diff --git a/checks/handacts/fallbacks b/checks/handacts/fallbacks
index c4fdf709..238233b7 100644
--- a/checks/handacts/fallbacks
+++ b/checks/handacts/fallbacks
@@ -2,7 +2,4 @@
 # the fallback of a recorder (mesh-sdk handacts.Recorder) while the seat mesh-hand-acts has no holder that answers, until
 # the controller's lease is written to a holder that is no controller. The check of this directory (handacts) refuses any
 # other, and an entry whose module no longer invokes it: the list only shrinks, and it is empty before the lease write
-# (novox/hq ADR 0565 §11; issue 1953, issue 774).
-mesh-config   hand-act   fallback until the lease write: its sets, clears and held values record through mesh-hand-acts first
-mesh-config   warranted  fallback until the lease write: its warrants record through mesh-hand-acts first
-mesh-healers  drill      fallback until the lease write: a drill records through mesh-hand-acts first
+# (novox/hq ADR 0565 §11; issue 1953, issue 774). It is empty: no manifest invokes the controller's log (issue 1953, 1955).
diff --git a/modules/gitea/index.ts b/modules/gitea/index.ts
index d5bc1898..9271f010 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/index.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/index.ts
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@
 //
 //   module.gitea.pull.closed    — a pull request closed unmerged: the delivery it was is stopped (novox/hq ADR 0239)
 //
-// Consumes mesh-controller.checked — a pull request's merge check, judged — and sets it as the head
-// commit's statuses: `mesh/merge-gate`, the modules of the mesh's graph the change touches, and
+// Once consumed mesh-controller.checked — a pull request's merge check, judged — and set it as the head
+// commit's statuses (setVerdict, kept below for a revert, and bound to no event since ADR 0571 clause 13): `mesh/merge-gate`, the modules of the mesh's graph the change touches, and
 // `mesh/repo-check`, the repository's own merge-check.sh (novox/hq ADR 0237 as amended); with a comment
 // saying why when the gate is not a pass or the repository's own check failed. Of the two, only those the base
 // still requires are written (issue 1301): main requires `mesh/check` — the checker's — everywhere, hq included since
 // ADR 0527 §2, and since R4g no controller judges a merge (its merge gate went with build-agent, ADR 0524 §5), so nothing
-// publishes mesh-controller.checked and these two are written for no base.
+// publishes a merge check's verdict, this module consumes no event of the controller, and these two are written for no base.
 //
 // Reads mesh-delivery-checker.owed — what the checker owes the forge, mesh/check on each head it judged — by a watch, and
 // writes it (check.ts; ADR 0521, R4e finding R2-1). No tool writes mesh/check (finding K1), and no event: the watch hands
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 // The polling is deliberately unhurried: an event a minute late is still an event, whereas hammering
 // the forge for an immediacy nobody asked for is not.
 
-import { emit, on } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
+import { emit } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/events";
 import { registerModuleTools } from "@novox/mesh-sdk/tools";
 import { statesAnnouncement } from "./kept.js";
 import { commitStatusTool } from "./delivery.js";
@@ -649,19 +649,9 @@ if (gitea) {
     setTimeout(() => { catchUpAsked = false; void pass(); }, 30_000);
   };
   void listenOk.then((ok) => (ok ? pass() : undefined));
-  // Bound again until they hold, and not awaited (bind.ts, issue 1793): the runtime kills a bundle that has not answered its
-  // handshake in 10 s, so the import must end while a refused bind is still asked again.
-  bindInBackground([
-    ["mesh-controller.checked", () => on("mesh-controller.checked", (event) => {
-      const c = (event.body ?? {}) as Checked;
-      // A head's own verdict takes its turn after every write of that head's gate already asked for (gate.ts).
-      // A verdict of a check asked before the one now pending is an older run's, and dropped (novox/hq issue 456).
-      if (!c.group && c.owner && c.repo && c.commit) {
-        return gates.verdict(c.owner, c.repo, c.commit, () => setVerdict(client, event), c.id);
-      }
-      return setVerdict(client, event);
-    })],
-  ], () => console.log("[gitea] watching for new repositories and merged pull requests"));
+  // No consumer is bound since ADR 0571 clause 13 took the controller's checked out of this module; a consumer added later
+  // is bound again until it holds, and not awaited (bind.ts, issue 1793).
+  bindInBackground([], () => console.log("[gitea] watching for new repositories and merged pull requests"));
   // The checker's mesh/check, from its owed state (check.ts; ADR 0521): a read not granted yet is said once and asked again,
   // apart from the binds above, so neither waits for the other.
   void watchOwed((handler) => state<OwedChange["value"]>(CHECKER_OWED).watch((change) => handler(change)), checks);
diff --git a/modules/gitea/module.json b/modules/gitea/module.json
index 7d703aff..2fd3ae33 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/module.json
+++ b/modules/gitea/module.json
@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@
     "forge.wiki.changed",
     "forge.other"
   ],
-  "consumes": [
-    "mesh-controller.checked"
-  ],
   "listens": [
     {
       "name": "web",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go
index 1256b0fa..8b8de588 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/cmd/mesh-config/main.go
@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ func (runtimeStore) Read(log string) ([]LogEntry, error) {
 
 func (runtimeStore) Emit(event string, body any) error { return stdio.Emit(event, body) }
 
-// recorder records into the hand-act log of the seat mesh-hand-acts, falling back to the controller's while the seat
-// has no holder that answers and the controller still holds its lease (novox/hq ADR 0565 §11).
+// recorder records into the hand-act log of the seat mesh-hand-acts (novox/hq ADR 0565 §11). The manifest invokes no verb
+// of the controller (issue 1953), so the SDK recorder's fall back to the controller's log, while the seat has no holder,
+// is refused by the bus and said in the answer: nothing is recorded in two logs.
 var recorder = handacts.Recorder{Ask: stdio.Ask, LeaseAway: func() bool {
 	e, err := stdio.State(LeaseRead).Get(buscompose.ControllerLeaseKey)
 	var raw []byte
diff --git a/modules/mesh-config/module.json b/modules/mesh-config/module.json
index 9554db29..ffe59e18 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-config/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-config/module.json
@@ -28,8 +28,6 @@
   "invokes": [
     "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act",
     "seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted",
-    "seat:mesh-controller.hand-act",
-    "seat:mesh-controller.warranted",
     "gitea.gitea_get_pull_request"
   ],
   "reads": [
diff --git a/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/healers_test.go b/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/healers_test.go
index 9b6f9dce..ad2de049 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/healers_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/healers_test.go
@@ -442,8 +442,8 @@ func TestTheVerbsAndReads(t *testing.T) {
 	if a["acting"] != true || len(a["acts"].([]Attempt)) != 1 || len(a["healers"].([]map[string]any)) != 3 {
 		t.Errorf("healers answered %v", a)
 	}
-	// drill records into mesh-hand-acts as a drill; while that seat has no holder, into the controller's drill until
-	// the lease is handed away (ADR 0565 §11).
+	// drill records into mesh-hand-acts as a drill, and never into the controller's log, whoever holds the lease
+	// (ADR 0565 §11, issue 1955).
 	drills := []struct {
 		name      string
 		seatGone  bool
@@ -452,8 +452,9 @@ func TestTheVerbsAndReads(t *testing.T) {
 		log, err  string
 	}{
 		{"into the seat", false, true, map[string]any{"what": "stopped records", "why": "does it raise"}, handacts.LogSeat, ""},
-		{"no holder: the controller's", true, false, map[string]any{"what": "stopped records", "why": "x"}, handacts.LogController, ""},
-		{"no holder, lease away", true, true, map[string]any{"what": "stopped records", "why": "x"}, "", "handed its lease away"},
+		{"into the seat under a controller's lease", false, false, map[string]any{"what": "stopped records", "why": "x"}, handacts.LogSeat, ""},
+		{"no holder: refused, the controller's not asked", true, false, map[string]any{"what": "stopped records", "why": "x"}, "", "nothing was recorded"},
+		{"no holder, lease away", true, true, map[string]any{"what": "stopped records", "why": "x"}, "", "nothing was recorded"},
 		{"says nothing", false, true, map[string]any{}, "", "says what"},
 	}
 	for _, d := range drills {
@@ -489,6 +490,11 @@ func TestTheVerbsAndReads(t *testing.T) {
 		case d.log == handacts.LogSeat && !strings.Contains(asked[0], `"verb":"hand-act drill"`):
 			t.Errorf("drill %s asked %v", d.name, asked)
 		}
+		for _, k := range asked {
+			if strings.Contains(k, "mesh-controller") {
+				t.Errorf("drill %s asked the controller: %v", d.name, asked)
+			}
+		}
 	}
 	if _, err := w.h.read(WouldState, ""); err != nil {
 		t.Error(err)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/manifest_test.go
index af3745b9..bbbe8d49 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/manifest_test.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func TestTheManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 	}{
 		{"emits (healer-acted is the seat's, said on its subject)", m.Emits, nil},
 		{"consumes", m.Consumes, []string{RaisedEvent, ChangedEvent, RecordedEvent}},
-		{"invokes", m.Invokes, []string{AssertTool, "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act", "seat:mesh-controller.drill"}},
+		{"invokes", m.Invokes, []string{AssertTool, "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act"}},
 		{"reads", m.Reads, []string{LeaseRead, ConditionsRead, HandActsRead}},
 	} {
 		if !slices.Equal(c.got, c.want) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/tools.go b/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/tools.go
index d3452b95..c26a30f9 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-healers/cmd/mesh-healers/tools.go
@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ func Tools(h *Healers) []stdio.Tool {
 			}},
 		{Name: DrillTool,
 			Description: "Record a drill: something broken on purpose to see the mesh raise and clear it, with what it " +
-				"tests, in the hand-act log of the seat mesh-hand-acts (the controller's drill while that seat has no " +
-				"holder and the controller holds its lease). A drill is never a repair: S15 never counts it.",
+				"tests, in the hand-act log of the seat mesh-hand-acts. A drill is never a repair: S15 never counts it.",
 			Input: obj(map[string]any{"what": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "what was done on purpose"},
 				"why":       map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "what the drill tests"},
 				"condition": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the condition it is meant to raise, if any"}}),
@@ -85,8 +84,8 @@ func Tools(h *Healers) []stdio.Tool {
 }
 
 // Drill records a drill (ADR 0565 §11, which ends ADR 0564 Limits 1's refusal): through the seat mesh-hand-acts as
-// the act `hand-act drill`, and while that seat has no holder that answers and the controller still holds its lease,
-// through the controller's own `drill`, which records it as a drill too. It answers which log took it.
+// the act `hand-act drill`. The controller's own `drill` is not asked (issue 1955): a seat with no holder that answers
+// refuses the drill, said whole, and nothing is recorded in a second log.
 func (h *Healers) Drill(what, why, condition string) (any, error) {
 	if what == "" || why == "" {
 		return nil, errors.New("a drill says what was done on purpose and what it tests: nothing was recorded")
@@ -95,27 +94,14 @@ func (h *Healers) Drill(what, why, condition string) (any, error) {
 		return nil, errors.New("the hand-act log cannot be reached from here: nothing was recorded")
 	}
 	body := map[string]any{"what": what, "why": why, "verb": handacts.VerbDrill}
-	controller := map[string]any{"what": what, "why": why}
 	if condition != "" {
-		body["condition"], controller["condition"] = condition, condition
+		body["condition"] = condition
 	}
 	answer, err := h.Ask("seat:"+handacts.Seat+".hand-act", body)
-	if err == nil {
-		return map[string]any{"log": handacts.LogSeat, "answer": answer}, nil
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s.hand-act refused the drill, so nothing was recorded: %w", handacts.Seat, err)
 	}
-	if !handacts.NoResponder(err) {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s.hand-act refused the drill: %w", handacts.Seat, err)
-	}
-	if acting, _ := h.Acting(); acting {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s has no holder that answers, and the controller handed its lease away: nothing was "+
-			"recorded (%w)", handacts.Seat, err)
-	}
-	answer, cerr := h.Ask("seat:mesh-controller.drill", controller)
-	if cerr != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s has no holder that answers (%v), and the controller's drill refused too: %w", handacts.Seat,
-			err, cerr)
-	}
-	return map[string]any{"log": handacts.LogController, "answer": answer}, nil
+	return map[string]any{"log": handacts.LogSeat, "answer": answer}, nil
 }
 
 // Heal is the verb heal: one condition judged now by its healer.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-healers/module.json b/modules/mesh-healers/module.json
index 634dd388..6f2f0688 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-healers/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-healers/module.json
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@
   ],
   "invokes": [
     "mesh-grants.grants_assert",
-    "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act",
-    "seat:mesh-controller.drill"
+    "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act"
   ],
   "reads": [
     "mesh-controller.lease",