diff --git a/03-DESIGN/00-as-is/13-the-console.md b/03-DESIGN/00-as-is/13-the-console.md
index c24d94b..c45170b 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/00-as-is/13-the-console.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/00-as-is/13-the-console.md
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ The console asks the `mesh-controller` seat's `tools` verb beside the modules an
 tools as `<seat>.<verb>` — `mesh-controller.status`, `mesh-controller.push` and the other ten. A call
 to `<prefix>.<name>` reaches the seat when the prefix is a seat declaring that verb, and the module
 otherwise; `seat:<seat>.<verb>` says so outright. When the control plane does not answer, the list
-names `mesh-controller (seat)` as not answering and carries the modules' tools regardless.
+names `mesh-controller (seat)` as not answering and carries the modules' tools regardless. The
+`mesh-controller` *module* is always named as not answering: it serves no module tools, only its seat's.
 
 ## Around it
 
diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/33-the-tools-the-mesh-answers.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/33-the-tools-the-mesh-answers.md
index 9e0d28a..e1215ac 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/33-the-tools-the-mesh-answers.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/33-the-tools-the-mesh-answers.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 layer: to-be
-status: in-progress
+status: implemented
 code: [mesh-controller, mesh-tools]
 updated: 2026-09-30
 decisions:
@@ -139,6 +139,24 @@ verb answers every seat's tools from the records, because the console cannot rea
 console lists a role's tools beside the modules' own and resolves `<seat>.<verb>` to the seat when the
 seat declares that verb. Which verbs each *other* seat serves stays a decision per seat, still untaken.
 
+## What shipped, 2026-09-30
+
+mesh-controller PRs 166 and 167, mesh-tools PR 21. Verified on the live mesh the same evening: the
+console on a workstation lists the twelve verbs as `mesh-controller.<verb>` beside 67 module tools, and
+`mesh-controller.nodes` and `mesh-controller.status` answer through it with what the commands print.
+
+Two things shipped bent. **The grant arrived after the holder started**: the controller composes the
+bus's user list and a push delivers it, so the first controller to serve its seat subscribed before
+the broker's list named the grant, the server refused all twelve subscriptions, and the client never
+retried — a holder now rebinds a refused subscription every thirty seconds (PR 167), and a controller
+roll-out that adds a grant is followed by a push to the broker node. **A JSON verb's answer was parsed
+from both output streams**, so `status --json`'s warnings hid the document as data; the answer is now
+parsed from standard output alone (mesh-controller PR 168, pending). The `output` field carried it
+either way.
+
+What stays as designed and not built: which verbs any *other* seat serves, and §3 for module-declared
+seats' schemas beyond the names their manifests already list.
+
 ## What this does not settle
 
 - Which verbs each seat should serve. That is a decision per seat, and the reason to do it slowly: a