diff --git a/go/catalogue/broker_seat_test.go b/go/catalogue/broker_seat_test.go
index c2b5af4..11f5569 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/broker_seat_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/broker_seat_test.go
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ func TestRenamingASeatDidNotRenameTheInterfaceItDelivers(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, pair := range []struct{ seat, delivers string }{
 		{"git", "git"},
 		{"npm-package-registry", "npm-package-registry"},
-		{"mesh-artifact-store", "artifact-store"},
+		// The store's seats deliver nothing since the provision artifact-store retired (novox/hq ADR 0632 §2): the
+		// store's address is its holder's listen, read through the seat.
+		{"mesh-artifact-store", ""},
+		{"container-image-registry", ""},
+		{"oci-artifact-registry", ""},
 		{"mesh-store", "postgres-database"},
 		{"mesh-broker", "mesh-bus"},
 	} {
diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest.go b/go/catalogue/manifest.go
index 94046c1..765bdcf 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/manifest.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest.go
@@ -1331,12 +1331,10 @@ const (
 	ArtifactPackage = "package"
 )
 
-// ArtifactStoreProvision is the name a module offers when it is the mesh's store for what modules
-// ship — images, and archives, which are directories from a repository packed as blobs.
-//
-// Named here because a rule depends on it: what provides this cannot be delivered through it
-// (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/029). A string compared in one place is a convention; a string a rule turns
-// on is a fact, and it should be written once.
+// ArtifactStoreProvision is the name the mesh's store for what modules ship (images, and archives,
+// which are directories from a repository packed as blobs) was offered under until the provision
+// retired (novox/hq ADR 0632 §2): no seat delivers it and no module provides it. It stays as the
+// scheme of the older reference form, artifact-store://, which done keys keep (ArtifactStoreScheme).
 const ArtifactStoreProvision = "artifact-store"
 
 // Listening is one endpoint a module serves: a port it accepts connections on, and what may be said
diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
index 8da9384..ed39e75 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	_ "embed"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"reflect"
+	"regexp"
 	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
@@ -47,6 +48,16 @@ const ReferenceFormSeat = "seat-reference"
 // artifactReferenceForms are the reference forms of a build's artifacts this contract reads beyond the baseline's.
 var artifactReferenceForms = []string{ReferenceFormSeat}
 
+// ReferenceFormSeatReach names how a node-engine built with this contract fills `${seat:<seat>:reach}`, as the reader
+// capability `form:seat-reach` (novox/hq ADR 0632 §1): from the seat holder placement names and the listen its manifest
+// opens to the mesh, the store's three seats among them, never from a module serving the retired provision
+// artifact-store. An engine before it filled the store's reach only from that provision, so a manifest naming a seat's
+// reach needs it and is held from a node whose engine does not state it (ManifestNeeds).
+const ReferenceFormSeatReach = "seat-reach"
+
+// ofSeatReach is a manifest's value naming a seat's reach, `${seat:<seat>:reach}`.
+var ofSeatReach = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{seat:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*:reach\}`)
+
 // manifestTopWords are the top-level keys Manifest.UnmarshalJSON reads apart from the fields of manifestFields: each
 // read whole, its inside a map of the module's own names (requirements, local names) and values, no words of the
 // contract's beneath it. `requires` and `config` are read as their fields are (manifestNeeds).
@@ -73,6 +84,7 @@ func ManifestReads() []string {
 	for _, f := range artifactReferenceForms {
 		set[ReadForm+f] = true
 	}
+	set[ReadForm+ReferenceFormSeatReach] = true
 	for _, s := range DefaultSeats() {
 		set[ReadSeat+s.Name] = true
 	}
@@ -139,6 +151,9 @@ func ManifestNeeds(raw []byte) ([]string, error) {
 			used[ReadForm+f] = true
 		}
 	}
+	if ofSeatReach.Match(raw) {
+		used[ReadForm+ReferenceFormSeatReach] = true
+	}
 	if _, has := top[ConfigField]; has || takesConfigKey.Match(raw) {
 		used[ReadForm+"config"] = true
 	}
diff --git a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
index 2096a9f..ebfd61b 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func TestOwnManifestUsesNoWordTheRunningControllerRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	for _, want := range []string{"word:tool-runner", "word:core-credentials", "word:bus-state", "word:bus-state.storage",
 		// The reference form a registry seat answers (ADR 0605 §9), and the seats the registry milestone adds.
-		ReadForm + ReferenceFormSeat, "seat:go-package-registry", "seat:container-image-registry", "seat:oci-artifact-registry"} {
+		ReadForm + ReferenceFormSeat, ReadForm + ReferenceFormSeatReach, "seat:go-package-registry", "seat:container-image-registry", "seat:oci-artifact-registry"} {
 		if !slices.Contains(added, want) {
 			t.Errorf("%s is in the baseline, or not read: added since it are %v", want, added)
 		}
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ func TestOwnManifestUsesNoWordTheRunningControllerRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 				"word:provides.identity.max", "word:resources"}, nil},
 		{"a bus-state entry of requires", `{"module":"b","version":"1","requires":["mesh-bus",{"name":"jobs","storage":"kv"}]}`,
 			[]string{"word:requires", "word:bus-state.storage"}, []string{"word:bus-state", "word:bus-state.name", "word:bus-state.storage"}},
+		// A seat's reach, filled from the seat holder's listen (ADR 0632 §1): an engine before it lacks the reading.
+		{"a seat's reach", `{"module":"s","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","content":"${seat:container-image-registry:reach}"}]}`,
+			[]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))
diff --git a/go/catalogue/seats_test.go b/go/catalogue/seats_test.go
index 71c02ad..bd69cd5 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/seats_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/seats_test.go
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ func TestUseSeatsReplacesTheSetButNeverEmptiesIt(t *testing.T) {
 	// A verb whose input the whole definition corrected: compose-candidate's input is the boolean the engine and the
 	// checker read, where the compiled list said a word (engine_compose_candidate_test.go reads it).
 	retyped := map[string]bool{"node-engine.compose-candidate": true}
+	// A seat whose provision retired delivers nothing since: the store's, artifact-store (ADR 0632 §2).
+	retired := map[string]bool{"mesh-artifact-store": true}
 	norm := func(v any) any {
 		b, _ := json.Marshal(v)
 		var out any
@@ -75,6 +77,9 @@ func TestUseSeatsReplacesTheSetButNeverEmptiesIt(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s left the generated set", want.Name)
 			continue
 		}
+		if retired[want.Name] {
+			want.Delivers = ""
+		}
 		g := golden{Seat: got}
 		for _, v := range got.Serves {
 			if v.Optional {