diff --git a/docs/mcp-contracts.md b/docs/mcp-contracts.md
index 845e8c8719..16543c9b7a 100644
--- a/docs/mcp-contracts.md
+++ b/docs/mcp-contracts.md
@@ -355,7 +355,9 @@ page size or export retained Evidence if the view is too large.
 Completed `inspect_artifact` and atomic `inventory_artifact` Evidence also
 support summary and inventory views. A summary reports the manifest's expected
 counts separately from available record counts, observed entry kinds, inventory
-Evidence IDs and inspection coverage. An inventory view selects `nodes`,
+Evidence IDs, the inventory producer's traversal `source_coverage` and
+inspection coverage. Inspection coverage is `partial` when that traversal
+coverage is unknown. An inventory view selects `nodes`,
 `occurrences`, `edges`, or `integrity_contradictions`, with `offset` and `limit`
 defaulting to 0 and 64. For occurrences, optional `logical_paths` matches exact
 recorded strings: omission selects all available records; `[]` selects none.
diff --git a/src/domain/analysisView/artifactInventoryView.ts b/src/domain/analysisView/artifactInventoryView.ts
index 730d200116..0748894d14 100644
--- a/src/domain/analysisView/artifactInventoryView.ts
+++ b/src/domain/analysisView/artifactInventoryView.ts
@@ -245,17 +245,14 @@ export const projectArtifactInventoryView = (
       inventory.occurrences.find((row) => row.logical_path === ".")
         ?.format_metadata ?? null;
   const rootMetadata = source.rootMetadata;
-  const includeCoverage =
+  // Producer traversal coverage is the owner's fact for every format; missing
+  // coverage would read as unknown, so every view carries it inline.
+  const sourceCoverage = { source_coverage: inventory.coverage };
+  const includeHashCounts =
     view.kind === "inventory" ||
     inventory.manifest.root_format === "godot-pck" ||
     inventory.manifest.root_format === "pyinstaller";
-  const sourceCoverage = includeCoverage
-    ? { source_coverage: inventory.coverage }
-    : {};
-  const counts =
-    includeCoverage || view.kind === "summary"
-      ? inventoryCounts(source)
-      : undefined;
+  const counts = includeHashCounts ? inventoryCounts(source) : undefined;
   const limitations = uniqueSorted([
     ...parent.limitations,
     ...inventory.limitations,
@@ -272,13 +269,12 @@ export const projectArtifactInventoryView = (
     limitations,
     unknowns: [
       "Inventory does not establish application runtime behavior or complete format-specific analysis.",
-      ...(includeCoverage && inventory.coverage.status === "unknown"
+      ...(inventory.coverage.status === "unknown"
         ? [
             "Producer traversal coverage is unknown; missing matches do not prove source absence.",
           ]
         : []),
-      ...(includeCoverage &&
-      counts !== undefined &&
+      ...(counts !== undefined &&
       (counts.hashes.unavailable > 0 || counts.hashes["not-hashed"] > 0)
         ? [
             "Content hashes are unknown for some recorded files; missing node IDs do not prove content absence.",
@@ -325,7 +321,7 @@ export const projectArtifactInventoryView = (
             ? {}
             : { metadata: counts.kinds.metadata }),
         },
-        ...(includeCoverage
+        ...(includeHashCounts
           ? { available_hash_status_counts: counts.hashes }
           : {}),
         source_complete: inventory.complete,
diff --git a/src/domain/artifactInspection.ts b/src/domain/artifactInspection.ts
index 95620c4330..d95fe9f169 100644
--- a/src/domain/artifactInspection.ts
+++ b/src/domain/artifactInspection.ts
@@ -427,10 +427,13 @@ const branch = (
   };
 };
 
+// A completed substep establishes only the coverage its producer examined, so
+// unknown inventory traversal keeps the inspection partial, never complete.
 const inspectionCoverage = (
-  _inventory: ArtifactInventoryResult,
+  inventory: ArtifactInventoryResult,
   omissions: Readonly<Record<string, number>>,
 ): ArtifactInspectionResult["coverage"]["status"] => {
   if (Object.values(omissions).some((count) => count > 0)) return "truncated";
+  if (inventory.coverage.status !== "complete") return "partial";
   return "complete-within-substeps";
 };
diff --git a/tests/boundary/mcp/artifactInspectionCoverageMcp.test.ts b/tests/boundary/mcp/artifactInspectionCoverageMcp.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f2ab203a66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/boundary/mcp/artifactInspectionCoverageMcp.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { mkdir, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { Client, InMemoryTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/client";
+import { Ajv2020 } from "ajv/dist/2020.js";
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import { createArtifactBinarySession } from "../../../src/composition/binary.js";
+import { analysisViewResultSchema } from "../../../src/domain/analysisView/analysisView.js";
+import { artifactInspectionResultSchema } from "../../../src/domain/artifactInspection.js";
+import { parseEvidence } from "../../../src/domain/evidence.js";
+import { createServer } from "../../../src/server/createServer.js";
+import { createTestTempDirectory } from "../../fixtures/temporaryDirectory.js";
+
+const TRAVERSAL_UNKNOWN =
+  "Producer traversal coverage is unknown; missing matches do not prove source absence.";
+
+const writeBundle = async (withFifo: boolean): Promise<string> => {
+  const root = await createTestTempDirectory("rea-inspection-coverage-");
+  const bundle = join(root, "Fixture.app");
+  await mkdir(bundle);
+  await writeFile(
+    join(bundle, "Info.plist"),
+    "<plist><dict><key>CFBundleExecutable</key><string>main.js</string></dict></plist>",
+  );
+  await writeFile(join(bundle, "main.js"), "export const value = 1;\n");
+  if (withFifo) execFileSync("mkfifo", [join(bundle, "omitted.fifo")]);
+  return bundle;
+};
+
+const connect = async () => {
+  const session = await createArtifactBinarySession(process.env);
+  const server = createServer({ kind: "session", session });
+  const client = new Client({ name: "inspection-coverage", version: "1" });
+  const [clientTransport, serverTransport] =
+    InMemoryTransport.createLinkedPair();
+  await server.connect(serverTransport);
+  await client.connect(clientTransport);
+  const definition = (await client.listTools()).tools.find(
+    (tool) => tool.name === "inspect_analysis_view",
+  );
+  expect(definition?.outputSchema).toBeDefined();
+  const outputSchema: Record<string, unknown> = definition!.outputSchema!;
+  const viewOutput = new Ajv2020({
+    strict: false,
+    validateFormats: false,
+  }).compile(outputSchema);
+  return { client, server, viewOutput };
+};
+
+describe.skipIf(process.platform === "win32")(
+  "inspect_artifact traversal coverage",
+  () => {
+    it.each([
+      {
+        withFifo: true,
+        status: "partial",
+        sourceCoverage: { scope: "container-entries", status: "unknown" },
+      },
+      {
+        withFifo: false,
+        status: "complete-within-substeps",
+        sourceCoverage: { scope: "container-entries", status: "complete" },
+      },
+    ] as const)(
+      "derives inspection and summary coverage from inventory traversal (FIFO: $withFifo)",
+      async ({ withFifo, status, sourceCoverage }) => {
+        const path = await writeBundle(withFifo);
+        const { client, server, viewOutput } = await connect();
+        try {
+          const opened = await client.callTool({
+            name: "open_binary",
+            arguments: { path },
+          });
+          expect(opened.isError, JSON.stringify(opened)).not.toBe(true);
+          const inspected = await client.callTool({
+            name: "inspect_artifact",
+            arguments: {},
+          });
+          expect(inspected.isError, JSON.stringify(inspected)).not.toBe(true);
+          const parent = parseEvidence(inspected.structuredContent);
+          const inspection = artifactInspectionResultSchema.parse(
+            parent.normalized_result,
+          );
+          const inventory = inspection.substeps[0]!.evidence.normalized_result;
+          expect(inventory.coverage).toEqual(sourceCoverage);
+          expect(inspection.coverage.status).toBe(status);
+
+          const summaries = [
+            await client.callTool({
+              name: "inspect_analysis_view",
+              arguments: {
+                source: {
+                  kind: "retained-evidence",
+                  evidence_id: parent.evidence_id,
+                },
+                view: { kind: "summary" },
+              },
+            }),
+            await client.callTool({
+              name: "inspect_artifact",
+              arguments: { detail: "summary" },
+            }),
+          ];
+          for (const reply of summaries) {
+            expect(reply.isError, JSON.stringify(reply)).not.toBe(true);
+            expect(
+              viewOutput(reply.structuredContent),
+              JSON.stringify(viewOutput.errors),
+            ).toBe(true);
+            const view = analysisViewResultSchema.parse(
+              parseEvidence(reply.structuredContent).normalized_result,
+            );
+            if (view.kind !== "summary" || !("source_complete" in view.summary))
+              throw new Error("Expected an artifact inventory summary");
+            expect(view.summary.source_complete).toBe(true);
+            expect(view.summary.source_coverage).toEqual(sourceCoverage);
+            expect(view.summary.inspection?.coverage.status).toBe(status);
+            expect(view.unknowns.includes(TRAVERSAL_UNKNOWN)).toBe(withFifo);
+          }
+        } finally {
+          await client.close();
+          await server.close();
+        }
+      },
+      30_000,
+    );
+  },
+);