diff --git a/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main.go b/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main.go
index 6bd188dc5..efb4a2ddd 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 )
 
 func logf(format string, a ...any) { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, format+"\n", a...) }
@@ -77,8 +78,7 @@ func Tools(ask Ask, callerOf func(map[string]any) string) []stdio.Tool {
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}
-				var out any
-				return out, json.Unmarshal(raw, &out)
+				return keptPointsHealth(raw)
 			}},
 		hand(ask, callerOf, "recovery_take", "take", "Take a restore point of one module's kept data now, at the form of the given fingerprint.",
 			map[string]any{"module": module, "kept": kept, "fingerprint": str("the fingerprint whose form the point is taken at")}, "module", "kept", "fingerprint"),
@@ -98,3 +98,32 @@ func Tools(ask Ask, callerOf func(map[string]any) string) []stdio.Tool {
 		hand(ask, callerOf, "recovery_expire_points", "expire-points", "Remove the restore points past their keep days now, never the newest of a kept data.", map[string]any{}),
 	}
 }
+
+// keptPointsHealth is what kept-points answers with the health answer beside it, which the module's declared health
+// check reads (§554, §657, A-129): unhealthy while an aside only it holds the data of is listed as unrestored.
+func keptPointsHealth(raw json.RawMessage) (map[string]any, error) {
+	var out map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &out); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var kp struct {
+		Unrestored []struct {
+			ID    string   `json:"id"`
+			Names []string `json:"names"`
+		} `json:"unrestored"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &kp); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	h := health.Healthy("No aside holds data the live bus lacks.")
+	if len(kp.Unrestored) > 0 {
+		var said []string
+		for _, a := range kp.Unrestored {
+			said = append(said, a.ID+" ("+strings.Join(a.Names, ", ")+")")
+		}
+		h = health.Unhealthy(fmt.Sprintf("%d aside(s) hold data whose live objects were removed and not restored: %s; recovery_restore_aside puts one back.",
+			len(kp.Unrestored), strings.Join(said, "; ")))
+	}
+	out["state"], out["healthy"], out["why"] = h.State, h.Healthy, h.Why
+	return out, nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main_test.go b/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main_test.go
index fe28938ea..ded8d73f7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-recovery/cmd/mesh-recovery-tools/main_test.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 )
 
 // The bundle serves exactly the tools the manifest names, each named recovery_, and each acting tool calls its verb of the
@@ -51,3 +53,26 @@ func TestEachToolCallsItsVerbWithTheProvedAsker(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("tools %v, the manifest names %v", names, want)
 	}
 }
+
+// recovery_kept_points answers what kept-points answers with the health answer beside it: unhealthy while an aside is
+// unrestored, healthy otherwise, as the declared health check reads it (§657, A-129).
+func TestKeptPointsIsTheHealthCheck(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		answer string
+		state  string
+	}{
+		{`{"points":[],"asides":[],"unrestored":[]}`, health.StateHealthy},
+		{`{"points":[],"asides":[{"id":"x","names":["app_notes"],"size":1}],"unrestored":[{"id":"x","names":["app_notes"],"size":1}]}`, health.StateUnhealthy},
+	} {
+		tools := Tools(func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(c.answer), nil }, func(map[string]any) string { return "" })
+		out, err := tools[0].Run(map[string]any{})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(out)
+		a, err := health.Read(raw)
+		if err != nil || a.State != c.state || !strings.Contains(string(raw), `"unrestored"`) {
+			t.Errorf("%s answered %s: %+v, %v", c.answer, raw, a, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/control.go b/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/control.go
index 868fd9f9e..66e725d4e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/control.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/control.go
@@ -89,30 +89,44 @@ func (e *Engine) KeptPoints(module, kept string) (seat.KeptPointsAnswer, error)
 		out.Running = &seat.Running{Act: e.running.ID, Step: e.running.Step, Since: e.running.Since, WaitsOn: e.running.WaitsOn}
 	}
 	e.mu.Unlock()
+	// The asides only an aside holds, which the health check fails on, read from the engine (A-129).
+	out.Unrestored = []seat.Aside{}
+	for _, x := range e.Unrestored() {
+		if (module == "" || x.Module == module) && (kept == "" || x.Kept == kept) {
+			out.Unrestored = append(out.Unrestored, x.Aside)
+		}
+	}
 	return out, nil
 }
 
 // Unrestored are the asides whose record ends at `removed` that no running act holds (§554 health, §561): the live data
 // of those names is gone and only the aside holds it.
-func (e *Engine) Unrestored() []seat.Aside {
+func (e *Engine) Unrestored() []UnrestoredAside {
 	_, recs, _ := e.Asides()
 	e.mu.Lock()
 	defer e.mu.Unlock()
-	var out []seat.Aside
+	var out []UnrestoredAside
 	for _, r := range recs {
 		held := e.running != nil && e.running.Module == r.Module && e.running.Kept == r.Kept
 		if r.Step == stepRemoved && !held {
-			out = append(out, r.aside())
+			out = append(out, UnrestoredAside{Module: r.Module, Kept: r.Kept, Aside: r.aside()})
 		}
 	}
 	return out
 }
 
+// UnrestoredAside is an aside only it holds the data of, with the module and kept data it was taken of: the scope of the
+// finding aside-unrestored (§561).
+type UnrestoredAside struct {
+	Module, Kept string
+	Aside        seat.Aside
+}
+
 // Start repairs what a restart cut off (§516, §564, §560): points under a temporary name are removed, an aside whose
 // record ends at `set aside` (the live data never touched) is removed, an aside that ends at `removed` is put back under
 // the live names, and every accepted act that never ended ends failed with `stopped`, so its caller asks again. It
 // answers the asides it could not put back (the finding aside-unrestored, §561).
-func (e *Engine) Start(ctx context.Context) []seat.Aside {
+func (e *Engine) Start(ctx context.Context) []UnrestoredAside {
 	_ = filepath.WalkDir(filepath.Join(e.Dir, "points"), func(path string, d os.DirEntry, err error) error {
 		if err == nil && d.IsDir() && strings.HasPrefix(d.Name(), ".tmp-") {
 			_ = os.RemoveAll(path)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/restore_test.go b/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/restore_test.go
index 2242705b1..853a68645 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/restore_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-recovery/internal/recovery/restore_test.go
@@ -249,6 +249,10 @@ func TestAsideMovesTheLiveDataIntoAnAsideAndRestoreAsidePutsItBack(t *testing.T)
 	if got := r.e.Unrestored(); len(got) != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("unrestored %+v", got)
 	}
+	// kept-points says it, which the tool and the health check read (A-129).
+	if kp, _ := r.e.KeptPoints("app", ""); len(kp.Unrestored) != 1 || kp.Unrestored[0].ID != sa.ID {
+		t.Errorf("kept-points unrestored %+v", kp.Unrestored)
+	}
 	r.s.events = nil
 	r.do(recovery.Act{Kind: recovery.KindRestoreAside, Module: "app", Kept: "notes", AsideID: sa.ID, Why: "done looking", Caller: "tools"})
 	if lastRestored(t, r).Outcome != "done" || r.b.streams["app_notes"] != "hello" || len(r.e.Unrestored()) != 0 {