The console says an account was refused only when the bus refused it

"authorization" alone matched a tool's own answer mentioning the word — the
runtime refusing a state value with an Authorization header read as
"this account may not call".

node-tools/internal/console/client.go

@@ -110,8 +110,11 @@ func subjectListed(name, node string, l *Listing) string {
 
 var (
 	noResponders = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)no responders|503`)
-	refused      = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)permissions violation|authorization`)
-	timedOut     = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)timeout`)
+	// The bus's own two refusals, by their whole phrase. "authorization" alone also matched a tool's own
+	// answer that merely mentions the word — the runtime refusing a state value with an Authorization
+	// header (novox/hq ADR 0201) read as "this account may not call", which sent the reader the wrong way.
+	refused  = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)permissions violation|authorization violation`)
+	timedOut = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)timeout`)
 )
 
 // whyItFailed says why a call failed, so the remedy is in the words.

node-tools/internal/console/refusal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package console
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// A refusal is said only for the bus's own refusals; a tool's answer that mentions authorization is the
+// tool's answer, not the account's.
+func TestARefusalIsSaidOnlyForTheBussOwn(t *testing.T) {
+	for msg, refusal := range map[string]bool{
+		`nats: Permissions Violation for Publish to "mesh.mod.x.tool.y"`:                        true,
+		"nats: Authorization Violation":                                                         true,
+		`claude-code's servers.all.x carries a field "Authorization", which names a credential`: false,
+	} {
+		got := strings.HasPrefix(whyItFailed("x.y", errors.New(msg)), "this account may not call")
+		if got != refusal {
+			t.Errorf("%q read as a refusal: %v, want %v", msg, got, refusal)
+		}
+	}
+}