diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
index ae1224eb..f4dcdd59 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
@@ -585,11 +585,18 @@ func shelfWithChange(base map[string]catalogue.Manifest, sources map[string]inve
 			return err
 		}
 		m, err := catalogue.ParseManifestWith(raw, predefined)
+		// The manifest as written, still naming its templates: what the stand-in build resolves, as a real build
+		// does, so a moved module is handed its templates (issue 876).
+		written := m
+		var texts map[string]string
 		if err == nil {
 			// Each template's text from the tree beside the manifest, as the build reads it back from the archive it
 			// packs (novox/hq ADR 0349 §2): so a change to a template alone is a change to its module.
 			m, err = catalogue.WithTemplatesFrom(m, filepath.Dir(path))
 		}
+		if err == nil && written.Templated() {
+			texts, err = catalogue.ReadTemplates(written, filepath.Dir(path))
+		}
 		if err != nil {
 			if inScope(dir) {
 				failures = append(failures, fmt.Sprintf("%s: the controller judging this (%s) refuses it — %s",
@@ -614,7 +621,7 @@ func shelfWithChange(base map[string]catalogue.Manifest, sources map[string]inve
 				"of one module name (issue 239)", orRoot(dir), m.Module, s.Repository))
 			return nil
 		}
-		resolved, err := standInBuild(m)
+		resolved, err := standInBuild(written, texts)
 		if err == nil {
 			// As registration reads a built manifest: strictly, again (takeIn).
 			var raw []byte
@@ -737,15 +744,24 @@ func builtAlike(m catalogue.Manifest) string {
 // standInBuild resolves a manifest as a build would, with artifacts nobody built: a digest made from the
 // module's and the artifact's names, in the store's own vocabulary. Composition and validation read the
 // shape of a reference, never its bytes.
-func standInBuild(m catalogue.Manifest) (catalogue.Manifest, error) {
+func standInBuild(m catalogue.Manifest, texts map[string]string) (catalogue.Manifest, error) {
 	if m.Build == nil {
 		return m.Resolve(nil)
 	}
+	// The templates archive carries each template's text by its path inside the archive, as a build reads it back.
+	archive, inside := catalogue.TemplatesArtifact(m), m.TemplatesDir()+"/"
+	read := map[string]string{}
+	for template, text := range texts {
+		read[strings.TrimPrefix(template, inside)] = text
+	}
 	var built []catalogue.Built
 	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
 		sum := sha256.Sum256([]byte("gate\x00" + m.Module + "\x00" + a.Name))
 		digest := fmt.Sprintf("sha256:%x", sum)
 		b := catalogue.Built{Name: a.Name, Kind: a.Kind, Digest: digest}
+		if a.Name == archive && archive != "" {
+			b.Texts = read
+		}
 		switch a.Kind {
 		case catalogue.ArtifactImage, catalogue.ArtifactUpstream:
 			b.Reference = catalogue.ArtifactStoreScheme + m.Module + "/" + a.Name + "@" + digest
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/template_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/template_test.go
index 8ad78f36..2a14e3e4 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/template_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/template_test.go
@@ -185,11 +185,11 @@ func TestTheMergeGateResolvesATemplatedModuleToItsInlineTwin(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	m, err = catalogue.WithTemplatesFrom(m, dir)
+	texts, err := catalogue.ReadTemplates(m, dir)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	resolved, err := standInBuild(m)
+	resolved, err := standInBuild(m, texts)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -239,3 +239,34 @@ func TestModuleCheckReadsTemplatesFromTheTemplatesDirectoryTheManifestNames(t *t
 		t.Fatalf("a template outside the templates directory the manifest names passed:\n%s", got.String())
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 876: the gate judges a moved module that names its templates as registration reads it after a real build,
+// handed its templates; it refused every such module as "marked moved and names no template". This calls the gate's
+// own shelf (shelfWithChange), which needs no database.
+func TestReplay876(t *testing.T) {
+	moved := strings.Replace(templatedNotifier, `"version":"1",`, `"version":"1","moved":true,`, 1)
+	judge := func(manifest string, files map[string]string) (map[string]catalogue.Manifest, []string) {
+		tree := t.TempDir()
+		aTemplatedModule(t, filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "notifier"), manifest, files)
+		out, failures, err := shelfWithChange(map[string]catalogue.Manifest{}, nil, snapshot.Facts{},
+			"novox/mesh-catalog", tree, map[string]string{}, nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return out, failures
+	}
+	out, failures := judge(moved, map[string]string{"files/notifier.conf": "volume = 3\n"})
+	if len(failures) > 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a moved module naming its templates was refused: %v", failures)
+	}
+	if h := out["notifier"].Handed; h == nil || h.Templates["conf"] != "notifier.conf" {
+		t.Fatalf("the gate did not hand the moved module its templates: %+v", h)
+	}
+
+	// A moved module naming no template is still refused.
+	none := strings.Replace(strings.Replace(moved, `"template":"files/notifier.conf"`,
+		`"content":"volume = 3\n"`, 1), `"build":{"artifacts":[{"name":"files","kind":"archive","from":"files"}]},`, "", 1)
+	if _, failures := judge(none, nil); len(failures) != 1 || !strings.Contains(failures[0], "names no template") {
+		t.Fatalf("a moved module naming no template was not refused: %v", failures)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/consumers.go b/internal/catalogue/consumers.go
index c2200c87..46a64e0e 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/consumers.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/consumers.go
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ func consumersPlaceholderProblems(m Manifest, r map[string]any) []string {
 // client alone fills it, so on a machine that does not hand the module it is **left out** of the declaration, never
 // written as that text or as an empty list the provider would read as no consumers, and never the reason the module is
 // refused: a provider not handed there keeps working as it did, from its grant files (novox/hq ADR 0373, issue 780).
-// A moved module judged from its repository's tree (WithTemplatesFrom: `module check`, the merge gate), on a machine
+// A moved module judged from its repository's tree (WithTemplatesFrom: `module check`), on a machine
 // that would hand it, has no templates archive to hand and is judged as it composes; there the placeholder is judged
 // and taken out of the text, since what is composed so is never sent (judged answers whether the file is so judged).
 func consumersHandedOnly(m Manifest, r map[string]any, with Rendering) (judged, leftOut bool) {