diff --git a/internal/broker/composed_test.go b/internal/broker/composed_test.go
index 1c9bac2d..56776e4f 100644
--- a/internal/broker/composed_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/composed_test.go
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 package broker
 
 import (
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 )
 
 // 1945/AC1: a node's composition bucket keeps five revisions of a key and is named for its node; the bucket of digests
@@ -147,3 +149,55 @@ func TestTheOperatorWritesTheHandPath(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the controller may not say bucket-deleted")
 	}
 }
+
+// 1945 (the review's A1): the bus's user list today's controller composes, which is the one the bus runs after release
+// 6's switch, already grants every subject the new controller, every new node-engine and the assigner use: the
+// controller writes each node's compositions and the digests; a node-engine reads its own compositions and wants, asks
+// its own backup holder and hears its word, and nothing of another node's; the assigner reads the digests, announced
+// readable.
+func TestTheUserListGrantsWhatReleaseSixUses(t *testing.T) {
+	controller, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindController, PasswordHash: "x", FilesFor: []string{"ace", "g14"}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, s := range []string{"$KV.composed-ace.>", "$KV.composed-g14.>", "$KV.mesh-controller_composed.>",
+		"mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.bucket-deleted"} {
+		has(t, controller.Publish, s)
+	}
+	node, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindNode, Node: "ace", PasswordHash: "x"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, s := range []string{
+		"$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_composed-ace", "$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_composed-ace.>", "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_composed-ace.>",
+		"$JS.API.DIRECT.GET.KV_mesh-delivery-assigner_wants.$KV.mesh-delivery-assigner_wants.want.ace.>",
+		"$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_mesh-delivery-assigner_wants.*.$KV.mesh-delivery-assigner_wants.want.ace.>",
+		"mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.now.ace", "mesh.seat.node-backup.tool.backed-up.ace",
+	} {
+		has(t, node.Publish, s)
+	}
+	has(t, node.Subscribe, "mesh.mod.restic.event.backed-up")
+	for _, p := range node.Publish {
+		if strings.Contains(p, "composed-g14") || strings.Contains(p, "mesh-controller_composed") || strings.Contains(p, "want.g14") ||
+			strings.HasPrefix(p, "$KV.composed-") || strings.HasSuffix(p, "node-backup.tool.now.*") {
+			t.Errorf("a node-engine of ace may publish %s", p)
+		}
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(controllerReadableStates(), ControllerComposed) ||
+		!slices.Contains(ControllerBuckets(), delivery.ControllerComposedBucket) || !IsControllerBucket(delivery.ControllerComposedBucket) {
+		t.Fatalf("the digests are not announced readable among the controller's buckets")
+	}
+	if !ControllerAnnouncement("novox").Readable(ControllerComposed) {
+		t.Fatalf("the controller does not announce %s readable", ControllerComposed)
+	}
+	assigner, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "novox", Module: "mesh-delivery-assigner", PasswordHash: "x",
+		Reads: []string{"mesh-controller.composed"}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	has(t, assigner.Publish, "$JS.API.STREAM.INFO.KV_mesh-controller_composed")
+	has(t, assigner.Publish, "$JS.API.CONSUMER.CREATE.KV_mesh-controller_composed.>")
+	if c := ComposedDigestsConfig(); c.Bucket != "mesh-controller_composed" || c.History != 5 || c.Storage != jetstream.FileStorage {
+		t.Errorf("the digests' bucket is %+v", c)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats_test.go b/internal/broker/nats_test.go
index 523a1eaa..bc2695c2 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats_test.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats_test.go
@@ -237,7 +237,9 @@ func TestAnAdministratorMayAskAnyTool(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // **Nothing but tools.** A person who could publish an event would be able to claim a module
-// said something; one who could publish control traffic would be a second controller.
+// said something; one who could publish control traffic would be a second controller. The one exception is the
+// operator's (an administrator's) release 6 hand path, a want and a composition written by hand (novox/hq ADR 0539
+// clauses 2 and 10).
 func TestAPersonReachesNothingButTools(t *testing.T) {
 	perms, _ := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindPerson, Module: "jo",
 		Invokes: []string{"*"}, PasswordHash: "x"})
diff --git a/internal/broker/writers.go b/internal/broker/writers.go
index 22d6f2b5..31437f66 100644
--- a/internal/broker/writers.go
+++ b/internal/broker/writers.go
@@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ var WritersTable = []WriterRow{
 		Others: "read through `reads` as node-engine.have", Subjects: kvOf(delivery.HaveBucket), Writes: ownNodeKeys},
 	// The contents of a declaration's files over 64 KiB (novox/hq ADR 0486 §2): the controller alone writes the bucket, each
 	// object under the digest of its content; a node-engine reads one by its name, with no list and no write.
-	{State: "a declaration's large files", Writer: "controller, each object under the sha256 digest of its content",
+	{State: "a declaration's large files", Writer: "controller, each object under the sha256 digest of its content; the " +
+		"operator's account on release 6's hand path alone (ADR 0539 clause 10)",
 		KeptIn: "the object bucket " + DeclarationFilesBucket + "-<node> of each node, an object removed a day after the " +
 			"node's latest declaration no longer names it",
 		Others:   "a node-engine reads an object of its own bucket by its name and may neither list the bucket nor write it",