diff --git a/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts b/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts
index 635882a..833c4a2 100644
--- a/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts
+++ b/backend/src/routes/adminItemDrafts.ts
@@ -132,4 +132,82 @@ router.post(
   })
 );
 
+/**
+ * Regenerate: hand it back to the worker.
+ *
+ * attempts is reset along with the state. The worker only picks up rows below
+ * the attempt cap, so re-queueing a draft that has already failed three times
+ * without clearing them produces a button that appears to work, does nothing,
+ * and leaves nothing anywhere to say why.
+ */
+router.post(
+  '/:itemId/regenerate',
+  asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const { rowCount } = await pool.query(
+      `UPDATE item_drafts SET state = 'queued', attempts = 0, ai_error = NULL WHERE item_id = $1`,
+      [req.params.itemId]
+    );
+    if (rowCount === 0) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'no draft for this item' });
+    res.json({ state: 'queued' });
+  })
+);
+
+/**
+ * Discard: out of the queue, off the storefront, and entirely recoverable.
+ *
+ * Nothing is deleted — not the item, not the photographs. This is one click
+ * away in what amounts to an inbox, and the photos are often the only copy of
+ * something no longer in the sender's hands, so the destructive reading of
+ * "discard" is deliberately not available here. The item returns to pending
+ * because a discarded submission must not stay on sale.
+ */
+router.post(
+  '/:itemId/discard',
+  asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const client = await pool.connect();
+    try {
+      await client.query('BEGIN');
+      const { rowCount } = await client.query(
+        `UPDATE item_drafts SET state = 'discarded' WHERE item_id = $1`,
+        [req.params.itemId]
+      );
+      if (rowCount === 0) {
+        await client.query('ROLLBACK');
+        return res.status(404).json({ error: 'no draft for this item' });
+      }
+      await client.query(`UPDATE items SET status = 'pending' WHERE id = $1`, [req.params.itemId]);
+      await client.query('COMMIT');
+      res.json({ state: 'discarded' });
+    } catch (err) {
+      await client.query('ROLLBACK');
+      console.error(err);
+      res.status(500).json({ error: 'internal error' });
+    } finally {
+      client.release();
+    }
+  })
+);
+
+/**
+ * Restore: back into the queue, at the state the draft's own contents justify.
+ *
+ * Not unconditionally 'ready'. A submission discarded before it was ever
+ * drafted has no copy, and returning it as ready would present an empty draft
+ * as a finished one. Judged on whether a name was ever written, because the
+ * state it held before being discarded is not stored anywhere.
+ */
+router.post(
+  '/:itemId/restore',
+  asyncRoute(async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const { rowCount } = await pool.query(
+      `UPDATE item_drafts
+       SET state = CASE WHEN ai_name IS NULL THEN 'failed' ELSE 'ready' END
+       WHERE item_id = $1`,
+      [req.params.itemId]
+    );
+    if (rowCount === 0) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'no draft for this item' });
+    res.json({ restored: true });
+  })
+);
+
 export default router;
diff --git a/backend/tests/integration/adminItemDrafts.integration.test.ts b/backend/tests/integration/adminItemDrafts.integration.test.ts
index 8f956d6..3c76836 100644
--- a/backend/tests/integration/adminItemDrafts.integration.test.ts
+++ b/backend/tests/integration/adminItemDrafts.integration.test.ts
@@ -218,3 +218,89 @@ describe('POST /api/admin/item-drafts/:itemId/publish', () => {
     expect(res.status).toBe(404);
   });
 });
+
+describe('the other three actions', () => {
+  // Back to queued, and attempts cleared — otherwise a draft that already failed
+  // three times is re-queued into a state the worker will not pick up, and the
+  // button does nothing with nothing anywhere to say why.
+  it('regenerate re-queues a failed draft and clears its attempts', async () => {
+    const itemId = await seedDraft({ state: 'failed' });
+    await pool.query(`UPDATE item_drafts SET attempts = 3, ai_error = 'boom' WHERE item_id = $1`, [
+      itemId
+    ]);
+
+    const res = await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${itemId}/regenerate`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(
+      `SELECT state, attempts, ai_error FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`,
+      [itemId]
+    );
+    expect(rows[0]).toMatchObject({ state: 'queued', attempts: 0, ai_error: null });
+  });
+
+  it('discard marks the draft and leaves the item unpublished', async () => {
+    const itemId = await seedDraft();
+
+    const res = await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${itemId}/discard`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const draft = await pool.query(`SELECT state FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(draft.rows[0]?.state).toBe('discarded');
+    const item = await pool.query(`SELECT status FROM items WHERE id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(item.rows[0]?.status).toBe('pending');
+  });
+
+  // The reason discard is allowed to be a single click.
+  it('discard does not delete the item or its photos', async () => {
+    const itemId = await seedDraft();
+
+    await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${itemId}/discard`);
+
+    const item = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM items WHERE id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(item.rows).toHaveLength(1);
+    const images = await pool.query(`SELECT id FROM item_images WHERE item_id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(images.rows).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+
+  it('discard unpublishes an item that had already been published', async () => {
+    const itemId = await seedDraft();
+    await pool.query(`UPDATE items SET status = 'available' WHERE id = $1`, [itemId]);
+
+    await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${itemId}/discard`);
+
+    const item = await pool.query(`SELECT status FROM items WHERE id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(item.rows[0]?.status).toBe('pending');
+  });
+
+  it('restore brings a discarded draft back as ready', async () => {
+    const itemId = await seedDraft({ state: 'discarded' });
+
+    const res = await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${itemId}/restore`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(`SELECT state FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(rows[0]?.state).toBe('ready');
+  });
+
+  // A submission discarded before it was ever drafted has no copy, and must not
+  // return claiming to have one.
+  it('restore returns an undrafted submission to failed, not ready', async () => {
+    const itemId = await seedDraft({ state: 'discarded', aiName: null });
+
+    await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${itemId}/restore`);
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(`SELECT state FROM item_drafts WHERE item_id = $1`, [itemId]);
+    expect(rows[0]?.state).toBe('failed');
+  });
+
+  it('404s each action for an item with no draft', async () => {
+    const { rows } = await pool.query<{ id: number }>(
+      `INSERT INTO items (name) VALUES ('ordinary item') RETURNING id`
+    );
+    for (const action of ['regenerate', 'discard', 'restore']) {
+      const res = await request(app).post(`/api/admin/item-drafts/${rows[0]!.id}/${action}`);
+      expect(res.status).toBe(404);
+    }
+  });
+});