diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0290-a-decision-record-lives-whole-in-the-knowledge-base-made-of-clauses.md b/02-DECISIONS/0290-a-decision-record-lives-whole-in-the-knowledge-base-made-of-clauses.md
index fca2d360..11393a8b 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0290-a-decision-record-lives-whole-in-the-knowledge-base-made-of-clauses.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0290-a-decision-record-lives-whole-in-the-knowledge-base-made-of-clauses.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ extends: 02-DECISIONS/0153-the-record-is-read-by-a-module-and-the-console-lists-
 > version. It is in this repository's history at commit `08b1077b`.
 
 > **Updated — 2026-10-11, on the operator's word.** Rule 9 left open whether this repository keeps a generated
-> public copy of accepted records (issue 435). The operator answered: no copy is needed. Rule 9 and the consequences
+> public copy of accepted decision records and research efforts (issue 435). The operator answered: no copy is needed. Rule 9 and the consequences
 > say so.
 
 ## Context
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ rule 8 already decided that the issue tracker hands out decision and research nu
 - Until the first slice takes writes, records are still written here as pull requests, with numbered clauses, and the
   import takes them in with the rest.
 - What got harder: one more module the mesh's own process depends on. Reading or writing a decision needs the mesh to
-  be reachable; a node that cannot reach the control-node says so rather than guessing. The public repository no
-  longer shows the mesh's decisions or research.
+  be reachable; a node that cannot reach the control-node says so rather than guessing. Once the records leave it
+  (issue 426), the public repository no longer shows the mesh's decisions or research.
 
 ## How it is checked
 
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0291-an-issue-lives-whole-in-the-issue-tracker.md b/02-DECISIONS/0291-an-issue-lives-whole-in-the-issue-tracker.md
index 91cb80e3..b30ce07c 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0291-an-issue-lives-whole-in-the-issue-tracker.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0291-an-issue-lives-whole-in-the-issue-tracker.md
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ supersedes-in-part:
 
 # 291. An issue lives whole in the issue tracker
 
+> **Updated — 2026-10-11, on the operator's word.** The context and consequences said decision records stay readable
+> in this public repository, then that this was open (issue 435). The operator answered that no copy of the decision
+> records is kept here once they leave it ([ADR 0290](0290-a-decision-record-lives-whole-in-the-knowledge-base-made-of-clauses.md)),
+> and both sentences say so.
+
 ## Context
 
 [ADR 0275](0275-the-mesh-numbers-and-tracks-its-issues-in-a-module-of-its-own-and-hq-keeps-only-the-narrative-of-a-design-or-governance-issue.md)