diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/adopting_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/adopting_test.go
index 8232286c..6ae7e7fc 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/adopting_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/adopting_test.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func reportsReaching(t *testing.T, open *stores, reachable []link.Reach, held ..
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := open.inventory.RecordSent(ctx, record.ID, digestOf(body), nil); err != nil {
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordSentForTest(ctx, record.ID, digestOf(body)); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := (link.Enrolment{Inventory: open.inventory}).Heard(ctx, link.Report{
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_integration_test.go
index b18d766f..bae548ac 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_integration_test.go
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ func TestALastSendIsReadFromTheSendAndTheReport(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := open.inventory.RecordSent(ctx, record.ID, "carried", map[string]string{overlay.Name: "c-overlay"}); err != nil {
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordSentForTest(ctx, record.ID, "carried"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "keeper"); err != nil {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_test.go
index 74b7097b..37007d65 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/awaiting_push_test.go
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ func pushedBy(t *testing.T, open *stores, node string) string {
 			builds[m.Module] = current[m.Module].Commit
 		}
 	}
-	if err := open.inventory.RecordSent(ctx, record.ID, digest, builds); err != nil {
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordSentForTest(ctx, record.ID, digest); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	return digest
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/compose_input.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/compose_input.go
index 966a4316..e405918e 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/compose_input.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/compose_input.go
@@ -245,9 +245,6 @@ func readNode(ctx context.Context, open *stores, n inventory.Node, place invento
 	if out.Sequence, err = inv.Sequence(ctx, n.ID); err != nil {
 		return out, err
 	}
-	if out.Epoch, err = inv.SentEpoch(ctx, n.ID); err != nil {
-		return out, err
-	}
 	// Every node-engine of release 6 reads a module per resource and a build per module.
 	out.ReadsModules = true
 	stated, has, err := inv.HealthOf(ctx, n.Name)
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/probes.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/probes.go
index 2bca46ae..37d40602 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/probes.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/probes.go
@@ -93,9 +93,7 @@ func probeDeclarations(ctx context.Context, d *doctor) ([]conditions.Observation
 				// With the order it was last sent, so the validator reads the envelope a machine is sent
 				// — its epoch included (novox/hq to-be 45 §6).
 				var serr error
-				if declared.Sequence, serr = open.inventory.Sequence(ctx, n.ID); serr == nil {
-					declared.Epoch, serr = open.inventory.SentEpoch(ctx, n.ID)
-				}
+				declared.Sequence, serr = open.inventory.Sequence(ctx, n.ID)
 				if serr != nil {
 					return nil, serr // the store, not the machine: the probe could not run
 				}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs.go
index b42be444..b0fe3b5a 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs.go
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
+	sdkdelivery "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 	"os"
 	"slices"
 	"sort"
@@ -413,18 +415,12 @@ func imagesCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
-	// And what it was last sent, as `plan --diff` compares against.
-	prev, err := open.inventory.SentSummary(ctx, node)
+	// And what its compositions name, which the node applies by its wants (ADR 0539 §2): read from its bucket on the bus.
+	sent, kept, err := keptImages(ctx, node)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	var sent []sentResource
-	if len(prev) > 0 {
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(prev, &sent); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%s: what it was last sent is kept in a form this version does not read: %w", node, err)
-		}
-	}
-	answer, err := imagesOf(node, body, sent, len(prev) > 0)
+	answer, err := imagesOf(node, body, sent, kept)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -437,15 +433,58 @@ func imagesCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		fmt.Printf("%s  (%s; %s)\n", d.Image, strings.Join(d.In, ", "), strings.Join(d.Resources, ", "))
 	}
 	if !answer.SentKnown {
-		fmt.Printf("%s: which images it was last sent is not kept — the next push keeps it\n", node)
+		fmt.Printf("%s: no composition of it is kept on the bus yet, so which images it applies is not known\n", node)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
-// sentResource is what the store kept of one resource a machine was last sent, as far as `images` reads it: the container's
-// image. Nothing writes the summary any more (ADR 0539 §5); a machine's images are read from its compositions.
+// sentResource is a container among the resources of a node's compositions, as `images` reads it: the image the node applies.
 type sentResource struct {
 	ID    string `json:"id"`
 	Type  string `json:"type"`
 	Image string `json:"image,omitempty"`
 }
+
+// imagesOfCompositions are the containers of the compositions' resources, in the shape `images` compares with what would be
+// declared; the bool says a composition was kept at all.
+func imagesOfCompositions(values [][]byte) ([]sentResource, bool, error) {
+	var out []sentResource
+	for _, value := range values {
+		c, err := sdkdelivery.DecodeComposed(value)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("a composition is not readable: %w", err)
+		}
+		for _, raw := range c.Resources {
+			var r struct {
+				ID    string `json:"id"`
+				Type  string `json:"type"`
+				Image string `json:"image"`
+			}
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &r); err != nil {
+				return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("a resource of a composition is not readable: %w", err)
+			}
+			if r.Type == "container" {
+				out = append(out, sentResource{ID: r.ID, Type: r.Type, Image: r.Image})
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return out, len(values) > 0, nil
+}
+
+// keptImages reads a node's compositions from its bucket on the bus and answers their containers.
+func keptImages(ctx context.Context, node string) ([]sentResource, bool, error) {
+	bus, err := aBus()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("a node's compositions are kept on the bus, and this process has none: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer bus.Close()
+	js, err := jetstream.New(bus.Conn())
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	values, err := keptCompositionsOf(ctx, js, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, false, err
+	}
+	return imagesOfCompositions(values)
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs_test.go
index bffcafb8..a58be51f 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/registry_verbs_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	sdkdelivery "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
 	"slices"
@@ -229,3 +230,35 @@ func TestImagesAreEveryContainerImageOfTheDeclarationAndOfWhatWasSent(t *testing
 		t.Errorf("with nothing sent yet: %+v %v", none, err)
 	}
 }
+
+// **`images` reads what a node applies from its compositions** (ADR 0539 §2, issue 1945 B8): the containers among the
+// resources of the values kept in its bucket, whatever module and fingerprint; none kept is not known.
+func TestImagesAreReadFromTheCompositionsAMachineKeeps(t *testing.T) {
+	file := json.RawMessage(`{"id":"web.config","type":"file","module":"web","path":"/etc/web","content":"x"}`)
+	box := json.RawMessage(`{"id":"web.server","type":"container","name":"web","module":"web","image":"registry/web@sha256:` + strings.Repeat("a", 64) + `"}`)
+	other := json.RawMessage(`{"id":"db.server","type":"container","name":"db","module":"db","image":"registry/db@sha256:` + strings.Repeat("b", 64) + `"}`)
+	encode := func(module string, fp string, resources ...json.RawMessage) []byte {
+		v, err := sdkdelivery.EncodeComposed(sdkdelivery.Composed{Node: "anchor", Module: module, FP: fp, Resources: resources})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return v
+	}
+	web := encode("web", sdkdelivery.SourcePrefix2+strings.Repeat("1", 64), file, box)
+	db := encode("db", sdkdelivery.SourcePrefix2+strings.Repeat("2", 64), other)
+
+	got, kept, err := imagesOfCompositions([][]byte{web, db})
+	if err != nil || !kept || len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("images %+v kept %v: %v", got, kept, err)
+	}
+	answer, err := imagesOf("anchor", nil, got, kept)
+	if err != nil || len(answer.Images) != 2 || !answer.SentKnown {
+		t.Fatalf("the answer %+v: %v", answer, err)
+	}
+	if none, kept, err := imagesOfCompositions(nil); err != nil || kept || len(none) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("no composition kept: %+v %v %v", none, kept, err)
+	}
+	if _, _, err := imagesOfCompositions([][]byte{[]byte("nope")}); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("an unreadable composition was read as holding no image")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/doing_test.go b/internal/inventory/doing_test.go
index b56c8239..7666fccc 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/doing_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/doing_test.go
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ func TestAMachineIsWaitingWhenWhatItWasSentIsNotWhatItShouldBe(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	// Sent what it should be: not waiting.
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, anchor.ID, "aaa", nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, anchor.ID, "aaa"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	waiting, err = inv.Waiting(ctx, map[string]string{"anchor": "aaa", "laptop": "bbb"})
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ func TestAMachineWithNothingComputedForItIsNotWaiting(t *testing.T) {
 	// It has been sent something before, which is what makes this the case the guard is for: a
 	// machine with a digest and nothing computed for it would compare against the empty string
 	// and look out of date, when the truth is that nobody worked out what it should be.
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, node.ID, "what-it-got-last-time", nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, node.ID, "what-it-got-last-time"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	waiting, err := inv.Waiting(ctx, map[string]string{})
diff --git a/internal/inventory/fortest.go b/internal/inventory/fortest.go
index aac487fd..9b2175eb 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/fortest.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/fortest.go
@@ -208,3 +208,10 @@ func (i *Inventory) PlanValuesForTest(t *testing.T) map[string][]byte {
 	}
 	return out
 }
+
+// RecordSentForTest gives a machine the digest and time of a last send, as a test needs one to stand in for a send: nothing
+// sends a declaration any more (ADR 0539 §5), so nothing in the controller writes them.
+func (i *Inventory) RecordSentForTest(ctx context.Context, node, digest string) error {
+	_, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx, `update node set sent = $2, sent_at = now() where id = $1`, node, digest)
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/given_test.go b/internal/inventory/given_test.go
index ff234271..41ebb816 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/given_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/given_test.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ func sent(t *testing.T, inv *Inventory, ctx context.Context, node, digest string
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, n.ID, digest, nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, n.ID, digest); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	return digest
diff --git a/internal/inventory/migrations/0109-the-node-keeps-no-record-of-a-send.sql b/internal/inventory/migrations/0109-the-node-keeps-no-record-of-a-send.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ca20b8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/inventory/migrations/0109-the-node-keeps-no-record-of-a-send.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+-- The node row keeps no record of a send's builds, epoch, summary or generation (novox/hq ADR 0539 §5, §17, issue 1945).
+--
+-- Nothing sends a declaration any more, so nothing writes what a send carried: the commit of each module (sent_builds, which
+-- 0105 kept only as the source of the one-time copy onto the assignments, long done), the lease epoch (sent_epoch, 0068), the
+-- summary `plan --diff` compared (sent_summary, 0078) and the assignment generation (sent_generation, 0094). **It is one-way**,
+-- as 0108. What stays: sent and sent_at (the digest and time of the last send, which `status`' reported-and-current reads and the
+-- given secrets' first good start is judged against), sent_bus_users, and sent_provisioning, which now holds the provisioner's
+-- plans of each composition (inventory.RecordComposedPlans).
+alter table node drop column if exists sent_builds;
+alter table node drop column if exists sent_epoch;
+alter table node drop column if exists sent_summary;
+alter table node drop column if exists sent_generation;
diff --git a/internal/inventory/nodes.go b/internal/inventory/nodes.go
index 90ee3113..ed2ca743 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/nodes.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/nodes.go
@@ -1242,41 +1242,6 @@ func (i *Inventory) LastReports(ctx context.Context) ([]Reported, error) {
 	return out, rows.Err()
 }
 
-// RecordSent keeps a digest of the declaration a machine was last sent, and the build of each module
-// it carried.
-//
-// **A digest rather than the declaration.** The mesh can compute what a machine should be at any
-// moment; keeping a copy would be a second account of it, able to disagree with the first. What
-// cannot be recomputed is what was *actually sent*, and that is the whole difference between a
-// machine that is out of date and one that has never been told.
-//
-// **And which build of each module** (novox/hq issue 259, ADR 0221): module name to the commit its
-// build was made from. A digest cannot say whether a machine differs because a module moved to a build
-// its upgrade policy holds back, or because of something a push made — a grant — and only the second
-// is a push's to send to a machine it did not name. Nil records that it is not known, as for a
-// declaration sent by hand.
-func (i *Inventory) RecordSent(ctx context.Context, node, digest string, builds map[string]string) error {
-	return i.RecordSentUnder(ctx, node, digest, builds, 0)
-}
-
-// RecordSentUnder is RecordSent for a declaration that carried an epoch (novox/hq to-be 45 §6): kept
-// beside the digest, so what the mesh would send is composed with it. Zero is one that carried none.
-func (i *Inventory) RecordSentUnder(ctx context.Context, node, digest string, builds map[string]string,
-	epoch uint64) error {
-	var sentEpoch *int64
-	if epoch > 0 {
-		e := int64(epoch)
-		sentEpoch = &e
-	}
-	if _, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
-		`update node set sent = $2, sent_at = now(), sent_builds = null, sent_epoch = $3 where id = $1`, node, digest, sentEpoch); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	// What it was sent of each module is no longer kept in the assignments: they hold placement only (ADR 0539 §12).
-	_ = builds
-	return nil
-}
-
 // AwaitingSince is since when a machine has had something waiting for its next send (novox/hq issue
 // 275): the oldest assignment on it made after it was last sent, or — when nothing was assigned since —
 // when it was last sent, or when it joined if it never was. The moment a bound on "not pushed yet" is
@@ -1286,15 +1251,6 @@ func (i *Inventory) AwaitingSince(ctx context.Context, name string) (time.Time,
 	return i.chainAwaitingSince(ctx, name)
 }
 
-// SentBuilds is the build of each module a machine was last sent, by its name: module to the commit
-// its build was made from (novox/hq issue 259), read from the keys of the machine's assignments that name a commit — an
-// assigned module and one only pulled in (ADR 0408, issue 1109). Known is false when that was not kept: a machine never sent
-// anything, or last sent a declaration by hand, which makes every key of it say its commit unknown.
-func (i *Inventory) SentBuilds(ctx context.Context, name string) (builds map[string]string, known bool, err error) {
-	// Never known: the assignments hold placement only (ADR 0539 §12), and what a machine runs is its have.
-	return nil, false, nil
-}
-
 // RecordSentBusUsers keeps a digest of the bus's user list a machine was just sent, by its name
 // (novox/hq issue 249): whether the machine holding the bus must go first is whether this differs
 // from the list composed now.
diff --git a/internal/inventory/order.go b/internal/inventory/order.go
index 33834b37..b7178943 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/order.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/order.go
@@ -142,18 +142,6 @@ func scanEpochs(rows pgx.Rows) ([]Epoch, error) {
 	return out, rows.Err()
 }
 
-// SentEpoch is the epoch a machine was last sent, by its id; zero for one sent without.
-func (i *Inventory) SentEpoch(ctx context.Context, id string) (uint64, error) {
-	var epoch *int64
-	if err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx, `select sent_epoch from node where id = $1`, id).Scan(&epoch); err != nil {
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("reading the epoch %s was last sent: %w", id, err)
-	}
-	if epoch == nil {
-		return 0, nil
-	}
-	return uint64(*epoch), nil
-}
-
 // ReadsEpoch says a machine's node-engine said it reads an epoch in a declaration, by its id.
 func (i *Inventory) ReadsEpoch(ctx context.Context, id string) (bool, error) {
 	var reads bool
diff --git a/internal/inventory/plans_leave_the_store_test.go b/internal/inventory/plans_leave_the_store_test.go
index ab30592b..971e382a 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/plans_leave_the_store_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/plans_leave_the_store_test.go
@@ -45,3 +45,36 @@ func TestMigration0108DropsTheTablesOfThePlansMachineryAndKeepsWhatTheController
 		t.Errorf("the function raise_assignment_generation is still in the store")
 	}
 }
+
+// **Migration 0109 drops the columns of the node row that kept what a send carried** (ADR 0539 §17, issue 1945): the builds,
+// the epoch, the summary and the generation. The digest and time of the last send stay, with the provisioner's plans.
+func TestMigration0109DropsWhatASendCarriedFromTheNodeRow(t *testing.T) {
+	inv, migrate := ForTestBefore(t, 109)
+	columns := func() map[string]bool {
+		t.Helper()
+		out := map[string]bool{}
+		for _, row := range inv.QueryForTest(t, `select column_name::text from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'node'`) {
+			out[strings.Trim(row[0], `"`)] = true
+		}
+		return out
+	}
+	gone := []string{"sent_builds", "sent_epoch", "sent_summary", "sent_generation"}
+	before := columns()
+	for _, name := range gone {
+		if !before[name] {
+			t.Fatalf("node.%s is not in the store before the migration", name)
+		}
+	}
+	migrate()
+	after := columns()
+	for _, name := range gone {
+		if after[name] {
+			t.Errorf("node.%s is still in the store", name)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, stays := range []string{"sent", "sent_at", "sent_bus_users", "sent_provisioning"} {
+		if !after[stays] {
+			t.Errorf("node.%s is gone", stays)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/unseen.go b/internal/inventory/unseen.go
index 023fa315..7fecb8e5 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/unseen.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/unseen.go
@@ -136,22 +136,3 @@ func (i *Inventory) layerNode(ctx context.Context, nodeName string) (*string, er
 	}
 	return &n.ID, nil
 }
-
-// RecordSentSummary keeps what a machine was last sent, summarised (migration 0078): read only to
-// compare what would be sent with it, never as what the machine should be.
-func (i *Inventory) RecordSentSummary(ctx context.Context, node string, summary []byte) error {
-	_, err := i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx, `update node set sent_summary = $2 where id = $1`, node, summary)
-	return err
-}
-
-// SentSummary is what a machine was last sent, summarised, by its name; empty for a machine sent
-// nothing since the summary was first kept.
-func (i *Inventory) SentSummary(ctx context.Context, name string) ([]byte, error) {
-	var raw []byte
-	err := i.store.Pool().QueryRow(ctx,
-		`select sent_summary from node where name = $1`, name).Scan(&raw)
-	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	return raw, err
-}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/unseen_test.go b/internal/inventory/unseen_test.go
index 80ea3998..dc786660 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/unseen_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/unseen_test.go
@@ -83,24 +83,3 @@ func TestTheLayerASetReplacesIsKeptAndReadable(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the node's history changed with the mesh's: %v %v", past, err)
 	}
 }
-
-// What a machine was last sent is kept, summarised, and read back by its name; a machine sent
-// nothing since has nothing to compare with.
-func TestWhatAMachineWasSentIsKeptForComparison(t *testing.T) {
-	inv := fresh(t)
-	ctx := t.Context()
-	n, err := inv.AddNode(ctx, "anchor")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if got, err := inv.SentSummary(ctx, "anchor"); err != nil || len(got) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a machine never sent anything: %s %v", got, err)
-	}
-	if err := inv.RecordSentSummary(ctx, n.ID, []byte(`[{"id":"web.server","type":"container"}]`)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	got, err := inv.SentSummary(ctx, "anchor")
-	if err != nil || len(got) == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("read back: %s %v", got, err)
-	}
-}
diff --git a/internal/link/heard_order_integration_test.go b/internal/link/heard_order_integration_test.go
index 5941b196..5a5b5627 100644
--- a/internal/link/heard_order_integration_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/heard_order_integration_test.go
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ func TestAnOlderReportOfTheSameDeclarationIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 func TestAnOrderedAccountIsNotJudgedByTheDigestSent(t *testing.T) {
 	inv, heard, id := anOrderedMachine(t)
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, id, "d13", nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, id, "d13"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, ordered("d12", 57, 12, 41, "a")); err != nil {
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ func TestAnUnorderedAccountClearsTheOrderAndTheEpoch(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, ordered("d12", 57, 12, 41, "a")); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, id, "d13", nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, id, "d13"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "home-server", Declared: "d13", Applied: []string{"a", "b"}}); err != nil {
diff --git a/internal/link/heard_test.go b/internal/link/heard_test.go
index 93a2dd0d..b4073c58 100644
--- a/internal/link/heard_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/heard_test.go
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ func TestABareAliveDoesNotWipeTheDeclarationThatSaysANodeIsCurrent(t *testing.T)
 	}
 	// The mesh sent this node a declaration, and the node applied it and named which by digest.
 	const digest = "d640d1b6a1b2c3d4e5f60718293a4b5c6d7e8f90a1b2c3d4e5f6071829304152"
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, node.ID, digest, nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, node.ID, digest); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := (link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}).Heard(ctx, link.Report{
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ func TestAnAccountOfAnOlderDeclarationDoesNotReplaceTheNewer(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, node.ID, "d2", nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, node.ID, "d2"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	heard := link.Enrolment{Inventory: inv}
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ func TestAnAccountOfTheSentDeclarationReplacesTheKeptOne(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "home-server", Declared: "d1", Applied: []string{"a"}}); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if err := inv.RecordSent(ctx, node.ID, "d2", nil); err != nil {
+	if err := inv.RecordSentForTest(ctx, node.ID, "d2"); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := heard.Heard(ctx, link.Report{Node: "home-server", Declared: "d2", Applied: []string{"a", "b"}}); err != nil {