diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go
index 69061e2a..f51f5239 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins.go
@@ -203,5 +203,41 @@ func (m *Module) ensureModfile(dir string) (string, error) {
 	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(pins, "go.sum"), sum, 0o600); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
-	return modfile, os.WriteFile(modfile, body, 0o600)
+	return modfile, os.WriteFile(modfile, absoluteReplaces(body, dir), 0o600)
+}
+
+// absoluteReplaces is a go.mod with every replace to a relative directory (./x, ../x) made absolute under dir, the
+// directory the go.mod came from. The temporary modfile lives elsewhere and `go mod verify` runs in its directory, so a
+// relative target (a package of the module's own repository in a sibling directory) would resolve there to nothing.
+func absoluteReplaces(body []byte, dir string) []byte {
+	lines := strings.Split(string(body), "\n")
+	inBlock := false
+	for i, line := range lines {
+		text := strings.TrimSpace(line)
+		switch {
+		case inBlock && text == ")":
+			inBlock = false
+			continue
+		case !inBlock && strings.HasPrefix(text, "replace") && strings.HasSuffix(strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(text, "replace")), "("):
+			inBlock = true
+			continue
+		case !inBlock && !strings.HasPrefix(text, "replace ") && !strings.HasPrefix(text, "replace\t"):
+			continue
+		}
+		before, after, ok := strings.Cut(line, "=>")
+		if !ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		fields := strings.Fields(after)
+		if len(fields) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		target := strings.Trim(fields[0], `"`)
+		if target != "." && target != ".." && !strings.HasPrefix(target, "./") && !strings.HasPrefix(target, "../") {
+			continue
+		}
+		fields[0] = filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(target))
+		lines[i] = before + "=> " + strings.Join(fields, " ")
+	}
+	return []byte(strings.Join(lines, "\n"))
 }
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_test.go
index a29e4fac..48829ce5 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-go/cmd/mesh-build-go/pins_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"os"
+	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
@@ -248,3 +249,44 @@ func TestTwoCommitsOfOneRepositoryGetTwoPlacements(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// A relative replace of a go.mod (a package of the module's own repository in a sibling directory, ADR 0593 §1) must still
+// resolve in the temporary modfile, which `go mod verify` runs in its own directory: every relative target is made absolute
+// under the tree it came from. The route-proxy failure of 2026-11-02 13:53 was a ./ replace met there; this takes real go.
+func TestARelativeReplaceStillResolvesInTheTemporaryModfile(t *testing.T) {
+	m := moduleWith(newStates(), "go1.26.0")
+	m.Work, m.Cache = t.TempDir(), t.TempDir()
+	tree := filepath.Join(m.Work, "ws1", "tree")
+	write := func(path, text string) {
+		t.Helper()
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(text), 0o600); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	write(filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "sib", "go.mod"), "module example.com/sib\n\ngo 1.26\n")
+	write(filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "sib", "sib.go"), "package sib\n")
+	write(filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "sib", "inner", "go.mod"), "module example.com/inner\n\ngo 1.26\n")
+	dir := filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "user")
+	write(filepath.Join(dir, "go.mod"), "module example.com/user\n\ngo 1.26\n\nrequire (\n\texample.com/sib v0.0.0\n\texample.com/inner v0.0.0 // inner\n\texample.com/own v0.0.0\n)\n\n"+
+		"replace example.com/sib => ../sib\n\nreplace (\n\texample.com/inner v0.0.0 => ../sib/inner\n\texample.com/own => ./own\n)\n")
+	write(filepath.Join(dir, "own", "go.mod"), "module example.com/own\n\ngo 1.26\n")
+	write(filepath.Join(dir, "main.go"), "package main\n\nimport _ \"example.com/sib\"\n\nfunc main() {}\n")
+	modfile, err := m.ensureModfile(dir)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	raw, _ := os.ReadFile(modfile)
+	for _, want := range []string{"=> " + filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "sib"), "=> " + filepath.Join(tree, "modules", "sib", "inner"), "=> " + filepath.Join(dir, "own")} {
+		if !strings.Contains(string(raw), want) {
+			t.Errorf("the modfile lacks %q:\n%s", want, raw)
+		}
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command("go", "-C", filepath.Dir(modfile), "mod", "verify")
+	cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "GOFLAGS=-mod=mod", "GOPROXY=off", "GOWORK=off", "GOMODCACHE="+t.TempDir())
+	if out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("go mod verify in the pins directory: %v\n%s", err, out)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go
index bad6e1b9..e758fab7 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch.go
@@ -283,6 +283,18 @@ func lockProblem(dir, rel string) (string, error) {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, "package-lock.json")); err != nil {
 		return fmt.Sprintf("%s names packages beyond the SDK and has no package-lock.json (%s): commit one", rel, strings.Join(names, ", ")), nil
 	}
+	_, pkg, _ := ownDependencies(dir)
+	for _, k := range []string{"dependencies", "peerDependencies", "optionalDependencies"} {
+		deps, _ := pkg[k].(map[string]any)
+		for _, name := range names {
+			spec, _ := deps[name].(string)
+			for _, scheme := range []string{"file:", "link:", "portal:"} {
+				if path, ok := strings.CutPrefix(spec, scheme); ok && (path == "." || path == ".." || strings.HasPrefix(path, "./") || strings.HasPrefix(path, "../")) {
+					return fmt.Sprintf("%s depends on %s by the relative path %s, which the install in a scratch copy cannot resolve: name the package from the registry", rel, name, spec), nil
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	return "", nil
 }
 
diff --git a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch_test.go b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch_test.go
index f993a2b7..ee023a45 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-build-node/cmd/mesh-build-node/fetch_test.go
@@ -168,6 +168,23 @@ func TestAModuleWithoutALockIsRefusedInTheResultNotTheFetch(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// A dependency on a directory by a relative path (file: or link:, as a go.mod replace is in Go) would resolve to nothing in
+// the scratch copy `npm ci` runs in, so the module is refused naming the package and its path, as one without a lock is,
+// never installed wrongly (the kind of the 2026-11-02 13:53 route-proxy failure in mesh-build-go).
+func TestAModuleDependingOnARelativeDirectoryIsRefusedNamingIt(t *testing.T) {
+	files := typeScriptModule(`{"dependencies":{"@novox/mesh-sdk":"^0.1.6","sibling":"file:../sibling"}}`)
+	files["modules/m/package-lock.json"] = `{"lockfileVersion":3}`
+	m, f := fetchMachine(t, files, nil)
+	out, err := m.fetch(context.Background(), fetchArgs)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("the fetch failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	r := out.(FetchResult)
+	if len(npmCalls(f)) != 0 || len(r.Refused) != 1 || !strings.Contains(r.Refused[0].Reason, "sibling") || !strings.Contains(r.Refused[0].Reason, "file:../sibling") {
+		t.Errorf("refused = %+v after %d npm calls, want the dependency named and nothing installed", r.Refused, len(npmCalls(f)))
+	}
+}
+
 // 1489 (review 4): a bundle depending on another @novox package is installed, the mesh's registry given to npm ci
 // through --userconfig, as the toolchain's install gives it.
 func TestAnotherNovoxPackageIsInstalledFromTheRegistryThroughAUserconfig(t *testing.T) {