diff --git a/scripts/bump-leg.py b/scripts/bump-leg.py
index 5e86be7c..229fb9c8 100755
--- a/scripts/bump-leg.py
+++ b/scripts/bump-leg.py
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def open(cls, root_spec) -> "Project":
         data = load_yaml(path)
         if not isinstance(data, dict):
             raise Refusal("bump-leg-manifest-unreadable",
-                          f"{path}: not a mapping")
+                          f"{shown_path(path)}: not a mapping")
         if data.get("kind") != "project-manifest":
             raise Refusal(
                 "bump-leg-wrong-kind",
diff --git a/scripts/path_classify.py b/scripts/path_classify.py
index a61d5753..da32ebba 100644
--- a/scripts/path_classify.py
+++ b/scripts/path_classify.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
 sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
-from repo_shape import Refusal, load_yaml  # noqa: E402
+from repo_shape import Refusal, load_yaml, shown_path  # noqa: E402
 
 LEGS = ("spec", "code", "root", "ambiguous")
 #: The answers a rule that asks may name as its `default:` (#528). `drop`
@@ -182,11 +182,12 @@ def __init__(self, data: dict):
     def load(cls, path: Path) -> "PathPolicy":
         data = load_yaml(path)
         if not isinstance(data, dict):
-            raise Refusal("path-policy-unreadable", f"{path}: not a mapping")
+            raise Refusal("path-policy-unreadable",
+                          f"{shown_path(path)}: not a mapping")
         if data.get("kind") != "path-classification-policy":
             raise Refusal(
                 "path-policy-wrong-kind",
-                f"{path}: kind is {data.get('kind')!r}, expected "
+                f"{shown_path(path)}: kind is {data.get('kind')!r}, expected "
                 "'path-classification-policy'")
         return cls(data)
 
diff --git a/scripts/repo_shape.py b/scripts/repo_shape.py
index 3219399f..55c4192a 100644
--- a/scripts/repo_shape.py
+++ b/scripts/repo_shape.py
@@ -2252,7 +2252,7 @@ def load(cls, path: Path) -> "NamingPolicy":
         if data.get("kind") != "repository-naming-policy":
             raise Refusal(
                 "policy-wrong-kind",
-                f"{path}: kind is {data.get('kind')!r}, expected "
+                f"{shown_path(path)}: kind is {data.get('kind')!r}, expected "
                 "'repository-naming-policy'",
             )
         return cls(data)
diff --git a/scripts/validate-repository-naming.py b/scripts/validate-repository-naming.py
index c568e33b..f86ce949 100755
--- a/scripts/validate-repository-naming.py
+++ b/scripts/validate-repository-naming.py
@@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ def _project_manifest(path: Path) -> dict:
     """The `project.yaml` mapping `--project` names, or a `Refusal`."""
     data = load_yaml(path)
     if not isinstance(data, dict):
-        raise Refusal("manifest-unreadable", f"{path}: not a mapping")
+        raise Refusal("manifest-unreadable", f"{_shown(path)}: not a mapping")
     return data
 
 
diff --git a/shape-doctor.py b/shape-doctor.py
index 373f094b..c08b1c8e 100755
--- a/shape-doctor.py
+++ b/shape-doctor.py
@@ -2761,10 +2761,13 @@ def naming_script_refusal(shape: Path, whole: str) -> Refusal | None:
     `project.yaml` the script was asked to read -- each is about what the
     script was asked, and is not this.
 
-    IN EITHER SPELLING (#1168): `load_yaml` and `policy-unreadable` name the
-    file as `shown_path` does, `repr`'d where this checkout's path holds a
-    character that is not printable, and `policy-wrong-kind` names it raw.
-    For a printable path the two are one.
+    IN EITHER SPELLING (#1168): `load_yaml`, `policy-unreadable` and, since
+    #1279, `policy-wrong-kind` name the file as `shown_path` does, `repr`'d
+    where this checkout's path holds a character that is not printable. It
+    is named raw only where this checkout's own `repo_shape.py` is older
+    than its doctor: the script that prints the line is this checkout's, and
+    imports this checkout's library, so a root's library never reaches this
+    function. For a printable path the two are one.
     """
     policy = f"{shape / NAMING_COPY}: "
     spelt = f"{shown_path(shape / NAMING_COPY)}: "
diff --git a/templates/assembly-root/scripts/validate-manifest.py b/templates/assembly-root/scripts/validate-manifest.py
index 1f9df591..1410d1e6 100755
--- a/templates/assembly-root/scripts/validate-manifest.py
+++ b/templates/assembly-root/scripts/validate-manifest.py
@@ -1435,7 +1435,8 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
             )
         manifest = _load(root, manifest_path)
         if not isinstance(manifest, dict):
-            raise Refusal("manifest-unreadable", f"{manifest_path}: not a mapping")
+            raise Refusal("manifest-unreadable",
+                          f"{_shown(manifest_path)}: not a mapping")
         policy_path = args.policy or (root / "contracts" / "repository-naming.yaml")
         policy = _load(root, policy_path, NamingPolicy.load)
         # Inside the `try`: a declared referent's pin file this user cannot
diff --git a/tests/test_load_yaml_refusals.py b/tests/test_load_yaml_refusals.py
index df92d5b5..da9734cb 100644
--- a/tests/test_load_yaml_refusals.py
+++ b/tests/test_load_yaml_refusals.py
@@ -528,13 +528,17 @@ def policy_refusal(shape: Path, text: str) -> Refusal:
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("text, code", [
     pytest.param(UNPARSABLE, "yaml-unparsable", id="load-yaml"),
     pytest.param("- a list\n", "policy-unreadable", id="not-a-mapping"),
+    pytest.param("kind: something-else\n", "policy-wrong-kind",
+                 id="wrong-kind"),
 ])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("name", NAMES)
 def test_the_doctor_finds_its_own_policy_in_the_naming_scripts_refusal(
         tmp_path, name, text, code):
     """`naming_script_refusal` knows the checkout's own policy by the path
-    at the start of the detail. `load_yaml` and `policy-unreadable` spell
-    it now, and the doctor asks that spelling too."""
+    at the start of the detail. `load_yaml`, `policy-unreadable` and, since
+    #1279, `policy-wrong-kind` spell it now, and the doctor asks that
+    spelling too. Named raw, a line feed split the wrong kind's line, and
+    the doctor did not find its own policy in it."""
     shape = unsafe_folder(tmp_path, name)
     refusal = policy_refusal(shape, text)
     found = doctor_module().naming_script_refusal(shape, f"{refusal}\n")
@@ -547,12 +551,20 @@ def test_the_doctor_finds_its_own_policy_in_the_naming_scripts_refusal(
     pytest.param(PRINTABLE_NAME, id="printable"),
 ])
 def test_the_doctor_still_finds_its_own_policy_named_raw(tmp_path, name):
-    """`policy-wrong-kind` names the policy raw, as it always did, and the
-    doctor still finds it by that prefix. A line feed splits that line, so
-    it is not among the names here, as on main."""
+    """A `repo_shape.py` from before #1279 names the policy raw in
+    `policy-wrong-kind`, and the doctor still finds it by that prefix. Only
+    this checkout's own library can print that line: the naming script the
+    doctor reads is this checkout's and imports this checkout's library, so
+    the library is one older than its doctor, never a root's. The line is
+    built as that library prints it, since this checkout's spells it. A
+    line feed splits that line, so it is not among the names here."""
     shape = unsafe_folder(tmp_path, name)
-    refusal = policy_refusal(shape, "kind: something-else\n")
-    assert refusal.code == "policy-wrong-kind"
+    policy = policy_refusal(shape, "kind: something-else\n")
+    assert policy.code == "policy-wrong-kind"
+    refusal = Refusal(policy.code,
+                      f"{shape / 'contracts' / 'repository-naming.yaml'}: "
+                      "kind is 'something-else', expected "
+                      "'repository-naming-policy'")
     found = doctor_module().naming_script_refusal(shape, f"{refusal}\n")
     assert found is not None, ascii(str(refusal))
     assert found.detail == refusal.detail
diff --git a/tests/test_mapping_and_kind_refusals_shown.py b/tests/test_mapping_and_kind_refusals_shown.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6172403c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_mapping_and_kind_refusals_shown.py
@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""A file that reads as YAML but is not a mapping, or is a policy of another
+kind, is refused naming the file as `shown_path` names it (#1279).
+
+#1168 gave that spelling to `load_yaml`'s three refusals and to
+`policy-unreadable`. The refusals on the next line of each reader, where the
+YAML parsed but is a list, or declares another `kind:`, still named the path
+raw: a bidi override, U+202E, in a folder's name reordered the line, an ESC
+reached the terminal as the control it is, and a line feed began a line of
+the path's choosing. Each is spelled now:
+
+- `policy-wrong-kind`, in `repo_shape.NamingPolicy.load`;
+- `manifest-unreadable`, the naming gate's `--project`;
+- `bump-leg-manifest-unreadable`, `bump-leg.py --root`, where `project.yaml`
+  is not a mapping (a root it cannot search was spelled already, and the
+  last row below pins that spelling);
+- `path-policy-unreadable` and `path-policy-wrong-kind`, in
+  `path_classify.PathPolicy.load`, which `adopt-project.py plan
+  --path-policy` reads;
+- `update-pin-unreadable`, `update-shape.py check --root`;
+- the root's `manifest-unreadable`, its own `validate-manifest.py`.
+
+Each run is one of `test_load_yaml_refusals.py`'s, with the file it builds
+holding YAML that parses. The naming gate and the root's
+`validate-manifest.py` are copied into every project, beside a
+`scripts/repo_shape.py` that may be older than they are, so each spells the
+path with the `_shown` it already carries: the rows that run them beside a
+library from before #1168 hold that for any name that library lacks. It has
+`shown_path` already, so a gate that imported that name would pass those rows;
+the import is held out by `test_pinned_copy_text.py`'s
+`test_no_pinned_script_imports_what_an_older_library_lacks`.
+A printable path is named byte for byte as it always was.
+`adopt-project.py`'s `plan-unreadable` is #1177's.
+
+NO NETWORK AND NO GITHUB: temporary files, local repositories, and the
+session's `gh` guard first on PATH for every tool run.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import shutil
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+from conftest import (
+    REPO, assert_shown_safe, named_as, run_script, unsafe_folder,
+)
+from test_bump_leg_unopenable import needs_a_mode
+from test_bump_leg_unsearchable import unsearchable_root
+from test_load_yaml_refusals import (
+    NAMES, TEMPLATE_SCRIPTS, TOOLS, a_root, older_library, refused_lines,
+)
+
+#: YAML that parses, to a list, and to a mapping of another kind.
+A_LIST = "- a\n"
+ANOTHER_KIND = "kind: other\n"
+
+#: What each refusal says after the path.
+NOT_A_MAPPING = "not a mapping"
+NOT_A_NAMING_POLICY = "kind is 'other', expected 'repository-naming-policy'"
+NOT_A_PATH_POLICY = "kind is 'other', expected 'path-classification-policy'"
+
+#: The issue's table, less #1177's `plan-unreadable`: each refusal, as
+#: `(code, the run in test_load_yaml_refusals.TOOLS that reaches it, what
+#: its file holds, what the refusal says after the path)`.
+SITES = {
+    "policy-wrong-kind": (
+        "policy-wrong-kind", "naming--policy", ANOTHER_KIND,
+        NOT_A_NAMING_POLICY),
+    "manifest-unreadable-naming--project": (
+        "manifest-unreadable", "naming--project", A_LIST, NOT_A_MAPPING),
+    "bump-leg-manifest-unreadable": (
+        "bump-leg-manifest-unreadable", "bump-leg--root", A_LIST,
+        NOT_A_MAPPING),
+    "path-policy-unreadable": (
+        "path-policy-unreadable", "adopt-plan--path-policy", A_LIST,
+        NOT_A_MAPPING),
+    "path-policy-wrong-kind": (
+        "path-policy-wrong-kind", "adopt-plan--path-policy", ANOTHER_KIND,
+        NOT_A_PATH_POLICY),
+    "update-pin-unreadable": (
+        "update-pin-unreadable", "update-shape-check--root", A_LIST,
+        NOT_A_MAPPING),
+    "manifest-unreadable-validate-manifest": (
+        "manifest-unreadable", "validate-manifest--root", A_LIST,
+        NOT_A_MAPPING),
+}
+
+
+def holding(path: Path, text: str) -> Path:
+    path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    path.write_text(text, encoding="utf-8")
+    return path
+
+
+def assert_refused_once(result, code: str, named: str, said: str) -> None:
+    """Exit 2, one `REFUSED` line, exactly `REFUSED <code>: <named>:
+    <said>`, and no U+202E, ESC or forged line anywhere in the output."""
+    output = result.stdout + result.stderr
+    assert result.returncode == 2, ascii(output)
+    assert refused_lines(result.stderr) == [
+        f"REFUSED {code}: {named}: {said}"], ascii(output)
+    assert chr(0x202E) not in output, ascii(output)
+    assert_shown_safe(result.stdout, result.stderr)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", NAMES)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("site", sorted(SITES))
+def test_each_refusal_names_the_file_as_shown_path_names_it(
+        tmp_path, site, name):
+    """THE ISSUE'S PROBE, one real run per refusal: the file named as `repr`
+    spells it where its folder's name holds U+202E, an ESC or a line feed,
+    so nothing of that name reaches the terminal raw and the detail stays
+    one line. At #1274's head each named it raw. The printable row is the
+    control, named byte for byte as before, with no quotes."""
+    code, tool, text, said = SITES[site]
+    path, argv = TOOLS[tool](unsafe_folder(tmp_path, name), tmp_path)
+    holding(path, text)
+    result = run_script(*argv, cwd=tmp_path)
+    assert_refused_once(result, code, named_as(path, name), said)
+
+
+#: The naming gate, which every project carries as it is here.
+NAMING = REPO / "scripts" / "validate-repository-naming.py"
+
+#: The root's own manifest gate.
+MANIFEST_GATE = "validate-manifest.py"
+
+
+def naming_gate(folder: Path, library: bytes) -> tuple:
+    """The naming gate as a root carries it, beside `library` and this
+    checkout's naming policy, asked of a `project.yaml` that is a list."""
+    root = a_root(folder, NAMING.read_bytes(), library, NAMING.name)
+    policy = root / "contracts" / "repository-naming.yaml"
+    policy.parent.mkdir()
+    shutil.copyfile(REPO / "contracts" / "repository-naming.yaml", policy)
+    manifest = holding(folder / "n" / "project.yaml", A_LIST)
+    return manifest, (root / "scripts" / NAMING.name, "--project",
+                      str(manifest))
+
+
+def manifest_gate(folder: Path, library: bytes) -> tuple:
+    """The root's `validate-manifest.py` beside `library`, over a root whose
+    `project.yaml` is a list."""
+    root = a_root(folder, (TEMPLATE_SCRIPTS / MANIFEST_GATE).read_bytes(),
+                  library, MANIFEST_GATE)
+    return holding(root / "project.yaml", A_LIST), (
+        root / "scripts" / MANIFEST_GATE, "--root", str(root))
+
+
+#: The two copied gates whose own refusal changed.
+COPIED_GATES = {
+    "naming-gate--project": naming_gate,
+    "validate-manifest--root": manifest_gate,
+}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", NAMES)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("gate", sorted(COPIED_GATES))
+def test_a_copied_gate_spells_the_path_beside_an_older_library(
+        tmp_path, gate, name):
+    """THE SKEW RULE: each copied gate beside a root's `repo_shape.py` from
+    before #1168, which has none of #1279's lines. The gate spells the path
+    with its own `_shown`, so it runs, refuses `manifest-unreadable` by
+    name, and spells the path as it does beside this checkout's library."""
+    path, argv = COPIED_GATES[gate](unsafe_folder(tmp_path, name),
+                                    older_library())
+    result = run_script(*argv, cwd=tmp_path)
+    assert "Traceback" not in result.stderr, ascii(result.stderr)
+    assert_refused_once(result, "manifest-unreadable", named_as(path, name),
+                        NOT_A_MAPPING)
+
+
+@needs_a_mode
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", NAMES)
+def test_a_root_that_cannot_be_searched_is_named_as_shown_path_names_it(
+        tmp_path, name):
+    """THE SPELLING THIS CHANGE LEFT ALONE: a `--root`
+    this user cannot search is `bump-leg-manifest-unreadable` from
+    `_manifest_unopened_refusal`, which names `project.yaml` as `shown_path`
+    does and did before #1279. No other row ran it under a path holding
+    U+202E, an ESC or a line feed (`test_bump_leg_unsearchable.py` uses a
+    printable one), so it was one `{path}` from raw with every row green.
+    This row passes on #1274's head too: it pins a spelling, and fails
+    nothing first. The root's mode is put back in a `finally`."""
+    path, argv = TOOLS["bump-leg--root"](unsafe_folder(tmp_path, name),
+                                         tmp_path)
+    with unsearchable_root(path.parent, 0):
+        result = run_script(*argv, cwd=tmp_path)
+    assert_refused_once(result, "bump-leg-manifest-unreadable",
+                        named_as(path, name), "cannot be read: Permission "
+                        "denied")
diff --git a/update-shape.py b/update-shape.py
index 35f27aac..8595d379 100755
--- a/update-shape.py
+++ b/update-shape.py
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@
 # as `parse_yaml` does, and put it back (#933). On a line of its own, for the
 # reason the branch rule's import below gives.
 from repo_shape import BYTE_ORDER_MARK  # noqa: E402
+# How a refusal names a path it was handed (#1279): as it is, or as `repr`
+# spells it where a character in it is not printable, as `load_yaml` names
+# the same pin since #1168. On a line of its own, as the two above are.
+from repo_shape import shown_path  # noqa: E402
 from shape_materialize import (  # noqa: E402
     ATTRIBUTES, COPIED_FROM_SHAPE, COPIED_VERBATIM, FAMILY_COPIED_FROM_SHAPE,
     FAMILY_COPIED_VERBATIM, SHAPE_REPOSITORY, CommandFailed, check_program,
@@ -938,7 +942,8 @@ def check_pin(pin, pin_path, root: Path) -> tuple[dict, list[Row]]:
     whose history a refusal's `git log` reads (#290).
     """
     if not isinstance(pin, dict):
-        raise Refusal("update-pin-unreadable", f"{pin_path}: not a mapping")
+        raise Refusal("update-pin-unreadable",
+                      f"{shown_path(pin_path)}: not a mapping")
     commit = str(pin.get("commit") or "").lower()
     if not COMMIT_RE.match(commit):
         raise Refusal(