diff --git a/go/delivery/buildrecord_test.go b/go/delivery/buildrecord_test.go
index 4f4f098..7f9b08a 100644
--- a/go/delivery/buildrecord_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/buildrecord_test.go
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ import (
 
 // The fixture's path is what the controller writes for a build request: strings.Trim(path, "/") at mesh-controller
 // internal/inventory/chain_requests.go:19, the module's directory in its repository (Build.Path, internal/chain/records.go:100).
-// The fixture is a record the controller's own encoder wrote (json.Marshal of a chain.Build, mesh-controller
+// The fixture started as a record the controller's own encoder wrote (json.Marshal of a chain.Build, mesh-controller
 // internal/chain, a throwaway test run once and deleted) with build-agent's build-1792395447088936520 values, plus a
 // manifest-digest and one made artifact (shape: mesh-controller internal/chain/records.go:91-117 Build, json tags, at commit
-// 1f708e2d8d72e2c27dbeaba02f14c128d700eada; an outcome has no state key and a build asked after a merge no ref, records.go:57-59), which a BuildRecord does not carry.
+// 1f708e2d8d72e2c27dbeaba02f14c128d700eada; an outcome has no state key and a build asked after a merge no ref, records.go:57-59), which a BuildRecord does not carry. It was then edited by hand
+// to the controller's layout for an outcome: state and ref removed, the repository a clone URL (issue 1281).
 func loadBuildFixture(t *testing.T) []byte {
 	t.Helper()
 	raw, err := os.ReadFile("testdata/build-record-build-agent.json")
diff --git a/go/delivery/trunk_test.go b/go/delivery/trunk_test.go
index d97d94d..eaa8357 100644
--- a/go/delivery/trunk_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/trunk_test.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func TestIsTrunkBuild(t *testing.T) { // 1281/AC2
 		{"another branch", BuildRecord{Ref: "feat/x", SourceInputs: inputs}, false},
 		{"a commit", BuildRecord{Ref: "9efdd87a", SourceInputs: inputs}, false},
 		{"asked", BuildRecord{State: "asked", SourceInputs: inputs}, false},
-		{"answered, state built", BuildRecord{State: "built", SourceInputs: inputs}, false},
+		{"answered, state answered, no source inputs", BuildRecord{State: "answered"}, false},
 		{"failed", BuildRecord{Failed: "boom", Ref: "main", SourceInputs: inputs}, false},
 		{"no source inputs", BuildRecord{Ref: "main"}, false},
 		{"no ref and no source inputs", BuildRecord{}, false},