diff --git a/check-nested-modules.sh b/check-nested-modules.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ce37d2f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/check-nested-modules.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# The unit tests of every Go module of its own below this repository's root, run from the root, for merge-check.sh
+# and for the test that tries it on a tree (merge_check_nested_test.go). Its own file so that the test needs no
+# particular merge-check.sh: the check that judges a change to merge-check.sh is main's.
+set -eu
+cgo="${cgo:-0}"
+race="${race:-}"
+
+# nested_modules vets and tests every Go module of its own below the root, `modules/<name>/go.mod` (novox/hq ADR 0420
+# §5, issue 1025): `./...` stops at a nested go.mod, so a module that lives whole in this repository would have its
+# unit tests run by nobody. None is a pass. Each runs in its own directory, outside the vendor directory this
+# repository's own packages are built from; how its dependencies are found offline is issue 1019's (the move of the
+# first two modules in), and it is settled there. A failing module fails the check; the others are still run.
+nested_modules() {
+	nested=0
+	for gomod in modules/*/go.mod; do
+		[ -e "$gomod" ] || continue
+		dir=$(dirname "$gomod")
+		echo "nested module $dir:"
+		if ! (cd "$dir" && GOFLAGS= CGO_ENABLED=0 go vet ./... &&
+			GOFLAGS= CGO_ENABLED="${cgo:-0}" go test ${race:-} -count=1 -timeout 30m ./...); then
+			echo "nested module $dir FAILED"
+			nested=1
+		fi
+	done
+	return $nested
+}
+
+nested_modules
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go
index 11a4ef4a..a7565d8c 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source.go
@@ -435,6 +435,20 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 				module, sourceWords(built.Repository, built.Seat))
 		}
 	}
+	// **Or the move the operator approved** (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025): a known module built from another
+	// repository by a merge, whose pull request mesh-delivery merged on the operator's Approve of that head.
+	// A verb alone, or a merge with no such warrant, is refused as before.
+	movedWhy := ""
+	if why != "" && !terminal && !isNew {
+		accepted, err := approvedMove(ctx, inv, forms, buildID, built)
+		switch {
+		case err == nil:
+			movedWhy, why = accepted, ""
+		case !errors.Is(err, errNotAMerge):
+			fmt.Printf("%s: %s is built from another repository, and no approved move covers this build: %v\n",
+				buildID, module, err)
+		}
+	}
 	if why != "" && !terminal {
 		return refuse(why)
 	}
@@ -471,7 +485,8 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 	}
 	// The same repository by the forge's id, not only its name: one deleted and made again is another.
 	recorded := map[string]int64{}
-	if !isNew {
+	// A moved module is registered from the repository the operator approved, not the one it was registered from.
+	if !isNew && movedWhy == "" {
 		id, err := inv.SourceIdentity(ctx, module)
 		if err != nil {
 			return 0, err
@@ -492,6 +507,10 @@ func mayRegisterFrom(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, module strin
 				owner, name, m, facts.ID, m, id))
 		}
 	}
+	if movedWhy != "" {
+		fmt.Printf("%s: %s moved from %s to %s/%s — registered at the operator's Approve: %s\n", buildID, module,
+			sourceWords(was.Repository, was.Seat), owner, name, movedWhy)
+	}
 	return facts.ID, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_test.go
index 146ffcfe..03ce2bd0 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/build_source_test.go
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
+
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
 )
@@ -382,3 +384,75 @@ func TestAnUnknownIdentityKeepsTheRecordedOne(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the recorded id became %d", id)
 	}
 }
+
+// **The operator's Approve of a reviewed group registers a moved module from its new repository** (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7,
+// issue 1025). sudo is built from the catalogue; a merge into the repository of node-engine's module, announced by
+// mesh-delivery with the ask it merged on, brings its build from there. Accepted with the operator's Approve of the
+// merged head; refused with no kept merge, a warrant for other heads, a Decline, a person who is not the operator, and
+// through a verb.
+func TestAModuleMovesOnTheOperatorsApproveOfTheMergeThatMovedIt(t *testing.T) {
+	const commit = "c0ffee0123456789"
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		what    string
+		change  func(*anApprovedMerge)
+		unkept  bool
+		request string // who asked: "merge", or "build" through a verb
+		moved   bool
+	}{
+		{what: "the operator's Approve of the merged head", request: "merge", moved: true},
+		{what: "no merge mesh-delivery announced", unkept: true, request: "merge"},
+		{what: "a warrant for other heads", request: "merge", change: func(a *anApprovedMerge) {
+			a.merge.Heads = map[string]string{"novox/mesh-host@aaaaaaaaaaaa": "e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5e5"}
+		}},
+		{what: "a Decline", request: "merge", change: func(a *anApprovedMerge) {
+			a.warrant.Option, a.warrant.Label, a.merge.Option = "decline", "Decline", "decline"
+		}},
+		{what: "a person who is not the operator", request: "merge", change: func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.warrant.By.Who = "agent" }},
+		{what: "a build asked through a verb", request: "build"},
+	} {
+		open := theCatalogue(t)
+		ctx := t.Context()
+		inv := open.inventory
+		a := approvedMerge(t)
+		a.merge.Owner, a.merge.Repo, a.merge.Number, a.merge.HeadSHA = "novox", "mesh-host", 7, "a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1"
+		if c.change != nil {
+			c.change(&a)
+		}
+		wasKept, wasAsk := keptDeliveryMerge, routerAskOf
+		keptDeliveryMerge = func(_ context.Context, owner, repo string, number int, head string) (deliveryMerge, bool, error) {
+			return a.merge, !c.unkept && owner == "novox" && repo == "mesh-host" && number == 7 && head == a.merge.HeadSHA, nil
+		}
+		routerAskOf = func(_ context.Context, _ *inventory.Inventory, id string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+			if id != a.merge.AskID {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the router was asked for %q", c.what, id)
+			}
+			return &a.ask, &a.warrant, nil
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(func() { keptDeliveryMerge, routerAskOf = wasKept, wasAsk })
+		event, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"owner": "novox", "repo": "mesh-host", "base": "main", "number": 7,
+			"head_sha": a.merge.HeadSHA, "merge_commit_sha": commit})
+		if _, err := inv.AddMerge(ctx, inventory.BatchedMerge{Repository: "novox/mesh-host", Branch: "main", Commit: commit,
+			Merged: time.Now(), Heard: time.Now(), Event: event}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		id := fmt.Sprintf("build-%d", time.Now().Add(time.Hour).UnixNano())
+		if err := inv.RecordBuildRequest(ctx, inventory.BuildRequest{ID: id, Repository: "novox/mesh-host", Seat: "git",
+			Path: "modules/sudo", Ref: "main", Commit: commit, For: c.request}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		moved := onTrunk(id, "novox/mesh-host", "git", "modules/sudo", map[string]any{"module": "sudo", "version": "2"})
+		moved.Commit = commit
+		_, _, err := takeIn(ctx, inv, moved)
+		src, _ := inv.SourceOf(ctx, "sudo")
+		switch {
+		case c.moved && err != nil:
+			t.Errorf("%s: the move was refused: %v", c.what, err)
+		case c.moved && src.Repository != "novox/mesh-host":
+			t.Errorf("%s: sudo is built from %q", c.what, src.Repository)
+		case !c.moved && !errors.Is(err, errNotItsSource):
+			t.Errorf("%s: the move was not refused as ADR 0266 has it: %v", c.what, err)
+		case !c.moved && src.Repository != "novox/mesh-catalog":
+			t.Errorf("%s: a refused move changed sudo's source to %q", c.what, src.Repository)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_check_nested_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_check_nested_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8888954
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_check_nested_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// **A repository's merge check runs every module's unit tests, a Go module of its own below the root included**
+// (novox/hq ADR 0420 §5, issue 1025): `./...` stops at a nested go.mod. This runs the script
+// check-nested-modules.sh in a tree with a `go` that only records where it was run and fails for a module named bad.
+func TestTheMergeCheckVetsAndTestsEveryNestedGoModule(t *testing.T) {
+	script, err := filepath.Abs("../../check-nested-modules.sh")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	bin, tree := t.TempDir(), t.TempDir()
+	log := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "go.log")
+	fake := "#!/bin/sh\necho \"$(basename \"$PWD\") $1 GOFLAGS=[$GOFLAGS]\" >>\"$LOG\"\n" +
+		"[ \"$(basename \"$PWD\")\" = bad ] && [ \"$1\" = test ] && exit 1\nexit 0\n"
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(bin, "go"), []byte(fake), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	run := func() (string, error) {
+		cmd := exec.Command("sh", script)
+		cmd.Dir = tree
+		cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "PATH="+bin+":"+os.Getenv("PATH"), "LOG="+log, "GOFLAGS=-mod=vendor")
+		out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+		return string(out), err
+	}
+	// No modules directory: a pass, nothing run.
+	if out, err := run(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a repository with no nested module failed: %v\n%s", err, out)
+	}
+	if _, err := os.Stat(log); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("go ran with no nested module")
+	}
+	for _, m := range []string{"good", "bad", "other"} {
+		dir := filepath.Join(tree, "modules", m)
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "go.mod"), []byte("module x\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	// A directory with no go.mod is no Go module of its own.
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "typescript"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	out, err := run()
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a nested module whose tests fail passed the check:\n%s", out)
+	}
+	raw, _ := os.ReadFile(log)
+	ran := string(raw)
+	for _, want := range []string{"good vet GOFLAGS=[]", "good test GOFLAGS=[]", "other test GOFLAGS=[]", "bad test GOFLAGS=[]"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(ran, want) {
+			t.Errorf("%q was not run, nor outside the vendor directory:\n%s", want, ran)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(ran, "typescript") {
+		t.Errorf("a directory with no go.mod was run:\n%s", ran)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(out, "nested module modules/bad FAILED") {
+		t.Errorf("the failing module is not named:\n%s", out)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
index a199c4f4..fb781bda 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
@@ -271,6 +271,25 @@ func judgeChange(ctx context.Context, in mergeCheckInput) (mergeVerdict, error)
 	// The change, then each other head of its delivery group laid over it in turn (novox/hq ADR 0239): one
 	// future state of the mesh, judged as the group would leave it.
 	heads := append([]groupChange{{Repository: in.repository, Tree: in.tree, Changed: in.changed}}, in.group...)
+	// **A module one head removes and another defines is a move** (novox/hq ADR 0420 §6, issue 1025): neither
+	// the removal of a module machines run (ADR 0236) nor a second definition of one module name (issue 239).
+	// The change is judged with the module built from the repository that now defines it.
+	moves, err := movesInGroup(heads, sources)
+	if err != nil {
+		return v, err
+	}
+	changeSources := sources
+	if len(moves) > 0 {
+		changeSources = make(map[string]inventory.Source, len(sources))
+		for k, o := range sources {
+			changeSources[k] = o
+		}
+		for name, mv := range moves {
+			o := changeSources[name]
+			o.Repository, o.Path = mv.To, mv.Dir
+			changeSources[name] = o
+		}
+	}
 	for i, h := range heads {
 		var r *mergeReach
 		if h.Repository != "" && len(h.Changed) > 0 {
@@ -289,13 +308,23 @@ func judgeChange(ctx context.Context, in mergeCheckInput) (mergeVerdict, error)
 			continue
 		}
 		var failures []string
-		change, failures, err = shelfWithChange(change, sources, in.facts, h.Repository, h.Tree, v.Modules,
-			scopeOfReach(r, h.Repository))
+		scope := scopeOfReach(r, h.Repository)
+		if scope != nil {
+			for _, mv := range moves {
+				if mv.To == h.Repository {
+					scope[mv.Dir] = true
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		change, failures, err = shelfWithChange(change, changeSources, in.facts, h.Repository, h.Tree, v.Modules, scope)
 		if err != nil {
 			return v, err
 		}
 		v.Failures = append(v.Failures, failures...)
 	}
+	for name := range moves {
+		v.Modules[name] = "moved"
+	}
 	if len(in.group) > 0 {
 		say("a delivery group: %d head(s) composed together", len(heads))
 	}
@@ -332,7 +361,7 @@ func judgeChange(ctx context.Context, in mergeCheckInput) (mergeVerdict, error)
 		}
 	}
 	sort.Strings(added)
-	after, tried, notes, err := composeEveryMachine(ctx, in, change, sources, added)
+	after, tried, notes, err := composeEveryMachine(ctx, in, change, changeSources, added)
 	if err != nil {
 		return v, fmt.Errorf("the mesh with the change could not be raised: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -531,6 +560,98 @@ func sourcesOfFacts(f snapshot.Facts) map[string]inventory.Source {
 	return out
 }
 
+// moveOfModule is a module a delivery group moves: the repository the mesh builds it from, the one whose
+// head now defines it, and its directory there.
+type moveOfModule struct{ From, To, Dir string }
+
+// movesInGroup is the modules one head of a group removes and another defines (novox/hq ADR 0420 §6): a name
+// the mesh builds from a head's repository that the head's tree no longer defines, and some other head's tree
+// defines. A name removed by a head with no other head defining it, or defined by a head the mesh builds from
+// another repository with none removing it, is no move.
+func movesInGroup(heads []groupChange, sources map[string]inventory.Source) (map[string]moveOfModule, error) {
+	if len(heads) < 2 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	defined := make([]map[string]string, len(heads))
+	for i, h := range heads {
+		if h.Tree == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		d, err := namesDefinedIn(h.Tree)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		defined[i] = d
+	}
+	var moves map[string]moveOfModule
+	for name, s := range sources {
+		if s.Repository == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		for i, h := range heads {
+			if h.Tree == "" || !sameRepository(s.Repository, link.SourceMoved{Owner: ownerOf(h.Repository), Repo: repoOf(h.Repository)}) {
+				continue
+			}
+			if _, still := defined[i][name]; still {
+				break
+			}
+			// Removed by head i: defined by another?
+			for j, o := range heads {
+				if dir, ok := defined[j][name]; ok && j != i && o.Repository != h.Repository {
+					if moves == nil {
+						moves = map[string]moveOfModule{}
+					}
+					moves[name] = moveOfModule{From: h.Repository, To: o.Repository, Dir: dir}
+				}
+			}
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	return moves, nil
+}
+
+// namesDefinedIn is the module names a tree's module.json files define, each with its directory; a manifest
+// that does not read is left to shelfWithChange to refuse.
+func namesDefinedIn(tree string) (map[string]string, error) {
+	found := map[string]string{}
+	err := filepath.WalkDir(tree, func(path string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if d.IsDir() {
+			if path != tree && (ignoredInTree[d.Name()] || strings.HasPrefix(d.Name(), ".")) {
+				return filepath.SkipDir
+			}
+			return nil
+		}
+		if d.Name() != "module.json" {
+			return nil
+		}
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		var m struct {
+			Module string `json:"module"`
+		}
+		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &m) != nil || m.Module == "" {
+			return nil
+		}
+		dir, err := filepath.Rel(tree, filepath.Dir(path))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if dir == "." {
+			dir = ""
+		}
+		if _, twice := found[m.Module]; !twice {
+			found[m.Module] = dir
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	return found, err
+}
+
 // ignoredInTree are directories a module.json in is not a module of the repository.
 var ignoredInTree = map[string]bool{".git": true, "vendor": true, "node_modules": true, "testdata": true,
 	"examples": true, "fixtures": true}
@@ -1267,6 +1388,8 @@ func graphOfFacts(f snapshot.Facts) ([]inventory.Entry, map[string][]inventory.R
 				read[mod.Name] = append(read[mod.Name], inventory.ReadRepository{Own: true, Paths: s.Paths})
 			}
 		}
+		// A context naming the module's own repository is its own build source (novox/hq ADR 0420 §4).
+		read[mod.Name] = inventory.OwnRepositoryAsOwn(read[mod.Name], mod.Repository)
 	}
 	var edges []inventory.Edge
 	for _, e := range f.Edges {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go
index 00289ff2..9852431d 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go
@@ -434,3 +434,128 @@ func sdkPinnedByGoMod(t *testing.T) string {
 	t.Fatalf("go.mod requires no %s", sdkModule)
 	return ""
 }
+
+// **A module one head of a group removes and another defines is a move** (novox/hq ADR 0420 §6, issue 1025):
+// neither a second definition of one module name (issue 239) nor the removal of a module machines run
+// (ADR 0236). Alone, each head is still refused. This lays the heads over the shelf as judgeChange does,
+// which needs no database.
+func TestAGroupsMoveOfAModuleIsNeitherTwoDefinitionsNorARemoval(t *testing.T) {
+	const catalogueRepo, controllerRepo = "novox/mesh-catalog", "novox/mesh-controller"
+	built := func(repo, path string) inventory.Source {
+		return inventory.Source{Repository: "http://forge.internal:20000/" + repo + ".git", Path: path, BuiltFrom: "c0ffee"}
+	}
+	sources := map[string]inventory.Source{"mover": built(catalogueRepo, "modules/mover")}
+	raw := `{"module":"mover","version":"1"}`
+	base := map[string]catalogue.Manifest{}
+	m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest([]byte(raw))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	base["mover"] = m
+	facts := snapshot.Facts{Machines: []snapshot.Machine{{Name: "anchor", Assigned: []string{"mover"}}}}
+
+	catalogueWithout := aTree(t, map[string]string{"other": `{"module":"other","version":"1"}`})
+	controllerWith := func() string {
+		dir := t.TempDir()
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "modules", "mover"), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "modules", "mover", "module.json"), []byte(raw), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return dir
+	}()
+	removes := groupChange{Repository: catalogueRepo, Tree: catalogueWithout, Changed: []string{"modules/mover/module.json"}}
+	defines := groupChange{Repository: controllerRepo, Tree: controllerWith, Changed: []string{"modules/mover/module.json"}}
+
+	lay := func(heads ...groupChange) (map[string]catalogue.Manifest, []string, map[string]string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		moves, err := movesInGroup(heads, sources)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		at := sources
+		if len(moves) > 0 {
+			at = map[string]inventory.Source{}
+			for k, v := range sources {
+				at[k] = v
+			}
+			for name, mv := range moves {
+				o := at[name]
+				o.Repository, o.Path = mv.To, mv.Dir
+				at[name] = o
+			}
+		}
+		shelf, said := base, map[string]string{}
+		var failures []string
+		for _, h := range heads {
+			var f []string
+			if shelf, f, err = shelfWithChange(shelf, at, facts, h.Repository, h.Tree, said, nil); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			failures = append(failures, f...)
+		}
+		for name := range moves {
+			said[name] = "moved"
+		}
+		return shelf, failures, said
+	}
+	for _, order := range [][]groupChange{{removes, defines}, {defines, removes}} {
+		shelf, failures, said := lay(order...)
+		if len(failures) > 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("a move of a module machines run, laid %s first, was refused: %v", order[0].Repository, failures)
+		}
+		if said["mover"] != "moved" {
+			t.Errorf("the move reads %v, not moved", said)
+		}
+		if _, held := shelf["mover"]; !held {
+			t.Errorf("the moved module is not on the shelf after laying %s first", order[0].Repository)
+		}
+	}
+	// Alone, a head is still refused: a second definition (issue 239), and a removal of what runs (ADR 0236).
+	if _, failures, _ := lay(defines); len(failures) != 1 || !strings.Contains(failures[0], "issue 239") {
+		t.Errorf("a definition of a module another repository builds, alone: %v", failures)
+	}
+	if _, failures, _ := lay(removes); len(failures) != 1 || !strings.Contains(failures[0], "ADR 0236") {
+		t.Errorf("the removal of a module machines run, alone: %v", failures)
+	}
+}
+
+// A group that moves a module machines run passes the gate whole, in either order of its heads, and says the
+// module moved (novox/hq ADR 0420 §6, issue 1025); a head alone is still refused. Needs the test store.
+func TestADeliveryGroupMovingAModuleMachinesRunPassesTheGate(t *testing.T) {
+	f, manifests := catalogueMeshWithAnApp(t)
+	catTree := aTree(t, withEdit(manifests, "album", ""))
+	app := t.TempDir()
+	// The app module is built from this repository's root, and stays there: only album moves.
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(app, "module.json"), []byte(`{"module":"app","version":"1"}`), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(app, "modules", "album"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(app, "modules", "album", "module.json"), []byte(manifests["album"]), 0o644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	removes := groupChange{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Tree: catTree, Changed: []string{"modules/album/module.json"}}
+	defines := groupChange{Repository: "novox/app", Tree: app, Changed: []string{"modules/album/module.json"}}
+	judge := func(first groupChange, rest ...groupChange) mergeVerdict {
+		v, err := judgeChange(t.Context(), mergeCheckInput{facts: f, admin: os.Getenv("MESH_TEST_POSTGRES"),
+			repository: first.Repository, tree: first.Tree, changed: first.Changed, group: rest})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return v
+	}
+	for _, v := range []mergeVerdict{judge(removes, defines), judge(defines, removes)} {
+		if v.Verdict == "fail" || v.Modules["album"] != "moved" {
+			t.Fatalf("a group moving a module machines run: %v\n%s", v.Modules, v.Report())
+		}
+	}
+	if v := judge(defines); v.Verdict != "fail" {
+		t.Errorf("a definition of a module another repository builds passed alone:\n%s", v.Report())
+	}
+	if v := judge(removes); v.Verdict != "fail" {
+		t.Errorf("the removal of a module machines run passed alone:\n%s", v.Report())
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c111ce0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved.go
@@ -0,0 +1,259 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+)
+
+// The operator's Approve of a delivery group registers a moved module from its new repository (novox/hq ADR 0420
+// §7, issue 1025). ADR 0266 §44 lets a build's outcome register a known module only from the repository the
+// catalogue already builds it from. The one exception was a build asked at the controller's terminal. This is a
+// second, for a move: mesh-delivery announces each merge it makes with the ask whose Approve it merged on; the
+// controller keeps the announcement, and when the build of a merge of a known module comes from another repository
+// it reads that ask's warrant from the router and accepts only the operator's Approve of the merged head. A verb
+// alone, or a merge with no such warrant, never moves a module.
+
+// theDelivery is the module that merges, and whose asks these are.
+const theDelivery = "mesh-delivery"
+
+// optionApprove is the option of mesh-delivery's ask that merges (its OptionApprove).
+const optionApprove = "approve"
+
+// deliveryMerge is mesh-delivery's announcement of a merge it made: the pull request and the head it merged, the
+// group it belongs to, and the ask whose answer it merged on with the option chosen and the heads that answer was
+// bound to (delivery id → commit).
+type deliveryMerge struct {
+	Owner   string            `json:"owner"`
+	Repo    string            `json:"repo"`
+	Number  int               `json:"number"`
+	HeadSHA string            `json:"head_sha"`
+	Group   string            `json:"group,omitempty"`
+	AskID   string            `json:"ask_id"`
+	Option  string            `json:"option"`
+	Heads   map[string]string `json:"heads"`
+}
+
+// parseDeliveryMerge reads an announcement, refusing one that names no pull request, head or ask.
+func parseDeliveryMerge(body []byte) (deliveryMerge, error) {
+	var d deliveryMerge
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &d); err != nil {
+		return d, fmt.Errorf("mesh-delivery's word on a merge cannot be read: %w", err)
+	}
+	if d.Owner == "" || d.Repo == "" || d.Number <= 0 || d.HeadSHA == "" || d.AskID == "" || d.Option == "" {
+		return d, errors.New("mesh-delivery's word on a merge names no pull request, head, ask or option")
+	}
+	return d, nil
+}
+
+// deliveryMergeKey is where a merge is kept: bus keys allow no `#` or `@`, so the pull request and its head are
+// path-like tokens, as the forge spells the repository.
+func deliveryMergeKey(owner, repo string, number int, head string) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/%d/%s", owner, repo, number, head)
+}
+
+// mergeAct is what mesh-delivery's answer binds, spelled exactly as mesh-delivery spells it (its approval.go:
+// mergeAct and headsString): this ask, the option and the heads it covers.
+func mergeAct(ask, option string, heads map[string]string) asks.Act {
+	var out []string
+	for id, sha := range heads {
+		out = append(out, id+"="+sha)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return asks.Act{"verb": theDelivery + ".merge", "ask": ask, "option": option, "heads": strings.Join(out, ",")}
+}
+
+// movedOnApprove judges the warrant of the ask a merge was made on: it holds only if it is the operator's Approve,
+// proved by the channel it came through, of this very ask as it was published (digest), bound to the heads the
+// announcement names, and those heads hold the head merged. Answers why it holds, or why not.
+func movedOnApprove(d deliveryMerge, ask *asks.Ask, w *asks.Warrant) (string, error) {
+	switch {
+	case ask == nil || w == nil:
+		return "", errors.New("the router holds no closed record of the ask the merge was made on")
+	case ask.Who != asks.Operator:
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the ask %s is for %q to answer, not the operator", ask.ID, ask.Who)
+	case d.Option != optionApprove:
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the merge was made on the option %q, not an Approve", d.Option)
+	}
+	option, err := w.For(theDelivery, *ask)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if option.ID != optionApprove || w.Option != optionApprove || d.Option != option.ID {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the operator chose %q on the ask %s, not an Approve", w.Option, w.Ask)
+	}
+	if w.By == nil || w.By.Who != asks.Operator || w.By.Verified == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the ask %s was not answered by the operator on a channel that proves who answered", w.Ask)
+	}
+	if err := option.Performs(mergeAct(d.AskID, option.ID, d.Heads)); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	named := false
+	for _, sha := range d.Heads {
+		named = named || sha == d.HeadSHA
+	}
+	if !named {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the Approve covers %v, and the head merged, %.8s, is not among them", d.Heads, d.HeadSHA)
+	}
+	return w.Says() + " (ask " + w.Ask + ")", nil
+}
+
+// ---- keeping what mesh-delivery announced ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// keepingDeliveryMerges keeps each merge mesh-delivery announces in the controller's bucket for them.
+type keepingDeliveryMerges struct {
+	js func() *broker.JetStream
+}
+
+func (k keepingDeliveryMerges) KeepDeliveryMerge(ctx context.Context, body []byte) error {
+	d, err := parseDeliveryMerge(body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	js := k.js()
+	if js == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: the bus is not held", link.ErrTryAgain)
+	}
+	api, err := jetstream.New(js.Conn())
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %w", link.ErrTryAgain, err)
+	}
+	kv, err := api.KeyValue(ctx, broker.DeliveryMergesBucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: the bucket of mesh-delivery's merges: %w", link.ErrTryAgain, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := kv.Put(ctx, deliveryMergeKey(d.Owner, d.Repo, d.Number, d.HeadSHA), body); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %w", link.ErrTryAgain, err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// keptDeliveryMerge is the merge mesh-delivery announced for a pull request's head; false when none was kept.
+// A variable so a test can hand it one.
+var keptDeliveryMerge = func(ctx context.Context, owner, repo string, number int, head string) (deliveryMerge, bool, error) {
+	serving := servingBus.Load()
+	if serving == nil {
+		return deliveryMerge{}, false, errors.New("only the serving controller keeps what mesh-delivery announced")
+	}
+	api, err := jetstream.New(serving.Conn())
+	if err != nil {
+		return deliveryMerge{}, false, err
+	}
+	kv, err := api.KeyValue(ctx, broker.DeliveryMergesBucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		return deliveryMerge{}, false, err
+	}
+	e, err := kv.Get(ctx, deliveryMergeKey(owner, repo, number, head))
+	if errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrKeyNotFound) {
+		return deliveryMerge{}, false, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return deliveryMerge{}, false, err
+	}
+	d, err := parseDeliveryMerge(e.Value())
+	return d, err == nil, err
+}
+
+// routerAskOf is the router's record of one of mesh-delivery's asks: the ask as published and its warrant. A
+// variable so a test can hand it one.
+var routerAskOf = func(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, id string) (*asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+	serving := servingBus.Load()
+	if serving == nil {
+		return nil, nil, errors.New("only the serving controller reads the router's record")
+	}
+	bucket, err := asksRecords(ctx, inv)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	if bucket == "" {
+		return nil, nil, errors.New("no module declares the operator channel's records")
+	}
+	_, ask, w, err := readRouterEntry(ctx, serving.Conn(), bucket, theDelivery, id)
+	return ask, w, err
+}
+
+// readRouterEntry reads the router's record of one asker's ask: its state, the ask as published, and its warrant;
+// "" when there is none. The controller's grant reaches the JetStream API whole (`$JS.API.>`), so it reads any
+// asker's record.
+func readRouterEntry(ctx context.Context, conn *nats.Conn, bucket, asker, ask string) (string, *asks.Ask, *asks.Warrant, error) {
+	reply, err := conn.RequestWithContext(ctx, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_"+bucket+".$KV."+bucket+"."+asker+"."+ask, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, nil, err
+	}
+	if status := reply.Header.Get("Status"); status != "" {
+		if status == "404" {
+			return "", nil, nil, nil
+		}
+		return "", nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("the router's record could not be read: %s %s", status, reply.Header.Get("Description"))
+	}
+	var rec struct {
+		State   string        `json:"state"`
+		Ask     *asks.Ask     `json:"ask"`
+		Warrant *asks.Warrant `json:"warrant"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(reply.Data, &rec); err != nil {
+		return "", nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("the router's record of %s's ask %s cannot be read: %w", asker, ask, err)
+	}
+	return rec.State, rec.Ask, rec.Warrant, nil
+}
+
+// errNotAMerge says a build was not asked for a merge, so there is no move to look for.
+var errNotAMerge = errors.New("the build is not of a merge")
+
+// approvedMove says whether a build of a known module from another repository is the move the operator approved
+// (ADR 0420 §7): the build is of a merge, that merge is a pull request mesh-delivery announced it made, and the
+// ask it made it on holds an Approve by the operator of that head. Answers why it was accepted; an error says why
+// it was not, and the refusal of ADR 0266 stands.
+func approvedMove(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, forms *sourceForms, buildID string,
+	built inventory.Source) (string, error) {
+	r, found, err := inv.BuildRequestByID(ctx, buildID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !found || r.For != "merge" || r.Commit == "" {
+		return "", errNotAMerge
+	}
+	owner, name, onForge := forms.onTheForge(built.Repository, built.Seat)
+	if !onForge {
+		return "", errors.New("the repository is not on the mesh's forge")
+	}
+	merged, known, err := inv.MergeOf(ctx, owner+"/"+name, r.Commit)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !known {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the controller kept no merge of %s/%s at %.8s", owner, name, r.Commit)
+	}
+	k := announcedOf(merged)
+	if k.Number <= 0 || k.HeadSHA == "" {
+		return "", errors.New("the forge's announcement of the merge names no pull request or head")
+	}
+	d, kept, err := keptDeliveryMerge(ctx, owner, name, k.Number, k.HeadSHA)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !kept {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("mesh-delivery announced no merge of %s/%s#%d at %.8s", owner, name, k.Number, k.HeadSHA)
+	}
+	ask, w, err := routerAskOf(ctx, inv, d.AskID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	why, err := movedOnApprove(d, ask, w)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s#%d merged at %.8s on %s", owner, name, k.Number, k.HeadSHA, why), nil
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/moved_bus_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved_bus_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c793ba96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved_bus_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/testbus"
+)
+
+// The move whole, against a real bus and the store (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025): mesh-delivery's word that it
+// merged a pull request is published on the subject the controller consumes and kept in its bucket; the router's
+// record of the ask is read back from the router's bucket by a direct get; and the build of a module from the
+// repository that merge was made in is registered from there only when that record holds the operator's Approve of
+// the merged head. Store-backed: skips without one.
+func TestAModuleBuiltFromANewRepositoryIsRegisteredOnlyOnTheOperatorsApproveOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		what   string
+		answer bool // the router holds the operator's Approve of the merged heads
+		moved  bool
+	}{
+		{what: "the router holds the operator's Approve", answer: true, moved: true},
+		{what: "the router holds no record of the ask"},
+	} {
+		t.Run(c.what, func(t *testing.T) {
+			open := theCatalogue(t)
+			ctx := t.Context()
+			inv := open.inventory
+			// The module declaring the router's records, as the controller finds them.
+			if err := inv.RegisterModule(ctx, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "operator-channel", Version: "1",
+				DefinesSeats: []catalogue.SeatDeclaration{{Name: broker.AsksSeat, Records: []string{"asks"}}}},
+				inventory.Source{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Seat: "git", Path: "modules/operator-channel", BuiltFrom: "c0ffee"}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			js, err := broker.Dial(testbus.URL(t))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			t.Cleanup(js.Close)
+			if err := broker.AssertMeshStreams(js); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if err := js.EnsureControllerBuckets(); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			api, err := jetstream.New(js.Conn())
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			records, err := api.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: broker.BucketName("operator-channel", "asks")})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+
+			a := approvedMerge(t)
+			a.merge.Owner, a.merge.Repo, a.merge.Number = "novox", "mesh-host", 7
+			if c.answer {
+				record, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"state": "closed", "ask": a.ask, "warrant": a.warrant})
+				if _, err := records.Put(ctx, theDelivery+"."+a.merge.AskID, record); err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+			}
+
+			server := link.ConnectNats(js, nil, noListener{})
+			if err := server.KeepsDeliveryMerges(keepingDeliveryMerges{js: server.JetStream}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			// The events consumer exists, from now on, before the word is published: Receive would make it too late.
+			if err := broker.AssertServingConsumers(js); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			serving, stop := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+			done := make(chan struct{})
+			go func() { defer close(done); _ = server.Serve(serving) }()
+			t.Cleanup(func() { stop(); <-done })
+			servingBus.Store(js)
+			t.Cleanup(func() { servingBus.Store(nil) })
+
+			// mesh-delivery says it merged the pull request, and the controller keeps what it said.
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(a.merge)
+			if _, err := js.Context().Publish(broker.DeliveryMergedSubject, body); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			becomes(t, 15*time.Second, "the merge being kept", func() bool {
+				_, kept, err := keptDeliveryMerge(ctx, "novox", "mesh-host", 7, a.merge.HeadSHA)
+				return err == nil && kept
+			})
+
+			// The forge's merge of that pull request, as the controller heard it, and the build it asked for.
+			const commit = "c0ffee0123456789"
+			event, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"owner": "novox", "repo": "mesh-host", "base": "main", "number": 7,
+				"head_sha": a.merge.HeadSHA, "merge_commit_sha": commit})
+			if _, err := inv.AddMerge(ctx, inventory.BatchedMerge{Repository: "novox/mesh-host", Branch: "main", Commit: commit,
+				Merged: time.Now(), Heard: time.Now(), Event: event}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			id := fmt.Sprintf("build-%d", time.Now().Add(time.Hour).UnixNano())
+			if err := inv.RecordBuildRequest(ctx, inventory.BuildRequest{ID: id, Repository: "novox/mesh-host", Seat: "git",
+				Path: "modules/sudo", Ref: "main", Commit: commit, For: "merge"}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			moved := onTrunk(id, "novox/mesh-host", "git", "modules/sudo", map[string]any{"module": "sudo", "version": "2"})
+			moved.Commit = commit
+			_, _, err = takeIn(ctx, inv, moved)
+			src, _ := inv.SourceOf(ctx, "sudo")
+			if c.moved && (err != nil || src.Repository != "novox/mesh-host") {
+				t.Fatalf("the Approved move was not registered from its new repository: %v (built from %q)", err, src.Repository)
+			}
+			if !c.moved && (!errors.Is(err, errNotItsSource) || src.Repository != "novox/mesh-catalog") {
+				t.Fatalf("a move with no Approve was not refused as it is: %v (built from %q)", err, src.Repository)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/moved_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1a487280
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/moved_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asks"
+)
+
+// A merge mesh-delivery made, with the ask whose answer it merged on: the heads that answer was bound to, the
+// ask as the router published it, and the warrant the operator's Approve left (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025).
+type anApprovedMerge struct {
+	merge   deliveryMerge
+	ask     asks.Ask
+	warrant asks.Warrant
+}
+
+func approvedMerge(t *testing.T) anApprovedMerge {
+	t.Helper()
+	heads := map[string]string{"novox/mesh-controller@aaaaaaaaaaaa": "a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1",
+		"novox/mesh-catalog@bbbbbbbbbbbb": "b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2b2"}
+	m := deliveryMerge{Owner: "novox", Repo: "mesh-controller", Number: 7, HeadSHA: "a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1a1",
+		Group: "g1", AskID: "merge-g1", Option: optionApprove, Heads: heads}
+	bind := func(option string, h map[string]string) string {
+		d, err := asks.ActDigest(mergeAct(m.AskID, option, h))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return d
+	}
+	at := time.Date(2026, 10, 17, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	ask := asks.Ask{ID: m.AskID, Headline: "Merge the group", Explanation: "Two pull requests move a module.", Who: asks.Operator,
+		Expires: at.Add(time.Hour), OnExpiry: "asked again",
+		Options: []asks.Option{
+			{ID: optionApprove, Label: "Approve", Does: "merges the group", Level: asks.Approve, Binds: bind(optionApprove, heads)},
+			{ID: "decline", Label: "Decline", Does: "leaves it", Level: asks.Approve, Binds: bind("decline", heads)}}}
+	w := asks.Warrant{Ask: m.AskID, Asker: theDelivery, Outcome: asks.OutcomeChosen, Option: optionApprove, Label: "Approve",
+		Level: asks.Approve, By: &asks.Person{Who: asks.Operator, Kind: "telegram", Identity: "1", Verified: "user id"},
+		At: at, AskDigest: ask.Digest()}
+	return anApprovedMerge{merge: m, ask: ask, warrant: w}
+}
+
+// The operator's Approve of the merged head holds, and every other answer does not: a Decline, a person who is not the
+// operator or not proved by their channel, a warrant for other heads or another ask than the router published, the
+// merged head outside the heads the Approve covered, and a router that holds nothing.
+func TestAMovesWarrantHoldsOnlyForTheOperatorsApproveOfTheMergedHead(t *testing.T) {
+	ok := approvedMerge(t)
+	if _, err := movedOnApprove(ok.merge, &ok.ask, &ok.warrant); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the operator's Approve of the merged heads was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		what   string
+		change func(*anApprovedMerge)
+	}{
+		{"a Decline", func(a *anApprovedMerge) {
+			a.warrant.Option, a.warrant.Label = "decline", "Decline"
+			a.merge.Option = "decline"
+		}},
+		{"no person chose", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.warrant.Outcome = asks.OutcomeExpired }},
+		{"a person who is not the operator", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.warrant.By.Who = "agent" }},
+		{"a channel that proves nobody", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.warrant.By.Verified = "" }},
+		{"other heads than the ask was bound to", func(a *anApprovedMerge) {
+			a.merge.Heads = map[string]string{"novox/mesh-controller@aaaaaaaaaaaa": "c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3c3"}
+		}},
+		{"a head merged that the Approve did not cover", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.merge.HeadSHA = "d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4d4" }},
+		{"another ask than the one the warrant answers", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.ask.Headline = "Something else" }},
+		{"a warrant of another asker", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.warrant.Asker = "claude-code" }},
+		{"an ask for no operator to answer", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.ask.Who = "agent" }},
+		{"an Approve given after the ask expired", func(a *anApprovedMerge) { a.warrant.At = a.ask.Expires.Add(time.Minute) }},
+	} {
+		a := approvedMerge(t)
+		c.change(&a)
+		if why, err := movedOnApprove(a.merge, &a.ask, &a.warrant); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s was accepted: %s", c.what, why)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, err := movedOnApprove(ok.merge, nil, &ok.warrant); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a warrant with no ask to check it against was accepted")
+	}
+	if _, err := movedOnApprove(ok.merge, &ok.ask, nil); err == nil {
+		t.Error("an ask with no warrant was accepted")
+	}
+}
+
+// mesh-delivery's word is read whole or refused, and kept under a key the bus allows.
+func TestADeliveryMergesWordIsReadWholeAndKeptUnderABusKey(t *testing.T) {
+	body := `{"owner":"novox","repo":"mesh-controller","number":7,"head_sha":"abc","group":"g","ask_id":"merge-g",` +
+		`"option":"approve","heads":{"novox/mesh-controller@abc":"abc"}}`
+	d, err := parseDeliveryMerge([]byte(body))
+	if err != nil || d.Number != 7 || d.Heads["novox/mesh-controller@abc"] != "abc" {
+		t.Fatalf("read %+v, %v", d, err)
+	}
+	if key := deliveryMergeKey(d.Owner, d.Repo, d.Number, d.HeadSHA); key != "novox/mesh-controller/7/abc" ||
+		strings.ContainsAny(key, "#@") {
+		t.Errorf("key %q", key)
+	}
+	for _, bad := range []string{`{`, `{"owner":"novox","repo":"r","number":0,"head_sha":"a","ask_id":"x","option":"approve"}`,
+		`{"owner":"novox","repo":"r","number":1,"head_sha":"a","option":"approve"}`} {
+		if _, err := parseDeliveryMerge([]byte(bad)); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s was read", bad)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/planner_rules_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/planner_rules_test.go
index 9e422c3a..71d2b71f 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/planner_rules_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/planner_rules_test.go
@@ -680,3 +680,35 @@ func TestAPlanSaysWhyEachModuleIsInIt(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// **A context naming the module's own repository is the module's own build source** (novox/hq ADR 0420 §4,
+// issue 1025). A module registered from the controller's repository whose image compiles cmd/x through a
+// context naming that same repository is moved by a change to the program, and by none outside its closure.
+func TestAContextNamingTheModulesOwnRepositoryIsItsOwnBuildSource(t *testing.T) {
+	const controllerRepo = "http://forge.internal:20000/novox/mesh-controller.git"
+	entries := []inventory.Entry{fromRepo("mover", controllerRepo, "modules/mover")}
+	said := []inventory.ReadRepository{
+		{Repository: "novox/mesh-controller", Ref: "main", Paths: []string{"go.mod", "cmd/x/", "internal/y/"}},
+		{Own: true, Paths: []string{"modules/mover/module.json"}},
+	}
+	read := map[string][]inventory.ReadRepository{"mover": inventory.OwnRepositoryAsOwn(said, controllerRepo)}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		what  string
+		paths []string
+		want  string
+	}{
+		{"the program its image compiles", []string{"cmd/x/main.go"}, "mover"},
+		{"a package the program imports", []string{"internal/y/y.go"}, "mover"},
+		{"its own manifest", []string{"modules/mover/module.json"}, "mover"},
+		{"a file outside its closure", []string{"cmd/other/main.go"}, ""},
+	} {
+		if _, got := planMerge(t, "mesh-controller", c.paths, entries, read, nil); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: planned %q, wanted %q", c.what, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+	// A context of another repository stays a context read, and a context of this one that said no paths too.
+	other := []inventory.ReadRepository{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Paths: []string{"a/"}}, {Repository: "novox/mesh-controller"}}
+	if got := inventory.OwnRepositoryAsOwn(other, controllerRepo); len(got) != 2 || got[0].Own || got[1].Own {
+		t.Errorf("a context that is not this repository's with paths became its own: %+v", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
index 66099d0a..3008cc42 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
@@ -202,6 +202,11 @@ func serve(ctx context.Context) (err error) {
 	if err := server.Follows(following{open: open}); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	// And the merges mesh-delivery made, kept a week with the ask each was made on: what registers a module that
+	// moved between repositories on the operator's Approve (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025).
+	if err := server.KeepsDeliveryMerges(keepingDeliveryMerges{js: server.JetStream}); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
 	// No timer reads the merges back (novox/hq ADR 0407 decision 3, issue 973): the forge's event and the durable
 	// consumer on the bus keep every merge, and one the controller cannot record yet is held and handed over again.
 	// And a catalogue that has just started, asking for what it missed. The same type answers
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/warranted.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/warranted.go
index 9f6f918e..17e6e102 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/warranted.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/warranted.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
@@ -64,24 +63,8 @@ func warrantedAct(asker, ask, caller, state string, w *asks.Warrant) (link.HandA
 // readRouterRecord reads the router's record of one asker's ask: its state and warrant, or "" when there is none.
 // The controller's grant reaches the JetStream API whole (`$JS.API.>`), so it reads any asker's record.
 func readRouterRecord(ctx context.Context, conn *nats.Conn, bucket, asker, ask string) (string, *asks.Warrant, error) {
-	reply, err := conn.RequestWithContext(ctx, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_"+bucket+".$KV."+bucket+"."+asker+"."+ask, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", nil, err
-	}
-	if status := reply.Header.Get("Status"); status != "" {
-		if status == "404" {
-			return "", nil, nil
-		}
-		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("the router's record could not be read: %s %s", status, reply.Header.Get("Description"))
-	}
-	var rec struct {
-		State   string        `json:"state"`
-		Warrant *asks.Warrant `json:"warrant"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(reply.Data, &rec); err != nil {
-		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("the router's record of %s's ask %s cannot be read: %w", asker, ask, err)
-	}
-	return rec.State, rec.Warrant, nil
+	state, _, w, err := readRouterEntry(ctx, conn, bucket, asker, ask)
+	return state, w, err
 }
 
 func handActWarrantCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
diff --git a/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go b/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go
index 8aa61828..088f1edf 100644
--- a/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go
+++ b/internal/broker/controller_buckets.go
@@ -56,8 +56,17 @@ var (
 	// waiting request for a head and trunk commit a key names drops it. **Written by the build seat's holders, several by
 	// design** — each the key of the check it runs.
 	CheckRunningBucket = BucketName(ControllerSeat, "checks-running")
+	// DeliveryMergesBucket holds the merges mesh-delivery announced it made, each with the ask whose Approve it merged
+	// on (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025): per merge a key `<owner>/<repo>/<number>/<head sha>` holding the
+	// announcement, kept DeliveryMergesKeptFor. What lets the build of a moved module register it from its new
+	// repository: the controller reads the ask's warrant from the router and accepts only the operator's Approve of
+	// those heads. Written by the controller alone, from the announcement, when it holds the lease.
+	DeliveryMergesBucket = BucketName(ControllerSeat, "delivery-merges")
 )
 
+// DeliveryMergesKeptFor is how long a merge mesh-delivery announced is kept: a week, as the events are.
+const DeliveryMergesKeptFor = 7 * 24 * time.Hour
+
 // The controller's record mirrors (novox/hq ADR 0289, design 54, design 57 package F3): a bucket per kind of
 // record, one key per record, written from the store by the lease holder only when the record changed, with
 // one event on the controller's seat per write. Read by whatever names them in `reads` as
@@ -141,13 +150,15 @@ func IsControllerBucket(bucket string) bool {
 	return bucket == CallsBucket || bucket == HandActsBucket || bucket == ConditionsBucket ||
 		bucket == ConditionHistoryBucket || bucket == LeaseBucket || bucket == AskedBucket ||
 		bucket == AssignmentsBucket || bucket == DeclaredConfigBucket || bucket == PredefinedBucket ||
-		bucket == MergeWindowBucket || bucket == RolloutSilentBucket || bucket == CheckRunningBucket
+		bucket == MergeWindowBucket || bucket == RolloutSilentBucket || bucket == CheckRunningBucket ||
+		bucket == DeliveryMergesBucket
 }
 
 // ControllerBuckets are the controller's own buckets, in the order they are asserted.
 func ControllerBuckets() []string {
 	return []string{LeaseBucket, CallsBucket, HandActsBucket, ConditionsBucket, ConditionHistoryBucket, AskedBucket,
-		AssignmentsBucket, DeclaredConfigBucket, PredefinedBucket, MergeWindowBucket, RolloutSilentBucket, CheckRunningBucket}
+		AssignmentsBucket, DeclaredConfigBucket, PredefinedBucket, MergeWindowBucket, RolloutSilentBucket, CheckRunningBucket,
+		DeliveryMergesBucket}
 }
 
 // ControllerBucketsAsserter is what raising the controller's buckets needs of a connection.
@@ -290,6 +301,20 @@ func (j *JetStream) EnsureControllerBuckets() error {
 	}); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("asserting bucket %s: %w", CheckRunningBucket, err)
 	}
+	// **The merges mesh-delivery announced: keys that age** (ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025). One message a key; a week.
+	if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{
+		Bucket: DeliveryMergesBucket,
+		Description: "the merges mesh-delivery announced it made, each with the ask whose Approve it merged on (novox/hq " +
+			"ADR 0420): `<owner>/<repo>/<number>/<head sha>` holds the announcement, kept a week; what lets the build " +
+			"of a moved module register it from its new repository; written by the controller alone",
+		History:      1,
+		TTL:          DeliveryMergesKeptFor,
+		MaxValueSize: 16 << 10,
+		MaxBytes:     16 << 20,
+		Storage:      jetstream.FileStorage,
+	}); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("asserting bucket %s: %w", DeliveryMergesBucket, err)
+	}
 	// **The record mirrors: no age** (design 54 §5). A key is removed when its record is, by a purge whose
 	// marker lives a day; a key that expired would be a record the bus forgot while the store still holds it.
 	for _, m := range []struct{ bucket, why string }{
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index b73d975e..a1af12fe 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ var DegradableGrants = []DegradableGrant{
 		Reason: "refused: the controller says a tier sent to a machine only for outsiders, and a send that could not " +
 			"be said is printed and goes on (ADR 0406 §5, issue 974)",
 	},
+	{
+		Subject: "$KV." + DeliveryMergesBucket + ".>",
+		Reason: "refused: the controller then keeps no merge mesh-delivery announced, so the build of a moved module is " +
+			"refused as it is without the operator's Approve — failing closed (ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025)",
+	},
 	{
 		Subject: "$KV." + RolloutSilentBucket + ".>",
 		Reason: "refused: the controller looks at the plans when a wait for a machine's report is up, by a timer of its own " +
diff --git a/internal/broker/streams.go b/internal/broker/streams.go
index f8377211..8be30cbb 100644
--- a/internal/broker/streams.go
+++ b/internal/broker/streams.go
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ func eventsTheControllerFollows() []string {
 			out = append(out, subject)
 		}
 	}
-	return out
+	return append(out, ControllerHears...)
 }
 
 // DeliverSubjectFor is where a push consumer's messages land.
@@ -428,6 +428,19 @@ var ControllerFollows = []string{
 	DecidedSubject,
 }
 
+// ControllerHears are events the controller's events consumer takes beside the ones it follows, and that need no
+// subscribe grant of their own. **A push consumer delivers onto its deliver subject** (`_DELIVER.controller.>`, already
+// granted), so the subject a consumer filters on is never one the controller subscribes: listing this one in
+// ControllerFollows would add a subscribe grant the installer's carried user list, which lives in mesh-host, would
+// have to carry too (TestTheInstallersFirstUserListIsWhatTheControllerWouldCompose), for nothing the consumer uses.
+//
+// A merge mesh-delivery made, announced (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025): with the ask whose Approve it merged on and
+// the heads that Approve covered, kept a week to read the warrant a moved module's registration needs.
+var ControllerHears = []string{DeliveryMergedSubject}
+
+// DeliveryMergedSubject is where mesh-delivery says it merged a pull request.
+var DeliveryMergedSubject = moduleEventSubject("mesh-delivery", "merged")
+
 // AsksSeat is the seat an ask is made on and its warrant heard from (novox/hq ADR 0259): the router's.
 const AsksSeat = "operator-channel"
 
diff --git a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
index 32fd9212..d9e24d27 100644
--- a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
+++ b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ accounts {
     jetstream: enabled
     users = [
       { user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
-        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller-merges.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "$KV.SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE_cancelled.>", "$KV.SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT_cancelled.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_asked.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_assignments.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_calls.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_checks-running.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_condition-history.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_conditions.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_declared-config.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_hand-acts.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_lease.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_merge-window.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_predefined.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_rollout-silent.>", "$SRV.INFO", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.again.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.events.dead.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.tool.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.assignment-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.checked", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-cleared", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-raised", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.declared-config-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.doctor-heartbeat", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.healer-acted", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.plan-moved", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.predefined-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.rolled-back", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.secret-replaced", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.sent", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.plans", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.close", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.groups", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.release", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.stalled", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.stop", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.times", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.backed-up.*", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.now.*", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.check.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-intrusion-prevention.tool.banned.*", "mesh.seat.node-launcher.tool.secret.*", "mesh.seat.node-service-manager.tool.restart.*", "mesh.seat.operator-channel.tool.tell"] }
+        publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller-merges.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "$KV.SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE_cancelled.>", "$KV.SEAT_NODE_BUILD_AGENT_cancelled.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_asked.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_assignments.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_calls.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_checks-running.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_condition-history.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_conditions.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_declared-config.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_delivery-merges.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_hand-acts.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_lease.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_merge-window.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_predefined.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_rollout-silent.>", "$SRV.INFO", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.again.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.events.dead.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.tool.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.assignment-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.checked", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-cleared", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.condition-raised", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.declared-config-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.doctor-heartbeat", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.healer-acted", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.plan-moved", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.predefined-changed", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.rolled-back", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.secret-replaced", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.sent", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.plans", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.close", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.groups", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.release", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.stalled", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.stop", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.times", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.backed-up.*", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.now.*", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.check.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-intrusion-prevention.tool.banned.*", "mesh.seat.node-launcher.tool.secret.*", "mesh.seat.node-service-manager.tool.restart.*", "mesh.seat.operator-channel.tool.tell"] }
         subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.CONSUMER.DELETED.>", "$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.CONSUMER.MAX_DELIVERIES.>", "$SRV.INFO", "$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.*.event.provisioner.failing", "mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.recovered", "mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.retirement", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.updated", "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", "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.mesh-controller"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
diff --git a/internal/broker/writers.go b/internal/broker/writers.go
index 8dc3c4b0..bf7a5960 100644
--- a/internal/broker/writers.go
+++ b/internal/broker/writers.go
@@ -130,8 +130,11 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 	// written by the lease holder.
 	{State: "plans and their tiers", Writer: "controller (lease holder), compare-and-set on the plan's revision",
 		KeptIn: "the controller's store; a batch's merge window in key-value " + MergeWindowBucket +
-			", a rollout's wait for a machine's report in key-value " + RolloutSilentBucket, Others: "read through plans",
-		Subjects: append(kvOf(MergeWindowBucket), kvOf(RolloutSilentBucket)...), Writes: isController},
+			", a rollout's wait for a machine's report in key-value " + RolloutSilentBucket +
+			", and the merges mesh-delivery announced, for a moved module's registration (ADR 0420 §7), in key-value " +
+			DeliveryMergesBucket, Others: "read through plans",
+		Subjects: append(append(kvOf(MergeWindowBucket), kvOf(RolloutSilentBucket)...), kvOf(DeliveryMergesBucket)...),
+		Writes:   isController},
 	{State: "conditions", Writer: "controller", KeptIn: "key-value " + ConditionsBucket + " (and its history, " +
 		ConditionHistoryBucket + "); how often each was observed, when last and its newest evidence in the " +
 		"controller's store, so a look that changes nothing writes no bucket", Others: "raise or clear only through observations the controller reads",
diff --git a/internal/inventory/builds.go b/internal/inventory/builds.go
index 8a11e13c..a6b6c955 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/builds.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/builds.go
@@ -428,7 +428,8 @@ func (i *Inventory) ReadRepositories(ctx context.Context) (map[string][]ReadRepo
 	}
 
 	rows, err := i.store.Pool().Query(ctx,
-		`select distinct on (module) module, built_contexts, build_sources, coalesce(asked, at)
+		`select distinct on (module) module, built_contexts, build_sources, coalesce(asked, at),
+		        (select source from module where module.name = build.module)
 		   from build
 		  where module is not null and module <> '' and failed = ''
 		  order by module, `+newestRequestFirst)
@@ -442,7 +443,8 @@ func (i *Inventory) ReadRepositories(ctx context.Context) (map[string][]ReadRepo
 		var module string
 		var raw, rawSources []byte
 		var built time.Time
-		if err := rows.Scan(&module, &raw, &rawSources, &built); err != nil {
+		var own *string
+		if err := rows.Scan(&module, &raw, &rawSources, &built, &own); err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		var of []ReadRepository
@@ -462,6 +464,9 @@ func (i *Inventory) ReadRepositories(ctx context.Context) (map[string][]ReadRepo
 			sources, whole = nil, "a newer build of it failed"
 		}
 		of = WithBuildSources(of, sources)
+		if own != nil {
+			of = OwnRepositoryAsOwn(of, *own)
+		}
 		if whole != "" {
 			of = append(of, ReadRepository{Own: true, Whole: whole})
 		}
@@ -498,6 +503,57 @@ func WithBuildSources(read []ReadRepository, sources []BuildSource) []ReadReposi
 	return out
 }
 
+// OwnRepositoryAsOwn reads a context that names the module's own registered repository, with the paths its
+// build read there, as the module's own build source (novox/hq ADR 0420 §4): a change to the program it
+// compiles moves the module, as one in its own directory does. A context of that repository that said
+// no paths stays a context read, whole.
+func OwnRepositoryAsOwn(read []ReadRepository, repository string) []ReadRepository {
+	if repository == "" {
+		return read
+	}
+	out := make([]ReadRepository, 0, len(read))
+	var moved []ReadRepository
+	for _, r := range read {
+		if !r.Own && len(r.Paths) > 0 && r.Repository != "" && namesRepository(repository, r.Repository) {
+			moved = append(moved, r)
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, r)
+	}
+	if len(moved) == 0 {
+		return read
+	}
+	// One entry of its own: ownSource reads the first that has paths.
+	at := -1
+	for k := range out {
+		if out[k].Own && len(out[k].Paths) > 0 {
+			at = k
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if at < 0 {
+		out = append(out, ReadRepository{Own: true})
+		at = len(out) - 1
+	}
+	for _, r := range moved {
+		out[at].Paths = append(append([]string(nil), out[at].Paths...), r.Paths...)
+		if out[at].Ref == "" {
+			out[at].Ref = r.Ref
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// namesRepository is whether a context's repository, as owner/name, is the registered one, which may be
+// spelled as the URL it was cloned from.
+func namesRepository(registered, named string) bool {
+	trim := func(s string) string {
+		return strings.TrimSuffix(strings.TrimRight(strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(s)), "/"), ".git")
+	}
+	reg, name := trim(registered), trim(named)
+	return reg == name || strings.HasSuffix(reg, "/"+name)
+}
+
 // manifestOrNil keeps the difference between "declared nothing" and "predates this being kept".
 //
 // A build recorded before the mesh kept manifests has no manifest, and that is not the same as one
diff --git a/internal/link/contracts.go b/internal/link/contracts.go
index 381fdf4f..d5b7aff8 100644
--- a/internal/link/contracts.go
+++ b/internal/link/contracts.go
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ var Contracts = map[string]Contract{
 		"at the router, and the controller acts on it once, recording that it did under the ask's id — so a word " +
 		"heard again, or late, does nothing more (novox/hq ADR 0259)",
 		Tests: []string{"TestAWarrantIsActedOnOnce"}},
+	KindDeliveryMerged: {Unordered: "mesh-delivery's word that it merged a pull request, by the pull request and its head: " +
+		"kept under that key once, so a word heard again or late rewrites the same value (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7)"},
 	KindCatchUp: {Unordered: "a catalogue asking what it missed: answered from the record, whenever asked"},
 	KindProvisioner: {Unordered: "a provider's newest word about a consumer, said again every fifteen minutes " +
 		"while it holds (ADR 0224): the condition keeps the last observed, and S8 says when the words stop. " +
diff --git a/internal/link/contracts_test.go b/internal/link/contracts_test.go
index 20a5a410..4fde2f1c 100644
--- a/internal/link/contracts_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/contracts_test.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ func TestEveryConsumedKindHasAContract(t *testing.T) {
 	subjects := []string{EnrolSubject, BuiltSubject, ReportSubject("anchor"), AliveSubject("anchor"),
 		ToolsAliveSubject("anchor"), HealthSubject("anchor"), "mesh.mod.postgres.event.provisioner.failing"}
 	subjects = append(subjects, broker.ControllerFollows...)
+	subjects = append(subjects, broker.ControllerHears...)
 	kinds := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, s := range subjects {
 		kind, known := kindOfSubject(s)
diff --git a/internal/link/receive.go b/internal/link/receive.go
index 0173777a..1585dc20 100644
--- a/internal/link/receive.go
+++ b/internal/link/receive.go
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ const (
 	// KindDecided is the router's warrant for an ask the controller made, or that ask's end without one
 	// (novox/hq ADR 0259): said to the controller alone, under its own name.
 	KindDecided = "decided"
+	// KindDeliveryMerged is mesh-delivery saying it merged a pull request, with the ask whose Approve it merged on
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0420 §7, issue 1025).
+	KindDeliveryMerged = "delivery-merged"
 )
 
 // Control is one thing a node or a module said, as the controller must act on it.
diff --git a/internal/link/receive_nats.go b/internal/link/receive_nats.go
index e6431be6..26c32238 100644
--- a/internal/link/receive_nats.go
+++ b/internal/link/receive_nats.go
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ func Nats(js *broker.JetStream) Inbound {
 // whatever was asked for — and not at all when nothing was.
 func (n *natsInbound) Also(kind string) error {
 	switch kind {
-	case KindModuleMoved, KindCatchUp, KindSourceMoved, KindProvisioner, KindPullUpdated, KindDecided:
+	case KindModuleMoved, KindCatchUp, KindSourceMoved, KindProvisioner, KindPullUpdated, KindDecided,
+		KindDeliveryMerged:
 		n.follows[kind] = true
 		return nil
 	default:
@@ -301,6 +302,8 @@ func kindOfSubject(subject string) (string, bool) {
 		return KindPullUpdated, true
 	case broker.DecidedSubject:
 		return KindDecided, true
+	case broker.DeliveryMergedSubject:
+		return KindDeliveryMerged, true
 	case BuildOutcome(), BuildOutcomeOf(TheBuildMachineBefore):
 		// A build's outcome is the role's event now, so it arrives on the events stream rather than
 		// the control branch — and is acted on by the same handler, because what the controller does
diff --git a/internal/link/serve.go b/internal/link/serve.go
index c5af8fc4..819b5648 100644
--- a/internal/link/serve.go
+++ b/internal/link/serve.go
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ type Server struct {
 	healths Healths
 	// decider acts on the operator's warrants for what the controller asked (novox/hq ADR 0259).
 	decider Decider
+	// deliveryMerges keeps mesh-delivery's merges (KeepsDeliveryMerges).
+	deliveryMerges DeliveryMergeKeeper
 
 	log *log.Logger
 	// giveUp is how long one message is held for the store; zero means GiveUpAfter.
@@ -155,6 +157,21 @@ func (s *Server) Decides(d Decider) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// DeliveryMergeKeeper is what the controller does with mesh-delivery's word that it merged a pull request (novox/hq
+// ADR 0420 §7): keep it, to be read when a moved module's build is taken in.
+type DeliveryMergeKeeper interface {
+	KeepDeliveryMerge(ctx context.Context, body []byte) error
+}
+
+// KeepsDeliveryMerges says what to do about mesh-delivery's merges, and asks for them to be delivered.
+func (s *Server) KeepsDeliveryMerges(k DeliveryMergeKeeper) error {
+	if err := s.inbound.Also(KindDeliveryMerged); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	s.deliveryMerges = k
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Answers says what to do about a catalogue's catch-up request, and asks for them to be delivered.
 func (s *Server) Answers(r Replayer) error {
 	if err := s.inbound.Also(KindCatchUp); err != nil {
@@ -229,6 +246,8 @@ func (s *Server) act(ctx context.Context, m Control) {
 		s.pullUpdated(ctx, m)
 	case KindDecided:
 		s.decided(ctx, m)
+	case KindDeliveryMerged:
+		s.deliveryMerged(ctx, m)
 	default:
 		// Dropped: a message nothing understands will not be understood on the next attempt
 		// either, and asking for it again would spin.
@@ -728,6 +747,24 @@ func (s *Server) decided(ctx context.Context, m Control) {
 	_ = m.Took()
 }
 
+// deliveryMerged hands mesh-delivery's word on a merge to its keeper; a failure to keep it is held for the store
+// like any word that must not be lost, and a word that cannot be read is said and let go.
+func (s *Server) deliveryMerged(ctx context.Context, m Control) {
+	if s.deliveryMerges == nil {
+		_ = m.Took()
+		return
+	}
+	err := s.deliveryMerges.KeepDeliveryMerge(ctx, m.Body())
+	switch s.decide(ctx, m, "mesh-delivery's word on a merge", "", "", err) {
+	case Hold:
+		return
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		s.log.Printf("mesh-delivery's word on a merge could not be kept: %v", err)
+	}
+	_ = m.Took()
+}
+
 // saysWhatItDid states what a machine now runs, or what it would not take, as a fact on the bus
 // (novox/hq ADR 0134).
 //
diff --git a/merge-check.sh b/merge-check.sh
index 221d4bba..239bf8ac 100755
--- a/merge-check.sh
+++ b/merge-check.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ judge_store_tests() {
 		missing=$((missing + 1))
 	fi
 }
+# Every Go module of its own below the root, vetted and tested (novox/hq ADR 0420 §5, issue 1025): `./...` stops at a
+# nested go.mod. Its own file, check-nested-modules.sh, which takes $cgo and $race from here.
+nested_modules() {
+	cgo="$cgo" race="$race" sh ./check-nested-modules.sh
+}
 # `sh merge-check.sh judge-store-tests <package> <status> <output> <name>…` runs only the judging, to try it on a
 # recorded `go test -v` output.
 if [ "${1:-}" = judge-store-tests ]; then
@@ -46,7 +51,10 @@ if [ "${1:-}" = judge-store-tests ]; then
 	exit
 fi
 
-unformatted=$(gofmt -l cmd internal examples)
+gofmt_dirs="cmd internal examples"
+[ -d modules ] && gofmt_dirs="$gofmt_dirs modules"
+# shellcheck disable=SC2086 # the directories are one word each, split on purpose
+unformatted=$(gofmt -l $gofmt_dirs)
 if [ -n "$unformatted" ]; then
 	echo "not gofmt'd:"
 	echo "$unformatted"
@@ -232,6 +240,7 @@ else
 	cat "$work/rest.out"
 	[ "$(cat "$work/rest.status")" -eq 0 ] || suite_failed=1
 	say_shards || suite_failed=1
+	nested_modules || suite_failed=1
 fi
 
 if [ -z "$listed" ]; then
diff --git a/testdata/store-tests b/testdata/store-tests
index 61113e7e..a93742a1 100644
--- a/testdata/store-tests
+++ b/testdata/store-tests
@@ -137,3 +137,6 @@
 ./cmd/mesh-controller TestARolloutAdvancesOnEventsAndAReplacedControllerResumesIt
 ./cmd/mesh-controller TestAWalkLetGoByTheDeliverVerbIsAskedWithNoOtherEvent
 ./cmd/mesh-controller TestTwoMergesWithinAMinuteLeaveEachOpenPullRequestOneQueuedCheck
+./cmd/mesh-controller TestADeliveryGroupMovingAModuleMachinesRunPassesTheGate
+./cmd/mesh-controller TestAModuleMovesOnTheOperatorsApproveOfTheMergeThatMovedIt
+./cmd/mesh-controller TestAModuleBuiltFromANewRepositoryIsRegisteredOnlyOnTheOperatorsApproveOnTheBus