diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts
index 4dbe00a2..76a4dc3e 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
  *    that path (no snapshot pins it). */
 
 import { builtinModules } from "node:module";
-import { dirname, resolve } from "node:path";
+import { dirname, isAbsolute, join, resolve } from "node:path";
 import * as ts from "./ts7/adapter.js";
 import type { ScrDiagnostic } from "../diagnostics/diagnostic.js";
 import {
@@ -168,6 +168,36 @@ function adoptProjectConfig7(
     const value = parsed.options[key];
     if (value !== undefined) adopted[key] = value;
   }
+  // `paths` is a real, well-supported tsgo checker option, but `baseUrl`
+  // itself is not — tsgo rejects it outright ("Option 'baseUrl' has been
+  // removed. Please remove it from your configuration. Use '"paths": {"*":
+  // ["./*"]}' instead."), so it never joins `adopted` on its own. The
+  // synthesized virtual tsconfig (ts7/program.ts) is also written BESIDE THE
+  // ENTRY FILE, not beside this real tsconfig.json, so relative `paths`
+  // targets can't simply pass through either: they're resolved to absolute
+  // paths here, against the real config's resolved `baseUrl` (tsgo's own
+  // parser already makes that absolute — hence the isAbsolute guard rather
+  // than a bare join) or, absent one, the config's own directory (tsc's
+  // default), or tsgo resolves them against the wrong base entirely.
+  const rawPaths = parsed.options["paths"];
+  if (rawPaths !== undefined && typeof rawPaths === "object" && rawPaths !== null) {
+    const configDir = dirname(configFile);
+    const rawBaseUrl = parsed.options["baseUrl"];
+    const base =
+      typeof rawBaseUrl !== "string"
+        ? configDir
+        : isAbsolute(rawBaseUrl)
+          ? rawBaseUrl
+          : join(configDir, rawBaseUrl);
+    const abs = (p: string): string => (isAbsolute(p) ? p : join(base, p));
+    const paths: Record<string, string[]> = {};
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(rawPaths as Record<string, unknown>)) {
+      if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+        paths[key] = value.filter((v): v is string => typeof v === "string").map(abs);
+      }
+    }
+    adopted["paths"] = paths;
+  }
   const nullChecks = adopted["strictNullChecks"] ?? adopted["strict"] ?? false;
   if (nullChecks !== true) {
     diags.push(strictNullChecksFloorDiag(configFile));
diff --git a/packages/compiler/test/ts7/program.test.ts b/packages/compiler/test/ts7/program.test.ts
index c44a3863..f4221d68 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/test/ts7/program.test.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/test/ts7/program.test.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { mkdirSync, mkdtempSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { describe, expect, test } from "vitest";
@@ -67,3 +67,32 @@ console.log(required.value);
     rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
 });
+
+test("adopts tsconfig paths/baseUrl so tsgo resolves aliased imports", () => {
+  const tempRoot = process.platform === "win32" ? tmpdir() : "/tmp";
+  const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tempRoot, "scriptc-preflight-paths-"));
+  writeFileSync(
+    join(dir, "tsconfig.json"),
+    JSON.stringify({
+      compilerOptions: { strictNullChecks: true, baseUrl: ".", paths: { "@/*": ["./src/*"] } },
+    }),
+  );
+  const srcDir = join(dir, "src");
+  mkdirSync(srcDir);
+  writeFileSync(join(dir, "entry.ts"), `import { value } from "@/dep";\nconsole.log(value);\n`);
+  writeFileSync(join(srcDir, "dep.ts"), "export const value = 1;\n");
+  const entry = join(dir, "entry.ts");
+
+  const load = loadProgram(entry);
+  try {
+    // Before the fix, tsgo never learns about `paths`/`baseUrl` and reports
+    // SC0001 "Cannot find module '@/dep'". SC1010 (own resolver has no
+    // opinion on bare-specifier aliases outside npm/imports-field) is a
+    // separate, pre-existing limitation and is unaffected by this fix.
+    const codes = checkPreflight(load).map((diag) => diag.code);
+    expect(codes).not.toContain("SC0001");
+  } finally {
+    load.dispose();
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});