diff --git a/test/integration/assigned-tools-confluence.test.ts b/test/integration/assigned-tools-confluence.test.ts
index faafcf1..1d7e57a 100644
--- a/test/integration/assigned-tools-confluence.test.ts
+++ b/test/integration/assigned-tools-confluence.test.ts
@@ -204,6 +204,15 @@ test("the mesh assigns confluence: its tools-only runtime comes up and serves th
   assert.match(served2, /serve\.confluence\.confluence_search/,
     `confluence's runtime never bound its serve queue:\n${(await on(`docker logs mesh-runtime-confluence 2>&1 | tail -20`)).out}\n---\n${served2}`);
 
+  // --- and the control plane is the way to ask it (novox/hq ADR 0095, issue 049) ------------------
+  // No account in the mesh but the control plane's may create a reply queue and publish to a
+  // module's request key. Asked through it, the tool ANSWERS — with an error, since the lab has no
+  // Confluence and no token, which is an answer: the round trip is what is under test, and a
+  // timeout would read differently.
+  const asked = await on(`docker exec mesh-controller /mesh-controller ask confluence confluence_search '{"query":"mesh"}' --wait 60s`, 90_000);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(asked.out, /did not answer/, `the tool was never reached through the control plane:\n${asked.out}`);
+  assert.match(asked.out, /"(result|error)"/, `the control plane printed no answer:\n${asked.out}`);
+
   // --- confluence got its own scoped broker account -----------------------------------------------
   const users = await must(`docker exec mesh-broker lavinmqctl list_users 2>&1`);
   assert.match(users, /anchor-confluence/, `the scoped account anchor-confluence is not on the broker:\n${users}`);