diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0240-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy-and-the-node-engine-judges-it.md b/02-DECISIONS/0240-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy-and-the-node-engine-judges-it.md
index c4fd56b0..1eba9012 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0240-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy-and-the-node-engine-judges-it.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0240-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy-and-the-node-engine-judges-it.md
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ that provision's provider for this consumer is unhealthy on the record, the cons
 the provider's condition — listed there as waiting on it, raised as nothing of its own — and the consumer's
 gate waits rather than fails. What a consumer finds while its provider is healthy is its own.
 
+> **The mechanism changed — 2026-10-11, by [ADR 0292](0292-a-consumer-of-the-part-a-provider-waits-on-is-held-under-the-wait-and-passes-its-gate-as-a-wait-for-a-person.md).** The hold under an unhealthy provider, and its consumer's gate
+> waiting, stand. A provider that only waits for the operator (ADR 0283) now holds the consumers of a provision one
+> of its waits covers, listed at its `needs-operator` condition, which stays a warning; their gate passes as a wait
+> for a person, carrying the wait. A consumer no wait covers is said on its own.
+
 **6. Nothing is restarted for being unhealthy.** The runtime restarts what exits, as now. A condition
 reaches a person through the operator's conversation, or a healer; a healer that restarts on health is its
 own decision.
diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0283-a-part-that-waits-for-the-operators-secret-or-setting-is-said-as-waiting-passes-the-first-node-gate-and-names-the-act.md b/02-DECISIONS/0283-a-part-that-waits-for-the-operators-secret-or-setting-is-said-as-waiting-passes-the-first-node-gate-and-names-the-act.md
index 90d9b0a5..4bebbcff 100644
--- a/02-DECISIONS/0283-a-part-that-waits-for-the-operators-secret-or-setting-is-said-as-waiting-passes-the-first-node-gate-and-names-the-act.md
+++ b/02-DECISIONS/0283-a-part-that-waits-for-the-operators-secret-or-setting-is-said-as-waiting-passes-the-first-node-gate-and-names-the-act.md
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ named exactly, once. Nothing here conflicts with GENESIS.
    that reason. The type, its constructors and its reader are mesh-sdk's (`go/health`), so the module and
    the node-engine read one shape; an answer without `state` is read from `healthy` as before.
 
+   > **The mechanism changed — 2026-10-11, by [ADR 0292](0292-a-consumer-of-the-part-a-provider-waits-on-is-held-under-the-wait-and-passes-its-gate-as-a-wait-for-a-person.md).** The three answers stand. Which consumers a waiting module
+   > holds is now read from its waits: a wait covers a provision when its `part` is that provision's name, or when
+   > the secret it waits for is the provision's shared credential; a wait that covers nothing holds no consumer.
+
 2. **The node-engine states such a resource `waiting`**, a fifth state beside healthy, unhealthy,
    starting, held and unknown (ADR 0240 §4), with its waits. One look that says it is enough, inside the
    grace too: it is a statement, not a flake that a second look might not repeat. The next look that says
diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/48-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/48-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy.md
index 59be9292..711593e4 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/48-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/48-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy.md
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 layer: to-be
 status: in-progress
 code: [mesh-host, mesh-controller, mesh-lab, mesh-catalog, mesh-sdk]
-updated: 2026-10-10
+updated: 2026-10-11
 decisions:
+  - 02-DECISIONS/0292-a-consumer-of-the-part-a-provider-waits-on-is-held-under-the-wait-and-passes-its-gate-as-a-wait-for-a-person.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0283-a-part-that-waits-for-the-operators-secret-or-setting-is-said-as-waiting-passes-the-first-node-gate-and-names-the-act.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0254-a-wait-for-a-persons-new-login-is-not-a-gates-failure-and-each-module-of-a-send-keeps-its-own-pass.md
   - 02-DECISIONS/0240-a-module-says-how-it-is-healthy-and-the-node-engine-judges-it.md
@@ -218,6 +219,20 @@ condition is open:
  P healthy again      ─► held findings released: a consumer still failing is now its own
 ```
 
+**A provider that only waits for the operator holds the consumers of the part it waits for**
+([ADR 0292](../../02-DECISIONS/0292-a-consumer-of-the-part-a-provider-waits-on-is-held-under-the-wait-and-passes-its-gate-as-a-wait-for-a-person.md),
+issue 405). A wait covers a provision when its `part` is that provision's name, or when the secret it waits for is
+the provision's shared credential:
+
+```
+ provider P waits     ─► module.P.<machine>.needs-operator   (a warning, whoever waits on it)
+                           evidence: waiting on it — consumer A
+ consumer A failing,  ─► no condition of its own; its gate passes as a wait for a person,
+   its provision covered     carrying P's wait
+ consumer B failing,  ─► module.B.<machine>.unhealthy, saying P waits, but not for anything B
+   no wait covers it         is known to need
+```
+
 What a consumer finds while its provider is healthy, or by a check that names no provision, is its own.
 A machine-level condition is never pinned on a module
 ([issue 281](../../04-ISSUES/281-a-tier-sent-one-module-at-a-time-blamed-a-module-for-its-machine/00-report.md)).