diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go
index f038c3b..afe26b4 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go
@@ -779,3 +779,37 @@ func (r fixedReader) Archive(_ context.Context, url, _ string) ([]byte, error) {
 func (r fixedReader) Served(context.Context, string, string, []string) (map[string]any, error) {
 	return nil, nil
 }
+
+// TestAHaveSaysWhetherItsModuleRunsInsideTheNodesOwn feeds takeModuleHave a module's have and reads whether the node
+// counts the module as run inside its own composition (issue 1126, review round 2): a failed have that names nothing
+// it runs (NotComposed before the module ever ran) is not, so the next composition does not take the module from its
+// manifest past its build.
+func TestAHaveSaysWhetherItsModuleRunsInsideTheNodesOwn(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		name string
+		have delivery.Have
+		in   bool
+	}{
+		{"failed, naming nothing it runs", delivery.Have{Phase: delivery.PhaseFailed, Health: delivery.HealthFailed,
+			Detail: "the node cannot compose it, and keeps running what it ran: no build"}, false},
+		{"failed at a build fingerprint", delivery.Have{FP: "build-0123abcd", Composed: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("c", 64), Phase: delivery.PhaseFailed,
+			Health: delivery.HealthFailed, Detail: "the node cannot compose it, and keeps running what it ran: no build"}, true},
+		{"running with no fingerprint (mesh-wireguard)", delivery.Have{Phase: delivery.PhaseRunning, Health: delivery.HealthOK}, true},
+	} {
+		t.Run(row.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			c := New(Env{Node: "n1"})
+			key, err := delivery.HaveKey("n1", "web")
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			value, err := delivery.EncodeHave(row.have)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			c.takeModuleHave(agent.Update{Key: key, Value: value})
+			if c.inOwn["web"] != row.in {
+				t.Errorf("web counted inside the node's own composition: %v, want %v", c.inOwn["web"], row.in)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}