diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2282273
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+// Command mesh-delivery-indexer-tools serves the indexer's read tools (novox/hq issue 1562): the runtime launches it for a
+// call, it reads the module's own modules state and writes nothing. The indexer itself is the other program.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index"
+)
+
+// Tools are the read tools over a modules state.
+func Tools(r index.Reader) []stdio.Tool {
+	return []stdio.Tool{
+		{Name: index.ModuleReadTool,
+			Description: "What the indexer stored for one module under modules.<module>, as stored: its fingerprint (fp, none), the " +
+				"new-form fingerprint (fp2) or why it has none (none2), the inputs it was computed from (inputs2), the module's " +
+				"directory (path) and the toolchains it was computed with. Read-only.",
+			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "required": []string{"module"}, "properties": map[string]any{
+				"module": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the module's name"}}},
+			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				name, _ := args["module"].(string)
+				return r.Module(name)
+			}},
+		{Name: index.ModulesReadTool,
+			Description: "Every module the indexer holds, each as stored under modules.<module>. With none2 true, only the modules " +
+				"that have no new-form fingerprint, each with the reason (none2). Read-only.",
+			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{
+				"none2": map[string]any{"type": "boolean", "description": "only the modules without a new-form fingerprint"}}},
+			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				only, _ := args["none2"].(bool)
+				mods, err := r.Modules(only)
+				return map[string]any{"modules": mods}, err
+			}},
+	}
+}
+
+func main() {
+	state := stdio.State("modules")
+	r := index.Reader{State: index.StateRead{Keys: state.Keys, Get: func(key string) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		e, err := state.Get(key)
+		if err != nil || e == nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return e.Value, nil
+	}}}
+	if err := stdio.Serve("", Tools(r)); err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "[mesh-delivery-indexer-tools] %v\n", err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4e4b2c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index"
+)
+
+type fake map[string]string
+
+func (f fake) reader() index.Reader {
+	return index.Reader{State: index.StateRead{
+		Keys: func() ([]string, error) {
+			var k []string
+			for key := range f {
+				k = append(k, key)
+			}
+			return k, nil
+		},
+		Get: func(key string) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+			if v, ok := f[key]; ok {
+				return json.RawMessage(v), nil
+			}
+			return nil, nil
+		},
+	}}
+}
+
+func run(t *testing.T, r index.Reader, name string, args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	for _, tl := range Tools(r) {
+		if tl.Name == name {
+			return tl.Run(args)
+		}
+	}
+	t.Fatalf("no tool %s", name)
+	return nil, nil
+}
+
+const (
+	withFP2  = `{"v":3,"fp":"a1","fp2":"b2","manifest":"m1","inputs2":{"tree":"t1","bases":["x"]},"repository":"novox/r","commit":"c1","path":".","toolchains":{"go":{"version":"go1.27.1","recipe":"2"}}}`
+	withNone = `{"v":3,"none":"no successful trunk build recorded its inputs","none2":"builder's fingerprint not yet known","repository":"novox/r","commit":"c2","path":"modules/b"}`
+)
+
+// 1562/AC1: indexer_module answers the key's value as stored: FP, FP2, None2, Inputs2, Path and Toolchains are all there.
+func TestModuleToolAnswersTheStoredValue(t *testing.T) {
+	r := fake{"a": withFP2, "b": withNone}.reader()
+	for key, want := range map[string]string{"a": withFP2, "b": withNone} {
+		out, err := run(t, r, index.ModuleReadTool, map[string]any{"module": key})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if got := string(out.(json.RawMessage)); got != want {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %s, want %s", key, got, want)
+		}
+	}
+	out, _ := run(t, r, index.ModuleReadTool, map[string]any{"module": "a"})
+	var m map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(out.(json.RawMessage), &m); err != nil || m["fp"] != "a1" || m["fp2"] != "b2" || m["path"] != "." || m["inputs2"] == nil || m["toolchains"] == nil {
+		t.Errorf("stored fields are not all there: %v %v", m, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A module with no key, and a name that is no key, are said so.
+func TestModuleToolRefusesWhatIsNotThere(t *testing.T) {
+	r := fake{"a": withFP2}.reader()
+	if _, err := run(t, r, index.ModuleReadTool, map[string]any{"module": "gone"}); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no module gone") {
+		t.Errorf("a missing module: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := run(t, r, index.ModuleReadTool, map[string]any{"module": ""}); err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("an empty name was answered")
+	}
+}
+
+// 1562/AC1: indexer_modules answers every key as stored, and with none2 only those that say why they have no FP2.
+func TestModulesToolAnswersEveryKeyAsStored(t *testing.T) {
+	r := fake{"a": withFP2, "b": withNone}.reader()
+	out, err := run(t, r, index.ModulesReadTool, map[string]any{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	all := out.(map[string]any)["modules"].(map[string]json.RawMessage)
+	if len(all) != 2 || string(all["a"]) != withFP2 || string(all["b"]) != withNone {
+		t.Errorf("modules = %v", all)
+	}
+	out, err = run(t, r, index.ModulesReadTool, map[string]any{"none2": true})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	only := out.(map[string]any)["modules"].(map[string]json.RawMessage)
+	if len(only) != 1 || string(only["b"]) != withNone {
+		t.Errorf("none2 modules = %v", only)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/read.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/read.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61558ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/read.go
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+package index
+
+// The indexer's read tools (novox/hq issue 1562): what the indexer stored under modules.<m>, answered as stored. The new-form
+// fingerprint (FP2, None2, Inputs2), the reason it has none, and the path and toolchains it was computed with are only
+// there; a module reading its own state needs no grant. The reads write nothing.
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+)
+
+// The read tools, named as the module is: indexer_ and the verb.
+const (
+	ModuleReadTool  = "indexer_module"
+	ModulesReadTool = "indexer_modules"
+)
+
+// StateRead reads the module's own modules state: its keys and a key's stored value (nil for a key with none).
+type StateRead struct {
+	Keys func() ([]string, error)
+	Get  func(key string) (json.RawMessage, error)
+}
+
+// Reader answers the read tools from a modules state.
+type Reader struct{ State StateRead }
+
+// Module is the stored value of modules.<module>, exactly as the indexer wrote it.
+func (r Reader) Module(module string) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	module = strings.TrimSpace(module)
+	key, err := delivery.ModulesKey(module)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if r.State.Get == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the modules state cannot be read here")
+	}
+	raw, err := r.State.Get(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if len(raw) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no module %s in the modules state", module)
+	}
+	return raw, nil
+}
+
+// Modules is every key of the modules state with its stored value; with none2 only the modules that have no new-form
+// fingerprint and say why (a None2 reason), which is what the fingerprint's check reads live.
+func (r Reader) Modules(none2 bool) (map[string]json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if r.State.Keys == nil || r.State.Get == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the modules state cannot be read here")
+	}
+	keys, err := r.State.Keys()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+	out := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		raw, err := r.State.Get(k)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if len(raw) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if none2 {
+			var m struct {
+				None2 string `json:"none2"`
+			}
+			if json.Unmarshal(raw, &m) != nil || m.None2 == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+		}
+		out[k] = raw
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index 90d96c3..fa4c335 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ type state struct {
 }
 
 type artifact struct {
-	Name     string `json:"name"`
-	Kind     string `json:"kind"`
-	Language string `json:"language"`
-	System   string `json:"system"`
-	From     string `json:"from"`
-	Binary   string `json:"binary"`
+	Name     string   `json:"name"`
+	Kind     string   `json:"kind"`
+	Language string   `json:"language"`
+	System   string   `json:"system"`
+	From     string   `json:"from"`
+	Binary   string   `json:"binary"`
+	Loads    []string `json:"loads"`
 }
 
 type manifest struct {
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ type manifest struct {
 	OwnSecrets   map[string]string `json:"own-secrets"`
 	SecretsOwner string            `json:"secrets-owner"`
 	Resources    []map[string]any  `json:"resources"`
+	Tools        []string          `json:"tools"`
 	Build        struct {
 		Artifacts []artifact `json:"artifacts"`
 	} `json:"build"`
@@ -93,8 +95,11 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	if m.SecretsOwner != "mesh-delivery-indexer" {
 		t.Errorf("secrets-owner = %q", m.SecretsOwner)
 	}
-	// No invokes, no emits, no streams, no bus, no seat, no tool (ADR 0437 §4).
-	for _, k := range []string{"invokes", "streams", "logs", "emits", "claims", "provides", "requires", "uses", "defines-seats", "tools", "seat", "seats", "bus"} {
+	// No invokes, no emits, no streams, no bus, no seat (ADR 0437 §4); the only tools are the two read-only ones of issue 1562.
+	if want := []string{"indexer_module", "indexer_modules"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Tools), want) {
+		t.Errorf("tools = %v, want %v", m.Tools, want)
+	}
+	for _, k := range []string{"invokes", "streams", "logs", "emits", "claims", "provides", "requires", "uses", "defines-seats", "seat", "seats", "bus"} {
 		if _, ok := top[k]; ok {
 			t.Errorf("the manifest declares %q: the indexer has none", k)
 		}
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ func TestManifestProcess(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1
 			procs = append(procs, r)
 		}
 		if r["type"] == "tool" || r["type"] == "seat" {
-			t.Errorf("resource %v: the indexer serves no tool and holds no seat", r)
+			t.Errorf("resource %v: the indexer holds no seat and its tools are a bundle, not a tool resource", r)
 		}
 	}
 	if len(procs) != 1 {
@@ -126,12 +131,18 @@ func TestManifestProcess(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1
 	if _, bus := p["bus"]; bus {
 		t.Errorf("the process declares a bus: it runs on its own broker credential")
 	}
-	if len(m.Build.Artifacts) != 1 {
+	if len(m.Build.Artifacts) != 2 {
 		t.Fatalf("artifacts = %+v", m.Build.Artifacts)
 	}
-	a := m.Build.Artifacts[0]
-	if st, err := os.Stat(a.From); err != nil || !st.IsDir() || a.Binary != "mesh-delivery-indexer" || !strings.HasSuffix(a.From, a.Binary) {
-		t.Errorf("artifact = %+v", a)
+	// The program, and the tools bundle the runtime launches for a read call (issue 1562); no process runs the tools.
+	for i, binary := range []string{"mesh-delivery-indexer", "mesh-delivery-indexer-tools"} {
+		a := m.Build.Artifacts[i]
+		if st, err := os.Stat(a.From); err != nil || !st.IsDir() || a.Binary != binary || !strings.HasSuffix(a.From, a.Binary) {
+			t.Errorf("artifact = %+v", a)
+		}
+	}
+	if a := m.Build.Artifacts[1]; a.Name != "tools" || !reflect.DeepEqual(a.Loads, []string{"mesh-delivery-indexer"}) {
+		t.Errorf("tools artifact = %+v", a)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
index fcfe983..11de832 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
     { "name": "manifests", "history": 1 },
     { "name": "modules", "history": 20 }
   ],
+  "tools": [
+    "indexer_module",
+    "indexer_modules"
+  ],
   "reads": [
     "mesh-build-go.toolchains",
     "mesh-build-node.toolchains",
@@ -64,6 +68,17 @@
         "system": "arch",
         "from": "cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer",
         "binary": "mesh-delivery-indexer"
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "tools",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "go",
+        "system": "arch",
+        "from": "cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools",
+        "binary": "mesh-delivery-indexer-tools",
+        "loads": [
+          "mesh-delivery-indexer"
+        ]
       }
     ]
   }