diff --git a/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/keeper.go b/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/keeper.go
index 1ab5383c..8d5edca3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/keeper.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/keeper.go
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 package main
 
 // The condition keeper (novox/hq ADR 0564 clauses 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 13; issue 1952 C2, C3, C7): the one writer of the
-// mesh's open conditions. It watches every observer's `findings`, the healers' `attempts`, the controller's lease and,
-// until the lease write, the controller's `conditions`, and the assigner's wants and the nodes' haves for the hold. From
+// mesh's open conditions. It watches every observer's `findings`, the healers' `attempts`, the controller's lease
+// alone (its `conditions` are no longer read, issue 774), and the assigner's wants and the nodes' haves for the hold. From
 // all of them it derives, per key, the condition that should be open, and writes the difference by compare-and-set,
 // saying each transition as the controller says it (go/health) and keeping it in `history`. Nothing clears a condition
 // but its finding going (ADR 0231 §14).
@@ -46,11 +46,10 @@ var Observers = []string{health.WatchmanModule, health.SelfCheckModule, health.H
 
 // The other states it reads, as `<module>.<name>`.
 const (
-	AttemptsRead         = health.HealersModule + "." + health.AttemptsState
-	ControllerConditions = "mesh-controller.conditions"
-	ControllerLease      = "mesh-controller.lease"
-	ControllerLeaseKey   = "holder"
-	WantsRead            = delivery.AssignerModule + ".wants"
+	AttemptsRead       = health.HealersModule + "." + health.AttemptsState
+	ControllerLease    = "mesh-controller.lease"
+	ControllerLeaseKey = "holder"
+	WantsRead          = delivery.AssignerModule + ".wants"
 	// PlacementRead is the mesh-placement seat's placement, read for which module holds a seat on a node (hold.go; the
 	// lead, 2026-10-29, for ADR 0564 clause 2's inputs).
 	PlacementRead   = delivery.PlacementRead
diff --git a/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/main.go b/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/main.go
index ac597d4b..fde9df9a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/main.go
@@ -119,12 +119,6 @@ func Keep(k *Keeper) {
 	watch(k, AttemptsRead, health.HealersModule+" attempts", func(c stdio.StateChange) error {
 		return said(k.Attempt(c.Key, c.Value, c.Op != "put"))
 	})
-	watch(k, ControllerConditions, "", func(c stdio.StateChange) error {
-		if k.LeaseAway() {
-			return nil
-		}
-		return said(k.Controller(c.Key, c.Value, c.Op != "put"))
-	})
 	for _, o := range Observers {
 		watch(k, o+"."+health.FindingsState, o, func(c stdio.StateChange) error {
 			return said(k.Finding(o, c.Key, c.Value, c.Op != "put"))
diff --git a/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/manifest_test.go
index 1670f3b9..55dcea7f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-conditions/cmd/mesh-conditions/manifest_test.go
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 // ADR 0564 clauses 1, 2, 3 and 12 (issue 1952 C1): the manifest says what the code does. It claims the seat
 // mesh-conditions once for the mesh with the verbs mesh-sdk defines for it; reads every observer's findings, the healers'
-// attempts, the controller's conditions and lease, the wants and the haves, and never the healers' would; keeps its
+// attempts, the controller's lease alone (never its conditions, ADR 0564 clause 9), the wants and the haves, and never the healers' would; keeps its
 // states, history ninety days and each delivery's bound as long as the bound; and every state has a tool that reads it,
 // every act a tool that starts it.
 func TestTheManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ func TestTheManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 		!slices.Equal(Verbs, catalogue.VerbNames(seat.Serves)) {
 		t.Errorf("module %s runs as %s and claims %+v; the seat serves %v", m.Module, m.RunsAs, m.Claims, catalogue.VerbNames(seat.Serves))
 	}
-	reads := []string{ControllerConditions, ControllerLease, WantsRead, HavesRead, AttemptsRead, PlacementRead}
+	reads := []string{ControllerLease, WantsRead, HavesRead, AttemptsRead, PlacementRead}
 	for _, o := range Observers {
 		reads = append(reads, o+"."+health.FindingsState)
 	}
 	slices.Sort(reads)
 	got := slices.Clone(m.Reads)
 	slices.Sort(got)
-	if !slices.Equal(got, reads) || slices.Contains(m.Reads, health.HealersModule+"."+health.WouldState) {
+	if slices.Contains(m.Reads, "mesh-controller.conditions") || !slices.Equal(got, reads) || slices.Contains(m.Reads, health.HealersModule+"."+health.WouldState) {
 		t.Errorf("reads %v, want %v and never the healers' would", got, reads)
 	}
 	ttl, keyTTL := map[string]int{}, map[string]bool{}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-conditions/module.json b/modules/mesh-conditions/module.json
index d676b3cf..addf5483 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-conditions/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-conditions/module.json
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@
     "mesh-provisioner.findings",
     "artifact-store-tools.findings",
     "mesh-healers.attempts",
-    "mesh-controller.conditions",
     "mesh-controller.lease",
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.wants",
     "node-engine.have",