diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md
index c77fd7d..feef773 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/05-the-node-host.md
@@ -163,19 +163,26 @@ what it is. No control plane, no declarations, no network. Verifiable immediatel
 the first node's path, and it is the claim the skeleton's Move 1 rests on and has never proved:
 that one host can raise the substrate alone.
 
-Raising the substrate needs six shapes in the host's vocabulary, and stage 2 built three:
+Raising the substrate needs six shapes in the host's vocabulary, and **all six are built**:
 
-| | |
-|---|---|
-| `directory`, `file`, `service` | **built** |
-| `package` | a container runtime must exist before a container can run |
-| `container` | pulled by digest ([ADR 0046](../../02-DECISIONS/0046-the-installer-fetches-what-it-pins.md)) |
-| `action` | provisioning steps the bundle declares and the host verifies ([ADR 0047](../../02-DECISIONS/0047-the-bundle-may-carry-actions-the-link-may-not.md)) |
+| | | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `directory`, `file`, `service` | **built** | the first three |
+| `package` | **built** | present, never upgraded, and **never uninstalled** — the host cannot know what else needs it, so dropping one is *forgotten*, not *removed* |
+| `container` | **built** | pinned by digest ([ADR 0046](../../02-DECISIONS/0046-the-installer-fetches-what-it-pins.md)); identified by a label carrying a digest of the declaration that made it, because a runtime normalises what it is given and that is indistinguishable from drift |
+| `action` | **built** | bundle-only ([ADR 0047](../../02-DECISIONS/0047-the-bundle-may-carry-actions-the-link-may-not.md)); verify is mandatory and is the idempotency check as well as the read-back |
 
-The lab cannot yet exercise the last three: a scenario is a closed address space, so nothing can
-be fetched there, and its machines carry no container runtime. That is lab-installation work
-([`04-lab-installation.md`](04-lab-installation.md)) rather than a constraint on the design —
-production machines have a network.
+**The parser enforces the boundary rather than the caller remembering it.** `Parse` refuses an
+action and is what the link uses; `ParseTrusted` permits one and is what the bundle uses. The
+safe path is the default and the permissive one has to be named.
+
+**The lab still cannot exercise the last three**, and that is now the only thing in the way: a
+scenario is a closed address space, so nothing can be fetched there, and its machines carry no
+container runtime. All three were instead verified against a real machine — a container created,
+labelled, replaced when its declaration changed, exec'd into and removed; an action that exits
+zero and satisfies nothing failing the apply. That is lab-installation work
+([`04-lab-installation.md`](04-lab-installation.md)) rather than a constraint on the design, but
+until it is done the substrate bootstrap has no end-to-end test.
 
 **3 — link and store.** The node connects, receives declarations, and holds what it applied.
 
diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/07-the-substrate.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/07-the-substrate.md
index 216ae21..be0ddea 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/07-the-substrate.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/07-the-substrate.md
@@ -142,8 +142,9 @@ not a container. It is:
   [ADR 0046](../../02-DECISIONS/0046-the-installer-fetches-what-it-pins.md).
 
 So the host's bootstrap vocabulary is six shapes: **package**, **container**, **file**,
-**directory**, **service**, and **action**. Files, directories and services exist; the rest do
-not yet.
+**directory**, **service**, and **action**. **All six are built**
+([`05-the-node-host.md`](05-the-node-host.md) stage 2), so nothing in this bootstrap is
+blocked on the host any longer.
 
 **Steps 2 and 3 happen before there is a mesh to do them**, which is why provisioning is part of
 the bootstrap rather than a service consumers use later. They are **actions** the bundle