diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.cpp b/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.cpp
index 5c88caec..1276cb4c 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.cpp
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.cpp
@@ -552,6 +552,16 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Pipe {
         ctx->RecordError(code, Move(info));
     }
 
+    void MGPipeLeaveVerb() {
+        PipeInputs& inputs = gPipeInputs;
+#if MOBILEGL_PIPE_POISON
+        // Same bump the next fill would make, without a verb to fill from: no field is
+        // stamped, so every stamp this verb made falls behind the serial.
+        ++MGPipeFillAccess::Filled(inputs).CurrentVerbSerial;
+#endif
+        MGPipeFillAccess::SetVerb(inputs, MGPipeVerb::kVerbCount);
+    }
+
     // ---- the filler ----
     void MGPipeFillForVerb(MGPipeVerb verb) {
         PipeInputs& inputs = gPipeInputs;
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.h b/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.h
index deda5991..f03a3b82 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.h
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Impl/Pipe/PipeFill.h
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Pipe {
     // runs the entry compare against a second snapshot (P1 brief D8).
     void MGPipeFillForVerb(MGPipeVerb verb);
 
+    // Ends the verb in flight without starting another: bumps the serial, so every field the
+    // verb stamped goes stale, and puts the current verb back to "none", so a read made after
+    // it aborts as Fatal{UnmigratedPipeInput, "<Field>@<none>"} - which is what such a read
+    // is - instead of naming whichever verb happened to be filled last. Nothing in the GL
+    // entry points calls this: a real verb is always followed by the next verb's fill. It
+    // exists for a caller that drives a backend helper directly and wants its declaration to
+    // stop where it says it stops (MG_Test/ScopedPipeVerb.h).
+    void MGPipeLeaveVerb();
+
     // PipeFill.cpp. Negative control B (P1 brief D6): the filler withholds the STAMP - never
     // the value - of `field` at `verb`, so that verb's read of it is
     // Fatal{UnmigratedPipeInput, "Field@Verb"} while every other verb is unaffected. The
diff --git a/MobileGL/MG_Test/ScopedPipeVerb.h b/MobileGL/MG_Test/ScopedPipeVerb.h
index 1172cf90..aa0d90fc 100644
--- a/MobileGL/MG_Test/ScopedPipeVerb.h
+++ b/MobileGL/MG_Test/ScopedPipeVerb.h
@@ -65,13 +65,14 @@ namespace MobileGL::MG_Test {
         }
 
 #if MOBILEGL_PIPE_PUSH
-        ~ScopedPipeVerb() { MG_Pipe::MGPipeFillForVerb(kLeaveVerb); }
+        // Leaving bumps the serial and puts the current verb back to "none": every field
+        // this scope stamped goes stale, and a later test that forgets its own declaration
+        // aborts with "<Field>@<none>" rather than with the name of a verb it never issued.
+        // That matters when the suite runs as one process (a developer running the test
+        // binary directly, rather than one ctest entry per case).
+        ~ScopedPipeVerb() { MG_Pipe::MGPipeLeaveVerb(); }
 
     private:
-        // Leaving is a fill of the narrowest verb class there is: kQuery names one field, so
-        // the serial bump lands and every field this scope stamped falls behind it. The one
-        // field is a transform-feedback counter read - no side effect, and nothing to undo.
-        static constexpr MG_Pipe::MGPipeVerb kLeaveVerb = MG_Pipe::MGPipeVerb::GetGpuTimestampNs;
         MG_Pipe::MGPipeVerb m_verb;
 #endif
     };
diff --git a/scripts/check_include_closure.py b/scripts/check_include_closure.py
index 5465edaf..5fbde4c7 100755
--- a/scripts/check_include_closure.py
+++ b/scripts/check_include_closure.py
@@ -106,6 +106,25 @@ PROBES = [
         "Why": "P7 ships the reflection artifacts over the wire; the archive header must not "
                "depend on the compiler front end that produced them.",
     },
+    {
+        "Name": "mutation-header",
+        "Header": "MobileGL/MG_Pipe/PipeMutation.h",
+        "Tu": "#include <MG_Pipe/PipeMutation.h>\n",
+        "Forbidden": [
+            "MobileGL/MG_Impl/",
+            "MobileGL/MG_State/GLState/Core.h",
+            "MobileGL/MG_Remote/",
+        ],
+        "Allow": [],
+        "TextLimits": {},
+        "Why": "P1 finding F2 put MGP_NOTE_MUTATION in frontend mutators, so MG_State now "
+               "includes this header (TextureState.h, SamplerObject.h). It may only DECLARE "
+               "the notice: reaching MG_Impl would pull the fill implementation into the "
+               "state machine that calls it, and reaching GLState/Core.h would close the "
+               "cycle back onto the context. The MGPipeTypes -> BackendObject -> TextureEnum "
+               "reach it inherits from MGPipe.h is D1's known exception, which is why gate A "
+               "asserts MGPipeValueTypes.h rather than MGPipeTypes.h.",
+    },
     {
         "Name": "wire-header",
         "Header": "MobileGL/MG_Remote/Transport/ITransport.h",