diff --git a/src/core/graph/nodes/data/AddItem.ts b/src/core/graph/nodes/data/AddItem.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..427dc5f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/graph/nodes/data/AddItem.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+import type { PropertyValue } from '../../../model/Properties';
+import { itemKindOf } from '../../../properties/listItems';
+import type { NodeDef } from '../../NodeRegistry';
+import { asList, asNumber, asValueItem, type ValueList } from '../../values';
+import { any, int, list } from '../shared';
+import { fitToSlot } from './SetItem';
+
+export const AddItem: NodeDef = {
+  type: 'AddItem',
+  label: 'Add item',
+  category: 'data',
+  description:
+    'The same list with one more item, at the end or before index. A struct or list goes in as one item. The list that came in is left alone.',
+  inputs: [list('list'), any('value'), int('index', -1)],
+  outputs: [list('result')],
+  run: (_ctx, inputs) => {
+    const items = asList(inputs.list);
+    const i = inputs.index === undefined ? -1 : Math.floor(asNumber(inputs.index));
+    // No index, −1 or anything outside the list appends – an index can only ever miss towards the end.
+    const at = i >= 0 && i <= items.length ? i : items.length;
+    const next = [...items];
+    next.splice(at, 0, fitted(items, asValueItem(inputs.value)));
+    return { outputs: { result: next } };
+  },
+  params: [],
+};
+
+/**
+ * A list whose items are all one kind gets the new one in that kind too, so a list of pictures
+ * stays one. A mixed or empty list has no kind to keep, and the value goes in as it is.
+ */
+function fitted(items: ValueList, value: ValueList[number]): ValueList[number] {
+  const first = items[0];
+  if (first === undefined) return value;
+  const kind = itemKindOf(first as PropertyValue);
+  const oneKind = items.every((item) => itemKindOf(item as PropertyValue) === kind);
+  return oneKind ? fitToSlot(first, value) : value;
+}
diff --git a/src/core/graph/nodes/data/SetItem.ts b/src/core/graph/nodes/data/SetItem.ts
index 0436b0e7..8e783443 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/nodes/data/SetItem.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/nodes/data/SetItem.ts
@@ -18,16 +18,19 @@ export const SetItem: NodeDef = {
     const next = [...items];
     // The slot keeps its kind: writing a number into a color item leaves a color behind, the same
     // way writing into a number variable leaves a number (see `asTypeOf`).
-    const value = asValueItem(inputs.value);
-    const slot = items[i];
-    // An object has no kind to keep and none to take on, so it is written as it is (#157).
-    if (isEntity(value) || isEntity(slot)) next[i] = value;
-    else next[i] = nestedKind(slot) ? sameNested(slot, value) : itemLike(slot, value);
+    next[i] = fitToSlot(items[i], asValueItem(inputs.value));
     return { outputs: { result: next } };
   },
   params: [],
 };
 
+/** `value` as the kind `slot` holds, the way `Set item` and `Add item` write into a list. */
+export function fitToSlot(slot: ValueList[number] | undefined, value: ValueList[number]): ValueList[number] {
+  // An object has no kind to keep and none to take on, so it is written as it is (#157).
+  if (isEntity(value) || isEntity(slot)) return value;
+  return nestedKind(slot) ? sameNested(slot, value) : itemLike(slot, value);
+}
+
 /** Whether a slot holds a list or a struct, which may carry objects `itemLike` would not keep. */
 const nestedKind = (slot: ValueList[number] | undefined): boolean => {
   const kind = itemKindOf(slot as PropertyValue);
diff --git a/src/core/graph/nodes/index.ts b/src/core/graph/nodes/index.ts
index 6c455aff..59fbac3c 100644
--- a/src/core/graph/nodes/index.ts
+++ b/src/core/graph/nodes/index.ts
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ import { Subtract } from './data/Subtract';
 import { Time } from './data/Time';
 import { ToNumber } from './data/ToNumber';
 import { ToText } from './data/ToText';
+import { AddItem } from './data/AddItem';
 import { Concat } from './data/Concat';
 import { Count } from './data/Count';
 import { CurrentState } from './data/CurrentState';
@@ -213,6 +214,7 @@ export const BUILT_IN_NODES: readonly NodeDef[] = [
   Count,
   ItemAt,
   SetItem,
+  AddItem,
   SubList,
   Concat,
   IndexOf,
diff --git a/tests/core/list-of-structs.test.ts b/tests/core/list-of-structs.test.ts
index 5fedd00d..8c7611e9 100644
--- a/tests/core/list-of-structs.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/list-of-structs.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { AddItem } from '../../src/core/graph/nodes/data/AddItem';
 import { Fill } from '../../src/core/graph/nodes/data/Fill';
 import { IndexOf } from '../../src/core/graph/nodes/data/IndexOf';
 import { ItemAt } from '../../src/core/graph/nodes/data/ItemAt';
@@ -130,6 +131,12 @@ describe('the list nodes with tagged items', () => {
       result: [tagged('texture', 'b')],
     });
   });
+
+  it('adds a plain id to a list of pictures as a picture', () => {
+    expect(run(AddItem, { list: [tagged('texture', 'a')], value: 'b', index: -1 })).toEqual({
+      result: [tagged('texture', 'a'), tagged('texture', 'b')],
+    });
+  });
 });
 
 describe('the list nodes with struct items', () => {
@@ -148,6 +155,23 @@ describe('the list nodes with struct items', () => {
     expect(run(IndexOf, { list: cells([1, 2]), value: { x: 9, y: 9 } })).toEqual({ index: -1 });
   });
 
+  /** `Join lists` would take the struct apart into its field values. */
+  it('adds a struct as one whole item', () => {
+    expect(run(AddItem, { list: cells([1, 2]), value: { x: 3, y: 4 }, index: -1 })).toEqual({
+      result: cells([1, 2], [3, 4]),
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('adds a struct to an empty list as one whole item', () => {
+    expect(run(AddItem, { list: [], value: { x: 3, y: 4 }, index: -1 })).toEqual({ result: cells([3, 4]) });
+  });
+
+  it('leaves a number a number beside structs, since a mixed list has no kind to keep', () => {
+    expect(run(AddItem, { list: [7, { x: 1, y: 2 }], value: 8, index: -1 })).toEqual({
+      result: [7, { x: 1, y: 2 }, 8],
+    });
+  });
+
   it('fills a list with a struct', () => {
     expect(run(Fill, { value: { x: 1, y: 2 }, count: 2 })).toEqual({ result: cells([1, 2], [1, 2]) });
   });
diff --git a/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts b/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts
index 405f0725..e5dd18a4 100644
--- a/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/node-catalog.test.ts
@@ -728,6 +728,35 @@ const CASES: Record<string, Case[]> = {
       outputs: { result: [1, 2] },
     },
   ],
+  AddItem: [
+    { name: 'appends by default', inputs: { list: [1, 2], value: 3 }, outputs: { result: [1, 2, 3] } },
+    {
+      name: 'inserts before index',
+      inputs: { list: [1, 2, 3], value: 9, index: 1 },
+      outputs: { result: [1, 9, 2, 3] },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'index equal to the length appends',
+      inputs: { list: [1, 2], value: 9, index: 2 },
+      outputs: { result: [1, 2, 9] },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'an index outside the list appends instead of dropping the value',
+      inputs: { list: [1, 2], value: 9, index: 7 },
+      outputs: { result: [1, 2, 9] },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'leaves the list it was given untouched – a graph may hold it elsewhere',
+      inputs: { list: Object.freeze([1, 2]), value: 3 },
+      outputs: { result: [1, 2, 3] },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'a list goes in as one item, not joined',
+      inputs: { list: [[1]], value: [2, 3] },
+      outputs: { result: [[1], [2, 3]] },
+    },
+    { name: 'an unset list starts empty', inputs: { value: 5 }, outputs: { result: [5] } },
+  ],
   SubList: [
     {
       name: 'takes count items from start',
diff --git a/tests/core/texture-kind.test.ts b/tests/core/texture-kind.test.ts
index 46795aeb..e1701eb7 100644
--- a/tests/core/texture-kind.test.ts
+++ b/tests/core/texture-kind.test.ts
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ describe('the whole-number inputs', () => {
     const whole = [
       ['ItemAt', 'index'],
       ['SetItem', 'index'],
+      ['AddItem', 'index'],
       ['SubList', 'start'],
       ['SubList', 'count'],
       ['Fill', 'count'],