diff --git a/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.test.ts b/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.test.ts
index 8522682f39..92c56943e4 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.test.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.test.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import { createTestTempDirectory } from "../../tests/fixtures/temporaryDirectory
 import { openRegularFile } from "../filesystem/RegularFile.js";
 
 import type { ArtifactEntry } from "./ArtifactReader.js";
+import { ArtifactEmbeddedFormatProbes } from "./ArtifactEmbeddedFormatProbes.js";
 import { GodotPckArtifactReader } from "./GodotPckArtifactReader.js";
 
 const writePck = async (bytes: Buffer): Promise<string> => {
@@ -262,32 +263,83 @@ describe("GodotPckArtifactReader member streams", () => {
     );
   });
 
-  it("reads members from the admitted descriptor after the path is replaced", async () => {
-    const root = await createTestTempDirectory("rea-godot-borrowed-source-");
-    const selected = join(root, "selected");
-    await mkdir(selected);
-    const path = join(selected, "game");
-    await writeFile(path, buildGodotPck(3, members));
+  it("rejects stale located facts after the admitted carrier changes", async () => {
+    const path = await writePck(buildGodotPck(3, members));
     const descriptor = await openRegularFile(path, { symlinks: "reject" });
-    const { handle } = descriptor;
     try {
-      // Replace the selected directory without changing the admitted inode's
-      // metadata. Moving the file itself would change its validated ctime.
-      await rename(selected, join(root, "original"));
-      await mkdir(selected);
-      await writeFile(path, buildGodotPck(3, [{ path: "other.gd", data: "" }]));
-      const reader = new GodotPckArtifactReader(path, descriptor);
-      const entries = await list(reader);
-      expect(entries.map(({ path: member }) => member)).toEqual([
-        "scenes/main.gd",
-        "project.binary",
-        "data/é.json",
-      ]);
-      await reader.close();
+      const location = await new ArtifactEmbeddedFormatProbes(
+        path,
+        descriptor,
+      ).godotPck();
+      if (location === undefined) throw new Error("expected a pack location");
+      const reader = new GodotPckArtifactReader(path, {
+        kind: "godot-pck",
+        source: descriptor,
+        location,
+      });
+      try {
+        await writeFile(path, Buffer.from("replaced carrier"));
+        await expect(list(reader)).rejects.toMatchObject({
+          reason: "integrity",
+        });
+      } finally {
+        await reader.close();
+      }
     } finally {
-      await handle.close();
+      await descriptor.handle.close();
     }
   });
+
+  it.each([false, true])(
+    "reads located pack facts from the admitted descriptor after path replacement (embedded: %s)",
+    async (embedded) => {
+      const root = await createTestTempDirectory("rea-godot-borrowed-source-");
+      const selected = join(root, "selected");
+      await mkdir(selected);
+      const path = join(selected, "game");
+      const bytes = buildGodotPck(3, members);
+      await writeFile(path, embedded ? embedGodotPck(bytes) : bytes);
+      const descriptor = await openRegularFile(path, { symlinks: "reject" });
+      const { handle } = descriptor;
+      try {
+        const location = await new ArtifactEmbeddedFormatProbes(
+          path,
+          descriptor,
+        ).godotPck();
+        if (location === undefined) throw new Error("expected a pack location");
+        // Replace the selected directory without changing the admitted inode's
+        // metadata. Moving the file itself would change its validated ctime.
+        await rename(selected, join(root, "original"));
+        await mkdir(selected);
+        await writeFile(
+          path,
+          buildGodotPck(3, [{ path: "other.gd", data: "" }]),
+        );
+        const reader = new GodotPckArtifactReader(path, {
+          kind: "godot-pck",
+          source: descriptor,
+          location,
+        });
+        const cancelled = new AbortController();
+        cancelled.abort();
+        await expect(
+          reader.entries(cancelled.signal)[Symbol.asyncIterator]().next(),
+        ).rejects.toMatchObject({
+          reason: "cancelled",
+        });
+        const entries = await list(reader);
+        expect(reader.formatMetadata()?.embedded).toBe(embedded);
+        expect(entries.map(({ path: member }) => member)).toEqual([
+          "scenes/main.gd",
+          "project.binary",
+          "data/é.json",
+        ]);
+        await reader.close();
+      } finally {
+        await handle.close();
+      }
+    },
+  );
 });
 
 describe("Godot PCK logical-byte admission", () => {
diff --git a/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.ts b/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.ts
index a807cf556a..2901c4e837 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/GodotPckArtifactReader.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ import {
 } from "./ArtifactReader.js";
 import { ArtifactResourceScope } from "./ArtifactResourceScope.js";
 import { assertArtifactReadActive } from "./ArtifactFileOperation.js";
-import { locateGodotPck, readPckBytes } from "./GodotPckLocation.js";
+import {
+  locateGodotPck,
+  readPckBytes,
+  type GodotPckAdmission,
+  type GodotPckLocation,
+} from "./GodotPckLocation.js";
 import type { GodotPckMetadata } from "../domain/artifactFormatMetadata.js";
 import { jsonValueByteLength } from "../domain/jsonValueByteLength.js";
 import { readFileHandleChunks } from "../filesystem/readFileHandleChunks.js";
@@ -37,12 +42,23 @@ export class GodotPckArtifactReader implements ArtifactReader {
   readonly #entries = new Map<string, ArtifactEntry>();
   readonly #streams = new Set<Readable>();
   readonly #source: ArtifactFileSource;
+  readonly #location: GodotPckLocation | undefined;
   #prepared: Promise<void> | undefined;
   #header: GodotPckMetadata | undefined;
   #closing = false;
 
-  constructor(path: string, admitted?: StableRegularFileDescriptor) {
-    this.#source = new ArtifactFileSource(path, "Godot PCK", admitted);
+  constructor(
+    path: string,
+    admitted?: StableRegularFileDescriptor | GodotPckAdmission,
+  ) {
+    const admission =
+      admitted !== undefined && "kind" in admitted ? admitted : undefined;
+    this.#source = new ArtifactFileSource(
+      path,
+      "Godot PCK",
+      admitted !== undefined && "kind" in admitted ? admitted.source : admitted,
+    );
+    this.#location = admission?.location;
   }
 
   formatMetadata(): GodotPckMetadata | undefined {
@@ -174,7 +190,12 @@ export class GodotPckArtifactReader implements ArtifactReader {
 
   async #prepare(signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<void> {
     const { handle, initial } = await this.#source.read(signal);
-    const header = await readGodotPckHeader(handle, initial.size, signal);
+    const header = await readGodotPckHeader(
+      handle,
+      initial.size,
+      signal,
+      this.#location,
+    );
     this.#header = header;
     if (header.directory_status !== "available") return;
     const cursor = new PckCursor(
@@ -298,8 +319,10 @@ const readGodotPckHeader = async (
   handle: FileHandle,
   size: number,
   signal?: AbortSignal,
+  admittedLocation?: GodotPckLocation,
 ): Promise<GodotPckMetadata> => {
-  const location = await locateGodotPck(handle, size, signal);
+  const location =
+    admittedLocation ?? (await locateGodotPck(handle, size, signal));
   if (location === undefined)
     throw formatFailure("no standalone header or executable trailer");
   const { start, end, embedded } = location;
diff --git a/src/artifacts/GodotPckLocation.ts b/src/artifacts/GodotPckLocation.ts
index d1e3e4e7a2..2588fb4f0a 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/GodotPckLocation.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/GodotPckLocation.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { StableRegularFileDescriptor } from "../filesystem/RegularFile.js";
 import type { FileHandle } from "node:fs/promises";
 import {
   hasGodotPckHeader,
@@ -13,6 +14,13 @@ export interface GodotPckLocation {
   readonly embedded: boolean;
 }
 
+/** Located pack facts borrowed with the descriptor that produced them. */
+export interface GodotPckAdmission {
+  readonly kind: "godot-pck";
+  readonly source: StableRegularFileDescriptor;
+  readonly location: GodotPckLocation;
+}
+
 type DeclaredGodotPckTrailer = Extract<
   GodotPckTrailerFacts,
   { readonly state: "declared" }
diff --git a/src/artifacts/createArtifactReader.ts b/src/artifacts/createArtifactReader.ts
index 2645156864..9f5f302804 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/createArtifactReader.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/createArtifactReader.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { GodotPckAdmission } from "./GodotPckLocation.js";
 import type { PyInstallerAdmission } from "./pyinstaller/PyInstallerAdmission.js";
 import type { NodeSeaAdmission } from "./nodeSea/NodeSeaAdmission.js";
 import type { AsarHeaderAdmission } from "../config/asarHeaderAdmission.js";
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ interface ArtifactReaderConstruction {
     | StableRegularFileDescriptor
     | NodeSeaAdmission
     | PyInstallerAdmission
+    | GodotPckAdmission
     | undefined;
   readonly asarHeaderAdmission?: AsarHeaderAdmission | undefined;
   /** Caller-selected root spelling; only ASAR companion lookup consumes this. */
@@ -90,12 +92,19 @@ export function createArtifactReader(
         path,
         admission !== undefined &&
           "kind" in admission &&
-          admission.kind === "pyinstaller"
-          ? rootSource
-          : admission,
+          admission.kind === "node-sea"
+          ? admission
+          : rootSource,
       );
     case "godot-pck":
-      return new GodotPckArtifactReader(path, rootSource);
+      return new GodotPckArtifactReader(
+        path,
+        admission !== undefined &&
+          "kind" in admission &&
+          admission.kind === "godot-pck"
+          ? admission
+          : rootSource,
+      );
     case "mach-o-universal":
       return new MachOSliceArtifactReader(
         path,
diff --git a/src/artifacts/inventory/classify.ts b/src/artifacts/inventory/classify.ts
index 5b7c8ca33a..6d7cdf89fd 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/inventory/classify.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/inventory/classify.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { GodotPckAdmission } from "../GodotPckLocation.js";
 import type { PyInstallerAdmission } from "../pyinstaller/PyInstallerAdmission.js";
 import { assertArtifactSelectedSource } from "../ArtifactSelectedSource.js";
 import { artifactNameForClassification } from "../../domain/artifactNameSelection.js";
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ type RootInventoryClassification = RootClassification & {
     | StableRegularFileDescriptor
     | NodeSeaAdmission
     | PyInstallerAdmission
+    | GodotPckAdmission
     | undefined;
 };
 
@@ -208,6 +210,7 @@ const classifyRootFormat = async (
   | ArtifactOccurrence["artifact_format"]
   | NodeSeaAdmission
   | PyInstallerAdmission
+  | GodotPckAdmission
 > => {
   const { handle } = source;
   const probe = createArtifactClassificationProbe(asarHeaderAdmission);
@@ -261,7 +264,8 @@ const classifyRootFormat = async (
     (await hasDiskImageSignature(archiveBytes, read))
   )
     return "dmg";
-  if (await embeddedProbes.godotPck(evidence.prefix)) return "godot-pck";
+  const pck = await embeddedProbes.godotPck(evidence.prefix);
+  if (pck !== undefined) return { kind: "godot-pck", source, location: pck };
   const fatEvidence = await readRootFatSliceHeaders(handle, evidence, signal);
   const mzWindowsHeaderSignature = await readRootMzWindowsHeaderSignature(
     handle,
diff --git a/src/artifacts/inventory/reader.ts b/src/artifacts/inventory/reader.ts
index a0f15578c2..23eed04bb2 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/inventory/reader.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/inventory/reader.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { GodotPckAdmission } from "../GodotPckLocation.js";
 import type { PyInstallerAdmission } from "../pyinstaller/PyInstallerAdmission.js";
 import type { NodeSeaAdmission } from "../nodeSea/NodeSeaAdmission.js";
 import type { AsarHeaderAdmission } from "../../config/asarHeaderAdmission.js";
@@ -23,7 +24,8 @@ export const createReader = (
   readerAdmission?:
     | StableRegularFileDescriptor
     | NodeSeaAdmission
-    | PyInstallerAdmission,
+    | PyInstallerAdmission
+    | GodotPckAdmission,
   asarHeaderAdmission?: AsarHeaderAdmission,
   selectedPath?: string,
 ): ArtifactReader | undefined => {