diff --git a/internal/composer/composer.go b/internal/composer/composer.go
index 92961f1..61aad6c 100644
--- a/internal/composer/composer.go
+++ b/internal/composer/composer.go
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ func machine(in compose.Input, node, depth string, declarations bool) Machine {
 		// own composition: the sandbox cannot compose them as the node does, so it does not judge the node, and names
 		// it (ADR 0593 §9), never a failure of the change and never a silent pass.
 		if folded := foldedUnsaid(in, node); len(folded) > 0 && in.ComposedHow == nil {
-			return Machine{Composes: true, Reason: NotJudged + strings.Join(folded, ", ") +
+			return Machine{NotJudged: NotJudged + strings.Join(folded, ", ") +
 				" (its own composition carries them as they run, and the sandbox cannot): " + err.Error()}
 		}
 		return Machine{Reason: err.Error()}
@@ -237,8 +237,9 @@ func machine(in compose.Input, node, depth string, declarations bool) Machine {
 	return m
 }
 
-// NotJudged opens the reason of a machine the sandbox does not judge: its node-engine sent an input that does not say
-// how it composes (compose.Input.ComposedHow), and the node runs modules folded in its own composition.
+// NotJudged opens the words of a machine the sandbox does not judge (Machine.NotJudged, the contract's field, ADR 0593 §9):
+// its node-engine sent an input that does not say how it composes (compose.Input.ComposedHow), and the node runs modules
+// folded in its own composition. The machine is then neither composed nor refused; a reader decides by the field.
 const NotJudged = "not judged: its node-engine sends no running state for "
 
 // foldedUnsaid is each module node runs folded in its own composition (Node.InOwn) whose manifest names a build: what
diff --git a/internal/composer/composer_test.go b/internal/composer/composer_test.go
index 3e669aa..73ecf12 100644
--- a/internal/composer/composer_test.go
+++ b/internal/composer/composer_test.go
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func TestARequestItCannotRunIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		if m := older.Cases[0].Machines["a"]; !m.Composes || !strings.HasPrefix(m.Reason, NotJudged+"bus") {
+		if m := older.Cases[0].Machines["a"]; m.Composes || !strings.HasPrefix(m.NotJudged, NotJudged+"bus") || m.Reason != "" {
 			t.Errorf("an older engine's input of a node with a folded module: %+v", m)
 		}
 		in.ComposedHow = &compose.ComposedHow{Node: "a", Builds: map[string]string{}}