diff --git a/cmd/mesh-control/licence.go b/cmd/mesh-control/licence.go
index 2544ab9..23f417c 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-control/licence.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-control/licence.go
@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-control/internal/secrets"
 )
 
 // licenceCommand is everything about model access the mesh holds.
@@ -18,7 +21,8 @@ import (
 // them too, because the whole point is saying which one a given consumer uses.
 func licenceCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	if len(args) == 0 {
-		return errors.New("licence add|list|use|release|key|manager|refresh|forget")
+		return errors.New(
+			"licence add|list|use|release|key|manager|grant|set-grant|refresh|submit-refresh|forget")
 	}
 	switch args[0] {
 	case "add":
@@ -33,13 +37,20 @@ func licenceCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 		return licenceKey(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "manager":
 		return licenceManager(ctx, args[1:])
+	case "grant":
+		return licenceGrant(ctx, args[1:])
+	case "set-grant":
+		return licenceSetGrant(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "refresh":
 		return licenceRefresh(ctx, args[1:])
+	case "submit-refresh":
+		return licenceSubmitRefresh(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "forget":
 		return licenceForget(ctx, args[1:])
 	}
 	return fmt.Errorf(
-		"licence %q; it is add, list, use, release, key, manager, refresh or forget", args[0])
+		"licence %q; it is add, list, use, release, key, manager, grant, set-grant, refresh, "+
+			"submit-refresh or forget", args[0])
 }
 
 func licenceAdd(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
@@ -256,6 +267,216 @@ func licenceManager(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// envelopeJSON is the wire shape of a refresh-token at-rest envelope on this command surface: the
+// three opaque parts of secrets.AtRest and nothing else.
+//
+// **Every field of it is ciphertext or a public key.** `token` is the refresh token under a data
+// key, `wrapped_key` is that data key sealed to the manager node, `manager_key` is the manager's
+// public sealing key. None of them is the refresh token in the clear — which is why this surface may
+// print one out (`grant`) and read one in (`set-grant`, `submit-refresh`) without the control plane
+// ever holding a refresh token it could read. The manager runtime, on the manager node, is the only
+// place these open (novox/hq ADR 0050, Phase C).
+type envelopeJSON struct {
+	Token      string `json:"token"`
+	WrappedKey string `json:"wrapped_key"`
+	ManagerKey string `json:"manager_key"`
+}
+
+func (e envelopeJSON) atRest() secrets.AtRest {
+	return secrets.AtRest{Token: e.Token, WrappedKey: e.WrappedKey, ManagerKey: e.ManagerKey}
+}
+
+func envelopeOf(a secrets.AtRest) envelopeJSON {
+	return envelopeJSON{Token: a.Token, WrappedKey: a.WrappedKey, ManagerKey: a.ManagerKey}
+}
+
+// readEnvelope reads an at-rest envelope from a file or standard input as JSON.
+func readEnvelope(from string) (envelopeJSON, error) {
+	var raw []byte
+	var err error
+	if from != "" {
+		raw, err = os.ReadFile(from)
+	} else {
+		raw, err = readAllStdin()
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return envelopeJSON{}, err
+	}
+	var env envelopeJSON
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &env); err != nil {
+		return envelopeJSON{}, fmt.Errorf("the refresh-token envelope is not JSON: %w", err)
+	}
+	if env.Token == "" || env.WrappedKey == "" || env.ManagerKey == "" {
+		return envelopeJSON{}, errors.New(
+			"an at-rest envelope is {token, wrapped_key, manager_key}, and one part is missing")
+	}
+	return env, nil
+}
+
+func readAllStdin() ([]byte, error) {
+	reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
+	return io.ReadAll(reader)
+}
+
+// licenceGrant prints a licence's refresh-token envelope, so the manager runtime can fetch the
+// opaque thing it will open on the manager node (novox/hq ADR 0050, Phase C).
+//
+// **What is printed is ciphertext.** The envelope is the refresh token sealed at rest to the manager
+// node's key; it opens nowhere but that node. Printing it here is how the manager runtime — which
+// does not read this database directly — is handed the envelope to open, and it discloses nothing a
+// copy of the store did not already hold.
+func licenceGrant(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	if len(args) != 1 {
+		return errors.New("licence grant <name>")
+	}
+	name := args[0]
+
+	held, err := openLicences(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer held.Close()
+
+	at, ok, err := held.RefreshGrant(ctx, name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if !ok {
+		// Said, not printed as an empty object: a licence with no grant and a failed read must not
+		// look the same to whatever parses this.
+		return fmt.Errorf(
+			"%q has no refresh token stored; its manager adopts one first with `licence set-grant %s`",
+			name, name)
+	}
+	out, err := json.Marshal(envelopeOf(at))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	fmt.Println(string(out))
+	return nil
+}
+
+// licenceSetGrant stores a refresh-token envelope the manager runtime produced — adoption, and the
+// re-seal after a rotation done outside this process (novox/hq ADR 0050, Phase C).
+//
+// **It takes an envelope, never a refresh token.** The manager node reads the operator's refresh
+// token, seals it at rest to its own key, and hands the sealed envelope here. So the one moment a
+// refresh token is in the clear is on the manager node, never in the control plane — the same bound
+// the whole carve-out keeps. This surface refuses anything that is not a complete envelope rather
+// than storing half of one.
+func licenceSetGrant(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	set := flag.NewFlagSet("licence set-grant", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	from := set.String("file", "", "read the envelope from a file instead of standard input")
+	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if len(positionals) != 1 {
+		return errors.New("licence set-grant <name> [--file <path>]")
+	}
+	name := positionals[0]
+
+	env, err := readEnvelope(*from)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	held, err := openLicences(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer held.Close()
+	if err := held.SetRefreshGrant(ctx, name, env.atRest()); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("%s now holds a refresh token for %s, encrypted at rest and readable by that node "+
+		"alone.\n  the control plane stored the envelope without opening it\n",
+		"the manager", name)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// licenceSubmitRefresh publishes a refresh a MANAGER NODE already performed: the new access token is
+// sealed to every holder, and a rotated refresh token replaces the stored envelope (novox/hq ADR
+// 0050, Phase C).
+//
+// **This is the boundary the invariant rests on.** The manager runtime, on the manager node, opened
+// the at-rest envelope with that node's key, called the vendor's OAuth endpoint, and produced this:
+// the new access token in the clear, and — only if the vendor rotated it — the refresh token already
+// re-sealed at rest. This reads exactly those two things and no refresh token in the clear ever
+// reaches it, because it is never given one. The access token is sealed per holder and discarded,
+// as any accepted key is; the rotated envelope is stored opaque.
+func licenceSubmitRefresh(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	set := flag.NewFlagSet("licence submit-refresh", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	accessFrom := set.String("access-file", "",
+		"read the new access token from a file instead of standard input")
+	grantFrom := set.String("grant-file", "",
+		"the rotated refresh-token envelope, if the vendor rotated it; omit if it did not")
+	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if len(positionals) != 1 {
+		return errors.New(
+			"licence submit-refresh <name> [--access-file <path>] [--grant-file <path>]")
+	}
+	name := positionals[0]
+
+	var accessToken string
+	if *accessFrom != "" {
+		raw, err := os.ReadFile(*accessFrom)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		accessToken = strings.TrimSpace(string(raw))
+	} else {
+		raw, err := readAllStdin()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		accessToken = strings.TrimSpace(string(raw))
+	}
+	if accessToken == "" {
+		return errors.New("no access token was given, so there is nothing to seal")
+	}
+
+	// The rotated envelope is optional: absent, the stored refresh token is left exactly as it was.
+	var rotated *secrets.AtRest
+	if *grantFrom != "" {
+		env, err := readEnvelope(*grantFrom)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		at := env.atRest()
+		rotated = &at
+	}
+
+	open, err := openStores(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer open.Close()
+	held, err := open.Licences(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	inv := open.inventory
+
+	sealed, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, name, accessToken, rotated, func(node string) (string, error) {
+		return inv.SealingKeyOf(ctx, node)
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	rotatedNote := "the refresh token was left with its manager unchanged"
+	if rotated != nil {
+		rotatedNote = "the rotated refresh token replaced the stored envelope, still readable by the " +
+			"manager node alone"
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("submitted a refresh for %s: a new access token sealed to %d holder(s), and %s.\n"+
+		"  run `push` to deliver it\n", name, sealed, rotatedNote)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // licenceRefresh mints a new access token for a refreshable-grant licence and seals it to every
 // holder (novox/hq ADR 0050). The refresh token stays with the manager and is never delivered.
 //
diff --git a/internal/licences/licences.go b/internal/licences/licences.go
index bdf59ac..4664798 100644
--- a/internal/licences/licences.go
+++ b/internal/licences/licences.go
@@ -482,8 +482,106 @@ func (l *Licences) Refresh(ctx context.Context, licence string, keys SealingKeys
 			"the refresh produced no access token for %q, so nothing was resealed", licence)
 	}
 
-	// Reseal the new access token to the holders that exist now — the same set Accept seals to — and
-	// keep no readable copy.
+	// The reseal-and-publish half, shared with SubmitRefresh: the new access token is sealed to every
+	// holder that exists now, and a rotated refresh token replaces the stored envelope — never seen
+	// in the clear either way.
+	sealed, err := resealAndPublish(ctx, tx, licence, result.AccessToken, result.NewAtRest, keys)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return sealed, nil
+}
+
+// SubmitRefresh takes a refresh a MANAGER NODE already performed and publishes it: it seals the new
+// access token to every holder and replaces the stored refresh envelope if the vendor rotated it.
+//
+// **This is the entry point that keeps the control plane blind to the refresh token** (novox/hq ADR
+// 0050, Phase C). `Refresh` above calls an in-process VendorRefresher — which would open the at-rest
+// envelope inside the control plane's own process, exactly what the carve-out forbids. So Anthropic
+// registers no in-process refresher; instead its manager runtime, on the manager node, opens the
+// envelope with that node's own key, calls the vendor's OAuth endpoint, and submits the *result*
+// here: the new access token in the clear (which the mesh seals per holder and discards, as it does
+// any accepted key) and — only if the vendor rotated it — the refresh token already re-sealed at
+// rest (which the mesh stores without ever opening). The refresh token in the clear never crosses
+// this boundary, because this function is never given it.
+//
+// It reuses the same lease, the same reseal-and-publish, and the same all-or-nothing transaction as
+// `Refresh`; the only difference is where the access token came from — a module on the manager node
+// rather than a plug-in in this process.
+func (l *Licences) SubmitRefresh(
+	ctx context.Context, licence, accessToken string, newAtRest *secrets.AtRest, keys SealingKeys,
+) (int, error) {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(accessToken) == "" {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf(
+			"a refresh submitted for %q carried no access token, so there is nothing to seal", licence)
+	}
+
+	tx, err := l.store.Pool().Begin(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	defer func() { _ = tx.Rollback(context.WithoutCancel(ctx)) }()
+
+	// The same lease Refresh takes: a submitted refresh and an in-process one serialise rather than
+	// racing to publish.
+	if _, err := tx.Exec(ctx,
+		`select pg_advisory_xact_lock(hashtext($1)::bigint)`, licence); err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("cannot take the refresh lease on %q: %w", licence, err)
+	}
+
+	// The submitter must be a refreshable-grant licence with a manager named — the same gate Refresh
+	// applies, so a static key can never reach this machinery and a licence with no manager is not
+	// silently accepted from whoever called.
+	var vendor string
+	var manager *string
+	err = tx.QueryRow(ctx,
+		`select vendor, manager from licence where name = $1`, licence).Scan(&vendor, &manager)
+	if errors.Is(err, pgx.ErrNoRows) {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("this mesh has no licence called %q", licence)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	adapter, err := adapters.For(vendor)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	if adapter.Shape() != adapters.RefreshableGrant {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%q is a %s licence; only a refreshable-grant licence has a refresh to submit", licence,
+			adapter.Shape())
+	}
+	if manager == nil || *manager == "" {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf(
+			"%q has no manager named, so a refresh cannot be submitted for it. Name one:\n"+
+				"  licence manager %s <node>", licence, licence)
+	}
+
+	sealed, err := resealAndPublish(ctx, tx, licence, accessToken, newAtRest, keys)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return sealed, nil
+}
+
+// resealAndPublish seals a new access token to every current holder and, if one is given, replaces
+// the stored refresh envelope with a rotated one. It is the half `Refresh` and `SubmitRefresh` share:
+// the value's source differs, what is done with it does not.
+//
+// The refresh token is never touched here — a rotated one arrives already re-sealed at rest, and is
+// stored as the opaque envelope it is. `KeyFor` can therefore only ever deliver the access token.
+func resealAndPublish(
+	ctx context.Context, tx pgx.Tx, licence, accessToken string, newAtRest *secrets.AtRest,
+	keys SealingKeys,
+) (int, error) {
 	holders, err := holdersTx(ctx, tx, licence)
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, err
@@ -498,7 +596,7 @@ func (l *Licences) Refresh(ctx context.Context, licence string, keys SealingKeys
 			return 0, fmt.Errorf(
 				"%s has no sealing key, so the new access token cannot be sealed to it", h.Node)
 		}
-		blob, err := secrets.Seal(key, []byte(result.AccessToken))
+		blob, err := secrets.Seal(key, []byte(accessToken))
 		if err != nil {
 			return 0, err
 		}
@@ -511,26 +609,20 @@ func (l *Licences) Refresh(ctx context.Context, licence string, keys SealingKeys
 		sealed++
 	}
 
-	// The refresh token stays put unless the vendor rotated it, in which case the refresher returned
-	// it already re-encrypted at rest — replaced here without ever being seen in the clear.
-	if result.NewAtRest != nil {
-		if result.NewAtRest.Token == "" || result.NewAtRest.WrappedKey == "" ||
-			result.NewAtRest.ManagerKey == "" {
+	// The refresh token stays put unless the vendor rotated it, in which case it arrived already
+	// re-encrypted at rest — replaced here without ever being seen in the clear.
+	if newAtRest != nil {
+		if newAtRest.Token == "" || newAtRest.WrappedKey == "" || newAtRest.ManagerKey == "" {
 			return 0, fmt.Errorf(
 				"the refresh returned an incomplete re-sealed refresh token for %q", licence)
 		}
 		if _, err := tx.Exec(ctx,
 			`update refresh_grant set token = $2, wrapped_key = $3, manager_key = $4, updated_at = now()
 			  where licence = $1`,
-			licence, result.NewAtRest.Token, result.NewAtRest.WrappedKey,
-			result.NewAtRest.ManagerKey); err != nil {
+			licence, newAtRest.Token, newAtRest.WrappedKey, newAtRest.ManagerKey); err != nil {
 			return 0, err
 		}
 	}
-
-	if err := tx.Commit(ctx); err != nil {
-		return 0, err
-	}
 	return sealed, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/internal/licences/submitrefresh_test.go b/internal/licences/submitrefresh_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05ece6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/licences/submitrefresh_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+package licences
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-control/internal/secrets"
+)
+
+// SubmitRefresh is the Phase-C boundary: a refresh a manager NODE performed is published here, and
+// the control plane is given only the access token in the clear and an opaque re-sealed refresh
+// envelope — never the refresh token. These tests defend that the boundary keeps its shape.
+
+// A submitted refresh seals the access token to every holder, exactly as an in-process refresh does,
+// and delivers no refresh token to anybody.
+func TestSubmitRefreshSealsTheAccessTokenAndNeverTheRefreshToken(t *testing.T) {
+	held, ctx := fresh(t)
+	// No in-process refresher registered: the anthropic production path uses SubmitRefresh, not
+	// Refresh, precisely so nothing opens the envelope inside this process.
+	_, _, holders, keys := aRefreshableLicence(t, held, ctx, &fakeRefresher{})
+
+	sealed, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, "personal", "at-from-the-manager-node", nil, keys)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if sealed != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d holder(s) were resealed, expected 2", sealed)
+	}
+
+	for node, open := range holders {
+		blob, err := held.KeyFor(ctx, "personal", node, "assistant")
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		got, err := open(blob)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("%s cannot open what it was delivered", node)
+		}
+		if string(got) != "at-from-the-manager-node" {
+			t.Fatalf("%s was delivered %q, not the access token", node, got)
+		}
+		if string(got) == "rt-the-refresh-token" || strings.Contains(blob, "rt-the-refresh-token") {
+			t.Fatalf("%s was delivered the refresh token", node)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The refresh token stored at rest is untouched by a submit that carried no rotation, and the manager
+// node — and only it — still opens it. The submit path never saw the refresh token in the clear.
+func TestSubmitRefreshWithoutRotationLeavesTheGrantOpenableByTheManagerAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	held, ctx := fresh(t)
+	managerPub, managerPriv, _, keys := aRefreshableLicence(t, held, ctx, &fakeRefresher{})
+
+	before := grantRow(t, held, ctx)
+	if _, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, "personal", "at-access", nil, keys); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if grantRow(t, held, ctx) != before {
+		t.Fatal("a submit with no rotation changed the stored refresh token")
+	}
+
+	at, ok, err := held.RefreshGrant(ctx, "personal")
+	if err != nil || !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("the grant is not stored: ok=%v err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+	got, err := secrets.OpenAtRest(at, managerPub, managerPriv)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got != "rt-the-refresh-token" {
+		t.Fatalf("the manager read back %q", got)
+	}
+	// A node that is not the manager cannot: the whole of "the manager node only".
+	otherPub, otherPriv := managerPair(t)
+	if _, err := secrets.OpenAtRest(at, otherPub, otherPriv); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a node that is not the manager opened the refresh token")
+	}
+}
+
+// A submit that carries a rotated envelope replaces the stored one — and the control plane stored it
+// without opening it: only the manager node reads the rotated token back.
+func TestSubmitRefreshWithRotationReplacesTheEnvelopeUnopened(t *testing.T) {
+	held, ctx := fresh(t)
+	managerPub, managerPriv, _, keys := aRefreshableLicence(t, held, ctx, &fakeRefresher{})
+
+	before := grantRow(t, held, ctx)
+
+	// The manager node re-sealed the rotated refresh token at rest; the control plane is handed only
+	// this envelope.
+	rotated, err := secrets.SealAtRest("rt-a-rotated-refresh-token", managerPub)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, "personal", "at-access", &rotated, keys); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if grantRow(t, held, ctx) == before {
+		t.Fatal("the rotated refresh token did not replace the stored envelope")
+	}
+
+	at, ok, err := held.RefreshGrant(ctx, "personal")
+	if err != nil || !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("the rotated grant is not stored: ok=%v err=%v", ok, err)
+	}
+	got, err := secrets.OpenAtRest(at, managerPub, managerPriv)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if got != "rt-a-rotated-refresh-token" {
+		t.Fatalf("the stored grant opened to %q, not the rotated token", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A submit with an empty access token is refused before anything is sealed: publishing nothing while
+// reporting success is the failure this whole design refuses.
+func TestSubmitRefreshRefusesAnEmptyAccessToken(t *testing.T) {
+	held, ctx := fresh(t)
+	_, _, _, keys := aRefreshableLicence(t, held, ctx, &fakeRefresher{})
+	if _, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, "personal", "   ", nil, keys); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a refresh with no access token was published")
+	}
+}
+
+// A static-key licence cannot have a refresh submitted for it: the carve-out never fires, so the
+// machinery that holds a token readably is unreachable.
+func TestSubmitRefreshRefusesAStaticKeyLicence(t *testing.T) {
+	held, ctx := fresh(t)
+	if err := held.Add(ctx, "plain", "anthropic-api-key", nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := held.Use(ctx, "plain", "workstation", "assistant"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, "plain", "at-access", nil,
+		func(string) (string, error) { return ASealingKey(t), nil })
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a refresh was submitted for a static-key licence")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "refreshable-grant") {
+		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not name the shape: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A refreshable licence with no manager named refuses a submit and says how to name one: a refresh
+// cannot be published for a licence no node is responsible for.
+func TestSubmitRefreshRefusesWithoutAManager(t *testing.T) {
+	held, ctx := fresh(t)
+	if err := held.Add(ctx, "personal", "anthropic", nil); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_, err := held.SubmitRefresh(ctx, "personal", "at-access", nil,
+		func(string) (string, error) { return "", nil })
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a refresh was submitted for a licence with no manager")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "manager") {
+		t.Fatalf("the refusal does not point at the missing manager: %v", err)
+	}
+}