diff --git a/module.json b/module.json
index 146d6a5..a54c462 100644
--- a/module.json
+++ b/module.json
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
     "restic.backed-up"
   ],
   "state": [
-    {
-      "name": "acts",
-      "ttl-seconds": 7776000
-    },
     {
       "name": "health"
     }
diff --git a/packaging/operator_keys_test.go b/packaging/operator_keys_test.go
index ecf8ed1..047c098 100644
--- a/packaging/operator_keys_test.go
+++ b/packaging/operator_keys_test.go
@@ -68,16 +68,16 @@ func TestTheManifestConsumesTheBackupEvent(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(m.Consumes) != 1 || m.Consumes[0] != "restic.backed-up" {
 		t.Fatalf("consumes %v", m.Consumes)
 	}
-	// 774 (ADR 0563 §2, §3): the acts of the node seat and the engine's own asks are its declared state acts, the bucket
-	// mesh-host_acts the grants part creates and each node's engine writes under its own keys.
+	// 774: the acts bucket mesh-host_acts is not declared as state for now: a declared state of a module with no account
+	// of its own is carried by every node's tool runner, which would be a second writer of the engine's own keys and
+	// has the grants part refuse the whole user list (2026-10-30). It comes back once the runtime never carries the engine.
 	parsed, err := catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	// 774 (the alert table): beside it the state health, one key per node, the node's own health report, kept until
+	// 774 (the alert table): the state health, one key per node, the node's own health report, kept until
 	// written again (no TTL: a node that stops writing keeps its last word, which the watchman reads with its time).
-	if len(parsed.State) != 2 || parsed.State[0].Name != "acts" || parsed.State[0].TTLSeconds != 90*24*60*60 ||
-		parsed.State[1].Name != "health" || parsed.State[1].TTLSeconds != 0 {
+	if len(parsed.State) != 1 || parsed.State[0].Name != "health" || parsed.State[0].TTLSeconds != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("the manifest declares the state %+v", parsed.State)
 	}
 }