diff --git a/src/backend/src/routes/api/webhooks/index.ts b/src/backend/src/routes/api/webhooks/index.ts
index 6f9c01ca..eeef805e 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/routes/api/webhooks/index.ts
+++ b/src/backend/src/routes/api/webhooks/index.ts
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ import { getSandbox } from '@cloudflare/sandbox';
 import { sanitizeRepoName } from '@/ai/mcp/tools/sandbox-sdk';
 import { AutomationRegistry } from '@/automations/core/AutomationRegistry';
 import { JulesService } from '@/services/jules/service';
-import { forwardPullRequestToMaestro } from '@/utils/maestro-fanout';
+import { forwardPullRequestToMaestro, forwardRawEventToMaestro } from '@/utils/maestro-fanout';
 
 const webhooksApi = new Hono<{ Bindings: Env }>();
 
@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ export async function webhookHandler(c: Context<{ Bindings: Env }>): Promise<Res
       forwardPullRequestToMaestro(c.env as never, deliveryId ?? '', payload as never)
     );
   }
+  // Repo lifecycle (repository / installation_repositories / push): forwarded
+  // raw and signed, because colby-maestro verifies the signature itself. The
+  // helper ignores every other event.
+  c.executionCtx.waitUntil(
+    forwardRawEventToMaestro(c.env as never, { event: eventName, deliveryId, signature }, rawBody)
+  );
 
   // PR Reviewer (Sandbox + AI Gateway)
   if (eventName === 'pull_request' && (action === 'opened' || action === 'reopened')) {
diff --git a/src/backend/src/utils/maestro-fanout.ts b/src/backend/src/utils/maestro-fanout.ts
index b58543c1..117f1548 100644
--- a/src/backend/src/utils/maestro-fanout.ts
+++ b/src/backend/src/utils/maestro-fanout.ts
@@ -130,3 +130,48 @@ export async function forwardPullRequestToMaestro(
     console.error("[maestro-fanout] forward failed:", error);
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * Repository lifecycle events colby-maestro acts on itself: a new repo, a repo
+ * added to the App installation, a push (Maestro filters to the default branch).
+ *
+ * Unlike the pull-request forward, these go through UNCHANGED - raw body plus
+ * GitHub's signature headers - because colby-maestro's `/api/github/webhook`
+ * verifies `x-hub-signature-256` itself. Re-serialising the body would break
+ * that signature.
+ */
+export const MAESTRO_RAW_EVENTS = new Set(["repository", "installation_repositories", "push"]);
+
+export async function forwardRawEventToMaestro(
+  env: MaestroEnv,
+  headers: { event: string; deliveryId: string; signature: string },
+  rawBody: string,
+): Promise<void> {
+  if (!MAESTRO_RAW_EVENTS.has(headers.event)) return;
+  if (!env.MAESTRO) {
+    console.log(`[maestro-fanout] no MAESTRO binding; ${headers.event} not forwarded`);
+    return;
+  }
+  try {
+    const response = await env.MAESTRO.fetch(
+      new Request("https://colby-maestro/api/github/webhook", {
+        method: "POST",
+        headers: {
+          "content-type": "application/json",
+          "x-github-event": headers.event,
+          "x-github-delivery": headers.deliveryId,
+          "x-hub-signature-256": headers.signature,
+        },
+        body: rawBody,
+      }),
+    );
+    if (!response.ok) {
+      console.error(
+        `[maestro-fanout] ${headers.event} ${headers.deliveryId} -> ${response.status}: ${(await response.text()).slice(0, 200)}`,
+      );
+    }
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Same rule as above: logged, never thrown.
+    console.error(`[maestro-fanout] ${headers.event} forward failed:`, error);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/unit/maestro-raw-forward.test.ts b/tests/unit/maestro-raw-forward.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..22e28291
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/maestro-raw-forward.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { forwardRawEventToMaestro } from '../../src/backend/src/utils/maestro-fanout';
+
+// A body whose exact bytes matter: whitespace and key order that JSON.parse +
+// JSON.stringify would normalise away, breaking the HMAC Maestro re-checks.
+const RAW = '{ "action":"created",\n  "repository": {"full_name":"jmbish04/x"} }';
+
+function fakeMaestro(status = 200) {
+  const calls: Request[] = [];
+  return {
+    calls,
+    env: { MAESTRO: { fetch: async (r: Request) => (calls.push(r), new Response('{}', { status })) } },
+  };
+}
+
+describe('forwardRawEventToMaestro', () => {
+  for (const event of ['repository', 'installation_repositories', 'push']) {
+    it(`forwards ${event} byte-for-byte with GitHub's signature headers`, async () => {
+      const m = fakeMaestro();
+      await forwardRawEventToMaestro(m.env, { event, deliveryId: 'd-1', signature: 'sha256=abc' }, RAW);
+      expect(m.calls).toHaveLength(1);
+      const req = m.calls[0];
+      expect(req.method).toBe('POST');
+      expect(new URL(req.url).pathname).toBe('/api/github/webhook');
+      expect(req.headers.get('x-github-event')).toBe(event);
+      expect(req.headers.get('x-github-delivery')).toBe('d-1');
+      expect(req.headers.get('x-hub-signature-256')).toBe('sha256=abc');
+      expect(req.headers.get('content-type')).toBe('application/json');
+      expect(await req.text()).toBe(RAW);
+    });
+  }
+
+  for (const event of ['issues', 'pull_request', 'check_run']) {
+    it(`does not forward ${event}`, async () => {
+      const m = fakeMaestro();
+      await forwardRawEventToMaestro(m.env, { event, deliveryId: 'd-2', signature: 'sha256=abc' }, RAW);
+      expect(m.calls).toHaveLength(0);
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('never throws when Maestro errors or is unreachable', async () => {
+    await expect(
+      forwardRawEventToMaestro(fakeMaestro(401).env, { event: 'push', deliveryId: 'd', signature: 's' }, RAW),
+    ).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+    const boom = { MAESTRO: { fetch: async () => { throw new Error('down'); } } };
+    await expect(
+      forwardRawEventToMaestro(boom, { event: 'push', deliveryId: 'd', signature: 's' }, RAW),
+    ).resolves.toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});