diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/versions.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/versions.go
index 98d3a4fc..f2bd2cd3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/versions.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/cmd/mesh-delivery-builder/versions.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/ociartifactregistry"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/health"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ func emitEvent(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account
 
 // The events on the builder's consumer of EVENTS that wake a floor (design 51 *The floor*, DLV-B3b).
 var (
-	manifestAcceptedSubject = "mesh.mod." + delivery.IndexerModule + ".event." + delivery.ManifestAcceptedEvent
+	manifestAcceptedSubject = meshcatalog.SubjectManifestAccepted
 	conditionClearedSubject = "mesh.mod." + health.KeeperModule + ".event." + health.EventCleared
 )
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod
index 2bd2074b..a493ed16 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-builder
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshhandactsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261104174359-05b3e2e1b94f
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go
index ba7e67f1..7f5f470f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/manifest_test.go
@@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1607/AC1
 	// DLV-M1: the indexer's and the assigner's views families of the states it follows.
 	if want := []string{"container-image-registry.kept", "container-image-registry.published", "container-image-registry.refused", "container-image-registry.removed",
 		"go-package-registry.kept", "go-package-registry.published", "go-package-registry.refused", "go-package-registry.removed",
-		"mesh-artifact-sweep.artifacts-gone", "mesh-build-go.toolchain.reported", "mesh-build-node.toolchain.reported",
+		"mesh-artifact-sweep.artifacts-gone", "mesh-build-go.toolchain.reported", "mesh-build-node.toolchain.reported", "mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted",
 		"mesh-conditions.condition-cleared", "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.placement", "mesh-delivery-checker.tag-wanted", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.forge.**",
-		"mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.candidates", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules",
+		"mesh-delivery-indexer.views.candidates", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules",
 		"mesh-delivery-indexer.views.packages", "node-engine.manifest-reads-changed",
 		"npm-package-registry.kept", "npm-package-registry.published", "npm-package-registry.refused", "npm-package-registry.removed",
 		"oci-artifact-registry.kept", "oci-artifact-registry.published", "oci-artifact-registry.refused", "oci-artifact-registry.removed"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(sorted(m.Consumes), want) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json
index 504beb60..25e24e0a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/module.json
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@
     "mesh-artifact-sweep.artifacts-gone",
     "mesh-build-go.toolchain.reported",
     "mesh-build-node.toolchain.reported",
+    "mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted",
     "mesh-conditions.condition-cleared",
     "mesh-delivery-checker.tag-wanted",
     "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.forge.**",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted",
     "node-engine.manifest-reads-changed",
     "npm-package-registry.kept",
     "npm-package-registry.published",
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 fb8e56f1..b3f136f3 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
@@ -534,13 +534,13 @@ func startIndexerRun(t *testing.T, put func(context.Context, buildLog), before .
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	acceptedHeard.Store(0)
-	waiter, err := ctl.Subscribe("mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-indexer.event.manifest-accepted", func(*nats.Msg) { acceptedHeard.Add(1) })
+	waiter, err := ctl.Subscribe("mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.manifest-accepted", func(*nats.Msg) { acceptedHeard.Add(1) })
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = waiter.Unsubscribe() })
 	// The shared events stream: the indexer's ordinary events and the assigner's views events (ADR 0635 §5).
-	if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: "EVENTS", Subjects: []string{"mesh.mod.*.event.>"}}); err != nil {
+	if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: "EVENTS", Subjects: []string{"mesh.mod.*.event.>", "mesh.seat.*.event.>"}}); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	put(ctx, buildLog{ctx: ctx, js: js})
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ func TestIndexerKeepsManifestsAtAMerge(t *testing.T) { // 1444/AC4, 1449/AC4, 15
 			break
 		}
 		var r delivery.ManifestRefused
-		if msg.Subject == "mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-indexer.event."+delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent && json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &r) == nil {
+		if msg.Subject == "mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event."+delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent && json.Unmarshal(msg.Data, &r) == nil {
 			said[r.Module] = true
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/packages_integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/packages_integration_test.go
index 58b6b254..8094349c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/packages_integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/packages_integration_test.go
@@ -78,14 +78,10 @@ func TestAMeshSDKMergeMovesOnlyTheModulesImportingAChangedPackage(t *testing.T)
 			}
 		}
 		serveForge(t, js.Conn(), listing, goSumContent)
-		// The seat definitions' state and stream (DLV-I17), as the grants part makes them from the manifest.
+		// The seat definitions' state (DLV-I17), as the grants part makes it from the manifest.
 		if seatDefs, err = js.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: index.SeatDefinitionsBucket, History: 5}); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: "SEAT_MESH_CATALOG",
-			Subjects: []string{"mesh.seat." + index.CatalogSeat + ".event.>"}}); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
 		// DLV-I19, I20: the indexer's findings and takeins states, and the checker's stream asks with the indexer's durable
 		// consumer, which carries the checker's verdict event.
 		if findings, err = js.CreateKeyValue(ctx, jetstream.KeyValueConfig{Bucket: findingsBucket, History: 1}); err != nil {
@@ -263,12 +259,17 @@ func TestAMeshSDKMergeMovesOnlyTheModulesImportingAChangedPackage(t *testing.T)
 			t.Fatalf("%s is kept 20 s after its pull request closed", pk)
 		}
 	}
-	info, err := js.Stream(ctx, "SEAT_MESH_CATALOG")
+	// The seat's events are on the shared events stream like every seat's.
+	info, err := js.Stream(ctx, "EVENTS")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	full, err := info.Info(ctx, jetstream.WithSubjectFilter("mesh.seat."+index.CatalogSeat+".event.seat-definition-changed"))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	// Said on the seat's subject: the trunk's git alone; a pull request's head (unparsed, then closed) says nothing (ADR 0636 §4).
-	if n := info.CachedInfo().State.Msgs; n != 1 {
+	if n := full.State.Subjects["mesh.seat."+index.CatalogSeat+".event.seat-definition-changed"]; n != 1 {
 		t.Errorf("seat-definition-changed said %d times, want 1", n)
 	}
 	if m, err := info.GetLastMsgForSubject(ctx, "mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.seat-definition-changed"); err != nil ||
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/verdicts.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/verdicts.go
index 9bf2967c..72639600 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/verdicts.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/verdicts.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 )
 
-// sayRefused says the indexer's event manifest-refused (novox/hq ADR 0578 §1): mesh.mod.<module>.event.manifest-refused,
+// sayRefused says the indexer's event manifest-refused (novox/hq ADR 0578 §1): mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.manifest-refused,
 // with the SDK's envelope headers and the digest and judge as the bus's dedup id, so one refusal is said once.
 func sayRefused(js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account, logf func(string, ...any)) func(context.Context, delivery.ManifestRefused) {
 	return func(ctx context.Context, r delivery.ManifestRefused) {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ func sayRefused(js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account, logf func(string,
 			logf("judge: %s for %s is not said: %v", delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent, r.Module, err)
 			return
 		}
-		msg := nats.NewMsg(cred.EventSubject(delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent))
+		msg := nats.NewMsg(seatEventSubject(delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent))
 		id := "manifest-refused-" + r.Digest + "-" + r.Judge
 		msg.Header.Set("x-event-id", id)
 		msg.Header.Set("x-source", cred.Module)
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func sayRefused(js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account, logf func(string,
 }
 
 // sayAccepted says the indexer's event manifest-accepted (issue 1966 D3, novox/hq ADR 0595 §4):
-// mesh.mod.<module>.event.manifest-accepted, carrying the module's bus-state entries whole, with the digest and judge as
+// mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.manifest-accepted, carrying the module's bus-state entries whole, with the digest and judge as
 // the bus's dedup id (delivery.ManifestAccepted.EventID), so one acceptance is said once.
 func sayAccepted(js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account) func(context.Context, delivery.ManifestAccepted, string) error {
 	return func(ctx context.Context, a delivery.ManifestAccepted, id string) error {
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func sayAccepted(js jetstream.JetStream, cred process.Account) func(context.Cont
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		msg := nats.NewMsg(cred.EventSubject(delivery.ManifestAcceptedEvent))
+		msg := nats.NewMsg(seatEventSubject(delivery.ManifestAcceptedEvent))
 		msg.Header.Set("x-event-id", id)
 		msg.Header.Set("x-source", cred.Module)
 		msg.Header.Set("x-node", cred.Node)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
index 28275d38..040cad33 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-indexer
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-catalog/modules/mesh-build-go/buildstep v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshhandactsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261104174359-05b3e2e1b94f
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
index 198c1388..2d3a8074 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
@@ -4355,7 +4355,7 @@ func TestTheBussAccountSaysNothingOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	keeper := func(bus string, more string) []byte {
 		return []byte(`{"module":"nats","version":"1","provides":[{"name":"mesh-bus","scope":"mesh"}],
 			"claims":[{"name":"mesh-broker","scope":"mesh","serves":["list"]}],"own-secrets":{"broker":"/run/broker"},
-			"tools":["nats_server"],"consumes":["mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted"],"uses":["operator-channel"],
+			"tools":["nats_server"],"consumes":["mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted"],"uses":["operator-channel"],
 			"state":[{"name":"requests","history":5}],"streams":[{"name":"broker-events","events":["created"]}],
 			"emits":["consumer-removed"],
 			"resources":[{"id":"nats-keeper","type":"user","name":"nats-keeper"},
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index 50c84878..005ba5f2 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	}
 	// 1126: placement is the seat mesh-placement's (ADR 0567): the indexer holds no placement state. ADR 0578 §1: it says
 	// a refused manifest as manifest-refused, and (issue 1966 D3, 1966/AC10) a newly accepted one asking for bus state as
-	// manifest-accepted.
-	if own := slices.DeleteFunc(slices.Clone(m.Emits), func(e string) bool { return strings.HasPrefix(e, views.EventPrefix) }); !reflect.DeepEqual(own, []string{"manifest-refused", "manifest-accepted", takein.TakeInPendingEvent, takein.TakeInTakenEvent}) {
-		t.Errorf("emits = %v, want manifest-refused, manifest-accepted and the two take-in events", m.Emits)
+	// manifest-accepted, both events of the seat mesh-catalog it holds (ADR 0636 §4), so not among its `emits`.
+	if own := slices.DeleteFunc(slices.Clone(m.Emits), func(e string) bool { return strings.HasPrefix(e, views.EventPrefix) }); !reflect.DeepEqual(own, []string{takein.TakeInPendingEvent, takein.TakeInTakenEvent}) {
+		t.Errorf("emits = %v, want the two take-in events (the verdict events are the seat mesh-catalog's)", m.Emits)
 	}
 	// 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: "modules", History: 20}, {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: delivery.PackagesState, History: delivery.PackagesHistory},
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
index 54a6003f..a28580bc 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
@@ -89,8 +89,6 @@
     { "name": "pending", "history": 1 }
   ],
   "emits": [
-    "manifest-refused",
-    "manifest-accepted",
     "take-in.pending",
     "take-in.taken",
     "views.candidates",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/consumes.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/consumes.go
index bb1263ab..7dace553 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/consumes.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/consumes.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshbroker"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 	"mesh-delivery-watchman/internal/watch"
 )
 
-// **What the watchman consumes** (its manifest's `consumes`; novox/hq ADR 0595 §4, design 25 § 12.2; DLV-W1): the indexer's
+// **What the watchman consumes** (its manifest's `consumes`; novox/hq ADR 0595 §4, design 25 § 12.2; DLV-W1): the seat mesh-catalog's
 // manifest-accepted and the seat mesh-broker's created and refused, all on its durable consumer on EVENTS (the seat's
 // events on the seat's subjects like every seat's: the lead's ruling, registry milestone 13:0x); beside it any module
 // stream its membership names (Hears). Each consumer is the one the grants part makes; one
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@ const (
 // and refused. Anything else is left.
 func consumed(w *watch.Watchman, subject string, body []byte, logf func(string, ...any)) {
 	switch {
-	case strings.HasSuffix(subject, ".event."+eventAccepted) && strings.HasPrefix(subject, "mesh.mod."):
+	case subject == meshcatalog.SubjectManifestAccepted:
 		var a delivery.ManifestAccepted
 		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &a); err != nil || a.Module == "" {
 			logf("a manifest-accepted that does not read is left: %v", err)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go
index 68e97fca..c96c4f0d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/cmd/mesh-delivery-watchman/main_test.go
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ func TestRunNeedsItsCredential(t *testing.T) { // 1135/AC6
 		if !out.findings[watch.FindingKey(watch.ScopeModule, "m", watch.KindBusStateRefused+"-l")] {
 			t.Fatalf("refused reached no finding: %v", out.findings)
 		}
-		consumed(w, "mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-indexer.event.manifest-accepted", []byte(`{"module":"m","digest":"d","bus-state":[]}`), say)
+		consumed(w, "mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.manifest-accepted", []byte(`{"module":"m","digest":"d","bus-state":[]}`), say)
 		if len(out.findings) != 0 {
 			t.Fatalf("an accepted manifest no longer asking for l left %v", out.findings)
 		}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod
index 71b2126f..defa3868 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-watchman
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshbroker v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshhandactsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261104174359-05b3e2e1b94f
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/manifest_test.go
index 0175acda..0724860c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/manifest_test.go
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ func TestManifestStateAndReads(t *testing.T) { // 1135/AC6
 		t.Errorf("invokes = %v, want %v", m.Invokes, want)
 	}
 	// DLV-M5 its first views, 1585/T20 the indexer's take-in events, and DLV-W1 (ADR 0595 §4): the accepted verdicts and the bus module's created and refused, durably.
-	if want := []string{"mesh-delivery-assigner.views.wants", "mesh-delivery-indexer.take-in.pending", "mesh-delivery-indexer.take-in.taken", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules", "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted", "mesh-broker.created", "mesh-broker.refused"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Consumes, want) {
+	if want := []string{"mesh-delivery-assigner.views.wants", "mesh-delivery-indexer.take-in.pending", "mesh-delivery-indexer.take-in.taken", "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules", "mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted", "mesh-broker.created", "mesh-broker.refused"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Consumes, want) {
 		t.Errorf("consumes = %v, want %v", m.Consumes, want)
 	}
 	// 1952/WM1: the watchman holds the seat mesh-watchdogs at mesh scope, its first seat (novox/hq ADR 0564 §1, §4).
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/module.json
index 35d71c49..25acacd9 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-watchman/module.json
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.take-in.pending",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.take-in.taken",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted",
+    "mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted",
     "mesh-broker.created",
     "mesh-broker.refused"
   ],
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
index 6f7a4cb7..deb2ca28 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/announce"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 
 	"mesh-grants/internal/grants"
@@ -157,9 +157,9 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 					hearViews(m)
 					return
 				}
-				// The indexer's verdict events go to the verdicts' first view (ADR 0622 §2), which takes each at its revision.
-				if event, ok := strings.CutPrefix(m.Subject(), "mesh.mod."+grants.IndexerModule+".event."); ok &&
-					(event == delivery.ManifestAcceptedEvent || event == delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent) {
+				// The seat mesh-catalog's verdict events go to the verdicts' first view (ADR 0622 §2), which takes each at its revision.
+				if event, ok := strings.CutPrefix(m.Subject(), "mesh.seat."+meshcatalog.Seat+".event."); ok &&
+					(event == meshcatalog.EventManifestAccepted || event == meshcatalog.EventManifestRefused) {
 					if err := fv.HearVerdict(ctx, event, m.Data(), logger.Printf); err != nil {
 						logger.Printf("views: %s is not a verdict event, dropped: %v", m.Subject(), err)
 						_ = m.Term()
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/testdata/nats.module.json b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/testdata/nats.module.json
index 02b1320c..af929ebe 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/testdata/nats.module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/testdata/nats.module.json
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.indexer_bus_state"
   ],
   "consumes": [
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted"
+    "mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted"
   ],
   "uses": [
     "operator-channel"
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod b/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
index 56718814..26c51537 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module mesh-grants
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshbroker v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/nodeengine v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/identity-and-access/go/seats/meshnodeenroller v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
index 06d80f97..d0fcc253 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/buscompose_test.go
@@ -1097,7 +1097,7 @@ func theBusModulesProcessKeepsBusState(t *testing.T) {
 		{Module: "node-tools", ToolRunner: true},
 		{Module: "nats", SnapshotsTheBus: true, Holds: []Seat{{Name: meshbroker.Seat, Serves: BrokerVerbs(),
 			Emits: []string{"created", "refused"}}},
-			Consumes: []string{"mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted"}, Uses: []Seat{{Name: "operator-channel", Accepts: []string{"condition"}, Emits: []string{"decided"}, ByCaller: []string{"condition", "decided"}}},
+			Watches: []Seat{{Name: "mesh-catalog", Emits: []string{"manifest-accepted"}}}, Uses: []Seat{{Name: "operator-channel", Accepts: []string{"condition"}, Emits: []string{"decided"}, ByCaller: []string{"condition", "decided"}}},
 			Streams: []ModuleStream{{Module: "nats", Name: "BROKER_EVENTS", Events: []string{"created", "refused"}, MaxAgeDays: 30, MaxMiB: 256}},
 			State:   []Bucket{{Module: "nats", Name: "spent", ReadOnly: true}},
 			Processes: []ProcessPrincipal{{Process: "keeper", State: []string{"asked", "spent"}, Keeps: true}, {Process: "other"},
@@ -1214,7 +1214,7 @@ func theBusModulesProcessKeepsBusState(t *testing.T) {
 	made := false
 	for _, mc := range AccountConsumers(users) {
 		if mc.Consumer.Stream == "EVENTS" && mc.Consumer.Name == "a_nats_keeper" &&
-			slices.Equal(mc.Consumer.Filters, []string{"mesh.mod.mesh-delivery-indexer.event.manifest-accepted",
+			slices.Equal(mc.Consumer.Filters, []string{"mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.manifest-accepted",
 				"mesh.seat.operator-channel.event.decided.nats"}) {
 			made = true
 		}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/busstate.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/busstate.go
index 5cf527cb..6d964df6 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/busstate.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/busstate.go
@@ -93,6 +93,19 @@ func keeperConsumer(p Principal) (Consumer, bool) {
 			filters = append(filters, s)
 		}
 	}
+	// And the events of the seats its module watches (its consumes naming a seat's event, such as the seat mesh-catalog's
+	// manifest-accepted), on the seat's own subjects.
+	for _, w := range p.Watches {
+		if w.Kinded {
+			continue
+		}
+		for _, e := range w.Emits {
+			if pattern, ok := machineEvent(w, e); ok {
+				e = pattern
+			}
+			filters = append(filters, seatSubject(w, "event", e))
+		}
+	}
 	// And the events of the seats its module uses that are said to it by name, the operator channel's `decided` for its own
 	// asks among them (design 25 § 12.3: the process wakes on the warrant, heard on its durable consumer, never on a timer).
 	for _, s := range SeatTrafficOf(p.Module, nil, p.Uses, nil).Subscribe {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/users.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/users.go
index b5450d65..0805cf13 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/users.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/buscompose/users.go
@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
 					k := &out[len(out)-1]
 					k.KeepsBus, k.KeepsBusState = true, BusStateNames(r.BusState, r.Bound)
 					k.Consumes, k.Streams = d.Consumes, d.Streams
+					k.Watches = d.Watches
 					k.SaysSeatEvents = brokerSeatEvents(d.Holds)
 				}
 				if d.SnapshotsTheBus && len(pr.Removes) > 0 {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/firstviews.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/firstviews.go
index c9e0fc5b..52170378 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/firstviews.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/firstviews.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 
 	occ "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
 	oc "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/seats/meshcatalog"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ import (
 // DLV-R1). The part reads the assigner's placement and wants and the indexer's manifests, modules and verdicts no longer
 // from their buckets, but by each owner's first-view tool, asked once at its start, then from the owner's views family
 // alone (each event one changed key with its revision), asking once more only on a gap in revisions, never on a timer.
-// The verdicts alone are followed on the indexer's manifest-accepted and manifest-refused, which carry the revision
+// The verdicts alone are followed on the seat mesh-catalog's manifest-accepted and manifest-refused, which carry the revision
 // (ADR 0622 §2), not on its views family (HearVerdict).
 // Started while an owner is down it keeps asking and never reads the owner's state; past the bound (two minutes) it
 // raises FirstViewUnanswered naming the owner and the tool, cleared by the answer.
@@ -260,11 +261,11 @@ func (v *Views) Again(ctx context.Context, state, why string) ([]string, error)
 	return asked, nil
 }
 
-// VerdictEvents are the indexer's two events the part follows the verdicts on after their first view (ADR 0622 §2), as its
+// VerdictEvents are the seat mesh-catalog's two events the part follows the verdicts on after their first view (ADR 0622 §2), as its
 // manifest's consumes name them.
-var VerdictEvents = []string{IndexerModule + "." + delivery.ManifestAcceptedEvent, IndexerModule + "." + delivery.ManifestRefusedEvent}
+var VerdictEvents = []string{meshcatalog.Seat + "." + meshcatalog.EventManifestAccepted, meshcatalog.Seat + "." + meshcatalog.EventManifestRefused}
 
-// HearVerdict takes one of the indexer's manifest-accepted or manifest-refused (event, its name) into the verdicts' first
+// HearVerdict takes one of the seat mesh-catalog's manifest-accepted or manifest-refused (event, its name) into the verdicts' first
 // view, as one change of the verdicts state at the revision it carries (ADR 0622 §2): the manifest's digest its key, the
 // verdict it says its value. A revision past the one after the picture's is a gap, and so is an event carrying no
 // revision (an indexer that does not say it) or one saying no manifest above the picture's revision (the empty accepted
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/module.json b/modules/mesh-grants/module.json
index 11d77c8e..5363b8ca 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/module.json
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
     "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.wants",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.manifests",
     "mesh-delivery-indexer.views.modules",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-accepted",
-    "mesh-delivery-indexer.manifest-refused"
+    "mesh-catalog.manifest-accepted",
+    "mesh-catalog.manifest-refused"
   ],
   "uses": [
     "operator-channel"