diff --git a/cmd/mesh-controller/grants_integration_test.go b/cmd/mesh-controller/grants_integration_test.go
index ecccac01..3180a764 100644
--- a/cmd/mesh-controller/grants_integration_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mesh-controller/grants_integration_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"testing"
 
 	"git.novox.be/novox/mesh-sdk/go/catalogue"
@@ -12,11 +13,13 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/testbus"
 )
 
 // 1394/AC1 of C9 (ADR 0528 clause 2): when the controller has issued mesh-x's credential for fingerprint F (mesh-x
-// registered at a build of F, its account minted, the bus's user list sent), then grants.mesh-x.F exists on the bus,
+// registered at a build of F, its account minted, the bus's machine sent its declaration with the user list, through
+// overTheBus.declare as a push sends it), then grants.mesh-x.F exists on the bus,
 // and a second pass writes it again as nothing new.
 func TestTheGrantOfAnIssuedCredentialIsOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	open := aMesh(t)
@@ -50,7 +53,22 @@ func TestTheGrantOfAnIssuedCredentialIsOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := broker.OnConn(conn).EnsureControllerBuckets(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	grantsIssued(ctx, inv, js, "")
+	// The live path: a send of the bus's machine's declaration carrying the user list (overTheBus.declare), which records
+	// the list sent and then writes the grants it issued.
+	legacy, err := conn.JetStream()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_ = js.DeleteStream(ctx, "GRANTS_DECLARED")
+	if _, err := js.CreateStream(ctx, jetstream.StreamConfig{Name: "GRANTS_DECLARED", Subjects: []string{link.DeclareSubject("anchor")}}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = js.DeleteStream(context.Background(), "GRANTS_DECLARED") })
+	send := overTheBus{open: open, server: link.SendingOn(link.OverNATS{Conn: conn, JS: legacy}), signer: aSignerOfZeros{}}
+	ready := readyNode{node: "anchor", declared: sendable{BusUsers: "the user list the bus's machine is sent"}}
+	if _, err := send.declare(ctx, ready, []byte(`{}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the send of the bus's machine: %v", err)
+	}
 	kv, err := js.KeyValue(ctx, broker.GrantsBucket)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
@@ -64,7 +82,9 @@ func TestTheGrantOfAnIssuedCredentialIsOnTheBus(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil || len(g.Accounts) != 1 || g.Accounts[0] != user {
 		t.Fatalf("the grant reads %+v, %v; want the account %s", g, err, user)
 	}
-	grantsIssued(ctx, inv, js, "")
+	if _, err := send.declare(ctx, ready, []byte(`{}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the second send: %v", err)
+	}
 	if again, _ := kv.Get(ctx, key); again.Revision() != e.Revision() {
 		t.Errorf("a second pass wrote the grant again (revision %d, was %d)", again.Revision(), e.Revision())
 	}