diff --git a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
index fd40bf4..0a1102e 100644
--- a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
@@ -774,6 +774,11 @@ test("rotating a credential moves both ends, and the old one stops working", {
     `"serves":{"realdatabase":{"port":5433}},` +
     `"needs":{"superuser":"${store}/superuser"},` +
     `"grants":{"realdatabase":"${store}/grants"},` +
+    // Both halves. `grants` is where each consumer's sealed password lands; `receives` is the
+    // manifest saying who asked and for what. Without the second the provisioner finds a
+    // directory of unexplained secrets and says nothing has been granted — which is true, and
+    // reads exactly like a credential that was never delivered.
+    `"receives":{"realdatabase":"${store}/grants/mesh.json"},` +
     `"listens":[{"port":5433,"from":"mesh","why":"a database the mesh provisions"}],` +
     `"resources":[` +
     `{"id":"state","type":"directory","path":"${store}","mode":"0755"},` +
@@ -937,3 +942,78 @@ test("a route is a grant: a workload is reached by the name it asked for", {
   }
   assert.ok(gone, "the proxy still serves a name whose module was unassigned");
 });
+
+test("model access is answered by a record, and the key the mesh took is one it cannot read", {
+  skip, timeout: 900_000,
+}, async () => {
+  // novox/hq ADR 0024. The first provision no machine answers: a hosted model is on nobody's
+  // node and is reached over the public internet, so the rule that refuses two ends sharing no
+  // private network must not apply to it.
+  await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"assistant","version":"1",` +
+    `"requires":["model-access"],` +
+    `"binds":{"model-access":"/etc/assistant/model.json"},` +
+    `"secrets":{"model-access":"/etc/assistant/key"},` +
+    `"resources":[{"id":"dir","type":"directory","path":"/etc/assistant","mode":"0755"}]}' ` +
+    `> /tmp/assistant.json`);
+  await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/assistant.json mesh-control:/assistant.json`);
+  await mesh("module add /assistant.json");
+  await mesh("assign laptop assistant");
+
+  await mesh(`licence add anthropic personal --serves '{"model":"a-model"}'`);
+  await mesh(`licence add anthropic the-organisation --serves '{"model":"a-model"}'`);
+
+  // Refused until somebody says which, and the refusal names both candidates and the command.
+  // ADR 0024 warns this will be felt — which is correct, and correct is not the same as usable.
+  const refused = await on("anchor", `docker exec mesh-control /mesh-control plan laptop`);
+  assert.ok(!refused.ok, `a consumer was given model access without anybody saying which:\n${refused.out}`);
+  for (const want of ["personal", "the-organisation", "licence use"]) {
+    assert.match(refused.out, new RegExp(want),
+      `the refusal does not name ${want}:\n${refused.out}`);
+  }
+
+  await mesh("licence use personal laptop assistant");
+
+  // Chosen, and still no key: the mesh has one thing to deliver and has not been given it.
+  const noKey = await on("anchor", `docker exec mesh-control /mesh-control plan laptop`);
+  assert.ok(!noKey.ok, `a module was planned with a licence that has no key:\n${noKey.out}`);
+  assert.match(noKey.out, /licence key personal/, noKey.out);
+
+  // The accept verb. Given on standard input rather than as an argument, because a key in a
+  // command line is a key in shell history and in every process listing taken while it ran.
+  const secret = "sk-test-" + "0123456789abcdef".repeat(2);
+  const accepted = await must("anchor",
+    `printf %s ${quote(secret)} | docker exec -i mesh-control /mesh-control licence key personal`);
+  assert.match(accepted, /sealed to 1 holder/, accepted);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(accepted, new RegExp(secret),
+    "the key was echoed back, so the one copy that matters is on a terminal");
+
+  await mesh("push laptop");
+  await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 15_000));
+
+  // What is public arrives, and says it is a record rather than leaving an empty address that a
+  // reader would take for something the mesh failed to fill in.
+  const bound = await must("laptop", `cat /etc/assistant/model.json`);
+  assert.match(bound, /personal/, `the consumer was not told which licence it is on:\n${bound}`);
+  assert.match(bound, /a-model/, `what the licence serves did not arrive:\n${bound}`);
+  assert.match(bound, /not a machine/, `the binding leaves an unexplained empty address:\n${bound}`);
+
+  // And the key arrives, readable only by this machine.
+  assert.equal((await must("laptop", `cat /etc/assistant/key`)).trim(), secret,
+    "the key that arrived is not the key that was given");
+  assert.match(await must("laptop", `stat -c %a /etc/assistant/key`), /^600/);
+
+  // The mesh cannot read it back. This is the whole argument: what is stored is unusable by
+  // whoever holds it, the control plane included.
+  const stored = await must("anchor",
+    `docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d licences -qAt ` +
+    `-c "select coalesce(sealed,'') from licence_holder"`);
+  assert.ok(stored.trim().length > 0, "nothing was stored, so nothing was sealed");
+  assert.doesNotMatch(stored, new RegExp(secret),
+    "the key is in the control plane's own database in the open");
+
+  // Nor is it anywhere it could have been read on the way.
+  for (const where of ["/var/lib/mesh-host/declared.json", "/var/lib/mesh-host/state.json"]) {
+    const held = await on("laptop", `grep -c ${quote(secret)} ${where} 2>/dev/null || echo 0`);
+    assert.equal(held.out.trim(), "0", `the key is in the open in ${where}`);
+  }
+});