diff --git a/internal/link/files_nats_integration_test.go b/internal/link/files_nats_test.go
similarity index 88%
rename from internal/link/files_nats_integration_test.go
rename to internal/link/files_nats_test.go
index be5192a..dcaa09b 100644
--- a/internal/link/files_nats_integration_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/files_nats_test.go
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-//go:build integration
-
 package link
 
 import (
@@ -13,11 +11,12 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 )
 
-// 1695/AC7: against a real bus with the bucket declaration-files, over the bus's default maximum message size, a
+// 1695/AC7: (untagged on purpose: the merge check of the trunk runs the tagless suite against its throwaway bus, and the
+// test skips without MESH_TEST_NATS) against a real bus with the bucket declaration-files, over the bus's default maximum message size, a
 // node-engine's link reads three objects that together are over 3 MiB by name, verifies each with File.Verify, and
 // refuses an object that is absent, one larger than the declaration says, and one that differs by a byte.
 //
-//	MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:4222 go test -tags integration ./internal/link/ -run TestFilesAreFetchedByDigestFromTheBucket
+//	MESH_TEST_NATS=nats://127.0.0.1:4222 go test ./internal/link/ -run TestFilesAreFetchedByDigestFromTheBucket
 //
 // The bucket is made here: in the mesh the controller makes and fills it, and the node-engine only reads.
 func TestFilesAreFetchedByDigestFromTheBucket(t *testing.T) {