diff --git a/internal/compose/resolution/declaration.go b/internal/compose/resolution/declaration.go
index 4f4e73a..6f0f165 100644
--- a/internal/compose/resolution/declaration.go
+++ b/internal/compose/resolution/declaration.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"maps"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -240,7 +242,14 @@ func resolutionCompose(r mcat.Resolution, with mcat.Rendering, owner map[string]
 		}
 		if answered {
 			r.Needs[i].Serves = serves
+			continue
 		}
+		// No module of the composed set serves it: its provider is held on this machine (composed apart, as what runs of
+		// it), and offers what its manifest serves. None of its own names is composed here, so a key that names one is
+		// left out and said on the need, as a provider elsewhere leaves it out (ServedLeftOut, novox/hq ADR 0346 §3),
+		// never handed to the consumer as a placeholder its binding then refuses (issue 1921, novox: "mesh-build-node has
+		// a file that says ${bound:route:name-web}, and mesh-build-node does not require route").
+		r.Needs[i].Serves, r.Needs[i].LeftOut = withoutOwnNames(r.Needs[i], r.Node)
 	}
 
 	// Once, from every module's listens -- not per module. A module receiving only its own ports
@@ -2526,3 +2535,26 @@ func resolutionGeneratedHere(r mcat.Resolution, with mcat.Rendering) (map[string
 	}
 	return generated, nil
 }
+
+// withoutOwnNames is what a need's provider serves without each key whose value names one of the provider's own composed
+// names (${bound:…}), and the need's left-out keys with each such key said: a provider not composed in this set
+// composes none of its names here.
+func withoutOwnNames(n mcat.Needed, node string) (map[string]any, []string) {
+	var asking []string
+	for _, key := range sortedAnyKeys(n.Serves) {
+		if text, ok := n.Serves[key].(string); ok && bound.MatchString(text) {
+			asking = append(asking, key)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(asking) == 0 {
+		return n.Serves, n.LeftOut
+	}
+	out := maps.Clone(n.Serves)
+	said := slices.Clone(n.LeftOut)
+	for _, key := range asking {
+		delete(out, key)
+		said = append(said, fmt.Sprintf("%s serves %s without %q: it names %s, and %s composes no names of %s, which it "+
+			"holds (novox/hq ADR 0346)", n.Module, n.Name, key, bound.FindString(n.Serves[key].(string)), orHere(node), n.Module))
+	}
+	return out, said
+}
diff --git a/internal/compose/resolution/served_own_names_test.go b/internal/compose/resolution/served_own_names_test.go
index 7586e93..b29f4b8 100644
--- a/internal/compose/resolution/served_own_names_test.go
+++ b/internal/compose/resolution/served_own_names_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package resolution
 
 import (
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -75,6 +76,29 @@ func TestAConsumerBesideTheProviderIsServedItsName(t *testing.T) {
 	if strings.Contains(binding, "${bound:") {
 		t.Fatalf("a placeholder reached the consumer:\n%s", binding)
 	}
+	// Issue 1921 (the group check of 8a80e8e86858, novox): the provider held on this machine (composed apart, as what runs
+	// of it) is not in the composed set, so none of its own names is composed here. The consumer beside it is told
+	// what it serves without the keys that name them, each said on the need, never the placeholder: its binding refused
+	// the consumer with "has a file that says ${bound:route:name-web}, and lab does not require route".
+	held, err := Resolve(shelf(minimalRouteProxy(), m, consumer), []string{"route-proxy", "forge", "lab"}, node, mcat.World{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	held.Modules = slices.DeleteFunc(slices.Clone(held.Modules), func(m mcat.Manifest) bool { return m.Module == "forge" })
+	out, err = Declaration(held, mcat.Rendering{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("a consumer beside a held provider: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, r := range out {
+		if c, _ := r["content"].(string); r["path"] == "/var/lib/lab/package-registry.json" && (strings.Contains(c, "${bound:") || !strings.Contains(c, "npm-path")) {
+			t.Fatalf("the binding beside a held provider:\n%s", c)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, n := range held.Needs {
+		if n.Name == "npm-package-registry" && (len(n.LeftOut) != 1 || !strings.Contains(n.LeftOut[0], `"public-root"`)) {
+			t.Fatalf("the need beside a held provider says not what was left out: %+v", n)
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // From another machine, the provider's served values carry what that machine composed, and a key it