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 f609b52..01370a6 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
@@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ func leftNeither(into map[string]string, m assign.Module, before map[string]deli
 			why = "it is held, and its held condition says so"
 		case slices.ContainsFunc(out.Record, func(r assign.RecordNeed) bool { return r.Node == node }):
 			why = "its move waits for the operator's yes on its record ask"
+		case putOn(m, node):
+			why = "its put waits on its own steps and the operator's answer"
 		case m.FP == "":
 			why = "the trunk has no build of it"
 		case ruled:
@@ -275,6 +277,13 @@ func leftNeither(into map[string]string, m assign.Module, before map[string]deli
 	}
 }
 
+// putOn says whether an operator's put names module m on node: it owns the node's want through its steps (ADR 0546), so the
+// rules write none meanwhile.
+func putOn(m assign.Module, node string) bool {
+	_, put := m.Puts[node]
+	return put
+}
+
 // startClears adds, for the first pass after a start, every node of m that is not on neither list after the pass: a neither
 // condition a previous process raised for it is cleared. That covers a node with a want and one with none that is not on neither
 // list, such as a held module (issue 1945: the hold is said on its own, so a neither raised for it before the restart would stay up
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 5a59c5c..575224f 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
@@ -398,6 +398,24 @@ func TestThePassGathersTheModulesOnNeitherList(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(got) != 1 || got["g14.screen-lock"].node != "g14" || got["g14.screen-lock"].module != "screen-lock" || got["g14.screen-lock"].holding.Rule != delivery.RuleGrant {
 		t.Errorf("gathered = %+v", got)
 	}
+	// 1945 (the bus bar): a node off neither list is cleared in words that say why it has no want; an operator's put running
+	// through its steps owns the want, so it is named, never "the node does not run it".
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		name   string
+		puts   map[string]delivery.Put
+		before map[string]delivery.Want
+		why    string
+	}{
+		{"a live want", nil, map[string]delivery.Want{"novox": {FP: fpTest}}, ""},
+		{"a put on its steps", map[string]delivery.Put{"novox": {FP: fpTest, Step: delivery.PutPerson}}, nil, "its put waits on its own steps and the operator's answer"},
+		{"nothing", nil, nil, "the node does not run it"},
+	} {
+		left := map[string]string{}
+		leftNeither(left, assign.Module{Name: "nats", FP: fpTest, Nodes: []string{"novox"}, Puts: c.puts}, c.before, assign.Outcome{})
+		if why, there := left["novox.nats"]; !there || why != c.why {
+			t.Errorf("%s: left %q (%v), want %q", c.name, why, there, c.why)
+		}
+	}
 	// 1945 (a first want held back silently): the journal says why a node gets no want when the reason appears or changes, and
 	// when it has a want again: one line per change, not per pass.
 	p := newPasser(buckets{}, time.Date(2026, 10, 25, 21, 30, 0, 0, time.UTC))
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants.go
index 452d958..7bc6885 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants.go
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ func (h Holding) Reason() string {
 }
 
 // BusBarWords say why the assigner writes no want moving the bus on node: it runs prev, the trunk builds fp, and only the
-// operator's put moves it.
+// operator's put moves it (ADR 0539 §15, ADR 0546 §8). The words reach the operator, so they name no record.
 func BusBarWords(node, prev, fp string) string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("the bus moves only by the operator's put (ADR 0546 §8): %s runs %s, the trunk builds %s; ask assigner_put", node, short(prev), short(fp))
+	return fmt.Sprintf("only your put moves the bus: %s runs %s, the trunk builds %s; put it with assigner_put", node, short(prev), short(fp))
 }
 
 // Wants is the pass of one module m: for each of its nodes, the want by the six rules, starting from the want written
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants_test.go
index dc18ce0..ea4ca59 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/wants_test.go
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ func TestTheBusIsNotMovedButItsUserListRevisionIsWrittenAtOnce(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the bus bar wrote ace's want %+v", w)
 	}
 	h, on := out.Neither["ace"]
-	if !on || !h.Bus || out.Rules["ace"] != h || !strings.Contains(h.Words, "only by the operator's put") || !strings.Contains(h.Words, "ace runs b-1700000000-oldform") ||
+	if !on || !h.Bus || out.Rules["ace"] != h || !strings.Contains(h.Words, "only your put moves the bus") || !strings.Contains(h.Words, "ace runs b-1700000000-oldform") ||
 		!strings.Contains(h.Words, "assigner_put") {
 		t.Errorf("the barred bus on ace: neither %+v (%v), rules %+v", h, on, out.Rules["ace"])
 	}