diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/state.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/state.go
index d6bd54b..7185c08 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/state.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/state.go
@@ -174,6 +174,51 @@ func (c *Conn) StateHistory(module, name, key string) ([]StateKept, error) {
 	return kept, nil
 }
 
+// StateInfo is how full a state's bucket is against its caps (tools-are-how-a-module-is-spoken-to): a bundle's tools
+// say fill against cap from it.
+type StateInfo struct {
+	State  string `json:"state"`
+	Bucket string `json:"bucket"`
+	// Bytes is what the bucket holds now, every kept value and marker counted; Keys how many keys it holds, a key
+	// whose last value is a delete or expiry marker counted until the marker goes.
+	Bytes uint64 `json:"bytes"`
+	Keys  uint64 `json:"keys"`
+	// MaxBytes and MaxValueBytes are the bucket's caps; -1 is none.
+	MaxBytes      int64 `json:"max_bytes"`
+	MaxValueBytes int32 `json:"max_value_bytes"`
+	// History is how many values a key keeps; TTLSeconds the bucket's age for a value (0 none); KeyTTL whether a key may
+	// carry its own time to live (issue 1952).
+	History    int64 `json:"history"`
+	TTLSeconds int64 `json:"ttl_seconds"`
+	KeyTTL     bool  `json:"key_ttl"`
+}
+
+// StateInfo reads a state's bucket's fill and caps. It is a read like StateGet: served to the owner and every reader.
+func (c *Conn) StateInfo(module, name string) (*StateInfo, error) {
+	s, err := c.issuedState(module, name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	kv, err := c.bucket(ctx, s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	status, err := kv.Status(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	b, ok := status.(*jetstream.KeyValueBucketStatus)
+	if !ok || b.StreamInfo() == nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the bus answered no stream behind %s's state %s", module, name)
+	}
+	info := b.StreamInfo()
+	return &StateInfo{State: name, Bucket: status.Bucket(), Bytes: info.State.Bytes, Keys: uint64(info.State.NumSubjects),
+		MaxBytes: info.Config.MaxBytes, MaxValueBytes: info.Config.MaxMsgSize, History: status.History(),
+		TTLSeconds: int64(status.TTL() / time.Second), KeyTTL: info.Config.AllowMsgTTL && status.LimitMarkerTTL() > 0}, nil
+}
+
 // StatePut writes one key, as the module, where the module keeps the state. It answers the revision.
 func (c *Conn) StatePut(module, name, key string, value json.RawMessage) (uint64, error) {
 	s, err := c.writable(module, name)
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go b/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go
index fecb1c2..f9960aa 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/launch/launch.go
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ func Start(module, entry string, env []string, mesh Bus, logf func(string, ...an
 								result = answered
 							}
 						case "mesh/state.get", "mesh/state.put", "mesh/state.delete", "mesh/state.keys",
-							"mesh/state.create", "mesh/state.update", "mesh/state.history":
+							"mesh/state.create", "mesh/state.update", "mesh/state.history", "mesh/state.info":
 							var answered json.RawMessage
 							if answered, err = mesh.State(strings.TrimPrefix(m.Method, "mesh/state."), m.Params); err == nil {
 								result = answered
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go
index c81773b..c76327d 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/runtime.go
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ type stateAsked struct {
 	TTLSeconds int `json:"ttl_seconds"`
 }
 
-// State answers a bundle's `get`, `put`, `delete`, `keys`, `create`, `update` and `history` on its
+// State answers a bundle's `get`, `put`, `delete`, `keys`, `create`, `update`, `history` and `info` on its
 // module's state (ADR 0201, ADR 0259, ADR 0307); `create` and `put` take `ttl_seconds`, a key's own time to live,
 // whose end every watch hears as an `expire` (issue 1952). The runtime refuses, with the reason, a state the module was not issued and a write to one it only reads.
 func (b *moduleBus) State(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage, error) {
@@ -917,6 +917,13 @@ func (b *moduleBus) State(verb string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMessage,
 			return nil, err
 		}
 		answer = map[string]any{}
+	case "info":
+		// The bucket's fill against its caps, so a bundle's tools can say how full it is.
+		info, err := conn.StateInfo(b.module, asked.State)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		answer = info
 	case "keys":
 		keys, err := conn.StateKeys(b.module, asked.State)
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/state_counter_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/state_counter_test.go
index a6de41e..3cbbfd9 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/state_counter_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/state_counter_test.go
@@ -227,6 +227,12 @@ func TestAStaleWriteIsRefusedAndWritesNothing(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// The bucket's fill against its caps, for a bundle's tools.
+	if raw, err := ask(b, "info", map[string]any{"state": "wakes"}); err != nil || !strings.Contains(string(raw),
+		`"bucket":"issues_wakes","bytes":0,"keys":0,"max_bytes":-1,"max_value_bytes":262144,"history":1,"ttl_seconds":0,"key_ttl":true`) {
+		t.Errorf("info of a key-ttl bucket answered %s, %v", raw, err)
+	}
+
 	// Created once, renewed whole, and its end heard: a wake with no timer.
 	heard := make(chan bus.StateChange, 8)
 	stop, err := b.Watch(json.RawMessage(`{"state":"wakes"}`), func(raw json.RawMessage) error {