diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/enrolment_test.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/enrolment_test.go
index bb157f87..1c6513ea 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/enrolment_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/enrolment_test.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ func TestIssueTokensAndTheManifest(t *testing.T) {
 		{"S54/AC1 tokens answers each stage and relays the sealed token of one node", tokensAnswersEachStageAndRelaysTheSealedTokenOfOneNode},
 		{"S54/AC2 the manifest says what the code does", theManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes},
 		{"S56 the bus node's loaded list is read from the grants part's pass", theLoadedListIsReadFromTheGrantsPass},
+		{"DLV-M6 the placement is read from its first view, never from the assigner's state", thePlacementIsReadFromItsFirstView},
 	} {
 		t.Run(c.name, c.run)
 	}
@@ -59,3 +60,30 @@ func theLoadedListIsReadFromTheGrantsPass(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("no pass composed read as an answer")
 	}
 }
+
+// thePlacementIsReadFromItsFirstView: the holder's placement comes from the picture of the assigner's placement (its first
+// view and views family, ADR 0615 §1), every other state through the runtime; the runtime is never asked for placement.
+func thePlacementIsReadFromItsFirstView(t *testing.T) {
+	pics := memPictures{PlacementRead: {"joiner.node": `{"v":1,"node":"joiner","decided":{"address":"10.9.0.11"},"modules":[]}`}}
+	rest := memRead{PlacementRead: {"stale.node": `{"v":1,"node":"stale","modules":[]}`}, "node-engine.have": {}}
+	h := &Holder{Read: followedReader{pics: pics, rest: rest}}
+	p, err := h.placements()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, ok := p["joiner"]; !ok || len(p) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("placements = %v, want joiner's alone, from the first view", p)
+	}
+	if keys, err := h.Read.Keys("node-engine.have"); err != nil || len(keys) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("node-engine.have read as %v, %v: want it through the runtime", keys, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// memPictures is the followed states (views.Reader), `<owner>.<state>` then key.
+type memPictures map[string]map[string]string
+
+func (p memPictures) Follows(state string) bool { _, ok := p[state]; return ok }
+func (p memPictures) Keys(state string) ([]string, error) {
+	return memRead(p).Keys(state)
+}
+func (p memPictures) Get(state, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) { return memRead(p).Get(state, key) }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/holder.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/holder.go
index 35c52701..3251ef43 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/holder.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/holder.go
@@ -189,13 +189,13 @@ func (h *Holder) openEnrolments() (map[string]Row, map[string]Enrolment, error)
 
 // placements reads every node's placement, assembled from its keys.
 func (h *Holder) placements() (map[string]delivery.Placement, error) {
-	keys, err := h.Read.Keys("mesh-delivery-assigner.placement")
+	keys, err := h.Read.Keys(PlacementRead)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("placement cannot be listed: %w", err)
 	}
 	held := map[string][]byte{}
 	for _, k := range keys {
-		if raw, found, err := h.Read.Get("mesh-delivery-assigner.placement", k); err != nil {
+		if raw, found, err := h.Read.Get(PlacementRead, k); err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("placement key %s cannot be read: %w", k, err)
 		} else if found {
 			held[k] = raw
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/main.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/main.go
index 50169542..778c48d3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/main.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -13,7 +14,9 @@ import (
 
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/asker"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/handacts"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/views"
 )
 
 func logf(format string, a ...any) { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, format+"\n", a...) }
@@ -84,14 +87,58 @@ func (runtimeReader) Get(state, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) {
 	return e.Value, true, nil
 }
 
+// pictures are the states the enrolment follows rather than reads (views.Reader): the assigner's placement (ADR 0615 §1).
+type pictures interface {
+	Follows(state string) bool
+	Keys(state string) ([]string, error)
+	Get(state, key string) ([]byte, bool, error)
+}
+
+// followedReader reads a followed state from its picture and every other state through rest.
+type followedReader struct {
+	pics pictures
+	rest Reader
+}
+
+func (r followedReader) Keys(state string) ([]string, error) {
+	if r.pics != nil && r.pics.Follows(state) {
+		return r.pics.Keys(state)
+	}
+	return r.rest.Keys(state)
+}
+
+func (r followedReader) Get(state, key string) ([]byte, bool, error) {
+	if r.pics != nil && r.pics.Follows(state) {
+		return r.pics.Get(state, key)
+	}
+	return r.rest.Get(state, key)
+}
+
+// PlacementRead is the assigner's placement as the enrolment reads it, and PlacementTool the assigner's read tool the
+// manifest invokes for its first view (ADR 0615, DLV-M6).
+const (
+	PlacementRead = delivery.AssignerModule + "." + delivery.PlacementState
+	PlacementTool = delivery.AssignerModule + ".assigner_read_placement"
+)
+
+// followed is the enrolment's pictures of the assigner's placement, started at once: its first view asked through
+// PlacementTool, then the assigner's views family; past its bound the finding in the enrolment's own findings.
+func followed() *views.Reader {
+	v := &views.Reader{Module: Module, Logf: func(f string, a ...any) { logf("["+Module+"] "+f, a...) }, Findings: views.OwnFindings{},
+		Acts: handacts.Recorder{Ask: stdio.Ask}}
+	v.Follow(delivery.AssignerModule, delivery.PlacementState, PlacementTool)
+	v.Start(context.Background())
+	return v
+}
+
 // SeatEventSubject is where the seat says an event: mesh.seat.<seat>.event.<name>.
 func SeatEventSubject(event string) string { return "mesh.seat." + Seat + ".event." + event }
 
 // newHolder is the holder over the runtime.
-func newHolder() *Holder {
+func newHolder(v *views.Reader) *Holder {
 	call := Call(stdio.Ask)
 	rec := handacts.Recorder{Ask: stdio.Ask}
-	rd := runtimeReader{}
+	rd := followedReader{pics: v, rest: runtimeReader{}}
 	client := asker.New("asked")
 	return &Holder{
 		Store: runtimeStore{}, Read: rd, Vault: vaultOver{call: call, read: rd}, Asker: client,
@@ -169,10 +216,11 @@ func loadedVia(rd Reader) func(string) (bool, error) {
 }
 
 func main() {
-	h := newHolder()
+	v := followed()
+	h := newHolder(v)
 	client := h.Asker.(*asker.Client)
 	h.Run(func() error { return client.Listen(h.Warranted, h.Said) })
-	if err := stdio.Serve("", Tools(h)); err != nil {
+	if err := stdio.Serve("", append(Tools(h), v.Tools("enrolment")...)); err != nil {
 		logf("%v", err)
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tokens_test.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tokens_test.go
index 668f1931..5141f2af 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tokens_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tokens_test.go
@@ -82,9 +82,11 @@ func theManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 			Scope  string   `json:"scope"`
 			Serves []string `json:"serves"`
 		} `json:"claims"`
-		Emits []string          `json:"emits"`
-		Reads []string          `json:"reads"`
-		State []json.RawMessage `json:"state"`
+		Emits   []string          `json:"emits"`
+		Reads   []string          `json:"reads"`
+		Invokes []string          `json:"invokes"`
+		Tools   []string          `json:"tools"`
+		State   []json.RawMessage `json:"state"`
 	}
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -96,10 +98,20 @@ func theManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 	if slices.Contains(m.Reads, "mesh-controller.lease") {
 		t.Error("the manifest reads the controller's lease, which the code no longer reads (issue 1126)")
 	}
+	// The assigner's placement is followed, never read (ADR 0615 §1, DLV-M6): its read tool invoked, its views family consumed.
+	for _, r := range m.Reads {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(r, "mesh-delivery-indexer.") || strings.HasPrefix(r, "mesh-delivery-assigner.") {
+			t.Errorf("reads %s: the indexer's and the assigner's state is read by their tools and views families alone", r)
+		}
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(m.Invokes, PlacementTool) || !slices.Equal(m.Tools, []string{"enrolment_first_views", "enrolment_first_view_again"}) {
+		t.Errorf("invokes %v, tools %v: want %s and the first-view tools", m.Invokes, m.Tools, PlacementTool)
+	}
 	var heard []string
 	for _, e := range EndEvents {
 		heard = append(heard, Seat+"."+e)
 	}
+	heard = append(heard, "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.placement")
 	if !slices.Equal(m.Consumes, heard) {
 		t.Errorf("consumes %v, the end events are %v", m.Consumes, heard)
 	}
@@ -112,7 +124,7 @@ func theManifestSaysWhatTheCodeDoes(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("the verb %s has no tool", v)
 		}
 	}
-	if len(m.State) != 2 || string(m.State[0]) == "" || !slices.ContainsFunc(m.State, func(s json.RawMessage) bool {
+	if len(m.State) != 3 || string(m.State[0]) == "" || !slices.ContainsFunc(m.State, func(s json.RawMessage) bool {
 		var d struct {
 			Name string `json:"name"`
 			TTL  bool   `json:"key-ttl"`
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/module.json b/modules/mesh-enrolment/module.json
index 4aed2463..2dfb4404 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/module.json
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
     "mesh-enrolment.node-enrolled",
     "mesh-enrolment.enrolment-refused",
     "mesh-enrolment.enrolment-revoked",
-    "mesh-enrolment.enrolment-expired"
+    "mesh-enrolment.enrolment-expired",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.views.placement"
   ],
   "uses": [
     "operator-channel"
@@ -31,10 +32,10 @@
     "seat:mesh-placement.propose",
     "seat:mesh-vault.enrolment-token",
     "seat:mesh-vault.node-account",
-    "seat:mesh-vault.sign"
+    "seat:mesh-vault.sign",
+    "mesh-delivery-assigner.assigner_read_placement"
   ],
   "reads": [
-    "mesh-delivery-assigner.placement",
     "mesh-grants.user-list",
     "mesh-vault.signers",
     "node-engine.have"
@@ -47,7 +48,12 @@
     {
       "name": "asked",
       "history": 5
-    }
+    },
+    "findings"
+  ],
+  "tools": [
+    "enrolment_first_views",
+    "enrolment_first_view_again"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
     "broker": "${dir:state}/broker"