diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/judgeseats.go
similarity index 52%
rename from modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist.go
rename to modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/judgeseats.go
index 697e256a..2bc14572 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/judgeseats.go
@@ -7,28 +7,12 @@ import (
 	"slices"
 	"sync/atomic"
 
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatlist"
 )
 
-// The checker reads the seat list as every part does (novox/hq ADR 0635 §1, ADR 0636): through the seat mesh-catalog's verb
-// seat-definitions, its two events heard as handlers of the module's event hub, from the bootstrapped definitions until the seat
-// has answered. What the reader holds is given to catalogue at every change, which the module graph is worked out with, and to the
-// indexer's judge as a request's Seats, which the manifests of a change are judged against.
-
-// followSeatList starts the checker's reader of the seat list over the bus; the hub is started by the caller once every handler is registered.
-func followSeatList(bus seatlist.Bus, logf func(string, ...any), changed func()) *seatlist.Reader {
-	reader, err := seatlist.Start(seatlist.Config{Bus: bus, Bootstrap: seatlist.Bootstrapped(),
-		OnChange: func(seats []catalogue.Seat) { catalogue.UseSeats(seats); changed() }})
-	if err != nil {
-		logf("the checker cannot follow its seat list, so no manifest is judged until it starts again: %v", err)
-	}
-	if reader != nil {
-		catalogue.UseSeats(reader.Seats())
-	}
-	return reader
-}
+// The checker reads the seat list through mesh-sdk's seatlist.Part, the one wiring (design 47 G §204): what the reader holds is the
+// indexer's judge's Seats of a request, which the manifests of a change are judged against.
 
 // seatList is the reader as the check's SeatList: the held definitions raw, and an error while the seat has not answered.
 type seatList struct{ reader *seatlist.Reader }
@@ -52,15 +36,6 @@ func (s seatList) Definitions() ([]json.RawMessage, error) {
 	return out, nil
 }
 
-// readIfUnread is called when the checker's hub is heard. The seat may have answered, and said that it does, before the
-// checker's consumer existed, whose events start at the stream's end: the first read found it silent and nothing else reads
-// again until its next event, so while the list is unread it is read now, on a goroutine of its own (ADR 0636 §1).
-func readIfUnread(reader *seatlist.Reader) {
-	if reader != nil {
-		reader.ReloadIfUnread()
-	}
-}
-
 // buildsWatch is what is done when the build modules may have changed (design 47 G A-82): the seat list names the build seats
 // and the indexer's modules the holders of the seats, so a change of either may name a build module not watched yet. It is set once
 // the parts that watch the build modules are made, and called from then on.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/main.go
index 9cdbc8ad..d819103b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/main.go
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	hub := process.NewEventHub(logger.Printf)
 	reader := &views.ProcessReader{Module: check.CheckerModule, Call: caller.Call, Logf: logger.Printf, Hub: hub}
 	var buildsChanged buildsWatch
-	seats := seatList{reader: followSeatList(seatlist.ProcessBus(caller.Call, hub), logger.Printf, buildsChanged.Changed)}
+	seatPart := seatlist.NewPart("checker", nil)
+	seats := seatList{reader: seatPart.Follow(seatlist.ProcessBus(caller.Call, hub), buildsChanged.Changed, logger.Printf)}
 	// The finding writer is made once the checker is (its observe reads the checker's kept checks); until then a first view
 	// unanswered is said in the log alone.
 	var findings atomic.Pointer[checkerFindings]
@@ -503,7 +504,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	reader.Start(ctx, js, cred, process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, conn, firstViewsBucket, "checker_first_views reads nothing and checker_first_view_again is not heard", logger.Printf))
 	// Every part has registered. Where the consumer is not there yet the hub binds it as soon as it is, and the seat list is read
 	// again then if it is still unread.
-	if err := hub.StartUntilBound(ctx, js, cred, nil, func() { readIfUnread(seats.reader) }); err != nil {
+	if err := hub.StartUntilBound(ctx, js, cred, nil, seatPart.EventsLive); err != nil {
 		logger.Printf("%v, so no package registry's published is heard until the consumer is there; the checker tries again", err)
 	}
 	defer hub.Stop()
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index b4d23411..00000000
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
-	"sync/atomic"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatlist"
-)
-
-// silentThenAnswering is a seat that is silent at the reader's first read and answers after.
-type silentThenAnswering struct{ answering atomic.Bool }
-
-func (b *silentThenAnswering) Ask(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
-	if !b.answering.Load() {
-		return nil, errors.New("not connected yet")
-	}
-	return json.RawMessage(`{"revision":1,"seats":[]}`), nil
-}
-
-func (b *silentThenAnswering) Subscribe(string, func(string, json.RawMessage) error) error {
-	return nil
-}
-
-// A seat that spoke before the checker's consumer existed is read when the hub is heard (ADR 0636 §1).
-func TestTheSeatListIsReadWhenTheHubIsHeard(t *testing.T) {
-	bus := &silentThenAnswering{}
-	reader := followSeatList(bus, t.Logf, func() {})
-	<-reader.Ready()
-	if reader.Status().Heard {
-		t.Fatal("a silent seat was heard")
-	}
-	bus.answering.Store(true)
-	readIfUnread(reader)
-	for deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second); !reader.Status().Heard; time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond) {
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Fatal("the list was not read when the hub was heard")
-		}
-	}
-	var _ seatlist.Bus = bus
-}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist_wiring_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist_wiring_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8e31bca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/cmd/mesh-delivery-checker/seatlist_wiring_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The checker wires no reader of the seat list of its own (design 47 G §204, CK9): it follows the list through mesh-sdk's
+// seatlist.Part, and its code holds no seatlist.Start nor a file of its own for the list.
+func TestTheCheckerWiresNoSeatListReaderOfItsOwn(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := os.Stat("seatlist.go"); err == nil {
+		t.Error("seatlist.go is the checker's own wiring of the seat list: mesh-sdk's seatlist.Part is the one wiring")
+	}
+	files, _ := filepath.Glob("*.go")
+	for _, f := range files {
+		if strings.HasSuffix(f, "_test.go") {
+			continue
+		}
+		src, err := os.ReadFile(f)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if strings.Contains(string(src), "seatlist.Start(") {
+			t.Errorf("%s starts a seat list reader of its own: use seatlist.Part.Follow", f)
+		}
+	}
+}