diff --git a/internal/agent/agent.go b/internal/agent/agent.go
index 09568b6..f114d28 100644
--- a/internal/agent/agent.go
+++ b/internal/agent/agent.go
@@ -409,6 +409,9 @@ func (a *Agent) heldOut(except string) []delivery.Composed {
 		if h, ok := a.running[m]; ok && h.Phase != delivery.PhaseRemoved {
 			continue
 		}
+		if w := a.wants[m]; w.Present && w.Want.Removed {
+			continue // a module the assigner removed holds nothing back
+		}
 		if w := a.wants[m]; w.Present && !w.Want.Removed && w.Want.FP == fp {
 			waiting[m] = c
 			continue
diff --git a/internal/agent/agent_test.go b/internal/agent/agent_test.go
index f5f0596..e01214a 100644
--- a/internal/agent/agent_test.go
+++ b/internal/agent/agent_test.go
@@ -676,3 +676,45 @@ func TestTheNodesOwnApplyHoldsOutAModuleThatMovedToItsOwnComposition(t *testing.
 		t.Fatalf("the others of the node's own apply were %v: systemd-resolved's resources would be removed", names)
 	}
 }
+
+// A module the assigner removed holds nothing back, its compositions still in the bucket or not: its resources are its
+// removal's to take (issue 1945).
+func TestARemovedModulesCompositionHoldsNothingBack(t *testing.T) {
+	b := newBed(t)
+	fp := fpOf("b")
+	rk, rraw, _ := composition(t, "gone", fp, false, file("gone", "x", "1"))
+	b.comps.before(rk, rraw)
+	gk, err := delivery.WantKey(node, "gone")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	graw, err := delivery.EncodeWant(delivery.Want{Removed: true})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b.wants.before(gk, graw)
+	nk, nraw, ndig := composition(t, NodeModule, "", false)
+	nwk, _ := delivery.WantNodeKey(node)
+	nwraw, _ := delivery.EncodeNodeWant(delivery.NodeWant{Composed: ndig})
+	b.comps.before(nk, nraw)
+	b.wants.before(nwk, nwraw)
+	stop := b.run()
+	defer stop()
+	eventually(t, "the node's own not applied", func() bool {
+		for _, m := range b.appliedList() {
+			if m == NodeModule {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	})
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	defer b.mu.Unlock()
+	for _, others := range b.others {
+		for _, c := range others {
+			if c.Module == "gone" {
+				t.Fatal("a removed module's composition was held out")
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/apply/apply.go b/internal/apply/apply.go
index 03c57b6..731d432 100644
--- a/internal/apply/apply.go
+++ b/internal/apply/apply.go
@@ -430,9 +430,32 @@ func applyScoped(
 	// And what a record going hands to a resource that still asks for its group (novox/hq ADR 0252 §3).
 	handed := Handed{}
 
+	// **A resource another module's composition now holds is that module's, and is left** (issue 1945): a module that
+	// leaves the node's own composition for one of its own takes its resources with it, by their identity, and the node's
+	// own apply leaves each as it is, record and all, until that module's apply takes it. Removed, a node lost its
+	// resolver guard, its sudoers file and a running container between two applies.
+	heldByOthers := map[string]string{}
+	if scope != nil {
+		for _, r := range scope.Others {
+			heldByOthers[r.Identity()] = r.DeclaredModule()
+		}
+	}
+
 	removeOrphan := func(orphan store.Applied) error {
 		var action, detail string
 		var err error
+		if module, held := heldByOthers[orphan.ID]; held && !declared[orphan.ID] {
+			if module == "" {
+				module = "another module"
+			}
+			detail := "no longer declared here; the composition of " + module + " holds it, so it was left as it is"
+			report.Outcomes = append(report.Outcomes, Outcome{
+				ID: orphan.ID, Type: orphan.Type, Target: orphan.Target,
+				Action: "kept", Detail: detail,
+			})
+			log(fmt.Sprintf("  kept %s (%s): %s", orphan.ID, orphan.Target, detail))
+			return nil
+		}
 		if by, held := heldFiles[fileKey(orphan)]; held && by != orphan.ID {
 			if scope != nil && !declared[by] {
 				// Another module declares the path: it is that module's, so this record is let go and the file is
diff --git a/internal/apply/module_scope_test.go b/internal/apply/module_scope_test.go
index 2ad9d20..67b494a 100644
--- a/internal/apply/module_scope_test.go
+++ b/internal/apply/module_scope_test.go
@@ -111,3 +111,38 @@ func TestARecordWithoutAnOwnerBelongsToTheModuleItsIdNames(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a's file exists %v, b's file exists %v", exists(fa), exists(fb))
 	}
 }
+
+// A resource that leaves the node's own composition for its module's own is that module's now: the node's own apply
+// leaves it as it is, whatever its type, until the module's own apply takes it (issue 1945, live on 2026-10-25 at 02:32:
+// shanks and g14 lost systemd-resolved's guard, its resolver files and sudo's operator file, ace qbittorrent's server,
+// because the node's own apply removed every record no longer in it, the others holding the very same resources or not).
+func TestAResourceThatMovedToItsModulesCompositionIsLeftByTheNodesOwnApply(t *testing.T) {
+	dir := t.TempDir()
+	fact := filepath.Join(dir, "suffix")
+	gone := filepath.Join(dir, "gone.conf")
+	own := declare(t, `{"id":"systemd-resolved.fact-suffix","type":"file","path":"`+fact+`","content":"mesh\n"},
+	  {"id":"old.gone","type":"file","path":"`+gone+`","content":"g\n"}`)
+	_, state, err := ApplyModule(context.Background(), archHost(t), own, Scope{Module: store.NodeModule},
+		state0(), store.OriginDeclared, noServices, nil, nil, nil, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// systemd-resolved now has a composition of its own, not applied yet; old.gone is no module's any more.
+	moved := declare(t, `{"id":"systemd-resolved.fact-suffix","type":"file","path":"`+fact+`","content":"mesh\n","module":"systemd-resolved"}`)
+	report, state, err := ApplyModule(context.Background(), archHost(t), &declaration.Declaration{},
+		Scope{Module: store.NodeModule, Others: moved.Resources}, state, store.OriginDeclared, noServices, nil, nil, nil, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !exists(fact) {
+		t.Fatalf("the moved resource was removed: %+v", outcomeOf(report, "systemd-resolved.fact-suffix"))
+	}
+	if exists(gone) {
+		t.Fatal("a resource no composition holds any more was kept")
+	}
+	if _, still := state.Find("systemd-resolved.fact-suffix"); !still {
+		t.Fatal("the moved resource's record was dropped, so its module's apply would not know it")
+	}
+}
+
+func state0() store.State { return store.State{} }