diff --git a/app/ui/features/generate/inputs.js b/app/ui/features/generate/inputs.js
index 11991f72..852825c7 100644
--- a/app/ui/features/generate/inputs.js
+++ b/app/ui/features/generate/inputs.js
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export async function buildInputs({ project, scene, slots, expand, frames, hooks
     if (!(body && typeof body.text === "string")) failedExpand = true;
   }
   // Features that add inputs of their own (a Chat comment for the enhancer, say) say so through a hook: { inputs: {slot: {name: value}}, notes: [text] }.
-  const notes = failedExpand ? ["The prompt could not be expanded ($variables, anchor, postfix): the text was sent as typed."] : [];
+  const notes = failedExpand ? ["The prompt could not be expanded (shortcuts, $variables, anchor, postfix): the text was sent as typed."] : [];
   for (const hook of hooks) {
     let out;
     try { out = (await hook({ project, scene, slots })) || {}; } catch (err) { notes.push(`An add-on's input could not be added to this run: ${err.message}`); continue; }
diff --git a/core/control.py b/core/control.py
index 610d13c4..08971533 100644
--- a/core/control.py
+++ b/core/control.py
@@ -204,7 +204,8 @@ def partition(specs: Iterable, settings) -> Tuple[List, List[str]]:
     """(kept, notes): `specs` without the ones the project turned off or that are quarantined."""
     specs = list(specs)
     off, everything = off_by_project(settings), all_off(settings)
-    known = {s.id for s in specs}
+    from . import registry
+    known = {s.id for s in specs} | set(registry.current().specs)        # the list passed in is filtered (traits, capability); "loaded" is the registry
     for gone in sorted(off - known):                  # a saved "turn this module off" for a module that is no longer loaded
         log.once(f"stale_off:{gone}", log.WARNING, "FunPack modules",
                  f"{gone!r} is turned off in this project's settings, but no module with that id is loaded: ignored")
diff --git a/core/probe.py b/core/probe.py
index 52599ecc..2e9a12c0 100644
--- a/core/probe.py
+++ b/core/probe.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ def detect(path: Path, registry=None) -> dict:
             matched = claims(keyset)
         except Exception as exc:                       # noqa: BLE001
             from . import log
-            log.failed(f"{spec.id}.detect", exc)
+            log.once(f"provider:{spec.id}.detect:{type(exc).__name__}", log.WARNING, f"{spec.id}.detect", f"failed while answering -- {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
             continue
         if matched:
             traits = None                              # unknown, not empty: a module that never says hides nothing
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def detect(path: Path, registry=None) -> dict:
                     traits = list(probe_traits(keyset))
                 except Exception as exc:                # noqa: BLE001
                     from . import log
-                    log.failed(f"{spec.id}.probe_traits", exc)
+                    log.once(f"provider:{spec.id}.probe_traits:{type(exc).__name__}", log.WARNING, f"{spec.id}.probe_traits", f"failed while answering -- {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
             return {"module": spec.id, "title": spec.title, "detected": True,
                     "reason": f"{p.name}: {spec.title}", "traits": traits}
     return {"module": None, "title": None, "detected": False,
diff --git a/core/routes.py b/core/routes.py
index c4784b99..007cb792 100644
--- a/core/routes.py
+++ b/core/routes.py
@@ -116,9 +116,10 @@ def modules(rescan=False):
     return registry_mod.current(rescan)
 
 
-def _provider_failed(what, exc):
+def _provider_failed(what, exc, spec=None):
     """A provider raised while answering: said once per provider and kind of error, then skipped."""
-    log.once(f"provider:{what}:{type(exc).__name__}", log.WARNING, what, f"failed while answering -- {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
+    who = f"{what} ({spec.id})" if spec is not None else what
+    log.once(f"provider:{who}:{type(exc).__name__}", log.WARNING, who, f"failed while answering -- {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
 
 
 def settings_sinks():
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ def settings_sinks():
         try:
             sink = make()
         except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
-            _provider_failed("settings_sink", exc)
+            _provider_failed("settings_sink", exc, _spec)
             continue
         if isinstance(sink, dict) and sink.get("node") and sink.get("input"):
             found.append({"node": sink["node"], "input": sink["input"]})
@@ -268,7 +269,7 @@ def register(routes, prefix=None):
             try:
                 offered = make()
             except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
-                _provider_failed("pipeline_presets", exc)
+                _provider_failed("pipeline_presets", exc, spec)
                 continue
             for preset in (offered or []):
                 if isinstance(preset, dict) and preset.get("id") and preset.get("slots"):
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ def register(routes, prefix=None):
                 try:
                     presets += list(make() or [])
                 except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
-                    _provider_failed("pipeline_presets", exc)
+                    _provider_failed("pipeline_presets", exc, _spec)
             reg = modules()
             rows = readiness.machine(sysinfo.collect().get("disk", {}).get("free_gb"))
             rows += readiness.models(counts)
diff --git a/core/tests/test_control.py b/core/tests/test_control.py
index 7e83b070..78804d19 100644
--- a/core/tests/test_control.py
+++ b/core/tests/test_control.py
@@ -139,3 +139,15 @@ def test_a_saved_turn_off_for_a_module_that_is_gone_is_said_once():
     control.partition([spec("b")], {"_off": {"modules": ["gone"]}})
     said = [r for r in log.history() if "'gone'" in r["message"]]
     assert len(said) == 1 and "ignored" in said[0]["message"]
+
+
+def test_a_turned_off_module_that_is_loaded_but_not_in_the_filtered_list_is_not_called_gone(monkeypatch):
+    """Callers pass a filtered list (by capability, by the model's traits); "gone" means absent from the registry."""
+    from core import log, registry
+    log._reset()
+    reg = registry.Registry()
+    reg.specs["sharpen"] = spec("sharpen")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(registry, "current", lambda rescan=False: reg)
+    control.partition([spec("other")], {"_off": {"modules": ["sharpen"]}})
+    control.partition([spec("other")], {"_off": {"all": True}})
+    assert not [r for r in log.history() if "no module with that id" in r["message"]]
diff --git a/core/tests/test_registry.py b/core/tests/test_registry.py
index e8bcbedd..e2aab3a1 100644
--- a/core/tests/test_registry.py
+++ b/core/tests/test_registry.py
@@ -300,3 +300,14 @@ def test_a_duplicate_id_is_said_in_the_log_not_only_in_settings():
     reg.add(validate({"id": "dup", "title": "A", "mount": "m"}, source="one"))
     reg.add(validate({"id": "dup", "title": "B", "mount": "m"}, source="two"))
     assert any("duplicate id" in r["message"] for r in log.history())
+
+
+def test_route_providers_that_raise_are_said_by_name_once_each():
+    from core import log, routes
+    log._reset()
+    a = type("S", (), {"id": "mod_a"})()
+    b = type("S", (), {"id": "mod_b"})()
+    for s in (a, b, a, b):
+        routes._provider_failed("settings_sink", KeyError("x"), s)
+    said = [r for r in log.history() if "failed while answering" in r["message"]]
+    assert sorted(r["source"] for r in said) == ["settings_sink (mod_a)", "settings_sink (mod_b)"]