diff --git a/config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml b/config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml
index 0dea3cb..b86b9f6 100644
--- a/config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml
+++ b/config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml
@@ -142,6 +142,40 @@ SettingsPage {
         }
     }
 
+    // GNOME's Search panel, answered honestly.
+    //
+    // It configures which applications provide results in gnome-shell's
+    // overview and which folders are indexed. gnome-shell does not run here,
+    // so those settings would do nothing. Under Panama searching is the
+    // launcher's job, and Vicinae carries its own preferences -- reimplementing
+    // them here would give two places to change one thing.
+    SettingsCard {
+        title: "Search"
+        subtitle: "Applications, files, the calculator, clipboard history, emoji, and open windows are all searched from the launcher."
+
+        TextRow {
+            label: "Launcher"
+            detail: SystemSettings.vicinaeActive
+                ? "Running as a user service"
+                : "Not running — Super+Shift+R opens the fallback launcher"
+            value: "Vicinae"
+        }
+
+        TextRow {
+            label: "Open search"
+            detail: "Three keys open it, because Super+A and Super+R were GNOME's app grid and run dialog"
+            value: "Super+Space"
+        }
+
+        ActionRow {
+            label: "Change these shortcuts"
+            detail: "Every launcher chord is rebindable, including clipboard history and emoji"
+            action: "Open keyboard"
+            divider: false
+            onTriggered: ShellState.openSettings("shortcuts")
+        }
+    }
+
     SettingsCard {
         title: "User autostart"
         subtitle: "These desktop entries live in your user configuration. Select a row to toggle it."
diff --git a/tests/quickshell/settings-nav-contract.sh b/tests/quickshell/settings-nav-contract.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1eaff61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/quickshell/settings-nav-contract.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Adding a settings page means editing four separate files, and missing one
+# fails quietly rather than loudly:
+#
+#   SettingsSidebar.qml   the row you click
+#   SettingsShell.qml     the case that maps that row to a component, AND the
+#                         Component declaration itself
+#   ShellState.qml        the allow-list openSettings() checks -- a page missing
+#                         here silently redirects to Home, so a deep link or a
+#                         search result lands on the wrong page with no error
+#   modules/settings/qmldir   the component registration -- without it the page
+#                         is "not a type" and the whole settings window fails
+#                         to load, taking every other page with it
+#
+# Nothing at runtime cross-checks the four. This does, statically.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+repo_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/../.." && pwd)"
+settings_dir="$repo_dir/config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings"
+sidebar="$settings_dir/SettingsSidebar.qml"
+shell_file="$settings_dir/SettingsShell.qml"
+qmldir="$settings_dir/qmldir"
+shell_state="$repo_dir/config/dot/quickshell/services/ShellState.qml"
+
+fail() {
+    printf 'settings nav contract: %s\n' "$1" >&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+for required in "$sidebar" "$shell_file" "$qmldir" "$shell_state"; do
+    [[ -r "$required" ]] || fail "cannot read $required"
+done
+
+# ── Every sidebar row resolves everywhere ────────────────────────────────────
+pages="$(grep -oE '\{ page: "[a-z-]+"' "$sidebar" | sed 's/.*"\(.*\)"/\1/')"
+[[ -n "$pages" ]] || fail 'no pages found in the sidebar -- this contract is not reading it correctly'
+
+allowed_line="$(grep -m1 'const allowed = \[' "$shell_state")" \
+    || fail 'could not find the allow-list in ShellState'
+
+while read -r page; do
+    [[ -n "$page" ]] || continue
+
+    # Home is the switch's default arm rather than a case, since it is also
+    # where an unknown page falls back to.
+    if [[ "$page" != "home" ]]; then
+        grep -qE "case \"$page\": return [a-zA-Z]+;" "$shell_file" \
+            || fail "the sidebar offers \"$page\" but SettingsShell has no case for it, so clicking it shows Home"
+    fi
+
+    grep -qF "\"$page\"" <<<"$allowed_line" \
+        || fail "\"$page\" is missing from ShellState's allow-list, so openSettings(\"$page\") silently redirects to Home"
+done <<<"$pages"
+
+# ── Every routed component is declared and registered ────────────────────────
+# The case arms name a Component id; each must have a declaration, and the type
+# it instantiates must appear in qmldir.
+while read -r component; do
+    [[ -n "$component" ]] || continue
+
+    declaration="$(grep -oE "Component \{ id: $component; [A-Za-z]+ \{\} \}" "$shell_file")" \
+        || fail "SettingsShell routes to \"$component\" but never declares it"
+
+    type_name="$(sed -E 's/.*; ([A-Za-z]+) \{\} \}/\1/' <<<"$declaration")"
+    grep -qE "^$type_name [0-9.]+ $type_name\.qml$" "$qmldir" \
+        || fail "$type_name is not registered in modules/settings/qmldir -- it will fail to load as \"not a type\", and the whole settings window fails with it"
+
+    [[ -r "$settings_dir/$type_name.qml" ]] \
+        || fail "$type_name is registered in qmldir but $type_name.qml does not exist"
+done < <({
+    grep -oE 'case "[a-z-]+": return [a-zA-Z]+;' "$shell_file" | sed -E 's/.*return ([a-zA-Z]+);/\1/'
+    grep -oE 'default: return [a-zA-Z]+;' "$shell_file" | sed -E 's/.*return ([a-zA-Z]+);/\1/'
+} | sort -u)
+
+# ── Every page file is reachable ─────────────────────────────────────────────
+# A page nobody can navigate to is dead code that still has to compile. The
+# scaffold SettingsPage.qml is the one file here that is a base class rather
+# than a page.
+while read -r page_file; do
+    type_name="$(basename "$page_file" .qml)"
+    [[ "$type_name" == "SettingsPage" ]] && continue
+
+    grep -qE "; $type_name \{\} \}" "$shell_file" \
+        || fail "$type_name.qml exists but nothing in SettingsShell instantiates it"
+done < <(find "$settings_dir" -maxdepth 1 -name '*Page.qml')
+
+printf 'settings nav contract: PASS\n'