diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -69,12 +69,7 @@ is needed), and how this lib emulates it today.
 |---|---|
 | `@ng-eventually/client` | The SDK-identical wrapper the app imports instead of `@ng-org/web` / `@ng-org/orm`. It adds the polyfills the broker/verifier will do natively (shared-wallet identity, capability enforcement, anticipated cap/inbox methods). As NextGraph matures, the app points back at the real SDK (build alias removed) and this package falls away. |
 
-A global-index package is deferred. In NextGraph an identity's apps and services
-see only what it shares, so there is no multi-identity backend. A global index
-would come from a singleton app (a global document administered by the developer),
-which is not implemented and undecided; simpler paths may exist. So there is no
-second package for now — it will be introduced once the global-index mechanism is
-decided, and it will be separate from the client.
+A global-index package is deferred. Data common to all of an application's users comes from a **singleton app**: a document or store shared by all users and hardcoded in the app, write-owned by the developer and delegable — but never to all users, so user contributions reach it **through an inbox** (nothing in NextGraph is freely writable by everyone). That is the direction the NextGraph developer has named; it is **not implemented**, and several points are still open (what exactly is hardcoded, how delegation travels, who materializes the inbox). So there is no second package for now — it will be introduced once the mechanism exists, and it will be separate from the client. See [`docs/nextgraph-current-state.md`](docs/nextgraph-current-state.md) § Apps & services.
 
 ## Design principle
 
diff --git a/docs/decisions/discovery-model.md b/docs/decisions/discovery-model.md
index 7fc12e5..9eb8c4e 100644
--- a/docs/decisions/discovery-model.md
+++ b/docs/decisions/discovery-model.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 >
 > This ADR already recorded the first half of that verdict — *"a dedicated service with its own wallet sharing a freely-readable index is not a NextGraph shape"*, resting on a singleton-app path *"not implemented, uncertain"*. That reservation is now the conclusion.
 >
+> **Amended 2026-08-03 — the singleton-app half must be re-put, not cited as closed.** The NextGraph developer has since named the singleton app as *the* way an application holds data common to all its users: a document or store shared by all users, hardcoded in the app, write-owned by the developer and delegable — never delegated to all users, so user contributions arrive **through an inbox**. Still unimplemented, but no longer uncertain in direction. This does **not** reinstate discovery — the "you cannot discover, you can only follow links" verdict stands on its own footing, and count 2 above is about pooling users' data across wallets, not about an app's own data. What is void is treating "the singleton path is uncertain" as a settled argument. See [`../nextgraph-current-state.md`](../nextgraph-current-state.md) § Apps & services.
+>
 > **`discovery.ts` and its tests were removed on 2026-07-30**, along with `watchShape`'s public-scope fold and `INDEX_ACCOUNT`. See [`../briefs/2026-07-30-virtual-wallet-boundary.md`](../briefs/2026-07-30-virtual-wallet-boundary.md).
 >
 > One factual error below is worth naming so it is not carried into a future design: *"a native inbox (a primitive present on every document)"* is **false**. No document has an inbox upstream — only the public and protected STORE repos do (`engine/verifier/src/site.rs:128,149`; `doc_create` leaves `inbox: None`, `engine/repo/src/repo.rs:574`). See [`../nextgraph-current-state.md`](../nextgraph-current-state.md) § Inbox.
diff --git a/docs/nextgraph-current-state.md b/docs/nextgraph-current-state.md
index 86a3e1b..684ab21 100644
--- a/docs/nextgraph-current-state.md
+++ b/docs/nextgraph-current-state.md
@@ -467,39 +467,37 @@ methods: `doc_subscribe`, `orm_start_graph`, `orm_start_discrete`, `file_get`,
   (`pnpm webfilebuild`). First boot is **interactive** (admin-wallet invitation
   link). Official Dockerfiles are **broken**.
 
-## Apps & services: mono-user, no global data
+## Apps & services: shared app data goes through a hardcoded app store (section rewritten 2026-08-03)
 
-NextGraph's app/service execution model — important because it **invalidates**
-the idea of "a service with its own wallet sharing global data".
+NextGraph's app/service execution model, and the answer to "can an application hold data common to all its users".
 
-> **Provenance: NOT verified against `nextgraph-rs`.** Every other section of this file
-> cites the engine; this one cites nothing, and nothing in the local clone corresponds to
-> it — no app/service runtime, no settings-document type, no singleton notion. It arrived
-> with `bea9f51`, moved wholesale from the consumer app's repo, and its own source (an
-> exchange with the PO, the official docs, or an inference) was not recorded. The
-> conclusion below carries real weight — it is what deferred a global index in this lib —
-> so treat it as **a claim to re-confirm with the PO**, not as an engine fact. Do not
-> extend it, and do not cite it as verified.
+> **Provenance — two layers, do not mix them.** What the **engine** contains is verified below and is vocabulary only. What the **model will be** was stated by the NextGraph developer on 2026-08-03 and is **not implemented**: treat it as the target's declared direction, not as something the clone can confirm. Per [`../README.md`](../README.md)'s design principle, never infer the target's shape from the source's current state — an absent implementation says nothing about the intended one. The previous version of this section drew exactly that inference and concluded the opposite of what the developer states; it has been replaced.
 
-- **Apps AND services are mono-user.** They see only **what the user makes
-  available** to them. There is **no global data** natively, and no central
-  service holding shared data.
-- **Local settings document.** Every app — even a singleton — and every service
-  has a **settings document** the user configures it through.
-- **Multi-instance apps.** A **non-singleton** app can be **instantiated several
-  times** (e.g. a text editor, once per open file).
-- **Singleton apps.** Also **mono-user**, but **bound to a particular user (the
-  developer)**. A singleton app **can hold a global document**, administered by
-  that user.
+**What the engine actually has — types, no behaviour (verified 2026-08-03):**
 
-**Consequence for a "global document" (e.g. a discovery index):** the only path
-glimpsed is a singleton app whose global document is administered by the
-developer-user — though this is not implemented and not guaranteed (simpler
-paths may exist; to explore later). The model that does exist is this
-singleton-app one; a dedicated service with its own wallet sharing a
-freely-readable index is not a NextGraph shape (a service is mono-user, no global
-data). This is why a global-index package is deferred in this lib (see the top-level
-README).
+- `AppManifestV0` (`engine/wallet/src/permissions.rs:113`) carries `nuri`, `origin` (webapps), `singleton: bool`, `access_requests`, `installs` (Viewer / Editor / ReadService / WriteService / Model, keyed by PrimaryClass), `dependencies`, and presentation fields.
+- The JS surface exists: `init(callback, singleton, access_requests)` (`sdk/js/web/src/index.ts:51`) relays `singleton` to the wallet origin by `postMessage`. Every example passes `true`.
+- **Nothing consumes it.** The `permissions` module is declared by `engine/wallet/src/lib.rs:19` and imported by no other crate; `AppManifest` is constructed nowhere; no code reads `singleton`; the surrounding `AccessRequest` / `AccessGrant` machinery is in the same state. There is no app runtime, no app store, no global-document type.
+- The field's doc comment reads `/// cannot create Documents?` — with the question mark, in the source. It is an open design note, and the developer's statement below settles it the other way. Do not treat it as the semantics.
+- **A second, published gloss of the same flag disagrees with that doc comment, and it is the one that matches the developer's statement.** `sdk/js/web/README.md:90,108` annotates the argument as *"will your app create many docs in the system, or should it be launched as a unique instance"* — i.e. `singleton` is about **instance multiplicity**, not about being forbidden to create documents. That is consistent with "a singleton app can also manage ordinary per-user documents" below, and it is the reading to carry. Both README examples pass `true`.
+- Unrelated homonyms, so a grep does not mislead: singleton *commits* (`engine/repo/`), the broker singleton (`engine/net/src/broker.rs`), Oxigraph's `empty_singleton` (SPARQL optimiser).
+
+**The declared model (NextGraph developer, 2026-08-03 — not implemented):**
+
+- A singleton app can **also** manage ordinary per-user documents, i.e. cover what a non-singleton app does. When both modes are needed, declaring one app as singleton is enough — there is no need for two apps.
+- Centralized data for an application takes the form of a **document, or a store, shared by all its users and hardcoded in the app**.
+- The **app's developer holds the write rights** on the app's documents and stores, and can **delegate** them.
+- Delegation is **never to all users**. User contributions reach app-owned data **through an inbox** — this is NextGraph's general model, in which nothing is freely writable by everyone.
+
+**Reading of the last point, since it decides the shape of any index:** an app-owned index is not a place users write to. It is a document they can read (its NURI being hardcoded) and **deposit into**, with an authority derived from the developer materializing the deposits — the same deposit-then-materialize shape the inbox already imposes elsewhere, moved up to the app level.
+
+**Open questions to put to the developer before designing on this:**
+
+- What exactly is hardcoded — the store's or document's NURI, and does that carry the read capability?
+- How is write delegation transmitted, and is it revocable?
+- Who processes the app store's inbox: an instance running with the developer's rights, a service, something else? A deposit nobody materializes is not an index.
+
+**Bearing on [`decisions/discovery-model.md`](decisions/discovery-model.md):** that ADR's superseding block leans in part on the singleton-app path being "not implemented, uncertain". The path is still not implemented, but it is no longer uncertain in direction — the developer names it as *the* way to hold data common to all users. That does not reinstate discovery: the "you cannot discover, you can only follow links" verdict rests on its own footing (the PO, 2026-07-30). It does mean the *singleton-app* half of that reasoning must be re-put rather than cited as closed.
 
 ## Third-party wallet auto-import constraint