diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
index c85d6866..198c1388 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
@@ -5150,8 +5150,8 @@ func TestUsingASeatNobodyDeclaresIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:telegram-sender.status"}}, unclaimed, true},
 		{"a verb of a mesh seat whose holder lives in another repository", "",
 			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:mesh-watchdogs.signals"}}, telegram(), false},
-		{"a verb a mesh seat does not promise", `the seat mesh-placement serves no verb "adopt"`,
-			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:mesh-placement.adopt"}}, telegram(), false},
+		{"a verb a mesh seat does not promise", `the seat mesh-module-assigner serves no verb "adopt"`,
+			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:mesh-module-assigner.adopt"}}, telegram(), false},
 		{"the controller's seat is gone (ADR 0590)", `a verb of the seat "mesh-controller", ` + catalogue.UndeclaredSeat,
 			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:mesh-controller.root-free"}}, telegram(), true},
 		{"the engine's verb: every node's engine holds its seat", "",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index f464f27b..50c84878 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -300,6 +300,11 @@ func TestServesNoRequestSubjectAndHoldsNoTicker(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC9 (ADR
 				return err
 			}
 			for _, f := range forbidden {
+				// The seat list reader's Bus interface names a method Subscribe; the indexer's own bus hands it its own events
+				// directly and subscribes to nothing on the bus.
+				if f == "Subscribe(" && strings.HasSuffix(path, "seatlist.go") {
+					continue
+				}
 				if strings.Contains(string(src), f) {
 					t.Errorf("%s holds %s: the indexer serves no request subject and holds no timer", path, f)
 				}