diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 00345e7c..6ad136fa 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ require (
 // committed. Every build (the build agent's `go build`, the Dockerfile) compiles from vendor/ and
 // fetches nothing; go refuses to build when vendor/ and this file disagree, so a pin moved without
 // `go mod vendor` fails loudly, at once, everywhere.
-replace github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009225305-241079686980
+replace github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009230047-2dbbda51c658
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index bca4c940..65430d49 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009225305-241079686980 h1:gS23SZY/HiggBbnfoDOEadk6xnJb+5BqmkwW7VxwWZk=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009225305-241079686980/go.mod h1:K3/xEzVgmrNKLMV2vv4M80MwmPnQNXqvQ4C5Jj0fJT4=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009230047-2dbbda51c658 h1:t0OW6XW9ZewHmWDPetmsNt6c0LlmVuEvf2VAaxvPOPM=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009230047-2dbbda51c658/go.mod h1:K3/xEzVgmrNKLMV2vv4M80MwmPnQNXqvQ4C5Jj0fJT4=
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.11-0.20261009143344-f047d0a4a970 h1:9tFDQsgmI+4X7/BpZGXIr+HemPKE7YddYGqWV0lINAI=
 git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.11-0.20261009143344-f047d0a4a970/go.mod h1:GFuZUElBZ9A++mxgIKo97aXXo+kV0uJ/UkbhQPPIbrY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch/rootsearch.go b/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch/rootsearch.go
index 7692529e..bc56b054 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch/rootsearch.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch/rootsearch.go
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
 // **And why no bound on one search.** On a machine with millions of files the walk takes longer than any bound
 // worth stating (the control-node's did not finish in fifteen minutes, issue 361), and a search ended early
 // judges nothing, so a bound made such a machine never judged. The search runs to its end at idle priority,
-// once at a time; an incomplete search is never "free".
+// once at a time, keeping how far its walk got every minute so an engine restarted midway carries it on; an
+// incomplete search is never "free". A walk resumed more than FreshFor after it started is begun again.
 package rootsearch
 
 import "time"
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 66000609..eeb2fcdf 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ github.com/nats-io/nkeys
 # github.com/nats-io/nuid v1.0.1
 ## explicit
 github.com/nats-io/nuid
-# github.com/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0 => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009225305-241079686980
+# github.com/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0 => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009230047-2dbbda51c658
 ## explicit; go 1.26.0
 github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration
 github.com/novox/mesh-host/rootsearch
@@ -135,4 +135,4 @@ golang.org/x/text/width
 # golang.org/x/time v0.15.0
 ## explicit; go 1.25.0
 golang.org/x/time/rate
-# github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009225305-241079686980
+# github.com/novox/mesh-host => git.novox.be/novox/mesh-host v0.0.0-20261009230047-2dbbda51c658