diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.test.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.test.ts
index 8945ecc5e1e2..d4c03cefb907 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.test.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.test.ts
@@ -894,6 +894,25 @@ layer("BitbucketPullRequestApi.layer", (it) => {
       }),
   );
 
+  it.effect(
+    "reads a removed permissions endpoint that answers 404 as granted rather than failing the merge",
+    () =>
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        mockedRequest.mockReturnValue(
+          Effect.fail(
+            new BitbucketApi.BitbucketResponseError({
+              operation: "request",
+              status: 404,
+              responseBodyLength: 0,
+            }),
+          ),
+        );
+        const api = yield* BitbucketPullRequestApi.BitbucketPullRequestApi;
+
+        assert.isTrue(yield* api.getRepositoryPermission({ repository: "acme/web" }));
+      }),
+  );
+
   it.effect("still fails the permission read on a failure that is not the removed endpoint", () =>
     Effect.gen(function* () {
       mockedRequest.mockReturnValue(
diff --git a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.ts b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.ts
index 5b3149b0d75c..5aac56199833 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/pullRequest/BitbucketPullRequestApi.ts
@@ -111,11 +111,12 @@ export type BitbucketPullRequestApiError =
 /**
  * `/user/permissions/repositories` answering CHANGE-2770's removal notice rather than a
  * permission — Bitbucket sends this for every account now, not only ones it would have refused.
+ * Cloud answers 404. The original CHANGE-2770 notice was 410.
  */
 function isRepositoryPermissionRemovedError(
   error: BitbucketPullRequestApiError,
 ): error is BitbucketApi.BitbucketResponseError {
-  return error._tag === "BitbucketResponseError" && error.status === 410;
+  return error._tag === "BitbucketResponseError" && (error.status === 410 || error.status === 404);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -578,12 +579,13 @@ export const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
     // may do, so this endpoint is the one request Bitbucket makes unavoidable. It is asked
     // alongside the reads the detail was already making, so it costs no round trip of its own.
     //
-    // Bitbucket permanently removed this endpoint (CHANGE-2770): every account now gets HTTP 410
-    // in place of an answer, whatever it may do. That is the deprecated-endpoint signal, not a
-    // permission being refused, so it is read the same way an unreachable read already is
-    // elsewhere — as a permission that could not be learned, which grants rather than blocks, and
-    // leaves the actual merge or write to say why if the account may not do it. Any other failure
-    // (a bad token, a network fault, an unreadable body) still fails as it did before.
+    // Bitbucket permanently removed this endpoint (CHANGE-2770): every account now gets HTTP 404
+    // (or 410, from the original removal notice) in place of an answer, whatever it may do. That
+    // is the deprecated-endpoint signal, not a permission being refused, so it is read the same
+    // way an unreachable read already is elsewhere — as a permission that could not be learned,
+    // which grants rather than blocks, and leaves the actual merge or write to say why if the
+    // account may not do it. Any other failure (a bad token, a network fault, an unreadable body)
+    // still fails as it did before.
     getRepositoryPermission: (input) =>
       withRepository(input.repository, () =>
         readPage({