diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_integration_test.go
index c6a98e1c..565ca164 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/chain_integration_test.go
@@ -207,3 +207,42 @@ func runOf(on []chain.Assignment, module string) chain.Assignment {
 	a, _ := assignmentOf(on, module)
 	return a
 }
+
+// **An assignment waiting for its build is one key of the assignments bucket** (ADR 0261, ADR 0408, issue 1094): entered
+// through the `assign` verb for a module whose build is in flight, one read of `<node>.<module>` says state pending with the
+// build it waits for, the build's outcome through the build seat's path makes the key stand with the wait carried as applied,
+// and the table of pending assignments is read by nobody. No key is written by hand.
+func TestAnAssignmentWaitingForItsBuildIsOneKeyOfTheAssignmentsBucket(t *testing.T) {
+	open := aCatalogueMesh(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	inv := open.inventory
+	asksWithPaths(t)
+	mergeAdding(t, open, "modules/sensors", "3da80a4b00aa")
+	if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "laptop", "sensors"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("an assignment while its build runs was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	waiting, found, err := inv.AssignmentValue(ctx, "laptop", "sensors")
+	if err != nil || !found || waiting.State != chain.StatePending || waiting.Stands() || !waiting.Assigned.IsZero() ||
+		waiting.Pending == nil || waiting.Pending.State != chain.PendingWaiting || waiting.Pending.Build != "b-modules/sensors" ||
+		!strings.HasPrefix(waiting.Pending.ID, "p-") {
+		t.Fatalf("one read of the key says %+v (found %v, %v)", waiting, found, err)
+	}
+	if got := assignedTo(t, open, "laptop"); slices.Contains(got, "sensors") {
+		t.Fatalf("a module only waiting is assigned: %v", got)
+	}
+
+	if err := (builds{inv: inv, open: open}).Built(ctx, outcome("b-modules/sensors", "modules/sensors", "3da80a4b00aa", "sensors", "")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	made, found, err := inv.AssignmentValue(ctx, "laptop", "sensors")
+	if err != nil || !found || !made.Stands() || made.State != "" || made.Assigned.IsZero() || made.Pending == nil ||
+		made.Pending.State != chain.PendingApplied || made.Pending.ID != waiting.Pending.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("one read of the key after the build says %+v (found %v, %v)", made, found, err)
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(assignedTo(t, open, "laptop"), "sensors") {
+		t.Fatal("the build registered sensors and it was not assigned")
+	}
+	if rows := inv.QueryForTest(t, `select count(*) from pending_assignment`); rows[0][0] != "0" {
+		t.Fatalf("the table of pending assignments took %s rows", rows[0][0])
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/pending.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/pending.go
index 977617bb..a5ec7359 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/pending.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/pending.go
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ func clearOrphaned(ctx context.Context, keeper *conditions.Keeper, inv *inventor
 		if known[id] {
 			continue
 		}
-		if _, err := keeper.Clear(ctx, key, "its pending assignment is no longer on record: its machine was removed"); err != nil {
+		if _, err := keeper.Clear(ctx, key, "its pending assignment is no longer on record: its machine was removed, or the module was assigned and the wait taken back"); err != nil {
 			said = append(said, fmt.Sprintf("the condition %s could not be cleared: %v", key, err))
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/internal/chain/records.go b/internal/chain/records.go
index 54facfc1..ceb23533 100644
--- a/internal/chain/records.go
+++ b/internal/chain/records.go
@@ -225,6 +225,10 @@ type Pending struct {
 	Raised       *time.Time `json:"raised,omitempty"`
 	Acknowledged *time.Time `json:"acknowledged,omitempty"`
 	Cleared      *time.Time `json:"cleared,omitempty"`
+	// Earlier are the waits of this key that ended unmade and were replaced by this one before their condition was answered
+	// (taken back or cleared): each stays, with its own marks, so a replaced wait never leaves the operator without the
+	// condition it raised or was to raise. Dropped once answered.
+	Earlier []Pending `json:"earlier,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Open says the assignment is still to be made.
diff --git a/internal/inventory/chain_assignments.go b/internal/inventory/chain_assignments.go
index 6ca7e82c..3a4d058f 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/chain_assignments.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/chain_assignments.go
@@ -412,3 +412,13 @@ func carriedPending(was chain.Assignment, now time.Time) *chain.Pending {
 	}
 	return &p
 }
+
+// AssignmentValue is one key of the assignments bucket as it is held, standing or not: one read of an assignment.
+func (i *Inventory) AssignmentValue(ctx context.Context, node, module string) (chain.Assignment, bool, error) {
+	c, err := i.theChain(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return chain.Assignment{}, false, err
+	}
+	k, found, err := c.Assignments.Get(ctx, assignmentKey(node, module))
+	return k.Value, found, err
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/chain_pending_test.go b/internal/inventory/chain_pending_test.go
index 1e996403..2f62ee2c 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/chain_pending_test.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/chain_pending_test.go
@@ -219,3 +219,55 @@ func TestAPendingIsMarkedOnceAndGoesWithItsMachine(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a wait outlived its machine: %+v", rows)
 	}
 }
+
+// **A wait replaced by a newer one never leaves the operator without the condition it raised, or was to raise** (issue
+// 1108): the key carries the replaced wait while its condition is unanswered, still known, still to clear, and a newer
+// wait takes only the unanswered ones forward.
+func TestAReplacedWaitNeverLeavesTheOperatorWithoutItsCondition(t *testing.T) {
+	inv, node := aNodeWithModules(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	record := func(build string) PendingAssignment {
+		p, err := inv.RecordPending(ctx, PendingAssignment{Node: node, Module: "sensors", Build: build})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		return p
+	}
+	end := func(p PendingAssignment) {
+		if ok, err := inv.SettlePending(ctx, p.ID, PendingWaiting, PendingExpired, "boom "+p.Build); err != nil || !ok {
+			t.Fatal(ok, err)
+		}
+	}
+	first := record("b-1")
+	end(first)
+	if err := inv.MarkPending(ctx, first.ID, "raised"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	second := record("b-2")
+	if known, _ := inv.PendingKnown(ctx, []string{first.ID, second.ID}); !known[first.ID] || !known[second.ID] {
+		t.Fatalf("known %v: the replaced wait's condition is unanswered", known)
+	}
+	if clear, _ := inv.ToClear(ctx); len(clear) != 1 || clear[0].ID != first.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("to clear %+v: the first's condition is still to clear", clear)
+	}
+	rows, _ := inv.PendingFor(ctx, node, "sensors")
+	if len(rows) != 2 || rows[0].ID != second.ID || rows[1].ID != first.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("the key says %+v, newest first", rows)
+	}
+	// The second ends unmade before the first was answered: both are to be said, the first's condition not cleared by it.
+	end(second)
+	if raise, _ := inv.ToRaise(ctx); len(raise) != 1 || raise[0].ID != second.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("to raise %+v", raise)
+	}
+	// A third replaces the second, which was not raised yet: it is carried, with the first (still unanswered).
+	if err := inv.MarkPending(ctx, first.ID, "acknowledged"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	third := record("b-3")
+	if raise, _ := inv.ToRaise(ctx); len(raise) != 1 || raise[0].ID != second.ID {
+		t.Fatalf("the second was never raised and is to be: %+v", raise)
+	}
+	if known, _ := inv.PendingKnown(ctx, []string{first.ID, second.ID, third.ID}); known[first.ID] || !known[second.ID] || !known[third.ID] {
+		t.Fatalf("known %v: the first was answered (taken back) and is let go, the second is not", known)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/inventory/pending.go b/internal/inventory/pending.go
index ff41e0f6..4d163eef 100644
--- a/internal/inventory/pending.go
+++ b/internal/inventory/pending.go
@@ -254,8 +254,10 @@ var ErrAlreadyPending = errors.New("that assignment is already waiting for its b
 // ErrOnTheMachine is a pending assignment of a module that is on the machine already.
 var ErrOnTheMachine = errors.New("that module is on the machine already")
 
-func pendingOf(v chain.Assignment) PendingAssignment {
-	p := v.Pending
+func pendingOf(v chain.Assignment) PendingAssignment { return pendingRecord(v, *v.Pending) }
+
+// pendingRecord is one wait of a key, the one it holds or one it replaced.
+func pendingRecord(v chain.Assignment, p chain.Pending) PendingAssignment {
 	return PendingAssignment{ID: p.ID, Node: v.Node, Module: v.Module, Build: p.Build, Repository: p.Repository, Path: p.Path,
 		Since: p.Since, State: p.State, Note: p.Note, Settled: p.Settled, Raised: p.Raised, Acknowledged: p.Acknowledged,
 		Cleared: p.Cleared}
@@ -296,16 +298,39 @@ func (i *Inventory) pendingValues(ctx context.Context) ([]chain.Kept[chain.Assig
 func pendingList(kept []chain.Kept[chain.Assignment], keep func(chain.Pending) bool) []PendingAssignment {
 	var out []PendingAssignment
 	for _, k := range kept {
-		if keep(*k.Value.Pending) {
-			out = append(out, pendingOf(k.Value))
+		for _, p := range pendingWaits(k.Value) {
+			if keep(p) {
+				out = append(out, pendingRecord(k.Value, p))
+			}
 		}
 	}
+	sort.SliceStable(out, func(a, b int) bool {
+		if !out[a].Since.Equal(out[b].Since) {
+			return out[a].Since.Before(out[b].Since)
+		}
+		return out[a].ID < out[b].ID
+	})
 	return out
 }
 
-// changePending changes the pending assignment of an id by compare-and-set on the key that holds it, read again when it
-// moved: false when no key holds that id now, or change says no.
-func (i *Inventory) changePending(ctx context.Context, id string, change func(v *chain.Assignment) bool) (bool, error) {
+// pendingWaits is the wait a value holds and the earlier ones it carries, each without the others.
+func pendingWaits(v chain.Assignment) []chain.Pending {
+	if v.Pending == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	out := make([]chain.Pending, 0, 1+len(v.Pending.Earlier))
+	for _, e := range v.Pending.Earlier {
+		e.Earlier = nil
+		out = append(out, e)
+	}
+	held := *v.Pending
+	held.Earlier = nil
+	return append(out, held)
+}
+
+// changePending changes the pending assignment of an id — the wait a key holds or one it carries from before — by
+// compare-and-set on the key that holds it, read again when it moved: false when no key holds that id now, or change says no.
+func (i *Inventory) changePending(ctx context.Context, id string, change func(p *chain.Pending) bool) (bool, error) {
 	c, err := i.theChain(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
@@ -316,21 +341,34 @@ func (i *Inventory) changePending(ctx context.Context, id string, change func(v
 			return false, err
 		}
 		var at *chain.Kept[chain.Assignment]
+		var target *chain.Pending
 		for k := range held {
-			if held[k].Value.Pending.ID == id {
-				at = &held[k]
+			v := held[k].Value
+			p := *v.Pending
+			p.Earlier = append([]chain.Pending(nil), p.Earlier...)
+			v.Pending = &p
+			switch {
+			case p.ID == id:
+				at, target = &held[k], v.Pending
+			default:
+				for e := range v.Pending.Earlier {
+					if v.Pending.Earlier[e].ID == id {
+						at, target = &held[k], &v.Pending.Earlier[e]
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			if at != nil {
+				held[k].Value = v
+				break
 			}
 		}
 		if at == nil {
 			return false, nil
 		}
-		v := at.Value
-		p := *v.Pending
-		v.Pending = &p
-		if !change(&v) {
+		if !change(target) {
 			return false, nil
 		}
-		if _, err := c.Assignments.Update(ctx, at.Key, v, at.Revision); errors.Is(err, chain.ErrMoved) {
+		if _, err := c.Assignments.Update(ctx, at.Key, at.Value, at.Revision); errors.Is(err, chain.ErrMoved) {
 			continue
 		} else if err != nil {
 			return false, err
@@ -368,7 +406,8 @@ func (i *Inventory) RecordPending(ctx context.Context, p PendingAssignment) (Pen
 		p.ID, p.Since, p.State = fmt.Sprintf("p-%d", since.UnixNano()), since, PendingWaiting
 		p.Path = strings.Trim(p.Path, "/")
 		value := chain.Assignment{Node: node.Name, Module: p.Module, State: chain.StatePending, Pending: &chain.Pending{
-			ID: p.ID, State: PendingWaiting, Build: p.Build, Repository: p.Repository, Path: p.Path, Since: since}}
+			ID: p.ID, State: PendingWaiting, Build: p.Build, Repository: p.Repository, Path: p.Path, Since: since,
+			Earlier: unansweredWaits(cur.Value, found)}}
 		if found {
 			_, err = c.Assignments.Update(ctx, key, value, cur.Revision)
 		} else {
@@ -387,11 +426,11 @@ func (i *Inventory) RecordPending(ctx context.Context, p PendingAssignment) (Pen
 
 // RepointPending makes a waiting pending assignment wait for another build. False when it no longer waits.
 func (i *Inventory) RepointPending(ctx context.Context, id string, build, repository, sourcePath string) (bool, error) {
-	return i.changePending(ctx, id, func(v *chain.Assignment) bool {
-		if v.Pending.State != PendingWaiting {
+	return i.changePending(ctx, id, func(p *chain.Pending) bool {
+		if p.State != PendingWaiting {
 			return false
 		}
-		v.Pending.Build, v.Pending.Repository, v.Pending.Path = build, repository, strings.Trim(sourcePath, "/")
+		p.Build, p.Repository, p.Path = build, repository, strings.Trim(sourcePath, "/")
 		return true
 	})
 }
@@ -411,8 +450,8 @@ func (i *Inventory) Pending(ctx context.Context, endedSince time.Time) ([]Pendin
 	}), nil
 }
 
-// PendingFor is the pending assignment of one module to one machine: the one its key holds now, which is the newest
-// (an earlier one is read from the key's history, which nothing here needs).
+// PendingFor is every pending assignment of one module to one machine the key still has to say, newest first: the wait it
+// holds now and the unanswered ones it replaced.
 func (i *Inventory) PendingFor(ctx context.Context, node, module string) ([]PendingAssignment, error) {
 	held, err := i.pendingValues(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -421,9 +460,13 @@ func (i *Inventory) PendingFor(ctx context.Context, node, module string) ([]Pend
 	var out []PendingAssignment
 	for _, k := range held {
 		if k.Value.Node == node && k.Value.Module == module {
-			out = append(out, pendingOf(k.Value))
+			for _, w := range pendingWaits(k.Value) {
+				out = append(out, pendingRecord(k.Value, w))
+			}
 		}
 	}
+	// Newest first.
+	sort.SliceStable(out, func(a, b int) bool { return out[a].Since.After(out[b].Since) })
 	return out, nil
 }
 
@@ -465,8 +508,8 @@ func (i *Inventory) MarkPending(ctx context.Context, id string, what string) err
 		return errors.New("a pending assignment is marked raised, acknowledged or cleared")
 	}
 	now := time.Now().UTC()
-	_, err := i.changePending(ctx, id, func(v *chain.Assignment) bool {
-		mark := map[string]**time.Time{"raised": &v.Pending.Raised, "acknowledged": &v.Pending.Acknowledged, "cleared": &v.Pending.Cleared}[what]
+	_, err := i.changePending(ctx, id, func(p *chain.Pending) bool {
+		mark := map[string]**time.Time{"raised": &p.Raised, "acknowledged": &p.Acknowledged, "cleared": &p.Cleared}[what]
 		if *mark != nil {
 			return false // the first stamp stands
 		}
@@ -480,22 +523,22 @@ func (i *Inventory) MarkPending(ctx context.Context, id string, what string) err
 // it is made. False when it no longer waits: another process took it, or it was withdrawn.
 func (i *Inventory) ClaimPending(ctx context.Context, id string) (bool, error) {
 	now := time.Now().UTC()
-	return i.changePending(ctx, id, func(v *chain.Assignment) bool {
-		if !chain.CanMove(v.Pending.State, PendingApplying) {
+	return i.changePending(ctx, id, func(p *chain.Pending) bool {
+		if !chain.CanMove(p.State, PendingApplying) {
 			return false
 		}
-		v.Pending.State, v.Pending.Settled = PendingApplying, &now
+		p.State, p.Settled = PendingApplying, &now
 		return true
 	})
 }
 
 // ReleaseClaim puts a claimed pending assignment back to waiting.
 func (i *Inventory) ReleaseClaim(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
-	_, err := i.changePending(ctx, id, func(v *chain.Assignment) bool {
-		if v.Pending.State != PendingApplying {
+	_, err := i.changePending(ctx, id, func(p *chain.Pending) bool {
+		if p.State != PendingApplying {
 			return false
 		}
-		v.Pending.State, v.Pending.Settled = PendingWaiting, nil
+		p.State, p.Settled = PendingWaiting, nil
 		return true
 	})
 	return err
@@ -508,17 +551,17 @@ func (i *Inventory) SettlePending(ctx context.Context, id string, from, state, n
 		return false, errors.New("a pending assignment is settled to applied, refused, expired or withdrawn")
 	}
 	now := time.Now().UTC()
-	return i.changePending(ctx, id, func(v *chain.Assignment) bool {
-		if v.Pending.State != from || !chain.CanSettle(from, state) {
+	return i.changePending(ctx, id, func(p *chain.Pending) bool {
+		if p.State != from || !chain.CanSettle(from, state) {
 			return false
 		}
-		v.Pending.State, v.Pending.Note, v.Pending.Settled = state, note, &now
+		p.State, p.Note, p.Settled = state, note, &now
 		return true
 	})
 }
 
-// PendingKnown says which of these pending assignments are still on record: a key holds them now. One a newer pending
-// assignment of its key replaced is not.
+// PendingKnown says which of these pending assignments are still on record: a key holds them now, or carries them as
+// unanswered earlier waits.
 func (i *Inventory) PendingKnown(ctx context.Context, ids []string) (map[string]bool, error) {
 	held, err := i.pendingValues(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -530,9 +573,26 @@ func (i *Inventory) PendingKnown(ctx context.Context, ids []string) (map[string]
 	}
 	out := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, k := range held {
-		if want[k.Value.Pending.ID] {
-			out[k.Value.Pending.ID] = true
+		for _, w := range pendingWaits(k.Value) {
+			if want[w.ID] {
+				out[w.ID] = true
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
+
+// unansweredWaits are the waits a key holds that ended unmade and whose condition nobody has answered yet — taken back or
+// cleared — which a new wait replacing them carries, so the operator is not left without it (issue 1108).
+func unansweredWaits(v chain.Assignment, found bool) []chain.Pending {
+	if !found || v.State != chain.StatePending {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []chain.Pending
+	for _, w := range pendingWaits(v) {
+		if (w.State == PendingExpired || w.State == PendingRefused) && w.Cleared == nil && w.Acknowledged == nil {
+			out = append(out, w)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/testdata/store-tests b/testdata/store-tests
index 8b3ec1c9..1c1c3e58 100644
--- a/testdata/store-tests
+++ b/testdata/store-tests
@@ -160,3 +160,5 @@
 ./internal/inventory TestTwoClaimsOfOnePendingMakeOneAndTheOtherSeesFalse
 ./internal/inventory TestAssignOverAPendingKeepsItsRecordAsApplied
 ./internal/inventory TestAPendingIsMarkedOnceAndGoesWithItsMachine
+./internal/inventory TestAReplacedWaitNeverLeavesTheOperatorWithoutItsCondition
+./cmd/mesh-controller TestAnAssignmentWaitingForItsBuildIsOneKeyOfTheAssignmentsBucket