diff --git a/FIX.org b/FIX.org
index 215528f..9c1e4eb 100644
--- a/FIX.org
+++ b/FIX.org
@@ -5710,6 +5710,27 @@ faces among them. Under two busy-loop burners, this machine's load average
 running 8 to 16: 9 failures in 25 runs. After the fix, same harness and the
 same two burners at the same load: 0 in 50.
 
+One test is strengthened rather than served by this. test_dev.ml:763 asserts
+that a re-run asked for while the program is running is refused as "already
+running" — and that assertion was itself racy: it fires after the run it
+re-ran has been waited for, so the run could have finished and parked, and the
+refusal it demands would not have come. With the flip at the acceptance the
+RUNNING state starts earlier and covers more of that gap. It is a narrower
+window, not a closed one; if that row ever flakes, the answer is to make the
+test ask while a run is demonstrably in progress, not to widen the state
+further.
+
+Three sentences went stale the moment the state moved, and were rewritten with
+it — the same class of defect as the one being fixed, since each was correct
+only while a committed re-run still read as parked. [flan_merged_park]'s note
+that the program stays PARKED across a poll, now true of every round but the
+one it leaves on. [Program.rerun]'s refusal, which told a reader to close a
+window or let the program finish when what holds it is a break loop: it takes
+what the caller already knows and says resume or abort instead. And the
+five-second timeout in [eval_expr] and [run_render_thunk], which reached its
+break-loop sentence through the [Parked] arm and would otherwise have asked
+whether a game loop calls [(agent/poll)] about a program stopped between runs.
+
 Related but separate, and not this: test_reload's "the registry read under a
 writer" is a reader racing a writer over the allocation registry, about one run
 in five in isolation, and shares nothing with this but the word intermittent.
diff --git a/docs/BUILT.md b/docs/BUILT.md
index 419f524..bd69841 100644
--- a/docs/BUILT.md
+++ b/docs/BUILT.md
@@ -1439,6 +1439,14 @@ between them, or arrived a moment later and were told the program was already ru
 symptoms. The park's own store of `PROGRAM_RUNNING` on the way back into `main` is now a no-op that documents where the
 thread has got to.
 
+The case an editor author has to know about is `:parked nil :stopped t` with no frames running. An expression evaluated
+against a park can stop on a condition, which leaves the program's one thread inside the break loop; a re-run asked for
+then is accepted — it is the next thing that thread will do — so the state says running while nothing is executing.
+That is not a lie about a park: `:parked` reports a park, `:stopped` reports a break loop, and this is a break loop
+with a run waiting behind it. `rerun`'s reply says so in its `:note`, a second `rerun` is refused with the resume-or-abort
+sentence rather than the close-the-window one, and an evaluation that times out there names the break too. The run
+starts when the break is resumed or aborted.
+
 `close`ing stdout went with this change, and it had to. That was how the compiler learned the program was done — the
 pipe read EOF, exactly as the two-process daemon learns it from a dead child — but a pipe delivers EOF *once*, so the
 signal and the program's output were the same resource: spending it left the second run with nowhere to print. The
diff --git a/lib/dev.ml b/lib/dev.ml
index 035e082..c2bfdc5 100644
--- a/lib/dev.ml
+++ b/lib/dev.ml
@@ -1263,6 +1263,23 @@ let eval_expr t ~code ~origin ~pause =
                     program is parked, so nothing is competing with it: the \
                     thunk is most likely stopped on a condition inside the \
                     break loop, which restart or abort answers"
+               (* The same cause without the park to name it. An earlier
+                  evaluation can stop on something and still be sitting in the
+                  break loop when this one arrives — [`Broke] above sees only
+                  stops entered after the request — and the thread is then in
+                  no state to run anything. That used to be reached through
+                  the [Parked] arm, which is where such a thread was; it is
+                  not any more once a re-run has been accepted, because taking
+                  one ends the park while the break goes on holding the
+                  thread. Sending that reader to look for [(agent/poll)] in a
+                  game loop would be sending them away from the break buffer
+                  their editor has open. *)
+               else if parked_break t then
+                 error
+                   "the expression produced no value in five seconds, because \
+                    the program is stopped at an earlier break and runs \
+                    nothing until that ends. Take a restart or abort in the \
+                    break buffer, and evaluate this again"
                (* And a third cause, which is the one a session now reaches
                   early enough to hit: the program has not bound its agent
                   socket, so it is still ahead of its own [(agent/start ...)]
@@ -1825,7 +1842,10 @@ let run_render_thunk ?(stopped_only = false) ?at_stop t ~tag
                 thing not to say here. A parked thread has nothing competing
                 with it, so what it is doing is holding a break — the thunk
                 asked for a stopped stack and the stop has been let go of. *)
-             let gave_up =
+             (* A function and not a value, because the middle arm asks the
+                agent and this is the body of a five-millisecond tick. Only
+                the tick that gives up needs the answer. *)
+             let gave_up () =
                if liveness t = Parked then
                  Error
                    "the inspection produced nothing in five seconds. The \
@@ -1833,12 +1853,27 @@ let run_render_thunk ?(stopped_only = false) ?at_stop t ~tag
                     the break it was built against has most likely been \
                     resumed since, and a stopped-only job is dropped rather \
                     than run against a resumed program"
+               (* Still at a break, and not parked — a program stopped during
+                  a run, or one whose park has ended because a re-run was
+                  accepted while the break went on holding the thread. The
+                  break loop is the poll loop, so the job had somewhere to
+                  run; what it did not have is the stop it was built against,
+                  which is the same story the parked sentence tells. Naming
+                  the game loop here would send the reader past the break
+                  buffer that is holding their program. *)
+               else if parked_break t then
+                 Error
+                   "the inspection produced nothing in five seconds. The \
+                    program is stopped at a break, and a stopped-only job is \
+                    dropped rather than run once the stop it was built against \
+                    has been left behind. Ask again from the break buffer as \
+                    it stands now"
                else
                  Error
                    "the program did not reach a frame boundary; is it calling \
                     (agent/poll)?"
              in
-             if ms <= 0 then gave_up
+             if ms <= 0 then gave_up ()
              else begin
                ignore (Unix.select [] [] [] 0.005);
                (* Not [Gone], for the reason [eval_expr]'s own wait now gives:
@@ -1846,7 +1881,7 @@ let run_render_thunk ?(stopped_only = false) ?at_stop t ~tag
                   frame boundary, and a render job asked for at a break the
                   park is holding is running in that break's own poll. Gone is
                   the only state no amount of waiting recovers from. *)
-               if liveness t <> Gone then wait (ms - 5) else gave_up
+               if liveness t <> Gone then wait (ms - 5) else gave_up ()
              end
        in
        wait 5000
@@ -3093,9 +3128,16 @@ let rerun t =
        the park — the C stores the new state as it accepts — so by the time
        there is an [Ok] to describe, this session's program reads as running
        whatever it was doing a moment ago, and the note below would have lost
-       the one case it exists for. *)
-    let stopped_in_park = liveness t = Parked && parked_break t in
-    (match Program.rerun () with
+       the one case it exists for.
+
+       [at_break] is asked of the agent whichever state the program is in,
+       because both answers need it and neither can be inferred from the other.
+       Accepted and stopped is the note below; refused and stopped is a refusal
+       whose advice would otherwise be about a window to close — see
+       [Program.rerun]. *)
+    let at_break = parked_break t in
+    let stopped_in_park = liveness t = Parked && at_break in
+    (match Program.rerun ~stopped:at_break () with
      | Ok () ->
        (* The park this session was explaining is over, so the park after it
           gets the explanation again — see [install_note]. Cleared here as
@@ -4454,10 +4496,18 @@ static void flan_merged_exit(int32_t status) {
  * So the wait has two flags and not one, and the difference between them is
  * what the thread does next: [program_asked] leaves the park and
  * [program_poll] waits again. What they no longer differ about is the ring,
- * which is drained on the way round either way — see the loop. The program
- * stays PROGRAM_PARKED across the whole of a poll — a thunk is not a run, and
- * an editor that saw [:parked nil] for the duration of a C-x C-e would show
- * the program as live for a moment that has no frames in it.
+ * which is drained on the way round either way — see the loop. A poll the
+ * program is only visiting leaves it PROGRAM_PARKED throughout — a thunk is
+ * not a run, and an editor that saw [:parked nil] for the duration of a C-x
+ * C-e would show the program as live for a moment that has no frames in it.
+ *
+ * The round it leaves on is the exception, and it is one by the same rule
+ * rather than against it. That round begins with a re-run already taken, and a
+ * taken re-run is a run: [flan_merged_rerun] has stored PROGRAM_RUNNING
+ * before this thread is even awake. So the drain in front of the exit happens
+ * with the program reading as running, which is what it is — on its way into
+ * main, installing what was queued for that run. The state follows the
+ * decision either way; only the decision differs.
  *
  * A re-run is tested first, so a stream of evaluations cannot starve one. The
  * poll flag is cleared BEFORE the lock is dropped, which is what makes a
diff --git a/lib/program.ml b/lib/program.ml
index b3c59b8..4509141 100644
--- a/lib/program.ml
+++ b/lib/program.ml
@@ -71,10 +71,26 @@ let wake () = ignore (raw_wake ())
    The refusal is the program's to make, not this end's. Checking the state
    here and signalling after would leave a gap for the program to finish or
    start in; the C does both under one lock, so a request is either taken or
-   told the program is running, and never both. *)
-let rerun () =
+   told the program is running, and never both.
+
+   [stopped] is the one thing the refusal cannot see for itself, and without it
+   the advice is wrong in the case that needs it most. The C knows the program
+   is not available; it does not know that the thread is sitting in a break
+   loop, which is a thing the agent reports and this end reads. "Close its
+   window, or let it finish" is what to do about a program that is running; it
+   is no use at all to somebody whose evaluation stopped on a breakpoint, or
+   who has already asked for a re-run that is waiting on that same break. Both
+   of those are ended by resuming or aborting, so that is what those are told.
+   The caller passes what it already knows — see [Dev.rerun]. *)
+let rerun ?(stopped = false) () =
   match raw_rerun () with
   | 0 -> Ok ()
+  | 1 when stopped ->
+    Error
+      "the program is stopped at a break, so main cannot be started or \
+       restarted until that ends: resume it or abort it, and the program goes \
+       on from there. If a re-run was already accepted, it is waiting on the \
+       same thing and needs no second request"
   | 1 ->
     Error
       "the program is already running; a re-run starts main again, and two \