diff --git a/docs/OCI-DISTRIBUTION.md b/docs/OCI-DISTRIBUTION.md
index d941de8..1ff989b 100644
--- a/docs/OCI-DISTRIBUTION.md
+++ b/docs/OCI-DISTRIBUTION.md
@@ -74,16 +74,40 @@ cosign verify ghcr.io/pulseengine/falcon-flight:1.127.0 \
    already exist and be **public** (step 1) before submitting — an unpullable
    entry is rejected. Do this only after a real release has populated the package.
 
-   > Status: filed for `pulseengine` off falcon-v1.127.0 —
-   > [wasm.directory#466](https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/wasm.directory/issues/466)
-   > → auto-opened [PR #467](https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/wasm.directory/pull/467)
-   > (`registry/pulseengine.toml`), awaiting new-namespace maintainer review.
+   > Status: **LIVE** — the `pulseengine` namespace was accepted
+   > ([wasm.directory#466](https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/wasm.directory/issues/466)
+   > → [PR #467](https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/wasm.directory/pull/467) merged);
+   > indexed at <https://wasm.directory/pulseengine/falcon-flight/1.128.0>.
 
    wasm.directory is **alpha** ("indexed data may be incomplete or reset without
    notice; don't depend on it in production") — treat the listing as a visibility
    channel, not a dependency. The durable, signed artifacts remain the GitHub
    Release and the ghcr OCI ref.
 
+## Component metadata contract (what wasm.directory renders)
+
+wasm.directory shows a component's **WIT interface** (with its `///` doc comments)
+plus the **embedded package metadata** — `description`, `licenses`, `source`,
+`authors`, `version` — which `cargo-component` bakes into the wasm
+`package-metadata` section from the crate's `Cargo.toml`. Empty metadata → a bare
+listing. So **every published relay component MUST carry**, in its (standalone)
+`Cargo.toml` — it can't inherit the workspace root:
+
+```toml
+description = "<one sentence a stranger understands — lead with what it IS>"
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+repository = "https://github.com/pulseengine/relay"
+documentation = "<link to the docs for this component>"
+authors = ["PulseEngine"]
+keywords = ["flight-control", "verified", "drone", "embedded", "wasm"]
+categories = ["aerospace", "science::robotics"]
+```
+
+…and a WIT world/interface with real `///` doc comments (the interface docs come
+straight from the WIT). This is the metadata pattern the per-component publishing
+(the `falcon-rate`/estimator/mixer components, jess#167) inherits — a listing is
+only as informative as the metadata the component carries.
+
 ## Scope note
 
 `falcon:flight`'s current world (`flight-demo`) exports two runnable smoke-test
diff --git a/wasm/cm/flight/Cargo.toml b/wasm/cm/flight/Cargo.toml
index 7329fad..034f8c8 100644
--- a/wasm/cm/flight/Cargo.toml
+++ b/wasm/cm/flight/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,22 @@
 [package]
 name = "falcon-flight-component"
-description = "The verified falcon flight core (IEKF → geometric SE(3) → ADRC → mixer) as a WebAssembly Component Model component — the portable, wasmtime-runnable artifact the toolchain-to-hardware integration (meld → loom → synth → gale) consumes. (v1.26.0)"
+description = "Formally-verified drone flight core (invariant-EKF estimator → geometric SE(3) attitude control → ADRC → mixer) as a portable WebAssembly Component. Runs the same cascade that is Kani/Verus/Rocq/Lean-verified natively and bare-metal on Cortex-M."
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 publish = false
+# Embedded component metadata — cargo-component bakes these into the wasm
+# `package-metadata` section, and wasm.directory renders them (description,
+# licenses, source) alongside the WIT. Standalone crate (own [workspace]),
+# so it can't inherit the repo root's fields — set them explicitly. This is
+# the metadata contract for EVERY published relay component (see
+# docs/OCI-DISTRIBUTION.md).
+license = "Apache-2.0"
+repository = "https://github.com/pulseengine/relay"
+homepage = "https://pulseengine.eu"
+documentation = "https://github.com/pulseengine/relay/blob/main/docs/OCI-DISTRIBUTION.md"
+authors = ["PulseEngine"]
+keywords = ["flight-control", "verified", "drone", "embedded", "wasm"]
+categories = ["aerospace", "science::robotics"]
 
 [dependencies]
 falcon-core = { path = "../../../crates/falcon-core" }