diff --git a/internal/catalogue/build.go b/internal/catalogue/build.go
index cf73864..e52965e 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/build.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/build.go
@@ -67,6 +67,24 @@ func (m Manifest) Resolve(built []Built) (Manifest, error) {
 	out := m
 	out.Build = nil
 	out.Resources = nil
+	// What the build compiled, kept on the resolved manifest (novox/hq ADR 0175): a tools bundle is
+	// named by no resource of the module's own — the node's runtime loads it — so this is the only
+	// place the mesh would otherwise not have it. In artifact order, so two resolutions of one
+	// build compare equal.
+	out.Bundles = nil
+	if m.Build != nil {
+		for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+			if a.Kind != ArtifactBundle {
+				continue
+			}
+			made := by[a.Name]
+			out.Bundles = append(out.Bundles, Bundle{
+				Name: a.Name, Source: made.Reference, Digest: made.Digest,
+				Language: a.Language, Entrypoints: append([]string(nil), a.Entrypoints...),
+			})
+		}
+		sort.Slice(out.Bundles, func(i, j int) bool { return out.Bundles[i].Name < out.Bundles[j].Name })
+	}
 	for _, r := range m.Resources {
 		named, _ := r["artifact"].(string)
 		if named == "" {
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/declaration.go b/internal/catalogue/declaration.go
index f302e0e..c9fb22b 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/declaration.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/declaration.go
@@ -512,6 +512,13 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 				"id": NeedID(name), "type": "file", "path": m.OwnSecrets[name].Path, "sealed": sealed,
 			}))
 		}
+		// This module's tools bundles, where the machine runs the node's tool runtime (novox/hq
+		// ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP2). Mesh-computed like everything above it, and before the module's
+		// own resources for the same reason: the runtime's process names the files inside these
+		// and is restarted when one changes, so they are on the machine before it is.
+		if r.runtimeHere() {
+			first = append(first, bundleArchives(m)...)
+		}
 		// Operator-owned paths this module is granted use of (novox/hq ADR 0051). Written before
 		// the module's own resources, and so before the container that mounts them: the host must
 		// find each present — refusing clearly if the operator has not provided it — before it
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
index 1a532ec..1854cd7 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
@@ -572,6 +572,33 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// a module that could ask for it could read every credential on the bus — and the claim on
 	// `mesh-broker` is what authorises it, checked from this manifest alone.
 	BusUsers string `json:"bus-users,omitempty"`
+
+	// Bundles are this module's compiled bundles as the build produced them: what each is called,
+	// where it is, what it hashes to, what language it is in and which files a tool runtime loads
+	// from it (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38).
+	//
+	// **Derived, never written.** The manifest in a repository says `build.artifacts`; the manifest
+	// the mesh holds says what came out, the way a resource naming an artifact comes to name a
+	// digest. Kept here because a tools bundle is referenced by no resource of the module's own —
+	// the node's runtime loads it, and the runtime is composed by the mesh — so without this the
+	// resolved manifest would carry no trace of the one artifact the runtime needs. A repository
+	// manifest that writes this beside a build is refused: it would be stating the build's output
+	// by hand.
+	Bundles []Bundle `json:"bundles,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// Bundle is one compiled bundle after it exists, as the resolved manifest carries it.
+type Bundle struct {
+	Name string `json:"name"`
+	// Source is where a machine fetches it, kept without the store's address like every reference
+	// the mesh records (artifacts.go); Digest is what it must hash to.
+	Source string `json:"source"`
+	Digest string `json:"digest"`
+	// Language is what it was compiled from, which is what says how it is run.
+	Language string `json:"language,omitempty"`
+	// Entrypoints are the compiled files a tool runtime loads from it, relative to its root; empty
+	// for a bundle that is run rather than loaded.
+	Entrypoints []string `json:"entrypoints,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Build says how to produce this module's artifacts from its source.
@@ -1333,6 +1360,15 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 	//
 	// Refused here because the alternative is a build that never returns, on a mesh new enough
 	// that nobody is watching it yet.
+	if m.Build != nil && len(m.Bundles) > 0 {
+		// The output of a build, written beside the build that produces it (ADR 0175). A resource
+		// naming a digest beside an `artifact` would be the same mistake, and is caught the same way:
+		// what the mesh derives, a repository does not state.
+		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
+			"%s writes `bundles` beside its build. The mesh derives that from what the build "+
+				"produced; a manifest states `build.artifacts` and nothing about what came out",
+			m.Module))
+	}
 	if m.Build != nil && len(m.Build.Artifacts) > 0 {
 		for _, o := range m.Offers() {
 			if o != ArtifactStoreProvision {
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/runtime.go b/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
index 1d498dd..de8a6bb 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
@@ -11,3 +11,53 @@ package catalogue
 // RuntimeModule is the module that is the node's tool runtime. Mirrored in the broker package,
 // which composes a principal of its own for it; the agreement test there holds the two to one string.
 const RuntimeModule = "node-tools"
+
+// BundleRoot is where a machine keeps the tools bundles the mesh delivers to it: under the mesh's
+// own directory, beside the daemons the host unpacks there, and never where a package manager also
+// writes. One directory per module, one per bundle beneath it, at a path that does not move with
+// the version — so the runtime's process names each entrypoint once and is restarted, not
+// recomposed, when a bundle changes.
+const BundleRoot = "/var/lib/mesh/bundles"
+
+// BundleID names the archive resource that delivers one of a module's bundles; prefixed with the
+// module like every resource of its own.
+func BundleID(bundle string) string { return "bundle-" + bundle }
+
+// BundlePath is where one module's bundle is unpacked on a machine.
+func BundlePath(module, bundle string) string { return BundleRoot + "/" + module + "/" + bundle }
+
+// runtimeHere says whether this node's set includes the runtime module, which is what decides
+// whether anything about tools changes on the machine (to-be 38 WP2): until the runtime is assigned,
+// a node is sent exactly what it was sent before, bundles included, because a bundle nothing loads
+// is bytes nobody reads.
+func (r Resolution) runtimeHere() bool {
+	for _, m := range r.Modules {
+		if m.Module == RuntimeModule {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// bundleArchives is one archive per tools bundle of a module — a bundle with entrypoints, which a
+// runtime LOADS — as the host fetches and unpacks any artifact (novox/hq ADR 0175 §3: a module brings
+// its tools as a bundle, delivered by the host like any artifact, never an image). A bundle without
+// entrypoints is run rather than loaded: a daemon, a step, the runtime itself — delivered by the
+// process that runs it, and not again here.
+//
+// The source is the kept reference; the per-resource pass that follows routes it through the
+// artifact store as this network reaches it now, as it does every image and archive the mesh built.
+func bundleArchives(m Manifest) []map[string]any {
+	var out []map[string]any
+	for _, b := range m.Bundles {
+		if len(b.Entrypoints) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, map[string]any{
+			"id": BundleID(b.Name), "type": "archive",
+			"source": b.Source, "digest": b.Digest,
+			"path": BundlePath(m.Module, b.Name),
+		})
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go b/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..229499c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/runtime_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The node's tool runtime (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38): where the runtime module is assigned, a
+// machine is sent every assigned module's tools bundle as an archive, and the runtime's own process
+// loading them. Where it is not, the machine is sent exactly what it was sent before.
+
+var bundleDigest = "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("b", 64)
+
+// aToolsModule is a module whose tools come as a compiled bundle and nothing else — the shape every
+// module takes once its tool container goes (to-be 38 WP4).
+func aToolsModule(t *testing.T, name string, entrypoints ...string) Manifest {
+	t.Helper()
+	m := Manifest{Module: name, Version: "1", Tools: []string{"status"},
+		Build: &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{
+			{Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "typescript", Entrypoints: entrypoints},
+		}}}
+	resolved, err := m.Resolve([]Built{{Name: "tools", Kind: ArtifactBundle,
+		Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + name + "/tools/blobs/" + bundleDigest, Digest: bundleDigest}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return resolved
+}
+
+// theRuntime is the runtime module as the catalogue holds it: its own bundle, run rather than
+// loaded, and its broker secret to receive the node's credential in.
+func theRuntime(t *testing.T) Manifest {
+	t.Helper()
+	m := Manifest{Module: RuntimeModule, Version: "1",
+		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"broker": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/" + RuntimeModule + "/broker"}},
+		Build:      &Build{Artifacts: []Artifact{{Name: "runtime", Kind: ArtifactBundle, Language: "typescript"}}}}
+	resolved, err := m.Resolve([]Built{{Name: "runtime", Kind: ArtifactBundle,
+		Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + RuntimeModule + "/runtime/blobs/" + bundleDigest, Digest: bundleDigest}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return resolved
+}
+
+func TestABuildsBundlesAreCarriedOnTheResolvedManifest(t *testing.T) {
+	m := aToolsModule(t, "nftables", "tools/index.js")
+	if len(m.Bundles) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("the resolved manifest carries %d bundle(s), not the one the build made", len(m.Bundles))
+	}
+	b := m.Bundles[0]
+	if b.Name != "tools" || b.Digest != bundleDigest || b.Language != "typescript" ||
+		b.Source != ArtifactStoreScheme+"nftables/tools/blobs/"+bundleDigest ||
+		len(b.Entrypoints) != 1 || b.Entrypoints[0] != "tools/index.js" {
+		t.Errorf("the bundle is carried as %+v", b)
+	}
+	// A repository manifest may not write what the build derives.
+	raw := `{"module":"x","version":"1","build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"t","kind":"bundle","language":"typescript"}]},` +
+		`"bundles":[{"name":"t","source":"s","digest":"` + bundleDigest + `"}]}`
+	if _, err := ParseManifest([]byte(raw)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "bundles") {
+		t.Errorf("a manifest stating its build's output by hand was accepted: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEveryToolsBundleIsDeliveredWhereTheRuntimeRuns(t *testing.T) {
+	store := Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101",
+		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{RuntimeModule: {"broker": "sealed-credential"}}}
+	nftables := aToolsModule(t, "nftables", "tools/index.js")
+	zsh := aToolsModule(t, "zsh", "tools/index.js", "tools/more.js")
+
+	t.Run("with the runtime, one archive per tools bundle", func(t *testing.T) {
+		r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{nftables, zsh, theRuntime(t)}}
+		out, err := r.Declaration(store)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		archive := fileNamed(out, "nftables."+BundleID("tools"))
+		if archive == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("nftables' tools bundle was not delivered: %v", ids(out))
+		}
+		if archive["type"] != "archive" || archive["digest"] != bundleDigest ||
+			archive["path"] != BundleRoot+"/nftables/tools" {
+			t.Errorf("delivered as %v", archive)
+		}
+		if archive["source"] != "http://anchor.internal:5101/v2/nftables/tools/blobs/"+bundleDigest {
+			t.Errorf("fetched from %v, not through the store as this network reaches it", archive["source"])
+		}
+		if fileNamed(out, "zsh."+BundleID("tools")) == nil {
+			t.Errorf("zsh's tools bundle was not delivered: %v", ids(out))
+		}
+		// The runtime's own bundle is run, not loaded: its process delivers it, not an archive.
+		if fileNamed(out, RuntimeModule+"."+BundleID("runtime")) != nil {
+			t.Error("the runtime's own bundle was delivered as an archive beside its process")
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("without the runtime, nothing changes", func(t *testing.T) {
+		r := Resolution{Node: "anchor", Modules: []Manifest{nftables, zsh}}
+		out, err := r.Declaration(store)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, id := range ids(out) {
+			if strings.Contains(id, BundleID("")) {
+				t.Errorf("%s was delivered to a machine running no runtime to load it", id)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+func ids(out []map[string]any) []string {
+	var names []string
+	for _, r := range out {
+		names = append(names, r["id"].(string))
+	}
+	return names
+}