@@ -4996,12 +4996,9 @@ export function packageBodyObjectAndAppOwnerStampRefusal(
  * walking the collections and items in the order the seam registers them, or
  * `undefined`.
  *
- * The seam used to raise each of these on the item it was about to register,
- * after `installPackage`, the objects and the apps had registered: the
- * refusal propagated (install-local answered `422 PLUGIN_REGISTER_FAILED`)
- * while the package record, objects and apps stayed in the live registry until
- * restart, and a refused re-register of an installed id left that install
- * half-replaced. Every judge here reads the item, its derived name, the
+ * Asked first so a body refused by one of them leaves nothing of the package
+ * registered, and a refused re-register of an installed id leaves that
+ * install as it was. Every judge here reads the item, its derived name, the
  * source label and the owning id, and nothing the registry holds, so asking
  * it first gives the same answer in the same words. ⛔ No second copy of any
  * judge: each is the one function its own record names.
 
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
  *    boot seed of disabled packages;
  *  - CONTROLS: a clean body registers everything as before; a body that took
  *    over a tenant's object is not withdrawn (the withdrawal would drop the
- *    tenant's layer); an installed id refused part-way by the registry keeps
- *    today's state, pinned here until it has its own card.
+ *    tenant's layer); nor is an installed id refused part-way by the registry
+ *    (the withdrawal would take the installed version with it).
  */
 
 import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ describe('[#28697] controls', () => {
         expect(engine.registry.getPackage(PKG), 'not withdrawn').toBeDefined();
     });
 
-    it('an installed id refused part-way by the registry: today\'s state, pinned until its own card', () => {
+    it('an installed id refused part-way by the registry is not withdrawn', () => {
         const engine = new ObjectQL();
         engine.registerApp({ id: HOST, name: HOST, objects: [object('probe_held')] } as any);
         engine.registerApp({ id: PKG, name: PKG, version: '1.0.0', objects: [object('probe_a'), object('probe_old')], apps: [app('probe_app')] } as any);
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ describe('[#28697] controls', () => {
         }) as any));
         expect(err).toMatchObject({ code: 'OBJECT_OWNERSHIP_CONFLICT', status: 422 });
         const t = trace(engine);
-        // Not withdrawn (that would take v1 with it) and not restored.
+        // Not withdrawn: the withdrawal would take v1 with it.
         expect(t.pkg?.manifest.version).toBe('2.0.0');
         expect((engine.registry.getObject('probe_a') as any)?.label).toBe('v2 label');
         expect(t.objects).toEqual(['probe_a', 'probe_held', 'probe_old']);
 
@@ -3,18 +3,12 @@
 // GOLDEN REGRESSION — a package the install refuses part-way through
 // registering leaves nothing of itself in the running system (#28697).
 //
-// ## What was measured before the fix
-//
-// Installed into the showcase through `POST /api/v1/marketplace/install-local`,
-// an inline manifest whose object and app were clean and whose connector wore
-// the showcase's own `_packageId` answered 422 `PLUGIN_REGISTER_FAILED`, with
-// no ledger entry; but the package, its object and its app had already
-// registered, and stayed readable until restart.
-//
 // ## What this file pins, on one boot
 //
-//   1. that install is refused as before, and afterwards neither the package,
-//      its object nor its app reads; the same id then installs clean, 200;
+//   1. an install whose connector wears the showcase's id is refused as
+//      before (422 `PLUGIN_REGISTER_FAILED`), and afterwards neither the
+//      package, its object nor its app reads; the same id then installs
+//      clean, 200;
 //   2. an install the registry refuses part-way (its second object is one the
 //      showcase owns) is refused 422 `PLUGIN_REGISTER_FAILED`, and afterwards
 //      neither the package nor its first object reads; the showcase's object