diff --git a/apps/web/src/agents-api.ts b/apps/web/src/agents-api.ts
index 7f48c1759..263bc3eb4 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/agents-api.ts
+++ b/apps/web/src/agents-api.ts
@@ -289,18 +289,3 @@ export function useDeployAgentMutation(tenantId: string) {
     },
   });
 }
-
-// The guided capability-add surface: only what this tenant actually has.
-const CapabilityInventoryWire = type({
-  toolPackages: type({ name: "string" }).array(),
-  skills: type({ name: "string" }).array(),
-  models: type({ canonicalName: "string" }).array(),
-});
-export type CapabilityInventory = typeof CapabilityInventoryWire.infer;
-
-export function listCapabilityInventory(tenantId: string): Promise<CapabilityInventory> {
-  return getJSON(
-    `/api/tenants/${tenantId}/agent-definitions/capabilities/inventory`,
-    CapabilityInventoryWire,
-  );
-}
diff --git a/apps/web/src/pages/tools-page.tsx b/apps/web/src/pages/tools-page.tsx
index 178221fd5..8692deabd 100644
--- a/apps/web/src/pages/tools-page.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/src/pages/tools-page.tsx
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-// Tools: a standalone rail destination listing what this tenant can call —
-// Interchange tool packages, read from the same capability inventory the
-// Agents detail view's "Add a capability" picker already uses
-// (`listCapabilityInventory`, `packages/agent-directory`'s package-registry
-// read). There is no connect flow here: pinning a tool package to an agent
-// happens on that agent's own detail page. No stock route lists a tenant's
-// MCP servers yet, so this page has nothing to show for those until one
-// exists.
+// Tools: a standalone rail destination listing the tool packages this
+// tenant has published into its own registry — the same
+// `corbits-tools` package-registry asset `registry-publish.ts` writes to.
+// No stock route lists a tenant's MCP servers yet, so this page has
+// nothing to show for those until one exists.
 
 import {
   PageShell,
@@ -17,46 +14,19 @@ import {
   TableHeader,
   TableRow,
 } from "@corbits/react-ui";
+import { QueryView } from "@/lib/api-query";
 import { Plugs } from "@/lib/icons";
-import { WorkbenchLoadingState } from "@/chat";
-import { useCallback, useEffect, useState } from "react";
 
-import { listCapabilityInventory, type CapabilityInventory } from "../agents-api";
+import { useToolPackages } from "../tools/registry-read";
 import { useBench } from "../bench-context";
 import { StageTopBar } from "../shell/stage-top-bar";
 
-type ToolsState =
-  | { readonly status: "loading" }
-  | { readonly status: "ready"; readonly inventory: CapabilityInventory }
-  | { readonly status: "error"; readonly message: string };
-
-function messageOf(cause: unknown): string {
-  return cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause);
-}
-
 /**
- * The tenant's installed tool packages, over the same capability inventory
- * the Agents detail view reads. `tenantId` is the tenant every read is
- * scoped to.
+ * The tenant's published tool packages, read off the stock registry asset.
+ * `tenantId` is the tenant every read is scoped to.
  */
 export function ToolsPage({ tenantId }: { readonly tenantId: string | null }) {
-  const [state, setState] = useState<ToolsState>({ status: "loading" });
-
-  const reload = useCallback(async () => {
-    if (tenantId === null) return;
-    setState({ status: "loading" });
-    try {
-      const inventory = await listCapabilityInventory(tenantId);
-      setState({ status: "ready", inventory });
-    } catch (cause) {
-      setState({ status: "error", message: messageOf(cause) });
-    }
-  }, [tenantId]);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    void reload();
-  }, [reload]);
-
+  const query = useToolPackages(tenantId);
   const crumbs = [{ label: "Tools" }];
 
   function stage(body: React.ReactNode) {
@@ -78,56 +48,43 @@ export function ToolsPage({ tenantId }: { readonly tenantId: string | null }) {
     );
   }
 
-  if (state.status === "loading") {
-    return stage(<WorkbenchLoadingState title="Loading tools…" />);
-  }
-
-  if (state.status === "error") {
-    return stage(
-      <RichEmptyState
-        icon={<Plugs />}
-        title="Couldn't load your tools"
-        description="Something went wrong on our side. Try again in a moment."
-        actions={[{ label: "Retry", onClick: () => void reload() }]}
-      />,
-    );
-  }
-
-  const { toolPackages } = state.inventory;
-
-  if (toolPackages.length === 0) {
-    return stage(
-      <RichEmptyState
-        icon={<Plugs />}
-        title="No tools yet"
-        description="A tool package gives every agent in this workbench a new capability. Install one to see it here."
-      />,
-    );
-  }
-
   return stage(
-    <div className="px-4 pb-5 sm:px-7">
-      <Table aria-label="Tools">
-        <TableHeader>
-          <TableRow>
-            <TableHead>Tool package</TableHead>
-          </TableRow>
-        </TableHeader>
-        <TableBody>
-          {toolPackages.map((tool) => (
-            <TableRow key={tool.name}>
-              <TableCell className="font-medium">{tool.name}</TableCell>
-            </TableRow>
-          ))}
-        </TableBody>
-      </Table>
-    </div>,
+    <QueryView query={query} label="your tools" skeleton="rows">
+      {(toolPackages) =>
+        toolPackages.length === 0 ? (
+          <RichEmptyState
+            icon={<Plugs />}
+            title="No tools yet"
+            description="A tool package gives every agent in this workbench a new capability. Publish one to see it here."
+          />
+        ) : (
+          <div className="px-4 pb-5 sm:px-7">
+            <Table aria-label="Tools">
+              <TableHeader>
+                <TableRow>
+                  <TableHead>Tool package</TableHead>
+                  <TableHead>Version</TableHead>
+                </TableRow>
+              </TableHeader>
+              <TableBody>
+                {toolPackages.map((tool) => (
+                  <TableRow key={tool.filename}>
+                    <TableCell className="font-medium">{tool.name}</TableCell>
+                    <TableCell className="text-muted-foreground">{tool.version}</TableCell>
+                  </TableRow>
+                ))}
+              </TableBody>
+            </Table>
+          </div>
+        )
+      }
+    </QueryView>,
   );
 }
 
 /**
  * Tools roster mount at `/tools`: a thin adapter that resolves which
- * workbench's inventory is listed. The stage chrome lives on `ToolsPage`.
+ * workbench's registry is listed. The stage chrome lives on `ToolsPage`.
  */
 export function ToolsRoute() {
   const { selectedTenantId } = useBench();
diff --git a/apps/web/src/tools/registry-read.ts b/apps/web/src/tools/registry-read.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ff0cfce4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/src/tools/registry-read.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+// Reads the tenant's published tool packages back off the stock registry
+// surface `registry-publish.ts` writes to: the `corbits-tools`
+// package-registry asset's tarball listing. There is no packument route —
+// a tarball entry is only ever `<name>-<version>.tgz` (see
+// `tarballFilenameFor` in `./registry-publish.ts`) — so name/version are
+// recovered from the filename and nothing further (description, declared
+// tools) is available without unpacking the tarball itself.
+
+import { type } from "arktype";
+import { useQuery } from "@tanstack/react-query";
+
+import { ApiQueryError, UnauthenticatedError, toAPIQuery, type APIQuery } from "@/lib/api-query";
+
+const AssetListShape = type({ id: "string", name: "string" }).array();
+const TarballListShape = type({ filename: "string", size: "number", integrity: "string" }).array();
+
+export type ToolPackage = {
+  readonly filename: string;
+  readonly name: string;
+  readonly version: string;
+};
+
+// Mirrors `tarballFilenameFor`: `<name-without-@-scope-slash>-<semver>.tgz`.
+const TARBALL_NAME_PATTERN = /^(.+)-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+(?:[-+][0-9A-Za-z.-]+)?)\.tgz$/;
+
+function parseTarballFilename(filename: string): ToolPackage | null {
+  const match = TARBALL_NAME_PATTERN.exec(filename);
+  if (match?.[1] === undefined || match[2] === undefined) return null;
+  return { filename, name: match[1], version: match[2] };
+}
+
+async function getJSON<T>(path: string, schema: (data: unknown) => T | type.errors): Promise<T> {
+  let response: Response;
+  try {
+    response = await fetch(path, { headers: { accept: "application/json" } });
+  } catch (cause) {
+    throw new ApiQueryError(
+      cause instanceof Error ? cause.message : String(cause),
+      undefined,
+      path,
+    );
+  }
+  if (response.status === 401) throw new UnauthenticatedError();
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    throw new ApiQueryError(`The server answered ${response.status}.`, response.status, path);
+  }
+  const parsed = schema(await response.json().catch(() => undefined));
+  if (parsed instanceof type.errors) {
+    throw new ApiQueryError(`Unexpected response shape: ${parsed.summary}`, undefined, path);
+  }
+  return parsed;
+}
+
+/** Every tarball published across the tenant's own package-registry assets
+ * (`inherited=false`: a tool package published to an ancestor tenant is
+ * that ancestor's own concern, not this bench's roster). */
+async function listToolPackages(tenantId: string): Promise<readonly ToolPackage[]> {
+  const registries = await getJSON(
+    `/api/tenants/${tenantId}/assets?kind=package-registry&inherited=false`,
+    AssetListShape,
+  );
+  const perRegistry = await Promise.all(
+    registries.map((registry) =>
+      getJSON(
+        `/api/tenants/${tenantId}/assets/${encodeURIComponent(registry.id)}/tarballs`,
+        TarballListShape,
+      ),
+    ),
+  );
+  return perRegistry
+    .flat()
+    .map((tarball) => parseTarballFilename(tarball.filename))
+    .filter((pkg): pkg is ToolPackage => pkg !== null);
+}
+
+/** The tenant's published tool packages, for the Tools page. */
+export function useToolPackages(tenantId: string | null): APIQuery<readonly ToolPackage[]> {
+  const result = useQuery({
+    queryKey: ["tenant", tenantId ?? "none", "tools", "packages"] as const,
+    enabled: tenantId !== null,
+    queryFn: () => listToolPackages(tenantId as string),
+  });
+  return toAPIQuery(result);
+}