diff --git a/packages/cultcache-rs/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/cultcache-rs/CHANGELOG.md
index 94d23cbd..f73df370 100644
--- a/packages/cultcache-rs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/cultcache-rs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,4 +9,11 @@ only in git history.
 ### Breaking
 
 - A single-file store written as `cultcache.store.v3` is read and written: a record that holds an element id (an owned list element with an `[CultElementId]` member, carried through every write) marks the store v3, and a v3 store is carried through a rewrite with its ids. A runtime from before this change refuses a v3 store by name.
-- A write over a file the reader refuses (a zero-byte file, a truncated store, a stamp this runtime does not read) refuses with `CultCacheStoreUnreadable` and leaves the file as it is. A whole-store write used to replace such a file.
+- A write over a file the reader refuses (a zero-byte file, a truncated store, a stamp this runtime does not read) refuses with `CultCacheStoreUnreadable` and leaves the file as it is. A whole-store write used to replace such a file. This reverses 0.3.1, where `push_all` replaced a file with no readable stamp (healing it); the stamp rule now has one owner, the reader every write asks under the lock, and it accepts v1 and v3 (0.3.1 refused v3).
+
+## [0.3.1]
+
+### Fixed
+- `push_all` reads the store's header under the lock and refuses a format this runtime does
+  not read, with `CultCacheStoreUnreadable` `UnsupportedFormat`, leaving the file as it was.
+  A file with no readable stamp is still replaced, so a whole write heals it.
diff --git a/packages/cultcache-rs/Cargo.toml b/packages/cultcache-rs/Cargo.toml
index 9610aeb6..7954370c 100644
--- a/packages/cultcache-rs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/packages/cultcache-rs/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "cultcache-rs"
-version = "0.3.0"
+version = "0.3.1"
 edition = "2024"
 license = "MIT"
 publish = false
diff --git a/packages/cultcache-rs/src/lib.rs b/packages/cultcache-rs/src/lib.rs
index 2878171b..b77f4971 100644
--- a/packages/cultcache-rs/src/lib.rs
+++ b/packages/cultcache-rs/src/lib.rs
@@ -1361,31 +1361,39 @@ impl SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore {
                     .context(format!("failed to read {}", self.path.display())));
             }
         };
-        let unreadable = |kind, detail: anyhow::Error| {
-            // The detail is rebuilt as text that names no value read from the bytes. The
-            // decoder reports a short read as an io::Error, and dropping it keeps an
-            // io::Error in the chain meaning only that the file itself could not be read.
-            anyhow!(describe_undecodable(&detail)).context(CultCacheStoreUnreadable {
-                path: self.path.clone(),
-                kind,
-            })
-        };
         let head = store_header(&bytes);
-        match head.first {
-            Some(header) if header.starts_with("cultcache.store.") && readable_store_format(&header).is_none() => Err(unreadable(
+        self.refuse_unread_format(head.first.as_deref())?;
+        head.whole
+            .and_then(|()| decode_store_file(&bytes, head.first.as_deref()))
+            .map_err(|error| self.unreadable(CultCacheStoreUnreadableKind::Undecodable, error))
+    }
+
+    // The one owner of the stamp rule, asked only by the one reader: a cultcache.store.* header this runtime does not read
+    // (it reads v1 and v3) is refused by name, judged from the header alone, so a newer store cut short is still a newer
+    // store. Every write over a file asks that reader first, so a whole-store write judges a stamp as a read does.
+    fn refuse_unread_format(&self, header: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
+        match header {
+            Some(header) if header.starts_with("cultcache.store.") && readable_store_format(header).is_none() => Err(self.unreadable(
                 CultCacheStoreUnreadableKind::UnsupportedFormat,
                 anyhow!(
                     "its header is {}; this runtime reads {STORE_FORMAT_V1:?} and {STORE_FORMAT_ELEMENT_IDS:?} only",
-                    describe_header(&header)
+                    describe_header(header)
                 ),
             )),
-            first => head
-                .whole
-                .and_then(|()| decode_store_file(&bytes, first.as_deref()))
-                .map_err(|error| unreadable(CultCacheStoreUnreadableKind::Undecodable, error)),
+            _ => Ok(()),
         }
     }
 
+    fn unreadable(&self, kind: CultCacheStoreUnreadableKind, detail: anyhow::Error) -> anyhow::Error {
+        // The detail is rebuilt as text that names no value read from the bytes. The
+        // decoder reports a short read as an io::Error, and dropping it keeps an
+        // io::Error in the chain meaning only that the file itself could not be read.
+        anyhow!(describe_undecodable(&detail)).context(CultCacheStoreUnreadable {
+            path: self.path.clone(),
+            kind,
+        })
+    }
+
     /// Reads one filesystem snapshot without creating or opening the sibling
     /// CultCache lock file.
     ///
diff --git a/packages/cultcache-ts/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/cultcache-ts/CHANGELOG.md
index 808a0ec7..ca6b87cc 100644
--- a/packages/cultcache-ts/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/cultcache-ts/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ All notable changes to `@gamecult/cultcache-ts` are recorded here, following
 - A single-file store written as `cultcache.store.v3` is read and written: a record that holds an element id (an owned list element with an `[CultElementId]` member, carried through every write) marks the store v3, and a v3 store is carried through a rewrite with its ids. A runtime from before this change refuses a v3 store by name.
 - A single-file store refuses a zero-byte file as `StoreUnreadableError`; only a path with nothing at it is an empty store. A header this runtime does not read is refused, and the refusal echoes the header only as `cultcache.store.v<digits>`.
 - A write over a file the reader refuses (`StoreUnreadableError`, from `push`, `pushAll` and `delete`) refuses and leaves the file as it is. A flush used to replace such a file. A write set cannot merge with a disk it cannot read, so the file is repaired or removed by its owner before the store writes again.
+- This reverses the 0.14.2 `pushAll` fix in two ways. A full `pushAll` over a file with no readable stamp no longer replaces it (healing it): the reader refuses it, and the file is left as it is. And a `cultcache.store.v3` stamp is read, not refused. The stamp rule has one owner, `refuseUnreadFormat`, asked only by the one reader that every write consults under the lock.
 - A dangling symbolic link at the store path is an I/O error with code `ENOENT`, not an empty store.
 
 ### Added
@@ -38,6 +39,13 @@ All notable changes to `@gamecult/cultcache-ts` are recorded here, following
 - Opening a legacy store that needs healing rewrites it under the lock, from a read taken
   under the lock.
 
+### Fixed
+- A full `pushAll` reads the store's header under the lock first and refuses a store format
+  this runtime does not read (the same error a read gives), leaving the file as it was. A
+  file with no readable stamp is still replaced, so a whole write heals it. Soft `pushAll`
+  is unchanged. The stamp is decoded by the decoder a read uses, so a stamp followed by bytes
+  that are not UTF-8 is refused by a whole write as a read refuses it.
+
 ### Dependencies
 - `koffi` 3.3.0, loaded only on the first write.
 
diff --git a/packages/cultcache-ts/src/store-format.ts b/packages/cultcache-ts/src/store-format.ts
index c9573e81..910d1a90 100644
--- a/packages/cultcache-ts/src/store-format.ts
+++ b/packages/cultcache-ts/src/store-format.ts
@@ -22,13 +22,17 @@ export function isStoreSnapshot(decoded: unknown): decoded is [StoreFormat, ...u
     return false;
   }
 
-  if (decoded[0] !== STORE_FORMAT_VERSION && decoded[0] !== STORE_FORMAT_ELEMENT_IDS) {
+  refuseUnreadFormat(decoded[0]);
+  return true;
+}
+
+/** The one verdict on a stamp: this runtime reads v1 and v3, and any other `cultcache.store.*` header is refused by name. */
+function refuseUnreadFormat(header: string): void {
+  if (header !== STORE_FORMAT_VERSION && header !== STORE_FORMAT_ELEMENT_IDS) {
     throw new Error(
-      `CultCache store format ${describeHeader(decoded[0])} is not one this runtime reads; it reads "${STORE_FORMAT_VERSION}" and "${STORE_FORMAT_ELEMENT_IDS}" only.`,
+      `CultCache store format ${describeHeader(header)} is not one this runtime reads; it reads "${STORE_FORMAT_VERSION}" and "${STORE_FORMAT_ELEMENT_IDS}" only.`,
     );
   }
-
-  return true;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/cultcache-ts/test/cult-cache.test.ts b/packages/cultcache-ts/test/cult-cache.test.ts
index 1e493988..9d804400 100644
--- a/packages/cultcache-ts/test/cult-cache.test.ts
+++ b/packages/cultcache-ts/test/cult-cache.test.ts
@@ -2083,6 +2083,37 @@ test("SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore refusal says what was found and names ev
   }
 });
 
+test("a stamp this runtime reads, followed by bytes that are not UTF-8, gets the same refusal from a read and from a whole write", async () => {
+  const envelope = { key: "probe", type: "probe", payload: documentPayloadFromBytes(new Uint8Array([0x80])), storedAt: "2026-10-22T00:00:00Z" };
+  for (const header of ["cultcache.store.v1", "cultcache.store.v3"]) {
+    const stamp = [...Buffer.from(header, "utf8")];
+    const forms = { fixstr: [0x91, 0xa0 | (stamp.length + 1), ...stamp, 0xff], str8: [0x91, 0xd9, stamp.length + 1, ...stamp, 0xff] };
+    for (const [name, bytes] of Object.entries(forms)) {
+      const file = join(await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "cultcache-stamp-")), "store.msgpack");
+      await writeFile(file, new Uint8Array(bytes));
+      const store = new SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore(file);
+      await assert.rejects(() => store.pullAll(), /not one this runtime reads/u, `${header} ${name} read`);
+      await assert.rejects(() => store.pushAll([envelope]), /not one this runtime reads/u, `${header} ${name} pushAll`);
+      assert.deepEqual([...(await readFile(file))], bytes, `${header} ${name} left as it was`);
+    }
+  }
+});
+
+test("pushAll leaves a store it reads alone when soft, and replaces one it reads otherwise", async () => {
+  const vector = await readFile(resolve(cultLibRoot, "tests", "vectors", "document-variants-c2a", "v3-base.msgpack"));
+  const envelope = { key: "probe", type: "probe", payload: documentPayloadFromBytes(new Uint8Array([0x80])), storedAt: "2026-10-22T00:00:00Z" };
+  const existing = join(await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "cultcache-pushall-soft-")), "store.msgpack");
+  await writeFile(existing, vector);
+  await new SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore(existing).pushAll([envelope], { soft: true });
+  assert.equal(Buffer.compare(await readFile(existing), vector), 0);
+
+  const own = join(await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "cultcache-pushall-own-")), "store.msgpack");
+  const store = new SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore(own);
+  await store.pushAll([envelope]);
+  await store.pushAll([{ ...envelope, key: "second" }]);
+  assert.deepEqual((await store.pullAll()).map((entry) => entry.key), ["second"]);
+});
+
 test("SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore reads only a missing store as empty", async () => {
   const dir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "cultcache-absent-"));
   assert.deepEqual(await new SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore(join(dir, "store.cc")).pullAll(), []);