diff --git a/src/lastrun.ts b/src/lastrun.ts
index 9d76fe4..cfcebb4 100644
--- a/src/lastrun.ts
+++ b/src/lastrun.ts
@@ -103,12 +103,17 @@ export function record(
   failed: number,
   ran: string[],
   env = process.env,
+  builtAgainst?: Against,
 ): Receipt {
   const receipt: Receipt = {
     at: new Date().toISOString(),
     passed,
     failed,
-    against: whatWasTested(env),
+    // What was BUILT, when the caller says — not what the repositories are at when the run ends.
+    // A receipt read at record time names whatever was committed during the twenty minutes the
+    // suite took, and it did: one run's receipt claimed a commit that landed mid-run and was
+    // never in the binaries. A verdict is only worth something attributed to one exact state.
+    against: builtAgainst ?? whatWasTested(env),
     ran,
   };
   const path = receiptPath();
diff --git a/src/suite.ts b/src/suite.ts
index 7eb57fc..8496026 100644
--- a/src/suite.ts
+++ b/src/suite.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  */
 
 import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
-import { endToEnd, record } from "./lastrun.ts";
+import { endToEnd, record, whatWasTested } from "./lastrun.ts";
 import { rebuild } from "./rebuild.ts";
 
 /** counted is what the runner said, or nulls when it said nothing recognisable. */
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ export async function runSuite(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
     const built = rebuild();
     if (built.length > 0) console.log(`built: ${built.join(", ")}\n`);
   }
+  // Read now, while it is true. The receipt names these, and reading them when the run ends
+  // names whatever was committed during the twenty minutes in between instead.
+  const against = whatWasTested(process.env);
 
   // **No canary.** There was one: a second scenario, one machine, raised first so a broken mesh
   // failed in two minutes rather than in forty. It walked exactly the path the first three tests
@@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ export async function runSuite(args: string[]): Promise<number> {
   // runs when it is named; it is no longer raised on the way to everything else.
 
   const { code, seen } = await runFiles(files);
-  console.log("\n" + reportOn(counted(seen), (p, f) => record(p, f, files)));
+  console.log("\n" + reportOn(counted(seen), (p, f) => record(p, f, files, process.env, against)));
   return code;
 }