diff --git a/swarm-controller/src/status.rs b/swarm-controller/src/status.rs
index eaff6038..5090cd7a 100644
--- a/swarm-controller/src/status.rs
+++ b/swarm-controller/src/status.rs
@@ -133,6 +133,23 @@ impl StatusReader {
         }
     }
 
+    /// A handle on the queue connection this reader holds.
+    ///
+    /// The controller has exactly **one** connection to the swarm queue and
+    /// more than one thing to do with it: status is read out of a KV bucket,
+    /// swarm events are published on a subject. Handing out a clone is cheap —
+    /// `async_nats::Client` is a handle, not a socket — and is strictly better
+    /// than opening a second connection, which would double the auth-callout
+    /// traffic and give the two paths independent reconnect state, so one could
+    /// be serving while the other was still down.
+    ///
+    /// That this lives on the *status* reader is an accident of who constructed
+    /// the connection first, not a claim that events are a kind of status.
+    #[must_use]
+    pub fn queue_client(&self) -> async_nats::Client {
+        self.client.clone()
+    }
+
     /// Reads [`STALE_AFTER_ENV`], falling back to
     /// [`DEFAULT_STALE_AFTER`]. A zero or unparseable value takes the
     /// default rather than failing startup — same rule as `load_hives`:
diff --git a/swarm-controller/src/webhook.rs b/swarm-controller/src/webhook.rs
index 5be60268..5ad47f73 100644
--- a/swarm-controller/src/webhook.rs
+++ b/swarm-controller/src/webhook.rs
@@ -365,9 +365,74 @@ pub(super) async fn post_webhook_forge(
         bytes = body.len(),
         "webhook: verified delivery"
     );
+
+    match kind {
+        DeliveryKind::Knowledge => announce_knowledge_change(&state).await,
+        // Deploy coordination is a separate concern with its own issue: a
+        // hive does not want to hear that a config PR was opened, it wants
+        // to be told when to rebuild from main, and that is a decision the
+        // controller makes after a merge rather than a relay of this
+        // delivery. Logged above and deliberately not forwarded.
+        DeliveryKind::ConfigPr => {}
+    }
+
     (StatusCode::OK, "ok").into_response()
 }
 
+/// Tell every hive in the swarm that the knowledge repository changed.
+///
+/// The event carries **no payload**, because there is nothing to carry: the
+/// hive-side handler this replaces read two fields from Forgejo's webhook and
+/// used neither — both were filters — and then ran `git pull`, which re-derives
+/// everything from the repository itself. So what crosses the queue is an edge
+/// trigger, and adding fields to it would invent a contract nobody reads.
+///
+/// One subject per hive rather than one shared subject, so the swarm's callout
+/// policy can express "this hive may hear its own events" at all; a subject
+/// with no hive component is the same subject for everyone.
+///
+/// # Failure
+///
+/// Returns nothing and fails soft. A missed announcement costs a hive stale
+/// knowledge until its next boot pull — the same cost as a webhook delivery to
+/// a hive that happened to be down, which is what this replaces.
+///
+/// ⚠️ A **permission** failure cannot be observed here. `publish` hands the
+/// message to the connection's buffer, and a NATS authorization violation is
+/// reported asynchronously on the connection rather than as an error on this
+/// call — it reaches a client as a timeout, or as nothing at all. The `flush`
+/// below therefore proves the bytes left this process, and nothing more; if
+/// hives stop hearing events, the server log is the place that knows why.
+async fn announce_knowledge_change(state: &AppState) {
+    let Some(status) = state.status.as_ref() else {
+        // Verified, accepted, and dropped. Worth a warning rather than
+        // silence: the forge will report a 200 and nobody would otherwise
+        // learn that the delivery reached a controller with nowhere to put it.
+        tracing::warn!(
+            "webhook: knowledge delivery verified but no swarm queue is \
+             configured; no hive will be told"
+        );
+        return;
+    };
+    let client = status.queue_client();
+
+    for hive in state.hives.iter() {
+        let subject = swarm_queue_client::events::knowledge(&hive.name);
+        if let Err(e) = client.publish(subject.clone(), Vec::new().into()).await {
+            tracing::warn!(
+                hive = %hive.name, %subject, error = %e,
+                "webhook: publishing the knowledge event failed"
+            );
+        } else {
+            tracing::info!(hive = %hive.name, %subject, "webhook: knowledge event published");
+        }
+    }
+
+    if let Err(e) = client.flush().await {
+        tracing::warn!(error = %e, "webhook: flushing knowledge events failed");
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::{DeliveryKind, Refusal, load_or_generate_at, secret_path_from, verify};