diff --git a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 60297ec..554c6a1 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -14,24 +14,96 @@ import (
 // byte what the controller's composes. testdata/controller-user-lists.json was written by the controller's own
 // internal/broker (mesh-controller branch fix/1945-mesh-grants-publishes-memberships, and fix/1790-grants-create-buckets for the grants part creating declared streams), lists and memberships, from fixtures_test.go compiled there unchanged; composed.conf is the
 // controller's golden of the whole server configuration. A row that differs is the copy drifting from the controller,
-// which is a fault while both compose (until the controller loses its lease, ADR 0547 §13), but for the rows the copy
-// grants beyond it on purpose: the copy must grant everything the controller's grants, and only those rows more.
+// which is a fault while both compose (until the controller loses its lease, ADR 0547 §13), but for the grants the copy
+// gives beyond it on purpose (beyondTheControllers): the copy grants every user everything the controller's grants, and
+// only those more.
 // createdAdvisory is one subscription to a bucket's creation in a composed list, as stateCreatedHeard composes it.
 var createdAdvisory = regexp.MustCompile(`"\$JS\.EVENT\.ADVISORY\.STREAM\.CREATED\.KV_[^"]*", `)
 
-// nodeRecordReads are the two rows the copy grants a node principal beyond the controller's on purpose (novox/hq ADR 0555
-// §3, issue 1126): a read of every node's own facts, `<node>.node` of the have bucket, where the node's record rides, so a
-// node agent composing its own modules reads the other nodes' public records. After the take-over (ADR 0547 §8) the grants
-// part's list is the one the bus loads; a hand-back loads the controller's, which lacks these reads, and keeps working
-// without the second milestone's composing.
-var nodeRecordReads = regexp.MustCompile(`"\$JS\.API\.(DIRECT\.GET|CONSUMER\.CREATE)\.KV_node-engine_have\.(\*\.)?\$KV\.node-engine_have\.\*\.node",? ?`)
+// beyondTheControllers is what the copy grants beyond the controller's on purpose (novox/hq ADR 0547 §2, ADR 0555 §3,
+// issue 1126), by user: a node's account reads every node's own facts, `<node>.node` of the have bucket where the node's
+// record rides, and what it composes its own modules from (NodeComposeReads). After the take-over (ADR 0547 §8) the
+// grants part's list is the one the bus loads; a hand-back loads the controller's, which lacks these reads, and the nodes
+// keep applying without composing their own until the next take-over. Each principal's hearing of its buckets' creation
+// (issue 1790) is the other row beyond, matched by createdAdvisory.
+func beyondTheControllers(user string) map[string]bool {
+	out := map[string]bool{}
+	node, ok := strings.CutPrefix(user, "node.")
+	if !ok {
+		return out
+	}
+	for _, s := range append(readGrants("node-engine_have", "*.node"), NodeComposeReads(node)...) {
+		out[s] = true
+	}
+	return out
+}
 
-// beyondTheControllers is a list the copy composed with the rows it grants beyond the controller's on purpose taken
-// out, and how many node-record rows it held: what is left must be the controller's list exactly, so the copy grants
-// everything the controller's grants and nothing more but those rows.
-func beyondTheControllers(list string) (string, int) {
-	n := len(nodeRecordReads.FindAllString(list, -1))
-	return nodeRecordReads.ReplaceAllString(createdAdvisory.ReplaceAllString(list, ""), ""), n
+// quotedToken is a quoted token of a composed list.
+var quotedToken = regexp.MustCompile(`"[^"]*"`)
+
+// grantsByUser splits a composed list into the text outside its users and each user's quoted tokens (its name, its
+// password's hash, every subject it may publish or subscribe to), by user.
+func grantsByUser(list string) (string, map[string]map[string]bool) {
+	var outside strings.Builder
+	users := map[string]map[string]bool{}
+	user := ""
+	for _, line := range strings.SplitAfter(list, "\n") {
+		trimmed := strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		if name, ok := strings.CutPrefix(trimmed, `{ user: "`); ok {
+			user, _, _ = strings.Cut(name, `"`)
+			users[user] = map[string]bool{}
+		} else if user != "" && trimmed == "]" {
+			user = ""
+		}
+		if user == "" {
+			outside.WriteString(line)
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, q := range quotedToken.FindAllString(line, -1) {
+			users[user][strings.Trim(q, `"`)] = true
+		}
+	}
+	return outside.String(), users
+}
+
+// grantsAsTheControllers fails t unless the copy's list is the controller's, user for user, but for the grants it
+// names on purpose (beyondTheControllers, the creation advisories): every grant of the controller's is the copy's, and
+// the copy's beyond them are exactly those, every one of them there.
+func grantsAsTheControllers(t *testing.T, got, want string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	gotOutside, gotUsers := grantsByUser(got)
+	wantOutside, wantUsers := grantsByUser(want)
+	if gotOutside != wantOutside {
+		t.Errorf("the list differs from the controller's outside its users:\n%s", gotOutside)
+	}
+	for user, was := range wantUsers {
+		now, ok := gotUsers[user]
+		if !ok {
+			t.Errorf("the copy has no user %s", user)
+			continue
+		}
+		intended := beyondTheControllers(user)
+		for g := range was {
+			if !now[g] {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the copy does not grant %s, which the controller's does", user, g)
+			}
+		}
+		for g := range now {
+			if !was[g] && !intended[g] && !createdAdvisory.MatchString(`"`+g+`", `) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the copy grants %s beyond the controller's, and no decision names it", user, g)
+			}
+		}
+		for g := range intended {
+			if !now[g] {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the copy does not grant %s, which a node composing its own modules reads", user, g)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for user := range gotUsers {
+		if _, ok := wantUsers[user]; !ok {
+			t.Errorf("the copy has a user %s the controller's has not", user)
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
@@ -72,14 +144,7 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 			// the take-over of ADR 0547 milestone 2): each principal hears its own and read buckets created, so a state
 			// missing at its start is bound when it appears. The controller's composer is frozen and its list no longer
 			// loaded; while it is not, this row is left out of the comparison and nothing else.
-			list, records := beyondTheControllers(list)
-			if list != want[i].List {
-				t.Errorf("the list differs from the controller's beyond the intended rows:\n%s", list)
-			}
-			// And the intended rows are there: two for each node principal of the fixture.
-			if nodes := strings.Count(want[i].List, `"$KV.node-engine_have.`); nodes > 0 && records == 0 {
-				t.Errorf("no node principal reads the other nodes' records")
-			}
+			grantsAsTheControllers(t, list, want[i].List)
 			// And every membership the records issue, as the controller's MembershipFor makes it (ADR 0547 §5): the
 			// grants part publishes them.
 			raw, err := json.Marshal(MembershipsFor(f))
@@ -155,12 +220,6 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		got, records := beyondTheControllers(got)
-		if records != 2 {
-			t.Errorf("node one is granted %d of the two reads of the other nodes' records", records)
-		}
-		if got != string(want) {
-			t.Errorf("the configuration differs from the controller's golden beyond the intended rows:\n%s", got)
-		}
+		grantsAsTheControllers(t, got, string(want))
 	})
 }
diff --git a/go/buscompose/nats.go b/go/buscompose/nats.go
index cdf7337..8f5379b 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/nats.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/nats.go
@@ -886,6 +886,10 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// its own modules reads the other nodes' public records, which its firewall and resolver need (ADR 0547 §2). Read
 		// only: each node still writes its own keys alone.
 		pub = append(pub, readGrants(delivery.HaveBucket, "*."+delivery.HaveNodeWord)...)
+		// And what it composes its own modules from (ADR 0547 §2, ADR 0549 §3): the indexer's placement, modules and
+		// manifests, the builder's builds (the manifest of a build its want names), and mesh-config's resolved values of
+		// its own node alone. Read only.
+		pub = append(pub, NodeComposeReads(p.Node)...)
 		// And an object of the declaration bucket by its name, and nothing of the bucket's list or writing
 		// (novox/hq ADR 0486 §2, issue 1697).
 		fileReads, err := DeclarationFilesReads(p.Node)
diff --git a/go/buscompose/state.go b/go/buscompose/state.go
index f772cae..a0d6feb 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/state.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/state.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package buscompose
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -306,3 +307,18 @@ func RaiseBuckets(a BucketAsserter, buckets []Bucket) (undeclared []string, err
 	sort.Strings(undeclared)
 	return undeclared, nil
 }
+
+// ResolvedBucket is mesh-config's state of resolved values, keyed `<node>.<module>.<key>`.
+const ResolvedBucket = "mesh-config_resolved"
+
+// NodeComposeReads is what a node's agent reads to compose its own modules (novox/hq ADR 0547 §2, ADR 0549 §3, issue
+// 1126): every key of the indexer's placement, modules and manifests and of the builder's builds, and of mesh-config's
+// resolved values only its own node's, `<node>.>`. Reads only; the node is checked as every subject token is by the
+// caller's principal.
+func NodeComposeReads(node string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, bucket := range []string{delivery.PlacementBucket, delivery.ModulesBucket, delivery.ManifestsBucket, delivery.BuilderBuildsBucket} {
+		out = append(out, readGrants(bucket, "")...)
+	}
+	return append(out, readGrants(ResolvedBucket, node+".>")...)
+}