diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seats.go b/internal/catalogue/seats.go
index 08c7e06..2cce385 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/seats.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seats.go
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ var defaultSeats = []Seat{
 	// rather than receives ambiently — 23 of the catalogue's modules never speak, and an ambient
 	// connection would mint a credential for each.
 	{Name: "mesh-broker", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "mesh-bus", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0079"},
+	// The vault: the controller seals every minted credential with what it provides, which is the
+	// test for a seat of the mesh's own (novox/hq ADR 0161) — a second provider of `secret` is a
+	// second claimant, refused by name, rather than a candidate for a pin.
+	{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh, Delivers: "secret", Decision: "novox/hq ADR 0161"},
 	// Named for its scope since 2026-09-30 (novox/hq ADR 0156); `the-artifact-store` resolves to it as
 	// an alias on a mesh that predates the rename. It serves artifacts of every kind a build makes —
 	// images and archives, by digest — which is why the provision is the artifact store and not an
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seats_test.go b/internal/catalogue/seats_test.go
index 1b33a72..f30a92e 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/seats_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seats_test.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
 			delivered[s.Delivers] = s.Name
 		}
 	}
-	if len(Seats()) != 14 {
+	if len(Seats()) != 15 {
 		t.Errorf("the mesh defines %d seats rather than 14; the set is closed, so a change here is "+
 			"a decision (novox/hq ADR 0110): %s", len(Seats()), seatNames())
 	}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go b/internal/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f8827c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import "testing"
+
+// The vault's provision is one the controller itself dereferences — every minted credential is
+// sealed with it — so it is delivered by a seat of the mesh's own, and a second provider is a second
+// claimant refused by name rather than a candidate for a pin (novox/hq ADR 0161, issue 106).
+func TestTheVaultsSeatDeliversSecret(t *testing.T) {
+	seat, known := SeatNamed("mesh-vault")
+	if !known {
+		t.Fatal("mesh-vault is not in the mesh's own set")
+	}
+	if seat.Scope != ScopeMesh || seat.Delivers != "secret" {
+		t.Fatalf("mesh-vault is %s-scoped and delivers %q; one per mesh, delivering secret", seat.Scope, seat.Delivers)
+	}
+	vault := Manifest{Module: "mesh-vault", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "secret", Scope: ScopeMesh}},
+		Claims: []Claim{{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh}}}
+	if err := CanHold(vault, seat); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the vault, claiming its seat and providing secret, was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	another := Manifest{Module: "other-vault", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "secret", Scope: ScopeMesh}}}
+	if err := CanHold(another, seat); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a provider of secret that does not claim the seat was allowed to hold it")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/enrolment.go b/internal/link/enrolment.go
index 7661996..3878dde 100644
--- a/internal/link/enrolment.go
+++ b/internal/link/enrolment.go
@@ -320,6 +320,13 @@ func (e Enrolment) Heard(ctx context.Context, report Report) (news bool, err err
 			return false, err
 		}
 	}
+	if len(report.Profile) > 0 {
+		// The latest wins, as at enrolment: a capability the machine lost is one the plan must
+		// stop counting on (novox/hq ADR 0161).
+		if err := e.Inventory.RecordProfile(ctx, node.ID, report.Profile); err != nil {
+			return false, err
+		}
+	}
 	// What it says about the tunnel it carried (novox/hq ADR 0105), whenever it says it.
 	if report.Tunnel != nil {
 		if err := e.Inventory.RecordCarriedTunnel(ctx, node.ID, inventory.Carried{
diff --git a/internal/link/profile_report_test.go b/internal/link/profile_report_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5477f1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/link/profile_report_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package link_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+)
+
+// A report may carry the machine's profile, detected again by the apply that reports, and the latest
+// replaces what enrolment recorded (novox/hq ADR 0161): a machine that switched its network manager
+// is a machine whose uplink holder lacks a capability at its next push, not at its next enrolment.
+func TestAReportsProfileReplacesTheEnrolledOne(t *testing.T) {
+	e, _, _ := anEnrolledHub(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	first := map[string]any{"capabilities": []any{map[string]any{"name": "uplink-networkmanager", "present": true}}}
+	if _, err := e.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "anchor", Profile: first}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err := e.Inventory.Profile(ctx, "anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].Name != "uplink-networkmanager" || !got[0].Present {
+		t.Fatalf("the report's profile was not kept: %+v", got)
+	}
+	// The machine switched managers; the next report says so and the old fact is gone.
+	second := map[string]any{"capabilities": []any{map[string]any{"name": "uplink-systemd-networkd", "present": true}}}
+	if _, err := e.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "anchor", Profile: second}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err = e.Inventory.Profile(ctx, "anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0].Name != "uplink-systemd-networkd" {
+		t.Fatalf("the latest profile did not replace the earlier one: %+v", got)
+	}
+	// A report with no profile leaves the last one standing.
+	if _, err := e.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "anchor", Host: "1"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got, _ = e.Inventory.Profile(ctx, "anchor"); len(got) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("a report without a profile erased it: %+v", got)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/link/protocol.go b/internal/link/protocol.go
index cd34e2d..34240ba 100644
--- a/internal/link/protocol.go
+++ b/internal/link/protocol.go
@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ type Report struct {
 	// refuses it whole — which is right, and makes every new field a flag day that the mesh could
 	// not see coming.
 	Host string `json:"host,omitempty"`
+
+	// Profile is what the machine can do, detected again by this apply (novox/hq ADR 0161): the
+	// same shape enrolment sends, so a machine that gained or lost a capability — switched its
+	// network manager — is known at its next push and not at its next enrolment. Absent from a host
+	// older than this, and then the enrolment's profile stands.
+	Profile map[string]any `json:"profile,omitempty"`
 	// Reachable is what can be reached on the machine now: every listening socket and every
 	// published container port. Only an adopted node reports it; it is what converging previews.
 	Reachable []Reach `json:"reachable,omitempty"`