diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go
index f53efb3..7f0e1d1 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/agent"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/link"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/selfcompose"
 )
 
 // The node agent whole, against a real bus with JetStream started in the test: the wants bucket, the node's composition
@@ -311,3 +312,68 @@ func TestNatsTheHandPathAppliesACompositionTheOperatorSigned(t *testing.T) {
 		return h.FP == fp && h.Composed == dig && h.Phase == delivery.PhaseRunning
 	})
 }
+
+// Issue 1126 (ADR 0547 §2, the milestone's H8): the node agent started whole against a real bus, on a node the catalogue
+// places, composes a module from its want, the indexer's manifest, its record and its mesh-config value, and applies it,
+// with no key in the controller's compositions; a changed config value is composed again on its event and applied as a
+// revision of what runs.
+func TestNatsANodeThePlacementNamesComposesAndAppliesItsOwn(t *testing.T) {
+	b := newItBed(t)
+	kvOf := func(bucket string) nats.KeyValue {
+		kv, err := b.js.CreateKeyValue(&nats.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: bucket, History: 5})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return kv
+	}
+	placement, modules, manifests := kvOf(delivery.PlacementBucket), kvOf(delivery.ModulesBucket), kvOf(delivery.ManifestsBucket)
+	resolved := kvOf(selfcompose.ResolvedBucket)
+	kvOf(delivery.BuilderBuildsBucket)
+	path := filepath.Join(b.dir, "web.conf")
+	man := `{"module":"web","version":"1","config":{"greeting":{"type":"string","description":"what the file says","default":"hello"}},` +
+		`"resources":[{"id":"conf","type":"file","path":"` + path + `","mode":"0644","content":"greeting=${config:greeting}\n"}]}`
+	digest := delivery.ManifestDigest([]byte(man))
+	mraw, _ := delivery.EncodeManifest(delivery.Manifest{Module: "web", JSON: man})
+	mkey, _ := delivery.ManifestsKey(digest)
+	fp := fpIt("a")
+	modv, _ := delivery.EncodeModule(delivery.Module{FP2: fp, Manifest: digest, Repository: "novox/web", Commit: strings.Repeat("1", 40)})
+	place, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(delivery.Placement{Node: itNode, Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "web"}}})
+	rec, _ := delivery.EncodeHaveNode(delivery.HaveNode{Record: &delivery.NodeRecord{Node: itNode, Capabilities: []string{"service-manager"}}})
+	pkey, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(itNode)
+	hkey, _ := delivery.HaveNodeKey(itNode)
+	for _, w := range []struct {
+		kv    nats.KeyValue
+		key   string
+		value []byte
+	}{{manifests, mkey, mraw}, {modules, "web", modv}, {placement, pkey, place}, {b.haves, hkey, rec},
+		{resolved, itNode + ".web.greeting", []byte(`{"value":"bonjour"}`)}} {
+		if _, err := w.kv.Put(w.key, w.value); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	want, _ := delivery.EncodeWant(delivery.Want{FP: fp})
+	wkey, _ := delivery.WantKey(itNode, "web")
+	if _, err := b.wants.Put(wkey, want); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	stop := b.start(false)
+	defer stop()
+	within(t, 3*time.Second, "the node did not compose and apply its own module", func() bool { return b.file("web") == "greeting=bonjour\n" })
+	within(t, 2*time.Second, "the have does not name the build", func() bool {
+		h := b.have("web")
+		return h.FP == fp && h.Composed != "" && h.Phase == delivery.PhaseRunning
+	})
+	if keys, _ := b.composed.Keys(); len(keys) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the controller's compositions hold %v; the node composed its own", keys)
+	}
+	first := b.have("web").Composed
+	if _, err := resolved.Put(itNode+".web.greeting", []byte(`{"value":"salut"}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	within(t, 3*time.Second, "a changed config value was not composed and applied again", func() bool { return b.file("web") == "greeting=salut\n" })
+	within(t, 2*time.Second, "the have does not name the revision", func() bool {
+		h := b.have("web")
+		return h.FP == fp && h.Composed != first && h.Phase == delivery.PhaseRunning
+	})
+}