diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/askagain_tool.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/askagain_tool.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..762a44b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/askagain_tool.go
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	occ "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/operator-and-conversation/go/clients/operatorchannelclient"
+
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshhandactsclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/contracts/go/clients/meshdeliveryclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/asks"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-teller/tellerevents"
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+
+	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign"
+	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/buckets"
+	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/puts"
+)
+
+// askAgainTool asks one of the assigner's asks again by hand (issue 1966, ADR 0668 §5): the recovery of an ask that ended at
+// the operator channel without an answer when the event that would have asked it again was not heard.
+const askAgainTool = "assigner_ask_again"
+
+// asksState and answersState are the assigner's asks and the teller's answers, as the runtime names them.
+const (
+	asksState    = "asks"
+	answersState = buckets.TellerModule + ".answers"
+)
+
+// askAgainByHand writes the ask at key again under a new asking, by the rules the teller's ask-ended writes it by (assign.AskedAgain:
+// a proposal's authorising ask and a put's record ask are not), so the teller asks it again; an asking the operator answered
+// is refused, naming the answer. The act is recorded through the seat mesh-hand-acts.
+func askAgainByHand(st store, ask func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error), key, why, by string, now time.Time) (any, error) {
+	switch {
+	case key == "":
+		return nil, errors.New("name the ask's key, as assigner_read_asks lists it")
+	case why == "":
+		return nil, errors.New("a hand ask again says why")
+	case by == "" || by == stdio.Unproven:
+		return nil, errors.New("a hand ask again names who asks it, and the runtime proved no caller")
+	}
+	current, _, found, err := st.get(asksState, key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !found {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the assigner holds no ask under %s: assigner_read_asks lists them", key)
+	}
+	_, routerAsk, err := assign.DecodeAsk(key, current)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if raw, _, found, err := st.get(answersState, key); err == nil && found {
+		if a, err := meshdeliveryclient.DecodeAnswer(raw); err == nil && strings.HasPrefix(a.Warrant, routerAsk.ID+"@") {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the asking %s was answered %q (%s): it is not asked again", routerAsk.ID, a.Option, a.Words)
+		}
+	}
+	var put *puts.Put
+	if k, err := asks.ParseAnyAskKey(key); err == nil && k.Kind == asks.AskKindRecord {
+		if pkey, err := puts.Key(k.Node, k.Module); err == nil {
+			if raw, _, found, err := st.get(putsState, pkey); err == nil && found {
+				if p, err := puts.Decode(raw); err == nil {
+					put = &p
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	value, refused := assign.AskedAgain(tellerevents.Ended{Key: key, Ask: routerAsk.ID, Outcome: occ.OutcomeCancelled}, current, put, now)
+	if refused != "" {
+		return nil, errors.New(refused)
+	}
+	if err := st.put(asksState, key, value); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the ask %s is not written again: %w", key, err)
+	}
+	_, next, _ := assign.DecodeAsk(key, value)
+	taken, rerr := meshhandactsclient.Recorder{Ask: ask}.Record(meshhandactsclient.Request{What: askAgainTool + " " + key, Why: why + " (" + by + ")", Cause: "ask-again"})
+	recorded := taken.Log
+	if rerr != nil {
+		recorded = "not recorded: " + rerr.Error()
+	}
+	return map[string]any{"key": key, "ended": routerAsk.ID, "asked": next.ID, "by": by, "hand-act": recorded}, nil
+}
+
+// askAgainTools is the tool over the runtime's states.
+func askAgainTools(st store, ask func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error), now func() time.Time) []stdio.Tool {
+	return []stdio.Tool{{Name: askAgainTool, Description: "Ask one of the assigner's asks of the operator again (issue 1966): the ask " +
+		"under key is written again under a new asking, which the teller asks on the operator channel, as when the channel says it " +
+		"ended without an answer. Refused for an asking the operator answered, a proposal's authorising ask (the seat's verb again " +
+		"asks it) and a record ask a put asked. Recorded as a hand act.",
+		Input: schema(map[string]string{"key": "the ask's key, as assigner_read_asks lists it", "why": "why it is asked again"},
+			[]string{"key", "why"}),
+		Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) {
+			key, _ := a["key"].(string)
+			why, _ := a["why"].(string)
+			return askAgainByHand(st, ask, key, why, stdio.CallerOf(a), now())
+		}}}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go
index f760fc08..64b17792 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass_test.go
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/buckets"
 	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/puts"
 	"slices"
@@ -127,6 +128,31 @@ func TestAHoldAskedAgainAfterALiftAndARestartHasANewID(t *testing.T) {
 	if a2.Ask.ID == a1.Ask.ID {
 		t.Errorf("the ask written again after a lift and a restart has the id %s of the first", a1.Ask.ID)
 	}
+	// Issue 1966, ADR 0668 §5: assigner_ask_again writes the hold again under a new asking and records the hand act; the
+	// asking the operator answered is refused, naming the answer; a proposal's authorising ask is refused by its rule.
+	answersKV := &memKV{values: map[string][]byte{}}
+	st := memStore{asksState: asksKV, answersState: answersKV}
+	var recorded []string
+	record := func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal(body)
+		recorded = append(recorded, key+" "+string(raw))
+		return json.RawMessage(`{}`), nil
+	}
+	now := time.Date(2026, 10, 25, 3, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	out, err := askAgainByHand(st, record, key, "the channel lost it", "lead@shanks", now)
+	a3, derr := decodeAsk(key, asksKV.values[key])
+	if err != nil || derr != nil || a3.Ask.ID == a2.Ask.ID || len(recorded) != 1 || !strings.Contains(recorded[0], askAgainTool+" "+key) {
+		t.Fatalf("ask again: %v, %v; asked %s (was %s), recorded %v", out, err, a3.Ask.ID, a2.Ask.ID, recorded)
+	}
+	answersKV.values[key], _ = mdc.EncodeAnswer(mdc.Answer{Option: "keep", Warrant: a3.Ask.ID + "@2026-10-25T03:01:00Z", Words: "the operator"})
+	if _, err := askAgainByHand(st, record, key, "again", "lead@shanks", now); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "keep") {
+		t.Errorf("an answered asking is asked again: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, c := range []struct{ key, by, why string }{{key, stdio.Unproven, "a caller"}, {"hold.none", "lead@shanks", "no ask"}} {
+		if _, err := askAgainByHand(st, record, c.key, "w", c.by, now); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s: asked again", c.why)
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 // 1906/H4: an answer counts only for the asking it answered: an answer to an earlier hold of the same fingerprint, or to an ask
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/tools.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/tools.go
index 877b6c1e..d81e9acf 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/tools.go
@@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ func serveTools() error {
 	tools = append(tools, viewTools(os.Getenv, keptSource, time.Now)...)
 	// What each node's engine reads, as the assigner uses it (ADR 0618 §3): its own state engine-reads, asked again through it.
 	tools = append(tools, enginereads.Tool(engineReadsTool, "the assigner", enginereads.KeptState(stdio.State(engineReadsState)), false, time.Now))
+	tools = append(tools, askAgainTools(runtimeStore{}, stdio.Ask, time.Now)...)
 	return stdio.Serve("", tools)
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go
index 7c0a697c..c1ceeaea 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/manifest_test.go
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ func TestManifest(t *testing.T) {
 	// which lists and asks again what each node's engine reads.
 	if !slices.Equal(m.Tools, []string{"assigner_put", "assigner_release", "assigner_puts", "assignments", "seat-holders", "wants",
 		"assigner_read_assignments", "assigner_read_seat_holders", "assigner_read_wants", "assigner_read_findings", "assigner_read_asks", "assigner_read_differences", "assigner_read_copies",
-		"assigner_first_views", "assigner_first_view_again", "assigner_engine_reads", "assigner_seat_list", "assigner_seat_list_again"}) {
-		t.Errorf("the assigner serves tools %v, want its three put tools, three first views, six read tools, assigner_engine_reads and the seat list's two (ADR 0636 §7)", m.Tools)
+		"assigner_first_views", "assigner_first_view_again", "assigner_engine_reads", "assigner_seat_list", "assigner_seat_list_again", "assigner_ask_again"}) {
+		t.Errorf("the assigner serves tools %v, want its three put tools, three first views, six read tools, assigner_engine_reads, the seat list's two (ADR 0636 §7) and assigner_ask_again (ADR 0668 §5)", m.Tools)
 	}
 	if m.RunsAs != m.Module || m.SecretsOwner != m.RunsAs {
 		t.Errorf("runs-as = %q: the bundle runs on the assigner's own account (ADR 0621 §1)", m.RunsAs)
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json
index bb459b24..e594b25c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/module.json
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@
     "assigner_first_view_again",
     "assigner_engine_reads",
     "assigner_seat_list",
-    "assigner_seat_list_again"
+    "assigner_seat_list_again",
+    "assigner_ask_again"
   ],
   "state": [
     { "name": "assignments", "history": 64 },