diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go
index 5cce388..63937d4 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/integration_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"maps"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"slices"
@@ -248,7 +249,7 @@ func TestTheAssignerDoesNotStartWithoutABucketItReads(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	pl, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(delivery.Placement{Node: "n1", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "web"}}})
-	plkey, _ := delivery.PlacementKey("n1")
+	plkey, _ := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey("n1") // the form before, read beside the new (research 072 row 37)
 	if _, err := placement.Put(pb.ctx, plkey, pl); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
@@ -470,7 +471,7 @@ func TestWantsAreWrittenAndNoDifferenceIs(t *testing.T) {
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		pkey, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
+		pkey, _ := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey(node)
 		b.putJSON(t, delivery.PlacementBucket, pkey, pl)
 	}
 	if w := b.wantNow(t, "ace", "web", "ace's want once placed: the build alone, composed by the node", func(w delivery.Want) bool { return w.Self }); w.Composed != "" || w.FP != fNew {
@@ -1092,24 +1093,52 @@ func TestAProposalIsAnsweredApprovedAndWritten(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	b.putJSON(t, delivery.ModulesBucket, "web", []byte(`{"v":1}`))
 	b.putJSON(t, delivery.ModulesBucket, "shell", []byte(`{"v":1}`))
-	place := func(node string, modules ...string) uint64 {
+	// place writes a node's placement as another writer would, in its node and module keys (research 072 row 37), and
+	// answers its node key's revision; legacy writes it in the form before, placement.<node>, alone.
+	place := func(node string, legacy bool, modules ...string) uint64 {
 		p := delivery.Placement{Node: node, Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{}}
 		for _, m := range modules {
 			p.Modules = append(p.Modules, delivery.PlacedModule{Module: m})
 		}
-		raw, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(p)
-		key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
-		rev, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Put(b.ctx, key, raw)
+		values, _ := delivery.PlacementValues(p)
+		key, _ := delivery.PlacementNodeKey(node)
+		if legacy {
+			key, _ = delivery.LegacyPlacementKey(node)
+			values = map[string][]byte{key: values[key]}
+		}
+		for _, k := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(values)) {
+			if k == key {
+				continue
+			}
+			if _, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Put(b.ctx, k, values[k]); err != nil {
+				t.Fatal(err)
+			}
+		}
+		rev, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Put(b.ctx, key, values[key])
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 		return rev
 	}
-	anchorRev, laptopRev := place("anchor", "web"), place("laptop", "shell")
+	place("anchor", true, "web")
+	laptopRev := place("laptop", false, "shell")
 	bound := judge.AnswerBound
 	t.Cleanup(func() { judge.AnswerBound = bound })
 	judge.AnswerBound = 2 * time.Second
 	saysWhatItKeeps(t, b, b.start(t))
+	// The holder converts anchor, held in the form before alone, to its node and module keys once at its start.
+	var anchorRev uint64
+	for deadline := time.Now().Add(15 * time.Second); anchorRev == 0; time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond) {
+		if e, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Get(b.ctx, "anchor.node"); err == nil {
+			anchorRev = e.Revision()
+			if _, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Get(b.ctx, "anchor.web"); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("anchor converted without its module key: %v", err)
+			}
+		}
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatal("anchor in the form before was not converted")
+		}
+	}
 	verbs := newSeatTools(bedStore{b}, func(string, any) (json.RawMessage, error) { return json.RawMessage(`{"ok":true}`), nil })
 	propose := func() delivery.PlacementProposal {
 		t.Helper()
@@ -1168,13 +1197,20 @@ func TestAProposalIsAnsweredApprovedAndWritten(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("no placement-changed heard")
 	}
 	for node, want := range map[string][]string{"anchor": {}, "laptop": {"shell", "web"}} {
-		key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
-		e, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Get(b.ctx, key)
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
+		// The node key names the modules, each module key carries its own, and the mirror of the form before follows.
+		values := map[string][]byte{}
+		for _, key := range []string{node + ".node", "placement." + node, node + ".web", node + ".shell"} {
+			if e, err := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Get(b.ctx, key); err == nil {
+				values[key] = e.Value()
+			}
 		}
-		if got, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(e.Value()); err != nil || !slices.Equal(got.Assigned(), want) {
-			t.Errorf("%s = %v, %v, want %v", node, got.Assigned(), err, want)
+		got, err := delivery.PlacementsOf(values)
+		if err != nil || !slices.Equal(got[node].Assigned(), want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s = %v, %v, want %v", node, got[node].Assigned(), err, want)
+		}
+		mirror, _ := delivery.DecodePlacement(values["placement."+node])
+		if !slices.Equal(mirror.Assigned(), want) {
+			t.Errorf("the mirror placement.%s = %v, want %v", node, mirror.Assigned(), want)
 		}
 	}
 	if b.hasKey(delivery.PlacementProposalsBucket, p.ID) {
@@ -1187,7 +1223,7 @@ func TestAProposalIsAnsweredApprovedAndWritten(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	moved := q.(proposed).Proposal
-	place("laptop", "shell", "web") // another writer moved the key
+	place("laptop", false, "shell", "web") // another writer moved the key
 	relaid := proposalNow(moved.ID, "laid again", func(p delivery.PlacementProposal) bool {
 		return strings.Contains(p.Words, "laid again") && len(p.Must) > 0
 	})
@@ -1200,7 +1236,7 @@ func TestAProposalIsAnsweredApprovedAndWritten(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatal("a declined proposal was not ended")
 		}
 	}
-	key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey("laptop")
+	key, _ := delivery.PlacementNodeKey("laptop")
 	if e, _ := b.buckets[delivery.PlacementBucket].Get(b.ctx, key); e == nil || !strings.Contains(string(e.Value()), "web") {
 		t.Error("a declined proposal wrote its key")
 	}
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 2f81833..e7a6f36 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/pass.go
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ type passer struct {
 	seat         *seatActs
 	publish      publisher
 	saidProposed map[string]bool
+	// convertedAll says every node in the form before was converted to its node and module keys (convertPlacement).
+	convertedAll bool
 	// saidWaits is the last said of the seat's wait for its states (sayWaits).
 	saidWaits string
 	intended  map[string]map[string]map[string]bool
@@ -1219,16 +1221,7 @@ func (p *passer) seatHolders(ctx context.Context) {
 	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
-		}
-	}
+	placements := p.w.placements()
 	if len(placements) == 0 {
 		return // no placement read yet: nothing is known of who holds what, and nothing is deleted
 	}
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 38f40b9..f9c77cf 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
@@ -844,12 +844,15 @@ func aPairOneSourceNamesAloneGetsNoWantAndOneCondition(t *testing.T) {
 		for _, m := range modules {
 			pl.Modules = append(pl.Modules, delivery.PlacedModule{Module: m})
 		}
-		raw, err := delivery.EncodePlacement(pl)
+		// One node key and a key per module (research 072 row 37); a module taken off leaves its key, which the node
+		// key no longer names.
+		values, err := delivery.PlacementValues(pl)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
-		p.w.put(delivery.PlacementBucket, key, raw)
+		for key, raw := range values {
+			p.w.put(delivery.PlacementBucket, key, raw)
+		}
 	}
 	assigned("g14", "a")
 	assigned("g14", "b")
@@ -1132,7 +1135,7 @@ func TestARefusedCallClearsWhenTheSourcesAgree(t *testing.T) {
 			p.seat = newSeatActs(bus, func() { woke <- struct{}{} }, func(string, ...any) {}, func() bool { return false })
 			// The placement pins db on laptop; the controller does not.
 			raw, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(delivery.Placement{V: delivery.Version, Node: "laptop", Pins: map[string]delivery.Provider{"db": store}})
-			key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey("laptop")
+			key, _ := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey("laptop")
 			p.w.put(delivery.PlacementBucket, key, raw)
 			// pass is a pass, then one more for each background read it started.
 			pass := func(differ []assign.Pair) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go
index 02c4adf..803eaf8 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/seat.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"maps"
 	"reflect"
+	"slices"
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
@@ -416,19 +417,10 @@ func (p *passer) sayWaits(unbound []string) {
 	p.said[c.Key], p.saidWaits = true, state
 }
 
-// seatPlacements is every node's placement key and its revision, as the watch holds them.
+// seatPlacements is every node's placement and the revision of its node key (its legacy key's for a node not yet
+// converted), as the watch holds them: the revision a proposal is laid over (§2, research 072 row 37).
 func (p *passer) seatPlacements() (map[string]delivery.Placement, map[string]uint64) {
-	out, revs := map[string]delivery.Placement{}, map[string]uint64{}
-	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 {
-			out[node], revs[node] = pl, p.w.metaOf(delivery.PlacementBucket, key).revision
-		}
-	}
-	return out, revs
+	return p.w.placement.AllRevisions()
 }
 
 // candidatesOf is a proposal's candidates by node, with their keys' revisions and the newest write.
@@ -482,6 +474,7 @@ func (p *passer) placementSeat(ctx context.Context) {
 	if p.saidProposed == nil {
 		p.saidProposed, p.intended = map[string]bool{}, map[string]map[string]map[string]bool{}
 	}
+	p.convertPlacement(ctx)
 	current, revs := p.seatPlacements()
 	ids := make([]string, 0)
 	raws := p.w.read(delivery.PlacementProposalsBucket)
@@ -815,27 +808,12 @@ func (p *passer) warranted(ctx context.Context, prop delivery.PlacementProposal,
 		p.logf("the proposal %s cannot be written: %v", prop.ID, err)
 		return
 	}
-	kv := p.kvs[delivery.PlacementBucket]
 	var changes []delivery.PlacementChange
 	writtenLaid := map[string]*delivery.Placement{}
 	after := maps.Clone(current)
 	afterRevs := maps.Clone(revs)
 	for _, w := range writes {
-		var rev2 uint64
-		var err error
-		switch {
-		case w.Value == nil:
-			err = kv.Delete(ctx, w.Key, jetstream.LastRevision(w.Base))
-		default:
-			raw, encErr := delivery.EncodePlacement(*w.Value)
-			if encErr != nil {
-				err = encErr
-			} else if w.Base == 0 {
-				rev2, err = kv.Create(ctx, w.Key, raw)
-			} else {
-				rev2, err = kv.Update(ctx, w.Key, raw, w.Base)
-			}
-		}
+		rev2, err := p.writeNode(ctx, w.Node, w.Value)
 		if err != nil {
 			// Another writer came first (a hand-back): what is written stands and is followed through; the rest is laid
 			// again over the keys as this write left them.
@@ -902,11 +880,17 @@ func (p *passer) handBack(ctx context.Context, prop delivery.PlacementProposal,
 		return
 	}
 	answer, _ := p.w.answer(akey)
-	current, _ := p.seatPlacements()
+	current, held := p.seatPlacements()
 	var changes []delivery.PlacementChange
 	for _, node := range prop.Nodes() {
-		key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
-		if err := p.kvs[delivery.PlacementBucket].Delete(ctx, key, jetstream.LastRevision(prop.Base[node])); err != nil {
+		key, _ := delivery.PlacementNodeKey(node)
+		err := error(nil)
+		if held[node] != prop.Base[node] {
+			err = fmt.Errorf("its placement is at revision %d, the hand-back read %d", held[node], prop.Base[node])
+		} else {
+			_, err = p.writeNode(ctx, node, nil)
+		}
+		if err != nil {
 			p.sayChanged(prop, answer, changes)
 			p.endProposal(ctx, prop, fmt.Sprintf("%s moved since the hand-back was asked (%v): hand back again", key, err))
 			return
@@ -1026,3 +1010,73 @@ func (p *passer) sayEvent(event string, body delivery.PlacementEvent, id string)
 		p.logf("%s of %s is not said: %v", event, body.Proposal.ID, err)
 	}
 }
+
+// writeNode writes one node's placement after (nil: none) as its keys (mesh-sdk delivery.PlacementKeys.Writes; research
+// 072 row 37): the module keys that change, each carrying the value it replaces, then the node key, the commit, then the
+// module keys no longer placed. It answers the node key's revision after (0: deleted). A write that fails up to the
+// commit ends it with nothing changed for any reader, the module keys written before it read at their previous values;
+// a delete after the commit that fails leaves a module key the node key does not name, which places nothing and is
+// deleted at the node's next write. Each key written is taken into the world at once, so the next write of the pass
+// reads it.
+func (p *passer) writeNode(ctx context.Context, node string, after *delivery.Placement) (uint64, error) {
+	writes, err := p.w.placement.Writes(node, after)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	kv := p.kvs[delivery.PlacementBucket]
+	committed, rev := false, uint64(0)
+	for _, w := range writes {
+		got, err := writeKey(ctx, kv, w)
+		if err != nil {
+			if committed {
+				p.logf("placement %s is not deleted after %s's write (%v): it places nothing, and goes at the node's next write", w.Key, node, err)
+				continue
+			}
+			return 0, fmt.Errorf("placement %s at revision %d: %w", w.Key, w.Base, err)
+		}
+		p.w.putEntry(delivery.PlacementBucket, w.Key, w.Value, got, p.clock())
+		if w.Commit {
+			committed, rev = true, got
+		}
+	}
+	return rev, nil
+}
+
+// writeKey makes one write of a placement key by compare-and-set and answers the key's revision after (0: deleted).
+func writeKey(ctx context.Context, kv jetstream.KeyValue, w delivery.PlacementKeyWrite) (uint64, error) {
+	switch {
+	case w.Value == nil:
+		return 0, kv.Delete(ctx, w.Key, jetstream.LastRevision(w.Base))
+	case w.Base == 0:
+		return kv.Create(ctx, w.Key, w.Value)
+	default:
+		return kv.Update(ctx, w.Key, w.Value, w.Base)
+	}
+}
+
+// convertPlacement converts every node the state holds only in the form before, `placement.<node>`, into its node key
+// and module keys (research 072 row 37), once: each node converted is said, and a node whose conversion fails is said
+// and tried again at the next pass. The legacy key is left for the readers not yet delivered; a node key wins over it
+// for every reader that reads both, and it is deleted with the node key when the node's placement is.
+func (p *passer) convertPlacement(ctx context.Context) {
+	if p.convertedAll {
+		return
+	}
+	migrations, err := p.w.placement.Migrations()
+	if err != nil {
+		p.logf("placement: some nodes in the form before cannot be converted, and stay read from it: %v", err)
+	}
+	failed := false
+	for _, node := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(migrations)) {
+		before, rev, _ := p.w.placement.Of(node)
+		got, err := p.writeNode(ctx, node, &before)
+		if err != nil {
+			failed = true
+			p.logf("placement: %s is not converted from placement.%s (revision %d) to its node and module keys, and is tried again at the next pass: %v", node, node, rev, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		p.logf("placement: %s converted from placement.%s (revision %d) to %s.node (revision %d) and %d module keys (research 072 row 37); placement.%s stays for readers not yet delivered",
+			node, node, rev, node, got, len(before.Modules), node)
+	}
+	p.convertedAll = !failed && err == 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 46f1530..49931bd 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
@@ -60,30 +60,34 @@ type keyed struct {
 	Revision  uint64             `json:"revision"`
 }
 
-// placements reads every node's placement and its key's revision.
+// placements reads every node's placement and the revision of its node key (its legacy key's before it is converted),
+// assembled from its keys in either form (delivery.PlacementKeys; research 072 row 37).
 func (s *seatTools) placements() (map[string]delivery.Placement, map[string]uint64, error) {
 	keys, err := s.st.keys(delivery.PlacementState)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("placement cannot be listed: %w", err)
 	}
-	out, revs := map[string]delivery.Placement{}, map[string]uint64{}
+	sort.Strings(keys)
+	held := delivery.NewPlacementKeys()
+	var bad []string
 	for _, key := range keys {
-		node, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key)
-		if err != nil {
+		if _, _, _, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key); err != nil {
 			continue
 		}
 		raw, rev, found, err := s.st.get(delivery.PlacementState, key)
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("placement of %s cannot be read: %w", node, err)
+			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("placement key %s cannot be read: %w", key, err)
 		}
 		if !found {
 			continue
 		}
-		p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(raw)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("placement of %s cannot be read: %w", node, err)
+		if _, err := held.Put(key, raw, rev, false); err != nil {
+			bad = append(bad, err.Error())
 		}
-		out[node], revs[node] = p, rev
+	}
+	out, revs := held.AllRevisions()
+	if len(bad) > 0 && len(out) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("placement cannot be read: %s", strings.Join(bad, "; "))
 	}
 	return out, revs, nil
 }
@@ -413,26 +417,20 @@ func (s *seatTools) doPlacement(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 		sort.Strings(nodes)
 	}
 	for _, n := range nodes {
-		key, err := delivery.PlacementKey(n)
+		revisions, err := s.nodeHistory(n)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		revisions, err := s.st.history(delivery.PlacementState, key)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the history of %s cannot be read: %w", key, err)
-		}
-		var before delivery.Placement
+		var before sketch
 		for _, r := range revisions {
 			e := historyEntry{Node: n, Revision: r.Revision, At: r.At}
-			after := delivery.Placement{}
+			after := sketch{}
 			if r.Op == "" || r.Op == "put" || r.Op == "PUT" {
-				if p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(r.Value); err == nil {
-					after = p
-				}
+				after = sketchOf(r.Key, r.Value)
 			} else {
 				e.Deleted = true
 			}
-			e.Change = delivery.ChangeOf(before, after)
+			e.Change = after.changeFrom(n, before)
 			e.Change.Before, e.Change.After = 0, r.Revision
 			before = after
 			if module != "" && !strings.Contains(" "+strings.Join(append(append(e.Change.Added, e.Change.Removed...), e.Change.Changed...), " ")+" ", " "+module+" ") {
@@ -571,3 +569,100 @@ func (s *seatTools) seats(node string) (any, error) {
 	}
 	return map[string]any{"seats": out, "holds": len(keys)}, nil
 }
+
+// keyedRevision is one revision of a node's placement key, the key it is of beside it.
+type keyedRevision struct {
+	stdio.StateRevision
+	Key string
+}
+
+// nodeHistory is the revisions of a node's placement, in the order the bus wrote them: its legacy key's
+// `placement.<node>` before it was converted, then its node key's `<node>.node`, whose every revision is one write of
+// the node (research 072 row 37: the node key is a write's commit, so its history is the node's placement history).
+func (s *seatTools) nodeHistory(node string) ([]keyedRevision, error) {
+	legacy, err := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	nodeKey, err := delivery.PlacementNodeKey(node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	var out []keyedRevision
+	for _, key := range []string{legacy, nodeKey} {
+		revisions, err := s.st.history(delivery.PlacementState, key)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("the history of %s cannot be read: %w", key, err)
+		}
+		for _, r := range revisions {
+			out = append(out, keyedRevision{StateRevision: r, Key: key})
+		}
+	}
+	sort.SliceStable(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Revision < out[j].Revision })
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// sketch is a revision of a node's placement as far as its history says a change: each module's digest, and its pins
+// and holdings, which change every module (delivery.ChangeOf).
+type sketch struct {
+	modules  []delivery.PlacementRef
+	nodeWide string
+}
+
+// sketchOf reads one revision of a node key or a legacy key; a value that does not read places nothing.
+func sketchOf(key string, value []byte) sketch {
+	_, _, kind, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return sketch{}
+	}
+	wide := func(pins map[string]delivery.Provider, holds []delivery.Holding) string {
+		raw, _ := json.Marshal([]any{pins, holds})
+		return string(raw)
+	}
+	if kind == delivery.PlacementNodeKind {
+		n, err := delivery.DecodePlacementNode(value)
+		if err != nil {
+			return sketch{}
+		}
+		return sketch{modules: n.Modules, nodeWide: wide(n.Pins, n.Holds)}
+	}
+	p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return sketch{}
+	}
+	out := sketch{nodeWide: wide(p.Pins, p.Holds)}
+	for _, m := range p.Modules {
+		out.modules = append(out.modules, delivery.PlacementRef{Module: m.Module, Digest: m.Digest()})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// changeFrom is what changed from before to s on node, as delivery.ChangeOf says it.
+func (s sketch) changeFrom(node string, before sketch) delivery.PlacementChange {
+	c := delivery.PlacementChange{Node: node}
+	was := map[string]string{}
+	for _, r := range before.modules {
+		was[r.Module] = r.Digest
+	}
+	now := map[string]bool{}
+	nodeWide := before.nodeWide != s.nodeWide && len(before.modules) > 0
+	for _, r := range s.modules {
+		now[r.Module] = true
+		d, ok := was[r.Module]
+		switch {
+		case !ok:
+			c.Added = append(c.Added, r.Module)
+		case nodeWide || d != r.Digest:
+			c.Changed = append(c.Changed, r.Module)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, r := range before.modules {
+		if !now[r.Module] {
+			c.Removed = append(c.Removed, r.Module)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(c.Added)
+	sort.Strings(c.Removed)
+	sort.Strings(c.Changed)
+	return c
+}
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 87c0017..0340a67 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
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"slices"
 	"strings"
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/delivery"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/provisions"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
 	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign"
 )
@@ -168,7 +171,7 @@ func TestTheSeatsVerbs(t *testing.T) {
 			Policy: catalogue.PolicyRoll, PolicyFrom: catalogue.FromDefault})
 		w.putEntry(delivery.ControllerComposedBucket, ckey, cv, 1, time.Now())
 		pl, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(delivery.Placement{V: delivery.Version, Node: "ace", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "web"}}})
-		pkey, _ := delivery.PlacementKey("ace")
+		pkey, _ := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey("ace")
 		w.putEntry(delivery.PlacementBucket, pkey, pl, 1, time.Now())
 		for node, digest := range map[string]string{"ace": "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64), "g14": ""} {
 			hn, _ := delivery.EncodeHaveNode(delivery.HaveNode{Composed: digest})
@@ -194,7 +197,7 @@ func TestTheSeatsVerbs(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Fatalf("findings = %v", findings)
 		}
 		pl2, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(delivery.Placement{V: delivery.Version, Node: "g14", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "web"}}})
-		pkey2, _ := delivery.PlacementKey("g14")
+		pkey2, _ := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey("g14")
 		w.putEntry(delivery.PlacementBucket, pkey2, pl2, 1, time.Now())
 		p.unplacedFindings()
 		if len(findings) != 0 {
@@ -210,7 +213,7 @@ func TestTheSeatsVerbs(t *testing.T) {
 			if err != nil {
 				t.Fatal(err)
 			}
-			k, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
+			k, _ := delivery.LegacyPlacementKey(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"})
@@ -235,6 +238,68 @@ func TestTheSeatsVerbs(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("seats on ace = %+v, %v", out, err)
 		}
 	})
+	t.Run("research 072 row 37: the form before is converted once, a node is written as its keys, and history reads both", func(t *testing.T) {
+		ctx := context.Background()
+		kv := &revKV{values: map[string][]byte{}, revs: map[string]uint64{}}
+		var logs []string
+		p := &passer{w: newWorld(), kvs: buckets{delivery.PlacementBucket: kv}, now: time.Now,
+			logf: func(f string, a ...any) { logs = append(logs, fmt.Sprintf(f, a...)) }}
+		put := func(key string, value []byte, rev uint64) {
+			p.w.putEntry(delivery.PlacementBucket, key, value, rev, time.Now())
+		}
+		was := delivery.Placement{Node: "anchor", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "web"}}}
+		raw, _ := delivery.EncodePlacement(was)
+		put("placement.anchor", raw, kv.write("placement.anchor", raw))
+		p.convertPlacement(ctx)
+		if strings.Join(kv.log, " ") != "create anchor.web create anchor.node" || !p.convertedAll ||
+			!strings.Contains(strings.Join(logs, "\n"), "anchor converted from placement.anchor") {
+			t.Fatalf("the conversion wrote %v, said %v", kv.log, logs)
+		}
+		p.convertPlacement(ctx)
+		if len(kv.log) != 2 {
+			t.Errorf("a converted node is converted again: %v", kv.log)
+		}
+		// A write: the module keys, the node key (its commit), the mirror, then the module key no longer placed.
+		after := delivery.Placement{Node: "anchor", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "shell", Ports: map[string]int{"22": 2222}}}}
+		kv.log = nil
+		rev, err := p.writeNode(ctx, "anchor", &after)
+		if err != nil || strings.Join(kv.log, " ") != "create anchor.shell update anchor.node update placement.anchor delete anchor.web" || rev != kv.revs["anchor.node"] {
+			t.Fatalf("the write = %v, %d, %v", kv.log, rev, err)
+		}
+		if got, _ := p.seatPlacements(); !delivery.SamePlacement(got["anchor"], after) {
+			t.Errorf("the write is not read back at once: %+v", got)
+		}
+		// A commit refused leaves every reader on what stood: the module key written before it carries the value it replaced.
+		kv.refuse, kv.log = "anchor.node", nil
+		moved := delivery.Placement{Node: "anchor", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "shell", Ports: map[string]int{"22": 2223}}}}
+		if _, err := p.writeNode(ctx, "anchor", &moved); err == nil || strings.Join(kv.log, " ") != "update anchor.shell" {
+			t.Fatalf("a refused commit = %v, %v", kv.log, err)
+		}
+		fresh, err := delivery.PlacementsOf(kv.values)
+		if err != nil || !delivery.SamePlacement(fresh["anchor"], after) {
+			t.Errorf("a reader of the keys after a refused commit reads %+v, %v", fresh["anchor"], err)
+		}
+		kv.refuse = ""
+		// The verb's history reads the form before, then the node key.
+		st := memStore{delivery.PlacementState: &memKV{values: kv.values}}
+		hs := newSeatTools(st, nil)
+		hs.st = historyStore{memStore: st, revisions: map[string][]stdio.StateRevision{
+			"placement.anchor": {{Key: "placement.anchor", Value: raw, Revision: 1, Op: "put"}},
+			"anchor.node":      {{Key: "anchor.node", Value: kv.values["anchor.node"], Revision: 5, Op: "put"}, {Key: "anchor.node", Revision: 9, Op: "del"}},
+		}}
+		pa, err := hs.doPlacement(map[string]any{"node": "anchor", "history": "true"})
+		a, _ := pa.(placementAnswer)
+		if err != nil || len(a.Changes) != 3 || !slices.Equal(a.Changes[0].Change.Added, []string{"web"}) ||
+			!slices.Equal(a.Changes[1].Change.Added, []string{"shell"}) || !slices.Equal(a.Changes[1].Change.Removed, []string{"web"}) ||
+			!a.Changes[2].Deleted || !slices.Equal(a.Changes[2].Change.Removed, []string{"shell"}) {
+			t.Errorf("history = %+v, %v", pa, err)
+		}
+		// No placement: the mirror first, then the node key, then the module keys.
+		kv.log = nil
+		if _, err := p.writeNode(ctx, "anchor", nil); err != nil || strings.Join(kv.log, " ") != "delete placement.anchor delete anchor.node delete anchor.shell" {
+			t.Errorf("the delete = %v, %v", kv.log, 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{
@@ -412,3 +477,56 @@ func (c *countingKV) Put(ctx context.Context, key string, value []byte) (uint64,
 	*c.writes++
 	return c.memKV.Put(ctx, key, value)
 }
+
+// revKV is a bucket with real revisions, refusing a write at a revision that is not the key's, and a write of refuse;
+// log is every write in order.
+type revKV struct {
+	jetstream.KeyValue
+	rev    uint64
+	values map[string][]byte
+	revs   map[string]uint64
+	log    []string
+	refuse string
+}
+
+func (k *revKV) write(key string, value []byte) uint64 {
+	k.rev++
+	k.values[key], k.revs[key] = value, k.rev
+	return k.rev
+}
+
+func (k *revKV) Create(_ context.Context, key string, value []byte, _ ...jetstream.KVCreateOpt) (uint64, error) {
+	if _, ok := k.values[key]; ok || key == k.refuse {
+		return 0, errors.New("key exists")
+	}
+	k.log = append(k.log, "create "+key)
+	return k.write(key, value), nil
+}
+
+func (k *revKV) Update(_ context.Context, key string, value []byte, revision uint64) (uint64, error) {
+	if k.revs[key] != revision || key == k.refuse {
+		return 0, errors.New("wrong last sequence")
+	}
+	k.log = append(k.log, "update "+key)
+	return k.write(key, value), nil
+}
+
+func (k *revKV) Delete(_ context.Context, key string, _ ...jetstream.KVDeleteOpt) error {
+	if key == k.refuse {
+		return errors.New("wrong last sequence")
+	}
+	k.log = append(k.log, "delete "+key)
+	delete(k.values, key)
+	delete(k.revs, key)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// historyStore is a memStore whose history is given.
+type historyStore struct {
+	memStore
+	revisions map[string][]stdio.StateRevision
+}
+
+func (s historyStore) history(_, key string) ([]stdio.StateRevision, error) {
+	return s.revisions[key], nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/world.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/world.go
index c848c28..34df7f1 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/world.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/world.go
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ type world struct {
 	meta map[string]entryMeta
 	// trunkBuilt is, by module, its newest done trunk build in the builder's log (putBuilt).
 	trunkBuilt map[string]delivery.BuildLogEntry
+	// placement is the seat's state placement assembled node by node from its keys in either form (mesh-sdk
+	// delivery.PlacementKeys; research 072 row 37): the one reader of its keys in the assigner.
+	placement *delivery.PlacementKeys
 }
 
 // entryMeta is a value's revision in its bucket and when it was written.
@@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ type parsed struct {
 
 func newWorld() *world {
 	return &world{values: map[string]map[string][]byte{}, manifests: map[string]parsed{}, healthy: map[string][]string{}, changes: map[string]uint64{},
-		meta: map[string]entryMeta{}, trunkBuilt: map[string]delivery.BuildLogEntry{}}
+		meta: map[string]entryMeta{}, trunkBuilt: map[string]delivery.BuildLogEntry{}, placement: delivery.NewPlacementKeys()}
 }
 
 // putEntry is put, keeping the value's revision and the time it was written.
@@ -84,6 +87,9 @@ func (w *world) putEntry(bucket, key string, value []byte, revision uint64, at t
 		return
 	}
 	w.meta[bucket+"|"+key] = entryMeta{revision: revision, at: at}
+	if bucket == delivery.PlacementBucket {
+		_, _ = w.placement.Put(key, value, revision, false) // put took it already; this is its revision
+	}
 }
 
 // metaOf is the revision and time of the value a bucket holds at key, as the watch said them.
@@ -103,10 +109,17 @@ func (w *world) put(bucket, key string, value []byte) {
 	w.changes[bucket]++ // the bucket's generation (bucketGen), a delete included
 	if value == nil {
 		delete(w.values[bucket], key)
+		if bucket == delivery.PlacementBucket {
+			_, _ = w.placement.Put(key, nil, 0, true)
+		}
 		return
 	}
 	w.values[bucket][key] = value
 	w.changes[bucket+"|"+key]++
+	if bucket == delivery.PlacementBucket {
+		// A key or value that does not read places nothing new on its node; the indexer's read tool says it.
+		_, _ = w.placement.Put(key, value, 0, false)
+	}
 	if bucket == delivery.HaveBucket {
 		if h, err := delivery.DecodeHave(value); err == nil && h.FP != "" && h.Phase == delivery.PhaseRunning && h.Health == delivery.HealthOK {
 			list := slices.DeleteFunc(w.healthy[key], func(fp string) bool { return fp == h.FP })
@@ -235,19 +248,16 @@ func (w *world) handedAway() bool {
 // that does not read places nothing on its node and is said by the indexer's own read tool.
 func (w *world) placed() (map[string][]string, bool) {
 	out := map[string][]string{}
-	values := w.read(delivery.PlacementBucket)
-	for key, value := range values {
-		node, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key)
-		if err != nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(value)
-		if err != nil || p.Node != node {
-			continue
-		}
+	for node, p := range w.placements() {
 		out[node] = p.Assigned()
 	}
-	return out, len(values) > 0
+	return out, len(w.read(delivery.PlacementBucket)) > 0
+}
+
+// placements is every node's placement, assembled from its keys in either form (delivery.PlacementKeys).
+func (w *world) placements() map[string]delivery.Placement {
+	out, _ := w.placement.AllRevisions()
+	return out
 }
 
 // placedNodes is every node the seat's placement names (ADR 0567 §1): those compose their own modules (ADR 0547 §2),
@@ -333,17 +343,7 @@ type worldReader struct {
 }
 
 func (r worldReader) Placements(context.Context) (map[string]delivery.Placement, error) {
-	out := map[string]delivery.Placement{}
-	for key, value := range r.w.read(delivery.PlacementBucket) {
-		node, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(key)
-		if err != nil {
-			continue
-		}
-		if p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(value); err == nil && p.Node == node {
-			out[node] = p
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
+	return r.w.placements(), nil
 }
 
 func (r worldReader) Records(context.Context) (map[string]delivery.NodeRecord, error) {
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/go.mod
index a8d9ecb..ea06044 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 v0.1.14-0.20261030212912-6c5a8ef893b4
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a
 	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 d7fbdeb..8e0c33a 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 v0.1.14-0.20261030212912-6c5a8ef893b4 h1:uzXzKfjoWB8wCbAPgxUAWSArr+3DKwi8qrB3BUEOVOE=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030212912-6c5a8ef893b4/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a h1:DcSvfEmdPBKqCg5OmXRNb269EkkPe7BsEp+RykEhkgE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a/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/internal/assign/seat.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go
index 7e9b349..e0ac6f8 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat.go
@@ -96,8 +96,9 @@ func Propose(in ProposeIn) (delivery.PlacementProposal, map[string]*delivery.Pla
 	return p, out, findings
 }
 
-// Write is one key a warrant writes (§5): the node, its key, the revision it is written at (0: it has none, so it is
-// created) and its value (nil: it is deleted).
+// Write is one node a warrant writes (§5): the node, its node key `<node>.node` (the commit of the node's keys,
+// mesh-sdk delivery.PlacementKeys.Writes), the revision of the node's placement it is written at (0: it has none, so
+// it is created) and its value (nil: it is deleted).
 type Write struct {
 	Node, Key string
 	Base      uint64
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ type Write struct {
 func Writes(p delivery.PlacementProposal, laid map[string]*delivery.Placement) ([]Write, error) {
 	var out []Write
 	for _, node := range p.Nodes() {
-		key, err := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
+		key, err := delivery.PlacementNodeKey(node)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go
index 669d124..d57bcee 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/assign/seat_test.go
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func TestThePlacementSeatDecides(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	writes, err := Writes(p, laid)
-	if err != nil || len(writes) != 2 || writes[0].Key != "placement.anchor" || writes[0].Base != 4 || writes[1].Base != 9 {
+	if err != nil || len(writes) != 2 || writes[0].Key != "anchor.node" || writes[0].Base != 4 || writes[1].Base != 9 {
 		t.Fatalf("writes = %+v, %v", writes, err)
 	}
 	pinned := *laid["laptop"]
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod
index 0c4752d..5bd2168 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-builder
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a
 	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-builder/go.sum b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.sum
index 156a748..8e0c33a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-builder/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2 h1:RF73nVI1dTrrmlFosVDTMJmpUQ+rEeB7++BHH/RvZFg=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a h1:DcSvfEmdPBKqCg5OmXRNb269EkkPe7BsEp+RykEhkgE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a/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-checker/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.mod
index cd76564..eccbc07 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-checker
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a
 	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-checker/go.sum b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.sum
index 156a748..8e0c33a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-checker/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2 h1:RF73nVI1dTrrmlFosVDTMJmpUQ+rEeB7++BHH/RvZFg=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a h1:DcSvfEmdPBKqCg5OmXRNb269EkkPe7BsEp+RykEhkgE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a/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-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
index 3262321..1da6885 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/cmd/mesh-delivery-indexer/integration_test.go
@@ -583,12 +583,13 @@ func TestIndexerCountsOnlyThePlacedBuildNodesToolchains(t *testing.T) {
 		for _, m := range modules {
 			p.Modules = append(p.Modules, delivery.PlacedModule{Module: m})
 		}
-		key, _ := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
-		value, err := delivery.EncodePlacement(p)
+		// Its node key, the commit that names the modules placed (research 072 row 37).
+		values, err := delivery.PlacementValues(p)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
-		if _, err := placement.Put(ctx, key, value); err != nil {
+		key, _ := delivery.PlacementNodeKey(node)
+		if _, err := placement.Put(ctx, key, values[key]); err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
index 3e217b5..499e961 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-indexer
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a
 	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-indexer/go.sum b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum
index 156a748..8e0c33a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-indexer/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2 h1:RF73nVI1dTrrmlFosVDTMJmpUQ+rEeB7++BHH/RvZFg=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a h1:DcSvfEmdPBKqCg5OmXRNb269EkkPe7BsEp+RykEhkgE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a/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-view/go.mod b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/go.mod
index edf4553..6565d62 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-delivery-view
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a
 	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-view/go.sum b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/go.sum
index 156a748..8e0c33a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2 h1:RF73nVI1dTrrmlFosVDTMJmpUQ+rEeB7++BHH/RvZFg=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261030201806-eff81f1220e2/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a h1:DcSvfEmdPBKqCg5OmXRNb269EkkPe7BsEp+RykEhkgE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a/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-view/internal/view/view_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go
index a68ad20..3254c0e 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-view/internal/view/view_test.go
@@ -34,15 +34,13 @@ func place(t *testing.T, node string, modules ...string) Entry {
 	for _, m := range modules {
 		p.Modules = append(p.Modules, delivery.PlacedModule{Module: m})
 	}
-	key, err := delivery.PlacementKey(node)
+	// Its node key, which names the modules placed (research 072 row 37).
+	values, err := delivery.PlacementValues(p)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	v, err := delivery.EncodePlacement(p)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	return Entry{Bucket: delivery.PlacementBucket, Key: key, Value: v, At: t0}
+	key, _ := delivery.PlacementNodeKey(node)
+	return Entry{Bucket: delivery.PlacementBucket, Key: key, Value: values[key], At: t0}
 }
 
 func find(t *testing.T, s Snapshot, node, module string) Row {
@@ -107,7 +105,7 @@ func TestLeftBehindIsWhatThePlacementDoesNotPut(t *testing.T) { // 1134/AC3, iss
 	if find(t, s, "a", "w").Status != StatusLeftBehind || s.Counted() != 4 {
 		t.Fatalf("a have with no placement: %+v counted %d", find(t, s, "a", "w"), s.Counted())
 	}
-	fill(m, Entry{Bucket: delivery.PlacementBucket, Key: "placement.b", Deleted: true})
+	fill(m, Entry{Bucket: delivery.PlacementBucket, Key: "b.node", Deleted: true})
 	if s := m.Snapshot(); s.Counted() != 2 || find(t, s, "b", "x").Status != StatusLeftBehind {
 		t.Fatalf("b's placement deleted: counted %d, %+v", s.Counted(), s.Rows)
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
index 6ef39b6..b44e8cf 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/main.go
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 // list and each manifest's buckets, logs and streams with the bus composer the controller uses (mesh-sdk buscompose).
 //
 // **Memberships are published for real** (the operator, 2026-10-25 22:31): since release 6 nobody publishes them, so a
-// module placed since cannot serve its seat or reach a new state. Each is published on the assignments stream only when
-// it differs from the one last published there. **A bucket, log or stream a manifest declares that the bus lacks is
+// module placed since cannot serve its seat or reach a new state. Each is published in the part's own state memberships,
+// and said on its subject, only when it differs from the one last published there. **A bucket, log or stream a manifest declares that the bus lacks is
 // created** (the operator, 2026-10-26 08:54; issue 1790), once per manifest, with the manifest's limits, on the event
 // that brought the manifest; one the bus holds is never changed. **The user list is written sealed to the bus node**
 // (ADR 0547 clause 7) as an object of the part's own bucket named in `user-list.sealed`, which the bus node follows only
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func run(ctx context.Context, getenv func(string) string, logOut io.Writer) erro
 	}
 	bus := newBusReader(ctx, js)
 	f.Part = &grants.Part{Read: bus, Call: conn, Store: ownStore{conn}, Emit: emitting{conn},
-		Publish: memberships{ctx: ctx, nc: nc, js: js}, Create: creating{ctx: ctx, js: js}, Consumers: creating{ctx: ctx, js: js},
+		Publish: memberships{nc: nc}, Create: creating{ctx: ctx, js: js}, Consumers: creating{ctx: ctx, js: js},
 		Objects: sealedObjects{ctx: ctx, js: js}, Logf: logger.Printf,
 		Bus: grants.BusAddress{URL: account.URL, Fingerprint: account.Fingerprint}}
 	f.Watch = bus
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/publish.go b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/publish.go
index 340a80a..cf2163b 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/publish.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/cmd/mesh-grants/publish.go
@@ -1,55 +1,24 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
-	"strconv"
 
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
-	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/membership"
 )
 
-// memberships publishes each membership on the assignments stream, last per subject, over the one last read there
-// (ExpectLastSequencePerSubject, so a membership another writer published meanwhile is not overwritten, issues 930 and
-// 934), and reads the last one by a direct get of its subject. The one place the part publishes on the bus.
+// memberships says each membership the part wrote to its state on its subject, `mesh.assignment.<node>.<module>`, as a
+// plain message: a notice for a runtime that follows the subject alone, which the assignments stream also keeps while it
+// exists. It reads nothing there and asks no stream for an acknowledgement, so the stream's removal at the lease write
+// (research 072 row 33) stops no membership (issue 774). The one place the part publishes a membership on the bus.
 type memberships struct {
-	ctx context.Context
-	nc  *nats.Conn
-	js  jetstream.JetStream
+	nc *nats.Conn
 }
 
-func (m memberships) LastMembership(node, module string) ([]byte, uint64, bool, error) {
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(m.ctx, requestWithin)
-	defer cancel()
-	msg, err := m.nc.RequestWithContext(ctx, membership.DirectGetSubject(node, module), nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		if errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
-			err = fmt.Errorf("no answer in %s: a read the bus refuses is answered by none (%w)", requestWithin, err)
-		}
-		return nil, 0, false, err
-	}
-	switch status := msg.Header.Get("Status"); status {
-	case "":
-	case "404":
-		return nil, 0, false, nil
-	default:
-		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("the assignments stream answered %s %s", status, msg.Header.Get("Description"))
-	}
-	seq, err := strconv.ParseUint(msg.Header.Get("Nats-Sequence"), 10, 64)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, 0, false, fmt.Errorf("the membership of %s on %s carries no sequence", module, node)
-	}
-	return msg.Data, seq, true, nil
-}
-
-func (m memberships) PublishMembership(node, module string, body []byte, after uint64) error {
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(m.ctx, requestWithin)
-	defer cancel()
-	if _, err := m.js.Publish(ctx, membership.Subject(node, module), body, jetstream.WithExpectLastSequencePerSubject(after)); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("the membership of %s on %s after sequence %d: %w", module, node, after, err)
+func (m memberships) PublishMembership(node, module string, body []byte) error {
+	if err := m.nc.Publish(membership.Subject(node, module), body); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the membership of %s on %s: %w", module, node, err)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod b/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
index d64ea44..55bda48 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module mesh-grants
 go 1.26.0
 
 require (
-	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031000557-748543c35f7f
+	git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a
 	github.com/nats-io/nats.go v1.54.0
 )
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/go.sum b/modules/mesh-grants/go.sum
index 5fbb0ad..707b6b6 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/go.sum
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/go.sum
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031000557-748543c35f7f h1:5I7+LiZPua0XrkiaLKWm4/3TyJUcwyJ3OA0p3WOoQos=
-git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031000557-748543c35f7f/go.mod h1:ouERNpZizzwZ0HLEtAypsY9FR20FyUgUYRni6J7kVCY=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a h1:DcSvfEmdPBKqCg5OmXRNb269EkkPe7BsEp+RykEhkgE=
+git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go v0.1.14-0.20261031084708-acbf80ad910a/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-grants/grants_test.go b/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
index c5f163d..cc1c886 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/grants_test.go
@@ -47,10 +47,8 @@ type fakeBus struct {
 	calls    []string
 	events   []string
 	writes   []string
-	// The assignments stream: each subject's last membership and sequence, every publish, and whether it is refused.
+	// Each membership's subject: the last membership said there, every notice, and whether it is refused.
 	stream    map[string][]byte
-	seqs      map[string]uint64
-	seq       uint64
 	publishes []string
 	refusePub bool
 	// hold, when set, keeps every nats_users call waiting until it is closed: a pass waiting on the bus.
@@ -106,29 +104,17 @@ func (b *fakeBus) CreateConsumer(stream string, cfg jetstream.ConsumerConfig) er
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (b *fakeBus) LastMembership(node, module string) ([]byte, uint64, bool, error) {
-	b.mu.Lock()
-	defer b.mu.Unlock()
-	subject := "mesh.assignment." + node + "." + module
-	v, ok := b.stream[subject]
-	return v, b.seqs[subject], ok, nil
-}
-
-func (b *fakeBus) PublishMembership(node, module string, body []byte, after uint64) error {
+func (b *fakeBus) PublishMembership(node, module string, body []byte) error {
 	b.mu.Lock()
 	defer b.mu.Unlock()
 	subject := "mesh.assignment." + node + "." + module
 	if b.refusePub {
 		return errors.New("Permissions Violation for Publish to " + subject)
 	}
-	if b.seqs[subject] != after {
-		return fmt.Errorf("wrong last sequence for %s: %d", subject, b.seqs[subject])
-	}
 	if b.stream == nil {
-		b.stream, b.seqs = map[string][]byte{}, map[string]uint64{}
+		b.stream = map[string][]byte{}
 	}
-	b.seq++
-	b.stream[subject], b.seqs[subject] = body, b.seq
+	b.stream[subject] = body
 	b.publishes = append(b.publishes, subject)
 	return nil
 }
@@ -1082,6 +1068,15 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 		if !slices.Contains(read.Assigned["b"], "mod-x") || read.Placed["b"].Node != "b" || slices.ContainsFunc(read.Gaps, func(g grants.Gap) bool { return g.Input == "seat holdings" }) {
 			t.Errorf("read: assigned %v, placed %v, gaps %v", read.Assigned, read.Placed, read.Gaps)
 		}
+		// Research 072 row 37: a node key and a key per module, the legacy mirror left out, read the same.
+		perModule, _ := delivery.PlacementValues(delivery.Placement{Node: "b", Modules: []delivery.PlacedModule{{Module: "mod-y"}, {Module: "mod-x"}}})
+		delete(perModule, "placement.b")
+		nb := fixture()
+		nb.states[grants.ReadPlacement] = perModule
+		if got := grants.ReadInputs(nb, &grants.Manifests{}); !slices.Equal(got.Placed["b"].Assigned(), []string{"mod-y", "mod-x"}) ||
+			slices.ContainsFunc(got.Gaps, func(g grants.Gap) bool { return strings.HasPrefix(g.Input, grants.ReadPlacement) }) {
+			t.Errorf("read of the keys per module: placed %v, gaps %v", got.Placed, got.Gaps)
+		}
 		b.refused[grants.ReadPlacement] = true
 		if read := grants.ReadInputs(b, &grants.Manifests{}); slices.ContainsFunc(read.Gaps, func(g grants.Gap) bool { return g.Input == grants.ReadPlacement && g.Failed }) {
 			t.Errorf("placement not on the bus is a failed read: %v", read.Gaps)
@@ -1764,10 +1759,11 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 					b.manifestOf("mod-x", strings.Replace(xManifest, `"own-secrets"`, `"claims":`+row.claims+`,"own-secrets"`, 1))
 				}
 				b.loaded = shadowOf(t, b)
+				// The last membership is the part's own state's, never the assignments stream's: the stream goes at the lease
+				// write (research 072 row 33), and a part reading its last there would publish nothing after it.
 				if row.last != nil {
 					raw, _ := json.Marshal(row.last(composed(b)))
-					b.stream = map[string][]byte{"mesh.assignment." + key: raw}
-					b.seqs = map[string]uint64{"mesh.assignment." + key: 4}
+					b.own[grants.StateMemberships] = map[string][]byte{key: raw}
 				}
 				res := partOn(b).Pass()
 				if got := slices.Contains(res.Published, key); got != row.published {
@@ -1775,12 +1771,12 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 				}
 				// The state holds the bare membership the assignments stream carries, through mesh-sdk's codec, and
 				// only one published (issue 774); what became of it is the kept pass's, which grants_membership reads.
-				state, _, inState, _ := b.ownGet(grants.StateMemberships, key)
+				state, _, _, _ := b.ownGet(grants.StateMemberships, key)
 				ms, _ := partOn(b).MembershipOf("a", "mod-x")
 				pass := fmt.Sprint(ms.(map[string]any)["last_pass"])
 				if row.published {
-					if row.names == "" && row.last != nil && !strings.Contains(string(b.stream["mesh.assignment."+key]), "10.0.0.1") {
-						t.Errorf("the private network of the last membership is not carried: %s", b.stream["mesh.assignment."+key])
+					if row.names == "" && row.last != nil && !strings.Contains(string(state), "10.0.0.1") {
+						t.Errorf("the private network of the last membership is not carried: %s", state)
 					}
 					got, err := membership.DecodeGrantsMembership(state)
 					var sent membership.Membership
@@ -1793,7 +1789,7 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 					}
 					return
 				}
-				if inState {
+				if was, _ := json.Marshal(row.last(composed(b))); !bytes.Equal(state, was) {
 					t.Errorf("a membership held back reached the state: %s", state)
 				}
 				said := strings.Join(res.NotPublished, "\n")
@@ -1805,18 +1801,21 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 				}
 			})
 		}
-		t.Run("a refused publish: no exit, said, published at the next event", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// The assignments stream removed (nats_stream_remove at the lease write) and its subject refused: every membership
+		// is still written to the state, where each runtime reads it, and the refusal is said (issue 774).
+		t.Run("the stream gone and its subject refused: memberships still written, the refusal said", func(t *testing.T) {
 			b := fixture()
 			b.loaded = shadowOf(t, b)
 			b.refusePub = true
 			p := partOn(b)
 			refused := p.Compose()
-			if len(refused.Published) != 0 || len(refused.NotPublished) != 3 || !strings.Contains(refused.NotPublished[0], "Permissions Violation") {
-				t.Errorf("a refused publish = %+v: said, and nothing published", refused)
+			if !slices.Equal(refused.Published, []string{"a.mod-x", "a.nats", "b.mod-y"}) || refused.MembershipsWritten != 3 ||
+				!strings.Contains(strings.Join(refused.Errors, "\n"), "Permissions Violation") {
+				t.Errorf("with the stream gone = %+v: every membership written, the refusal said", refused)
 			}
 			b.refusePub = false
-			if next := p.Compose(); !slices.Equal(next.Published, []string{"a.mod-x", "a.nats", "b.mod-y"}) {
-				t.Errorf("the next event published %v", next.Published)
+			if next := p.Compose(); len(next.Published) != 0 || next.MembershipsWritten != 0 {
+				t.Errorf("the next event published %v again", next.Published)
 			}
 		})
 		t.Run("a tool answers while a pass waits on the bus", func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -1965,16 +1964,15 @@ func TestGrants(t *testing.T) {
 		b := fixture()
 		b.loaded = shadowOf(t, b)
 		recs, _ := grants.Records(grants.ReadInputs(b, &grants.Manifests{}))
-		b.stream, b.seqs = map[string][]byte{}, map[string]uint64{}
-		for i, key := range []string{"a.mod-x", "b.mod-y"} {
+		b.own[grants.StateMemberships] = map[string][]byte{}
+		for _, key := range []string{"a.mod-x", "b.mod-y"} {
 			raw, _ := json.Marshal(grants.Memberships(recs)[key].Membership)
 			var m map[string]any
 			_ = json.Unmarshal(raw, &m)
 			seat, verb := brokerSeat()
 			m["seats"] = []any{map[string]any{"seat": seat, "verb": verb, "subject": "mesh.seat." + seat + ".tool." + verb}}
 			raw, _ = json.Marshal(m)
-			subject := "mesh.assignment." + key
-			b.stream[subject], b.seqs[subject] = raw, uint64(i+1)
+			b.own[grants.StateMemberships][key] = raw
 		}
 		var logged []string
 		var lmu sync.Mutex
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go
index 556ff70..2f71b4c 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/inputs.go
@@ -270,17 +270,25 @@ func ReadInputs(r Reader, cache *Manifests) Inputs {
 	if keys, err := r.Keys(ReadPlacement); err != nil {
 		in.Gaps = append(in.Gaps, Gap{Input: ReadPlacement, Why: "not read yet: the assignments alone place modules (" + err.Error() + ")"})
 	} else {
+		// Each node's keys in either form, assembled by the seat's one reader (delivery.PlacementsOf; research 072
+		// row 37): its node key and a key per module, or its legacy key `placement.<node>`.
+		values := map[string][]byte{}
 		for _, k := range keys {
 			raw, found, err := r.Get(ReadPlacement, k)
 			if err != nil || !found {
 				continue
 			}
-			p, err := delivery.DecodePlacement(raw)
-			node, kerr := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(k)
-			if err != nil || kerr != nil || p.Node != node {
-				in.Gaps = append(in.Gaps, Gap{Input: ReadPlacement + " " + k, Why: "not a placement, so the node is composed from its assignments alone"})
+			if _, _, _, err := delivery.ParsePlacementKey(k); err != nil {
+				in.Gaps = append(in.Gaps, Gap{Input: ReadPlacement + " " + k, Why: "not a placement key, so it places nothing"})
 				continue
 			}
+			values[k] = raw
+		}
+		placed, err := delivery.PlacementsOf(values)
+		if err != nil {
+			in.Gaps = append(in.Gaps, Gap{Input: ReadPlacement, Why: "a key does not read, so its node is composed from what does: " + err.Error()})
+		}
+		for node, p := range placed {
 			if in.Placed == nil {
 				in.Placed = map[string]delivery.Placement{}
 			}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go
index af81735..34801bd 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/memberships.go
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha256"
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
 	"reflect"
 	"slices"
 	"sort"
@@ -25,12 +24,12 @@ var MembershipGaps = []Gap{
 	{Input: "membership: root-free machines", Why: "asked of the controller's root-free verb at each pass and kept for that pass alone; a machine it does not call free (an error included) is composed as not free, and the pass says why"},
 }
 
-// Publisher publishes a membership on the assignments stream (membership.Subject), last per subject, and reads the one
-// last published there. A refusal (the grant not yet on the bus) is an error the part says and tries again at the next
-// event.
+// Publisher says a membership the part wrote to its state memberships on its subject (membership.Subject), as a plain
+// message, for a runtime that follows the subject alone. The state is where a membership is published and read back
+// (ADR 0571 clause 7); the subject is a notice that depends on no stream, so the assignments stream's removal at the
+// lease write (research 072 row 33) stops nothing. A refusal is said and the membership stays written.
 type Publisher interface {
-	LastMembership(node, module string) (body []byte, seq uint64, found bool, err error)
-	PublishMembership(node, module string, body []byte, after uint64) error
+	PublishMembership(node, module string, body []byte) error
 }
 
 // Membership is one module's membership on one node, as composed now, and what became of its publishing.
@@ -73,18 +72,20 @@ const (
 	MembershipUnchanged = "unchanged"
 )
 
-// publish publishes m when it differs from the membership last published for its assignment, carrying that one's private
-// network and received contributions; it answers m as published (or why not) and whether it was published now. held is
-// every holding the memberships composed now carry (Holdings.ByMemberships).
-func publish(p Publisher, m Membership, h Holdings, held map[string]bool) (Membership, bool) {
+// publish says whether m is to be published: whether it differs from was, the membership last published (the value of
+// its key in the part's own state memberships, found when it is there), carrying that one's private network and
+// received contributions. It answers m as composed and published, or why not. held is every holding the memberships
+// composed now carry (Holdings.ByMemberships). Pure: the caller writes and notifies.
+func publish(p Publisher, was []byte, found bool, m Membership, h Holdings, held map[string]bool) (Membership, bool) {
 	if p == nil {
 		m.Published = "not published: no publisher here (only the part's process publishes)"
 		return m, false
 	}
-	was, seq, found, err := p.LastMembership(m.Node, m.Module)
-	if err != nil {
-		m.Published = "not published: the membership last published cannot be read: " + err.Error()
-		return m, false
+	if found {
+		// A value of the state is the bare membership, or the wrapper written before 2026-10-30 (mesh-sdk's one codec);
+		// one that is neither is no last membership, and m is a first one.
+		bare, err := membership.BareGrantsMembership(was)
+		was, found = bare, err == nil
 	}
 	if found {
 		var last membership.Membership
@@ -122,10 +123,6 @@ func publish(p Publisher, m Membership, h Holdings, held map[string]bool) (Membe
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	if err := p.PublishMembership(m.Node, m.Module, body, seq); err != nil {
-		m.Published = fmt.Sprintf("not published (tried again at the next event): %v", err)
-		return m, false
-	}
 	m.Published = MembershipPublished
 	return m, true
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go
index 7b4563a..1545f1d 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-grants/internal/grants/part.go
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ type Result struct {
 }
 
 // NothingTakesEffect is what every composition says it did on the bus beyond its own state and the memberships.
-const NothingTakesEffect = "memberships (on the assignments stream, unless one would leave a seat a placed module claims with no holder, or drop a capability its holder still asks for, which stays a shadow difference), and each bucket, log or stream a manifest declares that the bus lacks, created once with the manifest's limits (the operator, 2026-10-26 08:54); the user list, the grants and any change to a stream the bus holds stay in shadow until take-over"
+const NothingTakesEffect = "memberships (in its own state memberships, each said on its subject, unless one would leave a seat a placed module claims with no holder, or drop a capability its holder still asks for, which stays a shadow difference), and each bucket, log or stream a manifest declares that the bus lacks, created once with the manifest's limits (the operator, 2026-10-26 08:54); the user list, the grants and any change to a stream the bus holds stay in shadow until take-over"
 
 // Part is the grants part: it reads, calls and writes through these, and nothing else.
 type Part struct {
@@ -328,7 +328,33 @@ func (p *Part) Compose() Result {
 	}
 	seated := holdings.ByMemberships(members...)
 	for _, key := range sortedKeys(ms) {
-		m, now := publish(p.Publish, ms[key], holdings, seated)
+		// The last membership is the state's own (ADR 0571 clause 7), never the assignments stream's, which the bus
+		// module's tools remove at the lease write (research 072 row 33): a last read there would freeze every membership
+		// once it is gone.
+		was, _, found, err := p.Store.Get(StateMemberships, key)
+		if err != nil {
+			res.NotPublished = append(res.NotPublished, key+": not published: the membership last published cannot be read from its own "+StateMemberships+": "+err.Error())
+			continue
+		}
+		m, now := publish(p.Publish, was, found, ms[key], holdings, seated)
+		// Published is written to the state, where every runtime reads it (process.FollowMembership); only one
+		// published, so a membership held back never reaches a reader. The subject is a notice after it.
+		if now {
+			body := membership.EncodeGrantsMembership(m.Membership)
+			if _, err := p.Store.Put(StateMemberships, key, body); err != nil {
+				res.Errors = append(res.Errors, fmt.Sprintf("its own %s %s cannot be written: %v", StateMemberships, key, err))
+				m.Published, now = "not published (tried again at the next event): its own "+StateMemberships+" cannot be written", false
+			} else {
+				res.MembershipsWritten++
+				if err := p.Publish.PublishMembership(m.Node, m.Module, body); err != nil {
+					res.Errors = append(res.Errors, fmt.Sprintf("the membership of %s is written, its notice on its subject not said: %v", key, err))
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		// One unchanged is written bare once where the state still holds the wrapper written before 2026-10-30.
+		if m.Published == MembershipUnchanged && p.changed(&res, StateMemberships, key, membership.EncodeGrantsMembership(m.Membership)) {
+			res.MembershipsWritten++
+		}
 		switch {
 		case now:
 			res.Published = append(res.Published, key)
@@ -342,14 +368,6 @@ func (p *Part) Compose() Result {
 			}
 			res.Retired[key] = m.Retired
 		}
-		// The state holds the bare membership as the assignments stream carries it, through mesh-sdk's one codec (issue
-		// 774): only one published now or unchanged, so a membership held back never reaches a reader by this way. What
-		// became of each at this pass is the pass's own (Published, NotPublished, Retired), kept with it (Pass).
-		if now || m.Published == MembershipUnchanged {
-			if p.changed(&res, StateMemberships, key, membership.EncodeGrantsMembership(m.Membership)) {
-				res.MembershipsWritten++
-			}
-		}
 	}
 	held, heldErr := HeldStreams(p.Call)
 	var ask Ask