diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/confirm.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/confirm.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee8977a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/confirm.go
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// Confirm ends an enrolment that came through (ADR 0587 §6): the node, dialled as its own login node.<node> after it
+// redeemed, calls it, and the runtime's proof of that caller is the confirmation (as ADR 0583 §3). Only then does the holder
+// say node-enrolled, with the key's whole content, and delete the key and its address key. The node's name is the caller's
+// own; an argument naming another node is refused. A confirm called again after a stop between the event and the deletes
+// finishes the deletes and says nothing twice (the bus keeps one message of one id).
+func (h *Holder) Confirm(caller, node string) (map[string]any, error) {
+	own, ok := strings.CutPrefix(caller, nodePrefix)
+	if !ok || CheckNode(own) != nil || strings.Contains(own, "--") {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("only the node itself, dialled as node.<node>, confirms its enrolment, and the runtime proved the caller to be %q", caller)
+	}
+	if node != "" && node != own {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s confirms its own enrolment only, not that of %s", caller, node)
+	}
+	row, found, err := h.Store.Get(NodeKey(own))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the enrolment of %s cannot be read: %w", own, err)
+	}
+	if !found {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no enrolment of %s is open: nothing to confirm", own)
+	}
+	e, err := decodeEnrolment(row.Value)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if e.Stage != StageRedeeming {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the enrolment of %s is %s: it is confirmed after redeem", own, e.Stage)
+	}
+	if err := h.sayEvent(EventEnrolled, e, ""); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("node-enrolled of %s cannot be said, so nothing is deleted (call confirm again): %w", own, err)
+	}
+	if err := h.release(e); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the enrolment of %s is confirmed and not closed (call confirm again): %w", own, err)
+	}
+	return map[string]any{"node": own, "address": e.Address, "says": "the node is enrolled; its enrolment is closed and the vault is asked to drop the token"}, nil
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/confirm_test.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/confirm_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b88928c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/confirm_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+package main
+
+import "testing"
+
+// 774/S57/AC1: a confirm from any caller but node.<node> is refused; from node.<node> node-enrolled is said and both keys
+// are deleted; a stop between the event and the deletes is finished by calling confirm again.
+func TestConfirmIsTheNodesOwnAndEndsTheEnrolment(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct{ name, caller, node, want string }{
+		{"the enrolment user", "enrol.ace", "", "dialled as node.<node>"},
+		{"another node", "node.g14", "ace", "its own enrolment only"},
+		{"the second login", "node.ace--b", "", "dialled as node.<node>"},
+		{"no one", "unproven", "ace", "dialled as node.<node>"},
+	} {
+		r := newRig(t)
+		r.seed("ace", "10.9.0.2", StageRedeeming)
+		if _, err := r.h.Confirm(c.caller, c.node); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("%s: confirmed", c.name)
+		} else {
+			mustContain(t, err.Error(), c.want)
+		}
+		if len(r.said) != 0 || len(r.keys()) != 2 {
+			t.Errorf("%s: said %v, keys %v", c.name, r.events(), r.keys())
+		}
+	}
+	r := newRig(t)
+	r.seed("ace", "10.9.0.2", StageLive)
+	if _, err := r.h.Confirm("node.ace", ""); err == nil {
+		t.Error("confirmed before redeem")
+	}
+	r.seed("ace", "10.9.0.2", StageRedeeming)
+	r.st.failDelete[NodeKey("ace")] = true
+	if _, err := r.h.Confirm("node.ace", ""); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a delete that failed was taken for done")
+	}
+	if r.has(AddressKey("10.9.0.2")) || !r.has(NodeKey("ace")) || len(r.said) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("keys %v, said %v", r.keys(), r.events())
+	}
+	if _, err := r.h.Confirm("node.ace", ""); err != nil || len(r.keys()) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("%v, keys %v", err, r.keys())
+	}
+	if r.events()[0] != EventEnrolled || r.said[0].ID != r.said[1].ID {
+		t.Errorf("events %v ids %s %s", r.events(), r.said[0].ID, r.said[1].ID)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/issue.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/issue.go
index e6f6be2..e701e00 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/issue.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/issue.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
@@ -119,21 +120,38 @@ func (h *Holder) Issue(caller, node, why string, lasts time.Duration) (IssueAnsw
 		return IssueAnswer{}, fmt.Errorf("the enrolment of %s cannot be written: %w", node, err)
 	}
 	if err := h.raise(e); err != nil {
-		h.release(e)
+		_ = h.release(e)
 		return IssueAnswer{}, err
 	}
 	return IssueAnswer{Node: node, Address: e.Address, Ask: e.Ask, Expires: e.Expires,
 		Says: "the operator is asked on their channel; only their yes makes the token. mesh-enrolment.tokens shows where it stands"}, nil
 }
 
-// release takes an enrolment's two keys away, the address key last (the node's key is what names the reservation's owner).
-func (h *Holder) release(e Enrolment) {
-	if err := h.Store.Delete(NodeKey(e.Node)); err != nil {
-		h.logf("the key of %s could not be deleted and stays: %v", e.Node, err)
+// release takes an enrolment's two keys away, the address key first and only while it still names this node (a key some
+// other enrolment now holds is never deleted), then the node's key, whose presence is what lets a call made again finish a
+// release that stopped. It answers what could not be deleted.
+func (h *Holder) release(e Enrolment) error {
+	var errs []error
+	if row, found, err := h.Store.Get(AddressKey(e.Address)); err != nil {
+		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("the address key %s cannot be read: %w", e.Address, err))
+	} else if found {
+		var r Reservation
+		if json.Unmarshal(row.Value, &r) == nil && r.Node == e.Node {
+			if err := h.Store.Delete(AddressKey(e.Address)); err != nil {
+				errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("the address key %s could not be deleted: %w", e.Address, err))
+			}
+		}
 	}
-	if err := h.Store.Delete(AddressKey(e.Address)); err != nil {
-		h.logf("the address key %s could not be deleted and stays: %v", e.Address, err)
+	if len(errs) == 0 {
+		if err := h.Store.Delete(NodeKey(e.Node)); err != nil {
+			errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("the key of %s could not be deleted: %w", e.Node, err))
+		}
 	}
+	if err := errors.Join(errs...); err != nil {
+		h.logf("%v", err)
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 // AskOf is the ask of an enrolment, in the words the operator reads: that a machine of this name may join until the
@@ -235,8 +253,7 @@ func (h *Holder) refuse(e Enrolment, reason string) error {
 	if err := h.sayEvent(EventRefused, e, reason); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("enrolment-refused of %s cannot be said, so its keys stay: %w", e.Node, err)
 	}
-	h.release(e)
-	return nil
+	return h.release(e)
 }
 
 // Said is the asker's note of an ask that ended with no yes or no (expired, or refused by the router): the enrolment ends.
diff --git a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tools.go b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tools.go
index 3777b71..e6f1ac3 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-enrolment/cmd/mesh-enrolment/tools.go
@@ -11,10 +11,11 @@ import (
 
 // Tool names: the seat's verbs, as the manifest claims them (ADR 0587 §1, §8).
 const (
-	IssueTool  = Seat + ".issue"
-	AgainTool  = Seat + ".again"
-	RedeemTool = Seat + ".redeem"
-	TokensTool = Seat + ".tokens"
+	IssueTool   = Seat + ".issue"
+	AgainTool   = Seat + ".again"
+	RedeemTool  = Seat + ".redeem"
+	ConfirmTool = Seat + ".confirm"
+	TokensTool  = Seat + ".tokens"
 )
 
 func obj(props map[string]any, required ...string) map[string]any {
@@ -87,6 +88,12 @@ func Tools(h *Holder) []stdio.Tool {
 				}
 				return h.Redeem(stdio.CallerOf(a), args)
 			}},
+		{Name: ConfirmTool,
+			Description: "The new machine's confirmation (novox/hq ADR 0587 §6), answered only for the node dialled as its own login " +
+				"node.<node> after it redeemed: the runtime's proof of that caller is the confirmation. Says node-enrolled and closes " +
+				"the enrolment; the vault is then asked to drop the token.",
+			Input: obj(map[string]any{"node": str("the machine's own name (optional)")}),
+			Run:   func(a map[string]any) (any, error) { return h.Confirm(stdio.CallerOf(a), arg(a, "node")) }},
 		{Name: AgainTool,
 			Description: "Ask the operator again about an enrolment still at stage asked whose ask the router no longer holds open " +
 				"(novox/hq ADR 0587 §8): a new ask for the same node, address and expiry. Nothing more: a redeem stopped midway is finished " +