diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go
index f8da072e..44c753ad 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go
@@ -746,7 +746,10 @@ func TestNatsTheBusServerIsTakenOverAndReplacedOnlyWhenItsBuildChangesIt(t *test
 	}
 	folded, err := declaration.Parse([]byte(`{"declaration":1,"resources":[` +
 		`{"id":"nats.server-conf","type":"file","path":"` + conf + `","mode":"0644","content":"listen: old\n"},` +
-		`{"id":"nats.server","type":"container","name":"` + server + `","image":"` + image + `"}]}`))
+		`{"id":"nats.server","type":"container","name":"` + server + `","image":"` + image + `",` +
+		// As the node-engine starts every container since the fingerprint handover (47/G W13.1): the fingerprint of the
+		// want it applies, here the first want's, so that want changes the server's spec in nothing.
+		`"env":{"MESH_FINGERPRINT":"` + fpIt("e") + `"}}]}`))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/internal/compositions/compare_test.go b/internal/compositions/compare_test.go
index 8a3c1e5d..a4987123 100644
--- a/internal/compositions/compare_test.go
+++ b/internal/compositions/compare_test.go
@@ -165,4 +165,50 @@ func TestComparingCompositions(t *testing.T) {
 	if c := CompareComposed(map[string]Composed{"k": comp(file("conf", "a"))}, nil); len(c.Added) != 1 || c.Added[0].Module != "nats" || c.Added[0].Composed == "" {
 		t.Errorf("a composition not run is added: %+v", c)
 	}
+
+	// Design 47, *The fingerprint handover* (the composed resources are split here): a daemon or a container of a module
+	// is started with MESH_FINGERPRINT, the fingerprint of the want it applies, over any value its module declared of that
+	// name; a file, or a resource of no module, carries none.
+	split, err := Split("novox", []json.RawMessage{
+		json.RawMessage(`{"id":"d","type":"process","module":"nats","run":["x"],"env":{"A":"1","MESH_FINGERPRINT":"stale"}}`),
+		json.RawMessage(`{"id":"c","type":"container","module":"nats","image":"i"}`),
+		file("conf", "a"),
+		json.RawMessage(`{"id":"own","type":"process","run":["x"]}`),
+	}, map[string]string{"nats": fp}, nil, NodeOwn{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(split) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("split into %d compositions, want the module's and the node's own", len(split))
+	}
+	if n := len(split[mustKey(t, "novox", "nats", fp)].Resources); n != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("the module's composition holds %d resources, want 3", n)
+	}
+	for _, raw := range split[mustKey(t, "novox", "nats", fp)].Resources {
+		var r struct {
+			ID  string
+			Env map[string]string
+		}
+		_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &r)
+		want := fp
+		if r.ID == "conf" {
+			want = ""
+		}
+		if r.Env[FingerprintVar] != want || (r.ID == "d" && r.Env["A"] != "1") {
+			t.Errorf("%s starts with %v, want %s=%q and its own words kept", r.ID, r.Env, FingerprintVar, want)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, raw := range split["novox"].Resources {
+		if strings.Contains(string(raw), FingerprintVar) {
+			t.Errorf("the node's own carries %s: %s", FingerprintVar, raw)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func mustKey(t *testing.T, node, module, fp string) string {
+	k, err := Key(node, module, fp)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return k
 }
diff --git a/internal/compositions/composed.go b/internal/compositions/composed.go
index 8107422f..16296023 100644
--- a/internal/compositions/composed.go
+++ b/internal/compositions/composed.go
@@ -234,6 +234,11 @@ func Split(node string, resources []json.RawMessage, fps map[string]string, fill
 		if head.Type == string(declaration.TypeFile) && head.Module != "" {
 			pathOf[head.Path] = key
 		}
+		if head.Module != "" {
+			if raw, err = withFingerprint(raw, head.Type, fps[head.Module]); err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+		}
 		c := out[key]
 		c.Resources = append(c.Resources, raw)
 		out[key] = c
@@ -249,3 +254,34 @@ func Split(node string, resources []json.RawMessage, fps map[string]string, fill
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
+
+// FingerprintVar is the environment value every process the node-engine starts, a daemon or a container, holds: the
+// fingerprint of the want it applies. mesh-sdk's runtime reads it once at the process's start as the process's own build
+// (novox/hq ADR 0656 §1, design 47 *The fingerprint handover*).
+const FingerprintVar = "MESH_FINGERPRINT"
+
+// withFingerprint is raw, when it is a daemon or a container, with FingerprintVar in its env set to fp. The value is
+// the node-engine's to say, so one a module declared of that name is replaced. Another resource, or no fingerprint, is
+// returned as it is.
+func withFingerprint(raw json.RawMessage, kind, fp string) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	if fp == "" || (kind != string(declaration.TypeProcess) && kind != string(declaration.TypeContainer)) {
+		return raw, nil
+	}
+	var fields map[string]json.RawMessage
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &fields); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("compositions: a %s resource is not JSON: %w", kind, err)
+	}
+	env := map[string]string{}
+	if had, ok := fields["env"]; ok {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(had, &env); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("compositions: the env of a %s resource is not words by name: %w", kind, err)
+		}
+	}
+	env[FingerprintVar] = fp
+	body, err := json.Marshal(env)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	fields["env"] = body
+	return json.Marshal(fields)
+}