diff --git a/docs/subsystems/jobs.md b/docs/subsystems/jobs.md
index cdbeb6df0c..59cb88bdb5 100644
--- a/docs/subsystems/jobs.md
+++ b/docs/subsystems/jobs.md
@@ -216,8 +216,12 @@ interface JobOutputRead {
 interface JobView {
   /** The registry-issued id (`<kind>-N`). */
   readonly id: JobId
-  /** The producer kind the job was registered with. */
-  readonly kind: JobKind
+  /**
+   * The producer kind the job was registered with: a Host-registered
+   * `JobKind`, carried as an open string because a browser bundle or a Remote
+   * codec sees only the `JobKindMap` merges its own program compiles.
+   */
+  readonly kind: string
   /** The producer-supplied one-line label. */
   readonly label: string
   /** Owning session; absent for an unowned job, which every caller can see. */
diff --git a/docs/subsystems/jobs.zh.md b/docs/subsystems/jobs.zh.md
index a502fff316..fd2f897979 100644
--- a/docs/subsystems/jobs.zh.md
+++ b/docs/subsystems/jobs.zh.md
@@ -216,8 +216,12 @@ interface JobOutputRead {
 interface JobView {
   /** The registry-issued id (`<kind>-N`). */
   readonly id: JobId
-  /** The producer kind the job was registered with. */
-  readonly kind: JobKind
+  /**
+   * The producer kind the job was registered with: a Host-registered
+   * `JobKind`, carried as an open string because a browser bundle or a Remote
+   * codec sees only the `JobKindMap` merges its own program compiles.
+   */
+  readonly kind: string
   /** The producer-supplied one-line label. */
   readonly label: string
   /** Owning session; absent for an unowned job, which every caller can see. */
diff --git a/packages/api/job-controller/tests/built-lib.e2e.ts b/packages/api/job-controller/tests/built-lib.e2e.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1dc564bc3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/api/job-controller/tests/built-lib.e2e.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+import { existsSync } from 'node:fs'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from 'node:url'
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest'
+
+/**
+ * Built-artifact smoke for the generated job Remote codecs. This package's
+ * program compiles only the `JobKindMap` merges it can see (`bash`,
+ * `subagent`), while the Host registers `pwsh`, `pty-send`, and every other
+ * producer kind, so the wire projection's `kind` must reach the codec as an
+ * open string rather than the literal union this program observes.
+ */
+
+const artifact = join(fileURLToPath(new URL('..', import.meta.url)), 'lib/typert.host.js')
+
+interface BuiltInvocation {
+  readonly method: string
+  readonly result: { readonly schema: { safeParse(value: unknown): { success: boolean } } }
+}
+
+const row = {
+  id: 'pty-send-1',
+  kind: 'pty-send',
+  label: 'send',
+  status: 'running',
+  startedAt: 1,
+  output: { total: 0, earliest: 0 },
+}
+
+describe.skipIf(!existsSync(artifact))('job Remote built codecs', () => {
+  it('accept a row whose kind this program never compiled, and still reject a status outside the lifecycle', async () => {
+    const { TYPERT } = await import(pathToFileURL(artifact).href) as { TYPERT: { invocations: readonly BuiltInvocation[] } }
+    const schemaOf = (method: string): BuiltInvocation['result']['schema'] => {
+      const invocation = TYPERT.invocations.find(candidate => candidate.method === method)
+      if (invocation === undefined) throw new Error(`no generated job.${method} invocation`)
+      return invocation.result.schema
+    }
+    expect(schemaOf('rows').safeParse({ type: 'rows', jobs: [row] }).success).toBe(true)
+    expect(schemaOf('observe').safeParse({ type: 'opened', job: row, from: 0 }).success).toBe(true)
+    expect(schemaOf('observe').safeParse({ type: 'status', job: { ...row, status: 'paused' } }).success).toBe(false)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/extensions/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts b/packages/extensions/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts
index 4317556058..a93a19f888 100644
--- a/packages/extensions/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts
+++ b/packages/extensions/tool-cordis/src/api-catalog.ts
@@ -4248,7 +4248,7 @@ export const TYPE_API: readonly TypeApiEntry[] = [
   },
   {
     name: 'JobView',
-    declaration: 'export interface JobView {\n    readonly id: JobId;\n    readonly kind: JobKind;\n    readonly label: string;\n    readonly owner?: SessionId;\n    readonly outputLimitBytes?: number;\n    readonly status: JobStatus;\n    readonly progress?: string;\n    readonly detail?: string;\n    readonly startedAt: number;\n    readonly finishedAt?: number;\n    readonly output: {\n        readonly total: number;\n        readonly earliest: number;\n    };\n}',
+    declaration: 'export interface JobView {\n    readonly id: JobId;\n    readonly kind: string;\n    readonly label: string;\n    readonly owner?: SessionId;\n    readonly outputLimitBytes?: number;\n    readonly status: JobStatus;\n    readonly progress?: string;\n    readonly detail?: string;\n    readonly startedAt: number;\n    readonly finishedAt?: number;\n    readonly output: {\n        readonly total: number;\n        readonly earliest: number;\n    };\n}',
   },
   {
     name: 'JsonSchemaNode',
diff --git a/packages/jobs/jobs/src/view.ts b/packages/jobs/jobs/src/view.ts
index d3c73ae018..b20e1c693b 100644
--- a/packages/jobs/jobs/src/view.ts
+++ b/packages/jobs/jobs/src/view.ts
@@ -56,8 +56,12 @@ export interface JobChunk {
 export interface JobView {
   /** The registry-issued id (`<kind>-N`). */
   readonly id: JobId
-  /** The producer kind the job was registered with. */
-  readonly kind: JobKind
+  /**
+   * The producer kind the job was registered with: a Host-registered
+   * `JobKind`, carried as an open string because a browser bundle or a Remote
+   * codec sees only the `JobKindMap` merges its own program compiles.
+   */
+  readonly kind: string
   /** The producer-supplied one-line label. */
   readonly label: string
   /** Owning session; absent for an unowned job, which every caller can see. */
diff --git a/packages/jobs/jobs/tests/service.spec.ts b/packages/jobs/jobs/tests/service.spec.ts
index 5bcde91862..8b62cf2356 100644
--- a/packages/jobs/jobs/tests/service.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/jobs/jobs/tests/service.spec.ts
@@ -114,6 +114,15 @@ describe('JobRegistry seam', () => {
     expect([viewHasReported, specHasRecord, hooksHaveReadOutput]).toEqual([false, false, false])
   })
 
+  it('keeps the projection kind an open string, so a program compiling fewer JobKindMap merges accepts every Host kind', () => {
+    // A browser bundle or a generated Remote codec sees only the merges its
+    // own program compiles; a literal union here would reject `pwsh`,
+    // `pty-send`, and every kind another package registers.
+    type KindIsOpenString = string extends JobView['kind'] ? true : false
+    const viewKindOpen: KindIsOpenString = true
+    expect(viewKindOpen).toBe(true)
+  })
+
   it('loading a second implementation throws (one jobs service per context — cordis standard)', async () => {
     const ctx = new Context()
     await ctx.plugin(StubJobRegistry)