diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
index ac69427..98503a1 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
@@ -163,12 +163,8 @@ func ManifestNeeds(raw []byte) ([]string, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 	used := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, f := range referenceForms {
-		if bytes.Contains(raw, []byte("${"+f+":")) {
-			used[ReadForm+f] = true
-		}
-	}
-	if ofSeatReach.Match(raw) || claimsAtMesh(top, ContainerImageRegistrySeat) {
+	textNeeds(raw, used)
+	if claimsAtMesh(top, ContainerImageRegistrySeat) {
 		used[ReadForm+ReferenceFormSeatReach] = true
 	}
 	if _, has := top[ConfigField]; has || takesConfigKey.Match(raw) {
@@ -429,6 +425,39 @@ func asList(v any) []any {
 	return list
 }
 
+// textNeeds adds the reference forms a manifest's or a template's text writes to used: a form the engine fills in a
+// file's text is read there whether the text is inline or in a template file.
+func textNeeds(text []byte, used map[string]bool) {
+	for _, f := range referenceForms {
+		if bytes.Contains(text, []byte("${"+f+":")) {
+			used[ReadForm+f] = true
+		}
+	}
+	if ofSeatReach.Match(text) {
+		used[ReadForm+ReferenceFormSeatReach] = true
+	}
+}
+
+// ModuleNeeds is ManifestNeeds of a module whose files take their text from templates (template.go): what the manifest
+// needs and what each template's text writes, by template path (TemplatePaths), sorted. A module's needs are both: an
+// engine renders the template's text as it renders inline content, so a template naming ${seat:x:reach} needs the
+// reading as the same content inline does, though the manifest itself is unchanged (novox/hq ADR 0632 §2). A template
+// named and not given is no need; the reader of the files says it could not read one.
+func ModuleNeeds(raw []byte, templates map[string]string) ([]string, error) {
+	needs, err := ManifestNeeds(raw)
+	if err != nil || len(templates) == 0 {
+		return needs, err
+	}
+	used := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, n := range needs {
+		used[n] = true
+	}
+	for _, text := range templates {
+		textNeeds([]byte(text), used)
+	}
+	return sortedSet(used), nil
+}
+
 func sortedSet(set map[string]bool) []string {
 	out := make([]string, 0, len(set))
 	for k := range set {
diff --git a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
index ce279b0..21ae5f8 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package catalogue
 
 import (
+	"maps"
 	"os"
 	"slices"
 	"testing"
@@ -87,12 +88,26 @@ func TestOwnManifestUsesNoWordTheRunningControllerRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 		{"the store's holder", `{"module":"distribution","version":"1","claims":[{"name":"container-image-registry",` +
 			`"scope":"mesh","serves":["list"]}],"listens":[{"name":"registry","port":5000,"from":"mesh"}]}`,
 			[]string{"form:seat-reach", "seat:container-image-registry"}, []string{"form:seat-reach", "seat:container-image-registry"}},
+		// docker's daemon file as ADR 0632 leaves it: the manifest unchanged, its template naming the image seat's reach;
+		// TemplatePaths names the template a reader of the files reads.
+		{"a template naming a seat's reach", `{"module":"d","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"daemon","type":"file",` +
+			`"path":"/etc/d.json","template":"files/daemon.json"}]}`, []string{"form:seat", "form:seat-reach"},
+			[]string{"form:seat-reach"}},
 		{"a word this contract does not know", `{"module":"u","version":"1","newer-word":{"inside":1}}`, []string{"word:module"}, nil},
 	} {
-		needs, err := ManifestNeeds([]byte(row.raw))
+		templates := map[string]map[string]string{ // the templates' text a row's module names
+			"a template naming a seat's reach": {"files/daemon.json": `{"x":"${seat:container-image-registry:reach}"}`},
+		}[row.why]
+		needs, err := ModuleNeeds([]byte(row.raw), templates)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", row.why, err)
 		}
+		if templates != nil {
+			m, err := Decode([]byte(row.raw))
+			if paths := TemplatePaths(m); err != nil || !slices.Equal(paths, slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(templates))) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: TemplatePaths = %v (%v), want %v", row.why, paths, err, slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(templates)))
+			}
+		}
 		for _, n := range row.needs {
 			if !slices.Contains(needs, n) {
 				t.Errorf("%s: needs %v, not %s", row.why, needs, n)
diff --git a/go/catalogue/template.go b/go/catalogue/template.go
index d5d8945..53d849f 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/template.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/template.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 )
@@ -184,6 +185,25 @@ func fillItemTemplates(m Manifest, items []Item, text func(string) (string, bool
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+// TemplatePaths is every template the manifest's files and items name, by its path in the module's directory, sorted
+// and once each: what a reader of the module's files reads for ModuleNeeds. A template whose name is wrong is left out;
+// the judge refuses it by name.
+func TemplatePaths(m Manifest) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if name, has, wrong := templateOf(m.Module, m.TemplatesDir(), r); has && wrong == "" {
+			out = append(out, name)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, it := range m.Items {
+		if it.Template != "" && itemTemplateProblem(m, it.Template) == "" {
+			out = append(out, it.Template)
+		}
+	}
+	slices.Sort(out)
+	return slices.Compact(out)
+}
+
 // ReadTemplates is the text of each template the manifest names, read from the module's directory in a repository tree,
 // by template path. Refused by name: a template the directory lacks, and anything under its templates directory
 // (TemplatesDir) the build's packing refuses — that directory itself, or any directory or file under it, that is a
diff --git a/go/delivery/source.go b/go/delivery/source.go
index 6eebdfb..500dfd8 100644
--- a/go/delivery/source.go
+++ b/go/delivery/source.go
@@ -594,6 +594,10 @@ type Forge struct {
 	// relative to it (novox/hq ADR 0465 clause 1). Older writers send neither.
 	Manifests map[string]string            `json:"manifests,omitempty"`
 	Locks     map[string]map[string]string `json:"locks,omitempty"`
+	// Needs are, of each such directory whose manifest names templates, the reader capabilities of the module whole:
+	// its manifest's and its templates' text's at the same commit (catalogue.ModuleNeeds; novox/hq ADR 0632 §2). The
+	// indexer takes them over the manifest's own; a directory absent, or an older writer, has the manifest's alone.
+	Needs map[string][]string `json:"needs,omitempty"`
 	// Paths are, of each module directory whose manifest names paths on every artifact, each named path's git object
 	// id at the same commit as its manifest, by path relative to the directory (novox/hq ADR 0499 clause 3). The
 	// indexer names the paths; a message without them gives such a module none. Older writers send none.