diff --git a/apps/logos_delivery_node/conf.nim b/apps/logos_delivery_node/conf.nim
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..72ca2ce73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/logos_delivery_node/conf.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{.push raises: [].}
+
+import confutils, confutils/defs
+import ../../tools/confutils/cli_args
+
+export cli_args
+
+## App-specific configuration for `logos_delivery_node`.
+##
+## `WakuNodeConf` is flattened in, so every waku switch (including the `cmd`
+## subcommand discriminator) is hoisted into this type's CLI namespace. New
+## app-only switches live alongside it and become global options, leaving the
+## shared `WakuNodeConf` (and wakunode2) untouched.
+type LogosDeliveryNodeConf* = object
+  waku* {.flatten.}: WakuNodeConf
+
+  presetsFile* {.
+    desc: "Path to a presets file to load node presets from",
+    defaultValue: "",
+    name: "presets-file"
+  .}: string
+
+proc load*(T: type LogosDeliveryNodeConf, version = ""): ConfResult[T] =
+  try:
+    let conf = LogosDeliveryNodeConf.load(
+      version = version,
+      secondarySources = proc(
+          conf: LogosDeliveryNodeConf, sources: auto
+      ) {.gcsafe, raises: [ConfigurationError].} =
+        sources.addConfigFile(Envvar, InputFile("logosdeliverynode"))
+
+        if conf.waku.configFile.isSome():
+          sources.addConfigFile(Toml, conf.waku.configFile.get())
+      ,
+    )
+
+    ok(conf)
+  except CatchableError:
+    err(getCurrentExceptionMsg())
+
+{.pop.}
diff --git a/apps/logos_delivery_node/logos_delivery_node.nim b/apps/logos_delivery_node/logos_delivery_node.nim
index 1a7f1e0df..3a1edbf95 100644
--- a/apps/logos_delivery_node/logos_delivery_node.nim
+++ b/apps/logos_delivery_node/logos_delivery_node.nim
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import
   system/ansi_c,
   libp2p/crypto/crypto
 import
-  ../../tools/confutils/cli_args,
+  ./conf,
   logos_delivery/logos_delivery,
   logos_delivery/waku/common/logging
 
@@ -30,15 +30,15 @@ when isMainModule:
 
   const versionString = "version / git commit hash: " & git_version
 
-  var wakuNodeConf = WakuNodeConf.load(version = versionString).valueOr:
+  var nodeConf = LogosDeliveryNodeConf.load(version = versionString).valueOr:
     error "failure while loading the configuration", error = error
     quit(QuitFailure)
 
   ## Also called within LogosDelivery.new. The call to startRestServerEssentials
   ## needs the following line
-  logging.setupLog(wakuNodeConf.logLevel, wakuNodeConf.logFormat)
+  logging.setupLog(nodeConf.waku.logLevel, nodeConf.waku.logFormat)
 
-  case wakuNodeConf.cmd
+  case nodeConf.waku.cmd
   of generateRlnKeystore:
     error "generateRlnKeystore not supported by logos_delivery_node; use wakunode2"
     quit(QuitFailure)
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ when isMainModule:
     # `LogosDelivery` derives the per-layer config from `WakuNodeConf` itself
     # (it runs `toWakuConf` internally), then builds the full stack bottom-up:
     #   Waku <- MessagingClient <- ReliableChannelManager
-    var node = (waitFor LogosDelivery.new(wakuNodeConf)).valueOr:
+    var node = (waitFor LogosDelivery.new(nodeConf.waku)).valueOr:
       error "LogosDelivery initialization failed", error = error
       quit(QuitFailure)