diff --git a/go/delivery/compose_candidate_test.go b/go/delivery/compose_candidate_test.go
index 4c9558c..b7d069d 100644
--- a/go/delivery/compose_candidate_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/compose_candidate_test.go
@@ -81,8 +81,11 @@ func TestComposeCandidateAndComposedPlanRoundTripAndRefuse(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	d1, _ := ComposedDigestOf(planned)
 	d0, _ := ComposedDigestOf(Composed{Node: "ace", Module: "netcheck", FP: fp, Resources: []json.RawMessage{}})
-	if d1 == "" || d1 == d0 {
-		t.Error("the digest does not move with the plan")
+	if d1 == "" || d1 != d0 {
+		t.Error("the digest moves with the plan: it is the resources' alone")
+	}
+	if SameComposed(planned, Composed{Node: "ace", Module: "netcheck", FP: fp, Resources: []json.RawMessage{}}) {
+		t.Error("a plan change is not a new composition value")
 	}
 	refused := Composed{Node: "ace", Module: "netcheck", FP: fp, Refused: "the setting domain has no value"}
 	if raw, err = EncodeComposed(refused); err != nil {
diff --git a/go/delivery/composed_value.go b/go/delivery/composed_value.go
index b98f85e..787f88d 100644
--- a/go/delivery/composed_value.go
+++ b/go/delivery/composed_value.go
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ type Composed struct {
 	// Plan is the module's whole provisioning plan as the node-engine hands it to the provisioner (templates, files,
 	// own secrets by name, items, collections, provisions; never a value), composed node-wide (novox/hq ADR 0593 §6,
 	// §8): the provisioner makes every plan from it. Nil when the module hands the provisioner nothing; only on a
-	// module's key. It is part of the encoding, so the digest moves when the plan does.
+	// module's key. It is part of the encoding (SameComposed sees a plan change) but not of the digest
+	// (ComposedDigestOf): a have, a want and the apply name a composition by its resources.
 	Plan *catalogue.Plan
 	// Refused is why the module cannot be composed at this fingerprint on this node, the rest of the node composed
 	// (ADR 0593 §6): a refused composition holds no resource, filled file, data or plan, and has no digest
@@ -233,7 +234,7 @@ func DecodeComposed(data []byte) (Composed, error) {
 	return c, nil
 }
 
-// ComposedDigestOf is a composition's digest, "sha256:<hex>", of its encoding without its signature. A want names it
+// ComposedDigestOf is a composition's digest, "sha256:<hex>", of its encoding without its signature and its plan. A want names it
 // (ADR 0539 clause 1), the controller writes it beside the composition, and the signature signs it.
 //
 // A refused composition has no digest: it is refused, naming the module (ADR 0593 §6).
@@ -242,6 +243,7 @@ func ComposedDigestOf(c Composed) (string, error) {
 		return "", fmt.Errorf("delivery: the composition of %s on %s is refused (%s) and has no digest", c.Module, c.Node, c.Refused)
 	}
 	c.Signature = nil
+	c.Plan = nil
 	raw, err := EncodeComposed(c)
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", err