diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/examiner_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/examiner_test.go
index f93feda3..45a27d46 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/examiner_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/examiner_test.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 	gobuild "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshconfig"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/buildrun"
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk/packagename"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/composer"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
@@ -1181,9 +1180,9 @@ func TestTheIndexersJudgeJudgesTheChangesManifests(t *testing.T) {
 			req.Cases[0].Manifests["mail"].Digest != strings.Repeat("a", 64) {
 			t.Fatalf("%s: the request %+v: %v", row.name, req, err)
 		}
-		if in := (packagename.Input{}); row.known != nil && (json.Unmarshal(req.Input, &in) != nil || !reflect.DeepEqual(in.Packages, row.known)) ||
-			row.known == nil && len(req.Input) != 0 && string(req.Input) != "null" {
-			t.Errorf("%s: the judge's input %s, want the known packages %v", row.name, req.Input, row.known)
+		if !reflect.DeepEqual(req.Packages, row.known) || len(req.Input) != 0 && string(req.Input) != "null" {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the judge's known packages %v and input %s, want the known packages %v and no input", row.name,
+				req.Packages, req.Input, row.known)
 		}
 		switch {
 		case row.fails == "" && v.State != delivery.VerdictPass:
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/manifests_judge.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/manifests_judge.go
index 42bb640e..a2c88845 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/manifests_judge.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/internal/check/manifests_judge.go
@@ -123,13 +123,7 @@ func (st *state) judgeManifests(ctx context.Context) *delivery.Verdict {
 		req.Predefined = list
 		st.c.note("the manifests are judged against the predefined keys of " + from)
 	}
-	if known := st.knownPackages(ctx); known != nil {
-		input, err := json.Marshal(packagename.Input{Packages: known})
-		if err != nil {
-			return fail(goModule, err.Error())
-		}
-		req.Input = input
-	}
+	req.Packages = st.knownPackages(ctx)
 	raw, err := json.Marshal(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fail(goModule, err.Error())
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/busstate_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/busstate_test.go
index ad7d16b7..725a2ccc 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/busstate_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/busstate_test.go
@@ -128,12 +128,13 @@ func TestBusStateIsJudgedOnce(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// judgedByRequest is every refusal the judge's request (mesh-judge's) answers of shelf's manifests, its Input naming known.
+// judgedByRequest is every refusal the judge's request (mesh-judge's) answers of shelf's manifests, its Packages naming known,
+// after the request went over the wire as the checker sends it.
 func judgedByRequest(t *testing.T, shelf catalogue.Shelf, known KnownPackages) string {
 	t.Helper()
-	input, err := json.Marshal(Input{Packages: slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(known))})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
+	var names []string
+	if known != nil {
+		names = append([]string{}, slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(known))...)
 	}
 	c := composer.Case{Name: "change", Manifests: map[string]composer.Manifest{}}
 	for name, m := range shelf {
@@ -143,7 +144,15 @@ func judgedByRequest(t *testing.T, shelf catalogue.Shelf, known KnownPackages) s
 		}
 		c.Manifests[name] = composer.Manifest{Raw: raw}
 	}
-	v, err := Request(composer.Request{V: composer.Version, Input: input, Cases: []composer.Case{c}})
+	wire, err := json.Marshal(composer.Request{V: composer.Version, Packages: names, Cases: []composer.Case{c}})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	r, err := composer.Decode(wire)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	v, err := Request(r)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/judge.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/judge.go
index 83b8bb90..6a688ab0 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/judge.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/judge.go
@@ -205,17 +205,14 @@ const Unnamed = "(between manifests)"
 
 // Request judges every case of a composer request (mesh-sdk composer.Request), what cmd/mesh-judge answers the checker:
 // each case's manifests as one catalogue (Shelf), every manifest accepted or refused with its problems, one per line; the
-// problems no module's removal ends under Between. The request's Input is the judge's (Input): the known packages every
-// case's `packages` are judged against. The verdict's SDK names this judge (Identity). A manifest left as a digest, a case
-// named twice, or an Input not of its shape is a request it cannot run.
+// problems no module's removal ends under Between. The request's Packages are the known packages every case's `packages`
+// are judged against (nil judges no name). The verdict's SDK names this judge (Identity). A manifest left as a digest, or
+// a case named twice, is a request it cannot run.
 func Request(r composer.Request) (composer.Verdict, error) {
 	v := composer.Verdict{V: composer.Version, SDK: Identity()}
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
 	counts := trunkOldSections(r)
-	known, err := inputOf(r.Input)
-	if err != nil {
-		return composer.Verdict{}, err
-	}
+	known := knownOf(r.Packages)
 	for _, c := range r.Cases {
 		if seen[c.Name] {
 			return composer.Verdict{}, fmt.Errorf("the case %q is named twice", c.Name)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/packages.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/packages.go
index 307c9133..cfacae8c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/packages.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/packages.go
@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
 package judge
 
 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"maps"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
-
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk/packagename"
 )
 
 // KnownPackages are the names of the packages the mesh knows, each by its name in its own ecosystem (design 32: a Go
@@ -19,26 +16,17 @@ import (
 // sdk/packagename. Nil is no list at hand: the names are then not judged, only their series.
 type KnownPackages map[string]bool
 
-// Input is the judge's own input in a judge request (mesh-delivery's sdk/packagename.Input, which the checker hands it).
-type Input = packagename.Input
-
-// inputOf reads the known packages a request's Input names; nil when it names none (no list, not an empty one).
-func inputOf(raw json.RawMessage) (KnownPackages, error) {
-	if len(raw) == 0 || string(raw) == "null" {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	var in Input
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &in); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the judge's input is not JSON of its shape: %w", err)
-	}
-	if in.Packages == nil {
-		return nil, nil
+// knownOf is the known packages a request names (composer.Request.Packages); nil when it names none (no list, not an
+// empty one).
+func knownOf(names []string) KnownPackages {
+	if names == nil {
+		return nil
 	}
 	known := KnownPackages{}
-	for _, name := range in.Packages {
+	for _, name := range names {
 		known[name] = true
 	}
-	return known, nil
+	return known
 }
 
 // PackagesCatalogueProblems are the rules of a manifest's `packages` no single manifest can be judged against (DLV-I14;
diff --git a/sdk/packagename/packagename.go b/sdk/packagename/packagename.go
index 51b34986..86d8214b 100644
--- a/sdk/packagename/packagename.go
+++ b/sdk/packagename/packagename.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // own language): a Go package by the module line of its go.mod, a TypeScript package by the name in its package.json, read
 // at a commit of the repository that builds it. The indexer reads it so at each trunk merge (its packages state's series
 // keys), and the checker so at a delivery group member's head for a package new in the group, so the judge is handed one
-// name for each package whoever reads it.
+// name for each package whoever reads it (mesh-sdk composer.Request.Packages).
 package packagename
 
 import (
@@ -67,10 +67,3 @@ func Of(ctx context.Context, read ReadFile, repository, commit, dir string, a ca
 	}
 	return "", fmt.Errorf("no %s under %v", file, roots)
 }
-
-// Input is the indexer's judge's own input in a judge request (mesh-sdk composer.Request's Input, which the composer reads
-// as the composition's input and the judge as this), as the checker hands it: the known packages, each by its name in its
-// own ecosystem, that a manifest's `packages` may name (DLV-I14). A request without one judges no name.
-type Input struct {
-	Packages []string `json:"packages"`
-}