diff --git a/changelog.d/192.md b/changelog.d/192.md
index 916fc5e..8851646 100644
--- a/changelog.d/192.md
+++ b/changelog.d/192.md
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 - A removal that changes nothing writes nothing, rather than replacing the set
   with itself and opening a race for no state change (#192).
 
+- Every failure diagnostic on the forgejo backend names the verb as well as the
+  path and the status. A read used to say `HTTP 500 from 'repos/…'`, which
+  cannot be told from a failed write of the same path (#192).
+
 - The diagnostic names what was attempted and that it did not happen, instead
   of blaming a missing label and telling the operator to bootstrap — a cause it
   had not established (#192, #101).
diff --git a/lib/forge-forgejo.sh b/lib/forge-forgejo.sh
index 066ce2c..0583f86 100644
--- a/lib/forge-forgejo.sh
+++ b/lib/forge-forgejo.sh
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ forge_api() {
       echo "forge_api: request failed: $endpoint" >&2
       return 1
     fi
-    forgejo_http_ok "$hdr" "$endpoint" || return 1
+    forgejo_http_ok "$hdr" "GET $endpoint" || return 1
     if [ "$have_jq" = true ]; then jq -r "$jqexpr" <"$body"; else cat "$body"; fi
     return 0
   fi
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ forge_api() {
       echo "forge_api: request failed: $endpoint (page $page)" >&2
       return 1
     fi
-    forgejo_http_ok "$hdr" "$endpoint" || return 1
+    forgejo_http_ok "$hdr" "GET $endpoint" || return 1
 
     # Re-read on EVERY page, not once (#4712). A board that changes size
     # under the walk was invisible: page 1 declaring 4 and page 2 declaring
@@ -223,9 +223,14 @@ EOF
   printf '%s\n' "$total"
 }
 
-# forgejo_http_ok <header-file> <endpoint> — a non-2xx is named, not
+# forgejo_http_ok <header-file> <verb-and-endpoint> — a non-2xx is named, not
 # swallowed. gh exits non-zero on HTTP failure; curl does not without -f,
 # and -f would throw away the body that says why.
+# The second argument carries the VERB as well as the path — "GET repos/…",
+# "PUT repos/…". #192's acceptance criterion is that a failure names the verb,
+# the path and the status, and reads used to omit the verb: a caller reading
+# `HTTP 500 from 'repos/o/r/issues/5'` could not tell a failed read from a
+# failed write of the same path (@codex-reviewer-andresmgsl).
 forgejo_http_ok() {
   local hdr="$1" endpoint="$2" code
   code="$(tr -d '\r' <"$hdr" | awk '/^HTTP\// { c = $2 } END { print c }')"
diff --git a/test/forge-backends.test.sh b/test/forge-backends.test.sh
index 908b5ab..fd44a84 100644
--- a/test/forge-backends.test.sh
+++ b/test/forge-backends.test.sh
@@ -376,7 +376,11 @@ fail_get() {
     REPO=o/r forge_issue_edit 5 --remove-label state:old
 }
 check "a failed current-label GET refuses, non-zero" 1 "" fail_get
-check "...naming the verb, path and status" 1 "500" fail_get
+check "...naming the verb, the path AND the status, in one diagnostic" 1 \
+  "HTTP 500 from 'GET repos/o/r/issues/5'" fail_get
+get_write_count() { : >"$WRITES"; fail_get >/dev/null 2>&1; wc -l <"$WRITES"; }
+check "...having written nothing: the read failed before any mutation" 0 "0" \
+  get_write_count
 fail_put() {
   FAKE_LABELS="$ROSTER" FAKE_LABEL_N=4 \
     FAKE_ISSUE_LABELS='[{"name":"state:old","id":11},{"name":"scope:labels","id":13}]' \
@@ -384,7 +388,10 @@ fail_put() {
     REPO=o/r forge_issue_edit 5 --remove-label state:old
 }
 check "a failed replacement PUT refuses, non-zero" 1 "" fail_put
-check "...naming the verb, path and status" 1 "500" fail_put
+check "...naming the verb, the path AND the status, in one diagnostic" 1 \
+  "HTTP 500 from 'PUT repos/o/r/issues/5/labels'" fail_put
+put_write_count() { : >"$WRITES"; fail_put >/dev/null 2>&1; wc -l <"$WRITES"; }
+check "...having attempted only the one PUT" 0 "1" put_write_count
 
 # An ADD-ONLY call keeps the additive POST (ceremony#128): a read-modify-write
 # there clobbered a label set two seconds after a builder wrote it.