diff --git a/internal/broker/membership.go b/internal/broker/membership.go
index 2fca5552..ed4d3c51 100644
--- a/internal/broker/membership.go
+++ b/internal/broker/membership.go
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ func MembershipFor(node string, d Declared, where Placements) Membership {
 			m.Seats = append(m.Seats, SeatServed{Seat: s.Name, Verb: verb, Subject: seatToolSubject(s, verb, node)})
 		}
 	}
-	m.State = stateIssuedFor(d)
+	m.State = stateIssuedFor(d, node)
 	if len(d.Invokes) > 0 {
 		m.Reaches = map[string][]string{}
 		for _, t := range d.Invokes {
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index cdca1d38..4e022964 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -111,6 +111,10 @@ type Principal struct {
 	// instances and read by whoever declares it.
 	State []string
 	Reads []string
+	// PerMachine is the local names of its state keyed by machine, reaching the key named for Node and
+	// no other; KeyedReads the keys of others' state it reads one key at a time (novox/hq ADR 0260).
+	PerMachine []string
+	KeyedReads []KeyedRead
 
 	// SnapshotsTheBus is the bus's own module, the one holding mesh-broker (novox/hq ADR 0235). Its
 	// whole authority is BusSnapshotGrants: it copies the streams for the night's backup and nothing
@@ -591,7 +595,8 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 
 		// 5. Its state, and the state of others it reads (novox/hq ADR 0201): every one read and
 		//    watched, its own written too.
-		pub = append(pub, stateGrants(p.Module, p.State, p.Reads)...)
+		pub = append(pub, stateGrants(stateAccess{Module: p.Module, Node: p.Node, Keeps: p.State,
+			PerMachine: p.PerMachine, Reads: p.Reads, KeyedReads: p.KeyedReads})...)
 
 	case KindNodeTools:
 		// **One process serves what every module on the machine would have served for itself**
@@ -667,7 +672,8 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// does not write another's bucket through it is the runtime's to keep, from the membership
 		// each assignment is issued, as it keeps each module's events under that module's own name.
 		for _, d := range p.Carries {
-			pub = append(pub, stateGrants(d.Module, stateNames(d.State), d.Reads)...)
+			pub = append(pub, stateGrants(stateAccess{Module: d.Module, Node: p.Node, Keeps: stateNames(d.State),
+				PerMachine: perMachineNames(d.State), Reads: d.Reads, KeyedReads: d.KeyedReads})...)
 		}
 		sub = unique(sub)
 		pub = unique(pub)
diff --git a/internal/broker/state.go b/internal/broker/state.go
index 033ee4c4..f78ddd09 100644
--- a/internal/broker/state.go
+++ b/internal/broker/state.go
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ type Bucket struct {
 	History int
 	// TTLSeconds is how long a value lives; zero is until replaced or deleted.
 	TTLSeconds int
+	// PerMachine says each machine's instance writes only the key named for its machine (novox/hq ADR
+	// 0260), and is granted that key and no other.
+	PerMachine bool
 }
 
 // BucketName is the bucket a module's state lives in: the module and the local name joined by an
@@ -72,52 +75,124 @@ func bucketOfRead(read string) (string, bool) {
 // read; without CONSUMER.CREATE no key is listed and nothing is watched; without CONSUMER.DELETE a
 // watch cannot be stopped and lingers on the server. A write outside these is refused by the server
 // — and reaches the writer as a timeout, not a refusal, which is why the runtime refuses first.
-func stateGrants(module string, keeps []string, reads []string) []string {
+//
+// **One key, where the state is per machine** (novox/hq ADR 0260). The owner's instance on a machine
+// writes and reads the key named for that machine, and a holder granted a read for its machine reads
+// that key: a direct get of the key's own subject, and a consumer whose filter is that subject — the
+// server's create-with-filter form, which a client uses for a watch of one key and which the server
+// holds to the filter it names. What cannot be narrowed by key: binding (STREAM.INFO), deleting a
+// consumer (named at random by the client) and flow control; none of them reads or writes a value.
+func stateGrants(a stateAccess) []string {
 	var out []string
-	read := func(bucket string) {
+	read := func(bucket, key string) {
 		stream := "KV_" + bucket
+		out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+stream)
+		if key == "" {
+			out = append(out,
+				"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>",
+				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>")
+		} else {
+			out = append(out,
+				"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".$KV."+bucket+"."+key,
+				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".*.$KV."+bucket+"."+key)
+		}
 		out = append(out,
-			"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+stream,
-			"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET."+stream+".>",
-			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE."+stream+".>",
 			"$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+stream+".>",
 			"$JS.FC."+stream+".>")
 	}
-	for _, name := range keeps {
+	machineKey := ""
+	if safeSubject.MatchString(a.Node) {
+		machineKey = a.Node
+	}
+	perMachine := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, n := range a.PerMachine {
+		perMachine[n] = true
+	}
+	for _, name := range a.Keeps {
 		if !safeSubject.MatchString(name) {
 			continue
 		}
-		bucket := BucketName(module, name)
-		read(bucket)
+		bucket := BucketName(a.Module, name)
+		if perMachine[name] {
+			if machineKey == "" {
+				continue // a machine with no usable name reaches none of it
+			}
+			read(bucket, machineKey)
+			out = append(out, "$KV."+bucket+"."+machineKey)
+			continue
+		}
+		read(bucket, "")
 		out = append(out, "$KV."+bucket+".>")
 	}
-	for _, r := range reads {
+	for _, r := range a.Reads {
 		if bucket, ok := bucketOfRead(r); ok {
-			read(bucket)
+			read(bucket, "")
+		}
+	}
+	for _, k := range a.KeyedReads {
+		if bucket, ok := bucketOfRead(k.Read); ok && safeSubject.MatchString(k.Key) {
+			read(bucket, k.Key)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// KeyedRead is one key of another module's state a principal reads, and no other key of it.
+type KeyedRead struct {
+	Read string `json:"read"`
+	Key  string `json:"key"`
+}
+
+// stateAccess is what one principal may do with state: the module's own buckets (some per machine),
+// what it reads whole, and what it reads for its machine's key alone.
+type stateAccess struct {
+	Module, Node      string
+	Keeps, PerMachine []string
+	Reads             []string
+	KeyedReads        []KeyedRead
+}
+
+// perMachineNames is the local names of a module's buckets keyed by machine.
+func perMachineNames(buckets []Bucket) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, b := range buckets {
+		if b.PerMachine {
+			out = append(out, b.Name)
 		}
 	}
 	return out
 }
 
 // StateIssued is one bucket an assignment may reach, by the name its module uses for it: its own
-// state by the local name, another's as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+// state by the local name, another's as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201). Key, when set, is the
+// one key it may reach (novox/hq ADR 0260): this machine's.
 type StateIssued struct {
 	Name   string `json:"name"`
 	Bucket string `json:"bucket"`
 	Writes bool   `json:"writes,omitempty"`
+	Key    string `json:"key,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// stateIssuedFor is every bucket a module's code may reach, as its membership lists them.
-func stateIssuedFor(d Declared) []StateIssued {
+// stateIssuedFor is every bucket a module's code may reach on a machine, as its membership lists them.
+func stateIssuedFor(d Declared, node string) []StateIssued {
 	var out []StateIssued
 	for _, b := range d.State {
-		out = append(out, StateIssued{Name: b.Name, Bucket: BucketName(d.Module, b.Name), Writes: true})
+		issued := StateIssued{Name: b.Name, Bucket: BucketName(d.Module, b.Name), Writes: true}
+		if b.PerMachine {
+			issued.Key = node
+		}
+		out = append(out, issued)
 	}
 	for _, r := range d.Reads {
 		if bucket, ok := bucketOfRead(r); ok {
 			out = append(out, StateIssued{Name: r, Bucket: bucket})
 		}
 	}
+	for _, k := range d.KeyedReads {
+		if bucket, ok := bucketOfRead(k.Read); ok {
+			out = append(out, StateIssued{Name: k.Read, Bucket: bucket, Key: k.Key})
+		}
+	}
 	return out
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/broker/state_test.go b/internal/broker/state_test.go
index a6f7580c..402cd317 100644
--- a/internal/broker/state_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/state_test.go
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ func TestAModuleWithNoStateReachesNoBucket(t *testing.T) {
 
 // A read that names no bucket grants nothing rather than something that happens to parse.
 func TestAReadThatNamesNoBucketGrantsNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	if got := stateGrants("a", nil, []string{"nodot", "x.", ".y", "a.b>"}); len(got) != 0 {
+	if got := stateGrants(stateAccess{Module: "a", Node: "one", Reads: []string{"nodot", "x.", ".y", "a.b>"},
+		KeyedReads: []KeyedRead{{Read: "nodot", Key: "one"}, {Read: "a.b", Key: "x>"}}}); len(got) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("granted %v for reads that name no bucket", got)
 	}
 }
@@ -178,3 +179,58 @@ func TestABucketIsAssertedOverAHeldConnection(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the bucket is not there: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// **State keyed by machine reaches its machine's key alone** (novox/hq ADR 0260): the owner's instance on
+// a machine writes and reads that key, and a bar granted a key reads that key — a direct get of its
+// subject and a consumer filtered to it — and no other key of the bucket.
+func TestPerMachineStateAndAKeyedReadReachOneKey(t *testing.T) {
+	owner, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "laptop", Module: "power", PasswordHash: "x",
+		State: []string{"draw"}, PerMachine: []string{"draw"}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	has(t, owner.Publish, "$KV.power_draw.laptop")
+	has(t, owner.Publish, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_power_draw.$KV.power_draw.laptop")
+	has(t, owner.Publish, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_power_draw.*.$KV.power_draw.laptop")
+	hasNot(t, owner.Publish, "$KV.power_draw.>")
+	hasNot(t, owner.Publish, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_power_draw.>")
+	hasNot(t, owner.Publish, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_power_draw.>")
+
+	bar, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "laptop", Module: "bar", PasswordHash: "x",
+		KeyedReads: []KeyedRead{{Read: "power.draw", Key: "laptop"}}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	has(t, bar.Publish, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_power_draw")
+	has(t, bar.Publish, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_power_draw.$KV.power_draw.laptop")
+	has(t, bar.Publish, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_power_draw.*.$KV.power_draw.laptop")
+	for _, s := range bar.Publish {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(s, "$KV.") || strings.HasSuffix(s, "KV_power_draw.>") && !strings.Contains(s, "DELETE") && !strings.HasPrefix(s, "$JS.FC.") {
+			t.Fatalf("a keyed read was granted %q", s)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// And the machine's runtime, which carries both, is granted the union: still the one key.
+	runtime, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNodeTools, Node: "laptop", Module: RuntimeModule, PasswordHash: "x",
+		Carries: []Declared{
+			{Module: "power", State: []Bucket{{Module: "power", Name: "draw", PerMachine: true}}},
+			{Module: "bar", KeyedReads: []KeyedRead{{Read: "power.draw", Key: "laptop"}}},
+		}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	has(t, runtime.Publish, "$KV.power_draw.laptop")
+	hasNot(t, runtime.Publish, "$KV.power_draw.>")
+	hasNot(t, runtime.Publish, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_power_draw.>")
+}
+
+func TestAMembershipNamesTheOneKeyOfKeyedState(t *testing.T) {
+	m := MembershipFor("laptop", Declared{Module: "bar", KeyedReads: []KeyedRead{{Read: "power.draw", Key: "laptop"}}}, Placements{})
+	if len(m.State) != 1 || m.State[0] != (StateIssued{Name: "power.draw", Bucket: "power_draw", Key: "laptop"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v", m.State)
+	}
+	o := MembershipFor("laptop", Declared{Module: "power", State: []Bucket{{Module: "power", Name: "draw", PerMachine: true}}}, Placements{})
+	if len(o.State) != 1 || o.State[0] != (StateIssued{Name: "draw", Bucket: "power_draw", Writes: true, Key: "laptop"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v", o.State)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/users.go b/internal/broker/users.go
index a69474f2..e06ad472 100644
--- a/internal/broker/users.go
+++ b/internal/broker/users.go
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ type Declared struct {
 	State []Bucket
 	// Reads are other modules' state it reads, each `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201).
 	Reads []string
+	// KeyedReads are keys of other modules' state it reads, each one key alone: what a seat's holder is
+	// granted for the pieces the modules beside it offer (novox/hq ADR 0260).
+	KeyedReads []KeyedRead
 	// NoAccount says the module declares no own secret named broker, so no account could ever be
 	// delivered to it and nothing can connect as it (novox/hq issue 195). Said in the negative so a
 	// record that does not say is composed as it always was.
@@ -113,6 +116,7 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 				Emits: d.Emits, Consumes: d.Consumes, Serves: d.Serves,
 				Holds: d.Holds, Uses: d.Uses, Watches: d.Watches, Invokes: d.Invokes,
 				State: stateNames(d.State), Reads: d.Reads, SnapshotsTheBus: d.SnapshotsTheBus,
+				PerMachine: perMachineNames(d.State), KeyedReads: d.KeyedReads,
 			})
 		}
 		if runtimeHere {
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/graphical_session.go b/internal/catalogue/graphical_session.go
index bbccbfb7..a03a5082 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/graphical_session.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/graphical_session.go
@@ -136,16 +136,18 @@ var barShows = map[string]map[string]barOption{
 	"state": {"state": {kind: "text", required: true}, "key": {kind: "text"}},
 }
 
-// barBlockReads is the state a block shows, if any.
-func barBlockReads(data map[string]any) []string {
+// barBlockReads is the state and key a block shows, if any; an empty key is the machine's own.
+func barBlockReads(data map[string]any) []StateRead {
 	if data["shows"] != "state" {
 		return nil
 	}
 	options, _ := data["options"].(map[string]any)
-	if s, ok := options["state"].(string); ok && s != "" {
-		return []string{s}
+	s, ok := options["state"].(string)
+	if !ok || s == "" {
+		return nil
 	}
-	return nil
+	key, _ := options["key"].(string)
+	return []StateRead{{Read: s, Key: key}}
 }
 
 type barOption struct {
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seat_data.go b/internal/catalogue/seat_data.go
index e09c77ce..916b8a61 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/seat_data.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seat_data.go
@@ -38,10 +38,10 @@ type Shape struct {
 	// Examples are pieces every holder's template must render, one for each variant the shape has,
 	// so a holder that cannot render one is refused at registration and not found on a machine.
 	Examples []map[string]any
-	// Reads is the state on the bus a piece shows, as `<module>.<name>`, or nothing (novox/hq ADR
-	// 0255): a contributor offers only state it keeps itself, and the holder on the same machine is
-	// granted to read it, so the holder's manifest names no contributor.
-	Reads func(data map[string]any) []string `json:"-"`
+	// Reads is the state on the bus a piece shows, each a state and the one key of it, or nothing
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0260): a contributor offers only state it keeps itself, and the holder on the same
+	// machine is granted to read that key, so the holder's manifest names no contributor.
+	Reads func(data map[string]any) []StateRead `json:"-"`
 }
 
 // PlaceField is one field a holder places by, and the values it takes.
@@ -120,25 +120,38 @@ func ownStateProblems(m Manifest, i int, r Receivable, c SeatContribution) []str
 		keeps[s.Name] = true
 	}
 	var problems []string
-	for _, read := range r.Shape.Reads(c.Data) {
-		module, local, err := ReadState(read)
+	for _, sr := range r.Shape.Reads(c.Data) {
+		module, local, err := ReadState(sr.Read)
 		switch {
 		case err != nil:
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's contribution %d shows state %v", m.Module, i+1, err))
 		case module != m.Module || !keeps[local]:
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's contribution %d shows the state %s, which %s does not keep; a "+
-				"module offers its own state only (novox/hq ADR 0255)", m.Module, i+1, read, m.Module))
+				"module offers its own state only (novox/hq ADR 0260)", m.Module, i+1, sr.Read, m.Module))
+		}
+		if sr.Key != "" && !stateKeyName.MatchString(sr.Key) {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s's contribution %d shows the key %q; a key is lower-case letters, "+
+				"digits and hyphens", m.Module, i+1, sr.Key))
 		}
 	}
 	return problems
 }
 
+// StateRead is one key of another module's state that a holder reads: Read is `<module>.<name>`,
+// and Key the one key, empty for the holder's own machine until ReadsGranted names it.
+type StateRead struct {
+	Read, Key string
+}
+
+// stateKeyName is a key a piece may name: a machine's name is one.
+var stateKeyName = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$`)
+
 // ReadsGranted is the state a holder reads because modules on its machine offer it in pieces of a
-// kind its seat receives as data (novox/hq ADR 0255), sorted and once each. The bus grants the holder
-// these beside its own `reads`: the holder names no contributor, and reads only what is offered to it
-// on the machine it runs on.
-func ReadsGranted(holder Manifest, onMachine []Manifest) []string {
-	seen := map[string]bool{}
+// kind its seat receives as data (novox/hq ADR 0260), each with the one key the piece shows — the
+// machine's own when it names none — sorted and once each. The bus grants the holder these keys and
+// no others: the holder names no contributor, and reads only what is offered to it where it runs.
+func ReadsGranted(holder Manifest, onMachine []Manifest, machine string) []StateRead {
+	seen := map[StateRead]bool{}
 	for _, claim := range holder.Claims {
 		s, known := SeatNamed(claim.Name)
 		if !known {
@@ -153,16 +166,30 @@ func ReadsGranted(holder Manifest, onMachine []Manifest) []string {
 					if cs, ok := SeatNamed(c.Seat); !ok || cs.Name != s.Name || c.Kind != r.Kind {
 						continue
 					}
-					for _, read := range r.Shape.Reads(c.Data) {
-						if module, _, err := ReadState(read); err == nil && module == m.Module && module != holder.Module {
-							seen[read] = true
+					for _, sr := range r.Shape.Reads(c.Data) {
+						if sr.Key == "" {
+							sr.Key = machine
+						}
+						if module, _, err := ReadState(sr.Read); err == nil && module == m.Module && module != holder.Module &&
+							stateKeyName.MatchString(sr.Key) {
+							seen[sr] = true
 						}
 					}
 				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	return sortedKeys(seen)
+	out := make([]StateRead, 0, len(seen))
+	for sr := range seen {
+		out = append(out, sr)
+	}
+	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool {
+		if out[i].Read != out[j].Read {
+			return out[i].Read < out[j].Read
+		}
+		return out[i].Key < out[j].Key
+	})
+	return out
 }
 
 // wholeIn is v as a whole number within [lo, hi]; JSON gives every number as a float.
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go b/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go
index a154ff90..80aea856 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seat_data_test.go
@@ -364,14 +364,15 @@ func TestAStateBlockIsRenderedForThisMachineAndTheHolderIsGrantedToReadIt(t *tes
 	if bar := composedFile(t, r, "a-bar.bottom"); !strings.Contains(bar, `command = "show power.draw laptop"`) {
 		t.Fatalf("the block does not read this machine's key:\n%s", bar)
 	}
-	if got := ReadsGranted(barHolder(), []Manifest{barHolder(), power}); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "power.draw" {
+	if got := ReadsGranted(barHolder(), []Manifest{barHolder(), power}, "laptop"); len(got) != 1 ||
+		got[0] != (StateRead{Read: "power.draw", Key: "laptop"}) {
 		t.Fatalf("the holder is granted %v", got)
 	}
 	// Only the holder, and only for what the modules on its machine offer.
-	if got := ReadsGranted(power, []Manifest{barHolder(), power}); len(got) != 0 {
+	if got := ReadsGranted(power, []Manifest{barHolder(), power}, "laptop"); len(got) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("a contributor is granted %v", got)
 	}
-	if got := ReadsGranted(barHolder(), []Manifest{barHolder()}); len(got) != 0 {
+	if got := ReadsGranted(barHolder(), []Manifest{barHolder()}, "laptop"); len(got) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("a holder alone is granted %v", got)
 	}
 }
@@ -393,3 +394,14 @@ func TestAModuleOffersItsOwnStateOnly(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("its own state was refused: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestPerMachineStateIsDeclaredAndKeptInItsLongForm(t *testing.T) {
+	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"power","state":[{"name":"draw","ttl-seconds":30,"per-machine":true}]}`))
+	if err != nil || len(m.State) != 1 || !m.State[0].PerMachine {
+		t.Fatalf("%+v %v", m.State, err)
+	}
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(StateDeclaration{Name: "draw", PerMachine: true})
+	if string(raw) != `{"name":"draw","per-machine":true}` {
+		t.Fatalf("%s", raw)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/state.go b/internal/catalogue/state.go
index fa49f718..d21297cd 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/state.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/state.go
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ type StateDeclaration struct {
 	History int `json:"history,omitempty"`
 	// TTLSeconds is how long a value lives once written; zero is until it is replaced or deleted.
 	TTLSeconds int `json:"ttl-seconds,omitempty"`
+	// PerMachine says the state is keyed by machine: each machine's instance writes the key named for
+	// its machine and no other, and the bus grants it that key alone (novox/hq ADR 0260).
+	PerMachine bool `json:"per-machine,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // UnmarshalJSON reads a bucket as its bare name, or as {name, history, ttl-seconds}.
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@ func (s *StateDeclaration) UnmarshalJSON(raw []byte) error {
 	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(trimmed))
 	dec.DisallowUnknownFields()
 	if err := dec.Decode(&full); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("a state is either a name or {name, history, ttl-seconds}: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("a state is either a name or {name, history, ttl-seconds, per-machine}: %w", err)
 	}
 	*s = StateDeclaration(full)
 	return nil
@@ -54,7 +57,7 @@ func (s *StateDeclaration) UnmarshalJSON(raw []byte) error {
 
 // MarshalJSON writes back the short form when there is nothing else to say.
 func (s StateDeclaration) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
-	if s.History == 0 && s.TTLSeconds == 0 {
+	if s.History == 0 && s.TTLSeconds == 0 && !s.PerMachine {
 		return json.Marshal(s.Name)
 	}
 	type plain StateDeclaration
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/state_test.go b/internal/catalogue/state_test.go
index 62297874..98eba5f9 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/state_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/state_test.go
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func TestAStateNameIsLocalAndOneToken(t *testing.T) {
 		{`{"module":"a.b","version":"1","state":["s"]}`, `no dot`},
 		{`{"module":"a","version":"1","reads":["bindings"]}`, `a read is <module>.<name>`},
 		{`{"module":"a","version":"1","reads":["a.s"]}`, `which is its own state`},
-		{`{"module":"a","version":"1","state":[{"name":"s","shared":true}]}`, `{name, history, ttl-seconds}`},
+		{`{"module":"a","version":"1","state":[{"name":"s","shared":true}]}`, `{name, history, ttl-seconds, per-machine}`},
 	} {
 		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(c.manifest))
 		if err == nil {
diff --git a/internal/inventory/busrecords.go b/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
index de46f7f6..60935291 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
@@ -80,8 +80,9 @@ func (i *Inventory) BusRecords(ctx context.Context) (broker.Records, error) {
 			}
 			d := declaredFor(m, seats)
 			// And the state offered to it as a seat's holder by the modules beside it (novox/hq ADR 0255).
-			if granted := catalogue.ReadsGranted(m, onMachine(declared, modules)); len(granted) > 0 {
-				d.Reads = append(append([]string(nil), d.Reads...), granted...)
+			// For this machine's key alone (novox/hq ADR 0260): a bar shows its own machine's draw.
+			for _, sr := range catalogue.ReadsGranted(m, onMachine(declared, modules), n.Name) {
+				d.KeyedReads = append(d.KeyedReads, broker.KeyedRead{Read: sr.Read, Key: sr.Key})
 			}
 			d.Holds = heldHere(d.Holds, holdings, n.Name, module)
 			out.Assigned[n.Name] = append(out.Assigned[n.Name], d)
@@ -182,7 +183,8 @@ func declaredFor(m catalogue.Manifest, seats map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaratio
 func bucketsOf(m catalogue.Manifest) []broker.Bucket {
 	var out []broker.Bucket
 	for _, s := range m.State {
-		out = append(out, broker.Bucket{Module: m.Module, Name: s.Name, History: s.History, TTLSeconds: s.TTLSeconds})
+		out = append(out, broker.Bucket{Module: m.Module, Name: s.Name, History: s.History, TTLSeconds: s.TTLSeconds,
+			PerMachine: s.PerMachine})
 	}
 	return out
 }
diff --git a/internal/inventory/busrecords_test.go b/internal/inventory/busrecords_test.go
index b0f2a5d0..8c910dbc 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/busrecords_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/busrecords_test.go
@@ -322,16 +322,20 @@ func TestABarIsGrantedTheStateItsMachinesModulesOfferIt(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	reads := func(node, module string) []string {
+	reads := func(node, module string) []broker.KeyedRead {
 		for _, d := range records.Assigned[node] {
 			if d.Module == module {
-				return d.Reads
+				if len(d.Reads) != 0 {
+					t.Fatalf("%s on %s reads whole buckets: %v", module, node, d.Reads)
+				}
+				return d.KeyedReads
 			}
 		}
 		t.Fatalf("%s is not on %s", module, node)
 		return nil
 	}
-	if got := reads("laptop", "a-bar"); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "power.draw" {
+	// The laptop's own key, and no other (novox/hq ADR 0260).
+	if got := reads("laptop", "a-bar"); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != (broker.KeyedRead{Read: "power.draw", Key: "laptop"}) {
 		t.Fatalf("the laptop's bar reads %v", got)
 	}
 	if got := reads("desk", "a-bar"); len(got) != 0 {