diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_no_table_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_no_table_integration_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0bb3a10a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_no_table_integration_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+)
+
+// **Acceptance 12 of design 47: no table in the controller's store holds builds, rollouts or assignments** (novox/hq ADR
+// 0408, issue 1111). A delivery is driven through the live trigger — a merge heard, its batch cut into a plan, the plan's
+// build asked and answered, the assignment made — until a build, a rollout and an assignment exist; they are read from the
+// chain, and then the store's own catalog is read: none of the tables of the chain is in it, nor the column that held what
+// a machine was sent, nor the function that raised the generation from the assignment table; the table that stays, stays.
+func TestNoTableOfTheControllersStoreHoldsBuildsRolloutsOrAssignments(t *testing.T) {
+	open := windowed(t)
+	everyHeadWaits(t)
+	asked := asksRecorded(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	inv := open.inventory
+	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", "notes"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	hear(t, open, catalogueMerge("c-notes", "notes", t0), t0.Add(time.Second))
+	cutAt(t, open, t0.Add(91*time.Second))
+	ws, _ := walks(t, open)
+	if len(ws) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d walk(s) after the cut", len(ws))
+	}
+	rollout := ws[0].ID
+	asking, err := inv.PlanByID(ctx, rollout)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for try := 0; try < 3 && (asking.Modules["notes"] == nil || asking.Modules["notes"].Build == ""); try++ {
+		advancePlans(ctx, open)
+		if asking, err = inv.PlanByID(ctx, rollout); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	buildID := asking.Modules["notes"].Build
+	if buildID == "" || len(*asked) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("the walk asked %v, and notes' build is %q", *asked, buildID)
+	}
+	digest := "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("b", 64)
+	result := outcome(buildID, "modules/notes", "c-notes", "notes", "")
+	result.Made = []link.MadeArtifact{{Name: "notes", Kind: "image", Reference: "artifact-store://notes/notes@" + digest}}
+	if err := (builds{inv: inv, open: open}).Built(ctx, result); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	// What the live path made is in the chain.
+	if built, found, err := inv.BuildByID(ctx, buildID); err != nil || !found || built.Commit != "c-notes" {
+		t.Fatalf("the build is not read from the chain: %+v %v %v", built, found, err)
+	}
+	if p, err := inv.PlanByID(ctx, rollout); err != nil || p.ID != rollout {
+		t.Fatalf("the rollout is not read from the chain: %+v %v", p, err)
+	}
+	if on, err := inv.AssignmentsOn(ctx, "anchor"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	} else if _, ok := assignmentOf(on, "notes"); !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("the assignment is not read from the chain: %+v", on)
+	}
+
+	// And the catalog of the store holds none of them.
+	have := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, row := range inv.QueryForTest(t, `select table_name::text from information_schema.tables where table_schema = 'public'`) {
+		have[strings.Trim(row[0], `"`)] = true
+	}
+	for _, table := range []string{"build", "build_request", "release_plan", "batched_merge", "assignment", "pending_assignment", "chain_moved"} {
+		if have[table] {
+			t.Errorf("the table %s is in the controller's store", table)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, table := range []string{"build_gate", "assignment_generation"} {
+		if !have[table] {
+			t.Errorf("the table %s, which stays, is gone", table)
+		}
+	}
+	if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_schema = 'public' and column_name = 'sent_builds'`); rows[0][0] != "0" {
+		t.Errorf("a column sent_builds is in the store: %v", rows)
+	}
+	if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from pg_proc where proname = 'raise_assignment_generation'`); rows[0][0] != "0" {
+		t.Errorf("the function raise_assignment_generation is in the store: %v", rows)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go b/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..80c20517
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/chain_drop_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+//go:build integration
+
+package inventory
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+)
+
+// **Migration 0105 refuses a store whose rows were not moved, and drops the tables of a moved one** (novox/hq ADR 0408 §8,
+// issue 1111). The store is built as the mesh holds it before this migration, with an assignment row in the table and no
+// record of the move: the migration raises, and nothing it did is kept. Then the move is recorded, a pending assignment
+// still open refuses it again, and once it has settled the tables go and build_gate stays.
+func TestMigration0105RefusesAStoreWhoseRowsWereNotMovedAndDropsTheTablesOfAMovedOne(t *testing.T) {
+	inv, _ := ForTestBefore(t, 105)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	if _, err := inv.AddNode(ctx, "anchor"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := inv.RegisterModule(ctx, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "ui", Version: "1"}, Source{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	inv.ExecForTest(t, `insert into assignment (node, module) select id, 'ui' from node where name = 'anchor'`)
+	all, err := Migrations()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	tables := func() map[string]bool {
+		t.Helper()
+		out := map[string]bool{}
+		for _, row := range inv.QueryForTest(t, `select table_name::text from information_schema.tables where table_schema = 'public'`) {
+			out[strings.Trim(row[0], `"`)] = true
+		}
+		return out
+	}
+	refused := func(why string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		_, err := inv.store.Migrate(ctx, all)
+		if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), why) {
+			t.Fatalf("the migration was not refused for %q: %v", why, err)
+		}
+		if !tables()["assignment"] || !tables()["chain_moved"] {
+			t.Fatalf("a refused migration kept a drop")
+		}
+		if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from assignment`); rows[0][0] != "1" {
+			t.Fatalf("a refused migration lost the assignment: %v", rows)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// No move recorded: the rows of assignments were never copied.
+	refused("assignments")
+
+	// The move recorded for every kind, and a pending assignment still waiting for its build: no mover carries it.
+	inv.ExecForTest(t, `insert into chain_moved (counts, largest) values ($1::jsonb, $1::jsonb)`,
+		`{"builds": 0, "rollouts": 0, "assignments": 1}`)
+	inv.ExecForTest(t, `insert into pending_assignment (node, module, build_id)
+	                    select id, 'ui', 'b1' from node where name = 'anchor'`)
+	refused("pending assignment")
+
+	// Expired and raised as a condition, and the condition neither answered nor cleared: still refused.
+	inv.ExecForTest(t, `update pending_assignment set state = 'expired', raised_at = now()`)
+	refused("pending assignment")
+
+	// Its condition cleared: the guard lets the migration through.
+	inv.ExecForTest(t, `update pending_assignment set cleared_at = now()`)
+	done, err := inv.store.Migrate(ctx, all)
+	if err != nil || len(done) != 1 || done[0].Number != 105 {
+		t.Fatalf("the migration did %v (%v)", done, err)
+	}
+	left := tables()
+	for _, gone := range append(append([]string{}, chainTables...), "chain_moved") {
+		if left[gone] {
+			t.Errorf("the table %s is still in the store", gone)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, stays := range []string{"build_gate", "assignment_generation", "node", "module"} {
+		if !left[stays] {
+			t.Errorf("the table %s is gone", stays)
+		}
+	}
+	if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'node' and column_name = 'sent_builds'`); rows[0][0] != "0" {
+		t.Errorf("node.sent_builds is still a column")
+	}
+	if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from pg_proc where proname = 'raise_assignment_generation'`); rows[0][0] != "0" {
+		t.Errorf("the function raise_assignment_generation is still in the store")
+	}
+}
+
+// A store that never held a row of the chain — a mesh raised after the move — passes the guard with no record of a move.
+func TestMigration0105PassesAStoreThatNeverHeldARow(t *testing.T) {
+	inv, migrate := ForTestBefore(t, 105)
+	migrate()
+	if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from information_schema.tables where table_name in ('build', 'release_plan', 'assignment', 'chain_moved')`); rows[0][0] != "0" {
+		t.Fatalf("tables of the chain remain: %v", rows)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/migrations/0105-the-chain-leaves-the-store.sql b/internal/inventory/migrations/0105-the-chain-leaves-the-store.sql
index e867f97d..61c129f8 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/migrations/0105-the-chain-leaves-the-store.sql
+++ b/internal/inventory/migrations/0105-the-chain-leaves-the-store.sql
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ begin
             'run the controller of the previous delivery and read chain_moved back first', array_to_string(missing, ', ');
     end if;
     if exists (select 1 from pending_assignment
-                where state in ('waiting', 'applying') or (raised_at is not null and cleared_at is null)) then
+                where state in ('waiting', 'applying') or (raised_at is not null and acknowledged_at is null and cleared_at is null)) then
         raise exception 'a pending assignment is still in the table (waiting, being made, or ended with its condition '
             'unanswered); let it settle, then deliver again';
     end if;