diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
index 7c232b3..737cee7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/main.go
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ const goBuildModule = "mesh-build-go"
 // (ADR 0567 §1), named after the assigner as every module state is.
 var ownBuckets = []string{delivery.AssignerAsksBucket, delivery.AssignerCompositionsBucket, delivery.AssignerDifferencesBucket,
 	delivery.AssignerPutsBucket, delivery.AssignerWantsBucket, delivery.PlacementBucket, delivery.PlacementProposalsBucket,
-	delivery.PlacementCandidatesBucket, delivery.PlacementPulsesBucket, assign.FindingsBucket, assign.PoliciesBucket}
+	delivery.PlacementCandidatesBucket, delivery.PlacementPulsesBucket, assign.FindingsBucket, assign.PoliciesBucket, delivery.SeatHoldersBucket}
 
 // seatBuckets are the seat's states, new with it: until the controller has made them from the manifest and the bus grants
 // them, the assigner starts without them and binds each once the bus says it was created (issue 1790's kind).
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ var keptStates = []announce.State{
 	{Name: "wants", Readable: true},
 	{Name: health.FindingsState, Readable: true},
 	{Name: delivery.AssignerPoliciesState, Readable: true},
+	{Name: delivery.SeatHoldersState, Readable: true},
 }
 
 // buckets is every bucket the assigner opened, by name.
@@ -160,6 +161,12 @@ func open(ctx context.Context, js process.BucketOpener, logf func(string, ...any
 			logf("the bucket %s cannot be opened (%v): it is bound once the bus says it was made", name, err)
 			continue
 		}
+		if name == delivery.SeatHoldersBucket && err != nil {
+			// The seat's state, new with ADR 0571 §4: bound once the bus says it was made; until then nobody is told who
+			// holds which seat here, and the controller's seats still answer.
+			logf("the bucket %s cannot be opened (%v): it is bound once the bus says it was made", name, err)
+			continue
+		}
 		if name == keptBucket && err != nil {
 			// mesh-config's held values (ADR 0565 §5): without them a composition lays none, said in the journal.
 			logf("the bucket %s cannot be opened (%v): no held value is laid on a composition until it is bound", name, err)
@@ -329,6 +336,7 @@ var watched = []string{
 	assign.PoliciesBucket,
 	provisions.ProvisionsBucket,
 	keptBucket,
+	delivery.SeatHoldersBucket,
 }
 
 // follow watches every bucket a pass reads and makes a pass at start, once every watch handed what stands, and after
@@ -425,7 +433,7 @@ func follow(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream, nc process.Subscriber,
 	}
 	started := 0
 	for _, name := range watched {
-		if kvs[name] == nil && (slices.Contains(seatBuckets, name) || sourceOfGrants(name) || name == provider.AssignmentsBucket || name == assign.PoliciesBucket || name == provisions.ProvisionsBucket || name == keptBucket) {
+		if kvs[name] == nil && (slices.Contains(seatBuckets, name) || sourceOfGrants(name) || name == provider.AssignmentsBucket || name == assign.PoliciesBucket || name == provisions.ProvisionsBucket || name == keptBucket || name == delivery.SeatHoldersBucket) {
 			continue // not on the bus at this start (open said so)
 		}
 		started++
@@ -455,7 +463,7 @@ func follow(ctx context.Context, js jetstream.JetStream, nc process.Subscriber,
 		}
 	}
 	// And the two that choose where grants are read from, with the same delivery as the grants part that writes one.
-	for _, name := range []string{delivery.PartGrantsBucket, buscompose.LeaseBucket, assign.PoliciesBucket, provisions.ProvisionsBucket, keptBucket} {
+	for _, name := range []string{delivery.PartGrantsBucket, buscompose.LeaseBucket, assign.PoliciesBucket, provisions.ProvisionsBucket, keptBucket, delivery.SeatHoldersBucket} {
 		if kvs[name] == nil && js != nil {
 			name := name
 			process.AwaitBucket(ctx, js, nc, name, "until then the bucket is not read",
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
index 3ba3270..93a28ff 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"maps"
 	"slices"
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ func (p *passer) wants(ctx context.Context) {
 	missing := map[string]bool{}
 	defer func() { p.provisionsMissing(ctx, missing) }()
 	defer p.unplacedFindings()
+	defer p.seatHolders(ctx)
 	defer p.policySplits(manifests, chosen)
 	frozen := p.sayPlacement(p.withCalls(p.w.placementDiffers()))
 	placed := p.w.placedNodes()
@@ -1186,3 +1188,46 @@ func (p *passer) unplacedFindings() {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// seatHolders writes the seat mesh-placement's state seat-holders from every node's placement (ADR 0571 §4): one key per
+// seat held once, `<seat>`, and one per node of a node seat, `<seat>.<node>`, written only where it differs, and a key no
+// placement holds any more deleted. A pass follows each placement change and each manifest the indexer takes in, so no
+// timer writes it.
+func (p *passer) seatHolders(ctx context.Context) {
+	kv := p.kvs[delivery.SeatHoldersBucket]
+	if kv == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	placements := map[string]delivery.Placement{}
+	for key, value := range p.w.read(delivery.PlacementBucket) {
+		node, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key)
+		if err != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if pl, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(value); err == nil && pl.Node == node {
+			placements[node] = pl
+		}
+	}
+	if len(placements) == 0 {
+		return // no placement read yet: nothing is known of who holds what, and nothing is deleted
+	}
+	want := delivery.SeatHoldersOf(placements)
+	have := p.w.read(delivery.SeatHoldersBucket)
+	for key, sh := range want {
+		value, err := json.Marshal(sh)
+		if err != nil || string(have[key]) == string(value) {
+			continue
+		}
+		p.put(ctx, delivery.SeatHoldersBucket, key, func() ([]byte, error) { return value, nil })
+	}
+	for key := range have {
+		if _, ok := want[key]; ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		if err := kv.Delete(ctx, key); err != nil {
+			p.logf("the seat holders %s are not deleted: %v", key, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		p.w.put(delivery.SeatHoldersBucket, key, nil)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go
index 3c683f7..46f1530 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -375,6 +376,9 @@ type historyEntry struct {
 // doPlacement is the verb placement (§10, §6): one node's key, one module's nodes, or every key; with history, the
 // changes in order from the revisions the state keeps.
 func (s *seatTools) doPlacement(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
+	if arg(args, "seats") == "true" {
+		return s.seats(arg(args, "node"))
+	}
 	all, revs, err := s.placements()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -538,3 +542,32 @@ func (s *seatTools) tools() []stdio.Tool {
 	}
 	return out
 }
+
+// seats is the verb placement with seats (ADR 0571 §4): who holds each seat and on which node, as the state seat-holders
+// holds it; with node, the keys of seats held on that node.
+func (s *seatTools) seats(node string) (any, error) {
+	keys, err := s.st.keys(delivery.SeatHoldersState)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("seat-holders cannot be listed: %w", err)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+	out := []delivery.SeatHolders{}
+	for _, key := range keys {
+		raw, _, found, err := s.st.get(delivery.SeatHoldersState, key)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("seat-holders %s cannot be read: %w", key, err)
+		}
+		if !found {
+			continue
+		}
+		var sh delivery.SeatHolders
+		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &sh) != nil {
+			continue
+		}
+		if node != "" && sh.Node != node && !slices.ContainsFunc(sh.Holders, func(h delivery.SeatHolder) bool { return h.Node == node }) {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, sh)
+	}
+	return map[string]any{"seats": out, "holds": len(keys)}, nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools_test.go
index ea1b3ef..87c0017 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat_tools_test.go
@@ -201,6 +201,40 @@ func TestTheSeatsVerbs(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("placed again: findings %v", findings)
 		}
 	})
+	t.Run("1955/L7 (ADR 0571 §4): seat-holders is written from placement, only the keys a change moves, and answered by placement seats", func(t *testing.T) {
+		writes := 0
+		kv := &countingKV{memKV: memKV{values: map[string][]byte{}}, writes: &writes}
+		p := &passer{w: newWorld(), logf: t.Logf, kvs: buckets{delivery.SeatHoldersBucket: kv}}
+		place := func(node string, holds ...delivery.Holding) {
+			pl, err := delivery.EncodePlacement(delivery.Placement{V: delivery.Version, Node: node, Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "web"}, {Module: "nats"}}, Holds: holds})
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+			k, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
+			p.w.putEntry(delivery.PlacementBucket, k, pl, 1, time.Now())
+		}
+		place("ace", delivery.Holding{Claim: "mesh-broker", Scope: "mesh", Module: "nats"}, delivery.Holding{Claim: "node-shell", Scope: "node", Module: "web"})
+		place("g14", delivery.Holding{Claim: "node-shell", Scope: "node", Module: "web"})
+		ctx := context.Background()
+		p.seatHolders(ctx)
+		if writes != 3 || kv.values["mesh-broker"] == nil || kv.values["node-shell.ace"] == nil || kv.values["node-shell.g14"] == nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%d writes: %v", writes, kv.values)
+		}
+		p.seatHolders(ctx)
+		if writes != 3 {
+			t.Errorf("an unchanged placement wrote %d keys", writes-3)
+		}
+		place("g14") // g14 holds nothing now
+		p.seatHolders(ctx)
+		if writes != 3 || kv.values["node-shell.g14"] != nil || kv.values["node-shell.ace"] == nil {
+			t.Errorf("after g14's change: %d writes, %v", writes, kv.values)
+		}
+		st := memStore{delivery.SeatHoldersState: &memKV{values: kv.values}}
+		out, err := newSeatTools(st, nil).seats("ace")
+		if err != nil || len(out.(map[string]any)["seats"].([]delivery.SeatHolders)) != 2 {
+			t.Errorf("seats on ace = %+v, %v", out, err)
+		}
+	})
 	t.Run("1954/D1: a failed provision is the assigner's finding until it is provided", func(t *testing.T) {
 		findings := map[string][]byte{}
 		p := &passer{w: newWorld(), logf: func(string, ...any) {}, kvs: buckets{provisions.ProvisionsBucket: nil}, findings: assign.Findings{
@@ -367,3 +401,14 @@ func readManifest() (catalogue.Manifest, error) {
 	}
 	return catalogue.ParseManifest(raw)
 }
+
+// countingKV is a memKV that counts its puts.
+type countingKV struct {
+	memKV
+	writes *int
+}
+
+func (c *countingKV) Put(ctx context.Context, key string, value []byte) (uint64, error) {
+	*c.writes++
+	return c.memKV.Put(ctx, key, value)
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.mod
index a9b4fbe..0744ac9 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-assigner
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029213929-66ff33dbd35d
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121
 	github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 v2.11.17
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 )
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.sum b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.sum
index 326dffd..ecec070 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029213929-66ff33dbd35d h1:J1QAvzlaIvCCyZGBQX0XGJjYWdNPjLXBF4zaAeIkUOg=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029213929-66ff33dbd35d/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121 h1:OsA1v6n736a7RqEV8Nkip8pf5ILMbzj0PWuKqcBOhK0=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261029220947-f9a496d3e121/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op h1:Z/MZK75wC/NSrkgqeNIa7jexam9uWzhLmFTSCPI/kn0=
 github.com/antithesishq/antithesis-sdk-go v0.7.0-default-no-op/go.mod h1:FQyySiasQQM8735Ddel3MRojmy4dA1IqCeyJ5jmPMbI=
 github.com/google/go-tpm v0.9.8 h1:slArAR9Ft+1ybZu0lBwpSmpwhRXaa85hWtMinMyRAWo=
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go
index 84bee99..b939b72 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func TestManifest(t *testing.T) {
 		states[s.Name] = s.History
 	}
 	if want := map[string]int{"asks": 5, "compositions": 5, "differences": 64, "puts": 20, "wants": 20,
-		"placement": 64, "proposals": 5, "candidates": 5, "pulses": 0, "findings": 5, "policies": 20}; !reflect.DeepEqual(states, want) {
+		"placement": 64, "proposals": 5, "candidates": 5, "pulses": 0, "findings": 5, "policies": 20, "seat-holders": 5}; !reflect.DeepEqual(states, want) {
 		t.Errorf("state = %v, want %v", states, want)
 	}
 	if _, ok := m.OwnSecrets["broker"]; !ok || len(m.OwnSecrets) != 1 {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json
index ea1b4b7..9dae8b6 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@
     { "name": "puts", "history": 20 },
     { "name": "wants", "history": 20 },
     { "name": "findings", "history": 5 },
-    { "name": "policies", "history": 20 }
+    { "name": "policies", "history": 20 },
+    { "name": "seat-holders", "history": 5 }
   ],
   "streams": [
     {