diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/integration_test.go
index 6d72de3c..72ae65bf 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/integration_test.go
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ func TestTheGrantsPartWhole(t *testing.T) {
 	// has heard the seat and holds the bootstrapped definitions, and every module is composed. (The unit case holds a module
 	// while the list is unread.)
 	var seatAnswering atomic.Bool
-	seatAnswering.Store(true)
+	seatAnswering.Store(false)
 	for _, subject := range []string{"mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.call.seat-definitions", "mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.call.seat-definitions.>"} {
 		if _, err := nc.Subscribe(subject, func(m *nats.Msg) {
 			if !seatAnswering.Load() {
@@ -239,6 +239,14 @@ func TestTheGrantsPartWhole(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, err := kvs[grants.Module+"."+grants.StateMemberships].Get(ctx, "a.mod-c"); err == nil {
 		t.Error("a membership composed before the owners answered its first views")
 	}
+	// ADR 0636 §1, the unread phase: the seat was silent when the part started and speaks now, and says so on its event
+	// before the part's own consumer exists (the part makes it from its first composition, which waits on its owners'
+	// first views). The event is lost to that consumer, which starts at the stream's end, so the part reads the list again
+	// when its consumer is heard; mod-c, which the unread list held, is composed after that and not before.
+	seatAnswering.Store(true)
+	if _, err := js.Publish(ctx, "mesh.seat.mesh-catalog.event.seat-definition-changed", []byte(`{"seat":"mesh-broker","source":"trunk"}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
 	answering.Store(true)
 	until("a.mod-c's membership in the part's own state memberships", func() bool {
 		e, err := kvs[grants.Module+"."+grants.StateMemberships].Get(ctx, "a.mod-c")
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
index e1cd993f..b52f0518 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 		if err := hub.Start(ctx, js, account); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+		gate.eventsLive()
 		hears, err := grants.OwnHears(ownStore{conn}, account.Node)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/seatlist.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/seatlist.go
index 3c477fb2..8d0c50a7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/seatlist.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/seatlist.go
@@ -49,6 +49,18 @@ func (g *seatGate) follow(bus seatlist.Bus, changed func(), logf func(string, ..
 	return reader
 }
 
+// eventsLive is called when the part's own consumer on EVENTS is heard. A seat that was silent at the part's start may have said it
+// speaks before that consumer existed, which starts at the stream's end, so its event is never heard: while the list is unread the
+// part reads it now (ADR 0636 §1), on a goroutine of its own so the pass is not held; the reader changes the catalogue and wakes
+// the part when the seat answers, and stays unread, to be read at the seat's next event, when it does not.
+func (g *seatGate) eventsLive() {
+	r := g.reader.Load()
+	if r == nil || r.Status().Heard {
+		return
+	}
+	go func() { _ = r.Reload() }()
+}
+
 // tools are the two tools over whatever reader the gate holds at the call.
 func (g *seatGate) tools() []stdio.Tool {
 	names := []string{grants.ToolSeatList, grants.ToolSeatListAgain}