diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_test.go
index 6dd11288..d29be2c9 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_keys_test.go
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ func TestAChangedUserListIsANewRevisionOfTheBusModulesCompositionAlone(t *testin
 		d["resources"] = append(d["resources"].([]any), map[string]any{"id": "nats.bus-users", "type": "file",
 			"module": "nats", "path": "/var/lib/mesh/nats/users.conf", "content": users, "mode": "0600"})
 		raw, _ := json.Marshal(d)
-		comps, _, err := compositionsOf("g14", raw, fps, nil)
+		comps, _, err := compositionsOf("g14", raw, fps, nil, nil)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_live.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_live.go
index 15cbc799..45724876 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_live.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_live.go
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ func composeModules(ctx context.Context, open *stores, nodes []string) (map[stri
 		if err := open.inventory.RecordComposedPlans(ctx, node, plansKept(declared)); err != nil {
 			errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("%s: its provisioner's plans: %w", node, err))
 		}
-		comps, moved, err := compositionsOf(node, body, fps, manifests)
+		comps, moved, err := compositionsOf(node, body, fps, manifests, declared.modules)
 		if err != nil {
 			errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", node, err))
 			continue
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer.go
index e9389d1d..141cf5ae 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer.go
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ type composedPlace struct {
 // fingerprint fps gives it, the node's own with its adoption and provisioner, and every resource of a module fps names
 // no fingerprint for in the node's own, its module taken off it and named in moved. Data says the module's manifest
 // declares data.
-func compositionsOf(node string, body []byte, fps map[string]string, manifests map[string]catalogue.Manifest) (
+func compositionsOf(node string, body []byte, fps map[string]string, manifests map[string]catalogue.Manifest, runs []string) (
 	out map[string]sdkdelivery.Composed, moved []string, err error) {
 
 	var envelope struct {
@@ -110,6 +110,22 @@ func compositionsOf(node string, body []byte, fps map[string]string, manifests m
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
+	// A module the node runs that composes no resource of its own (all its needs met by others) still has its
+	// composition, empty, at its fingerprint: its want names that composition (the assigner's seventh rule), and without
+	// one no want could ever be written.
+	for _, module := range runs {
+		fp := fps[module]
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(fp, sdkdelivery.SourcePrefix2) {
+			continue
+		}
+		key, err := sdkdelivery.ComposedKey(node, module, fp)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if _, ok := out[key]; !ok {
+			out[key] = sdkdelivery.Composed{Node: node, Module: module, FP: fp, Resources: []json.RawMessage{}}
+		}
+	}
 	for key, c := range out {
 		if m, ok := manifests[c.Module]; ok && c.Module != "" {
 			c.Data = len(m.DataItems()) > 0
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer_test.go
index 8ffd4552..65efa8df 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/composed_writer_test.go
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ func TestTheCompositionsOfANodeAreItsDeclaration(t *testing.T) {
 			Resources []json.RawMessage `json:"resources"`
 		}
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(body, &d)
-		comps, moved, err := compositionsOf(node, body, fps, nil)
+		comps, moved, err := compositionsOf(node, body, fps, nil, nil)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", node, err)
 		}
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ func TestTheCompositionsOfANodeAreItsDeclaration(t *testing.T) {
 // unchanged it writes nothing; a changed input writes a new revision of that key alone, by compare-and-set.
 func TestACompositionIsWrittenOnceAndAgainOnlyWhenItChanges(t *testing.T) {
 	body, fps := capturedBody(t, "g14")
-	comps, _, err := compositionsOf("g14", body, fps, nil)
+	comps, _, err := compositionsOf("g14", body, fps, nil, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -335,3 +335,28 @@ func TestCompositionsOutsideTheFiveNewestAreDeleted(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// 1945 (found by the served test): a module the node runs that composes no resource of its own still has its
+// composition, empty, at its fingerprint, so a want can name it; a module the node runs with no fingerprint of the new
+// form gets none.
+func TestAModuleWithNoResourceOfItsOwnStillHasItsComposition(t *testing.T) {
+	body := []byte(`{"declaration":1,"resources":[]}`)
+	fp := sdkdelivery.SourcePrefix2 + strings.Repeat("b", 64)
+	comps, _, err := compositionsOf("laptop", body, map[string]string{"board": fp}, nil, []string{"board", "legacy"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	key, _ := sdkdelivery.ComposedKey("laptop", "board", fp)
+	c, ok := comps[key]
+	if !ok || len(c.Resources) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the board's composition: %+v (%v)", c, ok)
+	}
+	if _, err := sdkdelivery.EncodeComposed(c); err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("an empty composition does not encode: %v", err)
+	}
+	for k := range comps {
+		if strings.Contains(k, "legacy") {
+			t.Errorf("a module with no fingerprint of the new form was composed: %s", k)
+		}
+	}
+}