diff --git a/src/backend/clients/event/types.ts b/src/backend/clients/event/types.ts
index 8e0b651d3..d54e4abce 100644
--- a/src/backend/clients/event/types.ts
+++ b/src/backend/clients/event/types.ts
@@ -552,6 +552,17 @@ export type EventMap = {
         /** Events handler runs behind whatever created it. */
         handlerDepth?: number;
     };
+    /** Every non-silent write or update, only on the node that wrote it. */
+    'notif.written': {
+        userId: number;
+        uid: string;
+        type: string;
+        /** The row's app. Absent on an update, which keeps the row's own. */
+        appUid?: string | null;
+        value: Record<string, unknown>;
+        /** An earlier notification rewritten in place. */
+        updated?: true;
+    };
     /**
      * One notification, addressed at whatever sockets each region holds for the
      * recipient. `outer.*` reaches peer regions and never sibling nodes, so
diff --git a/src/backend/services/events/registry.ts b/src/backend/services/events/registry.ts
index 7389c47d7..3544c68e1 100644
--- a/src/backend/services/events/registry.ts
+++ b/src/backend/services/events/registry.ts
@@ -444,6 +444,10 @@ export const UNPUBLISHED_INTERNAL_EVENTS = [
         event: 'kv.share.retired',
         reason: 'A share handle stopping is not a change to any key; it ends the subscriptions made through the handle rather than being delivered to them.',
     },
+    {
+        event: 'notif.written',
+        reason: 'A node-local hook after a notification is written, for extensions; the notification itself publishes through `notif.created`.',
+    },
 ] as const satisfies readonly UnpublishedInternalEvent[];
 
 // Every `fs.*`/`kv.*`/`notif.*` bus key needs a decision. A new key that is in
diff --git a/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.test.ts b/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.test.ts
index 93e4463aa..68f8d14af 100644
--- a/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.test.ts
+++ b/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.test.ts
@@ -338,6 +338,79 @@ describe('NotificationService.notifyUpdate', () => {
     });
 });
 
+describe("NotificationService — 'notif.written'", () => {
+    it('fires once per recipient whose row was written', async () => {
+        const a = await makeUser();
+        const b = await makeUser();
+        const appUid = `app-${uuidv4()}`;
+        const written = collect('notif.written');
+
+        await notifications.notify(
+            [a.id, b.id],
+            { title: 'ended' },
+            { type: 'app.events.ended', appUid },
+        );
+        await waitFor(() => written.seen.length === 2);
+
+        const rows = await Promise.all(
+            [a, b].map((u) =>
+                server.stores.notification.listByUserId(u.id, {}),
+            ),
+        );
+        const expected = [a, b].map((u, i) => ({
+            userId: u.id,
+            uid: rows[i][0].uid,
+            type: 'app.events.ended',
+            appUid,
+            value: { title: 'ended', type: 'app.events.ended' },
+        }));
+        expect(written.seen).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(expected));
+        written.stop();
+    });
+
+    it('stays quiet for a silent write', async () => {
+        const user = await makeUser();
+        const written = collect('notif.written');
+
+        await notifications.notify(
+            [user.id],
+            { title: 'quiet' },
+            { type: 'share.received', silent: true },
+        );
+        await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 50));
+
+        expect(written.seen).toEqual([]);
+        written.stop();
+    });
+
+    it('marks a rewrite in place as updated', async () => {
+        const user = await makeUser();
+        const uid = await notifications.notify(
+            [user.id],
+            { title: 'one share' },
+            { type: 'share.received' },
+        );
+        const written = collect('notif.written');
+
+        await notifications.notifyUpdate(
+            uid!,
+            user.id,
+            { title: 'two shares' },
+            { type: 'share.received' },
+        );
+        await waitFor(() => written.seen.length === 1);
+
+        expect(written.seen[0]).toEqual({
+            userId: user.id,
+            uid,
+            type: 'share.received',
+            value: { title: 'two shares', type: 'share.received' },
+            updated: true,
+        });
+        written.stop();
+    });
+});
+
 describe('NotificationService.markAcknowledged', () => {
     it("acknowledges the row and pushes an ack to the user's other tabs", async () => {
         const user = await makeUser();
diff --git a/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.ts b/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.ts
index 078317a84..c12962a23 100644
--- a/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.ts
+++ b/src/backend/services/notification/NotificationService.ts
@@ -169,12 +169,24 @@ export class NotificationService extends PuterService {
                     return null;
                 }
 
-                if (!opts.silent)
+                if (!opts.silent) {
+                    this.clients.event.emit(
+                        'notif.written',
+                        {
+                            userId,
+                            uid,
+                            type: registered.type,
+                            appUid,
+                            value: payload,
+                        },
+                        {},
+                    );
                     await this.#push(userId, uid, payload, {
                         type: registered.type,
                         audience: registered.audience,
                         appUid,
                     });
+                }
                 return uid;
             }),
         );
@@ -217,6 +229,17 @@ export class NotificationService extends PuterService {
             // to anything deduplicating on `event.id`.
             this.#socket().message(userId, uid, payload);
             this.#markDelivered(uid, userId);
+            this.clients.event.emit(
+                'notif.written',
+                {
+                    userId,
+                    uid,
+                    type: registered.type,
+                    value: payload,
+                    updated: true,
+                },
+                {},
+            );
         }
         return true;
     }