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@@ -59,7 +59,27 @@ so attempting it produces *more* information than skipping it.
 applied. That is a different thing — *this machine could not do it* against *this was never a
 declaration* — and they are fixed in different places.

+### And one shape still stops what follows, which the first fix got wrong
+
+**An action does.** The first version of this fix continued past everything, and the next lab run
+failed at the bootstrap: the store did not answer in three minutes and then said *the database
+system is shutting down*. Carrying on past the readiness gate had started the broker and the
+control plane against a machine that was not ready, and on a small machine that is how a database
+still initialising has its memory taken away.
+
+**An action is the only shape whose purpose is to make something true *before* the next thing needs
+it** — which is why it is the only one with a `verify`. The bootstrap is a row of them: the store
+answers, then its databases exist, then their schemas, then the broker. Everything else is
+independent state: a package that will not install has nothing to do with a file on the other side
+of the declaration.
+
+So the rule is: **a failed action stops what follows; nothing else does.** Both faults are fixed by
+it, and the report says which happened — *these things failed* and *these things failed and the
+rest was never tried* are different machines.
+
 ## How this is checked

-`internal/apply`: an apply with a resource that cannot succeed still applies the ones after it,
-reports every failure, and says how many. Confirmed to fail if the loop stops at the first.
+`internal/apply`, three tests: an apply with a resource that cannot succeed still applies the ones
+after it; every failure is counted, not just the first; and a failed **action** stops what follows
+and says so. Each confirmed to fail when its behaviour is removed — including the last, which fails
+if actions stop being treated as gates *and* if everything is treated as one.