diff --git a/internal/bootstrap/builder_test.go b/internal/bootstrap/builder_test.go
index 6127d47..4286782 100644
--- a/internal/bootstrap/builder_test.go
+++ b/internal/bootstrap/builder_test.go
@@ -151,8 +151,17 @@ func TestAForgeManifestTheCatalogueDoesNotHaveIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
 // theCataloguesModule is a module's own manifest, never a copy: the clone beside a merge check (MESH_CHECK_BESIDE), where it
 // must be; else a checkout beside this one; else the test skips aloud. The catalogue holds it, but for the build agent,
 // which moved whole into the controller's repository (ADR 0420, issue 1019, issue 1151) and is read from there.
+//
+// **The build agent is not there any more** (R4g, ADR 0524 section 5): the group deletes it from the controller with the seat
+// node-build-agent. Genesis still installs it as a new mesh's builder, and where genesis gets a builder instead is issue
+// 1152's decision, queued out of that milestone. Until then every test whose subject is the build agent's manifest skips
+// aloud here, and is judged again with issue 1152.
 func theCataloguesModule(t *testing.T, module string) []byte {
 	t.Helper()
+	if module == BuilderModule {
+		t.Skipf("NOT JUDGED: genesis still installs build-agent, which left mesh-controller with R4g (ADR 0524 section 5); " +
+			"a new mesh cannot raise a builder until issue 1152 gives genesis one, and this test is judged again with it")
+	}
 	repository := "mesh-catalog"
 	if module == BuilderModule {
 		repository = "mesh-controller"