diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstall.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstall.ts
index b582c492b0..41a5da855c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstall.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstall.ts
@@ -263,6 +263,17 @@ export async function applyOneMigration(
  * reviewed) migrations. Each item's outcome is reported through `onResult`;
  * failures never abort the remaining items.
  */
+/** The kinds an import writes that carry a path and can therefore already be there. */
+export type ImportedKind = 'script' | 'flow' | 'app' | 'resource' | 'trigger'
+
+/**
+ * The key `alreadyPresent` is built and read with. Kind and path together, because the five
+ * kinds share one path namespace and a bare path cannot say which of them is already there.
+ */
+export function presenceKey(kind: ImportedKind, path: string): string {
+	return `${kind}:${path}`
+}
+
 export async function installProject(args: {
 	workspace: string
 	exportData: ProjectExport
@@ -279,9 +290,13 @@ export async function installProject(args: {
 	 */
 	stopped?: () => boolean
 	/**
-	 * Paths already in the destination, retargeted — so a retry writes only what is missing
-	 * instead of replaying the bundle into a wall of "already exists". Compared after
-	 * retargeting, because that is what these items will actually be called.
+	 * What is already in the destination, as `presenceKey` keys — so a retry writes only what
+	 * is missing instead of replaying the bundle into a wall of "already exists". Built from
+	 * retargeted paths, because that is what these items will actually be called.
+	 *
+	 * Keyed by kind and not by path alone: the five kinds share one `f/<folder>/` namespace, so
+	 * a trigger and a script may legitimately both be called `f/cal/sync`. A flat path set
+	 * would let either one mask the other and silently skip an item that was never imported.
 	 *
 	 * Never a way to *replace* anything: an item that is there is left exactly as it is,
 	 * which is the same promise `updateIfExists: false` makes for a resource whose value
@@ -317,8 +332,8 @@ export async function installProject(args: {
 	 * rather than dropped: the checklist has to account for every item the project ships, and
 	 * "already there" is a different thing from "imported".
 	 */
-	const present = (path: string): boolean => {
-		if (!alreadyPresent?.has(path)) return false
+	const present = (kind: ImportedKind, path: string): boolean => {
+		if (!alreadyPresent?.has(presenceKey(kind, path))) return false
 		onResult({ path, ok: true, skipped: true })
 		return true
 	}
@@ -363,7 +378,7 @@ export async function installProject(args: {
 
 	for (const s of proj.scripts) {
 		if (halted()) return
-		if (present(s.path)) continue
+		if (present('script', s.path)) continue
 		// `$var:` is resolved in job args (flow inputs, schedule args, trigger config),
 		// not in script source, so there is no variable arg to contain here.
 		await checkedItem(s.path, extractScriptRefs(s.content ?? ''), undefined, () =>
@@ -372,12 +387,12 @@ export async function installProject(args: {
 	}
 	for (const f of proj.flows) {
 		if (halted()) return
-		if (present(f.path)) continue
+		if (present('flow', f.path)) continue
 		await checkedItem(f.path, extractFlowRefs(f.value), f.value, () => importFlow(workspace, f))
 	}
 	for (const r of proj.resources) {
 		if (halted()) return
-		if (present(r.path)) continue
+		if (present('resource', r.path)) continue
 		await checked(r.path, () => importResourceStub(workspace, r))
 	}
 	// Placeholders for the project's internal `$var:`/`$jsonvar:` refs (retargeted
@@ -390,7 +405,7 @@ export async function installProject(args: {
 	}
 	for (const a of proj.apps) {
 		if (halted()) return
-		if (present(a.path)) continue
+		if (present('app', a.path)) continue
 		const isRaw = a.app_type === 'raw'
 		const refs = isRaw ? extractRawAppRefs(a.value?.raw ?? '') : extractAppRefs(a.value)
 		// Raw apps hold their runnables in the `value.raw` JSON string; parse it so the
@@ -431,6 +446,7 @@ export async function installProject(args: {
 	}
 	for (const t of proj.triggers) {
 		if (halted()) return
+		if (present('trigger', String(t.path))) continue
 		const violation = guard(t.path, t.runnable_path) ?? triggerConfigViolation(t)
 		await record(
 			String(t.path),
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstallPresence.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstallPresence.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4f038e8f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstallPresence.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+/**
+ * A retry must not re-write what the destination already has. The interesting kind is the
+ * trigger: it is the one item the import creates through an API that rejects an existing
+ * path outright, so replaying it turns "already there" into a reported failure.
+ */
+
+const created = vi.hoisted(() => ({ triggers: [] as string[] }))
+
+vi.mock('$lib/gen', () => {
+	const nothing = vi.fn(async () => [])
+	return {
+		AppService: { createApp: vi.fn(), listApps: nothing },
+		FlowService: { createFlow: vi.fn(), listFlows: nothing },
+		FolderService: { createFolder: vi.fn() },
+		ResourceService: { createResource: vi.fn(), listResource: nothing },
+		ScriptService: { createScript: vi.fn(), listScripts: nothing },
+		VariableService: { createVariable: vi.fn(), listVariable: nothing },
+		WorkspaceService: { listDataTables: vi.fn(async () => []) }
+	}
+})
+
+vi.mock('../triggers/workspaceTriggersList', () => ({
+	TRIGGER_KINDS: { schedule: { badge: 'Schedule', resourceField: undefined } },
+	createWorkspaceTriggerDisabled: vi.fn(async (_ws: string, t: { path: string }) => {
+		created.triggers.push(t.path)
+	}),
+	triggerHandlerRefs: () => []
+}))
+
+import { installProject, presenceKey } from './projectInstall'
+
+const exportData = {
+	project: { slug: 'calendly', name: 'Calendly', summary: '', readme: null },
+	scripts: [],
+	flows: [],
+	apps: [],
+	resources: [],
+	variables: [],
+	triggers: [
+		{
+			kind: 'schedule',
+			path: 'f/calendly/nightly',
+			runnable_path: 'f/calendly/sync',
+			runnable_kind: 'script',
+			summary: null,
+			config: {}
+		}
+	],
+	migrations: []
+} as any
+
+async function run(alreadyPresent?: Set<string>) {
+	const results: any[] = []
+	await installProject({
+		workspace: 'w',
+		exportData,
+		folder: 'calendly',
+		migrations: [],
+		hasEeLicense: true,
+		alreadyPresent,
+		onResult: (r) => results.push(r)
+	})
+	return results
+}
+
+describe('installProject presence', () => {
+	beforeEach(() => {
+		created.triggers = []
+	})
+
+	it('creates a trigger the destination does not have', async () => {
+		const results = await run(new Set())
+		expect(created.triggers).toEqual(['f/calendly/nightly'])
+		expect(results).toContainEqual({ path: 'f/calendly/nightly', ok: true })
+	})
+
+	// The regression: without this the retry calls the create API again, which rejects the
+	// existing path, and the row reads as a failure for something that is already there.
+	it('skips a trigger that is already there instead of re-creating it', async () => {
+		const results = await run(new Set([presenceKey('trigger', 'f/calendly/nightly')]))
+		expect(created.triggers).toEqual([])
+		expect(results).toContainEqual({ path: 'f/calendly/nightly', ok: true, skipped: true })
+	})
+
+	// Kinds share one `f/<folder>/` namespace, so the key has to carry the kind: a script of
+	// the same name is not this trigger and must not stand in for it.
+	it('does not let another kind at the same path mask the trigger', async () => {
+		const results = await run(new Set([presenceKey('script', 'f/calendly/nightly')]))
+		expect(created.triggers).toEqual(['f/calendly/nightly'])
+		expect(results).toContainEqual({ path: 'f/calendly/nightly', ok: true })
+	})
+})
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/abandon.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/abandon.test.ts
index 66942a1edf..d899a17f64 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/abandon.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/abandon.test.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ vi.mock('$lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstall', () => ({
 		// returns on success.
 		for (const path of ['a', 'b', 'c']) {
 			if (args.stopped?.() === true) return
-			if (args.alreadyPresent?.has(path)) {
+			// Keyed exactly as the real `installProject` keys it, so this stand-in cannot drift
+			// into testing a contract the production code does not have.
+			if (args.alreadyPresent?.has(`script:${path}`)) {
 				args.onResult({ path, ok: true, skipped: true })
 				continue
 			}
@@ -168,7 +170,7 @@ describe('retrying over what is already there', () => {
 	})
 
 	it('writes nothing for a path the destination already holds', async () => {
-		present.paths = new Set(['a', 'b'])
+		present.paths = new Set(['script:a', 'script:b'])
 		const run = new ImportExecution(PLAN, deps)
 		await run.run()
 		const byPath = new Map(run.itemResults.map((r) => [r.path, r]))
@@ -178,7 +180,7 @@ describe('retrying over what is already there', () => {
 	})
 
 	it('still accounts for every item, so the checklist stays complete', async () => {
-		present.paths = new Set(['a', 'b'])
+		present.paths = new Set(['script:a', 'script:b'])
 		const run = new ImportExecution(PLAN, deps)
 		await run.run()
 		expect(run.itemResults.length).toBe(3)
@@ -186,7 +188,7 @@ describe('retrying over what is already there', () => {
 	})
 
 	it('says what it did rather than claiming to have imported all of it', async () => {
-		present.paths = new Set(['a', 'b'])
+		present.paths = new Set(['script:a', 'script:b'])
 		const run = new ImportExecution(PLAN, deps)
 		await run.run()
 		const importRow = run.tasks.find((t) => t.key === 'import')
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/execution.svelte.ts b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/execution.svelte.ts
index ff7e3171ad..7c062e28f7 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/execution.svelte.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/execution.svelte.ts
@@ -363,7 +363,10 @@ export class ImportExecution {
 		// holds some of these paths, and a run interrupted halfway is indistinguishable from
 		// one that never started. On a workspace this run just created the answer is empty and
 		// nothing is skipped.
-		const alreadyPresent = await probeImportedPaths(workspace, folder)
+		const alreadyPresent = await probeImportedPaths(workspace, folder, {
+			triggers: exportData.triggers.length > 0,
+			hasEeLicense: this.#deps.hasEeLicense
+		})
 		if (this.#abandoned) return
 		try {
 			await installProject({
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.test.ts b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.test.ts
index 47026639ed..1d66a0e14b 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.test.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
 
-import { expectedPaths, expectedTables } from './probe'
+import { expectedTables } from './probe'
 
 /**
- * These two are inference over what the export happens to say, so they are the part of the
- * probe that can be wrong while everything still type-checks. The network reads around them
+ * `expectedTables` is inference over what the export happens to say, so it is the part of the
+ * probe that can be wrong while everything still type-checks. The network reads around it
  * either answer or throw.
  */
 
@@ -52,33 +52,3 @@ COMMIT;`
 		expect(expectedTables('')).toEqual([])
 	})
 })
-
-describe('expectedPaths', () => {
-	const EXPORT = {
-		project: { slug: 'calendly', name: 'Calendly', summary: '', readme: null },
-		scripts: [{ path: 'f/calendly/book_slot' }],
-		flows: [],
-		apps: [{ path: 'f/calendly/booking' }],
-		resources: [{ path: 'f/calendly/smtp' }],
-		triggers: [],
-		migrations: []
-	} as any
-
-	it('lists what the import will write, across every kind', () => {
-		expect(expectedPaths(EXPORT, 'calendly')).toEqual([
-			'f/calendly/book_slot',
-			'f/calendly/booking',
-			'f/calendly/smtp'
-		])
-	})
-
-	// `installProject` retargets into the chosen folder, so the paths to look for are the
-	// retargeted ones — checking the export's own would look for stubs that never landed.
-	it('follows the folder the import was pointed at', () => {
-		expect(expectedPaths(EXPORT, 'elsewhere')).toEqual([
-			'f/elsewhere/book_slot',
-			'f/elsewhere/booking',
-			'f/elsewhere/smtp'
-		])
-	})
-})
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.ts b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.ts
index c3d76a304f..80e60e14e6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/importWizard/probe.ts
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@
  */
 
 import { ResourceService, ScriptService, FlowService, AppService, WorkspaceService } from '$lib/gen'
-import type {
-	ProjectExport,
-	ProjectMigration
-} from '$lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectBundle'
+import type { ProjectMigration } from '$lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectBundle'
+import {
+	presenceKey,
+	type ImportedKind
+} from '$lib/components/workspaceSettings/projectInstall'
+import { listAllWorkspaceTriggers } from '$lib/components/triggers/workspaceTriggersList'
 
 /**
  * The tables a migration creates, as `schema.table`, read off its `CREATE TABLE` statements.
@@ -36,15 +38,6 @@ export function expectedTables(sql: string): string[] {
 	return [...new Set(out)]
 }
 
-/** Every path the export will write, under the folder the import is targeting. */
-export function expectedPaths(exportData: ProjectExport, folder: string): string[] {
-	const from = exportData.project.slug
-	const rewrite = (p: string) => (folder === from ? p : p.replace(`f/${from}/`, `f/${folder}/`))
-	return [...exportData.scripts, ...exportData.flows, ...exportData.apps, ...exportData.resources]
-		.map((i: any) => String(i.path))
-		.map(rewrite)
-}
-
 export interface WorkspaceState {
 	/** The user is a member of a workspace with this id. */
 	exists: boolean
@@ -77,29 +70,52 @@ export async function probeWorkspace(
 }
 
 /**
- * Which of the paths the import would write are already there.
+ * Which of the items the import would write are already there, as `presenceKey` keys.
  *
- * Scoped by `pathStart` to the import's own folder, so this is four small reads rather than a
- * workspace scan. Presence is not provenance — importing into an existing workspace that
- * already held a path reads the same as having imported it — so callers use this to decide
- * what is left to do, never to claim credit for what is there.
+ * Scoped by `pathStart` to the import's own folder, so the four path-bearing kinds are four
+ * small reads rather than a workspace scan. Presence is not provenance — importing into an
+ * existing workspace that already held a path reads the same as having imported it — so
+ * callers use this to decide what is left to do, never to claim credit for what is there.
+ *
+ * Triggers are asked for separately and only when the project ships some: they have no
+ * prefix-filtered list endpoint, so answering for them means one call per trigger kind, and a
+ * project without triggers should not pay for that.
  */
-export async function probeImportedPaths(workspace: string, folder: string): Promise<Set<string>> {
+export async function probeImportedPaths(
+	workspace: string,
+	folder: string,
+	opts?: { triggers?: boolean; hasEeLicense?: boolean }
+): Promise<Set<string>> {
 	const pathStart = `f/${folder}/`
-	const paths = new Set<string>()
-	const collect = (rows: unknown) => {
-		for (const r of (rows as { path?: string }[] | undefined) ?? []) if (r.path) paths.add(r.path)
+	const found = new Set<string>()
+	const collect = (kind: ImportedKind) => (rows: unknown) => {
+		for (const r of (rows as { path?: string }[] | undefined) ?? []) {
+			if (r.path) found.add(presenceKey(kind, r.path))
+		}
 	}
-	const calls = [
-		ScriptService.listScripts({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect),
-		FlowService.listFlows({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect),
-		AppService.listApps({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect),
-		ResourceService.listResource({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect)
+	const calls: Promise<unknown>[] = [
+		ScriptService.listScripts({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect('script')),
+		FlowService.listFlows({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect('flow')),
+		AppService.listApps({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect('app')),
+		ResourceService.listResource({ workspace, pathStart }).then(collect('resource'))
 	]
-	// One kind failing should narrow the answer, not lose the other three: a missing path
-	// only ever means "still to do", which is the safe direction.
+	if (opts?.triggers) {
+		// `failedKinds` is deliberately ignored: a kind that could not be listed leaves its
+		// triggers out of the set, and a missing key only ever means "still to do".
+		calls.push(
+			listAllWorkspaceTriggers(workspace, {
+				includeEeOnly: opts.hasEeLicense === true
+			}).then(({ triggers }) => {
+				for (const t of triggers) {
+					if (t.path?.startsWith(pathStart)) found.add(presenceKey('trigger', t.path))
+				}
+			})
+		)
+	}
+	// One kind failing should narrow the answer, not lose the others: a missing key only ever
+	// means "still to do", which is the safe direction.
 	await Promise.allSettled(calls)
-	return paths
+	return found
 }
 
 /**