diff --git a/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/delegate_component/entries.rs b/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/delegate_component/entries.rs
index 26107525..757ada92 100644
--- a/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/delegate_component/entries.rs
+++ b/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/delegate_component/entries.rs
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ use crate::types::delegate_component::{
 
 /// A table body: leading statements (`open`/`namespace`/`for`) followed by the
 /// comma-separated mappings. Statements must lead, which is why one written
-/// after a mapping fails to parse.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+/// after a mapping fails to parse. The `Default` value is the empty table, which
+/// is what a `cgp_namespace!` header written without a body parses to.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
 pub struct DelegateEntries {
     pub statements: Vec<DelegateStatement>,
     pub entries: Punctuated<DelegateMapping, Comma>,
diff --git a/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/namespace/table.rs b/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/namespace/table.rs
index 8834afc9..a06d0832 100644
--- a/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/namespace/table.rs
+++ b/crates/macros/cgp-macro-core/src/types/namespace/table.rs
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ impl Parse for NamespaceTable {
             None
         };
 
-        let entries = {
+        let entries = if input.is_empty() {
+            Default::default()
+        } else {
             let body;
             braced!(body in input);
 
diff --git a/crates/tests/cgp-macro-tests/tests/parser_rejections/cgp_namespace.rs b/crates/tests/cgp-macro-tests/tests/parser_rejections/cgp_namespace.rs
index 00c9e517..d10891f5 100644
--- a/crates/tests/cgp-macro-tests/tests/parser_rejections/cgp_namespace.rs
+++ b/crates/tests/cgp-macro-tests/tests/parser_rejections/cgp_namespace.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 //! discarding it. It rejects an attribute on a `:` mapping key, on a `=>` redirect
 //! key, and on a key inside a `for <..> in ..` loop.
 //!
+//! The header may stand alone: `new Ns` or `new Child: Parent` with no brace pair
+//! parses as an empty table. That relaxation applies only to an input that ends
+//! at the header, so any other token in the body position is still rejected.
+//!
 //! See cgp-knowledge-base/cgp/implementation/entrypoints/cgp_namespace.md (Tests) for these failure
 //! cases, and cgp-knowledge-base/cgp/reference/macros/cgp_namespace.md for the user-facing
 //! semantics.
@@ -52,3 +56,25 @@ fn rejects_attribute_on_for_loop_key() {
         ))
     });
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn rejects_stray_token_after_parent() {
+    // A header-only namespace is accepted only when nothing follows the header.
+    // A `;` where the body would go is neither a table nor the end of input.
+    assert_macro_rejects("cgp_namespace with a `;` after the parent", || {
+        cgp_macro_lib::cgp_namespace(quote!(
+            new MyNamespace: DefaultNamespace;
+        ))
+    });
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn rejects_stray_token_after_name() {
+    // The same without a parent: a bare identifier after the namespace name is
+    // not a table, so the `braced!` parse still fails.
+    assert_macro_rejects("cgp_namespace with a stray token after the name", || {
+        cgp_macro_lib::cgp_namespace(quote!(
+            new MyNamespace foo
+        ))
+    });
+}
diff --git a/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/mod.rs b/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/mod.rs
index c7ede1c9..5b5fdc8f 100644
--- a/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/mod.rs
@@ -41,3 +41,7 @@ pub mod default_impls_wiring;
 pub mod extended;
 pub mod extended_namespace_wiring;
 pub mod for_where_clause;
+
+// A header with no table: `new Ns` and `new Child: Parent` written without a
+// brace pair, pinned as snapshots and consumed through a joining context.
+pub mod namespace_header_only;
diff --git a/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/namespace_header_only.rs b/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/namespace_header_only.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5f28f1c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/tests/cgp-tests/tests/namespaces/namespace_header_only.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+//! A `cgp_namespace!` that ends at its header, with no brace pair after it.
+//!
+//! When a namespace has no entries of its own the body may be omitted:
+//! `cgp_namespace! { new HeaderOnlyNamespace }` emits just the marker struct and
+//! the lookup trait, and `cgp_namespace! { new HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespace: DefaultNamespace }`
+//! adds the inheritance impl, exactly as the same headers followed by `{ }` do.
+//! Both snapshots belong to this concept, which owns `cgp_namespace!`. `App` then
+//! joins the header-only inheriting namespace and wires the inherited error type
+//! and raiser components under their full `@cgp.core.error.*` paths, and the
+//! `CheckApp` bundle asserts each wired capability resolves, confirming the
+//! braceless definition is a usable namespace and not just a parse. That
+//! `delegate_components!` is written plainly, since its `namespace` form is
+//! pinned in `prefix_default_namespace`.
+//!
+//! See cgp-knowledge-base/cgp/implementation/entrypoints/cgp_namespace.md and
+//! cgp-knowledge-base/cgp/reference/macros/cgp_namespace.md.
+
+use cgp::core::error::{ErrorRaiserComponent, ErrorTypeProviderComponent};
+use cgp::extra::error::RaiseFrom;
+use cgp::prelude::*;
+use cgp_macro_test_util::snapshot_cgp_namespace;
+
+snapshot_cgp_namespace! {
+    cgp_namespace! {
+        new HeaderOnlyNamespace
+    }
+
+    expand_header_only_namespace(output) {
+        insta::assert_snapshot!(output, @"
+        pub struct __HeaderOnlyNamespaceComponents;
+        pub trait HeaderOnlyNamespace<__Table__> {
+            type Delegate;
+        }
+        ")
+    }
+}
+
+snapshot_cgp_namespace! {
+    cgp_namespace! {
+        new HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespace: DefaultNamespace
+    }
+
+    expand_header_only_extended_namespace(output) {
+        insta::assert_snapshot!(output, @"
+        pub struct __HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespaceComponents;
+        pub trait HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespace<__Table__> {
+            type Delegate;
+        }
+        impl<__Table__, __Key__, __Value__> HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespace<__Table__> for __Key__
+        where
+            __Key__: DefaultNamespace<__HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespaceComponents>,
+            __Key__: DefaultNamespace<__Table__, Delegate = __Value__>,
+        {
+            type Delegate = __Value__;
+        }
+        ")
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct App;
+
+delegate_components! {
+    App {
+        namespace HeaderOnlyExtendedNamespace;
+
+        @cgp.core.error.ErrorTypeProviderComponent:
+            UseType<String>,
+        @cgp.core.error.ErrorRaiserComponent.{&'static str, String}:
+            RaiseFrom,
+    }
+}
+
+pub trait CheckApp: HasErrorType + CanRaiseError<&'static str> + CanRaiseError<String> {}
+
+impl CheckApp for App {}
diff --git a/rust-toolchain.toml b/rust-toolchain.toml
index 10001973..99e619bb 100644
--- a/rust-toolchain.toml
+++ b/rust-toolchain.toml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 [toolchain]
-channel = "1.96.1"
+channel = "1.98.1"
 profile = "default"