diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/approval.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/approval.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ff6cae89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/approval.go
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+
+	mma "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
+	oc "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/seats/operatorchannel"
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/process"
+
+	"mesh-delivery-pipeline/internal/pipeline"
+)
+
+// toolCaller is a kept call of a seat's verb on the bus (process.Conn.Call).
+type toolCaller func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error)
+
+// routerBucket is the bucket of the router's asks: the state `asks` of the seat operator-channel (the contract's StateAsks) in
+// the bucket of the seat's holder on the seat list, which the seat mesh-module-assigner's verb assignments answers with seats
+// (design 47 G §700, A-74); no module's name is in the program. (The indexer's function, to move into mesh-sdk.)
+func routerBucket(call toolCaller) (string, error) {
+	raw, err := call("seat:"+mma.Seat+"."+mma.VerbAssignments, mma.AssignmentsInput{Seats: mma.AssignmentsInputSeatsTrue})
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("who holds the seat %s is not asked of the seat %s: %w", oc.Seat, mma.Seat, err)
+	}
+	var held struct {
+		Seats []mma.SeatHolders `json:"seats"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &held); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("the answer of %s.%s is not its seat's: %w", mma.Seat, mma.VerbAssignments, err)
+	}
+	for _, s := range held.Seats {
+		if s.Seat == oc.Seat && len(s.Holders) > 0 {
+			return s.Holders[0].Module + "_" + oc.StateAsks, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return "", fmt.Errorf("no module holds the seat %s on the seat list, so the router's record of an ask is not read", oc.Seat)
+}
+
+// routerRecordOf is Hearer.Where: the router's own record of an ask, read under the runner's module's name through
+// operatorchannelclient, whose Record is a get of that key (`<module>.<id>` of the seat's state asks) on the process's own bus
+// connection (design 47 G §700, A-89): never the decided event's body.
+func routerRecordOf(module string, call toolCaller, record func(bucket, id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error)) func(id string) (string, *oc.Warrant, error) {
+	client := &operatorchannelclient.Client{Module: module, Record: func(id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+		bucket, err := routerBucket(call)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return record(bucket, id)
+	}}
+	return client.Where
+}
+
+// busAsker publishes the runner's approval ask on the seat operator-channel's accept subject under the runner's own name, its
+// duplicate id the ask's own, so an ask published twice is kept once (§37).
+type busAsker struct {
+	conn *nats.Conn
+	cred process.Account
+}
+
+func (b busAsker) Ask(a oc.Ask) error {
+	data, err := json.Marshal(a)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	msg := nats.NewMsg(oc.AcceptSubjectAsk(b.cred.Module))
+	msg.Header.Set("x-event-id", a.ID)
+	msg.Header.Set("x-source", b.cred.Module)
+	msg.Header.Set("x-node", b.cred.Node)
+	msg.Header.Set("x-time", time.Now().UTC().Format(time.RFC3339Nano))
+	msg.Header.Set("content-type", "application/json")
+	msg.Header.Set(nats.MsgIdHdr, a.ID)
+	msg.Data = data
+	return b.conn.PublishMsg(msg)
+}
+
+var _ pipeline.Asker = busAsker{}
+
+// hearDecided wakes the runner on the operator-channel's decided for its own asks (§37, A-89): the warrant is read from the
+// router's record, so an event the record does not back yet is heard again.
+func hearDecided(hub *process.EventHub, h *pipeline.Hearer, module string, logf func(string, ...any)) error {
+	return hub.Handle(oc.SubjectDecided(module), func(m jetstream.Msg) {
+		var ev oc.Warrant
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(m.Data(), &ev); err != nil {
+			logf("%s holds what is no decided event, dropped: %v", m.Subject(), err)
+			_ = m.Term()
+			return
+		}
+		_, err := h.OnDecided(ev)
+		switch {
+		case errors.Is(err, pipeline.ErrRefused), errors.Is(err, pipeline.ErrNoAsk):
+			logf("the decided of ask %s takes nothing: %v", ev.Ask, err)
+			_ = m.Term()
+		case err != nil:
+			logf("the decided of ask %s is not taken yet, heard again: %v", ev.Ask, err)
+			_ = m.Nak()
+		default:
+			_ = m.Ack()
+		}
+	})
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/main.go
index ab75f8c3..a9167963 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/main.go
@@ -74,7 +74,13 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 		return err
 	}
 	starter := &pipeline.Starter{Pipelines: createdKV{ctx: ctx, kv: pipelines}, Logf: logger.Printf, Say: say}
-	if err := hearStepEnded(hub, newHearer(ctx, js, cred, pipelines, kept, say, logger.Printf), logger.Printf); err != nil {
+	hearer := newHearer(ctx, js, cred, pipelines, kept, say, logger.Printf)
+	hearer.Asker = busAsker{conn: conn, cred: cred}
+	hearer.Where = routerRecordOf(cred.Module, calls.Call, calls.Ask)
+	if err := hearStepEnded(hub, hearer, logger.Printf); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if err := hearDecided(hub, hearer, cred.Module, logger.Printf); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	if err := hearPublished(ctx, hub, starter, calls, rv.Catalog, logger.Printf); err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/router_record_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/router_record_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e56ce700
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/cmd/mesh-delivery-pipeline/router_record_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+)
+
+// Design 47 G §700, A-74: the router's record of an ask is read under the indexer's module's name from the state asks of the
+// seat operator-channel, in the bucket of the seat's holder on the seat list, and carries the ask's warrant.
+func TestTheRoutersRecordIsReadFromTheBucketOfTheSeatsHolder(t *testing.T) {
+	var asked []string
+	call := func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		asked = append(asked, key)
+		return json.RawMessage(`{"seats":[{"seat":"node-packet-filter","scope":"node","node":"n1","holders":[{"module":"pf","node":"n1"}]},` +
+			`{"seat":"operator-channel","scope":"mesh","holders":[{"module":"ops-router","node":"n2"}]}],"holds":2}`), nil
+	}
+	var bucket, id string
+	record := func(b, i string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) {
+		bucket, id = b, i
+		return &stdio.StateEntry{Key: "mesh-delivery-pipeline." + i, Value: json.RawMessage(`{"state":"chosen","warrant":{"ask":"a1","asker":"mesh-delivery-pipeline","choice":"approve"}}`)}, nil
+	}
+	state, w, err := routerRecordOf("mesh-delivery-pipeline", call, record)("a1")
+	if err != nil || state != "chosen" || w == nil || w.Ask != "a1" {
+		t.Fatalf("Where = %q, %+v, %v; want the state chosen and the warrant of a1", state, w, err)
+	}
+	if bucket != "ops-router_asks" || id != "a1" || len(asked) != 1 || asked[0] != "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments" {
+		t.Errorf("read %q key %q after asking %v; want the holder's bucket ops-router_asks, the id, one question of the seat mesh-module-assigner", bucket, id, asked)
+	}
+	// No holder on the seat list: nothing is read, and the warrant stays unapplied with the reason said.
+	none := func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(`{"seats":[],"holds":0}`), nil }
+	if _, _, err := routerRecordOf("mesh-delivery-pipeline", none, record)("a1"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "no module holds the seat operator-channel") {
+		t.Errorf("with no holder Where answered %v; want the reason", err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/go.mod
index 50178e66..ca25c2c2 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/go.mod
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ require (
 )
 
 require (
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/go/seats/meshmoduleassigner v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshhandactsclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/seats/meshconditions v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
 	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshcatalogclient v0.0.0-00010101000000-000000000000
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/manifest_test.go
index c60c345f..f5afdd8f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/manifest_test.go
@@ -68,7 +68,10 @@ func TestManifest(t *testing.T) {
 		// asked again by hand (a hand act).
 		{"invokes", equalSets(m.Invokes, []string{"seat:mesh-catalog.registrations", "seat:mesh-catalog.revision", "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act",
 			// RN3 (§53, §334): a publication's dependents behind.
-			"seat:mesh-catalog.outdated"})},
+			"seat:mesh-catalog.outdated",
+			// A-74, A-89: who holds the seat operator-channel, whose state asks holds the router's record of the approval ask.
+			"seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments"})},
+		{"uses operator-channel", equalSets(m.Uses, []string{"operator-channel"})},
 		{"first-view tools", equalSets(m.Tools, []string{"pipeline_first_views", "pipeline_first_view_again"})},
 		// RN1/AC5 (§95, §130): the new assigner is delivered before the runner.
 		{"program needs the assigner's program", slices.Equal(program.Needs, []string{"mesh-delivery-assigner:program"})},
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/module.json
index d0055720..f6ab3d52 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-pipeline/module.json
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@
     "seat:mesh-catalog.registrations",
     "seat:mesh-catalog.revision",
     "seat:mesh-hand-acts.hand-act",
-    "seat:mesh-catalog.outdated"
+    "seat:mesh-catalog.outdated",
+    "seat:mesh-module-assigner.assignments"
+  ],
+  "uses": [
+    "operator-channel"
   ],
   "state": [
     {