diff --git a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go
index 00b5aa2..2ee61ae 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent.go
@@ -509,6 +509,12 @@ func nodeAgent(ctx context.Context, opts options, signer ed25519.PublicKey, trus
 			// composes its own (issue 774).
 			Applied:  appliedStoreFor(opts.state),
 			Inactive: inactiveIn(&liveness.Exec{Run: liveness.Runner(opts.run()), System: builtFor}, heldBy(apply.WindowsIn(filepath.Dir(opts.state)))),
+			Held: func() map[string]string {
+				if c := composerNow.Load(); c != nil {
+					return c.LastHeld()
+				}
+				return nil
+			},
 			Revisions: func(ctx context.Context, key string) ([]agent.Update, error) {
 				got, err := session.KVHistory(ctx, composedBucket, key)
 				if err != nil {
diff --git a/internal/agent/agent.go b/internal/agent/agent.go
index b9ff6ff..6fc5f71 100644
--- a/internal/agent/agent.go
+++ b/internal/agent/agent.go
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ type Env struct {
 	// Revisions are a composition key's revisions the bucket keeps, oldest first; nil reads none. The composition a want
 	// names is taken from them when a newer one replaced it under the same key (ADR 0539 clause 1).
 	Revisions func(ctx context.Context, key string) ([]Update, error)
+	// Held is what the node's composer held in its last pass, each module with why, as the verb composition shows it
+	// for the node's own (issue 774); nil says nothing.
+	Held func() map[string]string
 	// Settled is told a module's apply or removal that succeeded, once what runs holds it (Everything), outside the
 	// agent's lock: the declaration the node applies now names what that composition names, its filled files among
 	// them. The node-engine's filling tells the provisioner's client then to fill again what it refused (mesh-host
diff --git a/internal/agent/agent_test.go b/internal/agent/agent_test.go
index 9887661..4efc91e 100644
--- a/internal/agent/agent_test.go
+++ b/internal/agent/agent_test.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 )
 
@@ -1312,6 +1313,7 @@ func TestTheNodesOwnCompositionIsAppliedWhenItDiffersAndARecordMoveWaitsForAYes(
 		defer historyMu.Unlock()
 		history[key] = append(history[key], Update{Key: key, Value: raw, Revision: uint64(len(history[key]) + 1)})
 	}
+	b.env.Held = func() map[string]string { return map[string]string{"mesh-build-go": "its binding is unset"} }
 	stop := b.run()
 	defer stop()
 	unsigned := func(module, fp string, rs ...json.RawMessage) (string, []byte, string) {
@@ -1493,6 +1495,16 @@ func TestTheNodesOwnCompositionIsAppliedWhenItDiffersAndARecordMoveWaitsForAYes(
 	if _, err := b.ag.Composition(context.Background(), "db", "sha256:"+strings.Repeat("0", 64), false); err == nil {
 		t.Error("a digest no revision has was answered")
 	}
+	// Issue 774 (ace, 2026-11-04 01:29): the node's own revision shows its own fields, the provisioner client's account
+	// and the adoption among them, and what the composer's last pass held.
+	ownKey, ownRaw, ownDig := encodedAs(t, delivery.Composed{Node: node, Own: delivery.NodeOwn{Provisioner: "mesh-provisioner-client",
+		Adoption: &declaration.Adoption{Taken: []string{"web"}}}}, func() string { k, _ := delivery.ComposedNodeKey(node); return k }())
+	keep(ownKey, ownRaw)
+	if view, err := b.ag.Composition(context.Background(), NodeModule, ownDig, false); err != nil || view.Own == nil ||
+		view.Own.Provisioner != "mesh-provisioner-client" || view.Own.Adoption == nil || view.Own.Adoption.Taken[0] != "web" ||
+		view.Own.Held["mesh-build-go"] == "" {
+		t.Errorf("the node's own composition reads %+v %+v (%v)", view, view.Own, err)
+	}
 	// novox/hq ADR 0593 §6: the engine publishes each composition with its plan in its composition state; the verb reads
 	// that revision by the digest its have and want name, its resources' (the plan left out of the digest).
 	planned, _ := delivery.DecodeComposed(draw)
diff --git a/internal/agent/composition.go b/internal/agent/composition.go
index 938c2aa..4035b8b 100644
--- a/internal/agent/composition.go
+++ b/internal/agent/composition.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/judge"
 )
@@ -32,6 +33,26 @@ type CompositionView struct {
 	Judged JudgedView `json:"judged"`
 	// Diff is every resource that differs from what runs, when asked.
 	Diff []judge.ResourceChange `json:"diff,omitempty"`
+	// Own is, of the node's own composition (module node), its own fields beside what runs names (issue 774: ace's
+	// own composition dropped the provisioner client's account, and nothing read could show it).
+	Own *OwnView `json:"own,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// OwnView is the node's own fields of a composition (delivery.NodeOwn) beside what runs of them, and what the node's
+// composer held in its last pass.
+type OwnView struct {
+	// Provisioner is the account the provisioner's client runs as, as the revision read names it; RunsProvisioner as
+	// what runs names it. Empty: the declaration names none, and every filled write is refused.
+	Provisioner     string `json:"provisioner_account"`
+	RunsProvisioner string `json:"runs_provisioner_account,omitempty"`
+	// Adoption is the revision's adoption: the node adopted, and which of its modules are taken; nil for a converged node.
+	Adoption *declaration.Adoption `json:"adoption,omitempty"`
+	// Identities, Groups and Libraries count what the revision names of each.
+	Identities int `json:"identities,omitempty"`
+	Groups     int `json:"groups,omitempty"`
+	Libraries  int `json:"libraries,omitempty"`
+	// Held is each module the node's composer held in its last pass, with why.
+	Held map[string]string `json:"held,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // WantView is a want as the verb shows it.
@@ -171,6 +192,17 @@ func (a *Agent) Composition(ctx context.Context, module, digest string, diff boo
 		}
 		view.Runs = rv
 	}
+	if module == NodeModule {
+		o := read.C.Own
+		view.Own = &OwnView{Provisioner: o.Provisioner, Adoption: o.Adoption, Identities: len(o.Identities), Groups: len(o.Groups),
+			Libraries: len(o.Libraries)}
+		if running != nil {
+			view.Own.RunsProvisioner = running.Own.Provisioner
+		}
+		if a.env.Held != nil {
+			view.Own.Held = a.env.Held()
+		}
+	}
 	j := judge.JudgeMove(running, read.C)
 	view.Judged = JudgedView{Judgement: string(j.Judgement), Words: j.Words}
 	if a.env.SelfComposed && a.env.Policy != nil && module != NodeModule && (!w.Present || w.Want.Yes != read.Dig) {
diff --git a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
index 45a07f6..6607fc6 100644
--- a/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
+++ b/internal/selfcompose/selfcompose.go
@@ -218,6 +218,13 @@ type Pass struct {
 	Earlier bool `json:"earlier,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// LastHeld is what the last pass held, each module with why; nil before a pass or when it held none.
+func (c *Composer) LastHeld() map[string]string {
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	defer c.mu.Unlock()
+	return maps.Clone(c.last.Held)
+}
+
 // askedWithin is how recent a pass answers an ask of the verb compose without a new one: the first wait after a seat
 // that did not answer (laterAgain's first).
 var askedWithin = 5 * time.Second