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+# Phase 6 — Final report: closing the push path, tokens, and plugin/API drift
+
+## Status
+
+Done. All three loose ends (A, B, C) closed; spec brought up to date.
+
+## A — Push/upload wiring (`ingest`)
+
+`IngestConfig`/`IngestMain` now accept `push`/`upload` exactly like the pull sources:
+
+- `SUPPORTED_SOURCE_TYPES` gained `push`/`upload`; the stale "have no connector yet"
+  message was removed.
+- New shared env-var contract for both staged-source types (only one runs per job, so one
+  contract covers both): `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET` (required), `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT`,
+  `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX`, `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY`, `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY`,
+  `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_REGION` — documented in `ingest/README.md`.
+- `IngestMain.selectConnector` now returns `PushSourceConnector`/`UploadSourceConnector` for
+  those types.
+- New end-to-end test `PushIngestEndToEndTest` (`:ingest:integrationTest`, real MinIO via
+  Testcontainers): stages a zip in a staging prefix, runs `IngestMain.run` for both `push` and
+  `upload`, and asserts a valid bundle + manifest + region file land in the destination bucket.
+  This is the proof the push path now works end to end, not just that the connector classes work
+  in isolation.
+
+## B — Push-token generation (`operator`)
+
+Tokens are **tenant-scoped**, not per-`WorldSource` — the design spec already settled this
+("Service-Tokens sind mandantengebunden", §10.3), and the existing `FabricPushTokenRepository`
+already resolves a token to a *namespace*, not a source, which only makes sense under that
+reading.
+
+- New `PushTokenSecrets` (operator, package `tenant`) is the single canonical definition of the
+  Secret shape (label, data key, fixed name `apus-push-token`, `generate()` using `SecureRandom`
+  + URL-safe base64, 256 bits).
+- `TenantReconciler` creates this Secret once per tenant, alongside the namespace. Critically, it
+  is **never regenerated** on later reconciles (no `createOr(update)` here) — a fresh random
+  value on every resync would silently invalidate whatever `paper-worldpush` was already
+  configured with. Ownership is checked the same way every other tenant resource is (name+UID
+  labels), so a conflicting pre-existing Secret is refused rather than adopted.
+- `TenantStatus` gained `pushTokenSecret` (the Secret's fixed, non-secret *name* only). The token
+  value itself never appears in status, an event, or a log line.
+- `api`'s `FabricPushTokenRepository` now delegates its constants to `PushTokenSecrets` instead
+  of duplicating them (removes exactly the kind of drift risk this whole phase report is about).
+
+**RBAC, documented but not implemented as YAML** (no manifest/Helm/Kustomize infrastructure
+exists anywhere in this repo to hang it on): `FabricPushTokenRepository`'s Javadoc now spells out
+that its current `list()`-by-label lookup, unavoidably, needs `get`/`list` on **all** Secrets
+cluster-wide (Kubernetes RBAC cannot filter by label) — broader than ideal — and documents the
+concrete narrower alternative (enumerate tenants via the already-listable `Tenant` CR, then `get`
+the fixed-name Secret per namespace, letting RBAC restrict to `resourceNames: ["apus-push-token"]`
++ `get` only) as a deliberate follow-up, not implemented now to avoid an invasive rewrite of
+already-tested code under this task's scope. Flagged as a concern below and as open item 9 in the
+spec.
+
+## C — Plugin/API alignment (`paper-worldpush` ↔ `api`)
+
+Token transport was already consistent (path segment both sides; only `config.yml`'s comment
+wrongly said "bearer token" — fixed). The real break was the **request body**: the plugin sent
+`{tenant, worldName, fileCount, bytesUploaded}`, but `PushController`/`PushReportRequest` only
+ever deserializes `{sourceName, version}` — every real push report would have 400'd. Fixed:
+
+- New required `world-source-name` config key (`WorldPushConfig.sourceName()`) — the target
+  `push`-type `WorldSource`'s name, since a token alone is tenant-, not source-, scoped.
+- `PushCycleRunner` now generates a timestamp-style `version` per cycle (injectable `Clock` for
+  tests) and `PushSummary`/`HttpPushNotifier` send exactly `{"sourceName", "version"}` on the
+  wire.
+- New `HttpPushNotifierTest` (JDK `HttpServer` stub, matching this repo's established pattern)
+  locks in the correct path-segment token and JSON body shape.
+
+## Spec (`docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-08-apus-design.md`)
+
+- New §0 "Stand der Umsetzung" at the top: all six phases built, sharding deliberately not built
+  (references §14 Phase 4), and the three open items (identity broker unselected, OIDC never
+  tested against a real broker, `paper-worldpush`'s save window untested).
+- §4 module table: Java 21 → 25 everywhere (root `build.gradle.kts` toolchain applies to every
+  subproject uniformly); `world-ingest`/`runner-image` → actual dir names `ingest`/`runner`;
+  added `hosting` (Dockerfile-only, no Gradle module) and corrected `api`/`ui` to their current
+  form; corrected `operator`'s stack (JOSDK + fabric8, no Micronaut).
+- §13.2: CRD-generation note marked done (describes the `crdgen` source set); test-coverage table
+  corrected per module, including the new push/upload/E2E tests and the two still-open gaps
+  (identity broker, Paper save window).
+- §15: items 1 (connector order) and 4 (CRD generation) marked resolved; item 2 (bucket
+  notifications) corrected — neither notifications nor polling was built, a direct completion
+  callback from the writer was, which is now documented; item 3 (identity broker) confirmed still
+  open; new items 8 (Paper save window untested) and 9 (push-token RBAC broader than ideal).
+
+## Verification
+
+- `./gradlew build -x :runner:test -x :operator:integrationTest -x :ingest:integrationTest -x :api:integrationTest` — green.
+- `:ingest:test` + `:ingest:integrationTest` — green, including the new `PushIngestEndToEndTest` (push and upload, parameterized).
+- `:operator:test` (incl. 5 new `TenantReconciler` push-token tests) + `:operator:integrationTest` — green.
+- `:api:test` + `:api:integrationTest` — green (existing `FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest`/`PushControllerTest` pass unchanged against the now-shared constants).
+- `:paper-worldpush:test` — green, including the new `HttpPushNotifierTest`.
+- `:runner:integrationTest` — **still red**, but not from this phase's work: `IngestRenderContractTest` was missing `APUS_BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME` entirely (a required field since before phase 6; fixed as a drive-by) and, after that, fails a second, unrelated assertion — its hardcoded expected bucket-listing omits `level.dat`, which `BundleWriter` has included in every bundle for longer than this test's expectation has been stale. Pre-existing, unrelated to push/upload/tokens; left as a flagged concern rather than fixed under this task's scope.
+
+All started Testcontainers (MinIO, k3s) were torn down by the test framework itself; no
+containers were left running. No `isukuverlagcms-*` containers were touched.
+
+## Concerns
+
+- `runner:integrationTest`'s `IngestRenderContractTest` has a second, pre-existing failure
+  (stale expected bucket listing vs. `BundleWriter`'s actual `level.dat` inclusion) unrelated to
+  this phase — needs its own fix.
+- Push-token RBAC: the working implementation still needs cluster-wide Secret read for the api
+  ServiceAccount (see B above); the narrower `Tenant`-enumeration approach is documented but not
+  built.
+- No Kubernetes manifest/Helm/Kustomize directory exists anywhere in this repo — every RBAC
+  requirement found this phase (this one, and the pre-existing one `FabricPushTokenRepository`
+  already flagged) is documented in Javadoc only, with nothing to actually apply on a cluster.
+- The deeper shape mismatch between how `paper-worldpush` stages data (many individual raw region
+  files dropped incrementally under a prefix, no single "version" blob) and what
+  `AbstractStagedSourceConnector.fetch()` expects to read (one object at `prefix + version.id()`,
+  archive or raw) was not resolved — fixing the wire *request* makes the HTTP call succeed, but
+  the ingest job it triggers would still try to `getObject` a single key that was never written
+  this way. This is a real design gap between `paper-worldpush` and the `push` ingest connector,
+  bigger than the auth/wire-format alignment this task asked for; flagged for a dedicated design
+  pass rather than patched here.
diff --git a/.superpowers/sdd/2026-08-09-phase-6-push/task-2-report.md b/.superpowers/sdd/2026-08-09-phase-6-push/task-2-report.md
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+# Phase 6, Task 2 — Push/upload connectors and the upload+push API endpoints
+
+## Status
+
+Done. `./gradlew :api:test :ingest:test` passes (144 + 65 tests, 0 failures). All four
+Docker/MinIO-backed integration tests (excluded from the above, run via
+`./gradlew :api:integrationTest :ingest:integrationTest`) also pass, including the two that
+empirically probe the presigned-upload security properties this task cared about most.
+
+## What was built
+
+### 1. `PushSourceConnector` / `UploadSourceConnector` (`ingest/.../connector/`)
+
+Both extend a new `AbstractStagedSourceConnector`, which holds all the behaviour: `discover()`
+always returns an empty list (push semantics, per `WorldSourceConnector`'s own contract), and
+`fetch()` is functionally identical to `S3SourceConnector.fetch()` — get the object at
+`prefix + version.id()`, extract it if `Archives.isArchive` recognises the key's extension,
+otherwise copy it as a single raw file. Only `type()` differs between the two concrete classes
+(`"push"` / `"upload"`). Deliberately *not* refactored to share code with `S3SourceConnector`
+itself — that class already ships a passing test suite and touching it risked it for ~40 lines
+saved.
+
+Tests: `AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest` (shared, real MinIO via Testcontainers, mirrors
+`S3SourceConnectorTest`'s own setup) is subclassed by `PushSourceConnectorTest` and
+`UploadSourceConnectorTest`, each proving `discover()` is always empty and `fetch()` correctly
+handles zip/tar.gz/raw staged objects. Excluded from `:ingest:test`, run via
+`:ingest:integrationTest` (Docker) — same convention as the existing `S3SourceConnectorTest`.
+
+**Not wired up**: `IngestConfig`/`IngestMain` (which select a connector by `APUS_SOURCE_TYPE`)
+still explicitly reject `"push"`/`"upload"` with *"The push sources ... have no connector yet"*.
+Those files live outside `ingest/.../connector/`, which the task brief named as the hard
+boundary — wiring them is left for whoever owns that file.
+
+### 2. `POST /api/uploads` + `POST /api/uploads/{uploadId}/complete` (`api/.../rest/upload/`)
+
+The design spec's §11.1 table lists only `POST /api/uploads`, with no completion endpoint
+documented anywhere. I added the `/complete` sub-resource anyway because without it the feature
+cannot do anything useful — S3 multipart uploads are not readable objects until
+`CompleteMultipartUpload` runs, and (see below) that call is deliberately *not* presigned, so
+something has to invoke it. This is the one place I went beyond the literal two-endpoint list;
+flagging it here rather than silently expanding scope.
+
+- `MultipartUploadService` does all the S3 work. `CreateMultipartUpload`, `ListParts`,
+  `CompleteMultipartUpload`, `AbortMultipartUpload` are all performed by the backend itself with
+  its own staging credentials — **never presigned**, even though `S3Presigner` can presign all
+  four. Only `UploadPart` is presigned and handed to the caller.
+- `stagingKey(prefix, namespace, sourceName, version, fileName)` is the single place an S3 key
+  is ever built, and it's a pure static function — unit-tested directly with adversarial inputs
+  (`version = "../../bluemap-globex/other-source"` etc.) proving the key can never leave
+  `<prefix>/<namespace>/<sourceName>/...`. `namespace` always comes from `TenantResolver` (JWT),
+  never the request body.
+- `StagingS3ClientFactory` provides the `S3Client`/`S3Presigner` beans against one shared,
+  platform-wide staging bucket (credentials via `@Value`, no hardcoded defaults, matching this
+  module's existing `LogSourceFactory` convention) — tenant isolation is entirely a matter of key
+  prefix, not separate buckets/credentials per tenant.
+
+### 3. `POST /api/push/{token}` (`api/.../rest/push/`)
+
+The one endpoint in the module that is **not** JWT-authenticated
+(`@Secured(SecurityRule.IS_ANONYMOUS)`, deliberate). Authentication is entirely
+`PushTokenRepository#resolveNamespace(token)`.
+
+- **Token storage**: neither `WorldSourceSpec` nor `TenantSpec` (both in `operator/`, out of
+  this task's scope) carry a token field, so `FabricPushTokenRepository` reads plain Kubernetes
+  `Secret`s instead — labelled `apus.onelitefeather.net/service-token: world-push`, living in the
+  tenant's own namespace, `data.token` holding the raw shared secret. This requires the API's
+  ServiceAccount to have cluster-wide `get`/`list` on Secrets carrying that label — an RBAC grant
+  outside this task's scope, documented in the class Javadoc as an exact contract for whoever
+  wires it up (a future operator reconciler, most likely).
+- **Constant-time, exhaustive comparison**: every candidate Secret is compared via
+  `MessageDigest.isEqual` (never `String.equals`/`Arrays.equals`, which short-circuit on the
+  first differing byte), and the loop never returns early on a match — scanning every candidate
+  every time, so neither a per-byte guess nor "how many secrets exist before this one" leaks
+  through timing.
+- Controller flow: resolve namespace from token first (before the body is even read) → validate
+  request → look up the named `WorldSource` **within that resolved namespace**, filtered to
+  `type == "push"` → for each of its configured worlds, create one `WorldIngest` (mirrors
+  `WorldSourceReconciler.triggerIngests`'s per-world loop for pull sources — same code path, per
+  design spec §6.4). Every failure before a valid, well-formed request is a uniform 404
+  (`NotFoundException`) — unknown token, valid token + unknown source, valid token + source of
+  the wrong type all look identical.
+
+## Which upload restrictions are actually enforced — the honest answer
+
+| Restriction | Status | How it was verified |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Confined to the caller's own tenant prefix** | **Enforced, structurally.** | `stagingKey` is a pure function of a server-derived namespace; unit-tested with adversarial input. S3 has no `..`-traversal semantics, so there is no string a caller can supply that escapes the prefix. |
+| **A presigned part URL can't be redirected to a different key** | **Enforced, confirmed against real MinIO.** | `MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest.aPresignedPartUrlCannotBeRedirectedToADifferentTenantsKey` swaps the tenant segment in a legitimate presigned URL and gets HTTP 403 from MinIO — SigV4 signs the exact key. |
+| **A part can't carry more bytes than it was sized for** | **Enforced, confirmed against real MinIO (2026-08-09).** | `Content-Length` is set on each presigned `UploadPartRequest`; AWS SDK v2 includes it among that URL's signed headers. Sending more bytes than declared gets HTTP 403 `SignatureDoesNotMatch` from MinIO before the extra bytes are accepted — I drove a real oversized `PUT` against a real MinIO instance rather than trusting SDK documentation (which does not state this explicitly). **Caveat**: verified against MinIO specifically, not independently re-verified against Ceph RGW (the actual production backend per design spec §9.1). Both implement SigV4 presigned-URL validation the same way, so I expect the same result, but that is an inference from one data point, not a second measurement. |
+| **Total upload size is capped** | **Enforced, but only at completion, and that's by design.** | Completion (`CompleteMultipartUpload`) is deliberately never presigned — the backend performs it itself, after summing every part's *real, S3-recorded* size via `ListParts` (never trusting anything the client claims) and comparing against `maxUploadBytes`. An oversized upload is aborted, never completed — confirmed by `completeUploadAbortsAndRejectsWhenTheActualUploadedTotalExceedsTheConfiguredMaximum`, which also confirms the upload is genuinely gone (`NoSuchUploadException` from `ListParts` afterward). Given the per-part `Content-Length` pinning above also holds, in practice a client cannot even get an oversized part accepted in the first place — but the `ListParts` check is what makes the limit a *guarantee* rather than a hope, independent of that per-part behavior. |
+| **Tenant's actual storage budget** | **Deliberately out of scope for this endpoint.** | Design spec §10.2 already establishes Ceph RGW's per-user quota as the real, application-independent backstop for `Tenant.spec.storage.quota`. `maxUploadBytes` here only bounds one absurd single upload, not the tenant's overall budget — that's Ceph's job regardless of anything this code does or gets wrong. |
+| **Short URL validity** | **Enforced by S3/MinIO itself.** | `X-Amz-Expires` in the presigned URL (default 900s, configurable), standard SigV4 behaviour — not specific to this implementation. |
+
+**Net assessment**: every restriction the task asked for turned out to be enforceable, and every
+one of the security-relevant ones was checked against a real S3-compatible backend rather than
+assumed from documentation — including the one I expected going in to be the weakest link
+(per-part size), which turned out to work. The one caveat worth carrying forward is Ceph RGW vs.
+MinIO for the `Content-Length`-pinning behaviour specifically.
+
+## Push token abuse cases tested
+
+`PushControllerTest` (in-memory fakes, no Docker) and `FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest` (real
+fabric8 mock Kubernetes API, `@EnableKubernetesMockClient`) together cover: unknown token, blank
+token, a valid token used to try to reach a source name that only exists in a *different*
+tenant's namespace, a valid token whose resolved source is not of type `push`, a source with no
+configured worlds, missing request fields, and — the core property — that a token valid for one
+namespace never creates a `WorldIngest` in another. `UploadControllerTest` covers the equivalent
+set for the JWT-authenticated `/api/uploads` path (viewer role rejected, foreign-tenant source
+name not found, wrong-type source not found, missing fields), plus a wiring proof that a
+request passing every controller-level check really does reach `MultipartUploadService`.
+
+## Concerns / follow-ups for whoever picks this up next
+
+- **RBAC for `FabricPushTokenRepository`**: the API's ServiceAccount needs cluster-wide
+  `get`/`list` on Secrets labelled `apus.onelitefeather.net/service-token`. Not part of this
+  task's `ingest/`+`api/` scope; needs a ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding somewhere in the
+  deployment manifests.
+- **Nothing creates the push-token Secret yet.** A platform-admin/tenant-owner (or, eventually,
+  an operator reconciler) needs to actually create `Secret`s matching the documented shape — see
+  `FabricPushTokenRepository`'s Javadoc for the exact contract.
+- **`IngestConfig`/`IngestMain` still reject `push`/`upload`.** The connectors exist and are
+  tested but aren't reachable from a real ingest job until that file (outside this task's scope)
+  is updated.
+- I could not find a documented completion endpoint for `upload` in the design spec at all — see
+  "went beyond the literal two-endpoint list" above. Worth a deliberate design decision rather
+  than inheriting mine by default.
+
+## File-restriction compliance
+
+Kept to `ingest/src/.../connector/`, `api/src/...`, and their tests, with one deliberate
+exception: `settings.gradle.kts` (added the AWS SDK version catalog entry — already used
+project-wide) and `api/build.gradle.kts`/`ingest/build.gradle.kts` (added the AWS SDK/S3-presigner
+and Testcontainers-MinIO dependencies, and the `*IntegrationTest`/`*ConnectorTest` exclude/include
+lines for the new Docker-backed tests). None of these are reachable without touching a build file
+outside the strict directory list; all three are shared, module-level config, not
+`paper-worldpush/`, and I did not touch anything under `operator/` or `paper-worldpush/`.
diff --git a/api/build.gradle.kts b/api/build.gradle.kts
index 683e121..9739e26 100644
--- a/api/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/api/build.gradle.kts
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ dependencies {
     annotationProcessor(platform(libs.micronaut.serde.bom))
     annotationProcessor(libs.micronaut.serde.processor)
 
+    // AWS SDK v2 -- see settings.gradle.kts for why this SDK family. Backs both this module's own
+    // authenticated staging-bucket calls (CreateMultipartUpload, ListParts,
+    // CompleteMultipartUpload/AbortMultipartUpload -- see MultipartUploadService's Javadoc for why
+    // those specifically are never presigned) and the presigned UploadPart URLs POST /api/uploads
+    // hands back to the caller (design spec §11.1) via S3Presigner, which ships inside this same
+    // `s3` artifact (see settings.gradle.kts).
+    implementation(platform(libs.aws.sdk.bom))
+    implementation(libs.aws.sdk.s3)
+
     testImplementation(platform(libs.junit.bom))
     testImplementation(libs.junit.jupiter)
     testRuntimeOnly(libs.junit.platform.launcher)
@@ -51,6 +60,15 @@ dependencies {
     // is scoped to testImplementation only, not the dependency added above for production code.
     testImplementation(libs.josdk)
 
+    // Test-only, for FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest (phase 6): the same `@EnableKubernetesMockClient`
+    // fake-but-CRUD-real Kubernetes API server operator/build.gradle.kts already uses, needed here
+    // to prove the cluster-wide, label-selected Secret lookup actually works -- an in-memory fake
+    // repository (as InMemoryPushTokenRepository provides for the controller-level tests) cannot
+    // prove that the real fabric8 `inAnyNamespace().withLabel(...)` query and Secret.data
+    // base64 decoding are wired correctly.
+    testImplementation(libs.fabric8.junit)
+    testImplementation(libs.fabric8.server.mock)
+
     // Phase 5a consolidation: both parallel worktrees reported this as missing, which meant
     // every existing test called controller/repository methods directly instead of going
     // through the real embedded server -- so role enforcement and 404-vs-403 error mapping over
@@ -65,9 +83,13 @@ dependencies {
 
     // Test-only, for TenantIsolationIntegrationTest: a real k3s API server via Testcontainers,
     // the same pattern operator/build.gradle.kts and ingest/build.gradle.kts already use.
+    // MinIO backs MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest (phase 6): the only way to actually prove
+    // a presigned UploadPart URL is confined to its signed key/size is to drive real HTTP PUTs
+    // against a real S3-compatible server -- see that test's Javadoc.
     testImplementation(platform(libs.testcontainers.bom))
     testImplementation(libs.testcontainers.junit)
     testImplementation(libs.testcontainers.k3s)
+    testImplementation(libs.testcontainers.minio)
 }
 
 // io.micronaut.test:micronaut-test-bom imports its own, newer org.testcontainers:testcontainers-
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/FabricWorldIngestRepository.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/FabricWorldIngestRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b15e37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/FabricWorldIngestRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.ingest;
+
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
+import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldIngest;
+
+/** {@link WorldIngestRepository} backed by a real {@link KubernetesClient}. */
+@Singleton
+public class FabricWorldIngestRepository implements WorldIngestRepository {
+
+    private final KubernetesClient client;
+
+    public FabricWorldIngestRepository(KubernetesClient client) {
+        this.client = client;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public WorldIngest create(String namespace, WorldIngest ingest) {
+        return client.resources(WorldIngest.class).inNamespace(namespace).resource(ingest).create();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/WorldIngestRepository.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/WorldIngestRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e5720b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/WorldIngestRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.ingest;
+
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldIngest;
+
+/**
+ * Write access to {@link WorldIngest} custom resources, always scoped to a single namespace --
+ * the caller never gets to pick which one. Used by {@code
+ * net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push.PushController} to create the {@link WorldIngest}(s) a
+ * {@code POST /api/push/{token}} report triggers (design spec §6.4, §11.1): a push source's
+ * {@code WorldIngest} is created directly by that HTTP call rather than by a poll/reconcile loop,
+ * exactly the "same code path" §6.4 describes pull and push sources converging on -- just
+ * triggered from a different place. An interface so controller tests can supply an in-memory
+ * fake; see {@code net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.tenant.TenantRepository}'s Javadoc for why.
+ */
+public interface WorldIngestRepository {
+
+    WorldIngest create(String namespace, WorldIngest ingest);
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/FabricPushTokenRepository.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/FabricPushTokenRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..542cea5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/FabricPushTokenRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Secret;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
+import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.util.Base64;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.tenant.PushTokenSecrets;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.tenant.TenantReconciler;
+
+/**
+ * {@link PushTokenRepository} backed by Kubernetes {@link Secret}s -- specifically, the ones
+ * {@link TenantReconciler} provisions (phase 6 task 2: one per tenant, on tenant creation). Not
+ * backed by any {@code WorldSourceSpec}/{@code TenantSpec} CRD field -- neither carries a token
+ * field -- so a token lives entirely as a plain, built-in Kubernetes resource instead, exactly
+ * like the S3/Pterodactyl credentials {@code WorldSourceSpec.*.credentialsSecretRef} already
+ * reference (design spec §10.1's "eigene S3-Credentials als Secret").
+ *
+ * <p><b>Expected shape</b> -- the exact contract {@link PushTokenSecrets} defines and {@link
+ * TenantReconciler} fulfils, re-exposed here as {@code public static final} fields so existing
+ * callers/tests of this class do not need to reach into {@code operator.tenant} themselves:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>lives in the tenant's own namespace ({@code bluemap-<tenant>}), like every other
+ *       tenant-scoped resource (design spec §10.1);
+ *   <li>labelled {@value #SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_KEY}: {@value #SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_VALUE} -- this
+ *       is the only way this class finds it, since the namespace is exactly what a raw token does
+ *       not carry;
+ *   <li>{@code data.token} (or equivalently {@code stringData.token} at creation time) holds the
+ *       raw shared-secret value the Paper plugin also holds.
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * <p><b>Why a cluster-wide list, and the RBAC trade-off this implies.</b> {@code POST
+ * /api/push/{token}} carries nothing but the token -- no tenant name, no namespace, no JWT to
+ * read a claim from (see {@link PushTokenRepository}'s Javadoc for why this endpoint is unlike
+ * every other one in this module). The token itself is the only input, so resolving it to a
+ * namespace necessarily means searching across namespaces; this is exactly the kind of
+ * cluster-wide, cross-tenant read design spec §10.3 reserves for the backend's own ServiceAccount
+ * ("Das Backend ist der Durchsetzungspunkt"). The label scopes that search to service-token
+ * Secrets specifically, not every Secret in the cluster -- but Kubernetes RBAC has no way to
+ * restrict a grant by a resource's label or content, only by resource type, verb and (for
+ * {@code get}/{@code update}/{@code patch}/{@code delete}, not {@code list}/{@code watch})
+ * {@code resourceNames}. Concretely, this means:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>the narrowest RBAC grant that actually makes {@code resolveNamespace} as implemented
+ *       here work is a {@code ClusterRole} scoped to exactly {@code resources: ["secrets"]},
+ *       {@code verbs: ["get", "list"]} -- nothing else (no {@code watch}, no other resource
+ *       types, no write verbs) -- bound to the api ServiceAccount via a {@code
+ *       ClusterRoleBinding}. This is still, unavoidably, read access to every Secret in the
+ *       cluster (RBAC cannot see the label filter passed in the list query), which is broader
+ *       than the task brief's "engster Weg, der funktioniert" ("narrowest path that works")
+ *       ideally allows -- flagged as a known trade-off, not silently accepted;
+ *   <li>a genuinely narrower alternative exists but was deliberately <b>not</b> implemented here,
+ *       to avoid an invasive rewrite of this already-tested class: since {@link
+ *       PushTokenSecrets#SECRET_NAME} is now a fixed name, {@code resolveNamespace} could instead
+ *       enumerate tenant namespaces (via the cluster-scoped {@code Tenant} CR, already listable
+ *       by {@code TenantRepository} for platform-admin features) and {@code get} -- never
+ *       {@code list} -- the fixed-name Secret in each one. That would let the RBAC grant become
+ *       {@code resources: ["secrets"]}, {@code resourceNames: ["apus-push-token"]}, {@code verbs:
+ *       ["get"]} -- truly scoped to only ever reading a Secret literally named {@code
+ *       apus-push-token}, in any namespace, and nothing else. Left as a follow-up so it can be
+ *       done with its own test coverage rather than as a side effect of wiring up token creation.
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * <p><b>Constant-time, exhaustive comparison.</b> {@link #resolveNamespace} runs {@link
+ * MessageDigest#isEqual(byte[], byte[])} -- the JDK's documented constant-time byte comparison,
+ * not {@code String.equals}/{@code Arrays.equals} which both short-circuit on the first
+ * differing byte and would leak a correct token prefix through response timing one guess at a
+ * time -- against *every* candidate Secret, never returning early once a match is found. Stopping
+ * early would leak, through timing, how many service-token Secrets exist before the caller's own
+ * tenant's -- a narrower signal than a whole token, but still cross-tenant information this
+ * endpoint must not leak (task brief: "niemals einen Hinweis darauf, ob es den Mandanten gibt").
+ */
+@Singleton
+public class FabricPushTokenRepository implements PushTokenRepository {
+
+    /** See the class Javadoc's "Expected shape" for the full Secret contract this key is part of. */
+    public static final String SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_KEY = PushTokenSecrets.LABEL_KEY;
+
+    public static final String SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_VALUE = PushTokenSecrets.LABEL_VALUE;
+
+    /** The key under {@code Secret.data} (base64-encoded, as all Secret data is) holding the raw token. */
+    public static final String TOKEN_DATA_KEY = PushTokenSecrets.TOKEN_KEY;
+
+    private final KubernetesClient client;
+
+    public FabricPushTokenRepository(KubernetesClient client) {
+        this.client = client;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Optional<String> resolveNamespace(String rawToken) {
+        if (rawToken == null || rawToken.isBlank()) {
+            return Optional.empty();
+        }
+        byte[] supplied = rawToken.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+        List<Secret> candidates = client.secrets()
+                .inAnyNamespace()
+                .withLabel(SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_KEY, SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_VALUE)
+                .list()
+                .getItems();
+
+        // Scans every candidate and never returns on the first match -- see the class Javadoc's
+        // "Constant-time, exhaustive comparison" for why an early return would itself be a
+        // (narrower, but still real) timing side-channel.
+        String matchedNamespace = null;
+        for (Secret candidate : candidates) {
+            byte[] stored = decodedToken(candidate);
+            boolean matches = stored != null && MessageDigest.isEqual(stored, supplied);
+            if (matches) {
+                matchedNamespace = candidate.getMetadata().getNamespace();
+            }
+        }
+        return Optional.ofNullable(matchedNamespace);
+    }
+
+    private static byte[] decodedToken(Secret secret) {
+        Map<String, String> data = secret.getData();
+        if (data == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        String encoded = data.get(TOKEN_DATA_KEY);
+        if (encoded == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        try {
+            return Base64.getDecoder().decode(encoded);
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            // A malformed Secret must not crash the whole lookup for every other tenant's token.
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushController.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a82d136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import io.micronaut.core.annotation.Nullable;
+import io.micronaut.http.HttpResponse;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Body;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Controller;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.PathVariable;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Post;
+import io.micronaut.security.annotation.Secured;
+import io.micronaut.security.rules.SecurityRule;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.ingest.WorldIngestRepository;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.NotFoundException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.worldsource.WorldSourceRepository;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldIngest;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldSource;
+
+/**
+ * {@code POST /api/push/{token}} -- the completion report a {@code push}-type {@code
+ * WorldSource}'s owner (the Paper server plugin) sends once it has finished writing world data
+ * directly into its tenant's staging prefix in S3. Creates one {@link WorldIngest} per world the
+ * target source has configured (design spec §8.3, mirroring {@code
+ * WorldSourceReconciler#triggerIngests}'s per-world loop for pull sources -- §6.4's "beide Wege
+ * münden in denselben Code-Pfad").
+ *
+ * <p><b>The one endpoint in this module that is not JWT-authenticated.</b> {@code
+ * @Secured(SecurityRule.IS_ANONYMOUS)} is deliberate, not an oversight: this call carries a
+ * service token in the path, never a bearer JWT (see {@link PushTokenRepository}'s Javadoc for
+ * why), so Micronaut Security's JWT filter has nothing to validate here -- authentication is this
+ * controller's own job, done entirely by {@link PushTokenRepository#resolveNamespace}.
+ *
+ * <p><b>The namespace always comes from the token, never from the request body</b> (task brief's
+ * central rule for this endpoint, mirroring {@code TenantResolver}'s for JWT-authenticated ones).
+ * {@code request.sourceName()} only selects *which* of the token's own tenant's sources to target
+ * -- {@link WorldSourceRepository#find} is already scoped to that token-resolved namespace before
+ * {@code sourceName} is ever looked at, so a source name that happens to exist in a different
+ * tenant cannot be reached this way.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Every failure path is a plain 404 or 400, uniformly.</b> An unknown/wrong-tenant token, an
+ * unknown source name, and a source that is not of type {@code push} all produce {@link
+ * NotFoundException} -- never a distinct status or message that would let a caller tell "this
+ * token is wrong" apart from "this token is right but that source doesn't exist" apart from "that
+ * tenant doesn't exist at all". A malformed request body (missing {@code sourceName}/{@code
+ * version}, or a source with no worlds configured) is the caller's own request being invalid,
+ * which is safe to report distinctly (400) -- it happens only *after* the token has already
+ * proven the caller belongs to a real tenant, so it discloses nothing about any other one.
+ */
+@Controller("/api/push")
+@Secured(SecurityRule.IS_ANONYMOUS)
+public class PushController {
+
+    private static final String TYPE_PUSH = "push";
+
+    private final PushTokenRepository tokenRepository;
+    private final WorldSourceRepository sourceRepository;
+    private final WorldIngestRepository ingestRepository;
+
+    public PushController(
+            PushTokenRepository tokenRepository,
+            WorldSourceRepository sourceRepository,
+            WorldIngestRepository ingestRepository) {
+        this.tokenRepository = tokenRepository;
+        this.sourceRepository = sourceRepository;
+        this.ingestRepository = ingestRepository;
+    }
+
+    @Post("/{token}")
+    public HttpResponse<PushReportResponse> report(
+            @PathVariable String token, @Nullable @Body PushReportRequest request) {
+        // Resolved before the request body is even inspected: an invalid token must fail
+        // identically regardless of what (if anything) the body contains.
+        String namespace = tokenRepository
+                .resolveNamespace(token)
+                .orElseThrow(() -> new NotFoundException("no push source authorized for this token"));
+
+        if (request == null || isBlank(request.sourceName()) || isBlank(request.version())) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("sourceName and version are both required");
+        }
+
+        WorldSource source = sourceRepository
+                .find(namespace, request.sourceName())
+                .filter(s -> TYPE_PUSH.equals(s.getSpec().getType()))
+                .orElseThrow(() -> new NotFoundException(
+                        "no push source '" + request.sourceName() + "' in namespace '" + namespace + "'"));
+
+        List<WorldSource.WorldSelector> worlds = source.getSpec().getWorlds();
+        if (worlds.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("source '" + request.sourceName() + "' has no configured worlds");
+        }
+
+        List<String> created = new ArrayList<>();
+        for (WorldSource.WorldSelector selector : worlds) {
+            WorldIngest ingest = new WorldIngest();
+            ingest.getMetadata()
+                    .setGenerateName(
+                            sanitize(request.sourceName()) + "-" + sanitize(selector.getName()) + "-push-");
+            ingest.getSpec().getSourceRef().setName(request.sourceName());
+            ingest.getSpec().setSourceVersion(request.version());
+            ingest.getSpec().setWorldName(selector.getName());
+
+            WorldIngest result = ingestRepository.create(namespace, ingest);
+            created.add(result.getMetadata().getName());
+        }
+
+        return HttpResponse.created(new PushReportResponse(created));
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isBlank(String value) {
+        return value == null || value.isBlank();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Kubernetes {@code generateName} prefixes must be valid RFC 1123 DNS subdomain label
+     * fragments (lowercase alphanumeric and {@code -}); neither a {@code WorldSource} name nor,
+     * especially, a Minecraft world name (e.g. {@code world_nether}) is guaranteed to already be
+     * one.
+     */
+    private static String sanitize(String value) {
+        String lower = value.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT).replaceAll("[^a-z0-9-]", "-");
+        String trimmed = lower.replaceAll("^-+", "").replaceAll("-+$", "");
+        return trimmed.isEmpty() ? "x" : trimmed;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushReportRequest.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushReportRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ac9576
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushReportRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import io.micronaut.serde.annotation.Serdeable;
+
+/**
+ * Request body for {@code POST /api/push/{token}}. Deliberately carries no tenant/namespace field
+ * -- that comes only from the token (see {@code PushTokenRepository}'s Javadoc). {@code
+ * sourceName} names one of the token's own tenant's {@code WorldSource} resources (of type {@code
+ * push}) -- a tenant may run more than one Paper server/world, each pushing to a different
+ * source, so the token alone (tenant-bound, not source-bound, design spec §10.3) is not enough to
+ * pick one. {@code version} is the identifier the plugin used as the staged object's key suffix
+ * when it wrote the data directly to S3 -- becomes {@code WorldIngest.spec.sourceVersion}, and
+ * from there the {@code SourceVersion.id()} the ingest job's {@code PushSourceConnector} (module
+ * {@code ingest}) fetches by.
+ */
+@Serdeable
+public record PushReportRequest(String sourceName, String version) {}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushReportResponse.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushReportResponse.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91a0e28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushReportResponse.java
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import io.micronaut.serde.annotation.Serdeable;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/** {@code POST /api/push/{token}}'s response -- the names of the {@code WorldIngest} resources it created, one per configured world on the target source. */
+@Serdeable
+public record PushReportResponse(List<String> worldIngests) {}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushTokenRepository.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushTokenRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..17a914a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushTokenRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+/**
+ * Resolves a raw {@code world:push} service token (design spec §10.3) to the single namespace it
+ * authorizes -- the only lookup {@code PushController} is allowed to make before it knows which
+ * tenant a {@code POST /api/push/{token}} call belongs to.
+ *
+ * <p><b>This is deliberately not a JWT.</b> Every other authenticated endpoint in this module
+ * validates a JWT issued by the identity broker (design spec §10.3, {@code
+ * PrincipalResolver}/{@code TenantResolver}). A push token is different on purpose: it is a
+ * long-lived, tenant-bound bearer secret a Paper server plugin holds, deliberately not tied to
+ * any user login (§10.3: "sonst würde das Ausscheiden einer Person den Server-Upload
+ * lahmlegen"). It arrives as a path segment, not a bearer JWT, and {@link #resolveNamespace} must
+ * compare it against every known token in constant time (see {@code
+ * FabricPushTokenRepository#resolveNamespace} for how) so that no amount of failed guesses lets
+ * an attacker learn a correct token one character at a time, and a non-matching token must look
+ * identical -- in both response and timing -- whether or not the tenant it might have belonged to
+ * even exists.
+ *
+ * <p>An interface so controller tests can supply an in-memory fake; see {@code
+ * net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.tenant.TenantRepository}'s Javadoc for why.
+ */
+public interface PushTokenRepository {
+
+    /**
+     * @param rawToken the token exactly as it arrived in the {@code POST /api/push/{token}} path
+     *     segment; {@code null} or blank is a valid input and always resolves to {@link
+     *     Optional#empty()}
+     * @return the namespace this token authorizes push access to, or {@link Optional#empty()} if
+     *     no known token matches -- never distinguishes "no such token" from "token valid for a
+     *     different tenant" in what it returns
+     */
+    Optional<String> resolveNamespace(String rawToken);
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CompleteUploadRequest.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CompleteUploadRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9a530ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CompleteUploadRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.serde.annotation.Serdeable;
+
+/**
+ * Request body for {@code POST /api/uploads/{uploadId}/complete} -- {@code sourceName}, {@code
+ * version} and {@code fileName} must match what {@code POST /api/uploads} originally returned
+ * (they are what {@link MultipartUploadService#stagingKey} recomputes the object key from); no
+ * part list is required, since {@link MultipartUploadService#completeUpload} reads the
+ * authoritative part sizes/ETags back from S3 itself via {@code ListParts} rather than trusting
+ * anything the caller claims about what it uploaded.
+ */
+@Serdeable
+public record CompleteUploadRequest(String sourceName, String version, String fileName) {}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CompleteUploadResponse.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CompleteUploadResponse.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7224ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CompleteUploadResponse.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.serde.annotation.Serdeable;
+
+/** {@code POST /api/uploads/{uploadId}/complete}'s response -- the finished object's key and its real, S3-verified size. */
+@Serdeable
+public record CompleteUploadResponse(String key, String version, long totalBytes, int partCount) {}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CreateUploadRequest.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CreateUploadRequest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..26f355d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CreateUploadRequest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.serde.annotation.Serdeable;
+
+/**
+ * Request body for {@code POST /api/uploads}. {@code sourceName} names one of the caller's own
+ * tenant's {@code WorldSource} resources (of type {@code upload}) -- resolved against the
+ * caller's namespace by the controller, exactly like every other write in this module (design
+ * spec §10.3); this request carries no namespace/tenant field of its own.
+ */
+@Serdeable
+public record CreateUploadRequest(String sourceName, String fileName, long sizeBytes) {}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CreateUploadResponse.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CreateUploadResponse.java
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/CreateUploadResponse.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.serde.annotation.Serdeable;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * {@code POST /api/uploads}'s response: everything the caller needs to upload every part
+ * directly to S3 and then call {@code POST /api/uploads/{uploadId}/complete}. Carries no
+ * credentials -- each {@link PresignedPart#url()} already has its own signature embedded; that is
+ * the entire point of a presigned URL.
+ */
+@Serdeable
+public record CreateUploadResponse(
+        String uploadId,
+        String bucket,
+        String key,
+        String version,
+        String fileName,
+        List<PresignedPart> parts,
+        long partSizeBytes,
+        Instant expiresAt) {
+
+    /** One presigned {@code UploadPart} slot -- the caller {@code PUT}s that part's bytes directly to {@code url}. */
+    @Serdeable
+    public record PresignedPart(int partNumber, long sizeBytes, String url) {}
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadService.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a267992
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.context.annotation.Value;
+import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
+import java.time.Duration;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.AbortMultipartUploadRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CompleteMultipartUploadRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CompletedMultipartUpload;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CompletedPart;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CreateMultipartUploadRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CreateMultipartUploadResponse;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.ListPartsRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.ListPartsResponse;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.Part;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.UploadPartRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.S3Presigner;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.model.PresignedUploadPartRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.model.UploadPartPresignRequest;
+
+/**
+ * Presigned multipart uploads into the staging bucket (design spec §11.1) -- the actual bulk
+ * data transfer for {@code POST /api/uploads} happens directly between the caller and S3, never
+ * through this API. This class only ever hands out presigned URLs for {@code UploadPart}; {@code
+ * CreateMultipartUpload}, {@code ListParts}, {@code CompleteMultipartUpload} and {@code
+ * AbortMultipartUpload} are all performed here, directly, with this backend's own staging
+ * credentials -- never presigned for a caller to invoke themselves.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Why completion is not presigned too.</b> {@code S3Presigner} can presign a {@code
+ * CompleteMultipartUploadRequest} just as well as an {@code UploadPartRequest}. Handing that out
+ * as well would mean this backend never sees the completion call at all -- and completion is the
+ * one point in the whole multipart lifecycle where the *actual* total bytes uploaded are known
+ * (via {@code ListParts}, which reads real, S3-recorded part sizes, not anything the client
+ * claims). Keeping completion as an authenticated call this backend performs itself is what makes
+ * {@link #completeUpload}'s size check a real enforcement point rather than a suggestion: a
+ * caller who oversubscribes their declared size and then still uploads a huge part earns an
+ * {@link AbortMultipartUploadRequest}, not a usable object.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Prefix confinement is structural, not advisory.</b> {@link #stagingKey} is the only place
+ * an S3 key is ever built, and it is a pure function of a server-derived {@code namespace} (from
+ * {@code TenantResolver}, itself from the caller's validated JWT -- never client input) plus a
+ * {@code sourceName} the controller has already confirmed is a real {@code WorldSource} in that
+ * same namespace. Whatever a caller passes as {@code version}/{@code fileName} therefore can only
+ * ever select an object *within* {@code <prefix>/<namespace>/<sourceName>/...} -- S3 keys have no
+ * {@code ..}-style traversal semantics, so there is no sequence of characters in either field that
+ * escapes that subtree into a different tenant's.
+ *
+ * <p><b>What is, and is not, actually enforced on size -- read before trusting this class fully.</b>
+ * See the phase 6 task report for the full analysis; the short version:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li><b>Enforced, verified:</b> {@link #completeUpload} sums the real, S3-recorded sizes of
+ *       every part via {@code ListParts} and aborts (never completes) an upload whose actual
+ *       total exceeds {@link #maxUploadBytes}. An oversized upload therefore never becomes a
+ *       retrievable object, regardless of what any individual presigned part URL allowed through.
+ *   <li><b>Enforced, empirically confirmed against real MinIO (2026-08-09, {@code
+ *       MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest#aPartExceedingItsPresignedSizeIsRejectedBeforeItIsAccepted}):</b>
+ *       {@link #createUpload} sets {@code Content-Length} on each presigned {@code UploadPart}
+ *       request to the exact byte count that part was sized for. The AWS SDK v2 presigner
+ *       includes {@code Content-Length} among that URL's signed headers, so a client sending more
+ *       bytes than declared for a given part is rejected with HTTP 403 {@code
+ *       SignatureDoesNotMatch} before those extra bytes are accepted -- confirmed by driving a
+ *       real oversized {@code PUT} against a real MinIO instance, not inferred from SDK
+ *       documentation. Not independently re-verified against Ceph RGW (the production backend
+ *       design spec §9.1 names) -- both implement SigV4 presigned-URL validation the same way, but
+ *       that specific claim is an inference from the MinIO result, not a second measurement.
+ *   <li><b>Not this class's job at all, and does not need to be:</b> the tenant's actual storage
+ *       budget. Design spec §10.2 is explicit that {@code Tenant.spec.storage.quota} is enforced
+ *       by Ceph RGW itself, independent of anything the application does or gets wrong --
+ *       {@link #maxUploadBytes} exists only to bound a single upload's blast radius (an absurd
+ *       one-shot request), not to replace that quota.
+ * </ul>
+ */
+@Singleton
+public class MultipartUploadService {
+
+    /** Hard defensive ceiling on issued part URLs, well under S3's own 10 000-part protocol limit. */
+    private static final int MAX_PARTS = 2000;
+
+    private static final Pattern SAFE_FILE_NAME = Pattern.compile("[A-Za-z0-9._-]{1,255}");
+    private static final Pattern SAFE_VERSION = Pattern.compile("[A-Za-z0-9-]{1,128}");
+
+    private final S3Client s3Client;
+    private final S3Presigner presigner;
+    private final String bucket;
+    private final String prefix;
+    private final long partSizeBytes;
+    private final long maxUploadBytes;
+    private final Duration urlExpiry;
+
+    public MultipartUploadService(
+            S3Client s3Client,
+            S3Presigner presigner,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.bucket}") String bucket,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.prefix:staging/}") String prefix,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.part-size-bytes:67108864}") long partSizeBytes,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.max-upload-bytes:10737418240}") long maxUploadBytes,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.url-expiry-seconds:900}") long urlExpirySeconds) {
+        this.s3Client = s3Client;
+        this.presigner = presigner;
+        this.bucket = bucket;
+        this.prefix = normalisePrefix(prefix);
+        this.partSizeBytes = partSizeBytes;
+        this.maxUploadBytes = maxUploadBytes;
+        this.urlExpiry = Duration.ofSeconds(urlExpirySeconds);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Initiates a multipart upload and presigns every part slot it will need for {@code
+     * declaredSizeBytes}.
+     *
+     * @param namespace the caller's own namespace, from {@code TenantResolver} -- never anything
+     *     else, see the class Javadoc
+     * @param sourceName the target {@code WorldSource}'s name, already confirmed by the caller to
+     *     exist (as type {@code upload}) in {@code namespace}
+     * @param fileName the object's file name (e.g. {@code "world.tar.gz"}), kept as the staged
+     *     key's final segment so its extension survives for {@code Archives.isArchive} at ingest
+     *     time; validated against {@link #SAFE_FILE_NAME}
+     * @param declaredSizeBytes the caller's declared total size -- used only to size/count parts
+     *     and for the cheap upfront rejection in this method; the real check is {@link
+     *     #completeUpload}'s
+     * @throws BadRequestException if {@code fileName}/{@code declaredSizeBytes} are invalid, or
+     *     the declared size would require issuing more than {@link #MAX_PARTS} presigned URLs
+     */
+    public CreateUploadResponse createUpload(String namespace, String sourceName, String fileName, long declaredSizeBytes) {
+        requireSafe(fileName, SAFE_FILE_NAME, "fileName");
+        if (declaredSizeBytes <= 0) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("sizeBytes must be greater than zero");
+        }
+        if (declaredSizeBytes > maxUploadBytes) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("sizeBytes exceeds the maximum allowed upload size of " + maxUploadBytes + " bytes");
+        }
+
+        String version = UUID.randomUUID().toString();
+        String key = stagingKey(prefix, namespace, sourceName, version, fileName);
+
+        CreateMultipartUploadResponse created = s3Client.createMultipartUpload(
+                CreateMultipartUploadRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).key(key).build());
+        String uploadId = created.uploadId();
+
+        int partCount = (int) Math.ceil((double) declaredSizeBytes / (double) partSizeBytes);
+        if (partCount > MAX_PARTS) {
+            // Nothing was uploaded yet -- abort immediately rather than leaving an empty
+            // multipart upload dangling in S3 for no reason.
+            s3Client.abortMultipartUpload(AbortMultipartUploadRequest.builder()
+                    .bucket(bucket)
+                    .key(key)
+                    .uploadId(uploadId)
+                    .build());
+            throw new BadRequestException("sizeBytes would require more than " + MAX_PARTS + " parts");
+        }
+
+        List<CreateUploadResponse.PresignedPart> parts = new ArrayList<>(partCount);
+        for (int partNumber = 1; partNumber <= partCount; partNumber++) {
+            long thisPartSize =
+                    (partNumber < partCount) ? partSizeBytes : declaredSizeBytes - partSizeBytes * (long) (partCount - 1);
+            parts.add(presignPart(key, uploadId, partNumber, thisPartSize));
+        }
+
+        return new CreateUploadResponse(
+                uploadId, bucket, key, version, fileName, parts, partSizeBytes, Instant.now().plus(urlExpiry));
+    }
+
+    private CreateUploadResponse.PresignedPart presignPart(String key, String uploadId, int partNumber, long partSize) {
+        UploadPartRequest partRequest = UploadPartRequest.builder()
+                .bucket(bucket)
+                .key(key)
+                .uploadId(uploadId)
+                .partNumber(partNumber)
+                // Pins this part's exact size into the presigned URL's signature -- empirically
+                // confirmed (see the class Javadoc's "What is, and is not, actually enforced"
+                // section) to make a larger upload fail with 403 SignatureDoesNotMatch.
+                .contentLength(partSize)
+                .build();
+        UploadPartPresignRequest presignRequest = UploadPartPresignRequest.builder()
+                .signatureDuration(urlExpiry)
+                .uploadPartRequest(partRequest)
+                .build();
+        PresignedUploadPartRequest presigned = presigner.presignUploadPart(presignRequest);
+        return new CreateUploadResponse.PresignedPart(partNumber, partSize, presigned.url().toString());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Finalises a multipart upload -- the real size enforcement point, see the class Javadoc.
+     * Sums the actual, S3-recorded size of every uploaded part via {@code ListParts} and only
+     * calls {@code CompleteMultipartUpload} if that real total is within {@link
+     * #maxUploadBytes}; otherwise aborts the upload and rejects the request. The key is
+     * recomputed from {@code namespace}/{@code sourceName}/{@code version}/{@code fileName}
+     * exactly as {@link #createUpload} built it -- never taken from the caller directly -- so
+     * completion is confined to the same namespace-scoped prefix creation was.
+     *
+     * @throws BadRequestException if no parts were uploaded, the real total exceeds {@link
+     *     #maxUploadBytes} (the upload is aborted before this is thrown), or {@code version}/
+     *     {@code fileName} fail their format checks
+     */
+    public CompleteUploadResponse completeUpload(
+            String namespace, String sourceName, String version, String fileName, String uploadId) {
+        requireSafe(fileName, SAFE_FILE_NAME, "fileName");
+        requireSafe(version, SAFE_VERSION, "version");
+        if (uploadId == null || uploadId.isBlank()) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("uploadId must not be blank");
+        }
+
+        String key = stagingKey(prefix, namespace, sourceName, version, fileName);
+
+        List<Part> allParts = listAllParts(key, uploadId);
+        long totalBytes = allParts.stream().mapToLong(Part::size).sum();
+
+        if (allParts.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("no parts were uploaded for this upload");
+        }
+        if (totalBytes > maxUploadBytes) {
+            s3Client.abortMultipartUpload(AbortMultipartUploadRequest.builder()
+                    .bucket(bucket)
+                    .key(key)
+                    .uploadId(uploadId)
+                    .build());
+            throw new BadRequestException(
+                    "upload's actual total size (" + totalBytes + " bytes) exceeds the maximum allowed ("
+                            + maxUploadBytes + " bytes); the upload was aborted");
+        }
+
+        List<CompletedPart> completedParts = allParts.stream()
+                .map(part -> CompletedPart.builder()
+                        .partNumber(part.partNumber())
+                        .eTag(part.eTag())
+                        .build())
+                .toList();
+
+        s3Client.completeMultipartUpload(CompleteMultipartUploadRequest.builder()
+                .bucket(bucket)
+                .key(key)
+                .uploadId(uploadId)
+                .multipartUpload(CompletedMultipartUpload.builder().parts(completedParts).build())
+                .build());
+
+        return new CompleteUploadResponse(key, version, totalBytes, allParts.size());
+    }
+
+    /** Pages through every uploaded part -- authoritative, S3-recorded sizes/ETags, never trusting anything the caller claims. */
+    private List<Part> listAllParts(String key, String uploadId) {
+        List<Part> all = new ArrayList<>();
+        Integer partNumberMarker = null;
+        boolean truncated = true;
+        while (truncated) {
+            var requestBuilder = ListPartsRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).key(key).uploadId(uploadId);
+            if (partNumberMarker != null) {
+                requestBuilder.partNumberMarker(partNumberMarker);
+            }
+            ListPartsResponse response = s3Client.listParts(requestBuilder.build());
+            all.addAll(response.parts());
+            truncated = Boolean.TRUE.equals(response.isTruncated());
+            if (truncated) {
+                partNumberMarker = response.nextPartNumberMarker();
+                if (partNumberMarker == null) {
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        return all;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The single place a staging S3 key is ever constructed -- see the class Javadoc's "Prefix
+     * confinement is structural, not advisory". Package-private and {@code static} so it can be
+     * unit-tested directly, with no S3 client/credentials/Micronaut context involved, proving the
+     * confinement property for arbitrary (including adversarial) {@code sourceName}/{@code
+     * version}/{@code fileName} inputs.
+     */
+    static String stagingKey(String prefix, String namespace, String sourceName, String version, String fileName) {
+        return normalisePrefix(prefix) + namespace + "/" + sourceName + "/" + version + "/" + fileName;
+    }
+
+    private static String normalisePrefix(String prefix) {
+        if (prefix == null || prefix.isBlank()) {
+            return "";
+        }
+        return prefix.endsWith("/") ? prefix : prefix + "/";
+    }
+
+    private static void requireSafe(String value, Pattern pattern, String fieldName) {
+        if (value == null || !pattern.matcher(value).matches()) {
+            throw new BadRequestException(fieldName + " is missing or contains characters outside " + pattern.pattern());
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/StagingS3ClientFactory.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/StagingS3ClientFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd64a1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/StagingS3ClientFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.context.annotation.Factory;
+import io.micronaut.context.annotation.Value;
+import jakarta.inject.Singleton;
+import java.net.URI;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.DefaultCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Configuration;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.S3Presigner;
+
+/**
+ * The {@link S3Client}/{@link S3Presigner} pair {@link MultipartUploadService} uses against the
+ * platform-wide staging bucket -- one shared bucket, tenant isolation coming entirely from the
+ * key prefix each presigned URL is scoped to (see that class's Javadoc), the same "one bucket,
+ * many mandant-scoped prefixes" reading of design spec §11.1 the task brief's "auf das
+ * Staging-Präfix genau dieses Mandanten" language implies. Credentials are therefore
+ * platform-wide, not per-tenant -- mirroring how design spec §10.2 already describes the RGW
+ * admin-ops credentials used for quota polling ("Die Zugangsdaten dafür sind plattformweit, nicht
+ * mandantengebunden").
+ *
+ * <p>{@code @Value} injection directly into {@code @Factory} methods, not a {@code
+ * @ConfigurationProperties} class -- matches this module's existing convention (see {@code
+ * net.onelitefeather.apus.api.events.LogSourceFactory}). No property here has a hardcoded
+ * default that would silently point at a real bucket; every required one fails Micronaut startup
+ * with a clear "missing configuration" error if unset, the same fail-fast posture {@code
+ * application.yml}'s JWT properties already have.
+ */
+@Factory
+class StagingS3ClientFactory {
+
+    private static final String DEFAULT_REGION = "us-east-1";
+
+    @Singleton
+    S3Client stagingS3Client(
+            @Value("${apus.staging.endpoint:}") String endpoint,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.region:" + DEFAULT_REGION + "}") String region,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.access-key-id:}") String accessKeyId,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.secret-access-key:}") String secretAccessKey) {
+        var builder = S3Client.builder().region(Region.of(region)).credentialsProvider(credentials(accessKeyId, secretAccessKey));
+        if (endpoint != null && !endpoint.isBlank()) {
+            // S3-compatible stores (Rook/Ceph, MinIO, ...) need an endpoint override and
+            // path-style bucket addressing -- see S3SourceConnector.buildClient (ingest module)
+            // for the same reasoning applied to a pull source's own client.
+            builder = builder.endpointOverride(URI.create(endpoint)).forcePathStyle(true);
+        }
+        return builder.build();
+    }
+
+    @Singleton
+    S3Presigner stagingS3Presigner(
+            @Value("${apus.staging.endpoint:}") String endpoint,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.region:" + DEFAULT_REGION + "}") String region,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.access-key-id:}") String accessKeyId,
+            @Value("${apus.staging.secret-access-key:}") String secretAccessKey) {
+        var builder =
+                S3Presigner.builder().region(Region.of(region)).credentialsProvider(credentials(accessKeyId, secretAccessKey));
+        if (endpoint != null && !endpoint.isBlank()) {
+            builder = builder.endpointOverride(URI.create(endpoint))
+                    // Path-style addressing must be requested separately from the presigner's own
+                    // service configuration -- endpointOverride() alone does not imply it, and a
+                    // presigned URL built for virtual-hosted-style addressing against a
+                    // non-AWS-DNS endpoint would simply not resolve for whoever tries to use it.
+                    // Checksum validation is disabled for the same reason S3-compatible stores
+                    // generally need it off for presigned uploads: the SDK would otherwise try to
+                    // add a checksum trailer/header the presigned request was never signed to
+                    // include, breaking the signature for whoever performs the actual PUT.
+                    .serviceConfiguration(S3Configuration.builder()
+                            .pathStyleAccessEnabled(true)
+                            .checksumValidationEnabled(false)
+                            .build());
+        }
+        return builder.build();
+    }
+
+    private static AwsCredentialsProvider credentials(String accessKeyId, String secretAccessKey) {
+        if (accessKeyId != null && !accessKeyId.isBlank() && secretAccessKey != null && !secretAccessKey.isBlank()) {
+            return StaticCredentialsProvider.create(AwsBasicCredentials.create(accessKeyId, secretAccessKey));
+        }
+        return DefaultCredentialsProvider.builder().build();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/UploadController.java b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/UploadController.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..84632b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/UploadController.java
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import io.micronaut.http.HttpResponse;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Body;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Controller;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.PathVariable;
+import io.micronaut.http.annotation.Post;
+import io.micronaut.security.annotation.Secured;
+import io.micronaut.security.authentication.Authentication;
+import io.micronaut.security.rules.SecurityRule;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.NotFoundException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.worldsource.WorldSourceRepository;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.security.ApusPrincipal;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.security.ForbiddenException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.security.TenantResolver;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.support.PrincipalResolver;
+
+/**
+ * {@code POST /api/uploads} and {@code POST /api/uploads/{uploadId}/complete} -- the caller's own
+ * tenant only (design spec §10.3, §11.1), exactly like every other JWT-authenticated controller in
+ * this module. The namespace always comes from {@link TenantResolver}, never from the request
+ * body; {@link MultipartUploadService} then derives the S3 key from that namespace alone, so a
+ * caller can never reach outside their own tenant's staging prefix regardless of what {@code
+ * sourceName}/{@code version}/{@code fileName} they supply (see that class's Javadoc).
+ *
+ * <p>Requires {@link ApusPrincipal#canWrite()} for both operations -- initiating and completing an
+ * upload are both writes, exactly like {@code POST /api/sources} and {@code POST
+ * /api/maps/{id}/render}.
+ */
+@Controller("/api/uploads")
+@Secured(SecurityRule.IS_AUTHENTICATED)
+public class UploadController {
+
+    private static final String TYPE_UPLOAD = "upload";
+
+    private final WorldSourceRepository sourceRepository;
+    private final MultipartUploadService uploadService;
+    private final PrincipalResolver principalResolver;
+    private final TenantResolver tenantResolver;
+
+    public UploadController(
+            WorldSourceRepository sourceRepository,
+            MultipartUploadService uploadService,
+            PrincipalResolver principalResolver,
+            TenantResolver tenantResolver) {
+        this.sourceRepository = sourceRepository;
+        this.uploadService = uploadService;
+        this.principalResolver = principalResolver;
+        this.tenantResolver = tenantResolver;
+    }
+
+    @Post
+    public HttpResponse<CreateUploadResponse> create(Authentication authentication, @Body CreateUploadRequest request) {
+        ApusPrincipal principal = principalResolver.resolve(authentication);
+        requireWrite(principal);
+        String namespace = tenantResolver.namespaceFor(principal);
+
+        if (request == null || isBlank(request.sourceName())) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("sourceName is required");
+        }
+        findOwnUploadSource(namespace, request.sourceName());
+
+        CreateUploadResponse response =
+                uploadService.createUpload(namespace, request.sourceName(), request.fileName(), request.sizeBytes());
+        return HttpResponse.created(response);
+    }
+
+    @Post("/{uploadId}/complete")
+    public HttpResponse<CompleteUploadResponse> complete(
+            Authentication authentication, @PathVariable String uploadId, @Body CompleteUploadRequest request) {
+        ApusPrincipal principal = principalResolver.resolve(authentication);
+        requireWrite(principal);
+        String namespace = tenantResolver.namespaceFor(principal);
+
+        if (request == null || isBlank(request.sourceName())) {
+            throw new BadRequestException("sourceName is required");
+        }
+        findOwnUploadSource(namespace, request.sourceName());
+
+        CompleteUploadResponse response = uploadService.completeUpload(
+                namespace, request.sourceName(), request.version(), request.fileName(), uploadId);
+        return HttpResponse.ok(response);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Confirmed to exist, as an {@code upload}-type source, in the caller's own namespace --
+     * exactly like {@code BlueMapMapController.findOwnMap} does before creating a {@code
+     * BlueMapRender} referencing it, and for the same reason: a foreign tenant's source name
+     * must fail exactly like a non-existent one (404), never leaking that it exists elsewhere.
+     */
+    private void findOwnUploadSource(String namespace, String sourceName) {
+        sourceRepository
+                .find(namespace, sourceName)
+                .filter(s -> TYPE_UPLOAD.equals(s.getSpec().getType()))
+                .orElseThrow(() ->
+                        new NotFoundException("no upload source '" + sourceName + "' in namespace '" + namespace + "'"));
+    }
+
+    private static boolean isBlank(String value) {
+        return value == null || value.isBlank();
+    }
+
+    private void requireWrite(ApusPrincipal principal) {
+        if (!principal.canWrite()) {
+            throw new ForbiddenException("principal '" + principal.subject() + "' is not tenant-owner/tenant-operator");
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/InMemoryWorldIngestRepository.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/InMemoryWorldIngestRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4f3bd05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/ingest/InMemoryWorldIngestRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.ingest;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldIngest;
+
+/**
+ * An in-memory, namespace-partitioned {@link WorldIngestRepository} fake -- emulates Kubernetes'
+ * {@code generateName} behaviour (a unique {@code name} is assigned on {@link #create} whenever
+ * only {@code generateName} was set) closely enough for {@code PushControllerTest} to assert on
+ * the created resources without a real or mocked cluster. Public (unlike most of this module's
+ * in-memory fakes) because {@code net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push.PushControllerTest} is in
+ * a different package and needs it too.
+ */
+public final class InMemoryWorldIngestRepository implements WorldIngestRepository {
+
+    private final List<Namespaced> items = new ArrayList<>();
+    private int counter = 0;
+
+    @Override
+    public WorldIngest create(String namespace, WorldIngest ingest) {
+        if (ingest.getMetadata().getName() == null) {
+            String generateName = ingest.getMetadata().getGenerateName();
+            ingest.getMetadata().setName((generateName == null ? "ingest-" : generateName) + (counter++));
+        }
+        items.add(new Namespaced(namespace, ingest));
+        return ingest;
+    }
+
+    public List<WorldIngest> forNamespace(String namespace) {
+        return items.stream()
+                .filter(item -> item.namespace().equals(namespace))
+                .map(Namespaced::resource)
+                .toList();
+    }
+
+    private record Namespaced(String namespace, WorldIngest resource) {}
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b578f4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectMetaBuilder;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Secret;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.SecretBuilder;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.server.mock.EnableKubernetesMockClient;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.Base64;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Proves the real fabric8 wiring {@code PushControllerTest}'s in-memory fake cannot: the
+ * cluster-wide, label-scoped Secret query and the base64 {@code data.token} decoding.
+ */
+@EnableKubernetesMockClient(crud = true)
+class FabricPushTokenRepositoryTest {
+
+    KubernetesClient client;
+
+    private FabricPushTokenRepository repository() {
+        return new FabricPushTokenRepository(client);
+    }
+
+    private void serviceTokenSecret(String namespace, String name, String rawToken) {
+        Secret secret = new SecretBuilder()
+                .withMetadata(new ObjectMetaBuilder()
+                        .withName(name)
+                        .withNamespace(namespace)
+                        .withLabels(Map.of(
+                                FabricPushTokenRepository.SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_KEY,
+                                FabricPushTokenRepository.SERVICE_TOKEN_LABEL_VALUE))
+                        .build())
+                .withData(Map.of(
+                        FabricPushTokenRepository.TOKEN_DATA_KEY,
+                        Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(rawToken.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))))
+                .build();
+        client.secrets().inNamespace(namespace).resource(secret).create();
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void resolvesTheNamespaceOfTheMatchingSecret() {
+        serviceTokenSecret("bluemap-acme", "apus-push-token", "acme-super-secret-token");
+
+        var result = repository().resolveNamespace("acme-super-secret-token");
+
+        assertTrue(result.isPresent());
+        assertEquals("bluemap-acme", result.get());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aTokenThatMatchesNoSecretResolvesToEmpty() {
+        serviceTokenSecret("bluemap-acme", "apus-push-token", "acme-super-secret-token");
+
+        assertTrue(repository().resolveNamespace("some-other-token").isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void blankOrNullTokenResolvesToEmptyWithoutQueryingTheCluster() {
+        assertTrue(repository().resolveNamespace("").isEmpty());
+        assertTrue(repository().resolveNamespace(null).isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void picksTheCorrectNamespaceAmongMultipleTenantsTokens() {
+        serviceTokenSecret("bluemap-acme", "apus-push-token", "acme-token");
+        serviceTokenSecret("bluemap-globex", "apus-push-token", "globex-token");
+        serviceTokenSecret("bluemap-initech", "apus-push-token", "initech-token");
+
+        assertEquals("bluemap-globex", repository().resolveNamespace("globex-token").orElseThrow());
+        assertEquals("bluemap-acme", repository().resolveNamespace("acme-token").orElseThrow());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aSecretWithoutTheServiceTokenLabelIsIgnored() {
+        // A Secret that merely happens to have a "token" data key, but isn't labelled as a
+        // service token (e.g. an S3/Pterodactyl credentials Secret) must never be treated as one.
+        Secret unlabelled = new SecretBuilder()
+                .withMetadata(new ObjectMetaBuilder()
+                        .withName("s3-creds")
+                        .withNamespace("bluemap-acme")
+                        .build())
+                .withData(Map.of(
+                        FabricPushTokenRepository.TOKEN_DATA_KEY,
+                        Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString("not-a-push-token".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))))
+                .build();
+        client.secrets().inNamespace("bluemap-acme").resource(unlabelled).create();
+
+        assertTrue(repository().resolveNamespace("not-a-push-token").isEmpty());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/InMemoryPushTokenRepository.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/InMemoryPushTokenRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e2a6696
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/InMemoryPushTokenRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+/**
+ * An in-memory {@link PushTokenRepository} fake for {@code PushControllerTest} -- a plain map is
+ * enough here (unlike {@link FabricPushTokenRepository}) since proving the constant-time,
+ * exhaustive-scan comparison itself is that class's own test's job, not the controller's.
+ */
+final class InMemoryPushTokenRepository implements PushTokenRepository {
+
+    private final Map<String, String> tokenToNamespace = new HashMap<>();
+
+    void put(String token, String namespace) {
+        tokenToNamespace.put(token, namespace);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Optional<String> resolveNamespace(String rawToken) {
+        return Optional.ofNullable(rawToken == null ? null : tokenToNamespace.get(rawToken));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/InMemoryWorldSourceRepository.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/InMemoryWorldSourceRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b769ebb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/InMemoryWorldSourceRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.worldsource.WorldSourceRepository;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldSource;
+
+/**
+ * An in-memory, namespace-partitioned {@link WorldSourceRepository} fake for {@code
+ * PushControllerTest} -- a separate, local copy of the equivalent fake in the {@code
+ * worldsource} test package rather than reusing it, since that one is package-private there.
+ */
+final class InMemoryWorldSourceRepository implements WorldSourceRepository {
+
+    private final List<Namespaced> items = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    void put(String namespace, WorldSource source) {
+        items.add(new Namespaced(namespace, source));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<WorldSource> list(String namespace) {
+        return items.stream()
+                .filter(item -> item.namespace().equals(namespace))
+                .map(Namespaced::resource)
+                .toList();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Optional<WorldSource> find(String namespace, String name) {
+        return items.stream()
+                .filter(item -> item.namespace().equals(namespace)
+                        && item.resource().getMetadata().getName().equals(name))
+                .map(Namespaced::resource)
+                .findFirst();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public WorldSource create(String namespace, WorldSource source) {
+        put(namespace, source);
+        return source;
+    }
+
+    private record Namespaced(String namespace, WorldSource resource) {}
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushControllerTest.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushControllerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4204da2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/push/PushControllerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.ingest.InMemoryWorldIngestRepository;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.NotFoundException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldSource;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/**
+ * The abuse cases matter more than the good path here (task brief) -- this is the one endpoint in
+ * the whole module that authenticates via a bare secret in the URL rather than a JWT, so most of
+ * these tests are deliberately about what happens with a wrong, foreign, or absent token, not
+ * just the happy path.
+ */
+class PushControllerTest {
+
+    private final InMemoryPushTokenRepository tokenRepository = new InMemoryPushTokenRepository();
+    private final InMemoryWorldSourceRepository sourceRepository = new InMemoryWorldSourceRepository();
+    private final InMemoryWorldIngestRepository ingestRepository = new InMemoryWorldIngestRepository();
+    private final PushController controller = new PushController(tokenRepository, sourceRepository, ingestRepository);
+
+    private static WorldSource pushSource(String name, String... worldNames) {
+        WorldSource source = new WorldSource();
+        source.getMetadata().setName(name);
+        source.getSpec().setType("push");
+        for (String worldName : worldNames) {
+            var selector = new WorldSource.WorldSelector();
+            selector.setName(worldName);
+            source.getSpec().getWorlds().add(selector);
+        }
+        return source;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void validTokenAndSourceCreatesOneWorldIngestPerConfiguredWorld() {
+        tokenRepository.put("acme-secret-token", "bluemap-acme");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", pushSource("survival", "world", "world_nether"));
+
+        var response = controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest("survival", "backup-42"));
+
+        assertEquals(201, response.getStatus().getCode());
+        assertEquals(2, response.body().worldIngests().size());
+        assertEquals(2, ingestRepository.forNamespace("bluemap-acme").size());
+        var ingest = ingestRepository.forNamespace("bluemap-acme").get(0);
+        assertEquals("survival", ingest.getSpec().getSourceRef().getName());
+        assertEquals("backup-42", ingest.getSpec().getSourceVersion());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void unknownTokenIsNotFound() {
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", pushSource("survival", "world"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.report("this-token-does-not-exist", new PushReportRequest("survival", "v1")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void blankTokenIsNotFound() {
+        assertThrows(NotFoundException.class, () -> controller.report("", new PushReportRequest("survival", "v1")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void tokenForOneTenantCannotReachAnotherTenantsSourceByName() {
+        // "carol-secret" only authorizes bluemap-acme -- globex-survival exists, but under a
+        // different namespace this token was never issued for.
+        tokenRepository.put("carol-secret", "bluemap-acme");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-globex", pushSource("globex-survival", "world"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.report("carol-secret", new PushReportRequest("globex-survival", "v1")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aTokenValidForOneNamespaceNeverCreatesAnIngestInAnotherNamespace() {
+        tokenRepository.put("acme-secret-token", "bluemap-acme");
+        tokenRepository.put("globex-secret-token", "bluemap-globex");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", pushSource("survival", "world"));
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-globex", pushSource("survival", "world"));
+
+        controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest("survival", "v1"));
+
+        assertEquals(1, ingestRepository.forNamespace("bluemap-acme").size());
+        assertTrue(ingestRepository.forNamespace("bluemap-globex").isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void unknownSourceNameForAValidTokenIsNotFound() {
+        tokenRepository.put("acme-secret-token", "bluemap-acme");
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest("no-such-source", "v1")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aSourceThatIsNotOfTypePushIsNotFoundEvenWithAValidToken() {
+        tokenRepository.put("acme-secret-token", "bluemap-acme");
+        WorldSource s3Source = new WorldSource();
+        s3Source.getMetadata().setName("survival");
+        s3Source.getSpec().setType("s3");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", s3Source);
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest("survival", "v1")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aSourceWithNoConfiguredWorldsIsRejected() {
+        tokenRepository.put("acme-secret-token", "bluemap-acme");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", pushSource("survival"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest("survival", "v1")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void missingSourceNameOrVersionIsRejected() {
+        tokenRepository.put("acme-secret-token", "bluemap-acme");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", pushSource("survival", "world"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class, () -> controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest(null, "v1")));
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> controller.report("acme-secret-token", new PushReportRequest("survival", null)));
+        assertThrows(BadRequestException.class, () -> controller.report("acme-secret-token", null));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/InMemoryWorldSourceRepository.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/InMemoryWorldSourceRepository.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..849c8c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/InMemoryWorldSourceRepository.java
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.worldsource.WorldSourceRepository;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldSource;
+
+/** An in-memory, namespace-partitioned {@link WorldSourceRepository} fake for {@code UploadControllerTest}. */
+final class InMemoryWorldSourceRepository implements WorldSourceRepository {
+
+    private final List<Namespaced> items = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    void put(String namespace, WorldSource source) {
+        items.add(new Namespaced(namespace, source));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public List<WorldSource> list(String namespace) {
+        return items.stream()
+                .filter(item -> item.namespace().equals(namespace))
+                .map(Namespaced::resource)
+                .toList();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Optional<WorldSource> find(String namespace, String name) {
+        return items.stream()
+                .filter(item -> item.namespace().equals(namespace)
+                        && item.resource().getMetadata().getName().equals(name))
+                .map(Namespaced::resource)
+                .findFirst();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public WorldSource create(String namespace, WorldSource source) {
+        put(namespace, source);
+        return source;
+    }
+
+    private record Namespaced(String namespace, WorldSource resource) {}
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13f7aa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.http.HttpClient;
+import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
+import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.MinIOContainer;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Container;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Testcontainers;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Configuration;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CreateBucketRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.NoSuchUploadException;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.S3Presigner;
+
+/**
+ * Drives real HTTP requests against a real MinIO instance to answer, empirically rather than by
+ * reading AWS SDK documentation, the question the phase 6 task brief poses: which of {@code POST
+ * /api/uploads}'s stated limits ("eng begrenzt: auf das Staging-Präfix genau dieses Mandanten,
+ * mit kurzer Gültigkeit und einer Größenbegrenzung") actually hold up against an adversarial
+ * client, and which do not. See the phase 6 task report for how each result here is interpreted.
+ *
+ * <p>Excluded from {@code :api:test} (matches {@code TenantIsolationIntegrationTest}'s own
+ * Docker/{@code *IntegrationTest} exclusion in {@code build.gradle.kts}) -- run explicitly via
+ * {@code ./gradlew :api:integrationTest}.
+ */
+@Testcontainers
+class MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest {
+
+    private static final String BUCKET = "staging";
+
+    // Generated fresh per test run rather than pinned to a fixed literal, so nothing checked
+    // into source ever looks like a real credential. Lengths follow MinIO's own
+    // accessKeyMinLen/secretKeyMinLen (3 / 8 characters) with generous headroom.
+    private static final String ACCESS_KEY = randomAlphanumeric(20);
+    private static final String SECRET_KEY = randomAlphanumeric(40);
+
+    @Container
+    private static final MinIOContainer MINIO =
+            new MinIOContainer(DockerImageName.parse("minio/minio:RELEASE.2024-11-07T00-52-20Z"))
+                    .withUserName(ACCESS_KEY)
+                    .withPassword(SECRET_KEY);
+
+    private static S3Client s3Client;
+    private static S3Presigner presigner;
+    private static final HttpClient HTTP = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
+
+    /** Generates a random alphanumeric string of {@code length} characters. */
+    private static String randomAlphanumeric(int length) {
+        String alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
+        SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
+        StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder(length);
+        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+            value.append(alphabet.charAt(random.nextInt(alphabet.length())));
+        }
+        return value.toString();
+    }
+
+    @BeforeAll
+    static void createClientsAndBucket() {
+        var credentials = StaticCredentialsProvider.create(AwsBasicCredentials.create(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY));
+        s3Client = S3Client.builder()
+                .endpointOverride(URI.create(MINIO.getS3URL()))
+                .region(Region.US_EAST_1)
+                .credentialsProvider(credentials)
+                .forcePathStyle(true)
+                .build();
+        presigner = S3Presigner.builder()
+                .endpointOverride(URI.create(MINIO.getS3URL()))
+                .region(Region.US_EAST_1)
+                .credentialsProvider(credentials)
+                .serviceConfiguration(S3Configuration.builder()
+                        .pathStyleAccessEnabled(true)
+                        .checksumValidationEnabled(false)
+                        .build())
+                .build();
+        s3Client.createBucket(CreateBucketRequest.builder().bucket(BUCKET).build());
+    }
+
+    @AfterAll
+    static void closeClients() {
+        s3Client.close();
+        presigner.close();
+    }
+
+    /** 5 MiB -- the S3/Ceph minimum part size (except the last part), kept small so tests stay fast. */
+    private static final long PART_SIZE = 5L * 1024 * 1024;
+
+    private MultipartUploadService service(long maxUploadBytes) {
+        return new MultipartUploadService(s3Client, presigner, BUCKET, "staging/", PART_SIZE, maxUploadBytes, 900);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void endToEndUploadLandsExactlyAtTheExpectedKeyWithTheRealUploadedBytes() throws Exception {
+        long totalSize = PART_SIZE + 1024; // forces two parts: one full 5 MiB, one small tail
+        var created = service(10L * 1024 * 1024 * 1024).createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", totalSize);
+
+        assertEquals("staging/bluemap-acme/survival/" + created.version() + "/world.zip", created.key());
+        assertEquals(2, created.parts().size());
+
+        for (var part : created.parts()) {
+            putPart(part.url(), randomBytes((int) part.sizeBytes()));
+        }
+
+        var completed = service(10L * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)
+                .completeUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", created.version(), "world.zip", created.uploadId());
+
+        assertEquals(totalSize, completed.totalBytes());
+        assertEquals(created.key(), completed.key());
+        var stored = s3Client.getObject(b -> b.bucket(BUCKET).key(created.key()));
+        assertEquals(totalSize, stored.response().contentLength());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aPresignedPartUrlCannotBeRedirectedToADifferentTenantsKey() throws Exception {
+        var created = service(10L * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)
+                .createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", PART_SIZE);
+        String legitimateUrl = created.parts().get(0).url();
+
+        // Swap the tenant namespace segment in the signed URL's path while keeping every other
+        // character -- including the whole SigV4 query string -- untouched. If prefix confinement
+        // were only advisory (e.g. enforced solely by application logic that a modified request
+        // never goes through), this would succeed. It must instead fail the signature check.
+        String tamperedUrl = legitimateUrl.replace("/bluemap-acme/", "/bluemap-globex/");
+        assertTrue(!tamperedUrl.equals(legitimateUrl), "the tamper must actually change the URL");
+
+        HttpResponse<String> response = putPartExpectingFailure(tamperedUrl, randomBytes((int) PART_SIZE));
+
+        assertEquals(
+                403,
+                response.statusCode(),
+                "S3 must reject a presigned URL whose key was altered after signing, got body: " + response.body());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void completeUploadAbortsAndRejectsWhenTheActualUploadedTotalExceedsTheConfiguredMaximum() throws Exception {
+        // maxUploadBytes deliberately smaller than what actually gets uploaded below -- proves
+        // enforcement happens against the real ListParts total, not the originally declared size.
+        long generousDeclaredSize = 3 * PART_SIZE;
+        long tinyMax = PART_SIZE; // one part's worth -- the upload below will exceed this
+
+        var created = service(generousDeclaredSize).createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", generousDeclaredSize);
+        for (var part : created.parts()) {
+            putPart(part.url(), randomBytes((int) part.sizeBytes()));
+        }
+
+        MultipartUploadService strict = service(tinyMax);
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> strict.completeUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", created.version(), "world.zip", created.uploadId()));
+
+        // The upload must actually be gone (aborted), not just rejected at the API layer --
+        // otherwise the uploaded-but-oversized parts would sit in the bucket indefinitely.
+        assertThrows(
+                NoSuchUploadException.class,
+                () -> s3Client.listParts(
+                        b -> b.bucket(BUCKET).key(created.key()).uploadId(created.uploadId())));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Confirms empirically (against real MinIO, 2026-08-09) that {@code Content-Length} pinning
+     * on a presigned {@code UploadPart} request genuinely constrains the byte count a client can
+     * send for that part: sending more bytes than the part was presigned/sized for is rejected
+     * with HTTP 403 {@code SignatureDoesNotMatch} before those extra bytes are accepted --
+     * {@code Content-Length} was a signed header, and the actual request no longer matches what
+     * was signed. See the phase 6 task report for the full write-up (including the caveat that
+     * this was verified against MinIO specifically, not independently against Ceph RGW, the
+     * production backend design spec §9.1 names -- both implement SigV4 the same way, but that is
+     * an inference, not a second empirical confirmation).
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aPartExceedingItsPresignedSizeIsRejectedBeforeItIsAccepted() throws Exception {
+        long declaredPartSize = PART_SIZE;
+        var created = service(10L * 1024 * 1024 * 1024).createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", declaredPartSize);
+        String partUrl = created.parts().get(0).url();
+
+        byte[] oversizedBody = randomBytes((int) (declaredPartSize + 1024));
+        HttpResponse<String> response = putPartExpectingFailure(partUrl, oversizedBody);
+
+        assertEquals(
+                403,
+                response.statusCode(),
+                "an oversized part must be rejected by the signature check, got body: " + response.body());
+        assertTrue(response.body().contains("SignatureDoesNotMatch"));
+    }
+
+    private void putPart(String url, byte[] body) throws Exception {
+        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create(url))
+                .PUT(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofByteArray(body))
+                .build();
+        HttpResponse<String> response = HTTP.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
+        if (response.statusCode() / 100 != 2) {
+            throw new AssertionError("part upload failed: " + response.statusCode() + " " + response.body());
+        }
+    }
+
+    private HttpResponse<String> putPartExpectingFailure(String url, byte[] body) throws Exception {
+        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create(url))
+                .PUT(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofByteArray(body))
+                .build();
+        return HTTP.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
+    }
+
+    private static byte[] randomBytes(int size) {
+        byte[] data = new byte[size];
+        new java.util.Random(42).nextBytes(data);
+        return data;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadServiceTest.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadServiceTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98e643b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/MultipartUploadServiceTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Two kinds of proof, deliberately kept apart:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>{@link #stagingKey} confinement -- pure-function tests, no S3/Micronaut involved at all,
+ *       proving the structural guarantee that a staged object's key can never leave {@code
+ *       <prefix>/<namespace>/<sourceName>/...} no matter what {@code version}/{@code fileName} an
+ *       adversarial caller supplies.
+ *   <li>request validation -- {@link #createUpload}/{@link #completeUpload} reject malformed
+ *       input *before* ever calling the injected {@link software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client}/
+ *       {@link software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.S3Presigner}, so these tests
+ *       construct the service with {@code null} for both -- exercising exactly the code paths
+ *       that never dereference them, without needing a mocking framework this project does not
+ *       otherwise depend on.
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * <p>The good-path proof that a presigned URL really is confined to its signed key/size against a
+ * real S3-compatible backend is {@code MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest}'s job instead (real
+ * MinIO via Testcontainers, Docker required, excluded from this module's default {@code test}
+ * task exactly like {@code TenantIsolationIntegrationTest}).
+ */
+class MultipartUploadServiceTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void stagingKeyIsAlwaysConfinedToThePrefixNamespaceAndSourceSubtree() {
+        String key = MultipartUploadService.stagingKey("staging/", "bluemap-acme", "survival", "v1", "world.zip");
+
+        assertEquals("staging/bluemap-acme/survival/v1/world.zip", key);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stagingKeyNormalisesAPrefixMissingItsTrailingSlash() {
+        String key = MultipartUploadService.stagingKey("staging", "bluemap-acme", "survival", "v1", "world.zip");
+
+        assertEquals("staging/bluemap-acme/survival/v1/world.zip", key);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stagingKeyCannotBeEscapedByAnAdversarialVersionOrFileName() {
+        // S3 keys have no ".."-traversal semantics, so these are just unusual literal key
+        // segments -- but the property under test is that the namespace segment is untouched
+        // regardless: whatever a caller supplies for version/fileName, the object still lives
+        // strictly under this tenant's own namespace/sourceName subtree, never another tenant's.
+        String key = MultipartUploadService.stagingKey(
+                "staging/", "bluemap-acme", "survival", "../../bluemap-globex/other-source", "../../evil.zip");
+
+        assertTrue(
+                key.startsWith("staging/bluemap-acme/survival/"),
+                "key must stay under the caller's own namespace/source subtree, was: " + key);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void namespaceIsTheOnlyInputThatDeterminesTheTenantPrefix() {
+        String acmeKey = MultipartUploadService.stagingKey("staging/", "bluemap-acme", "survival", "v1", "world.zip");
+        String globexKey = MultipartUploadService.stagingKey("staging/", "bluemap-globex", "survival", "v1", "world.zip");
+
+        assertTrue(acmeKey.startsWith("staging/bluemap-acme/"));
+        assertTrue(globexKey.startsWith("staging/bluemap-globex/"));
+        assertTrue(!acmeKey.equals(globexKey));
+    }
+
+    private MultipartUploadService serviceWithoutS3() {
+        return new MultipartUploadService(null, null, "staging-bucket", "staging/", 67_108_864L, 10_737_418_240L, 900L);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createUploadRejectsANonPositiveDeclaredSize() {
+        MultipartUploadService service = serviceWithoutS3();
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class, () -> service.createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", 0));
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class, () -> service.createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", -1));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createUploadRejectsADeclaredSizeAboveTheConfiguredMaximum() {
+        MultipartUploadService service = serviceWithoutS3();
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> service.createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "world.zip", 10_737_418_240L + 1));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createUploadRejectsAFileNameWithAPathSeparator() {
+        MultipartUploadService service = serviceWithoutS3();
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> service.createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "../evil/world.zip", 1024));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createUploadRejectsABlankFileName() {
+        MultipartUploadService service = serviceWithoutS3();
+
+        assertThrows(BadRequestException.class, () -> service.createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "", 1024));
+        assertThrows(BadRequestException.class, () -> service.createUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", null, 1024));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void completeUploadRejectsAMalformedVersion() {
+        MultipartUploadService service = serviceWithoutS3();
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> service.completeUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "../../bluemap-globex", "world.zip", "up-1"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void completeUploadRejectsABlankUploadId() {
+        MultipartUploadService service = serviceWithoutS3();
+
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> service.completeUpload("bluemap-acme", "survival", "v1", "world.zip", ""));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/UploadControllerTest.java b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/UploadControllerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b56326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/api/rest/upload/UploadControllerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.upload;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+
+import io.micronaut.security.authentication.Authentication;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.BadRequestException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.support.NotFoundException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.security.ForbiddenException;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.security.TenantResolver;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.api.support.PrincipalResolver;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.WorldSource;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Covers everything {@code UploadController} decides *before* delegating to {@link
+ * MultipartUploadService} -- role/tenant scoping and source lookup, exactly the boundary this
+ * controller is responsible for. {@link MultipartUploadService}'s own request-shape validation is
+ * {@code MultipartUploadServiceTest}'s job; a presigned URL's real behaviour against S3 is {@code
+ * MultipartUploadServiceIntegrationTest}'s (Docker/MinIO, not run here). {@link
+ * #createDelegatesToTheServiceOnceTheSourceCheckPasses()} proves the wiring between this
+ * controller and that service without needing a real S3 client, by supplying a request the
+ * service itself rejects for a *different* reason than anything the controller checks -- proof
+ * that control genuinely passed through.
+ */
+class UploadControllerTest {
+
+    private final InMemoryWorldSourceRepository sourceRepository = new InMemoryWorldSourceRepository();
+    // No real S3Client/S3Presigner: every test here either fails before the service ever touches
+    // them, or (createDelegatesToTheServiceOnceTheSourceCheckPasses) fails inside the service for
+    // a reason unrelated to S3 connectivity -- see MultipartUploadServiceTest's Javadoc for why
+    // that is a safe thing to construct.
+    private final MultipartUploadService uploadService =
+            new MultipartUploadService(null, null, "staging-bucket", "staging/", 67_108_864L, 10_737_418_240L, 900L);
+    private final UploadController controller =
+            new UploadController(sourceRepository, uploadService, new PrincipalResolver(), new TenantResolver());
+
+    private static Authentication operator(String tenant) {
+        return Authentication.build(
+                "dave", List.of("tenant-operator"), Map.of(PrincipalResolver.TENANT_CLAIM, tenant));
+    }
+
+    private static Authentication viewer(String tenant) {
+        return Authentication.build("carol", List.of("tenant-viewer"), Map.of(PrincipalResolver.TENANT_CLAIM, tenant));
+    }
+
+    private static WorldSource uploadSource(String name) {
+        WorldSource source = new WorldSource();
+        source.getMetadata().setName(name);
+        source.getSpec().setType("upload");
+        return source;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createRejectsAViewer() {
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", uploadSource("survival"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                ForbiddenException.class,
+                () -> controller.create(viewer("acme"), new CreateUploadRequest("survival", "world.zip", 1024)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createRejectsAnUnknownSourceName() {
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.create(operator("acme"), new CreateUploadRequest("no-such-source", "world.zip", 1024)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createRejectsASourceThatBelongsToAnotherTenant() {
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-globex", uploadSource("globex-survival"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.create(
+                        operator("acme"), new CreateUploadRequest("globex-survival", "world.zip", 1024)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createRejectsASourceThatIsNotOfTypeUpload() {
+        WorldSource s3Source = new WorldSource();
+        s3Source.getMetadata().setName("survival");
+        s3Source.getSpec().setType("s3");
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", s3Source);
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.create(operator("acme"), new CreateUploadRequest("survival", "world.zip", 1024)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createRejectsAMissingSourceName() {
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> controller.create(operator("acme"), new CreateUploadRequest(null, "world.zip", 1024)));
+        assertThrows(BadRequestException.class, () -> controller.create(operator("acme"), null));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void createDelegatesToTheServiceOnceTheSourceCheckPasses() {
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", uploadSource("survival"));
+
+        // sizeBytes <= 0 is rejected by MultipartUploadService itself, never by the controller --
+        // reaching that specific error proves the controller's own checks (role, source lookup)
+        // all passed and control reached the service.
+        assertThrows(
+                BadRequestException.class,
+                () -> controller.create(operator("acme"), new CreateUploadRequest("survival", "world.zip", 0)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void completeRejectsAViewer() {
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-acme", uploadSource("survival"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                ForbiddenException.class,
+                () -> controller.complete(
+                        viewer("acme"), "upload-1", new CompleteUploadRequest("survival", "v1", "world.zip")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void completeRejectsASourceThatBelongsToAnotherTenant() {
+        sourceRepository.put("bluemap-globex", uploadSource("globex-survival"));
+
+        assertThrows(
+                NotFoundException.class,
+                () -> controller.complete(
+                        operator("acme"),
+                        "upload-1",
+                        new CompleteUploadRequest("globex-survival", "v1", "world.zip")));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-08-apus-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-08-apus-design.md
index e14690e..3d85eb7 100644
--- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-08-apus-design.md
+++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-08-apus-design.md
@@ -10,6 +10,39 @@ und erlaubt Bedienung ohne YAML.
 
 ---
 
+## 0. Stand der Umsetzung
+
+*(Ergänzt nach Abschluss von Phase 6 — Einstieg für alle, die neu dazukommen.)*
+
+**Alle sechs Phasen aus §14 sind gebaut**, einschließlich Phase 6 (Push-Quellen:
+`paper-worldpush` sowie der UI-Upload-Weg über `POST /api/uploads`). Render-Kern,
+Operator/Ingest mit allen vier Connectoren (`s3`, `pterodactyl`, `push`, `upload`),
+Hosting, API/UI/Mandanten und die Push-Quellen liegen alle im Hauptzweig. Die
+Modul-Tabelle in §4 spiegelt den heutigen Stand wider (inkl. `hosting`, `api`, `ui`,
+`paper-worldpush`).
+
+**Region-Sharding (Phase 4) wurde nach dem Spike bewusst nicht gebaut.** Der Spike
+(`docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-08-09-lowres-sharding-spike.md`) wies Kachel-Korruption
+bei gleichzeitig laufenden Shards nach; die Entscheidung fiel zugunsten vertikaler
+Skalierung über `render-threads` — siehe §14, Phase 4, für die volle Begründung.
+`BlueMapMap.spec.shards` existiert und bleibt bis auf Weiteres auf `1` beschränkt.
+
+**Bewusst offen gelassene Punkte** (Details in §15):
+
+- **Identity-Broker nicht ausgewählt.** Die API validiert JWTs gegen einen
+  konfigurierbaren Issuer; welches Produkt (Keycloak, Zitadel, ...) tatsächlich davor
+  steht, ist nicht entschieden (§15, Punkt 3).
+- **OIDC-Anmeldung nie gegen einen echten Broker getestet.** Die Auth-Tests im
+  `api`-Modul laufen gegen einen Fake-Kubernetes-Client bzw. selbst ausgestellte
+  Test-JWTs (§13.2); ein Ende-zu-Ende-Lauf gegen einen echten Identity-Broker (Keycloak/
+  Zitadel) hat nie stattgefunden.
+- **Speicher-/Save-Fenster von `paper-worldpush` ungetestet gegen einen echten
+  Paper-Server.** Die Kopierlogik ist per Unit-Test abgedeckt, aber `BukkitSaveCoordinator`
+  (der eigentliche Autosave-Pause-und-Force-Save-Schritt) wurde nie gegen eine laufende
+  Paper-Instanz oder mit MockBukkit geprüft, anders als in §13.2 ursprünglich vorgesehen.
+
+---
+
 ## 1. Ziel und Abgrenzung
 
 ### 1.1 Problem
@@ -84,7 +117,7 @@ BlueMap-Version zu verifizieren:
                     │
                     ▼
          ┌──────────────────────┐
-         │  world-ingest (ETL)  │  Extract → Transform → Load
+         │     ingest (ETL)     │  Extract → Transform → Load
          └──────────┬───────────┘
                     ▼
           World Bundle in S3   ◄────── Vertrag zwischen Ingest und Render
@@ -119,16 +152,22 @@ Alle in einem Gradle-Monorepo `Apus`, mehrmodulig.
 
 | Modul | Sprache/Stack | Zweck |
 |---|---|---|
-| `telemetry-addon` | Java 21, BlueMap-Addon | Exponiert Render-Fortschritt als JSON und Prometheus-Metriken |
-| `world-ingest` | Java 21, Micronaut | ETL: Connector-SPI, Layout-Erkennung, Bundle-Writer. Läuft als Job |
-| `runner-image` | Dockerfile + Entrypoint | BlueMap-CLI + beide Addons + Bundle-Sync |
-| `operator` | Java 21, Micronaut + Java Operator SDK | Sechs CRDs, erzeugt Jobs/Deployments/Ingresses/Buckets |
-| `api` | Java 21, Micronaut | REST + SSE über den CRs, Log-Aggregation, Auth-Durchsetzung |
-| `ui` | Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Tailwind 4, Nuxt UI | Zwei Dashboard-Ebenen |
-| `paper-worldpush` | Java 21, Paper-Plugin | Async, inkrementeller Welt-Upload vom laufenden Server |
-
-`telemetry-addon` und `paper-worldpush` hängen an fremden Versionen (BlueMap bzw. Paper)
-und bekommen eine eigene Release-Spur mit eigener Versionsmatrix.
+| `telemetry-addon` | Java 25, BlueMap-Addon | Exponiert Render-Fortschritt als JSON und Prometheus-Metriken |
+| `ingest` | Java 25 | ETL: Connector-SPI (s3, pterodactyl, push, upload), Layout-Erkennung, Bundle-Writer. Läuft als Job |
+| `runner` | Dockerfile + Entrypoint | BlueMap-CLI + beide Addons + Bundle-Sync |
+| `hosting` | Dockerfile + Entrypoint | Langlebiger Webserver (BlueMap-CLI im `-w`-Modus); liest gerenderte Karten direkt aus S3 über `BlueMapS3Storage`, Konfiguration per gemountetem ConfigMap statt Umgebungsvariablen |
+| `operator` | Java 25, Java Operator SDK (fabric8) | Sechs CRDs (`Tenant`, `WorldSource`, `WorldIngest`, `BlueMapMap`, `BlueMapRender`, `BlueMapHosting`), erzeugt Jobs/Deployments/Ingresses/Buckets/Secrets |
+| `api` | Java 25, Micronaut | REST + SSE über den CRs, Log-Aggregation, Auth-Durchsetzung |
+| `ui` | Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Tailwind 4, Nuxt UI, VueUse | Zwei Dashboard-Ebenen |
+| `paper-worldpush` | Java 25, Paper-Plugin | Async, inkrementeller Welt-Upload vom laufenden Server |
+
+`telemetry-addon` und `paper-worldpush` hängen an fremden Versionen (BlueMap- bzw.
+Paper-API) und bekommen eine eigene Release-Spur mit eigener Versionsmatrix — die
+Java-*Sprachversion* (Toolchain, einheitlich 25 für das ganze Monorepo, siehe Root-
+`build.gradle.kts`) ist davon unabhängig und gilt für jedes Java-Modul gleichermaßen.
+`runner` und `hosting` sind reine Dockerfile/Entrypoint-Images ohne eigenen
+Gradle-Anwendungscode (kein Java-Sprachversion-Eintrag oben deshalb); `runner` trägt
+lediglich Integrationstests, die den Vertrag mit `ingest` prüfen.
 
 ---
 
@@ -720,18 +759,21 @@ Credentials erscheinen nie in CR-Status, Events oder Logs.
 
 | Baustein | Vorgehen |
 |---|---|
-| `world-ingest` | Fixture-Archive je Layout (Pterodactyl-`tar.gz`, Bukkit-Split, Vanilla, ZIP mit Unterordner, defektes Archiv) gegen den Layout-Detektor. Reine Unit-Tests |
+| `ingest` | Fixture-Archive je Layout (Pterodactyl-`tar.gz`, Bukkit-Split, Vanilla, ZIP mit Unterordner, defektes Archiv) gegen den Layout-Detektor. Reine Unit-Tests, plus MinIO-gestützte Integrationstests je Connector (`s3`, `pterodactyl`, `push`, `upload`) und ein Ende-zu-Ende-Test (`PushIngestEndToEndTest`), der einen kompletten Ingest-Lauf für Push/Upload-Quellen gegen echtes MinIO fährt |
 | `telemetry-addon` | Contract-Test pro BlueMap-Version: Mini-Welt rendern, `/progress` auf plausible Werte prüfen (deckt den Log-Tail-Weg ab, siehe §7.2). **Offen:** Eine CI-Matrix über unterstützte BlueMap-Versionen als Frühwarnsystem existiert nicht — Phase 1 hat im Repository keinerlei CI-Konfiguration angelegt. Bis dahin muss der Contract-Test vor jedem BlueMap-Upgrade manuell laufen |
-| `runner-image` | Integrationstest gegen S3-Testcontainer mit kleiner Welt |
-| `operator` | JOSDK `LocallyRunOperatorExtension` gegen k3s via Testcontainers |
-| `api` | Micronaut-Tests gegen einen Fake-Kubernetes-Client, Auth-Fälle je Rolle |
+| `runner` | Integrationstest gegen S3-Testcontainer mit kleiner Welt, inkl. `IngestRenderContractTest` (Ingest → Bundle → Render Ende-zu-Ende) |
+| `operator` | JOSDK `LocallyRunOperatorExtension` gegen k3s via Testcontainers, plus `EnableKubernetesMockClient`-Tests je Reconciler |
+| `api` | Micronaut-Tests gegen einen Fake-Kubernetes-Client bzw. `EnableKubernetesMockClient`, Auth-Fälle je Rolle. **Offen:** kein Lauf gegen einen echten Identity-Broker (siehe §0/§15, Punkt 3) |
 | `ui` | Komponententests plus Accessibility-Lint |
-| `paper-worldpush` | MockBukkit für die Kopierlogik, zusätzlich ein Lauf gegen einen echten Paper-Server für das Save-Fenster |
+| `paper-worldpush` | Unit-Tests für Kopierlogik, Konfiguration und den HTTP-Report-Weg gegen einen lokalen JDK-`HttpServer`-Stub. **Offen:** kein MockBukkit-Test und kein Lauf gegen einen echten Paper-Server für das Save-Fenster (`BukkitSaveCoordinator`) — siehe §0 |
 | E2E | k3s + S3: kompletter Durchlauf Ingest → Render → Hosting mit Mini-Welt |
 
-**Hinweis zur CRD-Generierung:** Der Fabric8-CRD-Generator ist auf Maven ausgerichtet. Im
-Gradle-Monorepo wird er über den Annotation-Processor bzw. eine Gradle-Task eingebunden,
-die die `CRDGenerator`-API aufruft. Das ist beim Aufsetzen von Phase 2 zu verifizieren.
+**Hinweis zur CRD-Generierung — erledigt.** Der Fabric8-CRD-Generator ist auf Maven
+ausgerichtet und bringt keine unterstützte CLI für die genutzte Version (7.8.0). Gelöst
+über ein eigenes `crdgen`-Source-Set in `operator/build.gradle.kts` mit einem kleinen
+`CrdGeneratorMain`-Einstiegspunkt, der die programmatische `crd-generator-api-v2`/
+`CustomResourceCollector`-API aufruft; eine `generateCrds`-Task erzeugt daraus die sechs
+CRD-YAMLs. Siehe §15, Punkt 4.
 
 ---
 
@@ -742,7 +784,7 @@ MVP-Bestandteil.
 
 ### Phase 1 — Render-Kern *(MVP)*
 
-`telemetry-addon` und `runner-image`. Ergebnis: Ein `docker run` rendert eine Welt aus S3
+`telemetry-addon` und `runner`. Ergebnis: Ein `docker run` rendert eine Welt aus S3
 nach S3 und meldet Fortschritt. Vollständig ohne Kubernetes testbar.
 
 ### Phase 2 — Operator und Ingest *(MVP)*
@@ -800,21 +842,43 @@ ein höherer Wert wird nicht umgesetzt und sollte vom Operator abgelehnt werden.
 Identity-Broker, `Tenant`-Verwaltung mit Quotas, REST/SSE-API, Vue-Dashboard in zwei
 Ebenen.
 
-### Phase 6 — Push-Quellen
+### Phase 6 — Push-Quellen *(fertig)*
 
-`paper-worldpush` und UI-Upload inklusive Bucket-Notifications.
+`paper-worldpush` und UI-Upload. Tatsächlich umgesetzt statt Bucket-Notifications: ein
+direkter Completion-Callback vom Schreiber selbst (`POST /api/push/{token}` vom
+Paper-Plugin, `POST /api/uploads/{id}/complete` vom UI-Upload-Flow) statt eines
+Postfach-artigen Signals aus Ceph oder Polling des Staging-Prefix — siehe §15, Punkt 2,
+für die Begründung.
 
 ---
 
 ## 15. Offene Punkte
 
-1. **Connector-Reihenfolge im MVP.** Angenommen wird: zuerst `s3` und `pterodactyl`, weil beide ohne zusätzliche Client-Software auskommen; `upload` und `push` folgen in Phase 6. Falls das Paper-Plugin der wichtigere Weg ist, verschiebt sich die Reihenfolge — ohne Auswirkung auf die Architektur, da alle Connectoren hinter derselben Schnittstelle liegen.
-2. **Bucket-Notifications.** Ob `CephBucketTopic`/`CephBucketNotification` im Cluster nutzbar sind, ist vor Phase 6 zu prüfen. Fallback ist Polling.
-3. **Produktwahl Identity-Broker.** Zu Beginn von Phase 5, abgestimmt auf den bestehenden OIDC-Betrieb.
-4. **CRD-Generierung unter Gradle.** Vorgehen beim Aufsetzen von Phase 2 verifizieren (§13.2).
+1. ~~**Connector-Reihenfolge im MVP.**~~ **Erledigt.** Die angenommene Reihenfolge hat
+   sich bestätigt: `s3` und `pterodactyl` zuerst (Phase 2), `push` und `upload` in Phase
+   6 — das Paper-Plugin hat sich nicht als der wichtigere Weg erwiesen, eine Umsortierung
+   war nicht nötig. Alle vier Connectoren liegen hinter derselben `WorldSourceConnector`-
+   Schnittstelle (`ingest/.../connector/`); `IngestConfig`/`IngestMain` verdrahten alle
+   vier gleichermaßen.
+2. ~~**Bucket-Notifications.**~~ **Anders gelöst, nicht mehr offen.** Weder
+   `CephBucketTopic`/`CephBucketNotification` noch Prefix-Polling wird für Push-Quellen
+   verwendet: Stattdessen meldet der Schreiber selbst den Abschluss direkt an die API
+   (`POST /api/push/{token}` vom Paper-Plugin, `POST /api/uploads/{id}/complete` vom
+   UI-Upload-Flow) — die Prüfung, ob Rook-Notifications im Cluster aktiviert sind, war
+   damit für den MVP nicht nötig. Bleibt als mögliche spätere Härtung im Hinterkopf,
+   falls ein Schreiber den Callback verlieren kann (Netzwerkfehler nach dem letzten
+   Upload, bevor die Meldung rausgeht) und ein zweiter, unabhängiger Erkennungsweg
+   gewünscht wird.
+3. **Produktwahl Identity-Broker.** Weiterhin offen — siehe §0. Die API validiert JWTs
+   gegen einen konfigurierbaren Issuer, ohne dass ein konkretes Broker-Produkt
+   (Keycloak/Zitadel) ausgewählt oder gegen einen echten Broker getestet wurde.
+4. ~~**CRD-Generierung unter Gradle.**~~ **Erledigt** — siehe §13.2's "Hinweis zur
+   CRD-Generierung".
 5. **`render-mask` und Kanten.** Nur relevant, falls in Phase 4 der Maskenweg statt des eigenen Runners gewählt wird: Ob sich das Auffüllen mit Luft außerhalb der Maske abschalten lässt, ist dann zu prüfen.
 6. **Volume-Typ für große Welten.** `emptyDir` genügt bis zu einer Größe, die von der Node-Ausstattung abhängt; darüber ist ein PVC nötig. **Offen:** Diese Grenze wurde in Phase 1 entgegen der ursprünglichen Zusage **nicht** gemessen — es ist eigener Scope, keine bloße Verifikation eines bestehenden Plans. Muss vor Phase 2 nachgeholt werden, bevor der Operator einen Default für die CR festlegt.
 7. **Kein belastbares Quota-Signal aus dem Runner-Image.** `BlueMapRenderReconciler` erkennt ein Speicherlimit derzeit heuristisch aus dem Grund/der Meldung des terminierten Render-Pods (Muster wie `QuotaExceeded` oder "quota" kombiniert mit einem S3-Bezug wie `bucket`/`rgw`/`ceph`), gestützt auf `terminationMessagePolicy: FallbackToLogsOnError`, damit überhaupt eine Meldung ankommt. Das bleibt Best-Effort: das Kubelet-Vokabular für den Terminierungsgrund enthält "quota" nie, und die Meldung ist nur ein Log-Ausschnitt ohne Vertrag. Ein belastbares Signal (z. B. ein eigener Exit-Code des Runners für "Quota erschöpft") muss vor einem produktiven Einsatz nachgezogen werden, bevor mehr Verhalten (etwa automatische Benachrichtigungen) darauf aufbaut.
+8. **`paper-worldpush`'s Save-Fenster ungetestet gegen einen echten Paper-Server.** §13.2 sah ursprünglich MockBukkit für die Kopierlogik plus einen Lauf gegen einen echten Paper-Server für `BukkitSaveCoordinator`s Autosave-Pause-und-Force-Save-Schritt vor; tatsächlich existiert nur Unit-Testabdeckung für Kopierlogik, Konfiguration und den HTTP-Report-Weg (`HttpPushNotifierTest` gegen einen lokalen `HttpServer`-Stub). Ob das kurze Zeitfenster zwischen `disableAutoSave()`/`forceSave()` und dem Beginn des inkrementellen Kopierens auf einem echten, unter Last laufenden Server tatsächlich einen konsistenten Snapshot liefert, ist vor einem produktiven Einsatz zu verifizieren.
+9. **RBAC für den Push-Token-Lookup der API breiter als ideal.** `FabricPushTokenRepository#resolveNamespace` sucht (mangels Tenant-Hinweis im Request) per Label über alle Namespaces nach Service-Token-Secrets; Kubernetes-RBAC kann diesen Zugriff nicht auf das Label einschränken, sodass die schmalste *funktionierende* Berechtigung für das heutige Vorgehen trotzdem `get`/`list` auf **alle** Secrets im Cluster ist (siehe die Klassendoku für die volle Abwägung und einen skizzierten, aber nicht umgesetzten schmaleren Weg über `Tenant`-Enumeration + `get` mit festem Secret-Namen).
 
 ---
 
diff --git a/ingest/README.md b/ingest/README.md
index 8cd822e..0329bf1 100644
--- a/ingest/README.md
+++ b/ingest/README.md
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ builds Kubernetes Jobs against -- the ingest equivalent of `runner/README.md`'s
 
 | Variable | Required | Default | Meaning |
 |---|---|---|---|
-| `APUS_SOURCE_TYPE` | yes | — | `s3` or `pterodactyl`. `upload`/`push` are recognised by `WorldSource.spec.type` but have no connector yet (phase 6) -- an unsupported value fails fast rather than being guessed at |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_TYPE` | yes | — | `s3`, `pterodactyl`, `push`, or `upload` -- an unsupported value fails fast rather than being guessed at |
 | `APUS_WORLD_NAME` | yes | — | The world's folder name at the source, e.g. `world` |
 | `APUS_LAYOUT` | no | `auto` | `auto`, `vanilla`, or `bukkit`. `auto` lets `LayoutDetector` decide; any other value forces that layout and fails detection rather than falling back if the fetched data doesn't actually match it |
 | `APUS_SOURCE_VERSION` | yes | — | The exact source version id to fetch, as previously resolved by `WorldSourceReconciler`'s `discover()` poll (task 6) and recorded on the owning `WorldIngest.spec.sourceVersion`. This job never calls `discover()` itself -- see "Design notes" below |
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ builds Kubernetes Jobs against -- the ingest equivalent of `runner/README.md`'s
 | `APUS_PTERODACTYL_SERVER_ID` | yes, if pterodactyl | — | Server identifier (short id) |
 | `APUS_PTERODACTYL_API_KEY` | yes, if pterodactyl | — | Client API key (`ptlc_...`) |
 | `APUS_PTERODACTYL_WORLD_PATHS` | yes, if pterodactyl | — | Comma-separated top-level archive paths that make up the world, e.g. `world,world_nether,world_the_end` |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET` | yes, if `push` or `upload` | — | Bucket the staged object was written to -- by `paper-worldpush` (its own tenant-scoped credentials) for `push`, or by the browser completing a presigned multipart upload for `upload`. Both types share this one env var contract since only one connector runs per job -- see `AbstractStagedSourceConnector` |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT` | no | AWS default | Staging S3-compatible endpoint |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX` | no | `""` | Prefix under which the staged object lives; the object fetched is `prefix + APUS_SOURCE_VERSION` -- there is no `discover()` for these types, the version id is already known (it is the very same id that was used as the staged object's key suffix when it was written; see "Design notes") |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY` | no | credential chain | Staging access key; if unset, falls back to the AWS SDK default credentials chain |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY` | no | credential chain | Staging secret key |
+| `APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_REGION` | no | `us-east-1` | Staging region |
 
 Missing a required variable (including the source-specific ones for the chosen
 `APUS_SOURCE_TYPE`) aborts with a clear `[apus-ingest] ERROR: <VAR> is required but was not set.`
@@ -132,14 +138,21 @@ polling operation -- it belongs to `WorldSourceReconciler` (task 6), which resol
 new version" on a schedule and records the chosen id on `WorldIngest.spec.sourceVersion`. The job
 itself only ever calls `fetch()` for the one version it was told to fetch (`APUS_SOURCE_VERSION`);
 it never lists what's available. This keeps a single ingest run deterministic and keeps the
-"what's new" decision in exactly one place.
+"what's new" decision in exactly one place. Push-style sources (`push`, `upload`) go one step
+further: `discover()` *always* returns an empty list for them (`AbstractStagedSourceConnector`),
+because nothing ever polls for their versions in the first place -- the `POST /api/uploads` /
+`POST /api/push/{token}` endpoint that creates their `WorldIngest` already knows the version id,
+since it is the very same id it used as the staged object's key suffix when it wrote (or arranged
+for the client to write) the data. `APUS_SOURCE_VERSION` is that id verbatim.
 
 ## Integration tests
 
-`S3SourceConnectorTest` (`ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/`) starts
-a real MinIO container via Testcontainers and therefore needs Docker. Like `runner` and
-`operator` do for their own container-based tests, it is **not** part of `./gradlew build` or
-`check` -- it is excluded from the default `test` task and runs only via the explicit task below:
+`S3SourceConnectorTest`, `PushSourceConnectorTest`, `UploadSourceConnectorTest`
+(`ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/`) and `PushIngestEndToEndTest`
+(`ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/`) all start a real MinIO container via
+Testcontainers and therefore need Docker. Like `runner` and `operator` do for their own
+container-based tests, none of them are part of `./gradlew build` or `check` -- all four are
+excluded from the default `test` task and run only via the explicit task below:
 
 ```bash
 ./gradlew :ingest:integrationTest
@@ -150,8 +163,13 @@ Every other test in this module (`IngestConfigTest`, `IngestMainTest`, `Throttle
 `PterodactylConnectorTest`, `ArchivesTest`, `TarStreamReaderTest`) runs Docker-free as part of the
 routine `./gradlew :ingest:test`.
 
-A full source-to-bundle-to-render end-to-end test (ingest a Bukkit-layout world fixture against
-real MinIO, check the resulting manifest, then start a real render against the produced bundle
-with the `runner` image) lives in `runner`'s `:runner:integrationTest`
-(`IngestRenderContractTest`), not here -- proving the contract between this module's output and
-`runner`'s input needs both modules in the same test.
+`PushIngestEndToEndTest` is the proof that `push`/`upload` ingest works end to end, not just that
+`PushSourceConnector`/`UploadSourceConnector` behave correctly in isolation: it stages a world
+archive in a MinIO prefix (as `paper-worldpush` or a completed presigned upload would leave it),
+runs `IngestMain.run` with `APUS_SOURCE_TYPE=push` (and again with `upload`), and asserts the
+resulting bundle's manifest and region file are actually there. A separate full
+source-to-bundle-to-render end-to-end test (ingest a Bukkit-layout world fixture against real
+MinIO, check the resulting manifest, then start a real render against the produced bundle with the
+`runner` image) lives in `runner`'s `:runner:integrationTest` (`IngestRenderContractTest`), not
+here -- proving the contract between this module's output and `runner`'s input needs both modules
+in the same test.
diff --git a/ingest/build.gradle.kts b/ingest/build.gradle.kts
index c508d19..3b99525 100644
--- a/ingest/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/ingest/build.gradle.kts
@@ -43,23 +43,32 @@ tasks {
     }
 }
 
-// S3SourceConnectorTest starts a real MinIO container via Testcontainers and therefore needs
-// Docker. Exactly like runner/build.gradle.kts and operator/build.gradle.kts do for their own
-// container-based tests, that must not run as part of the routine `./gradlew build`/`check` --
-// it would make every build slow and fail outright on a machine without Docker. Excluded from
-// the default `test` task and exposed only via the explicit `integrationTest` task below. See
-// ingest/README.md for how to run it.
+// S3SourceConnectorTest, PushSourceConnectorTest, UploadSourceConnectorTest and (phase 6 task 3)
+// PushIngestEndToEndTest -- the last one drives the whole IngestMain flow rather than one
+// connector method, proving push/upload ingest end to end -- all start a real MinIO container via
+// Testcontainers and therefore need Docker. Exactly like runner/build.gradle.kts and
+// operator/build.gradle.kts do for their own container-based tests, that must not run as part of
+// the routine `./gradlew build`/`check` -- it would make every build slow and fail outright on a
+// machine without Docker. Excluded from the default `test` task and exposed only via the explicit
+// `integrationTest` task below. See ingest/README.md for how to run it.
 tasks.test {
     exclude("**/S3SourceConnectorTest.class")
+    exclude("**/PushSourceConnectorTest.class")
+    exclude("**/UploadSourceConnectorTest.class")
+    exclude("**/PushIngestEndToEndTest.class")
 }
 
 val integrationTest by tasks.registering(Test::class) {
     group = "verification"
-    description = "Runs S3SourceConnectorTest against a real MinIO container via Testcontainers. " +
+    description = "Runs the MinIO-backed connector tests (S3SourceConnectorTest, PushSourceConnectorTest, " +
+        "UploadSourceConnectorTest, PushIngestEndToEndTest) against a real MinIO container via Testcontainers. " +
         "Requires Docker. Not part of build/check."
     testClassesDirs = sourceSets.test.get().output.classesDirs
     classpath = sourceSets.test.get().runtimeClasspath
     include("**/S3SourceConnectorTest.class")
+    include("**/PushSourceConnectorTest.class")
+    include("**/UploadSourceConnectorTest.class")
+    include("**/PushIngestEndToEndTest.class")
     timeout.set(Duration.ofMinutes(5))
     outputs.upToDateWhen { false }
 }
diff --git a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfig.java b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfig.java
index 262f7b2..c212272 100644
--- a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfig.java
+++ b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfig.java
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PterodactylConnector;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.S3SourceConnector;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.UploadSourceConnector;
 
 /**
  * The ingest job's complete configuration, read from environment variables and validated eagerly.
@@ -93,9 +95,26 @@ public final class IngestConfig {
     public static final String ENV_PTERODACTYL_API_KEY = "APUS_PTERODACTYL_API_KEY";
     public static final String ENV_PTERODACTYL_WORLD_PATHS = "APUS_PTERODACTYL_WORLD_PATHS";
 
+    // -- Source-specific: push / upload (both are "staged" sources -- see
+    // AbstractStagedSourceConnector). The data is already sitting in a staging prefix in S3
+    // before this job ever starts: paper-worldpush writes it directly with its own tenant-scoped
+    // credentials (type "push"), or the UI completes a presigned multipart upload to the same
+    // kind of prefix (type "upload"). Only one of the two types runs per job (APUS_SOURCE_TYPE
+    // picks exactly one connector), so both share one env var contract rather than duplicating it
+    // per type -- whichever connector is selected reads the same "staging" values. --
+    public static final String ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT = "APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT";
+    public static final String ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET = "APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET";
+    public static final String ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX = "APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX";
+    public static final String ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY = "APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY";
+    public static final String ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY = "APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY";
+    public static final String ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_REGION = "APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_REGION";
+
     private static final String TYPE_S3 = "s3";
     private static final String TYPE_PTERODACTYL = "pterodactyl";
-    private static final Set<String> SUPPORTED_SOURCE_TYPES = Set.of(TYPE_S3, TYPE_PTERODACTYL);
+    private static final String TYPE_PUSH = "push";
+    private static final String TYPE_UPLOAD = "upload";
+    private static final Set<String> SUPPORTED_SOURCE_TYPES =
+            Set.of(TYPE_S3, TYPE_PTERODACTYL, TYPE_PUSH, TYPE_UPLOAD);
 
     private static final String AUTO_LAYOUT = "auto";
     private static final String DEFAULT_S3_REGION = "us-east-1";
@@ -175,8 +194,7 @@ public static IngestConfig fromEnv(Map<String, String> env) {
         String sourceType = requireNonBlank(env, ENV_SOURCE_TYPE);
         if (!SUPPORTED_SOURCE_TYPES.contains(sourceType)) {
             throw new ConfigurationException("Unsupported " + ENV_SOURCE_TYPE + " '" + sourceType
-                    + "': this image implements only " + SUPPORTED_SOURCE_TYPES
-                    + ". The push sources ('upload', 'push') have no connector yet -- see the phase 2b plan.");
+                    + "': this image implements only " + SUPPORTED_SOURCE_TYPES + ".");
         }
 
         String worldName = requireNonBlank(env, ENV_WORLD_NAME);
@@ -206,6 +224,7 @@ public static IngestConfig fromEnv(Map<String, String> env) {
                 switch (sourceType) {
                     case TYPE_S3 -> s3SourceConfig(env, maxArchiveTotalBytes, maxArchiveEntries);
                     case TYPE_PTERODACTYL -> pterodactylSourceConfig(env, maxArchiveTotalBytes, maxArchiveEntries);
+                    case TYPE_PUSH, TYPE_UPLOAD -> stagingSourceConfig(env, maxArchiveTotalBytes, maxArchiveEntries);
                     default -> throw new IllegalStateException("unreachable: " + sourceType);
                 };
 
@@ -254,6 +273,27 @@ private static Map<String, String> pterodactylSourceConfig(
         return config;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Builds the connector config for both push-style sources ({@code push}, {@code upload}).
+     * Both are handled by {@code AbstractStagedSourceConnector} (via {@link PushSourceConnector}
+     * or {@link UploadSourceConnector}, chosen by {@code IngestMain} from {@code sourceType}),
+     * whose config keys are identical between the two subclasses -- only one of the two runs per
+     * job, so borrowing the constants off {@code PushSourceConnector} here is equivalent to using
+     * {@code UploadSourceConnector}'s.
+     */
+    private static Map<String, String> stagingSourceConfig(
+            Map<String, String> env, long maxArchiveTotalBytes, long maxArchiveEntries) {
+        Map<String, String> config = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+        config.put(PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_BUCKET, requireNonBlank(env, ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET));
+        putIfPresent(config, PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_ENDPOINT, env.get(ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT));
+        putIfPresent(config, PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_PREFIX, env.get(ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX));
+        putIfPresent(config, PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_ACCESS_KEY_ID, env.get(ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY));
+        putIfPresent(config, PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, env.get(ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY));
+        putIfPresent(config, PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_REGION, env.get(ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_REGION));
+        putArchiveLimits(config, maxArchiveTotalBytes, maxArchiveEntries);
+        return config;
+    }
+
     private static void putArchiveLimits(Map<String, String> config, long maxArchiveTotalBytes, long maxArchiveEntries) {
         config.put(net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.Archives.CONFIG_MAX_TOTAL_BYTES,
                 Long.toString(maxArchiveTotalBytes));
diff --git a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMain.java b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMain.java
index 18cbce2..f35d303 100644
--- a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMain.java
+++ b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMain.java
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@
 import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.Map;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PterodactylConnector;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.S3SourceConnector;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.SourceVersion;
+import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.UploadSourceConnector;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.WorldSourceConnector;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
@@ -140,6 +142,8 @@ private static WorldSourceConnector selectConnector(String sourceType) {
         return switch (sourceType) {
             case "s3" -> new S3SourceConnector();
             case "pterodactyl" -> new PterodactylConnector();
+            case "push" -> new PushSourceConnector();
+            case "upload" -> new UploadSourceConnector();
             // IngestConfig.fromEnv already rejects any other value; reaching this would mean the
             // two disagree about which source types are supported.
             default -> throw new IllegalStateException("unsupported source type: " + sourceType);
diff --git a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/AbstractStagedSourceConnector.java b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/AbstractStagedSourceConnector.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..070f417
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/AbstractStagedSourceConnector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.DefaultCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.core.ResponseInputStream;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3ClientBuilder;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.GetObjectRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.GetObjectResponse;
+
+/**
+ * Shared extract logic for the two push-style sources ({@link PushSourceConnector}, {@link
+ * UploadSourceConnector}). Both stage their payload as a single object under a prefix in S3
+ * before an ingest job ever starts -- a browser upload completing a presigned multipart upload,
+ * or a Paper server writing directly with its own tenant-scoped credentials (design spec §6.1,
+ * §11.1). Neither reports versions of its own: whatever created the {@code WorldIngest} (the
+ * {@code POST /api/uploads}/{@code POST /api/push/{token}} endpoints under the {@code api}
+ * module) already knows the version id, because it is the very same id it used as the staged
+ * object's key suffix when it wrote (or arranged for the client to write) the data.
+ *
+ * <p>{@link #discover} therefore always returns an empty list, matching the {@link
+ * WorldSourceConnector#discover} contract for push sources verbatim. {@link #fetch} is otherwise
+ * identical to {@link S3SourceConnector#fetch}: the staged object at {@code prefix +
+ * version.id()} is either extracted (recognised archive extension) or copied as a single raw
+ * file -- "der Weg ist ähnlich, nur die Herkunft der Version unterscheidet sich" (phase 6 task
+ * brief). This class intentionally duplicates that small amount of S3-plumbing from {@link
+ * S3SourceConnector} rather than refactoring it to share code: {@link S3SourceConnector} already
+ * ships with its own passing test suite, and reaching into it here would risk that class for the
+ * sake of ~40 lines saved.
+ */
+abstract class AbstractStagedSourceConnector implements WorldSourceConnector {
+
+    public static final String CONFIG_ENDPOINT = "endpoint";
+    public static final String CONFIG_BUCKET = "bucket";
+    public static final String CONFIG_PREFIX = "prefix";
+    public static final String CONFIG_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "accessKeyId";
+    public static final String CONFIG_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "secretAccessKey";
+    public static final String CONFIG_REGION = "region";
+
+    private static final String DEFAULT_REGION = "us-east-1";
+
+    @Override
+    public final List<SourceVersion> discover(Map<String, String> config) {
+        return Collections.emptyList();
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public final void fetch(Map<String, String> config, SourceVersion version, Path workDir) {
+        try (S3Client client = buildClient(config)) {
+            fetch(client, config, version, workDir);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** Same as {@link #fetch(Map, SourceVersion, Path)} but against an already-built client, for testing. */
+    void fetch(S3Client client, Map<String, String> config, SourceVersion version, Path workDir) {
+        String bucket = require(config, CONFIG_BUCKET);
+        String prefix = normalisePrefix(config.get(CONFIG_PREFIX));
+        String key = prefix + version.id();
+
+        GetObjectRequest request =
+                GetObjectRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).key(key).build();
+        try (ResponseInputStream<GetObjectResponse> object = client.getObject(request)) {
+            if (Archives.isArchive(key)) {
+                Archives.extract(key, object, workDir, Archives.limitsFrom(config));
+            } else {
+                Path target = workDir.resolve(fileNameOf(key));
+                Files.copy(object, target, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+            }
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new UncheckedIOException("failed to fetch staged object " + key, e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static S3Client buildClient(Map<String, String> config) {
+        S3ClientBuilder builder = S3Client.builder()
+                .region(Region.of(config.getOrDefault(CONFIG_REGION, DEFAULT_REGION)))
+                .credentialsProvider(credentialsProvider(config));
+        String endpoint = config.get(CONFIG_ENDPOINT);
+        if (endpoint != null && !endpoint.isBlank()) {
+            // S3-compatible stores (MinIO, Rook/Ceph, R2, ...) are reached through an endpoint
+            // override and need path-style bucket addressing rather than AWS's virtual-hosted
+            // style, which only real S3 DNS resolves -- see S3SourceConnector.buildClient for
+            // the same reasoning.
+            builder = builder.endpointOverride(URI.create(endpoint)).forcePathStyle(true);
+        }
+        return builder.build();
+    }
+
+    private static AwsCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider(Map<String, String> config) {
+        String accessKeyId = config.get(CONFIG_ACCESS_KEY_ID);
+        String secretAccessKey = config.get(CONFIG_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY);
+        if (accessKeyId != null && secretAccessKey != null) {
+            return StaticCredentialsProvider.create(AwsBasicCredentials.create(accessKeyId, secretAccessKey));
+        }
+        return DefaultCredentialsProvider.builder().build();
+    }
+
+    private static String normalisePrefix(String prefix) {
+        if (prefix == null || prefix.isBlank()) {
+            return "";
+        }
+        return prefix.endsWith("/") ? prefix : prefix + "/";
+    }
+
+    private static String fileNameOf(String key) {
+        int lastSlash = key.lastIndexOf('/');
+        return lastSlash < 0 ? key : key.substring(lastSlash + 1);
+    }
+
+    private static String require(Map<String, String> config, String key) {
+        String value = config.get(key);
+        if (value == null || value.isBlank()) {
+            throw new IllegalArgumentException("missing required staging source config key: " + key);
+        }
+        return value;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/PushSourceConnector.java b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/PushSourceConnector.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfedcc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/PushSourceConnector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector;
+
+/**
+ * A push source: the Paper server plugin ({@code paper-worldpush}) writes its world data
+ * directly into a staging prefix in S3 using its own tenant-scoped credentials, then calls
+ * {@code POST /api/push/{token}} to report completion, which creates the {@code WorldIngest}
+ * this connector's {@link #fetch} eventually runs for.
+ *
+ * <p>All behaviour lives in {@link AbstractStagedSourceConnector}; this class only supplies the
+ * {@code WorldSourceSpec.type} discriminator.
+ */
+public final class PushSourceConnector extends AbstractStagedSourceConnector {
+
+    @Override
+    public String type() {
+        return "push";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/UploadSourceConnector.java b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/UploadSourceConnector.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fce2e29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/UploadSourceConnector.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector;
+
+/**
+ * A browser-driven push source: the UI completes a presigned multipart upload directly against
+ * S3 ({@code POST /api/uploads}, design spec §11.1), landing the data in the same kind of
+ * staging prefix {@link PushSourceConnector} consumes for the Paper plugin.
+ *
+ * <p>All behaviour lives in {@link AbstractStagedSourceConnector}; this class only supplies the
+ * {@code WorldSourceSpec.type} discriminator.
+ */
+public final class UploadSourceConnector extends AbstractStagedSourceConnector {
+
+    @Override
+    public String type() {
+        return "upload";
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfigTest.java b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfigTest.java
index 9e80612..e147276 100644
--- a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfigTest.java
+++ b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestConfigTest.java
@@ -94,11 +94,54 @@ void blankValuesAreTreatedAsMissing() {
     @Test
     void anUnsupportedSourceTypeIsRejectedRatherThanGuessedAt() {
         Map<String, String> env = minimalS3Env();
-        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, "upload");
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, "ftp");
 
         IngestConfig.ConfigurationException e =
                 assertThrows(IngestConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> IngestConfig.fromEnv(env));
-        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("upload"));
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("ftp"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void pushAndUploadSourceConfigMapEnvVarsToTheSharedStagingConnectorConfigKeys() {
+        for (String sourceType : new String[] {"push", "upload"}) {
+            Map<String, String> env = minimalS3Env();
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, sourceType);
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET, "staging");
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT, "http://staging-minio:9000");
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX, "acme/survival/");
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY, "staging-access");
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY, "staging-secret");
+            env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_REGION, "eu-central-1");
+
+            Map<String, String> sourceConfig = IngestConfig.fromEnv(env).sourceConfig();
+
+            assertEquals("staging", sourceConfig.get(net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_BUCKET));
+            assertEquals(
+                    "http://staging-minio:9000",
+                    sourceConfig.get(net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_ENDPOINT));
+            assertEquals(
+                    "acme/survival/",
+                    sourceConfig.get(net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_PREFIX));
+            assertEquals(
+                    "staging-access",
+                    sourceConfig.get(net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_ACCESS_KEY_ID));
+            assertEquals(
+                    "staging-secret",
+                    sourceConfig.get(
+                            net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY));
+            assertEquals("eu-central-1", sourceConfig.get(net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector.PushSourceConnector.CONFIG_REGION));
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void missingStagingBucketIsDetectedForPushSources() {
+        Map<String, String> env = minimalS3Env();
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, "push");
+        // APUS_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET intentionally left unset.
+
+        IngestConfig.ConfigurationException e =
+                assertThrows(IngestConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> IngestConfig.fromEnv(env));
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET));
     }
 
     @Test
diff --git a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMainTest.java b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMainTest.java
index 8cbb990..802a6a0 100644
--- a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMainTest.java
+++ b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/IngestMainTest.java
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ void missingRequiredVariableExitsNonZeroAndTouchesNothing(@TempDir Path tempDir)
     void unsupportedSourceTypeExitsNonZeroAndTouchesNothing(@TempDir Path tempDir) {
         Path workDir = tempDir.resolve("source");
         Map<String, String> env = new LinkedHashMap<>();
-        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, "upload");
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, "ftp");
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_WORLD_NAME, "world");
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_VERSION, "v1");
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_BUCKET, "bundles");
diff --git a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/PushIngestEndToEndTest.java b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/PushIngestEndToEndTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..66e4c2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/PushIngestEndToEndTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.MinIOContainer;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Container;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Testcontainers;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.core.sync.RequestBody;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CreateBucketRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.GetObjectRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.PutObjectRequest;
+
+/**
+ * Proves the push/upload ingest path end to end, against a real MinIO instance: world data
+ * staged in a prefix (as {@code paper-worldpush} or the UI's presigned upload would leave it),
+ * an ingest job of type {@code push}/{@code upload} run via {@link IngestMain#run}, and a valid
+ * bundle with a manifest produced from it -- the same "start MinIO via Testcontainers" pattern
+ * {@code S3SourceConnectorTest} and {@code AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest} already use in this
+ * module (see {@code connector/} package), just driving the whole job rather than one connector
+ * method.
+ *
+ * <p>Before this test existed, {@code IngestConfig} rejected both source types outright (see the
+ * removed "have no connector yet" message) -- {@code PushSourceConnector} and {@code
+ * UploadSourceConnector} existed but nothing ever reached them from a real {@code
+ * APUS_SOURCE_TYPE} value. This is the proof that the wiring (this module's {@code IngestConfig}
+ * and {@code IngestMain}) now carries a push/upload ingest all the way to a valid bundle, not
+ * just that the connector class itself behaves correctly in isolation.
+ *
+ * <p>Needs Docker; excluded from {@code :ingest:test} and run only via {@code
+ * :ingest:integrationTest} -- see {@code ingest/build.gradle.kts} and {@code ingest/README.md}.
+ */
+@Testcontainers
+class PushIngestEndToEndTest {
+
+    private static final String STAGING_BUCKET = "staging";
+    private static final String BUNDLE_BUCKET = "bundles";
+
+    // Generated fresh per test run rather than pinned to a fixed literal, so nothing checked
+    // into source ever looks like a real credential. Lengths follow MinIO's own
+    // accessKeyMinLen/secretKeyMinLen (3 / 8 characters) with generous headroom.
+    private static final String ACCESS_KEY = randomAlphanumeric(20);
+    private static final String SECRET_KEY = randomAlphanumeric(40);
+
+    @Container
+    private static final MinIOContainer MINIO =
+            new MinIOContainer(DockerImageName.parse("minio/minio:RELEASE.2024-11-07T00-52-20Z"))
+                    .withUserName(ACCESS_KEY)
+                    .withPassword(SECRET_KEY);
+
+    private static S3Client sharedClient;
+
+    /** Generates a random alphanumeric string of {@code length} characters. */
+    private static String randomAlphanumeric(int length) {
+        String alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
+        SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
+        StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder(length);
+        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+            value.append(alphabet.charAt(random.nextInt(alphabet.length())));
+        }
+        return value.toString();
+    }
+
+    @BeforeAll
+    static void createClientAndBuckets() {
+        sharedClient = S3Client.builder()
+                .endpointOverride(URI.create(MINIO.getS3URL()))
+                .region(Region.US_EAST_1)
+                .credentialsProvider(
+                        StaticCredentialsProvider.create(AwsBasicCredentials.create(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY)))
+                .forcePathStyle(true)
+                .build();
+        sharedClient.createBucket(CreateBucketRequest.builder().bucket(STAGING_BUCKET).build());
+        sharedClient.createBucket(CreateBucketRequest.builder().bucket(BUNDLE_BUCKET).build());
+    }
+
+    @AfterAll
+    static void closeClient() {
+        sharedClient.close();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs the same scenario for both push-style source types: a Paper server ({@code push}) and
+     * a browser upload ({@code upload}) stage their world data identically (design spec §6.1,
+     * §11.1) and are handled by the same {@code AbstractStagedSourceConnector} logic, so both
+     * must come out the other end of {@code IngestMain} the same way.
+     */
+    @ParameterizedTest(name = "sourceType={0}")
+    @ValueSource(strings = {"push", "upload"})
+    void stagedWorldDataProducesAValidBundleWithManifest(String sourceType, @TempDir Path workDir) throws IOException {
+        String tenant = "acme";
+        String sourceName = "survival-source-" + sourceType;
+        String worldId = "survival";
+        String bundleVersion = "v1";
+        String stagingPrefix = tenant + "/" + sourceName + "/";
+        String sourceVersionId = "2026-08-09T00-00-00Z.zip";
+
+        byte[] zip = buildZip(Map.of(
+                "world/level.dat", "level-dat-bytes",
+                "world/region/r.0.0.mca", "region-data-bytes"));
+        sharedClient.putObject(
+                PutObjectRequest.builder()
+                        .bucket(STAGING_BUCKET)
+                        .key(stagingPrefix + sourceVersionId)
+                        .build(),
+                RequestBody.fromBytes(zip));
+
+        Map<String, String> env = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_TYPE, sourceType);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_WORLD_NAME, "world");
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_VERSION, sourceVersionId);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_BUCKET, BUNDLE_BUCKET);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_TENANT, tenant);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME, sourceName);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_WORLD_ID, worldId);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_VERSION, bundleVersion);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_S3_ENDPOINT, MINIO.getS3URL());
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_S3_ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_KEY);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_S3_SECRET_KEY, SECRET_KEY);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_MC_VERSION, "1.21.10");
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ENDPOINT, MINIO.getS3URL());
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_BUCKET, STAGING_BUCKET);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_PREFIX, stagingPrefix);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_KEY);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_STAGING_SECRET_KEY, SECRET_KEY);
+
+        int exitCode = IngestMain.run(env, workDir.resolve("work"));
+
+        assertEquals(0, exitCode, "ingest of a staged " + sourceType + " source must succeed end to end");
+
+        String bundlePath = BundlePath.of(tenant, sourceName, worldId, bundleVersion);
+        String manifestJson = getObjectAsString(BUNDLE_BUCKET, bundlePath + "/manifest.json");
+        BundleManifest manifest = BundleManifest.fromJson(manifestJson);
+
+        assertEquals(tenant, manifest.tenant());
+        assertEquals(worldId, manifest.worldId());
+        assertEquals(bundleVersion, manifest.version());
+        assertEquals(sourceType, manifest.source().type());
+        assertEquals(sourceVersionId, manifest.source().ref());
+        assertEquals("vanilla", manifest.source().detectedLayout());
+        assertEquals("1.21.10", manifest.minecraftVersion());
+        assertEquals(1, manifest.dimensions().size());
+        assertTrue(manifest.sizeBytes() > 0);
+        assertNotNull(manifest.checksums().manifest());
+
+        // The region file the manifest describes must actually be present under the bundle path
+        // -- the manifest is only the commit point, not proof on its own that the data exists.
+        String regionObject = getObjectAsString(
+                BUNDLE_BUCKET, manifest.dimensions().get(0).path() + "/region/r.0.0.mca");
+        assertEquals("region-data-bytes", regionObject);
+    }
+
+    private static String getObjectAsString(String bucket, String key) throws IOException {
+        try (var object = sharedClient.getObject(
+                GetObjectRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).key(key).build())) {
+            return new String(object.readAllBytes(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static byte[] buildZip(Map<String, String> entries) throws IOException {
+        var buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        try (var zip = new ZipOutputStream(buffer)) {
+            for (var entry : entries.entrySet()) {
+                zip.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(entry.getKey()));
+                zip.write(entry.getValue().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                zip.closeEntry();
+            }
+        }
+        return buffer.toByteArray();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest.java b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..564580a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.util.Comparator;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
+import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+import org.testcontainers.containers.MinIOContainer;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Container;
+import org.testcontainers.junit.jupiter.Testcontainers;
+import org.testcontainers.utility.DockerImageName;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.core.sync.RequestBody;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.CreateBucketRequest;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.PutObjectRequest;
+
+/**
+ * Behaviour shared by {@link PushSourceConnectorTest} and {@link UploadSourceConnectorTest}: both
+ * connectors delegate everything to {@link AbstractStagedSourceConnector}, so both need to prove
+ * the same three things against a real MinIO instance -- {@code discover} is always empty (push
+ * semantics), a staged archive is extracted, and a staged plain file is copied as-is. Only the
+ * {@code type()} discriminator differs between the two connectors, which each subclass's own
+ * (much smaller) test class asserts on top of what is proven here.
+ *
+ * <p>Mirrors {@code S3SourceConnectorTest}'s own Testcontainers setup deliberately -- see that
+ * class's Javadoc for why a real MinIO instance is used instead of a hand-rolled stub.
+ */
+@Testcontainers
+abstract class AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest {
+
+    private static final String BUCKET = "worlds";
+
+    // Generated fresh per test run rather than pinned to a fixed literal, so nothing checked
+    // into source ever looks like a real credential. Lengths follow MinIO's own
+    // accessKeyMinLen/secretKeyMinLen (3 / 8 characters) with generous headroom.
+    private static final String ACCESS_KEY = randomAlphanumeric(20);
+    private static final String SECRET_KEY = randomAlphanumeric(40);
+
+    @Container
+    private static final MinIOContainer MINIO =
+            new MinIOContainer(DockerImageName.parse("minio/minio:RELEASE.2024-11-07T00-52-20Z"))
+                    .withUserName(ACCESS_KEY)
+                    .withPassword(SECRET_KEY);
+
+    private static S3Client sharedClient;
+
+    /** Generates a random alphanumeric string of {@code length} characters. */
+    private static String randomAlphanumeric(int length) {
+        String alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
+        SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();
+        StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder(length);
+        for (int i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+            value.append(alphabet.charAt(random.nextInt(alphabet.length())));
+        }
+        return value.toString();
+    }
+
+    @BeforeAll
+    static void createClientAndBucket() {
+        sharedClient = S3Client.builder()
+                .endpointOverride(URI.create(MINIO.getS3URL()))
+                .region(Region.US_EAST_1)
+                .credentialsProvider(
+                        StaticCredentialsProvider.create(AwsBasicCredentials.create(ACCESS_KEY, SECRET_KEY)))
+                .forcePathStyle(true)
+                .build();
+        sharedClient.createBucket(CreateBucketRequest.builder().bucket(BUCKET).build());
+    }
+
+    @AfterAll
+    static void closeClient() {
+        sharedClient.close();
+    }
+
+    /** The connector under test -- supplied by the concrete subclass. */
+    abstract AbstractStagedSourceConnector connector();
+
+    @Test
+    void discoverAlwaysReportsNoVersionsRegardlessOfWhatIsStaged() {
+        String prefix = "discover-test/" + getClass().getSimpleName() + "/";
+        putObject(prefix + "some-staged-object.zip", "irrelevant");
+
+        assertEquals(java.util.List.of(), connector().discover(config(prefix)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void fetchOfAZipVersionExtractsItsEntriesIntoTheWorkDirectory(@TempDir Path workDir) throws IOException {
+        String prefix = "zip-test/" + getClass().getSimpleName() + "/";
+        byte[] zip = buildZip(Map.of(
+                "level.dat", "level-data",
+                "region/r.0.0.mca", "region-data"));
+        putObject(prefix + "v1.zip", zip);
+
+        connector()
+                .fetch(
+                        sharedClient,
+                        config(prefix),
+                        new SourceVersion("v1.zip", "v1.zip", Instant.now(), zip.length),
+                        workDir);
+
+        assertEquals("level-data", Files.readString(workDir.resolve("level.dat")));
+        assertEquals("region-data", Files.readString(workDir.resolve("region/r.0.0.mca")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void fetchOfATarGzVersionExtractsItsEntriesIntoTheWorkDirectory(@TempDir Path workDir) throws IOException {
+        String prefix = "targz-test/" + getClass().getSimpleName() + "/";
+        byte[] tarGz = new TestTarBuilder()
+                .addFile("level.dat", "level-data")
+                .addFile("region/r.0.0.mca", "region-data")
+                .toGzippedTarBytes();
+        putObject(prefix + "v2.tar.gz", tarGz);
+
+        connector()
+                .fetch(
+                        sharedClient,
+                        config(prefix),
+                        new SourceVersion("v2.tar.gz", "v2.tar.gz", Instant.now(), tarGz.length),
+                        workDir);
+
+        assertEquals("level-data", Files.readString(workDir.resolve("level.dat")));
+        assertEquals("region-data", Files.readString(workDir.resolve("region/r.0.0.mca")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void fetchOfAPlainVersionWritesItAsASingleRawFile(@TempDir Path workDir) throws IOException {
+        String prefix = "raw-test/" + getClass().getSimpleName() + "/";
+        putObject(prefix + "raw-dump.bin", "not-an-archive");
+
+        connector()
+                .fetch(
+                        sharedClient,
+                        config(prefix),
+                        new SourceVersion("raw-dump.bin", "raw-dump.bin", Instant.now(), 14),
+                        workDir);
+
+        assertTrue(Files.exists(workDir.resolve("raw-dump.bin")));
+        assertEquals("not-an-archive", Files.readString(workDir.resolve("raw-dump.bin")));
+    }
+
+    private Map<String, String> config(String prefix) {
+        Map<String, String> config = new HashMap<>();
+        config.put(AbstractStagedSourceConnector.CONFIG_BUCKET, BUCKET);
+        config.put(AbstractStagedSourceConnector.CONFIG_PREFIX, prefix);
+        return config;
+    }
+
+    private void putObject(String key, String content) {
+        putObject(key, content.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    }
+
+    private void putObject(String key, byte[] content) {
+        sharedClient.putObject(
+                PutObjectRequest.builder().bucket(BUCKET).key(key).build(), RequestBody.fromBytes(content));
+    }
+
+    private static byte[] buildZip(Map<String, String> entries) throws IOException {
+        var buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        try (var zip = new ZipOutputStream(buffer)) {
+            for (var entry : entries.entrySet().stream()
+                    .sorted(Map.Entry.comparingByKey(Comparator.naturalOrder()))
+                    .toList()) {
+                zip.putNextEntry(new ZipEntry(entry.getKey()));
+                zip.write(entry.getValue().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+                zip.closeEntry();
+            }
+        }
+        return buffer.toByteArray();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/PushSourceConnectorTest.java b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/PushSourceConnectorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0493fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/PushSourceConnectorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class PushSourceConnectorTest extends AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest {
+
+    private final PushSourceConnector connector = new PushSourceConnector();
+
+    @Override
+    AbstractStagedSourceConnector connector() {
+        return connector;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void typeIsPush() {
+        assertEquals("push", connector.type());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/UploadSourceConnectorTest.java b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/UploadSourceConnectorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b1b979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ingest/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/ingest/connector/UploadSourceConnectorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.connector;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class UploadSourceConnectorTest extends AbstractStagedSourceConnectorTest {
+
+    private final UploadSourceConnector connector = new UploadSourceConnector();
+
+    @Override
+    AbstractStagedSourceConnector connector() {
+        return connector;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void typeIsUpload() {
+        assertEquals("upload", connector.type());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/api/TenantStatus.java b/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/api/TenantStatus.java
index 4ebc7a9..9949ec8 100644
--- a/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/api/TenantStatus.java
+++ b/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/api/TenantStatus.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ public class TenantStatus {
     private String namespace;
     private String objectStoreUser;
     private Long storageUsedBytes;
+    private String pushTokenSecret;
     private List<Condition> conditions = new ArrayList<>();
 
     public String getNamespace() {
@@ -53,6 +54,22 @@ public void setStorageUsedBytes(Long storageUsedBytes) {
         this.storageUsedBytes = storageUsedBytes;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The name of the {@code Secret} carrying this tenant's {@code world:push} service token, or
+     * {@code null} if none has been provisioned yet. Deliberately only the Secret's name (a
+     * fixed, non-secret constant, {@code PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME}) -- never the token value
+     * itself, which must never appear in a Custom Resource's status, in an event, or in a log
+     * line. This field says at most "a token exists, here is where"; reading its value always
+     * requires a separate, RBAC-guarded {@code Secret} read.
+     */
+    public String getPushTokenSecret() {
+        return pushTokenSecret;
+    }
+
+    public void setPushTokenSecret(String pushTokenSecret) {
+        this.pushTokenSecret = pushTokenSecret;
+    }
+
     public List<Condition> getConditions() {
         return conditions;
     }
diff --git a/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/PushTokenSecrets.java b/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/PushTokenSecrets.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c241c6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/PushTokenSecrets.java
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.tenant;
+
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
+import java.util.Base64;
+
+/**
+ * The Kubernetes {@code Secret} shape a tenant's {@code world:push} service token is stored in
+ * -- shared between the two independent places that need to agree on it: {@link
+ * TenantReconciler} (which creates the Secret) and {@code
+ * net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push.FabricPushTokenRepository} in the {@code api} module
+ * (which reads it to authenticate {@code POST /api/push/{token}}). {@code api} already depends
+ * on {@code operator} for its CRD types (see {@code api/build.gradle.kts}), so these constants
+ * live here as the one canonical definition rather than being duplicated (and risking drift, the
+ * exact failure this phase's task brief calls out between {@code paper-worldpush} and {@code
+ * api}) on both sides.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Design decision: tenant-scoped, not {@code WorldSource}-scoped.</b> The design spec
+ * (§10.3) already settles this: "Service-Tokens sind mandantengebunden" (service tokens are
+ * tenant-bound) -- deliberately not tied to any individual user login or, by extension, any one
+ * {@code WorldSource}, so that renaming/recreating a push-type source (or a tenant running
+ * several of them) never invalidates the one token {@code paper-worldpush} was configured with.
+ * One Secret per tenant namespace is therefore enough; every {@code push}-type {@code
+ * WorldSource} in that tenant shares it, exactly like {@link
+ * net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push.FabricPushTokenRepository#resolveNamespace} already
+ * assumes (it resolves a token to a *namespace*, not to one specific source).
+ *
+ * <p><b>Never logged, never in status.</b> {@link #generate()} returns the raw token exactly
+ * once, to the caller that is about to write it into {@code Secret.stringData} and nowhere else
+ * -- {@link TenantReconciler} does not log it, and {@code TenantStatus} only ever records that
+ * the Secret exists (by name; the name is a fixed, non-secret constant), never its value.
+ */
+public final class PushTokenSecrets {
+
+    /** Label key marking a Secret as a {@code world:push} service token; the only way it is found. */
+    public static final String LABEL_KEY = "apus.onelitefeather.net/service-token";
+
+    /** Label value for {@link #LABEL_KEY} -- see {@link #LABEL_KEY}. */
+    public static final String LABEL_VALUE = "world-push";
+
+    /** The key under {@code Secret.data}/{@code Secret.stringData} holding the raw token. */
+    public static final String TOKEN_KEY = "token";
+
+    /**
+     * Fixed name every tenant's push-token Secret is created/looked up under, within its own
+     * namespace ({@code bluemap-<tenant>}). Fixed (not derived per-{@code WorldSource}) because
+     * exactly one token exists per tenant -- see the class Javadoc -- and because a fixed name
+     * is what lets the narrowest working RBAC grant restrict {@code get} to {@code
+     * resourceNames: ["apus-push-token"]} instead of every Secret in the namespace; see {@code
+     * FabricPushTokenRepository}'s Javadoc for the full RBAC discussion.
+     */
+    public static final String SECRET_NAME = "apus-push-token";
+
+    /** 256 bits -- generous for a shared secret that is never brute-forced online (rate-limited by the API). */
+    private static final int TOKEN_BYTES = 32;
+
+    private static final SecureRandom RANDOM = new SecureRandom();
+
+    private PushTokenSecrets() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Generates a new cryptographically random token, URL-safe and unpadded so it can be used
+     * verbatim as a URL path segment ({@code POST /api/push/{token}}, exactly how {@code
+     * HttpPushNotifier} in {@code paper-worldpush} sends it) without any escaping.
+     */
+    public static String generate() {
+        byte[] bytes = new byte[TOKEN_BYTES];
+        RANDOM.nextBytes(bytes);
+        return Base64.getUrlEncoder().withoutPadding().encodeToString(bytes);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconciler.java b/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconciler.java
index b096eb9..fb13439 100644
--- a/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconciler.java
+++ b/operator/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconciler.java
@@ -24,12 +24,15 @@
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.OwnerReferenceBuilder;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Quantity;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ResourceQuotaBuilder;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Secret;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.SecretBuilder;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.dsl.NonDeletingOperation;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.Context;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.ControllerConfiguration;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.Reconciler;
 import io.javaoperatorsdk.operator.api.reconciler.UpdateControl;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 import net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.OperatorConfig;
@@ -61,6 +64,16 @@
  * {@code ResourceConflict} condition instead of silently adopting -- and thereby leaking the
  * contents of -- someone else's namespace or storage user.
  *
+ * <p><b>Push-token Secret:</b> a tenant also gets exactly one {@code world:push} service-token
+ * Secret ({@link PushTokenSecrets#SECRET_NAME}), created once and never regenerated on later
+ * reconciles -- unlike every other resource here, it is not safe to rebuild fresh from the
+ * tenant spec each time, because a client ({@code paper-worldpush}) is configured with its value
+ * once and keeps using it. See {@link PushTokenSecrets} for why this lives at the tenant level
+ * rather than per-{@code WorldSource}, and {@code FabricPushTokenRepository} in the {@code api}
+ * module for how it is read back. The raw token is never logged and never written to {@code
+ * Tenant.status} -- only {@link net.onelitefeather.apus.operator.api.TenantStatus#getPushTokenSecret()},
+ * the Secret's (non-secret, fixed) name, is.
+ *
  * <p><b>Rook not (yet) installed:</b> {@link #reconcile} checks {@link
  * io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.Client#supports(Class)} for {@link CephObjectStoreUser} before
  * touching it. If Rook's {@code CephObjectStoreUser} CRD is not registered on the cluster, the
@@ -120,6 +133,15 @@ public UpdateControl<Tenant> reconcile(Tenant tenant, Context<Tenant> context) {
             return conflict(tenant, "Namespace", namespace);
         }
 
+        Secret existingPushToken = client.secrets()
+                .inNamespace(namespace)
+                .withName(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME)
+                .get();
+        if (existingPushToken != null
+                && !ownedBySameTenant(existingPushToken.getMetadata().getLabels(), tenantName, tenantUid)) {
+            return conflict(tenant, "Secret", PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME);
+        }
+
         // Rook may not be installed yet (e.g. a fresh cluster, or a plain k3s test cluster with
         // no storage operator at all). supports() asks the API server's discovery document
         // whether the CRD is registered, rather than probing with a get()/create() call and
@@ -151,6 +173,29 @@ public UpdateControl<Tenant> reconcile(Tenant tenant, Context<Tenant> context) {
                         .build())
                 .createOr(NonDeletingOperation::update);
 
+        // The push-token Secret is created exactly once and never touched again on subsequent
+        // reconciles (no createOr(update) here, deliberately -- see the class Javadoc): every
+        // other resource above is rebuilt fresh from the tenant spec each time, which is fine
+        // because none of it is a secret a client already holds. A push token is different --
+        // paper-worldpush is configured with the value once and keeps using it; regenerating it
+        // on every resync (as createOr(update) would, since a freshly-built object here would
+        // carry brand-new random stringData) would silently break every server already pushing.
+        if (existingPushToken == null) {
+            client.secrets()
+                    .inNamespace(namespace)
+                    .resource(new SecretBuilder()
+                            .withNewMetadata()
+                            .withName(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME)
+                            .withNamespace(namespace)
+                            .withLabels(pushTokenLabels(tenantName, tenantUid))
+                            .withOwnerReferences(ownerReference)
+                            .endMetadata()
+                            .withStringData(Map.of(PushTokenSecrets.TOKEN_KEY, PushTokenSecrets.generate()))
+                            .build())
+                    .create();
+        }
+        tenant.getStatus().setPushTokenSecret(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME);
+
         client.resourceQuotas()
                 .inNamespace(namespace)
                 .resource(new ResourceQuotaBuilder()
@@ -261,6 +306,19 @@ private static Map<String, String> tenantLabels(String tenantName, String tenant
         return labels;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The push-token Secret's labels: the standard tenant-ownership labels every resource here
+     * carries (so the same {@link #ownedBySameTenant} check applies to it), plus {@link
+     * PushTokenSecrets#LABEL_KEY}/{@link PushTokenSecrets#LABEL_VALUE} -- the label {@code
+     * FabricPushTokenRepository} in the {@code api} module actually queries by, since a raw push
+     * token carries no namespace of its own to look the Secret up by name directly.
+     */
+    private static Map<String, String> pushTokenLabels(String tenantName, String tenantUid) {
+        Map<String, String> labels = new HashMap<>(tenantLabels(tenantName, tenantUid));
+        labels.put(PushTokenSecrets.LABEL_KEY, PushTokenSecrets.LABEL_VALUE);
+        return labels;
+    }
+
     /** Tenant is cluster-scoped, so a namespace (also cluster-scoped) can safely be owned by it. */
     private static OwnerReference tenantOwnerReference(Tenant tenant) {
         return new OwnerReferenceBuilder()
diff --git a/operator/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconcilerTest.java b/operator/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconcilerTest.java
index 95c496e..c8730cb 100644
--- a/operator/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconcilerTest.java
+++ b/operator/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/operator/tenant/TenantReconcilerTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.NamespaceBuilder;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectMetaBuilder;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ResourceQuota;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Secret;
+import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.SecretBuilder;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.KubernetesClient;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.server.mock.EnableKubernetesMockClient;
 import io.fabric8.kubernetes.client.server.mock.KubernetesMockServer;
@@ -58,6 +60,20 @@ private Tenant tenant(String name, String quota) {
         return tenant;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The fabric8 CRUD mock server does not simulate the real API server's {@code stringData} ->
+     * base64 {@code data} merge on write, so a Secret created via {@code withStringData(...)}
+     * (as {@code TenantReconciler} does) is read back with the value still under {@code
+     * stringData}, not {@code data}, here -- unlike a real cluster. Reading either map keeps
+     * these tests meaningful under both.
+     */
+    private static String tokenValue(Secret secret) {
+        if (secret.getStringData() != null && secret.getStringData().get(PushTokenSecrets.TOKEN_KEY) != null) {
+            return secret.getStringData().get(PushTokenSecrets.TOKEN_KEY);
+        }
+        return secret.getData() == null ? null : secret.getData().get(PushTokenSecrets.TOKEN_KEY);
+    }
+
     private String readyReason(Tenant tenant) {
         return tenant.getStatus().getConditions().stream()
                 .filter(condition -> Conditions.READY.equals(condition.getType()))
@@ -322,4 +338,94 @@ void setsAnOwnerReferenceOnTheNamespacePointingAtTheTenant() {
                         .anyMatch(ref -> "Tenant".equals(ref.getKind())),
                 "namespace must be owned by its Tenant so it is garbage-collected on deletion");
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void createsAPushTokenSecretForANewTenant() {
+        TenantReconciler reconciler = new TenantReconciler(client, OperatorConfig.defaults());
+
+        reconciler.reconcile(tenant("friends", "500Gi"), null);
+
+        Secret secret = client.secrets()
+                .inNamespace("bluemap-friends")
+                .withName(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME)
+                .get();
+        assertNotNull(secret, "push-token secret must be created");
+        assertEquals(
+                PushTokenSecrets.LABEL_VALUE,
+                secret.getMetadata().getLabels().get(PushTokenSecrets.LABEL_KEY),
+                "must carry the label FabricPushTokenRepository queries by");
+        assertNotNull(tokenValue(secret), "token data must be present");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void reportsThePushTokenSecretNameInStatus() {
+        TenantReconciler reconciler = new TenantReconciler(client, OperatorConfig.defaults());
+        Tenant tenant = tenant("friends", "500Gi");
+
+        reconciler.reconcile(tenant, null);
+
+        assertEquals(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME, tenant.getStatus().getPushTokenSecret());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void neverRegeneratesAnExistingPushTokenOnLaterReconciles() {
+        TenantReconciler reconciler = new TenantReconciler(client, OperatorConfig.defaults());
+        Tenant tenant = tenant("friends", "500Gi");
+
+        reconciler.reconcile(tenant, null);
+        String firstToken = tokenValue(client.secrets()
+                .inNamespace("bluemap-friends")
+                .withName(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME)
+                .get());
+        assertNotNull(firstToken, "token data must be present after the first reconcile");
+
+        // A second reconcile (the operator's regular resync, or any spec change) must not
+        // invalidate a token paper-worldpush may already be configured with.
+        reconciler.reconcile(tenant, null);
+        String secondToken = tokenValue(client.secrets()
+                .inNamespace("bluemap-friends")
+                .withName(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME)
+                .get());
+
+        assertEquals(firstToken, secondToken, "an already-provisioned push token must never be regenerated");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void refusesToAdoptAPushTokenSecretOwnedByAnotherTenant() {
+        // The namespace itself must already be correctly owned by this exact tenant (same UID),
+        // so the earlier namespace-ownership check does not fire first -- this test is only
+        // about the push-token secret's own, independent ownership check.
+        Tenant tenant = tenant("friends", "500Gi");
+        client.namespaces()
+                .resource(new NamespaceBuilder()
+                        .withNewMetadata()
+                        .withName("bluemap-friends")
+                        .withLabels(Map.of(
+                                Labels.TENANT,
+                                tenant.getMetadata().getName(),
+                                Labels.TENANT_UID,
+                                tenant.getMetadata().getUid()))
+                        .endMetadata()
+                        .build())
+                .create();
+        client.secrets()
+                .inNamespace("bluemap-friends")
+                .resource(new SecretBuilder()
+                        .withNewMetadata()
+                        .withName(PushTokenSecrets.SECRET_NAME)
+                        .withNamespace("bluemap-friends")
+                        .withLabels(Map.of(
+                                Labels.TENANT, "friends",
+                                Labels.TENANT_UID, UUID.randomUUID().toString()))
+                        .endMetadata()
+                        .withStringData(Map.of(PushTokenSecrets.TOKEN_KEY, "someone-elses-token"))
+                        .build())
+                .create();
+        TenantReconciler reconciler = new TenantReconciler(client, OperatorConfig.defaults());
+
+        UpdateControl<Tenant> control = reconciler.reconcile(tenant, null);
+
+        assertTrue(control.isPatchStatus());
+        assertEquals(TenantReconciler.RESOURCE_CONFLICT_REASON, readyReason(tenant));
+    }
 }
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/build.gradle.kts b/paper-worldpush/build.gradle.kts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc072b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/build.gradle.kts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+plugins {
+    alias(libs.plugins.shadow)
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    // Paper API only, never paper-server/paper-mojangapi -- a plugin compiles against the API
+    // surface and runs inside whatever Paper build the operator actually deployed. See
+    // settings.gradle.kts for why this version is pinned independently of the rest of the catalog.
+    compileOnly(libs.paper.api)
+
+    // AWS SDK v2 S3 client -- the same family already used by :ingest, so the project has exactly
+    // one S3 client/credential-provider chain instead of two. See settings.gradle.kts's comment
+    // on the `aws-sdk` version for the full rationale (also applies here unchanged).
+    //
+    // netty-nio-client excluded: it is the s3 artifact's *async*-client transport, pulled in as a
+    // direct dependency regardless of whether it is used. S3WorldUploader only ever makes
+    // blocking calls through the synchronous S3Client (apache5-client), so netty-nio-client's
+    // entire Netty dependency tree is dead weight here -- and, unlike in :ingest (a standalone
+    // process), shading an unrelated Netty version into a jar that loads inside a Paper server's
+    // own JVM (which already bundles Netty for its own networking) is a real classpath-collision
+    // risk worth avoiding outright rather than merely relocating.
+    implementation(platform(libs.aws.sdk.bom))
+    implementation(libs.aws.sdk.s3) {
+        exclude(group = "software.amazon.awssdk", module = "netty-nio-client")
+        // slf4j-api excluded too, for the same reason: Paper already puts exactly one
+        // org.slf4j:slf4j-api on the server's runtime classpath (JavaPlugin#getSLF4JLogger()
+        // depends on it existing there), so shading a second, independently-versioned copy in
+        // alongside it is a classpath hazard rather than a safety net. compileOnly(libs.paper.api)
+        // already supplies the same API surface for compilation.
+        exclude(group = "org.slf4j", module = "slf4j-api")
+    }
+
+    testImplementation(platform(libs.junit.bom))
+    testImplementation(libs.junit.jupiter)
+    testRuntimeOnly(libs.junit.platform.launcher)
+}
+
+tasks {
+    // paper-plugin.yml's `version: '${version}'` is a Gradle resource-filtering placeholder
+    // (Paper's own recommended pattern, see https://docs.papermc.io/paper/dev/project-setup/),
+    // not YAML/Paper syntax -- it must be expanded here or every plugin build reports the
+    // literal string "${version}" as its version.
+    processResources {
+        val props = mapOf("version" to project.version)
+        inputs.properties(props)
+        filesMatching("paper-plugin.yml") {
+            expand(props)
+        }
+    }
+    shadowJar {
+        archiveClassifier.set("")
+        archiveBaseName.set("apus-paper-worldpush")
+        // Fixed name instead of the default "apus-paper-worldpush-<version>.jar" -- same
+        // rationale as telemetry-addon/build.gradle.kts and ingest/build.gradle.kts: whatever
+        // deploys this jar onto a Paper server (currently: a human, dropping it into `plugins/`)
+        // needs a stable file name to reference, not one that changes on every release-please bump.
+        archiveFileName.set("apus-paper-worldpush.jar")
+        // The AWS SDK is the only runtime dependency this plugin ships; Paper itself is
+        // compileOnly and provided by the server at runtime. Relocated to avoid clashing with
+        // any other plugin on the same server that also shades an AWS SDK, however unlikely.
+        relocate("software.amazon.awssdk", "net.onelitefeather.apus.paper.libs.awssdk")
+        relocate("org.reactivestreams", "net.onelitefeather.apus.paper.libs.reactivestreams")
+        relocate("org.apache.hc", "net.onelitefeather.apus.paper.libs.httpclient")
+    }
+    build {
+        dependsOn(shadowJar)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/BukkitConfigSource.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/BukkitConfigSource.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd3d318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/BukkitConfigSource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import org.bukkit.configuration.file.FileConfiguration;
+
+/** Adapts Bukkit's {@link FileConfiguration} (backing {@code config.yml}) to {@link ConfigSource}. */
+public final class BukkitConfigSource implements ConfigSource {
+
+    private final FileConfiguration delegate;
+
+    public BukkitConfigSource(FileConfiguration delegate) {
+        this.delegate = delegate;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getString(String path) {
+        return delegate.getString(path);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long getLong(String path, long defaultValue) {
+        return delegate.getLong(path, defaultValue);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/BukkitSaveCoordinator.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/BukkitSaveCoordinator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a784d81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/BukkitSaveCoordinator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
+import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import org.bukkit.World;
+import org.bukkit.plugin.Plugin;
+
+/**
+ * {@link SaveCoordinator} backed by the real Bukkit/Paper world. Bridges from the calling thread
+ * (expected to be an async worker, never the main thread -- see below) onto Paper's {@code
+ * GlobalRegionScheduler} for each step, and blocks until that main-thread step has actually run,
+ * so callers can treat this as an ordinary synchronous dependency.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Must never be called from the main thread.</b> Every method here submits work to the
+ * global region and then blocks waiting for it; calling this from the main thread would deadlock
+ * (the thread would be waiting for itself to become free). {@link WorldPushPlugin} only ever
+ * invokes {@link PushCycleRunner} from Paper's {@code AsyncScheduler}, never from a Bukkit
+ * event handler or a task scheduled on the main/region scheduler.
+ *
+ * <p>The world is resolved fresh on every call via {@code worldSupplier} rather than cached once,
+ * since a world can in principle be unloaded and reloaded while the plugin is running; if it is
+ * not currently loaded, each step is a silent no-op rather than an error -- there is nothing
+ * meaningful to save.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Untested.</b> This class has no automated test coverage: exercising it needs a running
+ * Paper server (to observe a real world actually pause/resume autosave and be forced to disk),
+ * which is out of reach for this module's test suite -- see the phase 6 task report.
+ */
+public final class BukkitSaveCoordinator implements SaveCoordinator {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(BukkitSaveCoordinator.class.getName());
+    private static final long MAIN_THREAD_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 30;
+
+    private final Plugin plugin;
+    private final Supplier<World> worldSupplier;
+
+    public BukkitSaveCoordinator(Plugin plugin, Supplier<World> worldSupplier) {
+        this.plugin = plugin;
+        this.worldSupplier = worldSupplier;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void disableAutoSave() {
+        runOnMainThreadAndAwait(world -> world.setAutoSave(false));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void forceSave() {
+        runOnMainThreadAndAwait(World::save);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void enableAutoSave() {
+        runOnMainThreadAndAwait(world -> world.setAutoSave(true));
+    }
+
+    private void runOnMainThreadAndAwait(Consumer<World> action) {
+        CompletableFuture<Void> future = new CompletableFuture<>();
+        plugin.getServer().getGlobalRegionScheduler().run(plugin, task -> {
+            try {
+                World world = worldSupplier.get();
+                if (world == null) {
+                    LOGGER.warning("World is not currently loaded; skipping this save step.");
+                } else {
+                    action.accept(world);
+                }
+                future.complete(null);
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                future.completeExceptionally(t);
+            }
+        });
+
+        try {
+            future.get(MAIN_THREAD_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Interrupted while waiting for a main-thread world save step.", e);
+        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Main-thread world save step failed.", e.getCause());
+        } catch (TimeoutException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Main-thread world save step did not complete within "
+                    + MAIN_THREAD_TIMEOUT_SECONDS + "s.", e);
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Main-thread world save step timed out.", e);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/ConfigSource.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/ConfigSource.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cbea87c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/ConfigSource.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+/**
+ * The handful of config-file reads {@link WorldPushConfig} needs, kept deliberately narrow so
+ * tests can supply a plain in-memory implementation instead of a Bukkit {@code
+ * FileConfiguration} -- the same "depend on the smallest possible interface" pattern {@code
+ * ingest.S3Client} already uses for the same reason.
+ *
+ * <p>Paths are dotted, mirroring {@code config.yml}'s nesting (e.g. {@code "s3.access-key"}).
+ */
+public interface ConfigSource {
+
+    /** Returns the string at {@code path}, or {@code null} if absent or not a string. */
+    String getString(String path);
+
+    /** Returns the long at {@code path}, or {@code defaultValue} if absent or not a number. */
+    long getLong(String path, long defaultValue);
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyResult.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyResult.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45e2ff3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyResult.java
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * The outcome of one {@link IncrementalWorldCopier#copyChanged} call.
+ *
+ * @param copiedRelativePaths the region files actually (re-)copied into staging this run, in the
+ *     same relative-path form used as their eventual S3 key suffix
+ * @param copiedBytes total size of {@link #copiedRelativePaths}
+ * @param unchangedCount how many region files were considered but found unchanged
+ */
+public record CopyResult(List<String> copiedRelativePaths, long copiedBytes, int unchangedCount) {
+
+    public boolean isEmpty() {
+        return copiedRelativePaths.isEmpty();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyState.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyState.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d6dd44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyState.java
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+/**
+ * The persisted record of every region file {@link IncrementalWorldCopier} has seen, keyed by its
+ * relative path (e.g. {@code "world/region/r.0.0.mca"}). This is what makes a push cycle
+ * incremental across separate runs -- without it, every region file would look "new" every time.
+ *
+ * <p>Stored as a flat {@code key=size:mtime:checksum} properties file rather than a structured
+ * format: it is written and read only by this class, never by a human or another tool, so there
+ * is nothing a richer format would buy here that a one-line-per-entry format doesn't already
+ * give for free (human-readable, trivially diffable, zero extra dependency).
+ *
+ * <p><b>Crash safety.</b> {@link #save(Path)} writes to a sibling temporary file and atomically
+ * renames it onto the target -- readers of the state file (the next push cycle) therefore only
+ * ever see either the previous complete state or the new complete state, never a half-written
+ * one. A crash before {@link #save(Path)} is called simply means the next cycle re-checksums
+ * (and, if actually changed, re-copies) a few files it did not strictly need to -- redundant
+ * work, never data loss or a corrupt state file. See {@link IncrementalWorldCopier} for the
+ * matching guarantee on the copy side.
+ */
+public final class CopyState {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(CopyState.class.getName());
+
+    private final Map<String, RegionFileState> entries;
+
+    private CopyState(Map<String, RegionFileState> entries) {
+        this.entries = entries;
+    }
+
+    /** An empty state, as used before the very first push cycle. */
+    public static CopyState empty() {
+        return new CopyState(new HashMap<>());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Loads state from {@code stateFile}. Returns an empty state (never throws) if the file does
+     * not exist yet, or if it exists but cannot be parsed -- a corrupt state file must never
+     * block push cycles from running; worst case it costs one fully non-incremental cycle.
+     */
+    public static CopyState load(Path stateFile) {
+        if (!Files.isRegularFile(stateFile)) {
+            return empty();
+        }
+        Properties properties = new Properties();
+        try (InputStream in = Files.newInputStream(stateFile)) {
+            properties.load(in);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, "Could not read push state file " + stateFile + ", starting with empty state.", e);
+            return empty();
+        }
+        Map<String, RegionFileState> entries = new HashMap<>();
+        for (String key : properties.stringPropertyNames()) {
+            RegionFileState state = RegionFileState.decode(properties.getProperty(key));
+            if (state != null) {
+                entries.put(key, state);
+            }
+        }
+        return new CopyState(entries);
+    }
+
+    /** The recorded state for {@code relativePath}, or {@code null} if this file has never been seen. */
+    public RegionFileState get(String relativePath) {
+        return entries.get(relativePath);
+    }
+
+    /** Records (or replaces) the state for {@code relativePath}. */
+    public void put(String relativePath, RegionFileState state) {
+        entries.put(relativePath, state);
+    }
+
+    /** The number of region files currently tracked. */
+    public int size() {
+        return entries.size();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Persists this state to {@code stateFile}, atomically. See the class Javadoc for the crash
+     * safety this provides.
+     */
+    public void save(Path stateFile) throws IOException {
+        Path parent = stateFile.toAbsolutePath().getParent();
+        if (parent != null) {
+            Files.createDirectories(parent);
+        }
+        Properties properties = new Properties();
+        for (Map.Entry<String, RegionFileState> entry : entries.entrySet()) {
+            properties.setProperty(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue().encode());
+        }
+
+        Path tmp = Files.createTempFile(parent, stateFile.getFileName().toString(), ".tmp");
+        try {
+            try (OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(tmp)) {
+                properties.store(out, "Apus world push -- region file copy state. Do not edit by hand.");
+            }
+            Files.move(tmp, stateFile, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING, StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE);
+        } finally {
+            Files.deleteIfExists(tmp);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionLayout.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionLayout.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..063e0c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionLayout.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Locates the region-file directories for a world in the on-disk layout a Paper/Bukkit server
+ * actually uses: the primary world folder plus its {@code _nether}/{@code _the_end} siblings,
+ * each holding a {@code region} (or {@code DIM-1/region}, {@code DIM1/region}) folder.
+ *
+ * <p>This is deliberately the same {@code bukkit} layout {@code world-ingest}'s layout detector
+ * recognises server-side (design spec §6.2) -- picked so the staged copy needs no translation,
+ * not because this plugin re-implements that detector. A world that never generated the nether
+ * or the end simply has no matching directory; such dimensions are silently omitted rather than
+ * treated as an error.
+ */
+public final class DimensionLayout {
+
+    private DimensionLayout() {}
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the region directories that currently exist on disk for {@code worldName}, rooted
+     * at {@code serverRoot} (the directory Bukkit world folders live in -- typically the server's
+     * working directory).
+     */
+    public static List<DimensionRegionDir> forWorld(Path serverRoot, String worldName) {
+        List<DimensionRegionDir> candidates = List.of(
+                new DimensionRegionDir(worldName + "/region", serverRoot.resolve(worldName).resolve("region")),
+                new DimensionRegionDir(
+                        worldName + "_nether/DIM-1/region",
+                        serverRoot.resolve(worldName + "_nether").resolve("DIM-1").resolve("region")),
+                new DimensionRegionDir(
+                        worldName + "_the_end/DIM1/region",
+                        serverRoot.resolve(worldName + "_the_end").resolve("DIM1").resolve("region")));
+
+        List<DimensionRegionDir> existing = new ArrayList<>();
+        for (DimensionRegionDir candidate : candidates) {
+            if (Files.isDirectory(candidate.sourceDir())) {
+                existing.add(candidate);
+            }
+        }
+        return existing;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionRegionDir.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionRegionDir.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87f63f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionRegionDir.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+/**
+ * One dimension's region-file directory, on disk and as it will appear as a relative key both in
+ * the local staging directory and under the S3 staging prefix.
+ *
+ * @param relativePrefix the path from the world's parent directory to this dimension's {@code
+ *     region} folder, using {@code /} separators regardless of platform (e.g. {@code
+ *     "world_nether/DIM-1/region"}) -- this is intentionally identical to the on-disk Bukkit
+ *     layout {@code world-ingest}'s layout detector already recognises (see the design spec,
+ *     §6.2), so nothing needs translating on either end of the staging prefix
+ * @param sourceDir the actual directory on this server's disk to read {@code *.mca} files from
+ */
+public record DimensionRegionDir(String relativePrefix, Path sourceDir) {}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/HttpPushNotifier.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/HttpPushNotifier.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ce2aeb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/HttpPushNotifier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.http.HttpClient;
+import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
+import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
+import java.time.Duration;
+
+/**
+ * Real {@link PushNotifier}, calling {@code POST {api-base-url}/api/push/{push-token}} (design
+ * spec §11.1) with the JDK's built-in {@link HttpClient} -- no need for a heavier HTTP dependency
+ * for one small POST call.
+ *
+ * <p>The push token is part of the request path, as the API contract in the design spec defines
+ * it. That means it is unavoidably present in the {@link URI} object built here -- but that URI
+ * is never logged, printed, or included in an exception message; only the host and a fixed,
+ * token-free label are. A future revision of the API that moves the token into an {@code
+ * Authorization} header instead would only need to change {@link #buildRequest}.
+ */
+public final class HttpPushNotifier implements PushNotifier {
+
+    private static final Duration REQUEST_TIMEOUT = Duration.ofSeconds(30);
+
+    private final HttpClient httpClient;
+    private final URI apiBaseUrl;
+    private final String pushToken;
+
+    public HttpPushNotifier(URI apiBaseUrl, String pushToken) {
+        this.httpClient = HttpClient.newBuilder().connectTimeout(REQUEST_TIMEOUT).build();
+        this.apiBaseUrl = apiBaseUrl;
+        this.pushToken = pushToken;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void notifyPushComplete(PushSummary summary) {
+        HttpRequest request = buildRequest(summary);
+        HttpResponse<String> response;
+        try {
+            response = httpClient.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new PushNotificationException(
+                    "Could not reach the Apus API at " + apiBaseUrl.getHost() + " to report a completed push.", e);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+            throw new PushNotificationException("Interrupted while reporting a completed push.", e);
+        }
+
+        if (response.statusCode() / 100 != 2) {
+            // Deliberately no response body in the message: it echoes request content back and
+            // this method has no way to know the API never includes the token in it.
+            throw new PushNotificationException("Apus API at " + apiBaseUrl.getHost()
+                    + " rejected the push completion report with HTTP " + response.statusCode() + ".");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private HttpRequest buildRequest(PushSummary summary) {
+        URI target = apiBaseUrl.resolve("/api/push/" + pushToken);
+        // Exactly the two fields PushReportRequest (module api, package
+        // net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push) deserializes -- see PushSummary's Javadoc for
+        // why the rest of the summary never goes on the wire.
+        String body = "{\"sourceName\":\"" + jsonEscape(summary.sourceName()) + "\",\"version\":\""
+                + jsonEscape(summary.version()) + "\"}";
+        return HttpRequest.newBuilder(target)
+                .timeout(REQUEST_TIMEOUT)
+                .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+                .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(body))
+                .build();
+    }
+
+    private static String jsonEscape(String value) {
+        return value.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace("\"", "\\\"");
+    }
+
+    /** Thrown when the completion report could not be delivered or was rejected by the API. */
+    public static final class PushNotificationException extends RuntimeException {
+
+        PushNotificationException(String message) {
+            super(message);
+        }
+
+        PushNotificationException(String message, Throwable cause) {
+            super(message, cause);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/IncrementalWorldCopier.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/IncrementalWorldCopier.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6018620
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/IncrementalWorldCopier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.file.DirectoryStream;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.StandardCopyOption;
+import java.security.DigestInputStream;
+import java.security.MessageDigest;
+import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HexFormat;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * Copies the region files of a running world into a local staging directory, touching only files
+ * that actually changed since the last run.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Why incremental at all.</b> Copying an entire world's region files on every push cycle is
+ * the safe default but does not scale: for a large world it can take long enough that keeping the
+ * server's autosave paused for the whole copy (see {@link SaveCoordinator}) would make the server
+ * noticeably stutter. Restricting the copy to changed files keeps the disruptive part -- the
+ * brief autosave pause plus one forced save -- short regardless of world size; only the copy
+ * itself scales with how much actually changed, and that step runs off the main thread anyway.
+ *
+ * <p><b>What "changed" means.</b> Two signals, used together, exactly as the design brief
+ * specifies ("nur Region-Dateien mit geänderter Änderungszeit oder Prüfsumme"):
+ *
+ * <ol>
+ *   <li>{@code size}/{@code mtime} is the cheap first check (a single {@code stat}, no file
+ *       content is read). If both match the last recorded {@link RegionFileState}, the file is
+ *       skipped outright -- this is what keeps a cycle over an untouched world near-instant.
+ *   <li>If either differs, the file's SHA-256 checksum is computed and compared against the last
+ *       recorded one. Only a genuine checksum mismatch causes an actual copy; a file whose mtime
+ *       moved but whose bytes did not (a `touch`, a filesystem quirk, a region file rewritten with
+ *       identical content) updates its recorded {@code size}/{@code mtime} for next time without
+ *       being re-uploaded.
+ * </ol>
+ *
+ * <p><b>Crash safety.</b> Each file is copied to a temporary file in the same destination
+ * directory (guaranteeing the same filesystem) and then moved onto its final name with {@link
+ * StandardCopyOption#ATOMIC_MOVE}. A reader of the staging directory therefore only ever sees a
+ * region file as either fully absent or fully present at its final size -- never truncated or
+ * half-written. If the copy of one file fails, its temporary file is deleted and the exception
+ * propagates; files already moved into place before the failure stay in place (there is no
+ * transactional rollback across the whole batch -- and none is needed, since each file's own
+ * atomicity is what matters: a caller that retries the whole cycle later will simply find those
+ * files unchanged next time via the check above). {@link #copyChanged} does not persist {@code
+ * state} itself -- see {@link CopyState}'s own Javadoc for why leaving that to the caller, once
+ * per successful cycle, is what makes the persisted state crash-safe too.
+ */
+public final class IncrementalWorldCopier {
+
+    private static final String DIGEST_ALGORITHM = "SHA-256";
+    private static final String REGION_FILE_SUFFIX = ".mca";
+
+    /**
+     * Copies every changed {@code *.mca} file from {@code regionDirs} into {@code stagingRoot},
+     * updating {@code state} in place for every file examined (changed or not). Does not persist
+     * {@code state}; the caller does that once the whole cycle -- across all dimensions -- has
+     * completed successfully.
+     *
+     * @throws IOException if listing a region directory or copying a file fails; already-copied
+     *     files from earlier in this call remain in {@code stagingRoot} (see the class Javadoc)
+     */
+    public CopyResult copyChanged(List<DimensionRegionDir> regionDirs, Path stagingRoot, CopyState state)
+            throws IOException {
+        List<String> copied = new ArrayList<>();
+        long copiedBytes = 0;
+        int unchanged = 0;
+
+        for (DimensionRegionDir dimension : regionDirs) {
+            for (Path sourceFile : listRegionFiles(dimension.sourceDir())) {
+                String relativePath = dimension.relativePrefix() + "/" + sourceFile.getFileName();
+                long size = Files.size(sourceFile);
+                long lastModifiedMillis = Files.getLastModifiedTime(sourceFile).toMillis();
+
+                RegionFileState prior = state.get(relativePath);
+                if (prior != null && prior.size() == size && prior.lastModifiedMillis() == lastModifiedMillis) {
+                    unchanged++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                String checksum = sha256(sourceFile);
+                if (prior != null && prior.checksum().equals(checksum)) {
+                    // Same content, only the timestamp moved -- refresh the cheap-check fields
+                    // so the next cycle takes the fast path again, but do not copy or upload.
+                    state.put(relativePath, new RegionFileState(size, lastModifiedMillis, checksum));
+                    unchanged++;
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                copyAtomically(sourceFile, stagingRoot.resolve(relativePath));
+                state.put(relativePath, new RegionFileState(size, lastModifiedMillis, checksum));
+                copied.add(relativePath);
+                copiedBytes += size;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return new CopyResult(List.copyOf(copied), copiedBytes, unchanged);
+    }
+
+    private static List<Path> listRegionFiles(Path regionDir) throws IOException {
+        List<Path> files = new ArrayList<>();
+        try (DirectoryStream<Path> stream =
+                Files.newDirectoryStream(regionDir, entry -> Files.isRegularFile(entry)
+                        && entry.getFileName().toString().endsWith(REGION_FILE_SUFFIX))) {
+            for (Path entry : stream) {
+                files.add(entry);
+            }
+        }
+        files.sort(Path::compareTo);
+        return files;
+    }
+
+    private static void copyAtomically(Path sourceFile, Path destination) throws IOException {
+        Path destinationDir = destination.toAbsolutePath().getParent();
+        Files.createDirectories(destinationDir);
+        Path tmp = Files.createTempFile(destinationDir, destination.getFileName().toString(), ".tmp");
+        try {
+            Files.copy(sourceFile, tmp, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+            Files.move(tmp, destination, StandardCopyOption.ATOMIC_MOVE, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
+        } finally {
+            Files.deleteIfExists(tmp);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static String sha256(Path file) throws IOException {
+        MessageDigest digest;
+        try {
+            digest = MessageDigest.getInstance(DIGEST_ALGORITHM);
+        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
+            // Every JDK ships SHA-256; see java.security.MessageDigest's own guarantee.
+            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+        }
+        byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
+        try (InputStream in = new DigestInputStream(Files.newInputStream(file), digest)) {
+            while (in.read(buffer) != -1) {
+                // DigestInputStream updates the digest as a side effect of reading.
+            }
+        }
+        return HexFormat.of().formatHex(digest.digest());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushCycleRunner.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushCycleRunner.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53723bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushCycleRunner.java
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.time.Clock;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+
+/**
+ * Runs one complete push cycle: quiesce autosave, force a save, copy changed region files,
+ * upload them, and report completion -- steps 1 through 3 of the design brief, in order.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Threading contract.</b> This class itself does not touch any thread -- it just calls
+ * {@link SaveCoordinator}, {@link IncrementalWorldCopier}, {@link WorldUploader} and {@link
+ * PushNotifier} in sequence. The threading guarantee the design brief asks for ("nothing may
+ * block the server thread") comes entirely from which thread {@link #runCycle()} itself is
+ * called on and which {@link SaveCoordinator} implementation it is given: {@link
+ * WorldPushPlugin} only ever calls this from Paper's {@code AsyncScheduler}, and {@link
+ * BukkitSaveCoordinator} bridges only its own three method calls onto the main thread, blocking
+ * this (async) thread while it waits -- never the other way around.
+ *
+ * <p><b>State progression.</b> {@link CopyState} is only persisted to disk once the entire
+ * cycle -- copy, upload, and notify -- has succeeded. If anything after the copy step fails
+ * (an upload, the notification), the in-memory state mutations {@link IncrementalWorldCopier}
+ * made are simply discarded; the next cycle reloads the last good state from disk and will
+ * see the same files as changed again. See {@link CopyState} and {@link IncrementalWorldCopier}
+ * for the matching per-file crash-safety guarantee this builds on.
+ */
+public final class PushCycleRunner {
+
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(PushCycleRunner.class.getName());
+
+    /**
+     * Formats each push cycle's {@code version} identifier -- mirrors the timestamp-style version
+     * ids the rest of Apus already uses for source versions (e.g. {@code
+     * S3SourceConnector}'s {@code 2026-08-01T00-00-00Z.zip} object keys), minus a file extension
+     * since a push cycle uploads many individual region files rather than one archive.
+     */
+    private static final DateTimeFormatter VERSION_FORMAT =
+            DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH-mm-ss'Z'").withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);
+
+    private final IncrementalWorldCopier copier;
+    private final SaveCoordinator saveCoordinator;
+    private final WorldUploader uploader;
+    private final PushNotifier notifier;
+    private final Path serverRoot;
+    private final Path stagingRoot;
+    private final Path stateFile;
+    private final WorldPushConfig config;
+    private final Clock clock;
+
+    public PushCycleRunner(
+            IncrementalWorldCopier copier,
+            SaveCoordinator saveCoordinator,
+            WorldUploader uploader,
+            PushNotifier notifier,
+            Path serverRoot,
+            Path stagingRoot,
+            Path stateFile,
+            WorldPushConfig config) {
+        this(copier, saveCoordinator, uploader, notifier, serverRoot, stagingRoot, stateFile, config, Clock.systemUTC());
+    }
+
+    /** Same as the public constructor, but with an injectable {@link Clock} -- for deterministic version-id tests. */
+    PushCycleRunner(
+            IncrementalWorldCopier copier,
+            SaveCoordinator saveCoordinator,
+            WorldUploader uploader,
+            PushNotifier notifier,
+            Path serverRoot,
+            Path stagingRoot,
+            Path stateFile,
+            WorldPushConfig config,
+            Clock clock) {
+        this.copier = copier;
+        this.saveCoordinator = saveCoordinator;
+        this.uploader = uploader;
+        this.notifier = notifier;
+        this.serverRoot = serverRoot;
+        this.stagingRoot = stagingRoot;
+        this.stateFile = stateFile;
+        this.config = config;
+        this.clock = clock;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Runs one push cycle to completion. Must be called off the main thread -- see the class
+     * Javadoc.
+     *
+     * @throws IOException if reading region directories or copying/persisting state fails
+     * @throws HttpPushNotifier.PushNotificationException if the completion report is rejected or
+     *     unreachable (only thrown by the real {@link PushNotifier}; a test fake may throw
+     *     whatever it likes)
+     */
+    public void runCycle() throws IOException {
+        saveCoordinator.disableAutoSave();
+        try {
+            saveCoordinator.forceSave();
+        } finally {
+            // Always re-enabled, even if forceSave() failed -- a server permanently stuck
+            // without autosave because one push cycle had a bad day is a worse outcome than
+            // that cycle's copy being skipped or stale.
+            saveCoordinator.enableAutoSave();
+        }
+
+        CopyState state = CopyState.load(stateFile);
+        List<DimensionRegionDir> regionDirs = DimensionLayout.forWorld(serverRoot, config.worldName());
+        CopyResult result = copier.copyChanged(regionDirs, stagingRoot, state);
+
+        if (result.isEmpty()) {
+            // Still persisted: copyChanged() may have refreshed size/mtime for files whose
+            // content did not actually change (see IncrementalWorldCopier), and there is
+            // nothing risky about saving that -- no upload or notification happened.
+            state.save(stateFile);
+            LOGGER.fine("Push cycle: no region files changed, nothing to upload.");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        for (String relativePath : result.copiedRelativePaths()) {
+            uploader.upload(stagingRoot.resolve(relativePath), config.s3StagingPrefix() + relativePath);
+        }
+
+        String version = VERSION_FORMAT.format(Instant.now(clock));
+        notifier.notifyPushComplete(new PushSummary(
+                config.sourceName(),
+                version,
+                config.worldName(),
+                result.copiedRelativePaths().size(),
+                result.copiedBytes()));
+
+        state.save(stateFile);
+        LOGGER.info("Push cycle: uploaded " + result.copiedRelativePaths().size() + " region file(s), "
+                + result.copiedBytes() + " bytes.");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushNotifier.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushNotifier.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..539c520
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushNotifier.java
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+/**
+ * Reports a completed push cycle to the Apus API ({@code POST /api/push/{token}}, design spec
+ * §11.1), so the {@code push} ingest connector knows a new version is waiting in the staging
+ * prefix. Kept as its own interface so {@link PushCycleRunner} can be tested with a fake instead
+ * of a real HTTP call -- see {@link HttpPushNotifier} for the real implementation.
+ */
+public interface PushNotifier {
+
+    /**
+     * Reports {@code summary} as a completed push. Implementations are expected to throw on
+     * failure (network error, non-2xx response) rather than swallow it -- {@link PushCycleRunner}
+     * relies on that to decide whether the cycle's state may be persisted as "done".
+     */
+    void notifyPushComplete(PushSummary summary);
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushSummary.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushSummary.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc41791
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushSummary.java
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+/**
+ * What one completed push cycle reports to the Apus API, so {@code POST /api/push/{token}} has
+ * enough context to create a {@code WorldIngest} plus log/display without a round-trip back to
+ * this server.
+ *
+ * <p>{@code sourceName} and {@code version} are exactly the two fields {@code
+ * PushReportRequest} (module {@code api}, package {@code
+ * net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push}) deserializes the request body into -- {@link
+ * HttpPushNotifier} sends only those two on the wire. {@code worldName}/{@code fileCount}/{@code
+ * bytesUploaded} are not part of that contract (the API already knows the world name from the
+ * target {@code WorldSource}'s own configured worlds, and file/byte counts are this plugin's own
+ * telemetry, not the API's concern); they stay on this record purely so a {@link PushNotifier}
+ * implementation can log/display them locally without a second parameter list.
+ *
+ * @param sourceName the target {@code push}-type {@code WorldSource}'s name, from {@code
+ *     WorldPushConfig#sourceName()} -- becomes {@code PushReportRequest.sourceName()}
+ * @param version this push cycle's identifier -- becomes {@code PushReportRequest.version()} and,
+ *     from there, {@code WorldIngest.spec.sourceVersion}
+ */
+public record PushSummary(String sourceName, String version, String worldName, int fileCount, long bytesUploaded) {}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/RegionFileState.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/RegionFileState.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4c8f4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/RegionFileState.java
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+/**
+ * The last known state of one region file, as recorded after it was last copied into staging.
+ *
+ * <p>{@code size}/{@code lastModifiedMillis} are the cheap "did the OS report a change" check;
+ * {@code checksum} (SHA-256, hex-encoded) is only computed when that cheap check trips, to
+ * confirm the content actually differs -- see {@link IncrementalWorldCopier}'s class Javadoc for
+ * why both signals are used together.
+ */
+public record RegionFileState(long size, long lastModifiedMillis, String checksum) {
+
+    /** Serialises to the single-line format {@link CopyState} persists, e.g. {@code "1024:1700000000000:ab12..."}. */
+    String encode() {
+        return size + ":" + lastModifiedMillis + ":" + checksum;
+    }
+
+    /** Parses the format {@link #encode()} produces; returns {@code null} if {@code line} is malformed. */
+    static RegionFileState decode(String line) {
+        String[] parts = line.split(":", 3);
+        if (parts.length != 3) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        try {
+            return new RegionFileState(Long.parseLong(parts[0]), Long.parseLong(parts[1]), parts[2]);
+        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/S3WorldUploader.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/S3WorldUploader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8221e6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/S3WorldUploader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StaticCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.S3Client;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.model.PutObjectRequest;
+
+/**
+ * Real {@link WorldUploader}, writing region files into the tenant's staging prefix via the AWS
+ * SDK v2 S3 client (the same client family {@code ingest.S3Client} wraps, path-style access so
+ * this also works unchanged against Rook/Ceph -- see {@code settings.gradle.kts}'s {@code
+ * aws-sdk} version comment for the shared rationale).
+ *
+ * <p>Never logs {@link WorldPushConfig#s3AccessKey()}/{@link WorldPushConfig#s3SecretKey()}; they
+ * are only ever passed into {@link StaticCredentialsProvider}, never rendered to a string.
+ */
+public final class S3WorldUploader implements WorldUploader, AutoCloseable {
+
+    private final S3Client delegate;
+    private final String bucket;
+
+    private S3WorldUploader(S3Client delegate, String bucket) {
+        this.delegate = delegate;
+        this.bucket = bucket;
+    }
+
+    /** Builds a real uploader from {@code config}'s S3 settings. */
+    public static S3WorldUploader create(WorldPushConfig config) {
+        S3Client client = S3Client.builder()
+                .region(Region.of(config.s3Region()))
+                .endpointOverride(URI.create(config.s3Endpoint()))
+                .credentialsProvider(StaticCredentialsProvider.create(
+                        AwsBasicCredentials.create(config.s3AccessKey(), config.s3SecretKey())))
+                .forcePathStyle(true)
+                .build();
+        return new S3WorldUploader(client, config.s3Bucket());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void upload(Path localFile, String s3Key) {
+        delegate.putObject(
+                PutObjectRequest.builder().bucket(bucket).key(s3Key).build(),
+                software.amazon.awssdk.core.sync.RequestBody.fromFile(localFile));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() {
+        delegate.close();
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/SaveCoordinator.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/SaveCoordinator.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fa70cdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/SaveCoordinator.java
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+/**
+ * The three save-related steps a push cycle needs from the live world, kept as their own
+ * interface so {@link PushCycleRunner} can be exercised without a running Paper server -- the
+ * copy logic itself is Bukkit-free, but the "pause autosave, force one save, resume autosave"
+ * sequence around it is inherently Bukkit-API-shaped, and PaperMC's guidance is that all such
+ * calls belong on the main thread. See {@link BukkitSaveCoordinator} for the real, main-thread
+ * bridging implementation, and the phase 6 task report for why that implementation itself has no
+ * automated test -- it needs a live server.
+ *
+ * <p>Every method is expected to block the calling thread until the underlying main-thread step
+ * has actually completed (not merely been scheduled), so that {@link PushCycleRunner} can treat
+ * this as a simple synchronous sequence despite the work happening on a different thread.
+ */
+public interface SaveCoordinator {
+
+    /** Disables the world's automatic periodic saving, so it cannot race the forced save below. */
+    void disableAutoSave();
+
+    /** Forces one synchronous save of the world's current state to disk. */
+    void forceSave();
+
+    /** Re-enables automatic periodic saving. Always called, even if {@link #forceSave()} failed. */
+    void enableAutoSave();
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushConfig.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c22e62c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.net.URI;
+
+/**
+ * The plugin's complete configuration, read from {@code config.yml} (via {@link ConfigSource})
+ * and validated eagerly.
+ *
+ * <p>{@link #from(ConfigSource)} is the single place every required key is checked. It either
+ * returns a fully valid configuration or throws {@link ConfigurationException} before any push
+ * cycle is scheduled -- mirroring {@code ingest.IngestConfig}'s "fail before anything runs"
+ * contract in the sibling module.
+ *
+ * <p>Two distinct credentials are held here, deliberately not conflated (see {@code config.yml}'s
+ * comments for the full rationale):
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>{@link #s3AccessKey()}/{@link #s3SecretKey()} -- tenant-scoped S3 bucket credentials,
+ *       used to write region files directly into the staging prefix.
+ *   <li>{@link #pushToken()} -- a narrow, tenant-bound {@code world:push} service token (§10.3 of
+ *       the design spec), used only to authenticate the completion report to the Apus API.
+ * </ul>
+ */
+public final class WorldPushConfig {
+
+    private final String worldName;
+    private final String tenant;
+    private final String sourceName;
+    private final String pushToken;
+    private final String stagingDirectory;
+    private final String s3Endpoint;
+    private final String s3Bucket;
+    private final String s3Region;
+    private final String s3AccessKey;
+    private final String s3SecretKey;
+    private final String s3StagingPrefix;
+    private final URI apusApiBaseUrl;
+    private final long intervalMinutes;
+
+    private WorldPushConfig(
+            String worldName,
+            String tenant,
+            String sourceName,
+            String pushToken,
+            String stagingDirectory,
+            String s3Endpoint,
+            String s3Bucket,
+            String s3Region,
+            String s3AccessKey,
+            String s3SecretKey,
+            String s3StagingPrefix,
+            URI apusApiBaseUrl,
+            long intervalMinutes) {
+        this.worldName = worldName;
+        this.tenant = tenant;
+        this.sourceName = sourceName;
+        this.pushToken = pushToken;
+        this.stagingDirectory = stagingDirectory;
+        this.s3Endpoint = s3Endpoint;
+        this.s3Bucket = s3Bucket;
+        this.s3Region = s3Region;
+        this.s3AccessKey = s3AccessKey;
+        this.s3SecretKey = s3SecretKey;
+        this.s3StagingPrefix = s3StagingPrefix;
+        this.apusApiBaseUrl = apusApiBaseUrl;
+        this.intervalMinutes = intervalMinutes;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads and validates every configuration value the plugin needs from {@code source}.
+     *
+     * @throws ConfigurationException if a required key is missing/blank, or a value cannot be
+     *     parsed (e.g. {@code apus.api-base-url} is not a valid URI)
+     */
+    public static WorldPushConfig from(ConfigSource source) {
+        String worldName = requireNonBlank(source, "world-name");
+        String tenant = requireNonBlank(source, "tenant");
+        String sourceName = requireNonBlank(source, "world-source-name");
+        String pushToken = requireNonBlank(source, "push-token");
+        String stagingDirectory = orDefault(source.getString("staging-directory"), "apus-worldpush-staging");
+
+        String s3Endpoint = requireNonBlank(source, "s3.endpoint");
+        String s3Bucket = requireNonBlank(source, "s3.bucket");
+        String s3Region = orDefault(source.getString("s3.region"), "us-east-1");
+        String s3AccessKey = requireNonBlank(source, "s3.access-key");
+        String s3SecretKey = requireNonBlank(source, "s3.secret-key");
+        String s3StagingPrefix = normalizePrefix(orDefault(source.getString("s3.staging-prefix"), "staging/"));
+
+        String apiBaseUrlRaw = requireNonBlank(source, "apus.api-base-url");
+        URI apusApiBaseUrl;
+        try {
+            apusApiBaseUrl = URI.create(apiBaseUrlRaw);
+        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+            throw new ConfigurationException("apus.api-base-url is not a valid URI: '" + apiBaseUrlRaw + "'");
+        }
+        if (apusApiBaseUrl.getScheme() == null || apusApiBaseUrl.getHost() == null) {
+            throw new ConfigurationException(
+                    "apus.api-base-url must be an absolute URL with a scheme and host, got: '" + apiBaseUrlRaw + "'");
+        }
+
+        long intervalMinutes = source.getLong("schedule.interval-minutes", 30);
+        if (intervalMinutes <= 0) {
+            throw new ConfigurationException("schedule.interval-minutes must be a positive integer, got: " + intervalMinutes);
+        }
+
+        return new WorldPushConfig(
+                worldName,
+                tenant,
+                sourceName,
+                pushToken,
+                stagingDirectory,
+                s3Endpoint,
+                s3Bucket,
+                s3Region,
+                s3AccessKey,
+                s3SecretKey,
+                s3StagingPrefix,
+                apusApiBaseUrl,
+                intervalMinutes);
+    }
+
+    private static String normalizePrefix(String prefix) {
+        String trimmed = prefix.startsWith("/") ? prefix.substring(1) : prefix;
+        return trimmed.endsWith("/") || trimmed.isEmpty() ? trimmed : trimmed + "/";
+    }
+
+    private static String orDefault(String value, String defaultValue) {
+        return (value == null || value.isBlank()) ? defaultValue : value;
+    }
+
+    private static String requireNonBlank(ConfigSource source, String path) {
+        String value = source.getString(path);
+        if (value == null || value.isBlank()) {
+            throw new ConfigurationException(path + " is required but was not set in config.yml.");
+        }
+        return value;
+    }
+
+    public String worldName() {
+        return worldName;
+    }
+
+    public String tenant() {
+        return tenant;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The target {@code push}-type {@code WorldSource}'s name, within {@link #tenant()}'s
+     * namespace -- becomes {@code PushReportRequest.sourceName()} in every completion report (see
+     * {@link PushSummary}). Distinct from {@link #tenant()}: the namespace a push token
+     * authorizes is resolved from the token alone (design spec §10.3), but a tenant may run more
+     * than one push-type source, so the token by itself is not enough to pick which one this
+     * server's uploads belong to.
+     */
+    public String sourceName() {
+        return sourceName;
+    }
+
+    /** The narrowly-scoped {@code world:push} service token -- never log this value. */
+    public String pushToken() {
+        return pushToken;
+    }
+
+    /** Relative or absolute path to the local staging directory; resolved against the plugin's data folder. */
+    public String stagingDirectory() {
+        return stagingDirectory;
+    }
+
+    public String s3Endpoint() {
+        return s3Endpoint;
+    }
+
+    public String s3Bucket() {
+        return s3Bucket;
+    }
+
+    public String s3Region() {
+        return s3Region;
+    }
+
+    /** Tenant-scoped S3 access key -- never log this value. */
+    public String s3AccessKey() {
+        return s3AccessKey;
+    }
+
+    /** Tenant-scoped S3 secret key -- never log this value. */
+    public String s3SecretKey() {
+        return s3SecretKey;
+    }
+
+    /** Key prefix within {@link #s3Bucket()} that staged region files are uploaded under, always ending in {@code "/"}. */
+    public String s3StagingPrefix() {
+        return s3StagingPrefix;
+    }
+
+    public URI apusApiBaseUrl() {
+        return apusApiBaseUrl;
+    }
+
+    public long intervalMinutes() {
+        return intervalMinutes;
+    }
+
+    /** Thrown when {@code config.yml} is missing a required key or holds an invalid value. */
+    public static final class ConfigurationException extends RuntimeException {
+
+        ConfigurationException(String message) {
+            super(message);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushPlugin.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushPlugin.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf72c9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushPlugin.java
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import org.bukkit.plugin.java.JavaPlugin;
+
+/**
+ * Entry point of the Apus world-push plugin: periodically takes a consistent, incremental copy
+ * of this server's configured world and uploads it to a staging prefix in S3, then reports the
+ * new version to the Apus API. See the design spec, §3 ("Push: async + inkrementell in
+ * Staging-Prefix") and §6.4.
+ *
+ * <p>Every push cycle runs on Paper's {@code AsyncScheduler} -- never the main thread, never
+ * {@code BukkitScheduler#runTaskAsynchronously} (Paper's own guidance prefers the newer
+ * schedulers, see {@code docs.papermc.io/paper/dev/folia-support}). The only main-thread work is
+ * the brief autosave-pause-and-force-save step inside {@link BukkitSaveCoordinator}, bridged back
+ * onto the main thread per call. A cycle still running when the next one would start is skipped
+ * rather than queued or run concurrently -- {@link #cycleRunning} enforces that.
+ */
+public final class WorldPushPlugin extends JavaPlugin {
+
+    private final AtomicBoolean cycleRunning = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+
+    private WorldPushConfig config;
+    private S3WorldUploader uploader;
+
+    @Override
+    public void onEnable() {
+        saveDefaultConfig();
+        reloadConfig();
+
+        try {
+            config = WorldPushConfig.from(new BukkitConfigSource(getConfig()));
+        } catch (WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException e) {
+            getSLF4JLogger().error("Invalid config.yml, disabling: {}", e.getMessage());
+            getServer().getPluginManager().disablePlugin(this);
+            return;
+        }
+
+        uploader = S3WorldUploader.create(config);
+
+        Path serverRoot = getServer().getWorldContainer().toPath();
+        Path stagingRoot = getDataFolder().toPath().resolve(config.stagingDirectory());
+        Path stateFile = getDataFolder().toPath().resolve("push-state.properties");
+
+        SaveCoordinator saveCoordinator =
+                new BukkitSaveCoordinator(this, () -> getServer().getWorld(config.worldName()));
+        PushNotifier notifier = new HttpPushNotifier(config.apusApiBaseUrl(), config.pushToken());
+        PushCycleRunner runner = new PushCycleRunner(
+                new IncrementalWorldCopier(), saveCoordinator, uploader, notifier, serverRoot, stagingRoot, stateFile,
+                config);
+
+        getServer()
+                .getAsyncScheduler()
+                .runAtFixedRate(
+                        this,
+                        task -> runCycleGuarded(runner),
+                        config.intervalMinutes(),
+                        config.intervalMinutes(),
+                        TimeUnit.MINUTES);
+
+        getSLF4JLogger()
+                .info(
+                        "Apus world push enabled for world '{}', tenant '{}', source '{}', every {} minute(s).",
+                        config.worldName(),
+                        config.tenant(),
+                        config.sourceName(),
+                        config.intervalMinutes());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void onDisable() {
+        getServer().getAsyncScheduler().cancelTasks(this);
+        getServer().getGlobalRegionScheduler().cancelTasks(this);
+        if (uploader != null) {
+            uploader.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void runCycleGuarded(PushCycleRunner runner) {
+        if (!cycleRunning.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+            getSLF4JLogger().debug("Skipping this push cycle: the previous one is still running.");
+            return;
+        }
+        try {
+            runner.runCycle();
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            getSLF4JLogger().warn("Push cycle failed: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
+        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+            // Covers HttpPushNotifier.PushNotificationException and any unexpected failure from
+            // the uploader/save coordinator -- a bad cycle must never crash the scheduler and
+            // silently stop all future pushes.
+            getSLF4JLogger().warn("Push cycle failed: {}", e.getMessage(), e);
+        } finally {
+            cycleRunning.set(false);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldUploader.java b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldUploader.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7930516
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldUploader.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+/**
+ * The one upload operation {@link PushCycleRunner} needs, kept deliberately narrow -- mirrors
+ * {@code ingest.S3Client}'s reasoning in the sibling module: tests substitute an in-memory fake
+ * instead of talking to real S3-compatible storage, and the real implementation ({@link
+ * S3WorldUploader}) is the only place that knows about the AWS SDK.
+ */
+public interface WorldUploader {
+
+    /** Uploads {@code localFile}'s current contents to {@code s3Key}, overwriting any object already there. */
+    void upload(Path localFile, String s3Key);
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/resources/config.yml b/paper-worldpush/src/main/resources/config.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a08f6de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/resources/config.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# Apus World Push -- configuration
+#
+# Copied out to plugins/ApusWorldPush/config.yml on first start. Fill in the values below
+# before enabling push cycles; the plugin fails fast at startup (nothing is scheduled) if a
+# required value is left blank.
+#
+# Credentials in this file (push-token, s3.access-key, s3.secret-key) are never written to
+# the server log or console. Keep this file's permissions restricted the same way you would
+# for server.properties.
+
+# The Bukkit world (folder name) to push, e.g. "world". Its Bukkit-layout siblings
+# ("<world>_nether", "<world>_the_end") are picked up automatically if present -- the same
+# layout world-ingest already recognises server-side (see docs/superpowers/specs, §6.2).
+world-name: world
+
+# The Apus tenant this server belongs to. Informational only (shown in this plugin's own log
+# lines) -- it grants no access by itself and is never sent to the Apus API. The push-token
+# below is what actually authorizes anything, and world-source-name below is what selects
+# which of the tenant's WorldSource resources this server's uploads are reported against.
+tenant: ''
+
+# The name of the "push"-type WorldSource resource (in the Apus UI/API) this server's uploads
+# belong to. A tenant may run more than one push source, so the push-token alone (tenant-bound,
+# not source-bound) is not enough to pick one -- this is. Sent as "sourceName" in every
+# completion report to POST /api/push/{push-token}.
+world-source-name: ''
+
+# A tenant-bound, narrowly-scoped ("world:push") service token -- see §10.3 of the Apus
+# design spec. Deliberately not a user login: a person leaving the team must never be able
+# to take this server's uploads down with them. Ask a tenant-owner in the Apus UI/API to
+# mint one. Sent as a path segment (POST /api/push/{push-token}), never as a header and
+# never logged.
+push-token: ''
+
+# Where the staged copy is written before/while it is uploaded, on this server's own disk.
+# Must have room for roughly one incremental push's worth of region files, not the whole
+# world -- see IncrementalWorldCopier.
+staging-directory: apus-worldpush-staging
+
+s3:
+  endpoint: ''
+  bucket: ''
+  region: us-east-1
+  # Direct, tenant-scoped bucket credentials (the same kind of per-tenant CephObjectStoreUser
+  # credentials the rest of Apus already uses, see §10.1/§10.2 of the design spec) -- distinct
+  # from push-token above, which authenticates the completion report to the Apus API, not the
+  # S3 write itself.
+  access-key: ''
+  secret-key: ''
+  # Region files are written under this prefix, never directly into the tenant's normal
+  # bundle path -- see §6.4 of the design spec ("Push-Quellen ... Staging-Prefix").
+  staging-prefix: staging/
+
+apus:
+  # Base URL of the Apus API, e.g. https://apus.example.org. POST {api-base-url}/api/push/{push-token}
+  # is called once a push cycle's uploads have all succeeded.
+  api-base-url: ''
+
+schedule:
+  # How often a push cycle runs, in minutes. A cycle that is still running when the next one
+  # would start is skipped, not queued -- see WorldPushPlugin.
+  interval-minutes: 30
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/main/resources/paper-plugin.yml b/paper-worldpush/src/main/resources/paper-plugin.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cb75a2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/main/resources/paper-plugin.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+name: ApusWorldPush
+version: '${version}'
+main: net.onelitefeather.apus.paper.WorldPushPlugin
+description: Pushes an incremental, consistent copy of this server's world to Apus.
+author: OneLiteFeather
+website: https://github.com/OneLiteFeatherNET/Apus
+api-version: '26.2'
+# This plugin schedules its own work through Paper's AsyncScheduler/GlobalRegionScheduler
+# instead of BukkitScheduler, and touches exactly one World per configured push job -- see
+# WorldPushPlugin's class Javadoc. It has not been exercised against a live Folia server
+# (see the phase 6 task report), so this is left unset (defaults to false/unsupported)
+# rather than claimed without verification.
+# folia-supported: false
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyStateTest.java b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyStateTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..334f28d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/CopyStateTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+class CopyStateTest {
+
+    @TempDir
+    Path tmp;
+
+    @Test
+    void loadingAMissingFileReturnsEmptyState() {
+        CopyState state = CopyState.load(tmp.resolve("does-not-exist.properties"));
+
+        assertEquals(0, state.size());
+        assertNull(state.get("world/region/r.0.0.mca"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void savedStateRoundTripsThroughLoad() throws IOException {
+        Path stateFile = tmp.resolve("push-state.properties");
+        CopyState original = CopyState.empty();
+        original.put("world/region/r.0.0.mca", new RegionFileState(1024, 1_700_000_000_000L, "abc123"));
+        original.put("world_nether/DIM-1/region/r.-1.0.mca", new RegionFileState(2048, 1_700_000_001_000L, "def456"));
+
+        original.save(stateFile);
+        CopyState reloaded = CopyState.load(stateFile);
+
+        assertEquals(2, reloaded.size());
+        assertEquals(new RegionFileState(1024, 1_700_000_000_000L, "abc123"), reloaded.get("world/region/r.0.0.mca"));
+        assertEquals(
+                new RegionFileState(2048, 1_700_000_001_000L, "def456"),
+                reloaded.get("world_nether/DIM-1/region/r.-1.0.mca"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aCorruptStateFileFallsBackToEmptyInsteadOfThrowing() throws IOException {
+        Path stateFile = tmp.resolve("push-state.properties");
+        Files.writeString(stateFile, "world/region/r.0.0.mca=not-a-valid-encoded-state\n");
+
+        CopyState state = CopyState.load(stateFile);
+
+        assertEquals(0, state.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void savingLeavesNoTemporaryFileBehind() throws IOException {
+        Path stateFile = tmp.resolve("push-state.properties");
+        CopyState state = CopyState.empty();
+        state.put("world/region/r.0.0.mca", new RegionFileState(1, 2, "checksum"));
+
+        state.save(stateFile);
+
+        List<Path> leftovers;
+        try (var walk = Files.list(tmp)) {
+            leftovers = walk.filter(p -> p.getFileName().toString().endsWith(".tmp")).toList();
+        }
+        assertTrue(leftovers.isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void savingTwiceReplacesThePreviousContentAtomically() throws IOException {
+        Path stateFile = tmp.resolve("push-state.properties");
+        CopyState first = CopyState.empty();
+        first.put("world/region/r.0.0.mca", new RegionFileState(1, 2, "first"));
+        first.save(stateFile);
+
+        CopyState second = CopyState.empty();
+        second.put("world/region/r.0.0.mca", new RegionFileState(1, 2, "second"));
+        second.save(stateFile);
+
+        CopyState reloaded = CopyState.load(stateFile);
+        assertEquals(1, reloaded.size());
+        assertEquals("second", reloaded.get("world/region/r.0.0.mca").checksum());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionLayoutTest.java b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionLayoutTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d40bfeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/DimensionLayoutTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+class DimensionLayoutTest {
+
+    @TempDir
+    Path tmp;
+
+    @Test
+    void onlyTheOverworldExistsByDefault() throws IOException {
+        Files.createDirectories(tmp.resolve("world/region"));
+
+        List<DimensionRegionDir> dims = DimensionLayout.forWorld(tmp, "world");
+
+        assertEquals(1, dims.size());
+        assertEquals("world/region", dims.get(0).relativePrefix());
+        assertEquals(tmp.resolve("world/region"), dims.get(0).sourceDir());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void netherAndEndAreIncludedWhenPresent() throws IOException {
+        Files.createDirectories(tmp.resolve("world/region"));
+        Files.createDirectories(tmp.resolve("world_nether/DIM-1/region"));
+        Files.createDirectories(tmp.resolve("world_the_end/DIM1/region"));
+
+        List<DimensionRegionDir> dims = DimensionLayout.forWorld(tmp, "world");
+
+        assertEquals(3, dims.size());
+        assertTrue(dims.stream().anyMatch(d -> d.relativePrefix().equals("world/region")));
+        assertTrue(dims.stream().anyMatch(d -> d.relativePrefix().equals("world_nether/DIM-1/region")));
+        assertTrue(dims.stream().anyMatch(d -> d.relativePrefix().equals("world_the_end/DIM1/region")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aWorldThatDoesNotExistAtAllYieldsNoDirectories() {
+        assertEquals(List.of(), DimensionLayout.forWorld(tmp, "nonexistent"));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/HttpPushNotifierTest.java b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/HttpPushNotifierTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d113437
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/HttpPushNotifierTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.InetAddress;
+import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Proves {@link HttpPushNotifier} sends exactly the wire shape {@code PushController}/{@code
+ * PushReportRequest} (module {@code api}, package {@code net.onelitefeather.apus.api.rest.push})
+ * actually expects: the token as a URL path segment (never a header, despite what an earlier
+ * version of {@code config.yml}'s comment claimed), and a JSON body with exactly {@code
+ * sourceName}/{@code version} -- the two fields {@code PushReportRequest} deserializes. Before
+ * this test (and the fix it locks in) existed, this class sent {@code tenant}/{@code
+ * worldName}/{@code fileCount}/{@code bytesUploaded} instead, which {@code PushController} would
+ * have rejected with a 400 (missing {@code sourceName}/{@code version}) on every real push --
+ * exactly the kind of plugin/endpoint drift that only surfaces in production without a test like
+ * this one.
+ */
+class HttpPushNotifierTest {
+
+    private HttpServer server;
+    private volatile String capturedPath;
+    private volatile String capturedBody;
+
+    @AfterEach
+    void tearDown() {
+        if (server != null) {
+            server.stop(0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void sendsTheTokenAsAPathSegmentAndSourceNameAndVersionAsTheJsonBody() throws IOException {
+        startServer(204);
+        HttpPushNotifier notifier = new HttpPushNotifier(baseUrl(), "sh4r3d-t0ken");
+
+        notifier.notifyPushComplete(new PushSummary("survival-source", "2026-08-09T12-00-00Z", "world", 3, 42));
+
+        assertEquals("/api/push/sh4r3d-t0ken", capturedPath, "token must be a path segment, never a header");
+        assertEquals("{\"sourceName\":\"survival-source\",\"version\":\"2026-08-09T12-00-00Z\"}", capturedBody);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aNonTwoXxResponseThrows() throws IOException {
+        startServer(400);
+        HttpPushNotifier notifier = new HttpPushNotifier(baseUrl(), "token");
+
+        assertThrows(
+                HttpPushNotifier.PushNotificationException.class,
+                () -> notifier.notifyPushComplete(new PushSummary("source", "v1", "world", 1, 1)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void anUnreachableApiThrowsWithoutLeakingTheTokenInTheMessage() {
+        HttpPushNotifier notifier = new HttpPushNotifier(URI.create("http://127.0.0.1:1"), "super-secret-token");
+
+        HttpPushNotifier.PushNotificationException e = assertThrows(
+                HttpPushNotifier.PushNotificationException.class,
+                () -> notifier.notifyPushComplete(new PushSummary("source", "v1", "world", 1, 1)));
+        assertTrue(
+                !e.getMessage().contains("super-secret-token"),
+                "the failure message must never echo the push token");
+    }
+
+    private void startServer(int statusCode) throws IOException {
+        server = HttpServer.create(new InetSocketAddress(InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress(), 0), 0);
+        server.createContext("/api/push/", exchange -> {
+            capturedPath = exchange.getRequestURI().getPath();
+            capturedBody = new String(exchange.getRequestBody().readAllBytes(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+            byte[] response = new byte[0];
+            exchange.sendResponseHeaders(statusCode, response.length == 0 ? -1 : response.length);
+            exchange.close();
+        });
+        server.start();
+    }
+
+    private URI baseUrl() {
+        return URI.create("http://" + server.getAddress().getHostString() + ":" + server.getAddress().getPort());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/IncrementalWorldCopierTest.java b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/IncrementalWorldCopierTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d212490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/IncrementalWorldCopierTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
+import java.nio.file.attribute.FileTime;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+/**
+ * Covers the fachlicher Kern of this module: which region files count as "changed" between two
+ * runs, that {@link CopyState} correctly carries forward across separate {@link
+ * IncrementalWorldCopier} calls (simulating separate push cycles), and that a failure partway
+ * through a copy never leaves a half-written file in the staging directory.
+ */
+class IncrementalWorldCopierTest {
+
+    private final IncrementalWorldCopier copier = new IncrementalWorldCopier();
+
+    @TempDir
+    Path tmp;
+
+    private Path regionDir;
+    private Path stagingRoot;
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    void setUp() throws IOException {
+        regionDir = Files.createDirectories(tmp.resolve("world/region"));
+        stagingRoot = tmp.resolve("staging");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void copiesEveryRegionFileOnTheFirstRun() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.1.mca", "beta");
+
+        CopyResult result = copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, CopyState.empty());
+
+        assertEquals(2, result.copiedRelativePaths().size());
+        assertEquals(0, result.unchangedCount());
+        assertTrue(result.copiedRelativePaths().contains("world/region/r.0.0.mca"));
+        assertTrue(result.copiedRelativePaths().contains("world/region/r.0.1.mca"));
+        assertEquals("alpha", Files.readString(stagingRoot.resolve("world/region/r.0.0.mca")));
+        assertEquals("beta", Files.readString(stagingRoot.resolve("world/region/r.0.1.mca")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void secondRunWithNoChangesCopiesNothing() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        CopyState state = CopyState.empty();
+        copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, state);
+
+        CopyResult second = copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, state);
+
+        assertTrue(second.isEmpty());
+        assertEquals(1, second.unchangedCount());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void onlyTheChangedFileIsCopiedOnASecondRun() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.1.mca", "beta");
+        CopyState state = CopyState.empty();
+        copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, state);
+
+        // Modify only one file, moving both its content and its mtime forward.
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.1.mca", "beta-v2");
+        bumpMtime(regionDir.resolve("r.0.1.mca"));
+
+        CopyResult second = copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, state);
+
+        assertEquals(List.of("world/region/r.0.1.mca"), second.copiedRelativePaths());
+        assertEquals(1, second.unchangedCount());
+        assertEquals("beta-v2", Files.readString(stagingRoot.resolve("world/region/r.0.1.mca")));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aTouchedFileWithUnchangedContentIsNotRecopied() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        CopyState state = CopyState.empty();
+        copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, state);
+
+        // Rewrite with byte-identical content but a new mtime -- e.g. an atomic region-file
+        // rewrite that happens to produce the same bytes.
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        bumpMtime(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca"));
+
+        CopyResult second = copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, state);
+
+        assertTrue(second.isEmpty(), "identical content must not be re-copied even if mtime moved");
+        // But the cheap-check fields must have been refreshed, so a genuinely-unrelated later
+        // touch doesn't get misdiagnosed against a stale mtime.
+        RegionFileState refreshed = state.get("world/region/r.0.0.mca");
+        assertEquals(Files.getLastModifiedTime(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca")).toMillis(), refreshed.lastModifiedMillis());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stateCarriesForwardAcrossASimulatedProcessRestart() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        Path stateFile = tmp.resolve("push-state.properties");
+
+        CopyState first = CopyState.load(stateFile);
+        copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, first);
+        first.save(stateFile);
+
+        // Simulate a fresh process: reload state from disk instead of reusing the in-memory object.
+        CopyState reloaded = CopyState.load(stateFile);
+        CopyResult second = copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, reloaded);
+
+        assertTrue(second.isEmpty(), "reloaded state must still recognise the file as unchanged");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void nonMcaFilesInTheRegionDirectoryAreIgnored() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca.tmp"), "leftover");
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("README.txt"), "not a region file");
+
+        CopyResult result = copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, CopyState.empty());
+
+        assertEquals(List.of("world/region/r.0.0.mca"), result.copiedRelativePaths());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void anAbortedCopyLeavesNoTemporaryFileBehind() throws IOException {
+        writeRegionFile("r.0.0.mca", "alpha");
+        // Make the staging destination directory impossible to create by occupying its path
+        // with a regular file -- Files.createDirectories(...) will then fail for every file
+        // under it, simulating an I/O failure partway through a batch.
+        Files.createDirectories(stagingRoot);
+        Files.writeString(stagingRoot.resolve("world"), "blocking file, not a directory");
+
+        assertTrue(
+                org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows(
+                                IOException.class, () -> copier.copyChanged(dimensions(), stagingRoot, CopyState.empty()))
+                        .getMessage()
+                        != null);
+
+        // No stray *.tmp file anywhere under staging -- nothing "half" was left behind.
+        try (Stream<Path> walk = Files.exists(stagingRoot) ? Files.walk(stagingRoot) : Stream.empty()) {
+            assertFalse(walk.anyMatch(p -> p.getFileName().toString().endsWith(".tmp")));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private List<DimensionRegionDir> dimensions() {
+        return List.of(new DimensionRegionDir("world/region", regionDir));
+    }
+
+    private void writeRegionFile(String name, String content) throws IOException {
+        Files.writeString(
+                regionDir.resolve(name), content, StandardOpenOption.CREATE, StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Explicitly advances a file's mtime by 5 seconds instead of sleeping the test thread: some
+     * filesystems (notably ext4 with a 1s-granularity mount, or overlay filesystems used in CI
+     * containers) can otherwise report the same mtime for two writes issued within the same
+     * second, making a real sleep both slow and still not fully reliable.
+     */
+    private static void bumpMtime(Path file) throws IOException {
+        FileTime current = Files.getLastModifiedTime(file);
+        Files.setLastModifiedTime(file, FileTime.fromMillis(current.toMillis() + 5000));
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushCycleRunnerTest.java b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushCycleRunnerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2b5f66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/PushCycleRunnerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,227 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.time.Clock;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.ZoneOffset;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+/**
+ * Exercises {@link PushCycleRunner}'s orchestration with fakes standing in for the parts that
+ * need a live Paper server or network access ({@link SaveCoordinator}, {@link WorldUploader},
+ * {@link PushNotifier}) -- this is the "what's testable without a running server" half of the
+ * Bukkit-facing code the phase 6 task report describes; {@link BukkitSaveCoordinator} itself is
+ * not exercised here.
+ */
+class PushCycleRunnerTest {
+
+    @TempDir
+    Path tmp;
+
+    private Path regionDir;
+    private Path stagingRoot;
+    private Path stateFile;
+    private WorldPushConfig config;
+    private FakeSaveCoordinator saveCoordinator;
+    private FakeUploader uploader;
+    private FakeNotifier notifier;
+
+    @BeforeEach
+    void setUp() throws IOException {
+        Path serverRoot = tmp.resolve("server");
+        regionDir = Files.createDirectories(serverRoot.resolve("world/region"));
+        stagingRoot = tmp.resolve("staging");
+        stateFile = tmp.resolve("push-state.properties");
+        config = WorldPushConfig.from(configSource());
+        saveCoordinator = new FakeSaveCoordinator();
+        uploader = new FakeUploader();
+        notifier = new FakeNotifier();
+        this.serverRoot = serverRoot;
+    }
+
+    private Path serverRoot;
+
+    @Test
+    void happyPathSavesUploadsNotifiesAndPersistsState() throws IOException {
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca"), "alpha");
+
+        newRunner().runCycle();
+
+        assertEquals(List.of("disableAutoSave", "forceSave", "enableAutoSave"), saveCoordinator.calls);
+        assertEquals(1, uploader.uploaded.size());
+        assertEquals("staging/world/region/r.0.0.mca", uploader.uploaded.get(0).s3Key());
+        assertEquals(1, notifier.summaries.size());
+        assertEquals(
+                new PushSummary("survival-source", "2026-08-09T12-00-00Z", "world", 1, 5),
+                notifier.summaries.get(0));
+        assertTrue(Files.isRegularFile(stateFile), "state must be persisted after a successful cycle");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void autoSaveIsReEnabledEvenIfForceSaveFails() throws IOException {
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca"), "alpha");
+        saveCoordinator.failForceSave = true;
+
+        assertThrows(RuntimeException.class, () -> newRunner().runCycle());
+
+        assertEquals(List.of("disableAutoSave", "forceSave", "enableAutoSave"), saveCoordinator.calls);
+        assertTrue(uploader.uploaded.isEmpty(), "must not upload if the save step itself failed");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void noChangesMeansNoUploadAndNoNotificationButStateIsStillSaved() throws IOException {
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca"), "alpha");
+        newRunner().runCycle();
+        uploader.uploaded.clear();
+        notifier.summaries.clear();
+
+        newRunner().runCycle();
+
+        assertTrue(uploader.uploaded.isEmpty());
+        assertTrue(notifier.summaries.isEmpty());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aFailedUploadLeavesThePersistedStateUnchangedForRetry() throws IOException {
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca"), "alpha");
+        uploader.failUploads = true;
+
+        assertThrows(RuntimeException.class, () -> newRunner().runCycle());
+
+        assertFalse(Files.isRegularFile(stateFile), "a failed cycle must not persist state");
+        assertTrue(notifier.summaries.isEmpty(), "must not notify if the upload failed");
+
+        // A retried cycle (fresh runner, uploads succeeding this time) must still see the file
+        // as changed and upload it -- nothing was silently marked done by the failed attempt.
+        uploader.failUploads = false;
+        newRunner().runCycle();
+        assertEquals(1, uploader.uploaded.size());
+        assertEquals(1, notifier.summaries.size());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aFailedNotificationLeavesThePersistedStateUnchangedForRetry() throws IOException {
+        Files.writeString(regionDir.resolve("r.0.0.mca"), "alpha");
+        notifier.failNotifications = true;
+
+        assertThrows(RuntimeException.class, () -> newRunner().runCycle());
+
+        assertFalse(Files.isRegularFile(stateFile), "a failed cycle must not persist state");
+        // The upload itself did happen -- only the state advancement is what got rolled back.
+        assertEquals(1, uploader.uploaded.size());
+    }
+
+    private static final Clock FIXED_CLOCK =
+            Clock.fixed(Instant.parse("2026-08-09T12:00:00Z"), ZoneOffset.UTC);
+
+    private PushCycleRunner newRunner() {
+        return new PushCycleRunner(
+                new IncrementalWorldCopier(), saveCoordinator, uploader, notifier, serverRoot, stagingRoot, stateFile,
+                config, FIXED_CLOCK);
+    }
+
+    private static ConfigSource configSource() {
+        Map<String, String> values = new HashMap<>();
+        values.put("world-name", "world");
+        values.put("tenant", "acme");
+        values.put("world-source-name", "survival-source");
+        values.put("push-token", "secret-token");
+        values.put("s3.endpoint", "https://s3.example.org");
+        values.put("s3.bucket", "apus-worlds");
+        values.put("s3.access-key", "access-key");
+        values.put("s3.secret-key", "secret-key");
+        values.put("apus.api-base-url", "https://apus.example.org");
+        return new ConfigSource() {
+            @Override
+            public String getString(String path) {
+                return values.get(path);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public long getLong(String path, long defaultValue) {
+                return defaultValue;
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    private static final class FakeSaveCoordinator implements SaveCoordinator {
+        final List<String> calls = new ArrayList<>();
+        boolean failForceSave;
+
+        @Override
+        public void disableAutoSave() {
+            calls.add("disableAutoSave");
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void forceSave() {
+            calls.add("forceSave");
+            if (failForceSave) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("simulated save failure");
+            }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void enableAutoSave() {
+            calls.add("enableAutoSave");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private record Upload(Path localFile, String s3Key) {}
+
+    private static final class FakeUploader implements WorldUploader {
+        final List<Upload> uploaded = new ArrayList<>();
+        boolean failUploads;
+
+        @Override
+        public void upload(Path localFile, String s3Key) {
+            if (failUploads) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("simulated upload failure");
+            }
+            uploaded.add(new Upload(localFile, s3Key));
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class FakeNotifier implements PushNotifier {
+        final List<PushSummary> summaries = new ArrayList<>();
+        boolean failNotifications;
+
+        @Override
+        public void notifyPushComplete(PushSummary summary) {
+            if (failNotifications) {
+                throw new RuntimeException("simulated notification failure");
+            }
+            summaries.add(summary);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushConfigTest.java b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushConfigTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c530e5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paper-worldpush/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/paper/WorldPushConfigTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+/**
+ * Apus - render and host BlueMap maps on Kubernetes.
+ * Copyright (C) 2026 OneLiteFeather and contributors
+ * <p>
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ * <p>
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ * <p>
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+package net.onelitefeather.apus.paper;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
+
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+class WorldPushConfigTest {
+
+    @Test
+    void validConfigParsesEveryField() {
+        WorldPushConfig config = WorldPushConfig.from(source(fullConfig()));
+
+        assertEquals("world", config.worldName());
+        assertEquals("acme", config.tenant());
+        assertEquals("survival-source", config.sourceName());
+        assertEquals("secret-token", config.pushToken());
+        assertEquals("apus-worldpush-staging", config.stagingDirectory());
+        assertEquals("https://s3.example.org", config.s3Endpoint());
+        assertEquals("apus-worlds", config.s3Bucket());
+        assertEquals("us-east-1", config.s3Region());
+        assertEquals("access-key", config.s3AccessKey());
+        assertEquals("secret-key", config.s3SecretKey());
+        assertEquals("staging/", config.s3StagingPrefix());
+        assertEquals("https://apus.example.org", config.apusApiBaseUrl().toString());
+        assertEquals(30, config.intervalMinutes());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void stagingPrefixIsNormalisedToEndWithASlash() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.put("s3.staging-prefix", "staging/acme");
+
+        WorldPushConfig config = WorldPushConfig.from(source(values));
+
+        assertEquals("staging/acme/", config.s3StagingPrefix());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void missingWorldNameFailsFast() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.remove("world-name");
+
+        WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException e =
+                assertThrows(WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> WorldPushConfig.from(source(values)));
+        org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("world-name"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void missingPushTokenFailsFast() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.remove("push-token");
+
+        assertThrows(WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> WorldPushConfig.from(source(values)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void missingSourceNameFailsFast() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.remove("world-source-name");
+
+        WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException e =
+                assertThrows(WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> WorldPushConfig.from(source(values)));
+        org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("world-source-name"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void blankS3CredentialsFailFast() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.put("s3.access-key", "  ");
+
+        assertThrows(WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> WorldPushConfig.from(source(values)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void malformedApiBaseUrlFailsFast() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.put("apus.api-base-url", "not a url");
+
+        assertThrows(WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> WorldPushConfig.from(source(values)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void relativeApiBaseUrlFailsFast() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.put("apus.api-base-url", "/api");
+
+        assertThrows(WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class, () -> WorldPushConfig.from(source(values)));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void zeroOrNegativeIntervalFailsFast() {
+        WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException e = assertThrows(
+                WorldPushConfig.ConfigurationException.class,
+                () -> WorldPushConfig.from(new ConfigSource() {
+                    @Override
+                    public String getString(String path) {
+                        return fullConfig().get(path);
+                    }
+
+                    @Override
+                    public long getLong(String path, long defaultValue) {
+                        return "schedule.interval-minutes".equals(path) ? 0 : defaultValue;
+                    }
+                }));
+        org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("interval-minutes"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void defaultsApplyWhenOptionalKeysAreAbsent() {
+        Map<String, String> values = fullConfig();
+        values.remove("staging-directory");
+        values.remove("s3.region");
+        values.remove("s3.staging-prefix");
+
+        WorldPushConfig config = WorldPushConfig.from(source(values));
+
+        assertEquals("apus-worldpush-staging", config.stagingDirectory());
+        assertEquals("us-east-1", config.s3Region());
+        assertEquals("staging/", config.s3StagingPrefix());
+        assertEquals(30, config.intervalMinutes());
+    }
+
+    private static Map<String, String> fullConfig() {
+        Map<String, String> values = new HashMap<>();
+        values.put("world-name", "world");
+        values.put("tenant", "acme");
+        values.put("world-source-name", "survival-source");
+        values.put("push-token", "secret-token");
+        values.put("staging-directory", "apus-worldpush-staging");
+        values.put("s3.endpoint", "https://s3.example.org");
+        values.put("s3.bucket", "apus-worlds");
+        values.put("s3.region", "us-east-1");
+        values.put("s3.access-key", "access-key");
+        values.put("s3.secret-key", "secret-key");
+        values.put("s3.staging-prefix", "staging/");
+        values.put("apus.api-base-url", "https://apus.example.org");
+        return values;
+    }
+
+    private static ConfigSource source(Map<String, String> values) {
+        return new ConfigSource() {
+            @Override
+            public String getString(String path) {
+                return values.get(path);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public long getLong(String path, long defaultValue) {
+                return "schedule.interval-minutes".equals(path) ? 30 : defaultValue;
+            }
+        };
+    }
+}
diff --git a/runner/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/runner/IngestRenderContractTest.java b/runner/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/runner/IngestRenderContractTest.java
index 5012b88..e1c6772 100644
--- a/runner/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/runner/IngestRenderContractTest.java
+++ b/runner/src/test/java/net/onelitefeather/apus/runner/IngestRenderContractTest.java
@@ -71,9 +71,15 @@ class IngestRenderContractTest {
     private static final String SOURCE_KEY = "v1.zip";
 
     private static final String BUNDLE_TENANT = "acme";
+    // The owning WorldSource's name -- required by IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME and, per
+    // BundlePath, the second path segment (tenant/sourceName/worldId/version). This constant and
+    // the env var below were missing from this test even after that requirement was introduced;
+    // fixed as a drive-by while touching IngestConfig for phase 6 (unrelated to push/upload).
+    private static final String BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME = "demo-source";
     private static final String BUNDLE_WORLD_ID = "spawn";
     private static final String BUNDLE_VERSION = "v1";
-    private static final String BUNDLE_PATH = BUNDLE_TENANT + "/" + BUNDLE_WORLD_ID + "/" + BUNDLE_VERSION;
+    private static final String BUNDLE_PATH =
+            BUNDLE_TENANT + "/" + BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME + "/" + BUNDLE_WORLD_ID + "/" + BUNDLE_VERSION;
 
     // What LayoutDetector.detect must normalise a Bukkit-layout source's sibling folders
     // (world, world_nether, world_the_end) to -- the "core of normalisation" the phase 2b plan
@@ -183,6 +189,7 @@ private static int runIngest(MinIOContainer minio, Path workDir) {
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_SOURCE_VERSION, SOURCE_KEY);
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_BUCKET, MinioFixtures.WORLD_BUCKET);
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_TENANT, BUNDLE_TENANT);
+        env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME, BUNDLE_SOURCE_NAME);
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_WORLD_ID, BUNDLE_WORLD_ID);
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_BUNDLE_VERSION, BUNDLE_VERSION);
         env.put(IngestConfig.ENV_S3_ENDPOINT, minio.getS3URL());
@@ -259,19 +266,35 @@ private static void assertManifestIsComplete(BundleManifest manifest) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Independently cross-checks the manifest's claims against what MinIO actually holds: exactly
-     * the expected six region objects plus the manifest itself, no more, no less, and -- read
+     * Content {@link net.onelitefeather.apus.ingest.BundleWriter} writes alongside the mandatory
+     * region files, exactly as documented in the design spec's bundle layout (see {@code
+     * docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-08-apus-design.md}, "worlds/&lt;tenant&gt;/&lt;world-id&gt;/
+     * &lt;version&gt;/" section): the world's {@code level.dat} at the bundle root, and, per
+     * dimension and only "falls vorhanden" (if present in the source), {@code entities/}/{@code
+     * poi/} region-shaped files. This fixture's source world never has entities/poi siblings, so
+     * only {@code level.dat} shows up in practice today, but the pattern is written to already
+     * cover entities/poi too, so a future fixture that exercises them does not have to touch this
+     * assertion again.
+     */
+    private static final Pattern DOCUMENTED_SIDECAR_KEY =
+            Pattern.compile("level\\.dat|dimensions/[^/]+/(entities|poi)/r\\.-?\\d+\\.-?\\d+\\.mca");
+
+    /**
+     * Independently cross-checks the manifest's claims against what MinIO actually holds: every
+     * mandatory object (the manifest itself, plus every region file the manifest lists) must be
+     * present, and anything beyond that must be bundle content the design spec documents ({@link
+     * #DOCUMENTED_SIDECAR_KEY}) -- never a stray or misplaced object. Also checked -- read
      * straight from real object timestamps, not from a fake client's call log the way {@code
      * BundleWriterTest} already proves this in isolation -- the manifest is the object with the
      * latest {@code lastModified} of the bundle, i.e. it really was written last against a real
      * S3-compatible store, not merely in a unit test double.
      */
     private static void assertRealBucketListingMatchesTheManifestWithManifestWrittenLast(Network network) {
-        Set<String> expectedKeys = new LinkedHashSet<>();
-        expectedKeys.add("manifest.json");
+        Set<String> requiredKeys = new LinkedHashSet<>();
+        requiredKeys.add("manifest.json");
         for (String dimension : LOGICAL_DIMENSIONS) {
             for (String regionFile : REGION_FILE_NAMES) {
-                expectedKeys.add("dimensions/" + dimension + "/region/" + regionFile);
+                requiredKeys.add("dimensions/" + dimension + "/region/" + regionFile);
             }
         }
 
@@ -301,7 +324,25 @@ private static void assertRealBucketListingMatchesTheManifestWithManifestWritten
             lastModifiedByKey.put(keyMatcher.group(1), Instant.parse(lastModifiedMatcher.group(1)));
         }
 
-        assertEquals(expectedKeys, lastModifiedByKey.keySet(), "bucket must hold exactly the bundle's own objects:\n" + logs);
+        Set<String> actualKeys = lastModifiedByKey.keySet();
+        Set<String> missingKeys = new LinkedHashSet<>(requiredKeys);
+        missingKeys.removeAll(actualKeys);
+        assertTrue(
+                missingKeys.isEmpty(),
+                "bucket must hold every mandatory bundle object (manifest.json plus every region file the "
+                        + "manifest lists); missing: " + missingKeys + "\n" + logs);
+
+        Set<String> unexpectedKeys = new LinkedHashSet<>();
+        for (String key : actualKeys) {
+            if (!requiredKeys.contains(key) && !DOCUMENTED_SIDECAR_KEY.matcher(key).matches()) {
+                unexpectedKeys.add(key);
+            }
+        }
+        assertTrue(
+                unexpectedKeys.isEmpty(),
+                "bucket must hold only the bundle's own objects -- mandatory region files/manifest.json plus "
+                        + "sidecar content the design spec documents (level.dat, entities/, poi/); unexpected: "
+                        + unexpectedKeys + "\n" + logs);
 
         Instant manifestWrittenAt = lastModifiedByKey.get("manifest.json");
         for (Map.Entry<String, Instant> entry : lastModifiedByKey.entrySet()) {
diff --git a/settings.gradle.kts b/settings.gradle.kts
index 85d086d..e39482f 100644
--- a/settings.gradle.kts
+++ b/settings.gradle.kts
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 rootProject.name = "Apus"
 
-include("telemetry-addon", "runner", "operator", "ingest", "api")
+include("telemetry-addon", "runner", "operator", "ingest", "api", "paper-worldpush")
 
 dependencyResolutionManagement {
     repositories {
         mavenCentral()
         maven("https://repo.bluecolored.de/releases")
+        // paper-api, for :paper-worldpush -- see that module's own note in this file for why
+        // it depends on a foreign version track instead of the rest of this catalog.
+        maven("https://repo.papermc.io/repository/maven-public/")
     }
     versionCatalogs {
         create("libs") {
@@ -133,6 +136,11 @@ dependencyResolutionManagement {
             library("fabric8.server.mock", "io.fabric8", "kubernetes-server-mock").versionRef("fabric8")
 
             library("aws.sdk.bom", "software.amazon.awssdk", "bom").versionRef("aws-sdk")
+            // software.amazon.awssdk.services.s3.presigner.S3Presigner (used by the `api` module's
+            // POST /api/uploads, design spec §11.1, to hand out presigned multipart-upload part
+            // URLs) ships inside this same artifact in this SDK major version -- verified directly
+            // against the resolved s3-2.46.7.jar on 2026-08-09; there is no separate
+            // `s3-presigner` artifact to depend on (an earlier SDK version did have one).
             library("aws.sdk.s3", "software.amazon.awssdk", "s3").withoutVersion()
 
             library("jackson.bom", "com.fasterxml.jackson", "jackson-bom").versionRef("jackson")
@@ -140,6 +148,22 @@ dependencyResolutionManagement {
 
             library("cron.utils", "com.cronutils", "cron-utils").versionRef("cron-utils")
 
+            // Paper API, for :paper-worldpush (phase 6, task 1) -- the plugin that lets a live
+            // Paper server push its own world instead of Apus pulling it. Deliberately its own
+            // version() entry rather than reusing anything above: like bluemap-core/bluemap-api,
+            // this tracks a fast-moving third-party project (see §4 of the design spec, "eigene
+            // Release-Spur"), not this repo's own version. Pinned to a specific stable build
+            // rather than the floating "26.2.build.+" range PaperMC's own setup docs show, to
+            // keep this build reproducible -- the same reasoning already applied to every other
+            // pinned version in this catalog. Verified against
+            // https://repo.papermc.io/repository/maven-public/io/papermc/paper/paper-api/maven-metadata.xml
+            // on 2026-08-09: 26.2.build.111-stable is the newest build on the "stable" channel
+            // (id 111, 2026-08-07). Minecraft/Paper 26.2 is the current version line (PaperMC
+            // moved off the old 1.21.x scheme); api-version in paper-plugin.yml uses the short
+            // "26.2" form the same metadata/docs use.
+            version("paper-api", "26.2.build.111-stable")
+            library("paper.api", "io.papermc.paper", "paper-api").versionRef("paper-api")
+
             plugin("spotless", "com.diffplug.spotless").versionRef("spotless")
             plugin("shadow", "com.gradleup.shadow").versionRef("shadow")
         }