diff --git a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 1d361ca..60297ec 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -14,10 +14,26 @@ 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).
+// 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.
 // 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 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
+}
+
 func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("testdata", "controller-user-lists.json"))
 	if err != nil {
@@ -56,9 +72,13 @@ 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 = createdAdvisory.ReplaceAllString(list, "")
+			list, records := beyondTheControllers(list)
 			if list != want[i].List {
-				t.Errorf("the list differs from the controller's:\n%s", 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")
 			}
 			// And every membership the records issue, as the controller's MembershipFor makes it (ADR 0547 §5): the
 			// grants part publishes them.
@@ -135,8 +155,12 @@ 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:\n%s", got)
+			t.Errorf("the configuration differs from the controller's golden beyond the intended rows:\n%s", got)
 		}
 	})
 }
diff --git a/go/buscompose/nats.go b/go/buscompose/nats.go
index 1ff25c8..cdf7337 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/nats.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/nats.go
@@ -882,6 +882,10 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 			return Permissions{}, err
 		}
 		pub = append(pub, haveKeys...)
+		// And every node's own facts, `<node>.node`, its record among them (issue 1126, ADR 0555 §3): a node agent composing
+		// 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 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)