diff --git a/go/buildstep/askrun.go b/go/buildstep/askrun.go
index 44d2fc1..f0cef51 100644
--- a/go/buildstep/askrun.go
+++ b/go/buildstep/askrun.go
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 		_ = json.Unmarshal(r, &t)
 		return t.Passed, nil
 	}
+	// Every test step of the level runs, also after one that did not pass, so one check names every failing test of the
+	// level and not only the first (issue 1921); the level as a whole passes only when each of its steps did.
+	all := true
 	if s.Digest == nil {
 		// A module with no digest (Node) tests each module directory of the tree, those whose tests changed first.
 		for _, priority := range []bool{true, false} {
@@ -219,14 +222,12 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 				if err != nil {
 					return false, fmt.Errorf("the %s level of %s: %w", level, dir, err)
 				}
-				if !passed {
-					return false, nil
-				}
+				all = all && passed
 			}
 		}
-		return true, nil
+		return all, nil
 	}
-	todo, all, keepRunner := s.plan(ctx, job, level, f, runner, withRunner, la)
+	todo, whole, keepRunner := s.plan(ctx, job, level, f, runner, withRunner, la)
 	if !keepRunner {
 		runner = "" // an installed module that ignores the runner judges the level as it judges any other (ADR 0535 §2)
 	}
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 		if job.Run != "" {
 			args["run"] = job.Run
 		}
-		if all {
+		if whole {
 			if priority {
 				continue // nothing to put first: the level runs whole after
 			}
@@ -255,11 +256,9 @@ func (s AskSteps) level(ctx context.Context, job delivery.CheckJob, level string
 		if err != nil {
 			return false, fmt.Errorf("the %s level: %w", level, err)
 		}
-		if !passed {
-			return false, nil
-		}
+		all = all && passed // the packages left still run (issue 1921)
 	}
-	return true, nil
+	return all, nil
 }
 
 // release removes an ask's workspace, saying a failure: the module's sweep removes it later.
diff --git a/go/buildstep/askrun_test.go b/go/buildstep/askrun_test.go
index fa1bf24..8ceb678 100644
--- a/go/buildstep/askrun_test.go
+++ b/go/buildstep/askrun_test.go
@@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ func TestRunAskRefusesAnotherToolchain(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// 1887/A3, A5a, issue 1887 design limit 1: a check ask runs the levels of one check after one fetch: it digests the unit
-// level, takes the kept verdicts, tests the packages whose tests changed first, and stops at the first failure, running
-// no later level.
+// 1887/A3, A5a: a check ask runs the levels of one check after one fetch: it digests the unit level, takes the kept
+// verdicts, tests the packages whose tests changed first, then the rest also after a failure (issue 1921), and runs no
+// level after one that did not pass (ADR 0484 clause 13).
 func TestRunAskChecksTheLevelsOfOneCheck(t *testing.T) {
 	r := &recorder{
 		fetch:   map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "changed": []string{"pkg/b/b_test.go"}},
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ func TestRunAskChecksTheLevelsOfOneCheck(t *testing.T) {
 	got := strings.Join(r.calls, "\n")
 	want := `fetch {"base":"` + runCommit + `","commit":"` + runCommit + `","repository":"novox/x"}
 digest {"level":"unit","workspace":"/w"}
-test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/b"],"workspace":"/w"}`
+test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/b"],"workspace":"/w"}
+test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/a"],"workspace":"/w"}`
 	if got != want {
 		t.Fatalf("calls:\n%s\nwant:\n%s", got, want)
 	}
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ test {"level":"unit","packages":["x/pkg/b"],"workspace":"/w"}`
 		t.Fatalf("levels %+v, want the unit level alone", a.Levels)
 	}
 	u := a.Levels[0]
-	if u.Level != delivery.LevelUnit || len(u.Kept) != 1 || u.Kept[0].Package != "x/pkg/k" || u.Kept[0].Tests != 7 || len(u.Tests) != 1 || u.Digest == nil {
+	if u.Level != delivery.LevelUnit || len(u.Kept) != 1 || u.Kept[0].Package != "x/pkg/k" || u.Kept[0].Tests != 7 || len(u.Tests) != 2 || u.Digest == nil {
 		t.Fatalf("the unit level %+v", u)
 	}
 }
@@ -203,3 +204,42 @@ func TestRunAskChecksNodeModulesAndConflicts(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a conflict: %v %v", err, r.calls)
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1921: a failure in the packages whose tests changed does not stop the level: the other packages still run, so two
+// failing packages, one changed and one not, are two test results of the one level, and the level does not pass. A Node
+// check runs every module directory after one fails too.
+func TestRunAskRunsEveryPackageAfterAFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	r := &recorder{
+		fetch:   map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "changed": []string{"pkg/b/b_test.go"}},
+		digests: map[string]string{"x/pkg/a": "d-a", "x/pkg/b": "d-b"},
+		tests:   map[string]bool{"x/pkg/a": false, "x/pkg/b": false},
+	}
+	out, err := RunAsk(context.Background(), r.steps(), ask(delivery.CheckJob{Levels: []string{delivery.LevelIntegration, delivery.LevelUnit},
+		Fetch: map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "commit": runCommit}}))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	a := out.(delivery.CheckAnswer)
+	if len(a.Levels) != 1 || len(a.Levels[0].Tests) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("levels %+v, want the one level with both packages' results", a.Levels)
+	}
+	for i, raw := range a.Levels[0].Tests {
+		var res struct{ Passed bool }
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &res); err != nil || res.Passed {
+			t.Errorf("result %d %s, want a failure", i, raw)
+		}
+	}
+
+	r = &recorder{fetch: map[string]any{"workspace": "/w", "modules": []string{"a", "b"}, "changed": []string{"b/test/x.test.ts"}},
+		tests: map[string]bool{"a": true, "b": false}}
+	s := r.steps()
+	s.Digest = nil
+	out, err = RunAsk(context.Background(), s, ask(delivery.CheckJob{Levels: []string{delivery.LevelUnit, delivery.LevelIntegration},
+		Fetch: map[string]any{"repository": "novox/x", "commit": runCommit}}))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if a := out.(delivery.CheckAnswer); len(r.calls) != 3 || len(a.Levels) != 1 || len(a.Levels[0].Tests) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("calls %v, levels %+v: want both directories of the unit level and no integration level", r.calls, a.Levels)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/go/delivery/checker.go b/go/delivery/checker.go
index 8b7a95c..e23a51e 100644
--- a/go/delivery/checker.go
+++ b/go/delivery/checker.go
@@ -139,16 +139,25 @@ type FailedFirst struct {
 	Words   string `json:"words,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// MaxFailures is the most entries a verdict's Failures holds (issue 1921): fifty tests named one by one, and an entry
+// after them saying how many more failed.
+const MaxFailures = 50
+
 // Verdict is the value of a verdict key: the group and its heads hash, the trunk head of each repository it was judged
 // against (repository to full sha), the State (running, pass or fail), what failed first, the tests run and kept per
 // level, each part's time, the machines composed and the mesh-sdk version the composition ran with (ADR 0446 clause 5).
 type Verdict struct {
-	V        int                    `json:"v"`
-	Group    string                 `json:"group"`
-	Heads    string                 `json:"heads"`
-	Trunk    map[string]string      `json:"trunk,omitempty"`
-	State    string                 `json:"state"`
-	Failed   FailedFirst            `json:"failed,omitzero"`
+	V      int               `json:"v"`
+	Group  string            `json:"group"`
+	Heads  string            `json:"heads"`
+	Trunk  map[string]string `json:"trunk,omitempty"`
+	State  string            `json:"state"`
+	Failed FailedFirst       `json:"failed,omitzero"`
+	// Failures names every test that failed, in the order judged, each with the first line of its words (issue 1921):
+	// Failed keeps the first one's words whole, and a check that ran every test says all it found here. At most
+	// MaxFailures entries, the last of a longer list saying how many more failed. Absent in a value written before it,
+	// and from a verdict whose failure is no test.
+	Failures []FailedFirst          `json:"failures,omitempty"`
 	Levels   map[string]LevelResult `json:"levels,omitempty"`
 	Took     Took                   `json:"took,omitzero"`
 	Machines []string               `json:"machines,omitempty"`
@@ -222,6 +231,12 @@ func (v Verdict) check() error {
 		}
 	}
 	named := v.Failed.Test != "" || v.Failed.Machine != ""
+	if len(v.Failures) > 0 && v.State != VerdictFail {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a %s verdict names no failures", v.State)
+	}
+	if len(v.Failures) > MaxFailures+1 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: the verdict names %d failures, more than %d and the count of the rest", len(v.Failures), MaxFailures)
+	}
 	switch v.State {
 	case VerdictRunning:
 		if v.Failed != (FailedFirst{}) {
diff --git a/go/delivery/checker_test.go b/go/delivery/checker_test.go
index 22d4611..815577a 100644
--- a/go/delivery/checker_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/checker_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package delivery
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -600,3 +601,38 @@ func TestPreviewOfAHeadInConflict(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the old reader: %+v %v", old, err)
 	}
 }
+
+// Issue 1921: a failed verdict names every failed test in Failures and reads back the same; an older reader's value
+// without it reads too; Failures on a verdict that is no fail, and more than MaxFailures and the count of the rest, are
+// refused.
+func TestVerdictNamesEveryFailure(t *testing.T) {
+	v := passVerdict()
+	v.State = VerdictFail
+	v.Failed = FailedFirst{Test: "integration: x/a.TestA", Words: "a_test.go:9: want 1, got 2\nmore"}
+	v.Failures = []FailedFirst{{Test: "integration: x/a.TestA", Words: "a_test.go:9: want 1, got 2"}, {Test: "integration: x/b.TestB", Words: "b_test.go:3: boom"}}
+	data, err := EncodeVerdict(v)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err := DecodeVerdict(data)
+	v.V = Version
+	if err != nil || !SameVerdict(got, v) || !strings.Contains(string(data), `"failures":[{"test":"integration: x/a.TestA"`) {
+		t.Fatalf("%s: %+v %v", data, got, err)
+	}
+	old := strings.Replace(string(data), string(data[strings.Index(string(data), `,"failures":`):strings.Index(string(data), `,"levels":`)]), "", 1)
+	if got, err := DecodeVerdict([]byte(old)); err != nil || len(got.Failures) != 0 || got.Failed != v.Failed {
+		t.Fatalf("a value without failures: %+v %v (%s)", got, err, old)
+	}
+	p := passVerdict()
+	p.Failures = v.Failures
+	if _, err := EncodeVerdict(p); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a pass with failures was written")
+	}
+	v.Failures = make([]FailedFirst, MaxFailures+2)
+	for i := range v.Failures {
+		v.Failures[i] = FailedFirst{Test: "unit: x.T" + strconv.Itoa(i)}
+	}
+	if _, err := EncodeVerdict(v); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a verdict naming more than MaxFailures and the rest was written")
+	}
+}