diff --git a/modules/mesh-knowledge/README.md b/modules/mesh-knowledge/README.md
index 09a46b4e..654c214f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-knowledge/README.md
+++ b/modules/mesh-knowledge/README.md
@@ -132,8 +132,11 @@ as text. `get` serves each, and any other field a record of hq wrote under `fiel
    - `partial`: both ends of a change agree;
    - `rests-on-live`: no accepted record extends a superseded one.
 
-   A failure is kept as a finding and makes the module unhealthy, so the mesh raises a condition naming the rule
-   and the records. The acceptance stands.
+   A failure is kept as a finding and told to the operator once, as a warning naming the rule and the records
+   (`operator-channel.notify`, keyed `knowledge.finding.<rule>.<records>`, sent again at the next step when it
+   could not be sent, and cleared once the rule holds for them again). It is a fault of the records, which their
+   authors repair, not of the module: the module's health names it and stays healthy, so it never holds the
+   module's own rollouts (the operator's decision of 2026-10-12 on hq issue 504). The acceptance stands.
 
    `cited` is also judged ahead, in the review: a decision that names no home and that no accepted (or
    superseded) record links is not judged and not accepted. Its review, by the knowledge base itself, asks changes
@@ -186,14 +189,14 @@ the consolidated schema for a fresh database is `schema.sql`. A test holds the t
 
 - **the bundle**: the verbs, `knowledge_health`, the operator's answers heard, and once a minute (and at once when
   a record is proposed) the router's record read, reservations never proposed withdrawn, the reviews of proposals,
-  and the drafting worker. It never changes the schema, and
+  and the drafting worker; and it tells the whole-set findings. It never changes the schema, and
   refuses to serve while the schema is behind.
 - **`prepare`** (run once): brings the schema to this version.
 - **`keep`** (judged by its unit): judges the whole record set every five minutes and keeps the findings.
 - **`watch`** (judged by `knowledge_health`, run as the machine's account, the one the runtime runs the bundle
   as, so the tool can read what it writes): every minute, reads whether the database serves and what the
   findings say, and leaves its verdict in `${dir:state}/health.json`. That is the file the health tool answers
-  from. A verdict older than three minutes is unhealthy.
+  from. A verdict older than three minutes is unhealthy; a whole-set finding is named in it but leaves it healthy.
 
 ## Settings