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 48eee1a9..a995b7a3 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
@@ -120,11 +120,21 @@ func TestIndexerWhole(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC2, AC10; 1585/T14, T15
 		if _, err := tc.Put(ctx, key, value); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		// The trunk holds the indexer's entry, its Go artifact naming its package (§676): the validation's program is read from it (§712).
-		seedBuildModules(t, ctx, js, map[string]meshcatalog.CatalogEntry{index.Module: {V: index.CatalogEntryLayout, Module: index.Module,
-			Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Path: "modules/" + index.Module, Commit: "4444444444444444444444444444444444444444", None: sdkstep.ToolchainNoReport,
-			Artifacts: []meshcatalog.Artifact{{Kind: "bundle", Language: "go", Ref: index.Module + ":program",
-				Package: &meshcatalog.ArtifactPackage{Ecosystem: "go", Name: index.Module}}}}})
+		// The trunk holds the indexer's entry, taken in at an earlier commit with its own manifest; the seat git answers its go.mod, so
+		// its Go artifacts carry the Go module the validation's program is read under (§712, §676, A-263).
+		seedBuildModules(t, ctx, js, map[string]meshcatalog.CatalogEntry{index.Module: trunkIndexerEntry(t, ctx, js)})
+		if _, err := js.Conn().Subscribe("mesh.seat.git.tool.file", func(m *nats.Msg) {
+			var a git.FileInput
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(m.Data, &a)
+			answer := git.FileAnswer{Path: a.Path, Ref: a.Ref, Absent: true}
+			if a.Path == "modules/"+index.Module+"/go.mod" {
+				answer = git.FileAnswer{Path: a.Path, Ref: a.Ref, Content: "module " + index.Module + "\n"}
+			}
+			raw, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"result": answer, "node": "n0"})
+			_ = m.Respond(raw)
+		}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
 		validations = standInBuildSeat(t, ctx, js, &refusing)
 		// The node-engine's composition on n1 (process.Conn.Call's subjects): the build of the indexer that runs there.
 		answer := func(m *nats.Msg) {
@@ -430,8 +440,8 @@ func TestIndexerWhole(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC2, AC10; 1585/T14, T15
 	if refused, ok := said(takein.TakeInPending, m3Key); !ok || !strings.Contains(refused.Refused, "a: the stand-in's problem") || refused.Failed != "" {
 		t.Fatalf("take-in.pending.%s = %+v (said %v) within 20 s, want the revision refused naming a's problem", m3Key, refused, ok)
 	}
-	if w = waits(); len(w) != 1 || w[0].Key != m3Key || w[0].Validation == nil || w[0].Validation.Accepted != 0 || len(validations.asked()) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("indexer_pending = %+v, asks %d: want the refused revision pending with its validation", w, len(validations.asked()))
+	if w = waits(); len(w) != 1 || w[0].Key != m3Key || w[0].Validation == nil || w[0].Validation.Accepted != 0 || len(validations.asked()) != 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("indexer_pending = %+v, asks %d: want the refused revision pending with its validation, asked once after m1 and the group", w, len(validations.asked()))
 	}
 	if raw, ok := get(index.ModulesState, "a"); !ok || strings.Contains(string(raw), m3.Merge) {
 		t.Errorf("modules.a = %s: the refused revision was taken in", raw)
@@ -439,6 +449,37 @@ func TestIndexerWhole(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC2, AC10; 1585/T14, T15
 
 }
 
+// trunkIndexerEntry keeps the indexer's own manifest by its digest, accepted, and answers its trunk entry at an earlier commit.
+func trunkIndexerEntry(t *testing.T, ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream) meshcatalog.CatalogEntry {
+	t.Helper()
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var m catalogue.Manifest
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	digest := meshcatalogclient.ManifestDigest(raw)
+	manifests, err := js.KeyValue(ctx, index.ManifestsBucket)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	mkey, _ := meshcatalogclient.ManifestsKey(digest)
+	mdata, _ := meshcatalogclient.EncodeManifest(meshcatalog.ManifestsByDigestValue{Module: index.Module, Manifest: string(raw)})
+	if _, err := manifests.Put(ctx, mkey, mdata); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	held := meshcatalog.ModulesByModuleValue{Repository: "novox/mesh-delivery", Commit: "4444444444444444444444444444444444444444", Path: "modules/" + index.Module,
+		Manifest: digest, None2: sdkstep.ToolchainNoReport}
+	e := index.CatalogEntryOf(index.Module, held, m, string(raw), graph.Node{None: held.None2})
+	for _, a := range m.Build.Artifacts {
+		e.Artifacts = append(e.Artifacts, meshcatalog.Artifact{Kind: a.Kind, Language: a.Language, Ref: index.ArtifactRefOf(index.Module, a.Name),
+			Package: &meshcatalog.ArtifactPackage{Ecosystem: index.EcosystemGo, Name: index.Module}})
+	}
+	return e
+}
+
 // standIn is the build seat node-build-go as the indexer's validation meets it: the asks it heard, oldest first.
 type standIn struct {
 	mu   sync.Mutex
@@ -783,7 +824,7 @@ func startIndexerRun(t *testing.T, put func(context.Context, buildLog), before .
 	start := func() {
 		runCtx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
 		done := make(chan error, 1)
-		go func() { done <- run(runCtx, func(k string) string { return env[k] }, os.Stderr) }()
+		go func() { done <- run(runCtx, func(k string) string { return env[k] }, io.Discard) }()
 		stop = func() { cancel(); <-done }
 	}
 	start()
@@ -1536,7 +1577,8 @@ func serveAssignerAssignments(t *testing.T, ctx context.Context, js jetstream.Je
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	if _, err := js.CreateOrUpdateConsumer(ctx, "EVENTS", jetstream.ConsumerConfig{Durable: "n1_mesh-delivery-indexer", AckPolicy: jetstream.AckExplicitPolicy,
-		FilterSubjects: []string{"mesh.mod." + assignerHolderModule + ".event.views.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.>"}}); err != nil {
+		// and the build seat's step-ended the manifest's consumes names (design 47 G §713: the end of a validation ask).
+		FilterSubjects: []string{"mesh.mod." + assignerHolderModule + ".event.views.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-delivery.event.>", nodebuildgo.SubjectStepEndedAll}}); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	em := views.Emitter{Owner: assignerHolderModule, Subject: process.Account{Node: "n1", Module: assignerHolderModule}.EventSubject,
@@ -1731,4 +1773,3 @@ func TestIndexerTakesInAWatchedBranchOtherThanTheFirstIntoItsOwnRevision(t *test
 		t.Errorf("modules.avahi = %s, want the trunk's modules left", e.Value())
 	}
 }
-var _ = io.Discard
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/validation_wait.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/validation_wait.go
index f24e27a1..5e9c7f1e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/validation_wait.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/internal/index/validation_wait.go
@@ -35,9 +35,11 @@ func newestOfRevision(ready []PendingEntry) int {
 	return n
 }
 
+// branchOfRevision is the watched branch the revision's merges landed on, its newest merged message's base (design 47 G §714);
+// a message that names none is the trunk's. A pending value's own branch is its pull request's, never the branch validated.
 func branchOfRevision(ready []PendingEntry) string {
-	if ref := ready[newestOfRevision(ready)].Value.Ref; ref != nil && ref.Branch != "" {
-		return ref.Branch
+	if base := ready[newestOfRevision(ready)].Forge.Base; base != "" {
+		return base
 	}
 	return TrunkBranch
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
index 5dfaa46b..defaa435 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/manifest_test.go
@@ -179,7 +179,9 @@ func TestManifestDeclarations(t *testing.T) { // 1238/AC1, 1444 (reads the build
 	// Three invokes: the file of a registered module's manifest and lock files (registered.go), the forge's trees (the named paths' objects, since the indexer is the one reader of a manifest's paths:
 	// ADR 0499 clauses 2 and 3, ADR 0495 clause 1; and the module directories of the trunk, issue 1900) and whether a
 	// commit is in another (issue 1900).
-	if want := []string{"seat:git.trees", "seat:git.file", "seat:git.contains", "seat:git.open-pulls", "seat:git.branch", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.bridge_merged_message", "seat:node-engine.composition", "seat:mesh-delivery.source", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.placement", "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act", "seat:mesh-watchdogs.presence", "seat:node-build-go.steps", "seat:node-build-node.steps", "seat:node-build-image.steps", "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_versions"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, want) {
+	if want := []string{"seat:git.trees", "seat:git.file", "seat:git.contains", "seat:git.open-pulls", "seat:git.branch", "mesh-delivery-forge-bridge.bridge_merged_message", "seat:node-engine.composition", "seat:mesh-delivery.source", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments", "seat:mesh-module-assigner.placement", "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act", "seat:mesh-watchdogs.presence", "seat:node-build-go.steps",
+		"seat:node-build-go.accept.check", // design 47 G A-231: the validation's run ask (§712) on the check queue
+		"seat:node-build-node.steps", "seat:node-build-image.steps", "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_versions"}; !reflect.DeepEqual(m.Invokes, want) {
 		t.Errorf("invokes = %v, want %v", m.Invokes, want)
 	}
 	// 1945: indexer_take_in, served by its tools bundle through the takeins state; the process serves none. The same bundle
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
index 1255de8a..26fdb649 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/module.json
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
     "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act",
     "seat:mesh-watchdogs.presence",
     "seat:node-build-go.steps",
+    "seat:node-build-go.accept.check",
     "seat:node-build-node.steps",
     "seat:node-build-image.steps",
     "mesh-delivery-builder.builder_versions"