diff --git a/docs/cultnet-transport-parity.md b/docs/cultnet-transport-parity.md
index 72917040..c8cb034c 100644
--- a/docs/cultnet-transport-parity.md
+++ b/docs/cultnet-transport-parity.md
@@ -398,7 +398,10 @@ Current progress:
   first peer authorized by the authority lease catalog for a Verse role. The
   facade delegates to the existing Rust schema registry, shard catalog, and RUDP
   socket transport owners; discovery contact remains separate from trust, which
-  is still gated by the authority lease catalog.
+  is still gated by the authority lease catalog. Rust RUDP transports now also
+  send and receive typed `cultnet.schema.v0` messages on the reliable ordered
+  `schema` channel, so callers do not have to hand-encode MessagePack payloads
+  before using the shared RUDP pipe.
 - Rust now also has substrate-shaped shard catalog helpers:
   `CultNetShardDescriptor`, `CultNetShardCatalog`, request filtering by schema
   id and record key, response creation, response application, and built-in
diff --git a/packages/cultnet-rs/README.md b/packages/cultnet-rs/README.md
index a21e31ba..b46fc472 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-rs/README.md
+++ b/packages/cultnet-rs/README.md
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ contact and authority ergonomics:
 
 ```rust
 use cultnet_rs::{
-    CultMesh, CultMeshAuthorityLease, CultMeshPeerCard, CultMeshRudpSocketOptions, CultNetSchemaKind,
+    CultMesh, CultMeshAuthorityLease, CultMeshPeerCard, CultMeshRudpSocketOptions, CultNetMessage,
+    CultNetSchemaKind,
 };
 use chrono::{Duration, Utc};
 
@@ -177,6 +178,12 @@ let mut client = CultMesh::create_rudp_client_for_authorized_peer(
     CultMeshRudpSocketOptions::default(),
 )?;
 client.connect(b"join".to_vec())?;
+client.send_schema_message(&CultNetMessage::SchemaCatalogRequest {
+    message_id: "rust-schema-catalog".to_string(),
+    include_schema_json: Some(false),
+    schema_ids: None,
+    kinds: Some(vec![CultNetSchemaKind::DocumentPayload]),
+})?;
 ```
 
 For caller-owned reconnect loops, `CultNetRudpReconnectLoop` keeps transport
diff --git a/packages/cultnet-rs/src/rudp.rs b/packages/cultnet-rs/src/rudp.rs
index 1fee0167..94f77e20 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-rs/src/rudp.rs
+++ b/packages/cultnet-rs/src/rudp.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use std::net::UdpSocket;
 use std::time::SystemTime;
 use std::time::UNIX_EPOCH;
 
+use crate::CultNetMessage;
 use crate::CultNetReconnectController;
 use crate::CultNetReconnectDecision;
 use crate::CultNetReconnectPolicy;
@@ -20,7 +21,10 @@ use crate::CultNetTransportOrdering;
 use crate::CultNetTransportProfile;
 use crate::CultNetTransportProtocol;
 use crate::CultNetTransportStats;
+use crate::CultNetWireContract;
 use crate::create_reconnect_policy;
+use crate::decode_cultnet_message_from_slice;
+use crate::encode_cultnet_message_to_vec;
 
 const RUDP_MAGIC: [u8; 4] = [0x43, 0x4e, 0x52, 0x30];
 const RUDP_VERSION: u8 = 0;
@@ -935,6 +939,27 @@ impl CultNetRudpSocketTransportConnection {
         Ok(())
     }
 
+    pub fn send_schema_message(&mut self, message: &CultNetMessage) -> Result<()> {
+        let payload = encode_cultnet_message_to_vec(message, CultNetWireContract::CultNetSchemaV0)?;
+        self.send("schema", payload)
+    }
+
+    pub fn receive_schema_message_once(&mut self) -> Result<Option<CultNetMessage>> {
+        let Some(frame) = self.receive_once()? else {
+            return Ok(None);
+        };
+        if frame.channel_id != "schema" {
+            return Err(anyhow!(
+                "Expected RUDP schema frame, received channel {}",
+                frame.channel_id
+            ));
+        }
+        Ok(Some(decode_cultnet_message_from_slice(
+            &frame.payload,
+            CultNetWireContract::CultNetSchemaV0,
+        )?))
+    }
+
     pub fn disconnect(&mut self, reason: Vec<u8>) -> Result<()> {
         let packet = self.session.create_disconnect(reason);
         self.send_packet(&packet)
diff --git a/packages/cultnet-rs/tests/cultnet.rs b/packages/cultnet-rs/tests/cultnet.rs
index 360c5f13..bb814e0f 100644
--- a/packages/cultnet-rs/tests/cultnet.rs
+++ b/packages/cultnet-rs/tests/cultnet.rs
@@ -100,6 +100,18 @@ fn receive_rudp_frame(
     anyhow::bail!("RUDP socket frame was not delivered")
 }
 
+fn receive_rudp_schema_message(
+    transport: &mut CultNetRudpSocketTransportConnection,
+) -> Result<CultNetMessage> {
+    for _ in 0..20 {
+        if let Some(message) = transport.receive_schema_message_once()? {
+            return Ok(message);
+        }
+        thread::sleep(StdDuration::from_millis(5));
+    }
+    anyhow::bail!("RUDP schema message was not delivered")
+}
+
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, DatabaseEntry)]
 #[cultcache(
     type = "ghostlight.agent-state",
@@ -1077,12 +1089,41 @@ fn rudp_socket_transport_handshakes_and_carries_reliable_ordered_schema_frames()
     let client_frame = receive_rudp_frame(&mut client)?;
     assert_eq!(client_frame.channel_id, "schema");
     assert_eq!(client_frame.payload, b"server-state");
+
+    client.send_schema_message(&CultNetMessage::Hello {
+        runtime_id: "rust-rudp-client".to_string(),
+        runtime_kind: "rust-worker".to_string(),
+        agent_id: None,
+        role: Some("schema".to_string()),
+        display_name: None,
+        supported_document_types: None,
+        supported_mutation_contracts: None,
+        supported_message_versions: None,
+        transport_profiles: Some(vec![client.profile.clone()]),
+        supports_schema_catalog: Some(true),
+    })?;
+    let message = receive_rudp_schema_message(&mut server)?;
+    let CultNetMessage::Hello {
+        runtime_id,
+        transport_profiles,
+        supports_schema_catalog,
+        ..
+    } = message
+    else {
+        anyhow::bail!("RUDP schema message did not decode as hello");
+    };
+    assert_eq!(runtime_id, "rust-rudp-client");
+    assert_eq!(supports_schema_catalog, Some(true));
+    assert_eq!(
+        transport_profiles.expect("hello advertises transport")[0].transports[0].protocol,
+        CultNetTransportProtocol::Rudp
+    );
     assert_eq!(
         server.profile.transports[0].protocol,
         CultNetTransportProtocol::Rudp
     );
-    assert_eq!(client.stats().frames_sent, 1);
-    assert_eq!(server.stats().frames_received, 1);
+    assert_eq!(client.stats().frames_sent, 2);
+    assert_eq!(server.stats().frames_received, 2);
 
     Ok(())
 }