diff --git a/modules/gitea/kept.ts b/modules/gitea/kept.ts
index eb170dfa7..9288b8aa5 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/kept.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/kept.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
 // The states this module keeps on the bus and whether other modules may read them (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2; issue
 // 1790): the module says it itself, from its code, as it starts (index.ts calls keeps with this list), and a reader is
 // granted what it said (clause 3). A state is readable when another module's manifest reads it: mesh-provisioner reads
-// `bound` (the forge accounts it binds), the condition keeper (mesh-conditions) reads `findings`. test/kept.test.ts holds the list to the manifest's `state`, and the catalogue's
+// `bound` (the forge accounts it binds), the condition keeper (mesh-conditions) reads `findings`. Every state the manifest
+// declares is named, so each can be read by its tools (design 47 G A-287). test/kept.test.ts holds the list to the manifest's `state`, and the catalogue's
 // checks/readable every state another manifest reads to a readable announcement.
 export const KEPT: readonly { readonly name: string; readonly readable?: boolean }[] = [
   { name: "announced" },
   { name: "bound", readable: true },
   { name: "findings", readable: true },
+  { name: "failed-steps" },
   { name: "first-views" },
+  { name: "idle" },
+  { name: "transfers" },
 ];
 
 /** The announcement of these states, in the layout mesh-sdk's go/announce reads (novox/hq ADR 0495 clause 2): version 1,
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts
index 72144e862..b39114667 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/kept.test.ts
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ test("the states the module announces are the states its manifest declares", asy
 
 test("the announcement has the layout mesh-sdk's go/announce reads: version 1, the module, the node, the states sorted by name", async () => {
   const { statesAnnouncement } = await import("../kept.ts");
-  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", "ace"), { v: 1, module: "gitea", node: "ace", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound", readable: true }, { name: "findings", readable: true }, { name: "first-views" }] });
-  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", undefined), { v: 1, module: "gitea", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound", readable: true }, { name: "findings", readable: true }, { name: "first-views" }] });
+  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", "ace"), { v: 1, module: "gitea", node: "ace", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound", readable: true }, { name: "failed-steps" }, { name: "findings", readable: true }, { name: "first-views" }, { name: "idle" }, { name: "transfers" }] });
+  assert.deepEqual(statesAnnouncement("gitea", undefined), { v: 1, module: "gitea", states: [{ name: "announced" }, { name: "bound", readable: true }, { name: "failed-steps" }, { name: "findings", readable: true }, { name: "first-views" }, { name: "idle" }, { name: "transfers" }] });
 });
 
 test("index.ts says the announcement as the event `states` before the tools are served", () => {
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/protection-full.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/protection-full.test.ts
index 8830e8885..8cb29b0f5 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/protection-full.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/protection-full.test.ts
@@ -246,14 +246,13 @@ test("C: allow_merge_update, default_update_style and has_code are taken; projec
 });
 
 // The operator, 2026-10-28 16:4x: a call waits for their Approve only if it removes branch protection or allows a
-// force-push to main. No tool of this module can ask yet (no TypeScript asker; ADR 0286's mark is unbuilt in the
-// runner), so until one can, such a call is refused, with nothing sent, and says it is the operator's; everything else
-// runs at once.
+// force-push to main. Such a call of this tool is refused, with nothing sent, and names the one tool that may do it and
+// that it runs on the operator's Approve of that call (design 47 G A-288); everything else runs at once.
 test("a force-push onto a rule covering main is refused, nothing sent; on another branch, and tightening, it runs", async () => {
   for (const args of [{ enable_force_push: true }, { enable_force_push: true, enable_force_push_allowlist: true },
     { force_push_allowlist_usernames: ["jschoubben"] }, { force_push_allowlist_teams: ["owners"] },
     { branch: "ma*", enable_force_push: true }, { branch: "**", force_push_allowlist_usernames: ["x"] }]) {
-    await assert.rejects(setFull(args), /force-push to a trunk is the operator's/, JSON.stringify(args));
+    await assert.rejects(setFull(args), /gitea_branch_protection_loosen's alone, which runs on the operator's Approve of that one call/, JSON.stringify(args));
   }
   assert.deepEqual(sent, []);
   await setFull({ branch: "release/*", enable_force_push: true });