diff --git a/internal/broker/streams.go b/internal/broker/streams.go
index 9b31266..9c6dcf7 100644
--- a/internal/broker/streams.go
+++ b/internal/broker/streams.go
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ var ControllerFollows = []string{
 	// message on the control branch. Same three audiences, one publish: whoever asked, this, and the
 	// catalogue.
 	seatEventSubject("mesh-build-machine", "built"),
+	// The forge's merges: what moved a source, so the mesh builds what that source produces
+	// without anybody telling it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131). Appended, because the index is a name.
+	moduleEventSubject("gitea", "pull.merged"),
 }
 
 // moduleEventSubject is where one module's event lands. The same derivation PermissionsFor uses, so
diff --git a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
index 365f227..1def85c 100644
--- a/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
+++ b/internal/broker/testdata/composed.conf
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ accounts {
     users = [
       { user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
         publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>"] }
-        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built"] }
+        subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built"] }
         allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
       } }
       { user: "enrol.one", password: "$2a$11$eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", permissions: {
diff --git a/internal/link/receive_nats_test.go b/internal/link/receive_nats_test.go
index dda1a34..e7b9a59 100644
--- a/internal/link/receive_nats_test.go
+++ b/internal/link/receive_nats_test.go
@@ -377,3 +377,17 @@ func TestNatsAReportIsLetGoOnceTheStoreHasBeenGoneTooLong(t *testing.T) {
 
 // A merge announcement is not what these tests are about; taken and forgotten.
 func (t *toldAbout) SourceMoved(context.Context, SourceMoved) error { return nil }
+
+// Every subject the controller follows decodes to a kind, and decoding never reaches past the
+// list: the day the list was three long and the decoder named a fourth, every message panicked
+// the control plane (2026-09-28).
+func TestEverySubjectTheControllerFollowsDecodesToAKind(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, subject := range broker.ControllerFollows {
+		if _, ok := kindOfSubject(subject); !ok {
+			t.Errorf("%s is followed and decodes to nothing", subject)
+		}
+	}
+	if _, ok := kindOfSubject("mesh.mod.nobody.event.nothing"); ok {
+		t.Error("a subject nobody follows decoded to a kind")
+	}
+}