diff --git a/go/catalogue/kept_until_delivered.go b/go/catalogue/kept_until_delivered.go
index c5205e1..0f0e0fa 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/kept_until_delivered.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/kept_until_delivered.go
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ package catalogue
 
 // This file keeps, deprecated, the exported names feat/l3b-bus removed from this package while a running part still
 // uses them: an exported name is removed only after every user of it is delivered. The checker builds the running
-// node-engine's composer (mesh-host main) beside this mesh-sdk (ADR 0548 §6), and mesh-host main, mesh-delivery main
-// (the indexer's judge, the assigner's and mesh-grants' code and tests) and mesh-tools main (node-tools' tests) name
-// them. Nothing in L3's own heads uses any of them. The second group removes this file, and its exemption in
-// TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAmqp, once mesh-host a24a1d72 and L3's mesh-delivery and mesh-tools heads run.
+// node-engine's composer (mesh-host main) beside this mesh-sdk (ADR 0548 §6), and mesh-host main names them
+// (RuntimeModule, CoreCredentialModules, FromBus). Nothing in the final L3 release's heads uses any of them, but that
+// release still builds beside mesh-host 798d73e, so it keeps this file. The next release that changes mesh-sdk, once
+// the final L3 release's node-engine runs on every node, removes this file and its exemption in
+// TestNoCatalogueManifestNamesAmqp.
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0d5851
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads.go
@@ -0,0 +1,394 @@
+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	_ "embed"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"reflect"
+	"slices"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// A reader capability is one thing of a manifest a reader of manifests (a node-engine) can read (novox/hq ADR 0614 §4):
+// a manifest word, a form, or a seat name of the shared contract it is built with. Each is a string of one of three
+// kinds:
+//
+//   - `word:<path>`, a key the lenient decoder reads, by its path of keys from the top of the manifest: `word:claims`,
+//     `word:claims.serves`. The key of a map (a setting's name, a requirement's) is no part of a path, and an entry of
+//     a list is read as the list: `word:settings.default`, `word:provides.credential`.
+//   - `form:<name>`, a form a manifest may be written in: the config form (`form:config`, ADR 0348 §1) and each
+//     reference form a value may hold, `${<name>:…}` (`form:setting`, `form:dir`).
+//   - `seat:<name>`, a seat of the contract's seat table, as a manifest names one in a claim, a use, an invoke or a
+//     bucket's share.
+//
+// ManifestReads is what this contract reads; ManifestNeeds what one manifest's own words, forms and seat names need;
+// BaselineManifestReads what a node-engine that states none is read as stating. What a module's build reads once it
+// runs is never asked.
+const (
+	ReadWord = "word:"
+	ReadForm = "form:"
+	ReadSeat = "seat:"
+)
+
+// referenceForms are the reference forms a manifest's values may hold, `${<name>:…}`, as this contract fills them. A new
+// reference form is added here in the change that teaches the contract to read it, so a node-engine built with it
+// states it (ADR 0612 §2's new reference form is one).
+var referenceForms = []string{"access", "backup", "bound", "collected", "config", "consumer", "consumers",
+	"contribution", "dir", "machine", "port", "seat", "secret", "setting"}
+
+// manifestTopWords are the top-level keys Manifest.UnmarshalJSON reads apart from the fields of manifestFields: each
+// read whole, its inside a map of the module's own names (requirements, local names) and values, no words of the
+// contract's beneath it. `requires` and `config` are read as their fields are (manifestNeeds).
+var manifestTopWords = []string{"secrets", "contributes", OptionalRequiresKey, RequireSharesKey}
+
+// wireKeys are the keys of a block whose decoder reads its object by keys of its own, not by its fields' tags (its
+// UnmarshalJSON): the keys as that decoder reads them, none of them a block.
+var wireKeys = map[reflect.Type][]string{
+	reflect.TypeOf(OfferIdentity{}): {"max", "in"},
+	reflect.TypeOf(DataBackup{}):    {"dump", "into"},
+	reflect.TypeOf(OwnSecret{}):     {"path", "taken", "issued-by", "prompt", "owner"},
+}
+
+// ManifestReads is every reader capability of this contract, sorted: what a node-engine built with it states in its
+// node record (delivery.NodeRecord.ManifestReads).
+func ManifestReads() []string {
+	set := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, w := range contractWords() {
+		set[ReadWord+w] = true
+	}
+	for _, f := range referenceForms {
+		set[ReadForm+f] = true
+	}
+	for _, s := range DefaultSeats() {
+		set[ReadSeat+s.Name] = true
+	}
+	return sortedSet(set)
+}
+
+// baselineManifestReads is the baseline, generated once from mesh-sdk f02f142 (the contract every node-engine ran
+// before any stated what it reads) by ManifestReads as this file computes it: one reader capability a line.
+//
+//go:embed manifest_reads_baseline.txt
+var baselineManifestReads string
+
+// BaselineManifestReads is what a node-engine that states no reader capability is read as stating (novox/hq ADR 0614
+// §4): the words, forms and seat names of the shared contract as it stood before any node-engine stated them.
+func BaselineManifestReads() []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(baselineManifestReads, "\n") {
+		if line = strings.TrimSpace(line); line != "" {
+			out = append(out, line)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// StatedManifestReads is what a node-engine's statement is read as: stated itself, or the baseline when it states none
+// (an engine built before the statement existed).
+func StatedManifestReads(stated []string) []string {
+	if len(stated) == 0 {
+		return BaselineManifestReads()
+	}
+	return stated
+}
+
+// MissingManifestReads is each of needs that stated, read as StatedManifestReads reads it, lacks: sorted, nil when it
+// lacks none.
+func MissingManifestReads(needs, stated []string) []string {
+	have := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, s := range StatedManifestReads(stated) {
+		have[s] = true
+	}
+	var missing []string
+	for _, n := range needs {
+		if !have[n] {
+			missing = append(missing, n)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(missing)
+	return slices.Compact(missing)
+}
+
+// ManifestNeeds is every reader capability a manifest's own words, forms and seat names need, sorted, read as the
+// lenient decoder walks the manifest: only what this contract knows is named, since what it does not know is set aside
+// (Manifest.SetAside). An error is only bytes that are no JSON object.
+func ManifestNeeds(raw []byte) ([]string, error) {
+	var top map[string]any
+	dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(raw))
+	dec.UseNumber()
+	if err := dec.Decode(&top); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	used := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, f := range referenceForms {
+		if bytes.Contains(raw, []byte("${"+f+":")) {
+			used[ReadForm+f] = true
+		}
+	}
+	if _, has := top[ConfigField]; has || takesConfigKey.Match(raw) {
+		used[ReadForm+"config"] = true
+	}
+	words := map[string]bool{}
+	fields := structFields(reflect.TypeOf(manifestFields{}))
+	for _, k := range sortedAnyKeys(top) {
+		v := top[k]
+		switch {
+		case k == ConfigField:
+			// The config form is the settings form's words under another key (config.go).
+			words[SettingsField] = true
+			walkValue(v, fields[SettingsField].Type, SettingsField, words)
+		case k == "requires":
+			words[k] = true
+			for _, e := range asList(v) {
+				obj, isObj := e.(map[string]any)
+				if !isObj {
+					continue
+				}
+				if _, bus := obj["storage"]; bus {
+					// A bus-state entry of `requires` (BusStateEntry): the stored form's `bus-state`.
+					words[BusStateField] = true
+					walkValue(obj, reflect.TypeOf(BusStateEntry{}), BusStateField, words)
+					continue
+				}
+				walkValue(obj, reflect.TypeOf(requirementForm{}), k, words)
+			}
+		case slices.Contains(manifestTopWords, k):
+			words[k] = true
+		default:
+			if f, known := fields[k]; known {
+				words[k] = true
+				walkValue(v, f.Type, k, words)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for w := range words {
+		used[ReadWord+w] = true
+	}
+	for _, s := range seatNamesUsed(top) {
+		used[ReadSeat+s] = true
+	}
+	return sortedSet(used), nil
+}
+
+// seatNamesUsed is each seat of the contract's table the manifest names: in a claim, a use, an invoke of a seat's verb,
+// and a bucket's share with a seat.
+func seatNamesUsed(top map[string]any) []string {
+	known := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, s := range DefaultSeats() {
+		known[s.Name] = true
+	}
+	set := map[string]bool{}
+	add := func(name string) {
+		if known[name] {
+			set[name] = true
+		}
+	}
+	for _, c := range asList(top["claims"]) {
+		if obj, ok := c.(map[string]any); ok {
+			name, _ := obj["name"].(string)
+			add(name)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, u := range asList(top["uses"]) {
+		name, _ := u.(string)
+		add(name)
+	}
+	for _, i := range asList(top["invokes"]) {
+		text, _ := i.(string)
+		if seat, _, ok := SeatInvoke(text); ok {
+			add(seat)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, r := range asList(top["requires"]) {
+		obj, _ := r.(map[string]any)
+		for _, share := range asList(obj["shares"]) {
+			text, _ := share.(string)
+			if seat, ok := strings.CutPrefix(text, "seat:"); ok {
+				add(seat)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return sortedSet(set)
+}
+
+// contractWords is every word of this contract, by path (ReadWord): the fields of manifestFields, the keys the
+// manifest's own decoder reads beside them, and the long form of a requirement.
+func contractWords() []string {
+	set := map[string]bool{}
+	walkType(reflect.TypeOf(manifestFields{}), "", set, map[reflect.Type]bool{})
+	set["requires"] = true
+	walkType(reflect.TypeOf(requirementForm{}), "requires", set, map[reflect.Type]bool{})
+	for _, w := range manifestTopWords {
+		set[w] = true
+	}
+	return sortedSet(set)
+}
+
+// walkType adds every word of t at path to set: a struct's fields by their keys, a list's and a map's elements as
+// themselves; onPath stops a type that holds itself.
+func walkType(t reflect.Type, path string, set map[string]bool, onPath map[reflect.Type]bool) {
+	t = deref(t)
+	if keys, custom := wireKeys[t]; custom {
+		for _, k := range keys {
+			set[joinWord(path, k)] = true
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	switch t.Kind() {
+	case reflect.Struct:
+		if onPath[t] {
+			return
+		}
+		onPath[t] = true
+		defer delete(onPath, t)
+		for name, f := range structFields(t) {
+			word := joinWord(path, name)
+			set[word] = true
+			walkType(f.Type, word, set, onPath)
+		}
+	case reflect.Slice, reflect.Array, reflect.Map:
+		if t.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Uint8 {
+			return // bytes: a value, never a block
+		}
+		walkType(t.Elem(), path, set, onPath)
+	}
+}
+
+// walkValue adds to used every word of t that v, a value decoded from JSON, has at path.
+func walkValue(v any, t reflect.Type, path string, used map[string]bool) {
+	t = deref(t)
+	if keys, custom := wireKeys[t]; custom {
+		obj, _ := v.(map[string]any)
+		for _, k := range keys {
+			if _, has := obj[k]; has {
+				used[joinWord(path, k)] = true
+			}
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	switch t.Kind() {
+	case reflect.Struct:
+		obj, isObj := v.(map[string]any)
+		if !isObj {
+			return // a short form (a name for an offer): no words inside it
+		}
+		fields := structFields(t)
+		for _, k := range sortedAnyKeys(obj) {
+			f, known := fields[k]
+			if !known {
+				continue // set aside by the decoder, so no word of this contract
+			}
+			word := joinWord(path, k)
+			used[word] = true
+			walkValue(obj[k], f.Type, word, used)
+		}
+	case reflect.Slice, reflect.Array:
+		if t.Elem().Kind() == reflect.Uint8 {
+			return
+		}
+		for _, item := range asList(v) {
+			walkValue(item, t.Elem(), path, used)
+		}
+	case reflect.Map:
+		obj, _ := v.(map[string]any)
+		for _, k := range sortedAnyKeys(obj) {
+			walkValue(obj[k], t.Elem(), path, used)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// structFields are a struct's fields by the key the JSON decoder reads each by: its tag's name, else its own name; an
+// untagged embedded struct's fields as the struct's own; never one tagged "-" or unexported.
+func structFields(t reflect.Type) map[string]reflect.StructField {
+	out := map[string]reflect.StructField{}
+	for i := 0; i < t.NumField(); i++ {
+		f := t.Field(i)
+		tag := f.Tag.Get("json")
+		name, _, _ := strings.Cut(tag, ",")
+		if name == "-" {
+			continue
+		}
+		if f.Anonymous && name == "" && deref(f.Type).Kind() == reflect.Struct {
+			for k, inner := range structFields(deref(f.Type)) {
+				if _, shadowed := out[k]; !shadowed {
+					out[k] = inner
+				}
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if !f.IsExported() {
+			continue
+		}
+		if name == "" {
+			name = f.Name
+		}
+		out[name] = f
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// untaggedBlocks are the struct types among the contract's words whose fields carry no key of their own and which
+// wireKeys does not name: their words would be the Go names, which no decoder reads. A row keeps it empty.
+func untaggedBlocks() []string {
+	seen := map[reflect.Type]bool{}
+	var out []string
+	var walk func(t reflect.Type)
+	walk = func(t reflect.Type) {
+		t = deref(t)
+		if seen[t] {
+			return
+		}
+		seen[t] = true
+		if _, custom := wireKeys[t]; custom {
+			return
+		}
+		switch t.Kind() {
+		case reflect.Struct:
+			for i := 0; i < t.NumField(); i++ {
+				f := t.Field(i)
+				if f.IsExported() && !f.Anonymous && f.Tag.Get("json") == "" {
+					out = append(out, t.String())
+					break
+				}
+			}
+			for _, f := range structFields(t) {
+				walk(f.Type)
+			}
+		case reflect.Slice, reflect.Array, reflect.Map:
+			walk(t.Elem())
+		}
+	}
+	walk(reflect.TypeOf(manifestFields{}))
+	walk(reflect.TypeOf(requirementForm{}))
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
+
+func deref(t reflect.Type) reflect.Type {
+	for t.Kind() == reflect.Pointer {
+		t = t.Elem()
+	}
+	return t
+}
+
+func joinWord(path, key string) string {
+	if path == "" {
+		return key
+	}
+	return path + "." + key
+}
+
+func asList(v any) []any {
+	list, _ := v.([]any)
+	return list
+}
+
+func sortedSet(set map[string]bool) []string {
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(set))
+	for k := range set {
+		out = append(out, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest_reads_baseline.txt b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads_baseline.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15f8e45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest_reads_baseline.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,334 @@
+form:access
+form:backup
+form:bound
+form:collected
+form:config
+form:consumer
+form:consumers
+form:contribution
+form:dir
+form:machine
+form:port
+form:seat
+form:secret
+form:setting
+seat:git
+seat:mesh-artifact-store
+seat:mesh-artifact-sweep
+seat:mesh-broker
+seat:mesh-catalog
+seat:mesh-conditions
+seat:mesh-config
+seat:mesh-delivery
+seat:mesh-delivery-checker
+seat:mesh-dns-resolver
+seat:mesh-enrolment
+seat:mesh-hand-acts
+seat:mesh-healers
+seat:mesh-placement
+seat:mesh-provisioner
+seat:mesh-self-check
+seat:mesh-store
+seat:mesh-vault
+seat:mesh-wants
+seat:mesh-watchdogs
+seat:node-backup
+seat:node-bar
+seat:node-build-go
+seat:node-build-image
+seat:node-build-node
+seat:node-clipboard
+seat:node-compositor
+seat:node-container-runtime
+seat:node-display-server
+seat:node-display-session
+seat:node-engine
+seat:node-environment
+seat:node-files
+seat:node-hostname
+seat:node-hotkeys
+seat:node-intrusion-prevention
+seat:node-launcher
+seat:node-lock-screen
+seat:node-login-manager
+seat:node-login-shell
+seat:node-message-bus
+seat:node-mounts
+seat:node-nfs-server
+seat:node-notifier
+seat:node-package-manager
+seat:node-packet-filter
+seat:node-power
+seat:node-provisioner
+seat:node-reads
+seat:node-resolver
+seat:node-secret-service
+seat:node-service-manager
+seat:node-terminal-emulator
+seat:node-uplink
+seat:npm-package-registry
+seat:the-private-network
+word:accesses
+word:accesses.id
+word:accesses.mode
+word:accesses.path
+word:binds
+word:build
+word:build.artifacts
+word:build.artifacts.binary
+word:build.artifacts.bus
+word:build.artifacts.bus.asks
+word:build.artifacts.bus.emits
+word:build.artifacts.bus.invokes
+word:build.artifacts.bus.queues
+word:build.artifacts.bus.removes
+word:build.artifacts.bus.state
+word:build.artifacts.compiles
+word:build.artifacts.context
+word:build.artifacts.context.ref
+word:build.artifacts.context.repository
+word:build.artifacts.context.seat
+word:build.artifacts.entrypoints
+word:build.artifacts.env
+word:build.artifacts.external
+word:build.artifacts.file
+word:build.artifacts.from
+word:build.artifacts.kind
+word:build.artifacts.language
+word:build.artifacts.loads
+word:build.artifacts.name
+word:build.artifacts.names-on-purpose
+word:build.artifacts.paths
+word:build.artifacts.sha256
+word:build.artifacts.system
+word:build.artifacts.target
+word:build.artifacts.url
+word:build.artifacts.version
+word:build.artifacts.within
+word:build.on
+word:build.on.arg
+word:build.on.artifact
+word:build.on.image
+word:build.on.module
+word:bundles
+word:bundles.binary
+word:bundles.bus
+word:bundles.bus.asks
+word:bundles.bus.emits
+word:bundles.bus.invokes
+word:bundles.bus.queues
+word:bundles.bus.removes
+word:bundles.bus.state
+word:bundles.digest
+word:bundles.entrypoints
+word:bundles.env
+word:bundles.language
+word:bundles.launchers
+word:bundles.loads
+word:bundles.name
+word:bundles.source
+word:bus-users
+word:capabilities
+word:certificate
+word:certificate.authority
+word:certificate.into
+word:claims
+word:claims.capabilities
+word:claims.kind
+word:claims.name
+word:claims.renders
+word:claims.scope
+word:claims.serves
+word:collections
+word:collections.comment
+word:collections.name
+word:computed
+word:consumes
+word:contributes
+word:contributions
+word:contributions.content
+word:contributions.data
+word:contributions.if-capability
+word:contributions.kind
+word:contributions.seat
+word:data
+word:data.consumers
+word:data.consumers.class
+word:data.consumers.in
+word:data.consumers.why
+word:data.kept-by
+word:data.kept-by.class
+word:data.kept-by.why
+word:data.own
+word:data.own.active
+word:data.own.backup
+word:data.own.backup.dump
+word:data.own.backup.into
+word:data.own.class
+word:data.own.id
+word:data.own.measure
+word:data.own.path
+word:data.own.redundancy
+word:data.own.why
+word:data.own.within
+word:emits
+word:environment
+word:environment.path
+word:environment.path.at
+word:environment.path.entry
+word:environment.variables
+word:facts
+word:facts.home
+word:facts.path
+word:facts.shared
+word:facts.template
+word:filtering
+word:filtering.into
+word:grants
+word:guards
+word:handed
+word:handed.digest
+word:handed.items
+word:handed.source
+word:handed.templates
+word:instances
+word:invokes
+word:items
+word:items.attributes
+word:items.collection
+word:items.content
+word:items.if-capability
+word:items.name
+word:items.template
+word:jailing
+word:jailing.filter-into
+word:jailing.into
+word:jails
+word:jails.failregex
+word:jails.jail
+word:jails.name
+word:keeps
+word:listens
+word:listens.fixed
+word:listens.from
+word:listens.name
+word:listens.port
+word:listens.protocol
+word:listens.why
+word:logs
+word:logs.max-age-days
+word:logs.max-mib
+word:logs.name
+word:module
+word:moved
+word:objects
+word:objects.grant
+word:objects.grant.config
+word:objects.max-mib
+word:objects.name
+word:optional-requires
+word:own-secrets
+word:own-secrets.issued-by
+word:own-secrets.owner
+word:own-secrets.path
+word:own-secrets.prompt
+word:own-secrets.taken
+word:prepares
+word:provides
+word:provides.answered-by
+word:provides.credential
+word:provides.credential.form
+word:provides.credential.issued-by
+word:provides.credential.own
+word:provides.credential.tool
+word:provides.identity
+word:provides.identity.in
+word:provides.identity.max
+word:provides.keeps-consumer-data
+word:provides.name
+word:provides.reach
+word:provides.scope
+word:reads
+word:receives
+word:replaces
+word:requires
+word:requires-shares
+word:requires.name
+word:requires.optional
+word:requires.shares
+word:requires.shares.methods
+word:requires.shares.to
+word:resources
+word:runs-as
+word:runtime-health
+word:seats
+word:seats.accepts
+word:seats.by-caller
+word:seats.emits
+word:seats.kinded
+word:seats.name
+word:seats.needs
+word:seats.paths
+word:seats.proofs
+word:seats.records
+word:seats.retain-seconds
+word:seats.scope
+word:seats.serves
+word:seats.serves.description
+word:seats.serves.input
+word:seats.serves.name
+word:seats.serves.output
+word:seats.serves.replaces
+word:secrets
+word:secrets-owner
+word:serves
+word:settings
+word:settings.default
+word:settings.description
+word:settings.enum
+word:settings.kind
+word:settings.maximum
+word:settings.minimum
+word:settings.pattern
+word:settings.predefined
+word:settings.required
+word:settings.runtime
+word:settings.trusted
+word:settings.type
+word:settings.why
+word:shell
+word:shell.code
+word:shell.for
+word:shell.slot
+word:slug
+word:state
+word:state.history
+word:state.key-ttl
+word:state.name
+word:state.per-machine
+word:state.ttl-seconds
+word:streams
+word:streams.duplicates
+word:streams.events
+word:streams.grant
+word:streams.grant.config
+word:streams.grant.events
+word:streams.max-age-days
+word:streams.max-deliveries
+word:streams.max-mib
+word:streams.name
+word:streams.retention
+word:templates
+word:tools
+word:unhealthy
+word:unhealthy.severity
+word:unhealthy.why
+word:upgrade
+word:upgrade.policy
+word:upgrade.why
+word:uses
+word:version
+word:waits
+word:zone
+word:zone.listen
+word:zone.name
diff --git a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
index 6f669b6..fda8140 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/own_manifest_test.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package catalogue
 
 import (
 	"os"
+	"slices"
 	"testing"
 )
 
@@ -26,4 +27,71 @@ func TestOwnManifestUsesNoWordTheRunningControllerRefuses(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("artifact %q names paths %v: the running controller refuses the word until R4e is delivered", a.Name, a.Paths)
 		}
 	}
+
+	// What a reader reads (novox/hq ADR 0614 §4): the baseline is the contract of mesh-sdk f02f142, which every running
+	// node-engine was built with, and this contract reads all of it; the words added since are the only ones it lacks.
+	reads, baseline := ManifestReads(), BaselineManifestReads()
+	var added []string
+	for _, r := range reads {
+		if !slices.Contains(baseline, r) {
+			added = append(added, r)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, b := range baseline {
+		if !slices.Contains(reads, b) {
+			t.Errorf("the baseline's %s is no reader capability of this contract", b)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"word:tool-runner", "word:core-credentials", "word:bus-state", "word:bus-state.storage"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(added, want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s is in the baseline, or not read: added since it are %v", want, added)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"word:claims.serves", "word:settings.default", "form:config", "form:setting", "seat:mesh-catalog"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(baseline, want) {
+			t.Errorf("the baseline lacks %s", want)
+		}
+	}
+	if blocks := untaggedBlocks(); len(blocks) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("blocks whose words are their Go names, no decoder's keys: %v (name their keys in wireKeys)", blocks)
+	}
+	// What a manifest's own words, forms and seat names need, beyond the baseline.
+	for _, row := range []struct {
+		why, raw string
+		needs    []string // among its needs
+		missing  []string // what the baseline lacks of them
+	}{
+		{"a tool runner", `{"module":"r","version":"1","tool-runner":true}`, []string{"word:tool-runner"}, []string{"word:tool-runner"}},
+		{"a manifest of the baseline's words", `{"module":"a","version":"1","claims":[{"name":"mesh-catalog","scope":"mesh",` +
+			`"serves":["modules"]}],"invokes":["seat:mesh-delivery.show"],"config":{"x":{"type":"string","default":""}},` +
+			`"resources":[{"id":"f","type":"file","content":"${config:x} ${count:-0}"}],"provides":["plain",{"name":"p",` +
+			`"identity":{"max":20,"in":"x"}}]}`,
+			[]string{"word:claims.serves", "word:settings.type", "form:config", "seat:mesh-catalog", "seat:mesh-delivery",
+				"word:provides.identity.max", "word:resources"}, nil},
+		{"a bus-state entry of requires", `{"module":"b","version":"1","requires":["mesh-bus",{"name":"jobs","storage":"kv"}]}`,
+			[]string{"word:requires", "word:bus-state.storage"}, []string{"word:bus-state", "word:bus-state.name", "word:bus-state.storage"}},
+		{"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))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", row.why, err)
+		}
+		for _, n := range row.needs {
+			if !slices.Contains(needs, n) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: needs %v, not %s", row.why, needs, n)
+			}
+		}
+		if slices.ContainsFunc(needs, func(n string) bool { return n == "word:newer-word" || n == "form:count" }) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: needs %v, naming what the contract does not read", row.why, needs)
+		}
+		if got := MissingManifestReads(needs, nil); !slices.Equal(got, row.missing) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: an engine stating nothing lacks %v, want %v", row.why, got, row.missing)
+		}
+		if got := MissingManifestReads(needs, reads); len(got) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: this contract lacks %v", row.why, got)
+		}
+	}
+	if got := MissingManifestReads([]string{"seat:mesh-catalog", "word:module"}, []string{"word:module"}); !slices.Equal(got, []string{"seat:mesh-catalog"}) {
+		t.Errorf("an engine stating its own reads is read by them alone: lacks %v", got)
+	}
 }
diff --git a/go/delivery/assigner.go b/go/delivery/assigner.go
index 3f439a2..1e26c9c 100644
--- a/go/delivery/assigner.go
+++ b/go/delivery/assigner.go
@@ -146,9 +146,15 @@ const (
 	RuleProvisions = 8
 )
 
+// ruleRead is the highest rule a reader takes (novox/hq ADR 0614 §2, §4): 9 and 10 are kept for the verb wait and the
+// capability hold, which a later release gives numbers of their own, so a want of that release reads on every node
+// that runs this one. Nothing writes 9 or 10 yet: the verb wait is held under RuleProvisions and the capability hold
+// under RuleComposed, each with words naming its edge.
+const ruleRead = 10
+
 func checkRule(rule int, of string) error {
-	if rule < RuleBuildDone || rule > RuleProvisions {
-		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: %s names the rule %d, which is not one of the eight (1 to 8)", of, rule)
+	if rule < RuleBuildDone || rule > ruleRead {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: %s names the rule %d, which is not one of 1 to %d", of, rule, ruleRead)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/go/delivery/assigner_test.go b/go/delivery/assigner_test.go
index b26279f..dfad9f2 100644
--- a/go/delivery/assigner_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/assigner_test.go
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ func TestAssignerValuesRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
 		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: RuleCanary, Words: "the canary ace does not run it healthy yet"},
 		{Removed: true, Words: "the module left g14"},
 		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Put: true, Hold: true, Words: "put by the operator: the bus's user list"},
+		// A rule a later release numbers (9, 10: the verb wait, the capability hold, ADR 0614) reads here already.
+		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: 10, Words: "the verb x.y it invokes is served by no running build"},
 	}
 	for _, w := range wants {
 		data, err := EncodeWant(w)
@@ -147,7 +149,7 @@ func TestAssignerValuesRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		{Removed: true, FP: fp2of('a')},
 		{FP: fp2of('a'), Newest: fp2of('b')},
 		{FP: fp2of('a'), Newest: fp2of('a'), Rule: 3},
-		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: 9},
+		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: 11},
 		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Hold: true},
 		{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Put: true, Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: 3},
 		{Removed: true, Put: true},
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ func TestAssignerValuesRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		{Want: fp2of('a'), Sent: fp2of('b'), Rule: 3, Unexplained: true},
 		{Want: fp2of('a'), Sent: fp2of('a'), Rule: 3},
 		{},
-		{Want: fp2of('a'), Sent: fp2of('b'), Rule: 9},
+		{Want: fp2of('a'), Sent: fp2of('b'), Rule: 11},
 		{WantRemoved: true, Want: fp2of('a'), Rule: 1},
 	} {
 		if _, err := EncodeDifference(d); err == nil {
diff --git a/go/delivery/noderecord.go b/go/delivery/noderecord.go
index 423cf6b..52fa5f3 100644
--- a/go/delivery/noderecord.go
+++ b/go/delivery/noderecord.go
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ type NodeRecord struct {
 	// key until the lease is handed away, and the vault's key and authority once it reads them from `signers`. The gate
 	// before the lease write reads every node's from the bus.
 	Trusts []string `json:"trusts,omitempty"`
+	// ManifestReads are the reader capabilities of the shared contract this machine's node-engine is built with
+	// (catalogue.ManifestReads, novox/hq ADR 0614 §4): the manifest words, forms and seat names it reads. Empty for an
+	// engine built before it said them, which a reader takes as the baseline (catalogue.StatedManifestReads).
+	ManifestReads []string `json:"manifest-reads,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (r NodeRecord) check() error {
@@ -70,6 +74,11 @@ func (r NodeRecord) check() error {
 			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: the record of %s names an empty capability", r.Node)
 		}
 	}
+	for _, c := range r.ManifestReads {
+		if c == "" {
+			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: the record of %s names an empty reader capability", r.Node)
+		}
+	}
 	return nil
 }
 
diff --git a/go/delivery/noderecord_test.go b/go/delivery/noderecord_test.go
index a896628..2bdd675 100644
--- a/go/delivery/noderecord_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/noderecord_test.go
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ var secretNamed = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(secret|passw|token|api[-_]?key|privat
 func TestNodeRecord(t *testing.T) {
 	hub := NodeRecord{Node: "novox", TunnelKey: "k", Capabilities: []string{"docker"}, SealingKey: "age1x", ServingKey: "pub",
 		Certificate: "cert", OutwardLinks: []string{"eth0"}, Networks: []catalogue.AttachedNetwork{{Link: "eth0", Network: "192.0.2.0/24"}},
-		NetworksSaid: true, Contract: 3, Trusts: []string{"controller key sha256:aa", "vault key sha256:bb"}}
+		NetworksSaid: true, Contract: 3, Trusts: []string{"controller key sha256:aa", "vault key sha256:bb"},
+		ManifestReads: []string{"seat:mesh-catalog", "word:tool-runner"}}
 	raw, err := EncodeNodeRecord(hub)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ func TestNodeRecord(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for name, r := range map[string]NodeRecord{
 		"empty capability":        {Node: "ace", Capabilities: []string{""}},
+		"empty reader capability": {Node: "ace", ManifestReads: []string{""}},
 		"node that is not a name": {Node: "a.b"},
 	} {
 		if _, err := EncodeNodeRecord(r); err == nil {
diff --git a/go/delivery/source.go b/go/delivery/source.go
index 99a4f68..3956884 100644
--- a/go/delivery/source.go
+++ b/go/delivery/source.go
@@ -443,6 +443,10 @@ type Module struct {
 	// Warnings are the problems of an accepted manifest a stricter judge outgrew (novox/hq ADR 0579 §1): Verdict is then
 	// empty (accepted), and the watchman raises delivery.ManifestOutgrown until the manifest is mended.
 	Warnings []string `json:"warnings,omitempty"`
+	// Needs are the reader capabilities the manifest's own words, forms and seat names need (catalogue.ManifestNeeds,
+	// novox/hq ADR 0614 §4), written by the judge with its verdict: the assigner holds a node's want while that node's
+	// engine does not state one of them. Empty in a value written before, which needs nothing.
+	Needs []string `json:"needs,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // VerdictOf is the verdict a modules value carries, or nil when it carries none (taken as accepted, TakeManifestVerdict).
diff --git a/go/delivery/source_test.go b/go/delivery/source_test.go
index 1c90a60..838d395 100644
--- a/go/delivery/source_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/source_test.go
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ func TestSourceValuesRoundTrip(t *testing.T) { // 1200/AC3
 	for _, m := range []Module{
 		{FP: "src1:abc", Src: 5, FPSrc: 5, Repository: "novox/mesh-sdk", Commit: "cccc"},
 		{None: "a build that resolves packages when built", Repository: "novox/mesh-sdk", Commit: "cccc"},
+		// The reader capabilities its manifest needs (ADR 0614 §4), written with the verdict.
+		{FP: "src1:abc", Repository: "novox/mesh-sdk", Commit: "cccc", Needs: []string{"seat:mesh-catalog", "word:tool-runner"}},
 	} {
 		data, err = EncodeModule(m)
 		check("module", data, err)
diff --git a/go/delivery/want_composed_test.go b/go/delivery/want_composed_test.go
index 77b9bf6..701022c 100644
--- a/go/delivery/want_composed_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/want_composed_test.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func TestAWantNamesItsComposition(t *testing.T) {
 		{Want{Removed: true, Composed: hashOf('1')}, "removed want names no"},
 		{Want{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Backup: "later"}, `backup answer "later"`},
 		{Want{Removed: true, Backup: BackupAgain}, "removed want names no"},
-		{Want{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: 9}, "rule 9"},
+		{Want{FP: fp2of('a'), Composed: hashOf('1'), Newest: fp2of('b'), Rule: 11}, "rule 11"},
 	}
 	for _, r := range refusals {
 		if _, err := EncodeWant(r.w); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), r.why) {