diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
index 4c66d058..9eb69def 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
@@ -27,3 +27,5 @@ replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/buildrun
 require git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 
 replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/sdk => ../../sdk
+
+replace git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go => ../../../0618-sdk/go
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum
index 7679a5dc..98dc72c4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103221822-85ba0a9a70d8 h1:XEbIVImp6yGjA91rp0iZBoDdL5KfamjOuDLwWvqh0hc=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261103221822-85ba0a9a70d8/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
index 5e3c4325..1dddd272 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/judge/rules_test.go
@@ -4873,7 +4873,8 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 	// The node seat node-engine is the node's engine's (novox/hq ADR 0563 §1): at node scope, delivering nothing, its verbs
-	// (compose-candidate since ADR 0593 §7) and three events, held by no assignment, and a module's claim of it refused.
+	// (compose-candidate since ADR 0593 §7, manifest-reads since ADR 0618 §3) and four events (manifest-reads-changed since
+	// ADR 0618 §4), held by no assignment, and a module's claim of it refused.
 	if engine, ok := catalogue.SeatNamed(catalogue.EngineSeat); !ok || engine.Scope != catalogue.ScopeNode || engine.Delivers != "" || !engine.HeldByTheEngine {
 		t.Errorf("node-engine is %+v, not a node seat delivering nothing that the engine holds", engine)
 	} else {
@@ -4885,8 +4886,8 @@ func TestTheSeatsAreAClosedSetAndEachNamesItsDecision(t *testing.T) {
 		if props, _ := engine.Serves[5].Input["properties"].(map[string]any); props["id"] == nil {
 			t.Errorf("acts takes no id: %v", engine.Serves[5].Input)
 		}
-		if strings.Join(verbs, ",") != "hand-over,access-act,judge-directories,setuid-search,root-free,acts,packages,composition,compose,compose-candidate" ||
-			strings.Join(engine.Emits, ",") != "asked,done,refused" {
+		if strings.Join(verbs, ",") != "hand-over,access-act,judge-directories,setuid-search,root-free,acts,packages,composition,compose,compose-candidate,manifest-reads" ||
+			strings.Join(engine.Emits, ",") != "asked,done,refused,manifest-reads-changed" {
 			t.Errorf("node-engine serves %v and emits %v", verbs, engine.Emits)
 		}
 	}
@@ -5129,6 +5130,9 @@ func TestUsingASeatNobodyDeclaresIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
 			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:node-engine.root-free"}}, telegram(), false},
 		{"a verb the engine's seat does not promise", `the seat node-engine serves no verb "root-freed"`,
 			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:node-engine.root-freed"}}, telegram(), false},
+		{"what the engine reads of a manifest, and its event (ADR 0618 §3, §4)", "",
+			catalogue.Manifest{Module: "shop", Invokes: []string{"seat:node-engine.manifest-reads"},
+				Consumes: []string{"node-engine.manifest-reads-changed"}}, telegram(), false},
 	} {
 		got := CatalogueProblems(catalogue.Shelf{"telegram": row.seat, "shop": row.shop})
 		joined := strings.Join(got, "; ")