diff --git a/docs/providers/redis.md b/docs/providers/redis.md
index bcea89ec6..eb074bb32 100644
--- a/docs/providers/redis.md
+++ b/docs/providers/redis.md
@@ -280,7 +280,10 @@ on a leading `{` as §3.4 does, and asks before running any command in its Redis
 vocabulary - key, expiry, string, hash, list, set, sorted-set and stream writes, the scripting
 entry points, and the server and access commands, with container commands such as `CONFIG SET`
 matched on their two-token spelling - while a body it cannot read (broken JSON, a JSON body whose
-`command` is not a string) asks rather than staying silent.
+`command` is not a string) asks rather than staying silent. The vocabulary names only commands the
+provider runs: the blocking list and sorted-set pops are refused before they reach the server
+([§5.2b](#52b-commands-that-would-change-the-shared-connection-1107)), so their non-blocking
+forms are the ones the gate asks about.
 
 ### 3.5 Reply normalisation into the shared grid
 
diff --git a/src/lib/db/destructive-commands.ts b/src/lib/db/destructive-commands.ts
index a168ea23f..7c9d8ff22 100644
--- a/src/lib/db/destructive-commands.ts
+++ b/src/lib/db/destructive-commands.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,14 @@ const MONGODB_DESTRUCTIVE_OPERATIONS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
  * `CLUSTER SHARDS` are the reads); every form of it reassigns a slot, which is what
  * puts it beside `CLUSTER RESET` and `CLUSTER FORGET`.
  *
- * Every name here can reach the server: `runCommand` calls
+ * Every name here is a command the provider runs: `query()` refuses some commands
+ * before they reach the server (`sharedConnectionRefusal` in
+ * `src/lib/db/providers/keyvalue/redis.ts`, documented in section 5.2b of
+ * `docs/providers/redis.md`), and a confirmation followed by that refusal would be
+ * the double take this gate exists to avoid. The blocking list and sorted-set pops
+ * (`BLPOP`, `BZPOPMIN` and the rest of the `B` forms) are refused that way, so only their
+ * non-blocking forms (`LPOP`, `RPOP`, `LMPOP`, `LMOVE`, `RPOPLPUSH`, `ZPOPMIN`,
+ * `ZPOPMAX`, `ZMPOP`) are here. `runCommand` itself calls
  * `client.call(command, ...args)` with no allow-list of any kind, so the vocabulary
  * is bounded by what Redis accepts rather than by what this provider implements.
  * Container commands are spelled with their subcommand (`CONFIG SET`), which the
@@ -133,16 +140,11 @@ const REDIS_DESTRUCTIVE_COMMANDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
   "LPOP",
   "RPOP",
   "LMPOP",
-  "BLPOP",
-  "BRPOP",
-  "BLMPOP",
   "LSET",
   "LREM",
   "LTRIM",
   "LMOVE",
-  "BLMOVE",
   "RPOPLPUSH",
-  "BRPOPLPUSH",
   // Sets
   "SPOP",
   "SREM",
@@ -157,10 +159,7 @@ const REDIS_DESTRUCTIVE_COMMANDS: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set([
   "ZREMRANGEBYLEX",
   "ZPOPMIN",
   "ZPOPMAX",
-  "BZPOPMIN",
-  "BZPOPMAX",
   "ZMPOP",
-  "BZMPOP",
   "ZUNIONSTORE",
   "ZINTERSTORE",
   "ZDIFFSTORE",
diff --git a/tests/unit/db/destructive-commands.test.ts b/tests/unit/db/destructive-commands.test.ts
index 0d6ea0c38..68e3c3f50 100644
--- a/tests/unit/db/destructive-commands.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/db/destructive-commands.test.ts
@@ -126,6 +126,36 @@ describe("isDestructiveNonSqlQuery", () => {
     expect(isDestructiveNonSqlQuery(query, "redis")).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  test.each<[string]>([
+    ["BLPOP queue 0"],
+    ["BRPOP queue 0"],
+    ["BLMPOP 2 2 queue LEFT COUNT 1"],
+    ["BLMOVE src dst LEFT RIGHT 0"],
+    ["BRPOPLPUSH src dst 0"],
+    ["BZPOPMIN z 0"],
+    ["BZPOPMAX z 0"],
+    ["BZMPOP 2 1 z MIN COUNT 1"],
+  ])("does not ask before the Redis command %s, which the provider refuses before it reaches the server", (query) => {
+    // Since #1121 `RedisProvider.query()` refuses the blocking commands through
+    // `sharedConnectionRefusal`, so a confirmation followed by a refusal is the
+    // double take this gate exists to avoid. The dialog is for commands that run.
+    expect(isDestructiveNonSqlQuery(query, "redis")).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  test.each<[string]>([
+    ["LPOP queue"],
+    ["RPOP queue"],
+    ["LMPOP 1 queue LEFT COUNT 1"],
+    ["LMOVE src dst LEFT RIGHT"],
+    ["RPOPLPUSH src dst"],
+    ["ZPOPMIN z"],
+    ["ZPOPMAX z"],
+    ["ZMPOP 1 z MIN COUNT 1"],
+  ])("still asks before %s, the non-blocking form of a refused command", (query) => {
+    // The provider runs these, and each one removes what it returns.
+    expect(isDestructiveNonSqlQuery(query, "redis")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
   test.each<[string]>([
     ["GET k"],
     ["HGETALL user:1"],