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@@ -104,11 +104,15 @@ names what its artifacts are and nothing has made them.
 So installing continues:
-**The builder arrives.** It is a module like any other and is assigned to a machine like any other,
+**The builder arrives, and installing is what brings it.** It is a module like any other and is
-but it cannot be built by the thing it is — see
+assigned to a machine like any other, but it cannot be built by the thing it is — see
 [`12-a-module-repository`](12-a-module-repository.md#the-three-the-loop-cannot-build-and-there-are-only-three).
-**How it arrives is unsettled**, and it is the one gap that stops everything after this paragraph
+So it is carried, and it is already here: it is what built the control plane. The last step of
-from being possible on a machine nobody is sitting at.
+installing publishes it into the mesh's own registry, installs it as an ordinary module pinned to
 that digest, and issues it a broker account — the same two acts the control plane went through,
 plus the one thing only a builder needs. The account is issued before the machine is sent anything,
 because a builder that arrives without its credential starts, finds nothing it may read, and waits,
 which looks exactly like a builder with no work.
 **The core modules are built.** Each is named by a repository and a path
 ([ADR 0069](../../02-DECISIONS/0069-a-module-is-a-repository-and-a-path.md)), and the builder is
@@ -159,11 +163,10 @@ needs a toolchain and a working tree, which is most of the burden the installer
 **A mesh cannot say how it was raised.** Nothing afterwards can contradict a claim that a machine
 was brought up the supported way, so the rule that it must be is, today, unenforced.
-**The builder's own module is not installed by genesis.** The installer carries a builder and uses
+**Nothing asks for the core modules yet.** Installing ends with a builder that works — a raised
-it, so a fresh mesh is raised on something it built; but nothing afterwards installs that builder as
+machine will build the shared base and a module on top of it when asked — and nothing asks. The
-an ordinary module on the machine, so the mesh cannot yet be asked to build anything else. The
+paragraphs above describing the catalogue being built are a thing somebody now types, rather than a
-paragraphs above describing the core modules being built can start now — a builder exists and has
+thing that cannot happen.
 somewhere to publish — and nothing yet starts them.
 **A module's declaration still has to be copied onto the machine by hand.** The installer reads the
 registry's and the control plane's manifests from a checkout somebody put there. The control plane's
@@ -184,7 +187,7 @@ pulling problem, not a genesis one.
 | Every step may be run again | The installer is re-run against a raised machine and must change nothing and report why. |
 | An image is named exactly | A machine refuses a bundle naming an image by tag. The refusal is exercised, not assumed. |
 | The installer is what installed this | **Nothing.** See above. |
-| The builder can arrive on a fresh mesh | The installer carries it, and the genesis bed raises a machine by running the installer. A bed that raises one any other way fails its own acceptance check. |
+| The builder can arrive on a fresh mesh | The installer carries it and installs it as its last step, and the genesis bed raises a machine by running the installer. A bed that raises one any other way fails its own acceptance check. |
 | The control plane a mesh runs is one it built | The genesis bed asserts the running control plane is pinned to a digest this mesh's own registry serves, for an image built from a named repository and commit — not one the installer carried. |
 | A core module is built rather than only carried | The control plane is rebuilt from its own repository and path, and the running mesh is upgraded to the result — the same path any module takes. |
-| Installing produced a mesh that can produce | After installing, a module with source of its own is asked for and comes back pinned to a digest this mesh's registry assigned, not to a placeholder. |
+| Installing produced a mesh that can produce | A module with source of its own is asked for and comes back pinned to a digest this mesh's registry assigned, not to a placeholder. **Done by hand on a raised machine, not yet by a bed** — it built the shared base and then a module naming that base. Nothing automated asserts it, which makes this the weakest check on this page. |