diff --git a/go/buscalls/buscalls.go b/go/buscalls/buscalls.go
index 2d7ef190..cbf44903 100644
--- a/go/buscalls/buscalls.go
+++ b/go/buscalls/buscalls.go
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ const ChunkBytes = 512 << 10
 
 // ObjectsPutChunkRequest is one chunk of a put session (design 47 G §518, A-21): the object `name` in the store `objects`,
 // `call` the bundle's id for this put, `seq` from 1 and one more each chunk, `last` true on the last chunk alone, and the
-// chunk's bytes.
+// chunk's bytes; the first chunk also carries the put's `description` (A-25).
 type ObjectsPutChunkRequest struct {
 	Objects string `json:"objects"`
 	Name    string `json:"name"`
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ type ObjectsPutChunkRequest struct {
 	Seq     uint32 `json:"seq"`
 	Last    bool   `json:"last,omitempty"`
 	Data    []byte `json:"data"`
+	// Description is the put's, carried on the first chunk alone (design 47 G A-25).
+	Description string `json:"description,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // ObjectsChunkTaken is the answer to a chunk that is not the last: the sequence taken, or the reason it was not.
diff --git a/go/busstate/busstate.go b/go/busstate/busstate.go
index f81adfba..6abf2e8e 100644
--- a/go/busstate/busstate.go
+++ b/go/busstate/busstate.go
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func call[T any](method string, params any) (T, error) {
 // object, never split over several.
 func (o Objects) Put(name string, data []byte, description string) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, error) {
 	if len(data) > buscalls.ChunkBytes {
-		return o.putSession(name, data)
+		return o.putSession(name, data, description)
 	}
 	return call[buscalls.ObjectInfo](buscalls.ObjectsPut, buscalls.ObjectsPutRequest{Objects: o.local, Name: name,
 		Data: data, Description: description})
diff --git a/go/busstate/session.go b/go/busstate/session.go
index fbeee45d..0ba4068f 100644
--- a/go/busstate/session.go
+++ b/go/busstate/session.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ func callID() string {
 
 // put sends data as a put session: chunks of buscalls.ChunkBytes in order, each answered before the next is sent, the
 // answer to the last being the put's.
-func (o Objects) putSession(name string, data []byte) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, error) {
+func (o Objects) putSession(name string, data []byte, description string) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, error) {
 	if err := stdio.RequireCapability(stdio.CapPutSessions); err != nil {
 		return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, fmt.Errorf("putting %s, larger than one call carries: %w", name, err)
 	}
@@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ func (o Objects) putSession(name string, data []byte) (buscalls.ObjectInfo, erro
 	for seq, at := uint32(1), 0; ; seq++ {
 		end := min(at+buscalls.ChunkBytes, len(data))
 		last := end == len(data)
-		raw, err := stdio.BusState(buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: o.local, Name: name, Call: id,
-			Seq: seq, Last: last, Data: data[at:end]})
+		req := buscalls.ObjectsPutChunkRequest{Objects: o.local, Name: name, Call: id, Seq: seq, Last: last, Data: data[at:end]}
+		if seq == 1 {
+			req.Description = description // the first chunk carries it (design 47 G A-25)
+		}
+		raw, err := stdio.BusState(buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, req)
 		if err != nil {
 			return buscalls.ObjectInfo{}, fmt.Errorf("putting %s, chunk %d: %w", name, seq, err)
 		}
diff --git a/go/busstate/session_test.go b/go/busstate/session_test.go
index a5bf2eb1..7a9a3691 100644
--- a/go/busstate/session_test.go
+++ b/go/busstate/session_test.go
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func TestAValueLargerThanOneChunkIsPutAndGotBySession(t *testing.T) {
 	var tampered bool
 	serveRuntime(t, func() {
 		o := ObjectsOf("incoming")
-		_, putErr = o.Put("big", value, "")
+		_, putErr = o.Put("big", value, "a big one")
 		d, err := o.Get("big")
 		gotValue, getErr = d.Data, err
 		tampered = true
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ func TestAValueLargerThanOneChunkIsPutAndGotBySession(t *testing.T) {
 			raw, _ := json.Marshal(p["data"])
 			var b []byte
 			_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &b)
+			if (p["description"] == "a big one") != (p["seq"].(float64) == 1) {
+				t.Errorf("chunk %v carries the description %v: the first chunk alone does", p["seq"], p["description"])
+			}
 			stored = append(stored, b...)
 			seqs = append(seqs, uint32(p["seq"].(float64)))
 			if p["last"] == true {