diff --git a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/approvals.go b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/approvals.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3f57f65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/approvals.go
@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	handacts "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshhandacts"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/busretry"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+)
+
+// The gate's reach through the runner's own connection, in this one place (design 46 7-approval-mark §7, §13, §14): its
+// state approvals, its publish of an ask under the marked module's name, and its read of the router's record.
+
+// approvalsState is the runner's state approvals over its connection: a lost compare-and-set is stdio.ErrChanged, as
+// operator-channel's client reads it.
+type approvalsState struct {
+	conn   *bus.Conn
+	module string
+}
+
+func (s approvalsState) Get(key string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+	e, err := s.conn.StateGet(s.module, approval.StateName, key)
+	if err != nil || e == nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: e.Key, Value: e.Value, Revision: e.Revision, At: e.At}, nil
+}
+
+func (s approvalsState) Create(key string, value any) (uint64, error) {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return changedAs(s.conn.StateCreate(s.module, approval.StateName, key, raw))
+}
+
+func (s approvalsState) Update(key string, value any, revision uint64) (uint64, error) {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return changedAs(s.conn.StateUpdate(s.module, approval.StateName, key, raw, revision))
+}
+
+func (s approvalsState) Put(key string, value any) (uint64, error) {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return s.conn.StatePut(s.module, approval.StateName, key, raw)
+}
+
+func (s approvalsState) Keys() ([]string, error) {
+	return s.conn.StateKeys(s.module, approval.StateName)
+}
+
+func changedAs(rev uint64, err error) (uint64, error) {
+	if errors.Is(err, bus.ErrStateChanged) {
+		return 0, stdio.ErrChanged
+	}
+	return rev, err
+}
+
+// Bound says the runner's membership binds its state approvals now (§13): a membership issued later binds it with no restart.
+func (s approvalsState) Bound() bool {
+	m := s.conn.Membership(s.module)
+	if m == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, st := range m.State {
+		if st.Name == approval.StateName && st.Writes {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// publishAsk says an accept on a seat under the module's name, on the runner's own account (§7).
+func publishAsk(conn *bus.Conn) func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error {
+	return func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error {
+		raw, err := json.Marshal(body)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		_, err = conn.SeatPublish(module, subject, raw, id)
+		return err
+	}
+}
+
+// routerRecord reads the router's record `<module>.<id>` of the seat's state asks, on the runner's own account (§14).
+func routerRecord(conn *bus.Conn) func(module, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+	return func(module, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+		e, err := conn.SeatRecord(module, "", id)
+		if err != nil || e == nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: e.Key, Value: e.Value, Revision: e.Revision, At: e.At}, nil
+	}
+}
+
+// boundState is the runner's key-ttl state bound (lead answers A-157, A-158).
+type boundState struct {
+	conn   *bus.Conn
+	module string
+}
+
+// BoundState is the runner's state its bound keys live in.
+const BoundState = "bound"
+
+func (b boundState) CreateTTL(key string, value any, ttl time.Duration) error {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = b.conn.StateCreateTTL(b.module, BoundState, key, raw, ttl)
+	return err
+}
+
+func (b boundState) Delete(key string) error { return b.conn.StateDelete(b.module, BoundState, key) }
+
+func (b boundState) Watch(pattern string, expired func(key string)) (func(), error) {
+	return b.conn.StateWatch(b.module, BoundState, pattern, func(c bus.StateChange) error {
+		if c.Op == "expire" {
+			expired(c.Key)
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+}
+
+// warranted asks mesh-hand-acts.warranted for one acted ask, each try a kept call open while open says so (design 46
+// 7-approval-mark §16; lead answer A-157).
+func warranted(conn *bus.Conn) func(asker, ask string, open func() (bool, error)) error {
+	return func(asker, ask string, open func() (bool, error)) error {
+		_, err := busretry.DoKept("mesh-hand-acts.warranted of "+asker+"."+ask,
+			busretry.Open{Key: asker + "." + ask, Open: func(string) (bool, error) { return open() }, Logf: log.Printf},
+			func() (bus.Answered, error) {
+				return conn.Ask("seat:"+handacts.Seat+"."+handacts.VerbWarranted, handacts.WarrantedInput{Asker: asker, Ask: ask},
+					"mesh.seat."+handacts.Seat+".tool."+handacts.VerbWarranted)
+			}, nil)
+		return err
+	}
+}
+
+// hearOne waits on the runner's connection for the first event on the subjects whose body match takes (design 34
+// every-event §36: a marked wait's ask's decided).
+func hearOne(conn *bus.Conn) func(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Duration, match func(json.RawMessage) bool) (bool, error) {
+	return func(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Duration, match func(json.RawMessage) bool) (bool, error) {
+		_, ok, _, err := conn.HearFirst(ctx, subjects, within, match)
+		return ok, err
+	}
+}
+
+// gateTools is the gate as mesh_approvals reads it, with its state's fill read from the bucket (§13, §18).
+type gateTools struct {
+	*approval.Gate
+	state approvalsState
+}
+
+func (t gateTools) Fill() (uint64, int64, error) {
+	info, err := t.state.conn.StateInfo(t.state.module, approval.StateName)
+	if err != nil || info == nil {
+		return 0, 0, fmt.Errorf("the state %s's fill cannot be read: %v", approval.StateName, err)
+	}
+	return info.Bytes, info.MaxBytes, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/approvals_integration_test.go b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/approvals_integration_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..529bbc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/approvals_integration_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,295 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
+	seat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	runnerapproval "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/approval"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
+)
+
+// marked is the fixture marked module's catalog half: its build src2:1 marks its tool wipe (design 46 7-approval-mark §1).
+type marked struct{}
+
+var wipeEntry = catalogseat.CatalogEntry{Module: "shell", Fp: "src2:1", Manifest: map[string]any{"needs-approval": []any{"wipe"}}}
+
+func (marked) Ready() error     { return nil }
+func (marked) Revision() string { return "7" }
+func (marked) Served(fp string) (approval.Entry, bool, string) {
+	return runnerapproval.Entry(wipeEntry), fp == wipeEntry.Fp, "not-found"
+}
+func (marked) Newest(m string) (approval.Entry, bool) {
+	return runnerapproval.Entry(wipeEntry), m == "shell"
+}
+func (marked) Definitions() map[string]seatdef.Definition { return map[string]seatdef.Definition{} }
+func (marked) Entries() []approval.Entry                  { return []approval.Entry{runnerapproval.Entry(wipeEntry)} }
+
+// bed is the runner's gate wired as main wires it, over the runner's own connection to a real bus, with stand-ins of the
+// operator channel's router (it takes each ask into its record asks, as the router writes it) and of the hand-act seat.
+type bed struct {
+	t     *testing.T
+	conn  *bus.Conn
+	asks  nats.KeyValue
+	taken chan struct{}
+	done  chan struct{}
+
+	mu       sync.Mutex
+	asked    []seat.Ask
+	recorded []string
+	holders  map[string][]byte
+}
+
+func newBed(t *testing.T, bindState bool) *bed {
+	t.Helper()
+	mesh := mt.New(t)
+	nc, err := nats.Connect(mt.URL(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
+	js, _ := nc.JetStream()
+	if _, err := js.AddStream(&nats.StreamConfig{Name: "SEAT_OPERATOR_CHANNEL", Subjects: []string{"mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.>"},
+		Retention: nats.WorkQueuePolicy}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b := &bed{t: t, asks: mesh.Bucket(t, "messenger_asks"), taken: make(chan struct{}, 1), done: make(chan struct{}),
+		holders: map[string][]byte{"operator-channel": []byte(`{"seat":"operator-channel","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"messenger"}]}`)}}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { close(b.done) })
+	mesh.Bucket(t, "node-tools_approvals")
+	mesh.BucketKeyTTL(t, "node-tools_bound")
+
+	// The router's stand-in: each ask accepted under the marked module's name is taken into its record, state open.
+	sub, err := js.PullSubscribe("mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.>", "router", nats.BindStream("SEAT_OPERATOR_CHANNEL"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	go func() {
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-b.done:
+				return
+			default:
+			}
+			msgs, _ := sub.Fetch(1, nats.MaxWait(200*time.Millisecond))
+			for _, m := range msgs {
+				var a seat.Ask
+				if err := json.Unmarshal(m.Data, &a); err == nil {
+					module := strings.TrimPrefix(m.Subject, "mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.ask.")
+					b.mu.Lock()
+					b.asked = append(b.asked, a)
+					b.mu.Unlock()
+					b.write(seat.AsksByAskerIDValue{Asker: module, Key: module + "." + a.ID, State: "open", Headline: a.Headline,
+						Expires: a.Expires, Opened: operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(time.Now()), OfferedOn: []string{"telegram"}})
+					select {
+					case b.taken <- struct{}{}:
+					default:
+					}
+				}
+				_ = m.Ack()
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+	// The hand-act seat's stand-in: warranted {asker, ask} answered, each one kept.
+	if _, err := nc.Subscribe("mesh.seat.mesh-hand-acts.>", func(m *nats.Msg) {
+		b.mu.Lock()
+		b.recorded = append(b.recorded, string(m.Data))
+		b.mu.Unlock()
+		_ = m.Respond([]byte(`{"result":{"recorded":true}}`))
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	runner := mt.MembershipOf("node-tools", "n1", false, nil)
+	if bindState {
+		runner.State = []bus.StateIssued{{Name: approval.StateName, Bucket: "node-tools_approvals", Writes: true},
+			{Name: BoundState, Bucket: "node-tools_bound", Writes: true}}
+	}
+	shell := mt.MembershipOf("shell", "n1", false, nil)
+	shell.SeatTraffic = &bus.SeatTraffic{Publish: []string{seat.AcceptSubjectAsk("shell")},
+		Records: []string{"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_messenger_asks.$KV.messenger_asks.shell.>"}}
+	mesh.Issue(t, runner)
+	mesh.Issue(t, shell)
+	b.conn, err = bus.Connect(bus.Credential{URL: mt.URL(t), Module: "node-tools", Node: "n1"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	b.conn.Logf = func(string, ...any) {}
+	t.Cleanup(b.conn.Close)
+	b.conn.Follow("node-tools")
+	b.conn.Follow("shell")
+	mt.Until(t, func() error {
+		if b.conn.Membership("node-tools") == nil || b.conn.Membership("shell") == nil {
+			return errors.New("not issued yet")
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	return b
+}
+
+// gate is a runner's gate as main makes it; record says how the run's recording goes beside the call (nil: at once).
+func (b *bed) gate(record func(func())) *approval.Gate {
+	if record == nil {
+		record = func(f func()) { f() }
+	}
+	g := approval.New(approval.Deps{Node: "n1", Runner: "node-tools", Catalog: marked{}, Logf: b.t.Logf,
+		State: approvalsState{conn: b.conn, module: "node-tools"},
+		Channel: &operatorchannelclient.GateChannel{State: approvalsState{conn: b.conn, module: "node-tools"}, KeyPrefix: "n1.",
+			Publish: publishAsk(b.conn), ReadRecord: routerRecord(b.conn)},
+		Warranted: warranted(b.conn), Bounds: boundState{conn: b.conn, module: "node-tools"}, Go: record,
+		Holder: runnerapproval.HoldersIn(func() (map[string][]byte, error) {
+			b.mu.Lock()
+			defer b.mu.Unlock()
+			return b.holders, nil
+		}),
+		// The pause while the router takes the ask ends when the stand-in has taken one: no sleeping.
+		After: func(time.Duration) <-chan time.Time {
+			c := make(chan time.Time, 1)
+			go func() {
+				select {
+				case <-b.taken:
+				case <-b.done:
+				}
+				c <- time.Now()
+			}()
+			return c
+		}})
+	_ = g.Unserved("shell", "src2:1", []string{"wipe"})
+	return g
+}
+
+func (b *bed) write(rec seat.AsksByAskerIDValue) {
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(rec)
+	if _, err := b.asks.Put(rec.Key, raw); err != nil {
+		b.t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+// decide writes the router's record of the newest ask as the router writes the operator's choice: chosen, with its warrant.
+func (b *bed) decide(option string) seat.Ask {
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	a := b.asked[len(b.asked)-1]
+	b.mu.Unlock()
+	e, err := b.asks.Get("shell." + a.ID)
+	if err != nil {
+		b.t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var rec seat.AsksByAskerIDValue
+	_ = json.Unmarshal(e.Value(), &rec)
+	rec.State = "chosen"
+	rec.Warrant = &seat.Warrant{Ask: a.ID, Asker: "shell", Outcome: operatorchannelclient.OutcomeChosen, Option: option,
+		Level: operatorchannelclient.Approve, At: operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(time.Now()), AskDigest: operatorchannelclient.Digest(a),
+		Channel: "telegram", By: &seat.Person{Who: operatorchannelclient.Operator, Kind: "telegram", Identity: "42", Verified: "user id verified"}}
+	b.write(rec)
+	return a
+}
+
+func wipe(args string) approval.Call {
+	return approval.Call{Address: "shell.wipe", Module: "shell", Name: "wipe", Fingerprint: "src2:1", Caller: "agent",
+		Args: json.RawMessage(args), Description: "Wipes a scratch directory."}
+}
+
+// Design 46 7-approval-mark §22: the runner's gate against the real bus with a fixture marked module: a call asked and taken
+// by the operator channel's stand-in, the operator's Approve written as the router's record, the call again run once and
+// recorded in the hand-act log, mesh_approvals' list, a restart between the run and warranted's answer recorded once; a
+// Decline runs nothing; a gate missing a part of its check runs nothing.
+func TestAMarkedCallOnTheBusIsAskedRunOnTheApprovalAndRecorded(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("approved: asked, run once, recorded, listed", func(t *testing.T) {
+		b := newBed(t, true)
+		g := b.gate(nil)
+		runs := 0
+		run := func() (any, error) { runs++; return "wiped", nil }
+		if _, err := g.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run); err == nil ||
+			!strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "Not run: this needs the operator's approval. Asked on telegram at ") || runs != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("first call: %v, runs %d", err, runs)
+		}
+		if _, err := g.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "still waiting for the operator's answer") {
+			t.Fatalf("before the answer: %v", err)
+		}
+		a := b.decide(approval.OptionApprove)
+		got, err := g.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run)
+		answered, ok := got.(approval.Answered)
+		if err != nil || !ok || answered.Answer != "wiped" || !strings.Contains(answered.Approval, "ask "+a.ID) || runs != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("on the approval: %+v, %v, runs %d", got, err, runs)
+		}
+		if _, err := g.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run); err == nil || runs != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("the warrant ran twice: %v, runs %d", err, runs)
+		}
+		b.mu.Lock()
+		recorded := strings.Join(b.recorded, "\n")
+		b.mu.Unlock()
+		if !strings.Contains(recorded, a.ID) || !strings.Contains(recorded, "shell") {
+			t.Fatalf("hand-act log heard %q", recorded)
+		}
+		list, err := g.List()
+		if err != nil || len(list) == 0 || list[len(list)-1].Ask != a.ID || list[len(list)-1].State != "run, recorded" {
+			t.Fatalf("mesh_approvals lists %+v, %v", list, err)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("a restart between the run and warranted's answer records the run once", func(t *testing.T) {
+		b := newBed(t, true)
+		stopped := b.gate(func(func()) {}) // the runner stops before warranted answers
+		runs := 0
+		run := func() (any, error) { runs++; return "wiped", nil }
+		_, _ = stopped.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"tmp"}`), run)
+		a := b.decide(approval.OptionApprove)
+		if _, err := stopped.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"tmp"}`), run); err != nil || runs != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("run: %v, runs %d", err, runs)
+		}
+		if list, _ := stopped.List(); len(list) != 1 || list[0].State != "run, not yet recorded" {
+			t.Fatalf("before the restart: %+v", list)
+		}
+		started := b.gate(nil)
+		started.Recover()
+		started.Recover()
+		b.mu.Lock()
+		n := len(b.recorded)
+		b.mu.Unlock()
+		if list, _ := started.List(); n != 1 || len(list) != 1 || list[0].Ask != a.ID || list[0].State != "run, recorded" || runs != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("after the restart: recorded %d, %+v, runs %d", n, list, runs)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("declined: refused, nothing runs", func(t *testing.T) {
+		b := newBed(t, true)
+		g := b.gate(nil)
+		runs := 0
+		run := func() (any, error) { runs++; return nil, nil }
+		_, _ = g.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run)
+		b.decide(approval.OptionDecline)
+		if _, err := g.Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the operator declined ask") || runs != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("declined: %v, runs %d", err, runs)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("failing closed: no state bound, or nobody to ask, runs nothing and asks nothing", func(t *testing.T) {
+		unbound := newBed(t, false)
+		runs := 0
+		run := func() (any, error) { runs++; return nil, nil }
+		if _, err := unbound.gate(nil).Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run); err == nil ||
+			!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "binds no state approvals") || runs != 0 || len(unbound.asked) != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("no state: %v, runs %d", err, runs)
+		}
+		b := newBed(t, true)
+		b.holders = map[string][]byte{}
+		if _, err := b.gate(nil).Run(wipe(`{"dir":"scratch"}`), run); err == nil ||
+			!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no module holds operator-channel") || runs != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("no holder: %v, runs %d", err, runs)
+		}
+		if got, err := b.gate(nil).Run(approval.Call{Address: "shell.tidy", Module: "shell", Name: "tidy", Fingerprint: "src2:1",
+			Args: json.RawMessage(`{}`)}, func() (any, error) { return "tidied", nil }); err != nil || got != "tidied" {
+			t.Fatalf("an unmarked tool: %v, %v", got, err)
+		}
+	})
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main.go b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main.go
index 7da745a..07b66fe 100644
--- a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main.go
+++ b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main.go
@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
+	handacts "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshhandacts"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/alive"
+	runnerapproval "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/approval"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/console"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/firstview"
@@ -51,7 +56,7 @@ func main() {
 	cred := credential(until)
 	conn := connectPatiently(cred, until)
 	// And the seat list it describes the seats by, read through the seat mesh-catalog (novox/hq ADR 0636 §4).
-	_ = startSeatList(conn)
+	seatList := startSeatList(conn)
 
 	served, err := runtime.ServedModulesFrom(os.Getenv(runtime.ToolModules), cred.Module)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -69,6 +74,30 @@ func main() {
 		defer ledgers.Stop()
 		opts = append(opts, runtime.WithLedgerWriters(ledgers.Writer))
 	}
+	// The indexer's and the assigner's states the console indexes the mesh by, and the gate reads its marks from, come to it as
+	// first views, asked of the owners' own tools and followed on their views families, never read from their state (novox/hq
+	// ADR 0615 §1; design 46 7-approval-mark §5).
+	source, stopViews := firstview.Start(context.Background(), conn, log.Printf)
+	defer stopViews()
+	approvals := approvalsState{conn: conn, module: cred.Module}
+	gate := approval.New(approval.Deps{Node: conn.Node(), Runner: cred.Module, Catalog: source.ApprovalCatalog(definitionsOf(seatList)), Wait: source.WaitCatalog,
+		Findings: runnerapproval.Findings(source.Findings(), conn.Node(), cred.Module, nil), Logf: log.Printf, State: approvals,
+		Channel:   &operatorchannelclient.GateChannel{State: approvals, KeyPrefix: conn.Node() + ".", Publish: publishAsk(conn), ReadRecord: routerRecord(conn)},
+		Warranted: warranted(conn), Bounds: boundState{conn: conn, module: cred.Module},
+		Holder: runnerapproval.HoldersIn(func() (map[string][]byte, error) { return source.State(firstview.SeatHoldersRead) }),
+		// The runner's own build, the one a marked wait's act binds (design 34 every-event §35).
+		Build: os.Getenv(runtime.FingerprintWord), Hear: hearOne(conn)})
+	// A failed read or write of the state approvals is made again at the next membership change the runner hears (A-157).
+	conn.OnMembership(func(bus.Membership) { go gate.StateAgain() })
+	opts = append(opts, runtime.WithGate(gate), runtime.WithSeatDefinitions(definitionsOf(seatList)))
+	// A run still unrecorded is asked again at each start and when the hand-act seat's holder is heard again (lead answer A-157).
+	if stopBounds, err := gate.WatchBounds(); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("[mesh-tools] the gate's bound keys are not watched (%v): an unanswered hand-act is said in the log only", err)
+	} else {
+		defer stopBounds()
+	}
+	source.OnSeatHolder(handacts.Seat, gate.Recover)
+	go gate.Recover()
 	stop, err := runtime.Run(conn, served, envs, log.Printf, opts...)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Fatalf("node-tools: %v", err)
@@ -90,16 +119,14 @@ func main() {
 	}
 	var up *console.Listening
 	if listen != "" {
-		// The indexer's and the assigner's states the console indexes the mesh by come to it as first views, asked of the owners'
-		// own tools and followed on their views families, never read from their state (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1).
-		source, stopViews := firstview.Start(context.Background(), conn, log.Printf)
-		defer stopViews()
 		node := cred.Node
 		if node == "" {
 			node = "?"
 		}
 		who := node + "." + cred.Module
-		up, err = console.Serve(console.NewSurface(conn, source, who), listen)
+		surface := console.NewSurface(conn, source, who)
+		surface.Approvals = gateTools{Gate: gate, state: approvalsState{conn: conn, module: cred.Module}}
+		up, err = console.Serve(surface, listen)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Fatalf("node-tools: %v", err)
 		}
diff --git a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main_test.go b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main_test.go
index a9d093a..0018932 100644
--- a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/main_test.go
@@ -13,10 +13,17 @@ import (
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/runtime"
 )
 
+// The runner's start waits for its credential and its bus within the start's bound (issue 1496): one test, two cases, so
+// design 46 7-approval-mark §22's whole test of the gate adds no test to the module (design 47 G §419, §626).
+func TestTheRunnersStartWaitsForItsCredentialAndItsBus(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Run("the credential", awaitsCredential)
+	t.Run("the bus", connectsWithin)
+}
+
 // A runtime started before its credential is on the machine waits for it, woken by the watch of its directory, and gives
 // up loudly at its bound; a file that is no credential ends the wait at once (issue 1496: on ace mesh-build-node's and
 // mesh-build-image's runtimes exited twice on "cannot read the broker credential ... no such file").
-func TestAwaitCredential(t *testing.T) {
+func awaitsCredential(t *testing.T) {
 	const good = `{"url":"tls://bus.example:4222","module":"m"}`
 	rereadEvery = time.Hour // only the watch can wake the read in time
 	settle := runtime.Settle
@@ -82,7 +89,7 @@ func TestAwaitCredential(t *testing.T) {
 
 // A bus that refuses the account at a start is asked again until the start's bound, said once; a refusal past it, a pin
 // that does not match and an address that is no URL give up (issue 1496, issue 058).
-func TestConnectWithin(t *testing.T) {
+func connectsWithin(t *testing.T) {
 	refused := errors.New("nats: Authorization Violation")
 	unreachable := errors.New("nats: no servers available for connection")
 	for _, c := range []struct {
diff --git a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/seatlist.go b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/seatlist.go
index 5d93ec3..a545710 100644
--- a/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/seatlist.go
+++ b/node-tools/cmd/node-tools/seatlist.go
@@ -71,3 +71,14 @@ func startSeatListOn(b seatlist.Bus, bound <-chan time.Time, logf func(string, .
 	}
 	return reader
 }
+
+// definitionsOf is the seat definitions the reader holds, by seat, which carry the verbs' marks (design 46 7-approval-mark
+// §2, §5); none while the reader did not start.
+func definitionsOf(reader *seatlist.Reader) func() map[string]seatdef.Definition {
+	return func() map[string]seatdef.Definition {
+		if reader == nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return reader.Definitions()
+	}
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/go.mod b/node-tools/go.mod
index 54e4d8b..606687c 100644
--- a/node-tools/go.mod
+++ b/node-tools/go.mod
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ go 1.26.0
 require (
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/meshmoduleassignerclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshconditionsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshhandacts v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/provisioning/go/clients/meshprovisionerclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.48.0
 )
@@ -27,3 +29,7 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/crypto v0.57.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/time v0.16.0 // indirect
 )
+
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdelivery v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
+
+require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000 // indirect
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/announce/announce.go b/node-tools/internal/announce/announce.go
index 8771120..c8d79d8 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/announce/announce.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/announce/announce.go
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ const Digest = "digest"
 // module needing one is placed only where the runtime states it.
 const Capabilities = "capabilities"
 
+// Fingerprint is the service metadata key the tool runner states its own fingerprint under, beside Capabilities: the build
+// its composed environment names (MESH_FINGERPRINT, design 47 G §424), so the node-engine ties the capabilities it takes
+// into the node's record to the runner that stated them (design 46 approval mark §6, lead answer A-203).
+const Fingerprint = "fingerprint"
+
 // Shortened is the service metadata key a runtime sets when its announcement was cut to fit the bus.
 const Shortened = "shortened"
 
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go b/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97c209f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,592 @@
+package approval
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
+	seat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	gate "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
+
+	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
+)
+
+// mem is the runner's state approvals as a fixture (meshtest.State).
+type mem = mt.State
+
+func newMem() *mem { return mt.NewState() }
+
+// world is a gate on a fixture mesh: the catalog half, the router's records as the router writes them (mesh-catalog's
+// messenger, asks.go), the asks published, the clock.
+type world struct {
+	g        *gate.Gate
+	state    *mem
+	cat      *fakeCatalog
+	records  map[string]seat.AsksByAskerIDValue // by `<module>.<id>`
+	takes    bool                               // the router takes an ask as it is published
+	asked    []seat.Ask
+	now      time.Time
+	runs     int
+	findings *findings
+	bounds   *bounds
+	// holders is the assigner's view of the seats' holders, by key; holdersErr says it is not answered yet.
+	holders    map[string][]byte
+	holdersErr error
+	// warranted is what mesh-hand-acts.warranted answers, and recorded each ask it answered for.
+	warranted error
+	recorded  []string
+	// deps is the gate's, made anew by rebuild; publish and record are the bus's publish and the router's record read.
+	deps    gate.Deps
+	publish func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error
+	record  func(module, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error)
+}
+
+// rebuild makes the gate anew from w.deps, its module's bundle loaded.
+func (w *world) rebuild() {
+	w.g = gate.New(w.deps)
+	_ = w.g.Unserved("shell", "src2:1", []string{"wipe", "tidy"})
+}
+
+// bounds is the runner's key-ttl state bound as a fixture: expire hands a key's expiry to the watch.
+type bounds struct {
+	keys    map[string]time.Duration
+	expired func(string)
+}
+
+func (b *bounds) CreateTTL(key string, _ any, ttl time.Duration) error { b.keys[key] = ttl; return nil }
+func (b *bounds) Delete(key string) error                              { delete(b.keys, key); return nil }
+func (b *bounds) Watch(_ string, expired func(string)) (func(), error) {
+	b.expired = expired
+	return func() {}, nil
+}
+func (b *bounds) expire(key string) {
+	delete(b.keys, key)
+	b.expired(key)
+}
+
+func newWorld() *world {
+	shell := entry("src2:1", []string{"node-login-shell.execute"}, map[string]any{"needs-approval": []any{"wipe"}})
+	w := &world{state: newMem(), records: map[string]seat.AsksByAskerIDValue{}, takes: true, findings: &findings{},
+		bounds:  &bounds{keys: map[string]time.Duration{}},
+		holders: map[string][]byte{"operator-channel": []byte(`{"seat":"operator-channel","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"messenger"}]}`)},
+		now:     time.Date(2026, 11, 12, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
+		cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "7", byFp: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"src2:1": shell},
+			newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"shell": shell},
+			defs: map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-login-shell": {Seat: "node-login-shell",
+				Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{{Name: "execute", NeedsApproval: true}}}}}}
+	w.deps = gate.Deps{Node: "n1", Runner: "node-tools", Catalog: w.cat, State: w.state, Bounds: w.bounds,
+		Findings: Findings(w.findings, "n1", "node-tools", func() time.Time { return w.now }),
+		Channel: &operatorchannelclient.GateChannel{State: w.state, KeyPrefix: "n1.", Now: func() time.Time { return w.now },
+			Publish:    func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error { return w.publish(module, subject, body, id) },
+			ReadRecord: func(module, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) { return w.record(module, id) }},
+		Go:     func(f func()) { f() },
+		Holder: HoldersIn(func() (map[string][]byte, error) { return w.holders, w.holdersErr }),
+		Warranted: func(asker, ask string, open func() (bool, error)) error {
+			if still, _ := open(); !still {
+				return nil
+			}
+			if w.warranted == nil {
+				w.recorded = append(w.recorded, asker+"."+ask)
+			}
+			return w.warranted
+		},
+		Now: func() time.Time { return w.now },
+		After: func(d time.Duration) <-chan time.Time {
+			w.now = w.now.Add(d)
+			c := make(chan time.Time, 1)
+			c <- w.now
+			return c
+		},
+	}
+	w.publish = func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error {
+		if subject != seat.AcceptSubjectAsk(module) {
+			return nil
+		}
+		a := body.(seat.Ask)
+		w.asked = append(w.asked, a)
+		if w.takes {
+			w.records[module+"."+a.ID] = seat.AsksByAskerIDValue{Asker: module, Key: module + "." + a.ID, State: "open",
+				Headline: a.Headline, Expires: a.Expires, Opened: operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(w.now), OfferedOn: []string{"telegram"}}
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+	w.record = func(module, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+		rec, ok := w.records[module+"."+id]
+		if !ok {
+			return nil, nil
+		}
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(rec)
+		return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: module + "." + id, Value: raw}, nil
+	}
+	w.rebuild()
+	return w
+}
+
+// decide writes the router's record of the newest ask as the router writes a person's choice: its state and warrant.
+func (w *world) decide(option string, at time.Time) seat.Ask {
+	a := w.asked[len(w.asked)-1]
+	key := "shell." + a.ID
+	rec := w.records[key]
+	rec.State = "chosen"
+	rec.Warrant = &seat.Warrant{Ask: a.ID, Asker: "shell", Outcome: operatorchannelclient.OutcomeChosen, Option: option,
+		Level: operatorchannelclient.Approve, At: operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(at), AskDigest: operatorchannelclient.Digest(a),
+		By: &seat.Person{Who: operatorchannelclient.Operator, Kind: "telegram", Identity: "42", Verified: "user id verified"}}
+	w.records[key] = rec
+	return a
+}
+
+// do makes a call through the gate, counting the runs.
+func (w *world) do(c gate.Call) (any, error) {
+	return w.g.Run(c, func() (any, error) { w.runs++; return "done", nil })
+}
+
+// call is a fixture call of the marked tool wipe, or of another tool of the module.
+func call(name, args string) gate.Call {
+	return gate.Call{Address: "shell." + name, Module: "shell", Name: name, Fingerprint: "src2:1", Caller: "agent", Args: json.RawMessage(args),
+		Description: "Wipes a scratch directory.\nMore words."}
+}
+
+// Design 46 7-approval-mark §22: the refusals and answers of a marked call, on the fixture mesh, the router's record and
+// the warrant written as the router writes them.
+func TestTheRefusalsAndAnswers(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		run  func(t *testing.T, w *world)
+	}{
+		{"§9: a secret in the arguments is refused asking nothing", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{"token":"ghp_0123456789abcdefghijABCDEFGHIJ012345"}`))
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "which no ask may carry") || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§9: more than 16 KiB of arguments is refused asking nothing", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			big, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{"text": strings.Repeat("a b ", 5000)})
+			_, err := w.do(call("wipe", string(big)))
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "more than the 16384") || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§10, §12: the published ask's fields, and Not run with the router's record", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			if err == nil || !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "Not run: this needs the operator's approval. Asked on telegram at ") ||
+				!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "make the same call again within 30 minutes of the approval; the ask expires at ") {
+				t.Fatalf("answer %v", err)
+			}
+			if len(w.asked) != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("asked %d", len(w.asked))
+			}
+			a := w.asked[0]
+			act, _ := gate.ActOf(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`), "n1")
+			d, _ := operatorchannelclient.ActDigest(act)
+			if a.About != d || a.Who != "operator" || a.OnExpiry != gate.OnExpiry || a.Headline != "Run wipe on n1?" ||
+				a.Expires != operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(time.Date(2026, 11, 12, 11, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)) || len(a.Options) != 2 ||
+				a.Options[0].ID != "approve" || a.Options[1].ID != "decline" || a.Options[0].Binds != d || a.Options[1].Binds != d ||
+				a.Options[1].Level != "approve" {
+				t.Errorf("ask %+v", a)
+			}
+			if !strings.HasPrefix(a.Explanation, "Wipes a scratch directory.\nOn n1, called through the mesh's tools, which cannot tell who called.\ndir: scratch\nFingerprint ") {
+				t.Errorf("explanation %q", a.Explanation)
+			}
+			var k operatorchannelclient.Kept
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(w.state.Vals["n1.ask."+a.ID], &k)
+			if k.Act["arg.dir"] != "scratch" || string(k.Arguments) != `{"dir":"scratch"}` || string(w.state.Vals["n1.act."+keys.EscapeName(d)]) != `"`+a.ID+`"` {
+				t.Errorf("kept %+v, act key %s", k, w.state.Vals["n1.act."+keys.EscapeName(d)])
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§12: with no record within 5 seconds, Not run, asked; not yet taken by the router", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			w.takes = false
+			start := w.now
+			_, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			if err == nil || !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "Not run, asked; not yet taken by the router (ask ") || w.now.Sub(start) > gate.RecordWithin {
+				t.Fatalf("answer %v after %s", err, w.now.Sub(start))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§10, §17: a second identical call publishes nothing and is told it still waits", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			_, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			if len(w.asked) != 1 || err == nil || !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "Not run: still waiting for the operator's answer") || w.runs != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("asked %d, %v, runs %d", len(w.asked), err, w.runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§17: an ask the router holds back as the fourth open one still waits", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			a := w.asked[0]
+			rec := w.records["shell."+a.ID]
+			rec.State, rec.HeldSince = "held-back", operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(w.now)
+			w.records["shell."+a.ID] = rec
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "still waiting") || len(w.asked) != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§14, §15: approved, the same call runs once; made again it is already run and asks anew", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			w.decide(gate.OptionApprove, w.now.Add(time.Minute))
+			w.now = w.now.Add(2 * time.Minute)
+			if got, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`)); err != nil || got.(gate.Answered).Answer != "done" || w.runs != 1 ||
+				!strings.HasPrefix(got.(gate.Answered).Approval, "run on the operator's approval via telegram at 2026-11-12T10:01:00Z, ask ") {
+				t.Fatalf("%v %v, runs %d", got, err, w.runs)
+			}
+			_, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "was already run; asked again") || w.runs != 1 || len(w.asked) != 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d, asked %d", err, w.runs, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§15: two calls at the same moment run it once", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			w.decide(gate.OptionApprove, w.now)
+			var wg sync.WaitGroup
+			var mu sync.Mutex
+			runs := 0
+			for i := 0; i < 2; i++ {
+				wg.Add(1)
+				go func() {
+					defer wg.Done()
+					_, _ = w.g.Run(call("wipe", `{}`), func() (any, error) { mu.Lock(); runs++; mu.Unlock(); return "done", nil })
+				}()
+			}
+			wg.Wait()
+			if runs != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("ran %d times", runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§14: approved for other arguments runs nothing", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			a := w.decide(gate.OptionApprove, w.now)
+			rec := w.records["shell."+a.ID]
+			other, _ := gate.ActOf(call("wipe", `{"dir":"home"}`), "n1")
+			d, _ := operatorchannelclient.ActDigest(other)
+			a.Options[0].Binds = d // the ask the person was shown bound another act
+			rec.Warrant.AskDigest = operatorchannelclient.Digest(a)
+			w.records["shell."+a.ID] = rec
+			var k operatorchannelclient.Kept
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(w.state.Vals["n1.ask."+a.ID], &k)
+			k.Ask = a
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(k)
+			w.state.Vals["n1.ask."+a.ID] = raw
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`)); err == nil || w.runs != 0 || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "nothing is done") {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d", err, w.runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§14: approved 31 minutes ago asks anew", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			w.decide(gate.OptionApprove, w.now)
+			w.now = w.now.Add(31 * time.Minute)
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "approved too long ago") || w.runs != 0 || len(w.asked) != 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d, asked %d", err, w.runs, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§14, §17: declined, the same call is not asked again for 10 minutes", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			w.decide(gate.OptionDecline, w.now)
+			w.now = w.now.Add(9 * time.Minute)
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "declined") || len(w.asked) != 1 || w.runs != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+			w.now = w.now.Add(2 * time.Minute)
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "asked again") || len(w.asked) != 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§14, §17: expired asks anew", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			a := w.asked[0]
+			rec := w.records["shell."+a.ID]
+			rec.State = "expired"
+			w.records["shell."+a.ID] = rec
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "ended expired; asked again") || len(w.asked) != 2 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§14: another asker's warrant runs nothing", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			a := w.decide(gate.OptionApprove, w.now)
+			rec := w.records["shell."+a.ID]
+			rec.Warrant.Asker = "mail"
+			w.records["shell."+a.ID] = rec
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || w.runs != 0 || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "its warrant does not hold") {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d", err, w.runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§17: the router's refusal is said with its words", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			a := w.asked[0]
+			rec := w.records["shell."+a.ID]
+			rec.State, rec.Answer = "refused", "the asker has too many open asks"
+			w.records["shell."+a.ID] = rec
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the asker has too many open asks") {
+				t.Fatalf("%v", err)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§20: a runner's own tool marked is refused unasked, never run", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			c := call("wipe", `{}`)
+			c.Own = true
+			if _, err := w.do(c); err == nil || w.runs != 0 || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d, asked %d", err, w.runs, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§13: with no binding, an unmarked call runs and a marked one is refused", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			w.deps.State = nil
+			w.rebuild()
+			if got, err := w.do(call("tidy", `{}`)); err != nil || got != "done" {
+				t.Fatalf("unmarked: %v %v", got, err)
+			}
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "binds no state approvals") || w.runs != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("marked: %v, runs %d", err, w.runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§13: the fixture state refuses a key the bus refuses, so every key the gate writes here is one the bus holds (A-209)", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			if _, err := w.state.Put("n1.act.sha256:00", "x"); err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("the fixture state held a key with a colon, which the bus refuses")
+			}
+			if _, err := w.state.Create("n1..ask", "x"); err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("the fixture state held a key with an empty name")
+			}
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			if len(w.asked) != 1 || len(w.state.Vals) == 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("the gate kept nothing through the fixture state: asked %d, keys %d", len(w.asked), len(w.state.Vals))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§13: an ask over 256 KiB is refused naming the cause", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			c := call("wipe", `{}`)
+			c.Description = strings.Repeat("w", 300*1024)
+			if _, err := w.do(c); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "more than the 262144 a value of the state approvals holds") || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§3, §2: a seat verb its seat marks is asked for its holder", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			c := gate.Call{Address: "node-login-shell.execute", Module: "shell", Seat: "node-login-shell", Name: "execute", Fingerprint: "src2:1", Args: json.RawMessage(`{"command":"ls"}`)}
+			if _, err := w.do(c); err == nil || !strings.HasPrefix(err.Error(), "Not run") || len(w.asked) != 1 || w.asked[0].Headline != "Run node-login-shell.execute on n1?" {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§16: the run is recorded once; unanswered within five minutes it is a finding, cleared when warranted answers", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			a := w.decide(gate.OptionApprove, w.now)
+			stop, _ := w.g.WatchBounds()
+			defer stop()
+			w.warranted = errors.New("no responders")
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err != nil || w.runs != 1 || len(w.recorded) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d, recorded %v", err, w.runs, w.recorded)
+			}
+			if w.bounds.keys["n1.unanswered."+a.ID] != gate.UnansweredAfter || w.bounds.keys["n1.unrecorded."+a.ID] != gate.KeptFor-gate.SaidBefore {
+				t.Fatalf("bounds %v", w.bounds.keys)
+			}
+			w.bounds.expire("n1.unanswered." + a.ID)
+			if w.findings.raised[keys.EscapeName("n1."+a.ID)] != gate.KindCallUnanswered {
+				t.Fatalf("findings %v", w.findings.raised)
+			}
+			w.warranted = nil
+			// At a start each acted, unrecorded ask is pending in the runner's findings-stated until warranted is made again
+			// (design 47 G §384).
+			pendingKey := views.FindingKey("machine", keys.EscapeName("n1."+a.ID), gate.KindCallUnanswered)
+			warranted := w.deps.Warranted
+			var pendingAtCall bool
+			w.deps.Warranted = func(asker, ask string, open func() (bool, error)) error {
+				_, pendingAtCall = w.findings.pends[pendingKey]
+				return warranted(asker, ask, open)
+			}
+			w.rebuild()   // a start
+			w.g.Recover() // a start, or the hand-act seat's holder heard again
+			w.g.Recover()
+			if !pendingAtCall || len(w.findings.pended) != 1 || len(w.findings.pends) != 0 || w.findings.pended[0] != pendingKey {
+				t.Fatalf("pending at the call %v, pended %v, pending after %v", pendingAtCall, w.findings.pended, w.findings.pends)
+			}
+			if len(w.recorded) != 1 || w.recorded[0] != "shell."+a.ID || len(w.findings.raised) != 0 || len(w.bounds.keys) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("recorded %v, findings %v, bounds %v", w.recorded, w.findings.raised, w.bounds.keys)
+			}
+			var k operatorchannelclient.Kept
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(w.state.Vals["n1.ask."+a.ID], &k)
+			if !k.Recorded || !k.Acted {
+				t.Fatalf("kept %+v", k)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§19: with no holder of operator-channel in the view, a marked call is refused asking nothing", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			w.holders["operator-channel"] = []byte(`{"seat":"operator-channel","scope":"mesh","holders":[]}`)
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no module holds operator-channel") || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+			w.holdersErr = errors.New("the first view has not been answered yet")
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("an unread view: %v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§19: a publish that fails and a record that cannot be read refuse, running nothing", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			pub := w.publish
+			w.publish = func(string, string, any, string) error { return errors.New("the bus refused it") }
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the ask could not be raised") {
+				t.Fatalf("%v", err)
+			}
+			w.publish = pub
+			w.state.Vals = map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{}`))
+			w.record = func(string, string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) { return nil, errors.New("timeout") }
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the router's record of its ask") || w.runs != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, runs %d", err, w.runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§5, §19: a served entry that cannot be read refuses every marked call on that runtime", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			c := call("wipe", `{}`)
+			c.Fingerprint = "src2:unknown"
+			if _, err := w.do(c); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "cannot be read") || len(w.asked) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, asked %d", err, len(w.asked))
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§19: the marks unread, a call waits within 5 seconds and is refused naming mesh_first_views", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			w.cat.ready = errors.New("the catalog half has no first view of main yet")
+			waited := time.Duration(0)
+			w.deps.Wait = func(d time.Duration) error { waited = d; return w.cat.ready }
+			w.rebuild()
+			if _, err := w.do(call("tidy", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "mesh_first_views") || waited != gate.RecordWithin || w.runs != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%v, waited %s", err, waited)
+			}
+			w.deps.Wait = func(time.Duration) error { w.cat.ready = nil; return nil }
+			w.rebuild()
+			if _, err := w.do(call("tidy", `{}`)); err != nil || w.runs != 1 {
+				t.Fatalf("read within the wait: %v, runs %d", err, w.runs)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§19: the state failing refuses, raises approvals-unreadable after five minutes, and clears when read again", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			stop, _ := w.g.WatchBounds()
+			defer stop()
+			w.state.Fail = errors.New("the bus is unreachable")
+			if _, err := w.do(call("wipe", `{}`)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "cannot be read") {
+				t.Fatalf("%v", err)
+			}
+			if w.bounds.keys["n1.unreadable.approvals"] != gate.UnreadableAfter || len(w.findings.raised) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("bounds %v, findings %v", w.bounds.keys, w.findings.raised)
+			}
+			w.bounds.expire("n1.unreadable.approvals")
+			if w.findings.raised[keys.EscapeName("n1.approvals")] != gate.KindApprovalsUnreadable {
+				t.Fatalf("findings %v", w.findings.raised)
+			}
+			w.state.Fail = nil
+			w.g.StateAgain() // a membership change heard, no further call
+			if len(w.findings.raised) != 0 || len(w.bounds.keys) != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("findings %v, bounds %v", w.findings.raised, w.bounds.keys)
+			}
+		}},
+		{"§18: the asks of the last day, one read whole, the marks applied with their sources, a record again and a cancel", func(t *testing.T, w *world) {
+			_, _ = w.do(call("wipe", `{"dir":"scratch"}`))
+			list, err := w.g.List()
+			if err != nil || len(list) != 1 || list[0].State != "asked" || list[0].Address != "shell.wipe" || list[0].Fingerprint == "" {
+				t.Fatalf("%+v %v", list, err)
+			}
+			whole, err := w.g.Read(list[0].Ask)
+			if err != nil || string(whole.Arguments) != `{"dir":"scratch"}` || !strings.HasPrefix(whole.Digest, "sha256:") {
+				t.Fatalf("%+v %v", whole, err)
+			}
+			applied := w.g.Applied()
+			if len(applied) != 1 || applied[0].Tools["wipe"] != "entry shell src2:1" || applied[0].Verbs["node-login-shell.execute"] != "seat node-login-shell" || applied[0].Revision != "7" {
+				t.Fatalf("applied %+v", applied)
+			}
+			if ok, src := w.g.Describe("shell", "", "wipe"); !ok || src != "entry shell src2:1" {
+				t.Errorf("describe %v %q", ok, src)
+			}
+			if ok, src := w.g.Describe("", "node-login-shell", "execute"); !ok || src != "seat node-login-shell" {
+				t.Errorf("describe a seat verb %v %q", ok, src)
+			}
+			if err := w.g.Again(list[0].Ask); err == nil {
+				t.Error("an ask not run was asked its hand-act again")
+			}
+			cancelled := ""
+			w.publish = func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error { cancelled = subject + " " + id; return nil }
+			if err := w.g.Cancel(list[0].Ask); err != nil || cancelled != "mesh.seat.operator-channel.accept.cancel.shell cancel."+list[0].Ask {
+				t.Fatalf("cancel %v %q", err, cancelled)
+			}
+		}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) { tc.run(t, newWorld()) })
+	}
+	// Design 46 7-approval-mark §5, §3, §4 and design 34 every-event §33: the marks a module's calls are gated by, derived from
+	// fixture catalog halves and served entries.
+	t.Run("TheMarks", func(t *testing.T) {
+		login := map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-login-shell": {Seat: "node-login-shell",
+			Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{{Name: "execute", NeedsApproval: true}, {Name: "sessions"}}}}
+		v1 := entry("src2:1", []string{"node-login-shell.execute", "node-login-shell.sessions"},
+			map[string]any{"needs-approval": []any{"wipe"}})
+		v2 := entry("src2:2", []string{"node-login-shell.execute", "node-login-shell.sessions"},
+			map[string]any{"needs-approval": []any{"erase", "node-login-shell.sessions"}})
+		mail := catalogseat.CatalogEntry{Module: "mail", Fp: "src2:m", Manifest: map[string]any{
+			"needs-approval": []any{"mail.received"}, "emits": []any{"mail.received"},
+			"streams": []any{map[string]any{"name": "MAIL", "events": []any{"mail.**"}, "grant": map[string]any{"config": "readers", "events": "mail.{key}.**"}}}}}
+		for _, tc := range []struct {
+			name     string
+			cat      *fakeCatalog
+			module   string
+			fp       string
+			tools    []string
+			verbs    map[string]string
+			subjects []string
+			unread   bool
+		}{
+			{name: "a seat's mark stands for every holder, and the holder's own adds up", cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "7",
+				byFp: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"src2:1": v1}, newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"shell": v1}, defs: login},
+				module: "shell", fp: "src2:1", tools: []string{"wipe"}, verbs: map[string]string{"node-login-shell.execute": "seat node-login-shell"}},
+			{name: "a holder's needs-approval cannot unmark its seat's verb, and marks another", cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "8",
+				byFp: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"src2:2": v2}, newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"shell": v2}, defs: login},
+				module: "shell", fp: "src2:2", tools: []string{"erase"}, verbs: map[string]string{"node-login-shell.execute": "seat node-login-shell",
+					"node-login-shell.sessions": "entry shell src2:2"}},
+			{name: "across a version change the union stands: a dropped mark is asked while the old bundle runs", cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "9",
+				byFp: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"src2:1": v1, "src2:2": v2}, newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"shell": v2}, defs: login},
+				module: "shell", fp: "src2:1", tools: []string{"erase", "wipe"}, verbs: map[string]string{"node-login-shell.execute": "seat node-login-shell",
+					"node-login-shell.sessions": "entry shell src2:2"}},
+			{name: "a served entry that cannot be read leaves the newest marks, every marked call refused", cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "9",
+				newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"shell": v2}, defs: login},
+				module: "shell", fp: "src2:1", tools: []string{"erase"}, verbs: map[string]string{"node-login-shell.execute": "seat node-login-shell",
+					"node-login-shell.sessions": "entry shell src2:2"}, unread: true},
+			{name: "a bundle with no fingerprint has no served entry", cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "9", defs: login},
+				module: "shell", unread: true},
+			{name: "a marked event and a stream with a grant give their subjects and each .>", cat: &fakeCatalog{revision: "3",
+				byFp: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"src2:m": mail}, newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"mail": mail}},
+				module: "mail", fp: "src2:m", subjects: []string{"mesh.mod.mail.event.mail.received", "mesh.mod.mail.event.mail.received.>",
+					"mesh.stream.mail.event.mail.>", "mesh.stream.mail.event.mail.received", "mesh.stream.mail.event.mail.received.>"}},
+		} {
+			t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+				m := gate.Derive(tc.cat, tc.module, tc.fp)
+				if got := keysOf(m.Tools); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, tc.tools) {
+					t.Errorf("tools %v, want %v", got, tc.tools)
+				}
+				if tc.verbs == nil {
+					tc.verbs = map[string]string{}
+				}
+				if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Verbs, tc.verbs) {
+					t.Errorf("verbs %v, want %v", m.Verbs, tc.verbs)
+				}
+				if got := keysOf(m.Subjects); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, tc.subjects) {
+					t.Errorf("subjects %v, want %v", got, tc.subjects)
+				}
+				if (m.Unread != "") != tc.unread || m.Revision != tc.cat.revision {
+					t.Errorf("unread %q, revision %q", m.Unread, m.Revision)
+				}
+			})
+		}
+		// §4: a bundle whose marks name a tool it does not register is not loaded, its finding mark-unserved raised; a bundle that
+		// serves it clears it, and a catalog without the mark too.
+		t.Run("mark-unserved raised and cleared", func(t *testing.T) {
+			cat := &fakeCatalog{revision: "7", byFp: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"src2:1": v1}, newest: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"shell": v1}, defs: login}
+			w := &findings{}
+			g := gate.New(gate.Deps{Node: "n1", Runner: "node-tools", Catalog: cat, Findings: Findings(w, "n1", "node-tools", nil)})
+			if got := g.Unserved("shell", "src2:1", []string{"other"}); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, []string{"wipe"}) || w.raised[keys.EscapeName("n1.shell")] != gate.KindMarkUnserved {
+				t.Fatalf("unserved %v, findings %v", got, w.raised)
+			}
+			if got := g.Unserved("shell", "src2:1", []string{"wipe"}); got != nil || w.raised[keys.EscapeName("n1.shell")] != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("a bundle serving the mark: unserved %v, findings %v", got, w.raised)
+			}
+			_ = g.Unserved("shell", "src2:1", nil)
+			cat.byFp["src2:1"], cat.newest["shell"] = entry("src2:1", nil, nil), entry("src2:1", nil, nil)
+			if got := g.Unserved("shell", "src2:1", nil); got != nil || w.raised[keys.EscapeName("n1.shell")] != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("a catalog without the mark: unserved %v, findings %v", got, w.raised)
+			}
+		})
+	})
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/approval/contracts.go b/node-tools/internal/approval/contracts.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46e3b37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/approval/contracts.go
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+// Package approval is the tool runner's side of mesh-sdk's approval gate (go/approval; design 47 G lead answers A-224,
+// A-228): it translates what the gate reads beyond itself from the generated contracts, the gate's findings into the
+// contract's findings about the runner on its machine, the catalog's entries into the gate's, and the assigner's view of
+// the seats' holders into its holder function. The gate itself is mesh-sdk's; none is written here.
+package approval
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	assignerseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner"
+	condseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	gate "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
+)
+
+// HeldWriter is the runner's held finding writer (views.HeldWriter over the contract's Finding).
+type HeldWriter interface {
+	Write(ctx context.Context, finding condseat.Finding) error
+	Clear(ctx context.Context, scope, id, kind, why string) error
+}
+
+// scopeMachine is the scope of the gate's findings on the tool runner: its machine (lead answer A-154).
+const scopeMachine = "machine"
+
+// Findings is the gate's finding writer over the runner's held writer: each finding about the runner's module on node, at
+// scope machine, and its pending named in the writer's `findings-stated` where the writer keeps one (design 47 G §384).
+func Findings(w HeldWriter, node, runner string, now func() time.Time) gate.FindingWriter {
+	if w == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if now == nil {
+		now = time.Now
+	}
+	return findingWriter{w: w, node: node, runner: runner, now: now}
+}
+
+type findingWriter struct {
+	w            HeldWriter
+	node, runner string
+	now          func() time.Time
+}
+
+func (f findingWriter) Raise(ctx context.Context, kind, id, summary, headline string) error {
+	return f.w.Write(ctx, condseat.Finding{Kind: kind, Scope: scopeMachine, ID: id, Severity: condseat.FindingSeverityWarning,
+		Source: "approval", Observer: f.runner, Subject: condseat.Subject{Scope: "module", ID: f.runner, Machine: f.node},
+		Summary: summary, Headline: headline, At: f.now().UTC()})
+}
+
+func (f findingWriter) Clear(ctx context.Context, kind, id, why string) error {
+	return f.w.Clear(ctx, scopeMachine, id, kind, why)
+}
+
+// pender is the held writer's pending (views.HeldWriter's Pend and Judged).
+type pender interface {
+	Pend(views.PendingKey)
+	Judged(key string)
+}
+
+func (f findingWriter) Pend(kind, id string, since time.Time, bound time.Duration) {
+	if p, ok := f.w.(pender); ok {
+		p.Pend(views.PendingKey{Key: views.FindingKey(scopeMachine, id, kind), Since: since, Bound: bound.String()})
+	}
+}
+
+func (f findingWriter) Judged(kind, id string) {
+	if p, ok := f.w.(pender); ok {
+		p.Judged(views.FindingKey(scopeMachine, id, kind))
+	}
+}
+
+// Entry is a catalog entry as the gate reads its marks.
+func Entry(e catalogseat.CatalogEntry) gate.Entry {
+	manifest, _ := json.Marshal(e.Manifest)
+	return gate.Entry{Module: e.Module, Fingerprint: e.Fp, Serves: e.Serves, Manifest: manifest}
+}
+
+// HoldersIn is the gate's holder function over the assigner's view of the seats' holders as the runner holds it (§19):
+// view answers the view's values by key, an error while its first view is not answered; a seat is held when its key names
+// a holder.
+func HoldersIn(view func() (map[string][]byte, error)) func(seat string) (bool, error) {
+	return func(seat string) (bool, error) {
+		values, err := view()
+		if err != nil {
+			return false, err
+		}
+		raw, ok := values[assignerseat.SeatHoldersBySeatKey(seat)]
+		if !ok {
+			return false, nil
+		}
+		var h assignerseat.SeatHolders
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &h); err != nil {
+			return false, fmt.Errorf("the holders of %s cannot be read: %w", seat, err)
+		}
+		return len(h.Holders) > 0, nil
+	}
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go b/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..708536c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package approval
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"sort"
+
+	condseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
+
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	gate "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+)
+
+// fakeCatalog is a catalog half as a fixture: entries by fingerprint, the newest by module, the seat definitions.
+type fakeCatalog struct {
+	ready    error
+	revision string
+	byFp     map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry
+	newest   map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry
+	defs     map[string]seatdef.Definition
+}
+
+func (c *fakeCatalog) Ready() error     { return c.ready }
+func (c *fakeCatalog) Revision() string { return c.revision }
+func (c *fakeCatalog) Served(fp string) (gate.Entry, bool, string) {
+	e, ok := c.byFp[fp]
+	return Entry(e), ok, "not-found"
+}
+func (c *fakeCatalog) Newest(m string) (gate.Entry, bool) {
+	e, ok := c.newest[m]
+	return Entry(e), ok
+}
+func (c *fakeCatalog) Definitions() map[string]seatdef.Definition { return c.defs }
+func (c *fakeCatalog) Entries() []gate.Entry {
+	var out []gate.Entry
+	for _, e := range c.newest {
+		out = append(out, Entry(e))
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func entry(fp string, serves []string, manifest map[string]any) catalogseat.CatalogEntry {
+	return catalogseat.CatalogEntry{Module: "shell", Fp: fp, Serves: serves, Manifest: manifest}
+}
+
+// findings is the runner's held writer as a fixture: each finding raised now, by id.
+type findings struct {
+	raised map[string]string
+	// pends are the keys pending in the held writer's statement; pended every key ever pended.
+	pends  map[string]views.PendingKey
+	pended []string
+}
+
+func (f *findings) Pend(p views.PendingKey) {
+	if f.pends == nil {
+		f.pends = map[string]views.PendingKey{}
+	}
+	f.pends[p.Key] = p
+	f.pended = append(f.pended, p.Key)
+}
+func (f *findings) Judged(key string) { delete(f.pends, key) }
+
+func (f *findings) Write(_ context.Context, x condseat.Finding) error {
+	if f.raised == nil {
+		f.raised = map[string]string{}
+	}
+	f.raised[x.ID] = x.Kind
+	return nil
+}
+func (f *findings) Clear(_ context.Context, _, id, _, _ string) error {
+	delete(f.raised, id)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func keysOf(set map[string]string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for k := range set {
+		out = append(out, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings.go
index 26cd793..85ead67 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings.go
@@ -58,15 +58,16 @@ func (c *Conn) Bindings(module string) []membership.BusBinding {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// jetStream is a JetStream handle on this connection.
-func (c *Conn) jetStream() (jetstream.JetStream, error) { return jetstream.New(c.nc) }
+// JetStream is a JetStream handle on this connection: its one accessor, for a part that hands it to a finding writer (design 47 G
+// A-16, A-27).
+func (c *Conn) JetStream() (jetstream.JetStream, error) { return jetstream.New(c.nc) }
 
 func (c *Conn) objectStore(ctx context.Context, module, local string) (jetstream.ObjectStore, membership.BusBinding, error) {
 	b, err := c.Binding(module, local, catalogue.StorageObjectStore)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, b, err
 	}
-	js, err := c.jetStream()
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, b, err
 	}
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ func (c *Conn) ObjectsWatch(module string, r buscalls.ObjectsWatchRequest, deliv
 func (c *Conn) streamFill(name string) (buscalls.StreamFilled, error) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
-	js, err := c.jetStream()
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return buscalls.StreamFilled{}, err
 	}
@@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ func (c *Conn) StreamPublish(module string, r buscalls.StreamPublishRequest) (bu
 	}
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
-	js, err := c.jetStream()
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return buscalls.StreamPublished{}, err
 	}
@@ -336,7 +337,7 @@ func (c *Conn) readStream(name, filter string, from uint64, limit int) (buscalls
 	}
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
-	js, err := c.jetStream()
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return buscalls.StreamPage{}, err
 	}
@@ -396,7 +397,7 @@ func (c *Conn) WorkQueueDead(module string, r buscalls.WorkQueueDeadRequest) (bu
 	}
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
-	js, err := c.jetStream()
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return buscalls.WorkQueueDeadLetters{}, err
 	}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings_test.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings_test.go
index 7cb1f25..8e163d6 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/bindings_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"io"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -71,6 +72,23 @@ func TestABundleReachesItsOwnBoundObjectsAndStreamsOnly(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil || got == nil || string(got.Data) != "what was put" || got.Info.Name != "a" {
 		t.Fatalf("read back %+v, %v", got, err)
 	}
+	// Design 47 G §518: a value over one chunk is streamed into the store and read back out of it, its description kept.
+	big := strings.Repeat("0123456789", 120<<10)
+	info, err := conn.ObjectsPutStream(ctx, "m", buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "big"}, "streamed", strings.NewReader(big))
+	if err != nil || info.Size != uint64(len(big)) || info.Description != "streamed" {
+		t.Fatalf("streamed put %+v, %v", info, err)
+	}
+	opened, rd, found, err := conn.ObjectsOpen(ctx, "m", buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "big"})
+	if err != nil || !found || opened.Size != uint64(len(big)) {
+		t.Fatalf("opened %+v %v %v", opened, found, err)
+	}
+	if back, _ := io.ReadAll(rd); string(back) != big {
+		t.Fatalf("read back %d bytes, want %d", len(back), len(big))
+	}
+	_ = rd.Close()
+	if err := conn.ObjectsDelete("m", buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "big"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	if listed, err := conn.ObjectsList("m", buscalls.ObjectsRequest{Objects: "files"}); err != nil || len(listed.Objects) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("listed %+v, %v", listed, err)
 	}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/bus.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/bus.go
index 920189e..b0c0c04 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/bus.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/bus.go
@@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ type Membership struct {
 	// Hears are the module streams the module hears, each through a durable consumer on that stream the
 	// runtime binds beside the one on EVENTS (ADR 0363 §8).
 	Hears []HeardIssued `json:"hears,omitempty"`
-	// Waits are the event families a session may wait on through the mesh MCP server (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2):
-	// the tool runner's alone, composed from its manifest with the grant that lets it subscribe them.
-	Waits []WaitIssued `json:"waits,omitempty"`
 	// Bindings are the module's bus state in the new form, by local name (novox/hq ADR 0595 §1, mesh-sdk
 	// membership.BusBinding): its object stores, streams, work queues and ledgers, its own alone (bindings.go).
 	Bindings []membership.BusBinding `json:"bindings,omitempty"`
@@ -852,6 +849,12 @@ func answerOf(data []byte) (Answered, error) {
 // PublishAs emits an event as a module: published into JetStream and awaited, de-duplicated by its
 // own id (ADR 0042). The body is the payload; the metadata rides as headers.
 func (c *Conn) PublishAs(module string, env Envelope) error {
+	_, err := c.PublishAsAcked(module, env)
+	return err
+}
+
+// PublishAsAcked is PublishAs that also answers the sequence the bus acknowledged the event at.
+func (c *Conn) PublishAsAcked(module string, env Envelope) (uint64, error) {
 	// On the module's own stream when its membership names one carrying the event (ADR 0363 §2), on EVENTS
 	// otherwise — and only there, as before, for a membership that names no stream.
 	msg := nats.NewMsg(eventSubject(c.Membership(module), module, env.Key))
@@ -873,8 +876,11 @@ func (c *Conn) PublishAs(module string, env Envelope) error {
 	if id := env.Headers["x-event-id"]; id != "" {
 		opts = append(opts, nats.MsgId(id))
 	}
-	_, err := c.js.PublishMsg(msg, opts...)
-	return err
+	ack, err := c.js.PublishMsg(msg, opts...)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return ack.Sequence, nil
 }
 
 // Say publishes one message on core NATS, kept by nobody: a heartbeat, whose loss is the next one.
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/chunked.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/chunked.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7b9257b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/chunked.go
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+package bus
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+)
+
+// FileField is the member of a chunked verb's answer that carries the file received: its whole bytes, base64 (design 47 G
+// A-249).
+const FileField = "file"
+
+// AskAsChunked is AskAs of a seat's verb whose definition says `chunks` (design 47 G §681, A-237, A-249): it chooses the call
+// token (the body's `call`), hears the chunk subjects of that call before it asks, receives the chunks the verb's answer
+// counts with buscalls.SeatChunks, each acknowledged before the next, and answers the verb's own answer with the whole
+// file added as FileField. The asking bundle receives no chunk itself.
+func (c *Conn) AskAsChunked(module, key string, body any) (Answered, error) {
+	// The verb may be asked of the machine that ran the ask (`@<node>`, A-254): the chunk subjects name the seat, the verb and
+	// the call alone.
+	name, _, _ := strings.Cut(key, "@")
+	seat, verb, ok := strings.Cut(strings.TrimPrefix(name, "seat:"), ".")
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(key, "seat:") || !ok {
+		return Answered{}, fmt.Errorf("%q is no seat:<seat>.<verb>, which a chunked answer needs", key)
+	}
+	args := map[string]any{}
+	if raw, err := json.Marshal(body); err != nil {
+		return Answered{}, err
+	} else if string(raw) != "null" {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &args); err != nil {
+			return Answered{}, fmt.Errorf("the arguments of %s are not an object: %w", key, err)
+		}
+	}
+	var bits [16]byte
+	if _, err := rand.Read(bits[:]); err != nil {
+		return Answered{}, err
+	}
+	send := buscalls.SeatChunks{Seat: seat, Verb: verb, Call: hex.EncodeToString(bits[:])}
+	args["call"] = send.Call
+	chunks := make(chan *nats.Msg, 4)
+	sub, err := c.nc.ChanSubscribe(send.Chunks(), chunks)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Answered{}, fmt.Errorf("the chunks of %s cannot be heard: %w", key, err)
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() }()
+	answered, err := c.AskAs(module, key, args)
+	if err != nil {
+		return answered, err
+	}
+	fields := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(answered.Result, &fields); err != nil {
+		return answered, fmt.Errorf("%s answered what is no object: %w", key, err)
+	}
+	var count int64
+	if raw, has := fields["chunks"]; has {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &count); err != nil {
+			return answered, fmt.Errorf("%s answered chunks that is no count: %w", key, err)
+		}
+	}
+	var file bytes.Buffer
+	if count > 0 {
+		next := func() (string, []byte, error) {
+			select {
+			case m := <-chunks:
+				return m.Subject, m.Data, nil
+			case <-time.After(buscalls.SeatAckWithin):
+				return "", nil, buscalls.ErrSeatChunkMissed
+			}
+		}
+		ack := func(subject string) error {
+			_, err := c.nc.Request(subject, []byte("{}"), buscalls.SeatAckWithin)
+			return err
+		}
+		if _, err := send.Receive(count, next, ack, &file); err != nil {
+			return answered, fmt.Errorf("the chunks of %s: %w", key, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, taken := fields[FileField]; taken {
+		return answered, errors.New(key + " answers a member named " + FileField + " itself")
+	}
+	enc, _ := json.Marshal(base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(file.Bytes()))
+	fields[FileField] = enc
+	out, err := json.Marshal(fields)
+	if err != nil {
+		return answered, err
+	}
+	answered.Result = out
+	return answered, nil
+}
+
+// AnswerChunked is a seat verb's answer as its definition says `chunks` (design 47 G A-257, §681): a bundle answers the whole file
+// as the member FileField (base64), and the runner that serves the verb sends it in chunks with buscalls.SeatChunks on the call
+// token the body names, each acknowledged by the caller before the next, and answers the verb's own members with `chunks`, the
+// count, in place of the file. The bundle sends no chunk itself. An answer with no file is answered as it is. The send runs after
+// the answer is returned: the caller hears the chunks before it asks (AskAsChunked) and acknowledges each once it has the answer.
+func (c *Conn) AnswerChunked(seat, verb string, body json.RawMessage, answer any) (any, error) {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(answer)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	fields := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &fields); err != nil {
+		return answer, nil
+	}
+	enc, has := fields[FileField]
+	if !has {
+		return answer, nil
+	}
+	var text string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(enc, &text); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s.%s answers a %s that is no string: %w", seat, verb, FileField, err)
+	}
+	file, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(text)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s.%s answers a %s in no base64: %w", seat, verb, FileField, err)
+	}
+	var asked struct {
+		Call string `json:"call"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &asked); err != nil || asked.Call == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s.%s is asked in chunks with no call token", seat, verb)
+	}
+	delete(fields, FileField)
+	count := int64((len(file) + buscalls.SeatChunkBytes - 1) / buscalls.SeatChunkBytes)
+	fields["chunks"], _ = json.Marshal(count)
+	send := buscalls.SeatChunks{Seat: seat, Verb: verb, Call: asked.Call}
+	go func() { _ = send.Send(c.nc, file, buscalls.SeatAckWithin, c.Logf) }()
+	return json.RawMessage(mustMarshal(fields)), nil
+}
+
+func mustMarshal(v any) []byte {
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(v)
+	return b
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/chunked_test.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/chunked_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a838f2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/chunked_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+package bus_test
+
+import (
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
+)
+
+// Design 47 G A-249, §681: the runner asks a chunked verb with a call token of its own, receives the chunks the answer counts
+// (each acknowledged before the next) and answers the verb's own answer with the whole file, so the asker receives none.
+func TestAChunkedSeatAnswerIsReceivedByTheRunnerAndHandedWhole(t *testing.T) {
+	url := mt.URL(t)
+	holder := dial(t, url, "mesh-delivery-indexer", "anchor", "")
+	asker := dial(t, url, "mesh-build-go", "anchor", "")
+	raw, err := nats.Connect(url)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(raw.Close)
+	file := make([]byte, buscalls.SeatChunkBytes*2+5)
+	for i := range file {
+		file[i] = byte(i)
+	}
+	// the holder's process: answers the count, then sends each chunk and waits for its acknowledgement
+	stop, err := holder.Handle("seat:mesh-catalog.input", func(body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
+		var in struct{ Call, Digest string }
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &in); err != nil || in.Call == "" {
+			t.Errorf("the verb was asked with no call token: %s (%v)", body, err)
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		send := buscalls.SeatChunks{Seat: "mesh-catalog", Verb: "input", Call: in.Call}
+		go func() {
+			for n := int64(1); n <= 3; n++ {
+				end := min(int64(len(file)), n*buscalls.SeatChunkBytes)
+				data, _ := json.Marshal(buscalls.SeatChunk{N: n, Of: 3, Data: file[(n-1)*buscalls.SeatChunkBytes : end]})
+				ackSub, _ := raw.SubscribeSync(send.Ack(n))
+				_ = raw.Flush()
+				if err := raw.Publish(send.Chunk(n), data); err != nil {
+					return
+				}
+				m, err := ackSub.NextMsg(buscalls.SeatAckWithin)
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Errorf("chunk %d not acknowledged: %v", n, err)
+					return
+				}
+				_ = m.Respond([]byte("{}"))
+			}
+		}()
+		return map[string]any{"digest": in.Digest, "chunks": 3}, nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer stop()
+	holder.Flush() // the bus holds the verb's subscription before it is asked: the asker is another connection
+	got, err := asker.AskAsChunked("mesh-build-go", "seat:mesh-catalog.input", map[string]any{"digest": "d1"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var ans struct {
+		Digest string `json:"digest"`
+		Chunks int    `json:"chunks"`
+		File   string `json:"file"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(got.Result, &ans); err != nil || ans.Digest != "d1" || ans.Chunks != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("the answer %s: %v", got.Result, err)
+	}
+	if body, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(ans.File); err != nil || string(body) != string(file) {
+		t.Errorf("the file handed is %d bytes, want the %d sent: %v", len(body), len(file), err)
+	}
+	// Design 47 G A-257, A-254: a bundle answers a chunked verb with the whole file in the member `file`; the runner that serves the
+	// verb sends the file in chunks (each acknowledged before the next) and answers the count, so the bundle sends none, and the asker
+	// of one node's verb receives it whole.
+	t.Run("ABundlesChunkedAnswerIsSentByTheRunner", func(t *testing.T) {
+		url := mt.URL(t)
+		holder := dial(t, url, "mesh-build-go", "anchor", "")
+		asker := dial(t, url, "mesh-delivery-indexer", "anchor", "")
+		file := make([]byte, buscalls.SeatChunkBytes*2+7)
+		for i := range file {
+			file[i] = byte(i * 7)
+		}
+		stop, err := holder.Handle("seat:node-build-go.output@anchor", func(body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
+			answer := map[string]any{"ask": "a1", "file": base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(file)}
+			return holder.AnswerChunked("node-build-go", "output", body, answer)
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		defer stop()
+		holder.Flush() // the bus holds the verb's subscription before it is asked: the asker is another connection
+		got, err := asker.AskAsChunked("mesh-delivery-indexer", "seat:node-build-go.output@anchor", map[string]any{"ask": "a1"})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var ans struct {
+			Ask    string `json:"ask"`
+			Chunks int    `json:"chunks"`
+			File   string `json:"file"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(got.Result, &ans); err != nil || ans.Ask != "a1" || ans.Chunks != 3 {
+			t.Fatalf("the answer %s: %v", got.Result, err)
+		}
+		if body, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(ans.File); err != nil || string(body) != string(file) {
+			t.Errorf("the file handed is %d bytes, want the %d sent: %v", len(body), len(file), err)
+		}
+		// an answer with no file is the verb's own: no chunks are sent
+		plain, err := holder.AnswerChunked("node-build-go", "output", json.RawMessage(`{"call":"c"}`), map[string]any{"ask": "x", "chunks": 0})
+		if m, _ := plain.(map[string]any); err != nil || m["chunks"] != 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("an answer with no file was %v, %v", plain, err)
+		}
+	})
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go
index c9080eb..0d48054 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ func publishExpecting(c *Conn, subject string, body []byte, expect uint64) (uint
 func lastOn(c *Conn, stream, subject string) ([]byte, uint64, error) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
 	defer cancel()
-	js, err := c.jetStream()
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, 0, err
 	}
@@ -143,13 +144,83 @@ func (h *busHistory) Read(keys string, from uint64, limit int) ([]ledger.Kept, e
 	}
 }
 
+// Purge removes every operation of one instance from the history stream, on the module's ledger connection, the one
+// granted the purge of its own ledger's streams.
+func (h *busHistory) Purge(key string) error {
+	return purgeSubject(h.read, h.write, h.stream, h.prefix+"."+key)
+}
+
+// Fill is the history stream's fill against its cap, the cap the manifest gives the ledger.
+func (h *busHistory) Fill() (buscalls.Fill, error) {
+	name := h.stream
+	if name == "" {
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+		defer cancel()
+		js, err := h.read.JetStream()
+		if err != nil {
+			return buscalls.Fill{}, err
+		}
+		if name, err = js.StreamNameBySubject(ctx, h.prefix+".>"); err != nil {
+			return buscalls.Fill{}, fmt.Errorf("no stream on the bus keeps %s: %w", h.prefix, err)
+		}
+	}
+	f, err := h.read.streamFill(name)
+	return f.Fill, err
+}
+
+// purgeSubject purges one subject's messages from the stream that keeps it: the stream named, or found on the runner's
+// own connection by its subject, purged on the ledger connection.
+func purgeSubject(read, write *Conn, stream, subject string) error {
+	if write == nil {
+		return errors.New("a ledger's streams are purged only on its module's ledger connection, and none is held")
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	if stream == "" {
+		js, err := read.JetStream()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if stream, err = js.StreamNameBySubject(ctx, subject); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("no stream on the bus keeps %s: %w", subject, err)
+		}
+	}
+	// The purge is asked of the stream by its name, with no read of its info first: the ledger account is granted the
+	// purge of its own ledger's two streams and nothing else (PurgeAPI).
+	body, err := json.Marshal(map[string]string{"filter": subject})
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	reply, err := write.nc.RequestWithContext(ctx, PurgeAPI(stream), body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("purging %s from %s: %w", subject, stream, err)
+	}
+	var ack struct {
+		Success bool `json:"success"`
+		Error   *struct {
+			Description string `json:"description"`
+		} `json:"error"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(reply.Data, &ack); err != nil || !ack.Success {
+		why := string(reply.Data)
+		if ack.Error != nil {
+			why = ack.Error.Description
+		}
+		return fmt.Errorf("the bus refused the purge of %s from %s: %s", subject, stream, why)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// PurgeAPI is the bus's subject that purges a stream, the one a ledger account is granted for its own ledger's streams.
+func PurgeAPI(stream string) string { return "$JS.API.STREAM.PURGE." + stream }
+
 type busState struct {
 	c      *Conn
 	bucket string
 }
 
 func (s *busState) kv(ctx context.Context) (jetstream.KeyValue, error) {
-	js, err := s.c.jetStream()
+	js, err := s.c.JetStream()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -231,6 +302,11 @@ func (s *busSnapshots) Get(key string) ([]byte, uint64, error) {
 	return lastOn(s.read, "", s.prefix+"."+key)
 }
 
+// Purge removes one instance's snapshot, on the module's ledger connection.
+func (s *busSnapshots) Purge(key string) error {
+	return purgeSubject(s.read, s.write, "", s.prefix+"."+key)
+}
+
 func (s *busSnapshots) Put(key string, value []byte, expect uint64) error {
 	if s.write == nil {
 		return errors.New("a ledger's snapshot is published only on its module's ledger connection, and none is held")
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/sent.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/sent.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8242fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/sent.go
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package bus
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/stateobjects"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+)
+
+// SentGet reads one object of a sender's store of sent objects by the reference that carried it (ADR 0666 §16): the
+// store is the sender's `<module>_sent-objects`, and no other — a state's objects are reached through their owner's
+// bindings alone. It reads as this connection's account, which the bus lets read a sender's sent store only where the
+// grants part granted it (a bundle is held to what its runtime channel carries by the runtime call, not here), from the manifests' callers and consumers; a refusal says the store.
+func (c *Conn) SentGet(r buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest) (*buscalls.ObjectData, error) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	obs, err := c.sentStore(ctx, r)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	info, err := obs.GetInfo(ctx, r.Object)
+	if errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrObjectNotFound) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the sent object %s is not in %s: it is kept 7 days, then expires", r.Object, r.Store)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the sent object %s of %s: %w", r.Object, r.Store, err)
+	}
+	data, err := obs.GetBytes(ctx, r.Object)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the sent object %s of %s: %w", r.Object, r.Store, err)
+	}
+	return &buscalls.ObjectData{Info: objectInfoOf(info), Data: data}, nil
+}
+
+// sentStore checks the reference r and opens the sender's sent store it names.
+func (c *Conn) sentStore(ctx context.Context, r buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest) (jetstream.ObjectStore, error) {
+	ref := stateobjects.Ref{Store: r.Store, Object: r.Object, Size: r.Size, Digest: r.Digest, Form: stateobjects.FormVersion}
+	if _, ok := stateobjects.ReadRef(stateobjects.Wrap(ref)); !ok {
+		return nil, errors.New("a sent object is named by the reference's store, object, size and sha256, as the reply or event carried them")
+	}
+	if !strings.HasSuffix(r.Store, catalogue.BusNameSeparator+catalogue.SentObjectsLocal) {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s is no sent store (a module's is `<module>%s%s`): only a sent object is read by its reference",
+			r.Store, catalogue.BusNameSeparator, catalogue.SentObjectsLocal)
+	}
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	obs, err := js.ObjectStore(ctx, r.Store)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the sent store %s cannot be read as %s: it is not on the bus, or the bus grants this account no "+
+			"read of it (the manifests' callers and consumers are granted): %w", r.Store, c.cred.Module, err)
+	}
+	return obs, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/sessions.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/sessions.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..283b5c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/sessions.go
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+package bus
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+)
+
+// The bus side of a bundle's put and get sessions (design 47 G §518, A-21, A-25): a put written into the module's object
+// store as its chunks arrive and a get read out of it as they are asked, through the store's own chunking, so no more than
+// one chunk is held in memory. The session itself is the runtime's (internal/runtime/sessions.go).
+
+// ObjectsPutStream stores the object r.Name of the module's object store r.Objects from in, read to its end, with the
+// put's description (A-25); it answers once the object is sealed. A read error of in drops the object: nothing is left.
+func (c *Conn) ObjectsPutStream(ctx context.Context, module string, r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest, description string, in io.Reader) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, error) {
+	if r.Name == "" {
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, errors.New("an object is put under a name")
+	}
+	obs, _, err := c.objectStore(ctx, module, r.Objects)
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, err
+	}
+	info, err := obs.Put(ctx, jetstream.ObjectMeta{Name: r.Name, Description: description}, in)
+	if err != nil {
+		_ = obs.Delete(context.WithoutCancel(ctx), r.Name)
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, err
+	}
+	return objectInfoOf(info), nil
+}
+
+// ObjectsOpen is one object of the module's object store as a reader of its bytes beside its info; found is false when there
+// is none. The caller closes the reader.
+func (c *Conn) ObjectsOpen(ctx context.Context, module string, r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest) (info buscalls.ObjectInfo, rd io.ReadCloser, found bool, err error) {
+	obs, _, err := c.objectStore(ctx, module, r.Objects)
+	if err != nil {
+		return info, nil, false, err
+	}
+	res, err := obs.Get(ctx, r.Name)
+	if errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrObjectNotFound) {
+		return info, nil, false, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return info, nil, false, err
+	}
+	i, err := res.Info()
+	if err != nil {
+		res.Close()
+		return info, nil, false, err
+	}
+	return objectInfoOf(i), res, true, nil
+}
+
+// SentOpen is a sent object, read by its reference as SentGet reads it, as a reader of its bytes beside its info.
+func (c *Conn) SentOpen(ctx context.Context, r buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, io.ReadCloser, error) {
+	obs, err := c.sentStore(ctx, r)
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, nil, err
+	}
+	res, err := obs.Get(ctx, r.Object)
+	if errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrObjectNotFound) {
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, nil, fmt.Errorf("the sent object %s is not in %s: it is kept 7 days, then expires", r.Object, r.Store)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, nil, fmt.Errorf("the sent object %s of %s: %w", r.Object, r.Store, err)
+	}
+	i, err := res.Info()
+	if err != nil {
+		res.Close()
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, nil, err
+	}
+	return objectInfoOf(i), res, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/state_watch_test.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/state_watch_test.go
index 42b16da..15280aa 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/state_watch_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/state_watch_test.go
@@ -87,6 +87,74 @@ func TestAWatchHoldsWhileItsCurrentValuesKeepArriving(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 		return nil
 	})
+	// **A watch given up, or stopped, hands over nothing more** (issue 774). The runtime's watch stopped its watcher
+	// when the current values did not arrive within the bound, but the watcher still held values, and its goroutine
+	// went on handing them over: to a watch id the bundle no longer held (on the provisioner, 51 failed watches were
+	// followed by 1257 orphan changes). Each row blocks the bundle on its first value, gives the watch up, lets the
+	// bundle go and counts what it is still handed.
+	t.Run("AWatchGivenUpHandsOverNothingMore", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for _, tc := range []struct {
+			name    string
+			refused bool // the bound gives it up, or the caller stops it
+		}{
+			{"refused at the bound", true},
+			{"stopped by its caller", false},
+		} {
+			t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+				was := bus.StateTimeout
+				bus.StateTimeout = 300 * time.Millisecond
+				t.Cleanup(func() { bus.StateTimeout = was })
+				conn, kv := owedWatcher(t)
+				put := func(i int) {
+					if _, err := kv.Put(fmt.Sprintf("novox/hq.%d.%040x.status=mesh/check", i+1, i), []byte(`{"v":1}`)); err != nil {
+						t.Fatal(err)
+					}
+				}
+				if tc.refused {
+					for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
+						put(i)
+					}
+				}
+				var calls atomic.Int32
+				first := make(chan struct{}, 1)
+				release := make(chan struct{})
+				deliver := func(ch bus.StateChange) error {
+					if calls.Add(1) == 1 {
+						first <- struct{}{}
+						<-release
+					}
+					return nil
+				}
+				var stop func()
+				if tc.refused {
+					if _, err := conn.StateWatch("gitea", "mesh-delivery-checker.owed", "", deliver); err == nil {
+						t.Fatal("the watch whose bundle took nothing was not refused")
+					}
+				} else {
+					var err error
+					if stop, err = conn.StateWatch("gitea", "mesh-delivery-checker.owed", "", deliver); err != nil {
+						t.Fatal(err)
+					}
+					for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
+						put(i)
+					}
+					select {
+					case <-first:
+					case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+						t.Fatal("the bundle was handed no change")
+					}
+					stop()
+				}
+				// Let the watcher's server side deliver what it held, then free the bundle.
+				time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
+				close(release)
+				time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
+				if n := calls.Load(); n != 1 {
+					t.Fatalf("the bundle was handed %d changes of a watch given up, want 1 (the one in hand)", n)
+				}
+			})
+		}
+	})
 }
 
 // A watch whose bundle takes nothing for longer than the bound is still refused, so a bundle that hangs
@@ -187,72 +255,3 @@ func owedWatcher(t *testing.T) (*bus.Conn, interface {
 	})
 	return conn, kv
 }
-
-// **A watch given up, or stopped, hands over nothing more** (issue 774). The runtime's watch stopped its watcher
-// when the current values did not arrive within the bound, but the watcher still held values, and its goroutine
-// went on handing them over: to a watch id the bundle no longer held (on the provisioner, 51 failed watches were
-// followed by 1257 orphan changes). Each row blocks the bundle on its first value, gives the watch up, lets the
-// bundle go and counts what it is still handed.
-func TestAWatchGivenUpHandsOverNothingMore(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		name    string
-		refused bool // the bound gives it up, or the caller stops it
-	}{
-		{"refused at the bound", true},
-		{"stopped by its caller", false},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			was := bus.StateTimeout
-			bus.StateTimeout = 300 * time.Millisecond
-			t.Cleanup(func() { bus.StateTimeout = was })
-			conn, kv := owedWatcher(t)
-			put := func(i int) {
-				if _, err := kv.Put(fmt.Sprintf("novox/hq.%d.%040x.status=mesh/check", i+1, i), []byte(`{"v":1}`)); err != nil {
-					t.Fatal(err)
-				}
-			}
-			if tc.refused {
-				for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
-					put(i)
-				}
-			}
-			var calls atomic.Int32
-			first := make(chan struct{}, 1)
-			release := make(chan struct{})
-			deliver := func(ch bus.StateChange) error {
-				if calls.Add(1) == 1 {
-					first <- struct{}{}
-					<-release
-				}
-				return nil
-			}
-			var stop func()
-			if tc.refused {
-				if _, err := conn.StateWatch("gitea", "mesh-delivery-checker.owed", "", deliver); err == nil {
-					t.Fatal("the watch whose bundle took nothing was not refused")
-				}
-			} else {
-				var err error
-				if stop, err = conn.StateWatch("gitea", "mesh-delivery-checker.owed", "", deliver); err != nil {
-					t.Fatal(err)
-				}
-				for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
-					put(i)
-				}
-				select {
-				case <-first:
-				case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
-					t.Fatal("the bundle was handed no change")
-				}
-				stop()
-			}
-			// Let the watcher's server side deliver what it held, then free the bundle.
-			time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
-			close(release)
-			time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
-			if n := calls.Load(); n != 1 {
-				t.Fatalf("the bundle was handed %d changes of a watch given up, want 1 (the one in hand)", n)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/streams_internal_test.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/streams_internal_test.go
index be4cefc..5b176c3 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/streams_internal_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/streams_internal_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 package bus
 
-import "testing"
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+)
 
 // novox/hq ADR 0363 §2, §3: an event goes to the stream whose pattern carries it, as the bus matches subjects.
 func TestAnEventFallsUnderAStreamsPatternAsTheBusMatchesIt(t *testing.T) {
@@ -22,6 +27,24 @@ func TestAnEventFallsUnderAStreamsPatternAsTheBusMatchesIt(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%q under %q: %v, want %v", c.event, c.pattern, got, c.want)
 		}
 	}
+	// Design 47 G §347, §59, §462: a sent object is read by the reference that carried it, from a sender's sent store only; a
+	// state's objects, and a reference that is none are refused before the bus is asked.
+	t.Run("SentGetRefusesWhatIsNoSentObjectsReference", func(t *testing.T) {
+		digest := "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
+		for _, c := range []struct {
+			name string
+			req  buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest
+			want string
+		}{
+			{"no digest", buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest{Store: "m_sent-objects", Object: "o", Size: 3}, "named by the reference"},
+			{"a state's objects", buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest{Store: "m_asks-objects", Object: "o", Size: 3, Digest: digest}, "no sent store"},
+		} {
+			_, err := (&Conn{}).SentGet(c.req)
+			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.want) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: got %v, want an error containing %q", c.name, err, c.want)
+			}
+		}
+	})
 }
 
 // A membership naming no stream publishes every event on EVENTS, exactly as before (issue 725).
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/subscribenew.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/subscribenew.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d282fa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/subscribenew.go
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+package bus
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+)
+
+// SubscribeNew hears one event, named `<emitter>.<event>`, from the next message on, on an ordered consumer of its own on each
+// stream that carries it, and hands every message to deliver as the envelope a module sees. The subjects the name lands on are
+// mesh-sdk's one rule (buscompose.EventSubjects, design 47 G §559, A-153), so a name with a wildcard is refused, naming the rule;
+// a name no stream on the bus carries is an error, never a subscription that hears nothing. stop ends every consumer.
+func (c *Conn) SubscribeNew(name string, deliver func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error) {
+	subjects, err := buscompose.EventSubjects(name, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	js, err := c.JetStream()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	// The streams that carry each subject, found by the bus: a namespace no stream carries hears nothing and is skipped.
+	byStream := map[string][]string{}
+	for _, subject := range subjects {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(subject, ".>") {
+			continue
+		}
+		stream, err := js.StreamNameBySubject(ctx, subject)
+		if err != nil || stream == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		byStream[stream] = append(byStream[stream], subject, subject+".>")
+	}
+	if len(byStream) == 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no stream on the bus carries %s (%s): nothing would be heard", name, strings.Join(subjects, ", "))
+	}
+	var stops []func()
+	stopAll := func() {
+		for _, s := range stops {
+			s()
+		}
+	}
+	for _, stream := range slices.Sorted(mapKeys(byStream)) {
+		cons, err := js.OrderedConsumer(ctx, stream, jetstream.OrderedConsumerConfig{FilterSubjects: byStream[stream],
+			DeliverPolicy: jetstream.DeliverNewPolicy})
+		if err != nil {
+			stopAll()
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("an ordered consumer of %s on %s: %w", name, stream, err)
+		}
+		cc, err := cons.Consume(func(m jetstream.Msg) {
+			env, ok := envelopeOf(m.Subject(), m.Headers(), m.Data())
+			if !ok {
+				return
+			}
+			raw, err := json.Marshal(env)
+			if err != nil {
+				return
+			}
+			if err := deliver(raw); err != nil && c.Logf != nil {
+				c.Logf("[mesh-tools] a subscription for new %s messages did not take one: %v", name, err)
+			}
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			stopAll()
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("consuming %s on %s: %w", name, stream, err)
+		}
+		stops = append(stops, cc.Stop)
+	}
+	return stopAll, nil
+}
+
+func mapKeys(m map[string][]string) func(func(string) bool) {
+	return func(yield func(string) bool) {
+		for k := range m {
+			if !yield(k) {
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/wait.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/wait.go
index 4dda03b..c42a667 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/wait.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/wait.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -16,38 +17,42 @@ import (
 // subscribes the subjects when called and unsubscribes them before it answers, so an event published
 // between two calls is not heard — a session reads the state from its owner after every wake (§4).
 
-// WaitIssued is one event family the mesh issued this account to wait on (ADR 0367 §2): the name a session
-// asks for, and the subject it lands on. Only the tool runner's membership carries any.
-type WaitIssued struct {
-	Event   string `json:"event"`
-	Subject string `json:"subject"`
-}
-
-// Heard is one event a wait heard: the subject it arrived on, its body and when it arrived.
+// Heard is one event a wait heard: the subject it arrived on, its body, when it arrived, and when it was published, the
+// event's own header `x-time` as its emitter wrote it, empty for an event that carries none (design 34 every-event §12).
 type Heard struct {
-	Subject string
-	Body    json.RawMessage
-	At      time.Time
+	Subject   string
+	Body      json.RawMessage
+	At        time.Time
+	Published string
 }
 
 // HearFirst subscribes the subjects for this call alone and answers the first message whose body match
 // accepts (every one, when match is nil), or ok false once `within` has passed. Every subscription is
-// closed before it returns. A subscription the bus refuses is said as an error naming the subject, at once;
-// a caller gone — ctx done — ends the wait at once with ctx's error, so nothing waits on for nobody.
-func (c *Conn) HearFirst(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Duration, match func(json.RawMessage) bool) (heard Heard, ok bool, err error) {
+// closed before it returns. A subscription the bus refuses is noted and the others go on waiting; refused lists
+// those noted by the time it answers (design 34 every-event §16). When the bus refused every subscription of the
+// call, it still waits out `within` and then answers the refusal, so a caller looping on it asks once a timeout and
+// never at once again. A caller gone — ctx done — ends the wait at once with ctx's error, so nothing waits on for
+// nobody.
+func (c *Conn) HearFirst(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Duration, match func(json.RawMessage) bool) (heard Heard, ok bool, refused []string, err error) {
 	if len(subjects) == 0 {
-		return Heard{}, false, fmt.Errorf("a wait names at least one subject")
+		return Heard{}, false, nil, fmt.Errorf("a wait names at least one subject")
+	}
+	var unique []string
+	for _, subject := range subjects {
+		if !slices.Contains(unique, subject) {
+			unique = append(unique, subject)
+		}
 	}
 	got := make(chan Heard, 1)
-	refused := make(chan string, len(subjects))
+	refusals := make(chan string, len(unique))
 	var subs []*nats.Subscription
 	defer func() {
 		for _, s := range subs {
 			_ = s.Unsubscribe()
 		}
 		c.mu.Lock()
-		for _, subject := range subjects {
-			delete(c.waits[subject], refused)
+		for _, subject := range unique {
+			delete(c.waits[subject], refusals)
 			if len(c.waits[subject]) == 0 {
 				delete(c.waits, subject)
 			}
@@ -58,14 +63,14 @@ func (c *Conn) HearFirst(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Dur
 	if c.waits == nil {
 		c.waits = map[string]map[chan string]bool{}
 	}
-	for _, subject := range subjects {
+	for _, subject := range unique {
 		if c.waits[subject] == nil {
 			c.waits[subject] = map[chan string]bool{}
 		}
-		c.waits[subject][refused] = true
+		c.waits[subject][refusals] = true
 	}
 	c.mu.Unlock()
-	for _, subject := range subjects {
+	for _, subject := range unique {
 		sub, err := c.nc.Subscribe(subject, func(msg *nats.Msg) {
 			body := json.RawMessage(msg.Data)
 			if !json.Valid(body) {
@@ -76,31 +81,39 @@ func (c *Conn) HearFirst(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Dur
 				return
 			}
 			select {
-			case got <- Heard{Subject: msg.Subject, Body: body, At: time.Now().UTC()}:
+			case got <- Heard{Subject: msg.Subject, Body: body, At: time.Now().UTC(), Published: msg.Header.Get("x-time")}:
 			default:
 			}
 		})
 		if err != nil {
-			return Heard{}, false, fmt.Errorf("could not wait on %s: %w", subject, err)
+			return Heard{}, false, nil, fmt.Errorf("could not wait on %s: %w", subject, err)
 		}
 		subs = append(subs, sub)
 	}
 	// The bus has every subscription — or has said which it refused — once this returns.
 	if err := c.nc.FlushTimeout(5 * time.Second); err != nil {
-		return Heard{}, false, fmt.Errorf("the bus did not take the wait: %w", err)
+		return Heard{}, false, nil, fmt.Errorf("the bus did not take the wait: %w", err)
 	}
 	timer := time.NewTimer(within)
 	defer timer.Stop()
-	select {
-	case h := <-got:
-		return h, true, nil
-	case subject := <-refused:
-		return Heard{}, false, fmt.Errorf("the bus refused this account a subscription on %s: it is not in the "+
-			"account's wait grant (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2)", subject)
-	case <-timer.C:
-		return Heard{}, false, nil
-	case <-ctx.Done():
-		return Heard{}, false, ctx.Err()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case h := <-got:
+			return h, true, refused, nil
+		case subject := <-refusals:
+			if !slices.Contains(refused, subject) {
+				refused = append(refused, subject)
+			}
+		case <-timer.C:
+			if len(refused) == len(unique) {
+				return Heard{}, false, refused, fmt.Errorf("the bus refused this account a subscription on %s: the "+
+					"grants part grants this machine's tool runner every event subject (novox/hq ADR 0670 §1), so its "+
+					"grant is not composed yet; read the state from its owner meanwhile", strings.Join(refused, ", "))
+			}
+			return Heard{}, false, refused, nil
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return Heard{}, false, refused, ctx.Err()
+		}
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/wait_test.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/wait_test.go
index 45d3b5a..c12d8d7 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/wait_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/wait_test.go
@@ -2,22 +2,24 @@ package bus_test
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
 )
 
-// novox/hq ADR 0367 §2, §5: the bus refuses the tool runner's account any subject its wait grant does not
-// name — another asker's `decided` among them — and a wait on one says the bus refused it, at once.
+// novox/hq ADR 0670 §1 (design 34 every-event §12, §16): a subscription the bus refuses is noted and the others go on
+// waiting, a heard event carries its own time; a wait whose every subscription is refused answers only after its
+// timeout, in words naming the grants part's grant of every event subject, never a wait grant (E-2).
 func TestTheBusRefusesAWaitOutsideTheGrant(t *testing.T) {
 	granted := "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.claude-code"
+	other := "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.shop"
 	s, err := server.NewServer(&server.Options{Host: "127.0.0.1", Port: server.RANDOM_PORT, NoLog: true, NoSigs: true,
 		Users: []*server.User{{Username: "desk.node-tools", Password: "pw", Permissions: &server.Permissions{
 			Publish:   &server.SubjectPermission{Allow: []string{"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.>", "mesh.>"}},
@@ -33,33 +35,65 @@ func TestTheBusRefusesAWaitOutsideTheGrant(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Cleanup(s.Shutdown)
 	c := dial(t, s.ClientURL(), "node-tools", "desk", "desk.node-tools")
 
+	// Every subscription refused: answered after the timeout, never at once, in §16's words.
 	start := time.Now()
-	_, ok, err := c.HearFirst(context.Background(), []string{"mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.shop"}, 5*time.Second, nil)
-	if ok || err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "refused") {
-		t.Errorf("a wait on another asker's decided: heard %v, %v", ok, err)
+	_, ok, refused, err := c.HearFirst(context.Background(), []string{other}, 300*time.Millisecond, nil)
+	if took := time.Since(start); took < 300*time.Millisecond || took > 3*time.Second {
+		t.Errorf("a wait refused whole answered after %s, want its timeout of 300ms", took)
 	}
-	if time.Since(start) > 3*time.Second {
-		t.Errorf("the refusal took %s to be said", time.Since(start))
+	if ok || err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the bus refused this account a subscription on "+other) ||
+		!strings.Contains(err.Error(), "every event subject (novox/hq ADR 0670 §1)") ||
+		strings.Contains(err.Error(), "wait grant") || strings.Contains(err.Error(), "0367") ||
+		len(refused) != 1 || refused[0] != other {
+		t.Errorf("a wait on another asker's decided: heard %v, refused %v, %v", ok, refused, err)
 	}
 
-	done := make(chan bus.Heard, 1)
-	go func() {
-		h, ok, err := c.HearFirst(context.Background(), []string{granted}, 5*time.Second, func(body json.RawMessage) bool { return true })
-		if ok && err == nil {
-			done <- h
-		}
-	}()
-	time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
-	if err := c.Say(granted, []byte(`{"ask":"a1"}`)); err != nil {
+	// One refused beside one granted: the granted one hears, with the event's own time, and the refused one is listed.
+	pub, err := nats.Connect(s.ClientURL(), nats.UserInfo("desk.node-tools", "pw"))
+	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	select {
-	case h := <-done:
-		if h.Subject != granted || string(h.Body) != `{"ask":"a1"}` {
-			t.Errorf("heard %+v", h)
+	t.Cleanup(pub.Close)
+	for _, published := range []string{"2026-11-12T03:00:00.5Z", ""} {
+		type result struct {
+			h       bus.Heard
+			refused []string
+			err     error
+		}
+		done := make(chan result, 1)
+		go func() {
+			h, ok, refused, err := c.HearFirst(context.Background(), []string{other, granted}, 5*time.Second, nil)
+			if !ok && err == nil {
+				err = errors.New("timed out")
+			}
+			done <- result{h, refused, err}
+		}()
+		// The event is said again until the wait, subscribed in its own time, hears it.
+		say := time.NewTicker(20 * time.Millisecond)
+		var r result
+	heard:
+		for {
+			select {
+			case r = <-done:
+				break heard
+			case <-say.C:
+				msg := nats.NewMsg(granted)
+				msg.Data = []byte(`{"ask":"a1"}`)
+				if published != "" {
+					msg.Header.Set("x-time", published)
+				}
+				if err := pub.PublishMsg(msg); err != nil {
+					t.Fatal(err)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		say.Stop()
+		if r.err != nil || r.h.Subject != granted || string(r.h.Body) != `{"ask":"a1"}` || r.h.Published != published {
+			t.Errorf("heard %+v, %v; want published %q", r.h, r.err, published)
+		}
+		if len(r.refused) > 1 || len(r.refused) == 1 && r.refused[0] != other {
+			t.Errorf("refused %v, want at most %s", r.refused, other)
 		}
-	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
-		t.Fatal("a wait on the granted subject heard nothing")
 	}
 }
 
@@ -70,7 +104,7 @@ func TestAWaitEndsWhenItsCallerIsGone(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
 	time.AfterFunc(200*time.Millisecond, cancel)
 	start := time.Now()
-	_, ok, err := c.HearFirst(ctx, []string{"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed"}, time.Minute, nil)
+	_, ok, _, err := c.HearFirst(ctx, []string{"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed"}, time.Minute, nil)
 	if ok || !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
 		t.Errorf("a cancelled wait answered %v, %v", ok, err)
 	}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/address.go b/node-tools/internal/console/address.go
index 15bac45..706f38c 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/address.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/address.go
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ package console
 import (
 	assigner "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/meshmoduleassignerclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner"
-	meshcatalogclient "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
@@ -95,8 +96,7 @@ func discovery() []map[string]any {
 				"bus, and when it was last heard — and every runtime or machine expected that was not heard. Read-only; " +
 				"for when an address is said to be missing or on another machine."},
 		{"name": verbFirstViews, "inputSchema": obj(map[string]any{}),
-			"description": "The tool runner's first views of the four states it reads of the indexer and the assigner (the " +
-				"assigner's assignments and seat-holders, the indexer's manifests and modules): for each, the owner, the tool " +
+			"description": "The tool runner's first views: the assigner's assignments and seat-holders, and the catalog half's registrations, the gate's source and the view of each watched branch (which modules exist, each with its manifest): for each, the owner, the tool " +
 				"asked, the revision held and when it was made, how many keys, when it was asked and answered, how often " +
 				"it was asked and how often by hand, whether its condition is raised, and why it was last asked. Read-only."},
 		{"name": verbFirstAgain, "inputSchema": obj(map[string]any{
@@ -104,12 +104,13 @@ func discovery() []map[string]any {
 		}), "description": "Ask the tool runner's four first views again, now, and say what each answers. A hand act, recorded in " +
 			"the runner's log with its reason; for when a picture is doubted, or after an owner's state was made again."},
 		waitTool(),
+		approvalsTool(),
 	}
 }
 
 func isDiscovery(name string) bool {
 	switch name {
-	case verbOverview, verbMachine, verbSearch, verbDescribe, verbCall, verbRuntimes, verbFirstViews, verbFirstAgain, verbWait:
+	case verbOverview, verbMachine, verbSearch, verbDescribe, verbCall, verbRuntimes, verbFirstViews, verbFirstAgain, verbWait, verbApprovals:
 		return true
 	}
 	return false
@@ -359,14 +360,14 @@ func indexOn(conn *bus.Conn, src Source, held announce.Known, before func(announ
 	return x, nil
 }
 
-// Source is where the console reads the four states of the indexer and the assigner it indexes the mesh by: the assigner's
-// assignments and seat-holders, the indexer's modules and manifests, by `<owner>.<state>` (firstview.AssignmentsRead and the
-// rest). The tool runner's is its first views (firstview.Views), never the owners' state (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1).
+// Source is where the console reads what it indexes the mesh by: the assigner's assignments and seat-holders, by
+// `<owner>.<state>` (firstview.AssignmentsRead and SeatHoldersRead), and the modules of the catalog half with their entries.
+// The tool runner's is its first views (firstview.Views), never the owners' state (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1; design 47 G §196, §594).
 type Source interface {
 	// State is every current value of a state by key; an error says why it cannot be told yet.
 	State(name string) (map[string][]byte, error)
-	// Entry is one value of a state, nil when it holds none.
-	Entry(name, key string) ([]byte, error)
+	// Modules is every module the catalog half holds, by name, with its entry; an error says why it cannot be told yet.
+	Modules() (map[string]meshcatalog.CatalogEntry, error)
 }
 
 // seatHoldersOn reads the state seat-holders whole (novox/hq ADR 0571 clause 4), as firstview.SeatHoldersRead.
@@ -374,22 +375,12 @@ func seatHoldersOn(src Source) (map[string][]byte, error) {
 	return src.State(firstview.SeatHoldersRead)
 }
 
-// The indexer's states the console reads (novox/hq ADR 0571 clauses 4 and 5): every module, and each manifest by its
-// digest, by the names a reader's manifest declares.
-var (
-	modulesRead   = firstview.ModulesRead
-	manifestsRead = firstview.ManifestsRead
-)
-
-// manifestFacts is what the console takes of a manifest: the tools it declares and what each replaces. A manifest's
-// digest never names another, so what is read once is kept.
+// manifestFacts is what the console takes of a manifest: the tools it declares and what each replaces.
 type manifestFacts struct {
 	Tools    []string            `json:"tools"`
 	Replaces map[string][]string `json:"replaces"`
 }
 
-var manifestsKept sync.Map // digest → manifestFacts
-
 // recordsOn is every module the indexer holds, with where the assigner seat places it and whether it declares tools,
 // and every machine the assignments name (moduleNames, assigner.MachineNames). What cannot be read is said, one line
 // per state, for the listing's not answering.
@@ -411,18 +402,19 @@ func recordsOn(src Source) (recorded []recordedModule, machines []string, why []
 			on[m.Module] = append(on[m.Module], node)
 		}
 	}
-	modules, err := src.State(modulesRead)
+	entries, err := src.Modules()
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, machines, append(why, modulesRead+" (which modules there are could not be read: "+err.Error()+")")
+		return nil, machines, append(why, "the catalog half's modules (which modules there are could not be read: "+err.Error()+")")
 	}
-	names, err := moduleNames(modules)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, machines, append(why, modulesRead+" ("+err.Error()+")")
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(entries))
+	for name := range entries {
+		names = append(names, name)
 	}
+	sort.Strings(names)
 	for _, name := range names {
 		r := recordedModule{Module: name, On: on[name]}
-		if m, err := meshcatalogclient.DecodeModule(modules[name]); err == nil && m.Manifest != "" {
-			facts, err := manifestOf(src, m.Manifest)
+		if m := entries[name].Manifest; len(m) > 0 {
+			facts, err := manifestOf(m)
 			if err != nil {
 				why = append(why, name+" (its manifest could not be read, so whether it answers tools is not known: "+err.Error()+")")
 			} else {
@@ -434,42 +426,16 @@ func recordsOn(src Source) (recorded []recordedModule, machines []string, why []
 	return recorded, machines, why
 }
 
-// moduleNames is every module the indexer holds, sorted, from its state `modules` as a reader holds its keys (key to
-// value; a deleted key absent). A key that is not a module's is refused, naming it.
-func moduleNames(keys map[string][]byte) ([]string, error) {
-	out := make([]string, 0, len(keys))
-	for k := range keys {
-		module, err := meshcatalogclient.ParseModulesKey(k)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		out = append(out, module)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(out)
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// manifestOf is what the console takes of the manifest of a digest, read from the indexer's manifests once.
-func manifestOf(src Source, digest string) (manifestFacts, error) {
-	if kept, ok := manifestsKept.Load(digest); ok {
-		return kept.(manifestFacts), nil
-	}
-	entry, err := src.Entry(manifestsRead, digest)
-	if err != nil {
-		return manifestFacts{}, err
-	}
-	if entry == nil {
-		return manifestFacts{}, fmt.Errorf("the indexer holds no manifest %s", digest)
-	}
-	m, err := meshcatalogclient.DecodeManifest(entry)
+// manifestOf is what the console takes of the manifest an entry of the catalog half carries whole (design 47 G §443).
+func manifestOf(manifest map[string]any) (manifestFacts, error) {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(manifest)
 	if err != nil {
 		return manifestFacts{}, err
 	}
 	var facts manifestFacts
-	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(m.Manifest), &facts); err != nil {
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &facts); err != nil {
 		return manifestFacts{}, err
 	}
-	manifestsKept.Store(digest, facts)
 	return facts, nil
 }
 
@@ -961,6 +927,21 @@ func schemaWithoutNode(raw json.RawMessage) map[string]any {
 }
 
 // answerText is a discovery verb's answer as MCP content: JSON, indented.
+// callFailed is why a call failed, as mesh_call says it: a marked tool or verb that reaches no responder names `withheld`
+// and the grants part's read (design 46 7-approval-mark §6), and a target known only from an earlier round says so.
+func (s *Surface) callFailed(t target, err error) string {
+	why := whyItFailed(t.Address, err)
+	if ok, _ := s.markedTool(t); ok && errors.Is(err, bus.ErrNoResponders) {
+		// A marked subject withheld from a machine whose tool runner does not honour the mark (§6).
+		why += "; it needs the operator's approval, so it may be withheld where the machine's tool runner does not state " +
+			"approval-mark/1: mesh-grants.grants_user_list names it under withheld"
+	}
+	if t.Stale != nil {
+		why += " (" + t.Stale.say() + ")"
+	}
+	return why
+}
+
 func answerText(v any) map[string]any {
 	var b strings.Builder
 	enc := json.NewEncoder(&b)
@@ -985,6 +966,9 @@ func (s *Surface) discover(ctx context.Context, name string, args map[string]any
 	if name == verbWait {
 		return s.waitAnswer(ctx, args)
 	}
+	if name == verbApprovals {
+		return s.approvalsAnswer(args)
+	}
 	x, err := s.index()
 	if err != nil {
 		return failure("the mesh's discovery failed: " + err.Error())
@@ -1145,6 +1129,10 @@ func (s *Surface) discover(ctx context.Context, name string, args map[string]any
 		if t.Stale != nil {
 			described["found"] = t.Stale.say()
 		}
+		if ok, source := s.markedTool(t); ok {
+			described["needs-approval"] = map[string]any{"source": source,
+				"says": "the first call asks the operator and runs nothing; the same call again within 30 minutes of the Approve runs once"}
+		}
 		return answerText(described)
 
 	case verbCall:
@@ -1164,13 +1152,13 @@ func (s *Surface) discover(ctx context.Context, name string, args map[string]any
 			got, err = callTool(s.conn, t.Key, callArgs, nil, x.Listing)
 		}
 		if err != nil {
-			why := whyItFailed(t.Address, err)
-			if t.Stale != nil {
-				why += " (" + t.Stale.say() + ")"
-			}
-			return failure(why)
+			return failure(s.callFailed(t, err))
+		}
+		result, unread := resolveSent(s.conn, got.Result)
+		content := []map[string]any{{"type": "text", "text": pretty(result)}}
+		if unread != "" {
+			content = append(content, map[string]any{"type": "text", "text": unread})
 		}
-		content := []map[string]any{{"type": "text", "text": pretty(got.Result)}}
 		if got.Node != "" {
 			content = append(content, map[string]any{"type": "text", "text": "answered by " + got.Node})
 		}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/approvals.go b/node-tools/internal/console/approvals.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17bcaf3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/approvals.go
@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+package console
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+)
+
+// verbApprovals is the mesh MCP server's tool that reads and steers what the gate asked on this machine (design 46
+// 7-approval-mark §18).
+const verbApprovals = "mesh_approvals"
+
+// Approvals is the gate of this machine's tool runner, as mesh_approvals and mesh_describe read it.
+type Approvals interface {
+	List() ([]approval.Listed, error)
+	Read(id string) (approval.Whole, error)
+	Applied() []approval.Marks
+	Describe(module, seat, name string) (bool, string)
+	Again(id string) error
+	Cancel(id string) error
+	// Fill is the state approvals' bytes against its cap, every machine's keys together.
+	Fill() (bytes uint64, max int64, err error)
+}
+
+func approvalsTool() map[string]any {
+	str := func(desc string) map[string]any { return map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": desc} }
+	return map[string]any{"name": verbApprovals, "inputSchema": map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{
+		"ask":    str("an ask's id: its whole arguments and the act's digest"),
+		"record": str("an ask's id: ask mesh-hand-acts.warranted again for its run, recorded in the hand-act log first"),
+		"cancel": str("an ask's id: take that open ask back, recorded in the hand-act log first"),
+		"why":    str("why, for record and cancel, kept in the hand-act log"),
+	}}, "description": "The calls that needed the operator's approval on this machine: with no argument, those asked in " +
+		"the last day, newest first, with their state and fingerprint, the marks the tool runner applies (each module's " +
+		"marked tools and verbs with their source and the catalog revision read) and its state's fill; `ask` reads one " +
+		"whole, `record` asks its hand-act again, `cancel` takes an open ask back."}
+}
+
+// approvalsAnswer is mesh_approvals.
+func (s *Surface) approvalsAnswer(args map[string]any) map[string]any {
+	if s.Approvals == nil {
+		return failure("this tool runner has no approval gate")
+	}
+	str := func(k string) string { v, _ := args[k].(string); return strings.TrimSpace(v) }
+	why := str("why")
+	if why == "" {
+		why = "asked by hand with no reason given"
+	}
+	act := func(id, what, cause string, do func(string) error) map[string]any {
+		// A hand act, recorded through the seat mesh-hand-acts before it is done (§18); one that cannot be recorded is refused.
+		log.Printf("[mesh-tools] hand act: %s %s ask %s: %s", s.who, what, id, why)
+		if err := s.recordAct(map[string]any{"what": what + " ask " + id, "why": why, "cause": cause, "verb": verbApprovals}); err != nil {
+			return failure("the hand act was not recorded through mesh-hand-acts, so nothing was done: " + err.Error())
+		}
+		if err := do(id); err != nil {
+			return failure(err.Error())
+		}
+		return answerText(map[string]any{"done": what + " ask " + id, "recorded": "mesh-hand-acts.hand-act"})
+	}
+	switch {
+	case str("record") != "":
+		return act(str("record"), "asked the hand-act of", "approval-record", s.Approvals.Again)
+	case str("cancel") != "":
+		return act(str("cancel"), "cancelled", "approval-cancel", s.Approvals.Cancel)
+	case str("ask") != "":
+		w, err := s.Approvals.Read(str("ask"))
+		if err != nil {
+			return failure(err.Error())
+		}
+		return answerText(w)
+	}
+	asks, err := s.Approvals.List()
+	out := map[string]any{"asks": asks, "marks": s.Approvals.Applied()}
+	if err != nil {
+		out["asks"], out["asks_why"] = []approval.Listed{}, "the state approvals cannot be read: "+err.Error()
+	}
+	if b, max, err := s.Approvals.Fill(); err != nil {
+		out["fill_why"] = err.Error()
+	} else {
+		out["fill"] = map[string]any{"bytes": b, "max_bytes": max, "of": "every machine's keys together"}
+	}
+	return answerText(out)
+}
+
+// marked is what mesh_describe and a call that reached no one say of a marked tool or verb (§6, §18).
+func (s *Surface) marked(module, seat, name string) (bool, string) {
+	if s.Approvals == nil {
+		return false, ""
+	}
+	return s.Approvals.Describe(module, seat, name)
+}
+
+// markedTool is marked for a resolved address.
+func (s *Surface) markedTool(t target) (bool, string) {
+	if t.Seat {
+		return s.marked("", t.Tool.Module, t.Tool.Name)
+	}
+	return s.marked(t.Tool.Module, "", t.Tool.Name)
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews.go b/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews.go
index 0bb995c..16f44e6 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"strings"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
 
@@ -16,6 +17,14 @@ type FirstViewer interface {
 	Again(ctx context.Context, why string) []error
 }
 
+// entryLister is a FirstViewer that also keeps entries by fingerprint (design 47 G A-103): mesh_first_views lists them with their
+// state and since when.
+type entryLister interface{ Entries() any }
+
+// ownBuilder is a FirstViewer that also says the build the tool runner itself was started with (design 47 G §205, §424):
+// mesh_first_views names it, or says `own build unknown` and why.
+type ownBuilder interface{ OwnBuild() process.Build }
+
 // firstViewsAnswer is mesh_first_views and mesh_first_view_again.
 func (s *Surface) firstViewsAnswer(ctx context.Context, name string, args map[string]any) map[string]any {
 	fv, ok := s.src.(FirstViewer)
@@ -24,7 +33,14 @@ func (s *Surface) firstViewsAnswer(ctx context.Context, name string, args map[st
 			"another source")
 	}
 	if name == verbFirstViews {
-		return answerText(map[string]any{"first views": fv.Status()})
+		out := map[string]any{"first views": fv.Status()}
+		if ob, ok := fv.(ownBuilder); ok {
+			out["own build"] = ob.OwnBuild().String()
+		}
+		if el, ok := fv.(entryLister); ok {
+			out["entries"] = el.Entries()
+		}
+		return answerText(out)
 	}
 	why, _ := args["why"].(string)
 	if why = strings.TrimSpace(why); why == "" {
@@ -32,8 +48,8 @@ func (s *Surface) firstViewsAnswer(ctx context.Context, name string, args map[st
 	}
 	// A hand act, recorded through the seat mesh-hand-acts (novox/hq ADR 0615 §6, ADR 0565 §10) before it is done, and in the
 	// runner's log. One that cannot be recorded is said, and the ask is not made.
-	log.Printf("[mesh-tools] hand act: %s asked the four first views again: %s", s.who, why)
-	if err := s.recordAct(map[string]any{"what": "asked the tool runner's four first views again", "why": why,
+	log.Printf("[mesh-tools] hand act: %s asked the first views again: %s", s.who, why)
+	if err := s.recordAct(map[string]any{"what": "asked the tool runner's first views again", "why": why,
 		"cause": "first-view-again", "verb": verbFirstAgain}); err != nil {
 		return failure("the hand act was not recorded through mesh-hand-acts, so the first views were not asked again: " + err.Error())
 	}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews_test.go b/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews_test.go
index 1af9b3b..5192c3a 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/firstviews_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
 
@@ -14,12 +15,19 @@ import (
 type viewer struct {
 	busSource
 	asked []string
+	build process.Build
 }
 
 func (v *viewer) Status() []views.Status {
 	return []views.Status{{Owner: "mesh-delivery-assigner", Tool: "assignments", State: "assignments", Revision: 4, Asks: 1}}
 }
 
+// OwnBuild is the build the viewer was started with.
+func (v *viewer) OwnBuild() process.Build { return v.build }
+
+// Entries are the entries by fingerprint the viewer keeps (design 47 G A-103).
+func (v *viewer) Entries() any { return []string{"fp:a asked"} }
+
 func (v *viewer) Again(_ context.Context, why string) []error {
 	v.asked = append(v.asked, why)
 	return nil
@@ -35,9 +43,16 @@ func TestTheConsoleShowsAndAsksAgainTheRunnersFirstViews(t *testing.T) {
 	v := &viewer{}
 	var recorded []map[string]any
 	s := &Surface{src: v, who: "desk.node-tools", Record: func(a map[string]any) error { recorded = append(recorded, a); return nil }}
-	if got := text(s.discover(context.Background(), "mesh_first_views", nil)); !strings.Contains(got, "mesh-delivery-assigner") || !strings.Contains(got, "assignments") {
+	if got := text(s.discover(context.Background(), "mesh_first_views", nil)); !strings.Contains(got, "mesh-delivery-assigner") || !strings.Contains(got, "assignments") || !strings.Contains(got, "fp:a asked") {
 		t.Errorf("mesh_first_views shows %s", got)
 	}
+	// The tool runner's own build is named, or said unknown with the reason (design 47 G §205, §424).
+	for build, want := range map[string]string{"abcd1234": "abcd1234", "": "own build unknown"} {
+		v.build = process.ReadOwnBuild(func(string) string { return build })
+		if got := text(s.discover(context.Background(), "mesh_first_views", nil)); !strings.Contains(got, `own build`) || !strings.Contains(got, want) {
+			t.Errorf("mesh_first_views with the build %q shows %s", build, got)
+		}
+	}
 	got := s.discover(context.Background(), "mesh_first_view_again", map[string]any{"why": "doubted"})
 	if len(v.asked) != 1 || v.asked[0] != "doubted" || !strings.Contains(text(got), "asked again") {
 		t.Errorf("mesh_first_view_again asked %v and answered %s", v.asked, text(got))
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/manifest_waits_test.go b/node-tools/internal/console/manifest_waits_test.go
index 3511ec8..b7bad2b 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/manifest_waits_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/manifest_waits_test.go
@@ -8,37 +8,70 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// novox/hq ADR 0367 §5: the tool runner's manifest names the families a session waits on today, one by one,
-// and the asker's `decided` for the claude-code module alone. Adding one is a reviewed change to this file
-// (§6), so this list changes with it. The delivery's transitions are waited on under the gate's name alone (ADR 0450 §8, issues 1350
-// and 1406): today's module is forgotten.
-func TestTheManifestNamesTheFirstFamiliesOneByOne(t *testing.T) {
+// The tool runner's manifest names no events to wait on (novox/hq ADR 0670 §2): a session waits on any event by its
+// name. It holds each change of design 34 every-event §11 (E-1): no `waits`, `operator-channel` in `uses` for the asks of
+// marked waits, the per-machine state `approvals` in the old `state` section with its 48 hours and none in `requires`
+// (design 46 7-approval-mark §13), and the finding stream (design 47 G §387).
+func TestTheManifestNamesNoWaitsAndKeepsItsApprovals(t *testing.T) {
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	var keys map[string]json.RawMessage
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &keys); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, ok := keys["waits"]; ok {
+		t.Error("the manifest still carries waits (novox/hq ADR 0670 §2)")
+	}
 	var m struct {
-		Module   string   `json:"module"`
-		Waits    []string `json:"waits"`
-		Consumes []string `json:"consumes"`
+		Module   string            `json:"module"`
+		Uses     []string          `json:"uses"`
+		State    []json.RawMessage `json:"state"`
+		Requires []json.RawMessage `json:"requires"`
+		Consumes []string          `json:"consumes"`
+		Streams  []struct {
+			Name   string   `json:"name"`
+			Events []string `json:"events"`
+		} `json:"streams"`
 	}
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	want := []string{"mesh-knowledge.reviewed", "mesh-delivery-gate.transition", "gitea.forge.status",
-		"mesh-self-check.checked", "operator-channel.decided.claude-code"}
-	if m.Module != "node-tools" || !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Waits, want) {
-		t.Errorf("%s waits on %v, want %v", m.Module, m.Waits, want)
+	if m.Module != "node-tools" || !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Uses, []string{"operator-channel"}) {
+		t.Errorf("%s uses %v, want operator-channel (design 46 7-approval-mark §7)", m.Module, m.Uses)
 	}
-	for _, w := range m.Waits {
-		if strings.ContainsAny(w, "*>") {
-			t.Errorf("a family named by a wildcard: %s", w)
+	type state struct {
+		Name       string `json:"name"`
+		PerMachine bool   `json:"per-machine"`
+		TTLSeconds int    `json:"ttl-seconds"`
+	}
+	var approvals []state
+	for _, r := range m.State {
+		var s state
+		if json.Unmarshal(r, &s) == nil && s.Name == "approvals" {
+			approvals = append(approvals, s)
 		}
 	}
-	// A wait is no consumer (ADR 0367 §2): what it consumes is the four views families of its first views (ADR 0615 §5, issue
-	// 1966 TLS-5) and the two events of the seat that serves the seat list (ADR 0636 §4), and nothing else.
-	wantConsumes := []string{"mesh-catalog.seat-definition-changed", "mesh-catalog.seat-definition-removed", "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.assignments", "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.seat-holders",
-		"mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules"}
+	if want := []state{{Name: "approvals", PerMachine: true, TTLSeconds: 172800}}; !reflect.DeepEqual(approvals, want) {
+		t.Errorf("the old state section's approvals is %+v, want %+v (design 46 7-approval-mark §13)", approvals, want)
+	}
+	for _, r := range m.Requires {
+		if strings.Contains(string(r), `"approvals"`) {
+			t.Errorf("approvals is asked in requires too: %s", r)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(m.Streams) != 1 || m.Streams[0].Name != "node-tools-findings" ||
+		!reflect.DeepEqual(m.Streams[0].Events, []string{"finding-written.*", "finding-cleared.*", "findings-stated.*"}) {
+		t.Errorf("the finding stream is %+v, want node-tools-findings with the three finding events (design 47 G §387)", m.Streams)
+	}
+	// A wait is no consumer (ADR 0367 §2): what it consumes is the assigner's two views families (ADR 0615 §5, issue 1966
+	// TLS-5), the events of the catalog half's branch follower (design 47 G §196, §614: `catalog-revision`,
+	// `registration-changed`, and the gate's `source-moved`; never the indexer's `views.modules` or `views.manifests`), the two
+	// events of the seat that serves the seat list (ADR 0636 §4) and the keeper's `findings-asked`, and nothing else.
+	wantConsumes := []string{"mesh-catalog.catalog-revision", "mesh-catalog.registration-changed", "mesh-catalog.seat-definition-changed",
+		"mesh-catalog.seat-definition-removed", "mesh-conditions.findings-asked", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.views.assignments",
+		"seat:mesh-module-assigner.views.seat-holders", "mesh-delivery.source-moved"}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Consumes, wantConsumes) {
 		t.Errorf("the tool runner consumes %v, want %v", m.Consumes, wantConsumes)
 	}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/mcp.go b/node-tools/internal/console/mcp.go
index 1874356..57e4e8b 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/mcp.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/mcp.go
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ type Surface struct {
 	Flat bool
 	// Record, when set, records a hand act in place of the seat mesh-hand-acts' verb (a test's).
 	Record func(args map[string]any) error
+	// Approvals is this machine's approval gate, read by mesh_approvals and mesh_describe; nil when the runner has none.
+	Approvals Approvals
 }
 
 // MethodSeats is the console's JSON-RPC method beside MCP's that answers every seat's verbs and holders, in the shape
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/noresponders_test.go b/node-tools/internal/console/noresponders_test.go
index fd008c8..1cbe5c5 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/noresponders_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/noresponders_test.go
@@ -11,18 +11,33 @@ import (
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 )
 
-// A tool's own error that mentions 503 is the tool's answer, not a routing fault (issue 1529).
-func TestAToolsOwn503IsNotNothingServes(t *testing.T) {
+// A marked tool or verb that reaches no responder names withheld and the grants part's read (design 46 7-approval-mark §6);
+// an unmarked one, or a marked one failing otherwise, does not. A tool's own error that mentions 503 is the tool's answer, not a routing fault (issue 1529); a real no-responders still says
+// nothing serves.
+func TestARealNoRespondersStillSaysNothingServes(t *testing.T) {
 	got := whyItFailed("scanner.scan", errors.New("the scanner refused the scan job: 503 Service Unavailable"))
 	if strings.Contains(got, "nothing serves") || !strings.HasPrefix(got, "scanner.scan failed: ") || !strings.Contains(got, "503") {
 		t.Fatalf("got %q", got)
 	}
-}
-
-func TestARealNoRespondersStillSaysNothingServes(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, err := range []error{bus.ErrNoResponders, fmt.Errorf("ask: %w", bus.ErrNoResponders), nats.ErrNoResponders} {
 		if got := whyItFailed("a.b", err); !strings.HasPrefix(got, "nothing serves a.b") {
 			t.Fatalf("%v: got %q", err, got)
 		}
 	}
+	s := &Surface{Approvals: &fakeApprovals{marked: "shell.wipe"}}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		target target
+		err    error
+		hinted bool
+	}{
+		{target{Address: "shell.wipe", Tool: Tool{Module: "shell", Name: "wipe"}}, bus.ErrNoResponders, true},
+		{target{Address: "node-login-shell.execute", Seat: true, Tool: Tool{Module: "node-login-shell", Name: "execute"}}, bus.ErrNoResponders, false},
+		{target{Address: "shell.tidy", Tool: Tool{Module: "shell", Name: "tidy"}}, bus.ErrNoResponders, false},
+		{target{Address: "shell.wipe", Tool: Tool{Module: "shell", Name: "wipe"}}, errors.New("its own failure"), false},
+	} {
+		got := s.callFailed(c.target, c.err)
+		if hinted := strings.Contains(got, "approval-mark/1: mesh-grants.grants_user_list names it under withheld"); hinted != c.hinted {
+			t.Errorf("%s (%v): %q", c.target.Address, c.err, got)
+		}
+	}
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/refusal_test.go b/node-tools/internal/console/refusal_test.go
index 68e350c..5d2111f 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/refusal_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/refusal_test.go
@@ -1,9 +1,18 @@
 package console
 
 import (
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
 	"errors"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/stateobjects"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
 )
 
 // A refusal is said only for the bus's own refusals; a tool's answer that mentions authorization is the
@@ -19,6 +28,45 @@ func TestARefusalIsSaidOnlyForTheBussOwn(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%q read as a refusal: %v, want %v", msg, got, refusal)
 		}
 	}
+	// ADR 0666 §16: an answer a module sent as a reference is read from its sent store for the person asking; one the bus does
+	// not let the runner read is shown as its reference with its size and why it was not read.
+	t.Run("AnAnswerSentAsAReferenceIsReadForThePersonAsking", func(t *testing.T) {
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(meshtest.URL(t))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		defer nc.Close()
+		js, _ := jetstream.New(nc)
+		obs, err := js.CreateObjectStore(context.Background(), jetstream.ObjectStoreConfig{Bucket: "m_sent-objects"})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		conn, err := bus.Connect(bus.Credential{URL: meshtest.URL(t), Module: "console", Node: "anchor"})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		defer conn.Close()
+		body := []byte(`{"lines":"` + strings.Repeat("x", 9<<20) + `"}`)
+		sum := sha256.Sum256(body)
+		ref := stateobjects.Ref{Store: "m_sent-objects", Object: "tool.lines." + hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]), Size: int64(len(body)),
+			Digest: hex.EncodeToString(sum[:]), Form: stateobjects.FormVersion}
+		if _, err := obs.PutBytes(context.Background(), ref.Object, body); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if got, unread := resolveSent(conn, stateobjects.Wrap(ref)); unread != "" || string(got) != string(body) {
+			t.Fatalf("read %d bytes of %d, %q", len(got), len(body), unread)
+		}
+		missing := ref
+		missing.Store = "gone_sent-objects"
+		wrapped := stateobjects.Wrap(missing)
+		got, unread := resolveSent(conn, wrapped)
+		if string(got) != string(wrapped) || !strings.Contains(unread, "9437") || !strings.Contains(unread, "gone_sent-objects") {
+			t.Fatalf("an unread answer showed %q and %q", got, unread)
+		}
+		if got, unread := resolveSent(conn, []byte(`{"a":1}`)); unread != "" || string(got) != `{"a":1}` {
+			t.Fatalf("a plain answer showed %q, %q", got, unread)
+		}
+	})
 }
 
 // **A timeout says it is not a failure** (novox/hq issue 265): a push that outlasted the wait had
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/sent.go b/node-tools/internal/console/sent.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6276914
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/sent.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package console
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/stateobjects"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+)
+
+// resolveSent is the answer a person reads (ADR 0666 §16): an answer a module sent as a reference to an object of its
+// sent store is read from it when the bus grants this runner's account the read (the standing grant the manifests give
+// the callers of the verb), else shown as its reference with its size and why it was not read.
+func resolveSent(conn *bus.Conn, result json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, string) {
+	ref, ok := stateobjects.ReadRef(result)
+	if !ok {
+		return result, ""
+	}
+	whole, err := stateobjects.Receive(result, func(r stateobjects.Ref) ([]byte, error) {
+		got, err := conn.SentGet(buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest{Store: r.Store, Object: r.Object, Size: r.Size, Digest: r.Digest})
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return got.Data, nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return result, fmt.Sprintf("the answer is %d bytes, held as the object %s of %s, and was not read: %v", ref.Size, ref.Object, ref.Store, err)
+	}
+	return whole, ""
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/source_test.go b/node-tools/internal/console/source_test.go
index a3fed70..cb9aeb6 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/source_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/source_test.go
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 package console
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"sync"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
+	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
 )
 
 // busSource is a Source over a bus connection's own states, which a test's fixture mesh fills: the console's tests stand a
@@ -37,3 +41,20 @@ func (b busSource) Entry(name, key string) ([]byte, error) {
 	}
 	return entry.Value, nil
 }
+
+// Modules reads the test bed's entries of the catalog half (meshtest.ModulesRead), as the tool runner's first views hold them.
+func (b busSource) Modules() (map[string]meshcatalog.CatalogEntry, error) {
+	raw, err := b.State(mt.ModulesRead)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	out := map[string]meshcatalog.CatalogEntry{}
+	for module, value := range raw {
+		var e meshcatalog.CatalogEntry
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(value, &e); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		out[module] = e
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/wait.go b/node-tools/internal/console/wait.go
index 9ee1a41..ad08d72 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/wait.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/wait.go
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ package console
 
 // mesh_wait: a session waits on the bus for one event instead of polling (novox/hq ADR 0367).
 //
-// **Only the families the tool runner was issued** (§2, §6): its membership names them, composed by the
-// mesh from the tool runner's manifest together with the grant that lets this account subscribe them.
-// A name not listed there is refused here, before the bus would refuse it; no argument or setting adds one.
+// **Any event, by its name** (novox/hq ADR 0670 §1, ADR 0671 §1; design 34 every-event §13, §26): the grants part
+// grants this machine's tool runner every event subject, a seat's, a module's and a module stream's, and a name
+// becomes its subjects through mesh-sdk's buscompose.EventSubjects; no membership and no manifest names a list.
 // **An event only wakes the session** (§4): what it says is read again from the verb that owns it.
 
 import (
@@ -13,9 +13,15 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
-	"sort"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
 )
 
 // WaitDefault is how long a wait lasts when no timeout is given, and WaitLongest the most it may last
@@ -25,20 +31,29 @@ var (
 	WaitLongest = 10 * time.Minute
 )
 
+// waitMostNames is the most event names one call gives (design 34 every-event §13, §26): each name is six
+// subscriptions for the call, so 16 names are 96, far above what a watcher names.
+const waitMostNames = 16
+
 func waitTool() map[string]any {
 	return map[string]any{"name": verbWait, "inputSchema": map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{
 		"subjects": map[string]any{"type": "array", "items": map[string]any{"type": "string"},
-			"description": "one or more event families to wait on, by name, e.g. `mesh-knowledge.reviewed`; only " +
-				"those the mesh granted this machine's tool runner — a refusal names them"},
+			"description": fmt.Sprintf("one or more event names, `<seat or module>.<event>`, such as "+
+				"`mesh-delivery-view.delivered`, at most %d; an event whose subject goes on after the name (an asker, a "+
+				"kind, a module) is heard by the name too", waitMostNames)},
+		"from": map[string]any{"type": "string", "enum": []string{"seat", "module", "stream"},
+			"description": "narrows every name to a seat's events, a module's or a module stream's, for an emitter " +
+				"whose name is more than one of them (optional)"},
 		"filter": map[string]any{"type": "object",
-			"description": "fields of the event's body that must equal the given values, e.g. {\"kind\": \"decision\", \"number\": 367} (optional)"},
+			"description": "fields of the event's body that must equal the given values, e.g. {\"kind\": \"decision\", \"number\": 367}: the filter narrows by the body's fields (optional)"},
 		"timeout": map[string]any{"type": "number",
 			"description": fmt.Sprintf("seconds to wait: %d when absent, %d at most", int(WaitDefault.Seconds()), int(WaitLongest.Seconds()))},
 	}, "required": []string{"subjects"}},
-		"description": "Wait for the first event of the named families that matches the filter, and answer it with its " +
-			"family, body and time — or say it timed out. Call it in a loop from a background command, and after every " +
-			"answer read the state from the verb that owns it: an event only wakes you, and one published between two " +
-			"waits is not heard (novox/hq ADR 0367)."}
+		"description": "Wait for the first event of the named events that matches the filter, and answer it with its " +
+			"name, where it came from, body and times — or say it timed out. Call it in a loop from a background command, " +
+			"and after every answer read the state from the verb that owns it: an event only wakes you, and one " +
+			"published between two waits is not heard (novox/hq ADR 0367). An operator's answer is read only with " +
+			"claude_code_answer, never from the event."}
 }
 
 // waitAnswer answers one mesh_wait call.
@@ -56,51 +71,195 @@ func (s *Surface) waitAnswer(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) map[strin
 		return failure("mesh_wait's filter is an object of body fields to the values they must equal")
 	}
 
-	issued := map[string]string{} // name → subject
-	if m := s.conn.Membership(s.conn.Module()); m != nil {
-		for _, w := range m.Waits {
-			issued[w.Event] = w.Subject
-		}
+	from, _ := args["from"].(string)
+	if args["from"] != nil && from != "seat" && from != "module" && from != "stream" {
+		return failure(fmt.Sprintf("mesh_wait's from is seat, module or stream, not %v", args["from"]))
 	}
-	if len(issued) == 0 {
-		return failure("this machine's tool runner was issued no event families to wait on: the mesh grants them from " +
-			"the tool runner's manifest (novox/hq ADR 0367 §2), and its membership names none yet")
+	if len(names) > waitMostNames {
+		return failure(fmt.Sprintf("mesh_wait names at most %d events in one call, not %d: each name is six "+
+			"subscriptions for the call (design 34 every-event §13)", waitMostNames, len(names)))
 	}
-	byName := make([]string, 0, len(issued))
-	for name := range issued {
-		byName = append(byName, name)
-	}
-	sort.Strings(byName)
-	family := map[string]string{} // subject → name
-	var subjects []string
+	known, unchecked := s.emitters()
+	var subjects, undeclared []string
 	for _, name := range names {
-		subject, granted := issued[name]
-		if !granted {
-			return failure(fmt.Sprintf("mesh_wait may not wait on %q: this machine's tool runner is granted %s alone. "+
-				"A family is added only by a reviewed change to the tool runner's manifest (node-tools' module.json, "+
-				"novox/hq ADR 0367 §6); no argument, call or setting adds one", name, strings.Join(byName, ", ")))
+		subs, err := buscompose.EventSubjects(name, from)
+		if err != nil {
+			return failure("mesh_wait may not wait on it: " + err.Error())
 		}
-		if _, twice := family[subject]; !twice {
-			subjects = append(subjects, subject)
+		// A misspelt emitter is refused, never waited on for ever; a known emitter's undeclared event is waited on and
+		// its timed-out answer says so (design 34 every-event §14).
+		if unchecked == "" {
+			emitter, event, _ := strings.Cut(name, ".")
+			seatEvents, isSeat := known.seats[emitter]
+			moduleEvents, isModule := known.modules[emitter]
+			isSeat = isSeat && from != "module" && from != "stream"
+			isModule = isModule && from != "seat"
+			if !isSeat && !isModule {
+				return failure(fmt.Sprintf("mesh_wait may not wait on %q: %s is neither a seat nor a module of %s",
+					name, emitter, known.source))
+			}
+			if !(isSeat && declares(seatEvents, event)) && !(isModule && declares(moduleEvents, event)) {
+				undeclared = append(undeclared, name)
+			}
+		}
+		for _, subject := range subs {
+			if !slices.Contains(subjects, subject) {
+				subjects = append(subjects, subject)
+			}
 		}
-		family[subject] = name
 	}
 
-	heard, ok, err := s.conn.HearFirst(ctx, subjects, timeout, func(body json.RawMessage) bool { return bodyMatches(body, filter) })
+	listen := func(within time.Duration) (any, error) {
+		return s.hear(ctx, names, subjects, undeclared, known.source, unchecked, filter, within)
+	}
+	// A wait whose subjects overlap a marked event's runs only on the operator's warrant for that one wait (design 34
+	// every-event §34 to §36), judged by the runner's approval gate.
+	var answer any
+	if g, ok := s.Approvals.(waitGate); ok {
+		given := map[string]any{}
+		for _, k := range []string{"subjects", "from", "filter", "timeout"} {
+			if v, has := args[k]; has {
+				given[k] = v
+			}
+		}
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(given)
+		answer, err = g.Waited(ctx, approval.Call{Address: verbWait, Name: verbWait, Caller: s.who, Args: raw},
+			approval.Wait{Names: names, From: from, Subjects: subjects, Filter: filter, Timeout: timeout}, listen)
+	} else {
+		answer, err = listen(timeout)
+	}
 	if err != nil {
-		return failure("mesh_wait could not wait: " + err.Error())
+		return failure(err.Error())
 	}
-	if !ok {
-		return answerText(map[string]any{"timed-out": true, "waited": timeout.String(), "subjects": names,
-			"read": "nothing matching was heard; read the state once from the verb that owns it, then wait again"})
-	}
-	return answerText(map[string]any{
-		"heard": map[string]any{"subject": family[heard.Subject], "body": heard.Body, "at": heard.At.Format(time.RFC3339Nano)},
-		"read":  "an event only wakes you: read the state from the verb that owns it before acting (novox/hq ADR 0367 §4)",
-	})
+	return answerText(answer)
 }
 
-// waitNames is the families a call names: a list of names, or one name.
+// waitGate is the runner's approval gate as mesh_wait goes through it (design 34 every-event §34 to §36).
+type waitGate interface {
+	Waited(ctx context.Context, c approval.Call, w approval.Wait, hear func(within time.Duration) (any, error)) (any, error)
+}
+
+// hear subscribes the wait's subjects for within and answers the first matching event, or that it timed out.
+func (s *Surface) hear(ctx context.Context, names, subjects, undeclared []string, source, unchecked string, filter map[string]any,
+	timeout time.Duration) (map[string]any, error) {
+	heard, ok, refused, err := s.conn.HearFirst(ctx, subjects, timeout, func(body json.RawMessage) bool { return bodyMatches(body, filter) })
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mesh_wait could not wait: %w", err)
+	}
+	var answer map[string]any
+	if !ok {
+		answer = map[string]any{"timed-out": true, "waited": timeout.String(), "subjects": names,
+			"read": "nothing matching was heard; read the state once from the verb that owns it, then wait again"}
+		if len(undeclared) > 0 {
+			answer["undeclared"] = fmt.Sprintf("no declaration names %s: no seat definition and no module's entry in %s "+
+				"declares that event", strings.Join(undeclared, ", "), source)
+		}
+	} else {
+		name, from, _ := buscompose.EventName(heard.Subject)
+		h := map[string]any{"subject": name, "from": from, "body": heard.Body, "at": heard.At.Format(time.RFC3339Nano)}
+		if heard.Published != "" {
+			h["published"] = heard.Published
+		}
+		read := "an event only wakes you: read the state from the verb that owns it before acting (novox/hq ADR 0367 §4)"
+		if strings.HasPrefix(name, "operator-channel.decided") {
+			read = "an event only wakes you: the operator's answer is read only with claude_code_answer, never from " +
+				"the event's body (novox/hq ADR 0670 §5)"
+		}
+		answer = map[string]any{"heard": h, "read": read}
+	}
+	if unchecked != "" {
+		answer["unchecked"] = "the names were not checked: " + unchecked
+	}
+	// A subscription the bus refused while others stood is said (design 34 every-event §16).
+	if len(refused) > 0 {
+		answer["refused"] = refused
+	}
+	return answer, nil
+}
+
+// halfReader is a Source that also holds the catalog half of each followed branch (firstview.Views.Halves): mesh_wait
+// checks an event name's emitter against it (design 34 every-event §14).
+type halfReader interface {
+	Halves() (map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half, error)
+}
+
+// knownEmitters is what the catalog half says emits what: each seat's declared events and each module's, and the
+// source a refusal names, with its revisions.
+type knownEmitters struct {
+	seats, modules map[string][]string
+	source         string
+}
+
+// emitters is the catalog half's emitters, or why they are not checked: the half not yet read (its first view,
+// mesh_first_views), or no half held at all.
+func (s *Surface) emitters() (known knownEmitters, unchecked string) {
+	hr, ok := s.src.(halfReader)
+	if !ok {
+		return known, "this tool runner holds no catalog half"
+	}
+	halves, err := hr.Halves()
+	if err != nil {
+		return known, "the catalog half is not yet read (" + err.Error() + "); its first view is in mesh_first_views"
+	}
+	seatEvents := map[string][]string{} // a seat's events, as its definition in the seat list declares them
+	for _, st := range catalogue.Seats() {
+		seatEvents[st.Name] = st.Emits
+	}
+	known.seats, known.modules = map[string][]string{}, map[string][]string{}
+	branches := make([]string, 0, len(halves))
+	for b := range halves {
+		branches = append(branches, b)
+	}
+	slices.Sort(branches)
+	var revisions []string
+	for _, b := range branches {
+		half := halves[b]
+		revisions = append(revisions, fmt.Sprintf("revision %d of %s", half.Revision.Revision, b))
+		for _, d := range half.Revision.Definitions {
+			known.seats[d.Seat] = seatEvents[d.Seat]
+		}
+		for m, entry := range half.Entries {
+			if _, taken := known.modules[m]; !taken {
+				known.modules[m] = eventsDeclared(entry.Manifest)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	known.source = "the catalog half (mesh-catalog.revision, " + strings.Join(revisions, "; ") + ")"
+	return known, ""
+}
+
+// eventsDeclared is the events a module's manifest declares: its `emits` and its streams' `events`.
+func eventsDeclared(manifest map[string]any) []string {
+	var out []string
+	add := func(list any) {
+		items, _ := list.([]any)
+		for _, x := range items {
+			if e, ok := x.(string); ok {
+				out = append(out, e)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	add(manifest["emits"])
+	streams, _ := manifest["streams"].([]any)
+	for _, st := range streams {
+		if m, ok := st.(map[string]any); ok {
+			add(m["events"])
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// declares says whether one of the declared events is the event a name gives, or one its name is followed by.
+func declares(declared []string, event string) bool {
+	for _, d := range declared {
+		if buscompose.Overlaps(d, event) || buscompose.Overlaps(d, event+".>") {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// waitNames is the event names a call gives: a list of names, or one name.
 func waitNames(given any) ([]string, error) {
 	var names []string
 	switch v := given.(type) {
@@ -110,7 +269,7 @@ func waitNames(given any) ([]string, error) {
 		for _, x := range v {
 			name, ok := x.(string)
 			if !ok {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mesh_wait's subjects are event names, such as mesh-knowledge.reviewed; %v is not one", x)
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mesh_wait's subjects are event names, such as mesh-delivery-view.delivered; %v is not one", x)
 			}
 			names = append(names, name)
 		}
@@ -119,7 +278,7 @@ func waitNames(given any) ([]string, error) {
 		names[i] = strings.TrimSpace(names[i])
 	}
 	if len(names) == 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mesh_wait names at least one event family in `subjects`, such as mesh-knowledge.reviewed")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mesh_wait names at least one event in `subjects`, such as mesh-delivery-view.delivered")
 	}
 	return names, nil
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/console/wait_test.go b/node-tools/internal/console/wait_test.go
index 862517f..1fe7562 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/console/wait_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/console/wait_test.go
@@ -3,32 +3,41 @@ package console
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"os"
 	"reflect"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
+	opseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	runnerapproval "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/approval"
+
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
 )
 
-// waitingRuntime is the tool runner on a machine, issued the families ADR 0367 §5 names, as the controller
-// composes them from its manifest: the surface over its connection, and the mesh to publish on.
+// waitingRuntime is the tool runner on a machine, issued no waits (novox/hq ADR 0670 §2): the surface over its
+// connection, and the mesh to publish on.
 func waitingRuntime(t *testing.T) (*Surface, *mt.Mesh) {
 	t.Helper()
 	mesh := mt.New(t)
-	m := mt.MembershipOf("node-tools", "desk", false, nil)
-	m.Waits = []bus.WaitIssued{
-		{Event: "mesh-knowledge.reviewed", Subject: "mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed"},
-		{Event: "operator-channel.decided.claude-code", Subject: "mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.claude-code"},
-	}
-	mesh.Issue(t, m)
+	mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("node-tools", "desk", false, nil))
 	conn := connect(t, "node-tools", "desk")
 	mt.Until(t, func() error {
-		if got := conn.Membership("node-tools"); got == nil || len(got.Waits) == 0 {
+		if conn.Membership("node-tools") == nil {
 			return os.ErrNotExist
 		}
 		return nil
@@ -36,6 +45,25 @@ func waitingRuntime(t *testing.T) (*Surface, *mt.Mesh) {
 	return NewSurface(conn, busSource{conn}, "desk.node-tools"), mesh
 }
 
+// halfSource is a Source that also holds a catalog half, as the tool runner's first views do.
+type halfSource struct {
+	Source
+	halves map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half
+}
+
+func (h halfSource) Halves() (map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half, error) { return h.halves, nil }
+
+// listening waits until the surface's connection holds n more subscriptions than before: a wait has subscribed.
+func listening(t *testing.T, s *Surface, before, n int) {
+	t.Helper()
+	mt.Until(t, func() error {
+		if s.conn.Subscriptions() < before+n {
+			return os.ErrNotExist
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+}
+
 // callWait is one tools/call of mesh_wait, answered as an agent host reads it.
 func callWait(s *Surface, args map[string]any) (text string, isError bool) {
 	raw, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"name": verbWait, "arguments": args})
@@ -50,8 +78,9 @@ func callWait(s *Surface, args map[string]any) (text string, isError bool) {
 	return strings.Join(parts, "\n"), isErr
 }
 
-// novox/hq ADR 0367 §1: mesh_wait answers the first event that matches — by its family and its filter — with
-// its subject, body and time, within a second of its publication, and ignores the others.
+// novox/hq ADR 0367 §1, ADR 0670 §1 (design 34 every-event §13, §15, §19): mesh_wait answers the first event that
+// matches — by its name and its filter — with no membership naming it: its whole name, the namespace it arrived on, its
+// body, when it arrived and when it was published, within a second of its publication, and ignores the others.
 func TestMeshWaitAnswersTheFirstMatchingEvent(t *testing.T) {
 	s, mesh := waitingRuntime(t)
 	type answer struct {
@@ -59,18 +88,39 @@ func TestMeshWaitAnswersTheFirstMatchingEvent(t *testing.T) {
 		isErr bool
 		at    time.Time
 	}
+	type heardAnswer struct {
+		Heard struct {
+			Subject   string         `json:"subject"`
+			From      string         `json:"from"`
+			Body      map[string]any `json:"body"`
+			At        time.Time      `json:"at"`
+			Published *string        `json:"published"`
+		} `json:"heard"`
+		Read string `json:"read"`
+	}
+	nc, err := nats.Connect(mt.URL(t))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
 	done := make(chan answer, 1)
+	before := s.conn.Subscriptions()
 	go func() {
-		text, isErr := callWait(s, map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-knowledge.reviewed"},
-			"filter": map[string]any{"kind": "decision", "number": 367}, "timeout": 20})
+		text, isErr := callWait(s, map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-delivery-view.delivered"},
+			"filter": map[string]any{"module": "netcheck"}, "timeout": 20})
 		done <- answer{text, isErr, time.Now()}
 	}()
-	// Once it listens: another record's verdict, another family's event, then the one it waits for.
-	time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
-	mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed", map[string]any{"kind": "decision", "number": 366, "what": "approved"})
-	mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.proposed", map[string]any{"kind": "decision", "number": 367})
+	// Once it listens: another module's delivery, another event, then the one it waits for, with its own time.
+	listening(t, s, before, 6)
+	mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-view.event.delivered", map[string]any{"module": "grafana"})
+	mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-view.event.planned", map[string]any{"module": "netcheck"})
+	msg := nats.NewMsg("mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-view.event.delivered")
+	msg.Header.Set("x-time", "2026-11-12T03:00:00.5Z")
+	msg.Data = []byte(`{"module":"netcheck"}`)
 	published := time.Now()
-	mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed", map[string]any{"kind": "decision", "number": 367, "what": "approved"})
+	if err := nc.PublishMsg(msg); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	var got answer
 	select {
 	case got = <-done:
@@ -83,32 +133,32 @@ func TestMeshWaitAnswersTheFirstMatchingEvent(t *testing.T) {
 	if got.at.Sub(published) > time.Second {
 		t.Errorf("answered %s after the event was published, want within a second", got.at.Sub(published))
 	}
-	var heard struct {
-		Heard struct {
-			Subject string         `json:"subject"`
-			Body    map[string]any `json:"body"`
-			At      time.Time      `json:"at"`
-		} `json:"heard"`
-	}
+	var heard heardAnswer
 	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(got.text), &heard); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("not an answer: %s", got.text)
 	}
-	if heard.Heard.Subject != "mesh-knowledge.reviewed" || heard.Heard.Body["number"] != float64(367) || heard.Heard.At.IsZero() {
-		t.Errorf("answered %+v, want record 367's verdict with its time", heard.Heard)
+	if h := heard.Heard; h.Subject != "mesh-delivery-view.delivered" || h.From != "module" || h.Body["module"] != "netcheck" ||
+		h.At.IsZero() || h.Published == nil || *h.Published != "2026-11-12T03:00:00.5Z" || !strings.Contains(heard.Read, "only wakes you") {
+		t.Errorf("answered %s, want netcheck's delivery from a module with its times", got.text)
 	}
-	// And the subject it is granted on the asker's own `decided`, by the name a session asks for.
+	// And a seat's `decided` of one asker, heard by `operator-channel.decided`: its whole name, from the seat, with no
+	// time of its own, and the answer read only with claude_code_answer.
+	before = s.conn.Subscriptions()
 	go func() {
-		text, isErr := callWait(s, map[string]any{"subjects": "operator-channel.decided.claude-code", "timeout": 20})
+		text, isErr := callWait(s, map[string]any{"subjects": "operator-channel.decided", "timeout": 20})
 		done <- answer{text, isErr, time.Now()}
 	}()
-	time.Sleep(300 * time.Millisecond)
+	listening(t, s, before, 6)
 	// A seat's event, said by the router on core NATS here: no stream of the test's bus carries the seat.
 	if err := connect(t, "messenger", "").Say("mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.claude-code", []byte(`{"ask":"a1"}`)); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	select {
 	case got = <-done:
-		if got.isErr || !strings.Contains(got.text, `"subject": "operator-channel.decided.claude-code"`) {
+		heard = heardAnswer{}
+		_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(got.text), &heard)
+		if h := heard.Heard; got.isErr || h.Subject != "operator-channel.decided.claude-code" || h.From != "seat" ||
+			h.Published != nil || !strings.Contains(heard.Read, "claude_code_answer") {
 			t.Errorf("the asker's decided: %s", got.text)
 		}
 	case <-time.After(10 * time.Second):
@@ -125,7 +175,8 @@ func TestMeshWaitSaysItTimedOutAndKeepsNothing(t *testing.T) {
 	if took := time.Since(start); took < time.Second || took > 3*time.Second {
 		t.Errorf("a one-second wait took %s", took)
 	}
-	if isErr || !strings.Contains(text, `"timed-out": true`) {
+	// Before the catalog half is read, names are not checked, and the answer says so (design 34 every-event §14).
+	if isErr || !strings.Contains(text, `"timed-out": true`) || !strings.Contains(text, `"unchecked"`) {
 		t.Errorf("a wait that heard nothing: %s", text)
 	}
 	if after := s.conn.Subscriptions(); after != before {
@@ -148,39 +199,357 @@ func TestMeshWaitsTimeoutIsBounded(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// novox/hq ADR 0367 §2 and §6: an event outside the granted families is refused, naming the families and how
-// one is added; no argument — a wildcard, another asker's `decided`, a subject spelled out — widens it.
-func TestMeshWaitRefusesAnEventOutsideTheGrantedFamilies(t *testing.T) {
+// novox/hq ADR 0670 §1, §2 (design 34 every-event §13, §16, §19): mesh_wait refuses loudly and never loops: a name with
+// a wildcard, of one token, more than 16 names, none, or a from of another word is refused at once naming the rule; a
+// wait whose every subscription the bus refuses answers after its timeout, in words naming no wait grant.
+func TestMeshWaitRefusesLoudlyAndNeverLoops(t *testing.T) {
 	s, _ := waitingRuntime(t)
-	for _, subjects := range []any{
-		[]any{"mesh-knowledge.proposed"},
-		[]any{"mesh-knowledge.reviewed", "gitea.forge.push"},
-		[]any{"mesh-knowledge.*"},
-		[]any{"operator-channel.decided.shop"},
-		[]any{"operator-channel.decided.*"},
-		[]any{"mesh.mod.mesh-knowledge.event.reviewed"},
-		[]any{">"},
-		[]any{},
+	var seventeen []any
+	for i := 0; i < 17; i++ {
+		seventeen = append(seventeen, fmt.Sprintf("mesh-knowledge.reviewed%d", i))
+	}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		args map[string]any
+		says string
+	}{
+		{map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-knowledge.*"}}, "[A-Za-z0-9_-]+"},
+		{map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"operator-channel.decided.>"}}, "[A-Za-z0-9_-]+"},
+		{map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-knowledge"}}, "fewer than two tokens"},
+		{map[string]any{"subjects": seventeen}, "at most 16"},
+		{map[string]any{"subjects": []any{}}, "at least one event"},
+		{map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-knowledge.reviewed"}, "from": "bench"}, "seat, module or stream"},
 	} {
-		text, isErr := callWait(s, map[string]any{"subjects": subjects, "timeout": 1})
-		if !isErr {
-			t.Errorf("%v was waited on: %s", subjects, text)
-			continue
+		c.args["timeout"] = 1
+		start := time.Now()
+		text, isErr := callWait(s, c.args)
+		if !isErr || !strings.Contains(text, c.says) || strings.Contains(text, "manifest") {
+			t.Errorf("%v: %s, want refused saying %q", c.args, text, c.says)
 		}
-		if len(subjects.([]any)) > 0 && (!strings.Contains(text, "mesh-knowledge.reviewed") || !strings.Contains(text, "manifest")) {
-			t.Errorf("%v refused without naming the families and how one is added: %s", subjects, text)
+		if took := time.Since(start); took > 500*time.Millisecond {
+			t.Errorf("%v was refused after %s, want at once", c.args, took)
+		}
+	}
+
+	t.Run("the catalog half", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		// E §14: against the catalog half, a misspelt emitter is refused naming the half and its revision, a known emitter's
+		// undeclared event is waited on and its timeout says so, and a declared one says nothing of it.
+		half := NewSurface(s.conn, halfSource{busSource{s.conn}, map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half{"main": {
+			Revision: catalogseat.CatalogRevision{Revision: 7, Definitions: []catalogseat.CatalogRevisionDefinitionsItem{{Seat: "mesh-catalog"}}},
+			Entries: map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{"mesh-delivery-view": {Module: "mesh-delivery-view",
+				Manifest: map[string]any{"emits": []any{"delivered"}}}},
+		}}}, "desk.node-tools")
+		for _, c := range []struct {
+			name, says string
+			refused    bool
+		}{
+			{"mesh-delivry-view.delivered", "mesh-delivry-view is neither a seat nor a module of the catalog half (mesh-catalog.revision, revision 7 of main)", true},
+			{"mesh-delivery-view.planned", "no declaration names mesh-delivery-view.planned", false},
+			{"mesh-catalog.catalog-revision", "", false},
+		} {
+			text, isErr := callWait(half, map[string]any{"subjects": []any{c.name}, "timeout": 1})
+			if isErr != c.refused || c.says != "" && !strings.Contains(text, c.says) ||
+				c.says == "" && (strings.Contains(text, "undeclared") || strings.Contains(text, "unchecked")) {
+				t.Errorf("%s against the catalog half: %s", c.name, text)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("a bus that refuses every subscription", func(t *testing.T) {
+		t.Parallel()
+		// The bus refusing every subscription of the call: answered after the timeout, in §16's words.
+		b, err := server.NewServer(&server.Options{Host: "127.0.0.1", Port: server.RANDOM_PORT, NoLog: true, NoSigs: true,
+			Users: []*server.User{{Username: "desk.node-tools", Password: "pw", Permissions: &server.Permissions{
+				Subscribe: &server.SubjectPermission{Allow: []string{"_INBOX.desk.node-tools.>", "mesh.assignment.desk.*"}},
+			}}}})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		go b.Start()
+		if !b.ReadyForConnections(10 * time.Second) {
+			t.Fatal("the bus did not come up")
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(b.Shutdown)
+		conn, err := bus.Connect(bus.Credential{URL: b.ClientURL(), Module: "node-tools", Node: "desk", User: "desk.node-tools", Password: "pw"})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		conn.Logf = func(string, ...any) {}
+		t.Cleanup(conn.Close)
+		start := time.Now()
+		text, isErr := callWait(NewSurface(conn, nil, "desk.node-tools"), map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-delivery-view.delivered"}, "timeout": 1})
+		if took := time.Since(start); took < time.Second || took > 3*time.Second {
+			t.Errorf("a wait the bus refused whole answered after %s, want its timeout of 1s", took)
+		}
+		if !isErr || !strings.Contains(text, "the bus refused this account a subscription on mesh.seat.mesh-delivery-view.event.delivered") ||
+			!strings.Contains(text, "novox/hq ADR 0670 §1") || strings.Contains(text, "wait grant") || strings.Contains(text, "0367 §2") {
+			t.Errorf("a wait the bus refused whole: %s", text)
+		}
+	})
+
+	// Design 34 every-event §37: a wait whose subjects overlap a marked event's, or a stream's with a `grant`, runs only on the
+	// operator's warrant for that one wait; with none it subscribes nothing, asks once and answers at its timeout or the choice.
+	// Each group of rows has a runtime of its own, so the waits of the groups run side by side (A-311: the one-second floor of
+	// a wait's timeout stands, and no clock is injected).
+	for name, group := range map[string]func(*testing.T, *Surface, *mt.Mesh){
+		"no warrant": markedWaitsWithNoWarrant, "a warrant": markedWaitsOnAWarrant, "the catalog half unread": markedWaitsBeforeTheHalfIsRead,
+	} {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+			s, mesh := waitingRuntime(t)
+			group(t, s, mesh)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// markedWaitsWithNoWarrant are §37's rows of a wait with no warrant, against a gate on the test bus, the router's records written there as the router writes them.
+func markedWaitsWithNoWarrant(t *testing.T, s *Surface, mesh *mt.Mesh) {
+	gw := newGatedWaits(t, s, mesh, "src2:runner")
+	g := gw.surface
+	took := func(args map[string]any) (string, bool, time.Duration) {
+		start := time.Now()
+		text, isErr := callWait(g, args)
+		return text, isErr, time.Since(start)
+	}
+	// A fixture module's marked event, no warrant: nothing of it subscribed (only its ask's decided), asked once, §12's
+	// words at its timeout; the same wait again asks nothing new.
+	before := g.conn.Subscriptions()
+	go func() {
+		listening(t, g, before, 1)
+		mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mail.event.message", map[string]any{"n": 1})
+	}()
+	text, isErr, d := took(map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "timeout": 1})
+	if !isErr || !strings.Contains(text, "this wait needs the operator's approval. Asked on telegram") || gw.asks() != 1 ||
+		d < time.Second || strings.Contains(text, "heard") {
+		t.Errorf("a marked event's wait, no warrant: %s after %s, %d asks", text, d, gw.asks())
+	}
+	if text, isErr, _ = took(map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "timeout": 1}); !isErr ||
+		!strings.Contains(text, "still waiting") || gw.asks() != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the same marked wait again: %s, %d asks", text, gw.asks())
+	}
+	// A stream with a `grant` is marked whole; a name with the node after a marked event's name is marked.
+	for i, name := range []string{"mail.inbox", "mail.message.desk"} {
+		if text, isErr, _ := took(map[string]any{"subjects": []any{name}, "timeout": 1}); !isErr || !strings.Contains(text, "Not run") || gw.asks() != 2+i {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %s, %d asks", name, text, gw.asks())
+		}
+	}
+	// The same names from a seat ask nothing.
+	if text, isErr, _ := took(map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "from": "seat", "timeout": 1}); isErr ||
+		!strings.Contains(text, `"timed-out": true`) || gw.asks() != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("from a seat: %s, %d asks", text, gw.asks())
+	}
+}
+
+// markedWaitsOnAWarrant are §37's rows of a wait chosen while it waits and of one on a warrant.
+func markedWaitsOnAWarrant(t *testing.T, s *Surface, mesh *mt.Mesh) {
+	gw := newGatedWaits(t, s, mesh, "src2:runner")
+	g := gw.surface
+	took := func(args map[string]any) (string, bool, time.Duration) {
+		start := time.Now()
+		text, isErr := callWait(g, args)
+		return text, isErr, time.Since(start)
+	}
+	// The most timeout a wait takes, its ask chosen while it waits: answered at the choice; the same call made then
+	// subscribes and hears the event published after it, answered with its approval; a warrant for other names, another
+	// filter or another timeout is refused, asked anew.
+	long := map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "filter": map[string]any{"n": 2}, "timeout": 600}
+	done := make(chan string, 1)
+	go func() { text, _, d := took(long); done <- fmt.Sprintf("%s after %s", text, d) }()
+	mt.Until(t, func() error {
+		if gw.asks() < 1 {
+			return os.ErrNotExist
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	gw.approve(t)
+	select {
+	case got := <-done:
+		if !strings.Contains(got, "make this wait again within 30 minutes") {
+			t.Errorf("a long wait chosen while it waits: %s", got)
+		}
+	case <-time.After(10 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("a long marked wait was not answered at the choice")
+	}
+	before := g.conn.Subscriptions()
+	go func() {
+		listening(t, g, before, 6)
+		mesh.Emit(t, "mesh.mod.mail.event.message", map[string]any{"n": 2})
+	}()
+	if text, isErr, _ := took(long); isErr || !strings.Contains(text, `"approval": "run on the operator's approval`) ||
+		!strings.Contains(text, `"subject": "mail.message"`) {
+		t.Errorf("the same wait on its warrant: %s", text)
+	}
+	for _, other := range []map[string]any{
+		{"subjects": []any{"mail.message", "mail.inbox"}, "filter": map[string]any{"n": 2}, "timeout": 1},
+		{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "filter": map[string]any{"n": 3}, "timeout": 1},
+		{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "filter": map[string]any{"n": 2}, "timeout": 2},
+	} {
+		asked := gw.asks()
+		if text, isErr, _ := took(other); !isErr || !strings.Contains(text, "Not run") || gw.asks() != asked+1 {
+			t.Errorf("another wait than the warrant's %v: %s", other, text)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
-// A tool runner issued no families waits on nothing, and says so.
-func TestMeshWaitWithNoFamiliesIssuedWaitsOnNothing(t *testing.T) {
-	mt.New(t)
-	s := NewSurface(connect(t, "node-tools", "desk"), nil, "desk.node-tools")
-	text, isErr := callWait(s, map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mesh-knowledge.reviewed"}, "timeout": 1})
-	if !isErr || !strings.Contains(text, "no event families") {
-		t.Errorf("a runtime issued no families: %s", text)
+// markedWaitsBeforeTheHalfIsRead are §37's rows of a wait before the catalog half is read, and of one whose runner build is unknown.
+func markedWaitsBeforeTheHalfIsRead(t *testing.T, s *Surface, mesh *mt.Mesh) {
+	gw := newGatedWaits(t, s, mesh, "src2:runner")
+	g := gw.surface
+	took := func(args map[string]any) (string, bool, time.Duration) {
+		start := time.Now()
+		text, isErr := callWait(g, args)
+		return text, isErr, time.Since(start)
 	}
+	// Before the catalog half is read nothing is asked: judged when its first view comes within the timeout, refused at
+	// the timeout when it does not.
+	gw.cat.mu.Lock()
+	gw.cat.ready = errors.New("no first view yet")
+	gw.cat.mu.Unlock()
+	asked := gw.asks()
+	if text, isErr, d := took(map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "timeout": 1}); !isErr ||
+		!strings.Contains(text, "the marks are not yet read") || gw.asks() != asked || d < time.Second {
+		t.Errorf("before the catalog half is read: %s after %s", text, d)
+	}
+	gw.cat.came = make(chan chan struct{})
+	go func() { close(<-gw.cat.came) }()
+	if text, isErr, _ := took(map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "filter": map[string]any{"n": 9}, "timeout": 1}); !isErr ||
+		!strings.Contains(text, "this wait needs the operator's approval") || gw.asks() != asked+1 {
+		t.Errorf("the catalog half read within the timeout: %s", text)
+	}
+	// While the runner's own fingerprint is unknown a marked wait is refused, saying so.
+	unknown := newGatedWaits(t, s, mesh, "")
+	if text, isErr := callWait(unknown.surface, map[string]any{"subjects": []any{"mail.message"}, "timeout": 1}); !isErr ||
+		!strings.Contains(text, "own fingerprint is unknown") || unknown.asks() != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("the runner's fingerprint unknown: %s", text)
+	}
+}
+
+// gatedWaits is the surface with the runner's approval gate: the fixture module mail marks its event message and declares
+// the stream inbox with a grant; the router takes each ask as it is published, its records on the test bus.
+type gatedWaits struct {
+	surface *Surface
+	cat     *waitCatalog
+	records nats.KeyValue
+	mu      sync.Mutex
+	asked   []opseat.Ask
+	say     *bus.Conn
+}
+
+func newGatedWaits(t *testing.T, s *Surface, mesh *mt.Mesh, build string) *gatedWaits {
+	gw := &gatedWaits{cat: &waitCatalog{entries: []catalogseat.CatalogEntry{{Module: "mail", Fp: "src2:mail", Manifest: map[string]any{
+		"emits": []any{"message"}, "needs-approval": []any{"message"},
+		"streams": []any{map[string]any{"name": "inbox", "events": []any{"inbox.*"}, "grant": map[string]any{"subscribe": []any{"x"}}}}}}}},
+		records: mesh.Bucket(t, "operator-channel-asks"), say: connect(t, "messenger", "")}
+	state := mt.NewState()
+	gate := approval.New(approval.Deps{Node: "desk", Runner: "node-tools", Build: build, Catalog: gw.cat, Wait: gw.cat.wait,
+		State: state, Holder: func(string) (bool, error) { return true, nil },
+		Hear: func(ctx context.Context, subjects []string, within time.Duration, match func(json.RawMessage) bool) (bool, error) {
+			_, ok, _, err := s.conn.HearFirst(ctx, subjects, within, match)
+			return ok, err
+		},
+		Channel: &operatorchannelclient.GateChannel{State: state, KeyPrefix: "desk.", Publish: func(module, subject string, body any, id string) error {
+			a, ok := body.(opseat.Ask)
+			if subject != opseat.AcceptSubjectAsk(module) || !ok {
+				return nil
+			}
+			gw.mu.Lock()
+			gw.asked = append(gw.asked, a)
+			gw.mu.Unlock()
+			gw.write(t, opseat.AsksByAskerIDValue{Asker: module, Key: module + "." + a.ID, State: "open", Headline: a.Headline,
+				Expires: a.Expires, Opened: operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(time.Now()), OfferedOn: []string{"telegram"}})
+			return nil
+		},
+			ReadRecord: func(module, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+				e, err := gw.records.Get(module + "." + id)
+				if errors.Is(err, nats.ErrKeyNotFound) {
+					return nil, nil
+				} else if err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: e.Key(), Value: e.Value(), Revision: e.Revision()}, nil
+			}}})
+	gw.surface = NewSurface(s.conn, busSource{s.conn}, "desk.node-tools")
+	gw.surface.Approvals = gateApprovals{gate}
+	return gw
+}
+
+func (gw *gatedWaits) write(t *testing.T, rec opseat.AsksByAskerIDValue) {
+	raw, _ := json.Marshal(rec)
+	if _, err := gw.records.Put(rec.Key, raw); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+}
+
+func (gw *gatedWaits) asks() int {
+	gw.mu.Lock()
+	defer gw.mu.Unlock()
+	return len(gw.asked)
+}
+
+// approve writes the router's record of the newest ask as a person's Approve, and says its decided.
+func (gw *gatedWaits) approve(t *testing.T) {
+	gw.mu.Lock()
+	a := gw.asked[len(gw.asked)-1]
+	gw.mu.Unlock()
+	gw.write(t, opseat.AsksByAskerIDValue{Asker: "node-tools", Key: "node-tools." + a.ID, State: "chosen", Expires: a.Expires,
+		OfferedOn: []string{"telegram"}, Warrant: &opseat.Warrant{Ask: a.ID, Asker: "node-tools", Outcome: operatorchannelclient.OutcomeChosen,
+			Option: approval.OptionApprove, Level: operatorchannelclient.Approve, At: operatorchannelclient.FormatTime(time.Now()),
+			AskDigest: operatorchannelclient.Digest(a), Channel: "telegram",
+			By: &opseat.Person{Who: operatorchannelclient.Operator, Kind: "telegram", Identity: "42", Verified: "user id verified"}}})
+	if err := gw.say.Say(opseat.SubjectDecided("node-tools"), []byte(`{"ask":"`+a.ID+`"}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+// gateApprovals is the gate as the surface holds it: mesh_approvals' reads unused here, mesh_wait's gate.
+type gateApprovals struct{ *approval.Gate }
+
+func (gateApprovals) Fill() (uint64, int64, error) { return 0, 0, nil }
+
+// waitCatalog is a catalog half as a fixture: its entries, read or not; with came set, its first view comes once a wait
+// waits for it (waiting is told on it, then it closes).
+type waitCatalog struct {
+	entries []catalogseat.CatalogEntry
+	mu      sync.Mutex
+	ready   error
+	came    chan chan struct{}
+}
+
+func (c *waitCatalog) Ready() error {
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	defer c.mu.Unlock()
+	return c.ready
+}
+func (c *waitCatalog) wait(within time.Duration) error {
+	if c.Ready() == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if c.came != nil {
+		view := make(chan struct{})
+		c.came <- view
+		<-view
+		c.mu.Lock()
+		c.ready = nil
+		c.mu.Unlock()
+		return nil
+	}
+	<-time.After(within) // the bound of the runner's own wait for the first view
+	return c.Ready()
+}
+func (c *waitCatalog) Revision() string { return "7" }
+func (c *waitCatalog) Served(string) (approval.Entry, bool, string) {
+	return approval.Entry{}, false, "not-found"
+}
+func (c *waitCatalog) Newest(string) (approval.Entry, bool) {
+	return approval.Entry{}, false
+}
+func (c *waitCatalog) Definitions() map[string]seatdef.Definition { return nil }
+func (c *waitCatalog) Entries() []approval.Entry {
+	var out []approval.Entry
+	for _, e := range c.entries {
+		out = append(out, runnerapproval.Entry(e))
+	}
+	return out
 }
 
 // The mesh MCP server announces seven tools (ADR 0367 v13): ADR 0195's five, mesh_runtimes and mesh_wait, its timeout bounded.
@@ -194,7 +563,7 @@ func TestMeshWaitIsAnnouncedAmongSeven(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 	sort.Strings(names)
-	want := []string{"mesh_call", "mesh_describe", "mesh_first_view_again", "mesh_first_views", "mesh_machine", "mesh_overview", "mesh_runtimes", "mesh_search", "mesh_wait"}
+	want := []string{"mesh_approvals", "mesh_call", "mesh_describe", "mesh_first_view_again", "mesh_first_views", "mesh_machine", "mesh_overview", "mesh_runtimes", "mesh_search", "mesh_wait"}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(names, want) {
 		t.Errorf("announced %v, want %v", names, want)
 	}
@@ -207,8 +576,49 @@ func TestMeshWaitIsAnnouncedAmongSeven(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("mesh_wait's schema has no %s: %s", word, schema)
 		}
 	}
+	// Design 46 7-approval-mark §18: mesh_approvals lists, and records a hand act before it cancels; refused without a record.
+	gate := &fakeApprovals{}
+	var recorded []string
+	s := &Surface{who: "n1.node-tools", Approvals: gate, Record: func(a map[string]any) error {
+		if a["why"] == "unrecordable" {
+			return errors.New("mesh-hand-acts does not answer")
+		}
+		recorded = append(recorded, a["what"].(string))
+		return nil
+	}}
+	if out := s.discover(context.Background(), verbApprovals, map[string]any{}); out["isError"] == true || !strings.Contains(fmtAnswer(out), "every machine") {
+		t.Errorf("the list %v", out)
+	}
+	if out := s.discover(context.Background(), verbApprovals, map[string]any{"cancel": "a1", "why": "no longer needed"}); out["isError"] == true ||
+		gate.cancelled != "a1" || len(recorded) != 1 || recorded[0] != "cancelled ask a1" {
+		t.Errorf("a cancel %v, recorded %v", out, recorded)
+	}
+	if out := s.discover(context.Background(), verbApprovals, map[string]any{"cancel": "a2", "why": "unrecordable"}); out["isError"] != true || gate.cancelled != "a1" {
+		t.Errorf("a cancel without a record %v", out)
+	}
 }
 
+func fmtAnswer(out map[string]any) string { raw, _ := json.Marshal(out); return string(raw) }
+
+// fakeApprovals is a gate as mesh_approvals reads it.
+type fakeApprovals struct {
+	cancelled string
+	// marked is the one `<module>.<tool>` its Describe says is marked.
+	marked string
+}
+
+func (f *fakeApprovals) List() ([]approval.Listed, error) {
+	return []approval.Listed{{Ask: "a1", State: "asked"}}, nil
+}
+func (f *fakeApprovals) Read(id string) (approval.Whole, error) { return approval.Whole{}, nil }
+func (f *fakeApprovals) Applied() []approval.Marks              { return nil }
+func (f *fakeApprovals) Describe(module, _, name string) (bool, string) {
+	return f.marked != "" && f.marked == module+"."+name, "entry " + module
+}
+func (f *fakeApprovals) Again(string) error           { return nil }
+func (f *fakeApprovals) Cancel(id string) error       { f.cancelled = id; return nil }
+func (f *fakeApprovals) Fill() (uint64, int64, error) { return 10, 64 << 20, nil }
+
 // A client that hangs up or cancels ends its wait at once: the subscription is closed and nothing is left
 // waiting for the timeout (the review of issue 745). Over the console's own HTTP, as an agent host calls it.
 func TestMeshWaitEndsWhenItsClientHangsUp(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/firstview/approval.go b/node-tools/internal/firstview/approval.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24a8aed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/firstview/approval.go
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+package firstview
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+
+	runnerapproval "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/approval"
+)
+
+// Findings is the runner's held finding writer, the one the gate writes its findings through too (design 46 7-approval-mark
+// §4, §16, §19); nil when it was not made.
+func (v *Views) Findings() runnerapproval.HeldWriter {
+	if v.deps.Findings == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return v.deps.Findings
+}
+
+// ApprovalCatalog is the catalog half as the gate reads its marks (design 46 7-approval-mark §5): the entries the branch
+// follower holds, an entry by fingerprint asked of `mesh-catalog.entry` when no branch lists it, and the seat definitions
+// the seat list holds (defs).
+func (v *Views) ApprovalCatalog(defs func() map[string]seatdef.Definition) approval.Catalog {
+	return approvalCatalog{v: v, defs: defs}
+}
+
+type approvalCatalog struct {
+	v    *Views
+	defs func() map[string]seatdef.Definition
+}
+
+func (c approvalCatalog) Ready() error {
+	if c.v.branches == nil {
+		return errNotFollowed
+	}
+	return c.v.branches.Ready()
+}
+
+func (c approvalCatalog) Revision() string {
+	if c.v.branches == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	for _, branch := range c.v.branches.Followed() {
+		if cat, ok := c.v.branches.Catalog(branch); ok {
+			if half, ok := cat.View(); ok {
+				return strconv.FormatInt(half.Revision.Revision, 10)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+func (c approvalCatalog) Served(fingerprint string) (approval.Entry, bool, string) {
+	if c.v.branches == nil {
+		return approval.Entry{}, false, errNotFollowed.Error()
+	}
+	e, state := c.v.branches.Resolve(context.Background(), fingerprint)
+	return runnerapproval.Entry(e), state == meshcatalogclient.EntryAnswered, string(state)
+}
+
+func (c approvalCatalog) Newest(module string) (approval.Entry, bool) {
+	if c.v.branches == nil {
+		return approval.Entry{}, false
+	}
+	e, ok, err := c.v.branches.Entry(module)
+	return runnerapproval.Entry(e), ok && err == nil
+}
+
+func (c approvalCatalog) Definitions() map[string]seatdef.Definition {
+	if c.defs == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return c.defs()
+}
+
+func (c approvalCatalog) Entries() []approval.Entry {
+	halves, err := c.v.Halves()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []approval.Entry
+	for _, half := range halves {
+		for _, e := range half.Entries {
+			out = append(out, runnerapproval.Entry(e))
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+type notFollowed struct{}
+
+func (notFollowed) Error() string { return "the catalog half is not followed by this runner" }
+
+var errNotFollowed error = notFollowed{}
+
+// heardOne wakes every wait on the picture.
+func (v *Views) heardOne() {
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	defer v.mu.Unlock()
+	if v.heard != nil {
+		close(v.heard)
+	}
+	v.heard = make(chan struct{})
+}
+
+// heardNext is closed at the next event heard.
+func (v *Views) heardNext() <-chan struct{} {
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	defer v.mu.Unlock()
+	if v.heard == nil {
+		v.heard = make(chan struct{})
+	}
+	return v.heard
+}
+
+// WaitCatalog waits within the bound for the catalog half's first view of every watched branch (design 46 7-approval-mark
+// §19), waking at each event the runner hears and at each first view answered; nil once it is read, else why not.
+func (v *Views) WaitCatalog(within time.Duration) error {
+	c := approvalCatalog{v: v}
+	timer := time.NewTimer(within)
+	defer timer.Stop()
+	for {
+		next := v.heardNext()
+		err := c.Ready()
+		if err == nil {
+			return nil
+		}
+		var ready []<-chan struct{}
+		if v.branches != nil {
+			for _, branch := range v.branches.Followed() {
+				if cat, ok := v.branches.Catalog(branch); ok {
+					select {
+					case <-cat.Ready(): // read already: waits on nothing
+					default:
+						ready = append(ready, cat.Ready())
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		if !waitAny(next, timer.C, ready) {
+			return c.Ready()
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// waitAny waits for next or one of ready, true, or for the bound, false.
+func waitAny(next <-chan struct{}, bound <-chan time.Time, ready []<-chan struct{}) bool {
+	woke := make(chan struct{}, 1)
+	stop := make(chan struct{})
+	defer close(stop)
+	for _, r := range ready {
+		go func(r <-chan struct{}) {
+			select {
+			case <-r:
+				woke <- struct{}{}
+			case <-stop:
+			}
+		}(r)
+	}
+	select {
+	case <-next:
+	case <-woke:
+	case <-bound:
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// OnSeatHolder calls f whenever the assigner's seat-holders view changes for the seat (lead answer A-157: the gate asks
+// mesh-hand-acts.warranted again when the hand-act seat's holder is heard again).
+func (v *Views) OnSeatHolder(seat string, f func()) {
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	defer v.mu.Unlock()
+	if v.onKey == nil {
+		v.onKey = map[string][]func(){}
+	}
+	k := "seat-holders " + seat
+	v.onKey[k] = append(v.onKey[k], f)
+}
+
+// heardKey calls the hearers of a key of an owner's state just changed: a seat's holders, under the seat's own key and
+// its `<seat>.<node>` keys.
+func (v *Views) heardKey(state, key string) {
+	seat, _, _ := strings.Cut(key, ".")
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	fs := append([]func(){}, v.onKey[state+" "+seat]...)
+	v.mu.Unlock()
+	for _, f := range fs {
+		go f()
+	}
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview.go b/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview.go
index 4b93e15..604c93c 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview.go
@@ -1,66 +1,79 @@
-// Package firstview is the tool runner's picture of the four states it reads of the indexer and the assigner: the assigner's
-// assignments and seat-holders, the indexer's manifests and modules (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1, §3; ADR 0621 §2; issue 1966 TLS-5).
+// Package firstview is the tool runner's picture of what it reads of the assigner and the catalog half: the assigner's
+// assignments and seat-holders (novox/hq ADR 0615 §1, §3; ADR 0621 §2; issue 1966 TLS-5), and which modules exist with the
+// manifest each entry carries, followed per watched branch through meshcatalogclient's branch follower on this process's own
+// consumer (design 47 G §196, §594, §614; lead answers A-5, A-27, A-103), never the indexer's state `modules` or `manifests`.
 //
 // **It never reads the owners' state.** At start it asks each owner's first-view tool until answered (the owner answers in a
 // runtime of its own, never through this one: ADR 0621 §1), then follows the owner's views family, one event per changed key;
 // a gap in the revisions, or an owner whose state was made again, asks the first view once more, said in the log. Past two
-// minutes without an answer it writes a finding in its own state `findings`, which the condition keeper raises and clears.
+// minutes without an answer it writes a finding through its held finding writer (design 47 G A-27, A-28), which keeps it in its
+// own state `findings` and says it; the answer clears it.
 package firstview
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	conditions "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshconditionsclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner"
 	condseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 )
 
-// The owners and their first-view tools (the tools' addresses are `<owner>.<tool>`).
+// AssignerSeat is the seat whose holder's views the runner follows: the holder is read from the catalog half's claims of the
+// seat, never named in code (design 47 G §616, §428), and the names the console reads the two states by are the seat's
+// (`<seat>.<state>`; the manifest's `consumes` names their views families by the seat, as `seat:<seat>.views.<state>`).
+const AssignerSeat = meshmoduleassigner.Seat
+
 const (
-	Indexer  = "mesh-delivery-indexer"
-	Assigner = "mesh-delivery-assigner"
+	AssignmentsRead = AssignerSeat + ".assignments"
+	SeatHoldersRead = AssignerSeat + ".seat-holders"
 )
 
-// The names the console reads the four states by (`<owner>.<state>`), as the manifest's `consumes` names their views
-// families (no seat's client names a holder, novox/hq ADR 0625 §4; TestTheFirstViewsAreTheManifestsViews).
-const (
-	AssignmentsRead = Assigner + ".assignments"
-	SeatHoldersRead = Assigner + ".seat-holders"
-	ModulesRead     = Indexer + ".modules"
-	ManifestsRead   = Indexer + ".manifests"
-)
+// Spec is one first view the runner holds of the seat's holder: its first-view tool and the state.
+type Spec struct{ Tool, State string }
 
-// Spec is one first view the runner holds.
-type Spec struct{ Owner, Tool, State string }
-
-// Specs are the four.
+// Specs are the two states asked of the holder's tool; the catalog half's views are adopted by the branch follower.
 var Specs = []Spec{
-	{Assigner, "assignments", "assignments"},
-	{Assigner, "seat-holders", "seat-holders"},
-	{Indexer, "manifests", "manifests"},
-	{Indexer, "modules", "modules"},
+	{"assignments", "assignments"},
+	{"seat-holders", "seat-holders"},
 }
 
-// Name is the name a state is read by, `<owner>.<state>`: AssignmentsRead, SeatHoldersRead and the indexer's.
-func (s Spec) Name() string { return s.Owner + "." + s.State }
+// Name is the name a state is read by, `<seat>.<state>`: AssignmentsRead and SeatHoldersRead.
+func (s Spec) Name() string { return AssignerSeat + "." + s.State }
 
-// Views is the four followers.
+// Views is the first views: the assigner's two, and the catalog half's per watched branch.
 type Views struct {
 	logf      func(string, ...any)
-	followers map[string]*views.Follower // by Spec.Name()
-	byState   map[string]*views.Follower // by the state an event names
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	followers map[string]*views.Follower // by `<owner>.<state>`
+	byState   map[string]*views.Follower // by the state an event names, the owners' views families
+	adopted   map[string]*adoption       // by `<owner>.<state>`, the views the branch follower adopted
+	hearers   map[string][]*adoption     // event key `<seat>.<event>` -> the adopted views that hear it
+	branches  *meshcatalogclient.Branches
+	holder    *holding // the module that claims the assigner seat, once the catalog half names it
 	ctx       context.Context
 	cancel    context.CancelFunc
 	wg        sync.WaitGroup
 	deps      Deps
+	// heard is closed and made again at every event heard, so a wait for the picture wakes on events, never on a timer.
+	heard chan struct{}
+	// onKey are the hearers of one key of an owner's state, by `<state> <key>` (OnSeatHolder).
+	onKey map[string][]func()
 }
 
 // FindingsState is the runner's own state the findings are written in.
@@ -74,70 +87,147 @@ type Deps struct {
 	Ask func(address string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)
 	// Consume hands each event of the owners' views families to deliver, until the stop is called.
 	Consume func(deliver func(bus.Envelope) error) (stop func(), err error)
-	// PutFinding and DeleteFinding keep and remove a finding in the runner's own state.
-	PutFinding    func(key string, value json.RawMessage) error
-	DeleteFinding func(key string) error
+	// Findings is the runner's held finding writer (views.HeldWriter): a follower's unanswered first view is written and cleared
+	// through it with the contract's Finding (design 47 G A-28). Nil says it in the log only.
+	Findings FindingWriter
+	// StartFindings starts that writer, and its stop ends it; nil starts none.
+	StartFindings func(ctx context.Context) (stop func(), err error)
+	// Build is the build this process was started with (process.OwnBuild, read once at the start): its fingerprint, or
+	// why it is unknown (design 47 G §205, §424).
+	Build process.Build
+	// Node is the machine the runner is on, named in its findings' subject.
+	Node string
 	// Bound and Wait are the follower's (zero: two minutes, five seconds).
 	Bound, Wait time.Duration
 }
 
-// Start asks the four first views, each until answered, and follows the owners' views families on the runner's own
-// consumers. It returns at once: the picture fills as the owners answer.
-func Start(parent context.Context, conn *bus.Conn, logf func(string, ...any)) (*Views, func()) {
-	return StartWith(parent, DepsOf(conn), logf)
+// FindingWriter is the writer the runner's findings go through: views.HeldWriter over the contract's Finding.
+type FindingWriter interface {
+	Write(ctx context.Context, finding condseat.Finding) error
+	Clear(ctx context.Context, scope, id, kind, why string) error
 }
 
-// DepsOf is the views' reach through the runner's own connection: its tool calls, its consumer and its findings state.
-func DepsOf(conn *bus.Conn) Deps {
+// Start asks the first views, each until answered, and follows the owners' views families on the runner's own
+// consumers. It returns at once: the picture fills as the owners answer.
+func Start(parent context.Context, conn *bus.Conn, logf func(string, ...any)) (*Views, func()) {
+	return StartWith(parent, DepsOf(conn, logf), logf)
+}
+
+// DepsOf is the views' reach through the runner's own connection: its tool calls, its consumer and its held finding writer, whose
+// state adapter, JetStream and node are this connection's, in this one place (design 47 G A-16, A-27).
+func DepsOf(conn *bus.Conn, logf func(string, ...any)) Deps {
 	me := conn.Module()
-	return Deps{Module: me,
+	d := Deps{Module: me, Node: conn.Node(), Build: process.OwnBuild(),
 		Ask: func(address string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 			got, err := conn.Ask(address, body, "")
 			return got.Result, err
 		},
 		Consume: func(deliver func(bus.Envelope) error) (func(), error) { return conn.ConsumeAs(me, deliver) },
-		PutFinding: func(key string, value json.RawMessage) error {
-			_, err := conn.StatePut(me, FindingsState, key, value)
-			return err
-		},
-		DeleteFinding: func(key string) error { return conn.StateDelete(me, FindingsState, key) },
 	}
+	js, err := conn.JetStream()
+	if err != nil {
+		logf("[mesh-tools] the runner's findings are not written (%v): the first views' findings are in the log only", err)
+		return d
+	}
+	w, err := views.NewHeldWriter(views.WriterConfig[condseat.Finding, condseat.FindingCleared, condseat.FindingsStated, condseat.FindingsAskedEvent]{
+		Asked: condseat.SubjectFindingsAsked, Module: me, Node: conn.Node(), State: findingsState{conn: conn, module: me}, JS: js, Logf: logf,
+		Kinds: append([]string{views.UnansweredKind}, approval.Kinds...)})
+	if err != nil {
+		logf("[mesh-tools] the runner's findings are not written (%v): the first views' findings are in the log only", err)
+		return d
+	}
+	d.Findings = w
+	d.StartFindings = func(ctx context.Context) (func(), error) { return w.Close, w.Start(ctx) }
+	return d
 }
 
+// findingsState is the runner's own state `findings` (views.FindingState) over its connection.
+type findingsState struct {
+	conn   *bus.Conn
+	module string
+}
+
+func (s findingsState) Get(key string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+	e, err := s.conn.StateGet(s.module, FindingsState, key)
+	if err != nil || e == nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: e.Key, Value: e.Value, Revision: e.Revision, At: e.At}, nil
+}
+
+func (s findingsState) Put(key string, value any) (uint64, error) {
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return s.conn.StatePut(s.module, FindingsState, key, raw)
+}
+
+func (s findingsState) Delete(key string) error {
+	return s.conn.StateDelete(s.module, FindingsState, key)
+}
+
+func (s findingsState) Keys() ([]string, error) { return s.conn.StateKeys(s.module, FindingsState) }
+
 // StartWith is Start over deps.
 func StartWith(parent context.Context, d Deps, logf func(string, ...any)) (*Views, func()) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(parent)
-	v := &Views{logf: logf, ctx: ctx, cancel: cancel, followers: map[string]*views.Follower{}, byState: map[string]*views.Follower{}, deps: d}
-	for _, s := range Specs {
-		s := s
-		call := func(tool string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return d.Ask(s.Owner+"."+tool, body) }
-		f := &views.Follower{Owner: s.Owner, Tool: s.Tool, State: s.State, Ask: views.AskVia(call, s.Tool), Logf: logf,
-			Bound: d.Bound, Wait: d.Wait,
-			Raise: func(st views.Status) { v.finding(st, true) },
-			Clear: func(st views.Status) { v.finding(st, false) }}
-		v.followers[s.Name()] = f
-		v.byState[s.State] = f
-		v.wg.Add(1)
-		go func() { defer v.wg.Done(); _ = f.Start(ctx) }()
+	v := &Views{logf: logf, ctx: ctx, cancel: cancel, followers: map[string]*views.Follower{}, byState: map[string]*views.Follower{},
+		adopted: map[string]*adoption{}, hearers: map[string][]*adoption{}, deps: d}
+	stopFindings := func() {}
+	if d.StartFindings != nil {
+		if stop, err := d.StartFindings(ctx); err != nil {
+			logf("[mesh-tools] the runner's finding writer does not start (%v): the first views' findings are in the log only", err)
+		} else {
+			stopFindings = stop
+		}
+	}
+	// The catalog half is followed by the shared branch follower on this process's own wiring (design 47 G §614, A-103): the
+	// registrations, the gate's source and a view per watched branch, each heard on this consumer.
+	branches, err := meshcatalogclient.NewBranches(wiring{v}, func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return d.Ask(key, body) })
+	if err != nil {
+		logf("[mesh-tools] the catalog half is not followed (%v): the console cannot say which modules exist", err)
+	} else {
+		branches.Logf = func(format string, args ...any) { logf("[mesh-tools] "+format, args...) }
+		branches.Changed = func(_, module string, entry json.RawMessage, deleted bool, _ time.Time) {
+			v.claimed(module, entry, deleted)
+		}
+		v.branches = branches
 	}
 	stop, err := d.Consume(v.hear)
 	if err != nil {
 		logf("[mesh-tools] the owners' views are not followed (%v): the pictures are the first views alone until the runner starts again", err)
 		stop = func() {}
 	}
-	return v, func() { stop(); cancel(); v.wg.Wait() }
+	return v, func() { stop(); cancel(); v.wg.Wait(); stopFindings() }
 }
 
-// hear applies one views event; a gap asks the first view once more.
+// hear applies one views event; a gap asks the first view once more. Every event heard wakes what waits on the picture
+// (heardOne).
 func (v *Views) hear(env bus.Envelope) error {
+	defer v.heardOne()
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	hs := append([]*adoption(nil), v.hearers[env.Key]...)
+	v.mu.Unlock()
+	if len(hs) > 0 { // an event of the catalog half or the gate's source, heard by the views the branch follower adopted
+		for _, a := range hs {
+			if err := a.hear(v.ctx, env.Body); err != nil {
+				v.logf("[mesh-tools] %v", err)
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
 	ev, err := views.DecodeEvent(env.Body)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil // not a views event: nothing to hold, nothing to retry
 	}
+	v.mu.Lock()
 	f := v.byState[ev.State]
+	v.mu.Unlock()
 	if f == nil || f.Owner != ev.Owner {
 		return nil
 	}
+	defer v.heardKey(ev.State, ev.Key)
 	if gap, why := f.Apply(ev); gap {
 		v.logf("[mesh-tools] a gap in %s's %s (%s): its first view %s is asked once more", f.Owner, f.State, why, f.Tool)
 		go func() { _ = f.Again(v.ctx, "a gap: "+why) }()
@@ -145,27 +235,36 @@ func (v *Views) hear(env bus.Envelope) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// finding writes or removes the runner's finding of a first view unanswered past its bound, in its own state.
-func (v *Views) finding(st views.Status, raised bool) {
-	key, value, err := conditionOf(views.UnansweredFinding(v.deps.Module, st, time.Now()))
-	if err != nil {
-		v.logf("[mesh-tools] the finding of the first view %s is not made: %v", st.Tool, err)
+// finding writes or clears the runner's finding of a first view unanswered past its bound, through its writer (design 47 G A-28).
+func (v *Views) finding(f condseat.Finding, tool string, raised bool) {
+	if v.deps.Findings == nil {
+		v.logf("[mesh-tools] %s", f.Summary)
 		return
 	}
+	var err error
 	if raised {
-		err = v.deps.PutFinding(key, value)
+		err = v.deps.Findings.Write(context.Background(), f)
 	} else {
-		err = v.deps.DeleteFinding(key)
+		err = v.deps.Findings.Clear(context.Background(), f.Scope, f.ID, f.Kind, "the owner answered")
 	}
 	if err != nil {
-		v.logf("[mesh-tools] the finding of the first view %s is not kept: %v", st.Tool, err)
+		v.logf("[mesh-tools] the finding of the first view %s is not kept: %v", tool, err)
 	}
 }
 
 // State is the picture of the state spec names (`<owner>.<state>`), every current value by key; an error says the owner has
 // not answered yet, so nothing is claimed of it.
 func (v *Views) State(name string) (map[string][]byte, error) {
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	if state, ok := strings.CutPrefix(name, AssignerSeat+"."); ok { // the seat's name stands for its holder's
+		if v.holder == nil {
+			v.mu.Unlock()
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the catalog half names no holder of the seat %s yet, so %s has no first view", AssignerSeat, name)
+		}
+		name = v.holder.module + "." + state
+	}
 	f := v.followers[name]
+	v.mu.Unlock()
 	if f == nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the tool runner holds no first view of %s", name)
 	}
@@ -193,17 +292,40 @@ func (v *Views) Entry(name, key string) ([]byte, error) {
 // Status is each first view as it stands, by `<owner>.<state>`, sorted.
 func (v *Views) Status() []views.Status {
 	var out []views.Status
-	for _, f := range v.followers {
+	for _, f := range v.all() {
 		out = append(out, f.Status())
 	}
 	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Owner+out[i].State < out[j].Owner+out[j].State })
 	return out
 }
 
+// OwnBuild is the build the tool runner was started with: the fingerprint of the want its node-engine applied, or why it is
+// unknown (`own build unknown: started without MESH_FINGERPRINT`).
+func (v *Views) OwnBuild() process.Build { return v.deps.Build }
+
+// Entries are the entries by fingerprint the catalog half's follower keeps, with their state and since when (design 47 G A-103).
+func (v *Views) Entries() any {
+	if v.branches == nil {
+		return []meshcatalogclient.EntryStatus{}
+	}
+	return v.branches.EntryStatuses()
+}
+
+// all is every first view held now: the owners', then the adopted ones.
+func (v *Views) all() []*views.Follower {
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	defer v.mu.Unlock()
+	out := make([]*views.Follower, 0, len(v.followers))
+	for _, f := range v.followers {
+		out = append(out, f)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // Again asks every first view once more, by hand, for why.
 func (v *Views) Again(ctx context.Context, why string) []error {
 	var errs []error
-	for _, f := range v.followers {
+	for _, f := range v.all() {
 		if err := f.Again(ctx, why); err != nil {
 			errs = append(errs, err)
 		}
@@ -211,20 +333,240 @@ func (v *Views) Again(ctx context.Context, why string) []error {
 	return errs
 }
 
-// conditionOf is a finding in the layout of the seat mesh-conditions' state findings (its contract, ADR 0634 §1), about a
-// module, a warning.
-func conditionOf(f views.Finding) (string, []byte, error) {
-	key := conditions.Key(scopeModule, f.ID, f.Kind)
-	v := condseat.FindingsByKeyValue{V: 1, Key: key, Kind: f.Kind, Observer: f.Observer, Severity: conditions.Warning,
-		Subject: condseat.Subject{Scope: scopeModule, ID: f.ID}, Summary: f.Summary, Headline: f.Headline,
-		Explanation: f.Explanation, Source: f.Observer + "." + f.Kind, At: f.At.UTC(),
-		Evidence: []condseat.Evidence{{At: f.At.UTC(), Said: f.Summary}}}
-	if err := conditions.CheckFinding(v); err != nil {
-		return "", nil, err
-	}
-	raw, err := json.Marshal(v)
-	return key, raw, err
+// unansweredFinding is the finding of a first view unanswered past its bound, in the contract's form (design 47 G A-28): about the
+// runner's module, a warning, its id the view's name escaped as a key's name is.
+func unansweredFinding(module, node string, st views.Status, at time.Time) condseat.Finding {
+	return condseat.Finding{Kind: views.UnansweredKind, Scope: scopeModule, ID: keys.EscapeName(module + "." + st.Owner + "." + st.State),
+		Severity: condseat.FindingSeverityWarning, Source: "views", Observer: module,
+		Subject: condseat.Subject{Scope: scopeModule, ID: module, Machine: node},
+		Summary: fmt.Sprintf("%s has no first view of %s's %s: %s has not answered since %s (%s)", module, st.Owner, st.State, st.Tool,
+			st.Asked.Format(time.RFC3339), strings.TrimSpace(st.Error)),
+		Headline: fmt.Sprintf("%s waits for %s", module, st.Owner), At: at.UTC()}
 }
 
 // scopeModule is the scope of a finding about a module.
 const scopeModule = "module"
+
+// viewWaitsFinding is the finding of a view waited for past views.WaitsBound, in the contract's form: about the runner's module,
+// a warning, its id the view's name escaped as a key's name is.
+func viewWaitsFinding(module, node string, st views.Status, at time.Time) condseat.Finding {
+	return condseat.Finding{Kind: views.ViewWaitsKind, Scope: scopeModule, ID: keys.EscapeName(module + "." + st.Owner + "." + st.State),
+		Severity: condseat.FindingSeverityWarning, Source: "views", Observer: module,
+		Subject: condseat.Subject{Scope: scopeModule, ID: module, Machine: node},
+		Summary: fmt.Sprintf("%s waits for the view %s.%s at revision %s since %s and acts on nothing new until it holds it; it holds %s",
+			module, st.Owner, st.State, st.WaitsFor, st.WaitingSince.UTC().Format(time.RFC3339), orNone(st.View)),
+		Headline: fmt.Sprintf("%s waits for a view of %s", module, st.Owner), At: at.UTC()}
+}
+
+func orNone(s string) string {
+	if s == "" {
+		return "none"
+	}
+	return s
+}
+
+// adoption is a view the branch follower put on this process's consumer: its follower, the event it hears and its handler.
+type adoption struct {
+	name, key string
+	f         *views.Follower
+	hear      func(context.Context, []byte) error
+	cancel    context.CancelFunc
+}
+
+// wiring is the branch follower's wiring over this process's own consumer (meshcatalogclient.Wiring; design 47 G §614, A-103):
+// an adopted view is held with the owners', takes its first view at once, hears its seat's event on the runner's consumer,
+// writes its findings through the runner's held writer, and a dropped one clears them.
+type wiring struct{ v *Views }
+
+func (w wiring) Adopt(f *views.Follower, seat, event string, hear func(context.Context, []byte) error) error {
+	v := w.v
+	if f == nil || f.Owner == "" || f.State == "" || seat == "" || event == "" || hear == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the tool runner adopts a view that names its owner, state, seat's event and handler")
+	}
+	name := f.Owner + "." + f.State
+	key := seat + "." + event
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	if v.followers[name] != nil {
+		v.mu.Unlock()
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is followed already", name)
+	}
+	if f.Logf == nil {
+		f.Logf = v.logf
+	}
+	if f.Bound == 0 {
+		f.Bound = v.deps.Bound
+	}
+	if f.Wait == 0 {
+		f.Wait = v.deps.Wait
+	}
+	held := func() bool { v.mu.Lock(); defer v.mu.Unlock(); return v.followers[name] == f }
+	f.Raise = func(st views.Status) {
+		if held() {
+			v.finding(unansweredFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, true)
+		}
+	}
+	f.Clear = func(st views.Status) {
+		v.finding(unansweredFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, false)
+	}
+	f.RaiseWaits = func(st views.Status) {
+		if held() {
+			v.finding(viewWaitsFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, true)
+		}
+	}
+	f.ClearWaits = func(st views.Status) {
+		v.finding(viewWaitsFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, false)
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(v.ctx)
+	a := &adoption{name: name, key: key, f: f, hear: hear, cancel: cancel}
+	v.followers[name] = f
+	v.adopted[name] = a
+	v.hearers[key] = append(v.hearers[key], a)
+	v.mu.Unlock()
+	v.wg.Add(1)
+	go func() { defer v.wg.Done(); _ = f.Start(ctx) }()
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (w wiring) Drop(owner, state string) error {
+	v := w.v
+	name := owner + "." + state
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	a := v.adopted[name]
+	if a == nil {
+		v.mu.Unlock()
+		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not a view this tool runner adopted", name)
+	}
+	delete(v.followers, name)
+	delete(v.adopted, name)
+	v.hearers[a.key] = slices.DeleteFunc(v.hearers[a.key], func(o *adoption) bool { return o == a })
+	v.mu.Unlock()
+	a.cancel()
+	st := a.f.Status()
+	if st.Raised {
+		v.finding(unansweredFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, false)
+	}
+	if st.WaitsRaised {
+		v.finding(viewWaitsFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, false)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Halves is the catalog half of each followed branch, by branch: its revision, with the seat definitions it was judged
+// with, and its entries; mesh_wait checks an event name's emitter against them (design 34 every-event §14). An error says
+// the half has no first view yet, never that no module exists.
+func (v *Views) Halves() (map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half, error) {
+	if v.branches == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the tool runner does not follow the catalog half")
+	}
+	if err := v.branches.Ready(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	out := map[string]meshcatalogclient.Half{}
+	for _, branch := range v.branches.Followed() {
+		if c, ok := v.branches.Catalog(branch); ok {
+			out[branch], _ = c.View() // a branch at none-yet is ready and empty (§614)
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// Modules is every module the catalog half holds, by name, with its entry: the entries of the watched branches' newest trunk
+// revisions, the branch followed first naming a module more than one hold (design 47 G §196, §594). An error says the half has
+// no first view yet, never that no module exists.
+func (v *Views) Modules() (map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry, error) {
+	if v.branches == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the tool runner does not follow the catalog half")
+	}
+	if err := v.branches.Ready(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	out := map[string]catalogseat.CatalogEntry{}
+	for _, branch := range v.branches.Followed() {
+		c, ok := v.branches.Catalog(branch)
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		half, _ := c.View() // a branch at none-yet is ready and empty (§614)
+		for m, e := range half.Entries {
+			if _, taken := out[m]; !taken {
+				out[m] = e
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// holding is the views of the module that claims the assigner seat, and what stops them.
+type holding struct {
+	module string
+	cancel context.CancelFunc
+	views  []*views.Follower
+}
+
+// claimed is the branch follower's word of one entry changed: an entry that serves a verb of the assigner seat makes its module
+// the holder whose views the runner follows (a holder before it is dropped), the deletion of the holder's entry drops them
+// (design 47 G §616, §428). It acts on the event alone; nothing waits on a timer for the claim.
+func (v *Views) claimed(module string, entry json.RawMessage, deleted bool) {
+	claims := false
+	if !deleted {
+		var e catalogseat.CatalogEntry
+		if json.Unmarshal(entry, &e) == nil {
+			claims = slices.ContainsFunc(e.Serves, func(s string) bool { return strings.HasPrefix(s, AssignerSeat+".") })
+		}
+	}
+	v.mu.Lock()
+	cur := v.holder
+	switch {
+	case claims && cur != nil && cur.module == module, !claims && (cur == nil || cur.module != module), v.ctx.Err() != nil:
+		v.mu.Unlock()
+		return
+	}
+	if cur != nil {
+		v.dropHolderLocked()
+	}
+	if claims {
+		v.startHolderLocked(module)
+	}
+	v.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// startHolderLocked follows the first views of module, the holder of the seat, on the runner's own consumer.
+func (v *Views) startHolderLocked(module string) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(v.ctx)
+	h := &holding{module: module, cancel: cancel}
+	d := v.deps
+	for _, s := range Specs {
+		s := s
+		call := func(tool string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return d.Ask(module+"."+tool, body) }
+		f := &views.Follower{Owner: module, Tool: s.Tool, State: s.State, Ask: views.AskVia(call, s.Tool), Logf: v.logf,
+			Bound: d.Bound, Wait: d.Wait,
+			Raise: func(st views.Status) {
+				v.finding(unansweredFinding(d.Module, d.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, true)
+			},
+			Clear: func(st views.Status) {
+				v.finding(unansweredFinding(d.Module, d.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, false)
+			}}
+		v.followers[module+"."+s.State] = f
+		v.byState[s.State] = f
+		h.views = append(h.views, f)
+		v.wg.Add(1)
+		go func() { defer v.wg.Done(); _ = f.Start(ctx) }()
+	}
+	v.holder = h
+	v.logf("[mesh-tools] the seat %s is held by %s: its views are followed", AssignerSeat, module)
+}
+
+// dropHolderLocked stops the views of the holder and clears the findings they raised.
+func (v *Views) dropHolderLocked() {
+	h := v.holder
+	v.holder = nil
+	h.cancel()
+	for _, f := range h.views {
+		delete(v.followers, f.Owner+"."+f.State)
+		delete(v.byState, f.State)
+		if st := f.Status(); st.Raised {
+			go v.finding(unansweredFinding(v.deps.Module, v.deps.Node, st, time.Now()), st.Tool, false)
+		}
+	}
+	v.logf("[mesh-tools] %s no longer holds the seat %s: its views are no longer followed", h.module, AssignerSeat)
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_integration_test.go b/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_integration_test.go
index baa369d..48879d9 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_integration_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_integration_test.go
@@ -11,11 +11,16 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	condseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	delivery "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdelivery"
+
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
 )
@@ -40,28 +45,30 @@ func TestTheRunnersConsumerCarriesTheOwnersViewsFamiliesWhenTheOwnersAreDownThen
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &manifest); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	streamOf := map[string]string{Assigner: catalogue.StreamBusName("assigner-views"), Indexer: catalogue.StreamBusName("indexer-views")}
+	// the manifest names the assigner's views by the seat; the module the catalog half says claims it is the fixture's
+	const holder = "assigner-fixture"
+	streamOf := map[string]string{"seat:" + AssignerSeat: catalogue.StreamBusName("assigner-views")}
 	filters := map[string][]string{}
 	families := 0
 	for _, c := range manifest.Consumes {
 		emitter, event, isView := strings.Cut(c, ".views.")
-		if !isView { // the seat mesh-catalog's events: the seat list's, on EVENTS (cmd/node-tools/seatlist.go)
+		if !isView { // the seats' events (the seat list's, the catalog half's), on EVENTS (cmd/node-tools/seatlist.go)
 			continue
 		}
 		stream := streamOf[emitter]
 		if stream == "" {
 			t.Fatalf("the manifest consumes %s, whose views stream the test does not know", c)
 		}
-		filters[stream] = append(filters[stream], process.ModuleStreamSubject(emitter, views.EventPrefix+event))
+		filters[stream] = append(filters[stream], process.ModuleStreamSubject(holder, views.EventPrefix+event))
 		families++
 	}
 	if families != len(Specs) {
 		t.Fatalf("the manifest consumes %d families, the runner holds %d first views", families, len(Specs))
 	}
 	runner := mt.MembershipOf("node-tools", "anchor", false, nil)
-	for _, owner := range []string{Assigner, Indexer} {
-		stream := streamOf[owner]
-		mesh.ModuleStream(t, owner, stream)
+	for _, seat := range []string{"seat:" + AssignerSeat} {
+		stream := streamOf[seat]
+		mesh.ModuleStream(t, holder, stream)
 		mesh.ConsumerOn(t, stream, "anchor", "node-tools", filters[stream], 2*time.Second)
 		runner.Hears = append(runner.Hears, bus.HeardIssued{Stream: stream, Consumer: "anchor_node-tools"})
 	}
@@ -84,21 +91,21 @@ func TestTheRunnersConsumerCarriesTheOwnersViewsFamiliesWhenTheOwnersAreDownThen
 
 	var mu sync.Mutex
 	findings := map[string]bool{}
-	deps := DepsOf(conn)
+	deps := DepsOf(conn, t.Logf)
 	deps.Bound, deps.Wait = 100*time.Millisecond, 20*time.Millisecond
-	deps.PutFinding = func(key string, _ json.RawMessage) error { mu.Lock(); findings[key] = true; mu.Unlock(); return nil }
-	deps.DeleteFinding = func(key string) error { mu.Lock(); delete(findings, key); mu.Unlock(); return nil }
+	deps.Findings = writes{&mu, findings}
+	deps.StartFindings = nil
 	v, stop := StartWith(context.Background(), deps, func(string, ...any) {})
 	t.Cleanup(stop)
 
 	// The owners are down: no tool answers, nothing is claimed, and past the bound each view is a finding.
-	if _, err := v.State(Assigner + ".assignments"); err == nil {
+	if _, err := v.State(AssignmentsRead); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a state its owner has not answered is claimed")
 	}
 	mt.Until(t, func() error {
 		mu.Lock()
 		defer mu.Unlock()
-		if len(findings) != len(Specs) {
+		if len(findings) != catalogViews {
 			return errFindings(len(findings))
 		}
 		return nil
@@ -110,10 +117,25 @@ func TestTheRunnersConsumerCarriesTheOwnersViewsFamiliesWhenTheOwnersAreDownThen
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
+	respond := func(subject string, answer any) {
+		if _, err := nc.Subscribe(subject, func(m *nats.Msg) {
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(answer)
+			body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]json.RawMessage{"result": raw})
+			_ = m.Respond(body)
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	// the catalog half answers: the gate's source names main, whose entries say the fixture claims the assigner seat
+	respond("mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.source", delivery.SourceAnswer{Branches: []string{"main"}})
+	respond("mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.tool.registrations", catalogseat.RegistrationsAnswer{Registrations: []catalogseat.Registration{}})
+	respond("mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.tool.revision", catalogseat.RevisionAnswer{
+		Revision: &catalogseat.CatalogRevision{Revision: 3, Kind: meshcatalogclient.KindTrunk, Branch: "main"},
+		Entries:  []catalogseat.CatalogEntry{{Module: holder, Serves: []string{AssignerSeat + ".assignments"}}}})
 	for _, s := range Specs {
 		s := s
-		if _, err := nc.Subscribe("mesh.mod."+s.Owner+".tool."+s.Tool, func(m *nats.Msg) {
-			answer, _ := json.Marshal(views.Answer{V: 1, Owner: s.Owner, State: s.State, Revision: 4, Created: time.Unix(1000, 0).UTC(),
+		if _, err := nc.Subscribe("mesh.mod."+holder+".tool."+s.Tool, func(m *nats.Msg) {
+			answer, _ := json.Marshal(views.Answer{V: 1, Owner: holder, State: s.State, Revision: 4, Created: time.Unix(1000, 0).UTC(),
 				Values: map[string]json.RawMessage{"first": json.RawMessage(`{"n":1}`)}})
 			body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]json.RawMessage{"result": answer})
 			_ = m.Respond(body)
@@ -129,7 +151,7 @@ func TestTheRunnersConsumerCarriesTheOwnersViewsFamiliesWhenTheOwnersAreDownThen
 	mt.Until(t, func() error {
 		mu.Lock()
 		defer mu.Unlock()
-		if len(findings) != 0 {
+		if len(findings) != 0 { // every view answered clears its finding
 			return errFindings(len(findings))
 		}
 		return nil
@@ -137,9 +159,9 @@ func TestTheRunnersConsumerCarriesTheOwnersViewsFamiliesWhenTheOwnersAreDownThen
 
 	// Each owner's next event arrives on the runner's consumer: all four families are bound.
 	for _, s := range Specs {
-		ev, _ := json.Marshal(views.Event{V: 1, Owner: s.Owner, State: s.State, Key: "next", Revision: 5, Created: time.Unix(1000, 0).UTC(),
+		ev, _ := json.Marshal(views.Event{V: 1, Owner: holder, State: s.State, Key: "next", Revision: 5, Created: time.Unix(1000, 0).UTC(),
 			Value: json.RawMessage(`{"n":2}`)})
-		mesh.Emit(t, process.ModuleStreamSubject(s.Owner, views.EventPrefix+s.State), json.RawMessage(ev))
+		mesh.Emit(t, process.ModuleStreamSubject(holder, views.EventPrefix+s.State), json.RawMessage(ev))
 	}
 	for _, s := range Specs {
 		name := s.Name()
@@ -153,6 +175,30 @@ func TestTheRunnersConsumerCarriesTheOwnersViewsFamiliesWhenTheOwnersAreDownThen
 	}
 }
 
+// catalogViews is the first views the branch follower adopts before any branch is known: the registrations and the gate's source
+// (design 47 G §614), each a finding while the seats' verbs go unanswered.
+const catalogViews = 2
+
 type errFindings int
 
 func (e errFindings) Error() string { return "not yet" }
+
+// writes is the runner's finding writer in this test: the findings written and not cleared.
+type writes struct {
+	mu *sync.Mutex
+	by map[string]bool
+}
+
+func (w writes) Write(_ context.Context, f condseat.Finding) error {
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	w.by[views.FindingKey(f.Scope, f.ID, f.Kind)] = true
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (w writes) Clear(_ context.Context, scope, id, kind, _ string) error {
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(w.by, views.FindingKey(scope, id, kind))
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_test.go b/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_test.go
index 11c299d..5221d6e 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/firstview/firstview_test.go
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	condseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	delivery "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdelivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
@@ -25,12 +29,32 @@ type owners struct {
 	asked   map[string]int
 	deliver func(bus.Envelope) error
 	finds   map[string]bool
+	// catalog is the revision of the watched branch main the seat mesh-catalog answers, and modules its entries
+	catalog int64
+	modules []string
+	// holder is the module among them that claims the assigner seat
+	holder string
 }
 
 func newOwners() *owners {
-	return &owners{state: map[string]map[string]string{"assignments": {"anchor": `{"p":1}`}, "seat-holders": {"seat": `{"h":1}`},
-		"manifests": {"d1": `{"m":1}`}, "modules": {"web": `{"w":1}`}},
-		rev: map[string]uint64{"assignments": 4, "seat-holders": 2, "manifests": 7, "modules": 3}, asked: map[string]int{}, finds: map[string]bool{}}
+	return &owners{state: map[string]map[string]string{"assignments": {"anchor": `{"p":1}`}, "seat-holders": {"seat": `{"h":1}`}},
+		rev: map[string]uint64{"assignments": 4, "seat-holders": 2}, asked: map[string]int{}, finds: map[string]bool{},
+		catalog: 3, modules: []string{"web", fixtureHolder}, holder: fixtureHolder}
+}
+
+// Write and Clear are the runner's finding writer in a test: the findings written and not cleared, by their key.
+func (o *owners) Write(_ context.Context, f condseat.Finding) error {
+	o.mu.Lock()
+	defer o.mu.Unlock()
+	o.finds[views.FindingKey(f.Scope, f.ID, f.Kind)] = true
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (o *owners) Clear(_ context.Context, scope, id, kind, _ string) error {
+	o.mu.Lock()
+	defer o.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(o.finds, views.FindingKey(scope, id, kind))
+	return nil
 }
 
 func (o *owners) ask(address string, _ any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
@@ -41,6 +65,22 @@ func (o *owners) ask(address string, _ any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 	if o.down {
 		return nil, errors.New("503 no responders")
 	}
+	switch address {
+	case "seat:mesh-delivery.source":
+		return json.Marshal(delivery.SourceAnswer{Branches: []string{"main"}})
+	case "seat:mesh-catalog.registrations":
+		return json.Marshal(catalogseat.RegistrationsAnswer{Registrations: []catalogseat.Registration{}})
+	case "seat:mesh-catalog.revision":
+		a := catalogseat.RevisionAnswer{Revision: &catalogseat.CatalogRevision{Revision: o.catalog, Kind: meshcatalogclient.KindTrunk, Branch: "main"}}
+		for _, m := range o.modules {
+			e := catalogseat.CatalogEntry{Module: m, Manifest: map[string]any{"module": m, "tools": []string{m + "_check"}}}
+			if m == o.holder {
+				e.Serves = []string{AssignerSeat + ".assignments", AssignerSeat + ".seat-holders"}
+			}
+			a.Entries = append(a.Entries, e)
+		}
+		return json.Marshal(a)
+	}
 	vals := map[string]json.RawMessage{}
 	for k, v := range o.state[tool] {
 		vals[k] = json.RawMessage(v)
@@ -60,14 +100,10 @@ func (o *owners) say(t *testing.T, state, key, value string, revision uint64, ga
 	}
 }
 
-func owner(state string) string {
-	for _, s := range Specs {
-		if s.State == state {
-			return s.Owner
-		}
-	}
-	return ""
-}
+// fixtureHolder is the module the fixture catalog half says claims the assigner seat: no name is in the code.
+const fixtureHolder = "assigner-fixture"
+
+func owner(state string) string { return fixtureHolder }
 
 func eventually(t *testing.T, what string, ok func() bool) {
 	t.Helper()
@@ -87,41 +123,48 @@ func TestTheRunnerHoldsTheFourStatesFromTheOwnersFirstViewsAndTheirEvents(t *tes
 	var logs []string
 	var lmu sync.Mutex
 	deps := Deps{Module: "node-tools", Ask: o.ask, Bound: 30 * time.Millisecond, Wait: 10 * time.Millisecond,
-		Consume: func(deliver func(bus.Envelope) error) (func(), error) { o.deliver = deliver; return func() {}, nil },
-		PutFinding: func(key string, _ json.RawMessage) error {
-			o.mu.Lock()
-			o.finds[key] = true
-			o.mu.Unlock()
-			return nil
-		},
-		DeleteFinding: func(key string) error {
-			o.mu.Lock()
-			delete(o.finds, key)
-			o.mu.Unlock()
-			return nil
-		}}
+		Consume:  func(deliver func(bus.Envelope) error) (func(), error) { o.deliver = deliver; return func() {}, nil },
+		Findings: o}
 	v, stop := StartWith(context.Background(), deps, func(f string, a ...any) { lmu.Lock(); logs = append(logs, f); lmu.Unlock() })
 	defer stop()
 
 	// Down: nothing is claimed, and past the bound each unanswered view is a finding.
-	if _, err := v.State("mesh-delivery-assigner.assignments"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not been answered") {
-		t.Fatalf("a state its owner has not answered is claimed: %v", err)
+	if _, err := v.State(AssignmentsRead); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "names no holder") {
+		t.Fatalf("a state whose holder is not known is claimed: %v", err)
 	}
-	eventually(t, "no finding past the bound", func() bool { o.mu.Lock(); defer o.mu.Unlock(); return len(o.finds) == 4 })
+	eventually(t, "no finding past the bound", func() bool { o.mu.Lock(); defer o.mu.Unlock(); return len(o.finds) == 2 })
 
 	// Up: answered, the findings are cleared, and the pictures hold the owners' values.
 	o.mu.Lock()
 	o.down = false
 	o.mu.Unlock()
-	eventually(t, "not answered", func() bool { _, err := v.State("mesh-delivery-indexer.manifests"); return err == nil })
+	eventually(t, "not answered", func() bool { _, err := v.State(SeatHoldersRead); return err == nil })
 	eventually(t, "findings not cleared", func() bool { o.mu.Lock(); defer o.mu.Unlock(); return len(o.finds) == 0 })
-	if got, _ := v.Entry("mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "web"); string(got) != `{"w":1}` {
-		t.Errorf("the modules picture holds %q", got)
-	}
-	if got, _ := v.Entry("mesh-delivery-indexer.modules", "none"); got != nil {
+	if got, _ := v.Entry(AssignerSeat+".seat-holders", "none"); got != nil {
 		t.Errorf("an absent key is %q", got)
 	}
 
+	// The catalog half is followed by the shared branch follower on the runner's own consumer: the gate's source names main,
+	// main's view is adopted, and its entries are the modules, each with its manifest (design 47 G §196, §614).
+	eventually(t, "the catalog half holds no modules", func() bool { m, err := v.Modules(); return err == nil && len(m) == 2 })
+	m, _ := v.Modules()
+	if m["web"].Manifest["module"] != "web" {
+		t.Errorf("the module web is %+v", m["web"])
+	}
+	// A catalog-revision of the branch is heard on the same consumer and asks the view once more.
+	o.mu.Lock()
+	o.catalog, o.modules = 4, []string{"web", "db", fixtureHolder}
+	o.mu.Unlock()
+	ev, _ := json.Marshal(catalogseat.CatalogRevisionEvent{V: 1, Branch: "main", Kind: meshcatalogclient.KindTrunk, Revision: 4})
+	if err := o.deliver(bus.Envelope{Key: catalogseat.Seat + "." + catalogseat.EventCatalogRevision, Body: ev}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	eventually(t, "the catalog-revision was not taken", func() bool { m, err := v.Modules(); return err == nil && len(m) == 3 })
+	// And the halves by branch, with their revision, which mesh_wait names checking an emitter (design 34 every-event §14).
+	if h, err := v.Halves(); err != nil || h["main"].Revision.Revision != 4 || len(h["main"].Entries) != 3 {
+		t.Errorf("the halves: %+v, %v", h, err)
+	}
+
 	// Events: the next revision is applied; an old one passed over; a deletion removes; none of it asks again.
 	asked := func(tool string) int { o.mu.Lock(); defer o.mu.Unlock(); return o.asked[tool] }
 	before := asked("assignments")
@@ -129,7 +172,7 @@ func TestTheRunnerHoldsTheFourStatesFromTheOwnersFirstViewsAndTheirEvents(t *tes
 	o.say(t, "assignments", "laptop", `{"p":0}`, 5, false)
 	o.say(t, "assignments", "anchor", "", 6, false)
 	// (a deleted mark carries no value: Deleted is the encoding's, set below)
-	if got, _ := v.Entry("mesh-delivery-assigner.assignments", "laptop"); string(got) != `{"p":2}` {
+	if got, _ := v.Entry(AssignerSeat+".assignments", "laptop"); string(got) != `{"p":2}` {
 		t.Errorf("the next revision is not applied: %q", got)
 	}
 	if n := asked("assignments"); n != before {
@@ -147,18 +190,18 @@ func TestTheRunnerHoldsTheFourStatesFromTheOwnersFirstViewsAndTheirEvents(t *tes
 			assignments = s
 		}
 	}
-	if assignments.Owner != "mesh-delivery-assigner" || assignments.Tool != "assignments" || assignments.Asks < 2 || assignments.Answered.IsZero() {
+	if assignments.Owner != fixtureHolder || assignments.Tool != "assignments" || assignments.Asks < 2 || assignments.Answered.IsZero() {
 		t.Errorf("the status of assignments is %+v", assignments)
 	}
-	manifests := asked("manifests")
+	manifests := asked("seat-holders")
 	if errs := v.Again(context.Background(), "doubted"); len(errs) != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("the hand ask failed: %v", errs)
 	}
-	if asked("manifests") != manifests+1 {
-		t.Errorf("the hand ask did not ask the manifests again")
+	if asked("seat-holders") != manifests+1 {
+		t.Errorf("the hand ask did not ask the seat-holders again")
 	}
 	for _, st := range v.Status() {
-		if st.State == "manifests" && st.ByHand != 1 {
+		if st.State == "seat-holders" && st.ByHand != 1 {
 			t.Errorf("the hand ask is not counted: %+v", st)
 		}
 	}
@@ -181,17 +224,72 @@ func TestTheFirstViewsAreTheManifestsViews(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	want := map[string]bool{AssignmentsRead: true, SeatHoldersRead: true, ModulesRead: true, ManifestsRead: true}
+	want := map[string]bool{AssignmentsRead: true, SeatHoldersRead: true}
 	for _, s := range Specs {
 		if !want[s.Name()] {
 			t.Errorf("the first view %s is read by no name here", s.Name())
 		}
 		delete(want, s.Name())
-		if view := s.Owner + ".views." + s.Tool; !slices.Contains(m.Consumes, view) {
+		// the family is named by the seat, never by its holder (design 47 G §616)
+		if view := "seat:" + AssignerSeat + ".views." + s.Tool; !slices.Contains(m.Consumes, view) {
 			t.Errorf("the first view %s has no family in the manifest's consumes %v", view, m.Consumes)
 		}
 	}
 	if len(want) > 0 {
 		t.Errorf("no first view reads %v", want)
 	}
+	for _, c := range m.Consumes {
+		if strings.Contains(c, "assigner") && !strings.HasPrefix(c, "seat:") {
+			t.Errorf("the manifest names the assigner by a module: %s", c)
+		}
+	}
+	// the catalog half's follower hears these events and asks these verbs, and the manifest says so (design 47 G §614)
+	for _, ev := range []string{"mesh-catalog.catalog-revision", "mesh-catalog.registration-changed", "mesh-delivery.source-moved"} {
+		if !slices.Contains(m.Consumes, ev) {
+			t.Errorf("the catalog half's event %s is not in the manifest's consumes %v", ev, m.Consumes)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, ev := range []string{"mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests"} {
+		if slices.Contains(m.Consumes, ev) {
+			t.Errorf("the manifest still consumes the indexer's %s", ev)
+		}
+	}
+	// design 47 G §616: the holder of the assigner seat is whichever module the catalog half says serves it; when another one
+	// claims it the views are of the new holder, and when none does the seat's names answer that the catalog half names no holder.
+	t.Run("TheAssignersViewsFollowTheModuleThatClaimsTheSeat", func(t *testing.T) {
+		o := newOwners()
+		deps := Deps{Module: "node-tools", Ask: o.ask, Bound: time.Second, Wait: 10 * time.Millisecond,
+			Consume: func(deliver func(bus.Envelope) error) (func(), error) { o.deliver = deliver; return func() {}, nil }, Findings: o}
+		v, stop := StartWith(context.Background(), deps, func(string, ...any) {})
+		defer stop()
+		eventually(t, "not answered", func() bool { _, err := v.State(AssignmentsRead); return err == nil })
+		ownerOf := func() string {
+			for _, s := range v.Status() {
+				if s.State == "assignments" {
+					return s.Owner
+				}
+			}
+			return ""
+		}
+		if ownerOf() != fixtureHolder {
+			t.Fatalf("the views are of %q", ownerOf())
+		}
+		revise := func(rev int64, holder string, modules ...string) {
+			o.mu.Lock()
+			o.catalog, o.modules, o.holder = rev, modules, holder
+			o.mu.Unlock()
+			ev, _ := json.Marshal(catalogseat.CatalogRevisionEvent{V: 1, Branch: "main", Kind: meshcatalogclient.KindTrunk, Revision: rev})
+			if err := o.deliver(bus.Envelope{Key: catalogseat.Seat + "." + catalogseat.EventCatalogRevision, Body: ev}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		revise(4, "other-holder", "web", "other-holder")
+		eventually(t, "the views did not move to the new holder", func() bool { return ownerOf() == "other-holder" })
+		eventually(t, "not answered", func() bool { _, err := v.State(SeatHoldersRead); return err == nil })
+		revise(5, "", "web")
+		eventually(t, "the views stayed after the claim went", func() bool {
+			_, err := v.State(AssignmentsRead)
+			return err != nil && strings.Contains(err.Error(), "names no holder")
+		})
+	})
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go b/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go
index 5316862..203b28e 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ var busStateCalls = map[string]bool{
 	buscalls.ObjectsInfo: true, buscalls.StreamRead: true, buscalls.StreamFill: true, buscalls.StreamPublish: true, buscalls.WorkQueueSize: true,
 	buscalls.WorkQueueDead: true, buscalls.LedgerApply: true, buscalls.LedgerGet: true, buscalls.LedgerHistory: true,
 	buscalls.LedgerQuery: true, buscalls.LedgerRebuild: true, buscalls.LedgerReindex: true, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot: true,
-	buscalls.LedgerLag: true,
+	buscalls.LedgerLag: true, buscalls.ObjectsSentGet: true, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk: true, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk: true,
 }
 
 // busStateWatches are the watches of mesh-sdk buscalls, each with the method its changes are handed to the bundle by.
@@ -386,13 +387,77 @@ func Start(module, entry string, env []string, mesh Bus, logf func(string, ...an
 						asked := time.Now()
 						switch m.Method {
 						case "mesh/publish":
-							err = mesh.Publish(m.Params)
+							var said struct {
+								Ack bool `json:"ack"`
+							}
+							_ = json.Unmarshal(m.Params, &said)
+							if !said.Ack {
+								err = mesh.Publish(m.Params)
+								break
+							}
+							// With ack the runtime answers only once the bus acknowledged the event: its sequence, or {error}
+							// (design 47 G §559). A refusal is an answer, so a writer says it as a finding's resend.
+							acker, ok := mesh.(interface {
+								PublishAcked(params json.RawMessage) (uint64, error)
+							})
+							switch {
+							case !ok:
+								result = map[string]any{"error": "this tool runner's bus publishes no event with an acknowledgement"}
+							default:
+								if seq, perr := acker.PublishAcked(m.Params); perr != nil {
+									result = map[string]any{"error": perr.Error()}
+								} else {
+									result = map[string]any{"sequence": seq}
+								}
+							}
 						case "mesh/ask":
 							var asked json.RawMessage
 							if asked, err = mesh.Ask(m.Params); err == nil {
 								result = asked
 							}
+						case stdio.CapabilitiesCall:
+							// The capability words this runner states (design 47 G §576); a Bus that states none answers none.
+							words := []string{}
+							if w, ok := mesh.(interface{ CapabilityWords() []string }); ok {
+								words = w.CapabilityWords()
+							}
+							var raw []byte
+							if raw, err = json.Marshal(map[string]any{"words": words}); err == nil {
+								result = json.RawMessage(raw)
+							}
 						case "mesh/subscribe":
+							var said struct {
+								Pattern string `json:"pattern"`
+								Deliver string `json:"deliver"`
+							}
+							_ = json.Unmarshal(m.Params, &said)
+							if said.Deliver == "new" {
+								// An ordered consumer of its own from the next message on (design 47 G §559, A-153): each message
+								// is handed to this child as an event is, and the consumer ends with the child.
+								newer, ok := mesh.(interface {
+									SubscribeNew(pattern string, deliver func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error)
+								})
+								if !ok {
+									err = errors.New("this tool runner's bus makes no subscription for new messages")
+									break
+								}
+								var stop func()
+								stop, err = newer.SubscribeNew(said.Pattern, func(envelope json.RawMessage) error {
+									_, err := c.ask(module, "mesh/event", map[string]any{"envelope": envelope}, EventTimeout)
+									return err
+								})
+								if err == nil {
+									c.mu.Lock()
+									if c.why != nil {
+										c.mu.Unlock()
+										stop()
+									} else {
+										c.watches = append(c.watches, stop)
+										c.mu.Unlock()
+									}
+								}
+								break
+							}
 							mu.Lock()
 							subscriber = c
 							mu.Unlock()
@@ -577,6 +642,10 @@ func Start(module, entry string, env []string, mesh Bus, logf func(string, ...an
 			for _, stop := range watches {
 				stop()
 			}
+			// A session of the bundle's put or get ends with its channel (design 47 G §518).
+			if d, ok := mesh.(interface{ DropSessions() }); ok {
+				d.DropSessions()
+			}
 			close(c.dead)
 			mu.Lock()
 			// Only a child that was serving is brought back; one that died in its own handshake was
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/launch/seat_test.go b/node-tools/internal/launch/seat_test.go
index 1d23ab5..25edae4 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/launch/seat_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/launch/seat_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -68,6 +69,65 @@ func TestABundleTakesASeatsWorkThroughItsOwnChannel(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil || string(got) != `{"taken":true}` {
 		t.Fatalf("the work was not handed to the bundle: %s %v", got, err)
 	}
+	// Design 47 G §576, §518: a bundle reads the runner's capability words with mesh/capabilities, then runs its put session
+	// through the runner's put-chunk, and the sessions of its channel are dropped when the channel closes.
+	t.Run("ABundleReadsTheCapabilityWordsRunsAPutSessionAndItsChannelsClosingDropsThem", func(t *testing.T) {
+		dir := t.TempDir()
+		entry := filepath.Join(dir, "bundle")
+		if err := os.WriteFile(entry, []byte(puttingBundle), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		b := &sessionBus{dropped: make(chan struct{})}
+		l, err := Start("putter", entry, os.Environ(), b, func(string, ...any) {})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(l.Stop)
+		select {
+		case <-b.dropped:
+		case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+			t.Fatal("the bundle's sessions were not dropped when its channel closed")
+		}
+		b.mu.Lock()
+		defer b.mu.Unlock()
+		if len(b.chunks) != 1 || !strings.HasPrefix(b.chunks[0], "mesh/objects.put-chunk ") || !strings.Contains(b.chunks[0], `"seq":1`) {
+			t.Fatalf("the runner took %v", b.chunks)
+		}
+	})
+	// Design 47 G §559: `mesh/publish` with `ack` is answered with its sequence once the bus acknowledged it, or `{error}`;
+	// `mesh/subscribe` with `deliver: new` makes a subscription for new messages that ends with the bundle's channel.
+	t.Run("APublishWithAckIsAnsweredWithItsSequenceAndASubscriptionForNewMessagesEndsWithTheChannel", func(t *testing.T) {
+		dir := t.TempDir()
+		entry, out := filepath.Join(dir, "bundle"), filepath.Join(dir, "out")
+		if err := os.WriteFile(entry, []byte(findingBundle), 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		b := &findingBus{stopped: make(chan struct{})}
+		l, err := Start("writer", entry, append(os.Environ(), "FINDING_OUT="+out), b, func(string, ...any) {})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(l.Stop)
+		select {
+		case <-b.stopped:
+		case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+			t.Fatal("the subscription for new messages was not ended with the bundle's channel")
+		}
+		got, _ := os.ReadFile(out)
+		for _, want := range []string{`"sequence":42`, `"error":"the bus refused it"`} {
+			if !strings.Contains(string(got), want) {
+				t.Errorf("the bundle was answered %s, want it to hold %s", got, want)
+			}
+		}
+		b.mu.Lock()
+		defer b.mu.Unlock()
+		if b.pattern != "mesh-conditions.findings-asked" {
+			t.Errorf("the subscription was made for %q", b.pattern)
+		}
+		if len(b.published) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("a publish with ack went the unacknowledged way: %v", b.published)
+		}
+	})
 }
 
 // A bundle that pulls one ask from its worker when it is listed.
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/launch/sessions_test.go b/node-tools/internal/launch/sessions_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2d2c93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/launch/sessions_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package launch
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+// puttingBundle asks the capability words, and once they are answered with put-sessions sends the one chunk of a put
+// session, as mesh-sdk's bundle does; it then ends, which closes its channel.
+const puttingBundle = `#!/bin/sh
+while IFS= read -r line; do
+  id=$(printf '%s' "$line" | sed -n 's/.*"id":\([0-9]*\)[,}].*/\1/p')
+  case "$line" in
+    *'"method":"initialize"'*) printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{}}\n' "$id" ;;
+    *'"method":"tools/list"'*) printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{"tools":[]}}\n' "$id"
+       printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"w1","method":"mesh/capabilities","params":{}}\n' ;;
+    *'"id":"w1"'**put-sessions*) printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"p1","method":"mesh/objects.put-chunk","params":{"objects":"o","name":"n","call":"c","seq":1,"last":true,"data":"aGk="}}\n' ;;
+    *'"id":"p1"'*) exit 0 ;;
+  esac
+done
+`
+
+type sessionBus struct {
+	subscribing
+	mu      sync.Mutex
+	chunks  []string
+	dropped chan struct{}
+}
+
+func (b *sessionBus) CapabilityWords() []string { return []string{"put-sessions"} }
+func (b *sessionBus) BusState(method string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	b.chunks = append(b.chunks, method+" "+string(params))
+	b.mu.Unlock()
+	return json.RawMessage(`{"name":"n"}`), nil
+}
+func (b *sessionBus) DropSessions() { close(b.dropped) }
+
+// findingBundle asks, as mesh-sdk's finding writer does, a publish with ack that the bus takes, one it refuses, and a
+// subscription for new messages; each answer it gets is written to $FINDING_OUT, and it ends after the subscription's.
+const findingBundle = `#!/bin/sh
+while IFS= read -r line; do
+  id=$(printf '%s' "$line" | sed -n 's/.*"id":\([0-9]*\)[,}].*/\1/p')
+  case "$line" in
+    *'"method":"initialize"'*) printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{}}\n' "$id" ;;
+    *'"method":"tools/list"'*) printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":%s,"result":{"tools":[]}}\n' "$id"
+       printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"a1","method":"mesh/publish","params":{"key":"taken","ack":true,"body":{}}}\n' ;;
+    *'"id":"a1"'*) printf '%s\n' "$line" >>"$FINDING_OUT"
+       printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"a2","method":"mesh/publish","params":{"key":"refused","ack":true,"body":{}}}\n' ;;
+    *'"id":"a2"'*) printf '%s\n' "$line" >>"$FINDING_OUT"
+       printf '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"s1","method":"mesh/subscribe","params":{"pattern":"mesh-conditions.findings-asked","deliver":"new"}}\n' ;;
+    *'"id":"s1"'*) printf '%s\n' "$line" >>"$FINDING_OUT"; exit 0 ;;
+  esac
+done
+`
+
+type findingBus struct {
+	subscribing
+	mu      sync.Mutex
+	pattern string
+	stopped chan struct{}
+}
+
+func (b *findingBus) PublishAcked(params json.RawMessage) (uint64, error) {
+	if strings.Contains(string(params), `"refused"`) {
+		return 0, errors.New("the bus refused it")
+	}
+	return 42, nil
+}
+
+func (b *findingBus) SubscribeNew(pattern string, _ func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error) {
+	b.mu.Lock()
+	b.pattern = pattern
+	b.mu.Unlock()
+	return func() { close(b.stopped) }, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go
index 3088a6f..65b833d 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ type History interface {
 	// Read is the operations of the instances keys names (a key, with `*` for one name and `>` for the rest) from a
 	// sequence on, oldest first, at most limit of them (every one when limit is 0).
 	Read(keys string, from uint64, limit int) ([]Kept, error)
+	// Purge removes every operation of the instance key names, and nothing of another (an instance's removal).
+	Purge(key string) error
+	// Fill is the history's fill against its cap, the ledger's cap (buscalls.LedgerFill; design 47 G §587).
+	Fill() (buscalls.Fill, error)
 }
 
 // State is a ledger's state bucket: each instance's record under its key.
@@ -69,6 +73,8 @@ type State interface {
 	Write(key string, value []byte, revision uint64) (uint64, error)
 	// Keys is every key the bucket holds.
 	Keys() ([]string, error)
+	// Delete removes the key; a key it does not hold is no fault.
+	Delete(key string) error
 }
 
 // Snapshots are a ledger's snapshots: the latest record of each instance, on a subject of its own, never expiring.
@@ -77,6 +83,8 @@ type Snapshots interface {
 	Get(key string) ([]byte, uint64, error)
 	// Put writes the key's snapshot, expecting its last to be at expect (0: none); ErrRaced when it is not.
 	Put(key string, value []byte, expect uint64) error
+	// Purge removes the key's snapshot; one it does not hold is no fault.
+	Purge(key string) error
 }
 
 // Ledger is one ledger of one module: its types and where it is kept.
@@ -495,3 +503,74 @@ func (l *Ledger) Apply(r buscalls.ApplyRequest, author buscalls.Author) (buscall
 	}
 	return buscalls.Applied{Taken: true, Sequence: seq, StateBehind: behind}, nil
 }
+
+// Fill is the fill of the ledger's history against the ledger's cap (buscalls.LedgerFill; design 47 G §587): its messages,
+// its bytes and the cap in bytes. The history holds every operation, and the cap is its alone: neither the fullest of the
+// stores nor their sum is answered. A history that cannot say its fill is an error naming the ledger, never a fill of
+// nothing.
+func (l *Ledger) Fill(buscalls.LedgerRequest) (buscalls.Fill, error) {
+	f, err := l.History.Fill()
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.Fill{}, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s cannot say the fill of its history: %w", l.Module, l.Name, err)
+	}
+	return f, nil
+}
+
+// Remove removes one instance with everything it kept (buscalls.LedgerRemove; design 47 G §587, §155): its operations, its
+// snapshot, its key in the state bucket and its keys in every declared index, and answers how many operations and how many
+// bytes of the history that was. An instance the ledger does not hold answers 0 and 0, and a removal that left something
+// (said, and answered as an error) is made again by calling it again, which removes the rest.
+func (l *Ledger) Remove(r buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest) (buscalls.LedgerRemoved, error) {
+	key, err := KeyOf(r.Instance)
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.LedgerRemoved{}, err
+	}
+	out := buscalls.LedgerRemoved{Instance: r.Instance}
+	before, err := l.History.Fill()
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s cannot say the fill of its history, so a removal is not made: %w", l.Module, l.Name, err)
+	}
+	ops, err := l.History.Read(key, 1, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, err
+	}
+	for _, step := range []struct {
+		what   string
+		remove func(string) error
+	}{{"operations", l.History.Purge}, {"snapshot", l.Snapshots.Purge}, {"state", l.State.Delete}, {"index entries", l.dropFromIndexes}} {
+		if err := step.remove(key); err != nil {
+			l.say("[mesh-tools] %s's ledger %s removes %s and its %s could not be removed: %v; removing it again removes what "+
+				"is left", l.Module, l.Name, r.Instance, step.what, err)
+			return out, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s removed part of %s and its %s are left: %w", l.Module, l.Name, r.Instance, step.what, err)
+		}
+	}
+	after, err := l.History.Fill()
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s removed %s and cannot say the fill of its history after: %w", l.Module, l.Name, r.Instance, err)
+	}
+	out.Operations = uint64(len(ops))
+	if before.Bytes > after.Bytes {
+		out.Bytes = before.Bytes - after.Bytes
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// dropFromIndexes removes the entries of the instance key names from every index bucket the ledger is bound to.
+func (l *Ledger) dropFromIndexes(key string) error {
+	instance := InstanceOf(key)
+	for name, ix := range l.Indexes {
+		held, err := ix.Entries("", 0)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the index %s: %w", name, err)
+		}
+		for _, e := range held {
+			var v buscalls.IndexEntry
+			if json.Unmarshal(e.Value, &v) == nil && v.Instance == instance {
+				if err := ix.Delete(e.Key); err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("the index %s: %w", name, err)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go
index 01b3017..04b7c4b 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go
@@ -99,4 +99,50 @@ func TestApplyAppendsDerivesAndSnapshots(t *testing.T) {
 			c.run(t, l, f)
 		})
 	}
+	// design 47 G §587: a ledger's fill is its history's against the ledger's cap, a store that cannot say it is an error naming
+	// the ledger; a removal takes an instance's operations, snapshot, state and index entries and answers what that was, an
+	// unknown instance answers none, and nothing of another instance goes.
+	t.Run("TheLedgerSaysItsFillAndRemovesAnInstanceWhole", func(t *testing.T) {
+		l, f := newLedger()
+		f.history.MaxBytes = 1 << 20
+		for _, n := range []string{"a", "b"} {
+			applied(t, l, "decision/0290", "note", `{"says":"`+n+`"}`, owner)
+		}
+		applied(t, l, "decision/0291", "note", `{"says":"other"}`, owner)
+		entry, _ := json.Marshal(buscalls.IndexEntry{Instance: "decision/0290", Sequence: 2})
+		other, _ := json.Marshal(buscalls.IndexEntry{Instance: "decision/0291", Sequence: 1})
+		_ = f.index.Put("t.decision.0290", entry)
+		_ = f.index.Put("t.decision.0291", other)
+
+		fill, err := l.Fill(buscalls.LedgerRequest{Ledger: "records"})
+		if err != nil || fill.Count != 3 || fill.Bytes == 0 || fill.MaxBytes != 1<<20 {
+			t.Fatalf("the fill is %+v (%v), want 3 messages against 1 MiB", fill, err)
+		}
+		got, err := l.Remove(buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest{Ledger: "records", Instance: "decision/0290"})
+		if err != nil || got.Instance != "decision/0290" || got.Operations != 2 || got.Bytes == 0 {
+			t.Fatalf("the removal answered %+v (%v), want 2 operations and their bytes", got, err)
+		}
+		if kept, _ := f.history.Read("decision.0290", 1, 0); len(kept) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("operations are left: %d", len(kept))
+		}
+		if raw, _, _ := f.state.Get("decision.0290"); raw != nil {
+			t.Errorf("the state is left: %s", raw)
+		}
+		if raw, _, _ := f.snapshots.Get("decision.0290"); raw != nil {
+			t.Errorf("the snapshot is left: %s", raw)
+		}
+		if held, _ := f.index.Entries("", 0); len(held) != 1 || held[0].Key != "t.decision.0291" {
+			t.Errorf("the index holds %v, want the other instance's entry alone", held)
+		}
+		if kept, _ := f.history.Read("decision.0291", 1, 0); len(kept) != 1 {
+			t.Errorf("another instance lost operations: %d left", len(kept))
+		}
+		if again, err := l.Remove(buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest{Ledger: "records", Instance: "decision/0290"}); err != nil || again.Operations != 0 || again.Bytes != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("a removal said twice answered %+v (%v), want none", again, err)
+		}
+		f.history.FillFails = true
+		if _, err := l.Fill(buscalls.LedgerRequest{}); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "ledger records cannot say the fill") {
+			t.Errorf("a history that cannot say its fill answered %v", err)
+		}
+	})
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go b/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go
index 0b14670..1d3faf5 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package ledger
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
 )
 
 // The memory stores keep what the bus keeps, as the bus answers it, for a test of a ledger without a bus: a stream whose
@@ -12,9 +15,13 @@ import (
 
 // MemoryHistory is a history in memory.
 type MemoryHistory struct {
-	mu   sync.Mutex
-	seq  uint64
-	kept []struct {
+	// MaxBytes is the cap its fill is said against.
+	MaxBytes uint64
+	// FillFails makes Fill an error, as a store that cannot say its fill.
+	FillFails bool
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	seq       uint64
+	kept      []struct {
 		key string
 		Kept
 	}
@@ -73,6 +80,32 @@ func (h *MemoryHistory) Read(keys string, from uint64, limit int) ([]Kept, error
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (h *MemoryHistory) Purge(key string) error {
+	h.mu.Lock()
+	defer h.mu.Unlock()
+	kept := h.kept[:0]
+	for _, k := range h.kept {
+		if k.key != key {
+			kept = append(kept, k)
+		}
+	}
+	h.kept = kept
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (h *MemoryHistory) Fill() (buscalls.Fill, error) {
+	h.mu.Lock()
+	defer h.mu.Unlock()
+	if h.FillFails {
+		return buscalls.Fill{}, errors.New("the history does not say its fill")
+	}
+	f := buscalls.Fill{Count: uint64(len(h.kept)), MaxBytes: h.MaxBytes}
+	for _, k := range h.kept {
+		f.Bytes += uint64(len(k.Data))
+	}
+	return f, nil
+}
+
 // Expire drops every operation of the history, as a ledger's keeping days end them.
 func (h *MemoryHistory) Expire() {
 	h.mu.Lock()
@@ -129,6 +162,13 @@ func (s *MemoryState) Keys() ([]string, error) {
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (s *MemoryState) Delete(key string) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(s.kv, key)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // MemorySnapshots are snapshots in memory.
 type MemorySnapshots struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
@@ -157,6 +197,13 @@ func (s *MemorySnapshots) Put(key string, value []byte, expect uint64) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (s *MemorySnapshots) Purge(key string) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(s.kv, key)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // MemoryIndex is an index's bucket in memory.
 type MemoryIndex struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/meshtest/meshtest.go b/node-tools/internal/meshtest/meshtest.go
index 2f021e1..3fc053e 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/meshtest/meshtest.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/meshtest/meshtest.go
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ import (
 
 	assigner "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/clients/meshmoduleassignerclient"
 	seatassigner "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner"
-	meshcatalogclient "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
-	meshcatalog "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	meshcatalog "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
 
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
@@ -153,25 +152,27 @@ func sdkMembership(t *testing.T, mem bus.Membership) membership.Membership {
 	return out
 }
 
-// The indexer's two states the console reads, and their buckets (the test bed's own names: the indexer's client names
+// The states the console reads, and their buckets (the test bed's own names: the indexer's client names
 // no holder).
 const (
-	indexer        = "mesh-delivery-indexer"
-	assignerHolder = "mesh-delivery-assigner"
+	catalogHolder  = "mesh-catalog"
+	assignerHolder = "mesh-module-assigner" // the seat's name stands for its holder in the console's state names (firstview.AssignmentsRead)
 	// AssignmentsBucket and SeatHoldersBucket are the assigner's states assignments and seat-holders.
 	AssignmentsBucket = assignerHolder + "_assignments"
 	SeatHoldersBucket = assignerHolder + "_seat-holders"
-	ModulesBucket     = indexer + "_modules"
-	ManifestsBucket   = indexer + "_manifests"
+	// ModulesBucket holds the catalog half's entries by module, the test bed's own stand-in for the runner's first views of it.
+	ModulesBucket = catalogHolder + "_modules"
 )
 
+// ModulesRead names the test bed's state of the catalog half's entries.
+const ModulesRead = catalogHolder + ".modules"
+
 // ConsoleReads are the states a console's runtime reads to say what the mesh holds (novox/hq ADR 0571 clauses 4, 5):
-// assignments, the indexer's modules and manifests, and the seat holders.
+// assignments, the catalog half's entries, and the seat holders.
 func ConsoleReads() []bus.StateIssued {
 	return []bus.StateIssued{
 		{Name: assignerHolder + ".assignments", Bucket: AssignmentsBucket},
-		{Name: indexer + ".modules", Bucket: ModulesBucket},
-		{Name: indexer + ".manifests", Bucket: ManifestsBucket},
+		{Name: ModulesRead, Bucket: ModulesBucket},
 		{Name: assignerHolder + ".seat-holders", Bucket: SeatHoldersBucket},
 	}
 }
@@ -188,20 +189,11 @@ func (m *Mesh) Placed(t *testing.T, tools map[string][]string, on map[string][]s
 		}
 		return b
 	}
-	modules, manifests, assigned := kv(ModulesBucket), kv(ManifestsBucket), kv(AssignmentsBucket)
+	modules, assigned := kv(ModulesBucket), kv(AssignmentsBucket)
 	kv(SeatHoldersBucket)
 	for module, declared := range tools {
-		manifest, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"module": module, "tools": declared})
-		digest := meshcatalogclient.ManifestDigest(manifest)
-		raw, err := meshcatalogclient.EncodeManifest(meshcatalog.ManifestsByDigestValue{Module: module, Manifest: string(manifest), V: 1})
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if _, err := manifests.Put(digest, raw); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		raw, err = meshcatalogclient.EncodeModule(meshcatalog.ModulesByModuleValue{None: "not built here", Manifest: digest, Repository: "novox/" + module,
-			Commit: strings.Repeat("a", 40), V: 1})
+		manifest := map[string]any{"module": module, "tools": declared}
+		raw, err := json.Marshal(meshcatalog.CatalogEntry{Module: module, Manifest: manifest, Commit: strings.Repeat("a", 40)})
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/meshtest/state.go b/node-tools/internal/meshtest/state.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4ec6417
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/meshtest/state.go
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+package meshtest
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
+)
+
+// State is a module's state as a fixture, the shape a gate's Store takes: Fail makes every read and write fail, as a bus
+// refusing them; Vals are its values by key. A key the bus refuses (a name outside letters, digits and -/_=, in
+// dot-separated names) is refused here too, so no test passes a key the live bus refuses (lead answer A-209).
+type State struct {
+	mu   sync.Mutex
+	Vals map[string]json.RawMessage
+	revs map[string]uint64
+	n    uint64
+	Fail error
+}
+
+// checkKey refuses a key the bus would.
+func checkKey(k string) error {
+	for _, part := range strings.Split(k, ".") {
+		if keys.CheckName("key", part) != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%q is not a key the bus can hold: letters, digits and -/_=, in dot-separated names", k)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// NewState is an empty State.
+func NewState() *State { return &State{Vals: map[string]json.RawMessage{}, revs: map[string]uint64{}} }
+
+func (m *State) Get(k string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+	if err := checkKey(k); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if m.Fail != nil {
+		return nil, m.Fail
+	}
+	v, ok := m.Vals[k]
+	if !ok {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: k, Value: v, Revision: m.revs[k]}, nil
+}
+func (m *State) Create(k string, v any) (uint64, error) {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+	if err := checkKey(k); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	if m.Fail != nil {
+		return 0, m.Fail
+	}
+	if _, ok := m.Vals[k]; ok {
+		return 0, stdio.ErrChanged
+	}
+	return m.put(k, v)
+}
+func (m *State) Update(k string, v any, rev uint64) (uint64, error) {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+	if err := checkKey(k); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	if m.Fail != nil {
+		return 0, m.Fail
+	}
+	if rev == 0 || m.revs[k] != rev {
+		return 0, stdio.ErrChanged
+	}
+	return m.put(k, v)
+}
+func (m *State) Put(k string, v any) (uint64, error) {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+	if err := checkKey(k); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	if m.Fail != nil {
+		return 0, m.Fail
+	}
+	return m.put(k, v)
+}
+func (m *State) Keys() ([]string, error) {
+	m.mu.Lock()
+	defer m.mu.Unlock()
+	if m.Fail != nil {
+		return nil, m.Fail
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for k := range m.Vals {
+		out = append(out, k)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(out)
+	return out, nil
+}
+func (m *State) put(k string, v any) (uint64, error) {
+	raw, ok := v.(json.RawMessage)
+	if !ok {
+		raw, _ = json.Marshal(v)
+	}
+	m.n++
+	m.Vals[k], m.revs[k] = raw, m.n
+	return m.n, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/provide/provide_test.go b/node-tools/internal/provide/provide_test.go
index eb35808..0d41e7a 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/provide/provide_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/provide/provide_test.go
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ func TestTheOfferServesThePortTheManifestServes(t *testing.T) {
 	var m struct {
 		Serves   map[string]map[string]any `json:"serves"`
 		Moved    bool                      `json:"moved"`
-		State    []string                  `json:"state"`
+		State    []json.RawMessage         `json:"state"`
 		Reads    []string                  `json:"reads"`
 		Provides []struct {
 			Name       string `json:"name"`
@@ -172,9 +172,18 @@ func TestTheOfferServesThePortTheManifestServes(t *testing.T) {
 	// Every bucket the sdk's helper reaches is a state the manifest keeps or reads, by the sdk's names: the provider's
 	// own and the seat mesh-provisioner's provisions and plans (issue 1954 L6-T1); the controller's assignments no more.
 	declared := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, n := range append(m.State, m.Reads...) {
+	for _, n := range m.Reads {
 		declared[n] = true
 	}
+	for _, r := range m.State { // an old state entry is its name, or an object naming it (approvals, per machine)
+		var e struct {
+			Name string `json:"name"`
+		}
+		if json.Unmarshal(r, &e.Name) != nil {
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(r, &e)
+		}
+		declared[e.Name] = true
+	}
 	for bucket, want := range map[string]string{
 		provider.BucketOf(Module):                  "bound",
 		provisions.ProvisionsBucketOf(Provisioner): "mesh-provisioner.provisions",
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go
index 2896130..6999ec6 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@ package runtime
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/micro"
 
@@ -121,6 +125,7 @@ func TestTheRuntimeAnnouncesWhatItServesInTheServicesProtocol(t *testing.T) {
 // issue 1966 TLS-3 (ENG-2): the runner states the capabilities of the calls it answers in its PING, on its own instance, which
 // is what its machine's node-engine asks and takes into the node's record; no bundle is needed for it.
 func TestTheRunnerStatesTheCapabilitiesOfItsCallsInItsPing(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Setenv(FingerprintWord, "sha256:runner")
 	mesh := mt.New(t)
 	mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("alpha", "anchor", false, nil))
 	nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
@@ -139,7 +144,63 @@ func TestTheRunnerStatesTheCapabilitiesOfItsCallsInItsPing(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("ping of the instance: %v", err)
 	}
 	var ping micro.Ping
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &ping); err != nil || ping.Metadata[announce.Capabilities] != "bus-state-calls,ledger-calls,seat-settle-delay,stream-publish" {
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &ping); err != nil || ping.Metadata[announce.Capabilities] != "approval-mark/1,bus-state-calls,finding-calls,ledger-calls,ledger-upkeep-calls,put-sessions,seat-settle-delay,sent-objects-calls,stream-publish" {
 		t.Errorf("the runner states %q (%v), want its bus-state and ledger calls", ping.Metadata[announce.Capabilities], err)
 	}
+	// Its own fingerprint beside them (design 46 approval mark §6).
+	if ping.Metadata[announce.Fingerprint] != "sha256:runner" {
+		t.Errorf("the runner states its fingerprint as %q", ping.Metadata[announce.Fingerprint])
+	}
+	// Design 47 G §462, §488, §622: each call is stated under the capability word of its own family, the words mesh-sdk's buscalls
+	// names: the read of a sent object under sent-objects-calls (no longer under bus-state-calls), the ledger's fill and removal
+	// under ledger-upkeep-calls, the others where they were.
+	t.Run("EachCallIsStatedUnderTheWordOfItsFamily", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for method, word := range map[string]string{
+			buscalls.ObjectsSentGet: buscalls.SentObjectsCalls,
+			buscalls.LedgerFill:     buscalls.LedgerUpkeepCalls,
+			buscalls.LedgerRemove:   buscalls.LedgerUpkeepCalls,
+			buscalls.LedgerApply:    buscalls.LedgerCalls,
+			buscalls.ObjectsPut:     buscalls.BusStateCalls,
+			buscalls.StreamPublish:  buscalls.StreamPublishWord,
+		} {
+			var in []string
+			for c, methods := range callFamilies {
+				if slices.Contains(methods, method) {
+					in = append(in, c)
+				}
+			}
+			if len(in) != 1 || in[0] != word {
+				t.Errorf("%s is stated under %v, want %s alone", method, in, word)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+	// Design 47 G §545: the words the tool runner states are exactly its manifest's artifact `states`, so the delivery plan's edge
+	// of §605 runs to it for each word a module's artifact `calls`.
+	t.Run("TheWordsTheRunnerStatesAreItsManifestsStates", func(t *testing.T) {
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var m struct {
+			Build struct {
+				Artifacts []struct {
+					Name   string   `json:"name"`
+					States []string `json:"states"`
+				} `json:"artifacts"`
+			} `json:"build"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		var declared []string
+		for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+			if a.Name == "runtime" {
+				declared = a.States
+			}
+		}
+		slices.Sort(declared)
+		if got := CallCapabilities(); !slices.Equal(got, declared) {
+			t.Errorf("the runner states %v, its manifest's states are %v", got, declared)
+		}
+	})
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go
index fd43409..567c3de 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 package runtime
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"sort"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 )
 
 // The capabilities the tool runner states of the calls it answers (novox/hq ADR 0595 §9, ADR 0597; design 25 § 12.4): each is
@@ -14,10 +18,20 @@ import (
 // (announce.Capabilities) for its machine's node-engine to take into the node's record. A module whose manifest asks for one is
 // held off a machine whose runner does not state it.
 const (
-	CapBusStateCalls = "bus-state-calls"
-	CapLedgerCalls   = "ledger-calls"
-	// CapStreamPublish is the call that says an event on the module's own bound stream (A-44).
-	CapStreamPublish = "stream-publish"
+	CapBusStateCalls = buscalls.BusStateCalls
+	CapLedgerCalls   = buscalls.LedgerCalls
+	// CapLedgerUpkeepCalls is the ledger's fill and removal (§462, §488) and CapSentObjectsCalls the read of a sent object (§488):
+	// each is stated once the runner answers its family, the words mesh-sdk's buscalls names (§622).
+	CapLedgerUpkeepCalls = buscalls.LedgerUpkeepCalls
+	CapSentObjectsCalls  = buscalls.SentObjectsCalls
+	// CapPutSessions is the put and get sessions' word (design 47 G §518, §622), mesh-sdk's.
+	CapPutSessions = stdio.CapPutSessions
+	// CapApprovalMark says the runner honours the approval mark: its gate sits on every handler it serves (design 46
+	// 7-approval-mark §6, §20), so the grants part composes no deny of its modules' marked subjects.
+	CapApprovalMark = "approval-mark/1"
+	// CapStreamPublish is the call that says an event on the module's own bound stream (design 42 zfs-owns-zfs, A-44), the
+	// word mesh-sdk's buscalls names (§622).
+	CapStreamPublish = buscalls.StreamPublishWord
 )
 
 // callFamilies are the methods each capability stands for, the ones BusState and BusStateWatch answer.
@@ -27,12 +41,16 @@ var callFamilies = map[string][]string{
 	CapStreamPublish: {buscalls.StreamPublish},
 	CapLedgerCalls: {buscalls.LedgerApply, buscalls.LedgerGet, buscalls.LedgerHistory, buscalls.LedgerWatch, buscalls.LedgerQuery,
 		buscalls.LedgerRebuild, buscalls.LedgerReindex, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot, buscalls.LedgerLag},
+	CapLedgerUpkeepCalls: {buscalls.LedgerFill, buscalls.LedgerRemove},
+	CapSentObjectsCalls:  {buscalls.ObjectsSentGet},
+	CapPutSessions:       {buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk},
 }
 
 // CallCapabilities is every capability of the calls this runner answers, sorted. The delayed settle of a pulled seat
-// message names a fate, not a method, so it stands beside the method families (novox/hq ADR 0664 §5).
+// message names a fate, not a method, so it stands beside the method families (novox/hq ADR 0664 §5); so does `finding-calls`,
+// the acknowledged `mesh/publish` and the `mesh/subscribe` for new messages the launch answers (design 47 G §559).
 func CallCapabilities() []string {
-	out := []string{stdio.CapSeatSettleDelay}
+	out := []string{stdio.CapSeatSettleDelay, stdio.CapFindingCalls, CapApprovalMark}
 	for c := range callFamilies {
 		out = append(out, c)
 	}
@@ -56,11 +74,10 @@ func (b *moduleBus) BusState(method string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMes
 	case buscalls.ObjectsGet:
 		var r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest
 		if err = decode(method, params, &r); err == nil {
-			var got *buscalls.ObjectData
-			if got, err = conn.ObjectsGet(b.module, r); err == nil && got == nil {
+			answer, err = b.all.objectsGet(b.module, r)
+			if err == nil && answer == nil {
 				return json.RawMessage("null"), nil
 			}
-			answer = got
 		}
 	case buscalls.ObjectsDelete:
 		var r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest
@@ -68,6 +85,15 @@ func (b *moduleBus) BusState(method string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMes
 			err = conn.ObjectsDelete(b.module, r)
 			answer = buscalls.Done{}
 		}
+	case buscalls.ObjectsSentGet:
+		var r buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest
+		if err = decode(method, params, &r); err == nil {
+			answer, err = b.all.sentGet(b.module, r)
+		}
+	case buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk:
+		answer, err = b.all.putChunk(b.module, params)
+	case buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk:
+		answer, err = b.all.getChunk(b.module, params)
 	case buscalls.ObjectsList:
 		var r buscalls.ObjectsRequest
 		if err = decode(method, params, &r); err == nil {
@@ -104,7 +130,7 @@ func (b *moduleBus) BusState(method string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMes
 			answer, err = conn.WorkQueueDead(b.module, r)
 		}
 	case buscalls.LedgerApply, buscalls.LedgerGet, buscalls.LedgerHistory, buscalls.LedgerQuery, buscalls.LedgerRebuild,
-		buscalls.LedgerReindex, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot, buscalls.LedgerLag:
+		buscalls.LedgerReindex, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot, buscalls.LedgerLag, buscalls.LedgerFill, buscalls.LedgerRemove:
 		answer, err = b.ledgerCall(method, params)
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runtime answers no %s", method)
@@ -143,3 +169,50 @@ func decode(method string, params json.RawMessage, into any) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+// objectsGet answers a get: the object whole when it is at most one chunk, else the session that reads it chunk by chunk
+// (design 47 G §490, §518); nil when there is none.
+func (c *consumers) objectsGet(module string, r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest) (any, error) {
+	st := c.objects()
+	if st == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runner has no bus to read %s of %s from", r.Name, module)
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), bus.StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	info, rd, found, err := st.ObjectsOpen(ctx, module, r)
+	if err != nil || !found {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if info.Size > buscalls.ChunkBytes {
+		return c.openGet(module, info, rd, sessionDigest(info.Digest), false)
+	}
+	defer rd.Close()
+	data, err := io.ReadAll(rd)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return &buscalls.ObjectData{Info: info, Data: data}, nil
+}
+
+// sentGet answers a get of a sent object by its reference: whole when the reference's size is at most one chunk, else a
+// session (design 47 G §620).
+func (c *consumers) sentGet(module string, r buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest) (any, error) {
+	if r.Size <= buscalls.ChunkBytes {
+		got, err := c.conn.SentGet(r)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return got, nil
+	}
+	st := c.objects()
+	if st == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runner has no bus to read %s from", r.Object)
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), bus.StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	info, rd, err := st.SentOpen(ctx, r)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return c.openGet(module, info, rd, sessionDigest(r.Digest), true)
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/caller_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/caller_test.go
index 7958b39..d44a0d2 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/caller_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/caller_test.go
@@ -2,9 +2,13 @@ package runtime
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
@@ -24,7 +28,7 @@ func TestACallOnTheCallerNamedSubjectReachesTheModuleWithItsCaller(t *testing.T)
 	mesh := mt.New(t)
 	mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("ledger", "anchor", true, map[string][]string{"node-desk": {"who"}}))
 	nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
-	stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"ledger", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {})
+	stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"ledger", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {}, deskDefined)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -62,13 +66,20 @@ func TestACallOnTheCallerNamedSubjectReachesTheModuleWithItsCaller(t *testing.T)
 	}
 }
 
-// The subject that names no caller is still served, for one release (retired by hq issue 464), and says so:
-// the module is named no caller, whatever the body claims.
+// deskDefined is the seat list's definition of the fixture seat node-desk, its verb who taking its class's default.
+var deskDefined = WithSeatDefinitions(func() map[string]seatdef.Definition {
+	return map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-desk": {Seat: "node-desk", Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{{Name: "who"}}}}
+})
+
+// The subject that names no caller is still served for a module's tool, for one release (retired by hq issue 464), and says
+// so: the module is named no caller, whatever the body claims. A seat's verb refuses it before the bundle runs (design 47 G
+// §610; lead answers A-165, A-179), and refuses every caller while the seat's definition is unread, names no such verb or
+// opens it to none.
 func TestTheSubjectThatNamesNoCallerStillWorksAndNamesNone(t *testing.T) {
 	mesh := mt.New(t)
 	mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("ledger", "anchor", true, map[string][]string{"node-desk": {"who"}}))
 	nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
-	stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"ledger", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {})
+	stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"ledger", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {}, deskDefined)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -91,8 +102,96 @@ func TestTheSubjectThatNamesNoCallerStillWorksAndNamesNone(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 			return err
 		})
+		if strings.HasPrefix(subject, "mesh.seat.") {
+			if !strings.Contains(reply.Error, "node-desk.who takes no unproven caller") || reply.Result.Call != "" {
+				t.Errorf("%s: an unproven caller of a seat's verb was answered %+v (error %q), want refused before the bundle", subject, reply.Result, reply.Error)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
 		if reply.Error != "" || reply.Result.Caller != "" {
 			t.Errorf("%s: the module was named caller %q (error %q), want none", subject, reply.Result.Caller, reply.Error)
 		}
 	}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		defs map[string]seatdef.Definition
+		says string
+	}{
+		{nil, "is not yet read"},
+		{map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-desk": {Seat: "node-desk"}}, "names no verb who"},
+		{map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-desk": {Seat: "node-desk", Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{{Name: "who", Callers: &seatdef.Callers{List: []string{}}}}}}, "open to no caller"},
+		{map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-desk": {Seat: "node-desk", Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{{Name: "who", Class: seatdef.ClassAct}}}}, ""},
+	} {
+		defs := c.defs
+		err := (&consumers{definitions: func() map[string]seatdef.Definition { return defs }}).admitted("node-desk", "who", "workstation.node-tools")
+		if c.says == "" && err != nil || c.says != "" && (err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.says)) {
+			t.Errorf("a proven caller with the definitions %v: %v, want %q", c.defs, err, c.says)
+		}
+	}
+	// Design 47 G A-249: a bundle's seat call is received by the runner in chunks only for a verb whose definition says `chunks`,
+	// of any machine: a verb a node holds is asked of the node that ran the ask (A-254).
+	t.Run("OnlyAChunkedSeatVerbIsAskedInChunks", func(t *testing.T) {
+		c := &consumers{definitions: func() map[string]seatdef.Definition {
+			return map[string]seatdef.Definition{"mesh-catalog": {Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{{Name: "input", Chunks: true}, {Name: "entry"}}}}
+		}}
+		for key, want := range map[string]bool{
+			"seat:mesh-catalog.input":       true,
+			"seat:mesh-catalog.entry":       false,
+			"seat:mesh-catalog.input@home-server":   true,
+			"seat:mesh-catalog.entry@home-server":   false,
+			"seat:mesh-unread.input":        false,
+			"mesh-delivery-indexer.indexer": false,
+		} {
+			if got := c.chunked(key); got != want {
+				t.Errorf("chunked(%s) = %v, want %v", key, got, want)
+			}
+		}
+		if (&consumers{}).chunked("seat:mesh-catalog.input") {
+			t.Error("a runner that holds no seat definitions asks no chunks")
+		}
+	})
+	// **The tool runner answers a held seat's marked verb by caller and serves the seat's `approvals`** (design 47 G §677; lead
+	// answers A-265, A-271), with zsh's node-login-shell `execute` as the case: the marked verb reaches the gate with the caller
+	// its subject names, and `approvals` is answered from the runner's own record of the calls its gate holds, with the
+	// arguments for the call's own caller only, though no bundle names the verb.
+	t.Run("TheRunnerServesApprovalsForTheSeatsItsBundlesHold", func(t *testing.T) {
+		mesh := mt.New(t)
+		mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("zsh", "anchor", true, map[string][]string{"node-login-shell": {"execute", seatdef.ApprovalsVerb}}))
+		nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
+		gate := &gateHolding{}
+		defined := WithSeatDefinitions(func() map[string]seatdef.Definition {
+			return map[string]seatdef.Definition{"node-login-shell": {Seat: "node-login-shell", Verbs: []seatdef.Verb{
+				{Name: "execute", NeedsApproval: true}, {Name: seatdef.ApprovalsVerb}}}}
+		})
+		stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"zsh", []string{mt.Fixture("login-shell-execute.py")}}}, nil, func(string, ...any) {}, defined, WithGate(gate))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		defer stop()
+		asker, err := bus.Connect(bus.Credential{URL: mt.URL(t), Module: "node-tools", Node: "workstation", User: "workstation.node-tools", Password: "unused"})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		asker.Logf = func(string, ...any) {}
+		defer asker.Close()
+
+		mt.Until(t, func() error {
+			_, err := asker.Ask("seat:node-login-shell.execute@anchor", map[string]any{"command": "ls"}, "")
+			return err
+		})
+		if len(gate.calls) != 1 || gate.calls[0].Seat != "node-login-shell" || gate.calls[0].Name != "execute" || gate.calls[0].Caller != "workstation.node-tools" {
+			t.Fatalf("the marked verb reached the gate as %+v, want the seat's execute by workstation.node-tools", gate.calls)
+		}
+		var got approval.Approvals
+		mt.Until(t, func() error {
+			answered, err := asker.Ask("seat:node-login-shell.approvals@anchor", map[string]any{}, "")
+			if err == nil {
+				err = json.Unmarshal(answered.Result, &got)
+			}
+			return err
+		})
+		if len(got.Calls) != 1 || got.Calls[0].Caller != "workstation.node-tools" || got.Calls[0].Verb != "node-login-shell.execute" ||
+			string(got.Calls[0].Arguments) != `{"command":"ls"}` {
+			t.Fatalf("approvals answered %+v, want the one call the gate holds, with its caller's arguments", got)
+		}
+	})
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/gate.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/gate.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a29d84d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/gate.go
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/launch"
+)
+
+// FingerprintWord is the word of a module's composed environment that names the build its bundle serves (design 47 G §424).
+const FingerprintWord = "MESH_FINGERPRINT"
+
+// Gate is the approval gate the runner serves through (design 46 7-approval-mark §4, §20; node-tools/internal/approval).
+type Gate interface {
+	// Unserved is, of a module's marked tools, those its bundle does not register, saying it as the module's finding.
+	Unserved(module, fingerprint string, registered []string) []string
+	// Run is a call through the gate: run is called only when the call may run now, once.
+	Run(call approval.Call, run func() (any, error)) (any, error)
+	// Approvals is the seat verb `approvals` for a caller: the calls the gate holds, its acts and claims (A-265, A-271).
+	Approvals(caller string) (approval.Approvals, error)
+}
+
+// gatedRun is how a handler calls a tool: through the gate where there is one.
+type gatedRun func(call approval.Call, t launch.Tool, caller string) (any, error)
+
+// gated calls the tool through the gate, or straight where the runner has none.
+func (c *consumers) gated(call approval.Call, t launch.Tool, caller string) (any, error) {
+	run := func() (any, error) { return t.Run(caller, call.Args) }
+	if c.gate == nil {
+		return run()
+	}
+	return c.gate.Run(call, run)
+}
+
+// approvalsOf is how the runner answers a held seat's verb `approvals`: from its gate's record, nil without a gate.
+func (r *runner) approvalsOf() func(caller string) (any, error) {
+	if r.events.gate == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return func(caller string) (any, error) { return r.events.gate.Approvals(caller) }
+}
+
+// WithGate serves every call through the approval gate.
+func WithGate(g Gate) Option { return func(c *consumers) { c.gate = g } }
+
+var _ Gate = (*approval.Gate)(nil)
+
+// WithSeatDefinitions refuses, where a seat's verb is answered, a caller outside the verb's effective callers, before the
+// bundle runs (design 47 G §610; lead answers A-165, A-179): defs are the seat definitions the runner's seat list holds.
+// Without it a verb is answered for every caller, as before.
+func WithSeatDefinitions(defs func() map[string]seatdef.Definition) Option {
+	return func(c *consumers) { c.definitions = defs }
+}
+
+// admitted says why a seat's verb is refused to a caller, nil when it is answered: an unproven caller is refused, and so is
+// every caller while the seat's definition is not read, names no such verb, or the verb's effective callers are empty; a
+// proven caller is among them, since the grants part composes a verb's call subject only for its effective callers (A-179).
+func (c *consumers) admitted(seat, verb, caller string) error {
+	if c.definitions == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if caller == "" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Not run: %s.%s takes no unproven caller: call it on its subject that names its caller, "+
+			"mesh.seat.%s.call.%s.<caller>", seat, verb, seat, verb)
+	}
+	def, ok := c.definitions()[seat]
+	if !ok {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Not run: the definition of the seat %s is not yet read by this tool runner's seat list, so no caller "+
+			"of %s.%s is admitted", seat, seat, verb)
+	}
+	for _, v := range def.Verbs {
+		if v.Name == verb {
+			if len(v.EffectiveCallers()) == 0 {
+				return fmt.Errorf("Not run: %s.%s is open to no caller", seat, verb)
+			}
+			return nil
+		}
+	}
+	return fmt.Errorf("Not run: the seat %s's definition names no verb %s, so no caller is admitted", seat, verb)
+}
+
+// unservedMarks is, of the module's marked tools, those its bundle's registrations under its own name do not register.
+func (r *runner) unservedMarks(module string, regs []launch.Registration) []string {
+	if r.events.gate == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var registered []string
+	for _, reg := range regs {
+		if reg.Module == module {
+			for _, t := range reg.Tools {
+				registered = append(registered, t.Name)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return r.events.gate.Unserved(module, r.fingerprintOf(module), registered)
+}
+
+// chunked says whether key names a seat's verb whose definition says `chunks` (design 47 G A-249): its answer is received in
+// chunks by the runner, whose call hands the bundle the whole.
+func (c *consumers) chunked(key string) bool {
+	if c.definitions == nil || !strings.HasPrefix(key, "seat:") {
+		return false
+	}
+	name, _, _ := strings.Cut(key, "@") // a verb asked of the machine that ran the ask is chunked as the verb is (A-254)
+	seat, verb, ok := strings.Cut(strings.TrimPrefix(name, "seat:"), ".")
+	if !ok {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, v := range c.definitions()[seat].Verbs {
+		if v.Name == verb {
+			return v.Chunks
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/gate_approvals_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/gate_approvals_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7f85aac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/gate_approvals_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+)
+
+// gateHolding is the runner's gate as far as the runtime reaches it: it records the calls it is run for and answers
+// `approvals` from them.
+type gateHolding struct{ calls []approval.Call }
+
+func (g *gateHolding) Unserved(string, string, []string) []string { return nil }
+func (g *gateHolding) Run(c approval.Call, run func() (any, error)) (any, error) {
+	g.calls = append(g.calls, c)
+	return run()
+}
+func (g *gateHolding) Approvals(caller string) (approval.Approvals, error) {
+	out := approval.Approvals{Calls: []approval.ListedCall{}, Acts: []approval.ListedAct{}, Claims: []string{}}
+	for i, c := range g.calls {
+		l := approval.ListedCall{Call: string(rune('a' + i)), Caller: c.Caller, Verb: c.Seat + "." + c.Name, State: "waiting"}
+		if caller == c.Caller {
+			l.Arguments = c.Args
+		}
+		out.Calls = append(out.Calls, l)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go
index 802fb03..5c62586 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
 	"testing"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
@@ -240,6 +241,35 @@ func TestTheLedgerKeepsItsPromisesOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Fatalf("queried %+v, %v", q, err)
 			}
 		}},
+		{"fill and removal are answered through the calls and remove an instance from the bus whole", "decision.gone", func(t *testing.T) {
+			must(t, open(t), "decision/gone", "title", `{"title":"Gone"}`)
+			must(t, open(t), "decision/gone", "note", `{"says":"two"}`)
+			must(t, open(t), "decision/stays", "note", `{"says":"kept"}`)
+			raw, err := m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerFill, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records"}`))
+			var fill buscalls.Fill
+			if _ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &fill); err != nil || fill.Count < 3 || fill.Bytes == 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("the fill answered %s (%v)", raw, err)
+			}
+			raw, err = m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerRemove, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records","instance":"decision/gone"}`))
+			var removed buscalls.LedgerRemoved
+			if _ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &removed); err != nil || removed.Operations != 2 || removed.Bytes == 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("the removal answered %s (%v)", raw, err)
+			}
+			l := open(t)
+			if last, _ := l.History.Last("decision.gone"); last != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("operations are left, at %d", last)
+			}
+			if st, _, _ := l.State.Get("decision.gone"); st != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("the state is left: %s", st)
+			}
+			if last, _ := l.History.Last("decision.stays"); last == 0 {
+				t.Fatal("another instance lost its operations")
+			}
+			if raw, err = m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerRemove, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records","instance":"decision/gone"}`)); err != nil ||
+				!strings.Contains(string(raw), `"operations":0`) {
+				t.Fatalf("a removal said twice answered %s (%v)", raw, err)
+			}
+		}},
 		{"a forged author is refused", "decision.forged", func(t *testing.T) {
 			_, err := m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerApply, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records","instance":"decision/forged","operation":"title","body":{"title":"T","author":"op@shanks"},"call":"forged"}`))
 			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the call forged, which is not a tool call in flight") {
@@ -258,4 +288,70 @@ func TestTheLedgerKeepsItsPromisesOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		})
 	}
+	// Design 47 G §559, A-153: against the real bus a publish with ack answers the sequence the bus gave it, and a subscription
+	// for new messages hears only what is published after it was made, on the subject mesh-sdk's one rule names for the event;
+	// a wildcard is refused.
+	t.Run("AnAckedPublishAnswersItsSequenceAndANewSubscriptionHearsOnlyWhatComesAfter", func(t *testing.T) {
+		mt.New(t)
+		nc, err := nats.Connect(mt.URL(t))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		t.Cleanup(nc.Close)
+		js, _ := jetstream.New(nc)
+		ctx := context.Background()
+		if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: "SEATEVENTS", Subjects: []string{"mesh.seat.mesh-conditions.event.>"}}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		conn := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
+		publish := func(body string) {
+			t.Helper()
+			if _, err := js.Publish(ctx, "mesh.seat.mesh-conditions.event.findings-asked", []byte(body)); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		publish(`{"before":true}`)
+
+		var mu sync.Mutex
+		var heard []string
+		stop, err := conn.SubscribeNew("mesh-conditions.findings-asked", func(raw json.RawMessage) error {
+			var env bus.Envelope
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &env)
+			mu.Lock()
+			heard = append(heard, env.Key+" "+string(env.Body))
+			mu.Unlock()
+			return nil
+		})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		defer stop()
+		publish(`{"after":true}`)
+		publish(`{"after":2}`)
+		mt.Until(t, func() error {
+			mu.Lock()
+			defer mu.Unlock()
+			if len(heard) < 2 {
+				return context.DeadlineExceeded
+			}
+			return nil
+		})
+		mu.Lock()
+		if len(heard) != 2 || heard[0] != `mesh-conditions.findings-asked {"after":true}` {
+			t.Errorf("heard %v, want the messages after the subscription alone, in order", heard)
+		}
+		mu.Unlock()
+
+		for name, want := range map[string]string{"mesh-conditions.*": "[A-Za-z0-9_-]"} {
+			if _, err := conn.SubscribeNew(name, func(json.RawMessage) error { return nil }); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
+				t.Errorf("a subscription for %s answered %v, want one naming %q", name, err, want)
+			}
+		}
+
+		first, err := conn.PublishAsAcked("node-tools", bus.Envelope{Key: "finding-written", Body: json.RawMessage(`{}`)})
+		second, err2 := conn.PublishAsAcked("node-tools", bus.Envelope{Key: "finding-written", Body: json.RawMessage(`{}`)})
+		if err != nil || err2 != nil || first == 0 || second != first+1 {
+			t.Errorf("acknowledged publishes answered %d (%v) and %d (%v), want consecutive sequences", first, err, second, err2)
+		}
+	})
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go
index 114cd54..960dab5 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go
@@ -171,6 +171,17 @@ func (b *moduleBus) ledgerCall(method string, params json.RawMessage) (any, erro
 		var r buscalls.LedgerRequest
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(params, &r)
 		return l.Lag(r)
+	case buscalls.LedgerFill:
+		var r buscalls.LedgerRequest
+		_ = json.Unmarshal(params, &r)
+		return l.Fill(r)
+	case buscalls.LedgerRemove:
+		// Never on an apply: a removal is no operation of the history and has no author (design 47 G §587).
+		var r buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest
+		if err := decode(method, params, &r); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return l.Remove(r)
 	}
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runtime answers no %s", method)
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go
index 23bf5fb..ff586ef 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ func TestABundleToolNamedAsALedgerRepairIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 // no other name; none answers "the runtime answers no ...".
 func TestEveryCallOfAStatedCapabilityIsAnswered(t *testing.T) {
 	m, _, _ := aLedger(t)
-	if got := strings.Join(CallCapabilities(), ","); got != "bus-state-calls,ledger-calls,seat-settle-delay,stream-publish" {
+	if got := strings.Join(CallCapabilities(), ","); got != "approval-mark/1,bus-state-calls,finding-calls,ledger-calls,ledger-upkeep-calls,put-sessions,seat-settle-delay,sent-objects-calls,stream-publish" {
 		t.Fatalf("the runner states %s", got)
 	}
 	for capability, methods := range callFamilies {
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/own_account_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/own_account_test.go
index eaf433d..ff678e6 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/own_account_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/own_account_test.go
@@ -36,6 +36,25 @@ func TestNoBusWordReachesABundle(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s did not reach the bundle", want)
 		}
 	}
+	// design 47 G §618, §519: the runtime's own fingerprint reaches no bundle; the fingerprint a module's composed words hold does.
+	t.Run("TheRuntimesOwnFingerprintReachesNoBundle", func(t *testing.T) {
+		base := []string{"MESH_FINGERPRINT=runner-build", "PATH=/usr/bin"}
+		for name, c := range map[string]struct {
+			given map[string]string
+			want  string
+		}{
+			"composed with none sees none":   {nil, ""},
+			"composed with one sees its own": {map[string]string{"MESH_FINGERPRINT": "module-build"}, "MESH_FINGERPRINT=module-build"},
+		} {
+			env := strings.Join(BundleEnv(base, c.given, "telegram", "anchor"), "\n")
+			if strings.Contains(env, "runner-build") {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the runtime's own fingerprint reached the bundle: %s", name, env)
+			}
+			if c.want == "" && strings.Contains(env, "MESH_FINGERPRINT") || !strings.Contains(env, c.want) {
+				t.Errorf("%s: the environment is %s", name, env)
+			}
+		}
+	})
 }
 
 // A tool call reaches only a tool's subject: whatever key a caller names, it is never a seat's event, accept
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go
index 84580ef..b29e08e 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/announce"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/launch"
@@ -59,6 +62,10 @@ type ListedTool struct {
 // NodeRuntimeModule is the module that is a machine's runtime, serving every module on it.
 const NodeRuntimeModule = "node-tools"
 
+// fingerprintEnv is the word the node-engine starts each process with, the fingerprint of the want it applies (mesh-sdk's
+// process.FingerprintEnv; this package imports no SDK): the runtime's own is no bundle's.
+const fingerprintEnv = "MESH_FINGERPRINT"
+
 // runtimeOnly are the words of the runtime's own environment no bundle is given.
 var runtimeOnly = map[string]bool{ToolEnv: true, ToolModules: true, "MESH_BROKER_FILE": true,
 	"MESH_BROKER_URL": true, "MESH_CONSOLE_LISTEN": true, LedgersFile: true}
@@ -230,6 +237,10 @@ type runner struct {
 	of    map[string]*loadedModule
 	verbs map[string]func() // each module's `tools` verb, where it is answered
 
+	// fingerprintOf is the build a module's bundle serves: the fingerprint its composed environment carries (design 47 G
+	// §424, §618), never the runner's own.
+	fingerprintOf func(module string) string
+
 	seatsAgain func()
 	stops      []func() // the watch, the announcement and the seats, in the order they began
 }
@@ -263,6 +274,7 @@ func Run(conn *bus.Conn, served []Served, envs map[string]map[string]string, log
 
 	base := os.Environ()
 	r.envFor = func(module string) []string { return BundleEnv(base, envs[module], module, node) }
+	r.fingerprintOf = func(module string) string { return envs[module][FingerprintWord] }
 
 	// The module's events, for every child of it that subscribes (ADR 0198): one consumer per module,
 	// bound the first time any of its children subscribes, each event handed to every child that did.
@@ -298,7 +310,8 @@ func Run(conn *bus.Conn, served []Served, envs map[string]map[string]string, log
 	}
 	logf("%s", line)
 	conn.OnMembership(func(bus.Membership) { go func() { r.refreshRepairs(); conn.Flush() }() })
-	stopSeats, again := serveSeats(conn, r.modules, r.registrations, logf)
+	stopSeats, again := serveSeats(conn, r.modules, r.registrations, r.events.gated, r.events.admitted, r.events.chunked, r.approvalsOf(),
+		r.fingerprintOf, logf)
 	r.seatsAgain = again
 	r.stops = append(r.stops, stopSeats)
 
@@ -308,7 +321,10 @@ func Run(conn *bus.Conn, served []Served, envs map[string]map[string]string, log
 	announced, err := announce.Serve(conn, announce.Service{
 		Name: conn.Module(), ID: instanceOf(conn),
 		Description: "the mesh's tool runtime on " + node + ": every assigned module's tools and the seats they hold",
-		Metadata:    map[string]string{"node": node, announce.Capabilities: strings.Join(CallCapabilities(), ",")},
+		// Its own fingerprint beside the capabilities, so a reading is tied to the runner that made it (design 46 approval
+		// mark §6, lead answer A-203).
+		Metadata: map[string]string{"node": node, announce.Capabilities: strings.Join(CallCapabilities(), ","),
+			announce.Fingerprint: os.Getenv(FingerprintWord)},
 	}, func() []announce.Endpoint { return endpointsOf(conn, r.own(), r.registrations(), r.modules) })
 	if err != nil {
 		logf("[mesh-tools] cannot announce what it serves: %v", err)
@@ -409,6 +425,13 @@ func (r *runner) load(s Served) *loadedModule {
 			fail(clashed)
 			continue
 		}
+		// A bundle whose marks name a tool it does not register is not loaded: no tool of its module is served here, rather
+		// than one served unmarked that the manifest meant to mark (design 46 7-approval-mark §4).
+		if unserved := r.unservedMarks(module, child.Registrations); len(unserved) > 0 {
+			child.Stop()
+			fail(fmt.Sprintf("its marks name %s, which it does not register (design 46 7-approval-mark §4)", strings.Join(unserved, ", ")))
+			continue
+		}
 		l.children = append(l.children, child.Stop)
 		for _, reg := range child.Registrations {
 			got := registration{module: reg.Module, owner: module, tools: reg.Tools}
@@ -452,8 +475,11 @@ func (r *runner) serve(l *loadedModule) {
 		for _, t := range reg.tools {
 			t := t
 			// Told who called, from the subject the call arrived on, never from its body (novox/hq issue 365).
+			// Through the approval gate, before the bundle or the runner's own tool (design 46 7-approval-mark §20).
+			module, own := reg.module, reg.repairs
 			stop, err := r.conn.HandleCalled(reg.module+"."+t.Name, func(caller string, body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
-				return t.Run(caller, argsOf(body))
+				return r.events.gated(approval.Call{Address: module + "." + t.Name, Module: module, Name: t.Name, Own: own,
+					Fingerprint: r.fingerprintOf(module), Caller: caller, Args: argsOf(body), Description: t.Description}, t, caller)
 			})
 			if err != nil {
 				r.logf("[mesh-tools] cannot serve %s.%s: %v", reg.module, t.Name, err)
@@ -637,6 +663,9 @@ func endpointsOf(conn *bus.Conn, own []registration, registrations []registratio
 		}
 		for _, v := range m.Seats {
 			t, ok := impl[v.Seat][v.Verb]
+			if v.Verb == seatdef.ApprovalsVerb && !ok {
+				t, ok = launch.Tool{Name: v.Verb, Description: "The calls this seat's holder holds for the operator's approval, its acts and its claims."}, true
+			}
 			if !ok || have[v.Subject] {
 				continue
 			}
@@ -691,7 +720,9 @@ func subjectsOf(conn *bus.Conn, module, tool string) []string {
 // the tool of the same name registered under the seat's name (ADR 0159, 0160) — and serves again
 // whenever a membership changes, and when again is called because a bundle was loaded again. Whether
 // this machine holds the seat is the bus's to decide. It answers its stop and again.
-func serveSeats(conn *bus.Conn, modules []string, current func() []registration, logf func(string, ...any)) (func(), func()) {
+func serveSeats(conn *bus.Conn, modules []string, current func() []registration, gated gatedRun,
+	admitted func(seat, verb, caller string) error, chunked func(key string) bool, approvals func(caller string) (any, error),
+	fingerprintOf func(string) string, logf func(string, ...any)) (func(), func()) {
 	var mu sync.Mutex
 	var stops []func()
 	stopped := false
@@ -725,13 +756,43 @@ func serveSeats(conn *bus.Conn, modules []string, current func() []registration,
 					continue
 				}
 				have[v.Subject] = true
+				// The seat's verb `approvals` is the gate's own, served wherever a marked verb is: the runner answers it from its
+				// record of the calls its gate holds, by caller, and no bundle names it (lead answers A-265, A-266, A-271).
+				if v.Verb == seatdef.ApprovalsVerb && approvals != nil {
+					seat := v.Seat
+					stop, err := conn.HandleSubjectCalled(v.Subject, func(caller string, _ json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
+						if err := admitted(seat, seatdef.ApprovalsVerb, caller); err != nil {
+							return nil, err
+						}
+						return approvals(caller)
+					})
+					if err != nil {
+						logf("[mesh-tools] cannot serve %s's approvals on %s: %v", seat, v.Subject, err)
+						continue
+					}
+					stops = append(stops, stop)
+					logf("[mesh-tools] serving %s's approvals on %s, the gate's own verb", seat, v.Subject)
+					continue
+				}
 				t, ok := impl[v.Seat][v.Verb]
 				if !ok {
 					logf("[mesh-tools] %s claims %s and implements no %s, which that seat promises; not served", module, v.Seat, v.Verb)
 					continue
 				}
+				// Its callers checked, then through the approval gate, before the bundle (design 47 G §610, A-179; design 46
+				// 7-approval-mark §20).
+				module, v := module, v
 				stop, err := conn.HandleSubjectCalled(v.Subject, func(caller string, body json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
-					return t.Run(caller, argsOf(body))
+					if err := admitted(v.Seat, v.Verb, caller); err != nil {
+						return nil, err
+					}
+					answer, err := gated(approval.Call{Address: v.Seat + "." + v.Verb, Module: module, Seat: v.Seat, Name: v.Verb,
+						Fingerprint: fingerprintOf(module), Caller: caller, Args: argsOf(body), Description: t.Description}, t, caller)
+					if err != nil || !chunked("seat:"+v.Seat+"."+v.Verb) {
+						return answer, err
+					}
+					// A verb marked chunks: the bundle answers the whole file, the runner sends it in chunks (design 47 G A-257).
+					return conn.AnswerChunked(v.Seat, v.Verb, body, answer)
 				})
 				if err != nil {
 					logf("[mesh-tools] cannot serve %s's %s on %s: %v", v.Seat, v.Verb, v.Subject, err)
@@ -770,6 +831,12 @@ type consumers struct {
 	ledgers ledgerSource
 	// calls are the tool calls in flight, by the id each bundle was handed (ledgers.go, novox/hq ADR 0597 §7).
 	calls callsInFlight
+	// sessions are the bundles' put and get sessions (sessions.go).
+	sessions sessionTable
+	// gate is the approval gate every call is served through (gate.go); nil serves every call as before.
+	gate Gate
+	// definitions are the seat definitions a seat verb's callers are read from (gate.go); nil admits every caller.
+	definitions func() map[string]seatdef.Definition
 }
 
 type moduleEvents struct {
@@ -845,6 +912,7 @@ func (c *consumers) dropModule(module string) {
 		}
 	}
 	c.provisioned.stopModule(module)
+	c.dropModuleSessions(module)
 }
 
 // forModule is the bus one launched bundle of a module reaches the mesh through.
@@ -869,6 +937,21 @@ func (b *moduleBus) Publish(params json.RawMessage) error {
 	return b.all.conn.PublishAs(b.module, env)
 }
 
+// PublishAcked is Publish that answers the sequence the bus acknowledged the event at (`mesh/publish` with `ack`, design 47 G §559).
+func (b *moduleBus) PublishAcked(params json.RawMessage) (uint64, error) {
+	var env bus.Envelope
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(params, &env); err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("not an event envelope: %w", err)
+	}
+	return b.all.conn.PublishAsAcked(b.module, env)
+}
+
+// SubscribeNew hands the bundle one event's messages published from now on, on an ordered consumer of its own (`mesh/subscribe`
+// with `deliver: new`, design 47 G §559); the consumer ends with the bundle's channel.
+func (b *moduleBus) SubscribeNew(pattern string, deliver func(json.RawMessage) error) (func(), error) {
+	return b.all.conn.SubscribeNew(pattern, deliver)
+}
+
 // Ask calls a tool as the module: `{key, body}`, answered with the tool's result (ADR 0198).
 func (b *moduleBus) Ask(params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 	var asked struct {
@@ -882,7 +965,11 @@ func (b *moduleBus) Ask(params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 	if len(asked.Body) == 0 {
 		body = map[string]any{}
 	}
-	answered, err := b.all.conn.AskAs(b.module, asked.Key, body)
+	ask := b.all.conn.AskAs
+	if b.all.chunked(asked.Key) {
+		ask = b.all.conn.AskAsChunked // the runner receives the chunks of the answer; the bundle receives none (design 47 G A-249)
+	}
+	answered, err := ask(b.module, asked.Key, body)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -1366,11 +1453,13 @@ func (b *moduleBus) bind(key string, stop func()) {
 // BundleEnv is what one module's bundle is started with: the runtime's environment without its own words,
 // the module's composed words over it, and the module's and machine's names. **No bus word reaches a
 // bundle** (security review of 2026-10-08): the credential and the bus's address are the runtime's, and a
-// bundle reaches the bus only through the runtime.
+// bundle reaches the bus only through the runtime. **The runtime's own fingerprint reaches none either**: a bundle reads
+// only the `MESH_FINGERPRINT` its module's composed words hold, the build the node-engine applied for that module, and with
+// none it has none (design 47 G §519, §618).
 func BundleEnv(base []string, given map[string]string, module, node string) []string {
 	words := map[string]string{}
 	for _, kv := range base {
-		if k, v, ok := strings.Cut(kv, "="); ok && !runtimeOnly[k] {
+		if k, v, ok := strings.Cut(kv, "="); ok && !runtimeOnly[k] && k != fingerprintEnv {
 			words[k] = v
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime_test.go
index eb56bfa..b8e8906 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime_test.go
@@ -4,10 +4,12 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"os"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/approval"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/bus"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/launch"
 	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
@@ -192,10 +194,50 @@ func TestEachBundleIsGivenItsOwnEnvironment(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// An entrypoint that is not executable is refused by name, and the others serve (ADR 0193).
+// unservingGate is an approval gate whose marks of each module name the tools given, so a bundle not registering them is
+// refused at the load (design 46 7-approval-mark §4).
+type unservingGate map[string][]string
+
+func (g unservingGate) Unserved(module, _ string, registered []string) []string {
+	var missing []string
+	for _, tool := range g[module] {
+		if !slices.Contains(registered, tool) {
+			missing = append(missing, tool)
+		}
+	}
+	return missing
+}
+func (unservingGate) Run(_ approval.Call, run func() (any, error)) (any, error) { return run() }
+func (unservingGate) Approvals(string) (approval.Approvals, error)              { return approval.Approvals{}, nil }
+
+// An entrypoint that is not executable is refused by name, and the others serve (ADR 0193). A bundle whose marks name a
+// tool it does not register is refused at the load, serving no tool of its module, and one that registers it serves
+// (design 46 7-approval-mark §4).
 func TestAnEntrypointThatIsNotExecutableIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	mt.NeedBundles(t)
 	mesh := mt.New(t)
+	{
+		mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("marked", "anchor", true, nil))
+		mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("served", "anchor", true, nil))
+		nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
+		asker := connect(t, "console", "workstation")
+		logs := &mt.Logs{}
+		stop, err := Run(nodeTools, []Served{{"marked", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}, {"served", []string{mt.Fixture("caller-echo.py")}}},
+			nil, logs.Logf, WithGate(unservingGate{"marked": {"wipe"}, "served": {"who"}}))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if !logs.Has("marked's bundle", "failed to load: its marks name wipe, which it does not register (design 46 7-approval-mark §4)") {
+			t.Errorf("a bundle not serving its marked tool was not refused at the load:\n%s", logs.All())
+		}
+		if _, err := call(t, asker, "served.who@anchor", map[string]any{}); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("a bundle serving its marked tool: %v", err)
+		}
+		if _, err := asker.Ask("marked.who@anchor", map[string]any{}, ""); !errors.Is(err, bus.ErrNoResponders) {
+			t.Errorf("a refused bundle's tool answered: %v", err)
+		}
+		stop()
+	}
+	mt.NeedBundles(t)
 	mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("alpha", "anchor", false, nil))
 	mesh.Issue(t, mt.MembershipOf("plain", "anchor", false, nil))
 	nodeTools := connect(t, "node-tools", "anchor")
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/sessions.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/sessions.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..817ad6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/sessions.go
@@ -0,0 +1,307 @@
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"context"
+	"crypto/rand"
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/launch"
+)
+
+// A bundle's put and get sessions (design 47 G §518, A-21, A-25, §620): a value over buscalls.ChunkBytes crosses the
+// bundle's channel as calls the runner holds the session of, nothing of it on the bus. A put writes each chunk into the
+// module's object store as it arrives (through a pipe into the store's own chunking, so no more than one chunk is held) and
+// seals the object on the last chunk; a get reads the object out as the bundle asks its chunks, in order.
+
+// SessionBound is how long a session has, counted once for the whole session from its first chunk (§518 "The bound"): the
+// call's bound, launch.CallTimeout.
+var SessionBound = launch.CallTimeout
+
+// objectSessions is what a session needs of the bus: *bus.Conn.
+type objectSessions interface {
+	ObjectsPutStream(ctx context.Context, module string, r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest, description string, in io.Reader) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, error)
+	ObjectsOpen(ctx context.Context, module string, r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, io.ReadCloser, bool, error)
+	SentOpen(ctx context.Context, r buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, io.ReadCloser, error)
+}
+
+// sessionTable holds the sessions of every module, each under its module's name and the bundle's call id, so a bundle
+// reaches its own sessions alone.
+type sessionTable struct {
+	mu   sync.Mutex
+	puts map[string]*putSession
+	gets map[string]*getSession
+	// store replaces the bus where a test has none.
+	store objectSessions
+}
+
+type putSession struct {
+	mu     sync.Mutex
+	next   uint32
+	pw     *io.PipeWriter
+	done   chan struct{} // closed once res is set
+	res    putResult
+	cancel context.CancelFunc
+	timer  *time.Timer
+	store  string
+}
+
+type putResult struct {
+	info buscalls.ObjectInfo
+	err  error
+}
+
+type getSession struct {
+	mu     sync.Mutex
+	next   uint32
+	rd     *bufio.Reader
+	closer io.Closer
+	timer  *time.Timer
+}
+
+var errSessionBound = errors.New("the session was not completed within the call's bound")
+
+func sessionKey(module, call string) string { return module + " " + call }
+
+// putChunk takes one chunk of a put session: it answers {seq}, or {error}, and the put's own answer for the last chunk.
+func (c *consumers) putChunk(module string, params json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
+	var r buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest
+	if err := decode(buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, params, &r); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if r.Call == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("a chunk names the put's call")
+	}
+	t := &c.sessions
+	key := sessionKey(module, r.Call)
+	t.mu.Lock()
+	s := t.puts[key]
+	if r.Seq == 1 && s == nil {
+		var err error
+		if s, err = c.beginPut(module, key, r); err != nil {
+			t.mu.Unlock()
+			return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Error: err.Error()}, nil
+		}
+	}
+	t.mu.Unlock()
+	if s == nil {
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Error: fmt.Sprintf("no put %s of %s is open at chunk %d: it was dropped at its bound, or never begun", r.Call, r.Name, r.Seq)}, nil
+	}
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.Seq != s.next {
+		c.dropPut(key, s, errors.New("a chunk out of order"))
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Error: fmt.Sprintf("putting %s: chunk %d came where chunk %d was next", r.Name, r.Seq, s.next)}, nil
+	}
+	if len(r.Data) > buscalls.ChunkBytes {
+		c.dropPut(key, s, errors.New("a chunk over the limit"))
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Error: fmt.Sprintf("putting %s: chunk %d is %d bytes, over the %d a chunk carries", r.Name, r.Seq, len(r.Data), buscalls.ChunkBytes)}, nil
+	}
+	if _, err := s.pw.Write(r.Data); err != nil {
+		// The store refused the chunk (its cap) or the bound passed: its own reason is the answer.
+		<-s.done
+		res := s.res
+		c.forgetPut(key, s)
+		reason := res.err
+		if reason == nil || errors.Is(reason, io.ErrClosedPipe) {
+			reason = err
+		}
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Error: fmt.Sprintf("putting %s into %s, at chunk %d: %v", r.Name, s.store, r.Seq, reason)}, nil
+	}
+	if !r.Last {
+		s.next++
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Seq: r.Seq}, nil
+	}
+	_ = s.pw.Close()
+	<-s.done
+	res := s.res
+	c.forgetPut(key, s)
+	if res.err != nil {
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken{Error: fmt.Sprintf("putting %s into %s: %v", r.Name, s.store, res.err)}, nil
+	}
+	return res.info, nil
+}
+
+// beginPut opens the put of the first chunk, with t.mu held.
+func (c *consumers) beginPut(module, key string, r buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest) (*putSession, error) {
+	if r.Name == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("an object is put under a name")
+	}
+	st := c.objects()
+	if st == nil {
+		return nil, errors.New("the runner has no bus to put on")
+	}
+	pr, pw := io.Pipe()
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	s := &putSession{next: 1, pw: pw, done: make(chan struct{}), cancel: cancel, store: r.Objects}
+	s.timer = time.AfterFunc(SessionBound, func() {
+		c.sessions.mu.Lock()
+		current := c.sessions.puts[key] == s
+		c.sessions.mu.Unlock()
+		if current {
+			_ = pw.CloseWithError(errSessionBound)
+			cancel()
+		}
+	})
+	if c.sessions.puts == nil {
+		c.sessions.puts = map[string]*putSession{}
+	}
+	c.sessions.puts[key] = s
+	go func() {
+		info, err := st.ObjectsPutStream(ctx, module, buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest{Objects: r.Objects, Name: r.Name}, r.Description, pr)
+		_ = pr.CloseWithError(err)
+		s.res = putResult{info, err}
+		close(s.done)
+	}()
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+// dropPut ends a put that will not be sealed: the store purges what it wrote.
+func (c *consumers) dropPut(key string, s *putSession, why error) {
+	_ = s.pw.CloseWithError(why)
+	<-s.done
+	c.forgetPut(key, s)
+}
+
+func (c *consumers) forgetPut(key string, s *putSession) {
+	s.timer.Stop()
+	s.cancel()
+	c.sessions.mu.Lock()
+	delete(c.sessions.puts, key)
+	c.sessions.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// objects is the bus a session reads and writes objects through.
+func (c *consumers) objects() objectSessions {
+	if c.sessions.store != nil {
+		return c.sessions.store
+	}
+	if c.conn == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return c.conn
+}
+
+// openGet registers the get session of an opened object and answers the chunked answer that begins it.
+func (c *consumers) openGet(module string, info buscalls.ObjectInfo, rd io.ReadCloser, digest string, sent bool) (any, error) {
+	call := newCall()
+	g := &getSession{next: 1, rd: bufio.NewReaderSize(rd, buscalls.ChunkBytes), closer: rd}
+	key := sessionKey(module, call)
+	g.timer = time.AfterFunc(SessionBound, func() { c.dropGet(key, g) })
+	c.sessions.mu.Lock()
+	if c.sessions.gets == nil {
+		c.sessions.gets = map[string]*getSession{}
+	}
+	c.sessions.gets[key] = g
+	c.sessions.mu.Unlock()
+	var chunked json.RawMessage = json.RawMessage("true")
+	if !sent {
+		chunked = json.RawMessage(fmt.Sprint((info.Size + buscalls.ChunkBytes - 1) / buscalls.ChunkBytes))
+	}
+	return buscalls.ObjectsChunked{Chunked: chunked, Size: info.Size, Digest: digest, Call: call}, nil
+}
+
+func (c *consumers) dropGet(key string, g *getSession) {
+	g.timer.Stop()
+	c.sessions.mu.Lock()
+	delete(c.sessions.gets, key)
+	c.sessions.mu.Unlock()
+	_ = g.closer.Close()
+}
+
+// getChunk answers the next chunk of a get session: {seq, last, data}, or {error}.
+func (c *consumers) getChunk(module string, params json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
+	var r buscalls.ObjectsGetChunkRequest
+	if err := decode(buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk, params, &r); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	key := sessionKey(module, r.Call)
+	c.sessions.mu.Lock()
+	g := c.sessions.gets[key]
+	c.sessions.mu.Unlock()
+	if g == nil {
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunk{Error: fmt.Sprintf("no get %s is open at chunk %d: it was dropped at its bound, or never begun", r.Call, r.Seq)}, nil
+	}
+	g.mu.Lock()
+	defer g.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.Seq != g.next {
+		c.dropGet(key, g)
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunk{Error: fmt.Sprintf("chunk %d was asked where chunk %d is next", r.Seq, g.next)}, nil
+	}
+	buf := make([]byte, buscalls.ChunkBytes)
+	n, err := io.ReadFull(g.rd, buf)
+	last := errors.Is(err, io.EOF) || errors.Is(err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF)
+	if err != nil && !last {
+		c.dropGet(key, g)
+		return buscalls.ObjectsChunk{Error: fmt.Sprintf("reading chunk %d: %v", r.Seq, err)}, nil
+	}
+	if !last {
+		if _, perr := g.rd.Peek(1); errors.Is(perr, io.EOF) {
+			last = true
+		}
+	}
+	g.next++
+	if last {
+		c.dropGet(key, g)
+	}
+	return buscalls.ObjectsChunk{Seq: r.Seq, Last: last, Data: buf[:n]}, nil
+}
+
+// dropModuleSessions ends every session of a module whose bundle is gone.
+func (c *consumers) dropModuleSessions(module string) {
+	c.sessions.mu.Lock()
+	var puts []*putSession
+	var putKeys []string
+	var gets []*getSession
+	var getKeys []string
+	for k, s := range c.sessions.puts {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(k, module+" ") {
+			puts, putKeys = append(puts, s), append(putKeys, k)
+		}
+	}
+	for k, g := range c.sessions.gets {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(k, module+" ") {
+			gets, getKeys = append(gets, g), append(getKeys, k)
+		}
+	}
+	c.sessions.mu.Unlock()
+	for i, s := range puts {
+		c.dropPut(putKeys[i], s, errors.New("the bundle's channel closed"))
+	}
+	for i, g := range gets {
+		c.dropGet(getKeys[i], g)
+	}
+}
+
+// sessionDigest is the `sha256:` form of an object's digest as the bus store keeps it (`SHA-256=` and base64), or as a
+// reference carries it (hex).
+func sessionDigest(d string) string {
+	if raw, ok := strings.CutPrefix(d, "SHA-256="); ok {
+		if b, err := base64.URLEncoding.DecodeString(raw); err == nil {
+			return "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(b)
+		}
+	}
+	return "sha256:" + strings.TrimPrefix(d, "sha256:")
+}
+
+func newCall() string {
+	var b [12]byte
+	_, _ = rand.Read(b[:])
+	return hex.EncodeToString(b[:])
+}
+
+// CapabilityWords are the capability words this runner states, answered to a bundle's `mesh/capabilities` (§576).
+func (b *moduleBus) CapabilityWords() []string { return CallCapabilities() }
+
+// DropSessions ends the sessions of the module whose bundle's channel closed (§518).
+func (b *moduleBus) DropSessions() { b.all.dropModuleSessions(b.module) }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/sessions_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/sessions_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d67f94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/sessions_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+package runtime
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"context"
+	"crypto/sha256"
+	"encoding/hex"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"io"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+)
+
+// fakeObjects is the bus of a session: what was put whole, what a read gives, and what the store deleted.
+type fakeObjects struct {
+	put         map[string][]byte
+	description string
+	deleted     []string
+	read        []byte
+	ctxEnded    chan struct{}
+}
+
+func (f *fakeObjects) ObjectsPutStream(ctx context.Context, _ string, r buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest, description string, in io.Reader) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, error) {
+	data, err := io.ReadAll(in)
+	if err != nil {
+		f.deleted = append(f.deleted, r.Name)
+		if f.ctxEnded != nil {
+			<-ctx.Done()
+			close(f.ctxEnded)
+		}
+		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, err
+	}
+	f.put[r.Name], f.description = data, description
+	return buscalls.ObjectInfo{Name: r.Name, Size: uint64(len(data)), Description: description}, nil
+}
+
+func (f *fakeObjects) ObjectsOpen(context.Context, string, buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, io.ReadCloser, bool, error) {
+	return buscalls.ObjectInfo{Name: "o", Size: uint64(len(f.read))}, io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(f.read)), true, nil
+}
+
+func (f *fakeObjects) SentOpen(context.Context, buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, io.ReadCloser, error) {
+	return buscalls.ObjectInfo{Size: uint64(len(f.read))}, io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(f.read)), nil
+}
+
+func aSession(t *testing.T, f *fakeObjects) *moduleBus {
+	t.Helper()
+	c := &consumers{}
+	c.sessions.store = f
+	return &moduleBus{all: c, module: "m"}
+}
+
+func asked(t *testing.T, b *moduleBus, method string, req any, into any) {
+	t.Helper()
+	params, _ := json.Marshal(req)
+	raw, err := b.BusState(method, params)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("%s: %v", method, err)
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, into); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+// §490, §518, §620: a value over one chunk is got as a session (the chunked answer, then each chunk by its call and sequence,
+// the whole checked against the digest); a sent object over one chunk the same, with `chunked` true.
+func TestAGetOverOneChunkRunsAsASession(t *testing.T) {
+	whole := bytes.Repeat([]byte("y"), 2*buscalls.ChunkBytes)
+	f := &fakeObjects{read: whole}
+	b := aSession(t, f)
+	sum := sha256.Sum256(whole)
+	want := "sha256:" + hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])
+	for name, run := range map[string]func() buscalls.ObjectsChunked{
+		"state": func() buscalls.ObjectsChunked {
+			var c buscalls.ObjectsChunked
+			asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsGet, buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "o"}, &c)
+			return c
+		},
+		"sent": func() buscalls.ObjectsChunked {
+			var c buscalls.ObjectsChunked
+			asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsSentGet, buscalls.ObjectsSentGetRequest{Store: "m_sent-objects", Object: "o", Size: int64(len(whole)), Digest: hex.EncodeToString(sum[:])}, &c)
+			if string(c.Chunked) != "true" {
+				t.Errorf("a sent object's chunked is %s", c.Chunked)
+			}
+			return c
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			c := run()
+			if c.Call == "" || c.Size != uint64(len(whole)) {
+				t.Fatalf("the get answered %+v", c)
+			}
+			if name == "state" {
+				if string(c.Chunked) != "2" {
+					t.Errorf("chunked is %s, want 2", c.Chunked)
+				}
+			}
+			var got []byte
+			for seq := uint32(1); ; seq++ {
+				var ch buscalls.ObjectsChunk
+				asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunkRequest{Call: c.Call, Seq: seq}, &ch)
+				if ch.Error != "" || ch.Seq != seq {
+					t.Fatalf("chunk %d: %+v", seq, ch)
+				}
+				got = append(got, ch.Data...)
+				if ch.Last {
+					if seq != 2 {
+						t.Fatalf("an object of two chunks ended at chunk %d", seq)
+					}
+					break
+				}
+			}
+			if !bytes.Equal(got, whole) || name == "state" && c.Digest == "" {
+				t.Fatalf("read %d bytes, digest %s", len(got), c.Digest)
+			}
+			if name == "sent" && c.Digest != want {
+				t.Errorf("digest %s, want %s", c.Digest, want)
+			}
+			var again buscalls.ObjectsChunk
+			asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunkRequest{Call: c.Call, Seq: 3}, &again)
+			if again.Error == "" {
+				t.Error("a finished session answered another chunk")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+	// A value of one chunk or less is the value itself, as before.
+	f.read = []byte("small")
+	var small buscalls.ObjectData
+	asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsGet, buscalls.ObjectsNameRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "o"}, &small)
+	if string(small.Data) != "small" {
+		t.Fatalf("a small value was answered %+v", small)
+	}
+	// Design 47 G §518, A-21, A-25: a put session writes each chunk as it is taken, carries the description of its first chunk,
+	// and answers the put's own info for the last; a chunk out of order fails the put naming both sequences and leaves none.
+	t.Run("APutSessionSealsOnTheLastChunkAndDropsOnADisorder", func(t *testing.T) {
+		f := &fakeObjects{put: map[string][]byte{}}
+		b := aSession(t, f)
+		whole := bytes.Repeat([]byte("x"), 2*buscalls.ChunkBytes+5)
+		var taken buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken
+		for seq, at := uint32(1), 0; ; seq++ {
+			end := min(at+buscalls.ChunkBytes, len(whole))
+			req := buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "a", Call: "c1", Seq: seq, Last: end == len(whole), Data: whole[at:end]}
+			if seq == 1 {
+				req.Description = "what it is"
+			}
+			if req.Last {
+				var info buscalls.ObjectInfo
+				asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, req, &info)
+				if info.Size != uint64(len(whole)) || info.Description != "what it is" {
+					t.Fatalf("the put answered %+v", info)
+				}
+				break
+			}
+			asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, req, &taken)
+			if taken.Seq != seq || taken.Error != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("chunk %d was answered %+v", seq, taken)
+			}
+			at = end
+		}
+		if !bytes.Equal(f.put["a"], whole) {
+			t.Fatalf("the store holds %d bytes, want %d", len(f.put["a"]), len(whole))
+		}
+
+		asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "b", Call: "c2", Seq: 1, Data: []byte("one")}, &taken)
+		asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "b", Call: "c2", Seq: 3, Data: []byte("three")}, &taken)
+		if !strings.Contains(taken.Error, "chunk 3") || !strings.Contains(taken.Error, "chunk 2") {
+			t.Fatalf("a disorder was answered %+v", taken)
+		}
+		if _, ok := f.put["b"]; ok || len(f.deleted) != 1 || f.deleted[0] != "b" {
+			t.Fatalf("a dropped put left %v, deleted %v", f.put, f.deleted)
+		}
+		asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "b", Call: "c2", Seq: 2, Data: []byte("two")}, &taken)
+		if taken.Error == "" {
+			t.Fatal("a chunk of a dropped put was taken")
+		}
+	})
+	// §518 "The bound": a put not sealed within the bound is dropped, its object deleted.
+	t.Run("APutNotSealedWithinTheBoundIsDropped", func(t *testing.T) {
+		was := SessionBound
+		SessionBound = time.Millisecond
+		t.Cleanup(func() { SessionBound = was })
+		f := &fakeObjects{put: map[string][]byte{}, ctxEnded: make(chan struct{})}
+		b := aSession(t, f)
+		var taken buscalls.ObjectsChunkTaken
+		asked(t, b, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: "files", Name: "a", Call: "c", Seq: 1, Data: []byte("x")}, &taken)
+		<-f.ctxEnded
+		if len(f.deleted) != 1 {
+			t.Fatalf("the unsealed object was left: %v", f.deleted)
+		}
+	})
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/module.json b/node-tools/module.json
index f490158..ebdfa46 100644
--- a/node-tools/module.json
+++ b/node-tools/module.json
@@ -1,17 +1,13 @@
 {
   "module": "node-tools",
-  "version": "2",
+  "version": "0.1",
   "slug": "node-tools",
   "tool-runner": true,
   "invokes": [
     "*"
   ],
-  "waits": [
-    "mesh-knowledge.reviewed",
-    "mesh-delivery-gate.transition",
-    "gitea.forge.status",
-    "mesh-self-check.checked",
-    "operator-channel.decided.claude-code"
+  "uses": [
+    "operator-channel"
   ],
   "provides": [
     {
@@ -62,21 +58,47 @@
         "language": "go",
         "system": "arch",
         "from": "cmd/node-tools",
-        "binary": "node-tools"
+        "binary": "node-tools",
+        "states": [
+          "approval-mark/1",
+          "bus-state-calls",
+          "finding-calls",
+          "ledger-calls",
+          "ledger-upkeep-calls",
+          "put-sessions",
+          "seat-settle-delay",
+          "sent-objects-calls",
+          "stream-publish"
+        ]
       }
     ]
   },
   "state": [
     "bound",
-    "findings"
+    "findings",
+    {
+      "name": "approvals",
+      "per-machine": true,
+      "ttl-seconds": 172800
+    }
   ],
   "consumes": [
+    "mesh-catalog.catalog-revision",
+    "mesh-catalog.registration-changed",
     "mesh-catalog.seat-definition-changed",
     "mesh-catalog.seat-definition-removed",
-    "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.assignments",
-    "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.seat-holders",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules"
+    "mesh-conditions.findings-asked",
+    "seat:mesh-module-assigner.views.assignments",
+    "seat:mesh-module-assigner.views.seat-holders",
+    "mesh-delivery.source-moved"
+  ],
+  "streams": [
+    {
+      "name": "node-tools-findings",
+      "events": ["finding-written.*", "finding-cleared.*", "findings-stated.*"],
+      "max-age-days": 7,
+      "max-mib": 16
+    }
   ],
   "reads": [
     "mesh-provisioner.provisions",
diff --git a/node-tools/test/fixtures/login-shell-execute.py b/node-tools/test/fixtures/login-shell-execute.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..3c4517e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/node-tools/test/fixtures/login-shell-execute.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# The login shell's bundle as the seat node-login-shell has it: MCP over stdio, no SDK, one seat verb, execute, which says
+# the command it was given and the caller the call's `_meta` named.
+import json, sys
+
+def say(m):
+    m["jsonrpc"] = "2.0"; sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(m) + "\n"); sys.stdout.flush()
+
+TOOLS = [
+    {"name": "node-login-shell.execute", "description": "run a command", "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "properties": {"command": {"type": "string"}}}},
+]
+for line in sys.stdin:
+    req = json.loads(line); rid = req.get("id"); m = req.get("method"); p = req.get("params") or {}
+    if m == "initialize":
+        say({"id": rid, "result": {"protocolVersion": "2025-03-26", "capabilities": {"tools": {}}, "serverInfo": {"name": "zsh", "version": "1"}}})
+    elif m == "tools/list":
+        say({"id": rid, "result": {"tools": TOOLS}})
+    elif m == "tools/call":
+        meta = p.get("_meta") or {}
+        said = {"ran": (p.get("arguments") or {}).get("command", ""), "caller": meta.get("mesh/caller", "")}
+        say({"id": rid, "result": {"content": [{"type": "text", "text": json.dumps(said)}]}})
+    elif rid is not None:
+        say({"id": rid, "result": {}})