diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-scope-entry-points.test.ts b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-scope-entry-points.test.ts
index 8e162a2f359..9bce1715d3b 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-scope-entry-points.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-scope-entry-points.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { afterEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 import { AiVaultHandler } from '../../relay/ai-vault-handler'
 import type { RelayDispatcher } from '../../relay/dispatcher'
+import { createSessionSearchClient } from '../../shared/ai-vault-search-client'
 import { fakeSearchService } from '../../shared/ai-vault-search-test-fixture'
 import { searchAllExecutionHosts } from '../ipc/ai-vault-search-all-hosts'
 import { RpcDispatcher } from '../runtime/rpc/dispatcher'
@@ -87,6 +88,20 @@ describe('every search entry point carries the scope identity through', () => {
   })
 })
 
+describe('the shared remote client', () => {
+  it('carries the identity out and the acknowledgement back across a transport', async () => {
+    setSessionSearchService(fakeSearchService())
+    installSessionSearchScopeCatalogSource(() => CATALOG)
+    const client = createSessionSearchClient(
+      (_method, params) => searchSessionService(params, 'relay'),
+      'relay'
+    )
+    expect(await client.searchSessions({ query: 'needle', within: WITHIN })).toMatchObject({
+      resolvedWithin: { kind: 'workspace', paths: 1 }
+    })
+  })
+})
+
 describe('an all-computers merge across mixed host versions', () => {
   it('drops an old host’s unscoped hits and names it as needing an update', async () => {
     const response = await searchAllExecutionHosts({ query: 'needle', within: WITHIN }, [
diff --git a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-service-registry.ts b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-service-registry.ts
index 5af65187e99..1714f970f5c 100644
--- a/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-service-registry.ts
+++ b/src/main/ai-vault-search/session-search-service-registry.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ type ScopedSessionSearch = {
  * does not know the workspace or project, which is an answer — never a reason to
  * fall back to searching everything.
  */
-export function applySessionSearchScope(parsed: AiVaultSearchRequest): ScopedSessionSearch | null {
+function applySessionSearchScope(parsed: AiVaultSearchRequest): ScopedSessionSearch | null {
   const { within, ...request } = parsed
   if (!within) {
     return { request }