diff --git a/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go b/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go
index f1cf18f..ef5907f 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/approval/approval_test.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 
 	mt "github.com/novox/mesh-tools/node-tools/internal/meshtest"
 )
@@ -419,8 +420,20 @@ func TestTheRefusalsAndAnswers(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Fatalf("findings %v", w.findings.raised)
 			}
 			w.warranted = nil
+			// At a start each acted, unrecorded ask is pending in the runner's findings-stated until warranted is made again
+			// (design 47 G §384).
+			pendingKey := views.FindingKey("machine", keys.EscapeName("n1."+a.ID), KindCallUnanswered)
+			warranted := w.g.d.Warranted
+			var pendingAtCall bool
+			w.g.d.Warranted = func(asker, ask string, open func() (bool, error)) error {
+				_, pendingAtCall = w.findings.pends[pendingKey]
+				return warranted(asker, ask, open)
+			}
 			w.g.Recover() // a start, or the hand-act seat's holder heard again
 			w.g.Recover()
+			if !pendingAtCall || len(w.findings.pended) != 1 || len(w.findings.pends) != 0 || w.findings.pended[0] != pendingKey {
+				t.Fatalf("pending at the call %v, pended %v, pending after %v", pendingAtCall, w.findings.pended, w.findings.pends)
+			}
 			if len(w.recorded) != 1 || w.recorded[0] != "shell."+a.ID || len(w.findings.raised) != 0 || len(w.bounds.keys) != 0 {
 				t.Fatalf("recorded %v, findings %v, bounds %v", w.recorded, w.findings.raised, w.bounds.keys)
 			}
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go b/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go
index 39573cf..000b379 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/approval/marks_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 
 	condseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 
 	catalogseat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
@@ -128,7 +129,21 @@ func TestTheMarks(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 // findings is the runner's held writer as a fixture: each finding raised now, by id.
-type findings struct{ raised map[string]string }
+type findings struct {
+	raised map[string]string
+	// pends are the keys pending in the held writer's statement; pended every key ever pended.
+	pends  map[string]views.PendingKey
+	pended []string
+}
+
+func (f *findings) Pend(p views.PendingKey) {
+	if f.pends == nil {
+		f.pends = map[string]views.PendingKey{}
+	}
+	f.pends[p.Key] = p
+	f.pended = append(f.pended, p.Key)
+}
+func (f *findings) Judged(key string) { delete(f.pends, key) }
 
 func (f *findings) Write(_ context.Context, x condseat.Finding) error {
 	if f.raised == nil {
diff --git a/node-tools/internal/approval/record.go b/node-tools/internal/approval/record.go
index 20af7ab..2826bed 100644
--- a/node-tools/internal/approval/record.go
+++ b/node-tools/internal/approval/record.go
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
 	seat "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel"
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
 
 // The bounds of a run's recording (§13, §16; lead answers A-157, A-158).
@@ -84,7 +86,9 @@ func (g *Gate) recordRun(module, id string) {
 		g.d.Logf("[mesh-tools] the run of ask %s is not recorded: the tool runner reaches no hand-act log", id)
 		return
 	}
-	if err := g.d.Warranted(module, id, func() (bool, error) { return g.unrecorded(id) }); err != nil {
+	err := g.d.Warranted(module, id, func() (bool, error) { return g.unrecorded(id) })
+	g.judged(id) // made again: its answer, or the bound of its key, judges it from now
+	if err != nil {
 		g.d.Logf("[mesh-tools] mesh-hand-acts.warranted has not answered for ask %s (%v): asked again when the hand-act seat's "+
 			"holder is heard again and at the next start", id, err)
 		return
@@ -181,6 +185,7 @@ func (g *Gate) Recover() {
 			continue
 		}
 		module := moduleOf(k)
+		g.pend(id)
 		g.d.Go(func() { g.recordRun(module, id) })
 	}
 }
@@ -220,5 +225,32 @@ func (g *Gate) WatchBounds() (func(), error) {
 	})
 }
 
+// Pender is the runner's held writer's pending (views.HeldWriter's Pend and Judged): the keys it cannot judge yet since its
+// start, named in its `findings-stated` (design 47 G §384).
+type Pender interface {
+	Pend(views.PendingKey)
+	Judged(key string)
+}
+
+// pend names an acted, unrecorded ask's `call-unanswered` in the runner's `findings-stated` until its `warranted` is made
+// again (§16; design 47 G §384), its bound the five minutes the finding waits.
+func (g *Gate) pend(id string) {
+	if p, ok := g.d.Findings.(Pender); ok {
+		p.Pend(views.PendingKey{Key: g.unansweredFinding(id), Since: g.d.Now().UTC(), Bound: UnansweredAfter.String()})
+	}
+}
+
+// judged ends that pending.
+func (g *Gate) judged(id string) {
+	if p, ok := g.d.Findings.(Pender); ok {
+		p.Judged(g.unansweredFinding(id))
+	}
+}
+
+// unansweredFinding is the key of an ask's `call-unanswered` in the runner's state findings (lead answer A-154).
+func (g *Gate) unansweredFinding(id string) string {
+	return views.FindingKey(scopeMachine, keys.EscapeName(g.d.Node+"."+id), KindCallUnanswered)
+}
+
 // isChanged says a compare-and-set lost to another write.
 func isChanged(err error) bool { return errors.Is(err, stdio.ErrChanged) }