diff --git a/src/core/bridge-mesh.ts b/src/core/bridge-mesh.ts
index d6dc311b..e8ae461d 100644
--- a/src/core/bridge-mesh.ts
+++ b/src/core/bridge-mesh.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ export function createBridgeMeshSync(
       store.roomVerbHandlers,
       undefined,
       () => store.selfStatus,
+      undefined,
+      () => store.hostedRooms,
     ),
   );
   const tool = new CommsTool(store, store.discovery);
diff --git a/src/core/mesh-store.ts b/src/core/mesh-store.ts
index d417e7a8..0b30db84 100644
--- a/src/core/mesh-store.ts
+++ b/src/core/mesh-store.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { ConnectionApproval } from "./connection-approval.js";
 import { StaleAgentChecker } from "./stale-agent-checker.js";
 import { PeerLifecycle } from "./peer-lifecycle.js";
 import type { RoomVerbHandler } from "./room-router.js";
+import type { HostedRoomAdvert } from "./wire-mesh-transport.js";
 import type {
   MeshStatePatch,
   PeerInfo,
@@ -107,6 +108,22 @@ export class MeshStore implements CommsStore {
     return this.agents.get(this.peerId)?.status;
   }
 
+  /** This store's own currently-hosted public/private rooms, synchronously, in the lightweight gossip-safe shape WireMeshTransport's own hosted-rooms re-advertisement timer reads on every tick -- the write half of P3.8's room-discovery replacement for createRoom's own broadcastPatch (agent-comms#48). Secret rooms are never included (never worth advertising at all), and a room this store has merely replicated via the legacy room_upsert broadcast, rather than owns, is excluded too -- "hosted" means "this device is the one a joiner should actually reach", which only its own owner is. */
+  get hostedRooms(): readonly HostedRoomAdvert[] {
+    const result: HostedRoomAdvert[] = [];
+    for (const room of this.rooms.values()) {
+      if (room.owner !== this.peerId) continue;
+      if (room.type !== "public" && room.type !== "private") continue;
+      result.push({
+        path: room.id,
+        name: room.name,
+        type: room.type,
+        description: room.description,
+      });
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
   /** Whether the mesh has a live coordinator connection. */
   get connected(): boolean {
     return (
diff --git a/src/test/mesh-store-orchestration.test.ts b/src/test/mesh-store-orchestration.test.ts
index 3a776495..936a80da 100644
--- a/src/test/mesh-store-orchestration.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/mesh-store-orchestration.test.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { MeshStore } from "../core/mesh-store.js";
 import type { ConnectionHandle, MeshTransport } from "../core/transport.js";
 import type { ManageOutcome } from "wire-mesh-core/domain/mesh-session";
 import type { PeerInfo } from "../core/wire-protocol.js";
+import type { Room } from "../core/types.js";
 
 /** A device-id is a 64-character lowercase hex SHA-256 digest; room-path.ts's assertDeviceIdHex rejects anything shorter. */
 const DEVICE_ID_HEX_LENGTH = 64;
@@ -95,6 +96,90 @@ describe("MeshStore — connected getter", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("MeshStore — hostedRooms getter", () => {
+  function room(overrides: Partial<Room> = {}): Room {
+    return {
+      id: "owner-device/general",
+      version: 1,
+      name: "general",
+      type: "public",
+      owner: "owner-device",
+      createdAt: "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+      description: "chat",
+      members: ["owner-device"],
+      invited: [],
+      memberJoins: { "owner-device": 1 },
+      memberLeaves: {},
+      invitedJoins: {},
+      invitedLeaves: {},
+      ...overrides,
+    };
+  }
+
+  it("includes only this store's own public/private rooms, mapped to the gossip-safe shape", () => {
+    const store = new MeshStore();
+    store.peerId = "owner-device";
+    const rooms = collaborator(store, "rooms") as Map<string, Room>;
+    rooms.set(
+      "owner-device/general",
+      room({ id: "owner-device/general", name: "general", type: "public" }),
+    );
+    rooms.set(
+      "owner-device/team",
+      room({
+        id: "owner-device/team",
+        name: "team",
+        type: "private",
+        description: "private chat",
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(store.hostedRooms).toEqual([
+      {
+        path: "owner-device/general",
+        name: "general",
+        type: "public",
+        description: "chat",
+      },
+      {
+        path: "owner-device/team",
+        name: "team",
+        type: "private",
+        description: "private chat",
+      },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it("excludes secret rooms, even when owned by this store", () => {
+    const store = new MeshStore();
+    store.peerId = "owner-device";
+    const rooms = collaborator(store, "rooms") as Map<string, Room>;
+    rooms.set(
+      "owner-device/_hidden",
+      room({ id: "owner-device/_hidden", name: "_hidden", type: "secret" }),
+    );
+
+    expect(store.hostedRooms).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("excludes rooms owned by a different device, even public/private ones this store has replicated", () => {
+    const store = new MeshStore();
+    store.peerId = "owner-device";
+    const rooms = collaborator(store, "rooms") as Map<string, Room>;
+    rooms.set(
+      "other-device/general",
+      room({
+        id: "other-device/general",
+        owner: "other-device",
+        name: "general",
+        type: "public",
+      }),
+    );
+
+    expect(store.hostedRooms).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
+
 describe("MeshStore — init()", () => {
   it("starts the data server, records its own peer info, connects to an existing coordinator, and unrefs -- without becoming coordinator", async () => {
     const store = new MeshStore();