Their seat_list_again answered person.<name> and the healers, but every call through the mesh MCP server is proved as its machine's tool runner (issue 627), so no operator's session could ask it; node-tools now stands for that session, the kind met a second time in the node-engine (issue 1966). The assigner's silent stand-in keeps the bus's retry bound short, since the seat list's reader now asks again while its ask reached no one. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ