diff --git a/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go b/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go
index fb38439..0d48054 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/bus/ledger.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscompose"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
@@ -143,6 +144,76 @@ func (h *busHistory) Read(keys string, from uint64, limit int) ([]ledger.Kept, e
 	}
 }
 
+// Purge removes every operation of one instance from the history stream, on the module's ledger connection, the one
+// granted the purge of its own ledger's streams.
+func (h *busHistory) Purge(key string) error {
+	return purgeSubject(h.read, h.write, h.stream, h.prefix+"."+key)
+}
+
+// Fill is the history stream's fill against its cap, the cap the manifest gives the ledger.
+func (h *busHistory) Fill() (buscalls.Fill, error) {
+	name := h.stream
+	if name == "" {
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+		defer cancel()
+		js, err := h.read.JetStream()
+		if err != nil {
+			return buscalls.Fill{}, err
+		}
+		if name, err = js.StreamNameBySubject(ctx, h.prefix+".>"); err != nil {
+			return buscalls.Fill{}, fmt.Errorf("no stream on the bus keeps %s: %w", h.prefix, err)
+		}
+	}
+	f, err := h.read.streamFill(name)
+	return f.Fill, err
+}
+
+// purgeSubject purges one subject's messages from the stream that keeps it: the stream named, or found on the runner's
+// own connection by its subject, purged on the ledger connection.
+func purgeSubject(read, write *Conn, stream, subject string) error {
+	if write == nil {
+		return errors.New("a ledger's streams are purged only on its module's ledger connection, and none is held")
+	}
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), StateTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	if stream == "" {
+		js, err := read.JetStream()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if stream, err = js.StreamNameBySubject(ctx, subject); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("no stream on the bus keeps %s: %w", subject, err)
+		}
+	}
+	// The purge is asked of the stream by its name, with no read of its info first: the ledger account is granted the
+	// purge of its own ledger's two streams and nothing else (PurgeAPI).
+	body, err := json.Marshal(map[string]string{"filter": subject})
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	reply, err := write.nc.RequestWithContext(ctx, PurgeAPI(stream), body)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("purging %s from %s: %w", subject, stream, err)
+	}
+	var ack struct {
+		Success bool `json:"success"`
+		Error   *struct {
+			Description string `json:"description"`
+		} `json:"error"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(reply.Data, &ack); err != nil || !ack.Success {
+		why := string(reply.Data)
+		if ack.Error != nil {
+			why = ack.Error.Description
+		}
+		return fmt.Errorf("the bus refused the purge of %s from %s: %s", subject, stream, why)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// PurgeAPI is the bus's subject that purges a stream, the one a ledger account is granted for its own ledger's streams.
+func PurgeAPI(stream string) string { return "$JS.API.STREAM.PURGE." + stream }
+
 type busState struct {
 	c      *Conn
 	bucket string
@@ -231,6 +302,11 @@ func (s *busSnapshots) Get(key string) ([]byte, uint64, error) {
 	return lastOn(s.read, "", s.prefix+"."+key)
 }
 
+// Purge removes one instance's snapshot, on the module's ledger connection.
+func (s *busSnapshots) Purge(key string) error {
+	return purgeSubject(s.read, s.write, "", s.prefix+"."+key)
+}
+
 func (s *busSnapshots) Put(key string, value []byte, expect uint64) error {
 	if s.write == nil {
 		return errors.New("a ledger's snapshot is published only on its module's ledger connection, and none is held")
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go
index 3088a6f..65b833d 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger.go
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ type History interface {
 	// Read is the operations of the instances keys names (a key, with `*` for one name and `>` for the rest) from a
 	// sequence on, oldest first, at most limit of them (every one when limit is 0).
 	Read(keys string, from uint64, limit int) ([]Kept, error)
+	// Purge removes every operation of the instance key names, and nothing of another (an instance's removal).
+	Purge(key string) error
+	// Fill is the history's fill against its cap, the ledger's cap (buscalls.LedgerFill; design 47 G §587).
+	Fill() (buscalls.Fill, error)
 }
 
 // State is a ledger's state bucket: each instance's record under its key.
@@ -69,6 +73,8 @@ type State interface {
 	Write(key string, value []byte, revision uint64) (uint64, error)
 	// Keys is every key the bucket holds.
 	Keys() ([]string, error)
+	// Delete removes the key; a key it does not hold is no fault.
+	Delete(key string) error
 }
 
 // Snapshots are a ledger's snapshots: the latest record of each instance, on a subject of its own, never expiring.
@@ -77,6 +83,8 @@ type Snapshots interface {
 	Get(key string) ([]byte, uint64, error)
 	// Put writes the key's snapshot, expecting its last to be at expect (0: none); ErrRaced when it is not.
 	Put(key string, value []byte, expect uint64) error
+	// Purge removes the key's snapshot; one it does not hold is no fault.
+	Purge(key string) error
 }
 
 // Ledger is one ledger of one module: its types and where it is kept.
@@ -495,3 +503,74 @@ func (l *Ledger) Apply(r buscalls.ApplyRequest, author buscalls.Author) (buscall
 	}
 	return buscalls.Applied{Taken: true, Sequence: seq, StateBehind: behind}, nil
 }
+
+// Fill is the fill of the ledger's history against the ledger's cap (buscalls.LedgerFill; design 47 G §587): its messages,
+// its bytes and the cap in bytes. The history holds every operation, and the cap is its alone: neither the fullest of the
+// stores nor their sum is answered. A history that cannot say its fill is an error naming the ledger, never a fill of
+// nothing.
+func (l *Ledger) Fill(buscalls.LedgerRequest) (buscalls.Fill, error) {
+	f, err := l.History.Fill()
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.Fill{}, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s cannot say the fill of its history: %w", l.Module, l.Name, err)
+	}
+	return f, nil
+}
+
+// Remove removes one instance with everything it kept (buscalls.LedgerRemove; design 47 G §587, §155): its operations, its
+// snapshot, its key in the state bucket and its keys in every declared index, and answers how many operations and how many
+// bytes of the history that was. An instance the ledger does not hold answers 0 and 0, and a removal that left something
+// (said, and answered as an error) is made again by calling it again, which removes the rest.
+func (l *Ledger) Remove(r buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest) (buscalls.LedgerRemoved, error) {
+	key, err := KeyOf(r.Instance)
+	if err != nil {
+		return buscalls.LedgerRemoved{}, err
+	}
+	out := buscalls.LedgerRemoved{Instance: r.Instance}
+	before, err := l.History.Fill()
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s cannot say the fill of its history, so a removal is not made: %w", l.Module, l.Name, err)
+	}
+	ops, err := l.History.Read(key, 1, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, err
+	}
+	for _, step := range []struct {
+		what   string
+		remove func(string) error
+	}{{"operations", l.History.Purge}, {"snapshot", l.Snapshots.Purge}, {"state", l.State.Delete}, {"index entries", l.dropFromIndexes}} {
+		if err := step.remove(key); err != nil {
+			l.say("[mesh-tools] %s's ledger %s removes %s and its %s could not be removed: %v; removing it again removes what "+
+				"is left", l.Module, l.Name, r.Instance, step.what, err)
+			return out, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s removed part of %s and its %s are left: %w", l.Module, l.Name, r.Instance, step.what, err)
+		}
+	}
+	after, err := l.History.Fill()
+	if err != nil {
+		return out, fmt.Errorf("%s's ledger %s removed %s and cannot say the fill of its history after: %w", l.Module, l.Name, r.Instance, err)
+	}
+	out.Operations = uint64(len(ops))
+	if before.Bytes > after.Bytes {
+		out.Bytes = before.Bytes - after.Bytes
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// dropFromIndexes removes the entries of the instance key names from every index bucket the ledger is bound to.
+func (l *Ledger) dropFromIndexes(key string) error {
+	instance := InstanceOf(key)
+	for name, ix := range l.Indexes {
+		held, err := ix.Entries("", 0)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the index %s: %w", name, err)
+		}
+		for _, e := range held {
+			var v buscalls.IndexEntry
+			if json.Unmarshal(e.Value, &v) == nil && v.Instance == instance {
+				if err := ix.Delete(e.Key); err != nil {
+					return fmt.Errorf("the index %s: %w", name, err)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go
index 01b3017..cbc315d 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/ledger/ledger_test.go
@@ -100,3 +100,50 @@ func TestApplyAppendsDerivesAndSnapshots(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+// design 47 G §587: a ledger's fill is its history's against the ledger's cap, a store that cannot say it is an error naming
+// the ledger; a removal takes an instance's operations, snapshot, state and index entries and answers what that was, an
+// unknown instance answers none, and nothing of another instance goes.
+func TestTheLedgerSaysItsFillAndRemovesAnInstanceWhole(t *testing.T) {
+	l, f := newLedger()
+	f.history.MaxBytes = 1 << 20
+	for _, n := range []string{"a", "b"} {
+		applied(t, l, "decision/0290", "note", `{"says":"`+n+`"}`, owner)
+	}
+	applied(t, l, "decision/0291", "note", `{"says":"other"}`, owner)
+	entry, _ := json.Marshal(buscalls.IndexEntry{Instance: "decision/0290", Sequence: 2})
+	other, _ := json.Marshal(buscalls.IndexEntry{Instance: "decision/0291", Sequence: 1})
+	_ = f.index.Put("t.decision.0290", entry)
+	_ = f.index.Put("t.decision.0291", other)
+
+	fill, err := l.Fill(buscalls.LedgerRequest{Ledger: "records"})
+	if err != nil || fill.Count != 3 || fill.Bytes == 0 || fill.MaxBytes != 1<<20 {
+		t.Fatalf("the fill is %+v (%v), want 3 messages against 1 MiB", fill, err)
+	}
+	got, err := l.Remove(buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest{Ledger: "records", Instance: "decision/0290"})
+	if err != nil || got.Instance != "decision/0290" || got.Operations != 2 || got.Bytes == 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the removal answered %+v (%v), want 2 operations and their bytes", got, err)
+	}
+	if kept, _ := f.history.Read("decision.0290", 1, 0); len(kept) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("operations are left: %d", len(kept))
+	}
+	if raw, _, _ := f.state.Get("decision.0290"); raw != nil {
+		t.Errorf("the state is left: %s", raw)
+	}
+	if raw, _, _ := f.snapshots.Get("decision.0290"); raw != nil {
+		t.Errorf("the snapshot is left: %s", raw)
+	}
+	if held, _ := f.index.Entries("", 0); len(held) != 1 || held[0].Key != "t.decision.0291" {
+		t.Errorf("the index holds %v, want the other instance's entry alone", held)
+	}
+	if kept, _ := f.history.Read("decision.0291", 1, 0); len(kept) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("another instance lost operations: %d left", len(kept))
+	}
+	if again, err := l.Remove(buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest{Ledger: "records", Instance: "decision/0290"}); err != nil || again.Operations != 0 || again.Bytes != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a removal said twice answered %+v (%v), want none", again, err)
+	}
+	f.history.FillFails = true
+	if _, err := l.Fill(buscalls.LedgerRequest{}); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "ledger records cannot say the fill") {
+		t.Errorf("a history that cannot say its fill answered %v", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go b/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go
index 0b14670..1d3faf5 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/ledger/memory.go
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 package ledger
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
 )
 
 // The memory stores keep what the bus keeps, as the bus answers it, for a test of a ledger without a bus: a stream whose
@@ -12,9 +15,13 @@ import (
 
 // MemoryHistory is a history in memory.
 type MemoryHistory struct {
-	mu   sync.Mutex
-	seq  uint64
-	kept []struct {
+	// MaxBytes is the cap its fill is said against.
+	MaxBytes uint64
+	// FillFails makes Fill an error, as a store that cannot say its fill.
+	FillFails bool
+	mu        sync.Mutex
+	seq       uint64
+	kept      []struct {
 		key string
 		Kept
 	}
@@ -73,6 +80,32 @@ func (h *MemoryHistory) Read(keys string, from uint64, limit int) ([]Kept, error
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (h *MemoryHistory) Purge(key string) error {
+	h.mu.Lock()
+	defer h.mu.Unlock()
+	kept := h.kept[:0]
+	for _, k := range h.kept {
+		if k.key != key {
+			kept = append(kept, k)
+		}
+	}
+	h.kept = kept
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (h *MemoryHistory) Fill() (buscalls.Fill, error) {
+	h.mu.Lock()
+	defer h.mu.Unlock()
+	if h.FillFails {
+		return buscalls.Fill{}, errors.New("the history does not say its fill")
+	}
+	f := buscalls.Fill{Count: uint64(len(h.kept)), MaxBytes: h.MaxBytes}
+	for _, k := range h.kept {
+		f.Bytes += uint64(len(k.Data))
+	}
+	return f, nil
+}
+
 // Expire drops every operation of the history, as a ledger's keeping days end them.
 func (h *MemoryHistory) Expire() {
 	h.mu.Lock()
@@ -129,6 +162,13 @@ func (s *MemoryState) Keys() ([]string, error) {
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (s *MemoryState) Delete(key string) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(s.kv, key)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // MemorySnapshots are snapshots in memory.
 type MemorySnapshots struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
@@ -157,6 +197,13 @@ func (s *MemorySnapshots) Put(key string, value []byte, expect uint64) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (s *MemorySnapshots) Purge(key string) error {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	delete(s.kv, key)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // MemoryIndex is an index's bucket in memory.
 type MemoryIndex struct {
 	mu sync.Mutex
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go
index cc67d5b..50fea4a 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/announce_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package runtime
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/buscalls"
+	"os"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
@@ -140,20 +142,60 @@ func TestTheRunnerStatesTheCapabilitiesOfItsCallsInItsPing(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("ping of the instance: %v", err)
 	}
 	var ping micro.Ping
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &ping); err != nil || ping.Metadata[announce.Capabilities] != "bus-state-calls,ledger-calls,put-sessions,seat-settle-delay" {
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &ping); err != nil || ping.Metadata[announce.Capabilities] != "bus-state-calls,ledger-calls,ledger-upkeep-calls,put-sessions,seat-settle-delay,sent-objects-calls" {
 		t.Errorf("the runner states %q (%v), want its bus-state and ledger calls", ping.Metadata[announce.Capabilities], err)
 	}
 }
 
-// Design 47 G §462: the call that reads a sent object is listed under the bus state capability, and the ledger calls keep theirs.
-func TestTheSentObjectCallBelongsToTheBusStateCapability(t *testing.T) {
-	for c, method := range map[string]string{CapBusStateCalls: buscalls.ObjectsSentGet} {
-		found := false
-		for _, m := range callFamilies[c] {
-			found = found || m == method
+// Design 47 G §462, §488, §622: each call is stated under the capability word of its own family, the words mesh-sdk's buscalls
+// names: the read of a sent object under sent-objects-calls (no longer under bus-state-calls), the ledger's fill and removal
+// under ledger-upkeep-calls, the others where they were.
+func TestEachCallIsStatedUnderTheWordOfItsFamily(t *testing.T) {
+	for method, word := range map[string]string{
+		buscalls.ObjectsSentGet: buscalls.SentObjectsCalls,
+		buscalls.LedgerFill:     buscalls.LedgerUpkeepCalls,
+		buscalls.LedgerRemove:   buscalls.LedgerUpkeepCalls,
+		buscalls.LedgerApply:    buscalls.LedgerCalls,
+		buscalls.ObjectsPut:     buscalls.BusStateCalls,
+	} {
+		var in []string
+		for c, methods := range callFamilies {
+			if slices.Contains(methods, method) {
+				in = append(in, c)
+			}
 		}
-		if !found {
-			t.Errorf("%s does not list %s", c, method)
+		if len(in) != 1 || in[0] != word {
+			t.Errorf("%s is stated under %v, want %s alone", method, in, word)
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// Design 47 G §545: the words the tool runner states are exactly its manifest's artifact `states`, so the delivery plan's edge
+// of §605 runs to it for each word a module's artifact `calls`.
+func TestTheWordsTheRunnerStatesAreItsManifestsStates(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var m struct {
+		Build struct {
+			Artifacts []struct {
+				Name   string   `json:"name"`
+				States []string `json:"states"`
+			} `json:"artifacts"`
+		} `json:"build"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var declared []string
+	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+		if a.Name == "runtime" {
+			declared = a.States
+		}
+	}
+	slices.Sort(declared)
+	if got := CallCapabilities(); !slices.Equal(got, declared) {
+		t.Errorf("the runner states %v, its manifest's states are %v", got, declared)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go
index 5ac8bbd..d85a250 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/busstate.go
@@ -18,8 +18,12 @@ import (
 // (announce.Capabilities) for its machine's node-engine to take into the node's record. A module whose manifest asks for one is
 // held off a machine whose runner does not state it.
 const (
-	CapBusStateCalls = "bus-state-calls"
-	CapLedgerCalls   = "ledger-calls"
+	CapBusStateCalls = buscalls.BusStateCalls
+	CapLedgerCalls   = buscalls.LedgerCalls
+	// CapLedgerUpkeepCalls is the ledger's fill and removal (§462, §488) and CapSentObjectsCalls the read of a sent object (§488):
+	// each is stated once the runner answers its family, the words mesh-sdk's buscalls names (§622).
+	CapLedgerUpkeepCalls = buscalls.LedgerUpkeepCalls
+	CapSentObjectsCalls  = buscalls.SentObjectsCalls
 	// CapPutSessions is the put and get sessions' word (design 47 G §518, §622), mesh-sdk's.
 	CapPutSessions = stdio.CapPutSessions
 )
@@ -27,10 +31,12 @@ const (
 // callFamilies are the methods each capability stands for, the ones BusState and BusStateWatch answer.
 var callFamilies = map[string][]string{
 	CapBusStateCalls: {buscalls.ObjectsPut, buscalls.ObjectsGet, buscalls.ObjectsList, buscalls.ObjectsDelete, buscalls.ObjectsInfo,
-		buscalls.ObjectsWatch, buscalls.ObjectsSentGet, buscalls.StreamRead, buscalls.StreamFill, buscalls.WorkQueueSize, buscalls.WorkQueueDead},
+		buscalls.ObjectsWatch, buscalls.StreamRead, buscalls.StreamFill, buscalls.WorkQueueSize, buscalls.WorkQueueDead},
 	CapLedgerCalls: {buscalls.LedgerApply, buscalls.LedgerGet, buscalls.LedgerHistory, buscalls.LedgerWatch, buscalls.LedgerQuery,
 		buscalls.LedgerRebuild, buscalls.LedgerReindex, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot, buscalls.LedgerLag},
-	CapPutSessions: {buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk},
+	CapLedgerUpkeepCalls: {buscalls.LedgerFill, buscalls.LedgerRemove},
+	CapSentObjectsCalls:  {buscalls.ObjectsSentGet},
+	CapPutSessions:       {buscalls.ObjectsPutChunk, buscalls.ObjectsGetChunk},
 }
 
 // CallCapabilities is every capability of the calls this runner answers, sorted. The delayed settle of a pulled seat
@@ -111,7 +117,7 @@ func (b *moduleBus) BusState(method string, params json.RawMessage) (json.RawMes
 			answer, err = conn.WorkQueueDead(b.module, r)
 		}
 	case buscalls.LedgerApply, buscalls.LedgerGet, buscalls.LedgerHistory, buscalls.LedgerQuery, buscalls.LedgerRebuild,
-		buscalls.LedgerReindex, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot, buscalls.LedgerLag:
+		buscalls.LedgerReindex, buscalls.LedgerSnapshot, buscalls.LedgerLag, buscalls.LedgerFill, buscalls.LedgerRemove:
 		answer, err = b.ledgerCall(method, params)
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runtime answers no %s", method)
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go
index 802fb03..589afce 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledger_integration_test.go
@@ -240,6 +240,35 @@ func TestTheLedgerKeepsItsPromisesOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Fatalf("queried %+v, %v", q, err)
 			}
 		}},
+		{"fill and removal are answered through the calls and remove an instance from the bus whole", "decision.gone", func(t *testing.T) {
+			must(t, open(t), "decision/gone", "title", `{"title":"Gone"}`)
+			must(t, open(t), "decision/gone", "note", `{"says":"two"}`)
+			must(t, open(t), "decision/stays", "note", `{"says":"kept"}`)
+			raw, err := m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerFill, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records"}`))
+			var fill buscalls.Fill
+			if _ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &fill); err != nil || fill.Count < 3 || fill.Bytes == 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("the fill answered %s (%v)", raw, err)
+			}
+			raw, err = m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerRemove, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records","instance":"decision/gone"}`))
+			var removed buscalls.LedgerRemoved
+			if _ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &removed); err != nil || removed.Operations != 2 || removed.Bytes == 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("the removal answered %s (%v)", raw, err)
+			}
+			l := open(t)
+			if last, _ := l.History.Last("decision.gone"); last != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("operations are left, at %d", last)
+			}
+			if st, _, _ := l.State.Get("decision.gone"); st != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("the state is left: %s", st)
+			}
+			if last, _ := l.History.Last("decision.stays"); last == 0 {
+				t.Fatal("another instance lost its operations")
+			}
+			if raw, err = m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerRemove, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records","instance":"decision/gone"}`)); err != nil ||
+				!strings.Contains(string(raw), `"operations":0`) {
+				t.Fatalf("a removal said twice answered %s (%v)", raw, err)
+			}
+		}},
 		{"a forged author is refused", "decision.forged", func(t *testing.T) {
 			_, err := m.BusState(buscalls.LedgerApply, json.RawMessage(`{"ledger":"records","instance":"decision/forged","operation":"title","body":{"title":"T","author":"op@shanks"},"call":"forged"}`))
 			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "the call forged, which is not a tool call in flight") {
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go
index 114cd54..960dab5 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers.go
@@ -171,6 +171,17 @@ func (b *moduleBus) ledgerCall(method string, params json.RawMessage) (any, erro
 		var r buscalls.LedgerRequest
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(params, &r)
 		return l.Lag(r)
+	case buscalls.LedgerFill:
+		var r buscalls.LedgerRequest
+		_ = json.Unmarshal(params, &r)
+		return l.Fill(r)
+	case buscalls.LedgerRemove:
+		// Never on an apply: a removal is no operation of the history and has no author (design 47 G §587).
+		var r buscalls.LedgerRemoveRequest
+		if err := decode(method, params, &r); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return l.Remove(r)
 	}
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("the runtime answers no %s", method)
 }
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go
index 96bc96e..2fdbf66 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/runtime/ledgers_test.go
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ func TestABundleToolNamedAsALedgerRepairIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 // no other name; none answers "the runtime answers no ...".
 func TestEveryCallOfAStatedCapabilityIsAnswered(t *testing.T) {
 	m, _, _ := aLedger(t)
-	if got := strings.Join(CallCapabilities(), ","); got != "bus-state-calls,ledger-calls,put-sessions,seat-settle-delay" {
+	if got := strings.Join(CallCapabilities(), ","); got != "bus-state-calls,ledger-calls,ledger-upkeep-calls,put-sessions,seat-settle-delay,sent-objects-calls" {
 		t.Fatalf("the runner states %s", got)
 	}
 	for capability, methods := range callFamilies {
diff --git a/node-tools/module.json b/node-tools/module.json
index 1c474b8..076c37f 100644
--- a/node-tools/module.json
+++ b/node-tools/module.json
@@ -62,7 +62,15 @@
         "language": "go",
         "system": "arch",
         "from": "cmd/node-tools",
-        "binary": "node-tools"
+        "binary": "node-tools",
+        "states": [
+          "bus-state-calls",
+          "ledger-calls",
+          "ledger-upkeep-calls",
+          "put-sessions",
+          "seat-settle-delay",
+          "sent-objects-calls"
+        ]
       }
     ]
   },