diff --git a/packages/webui/src/cli.mjs b/packages/webui/src/cli.mjs
index ef8ce3f9b..513ad3fe8 100644
--- a/packages/webui/src/cli.mjs
+++ b/packages/webui/src/cli.mjs
@@ -20,10 +20,25 @@ import { consoleReads, redactor } from './reads.mjs';
 import { createDevOwner } from './dev-owner.mjs';
 import { devOwnerInstance, devLanOptions } from '../../cli/src/dev-local-owner.mjs';
 import { createSso, readSlot } from './sso.mjs';
-import { statSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { readFileSync, statSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 import { isAbsolute } from 'node:path';
 import { ID_PATTERN } from '../../business/src/vocabulary.mjs';
 import { selectorScope } from '../../business/src/selector.mjs';
+// The bus verifies the Console's exact same-tree script in /proc, whose argv preserves a
+// relative shell argument even though Node's process.argv resolves it. Re-exec the same
+// program with its absolute path before opening anything; preserve PID, ancestry and env so
+// the existing human and Console proof checks remain unchanged.
+if (process.platform === 'linux') {
+  const raw = readFileSync('/proc/self/cmdline', 'utf8').split('\0');
+  let at = 1 + process.execArgv.length;
+  if (raw[at] === '--') at += 1; // Node leaves its option delimiter out of execArgv.
+  const script = raw[at];
+  if (script && !isAbsolute(script)) {
+    if (typeof process.execve !== 'function') throw new Error('relative Console launch requires process.execve; use an absolute script path');
+    process.execve(process.execPath, [process.execPath, ...process.execArgv, fileURLToPath(import.meta.url), ...process.argv.slice(2)], process.env);
+  }
+}
 const args = process.argv.slice(2);
 const usage = 'node packages/webui/src/cli.mjs serve [--port N] [--tester-socket] [--checkout PATH] [--board http://127.0.0.1:7331] [--business ID] [--sso | --dev-local-owner [--dev-insecure-bind ADDR --dev-allow-host NAME[,NAME...]]] [--send] [--public-host NAME --auth-header HEADER --allow-user ID [--proof-header NAME --proof-file PATH]]';
 try {
diff --git a/packages/webui/tests/console-relative-launch.test.mjs b/packages/webui/tests/console-relative-launch.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e396ff3f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/webui/tests/console-relative-launch.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { spawn, spawnSync } from 'node:child_process';
+import { mkdtempSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { join } from 'node:path';
+
+const root = fileURLToPath(new URL('../../../', import.meta.url));
+const script = 'packages/webui/src/cli.mjs';
+
+test('a relative Console launch presents the same-tree absolute parent path to the bus', { timeout: 30000 }, async t => {
+  const env = { ...process.env, MOSAIC_CONFIG: join(process.env.HOME, '.config/mosaic-reltest/config.json'), MOSAIC_AGENT_RUN: 'synthetic-test-marker' };
+  const setup = spawnSync(join(root, 'scripts/bootstrap.sh'), ['--instance', 'reltest'], { env, encoding: 'utf8' });
+  assert.equal(setup.status, 0, setup.stderr);
+  const child = spawn(process.execPath, [script, 'serve', '--dev-local-owner', '--port', '0'], { cwd: root, env });
+  t.after(async () => {
+    if (child.exitCode === null && child.signalCode === null) {
+      const exited = new Promise(resolve => child.once('exit', resolve));
+      child.kill('SIGTERM');
+      await exited;
+    }
+  });
+  let stderr = '';
+  child.stderr.on('data', chunk => { stderr += chunk; });
+  await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    let out = '';
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => reject(Error('Console did not start: ' + stderr)), 20000);
+    child.stdout.on('data', chunk => { out += chunk; if (out.includes('Mosaic Console:')) { clearTimeout(timer); resolve(); } });
+    child.once('exit', code => { clearTimeout(timer); reject(Error(`Console exited ${code}: ${stderr}`)); });
+    child.once('error', reject);
+  });
+  const argv = readFileSync(`/proc/${child.pid}/cmdline`, 'utf8').split('\0');
+  assert.equal(argv[1], join(root, script));
+  assert.deepEqual(argv.slice(2, 6), ['serve', '--dev-local-owner', '--port', '0']);
+  // Re-exec must not erase the ancestry marker that makes an agent fail human proof.
+  assert.ok(readFileSync(`/proc/${child.pid}/environ`, 'utf8').split('\0').includes('MOSAIC_AGENT_RUN=synthetic-test-marker'));
+});
+
+test('Node\'s -- delimiter: an absolute script loads once, a relative one re-execs once', { timeout: 30000 }, () => {
+  const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'rl'));
+  const count = join(dir, 'loads');
+  const preload = join(dir, 'count.cjs');
+  writeFileSync(preload, `require('node:fs').appendFileSync(${JSON.stringify(count)}, 'x');\n`);
+  const loads = args => {
+    writeFileSync(count, '');
+    const r = spawnSync(process.execPath, ['--require', preload, '--', ...args, '--help'], { cwd: root, env: process.env, encoding: 'utf8' });
+    assert.equal(r.status, 0, r.stderr);
+    return readFileSync(count, 'utf8').length;
+  };
+  assert.equal(loads([join(root, script)]), 1);
+  assert.equal(loads([script]), 2);
+});