diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/check_here.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/check_here.go
index ad027ee..58645c7 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/check_here.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/check_here.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 // `check-here` is a pull request's merge check run on the machine at hand **exactly as the build seat
-// runs it** (novox/hq issue 283): the same code (builder.Check), the same ask the controller would make of
+// runs it** (novox/hq issue 286): the same code (builder.Check), the same ask the controller would make of
 // the seat — the gate's modules and judge by the planner's own answer over the facts snapshot, the
 // repositories beside it at the refs the snapshot says the seat clones them at — in the toolchain image
 // the mesh holds, as the user the build seat runs as, against a throwaway store and bus of the versions
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ func checkHereCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	}
 	if len(toolchains) == 0 {
 		return errors.New("the facts snapshot names no toolchain: it was taken by a controller from before " +
-			"issue 283, and the seat's toolchain cannot be known here")
+			"issue 286, and the seat's toolchain cannot be known here")
 	}
 	beside := map[string]builder.Beside{}
 	for d, ref := range f.Beside {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/main.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/main.go
index 0309fbd..a25a112 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/main.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/main.go
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ func run() error {
 	// The merge gate: every machine of the snapshot composed with a change (novox/hq to-be 45 §9).
 	case "merge-gate":
 		return mergeGateCommand(ctx, args[1:])
-	// A pull request's merge check run here exactly as the build seat runs it (novox/hq issue 283).
+	// A pull request's merge check run here exactly as the build seat runs it (novox/hq issue 286).
 	case "check-here":
 		return checkHereCommand(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "upgrade":
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
index 9096b11..93ca7c6 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate.go
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ type mergeVerdict struct {
 	Facts    time.Time `json:"facts"`
 	Failures []string  `json:"failures,omitempty"`
 	// Errors are what kept the gate from judging: a machine the mesh composes that the gate could not
-	// raise as it is. Any one makes the verdict an error — never a pass (novox/hq issue 282).
+	// raise as it is. Any one makes the verdict an error — never a pass (novox/hq issue 285).
 	Errors   []string          `json:"errors,omitempty"`
 	Warnings []string          `json:"warnings,omitempty"`
 	Notes    []string          `json:"notes,omitempty"`
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ func mergeGateCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 }
 
 // errMergeGateCouldNotJudge is the gate's own error: the mesh as it is could not be raised, so nothing
-// the change does to it can be seen. Never a pass (novox/hq issue 282).
+// the change does to it can be seen. Never a pass (novox/hq issue 285).
 var errMergeGateCouldNotJudge = errors.New("the merge gate could not judge the change")
 
 // errMergeGateFailed is the gate's own failure: the verdict says why, so the error says nothing more.
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ func judgeChange(ctx context.Context, in mergeCheckInput) (mergeVerdict, error)
 			v.Failures = append(v.Failures, fmt.Sprintf("%s: nothing could be sent to it with this change — %s",
 				gm.Described, firstOr(newOnly(gm.Change.Problems, gm.Base.Problems), gm.Change.Problems)))
 		case !gm.Base.Composes && m.Declaration.Composes:
-			// **The mesh composes it and the gate could not raise it as it is** (novox/hq issue 282): a fact
+			// **The mesh composes it and the gate could not raise it as it is** (novox/hq issue 285): a fact
 			// the snapshot does not carry, or one the gate does not raise. Then the change is judged against a
 			// machine that is not the mesh's — broken against broken, which passes whatever the change does —
 			// so the gate cannot judge, and says so: an error, never a pass.
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go
index 7874460..4979273 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/merge_gate_test.go
@@ -323,11 +323,11 @@ func busMesh(t *testing.T) snapshot.Facts {
 	return f
 }
 
-// **Issue 282**: every machine running a module on the bus failed to compose in the gate's store, with
+// **Issue 285**: every machine running a module on the bus failed to compose in the gate's store, with
 // the change and without — the store held the module's credential and no account for it, which
 // composition refuses (issue 203) — and the gate passed every change, "0 of 4 compose". The account the
 // mesh issued is raised with its credential, so the machine composes in the gate as on the mesh.
-func TestIssue282AModuleOnTheBusComposesInTheGate(t *testing.T) {
+func TestIssue285AModuleOnTheBusComposesInTheGate(t *testing.T) {
 	f := busMesh(t)
 	v := gateJudged(t, f, "")
 	if v.Verdict != "pass" {
@@ -343,10 +343,10 @@ func TestIssue282AModuleOnTheBusComposesInTheGate(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// **Issue 282**: a machine the mesh composes that the gate cannot raise as it is leaves the change judged
+// **Issue 285**: a machine the mesh composes that the gate cannot raise as it is leaves the change judged
 // against a machine that is not the mesh's — broken against broken, which passes whatever the change does.
 // That is an error, never a pass.
-func TestIssue282AMachineTheGateCannotRaiseIsAnErrorNeverAPass(t *testing.T) {
+func TestIssue285AMachineTheGateCannotRaiseIsAnErrorNeverAPass(t *testing.T) {
 	f := busMesh(t)
 	for i := range f.Machines {
 		// A fact the snapshot does not carry: the module's credential, gone from the laptop's.
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ func TestAWithheldPathIsStoodInForByAPath(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// **Issue 283**: a check run by hand clones beside a change what the seat clones — one rule, read by the
+// **Issue 286**: a check run by hand clones beside a change what the seat clones — one rule, read by the
 // controller's ask and by the facts — and finds the repository it checks from its origin.
 func TestACheckByHandClonesWhatTheSeatClones(t *testing.T) {
 	for dir, refs := range map[string]map[string]string{
diff --git a/internal/builder/check.go b/internal/builder/check.go
index 010610d..ed438b6 100644
--- a/internal/builder/check.go
+++ b/internal/builder/check.go
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ func gateLayer(ctx context.Context, spec CheckSpec, tree, root, gate, verdictFil
 			case "fail":
 				return "fail", said.Summary
 			case "error":
-				// The gate could not raise the mesh as it is (novox/hq issue 282): said in its own words.
+				// The gate could not raise the mesh as it is (novox/hq issue 285): said in its own words.
 				return "error", said.Summary
 			}
 		}
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@ func (t *tail) String() string {
 
 // whatFailed is the line of a failed script's output that says what failed, for the status a pull request
 // shows: the first failing test, the first failing package, the files not formatted — a bare "FAIL" or a
-// file's name said nothing a reader could act on (novox/hq issue 283) — and the last line otherwise.
+// file's name said nothing a reader could act on (novox/hq issue 286) — and the last line otherwise.
 func whatFailed(s string) string {
 	lines := strings.Split(strings.TrimSpace(s), "\n")
 	for i, line := range lines {
diff --git a/internal/builder/check_test.go b/internal/builder/check_test.go
index e278f0d..7040e88 100644
--- a/internal/builder/check_test.go
+++ b/internal/builder/check_test.go
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ func TestABuildSaysWhetherItsCommitIsOnTheTrunk(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// **Issue 283**: a failed merge-check.sh was said by its last line — a bare "FAIL", or the name of a file
+// **Issue 286**: a failed merge-check.sh was said by its last line — a bare "FAIL", or the name of a file
 // gofmt listed — which named nothing a reader could act on. The status says what failed.
 func TestAFailedScriptIsSaidByWhatFailed(t *testing.T) {
 	for out, want := range map[string]string{
diff --git a/internal/facts/facts.go b/internal/facts/facts.go
index ecb5a3c..368dc0c 100644
--- a/internal/facts/facts.go
+++ b/internal/facts/facts.go
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ type Facts struct {
 	Edges []Edge `json:"edges,omitempty"`
 	// Beside is the ref each repository is cloned at beside a merge check, by the directory it is found
 	// under — the commits the mesh runs, the catalogue's main — so a check run by hand reads the siblings
-	// the build seat reads (novox/hq issue 283).
+	// the build seat reads (novox/hq issue 286).
 	Beside map[string]string `json:"beside,omitempty"`
 }
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ type Versions struct {
 	// Toolchains are the toolchain images a merge check runs in, by language, as the mesh holds them —
 	// with no address: the artifact store the snapshot is read from is where they are pulled from. What
 	// a repository's merge-check.sh runs in on the build seat, and so what it must run in anywhere else
-	// (novox/hq issue 283): two releases of one compiler disagree, down to how gofmt lays out a file.
+	// (novox/hq issue 286): two releases of one compiler disagree, down to how gofmt lays out a file.
 	Toolchains map[string]string `json:"toolchains,omitempty"`
 }