diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/replay292_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/replay292_test.go
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+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/replay292_test.go
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+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+)
+
+// **R292 — a drill is never counted as a repair** (novox/hq issue 292). On 2026-10-07 two deliberate
+// drills of ADR 0240's health check — a module stopped on purpose, then one made to crash, each with the
+// operator's word — were recorded through `hand-act record --cause drill`, there being no verb for a drill,
+// and S15 raised `mesh.hand-acts.drill.healer-wanted`: "drill" repaired by hand twice, a healer wanted. The
+// outcome asserted: those two acts, as the log holds them, want no healer.
+//
+// In a file of its own, written only with what the controller had before the fix (watchHandActs, calm, the
+// hand-act log's row), so the prover can lay it over that commit; replays_test.go holds replays of later
+// commits that do not build there.
+func TestReplay292TwoDrillsRecordedByHandWantNoHealer(t *testing.T) {
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 7, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	drill := func(at time.Time, what, why string) link.HandAct {
+		return link.HandAct{ID: "act-" + at.Format("150405"), At: at, By: "the operator at a shell on the laptop",
+			Verb: "hand-act record", Args: []string{what}, Why: why, Cause: "drill"}
+	}
+	f := calm(now)
+	f.handActs = []link.HandAct{
+		drill(now.Add(-11*time.Hour), "stopped a module on purpose", "ADR 0240: an exited container is said"),
+		drill(now.Add(-30*time.Minute), "made a module crash on purpose", "ADR 0240: a crash loop is said"),
+	}
+	if got := watchHandActs(f); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("two drills the operator approved were counted as repairs: %s", got[0].Summary)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/replays_test.go b/internal/catalogue/replays_test.go
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+package catalogue
+
+import (
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// **R298 — a seat's new verb lands in either repository first** (novox/hq issue 298). On 2026-10-07 the
+// delivery seat gained `checks`: the seat is defined here and held by a module in the catalogue, and
+// neither could merge first — a controller promising the verb refused the holder that did not serve it
+// yet, and a holder serving it was refused by the controller that did not promise it. The outcome
+// asserted: the holder as it was, and the holder serving `checks` too, both hold the delivery seat.
+//
+// Written only with what the catalogue package had before the fix (SeatNamed, VerbNames, CanHold), so the
+// prover can lay it over that commit.
+func TestReplay298ADeliverySeatHolderHoldsBeforeAndAfterItServesChecks(t *testing.T) {
+	seat, ok := SeatNamed(DeliverySeat)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("the delivery seat is not in the set")
+	}
+	var before []string
+	for _, v := range VerbNames(seat.Serves) {
+		if v != "checks" {
+			before = append(before, v)
+		}
+	}
+	holder := func(serves []string) Manifest {
+		return Manifest{Module: "mesh-delivery", Claims: []Claim{{Name: DeliverySeat, Scope: ScopeMesh, Serves: serves}}}
+	}
+	if err := CanHold(holder(before), seat); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the holder as the catalogue had it, before it serves checks, is refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := CanHold(holder(append(slices.Clone(before), "checks")), seat); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the holder serving checks is refused — the catalogue cannot merge first: %v", err)
+	}
+}