diff --git a/cmd/specsrht/main.go b/cmd/specsrht/main.go
index 7b5678bfe9a33cee052aeaf1c464cad90b8b6b7c..d6031e5bb11480266e3cb1c4ab5a2332666ed07c 100644
--- a/cmd/specsrht/main.go
+++ b/cmd/specsrht/main.go
@@ -261,11 +261,19 @@ 	if err := refreshHooks(context.Background(), log, svc, binary); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	surf, err := newSurfaces(conf, cfg, svc, version)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer surf.Close()
+
+	// After the surfaces, because the push notifier reindexes through the same
+	// index they read from — one bleve writer, held here.
 	hookSrv, err := hooks.NewServer(hooks.Options{
 		Backend: svc,
 		Socket:  hooks.SocketPath(cfg.Repos),
 		Log:     log,
-		OnPush:  pushNotifier(log),
+		OnPush:  pushNotifier(log, svc, surf.index),
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -273,12 +281,6 @@ 	}
 	if err := hookSrv.Listen(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-
-	surf, err := newSurfaces(conf, cfg, svc, version)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	defer surf.Close()
 
 	// server.New parses -b/-d/-m/-p and runs crypto.InitCrypto(conf), whose
 	// two required keys validateConfig already checked, so it cannot fatal
@@ -520,16 +522,61 @@ // Phase 1 records it and nothing more. Reindexing and advancing the space's
 // index rev stamp are Phase 2's, because bleve and the stamp arrive together:
 // moving the stamp now, with no index behind it, would assert that the index
 // is current and remove the reconciler's only way of noticing that it is not.
-func pushNotifier(log *slog.Logger) hooks.PushNotifier {
-	return func(_ context.Context, space core.SpaceRef, updates []hooks.RefUpdate) error {
+func pushNotifier(log *slog.Logger, svc *service.Service, index *search.Index) hooks.PushNotifier {
+	return func(ctx context.Context, space core.SpaceRef, updates []hooks.RefUpdate) error {
 		refs := make([]string, 0, len(updates))
 		for _, u := range updates {
 			refs = append(refs, u.String())
 		}
-		log.Info("push landed; reindex pending",
-			"space", space.String(),
-			"refs", refs,
-			"note", "indexing lands in Phase 2; the reconciler reports the staleness until then")
+
+		// A push that touches only proposal branches changes nothing the index
+		// holds: the index carries the approved revision, and proposal content
+		// is deliberately not searchable — surfacing unreviewed text in search
+		// is the same leak as serving it from the read plane.
+		approved := false
+		for _, u := range updates {
+			if !strings.HasPrefix(u.Ref, "refs/heads/"+core.ProposalPrefix) {
+				approved = true
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if !approved {
+			log.Info("push landed; no reindex needed", "space", space.String(), "refs", refs)
+			return nil
+		}
+
+		sp, err := svc.OpenSpace(ctx, space)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("open %s to reindex: %w", space, err)
+		}
+		rev, err := svc.ResolveRev(ctx, sp, service.ApprovedRev)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("resolve the approved head of %s: %w", space, err)
+		}
+		arc, bodies, err := svc.Archive(ctx, sp, service.ApprovedRev)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("read %s at %s: %w", space, rev, err)
+		}
+		docs, err := search.Extract(arc, bodies)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("project %s for indexing: %w", space, err)
+		}
+		stats, err := index.RebuildSpace(ctx, space, docs)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("reindex %s: %w", space, err)
+		}
+
+		// The stamp goes last and only on success. Written earlier it would
+		// assert the index reflects a revision it does not, which is precisely
+		// the staleness the reconciler exists to detect — and it would detect
+		// nothing.
+		if _, err := svc.Store().SetIndexStamp(ctx, sp.ID, rev); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("stamp the index for %s at %s: %w", space, rev, err)
+		}
+
+		log.Info("push landed; space reindexed",
+			"space", space.String(), "refs", refs, "rev", rev,
+			"indexed", stats.Indexed, "deleted", stats.Deleted, "took", stats.Took.String())
 		return nil
 	}
 }