diff --git a/go/catalogue/seat_from_definition.go b/go/catalogue/seat_from_definition.go
index 1acc52c6..38994426 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/seat_from_definition.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/seat_from_definition.go
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ func SeatFromDefinition(d seatdef.Definition) Seat {
 			Input: seatdef.ResolveRefs(v.Input, d.Defs), Output: seatdef.ResolveRefs(v.Answer, d.Defs),
 			Optional: v.Optional, Replaces: v.Replaces})
 	}
+	for _, st := range d.States {
+		s.States = append(s.States, st.Name)
+	}
 	for _, r := range d.Receives {
 		rv := Receivable{Kind: r.Kind, Comment: r.Comment, Dirs: r.Dirs, Offered: r.Offered}
 		if r.Shape != nil {
diff --git a/go/catalogue/seats.go b/go/catalogue/seats.go
index aa225667..ca1fe51e 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/seats.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/seats.go
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ type Seat struct {
 	// Serves carries each verb in full — name, description, schema — because a role's tools are the
 	// mesh's to define and an agent's to call (novox/hq ADR 0132, design 33 §2).
 	Serves []Verb
+	// States are the names of the state the seat's holder keeps, which a module reads by `seat:<seat>.<state>` (design 47 G
+	// A-116, A-128). Compiled from the definition's states.
+	States []string
 	// Receives is what other modules may contribute to the seat's holder, by kind (novox/hq ADR
 	// 0212): each kind is text in the tool's own grammar, placed by the holder with
 	// ${contribution:<seat>:<kind>}. Compiled, never stored: like the protocol, it is the mesh's
diff --git a/go/catalogue/state.go b/go/catalogue/state.go
index daf041a9..3608fad9 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/state.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/state.go
@@ -78,6 +78,25 @@ func (s StateDeclaration) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 	return json.Marshal(plain(s))
 }
 
+// SeatReadPrefix opens a read of the state a seat's holder keeps: `seat:<seat>.<state>` (design 47 G A-116, A-128).
+const SeatReadPrefix = "seat:"
+
+// SeatRead splits a read of a seat holder's state, `seat:<seat>.<state>`, into the seat and the local name; ok is false for a
+// read that is not of this kind (a module's `<module>.<state>`, which ReadState splits), and err says why a `seat:` read is
+// malformed. The holder is not in it: it is resolved where the read is made (seatholder), so a new holder is read with no
+// change of the manifest.
+func SeatRead(read string) (seat, local string, ok bool, err error) {
+	rest, isSeat := strings.CutPrefix(read, SeatReadPrefix)
+	if !isSeat {
+		return "", "", false, nil
+	}
+	at := strings.LastIndex(rest, ".")
+	if at <= 0 || at == len(rest)-1 || !stateName.MatchString(rest[:at]) || !stateName.MatchString(rest[at+1:]) {
+		return "", "", true, fmt.Errorf("%q does not name a seat and its state: a read of a seat holder's state is seat:<seat>.<name>", read)
+	}
+	return rest[:at], rest[at+1:], true, nil
+}
+
 // ReadState splits a read into the owning module and the local name, or says why it is not one.
 func ReadState(read string) (module, local string, err error) {
 	at := strings.LastIndex(read, ".")
diff --git a/go/catalogue/state_test.go b/go/catalogue/state_test.go
index a5549cc1..f6dc005c 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/state_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/state_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
 )
 
 // A module declares the state it keeps and the state it reads (novox/hq ADR 0201), a bucket by its
@@ -67,3 +69,27 @@ func TestAStateMayHaveKeysThatExpireOneByOne(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("read-only given twice: %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// A read of a seat holder's state is its own kind, `seat:<seat>.<state>` (design 47 G A-128), and a seat's compiled form
+// carries the names of the states its definition declares.
+func TestSeatRead(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		read, seat, local string
+		ok, bad           bool
+	}{
+		{"seat:mesh-provisioner.plans", "mesh-provisioner", "plans", true, false},
+		{"mesh-provisioner.plans", "", "", false, false},
+		{"seat:mesh-provisioner", "", "", true, true},
+		{"seat:.plans", "", "", true, true},
+		{"seat:Mesh.plans", "", "", true, true},
+	} {
+		seat, local, ok, err := SeatRead(row.read)
+		if seat != row.seat || local != row.local || ok != row.ok || (err != nil) != row.bad {
+			t.Errorf("SeatRead(%q) = %q, %q, %v, %v", row.read, seat, local, ok, err)
+		}
+	}
+	s := SeatFromDefinition(seatdef.Definition{Seat: "mesh-provisioner", Scope: "mesh", States: []seatdef.State{{Name: "plans"}, {Name: "provisions"}}})
+	if len(s.States) != 2 || s.States[0] != "plans" || s.States[1] != "provisions" {
+		t.Errorf("the seat's states = %v", s.States)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/go/operatorask/operatorask.go b/go/operatorask/operatorask.go
index 82121a28..2c51d004 100644
--- a/go/operatorask/operatorask.go
+++ b/go/operatorask/operatorask.go
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Package operatorask is a module's asking of a person through the seat that routes asks to the operator (design 47 G
-// A-101, §700, A-74): the seat's holder is found on the seat list, an ask is published under the module's own name, the
+// A-101, §700, A-74): the seat's holder is read by seatlist.HolderOf, an ask is published under the module's own name, the
 // router's record of it is read for the warrant, and the router's `decided` is heard. It is shared code, so no module
 // keeps its own copy; it names no seat, verb or module: the generated contracts' names and types are its parameters.
 package operatorask
@@ -10,45 +10,28 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatlist"
 )
 
 // Caller calls a seat verb or module tool as `seat:<seat>.<verb>` or `<module>.<tool>` and returns its answer
 // (stdio.Ask is one; so is a process's calls).
-type Caller func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)
+type Caller = seatlist.HolderCaller
 
-// Contract is what the asker takes from the generated contracts: the verb that answers the seat list with its seats
-// (`Lists` is its call key, `ListBody` its input) and the asking seat and its state of the router's records.
+// Contract is what the asker takes from the generated contracts: the asking seat and its state of the router's records.
 type Contract struct {
-	Lists    string
-	ListBody any
-	Seat     string
+	Seat string
 	// StateAsks is the seat's state holding the router's record of each ask.
 	StateAsks string
 }
 
-// Bucket is the bucket of the router's records: the seat's state in the bucket of the seat's holder on the seat list.
+// Bucket is the bucket of the router's records: the seat's state in the bucket of the seat's holder, as seatlist reads it
+// (design 47 G A-126).
 func Bucket(call Caller, c Contract) (string, error) {
-	raw, err := call(c.Lists, c.ListBody)
+	module, err := seatlist.HolderOf(call, c.Seat)
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("who holds the seat %s is not asked of %s: %w", c.Seat, c.Lists, err)
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the router's record of an ask is not read: %w", err)
 	}
-	var held struct {
-		Seats []struct {
-			Seat    string `json:"seat"`
-			Holders []struct {
-				Module string `json:"module"`
-			} `json:"holders"`
-		} `json:"seats"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &held); err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("the answer of %s is not the seat list's: %w", c.Lists, err)
-	}
-	for _, s := range held.Seats {
-		if s.Seat == c.Seat && len(s.Holders) > 0 {
-			return s.Holders[0].Module + "_" + c.StateAsks, nil
-		}
-	}
-	return "", fmt.Errorf("no module holds the seat %s on the seat list, so the router's record of an ask is not read", c.Seat)
+	return module + "_" + c.StateAsks, nil
 }
 
 // Asker asks as one module. W is the generated contract's warrant type.
diff --git a/go/operatorask/operatorask_test.go b/go/operatorask/operatorask_test.go
index c0fe2a3d..746df64f 100644
--- a/go/operatorask/operatorask_test.go
+++ b/go/operatorask/operatorask_test.go
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func TestTheAskerFindsTheHolderPublishesReadsTheWarrantAndHearsDecided(t *testin
 	var published any
 	var heard func(stdio.Envelope) error
 	a := &Asker[warrant]{
-		Module: "me", Contract: Contract{Lists: "seat:lister.list", ListBody: map[string]bool{"seats": true}, Seat: "router-seat", StateAsks: "asks"},
+		Module: "me", Contract: Contract{Seat: "router-seat", StateAsks: "asks"},
 		Call: call,
 		Record: func(b, i string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
 			bucket, id = b, i
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func TestTheAskerFindsTheHolderPublishesReadsTheWarrantAndHearsDecided(t *testin
 		t.Errorf("Ask published %v on %q: %v", published, subject, err)
 	}
 	state, w, err := a.Where("a1")
-	if err != nil || state != "chosen" || w == nil || w.Choice != "go" || bucket != "holder_asks" || id != "a1" || len(asked) != 1 || asked[0] != "seat:lister.list" {
+	if err != nil || state != "chosen" || w == nil || w.Choice != "go" || bucket != "holder_asks" || id != "a1" || len(asked) != 1 || asked[0] != "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments" {
 		t.Errorf("Where = %q %+v %v, read %q %q after %v", state, w, err, bucket, id, asked)
 	}
 	var got []warrant
diff --git a/go/seatlist/holder.go b/go/seatlist/holder.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..27a12e2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/seatlist/holder.go
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+// Who holds a seat now (design 47 G A-126, beside the seat list): the module on record as the holder of a seat, asked of
+// the seat that places modules (`mesh-module-assigner`) through its verb `assignments` with `seats` true, which answers the
+// seat's holders. It is the one such reading: a module that reads a seat holder's state (a `reads` of `seat:<seat>.<state>`,
+// A-116) and the asker of the operator (operatorask) call it, and no part keeps its own copy. It names the one seat and
+// verb it asks, as this package names the seat that serves the seat list, and no module.
+
+package seatlist
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+)
+
+const (
+	// HolderSeat is the seat whose verb answers who holds each seat.
+	HolderSeat = "mesh-module-assigner"
+	// HolderVerb is its verb, asked with `seats` true.
+	HolderVerb = "assignments"
+)
+
+// HolderCaller calls a seat verb or module tool as `seat:<seat>.<verb>` or `<module>.<tool>` and returns its answer (stdio.Ask is
+// one; so is a process's calls).
+type HolderCaller func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)
+
+// HolderKey is the address asked, as stdio.Ask takes it; a host's manifest `invokes` lists it.
+func HolderKey() string { return "seat:" + HolderSeat + "." + HolderVerb }
+
+// HolderOf is the module holding the seat now: the first holder the seat's answer lists. It is an error while the answer cannot be
+// read or no module holds the seat.
+func HolderOf(call HolderCaller, seat string) (string, error) {
+	raw, err := call(HolderKey(), map[string]string{"seats": "true"})
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("who holds the seat %s is not asked of %s: %w", seat, HolderKey(), err)
+	}
+	var held struct {
+		Seats []struct {
+			Seat    string `json:"seat"`
+			Holders []struct {
+				Module string `json:"module"`
+			} `json:"holders"`
+		} `json:"seats"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &held); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the answer of %s is not the seat holders': %w", HolderKey(), err)
+	}
+	for _, s := range held.Seats {
+		if s.Seat == seat && len(s.Holders) > 0 {
+			return s.Holders[0].Module, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("no module holds the seat %s on record", seat)
+}
diff --git a/go/seatlist/holder_test.go b/go/seatlist/holder_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8a808db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/seatlist/holder_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package seatlist
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestHolderOf(t *testing.T) {
+	answer := `{"seats":[{"seat":"other","holders":[{"module":"x"}]},{"seat":"mesh-provisioner","holders":[{"module":"prov"},{"module":"second"}]}]}`
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		name, seat, want, err string
+		call                  HolderCaller
+	}{
+		{"the first holder on record", "mesh-provisioner", "prov", "", func(k string, b any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+			if k != "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments" || b.(map[string]string)["seats"] != "true" {
+				t.Errorf("asked %q with %v", k, b)
+			}
+			return json.RawMessage(answer), nil
+		}},
+		{"no holder", "absent", "", "no module holds the seat absent", func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(answer), nil }},
+		{"the ask fails", "x", "", "who holds the seat x is not asked", func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return nil, errors.New("down") }},
+		{"not the holders' answer", "x", "", "is not the seat holders'", func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(`nope`), nil }},
+	} {
+		t.Run(row.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, err := HolderOf(row.call, row.seat)
+			if row.err == "" && (err != nil || got != row.want) || row.err != "" && (err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), row.err)) {
+				t.Errorf("HolderOf = %q, %v; want %q, %q", got, err, row.want, row.err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/go/testdata/seat-names.txt b/go/testdata/seat-names.txt
index 7892fbce..cb5940f1 100644
--- a/go/testdata/seat-names.txt
+++ b/go/testdata/seat-names.txt
@@ -25,4 +25,5 @@ catalogue/seat_dependencies.go: node-service-manager
 catalogue/shares.go: node-mounts
 catalogue/shares.go: node-nfs-server
 internal/beside/beside.go: mesh-catalog
+seatlist/holder.go: mesh-module-assigner
 seatlist/seatlist.go: mesh-catalog
diff --git a/go/views/findings.go b/go/views/findings.go
index 2d1699c4..d80c2cf8 100644
--- a/go/views/findings.go
+++ b/go/views/findings.go
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ const (
 	// ViewWaitsKind is a part's finding of a view it has waited for past WaitsBound (design 47 *A part with no view says it
 	// waits*).
 	ViewWaitsKind = "view-waits"
+	// EntryNotFoundKind is a part's finding of an entry by fingerprint the seat mesh-catalog's `entry` answered it does not hold
+	// (design 47 G §614, A-15, A-103): scope the part, id the fingerprint.
+	EntryNotFoundKind = "entry-not-found"
 )
 
 // viewFinding is what a views part says is wrong with a state it owns or follows, in plain fields: kind and id name it, summary
@@ -99,3 +102,18 @@ func viewWaitsFinding(part string, s Status, at time.Time) viewFinding {
 		part, s.Owner, s.State, s.WaitsFor, s.WaitingSince.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339), cmp.Or(s.View, "none"))
 	return viewFinding{kind: ViewWaitsKind, id: part + "." + s.Owner + "." + s.State, summary: summary, headline: fmt.Sprintf("%s waits for a view of %s", part, s.Owner), at: at.UTC()}
 }
+
+// WriteEntryNotFound writes the part's finding that the catalog holds no entry for fingerprint, asked since `since`
+// (design 47 G A-103); ClearEntryNotFound clears it, when nothing the part holds names the fingerprint or a later ask answers.
+func WriteEntryNotFound(w WireWriter, fingerprint string, since, at time.Time) error {
+	module, _ := w.ModuleNode()
+	return viewFinding{kind: EntryNotFoundKind, id: fingerprint,
+		summary: fmt.Sprintf("%s holds a build of fingerprint %s that the catalog holds no entry for (asked since %s): what it needs of the entry stands still",
+			module, fingerprint, since.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339)),
+		headline: fmt.Sprintf("%s cannot find the catalog entry of a build", module), at: at.UTC()}.put(w)
+}
+
+// ClearEntryNotFound clears the finding WriteEntryNotFound wrote for fingerprint.
+func ClearEntryNotFound(w WireWriter, fingerprint string) error {
+	return viewFinding{kind: EntryNotFoundKind, id: fingerprint}.drop(w)
+}
diff --git a/go/views/reader.go b/go/views/reader.go
index 1cdf6065..9dcd3380 100644
--- a/go/views/reader.go
+++ b/go/views/reader.go
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ type Reader struct {
 	// says it in the log only.
 	Findings WireWriter
 	Logf     func(string, ...any)
+
+	rows map[string]func() any // the lists Rows added to the first views (guarded by mu)
 	// Changed is told of each key a followed state changes, after the picture holds it (state is `<owner>.<state>`).
 	Changed func(state, key string, value json.RawMessage, deleted bool)
 	// Acts records a re-read by hand before it is asked (nil records nothing
@@ -574,13 +576,36 @@ func (r *Reader) Statuses() []Status {
 	return out
 }
 
+// Rows adds a list the part's `<prefix>_first_views` says beside the views' statuses, under name (design 47 G A-103: the
+// entries by fingerprint the catalog half's follower keeps). rows is called at each reading.
+func (r *Reader) Rows(name string, rows func() any) {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.rows == nil {
+		r.rows = map[string]func() any{}
+	}
+	r.rows[name] = rows
+}
+
+// firstViews is what `<prefix>_first_views` answers: the views' statuses and each list added by Rows.
+func (r *Reader) firstViews() map[string]any {
+	out := map[string]any{"views": r.Statuses()}
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	rows := maps.Clone(r.rows)
+	r.mu.Unlock()
+	for name, f := range rows {
+		out[name] = f()
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // Tools are the reader's two tools (design 25 § 12.2): `<prefix>_first_views` says where each first view stands and
 // `<prefix>_first_view_again` asks one again by hand (a hand act, counted in the status).
 func (r *Reader) Tools(prefix string) []stdio.Tool {
 	return []stdio.Tool{
 		{Name: prefix + "_first_views",
 			Description: "Where each first view this module keeps stands (novox/hq ADR 0615): the owner and its tool, the revision the picture holds, when it was asked and answered, how many asks (by hand among them) and whether its condition is raised. (r)",
-			Run:         func(map[string]any) (any, error) { return map[string]any{"views": r.Statuses()}, nil }},
+			Run:         func(map[string]any) (any, error) { return r.firstViews(), nil }},
 		{Name: prefix + "_first_view_again",
 			Description: "Ask a first view again by hand, for the state named (<owner>.<state>), or every one with none: a hand act, for a picture the operator doubts. Answers where it stands after. (a)",
 			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{
diff --git a/go/views/views_test.go b/go/views/views_test.go
index 55a83494..07bdd0ac 100644
--- a/go/views/views_test.go
+++ b/go/views/views_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"reflect"
 	"runtime"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
@@ -558,6 +559,19 @@ func subViews(t *testing.T) {
 		if err != nil || len(again.(map[string]any)["views"].([]Status)) != 1 || f.Status().ByHand != 1 || acted != 1 {
 			t.Errorf("asked again by hand: %v, %v", again, err)
 		}
+		// a list added by Rows is said beside the statuses (design 47 G A-103), and the entry-not-found finding is written and cleared
+		r.Rows("entries", func() any { return []string{"fp1"} })
+		seen, _ := r.Tools("reader")[0].Run(nil)
+		if got := seen.(map[string]any)["entries"]; !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{"fp1"}) {
+			t.Errorf("first views entries = %v", got)
+		}
+		nf := &findingsMap{}
+		if err := WriteEntryNotFound(nf, "fp1", now(), now()); err != nil || nf.m[EntryNotFoundKind+"/fp1"].Summary == "" {
+			t.Errorf("entry-not-found not written: %+v, %v", nf.m, err)
+		}
+		if err := ClearEntryNotFound(nf, "fp1"); err != nil || len(nf.m) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("entry-not-found not cleared: %+v, %v", nf.m, err)
+		}
 	})
 	t.Run("a process's reader follows the read tool its caller names, reads the state as a read-only bucket, each key's written time handed on, and opens no other", func(t *testing.T) {
 		r := &ProcessReader{Module: "reader", Bound: time.Nanosecond, Wait: time.Millisecond, Now: now,
diff --git a/go/views/writer.go b/go/views/writer.go
index 965556ac..befc8d92 100644
--- a/go/views/writer.go
+++ b/go/views/writer.go
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ func requireFields[T any](what string, fields ...string) error {
 }
 
 // ViewKinds are the finding kinds a views reader writes through the part's writer (design 47 G §639).
-var ViewKinds = []string{ViewWaitsKind, UnansweredKind, UnsaidKind, TooLargeKind}
+var ViewKinds = []string{ViewWaitsKind, UnansweredKind, UnsaidKind, TooLargeKind, EntryNotFoundKind}
 
 var (
 	sessionForm = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$`)