{}, err
+	}
 	return jetstream.ObjectStoreConfig{
-		Bucket: DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node),
+		Bucket: bucket,
 		Description: "the contents of the files over 64 KiB of the declaration of " + node + ", each under the hex of its sha256 " +
 			"digest (novox/hq ADR 0486): written by the controller alone, read by the node-engine of that node by name, removed " +
 			"a day after the node's latest declaration no longer names it",
 		MaxBytes: DeclarationFilesMaxBytes,
 		Storage:  jetstream.FileStorage,
-	}
+	}, nil
 }
diff --git a/internal/broker/declaration_files_live_test.go b/internal/broker/declaration_files_live_test.go
index 414c8357..e21f6e7d 100644
--- a/internal/broker/declaration_files_live_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/declaration_files_live_test.go
@@ -30,7 +30,14 @@ func nodeEnginesFileObject(ctx context.Context, nc *nats.Conn, node, name string
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	stream, bucket := DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node), DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	stream, err := DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	bucket, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	meta, err := js.GetLastMsg(stream, "$O."+bucket+".M."+base64.URLEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(name)),
 		nats.DirectGet(), nats.Context(ctx))
 	if err != nil {
@@ -132,7 +139,7 @@ func TestNatsANodeEngineReadsAnObjectOfItsOwnBucketByNameAndNothingElse(t *testi
 	}
 	put := func(node string, content []byte) string {
 		t.Helper()
-		store, err := cjs.ObjectStore(ctx, DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node))
+		store, err := cjs.ObjectStore(ctx, mustBucket(t, node))
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
@@ -172,8 +179,8 @@ func TestNatsANodeEngineReadsAnObjectOfItsOwnBucketByNameAndNothingElse(t *testi
 	}
 
 	// What each account is refused, judged by the server.
-	alphaStream, alphaBucket := DeclarationFilesStreamOf("alpha"), DeclarationFilesBucketOf("alpha")
-	betaStream, betaBucket := DeclarationFilesStreamOf("beta"), DeclarationFilesBucketOf("beta")
+	alphaStream, alphaBucket := mustStream(t, "alpha"), mustBucket(t, "alpha")
+	betaStream, betaBucket := mustStream(t, "beta"), mustBucket(t, "beta")
 	listing := []byte(`{"subjects_filter":">"}`)
 	bySeq := []byte(`{"seq":1}`)
 	type refusal struct {
@@ -279,7 +286,7 @@ func TestNatsANodeEngineReadsAnObjectOfItsOwnBucketByNameAndNothingElse(t *testi
 
 	// Nothing was written by the refused: each bucket holds what the controller wrote.
 	for node, want := range map[string]int{"alpha": 2, "beta": 1} {
-		store, err := cjs.ObjectStore(ctx, DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node))
+		store, err := cjs.ObjectStore(ctx, mustBucket(t, node))
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
@@ -289,3 +296,21 @@ func TestNatsANodeEngineReadsAnObjectOfItsOwnBucketByNameAndNothingElse(t *testi
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func mustBucket(t *testing.T, node string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	b, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return b
+}
+
+func mustStream(t *testing.T, node string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	b, err := DeclarationFilesStreamOf(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return b
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/declaration_files_test.go b/internal/broker/declaration_files_test.go
index 0de60147..0e584dc3 100644
--- a/internal/broker/declaration_files_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/declaration_files_test.go
@@ -107,3 +107,25 @@ func TestTheComposedUsersGiveEachNodeItsOwnBucketAndTheControllerAll(t *testing.
 		t.Fatalf("the controller writes the buckets of %v", controller.FilesFor)
 	}
 }
+
+// A node name that could carry a subject wildcard or separator into a grant is refused with an error, never composed into a bucket
+// (ADR 0488): the grants of such a name would reach another node's bucket.
+func TestANodeNameThatCarriesAWildcardGetsNoBucketAndNoGrant(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, node := range []string{"", "*", ">", "a.b", "a b", "a*"} {
+		if b, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf(node); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("node %q got the bucket %q", node, b)
+		}
+		if _, err := DeclarationFilesReads(node); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("node %q got read grants", node)
+		}
+		if _, err := DeclarationFilesWrites(node); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("node %q got write grants", node)
+		}
+		if _, err := DeclarationFilesConfig(node); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("node %q got a bucket config", node)
+		}
+	}
+	if b, err := DeclarationFilesBucketOf("g14"); err != nil || b != "declaration-files-g14" {
+		t.Errorf("g14: %q %v", b, err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index 06a511a8..c9007a14 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -743,7 +743,11 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// **And the object bucket a declaration's large files travel in** (novox/hq ADR 0486 §2, issue 1697): the
 		// controller alone writes it, as a publish to the bucket's own subjects, which `$JS.API.>` does not cover.
 		for _, node := range p.FilesFor {
-			pub = append(pub, DeclarationFilesWrites(node))
+			writes, err := DeclarationFilesWrites(node)
+			if err != nil {
+				return Permissions{}, err
+			}
+			pub = append(pub, writes)
 		}
 		// **And what the bus says about itself, read-only** (novox/hq to-be 45 §3, S9): a durable
 		// consumer that gave up on a message, or one that was deleted. The server already publishes
@@ -846,7 +850,11 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		pub = append(pub, haveKeys...)
 		// And an object of the declaration bucket by its name, and nothing of the bucket's list or writing
 		// (novox/hq ADR 0486 §2, issue 1697).
-		pub = append(pub, DeclarationFilesReads(p.Node)...)
+		fileReads, err := DeclarationFilesReads(p.Node)
+		if err != nil {
+			return Permissions{}, err
+		}
+		pub = append(pub, fileReads...)
 		// And, while the vault serves it, the vault's move-in in its own name and nobody else's (issue 676): the
 		// values sealed to this machine, which only it opens, handed in sealed to the vault's key for the call.
 		if p.MovesIntoTheVault {
diff --git a/testdata/beside/CAPTURED b/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
index 4d66c6c5..967d201c 100644
--- a/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
+++ b/testdata/beside/CAPTURED
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ a second place to clean besides the catalogue itself.
 
 mesh-catalog  e0bc919d4945bb5f13f971f74643a0b714cf45da  modules/*/module.json, modules/nats/Dockerfile
 mesh-host     9d9e3a46c4f5943cfffb413d962ce48b75e2fd39  examples/foundation-first-node.lock
-mesh-sdk      863a981e014e08ef5781eb8767024e7754792583  conformance/events/module-event.json
+mesh-sdk      86f9a1a5c5088b60f694324e84dc31f682156a1b  conformance/events/module-event.json
 
 To move them, from this repository's root, with the two repositories checked out beside it:
 
diff --git a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/resolve.go b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/resolve.go
index 6e2e08f2..006646ed 100644
--- a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/resolve.go
+++ b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/resolve.go
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ func isModule(catalogue map[string]Manifest, want string) bool {
 // machine can host the module as far as its capabilities go.
 func missingCapabilities(m Manifest, node Node) []string {
 	var missing []string
-	for _, c := range m.Capabilities {
+	for _, c := range append(append([]string(nil), m.Capabilities...), impliedCapabilities(m)...) {
 		if !node.Capabilities[c] {
 			missing = append(missing, c)
 		}
@@ -1457,3 +1457,20 @@ func packageNames(m map[string][]string) []string {
 	sort.Strings(names)
 	return names
 }
+
+// ContainerGroups is the capability a node-engine reports when it reads a container's `groups` and passes each as a
+// supplementary group (novox/hq ADR 0480 clause 7, issue 1638). An older engine refuses the key (strict decoding).
+const ContainerGroups = "container-groups"
+
+// impliedCapabilities are the capabilities a module needs for what its resources say, beyond those it declares: a
+// container that names groups needs an engine that reads them, so the module is left out of a machine whose report
+// lacks the capability, naming it, and the field is sent to no engine that would refuse it. None for a module whose
+// containers name no groups.
+func impliedCapabilities(m Manifest) []string {
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) == "container" && len(groupsOf(r)) > 0 {
+			return []string{ContainerGroups}
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/seat_data.go b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/seat_data.go
index 3a4fc8b6..90a1fb7c 100644
--- a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/seat_data.go
+++ b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue/seat_data.go
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ var capabilityName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$`)
 // names an `if-capability` may give (novox/hq ADR 0255). A name nothing detects would leave its
 // contribution out on every machine, silently, so it is refused. A detector added there is added here.
 var KnownCapabilities = []string{
-	"battery", "container-runtime", "file-references", "firewall", "graphical-session", "overlay", "package-manager",
+	"battery", "container-groups", "container-runtime", "file-references", "firewall", "graphical-session", "overlay",
+	"package-manager",
 	"power-meter", "privileged", "seat", "service-manager", "uplink-dhcpcd", "uplink-networkmanager",
 	"uplink-systemd-networkd", "user-namespaces", "virtualisation",
 }
diff --git a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/declaration.go b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/declaration.go
index 60e5521c..cec208de 100644
--- a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/declaration.go
+++ b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/declaration.go
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ type File struct {
 
 	// Digest and Size say the content is not carried but fetched: a file over FileReferenceThreshold travels as
 	// the sha256 digest of its content, "sha256:<64 hex>", and its size in bytes, in place of Content or Bytes
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0486 §1). The node-engine fetches the object of that name from FileBucket, checks what it
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0486 §1). The node-engine fetches the object of that name from FileBucketFor(node), checks what it
 	// received against Digest and Size, and only then writes the file. Exclusive with Content, Sealed, Bytes,
 	// VaultSealed and Secrets; sent only to an engine that reports FileReferencesCapability, as an older engine
 	// refuses a field it does not know, whole.
diff --git a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/filereference.go b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/filereference.go
index 166022a0..665b0fea 100644
--- a/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/filereference.go
+++ b/vendor/git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration/filereference.go
@@ -14,13 +14,38 @@ const (
 	// FileReferenceThreshold is the size above which a file travels by digest: a file of this many bytes or fewer
 	// stays in the declaration as it is.
 	FileReferenceThreshold = 64 * 1024
-	// FileBucket is the object bucket of the bus that holds the contents, each under the hex of its sha256 digest
-	// (ObjectName). The controller alone writes it; a node-engine reads an object by name.
-	FileBucket = "declaration-files"
+	// FileBucketPrefix starts the name of a node's object bucket, FileBucketFor(node), which holds the contents of the
+	// files of that node's declaration, each under the hex of its sha256 digest (ObjectName). One bucket per node,
+	// so a grant names it and a literal `*` is never needed (ADR 0486 §2, changed by ADR 0488 §1 and §2). The controller alone writes it; the
+	// node's engine reads an object by name.
+	FileBucketPrefix = "declaration-files-"
+	// FileStreamPrefix starts the name of the stream behind such a bucket, which the bus's grants name.
+	FileStreamPrefix = "OBJ_"
 	// FileReferencesCapability is what a node-engine reports when it reads a file given as a digest and size.
 	FileReferencesCapability = "file-references"
 )
 
+var nodeToken = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$`)
+
+// FileBucketFor is the name of the object bucket of a node's files, "declaration-files-<node>" (novox/hq ADR 0488
+// §4, which replaces the single bucket constant of issue 1694). The node name must be a name the bus accepts in a
+// bucket and in a subject token: letters, digits, '_' and '-', so no '.', '*', '>' or space.
+func FileBucketFor(node string) (string, error) {
+	if !nodeToken.MatchString(node) {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("node %q; a node's bucket is named by letters, digits, '_' and '-' only", node)
+	}
+	return FileBucketPrefix + node, nil
+}
+
+// FileStreamFor is the name of the stream behind a node's bucket, "OBJ_" and the bucket's name.
+func FileStreamFor(node string) (string, error) {
+	b, err := FileBucketFor(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return FileStreamPrefix + b, nil
+}
+
 var digestForm = regexp.MustCompile(`^sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$`)
 
 // DigestOf is the digest a reference names for a content: "sha256:<64 lower-case hex>".
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 9f96ba26..b23e3339 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021124357-863a981e014e
+# git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261021134822-86f9a1a5c508
 ## explicit; go 1.26.0
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue