diff --git a/library/kernel/service.zig b/library/kernel/service.zig
index 881e896..352c907 100644
--- a/library/kernel/service.zig
+++ b/library/kernel/service.zig
@@ -67,6 +67,15 @@ pub const Callbacks = struct {
     /// A notification that is not a signal — a subscribed exit event, a bound
     /// IRQ, a timer landing. The raw badge; decode with the ipc helpers.
     on_notification: ?*const fn (badge: u64) void = null,
+    /// A buffered async message (`Received.isMessage`): a pushed event from a
+    /// provider this service subscribed to, its payload in the receive buffer.
+    /// Unlike `on_message`, it never goes through the protocol dispatch — so an
+    /// event whose reserved op number collides with one of this service's own
+    /// verbs (a `block` `medium_changed` reaching the volume manager, whose own
+    /// protocol numbers `hello` the same) is decoded by hand here, not
+    /// mis-dispatched. Default null: the badge alone still reaches
+    /// `on_notification`, exactly as before this callback existed.
+    on_buffered_message: ?*const fn (message: []const u8) void = null,
     /// The reload signal. Default: ignored.
     on_reload: ?*const fn () void = null,
     /// The terminate signal, called before the loop returns. The clean exit is
@@ -372,6 +381,13 @@ pub fn run(comptime maximum_message: usize, callbacks: Callbacks) void {
             if (got.isChildExit()) {
                 if (callbacks.subscribers) |subscribers| subscribers.forget(got.childProcessId());
             }
+            // A buffered async message (a pushed event) carries a payload; hand it
+            // to the service that asked for it. The badge still reaches
+            // on_notification below, so a coalesced timer/exit riding the same wake
+            // is not lost — and a service without this callback is unchanged.
+            if (got.isMessage()) {
+                if (callbacks.on_buffered_message) |onBuffered| onBuffered(receive[0..got.len]);
+            }
             if (callbacks.on_notification) |onNotification| onNotification(got.badge);
             continue;
         }