diff --git a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 97bb99a..c73690b 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ func engineBeyond(user, g string) bool {
 		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+EngineActsBucket) || strings.HasPrefix(g, "$KV."+EngineActsBucket+"."+node+".") ||
 		// And its node's declared packages (novox/hq ADR 0565 clause 6).
 		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+EnginePackagesBucket) || g == "$KV."+EnginePackagesBucket+"."+node ||
+		// And its own health report (issue 774).
+		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+delivery.NodeHealthBucket) || g == "$KV."+delivery.NodeHealthBucket+"."+node ||
 		// And the provisions of its node's modules, read (novox/hq ADR 0570 clause 6).
 		strings.Contains(g, "KV_"+provisions.ProvisionsBucket)
 }
@@ -601,7 +603,7 @@ func healthChecks(t *testing.T) {
 			Reads: []string{"mesh-self-check.findings", "mesh-healers.attempts", ControllerConditions}},
 		{Module: "mesh-self-check", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-self-check", "findings")}},
 		{Module: "mesh-healers", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-healers", "findings"), bucket("mesh-healers", "attempts"), bucket("mesh-healers", "would")}},
-		{Module: WatchmanModule, State: []Bucket{bucket(WatchmanModule, "findings")}},
+		{Module: WatchmanModule, State: []Bucket{bucket(WatchmanModule, "findings")}, Reads: []string{delivery.NodeHealthRead}},
 		{Module: "mesh-hand-acts", State: []Bucket{bucket("mesh-hand-acts", "warrants")}, Logs: []Log{{Module: "mesh-hand-acts", Name: "acts"}}},
 		// ADR 0570 clauses 1, 8 (issue 1954 L6-P5): mesh-provisioner keeps provisions and plans; the vault and a provider
 		// read them.
@@ -675,6 +677,14 @@ func healthChecks(t *testing.T) {
 			MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-provisioner_provisions.a.keycloak.db")) {
 			t.Errorf("node %s reads the provisions %v", u.Node, perms.Publish)
 		}
+		// Issue 774: a node's engine writes its own health report's key and no other node's.
+		if u.Kind == KindNode && (!MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_health.a") || MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_health.b")) {
+			t.Errorf("node %s writes the health reports %v", u.Node, perms.Publish)
+		}
+		if u.Kind == KindModule && u.Module == WatchmanModule && (!MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_health.$KV.mesh-host_health.b") ||
+			MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_health.b")) {
+			t.Errorf("the watchman reads the health reports %v, %v", MayPublish(perms, "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-host_health.$KV.mesh-host_health.b"), perms.Publish)
+		}
 		if u.Kind == KindNode && (!MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_packages.a") || MayPublish(perms, "$KV.mesh-host_packages.b")) {
 			t.Errorf("node %s writes the packages keys %v", u.Node, perms.Publish)
 		}
diff --git a/go/buscompose/engine.go b/go/buscompose/engine.go
index 4681729..bc504f3 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/engine.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/engine.go
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ func engineGrants(p Principal) (pub, sub []string) {
 	if safeSubject.MatchString(p.Node) {
 		pub = append(pub, readGrants(provisions.ProvisionsBucket, p.Node+".>")...)
 	}
+	// And its node's own health report, its key `<node>` alone (issue 774, the operator's alert table): what the watchman
+	// reads for the machine's alerts.
+	if safeSubject.MatchString(p.Node) {
+		pub = append(pub, append([]string{"$KV." + delivery.NodeHealthBucket + "." + p.Node},
+			readGrants(delivery.NodeHealthBucket, p.Node)...)...)
+	}
 	// And its node's declared packages, its own key alone (ADR 0565 clause 6).
 	if safeSubject.MatchString(p.Node) {
 		pub = append(pub, EnginePackagesGrants(p.Node)...)
diff --git a/go/buscompose/writers.go b/go/buscompose/writers.go
index 77abcd2..6da9693 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/writers.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/writers.go
@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 		Others: "read through `reads` as node-engine.have", Subjects: kvOf(delivery.HaveBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
 	// The acts a node's engine was asked through its node seat, and its own asks (novox/hq ADR 0563 §2, §3): the
 	// node-engine's declared state, created by the grants part, written by each node's engine under its own keys.
+	// A node's own health report (issue 774): its engine's own key, read by the watchman.
+	{State: "a machine's health report", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, its key `<node>` alone",
+		KeptIn: "key-value " + delivery.NodeHealthBucket, Others: "read by the watchman through `reads`",
+		Subjects: kvOf(delivery.NodeHealthBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
 	// A node's declared packages (novox/hq ADR 0565 clause 6): its engine's own key, read by pacman's verbs.
 	{State: "a machine's declared packages", Writer: "the node-engine of the machine, its key `<node>` alone",
 		KeptIn: "key-value " + EnginePackagesBucket, Others: "read by pacman through `reads`",
diff --git a/go/delivery/control_records_test.go b/go/delivery/control_records_test.go
index 436867f..1d21efa 100644
--- a/go/delivery/control_records_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/control_records_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package delivery
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // ADR 0565 clauses 2 and 6 (issue 1953 L5-S2): the control records' layouts read what their writers write. The
@@ -22,6 +23,14 @@ func TestTheControlRecordsReadTheirWritersValues(t *testing.T) {
 		{"a held value", `{"pull":"novox/mesh-catalog#42","head":"abc","declaration":"sha256:d","node":"novox","module":"mail",` +
 			`"key":"quota","value":20,"by":"person.jochen","via":"telegram","why":"more room","approved":"the operator",` +
 			`"proposal":"p-1","at":"2026-10-29T12:00:00Z"}`, &KeptValue{}},
+		// A node's health report as mesh-host 65fbc1e6 encodes it (its test's look, struct order kept).
+		{"a node's health report", `{"v":1,"node":"anchor","network":{"state":"unhealthy","since":"2026-10-29T20:00:00Z",` +
+			`"parts":[{"part":"resolv-conf","state":"unhealthy","writer":"NetworkManager","owner":"dnsmasq","since":"2026-10-29T20:00:00Z"}]},` +
+			`"peers":[{"key":"A=","addresses":["10.10.0.2/32"],"seen":false},{"key":"B=","seen":true}],` +
+			`"units":{"state":"degraded","failed":[{"unit":"cups.service","scope":"system","since":"2026-10-29T20:00:00Z"}]},` +
+			`"relogin":[{"account":"jochen","module":"brother","resource":"brother.scanner","reason":"relogin needed: the session began before scanner","since":"2026-10-29T20:00:00Z"}],` +
+			`"found":[{"module":"photos","resource":"photos.library","path":"/srv/photos","reason":"used as found: owned by root","since":"2026-10-29T20:00:00Z"}],` +
+			`"at":"2026-10-29T20:00:00Z"}`, &NodeHealth{}},
 		{"the predefined list", `{"v":1,"commit":"abc","at":"2026-10-29T12:00:00Z","list":{"domain":{"type":"string"}}}`, &PredefinedKept{}},
 	} {
 		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(c.raw), c.into); err != nil {
@@ -31,10 +40,17 @@ func TestTheControlRecordsReadTheirWritersValues(t *testing.T) {
 		var want, got any
 		_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(c.raw), &want)
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(again, &got)
-		if string(jsonOf(want)) != string(jsonOf(got)) || (c.name == "declared packages" && string(again) != c.raw) {
+		if string(jsonOf(want)) != string(jsonOf(got)) || ((c.name == "declared packages" || c.name == "a node's health report") && string(again) != c.raw) {
 			t.Errorf("%s reads back as %s", c.name, again)
 		}
 	}
+	if a, b := (NodeHealth{Node: "anchor", At: time.Now()}), (NodeHealth{Node: "anchor"}); !SameNodeHealth(a, b) ||
+		SameNodeHealth(a, NodeHealth{Node: "anchor", Peers: []PeerSeen{{Key: "A="}}}) {
+		t.Error("two reports differing only in when they were written are not the same, or differing ones are")
+	}
+	if _, err := EncodeNodeHealth(NodeHealth{}); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a report naming no node was encoded")
+	}
 	if k, err := HeldValueKey("novox/mesh-catalog#42", "novox", "mail", "quota"); k != "novox.mesh-catalog.42.novox.mail.quota" || err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("a held value's key is %q, %v", k, err)
 	}
diff --git a/go/delivery/nodehealth.go b/go/delivery/nodehealth.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f41486a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/delivery/nodehealth.go
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package delivery
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// **A node's own health report on the bus** (issue 774, the operator's alert table of 2026-10-29): one key per node,
+// `<node>`, of the node-engine's state `health` (NodeHealthBucket), written by that node's engine alone and only when
+// what it says changed. The watchman (seat mesh-watchdogs) reads it for six alerts the controller raised from the
+// passing health message: machine-network (Network), network-rewritten (the resolver file's part, Writer and Owner),
+// network-unreachable (Peers, read across every node's report), machine-units (Units), relogin-needed (Relogin) and
+// directory-used-as-found (Found). Moved here from mesh-host internal/link (65fbc1e6) unchanged; the engine builds a
+// report from its own health statement there (NodeHealthOf).
+
+// NodeHealthState and NodeHealthBucket are the node-engine's state health, as a reader names it and as the bus does.
+const (
+	NodeHealthState  = "health"
+	NodeHealthBucket = "mesh-host_" + NodeHealthState
+	NodeHealthRead   = "mesh-host." + NodeHealthState
+)
+
+// NodeHealthVersion is the version of NodeHealth's layout.
+const NodeHealthVersion = 1
+
+// NodeHealth is one node's health report, as its engine last found it.
+type NodeHealth struct {
+	V    int    `json:"v"`
+	Node string `json:"node"`
+	// Network is the machine's networking, its parts without their streaks; nil where the engine does not judge it yet.
+	Network *NetworkHealth `json:"network,omitempty"`
+	// Peers are the mesh tunnel's peers on the last look that read them, sorted by key.
+	Peers []PeerSeen `json:"peers,omitempty"`
+	// Units is the machine's service managers: each failed unit no module places.
+	Units *UnitsHealth `json:"units,omitempty"`
+	// Relogin are the accounts whose running session needs a new login for a group it was given.
+	Relogin []NodeAccount `json:"relogin,omitempty"`
+	// Found are the directories used as found.
+	Found []NodeDirectory `json:"found,omitempty"`
+	// At is when the engine wrote this, on a change: never a reason to write.
+	At time.Time `json:"at"`
+}
+
+// NetworkHealth is the machine's networking (ADR 0241): the worst of its parts, since when, and each part.
+type NetworkHealth struct {
+	State string        `json:"state"`
+	Since time.Time     `json:"since"`
+	Parts []NetworkPart `json:"parts"`
+}
+
+// NetworkPart is one part of a machine's networking, as its engine judged it on its second look.
+type NetworkPart struct {
+	// Part is resolv-conf, names, tunnel, bus or route.
+	Part  string `json:"part"`
+	State string `json:"state"`
+	// Reason is why it is not healthy, in words with no address, path or domain; Said the detail.
+	Reason string `json:"reason,omitempty"`
+	Said   string `json:"said,omitempty"`
+	// Writer is the program that rewrote the resolver file, when it can be named; Owner the module whose file it is.
+	Writer string `json:"writer,omitempty"`
+	Owner  string `json:"owner,omitempty"`
+	// Toward is what the failure points at: "hub", or each resolver's address that failed.
+	Toward []string  `json:"toward,omitempty"`
+	Since  time.Time `json:"since"`
+	Streak int       `json:"streak,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// UnitsHealth is the machine's service managers (issue 315).
+type UnitsHealth struct {
+	// State is running, degraded or unknown.
+	State string `json:"state"`
+	// Failed is every unit failed on two looks in a row that no module places.
+	Failed []FailedUnit `json:"failed"`
+	// Unread names a manager that could not be read, with why; Away an account's own manager not running.
+	Unread []string `json:"unread,omitempty"`
+	Away   []string `json:"away,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// FailedUnit is one failed unit no module places.
+type FailedUnit struct {
+	Unit string `json:"unit"`
+	// Scope is system, or user: an account's own manager.
+	Scope    string    `json:"scope"`
+	Load     string    `json:"load,omitempty"`
+	Result   string    `json:"result,omitempty"`
+	Resource string    `json:"resource,omitempty"`
+	Since    time.Time `json:"since"`
+}
+
+// PeerSeen is one peer of the mesh's tunnel: its public key, its allowed addresses, and whether this machine saw a
+// handshake with it within five minutes.
+type PeerSeen struct {
+	Key       string   `json:"key"`
+	Addresses []string `json:"addresses,omitempty"`
+	Seen      bool     `json:"seen"`
+}
+
+// NodeAccount is one account marked relogin needed, with the module whose resource it is and why.
+type NodeAccount struct {
+	Account  string    `json:"account"`
+	Module   string    `json:"module,omitempty"`
+	Resource string    `json:"resource,omitempty"`
+	Reason   string    `json:"reason"`
+	Since    time.Time `json:"since"`
+}
+
+// NodeDirectory is one directory used as found: the module declaring it, its resource and path, and why.
+type NodeDirectory struct {
+	Module   string    `json:"module"`
+	Resource string    `json:"resource"`
+	Path     string    `json:"path"`
+	Reason   string    `json:"reason"`
+	Since    time.Time `json:"since"`
+}
+
+// EncodeNodeHealth is h as JSON at its version.
+func EncodeNodeHealth(h NodeHealth) ([]byte, error) {
+	h.V = NodeHealthVersion
+	if h.Node == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("a node's health report names its node")
+	}
+	return json.Marshal(h)
+}
+
+// DecodeNodeHealth reads a report.
+func DecodeNodeHealth(raw []byte) (NodeHealth, error) {
+	var h NodeHealth
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &h); err != nil {
+		return NodeHealth{}, fmt.Errorf("a node's health report is not readable: %w", err)
+	}
+	if h.V != NodeHealthVersion {
+		return NodeHealth{}, fmt.Errorf("a node's health report of version %d, and this reads %d", h.V, NodeHealthVersion)
+	}
+	return h, nil
+}
+
+// SameNodeHealth says two reports say the same, whenever each was written.
+func SameNodeHealth(a, b NodeHealth) bool {
+	a.At, b.At = time.Time{}, time.Time{}
+	ra, errA := json.Marshal(a)
+	rb, errB := json.Marshal(b)
+	return errA == nil && errB == nil && bytes.Equal(ra, rb)
+}