diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_test.go
index 3fff5401..8841044f 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_test.go
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ func TestTheToolsReadAndReleaseAnOutsideWait(t *testing.T) {
 	r.cond("machine.hub.unreachable", "ace")
 	r.review(false, nil)
 	var acts []string
-	s := newPutTools(memStore{waitsState: &memKV{values: map[string][]byte{}}}, func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
+	s := newPutTools(memStore{waitsState: &memKV{values: map[string][]byte{}}, buckets.DeliveryWaitsState: &memKV{values: map[string][]byte{}}}, func(key string, body any) (json.RawMessage, error) {
 		acts = append(acts, key)
 		return json.RawMessage(`{"ok":true,"log":"logged"}`), nil
 	})
@@ -296,4 +296,26 @@ func TestTheToolsReadAndReleaseAnOutsideWait(t *testing.T) {
 	if r.bodies[len(r.bodies)-1].How != "go-on" || n.Haves["ace"]["nats"].Health != nodeengineclient.HealthOK {
 		t.Errorf("last %+v health %s", r.bodies[len(r.bodies)-1], n.Haves["ace"]["nats"].Health)
 	}
+	// A-246: a dependent's delivery wait is listed beside them, and released by its module and step delivery, its hand act first.
+	dw, _ := json.Marshal(deliveryWaiting{Wait: meshwants.Wait{Step: meshwants.WaitStepDelivery, Module: "app", Part: "db", On: "db@1.1.0", Machines: []string{"g14"}}})
+	s.st.put(buckets.DeliveryWaitsState, "app", dw)
+	got, err = s.doWaits(map[string]any{"node": "g14"})
+	if d := got.(map[string]any)["delivery"].([]deliveryWaiting); err != nil || len(d) != 1 || d[0].Module != "app" {
+		t.Errorf("the delivery waits listed = %+v %v", got, err)
+	}
+	if _, err := s.doRelease(map[string]any{"module": "app", "step": "build", "why": "x"}, "shanks.node-tools"); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a release of another step is taken")
+	}
+	if _, err := s.doRelease(map[string]any{"module": "web", "step": "delivery", "why": "x"}, "shanks.node-tools"); err == nil {
+		t.Error("a release of a module waiting for no delivery is taken")
+	}
+	before := len(acts)
+	if _, err := s.doRelease(map[string]any{"module": "app", "step": "delivery", "why": "db is fine as it runs"}, "shanks.node-tools"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	raw, _, _, _ = s.st.get(buckets.DeliveryWaitsState, "app")
+	var released deliveryWaiting
+	if json.Unmarshal(raw, &released) != nil || !released.Released || !strings.Contains(released.By, "db is fine") || len(acts) != before+1 {
+		t.Errorf("the delivery wait after its release = %+v, hand acts %v", released, acts[before:])
+	}
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_tools.go b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_tools.go
index 9d22b933..bd913301 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/outside_tools.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
@@ -9,7 +10,9 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-contracts/health-and-repair/go/clients/meshhandactsclient"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshwants"
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/keys"
 
 	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/buckets"
 	"mesh-delivery-assigner/internal/outside"
@@ -58,7 +61,59 @@ func (s *putTools) doWaits(args map[string]any) (any, error) {
 		}
 		out = append(out, said)
 	}
-	return map[string]any{"waits": out}, nil
+	// And each dependent's wait for its dependency's delivery (design 47 G §376, A-246), from the state delivery-waits.
+	delivery := []deliveryWaiting{}
+	dkeys, err := s.st.keys(buckets.DeliveryWaitsState)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the delivery waits cannot be listed: %w", err)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(dkeys)
+	for _, key := range dkeys {
+		raw, _, found, err := s.st.get(buckets.DeliveryWaitsState, key)
+		if err != nil || !found {
+			continue
+		}
+		var w deliveryWaiting
+		if json.Unmarshal(raw, &w) != nil || (arg(args, "module") != "" && w.Module != arg(args, "module")) ||
+			(arg(args, "node") != "" && !slices.Contains(w.Machines, arg(args, "node"))) {
+			continue
+		}
+		delivery = append(delivery, w)
+	}
+	return map[string]any{"waits": out, "delivery": delivery}, nil
+}
+
+// doReleaseDelivery is assigner_release with step delivery: the hand act is recorded first, then the release is written on the
+// module's delivery wait, which the assigner's process ends released at its next pass, writing the module's want.
+func (s *putTools) doReleaseDelivery(args map[string]any, by string) (any, error) {
+	module, why := arg(args, "module"), arg(args, "why")
+	if why == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("release says why: it is kept in the hand-act log")
+	}
+	key := keys.EscapeName(module)
+	raw, _, found, err := s.st.get(buckets.DeliveryWaitsState, key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the delivery wait of %s is not read: %w", module, err)
+	}
+	var w deliveryWaiting
+	if !found || json.Unmarshal(raw, &w) != nil || w.Released {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s waits for no delivery: assigner_waits lists the delivery waits", module)
+	}
+	rec := meshhandactsclient.Recorder{Ask: s.ask}
+	taken, err := rec.Record(meshhandactsclient.Request{What: fmt.Sprintf("assigner_release %s step delivery (waits on %s)", module, w.On), Why: why,
+		Cause: "delivery-wait", Verb: "mesh-wants.assigner_release"})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the hand act could not be recorded, so nothing was released: %w", err)
+	}
+	w.Released, w.By = true, by+": "+why
+	data, err := json.Marshal(w)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if err := s.st.put(buckets.DeliveryWaitsState, key, data); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("the release of %s's delivery wait is not written: %w", module, err)
+	}
+	return map[string]any{"released": module, "step": meshwants.WaitStepDelivery, "by": by, "hand-act": taken.Log}, nil
 }
 
 // doReleaseWait is assigner_release with how: the hand act is recorded first, then the release is written on the wait of node and
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 4d82608c..849d3b66 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/tools.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery-assigner/cmd/mesh-delivery-assigner/tools.go
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-sdk/catalogkey"
 
+	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-delivery/modules/mesh-delivery-contracts/go/seats/meshwants"
 	stdio "git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go"
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/seatlist"
 
@@ -209,6 +210,12 @@ func (s *putTools) doRelease(args map[string]any, by string) (any, error) {
 	if arg(args, "how") != "" {
 		return s.doReleaseWait(args, by) // a wait on an outside cause (outside_tools.go, design 47 G §706)
 	}
+	if step := arg(args, "step"); step != "" {
+		if step != meshwants.WaitStepDelivery {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("step is %s, the one wait released by its step, not %q", meshwants.WaitStepDelivery, step)
+		}
+		return s.doReleaseDelivery(args, by) // a dependent's delivery wait (delivered.go, design 47 G §376, A-246)
+	}
 	node, module, why := arg(args, "node"), arg(args, "module"), arg(args, "why")
 	key, err := puts.Key(node, module)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -341,8 +348,9 @@ func (s *putTools) tools() []stdio.Tool {
 			"rules write the machine's want again from their next pass. Nothing changes on the machine until they move it.",
 			Input: schema(map[string]string{"node": "the machine", "module": "the module", "why": "why, kept with the put",
 				"how": "with how, the wait of the delivery on an outside cause (assigner_waits) is released, not a put: go-on (the module counts healthy there), " +
-					"failed (the failing check is the delivery's) or rejudge (judge it again now); written in the hand-act log first"},
-				[]string{"node", "module", "why"}),
+					"failed (the failing check is the delivery's) or rejudge (judge it again now); written in the hand-act log first",
+				"step": "delivery: the module's wait for its dependency's delivery (assigner_waits) is released, its want written now; no machine is named; written in the hand-act log first"},
+				[]string{"module", "why"}),
 			Run: func(a map[string]any) (any, error) { return s.doRelease(a, stdio.CallerOf(a)) }},
 		s.waitsTool(),
 		{Name: toolPuts, Description: "Every put and where it stands (novox/hq ADR 0546): its version, hold, why, each step with " +