diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 39683774..157e7c9e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/identity-and-access/go/clients/meshvaultclient"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/identity-and-access/go/seats/meshvault"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/builds"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk/buildstep"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
@@ -146,6 +147,20 @@ func TestTheCopiedComposerComposesAsTheControllers(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Errorf("may publish %s: %v, want %v", subject, got, want)
 			}
 		}
+		// ADR 0664 §2 with ADR 0436 §6: the work queue offers a build seat's ask more often than the module runs it, so the stream
+		// never drops an ask before the module has ended it, and at most ten times.
+		for _, seat := range []string{"node-build-go", "node-build-node", "node-build-image"} {
+			held := Seat{Name: seat, Scope: "node", Accepts: []string{"delivery", "check", "recheck"}, PulledByKind: true}
+			_, workers := SeatTrafficObjects([]Principal{{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "m-" + seat, Holds: []Seat{held}}})
+			if len(workers) == 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("%s: no worker composed", seat)
+			}
+			for _, w := range workers {
+				if w.MaxDeliver <= buildstep.AskRuns || w.MaxDeliver > 10 {
+					t.Errorf("%s worker %s offers an ask %d times, want more than %d runs and at most 10", seat, w.Name, w.MaxDeliver, buildstep.AskRuns)
+				}
+			}
+		}
 		plain, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindModule, Node: "one", Module: "shop",
 			Uses: []Seat{{Name: "telegram-sender", Accepts: []string{"send"}}}})
 		if err != nil {