diff --git a/src/routes/printers.ts b/src/routes/printers.ts
index e49953f..31415ff 100644
--- a/src/routes/printers.ts
+++ b/src/routes/printers.ts
@@ -131,6 +131,14 @@ export const printerRoutes = new Elysia({ prefix: "/printers" })
    * physical machine, and the blast radius of getting this boundary wrong is
    * a ruined print or a hot end driven into a plate. It is the one role
    * boundary here that is not about data.
+   *
+   * As of 2026-10-11 the set includes `control_print`, whose `stop` is a
+   * cancel: confirmed on a real P1P, it ends the running print and the
+   * printer then reports `FAILED`. There is no undo, so a UI must not put it
+   * where `pause` is expected. Note also that a gateway returning `ok` means
+   * the printer *accepted* the command - on an idle P1P all three verbs
+   * answer success - so whether the state changed has to be read back from
+   * telemetry.
    */
   .post(
     "/:id/commands",
@@ -166,8 +174,10 @@ export const printerRoutes = new Elysia({ prefix: "/printers" })
     },
     // The same command set the gateway accepts, straight from the shared
     // schema - so this route cannot drift into offering something no gateway
-    // can execute. Note what is absent: there is no "start a print" command
-    // yet, deliberately.
+    // can execute. Note what is absent: there is still no "start a print"
+    // command, though no longer because the path is unproven (it was
+    // confirmed on a real P1P on 2026-10-11) - nothing uploads a sliced file
+    // to a gateway, and nothing decides which printer runs which job.
     { params: IdParams, body: PrinterCommandSchema, detail: { tags: ["printers"] } },
   )
   .get(
diff --git a/tests/edge_protocol.test.ts b/tests/edge_protocol.test.ts
index f0d59df..e1050db 100644
--- a/tests/edge_protocol.test.ts
+++ b/tests/edge_protocol.test.ts
@@ -87,6 +87,24 @@ describe("backend -> gateway frames", () => {
       printer_id: "p1p",
       command: { action: "send_gcode_line", line: "M106 S0" },
     },
+    {
+      type: "command",
+      command_id: "9a7d2f12-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
+      printer_id: "p1p",
+      command: { action: "control_print", control: "pause" },
+    },
+    {
+      type: "command",
+      command_id: "9a7d2f13-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
+      printer_id: "p1p",
+      command: { action: "control_print", control: "resume" },
+    },
+    {
+      type: "command",
+      command_id: "9a7d2f14-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
+      printer_id: "p1p",
+      command: { action: "control_print", control: "stop" },
+    },
   ];
 
   for (const frame of outbound) {
@@ -95,10 +113,29 @@ describe("backend -> gateway frames", () => {
     });
   }
 
+  it("rejects a print control verb the gateway does not implement", () => {
+    // "cancel" is the trap: it is what Moonraker calls this, and the Klipper
+    // implementation behind `control_print` really does send a cancel - but
+    // the wire word is "stop". A verb that only one vendor recognises must
+    // not validate here, or it reaches a gateway that cannot map it.
+    for (const control of ["cancel", "abort", "Pause", ""]) {
+      expect(
+        Value.Check(EdgeServerMessageSchema, {
+          type: "command",
+          command_id: "x",
+          printer_id: "p1p",
+          command: { action: "control_print", control },
+        }),
+      ).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+
   it("has no start-print command to send", () => {
-    // Deliberate: the gateway can start an uploaded file, but that path has
-    // never been run against real hardware. Delete this test when it has been,
-    // and add the variant to the schema.
+    // Still deliberate, but no longer for the original reason: starting an
+    // uploaded file *has* now been confirmed on a real P1P (2026-10-11).
+    // What is missing is the path around it - nothing uploads a sliced file
+    // to a gateway and nothing decides which printer runs which job. Delete
+    // this test when there is something to start.
     expect(
       Value.Check(EdgeServerMessageSchema, {
         type: "command",