diff --git a/02-DECISIONS/0162-a-merge-produces-a-tiered-plan-the-mesh-keeps.md b/02-DECISIONS/0162-a-merge-produces-a-tiered-plan-the-mesh-keeps.md
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--- a/02-DECISIONS/0162-a-merge-produces-a-tiered-plan-the-mesh-keeps.md
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@@ -38,7 +38,25 @@ kind of dependency on it: `stands-on` (the module's artifact is built on the oth
 module's build reads the other's repository), `built-by` (the module is built by the holder of the
 build-machine seat), and `declared` (a manifest's `build.on`). The relation is answered by one query
 of the catalogue — the controller's inventory today, the catalogue seat's tool when something outside
-the controller needs it — and nothing else computes an edge.
+the controller needs it — and nothing else computes an edge. The edges are derived from facts
+recorded at two moments and written by nobody: registration records the manifest (`declared`, and
+`built-by` for anything with a source), a build's take-in records what the image was built on and
+which repositories it read (`stands-on`, `packages`). A module's first build places it by its
+declared edges alone; from its second it is placed by what was true.
+
+**The kinds are three dependencies, not one.** A *code* dependency — B packages A's source — means
+B is rebuilt whenever A changes, in the same tier: B's build needs nothing of A's first. A *build*
+dependency — B stands on A's artifact, or declares it — means B is rebuilt after A is *built*, the
+next tier, and nothing need be deployed in between. A *runtime* dependency — B is built by A — means
+B is rebuilt only after A is built *and running*, the next tier with a gate on the machines' reports.
+One cycle is real and resolved by the kinds themselves: the runtime image is built by the build
+machine, and the build machine stands on the runtime image; the image comes first, built by the
+build machine that is running, which is the only one there could be — a `built-by` edge never orders
+a module after a build machine that stands on it. A provision is not a dependency of this relation:
+a consumer binds to its provider through what the push renders, and a change to the provider's image
+changes nothing in the consumer's; a consumer whose build does read a provider's source declares it.
+"A was deployed, so restart B" is the push's domain — B is replaced when what it reads changed — and
+not the plan's.
 
 **2. A merge produces a plan, and the plan is a record.** The controller takes the modules the merge
 changed and everything reachable from them along `depends-on` edges, and sorts that set into tiers:
@@ -50,8 +68,8 @@ outcome in, advances the plan it belongs to; a controller replaced mid-plan resu
 **3. A tier is done when it is built, and when what the next tier needs from it is running.** A
 module whose roll-out policy says *roll out* is sent to its machines when it moves, as today. The next
 tier is asked only once every module in this tier is built and every rolled-out module of this tier
-that a later tier is `built-by` or `packages` has been applied by the machines running it — the
-machines' reports say so. A module whose policy says *record* is built and not waited for. So a merge
+that a later tier is `built-by` has been applied by the machines running it — the machines' reports
+say so. A module whose policy says *record* is built and not waited for. So a merge
 touching the build machine and the controller builds the build machine, waits until it is the build
 machine that is running, and only then asks for the controller's build.
 
@@ -78,7 +96,8 @@ A plan that has waited past a bound is named red there, which is the first fact
 | Rule | Checked by |
 |---|---|
 | Dependencies are one relation, each edge with its kind | an inventory test over a fixture catalogue: a runtime image, a module on it, a module packaging the controller's source, and the build machine; the four kinds come back from one call |
-| A merge's set is sorted into tiers, each depending only on earlier ones | a unit test on the tiering: the runtime, a module on it, a plugin on that, and an unrelated module left out |
+| A merge's set is sorted into tiers along the three kinds: a code dependency in the same tier, a build dependency after its base is built, a runtime dependency after the build machine; the build machine's own base first | a unit test on the tiering over the mesh's real shape: the runtime image, the build machine on it, modules built by it, a plugin declared on one, the proxy packaging the controller, an unrelated module left out; a cycle is one last tier and said |
+| Only a runtime dependency gates on deployment, and only for a module that rolls out | the same test's gate cases |
 | The plan is written before any build is asked, and the handler returns | a controller test: a merge announcement produces a plan row with its tiers and one asked build per tier-0 module, and the handler is back before any outcome |
 | An outcome advances its plan; a complete tier asks the next; a tier with a rolled-out base waits for the machines' reports | store-backed tests over a two-tier plan: the first outcome marks built; the tier's roll-out gate holds until the report; the next tier is asked after |
 | A controller restarted mid-plan resumes it | a test that opens a plan, drops the handler, and advances from the store alone |