diff --git a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index d1a3d8c..f3705d2 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package buscompose
 
 import (
+	"slices"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -44,7 +45,8 @@ func mayBeyondTheControllers(user string) map[string]bool {
 	if _, ok := strings.CutPrefix(user, "node."); !ok {
 		return nil
 	}
-	return map[string]bool{VaultOwnCall(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: strings.TrimPrefix(user, "node.")}): true}
+	return map[string]bool{VaultOwnCall(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: strings.TrimPrefix(user, "node.")}): true,
+		VaultSecretChanged: true}
 }
 
 // quotedToken is a quoted token of a composed list.
@@ -218,6 +220,9 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 		if plain, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "one"}); MayPublish(plain, VaultOwnCall(one)) {
 			t.Error("a node asks own while the vault does not serve it")
 		}
+		if !slices.Contains(perms.Subscribe, VaultSecretChanged) {
+			t.Errorf("node one does not hear the vault's secret-changed: %v", perms.Subscribe)
+		}
 	})
 	t.Run("the controller's golden server configuration", func(t *testing.T) {
 		seat := Seat{Name: "telegram-sender", Accepts: []string{"send"}, Emits: []string{"delivered", "failed"}}
diff --git a/go/buscompose/nats.go b/go/buscompose/nats.go
index 067fbd4..54a04da 100644
--- a/go/buscompose/nats.go
+++ b/go/buscompose/nats.go
@@ -935,6 +935,9 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 		// compositions it makes itself.
 		if p.AsksItsOwnSecrets {
 			pub = append(pub, VaultOwnCall(p))
+			// And the vault's word that a secret changed (names and generations, never a value), so the node composes again
+			// on it rather than at the next unrelated change (ADR 0547 §2).
+			sub = append(sub, VaultSecretChanged)
 		}
 		// And, on the node holding mesh-broker, the grants part's sealed user list it follows from take-over (novox/hq ADR
 		// 0547 clause 7): one key, and an object by its name.
@@ -1810,3 +1813,7 @@ const (
 func VaultOwnCall(p Principal) string {
 	return "mesh.seat." + VaultOwn.Seat + "." + CallKind + "." + VaultOwn.Verb + "." + CallerToken(p.Username())
 }
+
+// VaultSecretChanged is the vault's event that a secret changed (a name and its generation, never a value), which a
+// node composing its own hears to compose again (issue 1126, ADR 0547 §2).
+const VaultSecretChanged = "mesh.mod." + VaultOwn.Seat + ".event.secret-changed"