diff --git a/go/approval/approval_test.go b/go/approval/approval_test.go
index 29ca678e..a0ed8ca6 100644
--- a/go/approval/approval_test.go
+++ b/go/approval/approval_test.go
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@ package approval
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/operatorask"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatdef"
 )
 
 // call is a fixture call of the marked tool wipe.
@@ -78,3 +81,53 @@ func TestTheActAndItsAsk(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("headline %q", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// unread is a catalog half whose first view is not read yet.
+type unread struct{}
+
+func (unread) Ready() error                               { return errors.New("the registrations are not answered") }
+func (unread) Revision() string                           { return "" }
+func (unread) Served(string) (Entry, bool, string)        { return Entry{}, false, "not read" }
+func (unread) Newest(string) (Entry, bool)                { return Entry{}, false }
+func (unread) Definitions() map[string]seatdef.Definition { return nil }
+func (unread) Entries() []Entry                           { return nil }
+
+// Design 47 G lead answers A-353, A-359: while its catalog half is unread, the gate lets through the four seat verbs that
+// half is read by, told from the call's seat and verb, and holds every other call as before.
+func TestAnUnreadCatalogHalfLetsItsOwnReadsThrough(t *testing.T) {
+	waited := 0
+	g := New(Deps{Node: "n1", Runner: "node-tools", Catalog: unread{}, Wait: func(time.Duration) error {
+		waited++
+		return errors.New("still unread")
+	}})
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		seat, name string
+		runs       bool
+	}{
+		{"mesh-catalog", "registrations", true},
+		{"mesh-catalog", "revision", true},
+		{"mesh-catalog", "entry", true},
+		{"mesh-delivery", "source", true},
+		{"mesh-catalog", "register", false},
+		{"mesh-delivery", "registrations", false},
+		{"", "registrations", false}, // a module's tool of that name is no seat verb
+		{"", "revision", false},
+	} {
+		ran := false
+		address := tc.seat + "." + tc.name
+		if tc.seat == "" {
+			address = "mesh-delivery-indexer." + tc.name
+		}
+		_, err := g.Run(Call{Address: address, Module: "mesh-delivery-indexer", Seat: tc.seat, Name: tc.name, Fingerprint: "fp1",
+			Caller: "node-tools"}, func() (any, error) { ran = true; return "ok", nil })
+		if ran != tc.runs || (err == nil) != tc.runs {
+			t.Errorf("%s: ran %v (%v), want ran %v", address, ran, err, tc.runs)
+		}
+		if !tc.runs && (err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "are not read yet")) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: refused with %v, want the marks not read yet", address, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if waited != 4 {
+		t.Errorf("the other calls waited for the catalog half %d times, want 4 (the four start reads wait for nothing)", waited)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/go/approval/run.go b/go/approval/run.go
index 5cefae6f..42a701d4 100644
--- a/go/approval/run.go
+++ b/go/approval/run.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package approval
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/operatorask"
@@ -67,13 +68,27 @@ func (g *Gate) Run(c Call, run func() (any, error)) (any, error) {
 // Binding is a Store that says whether the runner's membership binds the state now (§13).
 type Binding interface{ Bound() bool }
 
-// marksOf is the module's marks as the catalog half has them now; before its first view, the call waits for it within
-// RecordWithin and is then judged, refused naming mesh_first_views when it is still unread (§19).
+// startReads are the seat verbs the catalog half is read by, as `<seat>.<verb>`: while it is unread the gate lets them
+// through, so the runner that serves them answers the reads its own catalog half waits on (design 47 G lead answers
+// A-353, A-359).
+var startReads = []string{"mesh-catalog.registrations", "mesh-catalog.revision", "mesh-catalog.entry", "mesh-delivery.source"}
+
+// startRead says the call is one of startReads, told from its seat and verb.
+func startRead(c Call) bool {
+	return c.Seat != "" && slices.Contains(startReads, c.Seat+"."+c.Name)
+}
+
+// marksOf is the module's marks as the catalog half has them now; before its first view, a call of startReads runs
+// unmarked (A-353, A-359) and any other waits for it within RecordWithin and is then judged, refused naming
+// mesh_first_views when it is still unread (§19).
 func (g *Gate) marksOf(c Call) (Marks, error) {
 	if g.d.Catalog == nil {
 		return Marks{}, g.refused(c, "", "the tool runner reads no catalog half, so its marks are not read")
 	}
 	if err := g.d.Catalog.Ready(); err != nil {
+		if startRead(c) {
+			return Marks{Module: c.Module}, nil
+		}
 		if g.d.Wait != nil {
 			err = g.d.Wait(RecordWithin)
 		}