diff --git a/modules/gitea/pulls.ts b/modules/gitea/pulls.ts
index 9990d84..0e565fd 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/pulls.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/pulls.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,43 @@ export interface Checked {
    *  controller from before the layers says neither, and its verdict is the gate's. */
   gate?: Layer;
   "repo-check"?: Layer;
+  /** The change plan of the commit checked (novox/hq ADR 0238): what a merge of it would build and send. */
+  plan?: ChangePlan;
+}
+
+/** A change plan, as the controller says it (mesh-controller internal/link, ChangePlan). */
+export interface ChangePlan {
+  repository: string;
+  base: string;
+  head: string;
+  moved?: string[];
+  dependents?: string[];
+  new?: string[];
+  unread?: string[];
+  tiers?: string[][];
+  machines?: { machine: string; receives?: string[]; waits?: string[] }[];
+  steps?: string[];
+  summary: string;
+}
+
+/** Whether a plan builds anything: a change that touches the mesh's graph. */
+function builds(plan?: ChangePlan): boolean {
+  return !!plan && ((plan.moved?.length ?? 0) > 0 || (plan.new?.length ?? 0) > 0);
+}
+
+/** A change plan as a person reads it on the pull request. */
+export function planText(plan: ChangePlan): string {
+  const lines = [`**Change plan** — ${plan.summary}`];
+  (plan.tiers ?? []).forEach((tier, i) => lines.push(`- tier ${i}: ${tier.join(", ")}`));
+  for (const m of plan.machines ?? []) {
+    const parts: string[] = [];
+    if (m.receives?.length) parts.push(`receives ${m.receives.join(", ")}`);
+    if (m.waits?.length) parts.push(`waits for a person: ${m.waits.join(", ")}`);
+    lines.push(`- ${m.machine}: ${parts.join("; ")}`);
+  }
+  for (const step of plan.steps ?? []) lines.push(`- ${step}`);
+  if (plan.unread?.length) lines.push(`- read by no module's build: ${plan.unread.join(", ")}`);
+  return lines.join("\n");
 }
 
 /** The heads already announced, keyed `owner/repo#number`, so a restart announces nothing twice. */
@@ -69,10 +106,12 @@ function described(verdict: string, summary: string, modules?: string[], depende
 /** The forge's status for the gate. */
 export function statusFor(c: Checked): CommitStatus {
   const gate = c.gate ?? { verdict: c.verdict, summary: c.summary };
-  return {
-    state: stateOf(gate.verdict), context: CHECK_CONTEXT,
-    description: described(gate.verdict, gate.summary, gate.modules, gate.dependents),
-  };
+  // With a plan, the status says what the change does and how it was judged: "pass: builds gitea → anchor;
+  // no bus step; every machine composes…".
+  const description = builds(c.plan)
+    ? described(gate.verdict, `${c.plan!.summary}; ${gate.summary}`)
+    : described(gate.verdict, gate.summary, gate.modules, gate.dependents);
+  return { state: stateOf(gate.verdict), context: CHECK_CONTEXT, description };
 }
 
 /** Every status a verdict sets: the gate's, and the repository's own check's when it was said. */
@@ -83,19 +122,21 @@ export function statusesFor(c: Checked): CommitStatus[] {
   return out;
 }
 
-/** The comment a verdict leaves on its pull request, with the check's own account: when the gate is not a
- *  pass, or the repository's own check failed or could not run. A repository with no merge-check.sh is
- *  said by its status alone, not by a comment on every push. */
+/** The comment a verdict leaves on its pull request, with the check's own account: the change plan of a
+ *  change that builds something (novox/hq ADR 0238), and why, when the gate is not a pass or the
+ *  repository's own check failed or could not run. A repository with no merge-check.sh, touching nothing,
+ *  is said by its statuses alone, not by a comment on every push. */
 export function commentFor(c: Checked): string | null {
   const gate = c.gate ?? { verdict: c.verdict, summary: c.summary };
   const repo = c["repo-check"];
   const repoWrong = !!repo && repo.verdict !== "pass" && repo.verdict !== "warning";
-  if (gate.verdict === "pass" && !repoWrong) return null;
+  if (gate.verdict === "pass" && !repoWrong && !builds(c.plan)) return null;
   const lines = [`**Merge check** at \`${c.commit.slice(0, 8)}\``, ""];
   lines.push(`- \`${CHECK_CONTEXT}\`: **${(gate.verdict || "error").toUpperCase()}** — ${gate.summary}` +
     (gate.modules?.length ? ` (modules: ${gate.modules.join(", ")}` +
       (gate.dependents?.length ? `; built after them: ${gate.dependents.join(", ")}` : "") + ")" : ""));
   if (repo) lines.push(`- \`${REPO_CHECK_CONTEXT}\`: **${(repo.verdict || "error").toUpperCase()}** — ${repo.summary}`);
+  if (builds(c.plan)) lines.push("", planText(c.plan!));
   const ran = c.on ? `\n\nRun by the build seat on ${c.on} as \`${c.id}\` (\`builds --log ${c.id}\`).` : "";
   const report = c.report ? `\n\n\`\`\`\n${c.report.replace(/```/g, "'''")}\n\`\`\`` : "";
   return lines.join("\n") + ran + report;
diff --git a/modules/gitea/test/pulls.test.ts b/modules/gitea/test/pulls.test.ts
index 29342a4..45cd521 100644
--- a/modules/gitea/test/pulls.test.ts
+++ b/modules/gitea/test/pulls.test.ts
@@ -83,3 +83,21 @@ test("a commit status is set on the commit, under the merge check's context", as
   assert.equal(seen!.body.state, "failure");
   assert.equal(seen!.body.context, "mesh/merge-gate");
 });
+
+test("a change plan is the gate's result: said on the status and, when it builds something, as a comment", async () => {
+  const { statusFor, commentFor } = await import("../pulls.ts");
+  const plan = {
+    repository: "novox/mesh-catalog", base: "main", head: "0123456789abcdef", moved: ["gitea"],
+    tiers: [["gitea"]], machines: [{ machine: "anchor", receives: ["gitea"] }], steps: [],
+    summary: "builds gitea → anchor; no bus step",
+  };
+  const c = { owner: "novox", repo: "mesh-catalog", number: 7, commit: "0123456789abcdef", id: "b", verdict: "pass",
+    summary: "every machine composes", gate: { verdict: "pass", summary: "every machine composes", modules: ["gitea"] }, plan };
+  assert.equal(statusFor(c).description, "pass: builds gitea → anchor; no bus step; every machine composes");
+  const said = commentFor(c) ?? "";
+  assert.match(said, /Change plan\*\* — builds gitea → anchor/);
+  assert.match(said, /- anchor: receives gitea/);
+  // A plan that builds nothing, passing: the statuses say it, no comment.
+  const nothing = { ...c, plan: { ...plan, moved: [], tiers: [], machines: [], summary: "builds nothing" } };
+  assert.equal(commentFor(nothing), null);
+});