diff --git a/swarm-controller/src/main.rs b/swarm-controller/src/main.rs
index 1b4477f6..1ad2af1d 100644
--- a/swarm-controller/src/main.rs
+++ b/swarm-controller/src/main.rs
@@ -86,6 +86,16 @@ enum SwarmNodeKind {
     /// swarm routes a deploy message to — it belongs on the node that
     /// sends that message, not on this one.
     InitAgentConfigRepo { agent: String },
+    /// Tell `hive` to rebuild `agent`, by publishing on the swarm's deploy
+    /// subject. The one node kind whose effect leaves this host.
+    ///
+    /// Carries the hive, unlike every variant above — this is the node
+    /// `InitAgentConfigRepo`'s doc points at when it says the hive belongs
+    /// on the node that sends the deploy message. The subject is swarm-wide
+    /// and the addressing rides in the payload; see
+    /// `swarm_queue_client::DEPLOY_SUBJECT` for why it is not a per-hive
+    /// family.
+    TriggerDeploy { hive: String, agent: String },
 }
 
 impl hive_jobq_wire::WireNode for SwarmNodeKind {
@@ -96,15 +106,17 @@ impl hive_jobq_wire::WireNode for SwarmNodeKind {
             SwarmNodeKind::CreateForgeUser { .. } => "create_forge_user".to_owned(),
             SwarmNodeKind::AddRepoMember { .. } => "add_repo_member".to_owned(),
             SwarmNodeKind::InitAgentConfigRepo { .. } => "init_agent_config_repo".to_owned(),
+            SwarmNodeKind::TriggerDeploy { .. } => "trigger_deploy".to_owned(),
         }
     }
 
     fn data(&self, _id: hive_jobq_wire::WireId) -> serde_json::Value {
-        // Every node in this graph is about exactly one agent, so they all
-        // render the same and `label()` is what distinguishes them. Spelled
-        // out as an or-pattern rather than a catch-all on purpose: a fifth
-        // variant then fails to compile here instead of silently rendering
-        // as an agent name.
+        // Spelled out as an or-pattern rather than a catch-all on purpose: a
+        // new variant then fails to compile here instead of silently
+        // rendering as an agent name. That gate has now fired once —
+        // `TriggerDeploy` is the first node that is about an agent *and a
+        // hive*, and a catch-all would have dropped the hive from the
+        // viewer without anyone noticing.
         match self {
             SwarmNodeKind::CreateIdentity { agent }
             | SwarmNodeKind::CreateRepo { agent }
@@ -113,6 +125,9 @@ impl hive_jobq_wire::WireNode for SwarmNodeKind {
             | SwarmNodeKind::InitAgentConfigRepo { agent } => {
                 serde_json::json!({ "agent": agent })
             }
+            SwarmNodeKind::TriggerDeploy { hive, agent } => {
+                serde_json::json!({ "agent": agent, "hive": hive })
+            }
         }
     }
 }
@@ -140,6 +155,13 @@ impl hive_jobq_wire::WireResource for SwarmResourceKind {
 struct WorkerDeps {
     auth: Option<std::sync::Arc<auth::AuthBridge>>,
     forge: Option<std::sync::Arc<forge::Client>>,
+    /// The swarm queue connection, for nodes whose effect is a published
+    /// event rather than an API call. A handle rather than the status
+    /// reader it is cloned from: a node that announces a deploy has no
+    /// business reading hive status, and `status.rs`'s own doc says the
+    /// connection living there is an accident of construction order, not a
+    /// claim that events are a kind of status.
+    queue: Option<async_nats::Client>,
 }
 
 /// Run a claimed node's actual work. Mirrors `hive-c0re/src/job_queue/
@@ -226,10 +248,51 @@ async fn run_swarm_node(
                 Err(e) => Outcome::Failed(format!("{e:#}")),
             },
         },
+        SwarmNodeKind::TriggerDeploy { hive, agent } => match deps.queue {
+            None => Outcome::Failed(
+                "no swarm queue is configured on this host, so no hive can be told to deploy"
+                    .to_owned(),
+            ),
+            Some(client) => publish_deploy(&client, &hive, &agent).await,
+        },
     };
     (builder, outcome)
 }
 
+/// Publish one deploy request and report whether it left this process.
+///
+/// The flush is not belt-and-braces: `publish` hands the message to the
+/// client's write buffer and returns, so a node that reported `Done` on
+/// that alone would be claiming a delivery it has no evidence for — the
+/// same ordering `webhook::announce_knowledge_change` documents.
+async fn publish_deploy(
+    client: &async_nats::Client,
+    hive: &str,
+    agent: &str,
+) -> hive_jobq::scheduler::Outcome {
+    use hive_jobq::scheduler::Outcome;
+
+    let subject = swarm_queue_client::DEPLOY_SUBJECT;
+    let request = swarm_queue_client::DeployRequest {
+        hive: hive.to_owned(),
+        agent: agent.to_owned(),
+    };
+    let payload = match serde_json::to_vec(&request) {
+        Ok(payload) => payload,
+        Err(e) => return Outcome::Failed(format!("encoding the deploy request failed: {e}")),
+    };
+    if let Err(e) = client.publish(subject, payload.into()).await {
+        return Outcome::Failed(format!("publishing to {subject} failed: {e}"));
+    }
+    if let Err(e) = client.flush().await {
+        return Outcome::Failed(format!(
+            "flushing the deploy event to {subject} failed: {e}"
+        ));
+    }
+    tracing::info!(%subject, %hive, %agent, "swarm jobq: deploy requested");
+    Outcome::Done
+}
+
 /// Spawn the swarm-level job-graph scheduler loop. Mirrors `hive-c0re/src/
 /// job_queue/scheduler.rs::run_worker`'s shape: claim one runnable node,
 /// spawn the future that runs + completes it, loop again immediately if
@@ -1151,6 +1214,7 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let deps = WorkerDeps {
         auth: auth.clone(),
         forge: forge_client.clone(),
+        queue: status.as_ref().map(|s| s.queue_client()),
     };
 
     let jobq = Arc::new(Mutex::new(hive_jobq::scheduler::Scheduler::new(