diff --git a/.claude/agents/mesh-developer.md b/.claude/agents/mesh-developer.md
index 3172e873..bb740360 100644
--- a/.claude/agents/mesh-developer.md
+++ b/.claude/agents/mesh-developer.md
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ When the change touches any `module.json`, in any repository, run the manifest v
 program `cmd/mesh-judge` in the indexer's module, built at mesh-delivery's trunk, or at the change's mesh-delivery
 head when that head changes the validator itself (then the indexer's own manifest is also validated at the trunk).
 Give it raw manifests, not digests: the trunk's, with the change's laid over them, as the two cases `change` and
-`trunk` the checker's `judgeRequest` names, with the predefined key list when the change alters it. The merge check
-fails a changed manifest the validator refuses or holds, and also an unchanged one in which the change causes a
+`trunk` the checker's `judgeRequest` names, with one predefined key list for both cases, always: the change's when it alters that
+list, else the trunk's. The merge check fails a changed manifest the validator refuses or holds,
+and also an unchanged one in which the change causes a
 problem the trunk case lacks; it says so only after a full build, and no module's unit tests run the validator.
 Report every manifest whose verdict differs between the two cases, with your heads. The reviewer asks for those
 verdicts, and a head reported without them is not reviewed.