diff --git a/test/integration/local-model-bed.test.ts b/test/integration/local-model-bed.test.ts
index 7263ff9..b4d1667 100644
--- a/test/integration/local-model-bed.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/local-model-bed.test.ts
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ async function settled(withinMs = 600_000): Promise<void> {
 async function addAssign(name: string, manifest: string): Promise<void> {
   await must(`printf %s ${quote(manifest)} > /tmp/${name}.json && docker cp /tmp/${name}.json mesh-controller:/${name}.json`);
   await mesh(`module add /${name}.json`);
-  await mesh(`module issue ${name} --node ${MACHINE}`);
+  // No `module issue`: neither module speaks on the bus, and issuing a module with no broker
+  // secret to deliver into is refused (novox/hq issue 078).
   await mesh(`assign ${MACHINE} ${name}`);
 }
 
diff --git a/test/integration/openai-bed.test.ts b/test/integration/openai-bed.test.ts
index 885640c..3caed9c 100644
--- a/test/integration/openai-bed.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/openai-bed.test.ts
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@ test("a static-key model-access licence delivers the operator's API key to the c
   const consumerManifest = catalogueModule("openai-consumer", held);
   await must(`printf %s ${quote(consumerManifest)} > /tmp/openai-consumer.json && docker cp /tmp/openai-consumer.json mesh-controller:/openai-consumer.json`);
   await mesh(`module add /openai-consumer.json`);
-  await mesh(`module issue openai-consumer --node ${MACHINE}`);
+  // No `module issue`: the consumer speaks on no bus, and issuing a module with no broker secret
+  // to deliver into is refused (novox/hq issue 078).
   await mesh(`assign ${MACHINE} openai-consumer`);
   await mesh(`push ${MACHINE}`);
   await settled();
diff --git a/test/integration/runtime-restart-on-config.test.ts b/test/integration/runtime-restart-on-config.test.ts
index 1b5659f..087ccf6 100644
--- a/test/integration/runtime-restart-on-config.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/runtime-restart-on-config.test.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  * service has: the runtime names its config resource, and the host recreates the container when that
  * resource changed this pass.
  *
- * This assigns grafana configured by settings, then changes the token and pushes again, and asserts
+ * This assigns a settings-configured runtime (the fixture wears no catalogue name; its image is grafana's tool runtime), then changes the token and pushes again, and asserts
  * the container was replaced (a new container id) and the config on disk carries the new value.
  * It builds the host from source (no --no-build), because the behaviour under test is the host's.
  *