diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_integration_test.go
index 82503a3b..bfff720c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_integration_test.go
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import (
 // member, then both pass, the build with GOPROXY=off.
 func TestRealFetchAndBuildOfAMemberPinningAPullHead(t *testing.T) {
 	// Not skipped when a tool is missing: a pass of the check must mean this test ran (the check prints no test log).
-	for _, tool := range []string{"go", "git", "bwrap"} { // bwrap: the build runs shut off (1309)
+	for _, tool := range []string{"go", "git"} {
 		if _, err := exec.LookPath(tool); err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("no %s where this check runs: the pin on a pull request's head cannot be proven", tool)
 		}
@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ func TestRealFetchAndBuildOfAMemberPinningAPullHead(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(m.Work, res.Workspace, "pinned", "dep@"+head, "beside", "dep", "go", "dep.go")); err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("the pull request's repository was not placed beside the workspace: %v", err)
 	}
+	// The build runs shut off in bubblewrap (1309), which a build node has and build-agent's check container has not:
+	// there the build half is not run, said loudly; the fetch half above, the pin's own part (issue 1148), always is.
+	needTools(t, "the shut-off build of a member pinning a pull head", "bwrap")
 	built, err := m.build(context.Background(), map[string]any{"workspace": res.Workspace, "module": ".", "artifact": "tools"})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(fmt.Errorf("the build: %w", err))
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview_integration_test.go
index a800d22d..8cbd6112 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/preview_integration_test.go
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ func TestRealFetchMergesConflictsAndPlainlyFetches(t *testing.T) {
 // sibling and passes with it; the sibling is a plain directory with no symlink in it; and a sibling that holds a
 // symlink fails the fetch naming it.
 func TestRealTestsReadTheSiblingBesideTheTree(t *testing.T) {
+	needTools(t, "the shut-off unit level", "go", "git", "bwrap") // the tests run in bubblewrap (1309)
 	f := newForge(t)
 	files := map[string]string{}
 	for _, n := range []string{"go.mod", "beside.go", "beside_test.go"} {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/build_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/build_integration_test.go
index 3ce6b010..e4c9e5b8 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/build_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/build_integration_test.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 // registry for @novox, which reads without a credential) and makes two workspaces holding one fixture bundle.
 func realMachine(t *testing.T) (*Module, string) {
 	t.Helper()
-	for _, p := range []string{"node", "npm"} {
+	for _, p := range []string{"node", "npm", "bwrap"} { // bwrap: tsc, esbuild and the scripts run shut off (1309)
 		if _, err := exec.LookPath(p); err != nil {
 			t.Skipf("NOT RUN: no %s installed where this check runs (the mesh's Go toolchain image holds none); proven live on a build node", p)
 		}