diff --git a/internal/broker/membership.go b/internal/broker/membership.go
index fc3d6ed7..66138254 100644
--- a/internal/broker/membership.go
+++ b/internal/broker/membership.go
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ type Membership struct {
 	// consumer on that stream the runtime binds beside the one on EVENTS (§8).
 	Streams []StreamIssued `json:"streams,omitempty"`
 	Hears   []HeardIssued  `json:"hears,omitempty"`
+	// Waits are the event families a session may wait on through the mesh MCP server, the tool runner's
+	// alone (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2): the subjects its account is granted, under the names a session asks for.
+	// The tool runner refuses any family not listed here.
+	Waits []WaitIssued `json:"waits,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Served is one address a tool is answered on.
@@ -133,6 +137,7 @@ func MembershipFor(node string, d Declared, where Placements) Membership {
 	m.Logs = logsIssuedFor(d)
 	m.Streams = streamsIssuedFor(d)
 	m.Hears = HeardIssuedFor(node, d)
+	m.Waits = waitsIssuedFor(d)
 	t := SeatTrafficOf(d.Module, d.Holds, d.Uses, d.Watches)
 	for _, s := range append(append([]Seat{}, d.Uses...), d.Watches...) {
 		if !s.Kinded {
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index 9323c6fd..6554a0b0 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -883,6 +883,14 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		for _, d := range p.Carries {
 			pub = append(pub, logGrants(d.Module, logNames(d.Logs))...)
 		}
+		// **And the event families a session may wait on** (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2): the tool runner's module's own,
+		// named one by one in its manifest, as a plain subscription — no consumer is made for them, and no
+		// call or setting adds one.
+		waits, err := waitGrants(p.Carries)
+		if err != nil {
+			return Permissions{}, err
+		}
+		sub = append(sub, waits...)
 		// **Never the traffic of a trusted holder** (novox/hq ADR 0259 §8): the machine's runtime runs as the
 		// operator's account, which every agent runs as, so a module saying warrants or speaking for a kind
 		// that proves its sender is never composed into it — refused here, naming it, whatever registration
diff --git a/internal/broker/users.go b/internal/broker/users.go
index 2c0ea4c5..7ec4beb3 100644
--- a/internal/broker/users.go
+++ b/internal/broker/users.go
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ type Declared struct {
 	Watches []Seat
 	// Invokes are the tools it calls, `<module>.<tool>` or `*` (novox/hq ADR 0152).
 	Invokes []string
+	// Waits are the event families a session may wait on through the tool runner, the tool runner's module's
+	// alone (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2): its account subscribes them for a call, through no consumer.
+	Waits []Wait
 	// State is the state it keeps, each a bucket its instances write (novox/hq ADR 0201).
 	State []Bucket
 	// Logs are the logs it keeps, each a stream its instances append to (novox/hq ADR 0297).
diff --git a/internal/broker/waits.go b/internal/broker/waits.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a751d947
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/broker/waits.go
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+package broker
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// What a session may wait on through the mesh MCP server (novox/hq ADR 0367).
+//
+// **A grant apart from `consumes`, and the tool runner's alone.** The tool runner's module names in its
+// manifest the event families a session may wait on, one by one; the runtime's account is granted a plain
+// subscription on those subjects and nothing wider — no durable consumer, no queue of its own — and its
+// membership names the same list, from which `mesh_wait` refuses any other. Both are read from this one
+// composition, so the grant and what the tool runner offers cannot disagree, and nothing but the manifest
+// adds a family (§6).
+
+// Wait is one event family the tool runner's module declares: its name as the manifest gives it, and the
+// emitter — a seat or a module — and the event, as the inventory resolved them.
+type Wait struct {
+	// Name is the family as the manifest names it, `<emitter>.<event>`: what a session asks for.
+	Name    string
+	Emitter string
+	// Seat says the emitter is a seat, whose events live under the seat's namespace (novox/hq ADR 0121).
+	Seat bool
+	// Event is the event, with any further token the subject carries: `decided.claude-code`, the asker of a
+	// seat that names it last (ADR 0259 §3).
+	Event string
+	// Last names what the seat's event subject ends in — "kind" for a kinded bench, "asker" for a seat naming
+	// its caller (ADR 0259 §3) — and is empty for an event that ends at its name. A family needing it is waited
+	// on with it given, and refused without.
+	Last string
+}
+
+// WaitIssued is one family as a membership issues it: the name a session asks for, and its subject.
+type WaitIssued struct {
+	Event   string `json:"event"`
+	Subject string `json:"subject"`
+}
+
+// WaitSubject is where a family's events land. Each token is checked before it becomes a subject: a
+// wildcard, a dot inside a name or an empty token would widen the grant.
+func WaitSubject(w Wait) (string, error) {
+	if !safeSubject.MatchString(w.Emitter) {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%q cannot name an emitter of a waited event: it would widen the subject", w.Emitter)
+	}
+	for _, t := range strings.Split(w.Event, ".") {
+		if !safeSubject.MatchString(t) {
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("%q cannot name a waited event: each of its names is plain, never a wildcard "+
+				"(novox/hq ADR 0367 §2)", w.Event)
+		}
+	}
+	if w.Last != "" && !strings.Contains(w.Event, ".") {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s names no %s: %s's events are said for each %s, so a family is %s.%s.<%s>; "+
+			"without it no event would ever be heard (novox/hq ADR 0367 §5)",
+			w.Name, w.Last, w.Emitter, w.Last, w.Emitter, w.Event, w.Last)
+	}
+	if w.Seat {
+		return "mesh.seat." + w.Emitter + ".event." + w.Event, nil
+	}
+	return "mesh.mod." + w.Emitter + ".event." + w.Event, nil
+}
+
+// waitGrants is the subscription the tool runner's account is granted for its module's families, and an
+// error for a carried module other than the tool runner's that declares any (ADR 0367 §2).
+func waitGrants(carries []Declared) ([]string, error) {
+	var sub []string
+	for _, d := range carries {
+		if len(d.Waits) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if d.Module != RuntimeModule {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s declares what a session waits on; only %s, the tool runner's module, "+
+				"does (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2)", d.Module, RuntimeModule)
+		}
+		for _, w := range d.Waits {
+			s, err := WaitSubject(w)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			sub = append(sub, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return sub, nil
+}
+
+// waitsIssuedFor is the families a membership names: the tool runner's module's, and nobody else's.
+func waitsIssuedFor(d Declared) []WaitIssued {
+	if d.Module != RuntimeModule {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []WaitIssued
+	for _, w := range d.Waits {
+		s, err := WaitSubject(w)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue // refused where the account is composed, which names it
+		}
+		out = append(out, WaitIssued{Event: w.Name, Subject: s})
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/waits_test.go b/internal/broker/waits_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cfc0b1a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/broker/waits_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+package broker
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The families ADR 0367 §5 starts the grant with, resolved as the inventory resolves a manifest: a seat's
+// event under the seat's namespace, a module's under the module's.
+var firstFamilies = []Wait{
+	{Name: "mesh-knowledge.reviewed", Emitter: "mesh-knowledge", Event: "reviewed"},
+	{Name: "mesh-delivery.transition", Emitter: "mesh-delivery", Event: "transition"},
+	{Name: "gitea.forge.status", Emitter: "gitea", Event: "forge.status"},
+	{Name: "mesh-controller.checked", Emitter: "mesh-controller", Seat: true, Event: "checked"},
+	{Name: "operator-channel.decided.claude-code", Emitter: "operator-channel", Seat: true, Event: "decided.claude-code"},
+}
+
+var firstSubjects = []string{
+	"mesh.mod.gitea.event.forge.status",
+	"mesh.mod.mesh-delivery.event.transition",
+	"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed",
+	"mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.checked",
+	"mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.claude-code",
+}
+
+func runtimeCarrying(waits []Wait) Principal {
+	return Principal{Kind: KindNodeTools, Node: "desk", Module: RuntimeModule, PasswordHash: "x", Carries: []Declared{
+		{Module: "shop", Emits: []string{"order.placed"}, Consumes: []string{"billing.paid"}, Serves: []string{"price"}},
+		{Module: RuntimeModule, Invokes: []string{"*"}, Waits: waits},
+	}}
+}
+
+func without(all, some []string) []string {
+	drop := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, s := range some {
+		drop[s] = true
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for _, s := range all {
+		if !drop[s] {
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0367 "How it is checked": the account's wait grant equals the manifest's families. The tool
+// runner's account subscribes exactly the families' subjects beyond what it had without them — nothing
+// published, nothing wider — and the membership it is issued names the same subjects.
+func TestTheToolRunnersWaitGrantIsTheManifestsFamiliesAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	before, err := PermissionsFor(runtimeCarrying(nil))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	after, err := PermissionsFor(runtimeCarrying(firstFamilies))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	added := without(after.Subscribe, before.Subscribe)
+	sort.Strings(added)
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(added, firstSubjects) {
+		t.Errorf("the wait grant is %v, want the families' subjects %v", added, firstSubjects)
+	}
+	if extra := without(after.Publish, before.Publish); len(extra) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("waiting granted a publish: %v", extra)
+	}
+	for _, s := range after.Subscribe {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(s, "mesh.mod.*.event") || s == "mesh.>" || s == ">" || strings.HasSuffix(s, ".event.>") {
+			t.Errorf("the runtime may subscribe every event: %s", s)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, other := range []string{"mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.shop",
+		"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.proposed", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.forge.push"} {
+		if MaySubscribe(after, other) {
+			t.Errorf("the runtime may subscribe %s, which no family names", other)
+		}
+	}
+
+	issued := MembershipFor("desk", runtimeCarrying(firstFamilies).Carries[1], Placements{})
+	var subjects []string
+	for _, w := range issued.Waits {
+		subjects = append(subjects, w.Subject)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(subjects)
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(subjects, firstSubjects) {
+		t.Errorf("the membership names %v, want the grant %v", subjects, firstSubjects)
+	}
+	if issued.Waits[0].Event != "mesh-knowledge.reviewed" {
+		t.Errorf("a family is issued under its manifest name: %+v", issued.Waits[0])
+	}
+	if shop := MembershipFor("desk", runtimeCarrying(firstFamilies).Carries[0], Placements{}); len(shop.Waits) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a module beside the runtime is issued waits: %+v", shop.Waits)
+	}
+}
+
+// **A subscription for the call, never a durable consumer** (ADR 0367 §2): composing the users makes no
+// consumer that filters a family, and none for the runtime's module at all.
+func TestAWaitMakesNoDurableConsumer(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range ConsumersOf([]Principal{runtimeCarrying(firstFamilies)}) {
+		if c.Module == RuntimeModule {
+			t.Errorf("the runtime's module has a durable consumer: %+v", c.Consumer)
+		}
+		for _, f := range c.Consumer.Filters {
+			for _, s := range firstSubjects {
+				if f == s {
+					t.Errorf("%s's consumer filters the family %s", c.Module, s)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Only the tool runner's module waits (ADR 0367 §2): a carried module declaring waits is refused at
+// composition, naming it, and no name that would widen a subject is composed.
+func TestAWaitIsComposedOnlyForTheToolRunnerAndOnlyWhole(t *testing.T) {
+	p := runtimeCarrying(nil)
+	p.Carries[0].Waits = []Wait{{Name: "mesh-knowledge.reviewed", Emitter: "mesh-knowledge", Event: "reviewed"}}
+	if _, err := PermissionsFor(p); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "shop") {
+		t.Errorf("a carried module's waits were composed: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, w := range []Wait{
+		{Name: "x", Emitter: "mesh-knowledge", Event: "*"},
+		{Name: "x", Emitter: "mesh-knowledge", Event: "a.>"},
+		{Name: "x", Emitter: "*", Event: "reviewed"},
+		{Name: "x", Emitter: "mesh.knowledge", Event: "reviewed"},
+		{Name: "x", Emitter: "mesh-knowledge", Event: ""},
+		{Name: "x", Emitter: "mesh-knowledge", Event: "a..b"},
+	} {
+		if _, err := PermissionsFor(runtimeCarrying([]Wait{w})); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%+v was composed", w)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
index fa9d65e6..845b9122 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
@@ -513,6 +513,13 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// person's account (design 25 §7) already had the same shape.
 	Invokes []string `json:"invokes,omitempty"`
 
+	// Waits are the event families a session may wait on through the mesh MCP server's `mesh_wait`, each
+	// `<emitter>.<event>` as `consumes` names one, a seat's or a module's (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2). Only the tool
+	// runner's module declares them, one by one and never by a wildcard. **A grant apart from `consumes`**: the
+	// controller grants the tool runner's account a plain subscription on those subjects alone, with no
+	// durable consumer, and issues the same list in its membership; no call or setting adds one (§6).
+	Waits []string `json:"waits,omitempty"`
+
 	// State is the current state this module keeps on the bus, by local name: each a key-value
 	// bucket the controller creates, which every instance of the module writes and reads
 	// (novox/hq ADR 0201). Not history — that is an event — and never a secret, sealed or not.
@@ -1971,6 +1978,7 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 		}
 	}
 	problems = append(problems, invokeProblems(m)...)
+	problems = append(problems, waitProblems(m)...)
 	problems = append(problems, replacesProblems(m)...)
 	problems = append(problems, UnitSettingProblems(m)...)
 	problems = append(problems, OwnerSettingProblems(m)...)
@@ -2694,6 +2702,46 @@ func invokeProblems(m Manifest) []string {
 	return problems
 }
 
+// waitToken is one name of an event family's subject: never a wildcard, never a dot, never empty.
+var waitToken = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]*$`)
+
+// waitProblems judges the event families a module says a session may wait on (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2, §6):
+// the tool runner's alone, each named whole — emitter and event, with no wildcard — and each once. Refused
+// here, in the manifest's words, rather than at the composition of the bus's users.
+func waitProblems(m Manifest) []string {
+	if len(m.Waits) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if m.Module != RuntimeModule {
+		return []string{fmt.Sprintf("%s says what a session waits on; only %s, the tool runner's module, "+
+			"declares waits (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2)", m.Module, RuntimeModule)}
+	}
+	var problems []string
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, w := range m.Waits {
+		if strings.ContainsAny(w, "*>") {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s waits on %q: a family is named one by one, never a "+
+				"wildcard (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2)", m.Module, w))
+			continue
+		}
+		tokens := strings.Split(w, ".")
+		whole := len(tokens) >= 2 && name.MatchString(tokens[0])
+		for _, t := range tokens[1:] {
+			whole = whole && waitToken.MatchString(t)
+		}
+		if !whole {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s waits on %q, which does not name an emitter and an "+
+				"event: a family is <emitter>.<event>, as consumes names one", m.Module, w))
+			continue
+		}
+		if seen[w] {
+			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s waits on %q twice", m.Module, w))
+		}
+		seen[w] = true
+	}
+	return problems
+}
+
 // How a module takes one of its own secrets (ADR 0114): read from the file when it starts, or
 // applied by its own code to a backend that takes it once.
 const (
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/waits_test.go b/internal/catalogue/waits_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..adf2080f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/catalogue/waits_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0367 §2: the tool runner's module names, one by one, the event families a session may wait on.
+func TestTheToolRunnerMayNameTheEventsASessionWaitsOn(t *testing.T) {
+	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1",` +
+		`"waits":["mesh-knowledge.reviewed","operator-channel.decided.claude-code"]}`))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(m.Waits) != 2 || m.Waits[1] != "operator-channel.decided.claude-code" {
+		t.Fatalf("waits not read: %v", m.Waits)
+	}
+}
+
+// A family is named one by one, never by a wildcard, and only by the tool runner's module (ADR 0367 §2, §6):
+// each refusal is said in the manifest's words, at parse, rather than at the composition of the bus's users.
+func TestAWaitIsRefusedUnlessItNamesOneFamilyOfTheToolRunner(t *testing.T) {
+	for manifest, want := range map[string]string{
+		`{"module":"shop","version":"1","waits":["mesh-knowledge.reviewed"]}`:         "only node-tools",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["mesh-knowledge.*"]}`:          "never a wildcard",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["**"]}`:                        "never a wildcard",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["mesh-knowledge.>"]}`:          "never a wildcard",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["*.reviewed"]}`:                "never a wildcard",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["reviewed"]}`:                  "does not name an emitter and an event",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["mesh-knowledge..reviewed"]}`:  "does not name an emitter and an event",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["Mesh-Knowledge.reviewed x"]}`: "does not name an emitter and an event",
+		`{"module":"node-tools","version":"1","waits":["a.b","a.b"]}`:                 "twice",
+	} {
+		_, err := ParseManifest([]byte(manifest))
+		if err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("accepted: %s", manifest)
+			continue
+		}
+		if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s refused for the wrong reason (want %q): %v", manifest, want, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/busrecords.go b/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
index 8ce9c330..e8cf32f5 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
@@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ func declaredFor(m catalogue.Manifest, seats map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaratio
 		Serves: m.Tools,
 		// And what it calls (novox/hq ADR 0152) — the console's `*`, nothing else's.
 		Invokes: m.Invokes,
+		// And the event families a session may wait on, the tool runner's alone (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2).
+		Waits: waitsOf(m, seats),
 		// And the state it keeps and reads (novox/hq ADR 0201).
 		State: bucketsOf(m),
 		Reads: m.Reads,
@@ -219,6 +221,32 @@ func declaredFor(m catalogue.Manifest, seats map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaratio
 	return d
 }
 
+// waitsOf is the event families a manifest says a session may wait on, each resolved as a consumed name is
+// (novox/hq ADR 0121, ADR 0239): a seat's event when the seat says it, else the event of the module of that
+// name. A seat whose event subjects end in a kind (a kinded bench) or in the asker (ADR 0259 §3) is waited on
+// with that last name given — `decided.claude-code` — and the family says which it needs, so one given without
+// it is refused where it is composed rather than granted a subject nothing publishes on.
+func waitsOf(m catalogue.Manifest, seats map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaration) []broker.Wait {
+	var out []broker.Wait
+	for _, w := range m.Waits {
+		emitter, event, _ := strings.Cut(w, ".")
+		first, _, _ := strings.Cut(event, ".")
+		wait := broker.Wait{Name: w, Emitter: emitter, Event: event}
+		if s, isASeat := seats[emitter]; isASeat {
+			switch {
+			case s.Kinded && catalogue.SeatSays(s.Emits, first):
+				wait.Seat, wait.Last = true, "kind"
+			case s.NamedByCaller(first) && catalogue.SeatSays(s.Emits, first):
+				wait.Seat, wait.Last = true, "asker"
+			case catalogue.SeatSays(s.Emits, event):
+				wait.Seat = true
+			}
+		}
+		out = append(out, wait)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // issuedTools are the tools through which a module answers the credentials its software issues (novox/hq ADR 0305).
 func issuedTools(m catalogue.Manifest) []string {
 	var out []string
diff --git a/internal/inventory/waits_grants_test.go b/internal/inventory/waits_grants_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c3841b4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/waits_grants_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+package inventory
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+)
+
+// The tool runner's manifest with the families novox/hq ADR 0367 §5 starts the grant with, and one more.
+const runtimeWaiting = `{"module": "node-tools", "version": "1", "invokes": ["*"], "waits": [%s]}`
+
+var adr0367Families = []string{`"mesh-knowledge.reviewed"`, `"mesh-delivery.transition"`, `"gitea.forge.status"`,
+	`"mesh-controller.checked"`, `"operator-channel.decided.claude-code"`}
+
+// composeWaits composes the bus's users from manifests as BusRecords does — the router declaring the operator
+// channel, the mesh's own seats, a person granted every tool — and answers the tool runner's account's
+// subscriptions on events, and the subjects its membership names.
+func composeWaits(t *testing.T, families []string, people map[string][]string) (granted, issued []string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	parse := func(s string) catalogue.Manifest {
+		m, err := catalogue.ParseManifest([]byte(s))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return m
+	}
+	router := parse(`{"module": "messenger", "version": "1", "runs-as": "messenger",
+	  "seats": [{"name": "operator-channel", "scope": "mesh", "serves": ["open"], "accepts": ["ask"],
+	             "emits": ["decided"], "by-caller": ["ask", "decided"]}],
+	  "claims": [{"name": "operator-channel", "scope": "mesh", "serves": ["open"]}],
+	  "own-secrets": {"broker": "${dir:state}/broker"}, "secrets-owner": "messenger",
+	  "resources": [{"id": "account", "type": "user", "name": "messenger", "shell": "/usr/bin/nologin", "home": "/var/lib/messenger"},
+	                {"id": "state", "type": "directory", "mode": "0700", "place": ".", "owner": "messenger"}]}`)
+	asker := parse(`{"module": "claude-code", "version": "1", "consumes": ["mesh-knowledge.reviewed"],
+	  "own-secrets": {"broker": "${dir:state}/broker"}, "resources": [{"id": "state", "type": "directory", "mode": "0700", "place": "."}]}`)
+	runtime := parse(strings.Replace(runtimeWaiting, "%s", strings.Join(families, ", "), 1))
+	manifests := []catalogue.Manifest{router, asker, runtime}
+	seats := map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaration{}
+	declarers := map[string]string{}
+	for _, m := range manifests {
+		for _, s := range m.DefinesSeats {
+			seats[s.Name], declarers[s.Name] = s, m.Module
+		}
+	}
+	for _, own := range catalogue.SeatsWithAProtocol() {
+		seats[own.Name] = catalogue.SeatDeclaration{Name: own.Name, Scope: own.Scope, Accepts: own.Accepts,
+			Emits: own.Emits, Serves: own.Serves}
+	}
+	records := broker.Records{Nodes: []string{"laptop"}, Assigned: map[string][]broker.Declared{},
+		People: people, Interchangeable: map[string]bool{}}
+	for _, m := range manifests {
+		records.Assigned["laptop"] = append(records.Assigned["laptop"], declaredFor(m, seats, declarers))
+	}
+	users, err := broker.Users(records)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, u := range users {
+		if u.Kind != broker.KindNodeTools {
+			continue
+		}
+		p, err := broker.PermissionsFor(u)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		for _, s := range p.Subscribe {
+			if strings.Contains(s, ".event.") {
+				granted = append(granted, s)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for _, d := range records.Assigned["laptop"] {
+		for _, w := range broker.MembershipFor("laptop", d, broker.PlacementsOf(records, nil)).Waits {
+			issued = append(issued, w.Subject)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(granted)
+	sort.Strings(issued)
+	return granted, issued
+}
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0367 "How it is checked": the account's wait grant equals the manifest's families — a seat's
+// event under the seat, the asker's own `decided` alone, a module's under the module — and the membership
+// names the same; no person's grant, however wide, widens it; a family is granted only once the manifest
+// that adds it is composed.
+func TestTheWaitGrantIsTheToolRunnersManifestAndNothingElse(t *testing.T) {
+	want := []string{
+		"mesh.mod.gitea.event.forge.status",
+		"mesh.mod.mesh-delivery.event.transition",
+		"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed",
+		"mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.checked",
+		"mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.claude-code",
+	}
+	granted, issued := composeWaits(t, adr0367Families, map[string][]string{})
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(granted, want) {
+		t.Errorf("the tool runner hears %v, want the manifest's families %v", granted, want)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(issued, want) {
+		t.Errorf("its membership names %v, want the grant %v", issued, want)
+	}
+	// No call or setting widens it: a person granted every tool, an operator's account, changes nothing.
+	if wide, _ := composeWaits(t, adr0367Families, map[string][]string{"operator": {"*"}}); !reflect.DeepEqual(wide, want) {
+		t.Errorf("a person's grant widened the wait grant: %v", wide)
+	}
+	// And without the families it hears no event at all (ADR 0043 §3): a module beside it consuming one
+	// lends it nothing.
+	if none, issuedNone := composeWaits(t, nil, map[string][]string{}); len(none)+len(issuedNone) > 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a tool runner declaring no waits hears %v, issued %v", none, issuedNone)
+	}
+	// A family is granted only after the manifest change that adds it is composed.
+	more := append(append([]string{}, adr0367Families...), `"mesh-knowledge.accepted"`)
+	grown, _ := composeWaits(t, more, map[string][]string{})
+	if added := without(grown, want); !reflect.DeepEqual(added, []string{"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.accepted"}) {
+		t.Errorf("adding one family to the manifest granted %v", added)
+	}
+}
+
+func without(all, some []string) []string {
+	drop := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, s := range some {
+		drop[s] = true
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for _, s := range all {
+		if !drop[s] {
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// A family of a seat whose event subjects end in a kind (a kinded bench) or in the asker (a seat naming its
+// caller) is composed with that last token, and refused without it, naming the family: a subject without it
+// is one nothing publishes on, and a wait on it would never hear (the review of issue 745).
+func TestAWaitOnASeatNamingAKindOrAnAskerNeedsThatName(t *testing.T) {
+	seats := map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaration{
+		"intake":           {Name: "intake", Kinded: true, Emits: []string{"choice", "failed"}},
+		"operator-channel": {Name: "operator-channel", Emits: []string{"decided"}, ByCaller: []string{"ask", "decided"}},
+	}
+	compose := func(family string) (string, error) {
+		m := catalogue.Manifest{Module: broker.RuntimeModule, Waits: []string{family}}
+		waits := waitsOf(m, seats)
+		return broker.WaitSubject(waits[0])
+	}
+	if s, err := compose("intake.choice.telegram"); err != nil || s != "mesh.seat.intake.event.choice.telegram" {
+		t.Errorf("a kind's event: %q, %v", s, err)
+	}
+	if s, err := compose("operator-channel.decided.claude-code"); err != nil || s != "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.claude-code" {
+		t.Errorf("an asker's event: %q, %v", s, err)
+	}
+	for family, want := range map[string]string{"intake.choice": "kind", "operator-channel.decided": "asker"} {
+		s, err := compose(family)
+		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), family) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s composed as %q (%v), want it refused for want of its %s", family, s, err, want)
+		}
+	}
+	// Refused where the bus's users are composed, naming it, so the merge gate is red before it lands.
+	p := broker.Principal{Kind: broker.KindNodeTools, Node: "laptop", Module: broker.RuntimeModule, Carries: []broker.Declared{
+		{Module: broker.RuntimeModule, Waits: waitsOf(catalogue.Manifest{Module: broker.RuntimeModule, Waits: []string{"intake.choice"}}, seats)}}}
+	if _, err := broker.PermissionsFor(p); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "intake.choice") {
+		t.Errorf("the runtime was composed with a family no subject carries: %v", err)
+	}
+}