diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 051aef7..12b73b9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -441,6 +441,12 @@ Attached PDFs are searchable too. After any attach (the admin form, `POST /api/v
 
 Configuration, in the app's `config/search.yaml`: `search.driver`, `search.prefix`, `search.typesense.host`, `port`, `protocol` and `connection_timeout_seconds`. The API key goes only in the environment, `SUMMER_SEARCH__TYPESENSE__API_KEY`; with no key the engine is not configured, nothing is sent and every search answers 503.
 
+## Realtime
+
+An open editor learns of a newer revision before its own save (D-20); the save-time 409 stays the guarantee. After every write that bumps a material's revision (the author's `PUT /_bm/api/v1/materials/{id}`, the management `PUT` and `POST` upsert, so also `bm-notatka push` and the MCP tools, and a `/bmadmin` save) the server enqueues, on the write's own transaction, one broadcast on channel `materials:{id}` with event `updated.jz.bm.material` and payload `{"material_id": 5, "revision": 4}`. It is published only if the write commits, and only ids and the revision number travel, never content. The enqueue runs in a savepoint: a failure is logged and never fails or loses the save. A write that does not bump (visibility, shares, unpublish, files, identical content) publishes nothing (`classes.MaterialRevisionNotifier`).
+
+jz.bm owns the realtime namespace `materials`. Its authorizer accepts only channels of the form `materials:{id}` (`^materials:[1-9][0-9]{0,18}$`; a `presence:` prefix, a leading zero or trailing characters are denied) and allows a subscribe only when the material is visible to the user and they may manage it: `jz.bm.access_materials` and its author, or any such user while it has no author (`api.CanWatchMaterial`), checked on current state at every subscribe. The connection-token guard `jz.bm.realtime-access` admits material managers besides chat-group members and presentation owners, so every possible editor can get a token; the token and subscribe-proxy routes are mounted only while `golem15.chat` or `golem15.presentations` is active. The Centrifugo instance needs the `materials` namespace (see the app's `DEPLOY.md`).
+
 ## CLI commands
 
 ### bm:materials-reindex
diff --git a/plugin.go b/plugin.go
index 59707d6..b6969eb 100644
--- a/plugin.go
+++ b/plugin.go
@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ type Plugin struct {
 	// their own.
 	watchMaterial func(ctx context.Context, db *gorm.DB, userID, id uint) (bool, error)
 	// materialManager is the material-manager check of the realtime access
-	// guard; nil means api.ManagesMaterials. Tests inject their own.
+	// guard (Assumption A5: every possible editor gets a connection token
+	// for the materials heads-up); nil means api.ManagesMaterials. Tests
+	// inject their own.
 	materialManager func(ctx context.Context, db *gorm.DB, userID uint) (bool, error)
 	// materialIndex searches the materials index and keeps it current. Nil
 	// when Boot did not run: then search answers 503 and syncs are skipped.
diff --git a/realtime_access.go b/realtime_access.go
index c74f8bc..3676773 100644
--- a/realtime_access.go
+++ b/realtime_access.go
@@ -9,11 +9,15 @@ import (
 	"git.golem15.com/golem15/summercms/modules/party"
 	"git.golem15.com/golem15/summercms/modules/wire"
 	"git.golem15.com/jakub/sm-bm-plugin/classes"
+	"git.golem15.com/jakub/sm-bm-plugin/controllers/api"
 )
 
 // MiddlewareRealtimeAccess guards the realtime connection-token route: a
 // token is minted only for someone with a realtime consumer, a chat-group
-// member or a presentation owner. It runs after jwt.auth.
+// member, a material manager (jz.bm.access_materials, for the live revision
+// heads-up of the materials they edit) or a presentation owner. It runs
+// after jwt.auth. The token only opens the socket: every channel is still
+// authorized by its namespace's authorizer.
 const MiddlewareRealtimeAccess = "jz.bm.realtime-access"
 
 // presentationsOwnerGuard is golem15.presentations' owner guard, named
@@ -28,9 +32,9 @@ func (p *Plugin) Middlewares() map[string]pact.Middleware {
 	}
 }
 
-// realtimeAccess lets a chat-group member through, otherwise, when
-// golem15.presentations is active, whoever its owner guard lets through
-// (it answers its own refusals), and refuses everyone else. The owner guard
+// realtimeAccess lets a chat-group member or a material manager through,
+// otherwise, when golem15.presentations is active, whoever its owner guard
+// lets through (it answers its own refusals), and refuses everyone else. The owner guard
 // is looked up once, by name, among the activated plugins. With BM's own
 // Centrifugo instance the tokens it mints are valid for BM only.
 func (p *Plugin) realtimeAccess(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
@@ -70,6 +74,19 @@ func (p *Plugin) realtimeAccess(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
 				return
 			}
 		}
+		isManager := p.materialManager
+		if isManager == nil {
+			isManager = api.ManagesMaterials
+		}
+		manager, err := isManager(r.Context(), db, user.ID)
+		if err != nil {
+			writeRealtimeGuard(w, http.StatusServiceUnavailable, "Service unavailable")
+			return
+		}
+		if manager {
+			next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+			return
+		}
 		if p.app.HasPlugin("golem15.presentations") {
 			if h := ownerGuard(); h != nil {
 				h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
diff --git a/realtime_access_test.go b/realtime_access_test.go
index ad3bf2b..efcf8ad 100644
--- a/realtime_access_test.go
+++ b/realtime_access_test.go
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ func chatGroupMember(_ context.Context, _ *gorm.DB, userID uint, group string) (
 	return group == "studenci" && userID == 7, nil
 }
 
+// materialManager is the injected material-manager check: user 9 holds
+// jz.bm.access_materials, user 14 makes the check fail.
+func materialManager(_ context.Context, _ *gorm.DB, userID uint) (bool, error) {
+	if userID == 14 {
+		return false, errors.New("database down")
+	}
+	return userID == 9, nil
+}
+
 // accessPlugin builds jz.bm on an app with the given active plugin ids, a
 // published (fake) database unless noDB, and golem15.presentations in the
 // activated list when withOwnerGuard.
@@ -71,7 +80,7 @@ func accessPlugin(t *testing.T, ids []string, noDB, withOwnerGuard bool) *Plugin
 	if err := app.Publish(activated); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	return &Plugin{app: app, chatMember: chatGroupMember}
+	return &Plugin{app: app, chatMember: chatGroupMember, materialManager: materialManager}
 }
 
 func TestRealtimeAccess(t *testing.T) {
@@ -96,6 +105,10 @@ func TestRealtimeAccess(t *testing.T) {
 		{"no database", both, true, true, 7, http.StatusServiceUnavailable},
 		{"membership check fails", both, false, true, 13, http.StatusServiceUnavailable},
 		{"no consumer", []string{"golem15.user", "jz.bm"}, false, false, 7, http.StatusForbidden},
+		{"material manager", both, false, true, 9, http.StatusOK},
+		{"material manager without chat", presOnly, false, true, 9, http.StatusOK},
+		{"material manager without presentations", chatOnly, false, false, 9, http.StatusOK},
+		{"manager check fails", both, false, true, 14, http.StatusServiceUnavailable},
 	} {
 		p := accessPlugin(t, c.ids, c.noDB, c.guard)
 		mw, ok := p.Middlewares()[MiddlewareRealtimeAccess]
diff --git a/routes.go b/routes.go
index 2d378d6..cc35f16 100644
--- a/routes.go
+++ b/routes.go
@@ -313,9 +313,13 @@ func (p *Plugin) Routes(r pact.Router) error {
 // (server-to-server, authenticated by its shared secret). The realtime
 // consumers are the BM chat (golem15.chat) and the phone remote of
 // golem15.presentations, so nothing is mounted without either, and the
-// token route is limited to chat-group members and presentation owners by
-// jz.bm.realtime-access, which reaches the presentations guard by name
-// without importing the plugin. Only the token route is throttled, per
+// token route is limited to chat-group members, material managers and
+// presentation owners by jz.bm.realtime-access, which reaches the
+// presentations guard by name without importing the plugin. The materials
+// heads-up (materials:{id}) rides on the same token and proxy routes, so
+// it is live whenever golem15.chat or golem15.presentations is active, as
+// on rome; without either the editor shows no live banner and the
+// save-time 409 still protects it. Only the token route is throttled, per
 // user. The subscribe proxy is called by Centrifugo from 127.0.0.1 for
 // every client, so any throttle there would be one shared bucket that a
 // single token holder could exhaust and lock everyone out; it relies on its