diff --git a/crab/docs/architecture/indexed-remote-reads.md b/crab/docs/architecture/indexed-remote-reads.md
index 1968be230..00c2fffc5 100644
--- a/crab/docs/architecture/indexed-remote-reads.md
+++ b/crab/docs/architecture/indexed-remote-reads.md
@@ -2130,3 +2130,27 @@ relaxed. Both updated fixtures pass against the unchanged #570 root consumer
 (23 commands, 23 checks), and the 11 source-isolation tests pass. The explicit
 v1 upgrade/reset fixtures remain separate. Full final-source canary proof is
 still pending.
+
+## Forced publication without a local remote tip
+
+A clone can diverge after another writer advances the remote. Its explicit
+force push must not require fetching the discarded tip. Capsule admission now
+allows an unavailable ancestry result only for an explicitly forced update or
+matched ref lease when receive policy permits rewrites. Stale leases and
+`receive.denyNonFastForwards` still reject; publication retains its expected-old
+conditional transition. Real ancestry-probe errors remain errors.
+
+Proven fast-forwards and rewrites with an available prior tip keep incremental
+visibility. Rewrites lacking that tip publish the
+existing authenticated replacement-closure representation, walking only the
+new tip. This removes old objects from that ref's authorization without reading
+discarded history. Pack generation and LFS publication already exclude only
+remote tips present in the local object database. Both native CLI and Git
+remote-helper publication use this capsule owner.
+
+The regression matrix covers ordinary, forced, matched/stale lease and denied
+updates with the old remote commit absent locally. Successful rewrites verify
+the remote tip, revoke old-tip visibility, install packs into an independent
+repository and run Git connectivity checks. The existing RustFS ref matrix
+also exercises native and remote-helper force pushes without fetching first.
+These tests remain pending until the updated-source CI run completes.
diff --git a/crab/scripts/e2e/run_add_commit_push_rustfs_smoke.py b/crab/scripts/e2e/run_add_commit_push_rustfs_smoke.py
index 17f2f63d9..dad662289 100755
--- a/crab/scripts/e2e/run_add_commit_push_rustfs_smoke.py
+++ b/crab/scripts/e2e/run_add_commit_push_rustfs_smoke.py
@@ -960,6 +960,17 @@ def run_ref_update_delete_force_and_tag_case(self) -> None:
             {"expected": third},
         )
 
+        missing_tip = self.run_git(
+            contender,
+            ["cat-file", "-e", third],
+            name=f"{case_name} remote tip absent locally",
+            check=False,
+        )
+        self.check(
+            f"{case_name}-force-push-does-not-require-fetch",
+            missing_tip.exit_code != 0,
+            {"remote_tip": third},
+        )
         self.run_git(contender, ["push", "--force", "origin", "main"])
         self.check(
             f"{case_name}-force-push-updates-tip",
@@ -970,6 +981,20 @@ def run_ref_update_delete_force_and_tag_case(self) -> None:
             {"expected": divergent},
         )
 
+        self.run_crab(
+            repo,
+            ["push", "--force", "origin", "main"],
+            name=f"{case_name} native force without fetching contender",
+        )
+        self.check(
+            f"{case_name}-native-force-push-updates-tip",
+            self.ls_remote(remote_url, name=f"{case_name} list after native force").get(
+                "refs/heads/main"
+            )
+            == third,
+            {"expected": third},
+        )
+        self.run_git(contender, ["push", "--force", "origin", "main"])
         self.run_git(contender, ["tag", "-a", "v1", "-m", "version one"])
         tag_oid = self.rev_parse(contender, "refs/tags/v1")
         self.run_git(contender, ["push", "--follow-tags", "origin", "main"])
diff --git a/crab/src/git/capsule_push.rs b/crab/src/git/capsule_push.rs
index ae657e236..33cd317ac 100644
--- a/crab/src/git/capsule_push.rs
+++ b/crab/src/git/capsule_push.rs
@@ -257,12 +257,18 @@ async fn run_inner(
             } else {
                 is_ancestor(&common_git_dir, old_oid, &new_oid)?
             };
-            let Some(is_fast_forward) = is_fast_forward else {
-                outcomes.insert(
-                    spec.dst.clone(),
-                    RefPushOutcome::Rejected(PushRejectReason::StaleInfo),
-                );
-                continue;
+            let is_fast_forward = match is_fast_forward {
+                Some(proven) => proven,
+                // A forced rewrite need not have fetched the remote tip. The ref
+                // lease was checked above; publication still compares the old tip.
+                None if update.force && !config.receive_deny_non_fast_forwards => false,
+                None => {
+                    outcomes.insert(
+                        spec.dst.clone(),
+                        RefPushOutcome::Rejected(PushRejectReason::StaleInfo),
+                    );
+                    continue;
+                }
             };
             let decision = if !is_fast_forward && config.receive_deny_non_fast_forwards {
                 Err(PushRejectReason::DenyNonFastForward)
@@ -736,6 +742,15 @@ fn prepare_visibility_delta(
 ) -> Result<Option<crab_metadata::capsule_protocol::CapsuleVisibilityDelta>> {
     let maximum = usize::try_from(crab_metadata::git_visibility::MAX_GIT_VISIBILITY_OBJECTS)
         .map_err(|_| CrabError::Internal("Git visibility limit does not fit usize".to_owned()))?;
+    let rewritten_old_refs = edits
+        .iter()
+        .filter(|edit| edit.new_oid().is_some() && !fast_forward_refs.contains(edit.ref_name()))
+        .filter_map(|edit| {
+            edit.expected_old()
+                .map(|oid| (edit.ref_name().to_owned(), oid.to_owned()))
+        })
+        .collect();
+    let available_old_tips = locally_available_remote_tips(git_dir, &rewritten_old_refs)?;
     let mut visibility = BTreeMap::new();
     for edit in edits {
         let Some(new_oid) = edit.new_oid() else {
@@ -756,7 +771,10 @@ fn prepare_visibility_delta(
                 pack_objects.iter().map(ToString::to_string).collect(),
                 Vec::new(),
             )
-        } else if let Some(old_oid) = edit.expected_old() {
+        } else if let Some(old_oid) = edit.expected_old()
+            && (fast_forward_refs.contains(edit.ref_name())
+                || available_old_tips.iter().any(|tip| tip == old_oid))
+        {
             let added = super::push::enumerate_visibility_difference(
                 git_dir,
                 new_oid,
@@ -784,11 +802,13 @@ fn prepare_visibility_delta(
                 removed,
             )
         } else {
+            // Rewrites may lack the old tip locally. A complete replacement
+            // closure revokes its visibility without fetching discarded history.
             let objects =
                 super::push::enumerate_visibility_difference(git_dir, new_oid, None, maximum)?
                     .ok_or_else(|| visibility_limit_error(edit.ref_name()))?;
             crab_metadata::git_visibility::GitVisibilityEdit::from_replacement_objects(
-                None,
+                edit.expected_old().map(str::to_owned),
                 new_oid.to_owned(),
                 objects,
             )
@@ -1416,6 +1436,156 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn force_rewrite_without_local_remote_tip_preserves_policy_and_visibility() {
+        let _git_env = crate::test::git_repo::CleanGitEnvGuard::new();
+        for (name, force, lease, deny, succeeds) in [
+            ("ordinary", false, None, false, false),
+            ("force", true, None, false, true),
+            ("lease", false, Some(true), false, true),
+            ("stale-lease", true, Some(false), false, false),
+            ("deny-force", true, None, true, false),
+            ("deny-lease", false, Some(true), true, false),
+        ] {
+            let source = tempfile::tempdir().expect("source repository");
+            git(source.path(), &["init", "-b", "main"]);
+            git(source.path(), &["config", "user.name", "Crab Test"]);
+            git(
+                source.path(),
+                &["config", "user.email", "crab@example.invalid"],
+            );
+            let first = commit(source.path(), "first");
+            let contender_root = tempfile::tempdir().expect("contender directory");
+            let contender = contender_root.path().join("repo");
+            git(
+                contender_root.path(),
+                &[
+                    "clone",
+                    "--no-local",
+                    source.path().to_str().unwrap(),
+                    "repo",
+                ],
+            );
+            git(&contender, &["config", "user.name", "Crab Test"]);
+            git(
+                &contender,
+                &["config", "user.email", "crab@example.invalid"],
+            );
+            let second = commit(source.path(), "second");
+            let divergent = commit(&contender, "divergent");
+            let git_dir = contender.join(".git");
+            assert_eq!(
+                is_ancestor(&git_dir, &second, &divergent).unwrap(),
+                None,
+                "{name}"
+            );
+
+            let store = crate::storage::store::Store::from_storage(crab_storage::Store::new(
+                Arc::new(InMemory::new()),
+            ));
+            let router = crate::storage::StoreLayout::new(store.clone(), "repos/test".to_owned());
+            let layout =
+                crab_storage::StoreLayout::new(store.as_storage().clone(), "repos/test".to_owned());
+            crab_write::capsule_protocol::initialize(&layout, &"1".repeat(64), "refs/heads/main")
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+            let limits = crab_read::capsule_protocol::CapsuleReadLimits {
+                max_capsule_bytes: 16 * 1024 * 1024,
+                max_frontier_bytes: 16 * 1024 * 1024,
+            };
+            let spec = PushSpec {
+                force: false,
+                src: "refs/heads/main".to_owned(),
+                dst: "refs/heads/main".to_owned(),
+            };
+            let config = PushConfig {
+                git_dir: Some(source.path().join(".git")),
+                ..PushConfig::default()
+            };
+            let (initial, _) = run(
+                &config,
+                std::slice::from_ref(&spec),
+                &store,
+                &router,
+                None,
+                &[],
+                None,
+                None,
+                None,
+                &CancellationToken::new(),
+            )
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+            assert!(initial.all_ok(), "{name}: initial publication");
+            let mut config = PushConfig {
+                git_dir: Some(git_dir),
+                receive_deny_non_fast_forwards: deny,
+                ..PushConfig::default()
+            };
+            if let Some(matches) = lease {
+                config.expected_refs.insert(
+                    "refs/heads/main".to_owned(),
+                    Some(if matches { second.clone() } else { first }),
+                );
+            }
+            let spec = PushSpec { force, ..spec };
+            let (result, _) = run(
+                &config,
+                &[spec],
+                &store,
+                &router,
+                None,
+                &[],
+                None,
+                None,
+                None,
+                &CancellationToken::new(),
+            )
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(result.all_ok(), succeeds, "{name}");
+            let view = crab_read::capsule_protocol::open_view(&layout, limits)
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(
+                view.refs()["refs/heads/main"],
+                if succeeds {
+                    divergent.clone()
+                } else {
+                    second.clone()
+                },
+                "{name}: remote tip"
+            );
+            if succeeds {
+                let visibility = view.git_visibility_index().unwrap();
+                let refs = visibility.ref_closures();
+                let closure = &refs["refs/heads/main"];
+                assert!(
+                    closure.binary_search(&divergent).is_ok()
+                        && closure.binary_search(&second).is_err(),
+                    "{name}: rewrite must retire old visibility"
+                );
+                let destination = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+                git(destination.path(), &["init", "--bare"]);
+                crab_read::capsule_protocol::install_git_packs_from_store(
+                    &view,
+                    &layout,
+                    destination.path(),
+                    16 * 1024 * 1024,
+                    None,
+                    &CancellationToken::new(),
+                )
+                .await
+                .unwrap();
+                git(
+                    destination.path(),
+                    &["cat-file", "-e", &format!("{divergent}^{{commit}}")],
+                );
+                git(destination.path(), &["fsck", "--connectivity-only"]);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn missing_remote_tip_requests_refresh_instead_of_internal_failure() {
         let source = tempfile::tempdir().expect("source repository");