diff --git a/libs/core/execution/include/hpx/execution/queries/read.hpp b/libs/core/execution/include/hpx/execution/queries/read.hpp
index 99d20e4f7d4b..4ce11e124bde 100644
--- a/libs/core/execution/include/hpx/execution/queries/read.hpp
+++ b/libs/core/execution/include/hpx/execution/queries/read.hpp
@@ -84,11 +84,23 @@ namespace hpx::execution::experimental {
                     HPX_FORWARD(Receiver, receiver)};
             }
 
+            template <typename Tag1>
+            friend auto tag_invoke(
+                get_completion_signatures_t, read_sender<Tag1>, no_env)
+                -> dependent_completion_signatures<no_env>;
+
             // clang-format off
             template <typename Env>
             friend auto tag_invoke(get_completion_signatures_t, read_sender, Env)
             {
-                if constexpr (hpx::is_invocable_v<Tag, Env>)
+                if constexpr (hpx::is_nothrow_invocable_v<Tag, Env>)
+                {
+                    using result_type =
+                        completion_signatures<
+                            set_value_t(hpx::util::invoke_result<Tag, Env>)>;
+                    return result_type{};
+                }
+                else if constexpr (hpx::is_invocable_v<Tag, Env>)
                 {
                     using result_type =
                         completion_signatures<
@@ -105,6 +117,40 @@ namespace hpx::execution::experimental {
         };
     }    // namespace detail
 
+    // execution::read is used to create a sender that retrieves a value from
+    // the receiver's associated environment and sends it back to the receiver
+    // through the value channel.
+    //
+    // execution::read is a customization point object of an unspecified class
+    // type
+    //
+    // Returns a sender that reaches into a receiver's environment and pulls out
+    // the current value associated with the customization point denoted by Tag.
+    // It then sends the value read back to the receiver through the value
+    // channel. For instance, get_scheduler() (with no arguments) is a sender
+    // that asks the receiver for the currently suggested scheduler and passes
+    // it to the receiver's set_value completion-signal.
+    //
+    // This can be useful when scheduling nested dependent work. The following
+    // sender pulls the current scheduler into the value channel and then
+    // schedules more work onto it. E.g.
+    //
+    //  execution::sender auto task =
+    //      execution::get_scheduler()
+    //        | execution::let_value(
+    //              [](auto sched) {
+    //                  return execution::on(sched, some nested work here);
+    //              });
+    //
+    //  this_thread::sync_wait(std::move(task));    // wait for it to finish
+    //
+    // This code uses the fact that sync_wait associates a scheduler with the
+    // receiver that it connects with task. get_scheduler() reads that scheduler
+    // out of the receiver, and passes it to let_value's receiver's set_value
+    // function, which in turn passes it to the lambda. That lambda returns a
+    // new sender that uses the scheduler to schedule some nested work onto
+    // sync_wait's scheduler.
+    //
     inline constexpr struct read_t final : hpx::functional::tag<read_t>
     {
     private:
diff --git a/libs/core/tag_invoke/include/hpx/functional/traits/is_invocable.hpp b/libs/core/tag_invoke/include/hpx/functional/traits/is_invocable.hpp
index 6af36e9e7126..a31f5f69d091 100644
--- a/libs/core/tag_invoke/include/hpx/functional/traits/is_invocable.hpp
+++ b/libs/core/tag_invoke/include/hpx/functional/traits/is_invocable.hpp
@@ -69,4 +69,29 @@ namespace hpx {
 
     template <typename R, typename F, typename... Ts>
     inline constexpr bool is_invocable_r_v = is_invocable_r<R, F, Ts...>::value;
+
+    namespace detail {
+
+        template <typename Sig, bool Invocable>
+        struct is_nothrow_invocable_impl : std::false_type
+        {
+        };
+
+        template <typename F, typename... Ts>
+        struct is_nothrow_invocable_impl<F(Ts...), true>
+          : std::integral_constant<bool,
+                noexcept(std::declval<F>()(std::declval<Ts>()...))>
+        {
+        };
+    }    // namespace detail
+
+    template <typename F, typename... Ts>
+    struct is_nothrow_invocable
+      : detail::is_nothrow_invocable_impl<F(Ts...), is_invocable_v<F, Ts...>>
+    {
+    };
+
+    template <typename F, typename... Ts>
+    inline constexpr bool is_nothrow_invocable_v =
+        is_nothrow_invocable<F, Ts...>::value;
 }    // namespace hpx