diff --git a/go/catalogue/manifest.go b/go/catalogue/manifest.go
index c9e2ccc..897d053 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/manifest.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/manifest.go
@@ -479,8 +479,8 @@ type Manifest struct {
 	// §8): filled from the long form's `shares`, or from the stored form's `requires-shares`; never written by hand.
 	RequireShares map[string][]BucketShare `json:"-"`
 	// BusState is what the module keeps on the bus, each entry asked for in `requires` in its typed long form
-	// (BusStateEntry, novox/hq ADR 0595 §1), whose name is also in Requires. Stored beside `requires`
-	// (BusStateField), which stays a plain list of names.
+	// (BusStateEntry, novox/hq ADR 0595 §1); its local name is never in Requires, which names provisions. Stored
+	// beside `requires` (BusStateField), which stays a plain list of names.
 	BusState []BusStateEntry `json:"bus-state,omitempty"`
 
 	// Emits are the events this module publishes, named **locally**: `order.placed`, not a subject
diff --git a/go/catalogue/optional_requirements.go b/go/catalogue/optional_requirements.go
index a4d0c61..dcfd4c7 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/optional_requirements.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/optional_requirements.go
@@ -26,14 +26,15 @@ type requiresRead struct {
 	names    []string
 	optional map[string]bool
 	shares   map[string][]BucketShare
-	// busState are the entries asking for bus state (BusStateEntry), each also named in names; aside the paths of the
-	// keys they had that this package does not know, set aside (ADR 0578 §3).
+	// busState are the entries asking for bus state (BusStateEntry), never named in names, which name provisions; aside
+	// the paths of the keys they had that this package does not know, set aside (ADR 0578 §3).
 	busState []BusStateEntry
 	aside    []string
 }
 
 // readRequires reads `requires` in its forms — a bare name, {name, optional}, or a bus-state entry (BusStateEntry,
-// novox/hq ADR 0595 §1) — into the names, which of them are optional, and the bus-state entries.
+// novox/hq ADR 0595 §1) — into the names of the provisions, which of them are optional, and the bus-state entries,
+// whose local names stay off the names: a local name is no provision, and nothing provides it.
 func readRequires(raw json.RawMessage) (requiresRead, error) {
 	var entries []json.RawMessage
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &entries); err != nil {
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ func readRequires(raw json.RawMessage) (requiresRead, error) {
 			if err != nil {
 				return requiresRead{}, fmt.Errorf("requires[%d]: a bus-state entry is {name, storage, template, options, configuration, types} (novox/hq ADR 0595 §1): %w", i, err)
 			}
-			names = append(names, entry.Name)
 			busState = append(busState, entry)
 			for _, path := range unknown {
 				aside = append(aside, fmt.Sprintf("requires[%d]%s", i, path))
diff --git a/go/catalogue/optional_requirements_test.go b/go/catalogue/optional_requirements_test.go
index d0e7e32..d6d9cb3 100644
--- a/go/catalogue/optional_requirements_test.go
+++ b/go/catalogue/optional_requirements_test.go
@@ -65,17 +65,18 @@ func TestARequirementsLongForm(t *testing.T) {
 		busState []BusStateEntry
 		aside    []string
 	}{
-		// 1966/AC1: a plain name and a bus-state entry: Requires names both, BusState holds the one entry whole.
+		// 1966/AC1: a plain name and a bus-state entry: Requires names the plain one only, since it names provisions,
+		// and BusState holds the entry whole.
 		{"a plain name and a bus-state entry", `["postgres-database",
 			{"name":"records","storage":"ledger","template":"ledger","options":{"max-mib":1024}}]`,
-			"postgres-database records", []BusStateEntry{records}, nil},
+			"postgres-database", []BusStateEntry{records}, nil},
 		// 1966/AC2: an unknown key is set aside and named, never refused; the entry decodes.
 		{"a bus-state entry with a key it does not know", `[
 			{"name":"records","storage":"ledger","template":"ledger","colour":"red","options":{"max-mib":1024}}]`,
-			"records", []BusStateEntry{records}, []string{"requires[0].colour"}},
+			"", []BusStateEntry{records}, []string{"requires[0].colour"}},
 		// 1966/AC3: a ledger type with each of the four effects round-trips through JSON unchanged.
 		{"a ledger with its type", `[{"name":"records","storage":"ledger","template":"ledger","options":{"max-mib":1024},
-			"types":[` + string(typeJSON) + `]}]`, "records", []BusStateEntry{ledger}, nil},
+			"types":[` + string(typeJSON) + `]}]`, "", []BusStateEntry{ledger}, nil},
 	} {
 		got, err := decodeForTest([]byte(`{"module":"x","version":"1","requires":` + c.requires + `}`))
 		if err != nil {