diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/proposals.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/proposals.go
index 9f878b66..897c0a77 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/proposals.go
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/proposals.go
@@ -696,7 +696,7 @@ type ProposalStore interface {
 	Get(key string) (json.RawMessage, bool, error)
 }
 
-// Recorder records a warrant in the controller's hand-act log: the controller reads the warrant from the
+// Recorder records a warrant in the hand-act log of the seat mesh-hand-acts: the controller reads the warrant from the
 // router's own record, never from this module.
 type Recorder func(ask string) error
 
@@ -708,9 +708,9 @@ func (sdkAskBus) Publish(subject string, body any, id string) error {
 func (sdkAskBus) Record(id string) (*stdio.StateEntry, error) { return stdio.SeatRecord("", id) }
 func (sdkAskBus) Kinds() ([]stdio.KindHeld, error)            { return stdio.SeatKinds() }
 
-// recordWarrant asks the controller to record a warrant this module acted on.
+// recordWarrant asks the seat mesh-hand-acts (ADR 0565 clause 11) to record a warrant this module acted on.
 func recordWarrant(ask string) error {
-	_, err := stdio.Ask("seat:mesh-controller.warranted", map[string]any{"asker": Module, "ask": ask})
+	_, err := stdio.Ask("seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted", map[string]any{"asker": Module, "ask": ask})
 	return err
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/warrant_seat_test.go b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/warrant_seat_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..07f4bfd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/claude-code/cmd/claude-code/warrant_seat_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"os"
+	"slices"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The warrant is recorded through the seat mesh-hand-acts, which the manifest invokes, and no verb of the controller
+// is invoked (ADR 0565 clause 11, issue 1953).
+func TestTheWarrantIsRecordedThroughTheHandActSeat(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	var m struct {
+		Invokes []string `json:"invokes"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !slices.Equal(m.Invokes, []string{"seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted"}) {
+		t.Errorf("invokes = %v", m.Invokes)
+	}
+	src, _ := os.ReadFile("proposals.go")
+	if !strings.Contains(string(src), `"seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted"`) || strings.Contains(string(src), "seat:mesh-controller.warranted") {
+		t.Error("recordWarrant does not ask the hand-act seat alone")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/claude-code/module.json b/modules/claude-code/module.json
index 9f85df0c..48f1a194 100644
--- a/modules/claude-code/module.json
+++ b/modules/claude-code/module.json
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
   "uses": [
     "operator-channel"
   ],
+  "invokes": [
+    "seat:mesh-hand-acts.warranted"
+  ],
   "state": [
     "servers",
     "holdings",