diff --git a/go/delivery/verdicts.go b/go/delivery/verdicts.go
index 15a6a9c..a747897 100644
--- a/go/delivery/verdicts.go
+++ b/go/delivery/verdicts.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
 	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 )
 
 // The verdicts on manifests (novox/hq ADR 0578 §1, §3): the indexer judges every manifest it takes in once, with its own
@@ -28,6 +30,11 @@ const (
 	// raises it as a condition beside the indexer's finding.
 	ManifestRefusedEvent = "manifest-refused"
 
+	// ManifestAcceptedEvent is the indexer's event saying a manifest that asks for bus state was accepted
+	// (ManifestAccepted), carrying its bus-state entries whole, so the bus module creates them without reading the
+	// indexer's state (novox/hq ADR 0595 §4, design 25 § 12.2).
+	ManifestAcceptedEvent = "manifest-accepted"
+
 	// ManifestOutgrown is the finding of a manifest the indexer accepted before and a stricter judge finds problems in
 	// (novox/hq ADR 0579 §1): it stays accepted, its problems are the verdict's Warnings, and the watchman raises it as a
 	// warning until the manifest is mended.
@@ -154,3 +161,24 @@ type ManifestRefused struct {
 func RefusedOf(digest string, v ManifestVerdict) ManifestRefused {
 	return ManifestRefused{V: Version, Module: v.Module, Digest: digest, Judge: v.Judge, Problems: v.Problems}
 }
+
+// ManifestAccepted is the body of the indexer's event ManifestAcceptedEvent: the module, the digest of its manifest, the
+// judge, and every bus-state entry the manifest asks for, whole (novox/hq ADR 0595 §4).
+type ManifestAccepted struct {
+	V        int                       `json:"v"`
+	Module   string                    `json:"module"`
+	Digest   string                    `json:"digest"`
+	Judge    string                    `json:"judge"`
+	BusState []catalogue.BusStateEntry `json:"bus-state"`
+}
+
+// AcceptedOf is the event body saying v, the verdict accepting the manifest m of digest.
+func AcceptedOf(digest string, v ManifestVerdict, m catalogue.Manifest) ManifestAccepted {
+	return ManifestAccepted{V: Version, Module: v.Module, Digest: digest, Judge: v.Judge, BusState: m.BusState}
+}
+
+// EventID is the event's id, one per manifest digest and judge, so the bus takes it once:
+// `manifest-accepted-<digest>-<judge>`.
+func (a ManifestAccepted) EventID() string {
+	return ManifestAcceptedEvent + "-" + a.Digest + "-" + a.Judge
+}
diff --git a/go/delivery/verdicts_test.go b/go/delivery/verdicts_test.go
index da05519..ca6cf2f 100644
--- a/go/delivery/verdicts_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/verdicts_test.go
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 package delivery
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 )
 
 // A verdict on a manifest round-trips, refuses what it cannot be, and a reader takes a missing one as accepted (novox/hq
@@ -72,4 +76,28 @@ func TestAManifestVerdictIsTheContractReadersTake(t *testing.T) {
 	if r, _ := TakeManifestVerdict(m.VerdictOf("x")); r || len(m.VerdictOf("x").Warnings) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("an outgrown module: %+v", m.VerdictOf("x"))
 	}
+
+	// 1966/AC6: the accepted event of a manifest with two bus-state entries carries both whole, and its id is
+	// manifest-accepted-<digest>-<judge>.
+	entries := []catalogue.BusStateEntry{
+		{Name: "drafts", Storage: catalogue.StorageKeyValue, Template: catalogue.TemplateState,
+			Options: map[string]json.RawMessage{catalogue.OptionPastValues: json.RawMessage(`5`)}},
+		{Name: "records", Storage: catalogue.StorageLedger, Template: catalogue.TemplateLedger,
+			Types: []catalogue.LedgerType{{Name: "decision", Operations: []catalogue.LedgerOperation{{Name: "submit", Effect: catalogue.EffectSetFields}}}}},
+	}
+	digest := strings.Repeat("d", 64)
+	accepted := AcceptedOf(digest, ManifestVerdict{Module: "mesh-knowledge", State: VerdictAccepted, Judge: "src2:j"},
+		catalogue.Manifest{Module: "mesh-knowledge", BusState: entries})
+	raw, err := json.Marshal(accepted)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var heard ManifestAccepted
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &heard); err != nil || heard.Module != "mesh-knowledge" || heard.Digest != digest ||
+		heard.V != Version || !reflect.DeepEqual(heard.BusState, entries) {
+		t.Fatalf("the accepted event reads as %+v (%v)", heard, err)
+	}
+	if id := heard.EventID(); id != "manifest-accepted-"+digest+"-src2:j" {
+		t.Fatalf("the accepted event's id is %q", id)
+	}
 }