diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 744719a708..97d7ec547c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -103,7 +103,8 @@
       "acpx@0.13.1": "patches/acpx@0.13.1.patch",
       "@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp@0.70.0": "patches/@agentclientprotocol__claude-agent-acp@0.70.0.patch",
       "@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp@0.73.0": "patches/@agentclientprotocol__claude-agent-acp@0.73.0.patch",
-      "@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp@1.6.2": "patches/@agentclientprotocol__codex-acp@1.6.2.patch"
+      "@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp@1.6.2": "patches/@agentclientprotocol__codex-acp@1.6.2.patch",
+      "node@24.11.0": "patches/node@24.11.0.patch"
     },
     "overrides": {
       "rollup": ">=4.59.0",
diff --git a/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/installation-integrity.test.ts b/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/installation-integrity.test.ts
index f799d30b93..01ca79dbad 100644
--- a/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/installation-integrity.test.ts
+++ b/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/installation-integrity.test.ts
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ describe("ACPX installation integrity", () => {
     await Promise.all([
       mkdir(join(runnerPackage, "node_modules"), { recursive: true }),
       mkdir(pnpmProviderDirectory, { recursive: true }),
+    ]);
+    await Promise.all([
       writeFile(runnerManifest, JSON.stringify({ private: true })),
       writeFile(
         join(pnpmProviderDirectory, "package.json"),
diff --git a/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/qualified-profiles.ts b/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/qualified-profiles.ts
index 79b287100c..3d28a9467b 100644
--- a/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/qualified-profiles.ts
+++ b/packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/qualified-profiles.ts
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export const QUALIFIED_ACPX_PROFILES: Readonly<
     agentRuntimePackage: "@openai/codex",
     agentRuntimeVersion: "0.148.0",
     commandDigest:
-      "sha256:94049b3e3c3aee87de62703786e4fa81d031d7bd979f99bdf516d84f28791a79",
+      "sha256:7a923b3829884d3cabcc9659d22cace3f86813e7bfffc90974b10140a45bc400",
     qualificationModel: "gpt-5.6-sol",
     reportedModelId: "gpt-5.6-sol",
     permissionPolicy: "interactive",
diff --git a/packages/paperclip-runner/src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.ts b/packages/paperclip-runner/src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.ts
index 7d5c22b148..70e1f53d10 100644
--- a/packages/paperclip-runner/src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.ts
+++ b/packages/paperclip-runner/src/live/runnerd-codex-transport.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ import {
   releaseMaterializedNativeRuntimeSkills,
 } from "../drivers/runtime-context-materializer.js";
 
-const packageRoot = fileURLToPath(new URL("../..", import.meta.url));
+// URL directory conversion preserves a trailing separator while path-derived
+// build artifacts do not. Normalize once so a source build cannot be
+// misclassified as an external provider pack by a string-only comparison.
+const packageRoot = resolve(
+  fileURLToPath(new URL("../..", import.meta.url)),
+);
 const executableSuffix = process.platform === "win32" ? ".exe" : "";
 const MAX_NOTIFICATION_COUNT = 2_048;
 const MAX_NOTIFICATION_BYTES = 4 * 1024 * 1024;
diff --git a/packages/paperclip-runner/test/acpx-codex-package-contract.test.mjs b/packages/paperclip-runner/test/acpx-codex-package-contract.test.mjs
index 6f96a49e53..189d4ffa06 100644
--- a/packages/paperclip-runner/test/acpx-codex-package-contract.test.mjs
+++ b/packages/paperclip-runner/test/acpx-codex-package-contract.test.mjs
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ const claudePatch = await readFile(
   ),
   "utf8",
 );
+const nodePatch = await readFile(
+  new URL("../../../patches/node@24.11.0.patch", import.meta.url),
+  "utf8",
+);
 
 test("the runner pins every qualified ACPX production dependency", () => {
   assert.equal(runnerPackage.dependencies.node, "24.11.0");
@@ -86,6 +90,13 @@ test("old and new pnpm configuration both apply the exact runtime patches", () =
     workspace,
     /claude-agent-acp@0\.70\.0': patches\/@agentclientprotocol__claude-agent-acp@0\.70\.0\.patch/,
   );
+  assert.equal(
+    rootPackage.pnpm.patchedDependencies["node@24.11.0"],
+    "patches/node@24.11.0.patch",
+  );
+  assert.match(workspace, /node@24\.11\.0: patches\/node@24\.11\.0\.patch/);
+  assert.match(nodePatch, /-  "bin": \{/);
+  assert.match(nodePatch, /-    "node": "bin\/node"/);
 });
 
 test("the ACPX patch preserves launch-only state and verified spawning", () => {
diff --git a/patches/node@24.11.0.patch b/patches/node@24.11.0.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2278170a9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/patches/node@24.11.0.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
+--- a/package.json
++++ b/package.json
+@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
+   "scripts": {
+     "preinstall": "node installArchSpecificPackage"
+   },
+-  "bin": {
+-    "node": "bin/node"
+-  },
+   "dependencies": {
+     "node-bin-setup": "^1.0.0"
+   },
diff --git a/pnpm-workspace.yaml b/pnpm-workspace.yaml
index 1a903feeef..5ac292bef3 100644
--- a/pnpm-workspace.yaml
+++ b/pnpm-workspace.yaml
@@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ patchedDependencies:
   '@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp@0.70.0': patches/@agentclientprotocol__claude-agent-acp@0.70.0.patch
   '@agentclientprotocol/claude-agent-acp@0.73.0': patches/@agentclientprotocol__claude-agent-acp@0.73.0.patch
   '@agentclientprotocol/codex-acp@1.6.2': patches/@agentclientprotocol__codex-acp@1.6.2.patch
+  node@24.11.0: patches/node@24.11.0.patch