go/delivery/stepasks_compose_test.go

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ func TestAComposeAskIsRefusedWhereItDoesNotBelong(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	// The asker refuses an input over its bound before it asks, naming its size; the build module refuses bytes that
 	// are not the input named.
-	if _, err := RunInputOf("mesh-delivery-checker.inputs", make([]byte, RunInputBound+1)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "786433 bytes") {
+	if _, err := RunInputOf("mesh-delivery-checker.inputs", make([]byte, RunInputBound+1)); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "262145 bytes") {
 		t.Errorf("an input over its bound: %v", err)
 	}
 	in := runAsk().Run.Input

go/delivery/stepasks_run.go

@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ type RunInput struct {
 	Size   int    `json:"size"`
 }
 
-// RunInputBound is the most bytes a run's input may hold: under the bus's message limit, so the asker can keep it as
-// one value.
-const RunInputBound = 768 << 10
+// RunInputBound is the most bytes a run's input may hold: the bus's value limit the design already uses (256 KiB), so
+// the asker keeps it as one value (the lead's ruling on milestone 47/B0, 2026-11-06).
+const RunInputBound = 256 << 10
 
 // RunHeadsEnv names, for the program, the directory its heads are laid in; RunInputEnv the file its input is written to.
 const (