diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr548_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr548_test.go
index 89d97b1b..a10f167c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr548_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/adr548_test.go
@@ -203,6 +203,37 @@ func TestOneCheckPerDeliveryAtTheGate(t *testing.T) {
 				t.Errorf("after the carry: verdict %+v, merges %v; want merged on the carried verdict", d.Check, w.forge.merges)
 			}
 		},
+		// §4: delivery_turns reads every turn with the check it waits for; delivery_hand_now hands a held merge at once on the
+		// operator's word, and refuses one no check holds.
+		"the turns are read, and a held merge is handed now on the operator's word": func(t *testing.T) {
+			w := newWorld(t)
+			w.h.Turns = newMemTurns(w)
+			putCheckerVerdict(w, "running", headOf(oneRepo, 9, otherHead))
+			id := approvedLone(w)
+			w.settleAll()
+			read := w.h.TurnsRead()
+			lines := read["turns"].([]TurnLine)
+			if len(lines) != 1 || lines[0].Repository != oneRepo || len(lines[0].Turn.Waiting) != 1 || lines[0].Turn.Waiting[0].WaitsFor == "" ||
+				!strings.Contains(lines[0].Waits["feat/one"].(string), "the check g.") || read["written"] != true {
+				t.Fatalf("delivery_turns = %+v", read)
+			}
+			if _, err := w.h.HandNow(id, ""); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "why") {
+				t.Errorf("a hand without the operator's why: %v", err)
+			}
+			if _, err := w.h.HandNow(IDOf(oneRepo2, oneHead2), "x"); err == nil {
+				t.Error("an unknown delivery was handed")
+			}
+			if _, err := w.h.HandNow(id, "the operator, on telegram: merge it now"); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			w.settleAll()
+			if len(w.forge.merges) != 1 || w.delivery(id).Ready.HandNow == "" {
+				t.Fatalf("merges %v after the hand", w.forge.merges)
+			}
+			if _, err := w.h.HandNow(id, "again"); err == nil {
+				t.Error("a merged delivery was handed again")
+			}
+		},
 	} {
 		t.Run(name, run)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/main.go
index e2f35d20..e5fe73af 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/cmd/mesh-delivery-gate/main.go
@@ -358,6 +358,24 @@ func tools(h *Holder, l *listening) []stdio.Tool {
 				}
 				return h.Close(strArg(a, "id"), strArg(a, "why"))
 			}},
+		{Name: "delivery_turns",
+			Description: "Every merge turn (novox/hq ADR 0548 §3): per repository, the approved merges that wait to merge into it in the order of " +
+				"their Approve, the check of another delivery each waits for and since when, whether the gate wrote the turn to its bucket " +
+				"turns yet (the checker claims no check of a repository a turn names), and the bound past which a held merge is a stalled " +
+				"line. Read-only.",
+			Run: func(map[string]any) (any, error) { return h.TurnsRead(), nil }},
+		{Name: "delivery_hand_now",
+			Description: "On the operator's word, hand an approved merge held for another delivery's running check to the merge at once " +
+				"(novox/hq ADR 0548 §4): the check it waited for runs on and is carried to the new trunk after the merge. Refused for a " +
+				"delivery that is not an approved merge held by a check, naming why. The why is kept on the delivery.",
+			Input: map[string]any{"type": "object", "properties": map[string]any{"id": str("the delivery's id (owner/repository@commit)"),
+				"why": str("the operator's word, kept on the delivery")}, "required": []string{"id", "why"}},
+			Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) {
+				if err := need(a, "id", "why"); err != nil {
+					return nil, err
+				}
+				return h.HandNow(strArg(a, "id"), strArg(a, "why"))
+			}},
 		{Name: "delivery_status",
 			Description: "Whether this owner works: how many deliveries in each state, the groups, what is owed to " +
 				"the forge and the bus and not yet done, how many owed effects were tried since it started (done, failed " +
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/module.json
index da631307..4a4e32f2 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-gate/module.json
@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
     "mesh-delivery-checker.verdicts"
   ],
   "tools": [
-    "delivery_status"
+    "delivery_hand_now",
+    "delivery_status",
+    "delivery_turns"
   ],
   "config": {
     "refusal-stall-floor-minutes": {