diff --git a/go/catalogue/declaration.go b/go/catalogue/declaration.go
index c0d9564..8360b98 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/declaration.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/declaration.go
@@ -846,6 +846,11 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string,
 					// and nothing would say so.
 					continue
 				}
+				if g.Sealed == "" {
+					// Its offer presents no credential (form none, issue 1126): nothing to write, and an empty credential
+					// file would be read as one that failed. Who asked still reaches the provider in its contributions.
+					continue
+				}
 				first = append(first, ownedBy(r.provisionsAs(m), map[string]any{
 					// One file per holder — the consumer's module with its local name after it
 					// where it keeps several (ADR 0094); the lab found two files with one id.
diff --git a/go/catalogue/grant_secret_owner_test.go b/go/catalogue/grant_secret_owner_test.go
index 5fdf7fe..e66202f 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/grant_secret_owner_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/grant_secret_owner_test.go
@@ -66,6 +66,23 @@ func TestAGrantSecretIsOwnedByTheAccountThatProvisions(t *testing.T) {
 			"root-owned 0600 file is one it cannot read — which is silent, because the harness "+
 			"calls it \"not readable yet\"", fmtPath(secret), got, "operator")
 	}
+	// A grant whose offer presents no credential (form none, issue 1126) carries nothing sealed: no secret file is
+	// written for it, as none is for a need with no credential, and the provider still learns who asked.
+	out, err = r.Declaration(Rendering{Grants: []Grant{{
+		Provision: "mongodb-database", Consumer: "workstation", From: "photos", Slug: "photos", Values: map[string]any{}}}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	asked := false
+	for _, res := range out {
+		if res["type"] == "file" && strings.HasSuffix(fmtPath(res), ".secret") {
+			t.Errorf("a grant with no credential writes %v", res)
+		}
+		asked = asked || fmtPath(res) == "/var/lib/mongodb/grants/mesh.json"
+	}
+	if !asked {
+		t.Errorf("the provider no longer learns who asked: %v", out)
+	}
 }
 
 // And a provider whose code still runs in a container keeps the owner it declares, so this
diff --git a/go/catalogue/runtime_test.go b/go/catalogue/runtime_test.go
index ee4c3d8..e0620fc 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/runtime_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/runtime_test.go
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ func TestWhatAModuleOfItsOwnAccountReadsIsItsAccounts(t *testing.T) {
 	with := Rendering{ArtifactStore: "anchor.internal:5101",
 		Needed: map[string]map[string]string{RuntimeModule: {"broker": "sealed-credential"}, "vault": {"broker": "own"}},
 		Kept:   &KeptExport{Export: 1, OperatorKey: "k"},
-		Grants: []Grant{{Provision: "secret", Consumer: "anchor", From: "telegram",
+		Grants: []Grant{{Provision: "secret", Consumer: "anchor", From: "telegram", Sealed: "sealed-to-anchor",
 			Values: map[string]any{"name": "telegram"}}}}
 	goRuntime := Manifest{Module: RuntimeModule, Version: "1",
 		OwnSecrets: OwnSecrets{"broker": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/" + RuntimeModule + "/broker"}},
diff --git a/go/compose/credentials.go b/go/compose/credentials.go
index 3d7d1e9..480c988 100644
--- a/go/compose/credentials.go
+++ b/go/compose/credentials.go
@@ -105,7 +105,12 @@ func (c *composer) grantsFor(node string) ([]catalogue.Grant, []catalogue.Overfl
 			}
 		}
 		sealed := s.ForProvider
-		if sealed == "" {
+		switch {
+		case credentiallessRow(plan, s, node):
+			// Its offer presents no credential (form none): the grant carries the consumer and nothing sealed, and
+			// nothing stands in for it, so neither end waits for a value nobody makes (issue 1126).
+			sealed = ""
+		case sealed == "":
 			sealed = catalogue.ForeseenSealed
 			foreseen = append(foreseen, fmt.Sprintf("the grant of %s for %s on %s", s.Provision, s.ConsumerModule, s.Consumer))
 		}
@@ -116,6 +121,18 @@ func (c *composer) grantsFor(node string) ([]catalogue.Grant, []catalogue.Overfl
 	return out, withheld, unbound, foreseen, nil
 }
 
+// credentialless is whether a need's provider offers it with no credential (catalogue.CredentialFormNone): the vault
+// mints nothing for it, so nothing is asked of the vault, sealed into a grant or a file, or stood in for (issue 1126).
+func credentialless(n catalogue.Needed) bool { return n.CredentialForm == catalogue.CredentialFormNone }
+
+// credentiallessRow is whether the consumer's resolution answers row's need from provider with an offer of form none.
+func credentiallessRow(consumer catalogue.Resolution, row Issued, provider string) bool {
+	return slices.ContainsFunc(consumer.Needs, func(n catalogue.Needed) bool {
+		return n.Name == row.Provision && n.For == row.ConsumerModule && n.Local == row.Local && n.From == provider &&
+			credentialless(n)
+	})
+}
+
 // rowsFor is every pair credential this node's declaration must carry a grant for, in the order the controller reads them
 // (SecretsFrom: by provision, consumer, consumer module and local name): the ones the Input says were made, and the ones the same send
 // would make before it composes this node -- every need of a node that resolves (this one too), whose provider is this node, that is not
diff --git a/go/compose/credentials_needed.go b/go/compose/credentials_needed.go
index a3a9bc1..ec36c71 100644
--- a/go/compose/credentials_needed.go
+++ b/go/compose/credentials_needed.go
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ type CredentialKey struct {
 // as a consumer, each need of its resolution a provider's credential answers (a need answered by a record is a licence's,
 // not a pair's); as a provider, each credential it must carry a grant for (rowsFor). A node that composes its own asks the
 // vault for exactly these, sealed to its key, and composes with them; one it does not get is stood in for, which the
-// node's own apply refuses (CompositionsApplied).
+// node's own apply refuses (CompositionsApplied). A need whose provider offers it with no credential (form none) is
+// in neither list: the vault mints nothing for it (issue 1126).
 func CredentialsNeeded(in Input, node string) (asConsumer, asProvider []CredentialKey, err error) {
 	c := newComposer(in)
 	resolved, err := c.resolution(node)
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ func CredentialsNeeded(in Input, node string) (asConsumer, asProvider []Credenti
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
 	for _, n := range resolved.Needs {
-		if n.ByRecord || n.From == "" {
+		if n.ByRecord || n.From == "" || credentialless(n) {
 			continue
 		}
 		asConsumer = append(asConsumer, CredentialKey{Provision: n.Name, Consumer: node, ConsumerModule: n.For,
@@ -38,6 +39,10 @@ func CredentialsNeeded(in Input, node string) (asConsumer, asProvider []Credenti
 		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("compose: the credentials %s provides: %w", node, err)
 	}
 	for _, r := range rows {
+		// A grant whose offer presents no credential (form none) has none to ask for (issue 1126).
+		if consumer, err := c.planFor(r.Consumer); err == nil && credentiallessRow(consumer.Plan, r, node) {
+			continue
+		}
 		asProvider = append(asProvider, CredentialKey{Provision: r.Provision, Consumer: r.Consumer,
 			ConsumerModule: r.ConsumerModule, Provider: node, Local: r.Local})
 	}
diff --git a/go/compose/credentials_test.go b/go/compose/credentials_test.go
index f56900d..94cd354 100644
--- a/go/compose/credentials_test.go
+++ b/go/compose/credentials_test.go
@@ -384,30 +384,74 @@ func TestNoSecretValueOfTheInputIsInWhatTheCompositionSays(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Round 1, finding 2: a consumer the same send adds has no credential in the Input yet, and the provider's declaration of that send
-// carries its grant, composed with a stand-in and named foreseen.
-func TestAConsumerNoCredentialWasMadeForYetIsGrantedWithAStandInAndNamedForeseen(t *testing.T) {
-	in := aGrantMesh(t)
-	in.Issued = nil
-	got := rendered(t, in, "anchor", Foreseeing)
-	if len(got.Rendering.Grants) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("grants are %+v", got.Rendering.Grants)
-	}
-	g := got.Rendering.Grants[0]
-	if g.Provision != "s3-bucket" || g.Consumer != "laptop" || g.From != "files" || g.Sealed != catalogue.ForeseenSealed {
-		t.Errorf("the grant is %+v", g)
-	}
-	if !has(got.Foreseen, "the grant of s3-bucket for files on laptop") {
-		t.Errorf("foreseen %v", got.Foreseen)
-	}
-	// Only the provider's own: the consumer is granted nothing, and nothing in the Input changed.
-	if len(rendered(t, in, "laptop", Foreseeing).Rendering.Grants) != 0 {
-		t.Error("the consumer is granted its own credential")
-	}
-	if len(in.Issued) != 0 {
-		t.Error("a row was added to the Input")
+// A consumer no credential was made for yet is granted with a stand-in and named foreseen, for every form whose credential
+// the vault mints or takes in; an offer of form none has no credential (issue 1126, 2026-11-02: mesh-cli on ace held for
+// "the grant of mcp-endpoint", whose provider node-tools offers form none): its grant carries the consumer and no
+// credential, nothing stands in on either side, and neither end asks the vault for one.
+func TestAConsumerNoCredentialWasMadeForYetIsGrantedWithAStandInUnlessItsOfferHasNone(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		form string
+		cred *catalogue.OfferCredential
+	}{
+		{"undeclared", nil},
+		{catalogue.CredentialFormPair, &catalogue.OfferCredential{Form: catalogue.CredentialFormPair}},
+		{catalogue.CredentialFormShared, &catalogue.OfferCredential{Own: "access-key"}},
+		{catalogue.CredentialFormNone, &catalogue.OfferCredential{Form: catalogue.CredentialFormNone}},
+	} {
+		in := aGrantMesh(t)
+		in.Issued = nil
+		provider := in.Catalogue["objects"]
+		provider.Provides[0].Credential = tc.cred
+		if tc.cred != nil && tc.cred.Own != "" {
+			provider.OwnSecrets = catalogue.OwnSecrets{"access-key": {Path: "/var/lib/mesh/objects/access-key"}}
+		}
+		in.Catalogue["objects"] = provider
+		none := tc.form == catalogue.CredentialFormNone
+		got := rendered(t, in, "anchor", Foreseeing)
+		if len(got.Rendering.Grants) != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: grants are %+v", tc.form, got.Rendering.Grants)
+		}
+		g, wantSealed := got.Rendering.Grants[0], catalogue.ForeseenSealed
+		if none {
+			wantSealed = ""
+		}
+		if g.Provision != "s3-bucket" || g.Consumer != "laptop" || g.From != "files" || g.Sealed != wantSealed {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the grant is %+v", tc.form, g)
+		}
+		if has(got.Foreseen, "the grant of s3-bucket for files on laptop") == none {
+			t.Errorf("%s: foreseen %v", tc.form, got.Foreseen)
+		}
+		consumer, asProvider, err := CredentialsNeeded(in, "laptop")
+		_, anchorProvides, err2 := CredentialsNeeded(in, "anchor")
+		if err != nil || err2 != nil || len(asProvider) != 0 || (len(consumer) == 0) != none || (len(anchorProvides) == 0) != none {
+			t.Errorf("%s: laptop asks %v, anchor provides %v (%v %v)", tc.form, consumer, anchorProvides, err, err2)
+		}
+		resolved, err := Resolve(in, "laptop")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", tc.form, err)
+		}
+		if n := theFilesNeed(t, resolved); (n.Sealed == "") != none || (len(resolved.Foreseen) == 0) != none {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the consumer's credential is %q, foreseen %v", tc.form, n.Sealed, resolved.Foreseen)
+		}
+		if lap := rendered(t, in, "laptop", Foreseeing); none && len(lap.Foreseen) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the consumer stands in for %v", tc.form, lap.Foreseen)
+		}
+		// Only the provider's own: the consumer is granted nothing, and nothing in the Input changed.
+		if len(rendered(t, in, "laptop", Foreseeing).Rendering.Grants) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the consumer is granted its own credential", tc.form)
+		}
+		if len(in.Issued) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: a row was added to the Input", tc.form)
+		}
+		// A row made long ago for an offer of form none (the controller's) carries no credential either.
+		in.Issued = []Issued{{Provision: "s3-bucket", Consumer: "laptop", ConsumerModule: "files", Provider: "anchor", ForProvider: "sealed-to-anchor"}}
+		if g := rendered(t, in, "anchor", Foreseeing).Rendering.Grants; none && (len(g) != 1 || g[0].Sealed != "") {
+			t.Errorf("%s: an old row's grant is %+v", tc.form, g)
+		}
 	}
 	// A credential only a person gives and nobody has is no grant.
+	in := aGrantMesh(t)
+	in.Issued = nil
 	in.Credentials = []Credential{{Provision: "s3-bucket", Consumer: "laptop", ConsumerModule: "files", Provider: "anchor", State: CredentialNotGiven}}
 	if got := rendered(t, in, "anchor", Foreseeing); len(got.Rendering.Grants) != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("a credential nobody gave is granted: %+v", got.Rendering.Grants)
diff --git a/go/compose/resolve.go b/go/compose/resolve.go
index 4fd5de1..6931adc 100644
--- a/go/compose/resolve.go
+++ b/go/compose/resolve.go
@@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ func (c *composer) planForNow(nodeName string) (Resolved, error) {
 			}
 			continue
 		}
+		if credentialless(n) {
+			// Its provider's offer presents no credential (form none): nothing is sealed, made or stood in for (issue 1126).
+			continue
+		}
 		cred, held := c.credential(n, nodeName)
 		_, outside := issuedOutsideBy(shelf, n)
 		switch {