diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run.go
index a7711f09..bd3299b7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run.go
@@ -870,11 +870,7 @@ func (n *askNotes) note(ctx context.Context, language, id, step string) error {
 		v.Asks = map[string]string{}
 	}
 	v.Asks[language] = id
-	if err := n.b.Claimer.Finish(ctx, n.cl, v); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	n.b.handAsk(n.cl.Key, language, id)
-	return nil
+	return n.b.Claimer.Finish(ctx, n.cl, v)
 }
 
 // runLane puts the lane's part of the build as one ask on its build seat's stream (the delivery stream for a trunk key, the
@@ -959,6 +955,9 @@ func (b *Builder) runLane(ctx context.Context, l *lane, repository string, m mes
 			l.err = err
 			return
 		}
+		// A request to build the key again by hand is answered the ask as asked once it is put, not once it is noted: a
+		// put the stream refuses after the note answers the key's failure (BuildAgainResult.Asks).
+		b.handAsk(asked.cl.Key, language, ask.ID)
 	}
 	step, ask, err := b.answer(ctx, l, ask, asked, module, m.Fp2)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run_test.go
index cfc3ad9b..b6e5d150 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/internal/build/run_test.go
@@ -983,6 +983,8 @@ func TestABuildAskWaitingInItsStreamIsNotBounded(t *testing.T) {
 		during bool
 		// standing is a key taken as it stands (left building): its claim is the key's own revision, not a new one.
 		standing bool
+		// putRefused is a stream that refuses the ask after its note was written to the key.
+		putRefused bool
 	}{
 		{name: "build again: a look the builder queued during the by-hand build still runs afterwards", again: true, during: true,
 			key: &builds.BuilderBuild{State: builds.BuildFailed, Error: "ace: no tun"}},
@@ -1000,6 +1002,10 @@ func TestABuildAskWaitingInItsStreamIsNotBounded(t *testing.T) {
 		{name: "build again: a build that fails before its asks says the key failed, not that it was asked", again: true, failed: "cannot be read",
 			edit: func(m *meshcatalog.ModulesByModuleValue) { m.Manifest = mdigest('b') },
 			key:  &builds.BuilderBuild{State: builds.BuildFailed, Error: "ace: no tun"}},
+		// An ask is answered as asked only once it is put, not once it is noted in the key (BuildAgainResult.Asks): a put
+		// the stream refuses after the note answers the key's failure and no ask id.
+		{name: "build again: an ask its stream refuses after its note answers the key failed, not asked", again: true, putRefused: true,
+			failed: "the stream refused the ask", key: &builds.BuilderBuild{State: builds.BuildFailed, Error: "ace: no tun"}},
 		{name: "build again: a failed key is written building as a new revision and asks the seat", again: true,
 			key: &builds.BuilderBuild{State: builds.BuildFailed, Error: "ace: the step failed: no tun"}},
 		{name: "build again: a done key is refused, nothing to do", again: true, refuse: "is done: nothing to do",
@@ -1057,6 +1063,9 @@ func TestABuildAskWaitingInItsStreamIsNotBounded(t *testing.T) {
 					r.b.hands[r.key] = &handWatch{}
 				}
 				r.b.known["m"] = m // the builder has read the modules value, and looks at nothing until asked
+				if c.putRefused {
+					r.b.Asks = buildrun.Asker{Publisher: refusingPublisher{}, Waiter: r.asks, Bound: 2 * time.Second}
+				}
 				if c.standing {
 					r.b.tried[r.key] = true // its look of the key ended before its write: a later look takes over nothing by itself
 				}
@@ -1330,6 +1339,13 @@ func TestABuildAskWaitingInItsStreamIsNotBounded(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+// refusingPublisher is an asks stream that refuses every ask.
+type refusingPublisher struct{}
+
+func (refusingPublisher) PublishAsk(context.Context, string, string, []byte) error {
+	return errors.New("the stream refused the ask")
+}
+
 // heldAsks says an ask is held when its id is among held.
 type heldAsks map[string]bool