diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_graph.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_graph.go
index ba471139..85ebbdca 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_graph.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_graph.go
@@ -73,24 +73,6 @@ func ModuleValueOf(e meshcatalog.CatalogEntry) meshcatalog.ModulesByModuleValue
 	return v
 }
 
-// NodeOf is the node of the module graph an entry carries, as CatalogEntryOf took it in: the graph the indexer holds in
-// memory is read back from the newest trunk revision at its start (TrunkView), so a revision kept before its first
-// recompute loses no edge.
-func NodeOf(e meshcatalog.CatalogEntry) graph.Node {
-	n := graph.Node{V: graph.Version, FP: e.Fp, None: e.None, Repository: e.Repository, Path: e.Path, Bases: e.Bases,
-		Provides: e.Provides, Requires: e.Requires, Awaits: e.Awaits, Invokes: e.Invokes, Serves: e.Serves, LeftOut: e.LeftOut}
-	if len(e.Packages) > 0 {
-		n.Packages = slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(e.Packages))
-	}
-	for language, t := range e.Toolchains {
-		if n.Toolchains == nil {
-			n.Toolchains = map[string]graph.Toolchain{}
-		}
-		n.Toolchains[language] = graph.Toolchain{Module: t.Module, Version: t.Version, Recipe: t.Recipe}
-	}
-	return n
-}
-
 // EncodeEntry is an entry's bytes and their sha256 in hex, the name of its object: the same entry in two revisions is
 // one object (design 47, *An unchanged entry is stored once*).
 func EncodeEntry(e meshcatalog.CatalogEntry) (string, []byte, error) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_revisions.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_revisions.go
index efe8ebbc..3d5eaa8b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_revisions.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/catalog_revisions.go
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ func TrunkView(ctx context.Context, o Objects) (modules, nodes Store, at int64,
 		if err != nil {
 			continue // a module the graph cannot name has no node, as writeGraph writes none
 		}
-		node, err := graph.Encode(NodeOf(e))
+		node, err := graph.Encode(graph.NodeOf(e))
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("trunk.%d: the node of %s: %w", newest.Revision, e.Module, err)
 		}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/toolchains_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/toolchains_test.go
index 4465c9fb..4afc5f88 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/toolchains_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/toolchains_test.go
@@ -372,9 +372,9 @@ func TestBasesAreComputedFirstAndNoFingerprintTakesTheBuilder(t *testing.T) { //
 		// first recompute after a start loses no edge.
 		gk, _ := graph.Key(name)
 		rawNode, _, found, _ := nodes.Get(context.Background(), gk)
-		if back, err := graph.Decode(rawNode); !found || err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(NodeOf(e), back) || back.FP != e.Fp ||
+		if back, err := graph.Decode(rawNode); !found || err != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(graph.NodeOf(e), back) || back.FP != e.Fp ||
 			!reflect.DeepEqual(back.Bases, e.Bases) || !reflect.DeepEqual(CatalogEntryOf(name, ModuleValueOf(e), catalogue.Manifest{}, "", back).Bases, e.Bases) {
-			t.Errorf("the view's node of %s = %+v (%v), want %+v", name, back, err, NodeOf(e))
+			t.Errorf("the view's node of %s = %+v (%v), want %+v", name, back, err, graph.NodeOf(e))
 		}
 	}
 	if empty, _, at, err := TrunkView(context.Background(), newMemObjects(0)); err != nil || at != 0 || func() bool { k, _ := empty.Keys(context.Background()); return len(k) != 0 }() {
diff --git a/sdk/go.mod b/sdk/go.mod
index f5689501..a7bf4f30 100644
--- a/sdk/go.mod
+++ b/sdk/go.mod
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0 // indirect
 )
 
-require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
diff --git a/sdk/graph/entry.go b/sdk/graph/entry.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..09cb1784
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdk/graph/entry.go
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package graph
+
+import (
+	"maps"
+	"slices"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+)
+
+// NodeOf is the node of the module graph a catalog graph entry carries, as the indexer took it in (design 47, *Two
+// graphs*): the catalog half's holder reads its graph back from its newest trunk revision, and every part that reads the
+// catalog half reads the module graph from its entries, never from the holder's state.
+func NodeOf(e meshcatalog.CatalogEntry) Node {
+	n := Node{V: Version, FP: e.Fp, None: e.None, Repository: e.Repository, Path: e.Path, Bases: e.Bases,
+		Provides: e.Provides, Requires: e.Requires, Awaits: e.Awaits, Invokes: e.Invokes, Serves: e.Serves, LeftOut: e.LeftOut}
+	if len(e.Packages) > 0 {
+		n.Packages = slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(e.Packages))
+	}
+	for language, t := range e.Toolchains {
+		if n.Toolchains == nil {
+			n.Toolchains = map[string]Toolchain{}
+		}
+		n.Toolchains[language] = Toolchain{Module: t.Module, Version: t.Version, Recipe: t.Recipe}
+	}
+	return n
+}