diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers.go
index 2bc497e7..3a59a9be 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers.go
@@ -71,10 +71,11 @@ func (p *Puller) askerRefusal(msg *Pulled, ask sdkstep.StepAsk) (why string, jud
 	}
 	kind := KindOf(ask)
 	if asker == "" {
-		if (ask.Build != nil && ask.Kind == sdkstep.AskDelivery) || kind == "run" {
+		// Main's subject takes a build, a run and, until it goes, the checker's check and recheck (design 47 G A-184, §543).
+		if (ask.Build != nil && ask.Kind == sdkstep.AskDelivery) || kind == "run" || kind == sdkstep.AskCheck || kind == sdkstep.AskRecheck {
 			return "", true
 		}
-		return fmt.Sprintf("the kind %s is not taken on main's subject, which takes only a build and a run (asker: none named)", kind), true
+		return fmt.Sprintf("the kind %s is not taken on main's subject, which takes only a build, a run and the checker's check and recheck (asker: none named)", kind), true
 	}
 	if p.Callers == nil {
 		return "", true
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers_test.go
index 72377fef..d88584a3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/steprun/askers_test.go
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ func callersFor(table map[string][]string) func(string) ([]string, bool) {
 }
 
 // Design 47 G §543 (BG2, BG3, A-163, A-170): an ask whose kind its asker, the last token of its subject, is no caller of is
-// answered error naming the kind and the asker and ended failed; a step on main's subject is refused as well; one the
+// answered error naming the kind and the asker and ended failed; a step on main's subject is refused as well (its check and recheck
+// taken, A-184); one the
 // seat list does not judge yet is given back.
 func TestPullRefusesAKindItsAskerMayNotAsk(t *testing.T) {
 	step := testAsk(sdkstep.AskStep)
@@ -34,6 +35,9 @@ func TestPullRefusesAKindItsAskerMayNotAsk(t *testing.T) {
 		{"the runner's step", "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.check.mesh-pipeline-runner", step, callersFor(table), ""},
 		{"a step on main's subject", "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.check", step, callersFor(table), "refused"},
 		{"a build on main's subject", "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.delivery", build, callersFor(table), ""},
+		// A-184: until main's subject goes, it also takes the checker's check and recheck asks.
+		{"the checker's check on main's subject", "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.check", testAsk(sdkstep.AskCheck), callersFor(table), ""},
+		{"the checker's recheck on main's subject", "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.recheck", testAsk(sdkstep.AskRecheck), callersFor(table), ""},
 		{"a kind the seat list does not hold", "mesh.seat.node-build-go.accept.check.mesh-pipeline-runner", step, callersFor(nil), "back"},
 	} {
 		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {