diff --git a/go/compose/composed.go b/go/compose/composed.go
index 9fe66a3..651357d 100644
--- a/go/compose/composed.go
+++ b/go/compose/composed.go
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ package compose
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
+	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/declaration"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
@@ -16,6 +18,26 @@ import (
 // (mesh-hand-compose) gets that one. Each module's Data says whether its manifest declares data. The compositions are not
 // signed and not yet by digest: the writer does both (delivery.SignComposed, Composed.ByDigest).
 func Compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode) (out map[string]delivery.Composed, skipped []string, err error) {
+	return compositions(in, node, fps, mode, false)
+}
+
+// ErrStoodIn is a composition that holds a stand-in for a value the input does not carry (an own secret, a grant's
+// sealed copy, a vault box, the certificate, the bus's user list) or a port it does not give: what a send would make,
+// never what may be applied.
+var ErrStoodIn = errors.New("compose: the composition stands in for what its input does not carry")
+
+// BusUsersStandIn is what a composition says it stood in for when its input carries no bus user list.
+const BusUsersStandIn = "the bus's user list"
+
+// CompositionsApplied is Compositions for a node that applies what it composed itself (novox/hq ADR 0547 §2, issue
+// 1126): a declaration that stands in for anything (Declared.StoodIn, Foreseen, ForeseenPorts) is refused with
+// ErrStoodIn, naming each, so a stand-in is never applied as if it were the value; but for the bus's user list
+// (BusUsersStandIn), which the bus node holds out of every apply of a composition it made itself.
+func CompositionsApplied(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string) (map[string]delivery.Composed, []string, error) {
+	return compositions(in, node, fps, Reading, true)
+}
+
+func compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode, applied bool) (out map[string]delivery.Composed, skipped []string, err error) {
 	reading := in
 	reading.Nodes = append([]Node(nil), in.Nodes...)
 	found := false
@@ -35,6 +57,24 @@ func Compositions(in Input, node string, fps map[string]string, mode Mode) (out
 	if len(problems) > 0 {
 		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("compose: %s's declaration is refused by the node-engine's validator: %v", node, problems)
 	}
+	if applied {
+		var stood []string
+		for _, x := range d.StoodIn {
+			// The bus's user list is the bus node's own to follow, written alone and never from a composition the node
+			// made itself (ADR 0547 §7, §8): its stand-in is held out of the apply, not applied.
+			if x != BusUsersStandIn {
+				stood = append(stood, x)
+			}
+		}
+		stood = append(stood, d.Foreseen...)
+		for _, p := range d.ForeseenPorts {
+			stood = append(stood, "port "+p)
+		}
+		if len(stood) > 0 {
+			sort.Strings(stood)
+			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("%w on %s: %s", ErrStoodIn, node, strings.Join(stood, ", "))
+		}
+	}
 	body, err := d.Body()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, err
diff --git a/go/compose/credentials_test.go b/go/compose/credentials_test.go
index ba4db0c..924df06 100644
--- a/go/compose/credentials_test.go
+++ b/go/compose/credentials_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package compose
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -78,6 +79,16 @@ func TestAnOwnSecretHeldIsCarriedAndOneNotHeldIsForeseenOrLeftOut(t *testing.T)
 		t.Errorf("a held secret with no value is not named: %v", got.Rendering.Foreseen)
 	}
 	unchanged(t, mk, func(in Input) { rendered(t, in, "laptop", Foreseeing) })
+
+	// 1126 (ADR 0547 §2): a node applying what it composed itself never applies a stand-in: a held secret with no value in the
+	// Input is refused, naming it; held with its value, it composes.
+	fps := map[string]string{"assistant": "src2:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64), overlay.Name: "src2:" + strings.Repeat("b", 64)}
+	if _, _, err := CompositionsApplied(in, "laptop", fps); !errors.Is(err, ErrStoodIn) || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "assistant/password") {
+		t.Errorf("a stand-in was not refused for a node's own apply: %v", err)
+	}
+	if out, _, err := CompositionsApplied(mk(), "laptop", fps); err != nil || len(out) == 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a held secret with its value is refused for a node's own apply: %v", err)
+	}
 }
 
 // An own secret issued outside the mesh that nobody gave is never made (novox/hq issue 401, ADR 0228): nothing is composed or
diff --git a/go/compose/frombus/frombus.go b/go/compose/frombus/frombus.go
index 033bbcb..0c7386a 100644
--- a/go/compose/frombus/frombus.go
+++ b/go/compose/frombus/frombus.go
@@ -201,14 +201,15 @@ func Input(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope) (compose.Input, er
 	return in, nil
 }
 
-// Compose is the node's compositions over the bus (ADR 0547 §2): Input for s, then compose.Compositions in the Reading
-// mode at the fingerprints fps gives each module, as the controller composes them.
+// Compose is the node's compositions over the bus (ADR 0547 §2): Input for s, then compose.CompositionsApplied at the
+// fingerprints fps gives each module: composed in the Reading mode as the controller composes them, and refused when it
+// stands in for anything the input does not carry (compose.ErrStoodIn), since the node applies what it composed.
 func Compose(ctx context.Context, r Reader, mesh Mesh, s Scope, fps map[string]string) (map[string]delivery.Composed, []string, error) {
 	in, err := Input(ctx, r, mesh, s)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
-	return compose.Compositions(in, s.Node, fps, compose.Reading)
+	return compose.CompositionsApplied(in, s.Node, fps)
 }
 
 // nodeOf is the composition's node from its record (what the machine observes) and its placement (what a person
diff --git a/go/compose/render.go b/go/compose/render.go
index a50a65e..e8dca30 100644
--- a/go/compose/render.go
+++ b/go/compose/render.go
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ func (c *composer) render(nodeName string, mode Mode) (Rendered, error) {
 		r.BusUsers = c.in.BusUsers
 		if r.BusUsers == "" {
 			r.BusUsers = ForeseenBusUsers
-			foreseen("the bus's user list")
+			foreseen(BusUsersStandIn)
 		}
 		if len(c.in.BusMissing) > 0 {
 			out.Said = append(out.Said, fmt.Sprintf("the bus's user list leaves out %d user(s) the mesh has minted no credential "+