diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index efbecfd..b539568 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Serves Goals 1, 4 and 5.
   - An empty link text reads as its destination, `[](/url)` as `/url` linked to `/url`, and
     `[]()` as nothing.
   - An image reads as an image only alone in its paragraph. Anywhere else — beside other text, in
-    a heading or a table cell, or in the paragraph an alert or task marker opens — it reads as its
+    a heading or a table cell, or in the paragraph a task marker opens — it reads as its
     alt text linked to its URL: `See ![the moon](moon.png).` reads as
     `See [the moon](moon.png).`. To keep an image an image, give it a paragraph of its own: a
     blank line between it and any other line.
diff --git a/docs/decisions.md b/docs/decisions.md
index 1846167..ff87eeb 100644
--- a/docs/decisions.md
+++ b/docs/decisions.md
@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ reads as that image, with the link marking its `media`. Inside any other link, t
 text the link marks, and the image's URL and title drop: the panel chose this by Goal 6, which
 outranks Goal 7.
 
+In `portableMarkdownToAdf`, an alert's or callout's marker line stands apart from the lines after
+it, so an image alone on either reads as the image: a reader panel of the bot, the LLM pipeline and
+a support agent, 3 of 3 on 2026-10-09, expected the picture in every case, a ticked task included.
+A task item holds no image in Atlassian's schema, so the paragraph a task marker opens reads its
+image as linked alt text, the fallback two of the three named.
+
 ## Ids stay site-local
 
 2026-08-23, the maintainer. Goal 1. Valid while ADF ids are minted per site.
diff --git a/spec/flavour.md b/spec/flavour.md
index 5ebb2af..a7c372d 100644
--- a/spec/flavour.md
+++ b/spec/flavour.md
@@ -322,8 +322,9 @@ directive form instead.
 
 `mediaInline` carries a media `collection` + `id`, never a URL, so anywhere else an image reads as
 its alt text linked to its destination, the link titled by the image's title: beside other
-content, in a heading, a table cell or an `!adf:paragraph`, and in the paragraph a portable alert,
-callout or task marker opens. An empty alt text reads as the destination, as an empty link text
+content, in a heading, a table cell or an `!adf:paragraph`, and in the paragraph a portable task
+marker opens. An alert's or callout's marker line stands apart from the lines after it, so an image
+alone on either reads as the image. An empty alt text reads as the destination, as an empty link text
 does. Inside a link's text, the alt text is plain text the link marks, and the image's destination
 and title drop (`docs/decisions.md` §An image reads as an image only alone in its paragraph).
 
diff --git a/src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts b/src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts
index ff6a73e..91815fb 100644
--- a/src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts
+++ b/src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts
@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@ import { readBlockDirectiveNode } from './directive-nodes.ts'
 import { spellStringAttribute, unsupportedNodeShape } from '../directive-syntax.ts'
 import { spellsEmpty } from '../empty-keys.ts'
 
-// A paragraph a marker opens: it shares its markdown paragraph with the marker, so no image there stands alone.
-type MarkerParagraph = { kind: 'markerParagraph'; position: SourcePosition; text: string }
+type Paragraph = Extract<Block, { kind: 'paragraph' }>
 
-type ReadBlock = Block | MarkerParagraph
+// The paragraph a task marker opens: a task item holds no image, so a lone one there reads as its linked alt text.
+type TaskParagraph = { kind: 'taskParagraph'; position: SourcePosition; text: string }
+
+type ReadBlock = Block | TaskParagraph
 
 // `inExpand` is whether an expand holds the blocks, which makes a folded callout a nestedExpand.
 type Reading = { claims: Claims; definitions: LinkDefinitions; inExpand: boolean; memo: SpellingMemo }
@@ -123,8 +125,6 @@ function readBlock(block: ReadBlock, reading: Reading, path: ConvertErrorPath, d
       return contentNode({ attrs: { level: block.level }, type: 'heading' }, block.text, reading, path, 'heading')
     case 'html':
       return failure('unmappable-html', `no raw HTML converts at this version: ${block.construct}`, path)
-    case 'markerParagraph':
-      return contentNode({ type: 'paragraph' }, block.text, reading, path, 'paragraph')
     case 'orderedList':
       return listNode({ attrs: { order: block.start }, type: 'orderedList' }, block.items, reading, path, depth)
     case 'paragraph':
@@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ function readBlock(block: ReadBlock, reading: Reading, path: ConvertErrorPath, d
       return success({ type: 'rule' })
     case 'table':
       return tableNode(block.rows, reading, path)
+    case 'taskParagraph':
+      return contentNode({ type: 'paragraph' }, block.text, reading, path, 'paragraph')
   }
 }
 
@@ -149,8 +151,9 @@ function markerLine(text: string): { line: string; rest: string } {
   return { line: (hardBreak ? line.slice(0, -1) : line).replace(/^[ \t]+/, ''), rest: lineEnd === -1 ? '' : text.slice(lineEnd + 1) }
 }
 
-function markerParagraphs(position: SourcePosition, ...texts: string[]): MarkerParagraph[] {
-  return texts.filter((text) => text !== '').map((text) => ({ kind: 'markerParagraph', position, text }))
+// docs/decisions.md, An image reads as an image only alone in its paragraph: an alert's marker line stands apart from the lines after it.
+function paragraphsOf(position: SourcePosition, ...texts: string[]): Paragraph[] {
+  return texts.filter((text) => text !== '').map((text) => ({ kind: 'paragraph', position, text }))
 }
 
 function quoteNode(blocks: readonly Block[], reading: Reading, path: ConvertErrorPath, depth: number): Result<AdfNode> {
@@ -159,12 +162,12 @@ function quoteNode(blocks: readonly Block[], reading: Reading, path: ConvertErro
   if (led === undefined) return containerNode({ type: 'blockquote' }, blocks, reading, path, depth)
   const { folded, panelType } = led.marker
   const { line, rest } = markerLine(led.text)
-  if (!folded) return filledNode({ attrs: { panelType }, type: 'panel' }, readBlocks([...markerParagraphs(led.position, line, rest), ...body], reading, path, depth + 1))
+  if (!folded) return filledNode({ attrs: { panelType }, type: 'panel' }, readBlocks([...paragraphsOf(led.position, line, rest), ...body], reading, path, depth + 1))
   const title = parseInlineContent(line, reading.definitions, path, 'paragraph', reading.claims)
   if (!title.ok) return title
   const text = titleText(title.value.nodes)
   const type = reading.inExpand ? 'nestedExpand' : 'expand'
-  return filledNode(text === '' ? { type } : { attrs: { title: text }, type }, readBlocks([...markerParagraphs(led.position, rest), ...body], { ...reading, inExpand: true }, path, depth + 1))
+  return filledNode(text === '' ? { type } : { attrs: { title: text }, type }, readBlocks([...paragraphsOf(led.position, rest), ...body], { ...reading, inExpand: true }, path, depth + 1))
 }
 
 // docs/decisions.md, A callout title keeps its link targets.
@@ -203,7 +206,9 @@ function bulletNode(items: readonly Block[][], reading: Reading, path: ConvertEr
   }
   const tasks: AdfNode[] = []
   for (const [index, { marker, others, position, text }] of led.entries()) {
-    const read = readBlocks([...markerParagraphs(position, text.replace(/^(?:[ \t\n]|\\\n)+/, '')), ...others], reading, [...path, 'content', index], depth + 1)
+    const body = text.replace(/^(?:[ \t\n]|\\\n)+/, '')
+    const marked: TaskParagraph[] = body === '' ? [] : [{ kind: 'taskParagraph', position, text: body }]
+    const read = readBlocks([...marked, ...others], reading, [...path, 'content', index], depth + 1)
     if (!read.ok) return read
     let beside = read.value.length
     while (read.value[beside - 1]?.type === 'taskList') beside -= 1
diff --git a/src/markdown/parse/portable-markdown-to-adf.test.ts b/src/markdown/parse/portable-markdown-to-adf.test.ts
index ca5efdc..644e39e 100644
--- a/src/markdown/parse/portable-markdown-to-adf.test.ts
+++ b/src/markdown/parse/portable-markdown-to-adf.test.ts
@@ -231,12 +231,15 @@ test('reads what CommonMark reads where no row reads, a directive and a carry fe
   assert.deepEqual(read('a !adf:carry{json="{}"} \\!adf:x\n'), [said('a !adf:carry{json="{}"} !adf:x')])
   assert.deepEqual(read('```adf:blockCard\n{}\n```\n'), [node('codeBlock', { language: 'adf:blockCard' }, text('{}'))])
   const linked = paragraph(text('a', { attrs: { href: 'u' }, type: 'link' }))
-  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip] ![a](u)\n'), [panel('tip', linked)])
-  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip]\n> ![a](u)\n'), [panel('tip', linked)])
+  const image = node('mediaSingle', { layout: 'center' }, { attrs: { alt: 'a', type: 'external', url: 'u' }, type: 'media' })
+  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip] ![a](u)\n'), [panel('tip', image)])
+  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip]\n> ![a](u)\n'), [panel('tip', image)])
+  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip]\n>\n> ![a](u)\n'), [panel('tip', image)])
+  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip]\n> ![a](u) b\n'), [panel('tip', paragraph(...(linked.content ?? []), text(' b')))])
+  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!NOTE]- t\n> ![a](u)\n'), [node('expand', { title: 't' }, image)])
   assert.deepEqual(read('> [!NOTE]- ![a](u)\n'), [node('expand', { title: 'a (u)' }, paragraph())])
-  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!NOTE]- t\n> ![a](u)\n'), [node('expand', { title: 't' }, linked)])
   assert.deepEqual(read('- [x] ![a](u)\n'), [bare('taskList', task('DONE', ...(linked.content ?? [])))])
-  assert.deepEqual(read('> [!tip]\n>\n> ![a](u)\n'), [panel('tip', node('mediaSingle', { layout: 'center' }, { attrs: { alt: 'a', type: 'external', url: 'u' }, type: 'media' }))])
+  assert.deepEqual(read('- [x]\n  ![a](u)\n'), [bare('taskList', task('DONE', ...(linked.content ?? [])))])
   let deep = 'x\n'
   for (let level = 0; level < largestNesting; level += 1) deep = `> ${deep}`
   assert.equal(typeof read(deep), 'object')
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 3c57862..c302574 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 `Bar = 9`
 
-`Next ID = 88`
+`Next ID = 89`
 
 | Goal | W |
 |---|---|
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 | ID | Release | Exempt | Item | R | S | A | G | Goals | Score |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 87 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Build a `hardBreak` carrying no marks where emphasis or a link spans a line break, in every reader.** | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 16.6 |
+| 88 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Build a `blockTaskItem` holding only the paragraphs and extensions Atlassian's schema allows, in `portableMarkdownToAdf`.** | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 16.4 |
 | 49 | 0.2.0 |  | **Read a list whose bullet or ordered delimiter changes as two lists, in every reader, and retire `!adf:listBreak`.** | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4, 5 | 15.5 |
 | 61 | 0.2.0 | decision | **Have the emitter ask the inline reader how a line reads back, in place of `line-escaping.ts` predicting it.** | 6 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 14.0 |
 | 86 | 0.2.0 |  | **Write an image whose `media` only a link marks, and one captioned with plain text, in the CommonMark spelling a writer panel picks, in `adfToLosslessMarkdown`.** | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 4, 6 | 13.0 |
@@ -73,6 +74,13 @@ schema refuses: its `hardBreak_node` holds no `marks` (`spec/adf-schema/full.jso
 `commonMarkToAdf` builds a document a site may reject from plain CommonMark. The suite's `em 1/3`
 exceptions for 638 and 639 go back to `em 1/2`.
 
+### 88. Build a `blockTaskItem` holding only the paragraphs and extensions Atlassian's schema allows, in `portableMarkdownToAdf`.
+
+`- [x] done\n\n  ![a](u)` builds a `blockTaskItem` holding a `mediaSingle`, and `- [x] done\n\n  > q`
+one holding a `blockquote`; the schema's `blockTaskItem_node` takes paragraphs and extensions only
+(`spec/adf-schema/full.json`), so a site may reject the document. The reader needs a reading for
+the other blocks, settled by Goals 4 and 7.
+
 ### 49. Read a list whose bullet or ordered delimiter changes as two lists, in every reader, and retire `!adf:listBreak`.
 
 Today `- a` then `+ b`, or `1.` then `1)`, reads as one list; CommonMark reads two (spec examples