diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/check.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/check.go
index dbd9225..b4df926 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/check.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/check.go
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ func moduleCheck(paths []string, out io.Writer) error {
 		if len(m.Invokes) > 0 {
 			fmt.Fprintf(out, ", invokes %s", joinInvokes(m.Invokes))
 		}
-		// The state it keeps and reads (novox/hq ADR 0201), so a reviewer sees what lands on the bus.
+		// The state it keeps and reads (novox/hq ADR 0202), so a reviewer sees what lands on the bus.
 		if len(m.State) > 0 {
 			kept := make([]string, 0, len(m.State))
 			for _, s := range m.State {
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
index 13c587e..e32721d 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/push.go
@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ func raiseTheBus(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, address string)
 	if err := broker.RaiseSeats(js, inventory.MeshSeats(), holders); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	// Every module's state (novox/hq ADR 0201), from the catalogue: a bucket exists from
+	// Every module's state (novox/hq ADR 0202), from the catalogue: a bucket exists from
 	// registration, so a module reading one may watch it before its owner runs anywhere. One that
 	// nothing declares any more is said and kept — what it holds is data.
 	buckets, err := inv.DeclaredBuckets(ctx)
diff --git a/internal/broker/jetstream.go b/internal/broker/jetstream.go
index 20b5479..aed8381 100644
--- a/internal/broker/jetstream.go
+++ b/internal/broker/jetstream.go
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ func retentionOf(r Retention) nats.RetentionPolicy {
 }
 
 // EnsureBucket creates a module's bucket if it is absent and brings its options to match if it is
-// present (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+// present (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 //
 // **An update, never a delete and recreate**, for the reason a stream is updated: recreating
 // discards what the bucket holds, and what a module's state holds is data. The mesh's caps are
diff --git a/internal/broker/membership.go b/internal/broker/membership.go
index 2fca555..c0f76b0 100644
--- a/internal/broker/membership.go
+++ b/internal/broker/membership.go
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ type Membership struct {
 	// it here rather than keeping a definition of its own.
 	Mesh []string `json:"mesh,omitempty"`
 	// State is every bucket this module's code may reach, by the name it uses for each, and whether
-	// it may write it (novox/hq ADR 0201): the runtime answers a bundle's state verbs from this list
+	// it may write it (novox/hq ADR 0202): the runtime answers a bundle's state verbs from this list
 	// and refuses, with the reason, what is not on it — the bus enforces only the union over every
 	// module on the machine.
 	State []StateIssued `json:"state,omitempty"`
diff --git a/internal/broker/nats.go b/internal/broker/nats.go
index 556f8e3..69e5b7b 100644
--- a/internal/broker/nats.go
+++ b/internal/broker/nats.go
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ type Principal struct {
 	Invokes []string
 
 	// State is the local names of the state this principal's module keeps, and Reads the state of
-	// others it reads as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201): a bucket each, kept by the owner's
+	// others it reads as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0202): a bucket each, kept by the owner's
 	// instances and read by whoever declares it.
 	State []string
 	Reads []string
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 			}
 		}
 
-		// 5. Its state, and the state of others it reads (novox/hq ADR 0201): every one read and
+		// 5. Its state, and the state of others it reads (novox/hq ADR 0202): every one read and
 		//    watched, its own written too.
 		pub = append(pub, stateGrants(p.Module, p.State, p.Reads)...)
 
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
 				"$JS.API.CONSUMER.MSG.NEXT."+stream+"."+durable,
 				"$JS.ACK."+stream+"."+durable+".>")
 		}
-		// **And it keeps and reads state for the modules it carries** (novox/hq ADR 0201): the union
+		// **And it keeps and reads state for the modules it carries** (novox/hq ADR 0202): the union
 		// of what each may do with a bucket — an owner's write, a reader's read. That one module's code
 		// does not write another's bucket through it is the runtime's to keep, from the membership
 		// each assignment is issued, as it keeps each module's events under that module's own name.
diff --git a/internal/broker/state.go b/internal/broker/state.go
index 0324543..8bdd0fc 100644
--- a/internal/broker/state.go
+++ b/internal/broker/state.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
-// A module's state on the bus (novox/hq ADR 0201, design 32 §4, design 25 §3).
+// A module's state on the bus (novox/hq ADR 0202, design 32 §4, design 25 §3).
 //
 // A module names the state it keeps (`state`) and the state of others it reads (`reads`), and each
 // is a key-value bucket: the server's own last-per-subject stream with direct reads, delete markers
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (b Bucket) Bucket() string { return BucketName(b.Module, b.Name) }
 // Why is carried into the server's description of the bucket, so somebody reading the server's
 // own state finds whose it is and why it is kept.
 func (b Bucket) Why() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("%s's state %q (novox/hq ADR 0201): its current value per key, written by %s, "+
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%s's state %q (novox/hq ADR 0202): its current value per key, written by %s, "+
 		"read by whatever declares it reads it; kept when %s is unassigned, because it is data",
 		b.Module, b.Name, b.Module, b.Module)
 }
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func stateGrants(module string, keeps []string, reads []string) []string {
 }
 
 // StateIssued is one bucket an assignment may reach, by the name its module uses for it: its own
-// state by the local name, another's as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+// state by the local name, another's as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 type StateIssued struct {
 	Name   string `json:"name"`
 	Bucket string `json:"bucket"`
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ type BucketAsserter interface {
 // RaiseBuckets asserts every declared bucket and answers the buckets on the server that nothing
 // declares any more.
 //
-// **Those are reported, never removed** (novox/hq ADR 0201, ADR 0030): what a module stored is
+// **Those are reported, never removed** (novox/hq ADR 0202, ADR 0030): what a module stored is
 // data, and a manifest edited, a module renamed or a catalogue entry dropped is an ordinary day's
 // work that must not take data with it. Removing one is a person's act.
 func RaiseBuckets(a BucketAsserter, buckets []Bucket) (undeclared []string, err error) {
diff --git a/internal/broker/users.go b/internal/broker/users.go
index d831b15..137a46e 100644
--- a/internal/broker/users.go
+++ b/internal/broker/users.go
@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ type Declared struct {
 	Watches []Seat
 	// Invokes are the tools it calls, `<module>.<tool>` or `*` (novox/hq ADR 0152).
 	Invokes []string
-	// State is the state it keeps, each a bucket its instances write (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+	// State is the state it keeps, each a bucket its instances write (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 	State []Bucket
-	// Reads are other modules' state it reads, each `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+	// Reads are other modules' state it reads, each `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 	Reads []string
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
index 7d736de..b757d40 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/manifest.go
@@ -327,11 +327,11 @@ type Manifest struct {
 
 	// State is the current state this module keeps on the bus, by local name: each a key-value
 	// bucket the controller creates, which every instance of the module writes and reads
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0201). Not history — that is an event — and never a secret, sealed or not.
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0202). Not history — that is an event — and never a secret, sealed or not.
 	State []StateDeclaration `json:"state,omitempty"`
 
 	// Reads are other modules' state this module reads and watches, each `<module>.<name>`
-	// (novox/hq ADR 0201). Read-only: only the owner's instances write.
+	// (novox/hq ADR 0202). Read-only: only the owner's instances write.
 	Reads []string `json:"reads,omitempty"`
 
 	// Capabilities the machine must have. A different field from Requires because the remedy
@@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ func ParseManifest(raw []byte) (Manifest, error) {
 	// module whose event names are wrong installs, starts, connects and reacts to nothing, with
 	// every log line saying it is fine (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/127).
 	problems = append(problems, EventProblems(m)...)
-	// And what it may call its state, and whose it may read (state.go, novox/hq ADR 0201).
+	// And what it may call its state, and whose it may read (state.go, novox/hq ADR 0202).
 	problems = append(problems, StateProblems(m)...)
 	wellFormed := true
 	for _, c := range m.Claims {
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/seats_declared.go b/internal/catalogue/seats_declared.go
index 5fb89bd..efdf596 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/seats_declared.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/seats_declared.go
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ func CatalogueProblems(shelf Shelf) []string {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	// A read of a module's state that module does not keep (novox/hq ADR 0201) — said only where the
+	// A read of a module's state that module does not keep (novox/hq ADR 0202) — said only where the
 	// owner is on the shelf, as a consumer may be installed before its emitter.
 	var manifests []Manifest
 	for _, module := range shelfOrder(shelf) {
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/state.go b/internal/catalogue/state.go
index fa49f71..0dc9be2 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/state.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/state.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
-// What a module may call its state, and whose state it may ask to read (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+// What a module may call its state, and whose state it may ask to read (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 //
 // A module names its state **locally** — `servers`, never a bucket or a subject — and another
 // module's as `<module>.<name>`, the way a consumed event names its emitter (design 32 §1). The
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ func StateProblems(m Manifest) []string {
 	if len(m.State) > 0 && !stateName.MatchString(m.Module) {
 		problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 			"%s keeps state, and a module's name is part of its buckets' names, which take one plain "+
-				"name — no dot (novox/hq ADR 0201)", m.Module))
+				"name — no dot (novox/hq ADR 0202)", m.Module))
 	}
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, s := range m.State {
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ func StateProblems(m Manifest) []string {
 		case !stateName.MatchString(s.Name):
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf(
 				"%s keeps state %q: a state is named locally — lower-case letters, digits and hyphens, "+
-					"no dot and no underscore; the mesh derives the bucket (novox/hq ADR 0201)", m.Module, s.Name))
+					"no dot and no underscore; the mesh derives the bucket (novox/hq ADR 0202)", m.Module, s.Name))
 		case seen[s.Name]:
 			problems = append(problems, fmt.Sprintf("%s keeps state %q twice", m.Module, s.Name))
 		}
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/state_test.go b/internal/catalogue/state_test.go
index 6229787..2c67ac3 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/state_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/state_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// A module declares the state it keeps and the state it reads (novox/hq ADR 0201), a bucket by its
+// A module declares the state it keeps and the state it reads (novox/hq ADR 0202), a bucket by its
 // bare name or with the owner's options.
 func TestAManifestMaySayWhatStateItKeepsAndReads(t *testing.T) {
 	m, err := ParseManifest([]byte(`{"module":"claude-code","version":"1",` +
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ func TestEveryManifestsStateIsLocalAndEveryReadIsKept(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	problems = append(problems, StateReadsNothingDeclares(manifests)...)
 	if len(problems) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("the catalogue's state is not what ADR 0201 says:\n  %s", strings.Join(problems, "\n  "))
+		t.Fatalf("the catalogue's state is not what ADR 0202 says:\n  %s", strings.Join(problems, "\n  "))
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/inventory/busrecords.go b/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
index 88fccf1..4890c9e 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/busrecords.go
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func declaredFor(m catalogue.Manifest, seats map[string]catalogue.SeatDeclaratio
 		Serves: m.Tools,
 		// And what it calls (novox/hq ADR 0152) — the console's `*`, nothing else's.
 		Invokes: m.Invokes,
-		// And the state it keeps and reads (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+		// And the state it keeps and reads (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 		State: bucketsOf(m),
 		Reads: m.Reads,
 	}
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ func bucketsOf(m catalogue.Manifest) []broker.Bucket {
 
 // DeclaredBuckets is every bucket the catalogue declares, registered modules assigned or not: a
 // bucket exists from registration, like a seat's stream, so a module reading it may watch before its
-// owner runs anywhere (novox/hq ADR 0201).
+// owner runs anywhere (novox/hq ADR 0202).
 func (i *Inventory) DeclaredBuckets(ctx context.Context) ([]broker.Bucket, error) {
 	declared, err := i.Catalogue(ctx)
 	if err != nil {