diff --git a/src/gete/schema/connection.json b/src/gete/schema/connection.json
index 11d34a9..6f1a668 100644
--- a/src/gete/schema/connection.json
+++ b/src/gete/schema/connection.json
@@ -150,10 +150,12 @@
       "minLength": 1
     },
     "verified": {
+      "description": "Where an authorization through this connection has been taken end to end and seen to work. Nothing follows from it: gete checks nothing against it and behaves no differently, but `gete connections` prints it, so a reader can tell what was observed from what a provider's metadata merely promises.",
       "type": "object",
       "additionalProperties": false,
       "properties": {
         "gemini_enterprise": {
+          "description": "The date an authorization was taken through Gemini Enterprise: consent screen, code exchange, and the token used against the service. Absent until one has been.",
           "type": "string",
           "format": "date"
         }
diff --git a/tests/test_schema.py b/tests/test_schema.py
index 3ef5bff..1e637f7 100644
--- a/tests/test_schema.py
+++ b/tests/test_schema.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
 from gete.declaration import read_yaml
 from gete.errors import DeclarationError
-from gete.schema import validate_document
+from gete.schema import load_schema, validate_document
 
 GETE: dict[str, Any] = {
     "version": 1,
@@ -423,6 +423,15 @@ def test_connection_rejects_wildcards_plain_http_and_empty_scope_text(
         validate_document("connection", {**CONNECTION, **patch}, source="c.yaml")
 
 
+def test_the_schema_says_what_a_verified_date_records_and_what_follows() -> None:
+    """No behaviour follows from the field, so a reader who meets it has only
+    the schema to learn from: what the date stands for, and that gete does
+    nothing with it."""
+    verified = load_schema("connection")["properties"]["verified"]
+    assert "description" in verified
+    assert "description" in verified["properties"]["gemini_enterprise"]
+
+
 def test_connection_messages_declare_the_reauthorization_text() -> None:
     """The prompt is for end users; empty text would show them nothing."""
     validate_document(