diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
index ed39e75..ac69427 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
@@ -52,9 +52,26 @@ var artifactReferenceForms = []string{ReferenceFormSeat}
 // capability `form:seat-reach` (novox/hq ADR 0632 §1): from the seat holder placement names and the listen its manifest
 // opens to the mesh, the store's three seats among them, never from a module serving the retired provision
 // artifact-store. An engine before it filled the store's reach only from that provision, so a manifest naming a seat's
-// reach needs it and is held from a node whose engine does not state it (ManifestNeeds).
+// reach, and the store holder's own manifest, need it and are held from a node whose engine does not state it
+// (ManifestNeeds).
 const ReferenceFormSeatReach = "seat-reach"
 
+// claimsAtMesh says whether a manifest claims seat at the mesh's scope (a claim with no scope is the seat's own). The
+// store holder's own manifest, a claim of ContainerImageRegistrySeat, needs form:seat-reach this way (ADR 0632 §2): read
+// on every node, it leaves an engine before the reading without the old way to find the store, so it is held from every
+// node whose engine does not state it.
+func claimsAtMesh(top map[string]any, seat string) bool {
+	for _, c := range asList(top["claims"]) {
+		obj, _ := c.(map[string]any)
+		name, _ := obj["name"].(string)
+		scope, _ := obj["scope"].(string)
+		if hs, ok := SeatNamed(name); ok && hs.Name == seat && (scope == "" || scope == ScopeMesh) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // ofSeatReach is a manifest's value naming a seat's reach, `${seat:<seat>:reach}`.
 var ofSeatReach = regexp.MustCompile(`\$\{seat:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*:reach\}`)
 
@@ -151,7 +168,7 @@ func ManifestNeeds(raw []byte) ([]string, error) {
 			used[ReadForm+f] = true
 		}
 	}
-	if ofSeatReach.Match(raw) {
+	if ofSeatReach.Match(raw) || claimsAtMesh(top, ContainerImageRegistrySeat) {
 		used[ReadForm+ReferenceFormSeatReach] = true
 	}
 	if _, has := top[ConfigField]; has || takesConfigKey.Match(raw) {
diff --git a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
index ebfd61b..ce279b0 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ func TestOwnManifestUsesNoWordTheRunningControllerRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 		// A seat's reach, filled from the seat holder's listen (ADR 0632 §1): an engine before it lacks the reading.
 		{"a seat's reach", `{"module":"s","version":"1","resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","content":"${seat:container-image-registry:reach}"}]}`,
 			[]string{"form:seat", "form:seat-reach"}, []string{"form:seat-reach"}},
+		// The store holder's manifest, distribution's as ADR 0632 leaves it: no reach written, no provision served; an engine
+		// stating only the baseline lacks the reading that finds the store by it (ADR 0632 §2).
+		{"the store's holder", `{"module":"distribution","version":"1","claims":[{"name":"container-image-registry",` +
+			`"scope":"mesh","serves":["list"]}],"listens":[{"name":"registry","port":5000,"from":"mesh"}]}`,
+			[]string{"form:seat-reach", "seat:container-image-registry"}, []string{"form:seat-reach", "seat:container-image-registry"}},
 		{"a word this contract does not know", `{"module":"u","version":"1","newer-word":{"inside":1}}`, []string{"word:module"}, nil},
 	} {
 		needs, err := ManifestNeeds([]byte(row.raw))