diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index 0b7c1a29..bc05d204 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -245,12 +245,20 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		var r struct {
-			Invokes []string `json:"invokes"`
+			Invokes json.RawMessage `json:"invokes"`
 		}
 		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &r); err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", p, err)
 		}
-		for _, inv := range r.Invokes {
+		// A reader's invokes in either form, a verb or {verb, fields} (§558, A-275), read by mesh-sdk's one reader.
+		if len(r.Invokes) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		invoked, err := catalogue.InvokedVerbs(r.Invokes)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s: %v", p, err)
+		}
+		for _, inv := range invoked {
 			// The grants part (W8) and the assigner read modules until their own subtasks move them to revision; the join removes this line.
 			if (p == "../mesh-grants/module.json" || p == "../mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json") && inv == "mesh-delivery-indexer.modules" ||
 				inv == "mesh-delivery-indexer.indexer_read_modules" { // design 47 G §196: the readers' own subtasks move them to the catalog half