diff --git a/internal/bootstrap/genesis_form_test.go b/internal/bootstrap/genesis_form_test.go
index 3aceee0..dda3852 100644
--- a/internal/bootstrap/genesis_form_test.go
+++ b/internal/bootstrap/genesis_form_test.go
@@ -242,16 +242,14 @@ func TestAFileNothingOfTheControllerWritesIsStillRefused(t *testing.T) {
 // node-engine's check has the controller cloned beside it (MESH_CHECK_BESIDE), where it must be; else a
 // checkout beside this one; else it skips aloud.
 //
-// **The checker running today places no controller beside this repository** (issue 1295, R4g): its rules put only the
-// catalogue and mesh-sdk beside mesh-host, and until R4g deleted this repository's merge-check.sh nothing here was judged
-// by it. A MESH_CHECK_BESIDE without a mesh-controller directory therefore skips aloud; mesh-delivery #27 places the
-// controller from R4g's delivery on, and this is a failure again then. A directory without its module.json still fails.
+// The checker places the controller beside this repository (mesh-delivery's besideRules, since R4g, issue 1295), so a
+// MESH_CHECK_BESIDE without a mesh-controller directory, or without its module.json, fails. Only a run with no
+// MESH_CHECK_BESIDE and no checkout beside this one (a developer's clone alone) skips aloud.
 func TestTheControllersOwnManifestPassesStepNine(t *testing.T) {
 	var manifest []byte
 	if root := os.Getenv("MESH_CHECK_BESIDE"); root != "" {
 		if info, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, "mesh-controller")); err != nil || !info.IsDir() {
-			t.Skip("NOT JUDGED: the checker running today places no mesh-controller beside mesh-host's check; " +
-				"mesh-delivery #27 places it from R4g's delivery on, and this is a failure again then (issue 1295)")
+			t.Fatalf("the controller is not beside this check in MESH_CHECK_BESIDE=%s: the checker places mesh-controller beside the node-engine's check (mesh-delivery besideRules, issue 1295), and this test judges the controller's own manifest", root)
 		}
 		raw, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(root, "mesh-controller", "module.json"))
 		if err != nil {