diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go
index b7c67c52..5f3c82df 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go
@@ -1640,7 +1640,7 @@ func TestAProposalIsAnsweredApprovedAndWritten(t *testing.T) {
 // the bucket does, and checks that no views event landed where a waiter on the assigner's put waits.
 func (b *bed) viewsHold(t *testing.T, state, key string) {
 	t.Helper()
-	kv, marks := b.buckets[viewedStates[state]], b.buckets[marksBucket()]
+	kv, marks := b.buckets[viewedStates()[state]], b.buckets[marksBucket()]
 	src := func(kv jetstream.KeyValue) views.Source { return bedSource{b.ctx, kv} }
 	st, err := b.js.Stream(b.ctx, "EVENTS")
 	if err != nil {
@@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@ func firstViewsBeforeAnyNewFormState(t *testing.T, b *bed, granted map[string][]
 		if name == views.MarksState {
 			return bedSource{b.ctx, b.buckets[marksBucket()]}
 		}
-		return bedSource{b.ctx, b.buckets[viewedStates[name]]}
+		return bedSource{b.ctx, b.buckets[viewedStates()[name]]}
 	}
 	// The runtime: one bundle on a pair of pipes, a call on mesh.mod.<module>.call.<tool>.<caller token> handed to it with
 	// the caller in _meta, its answer replied as the tool runner replies ({result, error, node}).
@@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ func firstViewsBeforeAnyNewFormState(t *testing.T, b *bed, granted map[string][]
 			case slices.Contains(allowed, user) && err != nil:
 				t.Errorf("%s's first view of %s before any new-form state: %v", user, tool, err)
 			case slices.Contains(allowed, user):
-				keys, _ := b.buckets[viewedStates[tool]].Keys(b.ctx)
+				keys, _ := b.buckets[viewedStates()[tool]].Keys(b.ctx)
 				if a.Owner != assignment.Module() || a.State != tool || len(a.Values) != len(keys) {
 					t.Errorf("%s's first view of %s = %+v, the state holds %v", user, tool, a, keys)
 				}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
index 53dd4f7b..ef9a14aa 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	}
 	// Each change of the states its readers read is said on its views family (ADR 0615 §5, ADR 0619 §2); a watch of it
 	// that ends stops the program, as a watch of what a pass reads does.
-	viewErrs := make(chan error, len(viewedStates))
+	viewErrs := make(chan error, len(viewedStates()))
 	startViews(ctx, js, conn, account, kvs, wireOf(writer), viewErrs, logger.Printf)
 	go func() {
 		select {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/views.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/views.go
index ae31f571..92eeecb7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/views.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/views.go
@@ -55,14 +55,16 @@ var readTools = []viewedTool{
 }
 
 // viewedStates are the states the views family says, each by its bucket: the six its readers read.
-var viewedStates = map[string]string{
-	mma.StateAssignments: plc.AssignmentsBucket(),
-	mma.StateSeatHolders: plc.SeatHoldersBucket(),
-	"wants":              buckets.Wants(),
-	assign.FindingsState: assign.FindingsBucket(),
-	"asks":               buckets.Asks(),
-	"differences":        buckets.Differences(),
-	copiesState:          copiesBucket(),
+func viewedStates() map[string]string {
+	return map[string]string{
+		mma.StateAssignments: plc.AssignmentsBucket(),
+		mma.StateSeatHolders: plc.SeatHoldersBucket(),
+		"wants":              buckets.Wants(),
+		assign.FindingsState: assign.FindingsBucket(),
+		"asks":               buckets.Asks(),
+		"differences":        buckets.Differences(),
+		copiesState:          copiesBucket(),
+	}
 }
 
 // viewTools are the assigner's first-view and read tools, reading only its own states, so they answer as soon as its
@@ -94,11 +96,11 @@ func startViews(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream, nc process.Subscrib
 					logf("%v: its readers ask its first view at each change until the assigner starts again", err)
 				}
 			}
-			if kv := kvs[viewedStates[state]]; kv != nil {
+			if kv := kvs[viewedStates()[state]]; kv != nil {
 				start(kv)
 				continue
 			}
-			process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, nc, viewedStates[state], "its changes are not said on the views family", logf).Ready(start)
+			process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, nc, viewedStates()[state], "its changes are not said on the views family", logf).Ready(start)
 		}
 	})
 }