@@ -313,6 +313,14 @@ export const ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS = [
   'packages/connectors/*/src/**',
   'apps/*/src/**',
   'examples/*/src/**',
+  // The objectui tree, imported under `ui/` (objectstack#25677 / #25697): four
+  // workspace roots pnpm-workspace.yaml declares ahead of the import. Each is a
+  // live workspace root (the self-test holds both directions), and each walks
+  // nothing until `ui/` arrives.
+  'ui/src/**',
+  'ui/packages/*/src/**',
+  'ui/apps/*/src/**',
+  'ui/examples/*/src/**',
 ];
 
 /** Canonical unit → every spelling the describe prose or a key token may use. */
 
@@ -227,6 +227,10 @@ export const DECLARED_WATCH_HINTS = [
   'packages/**/package.json',
   'apps/*/package.json',
   'examples/*/package.json',
+  // The objectui tree's workspace roots (`ui`, `ui/packages/*`, `ui/apps/*`,
+  // `ui/examples/*`, objectstack#25677). This gate opens every manifest under
+  // them once the tree is imported; until then the globs match nothing.
+  'ui/**/package.json',
 ];
 
 /** A domain directory with no `*.zod.ts` under it is not a schema domain. */
 
@@ -10,7 +10,23 @@ packages:
   - packages/connectors/*
   - apps/*
   - examples/*
+  # The objectui tree, once it is imported under ui/ (objectstack#25677). Until
+  # then these globs match no directory and pnpm resolves exactly the workspace
+  # above: the lockfile, `pnpm install` and `pnpm -r ls` are unchanged. `ui`
+  # itself is a member because objectui's root package.json carries the scripts
+  # its CI runs (`lint:root`, `type-check:e2e`, the `check:*` gates). objectui's
+  # own `docs` workspace entry is not carried: it names no package.
+  # objectui's pnpm overrides and its patchedDependencies entry arrive with the
+  # import, not here: an unused patch fails `pnpm install` and an override
+  # rewrites this lockfile.
+  - ui
+  - ui/packages/*
+  - ui/apps/*
+  - ui/examples/*
 
+# objectui declares no onlyBuiltDependencies of its own (neither in its
+# pnpm-workspace.yaml nor in its package.json `pnpm` field), so the union of
+# the two allowlists is this list unchanged.
 onlyBuiltDependencies:
   - better-sqlite3
   - esbuild
 
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ const SELF_TEST_BATTERIES = Object.freeze({
   // turbo.json declares, one per recognised name -- so the pin moves when either
   // set does. That is the point: a directory dropping out of turbo.json is a
   // declaration disappearing, which is worth a red.
-  'the TOP-LEVEL WHITELIST, reconciled against turbo.json (#18342)': 26,
+  'the TOP-LEVEL WHITELIST, reconciled against turbo.json (#18342)': 30,
 });
 
 // DELETING an entry silences that battery's floor exactly as effectively as
@@ -1435,6 +1435,22 @@ export const TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORIES_PENDING = Object.freeze({
   '.github': 'over-collection census (#18342): two literals, both non-reads; disposition reserved to the seat',
 });
 
+/**
+ * Top-level directories a `$TURBO_ROOT$` input declares AHEAD of their arrival in
+ * the tree, each with the reason. A name here is excused from the "tracked as
+ * neither file nor directory" case ONLY while git tracks nothing under it; the
+ * moment it is tracked it lands in `directories` and owes a place in
+ * `RECOGNISED_TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORIES` or `TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORIES_PENDING` like any
+ * other, so the import commit decides how this collector treats it.
+ *
+ * `ui`: the objectui tree, imported under `ui/` (objectstack#25677). turbo.json's
+ * `type-check` and `lint` tasks carry objectui's repo-root inputs re-rooted there.
+ * Retire the entry with the import.
+ */
+export const TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORIES_AWAITING_IMPORT = Object.freeze({
+  ui: 'the objectui import (objectstack#25677): turbo.json declares its type-check and lint inputs ahead of the tree',
+});
+
 /** Repo-root FILES declared as `$TURBO_ROOT$` inputs -- the fourth shape, pinned, not collected. */
 export const TURBO_ROOT_FILE_INPUTS = Object.freeze(['sdui.manifest.json']);
 
@@ -4353,7 +4369,27 @@ function selfTest() {
     // Non-vacuity first: a reading of zero would green every per-directory case
     // below by having none of them run.
     ok('turbo.json still declares $TURBO_ROOT$ inputs at all', live.directories.size > 0);
-    ok('no declared top-level segment is tracked as neither file nor directory', live.unknown.size === 0);
+    const awaitingImport = new Set(Object.keys(TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORIES_AWAITING_IMPORT));
+    const unexcused = [...live.unknown].filter((name) => !awaitingImport.has(name));
+    ok(
+      `no declared top-level segment is tracked as neither file nor directory (unexcused: ${unexcused.join(', ') || 'none'})`,
+      unexcused.length === 0,
+    );
+    // The excuse is narrow in both directions: it covers only the names it lists,
+    // and only while git tracks nothing under them.
+    ok(
+      'an unknown segment the awaiting-import map does not list is still unexcused',
+      [...new Set(['zzqq-25697', ...live.unknown])].filter((name) => !awaitingImport.has(name)).includes('zzqq-25697'),
+    );
+    ok(
+      'an awaiting-import name git already tracks is NOT excused here (it must be recognised or pending)',
+      [...awaitingImport].every((name) => !live.directories.has(name) || recognised.has(name) || pending.has(name)),
+    );
+    ok('the awaiting-import map holds exactly the measured arrivals', [...awaitingImport].sort().join() === 'ui');
+    ok(
+      'every awaiting-import entry carries a reason',
+      Object.values(TOP_LEVEL_DIRECTORIES_AWAITING_IMPORT).every((r) => typeof r === 'string' && r.length > 0),
+    );
     for (const dir of [...live.directories].sort()) {
       ok(
         `turbo.json declares "${dir}/" and the collector accounts for it (recognised, or pending with a reason)`,
 
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@
  *     accept set, deliberately not taken here.
  */
 
-import { readFileSync, readdirSync, statSync, existsSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { readFileSync, readdirSync, statSync, existsSync, mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, rmSync } from 'node:fs';
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os';
 // [#15487] The SHARED half of the regex-literal recogniser: the 14-word
 // `REGEX_AFTER_KEYWORD` set, `IDENT_CHAR`, and the literal WALK (character
 // class, backslash sequences, line-terminator refusal, flags) live ONCE, in
@@ -493,12 +494,46 @@ function expandWorkspaceMembers(root, glob) {
  * passes {@link expandWorkspaceMembers} — production and `--self-test` reading
  * two different populations is the defect #17145 carded, not a spare knob.
  */
-export function emptyWorkspaceGlobs({ readGlobs, expand }) {
+export function emptyWorkspaceGlobs({ readGlobs, expand, awaiting = new Set() }) {
   return readGlobs()
     .filter((glob) => !isExclusionGlob(glob))
+    .filter((glob) => !awaiting.has(glob))
     .filter((glob) => expand(glob).length === 0);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Workspace globs `pnpm-workspace.yaml` declares AHEAD of the tree they match:
+ * the objectui import under `ui/` (objectstack#25677, wired by #25697). Each
+ * is excused from the empty-glob refusal above ONLY while
+ * {@link AWAITING_IMPORT_MARKER} is absent; the moment the import lands, every
+ * one of them must expand to members or it is the finding it always was. The
+ * self-test holds the map against the live workspace (every key is a declared
+ * glob) and against both states of the marker. Retire the map with the import.
+ */
+export const WORKSPACE_GLOBS_AWAITING_IMPORT = Object.freeze({
+  ui: 'objectui import (objectstack#25677): the `ui` root manifest itself (`object-ui-monorepo`)',
+  'ui/packages/*': 'objectui import (objectstack#25677): the @object-ui/* packages',
+  'ui/apps/*': 'objectui import (objectstack#25677): the Console and the docs site',
+  'ui/examples/*': 'objectui import (objectstack#25677): objectui example apps',
+});
+
+/** The file whose presence ends the excuse: the imported tree's root manifest. */
+export const AWAITING_IMPORT_MARKER = 'ui/package.json';
+
+/**
+ * The globs excused from the empty-glob refusal on the tree at `root`: the
+ * whole {@link WORKSPACE_GLOBS_AWAITING_IMPORT} key set while the marker is
+ * absent, nothing once it exists.
+ *
+ * @param {string} root
+ * @returns {Set<string>}
+ */
+export function awaitingImportGlobs(root) {
+  return existsSync(join(root, AWAITING_IMPORT_MARKER))
+    ? new Set()
+    : new Set(Object.keys(WORKSPACE_GLOBS_AWAITING_IMPORT));
+}
+
 /**
  * [#16649] Every published workspace member's `src/`, as repo-relative prefixes.
  *
@@ -6145,8 +6180,50 @@ function selfTest() {
     ok(emptyWorkspaceGlobs({
       readGlobs: () => readWorkspaceGlobs(ROOT),
       expand: (g) => expandWorkspaceMembers(ROOT, g),
+      awaiting: awaitingImportGlobs(ROOT),
     }).length === 0,
       'the LIVE workspace has a glob that expands to nothing — the production run refuses on this too');
+    // [#25697] The awaiting-import excuse, narrow in every direction: only the
+    // globs it names, only while the marker is absent, and only globs the live
+    // workspace really declares (so the map cannot outlive the import unnoticed).
+    ok(emptyWorkspaceGlobs({
+      readGlobs: () => ['packages/*', 'ui/packages/*', 'zz-gone/*'],
+      expand: (g) => (g === 'packages/*' ? ['a'] : []),
+      awaiting: new Set(['ui/packages/*']),
+    }).join(',') === 'zz-gone/*',
+      'an empty glob the awaiting set names is excused; an empty glob it does not name is still reported by name');
+    ok(emptyWorkspaceGlobs({
+      readGlobs: () => ['ui/packages/*'],
+      expand: () => [],
+    }).join(',') === 'ui/packages/*',
+      'with no awaiting set the same empty glob is a finding — the excuse is opt-in at the call site, never a default');
+    {
+      const liveGlobs = new Set(readWorkspaceGlobs(ROOT));
+      const keys = Object.keys(WORKSPACE_GLOBS_AWAITING_IMPORT);
+      ok(keys.every((g) => liveGlobs.has(g)),
+        `every awaiting-import glob is one pnpm-workspace.yaml declares — stale keys: ` +
+          `${keys.filter((g) => !liveGlobs.has(g)).join(', ') || 'none'}`);
+      ok(keys.every((g) => typeof WORKSPACE_GLOBS_AWAITING_IMPORT[g] === 'string' && WORKSPACE_GLOBS_AWAITING_IMPORT[g].length > 0),
+        'every awaiting-import entry carries a reason');
+      ok(keys.sort().join() === 'ui,ui/apps/*,ui/examples/*,ui/packages/*',
+        'the awaiting-import map holds exactly the four ui roots and nothing else');
+      // Both states of the marker, on a scratch root: absent → the whole key
+      // set is excused; present → nothing is, and the import commit meets the
+      // refusal with no further edit here.
+      const scratch = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'dispatcher-awaiting-'));
+      try {
+        ok(awaitingImportGlobs(scratch).size === keys.length,
+          'with the marker absent, every awaiting-import glob is excused');
+        mkdirSync(join(scratch, 'ui'), { recursive: true });
+        writeFileSync(join(scratch, 'ui', 'package.json'), '{"name":"object-ui-monorepo","private":true}\n');
+        ok(awaitingImportGlobs(scratch).size === 0,
+          'with the marker present, nothing is excused — the excuse voids itself at the import');
+      } finally {
+        rmSync(scratch, { recursive: true, force: true });
+      }
+      ok(existsSync(join(ROOT, AWAITING_IMPORT_MARKER)) === (awaitingImportGlobs(ROOT).size === 0),
+        'the live reading agrees with the live marker');
+    }
     // [#17145] The same expansion, shown to be the MANIFEST-filtered one and not
     // the raw directory listing. Without this the two could drift apart again
     // silently, which is the whole defect: a glob resolving only to category
@@ -6516,6 +6593,7 @@ function main() {
   const emptyGlobs = emptyWorkspaceGlobs({
     readGlobs: () => readWorkspaceGlobs(ROOT),
     expand: (glob) => expandWorkspaceMembers(ROOT, glob),
+    awaiting: awaitingImportGlobs(ROOT),
   });
   if (emptyGlobs.length > 0) {
     throw new Error(
 
@@ -458,6 +458,13 @@ const ROOT_DIR_WATCH_HINTS = [
   'packages/triggers/*',
   'apps/*',
   'examples/*',
+  // The objectui tree's roots (objectstack#25677). `ui/*` stands for the bare
+  // `ui` member (objectui's root manifest), spelled with a separator for the
+  // reason above; the other three match its own `<dir>/*` globs.
+  'ui/*',
+  'ui/packages/*',
+  'ui/apps/*',
+  'ui/examples/*',
 ];
 
 /**
 
@@ -633,8 +633,21 @@ const WORKSPACE_PARENT_GLOBS = [
   'packages/triggers/*',
   'apps/*',
   'examples/*',
+  // The objectui tree's package roots (objectstack#25677); they match nothing
+  // until it is imported under ui/.
+  'ui/packages/*',
+  'ui/apps/*',
+  'ui/examples/*',
 ];
 
+/**
+ * Workspace members pnpm-workspace.yaml names as a BARE directory (no `/*`):
+ * the one package AT that directory, declared by its manifest path so the entry
+ * keeps the separator the dispatch deriver needs. `ui` is objectui's root
+ * manifest (objectstack#25677); absent until the import, like the globs above.
+ */
+const WORKSPACE_BARE_MEMBER_MANIFESTS = ['ui/package.json'];
+
 /** The parent directories those globs enumerate — each glob minus its leaf. */
 const WORKSPACE_PARENT_DIRS = WORKSPACE_PARENT_GLOBS.map((glob) => glob.replace(/\/\*$/, ''));
 
@@ -650,22 +663,24 @@ function readJson(file) {
 
 function listWorkspacePackages(root) {
   const out = [];
+  const candidates = [];
   for (const parent of WORKSPACE_PARENT_DIRS) {
     const abs = join(root, parent);
     if (!existsSync(abs)) continue;
-    for (const name of readdirSync(abs)) {
-      const dir = join(abs, name);
-      const manifest = join(dir, 'package.json');
-      if (!existsSync(manifest)) continue;
-      let json;
-      try {
-        json = readJson(manifest);
-      } catch {
-        continue;
-      }
-      if (!json.name) continue;
-      out.push({ name: json.name, dir, rel: relative(root, dir), json });
+    for (const name of readdirSync(abs)) candidates.push(join(abs, name));
+  }
+  for (const manifestPath of WORKSPACE_BARE_MEMBER_MANIFESTS) candidates.push(dirname(join(root, manifestPath)));
+  for (const dir of candidates) {
+    const manifest = join(dir, 'package.json');
+    if (!existsSync(manifest)) continue;
+    let json;
+    try {
+      json = readJson(manifest);
+    } catch {
+      continue;
     }
+    if (!json.name) continue;
+    out.push({ name: json.name, dir, rel: relative(root, dir), json });
   }
   return out;
 }
@@ -3322,7 +3337,7 @@ function selfTest() {
     // docblock (#9955). Asserted here rather than left to review because the
     // regression is a tidy-up nobody would flag.
     battery('the declared population must stay READABLE by the dispatch deriver');
-    for (const glob of WORKSPACE_PARENT_GLOBS) {
+    for (const glob of [...WORKSPACE_PARENT_GLOBS, ...WORKSPACE_BARE_MEMBER_MANIFESTS]) {
       expect(
         glob.replace(/^(?:\.\.?(?:\/|$))+/, '').includes('/'),
         `workspace parent ${glob} carries no path separator, so scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs refuses it as too generic and every package under it drops out of the derived gate list`,
@@ -3346,7 +3361,12 @@ function selfTest() {
     // the declaration stays and the live parse becomes its CHECK, in both
     // directions, the shape check-published-files.mjs already uses.
     battery('the declaration must still BE the workspace (#11510)');
-    const declaredParents = WORKSPACE_PARENT_GLOBS.map((g) => g.replace(/\/\*+$/, ''));
+    // A bare-directory member is declared by its manifest path; both spellings
+    // reduce to the directory pnpm-workspace.yaml names.
+    const declaredParents = [
+      ...WORKSPACE_PARENT_GLOBS.map((g) => g.replace(/\/\*+$/, '')),
+      ...WORKSPACE_BARE_MEMBER_MANIFESTS.map((m) => m.replace(/\/package\.json$/, '')),
+    ];
     const liveParents = readWorkspaceGlobs(REPO_ROOT)
       .filter((g) => !isExclusionGlob(g))
       .map((g) => g.replace(/\/\*+$/, ''));