diff --git a/modules/nextcloud/Dockerfile b/modules/nextcloud/Dockerfile
index 0d4460e..56b9607 100644
--- a/modules/nextcloud/Dockerfile
+++ b/modules/nextcloud/Dockerfile
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 # image it RUNS in — the second must not carry a compiler. Declared in module.json's `build.on`.
 ARG BUILD_BASE
 ARG RUNTIME_BASE
+ARG DOCKER_CLI
 
 FROM ${BUILD_BASE} AS build
 # Compiled under /app/modules so `@novox/mesh-sdk` resolves upward into the base's own
@@ -21,12 +22,15 @@ RUN node /app/node_modules/typescript/bin/tsc client.ts index.ts tools/index.ts
       --module NodeNext --moduleResolution NodeNext --target ES2022 --outDir dist
 
 FROM ${RUNTIME_BASE}
+# ARGs declared before the first FROM are out of scope past it; redeclared here so COPY --from
+# below can see it.
+ARG DOCKER_CLI
 COPY --from=build /app/modules/nextcloud/dist /app/modules/nextcloud/dist
 # occ runs inside nextcloud's own container, reached over the mounted docker socket — which needs
 # the docker CLI itself present here, not only the socket. Copied from Docker's own official client
 # image rather than apt-installed, so this stays the one binary and nothing else (no daemon, no
 # systemd unit, no package manager tree pulled in for it).
-COPY --from=docker:cli /usr/local/bin/docker /usr/local/bin/docker
+COPY --from=${DOCKER_CLI} /usr/local/bin/docker /usr/local/bin/docker
 # Every serve-time entrypoint, loaded by the runtime in serve mode: tools and events serve, and a
 # provider's provisioner runs its reconcile loop in the same process, with the broker connected —
 # the convention novox/hq issues 060/061 settled. A container that instead ran only its
diff --git a/modules/nextcloud/module.json b/modules/nextcloud/module.json
index a2e7da9..d24f1c2 100644
--- a/modules/nextcloud/module.json
+++ b/modules/nextcloud/module.json
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@
         "arg": "RUNTIME_BASE",
         "module": "mesh-tools",
         "artifact": "runtime"
+      },
+      {
+        "arg": "DOCKER_CLI",
+        "image": "docker@sha256:018edbc908e08fcc9dbf029c812c34251e9b4719e6f71ca0e5eae2a987d014ca"
       }
     ],
     "artifacts": [