diff --git a/crates/oa-core/examples/auto_layout_probe.rs b/crates/oa-core/examples/auto_layout_probe.rs
index 2b18cf12..04a7ad80 100644
--- a/crates/oa-core/examples/auto_layout_probe.rs
+++ b/crates/oa-core/examples/auto_layout_probe.rs
@@ -967,7 +967,50 @@ fn import_placement(
         }
     }
     validate_candidate(&after)?;
-    let final_view = projection::project_view(&after, diagram);
+    let mut final_view = projection::project_view(&after, diagram);
+    // Moving children inward can remove a formerly derived container minimum.
+    // Preserve authored size for true identity transfers, but materialize a
+    // requested unchanged effective size when reprojection would shrink it.
+    // This is one simultaneous restoration, never an iterative layout repair.
+    let mut restore_minima = Vec::new();
+    let original_sizes: BTreeMap<_, _> = view.nodes.iter().map(|n| (n.id, n.size)).collect();
+    let projected_ids: BTreeSet<_> = final_view.nodes.iter().map(|n| n.id).collect();
+    if projected_ids != visible || final_view.nodes.len() != visible.len() {
+        return Err(fail(
+            "Final Rust projection differs from intended node identities",
+        ));
+    }
+    for node in &final_view.nodes {
+        let (position, size) = intended[&node.id];
+        if node.position == position && node.size == size {
+            continue;
+        }
+        if node.position != position
+            || d.nodes[&node.id].collapsed
+            || original_sizes[&node.id] != size
+            || node.size.width > size.width
+            || node.size.height > size.height
+        {
+            return Err(fail(
+                "Final Rust projection differs from intended node geometry",
+            ));
+        }
+        restore_minima.push((node.id, size));
+    }
+    if !restore_minima.is_empty() {
+        for (id, size) in restore_minima {
+            after
+                .diagrams
+                .get_mut(&diagram)
+                .unwrap()
+                .nodes
+                .get_mut(&id)
+                .unwrap()
+                .size = size;
+        }
+        validate_candidate(&after)?;
+        final_view = projection::project_view(&after, diagram);
+    }
     if final_view.nodes.len() != intended.len()
         || final_view
             .nodes
@@ -980,6 +1023,120 @@ fn import_placement(
     }
     Ok(after)
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod placement_import_tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn nested() -> Builder {
+        fixtures()
+            .into_iter()
+            .find(|(name, _)| *name == "two_containers_reversed_children")
+            .unwrap()
+            .1
+    }
+    fn identity(project: &Project, diagram: Id) -> PlacementPlan {
+        PlacementPlan {
+            schema: 1,
+            nodes: projection::project_view(project, diagram)
+                .nodes
+                .into_iter()
+                .map(|n| PlacementNode {
+                    id: n.id,
+                    position: n.position,
+                    size: n.size,
+                })
+                .collect(),
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unchanged_effective_container_size_survives_inward_child_movement() {
+        let f = nested();
+        let before = projection::project_view(&f.project, f.diagram);
+        let mut plan = identity(&f.project, f.diagram);
+        let mut expected = f.project.clone();
+        for node in &mut plan.nodes {
+            let projected = before.nodes.iter().find(|n| n.id == node.id).unwrap();
+            if projected.visual_parent.is_some() && node.position.y == 330.0 {
+                node.position.y -= 20.0;
+                expected
+                    .diagrams
+                    .get_mut(&f.diagram)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .nodes
+                    .get_mut(&node.id)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .position = node.position;
+            }
+            if projected.visual_parent.is_none() {
+                expected
+                    .diagrams
+                    .get_mut(&f.diagram)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .nodes
+                    .get_mut(&node.id)
+                    .unwrap()
+                    .size = node.size;
+            }
+        }
+        let after = import_placement(&f.project, f.diagram, plan).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(after, expected);
+        let final_view = projection::project_view(&after, f.diagram);
+        for node in &final_view.nodes {
+            assert_eq!(
+                node.size,
+                before.nodes.iter().find(|n| n.id == node.id).unwrap().size
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn identity_keeps_authored_expanded_and_folded_sizes() {
+        let mut f = nested();
+        assert_eq!(
+            import_placement(&f.project, f.diagram, identity(&f.project, f.diagram)).unwrap(),
+            f.project
+        );
+        let parent = projection::project_view(&f.project, f.diagram)
+            .nodes
+            .into_iter()
+            .find(|n| n.visual_parent.is_none())
+            .unwrap()
+            .id;
+        f.project
+            .diagrams
+            .get_mut(&f.diagram)
+            .unwrap()
+            .nodes
+            .get_mut(&parent)
+            .unwrap()
+            .collapsed = true;
+        assert_eq!(
+            import_placement(&f.project, f.diagram, identity(&f.project, f.diagram)).unwrap(),
+            f.project
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn inconsistent_smaller_container_plan_still_rejects() {
+        let f = nested();
+        let child = projection::project_view(&f.project, f.diagram)
+            .nodes
+            .into_iter()
+            .find(|n| n.visual_parent.is_some())
+            .unwrap()
+            .id;
+        let mut plan = identity(&f.project, f.diagram);
+        plan.nodes
+            .iter_mut()
+            .find(|n| n.id == child)
+            .unwrap()
+            .position
+            .x += 1000.0;
+        assert!(import_placement(&f.project, f.diagram, plan).is_err());
+    }
+}
 fn import_placement_cli(
     project_file: &std::path::Path,
     diagram_text: &std::ffi::OsStr,
diff --git a/harness/experiments/scc-placement-20260925/plan.md b/harness/experiments/scc-placement-20260925/plan.md
index 8320b2b3..55cb9142 100644
--- a/harness/experiments/scc-placement-20260925/plan.md
+++ b/harness/experiments/scc-placement-20260925/plan.md
@@ -66,3 +66,17 @@ ordering remain distinct alternatives; choose the next action from the observed
 failure, not from commitment to this prototype.
 
 Windows only; Linux builds and the frozen published prerelease remain unchanged.
+
+## Transfer correction after the first run
+
+Run01 at 4dd764fa exposed a transfer bug in the unchanged-effective-size shortcut,
+not an SCC placement choice: moving children inward removed part of a parent's
+derived enclosure while the importer preserved its smaller authored size. The
+parent was therefore projected smaller than the explicitly requested geometry.
+Retain run01. Correct the importer with one simultaneous restoration of intended
+unchanged effective minima for noncollapsed nodes whose first projection is
+strictly smaller and at the exact intended position. Reject every other mismatch
+before restoration; require an exact second projection. Add identity, inward-child
+and inconsistent-plan regression checks. Then repeat the same corpus as run02.
+The SCC ordering, gaps, packing, routing and quality criteria remain unchanged;
+this is a correctness repair to faithfully execute the predeclared candidate.