diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/candidate.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/candidate.go
index e609af0b..27a90dc8 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/candidate.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient/candidate.go
@@ -62,10 +62,11 @@ func ParseCandidatesKey(key string) (string, error) {
 	return group, nil
 }
 
-var tryGroupOK = regexp.MustCompile(`^try-[0-9]{1,20}$`)
+var tryGroupOK = regexp.MustCompile(`^(try-[0-9]{1,20}|run-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,64})$`)
 
-// IsTryGroup says a candidates key is the group of a whole try, try-<digits>, which is also the try's id: the indexer makes the
-// candidate of a try's group from its previews, and the checker judges it by its try, never as a pull request's check.
+// IsTryGroup says a candidates key is the group of a whole try, try-<digits>, which is also the try's id, or of a run on
+// request, run-<id> (design 47 G A-160): the indexer makes the candidate of a run from the runner's run-started, and the
+// checker judges neither as a pull request's check.
 func IsTryGroup(key string) bool { return tryGroupOK.MatchString(key) }
 
 // NoneNoPreview is why a candidate's touched module has no fingerprint of the new form yet: its merge preview is not
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go
index e1736091..9248d6e3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer-tools/main.go
@@ -309,7 +309,6 @@ func main() {
 		_, err := acts.Record(meshhandactsclient.Request{What: what, Why: why, Cause: index.FingerprintsAgainTool, Verb: "fingerprints-again"})
 		return err
 	}, 10*time.Second)...)
-	tools = append(tools, index.TryCandidateTools(keptRead{stdio.State("candidates")}, keptRead{stdio.State(index.TryRecoveryState)}, asks, time.Now)...)
 	tools = append(tools, configReadersTool(stdio.NewWatchedStates(), trunk.State("modules")), busStateTool(trunk.State), requirementsTool(keptSource),
 		packageUsersTool(trunk.State), seatDefinitionTool(keptSource), outOfStepTool(keptSource))
 	if err := stdio.Serve("", tools); err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
index 21b60028..ddf6699a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/builds"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshdeliveryclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/git"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdelivery"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdeliverychecker"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshpipelinerunner"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshwants"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-forge-bridge/forgemsg"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein"
@@ -1111,86 +1112,98 @@ func TestIndexerWritesAGoModuleAgainWhenTheBuildModuleReportsItsToolchain(t *tes
 	}
 }
 
-// TestIndexerGivesACandidateItsFingerprintWhenTheCheckerCreatesThePreviewsBucket: the indexer starts with the stream PREVIEWS
-// and its durable consumer (made by the controller from the checker's declaration and the indexer's consumes) and no bucket
-// mesh-delivery-checker_previews; a pull request of mesh-catalog touching avahi makes the candidate with the reason
-// 'no merge preview is computed'; the checker then makes its bucket, writes the preview of that head onto the trunk head
-// the source names, and says so on its stream; the candidate's avahi gets, within 20 s and with no restart, the reason
-// computed from the preview (the toolchain is not reported here, so 'toolchain not yet reported').
-func TestIndexerGivesACandidateItsFingerprintWhenTheCheckerCreatesThePreviewsBucket(t *testing.T) { // 1445/AC4
+// TestIndexerBuildsARunsCandidateAndDropsItWhenEveryMembersPipelineEnded (design 47 G §64, §67 test 64, §190; A-160, A-174):
+// the indexer starts with the runner's streams run-started and pipeline-ended and its durables on them, its state runs and a
+// registration of avahi; the runner says run-started of run 9 with avahi at a commit on a branch no registration watches;
+// within 20 s candidates.run-9 holds one pull of number 0 at that commit, avahi's manifest read through the seat git; the
+// indexer is restarted, the runner says avahi's pipeline of run 9 ended, and the candidate and the run's key go.
+func TestIndexerBuildsARunsCandidateAndDropsItWhenEveryMembersPipelineEnded(t *testing.T) {
 	manifest, err := os.ReadFile("../../internal/index/testdata/catalogue-a67f0196-avahi.module.json")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	const goSum = "3b5028f0c1e9bde04dd766abd63eb5931bc516bae695cf46f00abcd8510b0381"
-	const trunk, head = "5555555555555555555555555555555555555555", "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567"
-	js, ctx, candidates, _ := startIndexer(t, func(ctx context.Context, builds buildLog) {
-		builds.end(t, "novox/mesh-catalog", "avahi", "modules/avahi")
-	}, func(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream) {
-		if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: PreviewsStream, Subjects: []string{previewWrittenSubject}}); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateConsumer(ctx, PreviewsStream, jetstream.ConsumerConfig{Durable: "n1_mesh-delivery-indexer", AckPolicy: jetstream.AckExplicitPolicy}); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-		seedBuildModules(t, ctx, js, nil)
-		// The seat mesh-delivery's verb source, as the gate serves it (design 47 G §115): main names the catalogue's trunk head.
-		answer := func(m *nats.Msg) {
-			raw, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"result": meshdelivery.SourceAnswer{Branch: "main", Group: "g", Revision: 5,
-				Repositories: []meshdelivery.SourceHead{{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Head: trunk, Trunk: "main"}}}, "node": "n1"})
-			_ = m.Respond(raw)
-		}
-		for _, subject := range []string{"mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.call.source.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.tool.source"} {
-			if _, err := js.Conn().Subscribe(subject, answer); err != nil {
+	const commit = "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567"
+	var runs jetstream.KeyValue
+	js, ctx, candidates, _, restart := startIndexerRun(t, func(context.Context, buildLog) {}, func(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream) {
+		for stream, subject := range map[string]string{meshpipelinerunner.StreamRunStarted: meshpipelinerunner.SubjectRunStartedAll,
+			meshpipelinerunner.StreamPipelineEnded: meshpipelinerunner.SubjectPipelineEndedAll} {
+			if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: stream, Subjects: []string{subject}}); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateConsumer(ctx, stream, jetstream.ConsumerConfig{Durable: "n1_mesh-delivery-indexer", AckPolicy: jetstream.AckExplicitPolicy,
+				FilterSubjects: []string{subject}}); err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
 		}
+		var err error
+		if runs, err = js.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: index.RunsBucket, History: 1}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		regs, err := js.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: index.RegistrationsBucket, History: 1})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		reg, _ := json.Marshal(meshcatalog.Registration{V: 1, Module: "avahi", Origin: "novox/mesh-catalog", Path: "modules/avahi", Branches: []string{"main"}})
+		if _, err := regs.Create(ctx, index.RegistrationKey("avahi"), reg); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		seedBuildModules(t, ctx, js, nil)
+		// The seat git as the forge module serves it: avahi's directory and its manifest at the run's commit.
+		reply := func(m *nats.Msg, result any) {
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"result": result, "node": "n0"})
+			_ = m.Respond(raw)
+		}
+		if _, err := js.Conn().Subscribe("mesh.seat.git.tool.trees", func(m *nats.Msg) {
+			reply(m, git.TreesAnswer{Root: "r0", Commit: commit, Trees: map[string]string{"modules/avahi": "newtree"}})
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if _, err := js.Conn().Subscribe("mesh.seat.git.tool.file", func(m *nats.Msg) {
+			var a git.FileInput
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(m.Data, &a)
+			switch a.Path {
+			case "modules/avahi/module.json":
+				reply(m, git.FileAnswer{Path: a.Path, Ref: a.Ref, Content: string(manifest)})
+			case "modules/avahi/go.sum":
+				reply(m, git.FileAnswer{Path: a.Path, Ref: a.Ref, Content: goSum})
+			default:
+				reply(m, git.FileAnswer{Path: a.Path, Ref: a.Ref, Absent: true})
+			}
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
 	})
-	pull, err := forgemsg.EncodeForge(forgemsg.Forge{Kind: forgemsg.ForgePull, Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Branch: "feat/x", Number: 301, Head: head, Action: forgemsg.PullUpdated,
-		Dirs: []string{"modules/avahi"}, DirsKnown: true, Manifests: map[string]string{"modules/avahi": string(manifest)}})
-	if err != nil {
+	started, _ := json.Marshal(meshpipelinerunner.RunStarted{V: 1, Run: "9", By: "lead@n1", Members: []meshpipelinerunner.Member{{Module: "avahi", Commit: commit, Branch: "feature/1966-x"}}})
+	if _, err := js.Publish(ctx, meshpipelinerunner.SubjectRunStarted("avahi", "feature-1966-x", commit), started); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	if _, err := js.Publish(ctx, "mesh.stream.mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.event.forge.novox.mesh-catalog.pull", pull); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	none2 := func(want string) string {
-		var got string
-		for deadline := time.Now().Add(20 * time.Second); time.Now().Before(deadline); time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond) {
-			if e, err := candidates.Get(ctx, "feat/x"); err == nil {
-				if c, err := index.DecodeCandidate(e.Value()); err == nil && len(c.Pulls) == 1 {
-					got = c.Pulls[0].Fps["avahi"].None2
-					if got == want {
-						break
-					}
-				}
+	key, _ := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey("run-9")
+	var c meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValue
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(20 * time.Second); time.Now().Before(deadline); time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond) {
+		if e, err := candidates.Get(ctx, key); err == nil {
+			if c, err = index.DecodeCandidate(e.Value()); err == nil {
+				break
 			}
 		}
-		return got
 	}
-	if got := none2("no merge preview is computed"); got != "no merge preview is computed" {
-		t.Fatalf("none2 = %q within 20 s of the pull request, want 'no merge preview is computed'", got)
+	if len(c.Pulls) != 1 || c.Pulls[0].Number != 0 || c.Pulls[0].Head != commit || c.Pulls[0].Fps["avahi"].Manifest != meshcatalogclient.ManifestDigest(manifest) {
+		t.Fatalf("candidates.run-9 = %+v within 20 s of run-started, want avahi at the run's commit with its manifest", c)
 	}
-	// The checker's bucket is made only now, as when the checker is assigned after the indexer started.
-	kv, err := js.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: index.PreviewsBucket, History: index.PreviewsHistory})
-	if err != nil {
+	restart()
+	ended, _ := json.Marshal(meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded{V: 1, Pipeline: "feature-1966-x.0.avahi", Module: "avahi", Branch: "feature/1966-x", Commit: commit,
+		Outcome: "passed", Steps: []meshpipelinerunner.StepResult{}, Run: "9"})
+	if _, err := js.Publish(ctx, meshpipelinerunner.SubjectPipelineEnded("avahi", "feature-1966-x", commit), ended); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	pv := meshdeliverychecker.PreviewsByRepositoryHeadTrunkValue{Repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", Head: head, Trunk: trunk, Merge: "6666666666666666666666666666666666666666",
-		Modules: map[string]meshdeliverychecker.PreviewsByRepositoryHeadTrunkValueModulesValue{"modules/avahi": {Tree: "newtree", Manifest: meshcatalogclient.ManifestDigest(manifest), Locks: map[string]string{"go.sum": goSum}}}}
-	key, _ := index.PreviewKey(pv.Repository, pv.Head, pv.Trunk)
-	data, err := index.EncodePreview(pv)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+	gone := false
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(20 * time.Second); time.Now().Before(deadline) && !gone; time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond) {
+		_, cerr := candidates.Get(ctx, key)
+		_, rerr := runs.Get(ctx, "run-9")
+		gone = errors.Is(cerr, jetstream.ErrKeyNotFound) && errors.Is(rerr, jetstream.ErrKeyNotFound)
 	}
-	if _, err := kv.Create(ctx, key, data); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := js.Publish(ctx, previewWrittenSubject, []byte(`{"key":"`+key+`"}`)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if got := none2(sdkstep.ToolchainNoReport); got != sdkstep.ToolchainNoReport {
-		t.Errorf("none2 = %q within 20 s of the preview, want %q (computed from the preview)", got, sdkstep.ToolchainNoReport)
+	if !gone {
+		t.Error("the run's candidate or its runs key stays 20 s after its member's pipeline ended across a restart")
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/main.go
index 70451ace..5603ae66 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/main.go
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	// The manifests a take-in wrote and no judge pass judged yet (issue 1966): a state this delivery brings, bound when it
 	// appears; until then a take-in's new manifests are kept for their judging in its memory alone.
 	unjudged := process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, index.UnjudgedBucket, "a take-in's new manifests are kept for their judging in its memory alone", logger.Printf)
-	tryRecovery := process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, index.TryRecoveryBucket, "how the recovery of the open tries went is not kept", logger.Printf)
+	// The runs on request the indexer holds a candidate for (A-174): a state this delivery brings, bound when it appears.
+	runs := process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, index.RunsBucket, "no run on request's candidate is written or dropped", logger.Printf)
 	findings := process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, findingsBucket, "no finding of the indexer is written", logger.Printf)
 	// The indexer's findings are the seat mesh-conditions' generated finding, written through mesh-sdk's held finding writer
 	// (design 47 G §689, A-29): it holds what is written before the state is bound, and starts once the state is.
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 		Predefined: awaitedStore{b: predefined}, ConfigCandidates: awaitedStore{b: configCandidates}, Logf: logger.Printf,
 		Named: namedVia(calls.Call), Trunk: trunkVia(calls.Call), Contains: containsVia(calls.Call), Read: readVia(calls.Call),
 		ReadOpen: openVia(calls.Call), Packages: awaitedStore{b: packages, js: js, name: index.PackagesBucket}, Files: filesVia(calls.Call), GoSum: goSumVia(calls.Call), GoMod: goModVia(calls.Call),
-		OwnBuild: ownBuildVia(calls.Call, cred.Node), OpenTries: openTriesVia(calls.Call), OwnBuildState: awaitedStore{b: ownBuildState}, Heard: heardStore, Placement: placementVia(calls.CallKept), RunningWhole: runningWholeVia(js), TryRecovery: awaitedStore{b: tryRecovery}, Graph: graph,
+		OwnBuild: ownBuildVia(calls.Call, cred.Node), OwnBuildState: awaitedStore{b: ownBuildState}, Heard: heardStore, Placement: placementVia(calls.CallKept), RunningWhole: runningWholeVia(js), Runs: awaitedStore{b: runs}, Graph: graph,
 		SeatDefinitions: awaitedStore{b: seatDefs}, ReadFile: readFileVia(calls.Call), SaySeatDefinition: saySeats,
 		Message: messageVia(calls.CallKept), Revisions: revisions, EntryIndex: awaitedStore{b: process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, index.EntryIndexBucket, "no entry is found by its fingerprint", logger.Printf)}, // Message a kept call: a read, called again through a transport fault (ADR 0668 §1)
 		// Each catalog revision may bring another holder of a build seat: the build modules are found again (buildmodules.go).
@@ -665,17 +666,6 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	buildModules.hearWith(func(stream, module string) {
 		hear(stream, module+"'s toolchain reports are not heard until the indexer starts again", func(m jetstream.Msg) { tools.Reported(m) })
 	})
-	// The consumer on the checker's stream exists before the open tries are listed and is heard after (ADR 0638 §3): an event
-	// said between the call and the hearing waits in it, and a try that started or ended meanwhile is found either way.
-	var checksCons jetstream.Consumer
-	_ = notHeard.Bind(PreviewsStream, "the checker's previews and tries are not heard until the indexer starts again", func() error {
-		c, err := cred.EventConsumer(ctx, js, PreviewsStream)
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("the consumer %s_%s on %s does not exist yet: %w", cred.Node, cred.Module, PreviewsStream, err)
-		}
-		checksCons = c
-		return nil
-	})
 	// The versions each package's series holds (DLV-I5): the registry seats' published, on the
 	// indexer's durable consumer of the shared events stream. Where it is not there yet, no series moves until the indexer
 	// starts again, said.
@@ -723,6 +713,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 		return nil
 	})
 	hearNamed(ctx, js, cred, notHeard, named, logger.Printf)
+	hearRuns(ctx, js, cred, notHeard, ix, logger.Printf)
 	// The checker's verdicts carry a pull request's out-of-step files (DLV-I20): on the indexer's durable consumer of the
 	// checker's stream asks. Where it is not there yet, no pull request's out-of-step files are kept until the indexer
 	// starts again, said.
@@ -741,17 +732,6 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	} else if words != "" {
 		logger.Printf("take-in at start: %s", words)
 	}
-	// The open tries are found again through the checker's tool: a try event missed while the indexer was down would leave a
-	// try with no candidate, or a candidate with no try. Not fatal: the events come, and a preview written writes the candidates.
-	// A recovery that fails is said (journal, and indexer_try_candidates) and the events are heard all the same.
-	_ = ix.RecoverTries(ctx)
-	if checksCons != nil {
-		pc, err := process.HearEvents(checksCons, func(m jetstream.Msg) { previews.heardChecks(m) }, logger.Printf)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		defer pc.Stop()
-	}
 	cons, err := cred.EventConsumer(ctx, js, forgeStream)
 	if err != nil {
 		// Essential: the forge's merges are what the indexer indexes.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named.go
index c99ab795..41d4a90f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named.go
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg"
 	"path"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
@@ -261,31 +260,3 @@ func openVia(call toolCaller) func(ctx context.Context) ([]forgemsg.OpenPull, er
 		return out, nil
 	}
 }
-
-// openTriesTool is the checker's tool that lists the tries that wait or run (mesh-delivery-checker checker_tries).
-const openTriesTool = "mesh-delivery-checker.checker_tries"
-
-// openTriesVia lists the open tries through the checker's tool, never its state (ADR 0596).
-func openTriesVia(call toolCaller) func(ctx context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) {
-	return func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) {
-		raw, err := call(openTriesTool, map[string]any{})
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		// No try open is an answer: the checker's list is empty, or null in an older checker (issue 1921). An answer without the
-		// key is refused below, never read as none.
-		var o map[string]json.RawMessage
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &o); err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the answer of %s is not {tries}: %v", openTriesTool, err)
-		}
-		list, ok := o["tries"]
-		if !ok {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the answer of %s is not {tries}: no tries key", openTriesTool)
-		}
-		var tries []checkermsg.Open
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(list, &tries); err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the answer of %s is not {tries}: %v", openTriesTool, err)
-		}
-		return tries, nil
-	}
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named_test.go
index 980e96bd..52f3b9c4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/named_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/git"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshpipelinerunner"
 	"mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
@@ -127,23 +129,30 @@ func TestTheTrunkIsTheDirectoriesTheForgeListsTrees(t *testing.T) { // 1900/AC3
 	if _, err := ownBuildVia(none, "n1")(context.Background()); err == nil {
 		t.Error("an engine that says nothing runs gave a build")
 	}
-	// Issue 1921: the checker's list of open tries; none open is an answer, whether [] or null.
+	// Design 47 G §64, A-160, A-174: the runner's run-started and pipeline-ended reach the indexer; one that is no such body,
+	// or a run that can never be taken in, is terminated, any other failure is left for redelivery, and a taken one is acked.
 	for _, row := range []struct {
-		name, answer string
-		want         int
-		refused      bool
+		name, body       string
+		ended            bool
+		err              error
+		acked, termd     int
+		started, endedOf string
 	}{
-		{"one open", `{"tries":[{"id":"try-1","state":"running","whole":true,"members":[{"repository":"novox/a","head":"h","trunk":"t"}]}]}`, 1, false},
-		{"an empty list", `{"tries":[]}`, 0, false},
-		{"null, as an older checker answers none", `{"tries":null}`, 0, false},
-		{"no tries key", `{}`, 0, true},
-		{"not json", `nope`, 0, true},
-		{"tries of another shape", `{"tries":{"a":1}}`, 0, true},
+		{name: "a run started", body: `{"v":1,"run":"7","members":[{"module":"a","commit":"c"}],"by":"s"}`, acked: 1, started: "7"},
+		{name: "a run's pipeline ended", body: `{"v":1,"pipeline":"p","module":"a","branch":"b","commit":"c","outcome":"passed","steps":[],"run":"7"}`, ended: true, acked: 1, endedOf: "7"},
+		{name: "not json", body: `nope`, termd: 1},
+		{name: "a run never taken in", body: `{"v":1,"run":"7","members":[]}`, err: fmt.Errorf("%w: no member", index.ErrUnreadable), termd: 1, started: "7"},
+		{name: "a bus fault", body: `{"v":1,"run":"7","members":[{"module":"a","commit":"c"}]}`, err: errors.New("the bus did not answer"), started: "7"},
 	} {
-		call := func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(row.answer), nil }
-		got, err := openTriesVia(call)(context.Background())
-		if (err != nil) != row.refused || len(got) != row.want {
-			t.Errorf("%s: %d tries, error %v; want %d, refused %v", row.name, len(got), err, row.want, row.refused)
+		ix := &fakeRuns{err: row.err}
+		m := &fakeMsg{subject: "x", data: []byte(row.body)}
+		if row.ended {
+			heardPipelineEnded(context.Background(), ix, m, t.Logf)
+		} else {
+			heardRunStarted(context.Background(), ix, m, t.Logf)
+		}
+		if m.acked != row.acked || m.termd != row.termd || ix.started != row.started || ix.ended != row.endedOf {
+			t.Errorf("%s: acked %d, terminated %d, started %q, ended %q", row.name, m.acked, m.termd, ix.started, ix.ended)
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -177,3 +186,19 @@ func TestReadViaReadsManifestsAndLocks(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("read = %+v", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// fakeRuns records the run events handed to it and answers err.
+type fakeRuns struct {
+	err            error
+	started, ended string
+}
+
+func (f *fakeRuns) StartRun(_ context.Context, e meshpipelinerunner.RunStarted) error {
+	f.started = e.Run
+	return f.err
+}
+
+func (f *fakeRuns) EndRunPipeline(_ context.Context, e meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded) error {
+	f.ended = e.Run
+	return f.err
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/previews.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/previews.go
index a38c80b3..766e7270 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/previews.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/previews.go
@@ -4,30 +4,19 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
 	"log"
-	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg"
-
 	"mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index"
 )
 
-// PreviewsStream is the stream the checker carries its events on, as the bus names it (declared by the
-// checker as the stream checks, heard by this module through consumes; novox/hq ADR 0484 clause 3).
-const PreviewsStream = "CHECKS"
-
-// previewWrittenSubject is the subject of the checker's preview.written event.
-const previewWrittenSubject = "mesh.stream." + index.CheckerModule + ".event.preview.written"
-
 // previewWatch reads the merge previews the checker writes (mesh-delivery-checker_previews) and follows them: every change
 // writes the candidates' fingerprints again (index.Indexer.ApplyPreview). The checker's bucket is made when it is assigned,
-// after the indexer started, and the indexer holds no timer (ADR 0437 §8): it starts with the bucket absent, and the
-// checker says each time it wrote a preview (preview.written, handled by Written); the bucket is then watched and settled
-// as the others, with no restart.
+// after the indexer started, and the indexer holds no timer (ADR 0437 §8) and hears no preview.written (design 47 G A-160): a
+// bucket absent at the start is not watched until the indexer starts again.
 type previewWatch struct {
 	ctx     context.Context
 	js      bucketOpener
@@ -53,16 +42,16 @@ func (w *previewWatch) ensure() error {
 	kv, err := w.js.KeyValue(w.ctx, index.PreviewsBucket)
 	switch {
 	case errors.Is(err, jetstream.ErrBucketNotFound):
-		w.logger.Printf("the bucket %s does not exist yet: it is watched when the checker says it wrote a preview", index.PreviewsBucket)
+		w.logger.Printf("the bucket %s does not exist yet: it is watched from the indexer's next start", index.PreviewsBucket)
 		return nil
 	case err != nil:
 		// Refused or not answered (its grant not on the bus yet, issue 1945): said, and opened again at the checker's next preview.
-		w.logger.Printf("the bucket %s cannot be read (%v): it is watched when the checker says it wrote a preview", index.PreviewsBucket, err)
+		w.logger.Printf("the bucket %s cannot be read (%v): it is watched from the indexer's next start", index.PreviewsBucket, err)
 		return nil
 	}
 	watcher, err := settle(w.ctx, kv, func(e jetstream.KeyValueEntry) { w.ix.PutPreview(e.Key(), e.Value(), !opOf(e)) })
 	if err != nil {
-		process.NotWatched(w.logger.Printf, index.PreviewsBucket, err, "it is watched when the checker says it wrote a preview")
+		process.NotWatched(w.logger.Printf, index.PreviewsBucket, err, "it is watched from the indexer's next start")
 		return nil
 	}
 	w.watched = true
@@ -73,64 +62,5 @@ func (w *previewWatch) ensure() error {
 			}
 		})
 	}()
-	if err := w.ix.RecomputeCandidates(w.ctx); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return w.ix.WriteTryCandidates(w.ctx)
-}
-
-// Written takes one preview.written event of the checker in: its bucket is watched if it is not. A subject that is not the
-// checker's is terminated; a failure stays unacknowledged, and the server delivers it again.
-func (w *previewWatch) Written(m delivered) {
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(m.Subject(), previewWrittenSubject) {
-		w.logger.Printf("%s: not the checker's preview.written, dropped", m.Subject())
-		_ = m.Term()
-		return
-	}
-	if err := w.ensure(); err != nil {
-		w.logger.Printf("%s: left for redelivery: %v", m.Subject(), err)
-		return
-	}
-	_ = m.Ack()
-}
-
-// tryEventSubject is the subject of an event of the checker's stream checks about a try.
-func tryEventSubject(event string) string {
-	return "mesh.stream." + index.CheckerModule + ".event." + event
-}
-
-// heardChecks takes one event of the checker's stream in: a preview written (Written), or a whole try's start or end, from
-// which the candidate of its group is written or deleted (index.Indexer.StartTry, EndTry). A failure stays unacknowledged, and
-// the server delivers it again; a body that is no try event is terminated.
-func (w *previewWatch) heardChecks(m delivered) {
-	var event string
-	switch m.Subject() {
-	case tryEventSubject(checkermsg.Started):
-		event = checkermsg.Started
-	case tryEventSubject(checkermsg.Ended):
-		event = checkermsg.Ended
-	default:
-		w.Written(m)
-		return
-	}
-	e, err := checkermsg.Decode(event, m.Data())
-	if err != nil {
-		w.logger.Printf("%s: not a try event, dropped: %v", m.Subject(), err)
-		_ = m.Term()
-		return
-	}
-	if event == checkermsg.Started {
-		var ms []index.TryMember
-		for _, x := range e.Members {
-			ms = append(ms, index.TryMember{Repository: x.Repository, Head: x.Head, Trunk: x.Trunk})
-		}
-		err = w.ix.StartTry(w.ctx, e.ID, ms)
-	} else {
-		err = w.ix.EndTry(w.ctx, e.ID)
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		w.logger.Printf("%s of %s: left for redelivery: %v", event, e.ID, err)
-		return
-	}
-	_ = m.Ack()
+	return w.ix.RecomputeCandidates(w.ctx)
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/runs.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/runs.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c6bdbfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/runs.go
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshpipelinerunner"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
+
+	"mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index"
+)
+
+// runTaker is what the indexer does with the runner's events of a run on request (index.Indexer.StartRun, EndRunPipeline).
+type runTaker interface {
+	StartRun(ctx context.Context, e meshpipelinerunner.RunStarted) error
+	EndRunPipeline(ctx context.Context, e meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded) error
+}
+
+// hearRuns hears the runner's run-started and pipeline-ended (design 47 G §64, §190; A-160, A-174), each on its own stream, on
+// the indexer's durable: a run's candidate is written on its start and dropped once every member's pipeline has ended. A stream
+// the bus does not hold yet is the finding family-not-heard, and no run's candidate is written or dropped meanwhile.
+func hearRuns(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account, notHeard binder, ix runTaker, logf func(string, ...any)) {
+	for _, s := range []struct {
+		stream string
+		each   func(jetstream.Msg)
+	}{
+		{meshpipelinerunner.StreamRunStarted, func(m jetstream.Msg) { heardRunStarted(ctx, ix, m, logf) }},
+		{meshpipelinerunner.StreamPipelineEnded, func(m jetstream.Msg) { heardPipelineEnded(ctx, ix, m, logf) }},
+	} {
+		_ = notHeard.Bind(s.stream, "no run on request's candidate is written or dropped until the indexer starts again", func() error {
+			cc, err := cred.HearSeatEvents(ctx, js, s.stream, s.each, logf)
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			go func() { <-ctx.Done(); cc.Stop() }()
+			return nil
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// heardRunStarted takes one run-started in. A body that is no run-started, or a run that can never be taken in, is said and
+// terminated; any other failure stays unacknowledged, and the server delivers it again.
+func heardRunStarted(ctx context.Context, ix runTaker, m delivered, logf func(string, ...any)) {
+	var e meshpipelinerunner.RunStarted
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(m.Data(), &e); err != nil {
+		logf("%s: not a run-started, dropped: %v", m.Subject(), err)
+		_ = m.Term()
+		return
+	}
+	settleRun(m, ix.StartRun(ctx, e), "run-started of "+e.Run, logf)
+}
+
+// heardPipelineEnded takes one pipeline-ended in: of a run's pipeline, its module is kept as ended.
+func heardPipelineEnded(ctx context.Context, ix runTaker, m delivered, logf func(string, ...any)) {
+	var e meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(m.Data(), &e); err != nil {
+		logf("%s: not a pipeline-ended, dropped: %v", m.Subject(), err)
+		_ = m.Term()
+		return
+	}
+	settleRun(m, ix.EndRunPipeline(ctx, e), "pipeline-ended of "+e.Module+" in the run "+e.Run, logf)
+}
+
+func settleRun(m delivered, err error, what string, logf func(string, ...any)) {
+	switch {
+	case err == nil:
+		_ = m.Ack()
+	case errors.Is(err, index.ErrUnreadable):
+		logf("%s: never taken in, dropped: %v", what, err)
+		_ = m.Term()
+	default:
+		logf("%s: left for redelivery: %v", what, err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein.go
index 552b9afb..6e2709f1 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein.go
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ type takerIn interface {
 	TakeInPendingByHand(ctx context.Context, key, by, why string) index.TakenIn
 	DropPending(ctx context.Context, key, by, why string, abandon bool) index.TakenIn
 	TakeInMerge(ctx context.Context, repository, merge string, seq uint64, by, why string) index.TakenIn
-	DropTryCandidate(ctx context.Context, id, by, why string) index.TakenIn
-	RecoverTriesByHand(ctx context.Context, by, why string) index.TakenIn
 	FingerprintsAgain(ctx context.Context, module string) index.TakenIn
 	RecomputeByHand(ctx context.Context, by, why string) index.TakenIn
 	DropCandidateGraph(ctx context.Context, group, heads, by, why string) index.TakenIn
@@ -60,12 +58,6 @@ func takenIn(ctx context.Context, ix takerIn, kv jetstream.KeyValue, e jetstream
 		a.Module = r.Module
 	} else if a.Fingerprints {
 		asked, r = "computing of fingerprints again", ix.FingerprintsAgain(ctx, a.Module)
-	} else if a.RecoverTries {
-		asked, r = "recovery of the tries", ix.RecoverTriesByHand(ctx, a.By, a.Why)
-		a.Module = "tries"
-	} else if a.TryCandidate != "" && a.Drop {
-		asked, r = "drop of a try's candidate", ix.DropTryCandidate(ctx, a.TryCandidate, a.By, a.Why)
-		a.Module = a.TryCandidate
 	} else if a.Merge != "" {
 		asked, r = "hand take-in of a merge", ix.TakeInMerge(ctx, a.MergeRepository, a.Merge, a.Sequence, a.By, a.Why)
 		a.Module = r.Module
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
index 9c4b866d..70c6453e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ require (
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdelivery v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdeliverychecker v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshpipelinerunner v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshwants v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/nodebuildgo v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/npmpackageregistry v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
@@ -41,7 +42,6 @@ require (
 replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/buildrun => ../mesh-delivery-builder/buildrun
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-forge-bridge/forgemsg v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk => ../mesh-de
 
 replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein => ./takein
 
-replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg => ../mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg
-
 replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-forge-bridge/forgemsg => ../mesh-delivery-forge-bridge/forgemsg
 
 replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/builds => ../mesh-delivery-builder/builds
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/candidates.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/candidates.go
index cce9eba5..d5bf7ef4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/candidates.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/candidates.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/nodebuildgo"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshdeliveryclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
@@ -215,14 +214,10 @@ type Indexer struct {
 	Pending Store
 	// SayTakeIn publishes a take-in event (take-in.pending, take-in.taken; ADR 0633 §5); nil says none.
 	SayTakeIn func(ctx context.Context, t takein.TakeIn) error
-	// OpenTries lists the tries that wait or run, from the checker's tool (checker_tries); nil recovers none (trycandidates.go).
-	OpenTries func(ctx context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error)
-	// TryRecovery keeps how the last recovery of the open tries went (trycandidates.go); nil keeps none.
-	TryRecovery    Store
-	tryMu          sync.Mutex             // one try event or recovery at a time (trycandidates.go)
-	recoveryFailed atomic.Bool            // the last recovery of the open tries failed (trycandidates.go)
-	tries          map[string][]TryMember // the whole tries that wait or run, by try id (trycandidates.go); guarded by mu
-	pendingMu      sync.Mutex             // one take-in step at a time: a merge, a group's end, the start and a hand act (pending.go)
+	// Runs is the state runs: the runs on request the indexer holds a candidate for (runcandidates.go, A-174); nil keeps none.
+	Runs      Store
+	runMu     sync.Mutex // one run event at a time (runcandidates.go)
+	pendingMu sync.Mutex // one take-in step at a time: a merge, a group's end, the start and a hand act (pending.go)
 }
 
 func (ix *Indexer) logf(format string, args ...any) {
@@ -384,7 +379,7 @@ func (ix *Indexer) applyOpen(ctx context.Context, f forgemsg.Forge) error {
 	}
 	for _, key := range keys {
 		if meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(key) {
-			continue // a try's candidate is no pull request's: the checker's try owns it (trycandidates.go)
+			continue // a run's candidate is no pull request's: its run owns it (runcandidates.go)
 		}
 		err := write(ctx, ix.Store, key, func(value []byte, found bool) ([]byte, bool, error) {
 			if !found {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/control_records.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/control_records.go
index c13e960b..b5688b42 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/control_records.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/control_records.go
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ func (ix *Indexer) configCandidatesAfterMerge(ctx context.Context, f forgemsg.Fo
 	var errs []error
 	for _, g := range groups {
 		if meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(g) {
-			continue // a try's candidate holds no pull request's config declarations (trycandidates.go)
+			continue // a run's candidate holds no pull request's config declarations (runcandidates.go)
 		}
 		raw, _, found, err := ix.Store.Get(ctx, g)
 		if err != nil || !found {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_test.go
index b7261c76..a732a6ff 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_test.go
@@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ func TestTakeIn(t *testing.T) { // 1585/T3-T13 (ADR 0633)
 		for _, f := range []string{"Store", "Modules", "Manifests", "Predefined", "ConfigCandidates", "Taken", "Verdicts", "OldSections", "Unjudged",
 			"JudgeID", "SayRefused", "SayAccepted", "Packages", "Graph", "Files", "GoSum", "GoMod", "Now", "Builds", "Named", "Trunk",
 			"Read", "Contains", "Logf", "ReadOpen", "OwnBuild", "Message", "Pending", "SayTakeIn",
-			"Requirements", "Findings", "SeatDefinitions", "ReadFile", "SaySeatDefinition", "OpenTries", "TryRecovery", "OwnBuildState", "Heard", "Placement", "RunningWhole", "Revisions", "SayCatalogRevision", "SayFill", "EntryIndex", "NamedSets", "Registry", "SeedModules", "Versions", "SayVersionReleased", "SayVersionsFilled", "Inputs", "BuildEdges"} {
+			"Requirements", "Findings", "SeatDefinitions", "ReadFile", "SaySeatDefinition", "Runs", "OwnBuildState", "Heard", "Placement", "RunningWhole", "Revisions", "SayCatalogRevision", "SayFill", "EntryIndex", "NamedSets", "Registry", "SeedModules", "Versions", "SayVersionReleased", "SayVersionsFilled", "Inputs", "BuildEdges"} {
 			named[f] = true
 		}
 		ty := reflect.TypeOf(Indexer{})
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_tools.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_tools.go
index 5557a43a..366654eb 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/pending_tools.go
@@ -4,12 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
-	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
-
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/takein"
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 )
@@ -115,94 +111,3 @@ func PendingTools(pending, ownBuild Store, ask func(key string, value []byte) (T
 			Run: merge},
 	}
 }
-
-// TryCandidateTools are the tools of a group try's candidate (issue 1921, trycandidates.go): indexer_try_candidates reads the
-// candidates the indexer holds for tries (the try, its heads, each member's modules and whether each has its fingerprint),
-// and indexer_drop_try_candidate drops one by an ask in takeins. candidates is the candidates state as the tools bundle reads it.
-func TryCandidateTools(candidates, recovery Store, ask func(key string, value []byte) (TakeInAsk, error), now func() time.Time) []stdio.Tool {
-	return []stdio.Tool{
-		{Name: TryCandidatesTool,
-			Description: "The candidates the indexer holds for group tries (a try of several repositories at exact commits, mesh-delivery-checker try): " +
-				"per try its heads hash, each member's repository and commit, the modules the try touches and, per module, its manifest digest, its " +
-				"fingerprint or why it has none yet (a merge preview not yet written). The checker's manifest validator and the node-engines' " +
-				"compose-candidate read this candidate. Read-only; an empty answer means no whole try waits or runs.",
-			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{}},
-			Run: func(map[string]any) (any, error) {
-				ctx := context.Background()
-				keys, err := candidates.Keys(ctx)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				var out []meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValue
-				for _, k := range keys {
-					if !meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(k) {
-						continue
-					}
-					v, _, found, err := candidates.Get(ctx, k)
-					if err != nil || !found {
-						continue
-					}
-					if c, err := DecodeCandidate(v); err == nil {
-						out = append(out, c)
-					}
-				}
-				// How the recovery of the open tries went: loud when it is not done (since when, why).
-				said := map[string]any{"done": false, "why": "no recovery has been written yet"}
-				if v, _, found, err := recovery.Get(ctx, TryRecoveryKey); err == nil && found {
-					var r TryRecovery
-					if json.Unmarshal(v, &r) == nil {
-						said = map[string]any{"done": r.Done}
-						if !r.Done {
-							said["why"], said["since"] = r.Why, r.Since
-							said["says"] = "recovery not done, since " + r.Since.Format(time.RFC3339) + ": " + r.Why
-						}
-					}
-				}
-				return map[string]any{"tries": out, "recovery": said}, nil
-			}},
-		{Name: RecoverTriesTool,
-			Description: "Run the recovery of the open tries now: the indexer lists them through the checker's checker_tries, writes the candidate of each " +
-				"whole try that waits or runs and deletes the candidate of a try no longer listed. It runs by itself at the indexer's start; when it failed " +
-				"(indexer_try_candidates says recovery not done, since when and why) this runs it again. A hand act: who and why are said in the journal.",
-			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "required": []string{"why"}, "properties": map[string]any{
-				"why": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "why it is run now, in plain words"}}},
-			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
-				why, _ := args["why"].(string)
-				if strings.TrimSpace(why) == "" {
-					return nil, fmt.Errorf("say why: a hand act is said in the journal")
-				}
-				data, err := json.Marshal(TakeInAsk{V: 1, RecoverTries: true, Why: strings.TrimSpace(why), By: stdio.CallerOf(args), At: now().UTC()})
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				a, err := ask("tries.recover."+now().UTC().Format("20060102T150405.000000000"), data)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				return a.Result, nil
-			}},
-		{Name: DropTryCandidateTool,
-			Description: "Drop a group try's candidate by hand (the indexer deletes it itself when the try ends): for a candidate left for a try that " +
-				"is gone, or to make the indexer write it again from the previews at the try's next change. A hand act: who and why are said in the journal.",
-			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "required": []string{"try", "why"}, "properties": map[string]any{
-				"try": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "the try's id, try-<digits>"},
-				"why": map[string]any{"type": "string", "description": "why it is dropped, in plain words"}}},
-			Run: func(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
-				id, _ := args["try"].(string)
-				why, _ := args["why"].(string)
-				id = strings.TrimSpace(id)
-				if !meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(id) || strings.TrimSpace(why) == "" {
-					return nil, fmt.Errorf("name the try (try-<digits>) and say why")
-				}
-				data, err := json.Marshal(TakeInAsk{V: 1, TryCandidate: id, Drop: true, Why: strings.TrimSpace(why), By: stdio.CallerOf(args), At: now().UTC()})
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				a, err := ask("try-candidate.drop."+id, data)
-				if err != nil {
-					return nil, err
-				}
-				return a.Result, nil
-			}},
-	}
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews.go
index 14d0fd53..172f327b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews.go
@@ -77,10 +77,7 @@ func (ix *Indexer) ApplyPreview(ctx context.Context, key string, value []byte, d
 	if !ix.PutPreview(key, value, deleted) {
 		return nil
 	}
-	if err := ix.RecomputeCandidates(ctx); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return ix.WriteTryCandidates(ctx) // a try that waited for this preview gets its candidate
+	return ix.RecomputeCandidates(ctx)
 }
 
 // RecomputeCandidates writes again every candidate whose pull requests' fingerprints, from the previews held, are no longer
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews_test.go
index 03766078..8f1b3a5c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/previews_test.go
@@ -7,15 +7,11 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"maps"
 	"os"
-	"runtime"
-	"slices"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
-	"time"
 
 	sdkstep "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/buildstep"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/checkermsg"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdeliverychecker"
@@ -229,221 +225,6 @@ func TestAPreviewHeardBeforeItsPullRequestGivesTheFingerprintWhenTheCandidateIsW
 	if got := fpOf(t, cands); got.Fp2 != "" || got.None2 != meshcatalogclient.NoneNoPreview {
 		t.Errorf("a new head: %+v, want no preview", got)
 	}
-	// Issue 1921: a whole group try has no pull request, yet the indexer writes its candidate from the checker's try events and
-	// the previews its fetch wrote (number 0, the heads hash of its members), keeps it apart from the pull requests' candidates,
-	// and deletes it when the try ends. Its manifests are judged with the seat definitions its members carry, in one locked
-	// pass, whether the contracts module's manifest changed or only its seat.json did (the wait is bounded: a lock held twice
-	// would show as a failure here, not as a stuck run).
-	for _, row := range []struct {
-		name      string
-		unchanged bool // the contracts module's module.json is the trunk's: only its definitions changed
-	}{
-		{name: "a changed manifest that carries definitions"},
-		{name: "an unchanged manifest that carries definitions", unchanged: true},
-	} {
-		t.Run("a group try's candidate: "+row.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			ix, mods, cands := previewBed(t, true)
-			ctx := context.Background()
-			ix.Verdicts = newMem()
-			var changed map[string]any
-			if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(catalogueManifest(t, "avahi")), &changed); err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			changed["build"] = map[string]any{"artifacts": []any{map[string]any{"name": "go-seats", "kind": "package", "language": "go", "paths": []any{"go"}, "generated-from": "defs"}}}
-			raw, _ := json.Marshal(changed)
-			pv := avahiPreview(t, trunkNow, h1)
-			pm := meshdeliverychecker.PreviewsByRepositoryHeadTrunkValueModulesValue{Tree: "tree-avahi", Manifest: meshcatalogclient.ManifestDigest(raw), Locks: map[string]string{"go.sum": avahiGoSum}}
-			if row.unchanged {
-				m, found := moduleOf(t, mods, "avahi")
-				_ = found
-				pm.Manifest = m.Manifest
-				key, _ := meshcatalogclient.ManifestsKey(m.Manifest)
-				data, _ := meshcatalogclient.EncodeManifest(meshcatalog.ManifestsByDigestValue{Module: "avahi", Manifest: string(raw)})
-				if _, _, _, err := ix.Manifests.Get(ctx, key); err != nil {
-					t.Fatal(err)
-				}
-				_ = ix.Manifests.(*memStore).Update(ctx, key, data, ix.Manifests.(*memStore).revs[key])
-			}
-			pv.Modules["modules/avahi"] = pm
-			ix.Read = func(_ context.Context, _, _, dir string) (RepoRead, error) {
-				return RepoRead{Manifests: map[string]string{dir: string(raw)}}, nil
-			}
-			listed := 0
-			ix.Files = func(_ context.Context, _, commit string, dirs []string) (map[string]map[string]string, error) {
-				listed++
-				if commit != h1 || !slices.Equal(dirs, []string{"modules/avahi/defs/seats"}) {
-					t.Errorf("listed %v at %s, want the member's head", dirs, commit)
-				}
-				return map[string]map[string]string{dirs[0]: {"node-engine/seat.json": "1"}}, nil
-			}
-			ix.ReadFile = func(_ context.Context, _, _, p string) ([]byte, error) {
-				switch p {
-				case "modules/avahi/defs/seats/node-engine/seat.json":
-					return []byte(`{"format":1,"seat":"node-engine","scope":"node","grain":"seat-list","decision":"d","domain":"Core","verbs":[{"name":"try-verb"}]}`), nil
-				}
-				return nil, nil
-			}
-			started := `{"id":"try-7"}`
-			_ = started
-			members := []TryMember{{Repository: catalogueRepo, Head: h1, Trunk: trunkNow}}
-			held := func() []string { k, _ := cands.Keys(ctx); return k }
-			if err := ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-7", members); err != nil || len(held()) != 0 {
-				t.Fatalf("a try before its preview: %v, candidates %v", err, held())
-			}
-			done := make(chan struct{})
-			go func() { defer close(done); applyPreview(t, ix, pv) }()
-			select {
-			case <-done:
-			case <-time.After(10 * time.Second):
-				panic("writing the try's candidate hangs: the seat lock is held twice (a locked pass cannot be left by t.Fatal: the lock stays held)")
-			}
-			if listed == 0 {
-				t.Error("the member's definitions were not read")
-			}
-			key, _ := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey("try-7")
-			rawc, _, found, _ := cands.Get(ctx, key)
-			if !found {
-				t.Fatalf("no candidate for the try after its preview: %v", held())
-			}
-			c, err := DecodeCandidate(rawc)
-			pull := meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItem{}
-			if len(c.Pulls) == 1 {
-				pull = c.Pulls[0]
-			}
-			if row.unchanged {
-				if err != nil || c.Group != "try-7" || len(pull.Modules) != 0 {
-					t.Fatalf("candidate = %+v, %v, want the try's group with no module touched", c, err)
-				}
-			} else if err != nil || c.Group != "try-7" || pull.Number != 0 || pull.Head != h1 || pull.Fps["avahi"].Manifest == "" { // no fingerprint asserted: this mesh-sdk pin does not read generated-from yet
-				t.Fatalf("candidate = %+v, %v, want one pull of number 0 with avahi's manifest", c, err)
-			}
-			if err := ix.Apply(ctx, forgemsg.Forge{Kind: forgemsg.ForgeOpen}); err != nil || len(held()) != 1 {
-				t.Errorf("the open message left %v (%v), want the try's candidate alone", held(), err)
-			}
-			// The tools: one reads the candidates held for tries, one drops by an ask the indexer answers.
-			asks := func(key string, value []byte) (TakeInAsk, error) {
-				a, err := DecodeTakeIn(value)
-				r := ix.DropTryCandidate(ctx, a.TryCandidate, a.By, a.Why)
-				a.Result = &r
-				return a, err
-			}
-			recovery := newMem()
-			ix.TryRecovery = recovery
-			tools := TryCandidateTools(cands, recovery, asks, time.Now)
-			if out, err := tools[0].Run(map[string]any{}); err != nil || len(out.(map[string]any)["tries"].([]meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValue)) != 1 {
-				t.Errorf("%s = %v, %v, want the try's candidate", tools[0].Name, out, err)
-			}
-			if _, err := tools[2].Run(map[string]any{"try": "feat/x", "why": "w"}); err == nil {
-				t.Error("a branch was dropped as a try")
-			}
-			if out, err := tools[2].Run(map[string]any{"try": "try-7", "why": "by hand"}); err != nil || !out.(*TakenIn).Stored || len(held()) != 0 {
-				t.Errorf("drop = %v, %v, candidates %v", out, err, held())
-			}
-			// The start recovered from the checker's tool: an open whole try is written again, one the checker no longer
-			// lists is deleted, and a try narrowed to a level is none.
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) {
-				return []checkermsg.Open{{ID: "try-7", Whole: true, Members: []checkermsg.Member{{Repository: catalogueRepo, Head: h1, Trunk: trunkNow}}},
-					{ID: "try-8", Whole: false, Members: []checkermsg.Member{{Repository: catalogueRepo, Head: h2, Trunk: trunkNow}}}}, nil
-			}
-			if err := ix.RecoverTries(ctx); err != nil || len(held()) != 1 {
-				t.Fatalf("recovered: %v, candidates %v, want try-7's alone", err, held())
-			}
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) { return nil, nil }
-			if err := ix.RecoverTries(ctx); err != nil || len(held()) != 0 {
-				t.Errorf("recovered with no open try: %v, candidates %v, want none", err, held())
-			}
-			// A recovery whose call fails is loud and deletes nothing: the candidate stays, indexer_try_candidates says recovery not
-			// done since when and why, and the next try event runs the recovery again, which clears it; the tool runs it by hand.
-			if err := ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-7", members); err != nil || len(held()) != 1 {
-				t.Fatalf("started: %v, candidates %v", err, held())
-			}
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) {
-				return nil, errors.New("checker_tries does not answer")
-			}
-			if err := ix.RecoverTries(ctx); err == nil || len(held()) != 1 {
-				t.Fatalf("a failed call: %v, candidates %v, want the error and the candidate kept", err, held())
-			}
-			if out, err := tools[0].Run(map[string]any{}); err != nil || !strings.Contains(out.(map[string]any)["recovery"].(map[string]any)["says"].(string), "recovery not done, since") ||
-				!strings.Contains(out.(map[string]any)["recovery"].(map[string]any)["says"].(string), "checker_tries does not answer") {
-				t.Errorf("%s = %v, %v, want recovery not done with since and why", tools[0].Name, out, err)
-			}
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) { return nil, nil }
-			if err := ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-11", members); err != nil || len(held()) != 1 || held()[0] != "try-11" {
-				t.Fatalf("a try event after a failed recovery: %v, candidates %v, want the recovery run (try-7 not listed, gone) and try-11 written", err, held())
-			}
-			if out, _ := tools[0].Run(map[string]any{}); out.(map[string]any)["recovery"].(map[string]any)["done"] != true {
-				t.Errorf("recovery still said not done after a success: %v", out)
-			}
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) { return nil, errors.New("down") }
-			recoverAsk := func(key string, value []byte) (TakeInAsk, error) {
-				a, err := DecodeTakeIn(value)
-				r := ix.RecoverTriesByHand(ctx, a.By, a.Why)
-				a.Result = &r
-				return a, err
-			}
-			byHand := TryCandidateTools(cands, recovery, recoverAsk, time.Now)
-			if out, err := byHand[1].Run(map[string]any{"why": "the checker was replaced"}); err != nil || out.(*TakenIn).Stored || !strings.Contains(out.(*TakenIn).Answer, "recovery not done") {
-				t.Errorf("%s with the checker down = %v, %v", byHand[1].Name, out, err)
-			}
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) { return nil, nil }
-			if out, err := byHand[1].Run(map[string]any{"why": "the checker is back"}); err != nil || !out.(*TakenIn).Stored || len(held()) != 0 {
-				t.Errorf("%s = %v, %v, candidates %v, want it recovered (try-11 not listed)", byHand[1].Name, out, err, held())
-			}
-			if err := ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-7", members); err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			// ADR 0638 §3, §4: the consumer exists before the call, so what happens between the call and the hearing is heard after
-			// it. A try the call listed and whose start is then heard gets one candidate; a try started after the list gets one; a
-			// try that ended during the call, listed as open, leaves none once its end is heard.
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) {
-				return []checkermsg.Open{{ID: "try-7", Whole: true, Members: []checkermsg.Member{{Repository: catalogueRepo, Head: h1, Trunk: trunkNow}}},
-					{ID: "try-9", Whole: true, Members: []checkermsg.Member{{Repository: catalogueRepo, Head: h1, Trunk: trunkNow}}}}, nil
-			}
-			if err := ix.RecoverTries(ctx); err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			for _, step := range []struct {
-				what string
-				do   func() error
-				want int
-			}{
-				{"the start heard after the call, of a try the call listed", func() error { return ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-7", members) }, 2},
-				{"a start after the list", func() error { return ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-10", members) }, 3},
-				{"the end heard of a try ended during the call", func() error { return ix.EndTry(ctx, "try-9") }, 2},
-			} {
-				if err := step.do(); err != nil || len(held()) != step.want {
-					t.Fatalf("%s: %v, candidates %v, want %d", step.what, err, held(), step.want)
-				}
-			}
-			for _, id := range []string{"try-10"} {
-				if err := ix.EndTry(ctx, id); err != nil {
-					t.Fatal(err)
-				}
-			}
-			if err := ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-7", members); err != nil || len(held()) != 1 {
-				t.Fatalf("started again: %v, candidates %v", err, held())
-			}
-			if err := ix.EndTry(ctx, "try-7"); err != nil || len(held()) != 0 {
-				t.Errorf("an ended try: %v, candidates %v, want none", err, held())
-			}
-			// The hand recovery never overlaps a try event: a start heard while the call to the checker is out writes its candidate
-			// before or after the sweep, never between the call and the sweep (which would delete it, the try not being listed).
-			startDone := make(chan error, 1)
-			ix.OpenTries = func(context.Context) ([]checkermsg.Open, error) {
-				go func() { startDone <- ix.StartTry(ctx, "try-12", members) }()
-				for i := 0; i < 2000 && len(held()) == 0; i++ {
-					runtime.Gosched() // lets the start write if nothing holds it back
-				}
-				return nil, nil
-			}
-			if r := ix.RecoverTriesByHand(ctx, "lead", "a test"); !r.Stored {
-				t.Fatalf("the hand recovery = %+v", r)
-			}
-			if err := <-startDone; err != nil || len(held()) != 1 || held()[0] != "try-12" {
-				t.Errorf("a start heard during the hand recovery: %v, candidates %v, want try-12 kept", err, held())
-			}
-		})
-	}
 	// Issue 1921: a head whose tree lacks the directory asked is asked once, however many passes read it, until the head changes;
 	// any other failure (the forge does not answer) is asked again at every pass and said once per head.
 	for _, row := range []struct {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/runcandidates.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/runcandidates.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8a66b035
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/runcandidates.go
@@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
+package index
+
+// **A run on request's candidate** (design 47 G §64, §190, §321; A-160, A-174): the runner says `run-started` with the run's
+// members, each a module at a named commit on a branch; the indexer builds the run's candidate from it, `candidates.run-<id>`,
+// and drops it once every member's pipeline of that run has ended (`pipeline-ended` naming the run). Each member maps to its
+// repository and directory by its registration, and its manifest and fingerprint come from the same take-in the indexer
+// computes for a watched branch (its files read through the seat git), over the revision view of the member's branch when its
+// registration watches that branch, else over the trunk's (A-93). No checker preview is heard and no checker tool is asked.
+//
+// What the indexer knows of each run is kept in its state runs (key run-<id>: the members and the modules whose pipeline
+// ended), written on run-started and on each of the run's pipeline-ended and removed with the candidate, so a restart between
+// two members' ends loses nothing (A-174). A pipeline-ended heard before its run-started is kept all the same: the run-started
+// that follows finds it.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshdeliveryclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshpipelinerunner"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-forge-bridge/forgemsg"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/trunk"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
+)
+
+// RunsState is the indexer's state of the runs on request it holds a candidate for (A-174): the bucket
+// mesh-delivery-indexer_runs, one key per run, run-<id>.
+const (
+	RunsState  = "runs"
+	RunsBucket = Module + "_" + RunsState
+)
+
+// Run is one value of the state runs: the run's members as run-started named them, and the modules whose pipeline of the
+// run has ended.
+type Run struct {
+	V       int                         `json:"v"`
+	Run     string                      `json:"run"`
+	Members []meshpipelinerunner.Member `json:"members,omitempty"`
+	Ended   []string                    `json:"ended,omitempty"`
+	At      time.Time                   `json:"at"`
+}
+
+// RunGroup is the candidate's group, and the runs key, of a run: run-<id> (A-160).
+func RunGroup(run string) (string, error) {
+	g := "run-" + strings.TrimSpace(run)
+	if strings.TrimSpace(run) == "" || !meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(g) {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %q is no run's id", ErrUnreadable, run)
+	}
+	return g, nil
+}
+
+// done says every member's pipeline of the run has ended; a run whose run-started is not heard yet is not done.
+func (r Run) done() bool {
+	if len(r.Members) == 0 {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, m := range r.Members {
+		if !slices.Contains(r.Ended, m.Module) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// StartRun takes a run on request in, as the runner said it started: its members are kept in the state runs and its
+// candidate is written; a run every member of which has ended already (its ends heard first) is dropped instead.
+func (ix *Indexer) StartRun(ctx context.Context, e meshpipelinerunner.RunStarted) error {
+	group, err := RunGroup(e.Run)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if len(e.Members) == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: the run %s names no member", ErrUnreadable, e.Run)
+	}
+	ix.runMu.Lock()
+	defer ix.runMu.Unlock()
+	r, err := ix.updateRun(ctx, group, func(r *Run) { r.Members = slices.Clone(e.Members) })
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if r.done() {
+		return ix.dropRun(ctx, group)
+	}
+	return ix.writeRunCandidate(ctx, group, r.Members)
+}
+
+// EndRunPipeline takes one pipeline-ended in: of a run's pipeline, its module is kept as ended, and once every member's has
+// ended the candidate and the run's key are removed. A pipeline of no run is none of this.
+func (ix *Indexer) EndRunPipeline(ctx context.Context, e meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded) error {
+	if e.Run == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	group, err := RunGroup(e.Run)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	ix.runMu.Lock()
+	defer ix.runMu.Unlock()
+	r, err := ix.updateRun(ctx, group, func(r *Run) {
+		if e.Module != "" && !slices.Contains(r.Ended, e.Module) {
+			r.Ended = append(r.Ended, e.Module)
+			slices.Sort(r.Ended)
+		}
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if !r.done() {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return ix.dropRun(ctx, group)
+}
+
+// updateRun reads the run's key, changes it and writes it back, made when absent.
+func (ix *Indexer) updateRun(ctx context.Context, group string, change func(*Run)) (Run, error) {
+	if ix.Runs == nil {
+		return Run{}, fmt.Errorf("the state %s is not bound, so the run %s is not kept", RunsState, group)
+	}
+	var out Run
+	err := write(ctx, ix.Runs, group, func(value []byte, found bool) ([]byte, bool, error) {
+		r := Run{V: 1, Run: strings.TrimPrefix(group, "run-")}
+		if found {
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(value, &r); err != nil {
+				return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("%s.%s holds what is not a run: %w", RunsState, group, err)
+			}
+		}
+		change(&r)
+		r.At = ix.now().UTC()
+		out = r
+		data, err := json.Marshal(r)
+		return data, false, err
+	})
+	return out, err
+}
+
+// dropRun removes the run's candidate, then its key.
+func (ix *Indexer) dropRun(ctx context.Context, group string) error {
+	if ix.Store != nil {
+		key, err := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey(group)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err := write(ctx, ix.Store, key, func(_ []byte, found bool) ([]byte, bool, error) { return nil, found, nil }); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the candidate of %s is not dropped: %w", group, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := write(ctx, ix.Runs, group, func(_ []byte, found bool) ([]byte, bool, error) { return nil, found, nil }); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the run %s is not removed: %w", group, err)
+	}
+	ix.logf("the run %s: every member's pipeline ended, its candidate is dropped", group)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// RunBase is the branch whose revision view a member's take-in starts from (A-174): the member's own branch when its
+// registration watches it, else the trunk.
+func RunBase(reg meshcatalog.Registration, branch string) string {
+	if branch != "" && slices.Contains(reg.Branches, branch) {
+		return branch
+	}
+	return TrunkBranch
+}
+
+// runMember is one member placed: its registration's repository and directory, and the branch its take-in starts from.
+type runMember struct {
+	meshpipelinerunner.Member
+	repository, dir, base string
+}
+
+// writeRunCandidate writes the run's candidate: one pull of number 0 per member, its module's manifest and fingerprint as
+// the take-in of its commit over its base's revision view computes them, its manifests judged with the seat definitions
+// the members carry, as a revision's are.
+func (ix *Indexer) writeRunCandidate(ctx context.Context, group string, members []meshpipelinerunner.Member) error {
+	if ix.Store == nil || ix.Read == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if ix.Registry == nil || ix.Registry.Registrations == nil || ix.Revisions == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: the indexer holds no registrations or no revisions, so its members cannot be taken in", group)
+	}
+	var placed []runMember
+	for _, m := range members {
+		reg, found, err := ix.Registry.Registration(ctx, m.Module)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: the registration of %s: %w", group, m.Module, err)
+		}
+		if !found {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: the run %s: %s has no registration, so its repository is not known", ErrUnreadable, group, m.Module)
+		}
+		dir := strings.Trim(reg.Path, "/")
+		if dir == meshcatalogclient.RootPath {
+			dir = ""
+		}
+		placed = append(placed, runMember{Member: m, repository: trunk.RepositoryName(reg.Origin), dir: dir, base: RunBase(reg, m.Branch)})
+	}
+	slices.SortFunc(placed, func(a, b runMember) int {
+		return strings.Compare(a.repository+"\x00"+a.Module, b.repository+"\x00"+b.Module)
+	})
+	heads := make([]meshdeliveryclient.Head, len(placed))
+	for i, m := range placed {
+		heads[i] = meshdeliveryclient.Head{Repository: m.repository, Head: m.Commit}
+	}
+	hash, err := meshdeliveryclient.HeadsHash(heads)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	pulls := make([]meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItem, len(placed))
+	var entries []PendingEntry
+	over := map[string]string{}
+	// One take-in per base branch: the members on one base are taken in together, so one member sees another's.
+	bases := map[string]*dryRun{}
+	for i, m := range placed {
+		d, ok := bases[m.base]
+		if !ok {
+			view, nodes, _, err := BranchView(ctx, ix.Revisions, m.base)
+			if err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: the revision view of %s: %w", group, m.base, err)
+			}
+			d = ix.dry()
+			d.ix.Modules, d.ix.Graph, d.ix.Taken = view, nodes, newOverlay(nil)
+			d.ix.Logf = func(format string, args ...any) {
+				ix.logf("the run "+group+", computed and not written: "+format, args...)
+			}
+			bases[m.base] = d
+		}
+		read, err := ix.Read(ctx, m.repository, m.Commit, m.dir)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: reading %s of %s at %.12s: %w", group, m.Module, m.repository, m.Commit, err)
+		}
+		raw := read.Manifests[m.dir]
+		if raw == "" {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: the run %s: %s at %.12s holds no manifest at %q", ErrUnreadable, group, m.repository, m.Commit, m.dir)
+		}
+		if name := manifestModule(raw); name != m.Module {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: the run %s: the manifest at %q of %s at %.12s names %q, not %s", ErrUnreadable, group, m.dir, m.repository, m.Commit, name, m.Module)
+		}
+		f := forgemsg.Forge{V: keys.Version, Kind: forgemsg.ForgeMerged, Repository: m.repository, Merge: m.Commit, Root: read.Root,
+			Trees: map[string]string{m.dir: read.Trees[m.dir]}, Manifests: map[string]string{m.dir: raw}}
+		if l := read.Locks[m.dir]; len(l) > 0 {
+			f.Locks = map[string]map[string]string{m.dir: l}
+		}
+		if p := read.Packages[m.dir]; len(p) > 0 {
+			f.Packages = map[string][]string{m.dir: p}
+		}
+		if _, err := d.ix.applyManifests(ctx, f, false); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: taking %s in: %w", group, m.Module, err)
+		}
+		key, err := meshcatalogclient.ModulesKey(m.Module)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		value, _, found, err := d.ix.Modules.Get(ctx, key)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if !found {
+			return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: the take-in of %s at %.12s wrote no module (the journal says why)", group, m.Module, m.Commit)
+		}
+		mv, err := meshcatalogclient.DecodeModule(value)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		pulls[i] = meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItem{Repository: m.repository, Head: m.Commit, Modules: []string{m.Module},
+			Fps: map[string]meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItemFpsValue{m.Module: {Manifest: mv.Manifest, Fp2: mv.Fp2, None2: mv.None2,
+				Packages: mv.Packages}}}
+		over[m.Module] = mv.Manifest
+		entries = append(entries, PendingEntry{Forge: forgemsg.Forge{Repository: m.repository, Merge: m.Commit, Manifests: map[string]string{m.dir: raw}}})
+	}
+	seats, err := ix.revisionSeats(ctx, entries)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the run %s: reading the seat definitions of its members: %w", group, err)
+	}
+	ix.judgeDigestsWith(ctx, seats, over, "the run "+group)
+	c := meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValue{V: keys.Version, Group: group, Heads: hash, Pulls: pulls}
+	c.Fpset = meshcatalogclient.FingerprintSet(c.Pulls)
+	if err := ix.refuseDisagreement(c); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	data, err := EncodeCandidate(c)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	key, err := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey(group)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := write(ctx, ix.Store, key, func(_ []byte, _ bool) ([]byte, bool, error) { return data, false, nil }); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	ix.logf("the run %s: its candidate of %d members is written", group, len(placed))
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/runcandidates_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/runcandidates_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dfd17632
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/runcandidates_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+package index
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"testing"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshpipelinerunner"
+)
+
+// Design 47 G §64, §190, A-160, A-174: a run on request's candidate is built from the runner's run-started, each member taken
+// in from its registration's repository at its commit (read through the seat git), and dropped once every member's pipeline of
+// the run has ended; what the indexer knows of the run is kept in its state runs, so a restart between two ends loses nothing.
+func TestARunsCandidateIsBuiltOnItsStartAndDroppedWhenEveryMembersPipelineEnded(t *testing.T) {
+	const c1, c2 = "1111111111111111111111111111111111111111", "2222222222222222222222222222222222222222"
+	bed := func(t *testing.T) (*Indexer, *memStore, *memStore, *int) {
+		t.Helper()
+		ix, _, _ := manifestsIndexer(t)
+		cands, runs := newMem(), newMem()
+		ix.Store, ix.Runs, ix.Revisions = cands, runs, newMemObjects(0)
+		ix.Registry = &Registry{Registrations: MemoryStore()}
+		for _, r := range []meshcatalog.Registration{
+			{Module: "avahi", Origin: catalogueRepo, Path: "modules/avahi", Branches: []string{"main"}},
+			{Module: "netcheck", Origin: "novox/mesh-networking", Path: "modules/netcheck", Branches: []string{"main", "beta"}},
+		} {
+			data, _ := json.Marshal(r)
+			if err := ix.Registry.Registrations.Create(context.Background(), RegistrationKey(r.Module), data); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		reads := 0
+		ix.Read = func(_ context.Context, repository, commit, dir string) (RepoRead, error) {
+			reads++
+			module := map[string]string{"modules/avahi": "avahi", "modules/netcheck": "netcheck"}[dir]
+			return RepoRead{Root: "r", Trees: map[string]string{dir: "tree-" + commit[:4]}, Manifests: map[string]string{dir: catalogueManifest(t, module)},
+				Locks: map[string]map[string]string{dir: {"go.sum": avahiGoSum}}}, nil
+		}
+		return ix, cands, runs, &reads
+	}
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	started := meshpipelinerunner.RunStarted{V: 1, Run: "7", By: "lead@shanks", Members: []meshpipelinerunner.Member{
+		{Module: "avahi", Commit: c1, Branch: "feature/1966-x"}, {Module: "netcheck", Commit: c2, Branch: "beta"}}}
+	ended := func(module string) meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded {
+		return meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded{V: 1, Pipeline: "p", Module: module, Branch: "b", Commit: "c", Outcome: "passed", Run: "7"}
+	}
+	key, _ := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey("run-7")
+	t.Run("built on its start, one pull per member, and dropped with the run after a restart", func(t *testing.T) {
+		ix, cands, runs, reads := bed(t)
+		if err := ix.StartRun(ctx, started); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		raw, _, found, _ := cands.Get(ctx, key)
+		c, err := DecodeCandidate(raw)
+		if !found || err != nil || c.Group != "run-7" || len(c.Pulls) != 2 || *reads != 2 {
+			t.Fatalf("candidate %+v (%v, found %v, %d reads), want run-7 with two pulls read through the seat git", c, err, found, *reads)
+		}
+		for _, p := range c.Pulls {
+			m := p.Modules[0]
+			if p.Number != 0 || len(p.Modules) != 1 || p.Fps[m].Manifest == "" || (p.Fps[m].Fp2 == "" && p.Fps[m].None2 == "") ||
+				(m == "avahi") != (p.Repository == catalogueRepo && p.Head == c1) {
+				t.Errorf("pull %+v, want number 0, its registration's repository at its commit, a manifest and a fingerprint or why none", p)
+			}
+		}
+		if err := ix.EndRunPipeline(ctx, ended("avahi")); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		// A restart: a fresh indexer over the same states.
+		again := &Indexer{Store: cands, Runs: runs, Revisions: ix.Revisions, Registry: ix.Registry, Read: ix.Read}
+		if _, _, found, _ := cands.Get(ctx, key); !found {
+			t.Fatal("the candidate went before its last member's pipeline ended")
+		}
+		if err := again.EndRunPipeline(ctx, ended("netcheck")); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if _, _, found, _ := cands.Get(ctx, key); found {
+			t.Error("the candidate stays after every member's pipeline ended")
+		}
+		if k, _ := runs.Keys(ctx); len(k) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("runs holds %v after the run's end, want none", k)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("ends heard before the start drop it at the start", func(t *testing.T) {
+		ix, cands, runs, _ := bed(t)
+		for _, m := range []string{"avahi", "netcheck"} {
+			if err := ix.EndRunPipeline(ctx, ended(m)); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		if err := ix.StartRun(ctx, started); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		k1, _ := cands.Keys(ctx)
+		k2, _ := runs.Keys(ctx)
+		if len(k1)+len(k2) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("candidates %v, runs %v, want none", k1, k2)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("a member with no registration is never taken in; a pipeline of no run is none of this", func(t *testing.T) {
+		ix, cands, _, _ := bed(t)
+		lost := started
+		lost.Members = []meshpipelinerunner.Member{{Module: "gone", Commit: c1}}
+		if err := ix.StartRun(ctx, lost); !errors.Is(err, ErrUnreadable) {
+			t.Errorf("a member with no registration: %v, want unreadable", err)
+		}
+		if err := ix.EndRunPipeline(ctx, meshpipelinerunner.PipelineEnded{Module: "avahi"}); err != nil {
+			t.Error(err)
+		}
+		if k, _ := cands.Keys(ctx); len(k) != 0 {
+			t.Errorf("candidates %v, want none", k)
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("a member's take-in starts from its own branch only when its registration watches it", func(t *testing.T) {
+		reg := meshcatalog.Registration{Branches: []string{"main", "beta"}}
+		for branch, want := range map[string]string{"beta": "beta", "main": TrunkBranch, "feature/1966-x": TrunkBranch, "": TrunkBranch} {
+			if got := RunBase(reg, branch); got != want {
+				t.Errorf("RunBase(%q) = %q, want %q", branch, got, want)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+	t.Run("run-<id> is a run's group beside try-<digits>, never a pull request's", func(t *testing.T) {
+		for g, want := range map[string]bool{"run-7": true, "run-a1-b": true, "try-3": true, "run-": false, "run-a.b": false, "feat/x": false} {
+			if meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(g) != want {
+				t.Errorf("IsTryGroup(%q) = %v, want %v", g, !want, want)
+			}
+		}
+	})
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/takein.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/takein.go
index f007fddb..74aa1eb2 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/takein.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/takein.go
@@ -57,13 +57,9 @@ type TakeInAsk struct {
 	Merge           string `json:"merge,omitempty"`
 	MergeRepository string `json:"merge-repository,omitempty"`
 	Sequence        uint64 `json:"sequence,omitempty"`
-	// TryCandidate asks the candidate of this try's group to be dropped (indexer_drop_try_candidate), trycandidates.go.
-	TryCandidate string `json:"try-candidate,omitempty"`
 	// Fingerprints asks the fingerprints of Module ("all": every module) to be computed again now, from the published
 	// packages as they are read (indexer_fingerprints_again, fingerprints.go).
 	Fingerprints bool `json:"fingerprints,omitempty"`
-	// RecoverTries asks the open tries' candidates to be recovered now (indexer_recover_tries).
-	RecoverTries bool `json:"recover-tries,omitempty"`
 	// Recompute asks the catalog graph to be computed again now and compared with the newest kept revision (indexer_recompute).
 	Recompute bool `json:"recompute,omitempty"`
 	// CandidateGroup and CandidateHeads, with Drop, ask that candidate's catalog half to be dropped (indexer_drop_candidate_graph).
@@ -95,8 +91,8 @@ func DecodeTakeIn(data []byte) (TakeInAsk, error) {
 	if a.V != 1 {
 		return a, fmt.Errorf("a takeins value of version %d, not 1", a.V)
 	}
-	if a.Module == "" && a.Repository == "" && a.Pending == "" && a.Merge == "" && a.TryCandidate == "" && !a.RecoverTries && !a.Fingerprints && !a.CatchUp && !a.Recompute && a.CandidateGroup == "" && a.NamedFingerprint == "" && a.Registry == nil {
-		return a, errors.New("a takeins value naming no module, repository, pending wait, merge or try")
+	if a.Module == "" && a.Repository == "" && a.Pending == "" && a.Merge == "" && !a.Fingerprints && !a.CatchUp && !a.Recompute && a.CandidateGroup == "" && a.NamedFingerprint == "" && a.Registry == nil {
+		return a, errors.New("a takeins value naming no module, repository, pending wait or merge")
 	}
 	return a, nil
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/trycandidates.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/trycandidates.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c00c6d0..00000000
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/trycandidates.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,437 +0,0 @@
-package index
-
-// **A group try's candidate** (issue 1921; novox/hq ADR 0593 §7): a try of several repositories at exact commits has no pull
-// request, so the forge bridge sends the indexer no message for it; yet the node-engine's compose-candidate and the checker's
-// manifest validator read the indexer's candidate of a group. The indexer therefore watches the checker's state tries (the
-// checker keeps it; this module reads it) and, for a try that is not narrowed to a level or to some tests, writes
-// `candidates.<try id>`: one pull per member (number 0), its modules and manifests taken from the merge preview the try's
-// fetch wrote, its manifests kept and judged with the seat definitions the members carry, as a take-in judges a revision's.
-// The fingerprints come with the previews (RecomputeCandidates). The candidate is deleted when the try ends. `try-<digits>`
-// is the reserved group name of a try: the bridge's open message never takes it out, and the checker never checks it.
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"path"
-	"slices"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
-
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/clients/meshdeliveryclient"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshdeliverychecker"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-forge-bridge/forgemsg"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
-)
-
-// TryCandidateTools: the tools that read, drop and recover a try's candidate.
-const (
-	TryCandidatesTool    = "indexer_try_candidates"
-	DropTryCandidateTool = "indexer_drop_try_candidate"
-	RecoverTriesTool     = "indexer_recover_tries"
-	// TryRecoveryState is the indexer's state of how the last recovery of the open tries went: the bucket
-	// mesh-delivery-indexer_try-recovery, one key (TryRecoveryKey).
-	TryRecoveryState  = "try-recovery"
-	TryRecoveryBucket = Module + "_" + TryRecoveryState
-	TryRecoveryKey    = "state"
-)
-
-// TryRecovery is the value of the try-recovery state: whether the candidates of the open tries were recovered at the
-// indexer's start or by hand, and when it began to fail, why.
-type TryRecovery struct {
-	V     int       `json:"v"`
-	Done  bool      `json:"done"`
-	Since time.Time `json:"since,omitzero"`
-	Why   string    `json:"why,omitempty"`
-	At    time.Time `json:"at"`
-}
-
-// TryMember is one repository of a try: its exact commit and the trunk commit it is merged onto.
-type TryMember struct{ Repository, Head, Trunk string }
-
-// StartTry takes a whole try in, as the checker said it started (checkermsg.Started): its members at their commits are kept, and
-// its candidate is written once every member's preview is held. The checker's state is never read (ADR 0596).
-func (ix *Indexer) StartTry(ctx context.Context, id string, members []TryMember) error {
-	ix.tryMu.Lock()
-	defer ix.tryMu.Unlock()
-	ix.retryRecovery(ctx)
-	return ix.startTry(ctx, id, members)
-}
-
-// retryRecovery runs the recovery again on a try event when the last one failed: the failure stays said until one succeeds.
-func (ix *Indexer) retryRecovery(ctx context.Context) {
-	if ix.recoveryFailed.Load() && ix.OpenTries != nil {
-		_ = ix.recoverNow(ctx)
-	}
-}
-
-func (ix *Indexer) startTry(ctx context.Context, id string, members []TryMember) error {
-	if !meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(id) || len(members) == 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%q with %d members is no try to start", id, len(members))
-	}
-	ix.mu.Lock()
-	if ix.tries == nil {
-		ix.tries = map[string][]TryMember{}
-	}
-	ix.tries[id] = slices.Clone(members)
-	ix.mu.Unlock()
-	return ix.writeTryCandidate(ctx, id)
-}
-
-// EndTry takes a try out, as the checker said it ended (checkermsg.Ended), and deletes its candidate.
-func (ix *Indexer) EndTry(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
-	ix.tryMu.Lock()
-	defer ix.tryMu.Unlock()
-	ix.retryRecovery(ctx)
-	return ix.endTry(ctx, id)
-}
-
-func (ix *Indexer) endTry(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
-	ix.mu.Lock()
-	delete(ix.tries, id)
-	ix.mu.Unlock()
-	if !meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(id) {
-		return nil
-	}
-	return ix.dropTryCandidate(ctx, id)
-}
-
-// RecoverTries is, at the indexer's start, what the events it missed would have said: the candidates of the tries that wait
-// or run now are written, and the candidate of a try the checker no longer lists is deleted. The checker's tool lists them
-// (OpenTries); its bucket is not read. Nothing to recover from when no part is wired to ask.
-//
-// A recovery that fails is said loudly and kept (the try-recovery state, read by indexer_try_candidates) until one succeeds:
-// the events are still heard after it, and indexer_recover_tries runs it again by hand.
-//
-// A recovery and a try event never overlap (tryMu): a sweep that deleted the candidate a start event wrote after the call to the
-// checker would leave a running try with none.
-func (ix *Indexer) RecoverTries(ctx context.Context) error {
-	ix.tryMu.Lock()
-	defer ix.tryMu.Unlock()
-	return ix.recoverNow(ctx)
-}
-
-func (ix *Indexer) recoverNow(ctx context.Context) error {
-	if ix.OpenTries == nil || ix.Store == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	err := ix.recoverTries(ctx)
-	ix.recoveryFailed.Store(err != nil)
-	ix.noteRecovery(ctx, err)
-	return err
-}
-
-// noteRecovery writes how a recovery went: failing keeps the time it began to fail, and the journal says it each time.
-func (ix *Indexer) noteRecovery(ctx context.Context, err error) {
-	now := ix.now()
-	r := TryRecovery{V: 1, Done: err == nil, At: now.UTC()}
-	if err != nil {
-		r.Why, r.Since = err.Error(), now.UTC()
-		ix.logf("RECOVERY OF THE TRIES NOT DONE: %v (the try candidates may be stale or missing until indexer_recover_tries or the next start succeeds)", err)
-	}
-	if ix.TryRecovery == nil {
-		return
-	}
-	for range writeTries {
-		cur, rev, found, gerr := ix.TryRecovery.Get(ctx, TryRecoveryKey)
-		if gerr != nil {
-			ix.logf("the try-recovery state cannot be read: %v", gerr)
-			return
-		}
-		if err != nil && found {
-			var was TryRecovery
-			if json.Unmarshal(cur, &was) == nil && !was.Done && !was.Since.IsZero() {
-				r.Since = was.Since
-			}
-		}
-		data, _ := json.Marshal(r)
-		var werr error
-		if found {
-			werr = ix.TryRecovery.Update(ctx, TryRecoveryKey, data, rev)
-		} else {
-			werr = ix.TryRecovery.Create(ctx, TryRecoveryKey, data)
-		}
-		if werr == nil {
-			return
-		}
-		if !errors.Is(werr, ErrConflict) {
-			ix.logf("the try-recovery state cannot be written: %v", werr)
-			return
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// RecoverTriesByHand runs the recovery now (indexer_recover_tries), a hand act said in the journal.
-func (ix *Indexer) RecoverTriesByHand(ctx context.Context, by, why string) TakenIn {
-	r := TakenIn{Module: "tries"}
-	ix.logf("recovery of the tries asked by %s (%s)", by, why)
-	if ix.OpenTries == nil {
-		r.Answer = "the indexer is wired to list no open try: nothing to recover from"
-		return r
-	}
-	if err := ix.RecoverTries(ctx); err != nil {
-		r.Answer = "recovery not done: " + err.Error()
-		return r
-	}
-	r.Stored, r.Answer = true, "the candidates of the open tries are recovered"
-	return r
-}
-
-func (ix *Indexer) recoverTries(ctx context.Context) error {
-	open, err := ix.OpenTries(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("the open tries cannot be listed, so a missed try event is not recovered: %w", err)
-	}
-	live := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, o := range open {
-		if !o.Whole || len(o.Members) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		live[o.ID] = true
-		var ms []TryMember
-		for _, m := range o.Members {
-			ms = append(ms, TryMember{m.Repository, m.Head, m.Trunk})
-		}
-		if err := ix.startTry(ctx, o.ID, ms); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	keys, err := ix.Store.Keys(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	for _, k := range keys {
-		if meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(k) && !live[k] {
-			if err := ix.endTry(ctx, k); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// WriteTryCandidates writes the candidate of every live try that has none yet and whose previews are all there: after a
-// preview was written, the try that waited for it.
-func (ix *Indexer) WriteTryCandidates(ctx context.Context) error {
-	ix.mu.Lock()
-	ids := make([]string, 0, len(ix.tries))
-	for id := range ix.tries {
-		ids = append(ids, id)
-	}
-	ix.mu.Unlock()
-	slices.Sort(ids)
-	for _, id := range ids {
-		if err := ix.writeTryCandidate(ctx, id); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-func (ix *Indexer) dropTryCandidate(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
-	if ix.Store == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	key, err := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey(id)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return write(ctx, ix.Store, key, func(_ []byte, found bool) ([]byte, bool, error) { return nil, found, nil })
-}
-
-// DropTryCandidate deletes a try's candidate by hand (indexer_drop_try_candidate); a live try gets it again at its next
-// change.
-func (ix *Indexer) DropTryCandidate(ctx context.Context, id, by, why string) TakenIn {
-	r := TakenIn{Module: id}
-	switch {
-	case !meshcatalogclient.IsTryGroup(id):
-		r.Answer = id + " is no try's group, try-<digits>: nothing dropped"
-	default:
-		if err := ix.dropTryCandidate(ctx, id); err != nil {
-			r.Answer = "the candidate of " + id + " could not be dropped: " + err.Error()
-		} else {
-			r.Stored, r.Answer = true, "the candidate of "+id+" is dropped by "+by+" ("+why+")"
-			ix.logf("%s", r.Answer)
-		}
-	}
-	return r
-}
-
-// writeTryCandidate writes the candidate of a live try when it has none at its members' heads and every member's merge
-// preview is held.
-func (ix *Indexer) writeTryCandidate(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
-	if ix.Store == nil || ix.Read == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	ix.mu.Lock()
-	members := slices.Clone(ix.tries[id])
-	ix.mu.Unlock()
-	if len(members) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	key, err := meshcatalogclient.CandidatesKey(id)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	slices.SortFunc(members, func(a, b TryMember) int { return strings.Compare(a.Repository, b.Repository) })
-	heads := make([]meshdeliveryclient.Head, len(members))
-	for i, m := range members {
-		heads[i] = meshdeliveryclient.Head{Repository: m.Repository, Head: m.Head}
-	}
-	hash, err := meshdeliveryclient.HeadsHash(heads)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if value, _, found, err := ix.Store.Get(ctx, key); err == nil && found {
-		if c, err := DecodeCandidate(value); err == nil && c.Heads == hash {
-			return nil // fingerprints follow the previews (RecomputeCandidates)
-		}
-	}
-	previews := make([]meshdeliverychecker.PreviewsByRepositoryHeadTrunkValue, len(members))
-	for i, m := range members {
-		pk, err := PreviewKey(m.Repository, m.Head, m.Trunk)
-		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("the try %s: %w", id, err)
-		}
-		ix.mu.Lock()
-		pv, ok := ix.previews[pk]
-		ix.mu.Unlock()
-		if !ok {
-			return nil // its fetch has not written the preview yet: this is called again when it does
-		}
-		previews[i] = pv
-	}
-	held, err := ix.heldModules(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	pulls := make([]meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItem, len(members))
-	var entries []PendingEntry
-	over := map[string]string{}
-	for i, m := range members {
-		pull := meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItem{Repository: heads[i].Repository, Head: heads[i].Head, Modules: []string{}}
-		// defs are every module directory's manifest of the member at its head, the unchanged ones too: a contracts module whose
-		// seat.json changed while its module.json did not carries definitions all the same (ADR 0636 §4).
-		defs := map[string]string{}
-		for _, dir := range slices.Sorted(mapKeys(previews[i].Modules)) {
-			pm := previews[i].Modules[dir]
-			name, unchanged := "", false
-			for n, h := range held {
-				if strings.EqualFold(h.Repository, m.Repository) && h.Path == forgeDir(dir) {
-					name, unchanged = n, h.Manifest == pm.Manifest
-					break
-				}
-			}
-			if unchanged {
-				if raw := ix.keptManifest(ctx, pm.Manifest); raw != "" {
-					defs[dir] = raw
-				}
-				continue // the manifest the trunk holds: the try does not touch the module
-			}
-			rr, err := ix.Read(ctx, m.Repository, m.Head, forgeDir(dir))
-			if err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("the try %s: reading the manifest of %s at %.12s: %w", id, dir, m.Head, err)
-			}
-			raw := rr.Manifests[forgeDir(dir)]
-			if raw == "" {
-				ix.logf("the try %s: %s holds no manifest at %.12s, so no module of it is taken", id, dir, m.Head)
-				continue
-			}
-			module := manifestModule(raw)
-			if module == "" {
-				module = name
-			}
-			if module == "" {
-				module = path.Base(strings.Trim(dir, "/."))
-			}
-			digest, err := ix.keepManifest(ctx, module, raw)
-			if err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			if digest != pm.Manifest {
-				ix.logf("the try %s: the manifest of %s read at %.12s is not the one its preview names, left", id, dir, m.Head)
-				continue
-			}
-			if pull.Fps == nil {
-				pull.Fps = map[string]meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItemFpsValue{}
-			}
-			pull.Modules = append(pull.Modules, module)
-			pull.Fps[module] = meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValuePullsItemFpsValue{Manifest: digest, None2: meshcatalogclient.NoneNoPreview}
-			defs[dir] = raw
-			over[module] = digest
-		}
-		pulls[i] = pull
-		entries = append(entries, PendingEntry{Forge: forgemsg.Forge{Repository: m.Repository, Merge: m.Head, Manifests: defs}})
-	}
-	// The manifests are judged with the seat definitions the members carry (seatsof.go, ADR 0636 §4), in one pass that takes the
-	// seats. Their verdicts are the verdicts state's, keyed by the manifest's digest, as a pull request's candidate's are
-	// (judgeDigests in ApplyMessage): nothing reads them but the engines' composition of that digest and the module
-	// value of a trunk module with the same digest.
-	seats, err := ix.revisionSeats(ctx, entries)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("the try %s: reading the seat definitions of its members: %w", id, err)
-	}
-	ix.judgeDigestsWith(ctx, seats, over, "the try "+id)
-	c := meshcatalog.CandidatesByGroupValue{V: keys.Version, Group: id, Heads: hash, Pulls: pulls}
-	c.Fpset = meshcatalogclient.FingerprintSet(c.Pulls)
-	ix.withPreviews(ctx, &c)
-	if err := ix.refuseDisagreement(c); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	data, err := EncodeCandidate(c)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	return write(ctx, ix.Store, key, func(_ []byte, _ bool) ([]byte, bool, error) { return data, false, nil })
-}
-
-// keptManifest is the text of the manifest the indexer keeps under a digest, or empty.
-func (ix *Indexer) keptManifest(ctx context.Context, digest string) string {
-	if ix.Manifests == nil || digest == "" {
-		return ""
-	}
-	key, err := meshcatalogclient.ManifestsKey(digest)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-	value, _, found, err := ix.Manifests.Get(ctx, key)
-	if err != nil || !found {
-		return ""
-	}
-	m, err := meshcatalogclient.DecodeManifest(value)
-	if err != nil {
-		return ""
-	}
-	return m.Manifest
-}
-
-func mapKeys[V any](m map[string]V) func(func(string) bool) {
-	return func(yield func(string) bool) {
-		for k := range m {
-			if !yield(k) {
-				return
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// forgeDir is a preview's directory as the forge reader spells it: the root as "".
-func forgeDir(dir string) string {
-	if dir == "." || dir == "/" {
-		return ""
-	}
-	return strings.Trim(dir, "/")
-}
-
-// heldAt says the trunk holds a module of the repository in that directory.
-func heldAt(held map[string]meshcatalog.ModulesByModuleValue, repository, dir string) bool {
-	for _, h := range held {
-		if strings.EqualFold(h.Repository, repository) && h.Path == forgeDir(dir) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index 56b7eeda..6ea9b9cc 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 		t.Errorf("uses = %v, invokes = %v, want the seat operator-channel used and seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments invoked", m.Uses, m.Invokes)
 	}
 	// 1126 note 76: heard keeps the last 64 FORGE messages the indexer handled, for indexer_heard.
-	if want := []state{{Name: "candidates", History: 10}, {Name: "heard", History: 64}, {Name: "manifests", History: 1}, {Name: "predefined", History: 5}, {Name: "config-candidates", History: 5}, {Name: "taken", History: 1}, {Name: "takeins", History: 1}, {Name: "verdicts", History: 5}, {Name: "oldsections", History: 1}, {Name: "try-recovery", History: 1}, {Name: "own-build", History: 1}, {Name: index.PackagesState, History: index.PackagesHistory},
+	if want := []state{{Name: "candidates", History: 10}, {Name: "heard", History: 64}, {Name: "manifests", History: 1}, {Name: "predefined", History: 5}, {Name: "config-candidates", History: 5}, {Name: "taken", History: 1}, {Name: "takeins", History: 1}, {Name: "verdicts", History: 5}, {Name: "oldsections", History: 1}, {Name: index.RunsState, History: 1}, {Name: "own-build", History: 1}, {Name: index.PackagesState, History: index.PackagesHistory},
 		{Name: views.MarksState, History: 1}, {Name: index.FindingsState, History: 5}, {Name: views.StatusState, History: 1},
 		{Name: index.RequirementsState, History: 5}, {Name: index.SeatDefinitionsState, History: 5},
 		{Name: index.PendingState, History: 1}, {Name: index.UnjudgedState, History: 1}, {Name: index.EntryIndexState, History: 1, MaxMiB: 8}, {Name: index.NamedState, History: 1, MaxMiB: 4}, // design 47 G §695
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	// internal/broker/state.go:62-93).
 	// The registry seats' published fill each (§413: no consume of version.numbered) package's series (DLV-I5, design 51 *The versions*).
 	if want := []string{"go-package-registry.published", "mesh-build-go.toolchain.reported", "mesh-build-node.toolchain.reported", "mesh-builds.package-published", "mesh-builds.toolchain-agreed", "mesh-conditions.findings-asked", "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.assignments",
-		"mesh-delivery-checker.preview.written", "mesh-delivery-checker.try.ended", "mesh-delivery-checker.try.started", "mesh-delivery-checker.verdict", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.forge.**",
-		"mesh-delivery.source-moved", "mesh-wants.version-delivered", "mesh-wants.wait-ended", "mesh-wants.wanted", "node-build-go.step-ended", "node-engine.running", "npm-package-registry.published", "operator-channel.decided"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Consumes), want) {
+		"mesh-delivery-checker.verdict", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.forge.**",
+		"mesh-delivery.source-moved", "mesh-pipeline-runner.pipeline-ended", "mesh-pipeline-runner.run-started", "mesh-wants.version-delivered", "mesh-wants.wait-ended", "mesh-wants.wanted", "node-build-go.step-ended", "node-engine.running", "npm-package-registry.published", "operator-channel.decided"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Consumes), want) {
 		t.Errorf("consumes = %v, want %v", m.Consumes, want)
 	}
 	if b, ok := m.OwnSecrets["broker"]; !ok || len(m.OwnSecrets) != 1 || b != "${dir:state}/broker" {
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	// Three invokes: the file of a registered module's manifest and lock files (registered.go), the forge's trees (the named paths' objects, since the indexer is the one reader of a manifest's paths:
 	// ADR 0499 clauses 2 and 3, ADR 0495 clause 1; and the module directories of the trunk, issue 1900) and whether a
 	// commit is in another (issue 1900).
-	if want := []string{"mesh-delivery-assigner.assignments", "seat:git.trees", "seat:git.file", "seat:git.contains", "seat:git.open-pulls", "seat:git.branch", "mesh-delivery-checker.checker_tries", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.bridge_merged_message", "seat:node-engine.composition", "seat:mesh-delivery.source", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.placement", "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act", "seat:mesh-watchdogs.presence", "seat:node-build-go.steps", "seat:node-build-node.steps", "seat:node-build-image.steps", "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_versions"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, want) {
+	if want := []string{"mesh-delivery-assigner.assignments", "seat:git.trees", "seat:git.file", "seat:git.contains", "seat:git.open-pulls", "seat:git.branch", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.bridge_merged_message", "seat:node-engine.composition", "seat:mesh-delivery.source", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.placement", "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act", "seat:mesh-watchdogs.presence", "seat:node-build-go.steps", "seat:node-build-node.steps", "seat:node-build-image.steps", "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_versions"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, want) {
 		t.Errorf("invokes = %v, want %v", m.Invokes, want)
 	}
 	// 1945: indexer_take_in, served by its tools bundle through the takeins state; the process serves none. The same bundle
@@ -198,12 +198,12 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	}
 	want = append(want, "indexer_first_views", "indexer_first_view_again", index.ConfigReadersTool, index.BusStateTool, index.RequirementsTool, index.PackageUsersTool, index.SayAcceptedTool, // DLV-F3r, DLV-I10, DLV-I11, DLV-I7, DLV-I8, DLV-I9c
 		index.SeatDefinitionTool, index.SeatDefinitionsAgainTool, index.OutOfStepTool, // DLV-I19
-		index.PendingTool, index.TakeInPendingTool, index.DropPendingTool, index.TryCandidatesTool, index.DropTryCandidateTool, index.RecoverTriesTool, index.TakeInMergeTool, index.FingerprintsAgainTool, // issue 1966;  1585/T12, T13 (ADR 0633 §5)
+		index.PendingTool, index.TakeInPendingTool, index.DropPendingTool, index.TakeInMergeTool, index.FingerprintsAgainTool, // issue 1966;  1585/T12, T13 (ADR 0633 §5)
 		// milestone 47/G W4.12 (design 47, the indexer's tools): the catalog graph revisions read and steered.
 		index.CatalogRevisionTool, index.CatalogRevisionsTool, index.CandidateGraphsTool, index.RecomputeTool, index.DropCandidateGraphTool,
 		index.EntryIndexTool, index.NamedDropTool, // design 47 G §675
 		index.ProposalsTool, index.ProposalDropTool, index.SeedAgainTool, index.InputsTool) // design 47 G §667, §8
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Tools, want) || len(want) != 47 || slices.Contains(m.Tools, "modules") {
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Tools, want) || len(want) != 44 || slices.Contains(m.Tools, "modules") {
 		t.Errorf("tools = %v, want %v", m.Tools, want)
 	}
 	// Design 47 G §2, §9: every version of every registration is kept with no age limit, 64 MiB, on the old streams section.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
index 4f6e4770..30b23dc5 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
@@ -58,9 +58,6 @@
     "indexer_pending",
     "indexer_take_in_pending",
     "indexer_drop_pending",
-    "indexer_try_candidates",
-    "indexer_drop_try_candidate",
-    "indexer_recover_tries",
     "indexer_take_in_merge",
     "indexer_fingerprints_again",
     "indexer_catalog_revision",
@@ -81,9 +78,6 @@
     "mesh-build-node.toolchain.reported",
     "mesh-conditions.findings-asked",
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.assignments",
-    "mesh-delivery-checker.preview.written",
-    "mesh-delivery-checker.try.ended",
-    "mesh-delivery-checker.try.started",
     "mesh-builds.package-published",
     "mesh-builds.toolchain-agreed",
     "mesh-wants.version-delivered",
@@ -93,6 +87,8 @@
     "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.forge.**",
     "mesh-delivery.source-moved",
     "mesh-wants.wanted",
+    "mesh-pipeline-runner.run-started",
+    "mesh-pipeline-runner.pipeline-ended",
     "node-engine.running",
     "operator-channel.decided",
     "npm-package-registry.published"
@@ -107,7 +103,7 @@
     { "name": "takeins", "history": 1 },
     { "name": "verdicts", "history": 5 },
     { "name": "oldsections", "history": 1 },
-    { "name": "try-recovery", "history": 1 },
+    { "name": "runs", "history": 1 },
     { "name": "own-build", "history": 1 },
     { "name": "packages", "history": 5 },
     { "name": "view-marks", "history": 1 },
@@ -160,7 +156,6 @@
     "seat:git.contains",
     "seat:git.open-pulls",
     "seat:git.branch",
-    "mesh-delivery-checker.checker_tries",
     "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.bridge_merged_message",
     "seat:node-engine.composition",
     "seat:mesh-delivery.source",