diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-adopt-command.spec.ts b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-adopt-command.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef8a05ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-adopt-command.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,196 @@
+import { mkdirSync, readFileSync, symlinkSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { Command } from 'commander';
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { registerFleetAdoptCommand } from './fleet-adopt-command.js';
+
+let root: string | undefined;
+
+interface Harness {
+  readonly home: string;
+  readonly out: string[];
+  readonly err: string[];
+  readonly run: (argv: string[]) => Promise<void>;
+}
+
+beforeEach((): void => {
+  process.exitCode = undefined;
+});
+
+afterEach(async (): Promise<void> => {
+  vi.restoreAllMocks();
+  process.exitCode = undefined;
+  if (root) await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  root = undefined;
+});
+
+async function harness(): Promise<Harness> {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'mosaic-adopt-cmd-'));
+  const home = join(root, '.mosaic');
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  const err: string[] = [];
+  vi.spyOn(console, 'log').mockImplementation((...parts: unknown[]): void => {
+    out.push(parts.map(String).join(' '));
+  });
+  vi.spyOn(process.stderr, 'write').mockImplementation((chunk: unknown): boolean => {
+    err.push(String(chunk));
+    return true;
+  });
+  const program = new Command();
+  program.exitOverride();
+  const fleet = program.command('fleet');
+  registerFleetAdoptCommand(fleet, { fleetDataHome: home });
+  return {
+    home,
+    out,
+    err,
+    run: async (argv: string[]): Promise<void> => {
+      await program.parseAsync(['node', 'mosaic', 'fleet', 'adopt', ...argv]);
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+function realAliasDirectory(home: string, harnessName: string): string {
+  const path = join(home, 'auth', harnessName, 'primary');
+  mkdirSync(path, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(join(path, '.credentials.json'), '{"token":"kept"}');
+  return path;
+}
+
+function seat(home: string, name: string, profile: Record<string, unknown>): void {
+  const dir = join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', name);
+  mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(join(dir, 'profile.json'), `${JSON.stringify(profile, null, 2)}\n`);
+}
+
+function seatDirectory(home: string, agent: string, plural: string, name: string): string {
+  const path = join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', agent, '.claude', plural, name);
+  mkdirSync(path, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(join(path, 'marker.txt'), 'kept');
+  return path;
+}
+
+describe('mosaic fleet adopt', () => {
+  it('says there is nothing to adopt on a clean host', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+
+    await h.run([]);
+
+    expect(h.out.join('\n')).toContain('Nothing to adopt');
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  // A read-only listing that exits non-zero is one people stop running, so the scan reports
+  // and stays out of the way.
+  it('lists each finding with the command that resolves it, and exits zero', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    const path = realAliasDirectory(h.home, 'claude');
+
+    await h.run([]);
+
+    const printed = h.out.join('\n');
+    expect(printed).toContain(path);
+    expect(printed).toContain('resolve: mosaic fleet adopt bundle --harness claude --as <account>');
+    expect(printed).toContain('1 found, 0 needing a decision before adoption. Nothing was moved.');
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('separates findings it can resolve from findings that need a decision first', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    seat(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', { schema: 1, harness: 'claude', bundle: 'primary' });
+    seatDirectory(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+    mkdirSync(join(h.home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), { recursive: true });
+
+    await h.run([]);
+
+    const printed = h.out.join('\n');
+    expect(printed).toContain('blocked (destination occupied)');
+    expect(printed).toContain('1 found, 1 needing a decision before adoption.');
+  });
+
+  it('adopts a bundle and reports where the credentials went and what the alias points at', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    realAliasDirectory(h.home, 'claude');
+
+    await h.run(['bundle', '--harness', 'claude', '--as', 'jason_woltje.com']);
+
+    const target = join(h.home, 'auth', 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com');
+    expect(readFileSync(join(target, '.credentials.json'), 'utf8')).toBe('{"token":"kept"}');
+    const printed = h.out.join('\n');
+    expect(printed).toContain(`bundle:  ${target}`);
+    expect(printed).toContain('-> jason_woltje.com');
+    // The name is the operator's claim about the account; only a listing shows what is in it.
+    expect(printed).toContain('mosaic auth list --harness claude');
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it('rejects an unknown harness instead of building a path out of it', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+
+    await h.run(['bundle', '--harness', 'nonsense', '--as', 'x']);
+
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBe(1);
+    expect(h.err.join('')).toContain('--harness must be one of: claude, codex, opencode, pi');
+  });
+
+  it('exits non-zero and names the failure when there is nothing to adopt', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+
+    await h.run(['bundle', '--harness', 'pi', '--as', 'jason_woltje.com']);
+
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBe(1);
+    expect(h.err.join('')).toContain('mosaic fleet adopt bundle failed (nothing-to-adopt)');
+  });
+
+  it('adopts a plugin into the store and says the next launch links it back', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    seat(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', {
+      schema: 1,
+      harness: 'claude',
+      bundle: 'primary',
+      plugins: ['reviewer'],
+    });
+    seatDirectory(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    await h.run(['plugin', 'reviewer', '--seat', 'uc-e6-coder']);
+
+    expect(readFileSync(join(h.home, 'plugins', 'reviewer', 'marker.txt'), 'utf8')).toBe('kept');
+    expect(h.out.join('\n')).toContain('next launch links it back from the store');
+  });
+
+  it('says plainly when no seat uses the adopted entry yet', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    seat(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', { schema: 1, harness: 'claude', bundle: 'primary' });
+    seatDirectory(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    await h.run(['plugin', 'reviewer', '--seat', 'uc-e6-coder']);
+
+    expect(h.out.join('\n')).toContain("is not listed in uc-e6-coder's profile");
+  });
+
+  it('adopts a skill into the skill store, not the plugin store', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    seat(h.home, 'uc-e6-rev', { schema: 1, harness: 'claude', bundle: 'primary' });
+    seatDirectory(h.home, 'uc-e6-rev', 'skills', 'spec-audit');
+
+    await h.run(['skill', 'spec-audit', '--seat', 'uc-e6-rev']);
+
+    expect(readFileSync(join(h.home, 'skills', 'spec-audit', 'marker.txt'), 'utf8')).toBe('kept');
+  });
+
+  it('leaves an already-linked entry alone and exits non-zero', async () => {
+    const h = await harness();
+    seat(h.home, 'uc-e6-coder', { schema: 1, harness: 'claude', bundle: 'primary' });
+    mkdirSync(join(h.home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), { recursive: true });
+    const installRoot = join(h.home, 'fleet', 'agents', 'uc-e6-coder', '.claude', 'plugins');
+    mkdirSync(installRoot, { recursive: true });
+    symlinkSync(join(h.home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), join(installRoot, 'reviewer'));
+
+    await h.run(['plugin', 'reviewer', '--seat', 'uc-e6-coder']);
+
+    expect(process.exitCode).toBe(1);
+    expect(h.err.join('')).toContain('already a link into the store');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-adopt-command.ts b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-adopt-command.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41efce5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet-adopt-command.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+/**
+ * `mosaic fleet adopt` -- resolve the real directories that sit where a managed link belongs.
+ *
+ * Launch refuses to delete anything an operator put on a managed path, which is right, but on
+ * its own it leaves the operator holding a composition error and no way forward. This command
+ * is the way forward: bare, it lists every such directory and the command that resolves it;
+ * with a verb, it moves one of them where it belongs.
+ *
+ * The bare scan reads only, and exits zero whatever it finds. It is meant to be safe to run
+ * out of curiosity, and a non-zero exit from a read-only listing would make it something
+ * people avoid running.
+ */
+
+import type { Command } from 'commander';
+import {
+  AdoptionError,
+  type StoreKind,
+  promoteBundleAlias,
+  promoteStoreEntry,
+  scanAdoptions,
+} from '../fleet/adoption.js';
+import type { CredentialHarness } from '../fleet/credential-sharing.js';
+import { defaultFleetDataHome } from '../fleet/fleet-agent-scaffold.js';
+
+const HARNESSES: readonly CredentialHarness[] = ['claude', 'codex', 'opencode', 'pi'];
+
+export interface FleetAdoptCommandDeps {
+  /** Test seam for the user-owned ~/.mosaic root. */
+  readonly fleetDataHome?: string;
+}
+
+function requireHarness(value: string | undefined): CredentialHarness {
+  if (value === undefined || !HARNESSES.includes(value as CredentialHarness)) {
+    throw new AdoptionError('invalid-request', `--harness must be one of: ${HARNESSES.join(', ')}`);
+  }
+  return value as CredentialHarness;
+}
+
+function requireSeat(value: string | undefined): string {
+  if (value === undefined || value.trim() === '') {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'invalid-request',
+      'give the seat this directory belongs to: --seat <agent>',
+    );
+  }
+  return value;
+}
+
+function fail(error: unknown, verb: string): void {
+  process.exitCode = 1;
+  const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+  const code = error instanceof AdoptionError ? error.code : 'failed';
+  process.stderr.write(
+    `mosaic fleet adopt${verb === '' ? '' : ` ${verb}`} failed (${code}): ${message}\n`,
+  );
+}
+
+/** Registers the adoption scan and its three promotion verbs. */
+export function registerFleetAdoptCommand(
+  fleetCommand: Command,
+  deps: FleetAdoptCommandDeps = {},
+): void {
+  const dataHome = (): string => deps.fleetDataHome ?? defaultFleetDataHome();
+
+  const adopt = fleetCommand
+    .command('adopt')
+    .description('Find and resolve real directories occupying paths the fleet manages with links')
+    .action((): void => {
+      try {
+        const findings = scanAdoptions(dataHome());
+        if (findings.length === 0) {
+          console.log('Nothing to adopt: no real directory occupies a managed path.');
+          return;
+        }
+        for (const finding of findings) {
+          console.log(finding.path);
+          console.log(`  ${finding.reason}`);
+          console.log(
+            finding.blocked === undefined
+              ? `  resolve: ${finding.remedy}`
+              : `  blocked (${finding.blocked}): ${finding.remedy}`,
+          );
+        }
+        const blocked = findings.filter((finding) => finding.blocked !== undefined).length;
+        console.log(
+          `\n${String(findings.length)} found, ${String(blocked)} needing a decision before adoption. Nothing was moved.`,
+        );
+      } catch (error: unknown) {
+        fail(error, '');
+      }
+    });
+
+  adopt
+    .command('bundle')
+    .description(`Adopt a real directory on the "primary" alias path as a named bundle`)
+    .requiredOption('--harness <harness>', `Harness: ${HARNESSES.join(', ')}`)
+    .requiredOption('--as <bundle>', 'Account this directory holds, e.g. jason_woltje.com')
+    .action((options: { harness?: string; as: string }): void => {
+      try {
+        const result = promoteBundleAlias(dataHome(), requireHarness(options.harness), options.as);
+        console.log(`Adopted ${result.from}`);
+        console.log(`  bundle:  ${result.to}`);
+        console.log(`  alias:   ${result.alias} -> ${result.bundle}`);
+        console.log(
+          `\nCheck the account it actually holds before trusting the name:\n  mosaic auth list --harness ${result.harness}`,
+        );
+      } catch (error: unknown) {
+        fail(error, 'bundle');
+      }
+    });
+
+  for (const store of ['plugin', 'skill'] as const) {
+    adopt
+      .command(`${store} <name>`)
+      .description(`Move a real ${store} directory out of a seat and into the central store`)
+      .requiredOption('--seat <agent>', 'Seat the directory currently sits in')
+      .action((name: string, options: { seat?: string }): void => {
+        try {
+          const result = promoteStoreEntry(
+            dataHome(),
+            requireSeat(options.seat),
+            store as StoreKind,
+            name,
+          );
+          console.log(`Adopted ${result.from}`);
+          console.log(`  store: ${result.to}`);
+          console.log(
+            result.listedInProfile
+              ? `\n"${result.name}" is listed in ${result.agent}'s profile, so its next launch links it back from the store.`
+              : `\n"${result.name}" is not listed in ${result.agent}'s profile, so no seat uses it yet. It is now vetted store content any seat can be given.`,
+          );
+        } catch (error: unknown) {
+          fail(error, store);
+        }
+      });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.spec.ts b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.spec.ts
index c6e6b516..1bff81bc 100644
--- a/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.spec.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ describe('registerFleetCommand', () => {
     expect(fleet).toBeDefined();
     expect(fleet!.commands.map((command) => command.name()).sort()).toEqual([
       'add',
+      'adopt',
       'agent',
       'apply',
       'backlog',
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.ts b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.ts
index 56f3171a..942a0e20 100644
--- a/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.ts
+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/commands/fleet.ts
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import {
   registerFleetAgentScaffoldCommand,
   type FleetAgentScaffoldCommandDeps,
 } from './fleet-agent-scaffold-command.js';
+import { registerFleetAdoptCommand } from './fleet-adopt-command.js';
 import {
   registerFleetMigrationCommand,
   type FleetMigrationCommandDeps,
@@ -2080,6 +2081,11 @@ export function registerFleetCommand(program: Command, deps: FleetCommandDeps =
     ...(deps.fleetDataHome === undefined ? {} : { fleetDataHome: deps.fleetDataHome }),
     mosaicHomeFor: () => cmd.opts<{ mosaicHome: string }>().mosaicHome,
   });
+  // The counterpart to launch's refusals: launch will not delete a real directory sitting on
+  // a managed path, and this is how one gets moved out of the way instead.
+  registerFleetAdoptCommand(cmd, {
+    ...(deps.fleetDataHome === undefined ? {} : { fleetDataHome: deps.fleetDataHome }),
+  });
   // Roster-v2 desired-state mutations belong directly to the fleet control
   // plane; they do not share the root `mosaic agent` gateway-backed surface.
   registerFleetAgentCrudCommands(cmd, deps);
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/fleet/adoption.spec.ts b/packages/mosaic/src/fleet/adoption.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5b01e5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/fleet/adoption.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,341 @@
+import {
+  existsSync,
+  lstatSync,
+  mkdirSync,
+  readFileSync,
+  symlinkSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from 'node:fs';
+import { mkdtemp, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import { AdoptionError, promoteBundleAlias, promoteStoreEntry, scanAdoptions } from './adoption.js';
+
+let root: string | undefined;
+
+afterEach(async (): Promise<void> => {
+  if (root) await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  root = undefined;
+});
+
+async function userHome(): Promise<string> {
+  root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), 'mosaic-adopt-'));
+  return join(root, '.mosaic');
+}
+
+/** A real directory where the primary alias belongs, with something inside worth not losing. */
+function realAliasDirectory(
+  home: string,
+  harness: string,
+  credential = '.credentials.json',
+): string {
+  const path = join(home, 'auth', harness, 'primary');
+  mkdirSync(path, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(join(path, credential), '{"token":"kept"}');
+  return path;
+}
+
+function seat(
+  home: string,
+  name: string,
+  profile: Record<string, unknown> = { schema: 1, harness: 'claude', bundle: 'primary' },
+): string {
+  const dir = join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', name);
+  mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(join(dir, 'profile.json'), `${JSON.stringify(profile, null, 2)}\n`);
+  return dir;
+}
+
+/** A real plugin/skill directory inside a seat, where a link into the store belongs. */
+function seatDirectory(
+  home: string,
+  agent: string,
+  harness: string,
+  plural: string,
+  name: string,
+): string {
+  const path = join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', agent, `.${harness}`, plural, name);
+  mkdirSync(path, { recursive: true });
+  writeFileSync(join(path, 'marker.txt'), 'kept');
+  return path;
+}
+
+describe('scanAdoptions', () => {
+  it('finds nothing on a host that has no ~/.mosaic at all', async () => {
+    expect(scanAdoptions(await userHome())).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('finds a real directory on the primary alias path and names the command that resolves it', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    const path = realAliasDirectory(home, 'claude');
+
+    const findings = scanAdoptions(home);
+
+    expect(findings).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(findings[0]?.kind).toBe('bundle-alias');
+    expect(findings[0]?.path).toBe(path);
+    expect(findings[0]?.harness).toBe('claude');
+    expect(findings[0]?.blocked).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(findings[0]?.remedy).toBe('mosaic fleet adopt bundle --harness claude --as <account>');
+  });
+
+  it('ignores a primary alias that is already a symlink', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'auth', 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com'), { recursive: true });
+    symlinkSync('jason_woltje.com', join(home, 'auth', 'claude', 'primary'));
+
+    expect(scanAdoptions(home)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('finds a real plugin directory inside a seat', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+    const path = seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    const findings = scanAdoptions(home);
+
+    expect(findings).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(findings[0]).toMatchObject({
+      kind: 'store-entry',
+      path,
+      agent: 'uc-e6-coder',
+      store: 'plugin',
+      name: 'reviewer',
+    });
+    expect(findings[0]?.remedy).toBe('mosaic fleet adopt plugin reviewer --seat uc-e6-coder');
+  });
+
+  it('finds skills the same way it finds plugins', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-rev');
+    seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-rev', 'claude', 'skills', 'spec-audit');
+
+    const findings = scanAdoptions(home);
+
+    expect(findings).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(findings[0]?.store).toBe('skill');
+    expect(findings[0]?.remedy).toBe('mosaic fleet adopt skill spec-audit --seat uc-e6-rev');
+  });
+
+  // Scanning the wrong directory name would report nothing on a pi seat while launch keeps
+  // refusing to compose it, which is worse than not having the scan.
+  it('looks in the seat home the launcher uses, not always the claude one', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'terra', { schema: 1, harness: 'pi', bundle: 'primary' });
+    const path = seatDirectory(home, 'terra', 'pi', 'plugins', 'notes');
+
+    expect(scanAdoptions(home).map((finding) => finding.path)).toEqual([path]);
+  });
+
+  it('does not report a link that is already pointing into the store', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), { recursive: true });
+    const installRoot = join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', 'uc-e6-coder', '.claude', 'plugins');
+    mkdirSync(installRoot, { recursive: true });
+    symlinkSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), join(installRoot, 'reviewer'));
+
+    expect(scanAdoptions(home)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('marks the finding blocked when the store already holds that name', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+    seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), { recursive: true });
+
+    const findings = scanAdoptions(home);
+
+    expect(findings[0]?.blocked).toBe('destination occupied');
+    expect(findings[0]?.remedy).toContain('compare the two');
+  });
+
+  // One malformed profile hiding every finding behind it would make the scan useless exactly
+  // on the hosts that need it most.
+  it('reports an unreadable seat as a gap and keeps scanning the others', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', 'broken'), { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', 'broken', 'profile.json'), 'not json');
+    seat(home, 'working');
+    const path = seatDirectory(home, 'working', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    const findings = scanAdoptions(home);
+
+    expect(findings.map((finding) => finding.kind)).toEqual(['unreadable-seat', 'store-entry']);
+    expect(findings[0]?.blocked).toBe('unreadable profile');
+    expect(findings[1]?.path).toBe(path);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('promoteBundleAlias', () => {
+  it('moves the directory to its account name and points the alias at it', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    const from = realAliasDirectory(home, 'claude');
+
+    const result = promoteBundleAlias(home, 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com');
+
+    expect(result.to).toBe(join(home, 'auth', 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com'));
+    expect(result.from).toBe(from);
+    // The credential travelled with the directory; adoption is a move, never a re-creation.
+    expect(readFileSync(join(result.to, '.credentials.json'), 'utf8')).toBe('{"token":"kept"}');
+    const alias = lstatSync(result.alias);
+    expect(alias.isSymbolicLink()).toBe(true);
+    expect(scanAdoptions(home)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses when the alias path is already a symlink', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'auth', 'pi', 'jason_woltje.com'), { recursive: true });
+    symlinkSync('jason_woltje.com', join(home, 'auth', 'pi', 'primary'));
+
+    expect(() => promoteBundleAlias(home, 'pi', 'other')).toThrow(
+      /already an alias symlink.*mosaic auth default/su,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('refuses when there is nothing on the alias path', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    expect(() => promoteBundleAlias(home, 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com')).toThrow(AdoptionError);
+  });
+
+  it('refuses to adopt a directory as the alias name itself', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    realAliasDirectory(home, 'claude');
+
+    expect(() => promoteBundleAlias(home, 'claude', 'primary')).toThrow(
+      /that is the alias being freed/u,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a name that would escape the auth root', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    realAliasDirectory(home, 'claude');
+
+    expect(() => promoteBundleAlias(home, 'claude', '../elsewhere')).toThrow(
+      /not a safe bundle name/u,
+    );
+    expect(existsSync(join(home, 'auth', 'claude', 'primary', '.credentials.json'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // The failure that would cost data: an occupied destination silently merged into, or worse,
+  // replaced. Both directories must still be exactly where they were.
+  it('refuses an occupied destination and moves nothing', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    realAliasDirectory(home, 'claude');
+    const occupied = join(home, 'auth', 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com');
+    mkdirSync(occupied, { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(join(occupied, '.credentials.json'), '{"token":"other"}');
+
+    expect(() => promoteBundleAlias(home, 'claude', 'jason_woltje.com')).toThrow(
+      /already exists and will not be overwritten/u,
+    );
+    expect(readFileSync(join(home, 'auth', 'claude', 'primary', '.credentials.json'), 'utf8')).toBe(
+      '{"token":"kept"}',
+    );
+    expect(readFileSync(join(occupied, '.credentials.json'), 'utf8')).toBe('{"token":"other"}');
+  });
+});
+
+describe('promoteStoreEntry', () => {
+  it('moves the directory into the central store, creating the store root', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder', {
+      schema: 1,
+      harness: 'claude',
+      bundle: 'primary',
+      plugins: ['reviewer'],
+    });
+    const from = seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    const result = promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugin', 'reviewer');
+
+    expect(result.to).toBe(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'));
+    expect(readFileSync(join(result.to, 'marker.txt'), 'utf8')).toBe('kept');
+    expect(existsSync(from)).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.listedInProfile).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // Installing the link here would fail the next launch as an unrecorded symlink, because the
+  // seat's .mosaic-managed-links.json is launch's to write. Adoption stops at the move.
+  it('leaves the seat path empty rather than installing the link itself', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder', {
+      schema: 1,
+      harness: 'claude',
+      bundle: 'primary',
+      plugins: ['reviewer'],
+    });
+    const from = seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugin', 'reviewer');
+
+    expect(existsSync(from)).toBe(false);
+    expect(() => lstatSync(from)).toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it('says when the seat does not list the entry, because then nothing links it back', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+    seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+
+    expect(promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugin', 'reviewer').listedInProfile).toBe(
+      false,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('refuses an occupied destination and moves nothing', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+    const from = seatDirectory(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'claude', 'plugins', 'reviewer');
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer', 'marker.txt'), 'store copy');
+
+    expect(() => promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugin', 'reviewer')).toThrow(
+      /already exists and will not be overwritten/u,
+    );
+    expect(readFileSync(join(from, 'marker.txt'), 'utf8')).toBe('kept');
+    expect(readFileSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer', 'marker.txt'), 'utf8')).toBe(
+      'store copy',
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('refuses an entry that is already a link into the store', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+    mkdirSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), { recursive: true });
+    const installRoot = join(home, 'fleet', 'agents', 'uc-e6-coder', '.claude', 'plugins');
+    mkdirSync(installRoot, { recursive: true });
+    symlinkSync(join(home, 'plugins', 'reviewer'), join(installRoot, 'reviewer'));
+
+    expect(() => promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugin', 'reviewer')).toThrow(
+      /already a link into the store/u,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('refuses a name that would escape the store root', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+
+    expect(() => promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'plugin', '../escape')).toThrow(
+      /not a safe plugin name/u,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('names the profile it could not read rather than guessing the seat home', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+
+    expect(() => promoteStoreEntry(home, 'ghost', 'plugin', 'reviewer')).toThrow(
+      /ghost.*profile\.json.*cannot be located/su,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it('reports a missing directory as nothing to adopt', async () => {
+    const home = await userHome();
+    seat(home, 'uc-e6-coder');
+
+    expect(() => promoteStoreEntry(home, 'uc-e6-coder', 'skill', 'absent')).toThrow(
+      /no such skill directory/u,
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/mosaic/src/fleet/adoption.ts b/packages/mosaic/src/fleet/adoption.ts
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/packages/mosaic/src/fleet/adoption.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,380 @@
+/**
+ * Adopting real directories that sit where the fleet expects a managed link.
+ *
+ * A host used before the fleet arrived -- or an operator who ran a login by hand -- ends up
+ * with a real directory on a path launch reserves for a link: `auth/<harness>/primary`, or a
+ * plugin/skill directory inside a seat's home. Launch refuses those on purpose, because the
+ * only way to make a link fit there is to delete whatever is already there.
+ *
+ * This module is the other half of that refusal. It finds those directories and moves them
+ * where they belong. Nothing here deletes anything: a promotion is a rename, and an occupied
+ * destination is a refusal rather than a merge or an overwrite. Cross-device renames are
+ * surfaced instead of being retried as copy-then-delete, because a copy-then-delete is a
+ * delete and this module does not do that.
+ *
+ * Link creation is deliberately NOT done here. Seat store links are recorded in the seat's
+ * `.mosaic-managed-links.json`, and that manifest is owned by launch -- a link installed
+ * behind its back reads as "unrecorded symlink occupies managed path" on the next launch,
+ * which trades one refusal for another. So a promoted plugin lands in the central store and
+ * the next launch links it, provided the seat's profile lists it. Whether a seat gets a
+ * plugin is `mosaic fleet plugin`'s decision, not this one's.
+ *
+ * The auth alias is different: it lives in the auth root, no manifest covers it, and
+ * setDefaultBundle() already owns installing it. So a bundle promotion finishes the job.
+ */
+
+import { lstatSync, mkdirSync, readFileSync, readdirSync, renameSync, type Stats } from 'node:fs';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+import { PRIMARY_ALIAS, assertSafeBundleName, authRoot, setDefaultBundle } from './auth-bundles.js';
+import type { CredentialHarness } from './credential-sharing.js';
+
+/** Mirrors the harness list the auth and launch surfaces accept. */
+const HARNESSES: readonly CredentialHarness[] = ['claude', 'codex', 'opencode', 'pi'];
+
+/** Store kinds a seat can hold, and the directory name each uses in both trees. */
+const STORE_DIRECTORY: Record<StoreKind, string> = { plugin: 'plugins', skill: 'skills' };
+
+/** Same charset as a bundle name; anything with a separator or a dot-dot never reaches a join. */
+const ENTRY_NAME = /^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.@-]*$/;
+
+export type StoreKind = 'plugin' | 'skill';
+
+export type AdoptionErrorCode =
+  | 'invalid-request'
+  | 'nothing-to-adopt'
+  | 'destination-occupied'
+  | 'cross-device'
+  | 'unsafe-shape';
+
+export class AdoptionError extends Error {
+  readonly code: AdoptionErrorCode;
+
+  constructor(code: AdoptionErrorCode, message: string) {
+    super(message);
+    this.name = 'AdoptionError';
+    this.code = code;
+  }
+}
+
+export interface AdoptionFinding {
+  /** `bundle-alias` and `store-entry` are adoptable; `unreadable-seat` is a scan gap. */
+  readonly kind: 'bundle-alias' | 'store-entry' | 'unreadable-seat';
+  /** The real directory that a launch would refuse to touch. */
+  readonly path: string;
+  /** What this is, in one line. */
+  readonly reason: string;
+  /** The exact command that resolves it, or what to look at when nothing can. */
+  readonly remedy: string;
+  readonly harness?: CredentialHarness;
+  readonly agent?: string;
+  readonly store?: StoreKind;
+  readonly name?: string;
+  /** Set when the promotion cannot run as-is; the remedy then describes the obstacle. */
+  readonly blocked?: string;
+}
+
+export interface BundlePromotion {
+  readonly harness: CredentialHarness;
+  /** Where the adopted directory now lives. */
+  readonly bundle: string;
+  readonly from: string;
+  readonly to: string;
+  /** The alias path now pointing at it. */
+  readonly alias: string;
+}
+
+export interface StorePromotion {
+  readonly agent: string;
+  readonly store: StoreKind;
+  readonly name: string;
+  readonly from: string;
+  readonly to: string;
+  /** True when the seat's profile lists this entry, so the next launch will link it back. */
+  readonly listedInProfile: boolean;
+}
+
+function lstatIfPresent(path: string): Stats | undefined {
+  try {
+    return lstatSync(path);
+  } catch (error: unknown) {
+    if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'ENOENT') return undefined;
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
+function isRealDirectory(path: string): boolean {
+  const info = lstatIfPresent(path);
+  return info !== undefined && info.isDirectory() && !info.isSymbolicLink();
+}
+
+function assertSafeEntryName(name: string, store: StoreKind): void {
+  if (!ENTRY_NAME.test(name)) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'invalid-request',
+      `"${name}" is not a safe ${store} name; use letters, digits, and . _ @ -`,
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+function agentsRoot(dataHome: string): string {
+  return join(dataHome, 'fleet', 'agents');
+}
+
+/**
+ * A seat's harness home, by the same rule launch uses (`harnessHome()` in commands/launch.ts).
+ * Scanning by any other rule finds directories launch never looks at and misses the ones it
+ * refuses on.
+ */
+function seatHome(dataHome: string, agent: string, harness: CredentialHarness): string {
+  return join(agentsRoot(dataHome), agent, `.${harness}`);
+}
+
+interface SeatProfile {
+  readonly harness: CredentialHarness;
+  readonly plugins: readonly string[];
+  readonly skills: readonly string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Read only what adoption needs out of a seat profile, leniently.
+ *
+ * A scan that dies on one malformed profile hides every finding behind it, so an unreadable
+ * profile is reported as a scan gap and the walk continues. Strictness belongs at launch,
+ * which validates the whole profile and refuses to run the seat.
+ */
+function readSeatProfile(dataHome: string, agent: string): SeatProfile | undefined {
+  let parsed: unknown;
+  try {
+    parsed = JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(agentsRoot(dataHome), agent, 'profile.json'), 'utf8'));
+  } catch {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  if (typeof parsed !== 'object' || parsed === null || Array.isArray(parsed)) return undefined;
+  const raw = parsed as Record<string, unknown>;
+  const harness = raw['harness'];
+  if (typeof harness !== 'string' || !HARNESSES.includes(harness as CredentialHarness)) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  const names = (value: unknown): string[] =>
+    Array.isArray(value) ? value.filter((entry): entry is string => typeof entry === 'string') : [];
+  return {
+    harness: harness as CredentialHarness,
+    plugins: names(raw['plugins']),
+    skills: names(raw['skills']),
+  };
+}
+
+function listDirectory(path: string): string[] {
+  try {
+    return readdirSync(path, { withFileTypes: true })
+      .filter((entry) => entry.isDirectory() && !entry.isSymbolicLink())
+      .map((entry) => entry.name)
+      .sort();
+  } catch (error: unknown) {
+    if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'ENOENT') return [];
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
+function listAgents(dataHome: string): string[] {
+  try {
+    return readdirSync(agentsRoot(dataHome), { withFileTypes: true })
+      .filter((entry) => entry.isDirectory())
+      .map((entry) => entry.name)
+      .sort();
+  } catch (error: unknown) {
+    if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'ENOENT') return [];
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Everything under `~/.mosaic` that occupies a path the fleet manages with a link.
+ *
+ * Read-only. Every finding carries the command that resolves it, because the value of the
+ * scan is that an operator does not have to work out what a composition refusal meant.
+ */
+export function scanAdoptions(dataHome: string): AdoptionFinding[] {
+  const findings: AdoptionFinding[] = [];
+
+  for (const harness of HARNESSES) {
+    const alias = join(authRoot(dataHome, harness), PRIMARY_ALIAS);
+    if (!isRealDirectory(alias)) continue;
+    findings.push({
+      kind: 'bundle-alias',
+      path: alias,
+      harness,
+      reason: `a real directory occupies the ${PRIMARY_ALIAS} alias path; ${harness} seats pointed at "${PRIMARY_ALIAS}" cannot launch`,
+      remedy: `mosaic fleet adopt bundle --harness ${harness} --as <account>`,
+    });
+  }
+
+  for (const agent of listAgents(dataHome)) {
+    const profile = readSeatProfile(dataHome, agent);
+    if (profile === undefined) {
+      findings.push({
+        kind: 'unreadable-seat',
+        path: join(agentsRoot(dataHome), agent, 'profile.json'),
+        agent,
+        reason:
+          'profile could not be read, or names no known harness, so this seat was not scanned',
+        remedy: `mosaic fleet agent get ${agent}`,
+        blocked: 'unreadable profile',
+      });
+      continue;
+    }
+    for (const store of ['plugin', 'skill'] as const) {
+      const plural = STORE_DIRECTORY[store];
+      const installRoot = join(seatHome(dataHome, agent, profile.harness), plural);
+      for (const name of listDirectory(installRoot)) {
+        const destination = join(dataHome, plural, name);
+        const occupied = lstatIfPresent(destination) !== undefined;
+        findings.push({
+          kind: 'store-entry',
+          path: join(installRoot, name),
+          agent,
+          store,
+          name,
+          reason: `a real ${store} directory sits where the seat expects a link into the central store`,
+          remedy: occupied
+            ? `${destination} already exists; compare the two and remove or rename one by hand`
+            : `mosaic fleet adopt ${store} ${name} --seat ${agent}`,
+          ...(occupied ? { blocked: 'destination occupied' } : {}),
+        });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return findings;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Move a directory, refusing every case where the move would cost data.
+ *
+ * EXDEV is surfaced rather than handled: the fallback for a cross-device rename is copy then
+ * delete, and this module does not delete.
+ */
+function movePreservingBoth(from: string, to: string, label: string): void {
+  if (lstatIfPresent(to) !== undefined) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'destination-occupied',
+      `${label} destination already exists and will not be overwritten: ${to}`,
+    );
+  }
+  try {
+    renameSync(from, to);
+  } catch (error: unknown) {
+    if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'EXDEV') {
+      throw new AdoptionError(
+        'cross-device',
+        `${from} and ${to} are on different filesystems, so this cannot be a rename. Copy it across yourself and remove the original once you have checked the copy: ${to}`,
+      );
+    }
+    throw error;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Adopt a real directory sitting on the `primary` alias path as a named bundle.
+ *
+ * The directory is moved to its account name first and the alias installed second. That order
+ * is the one that survives a failure: if the alias cannot be created, the credentials are
+ * intact under their own name and the error says where they are. The reverse order would have
+ * a window where the alias points at nothing.
+ */
+export function promoteBundleAlias(
+  dataHome: string,
+  harness: CredentialHarness,
+  as: string,
+): BundlePromotion {
+  assertSafeBundleName(as);
+  if (as === PRIMARY_ALIAS) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'invalid-request',
+      `--as must be the account this directory holds, not "${PRIMARY_ALIAS}" — that is the alias being freed`,
+    );
+  }
+  const root = authRoot(dataHome, harness);
+  const alias = join(root, PRIMARY_ALIAS);
+  const info = lstatIfPresent(alias);
+  if (info === undefined) {
+    throw new AdoptionError('nothing-to-adopt', `nothing at ${alias}; there is nothing to adopt`);
+  }
+  if (info.isSymbolicLink()) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'nothing-to-adopt',
+      `${alias} is already an alias symlink. Retarget it with: mosaic auth default --harness ${harness} <bundle>`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (!info.isDirectory()) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'unsafe-shape',
+      `${alias} is neither a directory nor a symlink; adoption only moves directories`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  const destination = join(root, as);
+  movePreservingBoth(alias, destination, 'bundle');
+  return {
+    harness,
+    bundle: as,
+    from: alias,
+    to: destination,
+    alias: setDefaultBundle(dataHome, harness, as),
+  };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Adopt a real plugin/skill directory out of a seat and into the central store.
+ *
+ * No link is installed. The seat's link manifest belongs to launch, and a link this command
+ * created behind it would fail the next composition as an unrecorded symlink. The next launch
+ * installs and records the link itself when the seat's profile lists the entry -- and when it
+ * does not, the entry is now vetted store content that any seat can be given deliberately,
+ * which is the outcome that was wanted anyway.
+ */
+export function promoteStoreEntry(
+  dataHome: string,
+  agent: string,
+  store: StoreKind,
+  name: string,
+): StorePromotion {
+  assertSafeEntryName(name, store);
+  const profile = readSeatProfile(dataHome, agent);
+  if (profile === undefined) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'invalid-request',
+      `cannot read a harness out of ${join(agentsRoot(dataHome), agent, 'profile.json')}, so the seat's home cannot be located`,
+    );
+  }
+  const plural = STORE_DIRECTORY[store];
+  const source = join(seatHome(dataHome, agent, profile.harness), plural, name);
+  const info = lstatIfPresent(source);
+  if (info === undefined) {
+    throw new AdoptionError('nothing-to-adopt', `no such ${store} directory: ${source}`);
+  }
+  if (info.isSymbolicLink()) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'nothing-to-adopt',
+      `${source} is already a link into the store; there is nothing to adopt`,
+    );
+  }
+  if (!info.isDirectory()) {
+    throw new AdoptionError(
+      'unsafe-shape',
+      `${source} is not a directory; adoption only moves directories`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  mkdirSync(join(dataHome, plural), { recursive: true });
+  const destination = join(dataHome, plural, name);
+  movePreservingBoth(source, destination, store);
+  return {
+    agent,
+    store,
+    name,
+    from: source,
+    to: destination,
+    listedInProfile: (store === 'plugin' ? profile.plugins : profile.skills).includes(name),
+  };
+}