diff --git a/tests/js/support/inspection-parity-facts.mjs b/tests/js/support/inspection-parity-facts.mjs
index d2bc141..8a8bb07 100644
--- a/tests/js/support/inspection-parity-facts.mjs
+++ b/tests/js/support/inspection-parity-facts.mjs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import path from 'node:path';
 const here = path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
 const web = path.join(here, '..', '..', '..', 'web', 'js');
 const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-const parser = require(path.join(web, 'comfy-metadata.js')), { extractGenerationFacts } = parser;
+const { extractGenerationFacts } = require(path.join(web, 'comfy-metadata.js'));
 const { projectInspectionPayload } = await import(pathToFileURL(path.join(web, 'workspace', 'inspection-state.mjs')).href);
 
 const chunks = [];
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ for await (const chunk of process.stdin) chunks.push(chunk);
 const output = {};
 for (const { name, body } of JSON.parse(Buffer.concat(chunks).toString('utf8'))) {
     const identity = { kind: 'rooted-file', key: `0:${name}.png`, root_index: 0, path: `${name}.png`, root_scope: null };
-    const record = projectInspectionPayload(JSON.parse(body), identity, null, extractGenerationFacts, false, parser);
+    const record = projectInspectionPayload(JSON.parse(body), identity, null, extractGenerationFacts);
     output[name] = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(record.generation).map(([field, fact]) => [field, { status: fact.status, value: fact.value }]));
 }
 process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(output));
diff --git a/tests/js/workspace-inspection-state.test.js b/tests/js/workspace-inspection-state.test.js
index 02bd499..a1bf464 100644
--- a/tests/js/workspace-inspection-state.test.js
+++ b/tests/js/workspace-inspection-state.test.js
@@ -544,3 +544,14 @@ test('callers without the browser global pass the legacy parser explicitly', ()
     assert.equal(record.prompts.positive.text, 'a lighthouse at dusk, oil painting');
     assert.equal(record.prompts.negative.text, 'blurry, watermark');
 });
+
+test('a setting the file does not record is never filled from the legacy parse', t => {
+    globalThis.ComfyMetadata = require('../../web/js/comfy-metadata.js');
+    t.after(() => { delete globalThis.ComfyMetadata; });
+    const entry = image(), data = envelope(entry);
+    data.metadata.prompt_graph = { status: 'parsed', value: detailerPipelineGraph() };
+    const extract = input => ({ ...extractGenerationFacts(input), cfg: { status: 'not-recorded', value: null, source: null, evidence: null, reason: null, sampler_id: null } });
+    const record = contract('toInspectionRecord')(data, entry, extract);
+    assert.equal(record.generation.cfg.status, 'not-recorded');
+    assert.equal(record.generation.cfg.value, null);
+});
diff --git a/tools/inspection_corpus_facts.mjs b/tools/inspection_corpus_facts.mjs
index 62ea4d4..b0e9024 100644
--- a/tools/inspection_corpus_facts.mjs
+++ b/tools/inspection_corpus_facts.mjs
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ import readline from 'node:readline';
 
 const web = path.join(path.resolve(process.argv[2]), 'web', 'js');
 const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-const parser = require(path.join(web, 'comfy-metadata.js')), { extractGenerationFacts } = parser;
+const { extractGenerationFacts } = require(path.join(web, 'comfy-metadata.js'));
 const { projectInspectionPayload } = await import(pathToFileURL(path.join(web, 'workspace', 'inspection-state.mjs')).href);
 const identity = { kind: 'rooted-file', key: '0:corpus.png', root_index: 0, path: 'corpus.png', root_scope: null };
 
 function facts(line) {
     try {
-        const record = projectInspectionPayload(JSON.parse(line), identity, null, extractGenerationFacts, false, parser);
+        const record = projectInspectionPayload(JSON.parse(line), identity, null, extractGenerationFacts);
         return Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(record.generation).map(([field, fact]) => [field, { status: fact.status, reason: fact.reason ?? null }]));
     } catch (error) {
         return { error: error?.name || 'Error' };
diff --git a/web/js/workspace/inspection-state.mjs b/web/js/workspace/inspection-state.mjs
index 1735bc2..da553ed 100644
--- a/web/js/workspace/inspection-state.mjs
+++ b/web/js/workspace/inspection-state.mjs
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ function withWorkflowParams(record, parser = comfyMetadata()) {
     }
     record.prompts = prompts;
     for (const [field, key] of LEGACY_FACTS) {
-        if (!found(key) || record.generation[field]?.status === 'known') continue;
+        // Only open answers are filled: a known value or a definite "not recorded" stays.
+        if (!found(key) || !['unresolved', 'ambiguous'].includes(record.generation[field]?.status)) continue;
         record.generation[field] = { status: 'known', value: String(params[key]), source: graph ? 'api-graph' : 'workflow', evidence: 'configuration', reason: null, sampler_id: null };
     }
 }