diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
index 109ef20..302f142 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
@@ -1769,10 +1769,14 @@ func mapValues(m map[string]delivery.Composed) []delivery.Composed {
 // WaitsForTheSeatList is why a module is held while the node has not read the seat list.
 const WaitsForTheSeatList = "the node has not read the seat list, so it composes nothing new of this module and keeps what runs of it (novox/hq ADR 0636 §1)"
 
+// WaitsForTheSeatListOwn is why the node's own composition is held: it folds modules and accounts whose seats the node
+// cannot judge before the list was read, so only the last applied one runs (ADR 0636 §1).
+const WaitsForTheSeatListOwn = "the node has not read the seat list, so it composes nothing new of itself and keeps what runs (novox/hq ADR 0636 §1)"
+
 // holdUntilListed takes out of compositions every module's composition that is new (no running composition has its
 // digest) while the reader may not act on its seats, and names the module in held: it keeps running what it runs, and
-// the pass after the list was read hands it. The node's own composition and a module whose composition runs already are
-// left as they are.
+// the pass after the list was read hands it. The node's own composition is held the same way, whatever it folds, under
+// the scope agent.NodeModule; a composition that runs already is left as it is.
 func (c *Composer) holdUntilListed(ctx context.Context, r reader, compositions map[string]delivery.Composed, held map[string]string, running []delivery.Composed) map[string]string {
 	if c.env.SeatList == nil {
 		return held
@@ -1784,21 +1788,24 @@ func (c *Composer) holdUntilListed(ctx context.Context, r reader, compositions m
 		}
 	}
 	for key, comp := range compositions {
-		if comp.Module == "" {
-			continue
-		}
 		if dig, err := delivery.ComposedDigestOf(comp); err == nil && ran[comp.Module+"/"+dig] {
 			continue
 		}
-		if c.env.SeatList.MayAct(c.seatsOf(ctx, r, comp.Module)...) {
+		module, why := comp.Module, WaitsForTheSeatList
+		if module == "" { // the node's own: no seat to judge, so while the list is unread it waits whole
+			if c.env.SeatList.MayAct() {
+				continue
+			}
+			module, why = agent.NodeModule, WaitsForTheSeatListOwn
+		} else if c.env.SeatList.MayAct(c.seatsOf(ctx, r, module)...) {
 			continue
 		}
 		delete(compositions, key)
 		if held == nil {
 			held = map[string]string{}
 		}
-		if _, already := held[comp.Module]; !already {
-			held[comp.Module] = WaitsForTheSeatList
+		if _, already := held[module]; !already {
+			held[module] = why
 		}
 	}
 	return held
diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go
index dfb90a8..a33a7e5 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose_test.go
@@ -1812,17 +1812,25 @@ func TestAnUnreadSeatListHoldsWhatIsNewAndHandsItAtTheRead(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("the node handed %s before it read the seat list", k)
 		}
 	}
-	if !handed["n1.node"] {
-		t.Errorf("the node's own composition was held with the module: %v", handed)
+	// The node's own composition folds modules and accounts it cannot judge before the read: held whole (the ruling of
+	// ADR 0636 §1), under the scope agent.NodeModule.
+	mu.Lock()
+	ownWhy := heldBy[agent.NodeModule]
+	mu.Unlock()
+	if ownWhy != WaitsForTheSeatListOwn || handed["n1.node"] {
+		t.Errorf("the node's own composition is held with %q and handed=%v, want %q and not handed: %v", ownWhy, handed["n1.node"], WaitsForTheSeatListOwn, handed)
 	}
-	// The reader reads the list and says so: the module is handed, with no timer.
+	// The reader reads the list and says so: the module and the node's own are handed, with no timer.
 	g.open.Store(true)
 	changed <- struct{}{}
-	for {
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for !(seen["lemurs"] && seen["node"]) {
 		u := next(t, out)
-		if strings.Contains(u.Key, "lemurs") && !u.Deleted {
-			break
+		if u.Deleted {
+			continue
 		}
+		seen["lemurs"] = seen["lemurs"] || strings.Contains(u.Key, "lemurs")
+		seen["node"] = seen["node"] || u.Key == "n1.node"
 	}
 	mu.Lock()
 	still := heldBy["lemurs"]