diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main.go
index b00534cb..0a62fdf9 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main.go
@@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshwatchdogsclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/provisioning/go/clients/meshprovisionerclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk/buildstep"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
 
 	"mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/socket"
 	"mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch"
@@ -382,21 +382,21 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	provisionsWatch := func(kv jetstream.KeyValue) (jetstream.KeyWatcher, error) {
 		pw, err := settle(ctx, kv, func(e jetstream.KeyValueEntry) { w.Provision(e.Key(), e.Value(), opOf(e)) })
 		if err == nil {
-			w.ReadWhole(provisions.ProvisionsBucket)
+			w.ReadWhole(meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket)
 		}
 		return pw, err
 	}
 	var provWatch jetstream.KeyWatcher
-	if kv, err := js.KeyValue(ctx, provisions.ProvisionsBucket); err == nil {
+	if kv, err := js.KeyValue(ctx, meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket); err == nil {
 		if provWatch, err = provisionsWatch(kv); err != nil {
-			process.NotWatched(logger.Printf, provisions.ProvisionsBucket, err, "no provision waiting for the operator is said until the watchman starts again")
+			process.NotWatched(logger.Printf, meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket, err, "no provision waiting for the operator is said until the watchman starts again")
 		}
 	} else {
-		process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, provisions.ProvisionsBucket, "no provision waiting for the operator is said",
+		process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket, "no provision waiting for the operator is said",
 			logger.Printf).Ready(func(kv jetstream.KeyValue) {
 			pw, err := provisionsWatch(kv)
 			if err != nil {
-				process.NotWatched(logger.Printf, provisions.ProvisionsBucket, err, "no provision waiting for the operator is said until the watchman starts again")
+				process.NotWatched(logger.Printf, meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket, err, "no provision waiting for the operator is said until the watchman starts again")
 				return
 			}
 			go func() {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/signals.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/signals.go
index 119b9b51..f8a3c0d7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/signals.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/signals.go
@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshselfcheck"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 
 	"mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/deadletters"
 	"mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/socket"
@@ -22,11 +23,11 @@ import (
 
 // The subjects the watchman hears for the signals table's rows (novox/hq ADR 0564 §4, Limits 3 and 11), each on the bus,
 // none in the controller's store. Its grant names them (mesh-sdk buscompose, the watchman's principal).
-const CheckedSubject = "mesh.seat." + health.SelfCheckModule + ".event." + health.EventChecked
+const CheckedSubject = "mesh.seat." + meshselfcheck.Seat + ".event." + meshselfcheck.EventChecked
 
 // HeardSubjects is every subject the watchman subscribes for its rows, beside the bus's connect and disconnect: the ones
-// its grant lets it hear (buscompose.WatchmanHears), so the two cannot drift.
-var HeardSubjects = buscompose.WatchmanHears()
+// its grant lets it hear (busgrants.WatchmanHears), so the two cannot drift.
+var HeardSubjects = busgrants.WatchmanHears()
 
 // The rows a heard subject goes to.
 const (
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod
index 2899b58e..3ad71562 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ module mesh-delivery-watchman
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshselfcheck v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/provisioning/go/clients/meshprovisionerclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/nodeengineclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/nodeengine v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshwatchdogsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/findings_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/findings_test.go
index 789ca57a..ff12c769 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/findings_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/findings_test.go
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk/buildstep"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/provisioning/go/clients/meshprovisionerclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk/heard"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
 )
 
 func mustEncode(t *testing.T, f Finding) []byte {
@@ -474,20 +474,20 @@ func TestTheWatchmansFindings(t *testing.T) {
 		}, map[string]string{"module.fail2ban.novox.unhealthy": Warning}},
 		{"1954/D2: a provision in waits is its consumer's needs-operator; provided, it ends", func(t *testing.T, w *Watchman, o *fakeOut, c *clock) {
 			enc := func(state, why string) []byte {
-				b, err := provisions.Encode(provisions.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: provisions.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
-					Provider: provisions.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: state, Why: why, At: t0})
+				b, err := meshprovisionerclient.Encode(meshprovisionerclient.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
+					Provider: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: state, Why: why, At: t0})
 				if err != nil {
 					t.Fatal(err)
 				}
 				return b
 			}
-			w.Provision("ace.photos.oidc", enc(provisions.Waits, "the operator gives the client's redirect"), Put)
-			w.Provision("ace.photos.db", enc(provisions.Provided, ""), Put)
+			w.Provision("ace.photos.oidc", enc(meshprovisionerclient.Waits, "the operator gives the client's redirect"), Put)
+			w.Provision("ace.photos.db", enc(meshprovisionerclient.Provided, ""), Put)
 			if f := o.findings["module.photos.ace.needs-operator"]; !strings.Contains(f.Summary, "redirect") || f.Machine != "ace" {
 				t.Fatalf("findings = %v", o.findings)
 			}
-			w.Provision("ace.photos.oidc", enc(provisions.Provided, ""), Put)
-			w.Provision("ace.web.oidc", enc(provisions.Waits, "x"), Put)
+			w.Provision("ace.photos.oidc", enc(meshprovisionerclient.Provided, ""), Put)
+			w.Provision("ace.web.oidc", enc(meshprovisionerclient.Waits, "x"), Put)
 			w.Provision("ace.web.oidc", nil, Delete)
 		}, map[string]string{}},
 		{"774: a node's own report: its network, the resolver file rewritten, failed units, a relogin, a directory used as found, a login fallen back", func(t *testing.T, w *Watchman, o *fakeOut, c *clock) {
@@ -674,10 +674,10 @@ func TestTheWatchmansFindings(t *testing.T) {
 			w.SetStepBound(30 * time.Minute)
 			held, _ := meshwantsclient.EncodeWant(meshwantsclient.Want{Fp: fpOld, Self: true, Newest: fpNew, Rule: meshwantsclient.RuleCanary, Words: "the canary ace does not run it yet"})
 			released, _ := meshwantsclient.EncodeWant(meshwantsclient.Want{Fp: fpNew, Self: true})
-			asked, _ := provisions.Encode(provisions.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: provisions.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
-				Provider: provisions.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: provisions.Asked, At: t0})
-			provided, _ := provisions.Encode(provisions.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: provisions.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
-				Provider: provisions.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: provisions.Provided, At: t0})
+			asked, _ := meshprovisionerclient.Encode(meshprovisionerclient.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
+				Provider: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: meshprovisionerclient.Asked, At: t0})
+			provided, _ := meshprovisionerclient.Encode(meshprovisionerclient.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
+				Provider: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: meshprovisionerclient.Provided, At: t0})
 			bkey, _ := builds.BuilderBuildKey("web", fpNew)
 			queued, _ := builds.EncodeBuilderBuild(builds.BuilderBuild{State: builds.BuildQueued, Waits: "mesh-sdk@v0.1.14"})
 			building, _ := builds.EncodeBuilderBuild(builds.BuilderBuild{State: builds.BuildBuilding, By: "n1"})
@@ -685,15 +685,15 @@ func TestTheWatchmansFindings(t *testing.T) {
 			w.Want("want.ace.web", held, Put, t0)
 			w.Provision("ace.photos.oidc", asked, Put)
 			w.Build(bkey, queued, Put, t0)
-			waits := map[string]string{AssignerWantsBucket: "want.ace.web", provisions.ProvisionsBucket: "ace.photos.oidc", BuilderBuildsBucket: bkey}
+			waits := map[string]string{AssignerWantsBucket: "want.ace.web", meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket: "ace.photos.oidc", BuilderBuildsBucket: bkey}
 			if len(o.pulses) != 3 || len(o.findings) != 0 {
 				t.Fatalf("pulses %v findings %v", o.pulses, o.findings)
 			}
 			// The keys are written again as their parts move on, with new words and a new time: the wait still began at t0.
 			c.t = c.t.Add(20 * time.Minute)
 			held2, _ := meshwantsclient.EncodeWant(meshwantsclient.Want{Fp: fpOld, Self: true, Newest: fpNew, Rule: meshwantsclient.RuleCanary, Words: "the canary ace runs it, not healthy yet"})
-			asked2, _ := provisions.Encode(provisions.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: provisions.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
-				Provider: provisions.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: provisions.Asked, Why: "the provider is applying", At: c.t})
+			asked2, _ := meshprovisionerclient.Encode(meshprovisionerclient.Provision{Provision: "oidc", Consumer: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "photos", Node: "ace"},
+				Provider: meshprovisionerclient.End{Module: "keycloak", Node: "novox"}, State: meshprovisionerclient.Asked, Why: "the provider is applying", At: c.t})
 			w.Want("want.ace.web", held2, Put, c.t)
 			w.Provision("ace.photos.oidc", asked2, Put)
 			w.Build(bkey, queued, Put, c.t)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/signals.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/signals.go
index 1faad419..ac945e8d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/signals.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch/signals.go
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/nodeengineclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/nodeengine"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshwatchdogsclient"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/provisioning/go/clients/meshprovisionerclient"
 )
 
 // The rows of the signals table the watchman holds (novox/hq ADR 0564 §4, Limits 3 and 11). Each is a key of the pulse
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ const ControlNodeModule = "nats"
 // why; the finding ends when no provision of that consumer on that node waits. A key deleted, or one that cannot be read,
 // waits no more.
 func (w *Watchman) Provision(key string, value []byte, op Op) {
-	node, consumer, _, _, err := provisions.ParseKey(key)
+	node, consumer, _, _, err := meshprovisionerclient.ParseKey(key)
 	if err != nil {
 		return
 	}
@@ -594,9 +594,9 @@ func (w *Watchman) Provision(key string, value []byte, op Op) {
 	}
 	delete(w.waiting[id], key)
 	if op == Put {
-		if p, err := provisions.Decode(value); err != nil {
+		if p, err := meshprovisionerclient.Decode(value); err != nil {
 			w.say("the provision %s cannot be read, and is taken as not waiting: %v", key, err)
-		} else if p.State == provisions.Waits {
+		} else if p.State == meshprovisionerclient.Waits {
 			w.waiting[id][key] = fmt.Sprintf("%s from %s on %s: %s", p.Provision, p.Provider.Module, p.Provider.Node, p.Why)
 		}
 	}
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ func (w *Watchman) Provision(key string, value []byte, op Op) {
 // holder wrote it, bounded as a step is, and provided, failed, waiting for the operator (its own finding), retiring or deleted
 // ends it. Called with the lock held.
 func (w *Watchman) askedWait(key string, value []byte, op Op) {
-	bucket := provisions.ProvisionsBucket
+	bucket := meshprovisionerclient.ProvisionsBucket
 	if op == Expired {
 		return
 	}
@@ -629,8 +629,8 @@ func (w *Watchman) askedWait(key string, value []byte, op Op) {
 		w.moved(bucket, key)
 		return
 	}
-	p, err := provisions.Decode(value)
-	if err != nil || p.State != provisions.Asked {
+	p, err := meshprovisionerclient.Decode(value)
+	if err != nil || p.State != meshprovisionerclient.Asked {
 		w.moved(bucket, key)
 		return
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants/busgrants.go b/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants/busgrants.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..72501415
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants/busgrants.go
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+// Package busgrants is what the grants part grants other parts' accounts that those parts' own code needs to state
+// as well: the whole authority of an account whose bus declares removals (the nats keeper's tools), and the subjects the
+// watchman hears (its code subscribes the very ones its grant lets it hear). The part composes every grant; a part that
+// needs the same words reads them here, the grants part's own published package (novox/hq ADR 0634 §4, ADR 0635 §4).
+package busgrants
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshselfcheck"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
+)
+
+const (
+	// EngineModule is the node-engine's manifest's module name, and EngineActsBucket the bucket of its state acts.
+	EngineModule     = "mesh-host"
+	EngineActsBucket = EngineModule + "_acts"
+
+	// DeadLetterNoticesStream is the stream of the notices a consumer gave up on a message, and DeadLetterPrefix the
+	// subjects the copies kept are on.
+	DeadLetterNoticesStream = "DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES"
+	DeadLetterPrefix        = "mesh.events.dead."
+	// ProvAppliedSubjects is every machine's provisioner client's reports: `prov.applied.<node>.<module>`.
+	ProvAppliedSubjects = "prov.applied.>"
+
+	// ControllerName and MergesConsumerName are the names of the ended controller's consumers.
+	ControllerName     = "controller"
+	MergesConsumerName = "controller-merges"
+	// endedController is the name the ended controller had as a module: its buckets are named for it (ADR 0590 §6).
+	endedController = "mesh-controller"
+)
+
+var safeSubject = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$`)
+
+// ControllerLeftoverConsumers are the ended controller's durable consumers left on the bus, one leftover of the module
+// mesh-delivery placed nowhere (issue 1126, milestone section 3), and mesh-catalog's of the controller's built-before,
+// which its manifest no longer consumes and no part composes; each `<stream>.<consumer>`.
+var ControllerLeftoverConsumers = []string{
+	"EVENTS." + ControllerName, "EVENTS." + MergesConsumerName, "EVENTS.novox_mesh-delivery", "EVENTS.novox_mesh-catalog", "EVENTS.novox_gitea",
+	"CONTROL." + ControllerName, DeadLetterNoticesStream + "." + ControllerName,
+	// The controller's consumers on three modules' buckets (issue 1126): the take-in on the builder's builds and on the
+	// indexer's modules, and the config follow on the resolved configuration.
+	"KV_mesh-delivery-builder_builds.mesh-controller-take-in", "KV_mesh-delivery-indexer_modules.mesh-controller-take-in",
+	"KV_mesh-config_resolved.mesh-controller-config-follow",
+}
+
+// ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn are ControllerLeftoverConsumers and, for each node given, the consumer the controller
+// made for the node's engine (`EVENTS.<node>_mesh-host`, of restic's backed-up): the engine hears that event without a
+// durable consumer, and the grants part composes none for it, so nothing reads it (issue 1126).
+func ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn(nodes []string) []string {
+	out := slices.Clone(ControllerLeftoverConsumers)
+	for _, n := range nodes {
+		if safeSubject.MatchString(n) {
+			out = append(out, "EVENTS."+n+"_"+EngineModule)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// ControllerLeftoverBuckets are the ended controller's buckets, each by its local name (`KV_mesh-controller_<name>`).
+var ControllerLeftoverBuckets = []string{"asked", "assignments", "builds", "calls", "checks-running", "composed",
+	"condition-history", "conditions", "declared-config", "declared-packages", "delivery-merges", "grants", "hand-acts",
+	"lease", "predefined", "rollouts", "states-announced"}
+
+// ControllerLeftoverStreams are the ended controller's streams, by their names: CONTROL, ASSIGNMENTS, each of its buckets'
+// and, for each node given, the declaration files' object bucket the controller wrote (ADR 0486 §2).
+func ControllerLeftoverStreams(nodes []string) []string {
+	out := []string{"CONTROL", membership.AssignmentsStream}
+	for _, b := range ControllerLeftoverBuckets {
+		out = append(out, "KV_"+endedController+"_"+b)
+	}
+	for _, n := range nodes {
+		if safeSubject.MatchString(n) {
+			out = append(out, "OBJ_"+declaration.FileBucketPrefix+n)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// BusRemovalGrants are the whole authority of an account whose bus declares removals (ADR 0564 Limits 4, ADR 0590 clause
+// 6), each removal its grant: the node-engine's acts bucket read (STREAM.INFO with a subject filter lists what a removal
+// would take, so the tools read before they remove) and its keys removed, which nothing else may empty when it fills; and
+// the ended controller's leftovers, each consumer and each stream read and deleted by its name, for the nodes given (the
+// declaration files' object buckets). A removal outside the set is refused, as the indexer's judge refuses it in a
+// manifest (novox/hq ADR 0578 §1).
+func BusRemovalGrants(removes, nodes []string) ([]string, error) {
+	var out []string
+	for _, r := range removes {
+		switch r {
+		case catalogue.RemovesEngineActs:
+			out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_"+EngineActsBucket, "$KV."+EngineActsBucket+".>")
+		case catalogue.RemovesControllerLeftovers:
+			for _, c := range ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn(nodes) {
+				out = append(out, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."+c, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+c)
+			}
+			for _, s := range ControllerLeftoverStreams(nodes) {
+				out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+s, "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE."+s)
+			}
+		default:
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("a bus account removes %q, which is not one of %s (novox/hq ADR 0564 Limits 4, ADR 0590)", r,
+				strings.Join([]string{catalogue.RemovesEngineActs, catalogue.RemovesControllerLeftovers}, ", "))
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// WatchmanHears are the core subjects the watchman subscribes, with no durable consumer (ADR 0564 clauses 4, 5 and
+// Limits 3, 11): the power seat's words (S1, ADR 0211), the providers' failing and recovered words (S8), each tool
+// runner's beat (S11), the self-check's checked (S10), a consumer deleted and the bus module's slow consumers and closed
+// connections (S9), the provisioner clients' reports (S21), the dead letters kept, and the lease write's events. Never the bus's API audit
+// (`$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.API`): it carries every API call's request and answer in the account, the vault's hashes among
+// them (the lead, 2026-10-29).
+func WatchmanHears() []string {
+	return []string{
+		"mesh.mod.power.event.*",
+		"mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.failing",
+		"mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.recovered",
+		"mesh.control.*.tools-alive",
+		"mesh.seat." + meshselfcheck.Seat + ".event." + meshselfcheck.EventChecked,
+		"$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.CONSUMER.DELETED.>",
+		"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.slow-consumer",
+		"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.connection-closed",
+		ProvAppliedSubjects,
+		DeadLetterPrefix + ">",
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants/go.mod b/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants/go.mod
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f6aa586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants/go.mod
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+module git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants
+
+go 1.26.0
+
+require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshselfcheck v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod b/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
index b1e91f2a..a771a781 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ go 1.26.0
 require (
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/modules/disk-load/diskreadings v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-networking/modules/mesh-wireguard/go v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/nodeengineclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshhealers v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshselfcheck v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/identity-and-access/go/clients/meshvaultclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/placement/go/clients/meshmoduleassignerclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/placement/go/clients/meshwantsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 38e2219c..a07dda3e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -1252,4 +1252,6 @@ func theBusModulesProcessKeepsBusState(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s may create mod-x's bus state", user)
 		}
 	}
+	t.Run("the names are the manifest's", namesAreTheManifests)
+	t.Run("the bus grants are the declared", busGrantsAreTheDeclared)
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/engine.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/engine.go
index 4015ab85..5838c4ca 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/engine.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/engine.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	nodeengineseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/nodeengine"
 	occ "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/provisioning/go/clients/meshprovisionerclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants"
 )
 
 // The node seat node-engine (novox/hq ADR 0563 §1): every node's engine holds it on its own bus account, and no module
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ const EngineSeat = nodeengineseat.Seat
 // node seat and its own asks are kept in (ADR 0563 §2, §3: "the engine's own state"): the bucket mesh-host_acts, keys
 // `<node>.act.<id>`, `<node>.open.<act>.<digest>` and `<node>.ask.<id>`, each written by that node's engine alone.
 const (
-	EngineModule    = "mesh-host"
+	EngineModule    = busgrants.EngineModule
 	EngineActsState = "acts"
 )
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/health_grants.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/health_grants.go
index 2a383c41..960b1330 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/health_grants.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/health_grants.go
@@ -1,13 +1,12 @@
 package buscompose
 
 import (
-	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants"
 	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshhealers"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshselfcheck"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 )
 
@@ -25,80 +24,20 @@ import (
 // HealersWould is what mesh-healers would have done while a controller was placed: read by nobody (ADR 0564 clause 8).
 var HealersWould = meshhealers.Seat + "." + meshhealers.StateWould
 
-// ControllerLeftoverConsumers are the ended controller's durable consumers left on the bus, one leftover of the module
-// mesh-delivery placed nowhere (issue 1126, milestone section 3), and mesh-catalog's of the controller's built-before,
-// which its manifest no longer consumes and no part composes; each `<stream>.<consumer>`.
-var ControllerLeftoverConsumers = []string{
-	"EVENTS." + ControllerName, "EVENTS." + MergesConsumerName, "EVENTS.novox_mesh-delivery", "EVENTS.novox_mesh-catalog", "EVENTS.novox_gitea",
-	"CONTROL." + ControllerName, DeadLetterNoticesStream + "." + ControllerName,
-	// The controller's consumers on three modules' buckets (issue 1126): the take-in on the builder's builds and on the
-	// indexer's modules, and the config follow on the resolved configuration.
-	"KV_mesh-delivery-builder_builds.mesh-controller-take-in", "KV_mesh-delivery-indexer_modules.mesh-controller-take-in",
-	"KV_mesh-config_resolved.mesh-controller-config-follow",
-}
+// The ended controller's leftovers an account may remove, the grants of an account that declares removals and the subjects the
+// watchman hears are the grants part's published package busgrants, which the parts that state them too read.
+var (
+	ControllerLeftoverConsumers = busgrants.ControllerLeftoverConsumers
+	ControllerLeftoverBuckets   = busgrants.ControllerLeftoverBuckets
+)
 
-// ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn are ControllerLeftoverConsumers and, for each node given, the consumer the controller
-// made for the node's engine (`EVENTS.<node>_mesh-host`, of restic's backed-up): the engine hears that event without a
-// durable consumer, and the grants part composes none for it, so nothing reads it (issue 1126).
-func ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn(nodes []string) []string {
-	out := slices.Clone(ControllerLeftoverConsumers)
-	for _, n := range nodes {
-		if safeSubject.MatchString(n) {
-			out = append(out, "EVENTS."+n+"_"+EngineModule)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// endedController is the name the ended controller had as a module: its buckets are named for it (ADR 0590 §6).
-const endedController = "mesh-controller"
-
-// ControllerLeftoverBuckets are the ended controller's buckets, each by its local name (`KV_mesh-controller_<name>`).
-var ControllerLeftoverBuckets = []string{"asked", "assignments", "builds", "calls", "checks-running", "composed",
-	"condition-history", "conditions", "declared-config", "declared-packages", "delivery-merges", "grants", "hand-acts",
-	"lease", "predefined", "rollouts", "states-announced"}
-
-// ControllerLeftoverStreams are the ended controller's streams, by their names: CONTROL, ASSIGNMENTS, each of its buckets'
-// and, for each node given, the declaration files' object bucket the controller wrote (ADR 0486 §2).
-func ControllerLeftoverStreams(nodes []string) []string {
-	out := []string{"CONTROL", AssignmentsStream}
-	for _, b := range ControllerLeftoverBuckets {
-		out = append(out, "KV_"+BucketName(endedController, b))
-	}
-	for _, n := range nodes {
-		if safeSubject.MatchString(n) {
-			out = append(out, "OBJ_"+DeclarationFilesBucket+n)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// BusRemovalGrants are the whole authority of an account whose bus declares removals (ADR 0564 Limits 4, ADR 0590 clause
-// 6), each removal its grant: the node-engine's acts bucket read (STREAM.INFO with a subject filter lists what a removal
-// would take, so the tools read before they remove) and its keys removed, which nothing else may empty when it fills; and
-// the ended controller's leftovers, each consumer and each stream read and deleted by its name, for the nodes given (the
-// declaration files' object buckets). A removal outside the set is refused, as the indexer's judge refuses it in a
-// manifest (novox/hq ADR 0578 §1).
-func BusRemovalGrants(removes, nodes []string) ([]string, error) {
-	var out []string
-	for _, r := range removes {
-		switch r {
-		case catalogue.RemovesEngineActs:
-			out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_"+EngineActsBucket, "$KV."+EngineActsBucket+".>")
-		case catalogue.RemovesControllerLeftovers:
-			for _, c := range ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn(nodes) {
-				out = append(out, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.INFO."+c, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE."+c)
-			}
-			for _, s := range ControllerLeftoverStreams(nodes) {
-				out = append(out, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO."+s, "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE."+s)
-			}
-		default:
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("a bus account removes %q, which is not one of %s (novox/hq ADR 0564 Limits 4, ADR 0590)", r,
-				strings.Join([]string{catalogue.RemovesEngineActs, catalogue.RemovesControllerLeftovers}, ", "))
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
+// ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn, ControllerLeftoverStreams, BusRemovalGrants and WatchmanHears are busgrants'.
+var (
+	ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn = busgrants.ControllerLeftoverConsumersOn
+	ControllerLeftoverStreams     = busgrants.ControllerLeftoverStreams
+	BusRemovalGrants              = busgrants.BusRemovalGrants
+	WatchmanHears                 = busgrants.WatchmanHears
+)
 
 // removesLeftover is an account declared to remove the ended controller's leftovers deleting one of its streams: the
 // writers table's one exemption from stream definitions being the grants part's (ADR 0590 clause 6).
@@ -149,27 +88,6 @@ func WatchmanDeadLetterGrants(sources []string) []string {
 	return out
 }
 
-// WatchmanHears are the core subjects the watchman subscribes, with no durable consumer (ADR 0564 clauses 4, 5 and
-// Limits 3, 11): the power seat's words (S1, ADR 0211), the providers' failing and recovered words (S8), each tool
-// runner's beat (S11), the self-check's checked (S10), a consumer deleted and the bus module's slow consumers and closed
-// connections (S9), the provisioner clients' reports (S21), the dead letters kept, and the lease write's events. Never the bus's API audit
-// (`$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.API`): it carries every API call's request and answer in the account, the vault's hashes among
-// them (the lead, 2026-10-29).
-func WatchmanHears() []string {
-	return []string{
-		"mesh.mod.power.event.*",
-		"mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.failing",
-		"mesh.mod.*.event.provisioner.recovered",
-		"mesh.control.*.tools-alive",
-		"mesh.seat." + meshselfcheck.Seat + ".event." + meshselfcheck.EventChecked,
-		"$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.CONSUMER.DELETED.>",
-		"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.slow-consumer",
-		"mesh.mod.nats.event.bus.connection-closed",
-		ProvAppliedSubjects,
-		deadLetterPrefix + ">",
-	}
-}
-
 // DeadLetterSources are the streams of names a dead letter may come from, sorted, none twice: each a plain name, never a
 // bucket's (KV_) or an object store's (OBJ_) stream, the dead letters' own two streams, or a pattern.
 func DeadLetterSources(names []string) []string {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/names_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/names_test.go
index 4fd4e90e..50144180 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/names_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/names_test.go
@@ -2,16 +2,17 @@ package buscompose
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"os"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// TestTheNamesAreTheManifests: the holders and states of other parts that the grants part names are the ones its manifest
+// namesAreTheManifests (a subtest of TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers): the holders and states of other parts that the grants part names are the ones its manifest
 // lists in `reads` and `invokes` (no contract names a holder: novox/hq ADR 0634 §1), and a state's bucket is its holder's
 // name and the state's.
-func TestTheNamesAreTheManifests(t *testing.T) {
+func namesAreTheManifests(t *testing.T) {
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -48,3 +49,30 @@ func TestTheNamesAreTheManifests(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// busGrantsAreTheDeclared (a subtest of TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers): a removal is its grants, the leftovers' for
+// the nodes given too, one outside the set is refused, and the watchman hears the self-check's word and the dead letters;
+// the functions are the grants part's published package busgrants'.
+func busGrantsAreTheDeclared(t *testing.T) {
+	got, err := BusRemovalGrants([]string{catalogue.RemovesEngineActs, catalogue.RemovesControllerLeftovers}, []string{"novox", "a b"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"$KV.mesh-host_acts.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.EVENTS.controller", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.EVENTS.novox_mesh-host",
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.OBJ_declaration-files-novox", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.KV_mesh-controller_lease", "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.ASSIGNMENTS"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(got, want) {
+			t.Errorf("the grants lack %s", want)
+		}
+	}
+	if slices.ContainsFunc(got, func(s string) bool {
+		return s == "$JS.API.STREAM.DELETE.OBJ_declaration-files-a b" || s == "$JS.API.CONSUMER.DELETE.EVENTS.a b_mesh-host"
+	}) {
+		t.Errorf("a node name that is not a subject token widened the grants: %v", got)
+	}
+	if _, err := BusRemovalGrants([]string{"everything"}, nil); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a removal outside the set was granted")
+	}
+	if hears := WatchmanHears(); !slices.Contains(hears, "mesh.seat.mesh-self-check.event.checked") || !slices.Contains(hears, "mesh.events.dead.>") {
+		t.Errorf("the watchman hears %v", hears)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/streams.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/streams.go
index 2412c685..cb5cce6d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/streams.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/streams.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package buscompose
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-grants/busgrants"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 )
@@ -91,11 +92,11 @@ const WorkQueueMetadata = "mesh-work-queue"
 // the subject, how often it was handed over and when it was given up. It stays there until a person
 // delivers it again or drops it, with why; a condition is open for as long as it does.
 const (
-	DeadLetterNoticesStream = "DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES"
+	DeadLetterNoticesStream = busgrants.DeadLetterNoticesStream
 	DeadLettersStream       = "DEAD_LETTERS"
 	// MaxDeliveriesAdvisories is the subject the server says a given-up message on.
 	MaxDeliveriesAdvisories = "$JS.EVENT.ADVISORY.CONSUMER.MAX_DELIVERIES.>"
-	deadLetterPrefix        = "mesh.events.dead."
+	deadLetterPrefix        = busgrants.DeadLetterPrefix
 	againPrefix             = "mesh.again."
 	// DeadLettersBytes bounds the kept copies. Full, the stream refuses the next copy, which is said
 	// as the consumer's condition; it never drops one it holds.
@@ -221,7 +222,7 @@ const ProvAppliedStream = "PROV_APPLIED"
 
 // ProvAppliedSubjects is every machine's client's reports: `prov.applied.<node>.<module>`, a module's name dots and
 // all (ProvisionerAppliedSubject).
-const ProvAppliedSubjects = "prov.applied.>"
+const ProvAppliedSubjects = busgrants.ProvAppliedSubjects
 
 // DeliverSubjectFor is where a push consumer's messages land.
 //
@@ -277,8 +278,8 @@ func Overlaps() []string {
 // removal (ControllerLeftoverConsumers) and the watchman can read whether `controller` on DEAD_LETTER_NOTICES still
 // stands.
 const (
-	ControllerName     = "controller"
-	MergesConsumerName = "controller-merges"
+	ControllerName     = busgrants.ControllerName
+	MergesConsumerName = busgrants.MergesConsumerName
 )
 
 // AsksSeat is the seat an ask is made on and its warrant heard from (novox/hq ADR 0259): the router's.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/module.json b/modules/mesh-grants/module.json
index e0e69f04..ea55574d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/module.json
@@ -147,6 +147,15 @@
           "grantsstate"
         ],
         "series": "0.1"
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "busgrants",
+        "kind": "package",
+        "language": "go",
+        "paths": [
+          "busgrants"
+        ],
+        "series": "0.1"
       }
     ]
   }