diff --git a/internal/link/handacts.go b/internal/link/handacts.go
index cfffffd..fec231f 100644
--- a/internal/link/handacts.go
+++ b/internal/link/handacts.go
@@ -52,17 +52,19 @@ const (
 	// ActManifestReads reads the reader capabilities this engine states (novox/hq ADR 0618 §3).
 	ActManifestReads = nodeengine.VerbManifestReads
 	// ActSeatList reads the seat list this engine holds and what it waits for; ActSeatListAgain makes it read the list now
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0636 §7). The node-engine seat's definition carries both verbs, which answer only the operator and the
-	// healers.
-	ActSeatList      = "seat-list"
-	ActSeatListAgain = "seat-list-again"
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0636 §7). The node-engine seat's definition carries both verbs.
+	ActSeatList      = nodeengine.VerbSeatList
+	ActSeatListAgain = nodeengine.VerbSeatListAgain
 )
 
-// SeatListCallers are who may call the engine's two seat-list verbs: every operator's session and the healers (novox/hq
-// ADR 0636 §7, the node-engine seat's definition: the operator and the healers).
+// SeatListCallers are who may call the engine's two seat-list verbs (novox/hq ADR 0636 §7). The read is open to every
+// proved caller: the record limits only the read again, and the list holds nothing secret. The read again answers the
+// operator's sessions and the healers. A call through the mesh MCP server, and nox, is proved only as its machine's tool
+// runner (<node>.node-tools, issue 627), so node-tools stands for an operator's session until a session is proved; without
+// it the verb answered nobody but the healers, and no healer calls it (issue 1966).
 var SeatListCallers = stdio.VerbCallers{
-	ActSeatList:      {stdio.AnyPerson, "mesh-healers"},
-	ActSeatListAgain: {stdio.AnyPerson, "mesh-healers"},
+	ActSeatList:      {stdio.AnyCaller},
+	ActSeatListAgain: {stdio.AnyPerson, "node-tools", "mesh-healers"},
 }
 
 // The states of an act: asked, done and refused are also the seat's events.
diff --git a/internal/link/handover_test.go b/internal/link/handover_test.go
index 54665ae..58f4332 100644
--- a/internal/link/handover_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/handover_test.go
@@ -301,8 +301,13 @@ func TestALinkThatHearsHandOversIsGivenTheQueues(t *testing.T) {
 			{"packages", EngineToolSubject("packages", "n1") + " " + `{"write":true}`, `"key":null,"wrote":true`},
 			{"packages", EngineToolSubject("packages", "n1") + " " + `{"write":"true"}`, `"note":"the engine has written no key for this node yet`},
 			{"manifest-reads", EngineToolSubject("manifest-reads", "n1"), `"manifest-reads":["form:a","seat:b"],"node":"n1","stated-at":"2026-11-04T10:00:00Z","v":1`},
-			// ADR 0636 §7: the seat-list verbs answer every operator's session and the healers, no other module.
+			// ADR 0636 §7: the read seat-list answers every proved caller; seat-list-again every operator's session, proved
+			// as a person or, through the mesh MCP server, as its machine's tool runner (issue 627, issue 1966), and the
+			// healers, no other module.
 			{"seat-list", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list.n1.person~jochen", `"held":true`},
+			{"seat-list", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list.n1.shanks~node-tools", `"held":true`},
+			{"seat-list", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list.n1.ace~messenger", `"held":true`},
+			{"seat-list-again", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list-again.n1.shanks~node-tools", `"read":true`},
 			{"seat-list-again", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list-again.n1.person~jochen", `"read":true`},
 			{"seat-list-again", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list-again.n1.ace~mesh-healers", `"read":true`},
 			{"seat-list-again", "mesh.seat.node-engine.call.seat-list-again.n1.ace~messenger", `not on the holder's caller list for seat-list-again`},