diff --git a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/38-building-the-operators-machine.md b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/38-building-the-operators-machine.md
index e3b4134..ba5ba8a 100644
--- a/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/38-building-the-operators-machine.md
+++ b/03-DESIGN/01-to-be/38-building-the-operators-machine.md
@@ -201,7 +201,13 @@ broker per node. Two things the package did not say, settled in the module: the
 run through `sudo` without a prompt where the runtime is not root, since the operator's account may
 escalate as the operator would; and a bundle has no environment of its own, so the tool reads the
 filter from the path the manifest's `filtering` names rather than from a variable the container used
-to carry.
+to carry, a test holding the two together. Three things a review of the change found: the module's
+own bus credential and state directory went with the container, since nothing reads them once the
+runtime speaks with the node's (the shell module of WP5 declares neither); the `iptables` package the
+image used to carry is now declared on the host; and that the operator's account may escalate without
+a prompt is a fact about the machine the mesh neither declares nor checks — true on all four today,
+and when it is not, the tool names it by how it failed, which is the only check there is until a
+record says where the fact belongs.
 
 ## WP5 — The shell, on a server first