diff --git a/go/catalogue/seats.go b/go/catalogue/seats.go
index 805d0be..312c3b0 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/seats.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/seats.go
@@ -209,6 +209,16 @@ var defaultSeats = append([]Seat{
 				"first or changed key is recorded and the machine's core secrets are said changed; the same key " +
 				"again changes nothing.",
 				Input: schema(map[string]string{"key": "the machine's sealing key, a raw X25519 public key in base64"}, nil)},
+			// A machine's node-engine composes its own modules and asks their secrets sealed to its key (novox/hq ADR 0547
+			// §2, ADR 0550 §5, issue 1126); granted as buscompose's Principal.AsksItsOwnSecrets says.
+			{Name: "own", Optional: true, Description: "Answer the node-engine of one machine, about its own machine " +
+				"alone (as the bus proved the caller, never an argument), its modules' own secrets and the pair " +
+				"credentials it consumes or provides that it names, each sealed to the key it stated with node-key. A " +
+				"credential the vault does not hold is named missing; never a value in the clear.",
+				Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"credentials": map[string]any{
+					"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "object"},
+					"description": "the pair credentials the machine's composition reads, each {role: consumer|provider, " +
+						"provision, consumer, consumer_module, provider, local}"}}}},
 			{Name: "move-asks", Optional: true, Description: "Copy rows of the controller's record of asks at a desk " +
 				"into the vault's, as they are and once, from the controller alone. No value is in any of them.",
 				Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"asks": map[string]any{
diff --git a/go/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go b/go/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go
index ed7c3c1..77630ee 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/vault_seat_test.go
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ func TestTheVaultsSeatPromisesTheMove(t *testing.T) {
 		"move-in": {"node", "module", "name", "provider", "provision", "consumer", "consumer_module", "local", "origin",
 			"generation", "made_at", "call", "sealed", "read_back_to"},
 		"move-asks": {"asks"},
+		// And own (issue 1126): a machine's node-engine asks its own machine's secrets, sealed to its stated key.
+		"own": {"credentials"},
 	}
 	for name, args := range want {
 		var verb *Verb
@@ -148,7 +150,7 @@ func TestTheVaultsSeatPromisesTheMove(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	serving := Manifest{Module: "mesh-vault", Provides: []Offer{{Name: "secret", Scope: ScopeMesh}},
 		Claims: []Claim{{Name: "mesh-vault", Scope: ScopeMesh,
-			Serves: []string{"get", "accept", "secret-ask", "issued", "rotate", "move-in", "move-asks"}}}}
+			Serves: []string{"get", "accept", "secret-ask", "issued", "rotate", "move-in", "node-key", "move-asks", "own"}}}}
 	if err := CanHold(serving, seat); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the vault serving the move was refused: %v", err)
 	}