diff --git a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
index dc88160..a3c3705 100644
--- a/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/mesh.test.ts
@@ -681,6 +681,10 @@ test("the builder is a module the mesh assigns, with a credential the mesh deliv
     `git -c user.email=lab -c user.name=lab commit -qm built`);
   await mesh("build /root/built --wait 300s", 420_000);
 
-  assert.match(await mesh("builds"), /built/,
-    "the build was accepted and no build was recorded against the module");
+  // Naming the module, and not merely containing its name: `builds` says "nothing has been built
+  // yet" when there is nothing, and that sentence contains the word this was matching on.
+  const recorded = await mesh("builds built");
+  assert.doesNotMatch(recorded, /nothing has been built/,
+    `the build was accepted and no build was recorded against the module:\n${recorded}`);
+  assert.match(recorded, /built/, recorded);
 });