diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go
index 8a256529..29a2822d 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go
@@ -689,6 +689,7 @@ func nodeAgent(ctx context.Context, opts options, signer ed25519.PublicKey, trus
 		// composition bucket) is never applied. While the seat's assignment holds no key for this node it composes
 		// nothing and keeps running what it runs; a assignment it cannot watch stops the agent, said, and it begins again.
 		composer := selfComposer(session, node, hooks, say)
+		composer.AlsoEntryAgain = shadow.EntryAgain
 		composer.OnEngine = session.Own.Set        // the first composing names the engine's own module on a first start (§527, §634)
 		machinesNow.Store(composer)                // the machines a failing network part points at, by the assignments (issue 774)
 		composerNow.Store(composer)                // what the verb compose asks a pass of, this run's alone
diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/entries.go b/internal/selfcompose/entries.go
index c45daa2e..bcc6e610 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/entries.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/entries.go
@@ -505,6 +505,9 @@ func (c *Composer) FirstViews() (views []map[string]any, entries []EntryRow, wan
 // EntryAgain asks fp's entry of the catalog half again now (the seat's verb entry-again, §698): one the composer keeps, whatever
 // its state. The entry kept of it is dropped, so a pass holds the module until the answer.
 func (c *Composer) EntryAgain(ctx context.Context, fp string) error {
+	if c.AlsoEntryAgain != nil {
+		c.AlsoEntryAgain(ctx, fp)
+	}
 	if !c.byEntries() {
 		return fmt.Errorf("this engine reads no entry by fingerprint")
 	}
diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
index 02b63622..ed533851 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
@@ -163,7 +163,9 @@ type Composer struct {
 	// OnEngine is told the node-engine's own module each time a composing finds it (design 47 G §527, §634); set before the
 	// composer runs.
 	OnEngine func(module string)
-	env      Env
+	// AlsoEntryAgain is told each entry asked again by hand, so the shadow's own cache of entries asks it again too.
+	AlsoEntryAgain func(ctx context.Context, fp string)
+	env            Env
 
 	mu          sync.Mutex
 	wants       map[string]meshwants.WantsByWantNodeModuleValue // by module, the node's own under agent.NodeModule
diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/shadow.go b/internal/selfcompose/shadow.go
index 1fff9c71..9c58e4c2 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/shadow.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/shadow.go
@@ -825,3 +825,9 @@ func (c *Composer) sameValue(a, b string) (same, known bool) {
 	}
 	return bytes.Equal(x, y), true
 }
+
+// EntryAgain asks fp's entry of the catalog half again in the shadow's own cache, where the node's own composer was asked
+// again by hand: an entry the shadow holds as not found stays so until it is asked (a build the half had not yet taken in).
+func (s *Shadow) EntryAgain(ctx context.Context, fp string) {
+	_ = s.c.EntryAgain(ctx, fp) // refuses only an entry the shadow keeps none of
+}