diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-modules.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-modules.ts
index ced8e7a9..a0caafaa 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-modules.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/lowering/lower-modules.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { isNpmStaticPackage } from "../npm-static.js";
 import { isJsSourceFileName, isRelativeSpecifier } from "../shared.js";
 import { canonicalBuiltinModule, cjsExportAssignmentOf, cjsExportDiscardReason, isCjsJsFile, isJsSourceFile, isRequireStatement, locOf, makeCycleAdmission, orderedImportsOf, resolveImport, resolveNpmImport } from "../program.js";
 import type { CycleEdge } from "../program.js";
+import { resolveProjectImport } from "../resolve.js";
 import { invalidJsonModuleDiag, npmEmbedFailedDiag, requiresDynamicImportDiag } from "../../diagnostics/diagnostic.js";
 import { BOOL, DYN, IrClassDef, IrExpr, IrFunction, IrGlobal, IrRecordShape, IrStmt, IrType, IrUnionDef, JSVAL, RUNTIME_ERROR_CLASSES, STRING, SrcLoc, VOID, arrayOf, canConvertToDyn, isUnitType } from "../../ir/nodes.js";
 import { ENTRY_NAME, PoisonError, boundIdentifiersOf, dynFallbackType, dynUndefinedExpr, importCallHandleType, newFnCtx, uncheckedOverloadHandleCall } from "./lowerer.js";
@@ -70,14 +71,34 @@ export interface FileParts {
    * module namespace (lowerOwnModuleImport): a non-declaration program file
    * that is not JSON and not CommonJS-flavored (a CJS namespace is built
    * from module.exports through Node's lexer — a different surface with no
-   * static story here). Null for everything else. */
+   * static story here). Null for everything else.
+   *
+   * Relative/absolute specifiers resolve through the checker (resolveImport,
+   * program.ts's own tsgo-backed answer). A BARE specifier reaching this far
+   * can still name a program module: a package importing its OWN name
+   * through its package.json self-name "exports" (or, once a project's
+   * `paths` are adopted, a tsconfig alias) — the checker resolves that
+   * specifier too, so lowering must agree or a bare dynamic import that the
+   * checker admitted lowers as a program-module namespace build while never
+   * having been added to the compiled module graph (appendDynamicImportModules
+   * walks resolveImport/resolveProjectImport's own answers, not this
+   * function's — a mismatch here strands the edge). resolve.ts's
+   * resolveProjectImport is the SAME resolver appendDynamicImportModules'
+   * static-edge walk and the npm-import chokepoint both already trust for
+   * bare project-internal specifiers, so reusing it here keeps every bare-
+   * specifier answer in the compiler on one resolver. */
   export function dynamicImportProgramTargetOf(
     program: ts.Program,
     sf: ts.SourceFile,
     spec: string,
   ): ts.SourceFile | null {
-    if (!isRelativeSpecifier(spec) && !spec.startsWith("/")) return null;
-    const dep = resolveImport(program, sf, spec);
+    let dep: ts.SourceFile | null;
+    if (isRelativeSpecifier(spec) || spec.startsWith("/")) {
+      dep = resolveImport(program, sf, spec);
+    } else {
+      const resolved = resolveProjectImport(sf.fileName, spec);
+      dep = resolved !== null ? (program.getSourceFile(resolved) ?? null) : null;
+    }
     if (!dep || dep.isDeclarationFile) return null;
     if (dep.fileName.endsWith(".json") || dep.fileName.endsWith(".cts")) return null;
     if (isCjsJsFile(dep)) return null;
diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts
index 4dbe00a2..d13ac6a0 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/program.ts
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ import {
   tscPassthroughDiag,
   unsupportedDiag,
 } from "../diagnostics/diagnostic.js";
-import { isNodeModulesPath, nearestInvalidPackageJsonPath, nearestPackageType, nearestPkgJsonPath, projectDtsRuntimeSibling, resolveBareModule, resolveProjectImport, resolveRelativeModule, resolveTypeDirective, setProjectRealm } from "./resolve.js";
+import { isNodeModulesPath, nearestInvalidPackageJsonPath, nearestPackageType, nearestPkgJsonPath, projectDtsRuntimeSibling, resolveBareModule, resolveProjectImport, resolveRelativeModule, resolveTypeDirective, setProjectRealm, setTsconfigPaths } from "./resolve.js";
 import { probeNodeImportRefusal, probeNodeRequireRefusal } from "./npm.js";
 import { isNpmStaticPackage, npmStaticActive, npmStaticFsShadow, npmStaticPackageOfPath, reportNpmStaticOffender, setNpmStaticPackages } from "./npm-static.js";
 import { provenanceEntryFor, provenancePaths } from "./provenance-registry.js";
@@ -321,6 +321,15 @@ function loadProgram7(
   externalTypes: ReadonlyMap<string, string> = new Map(),
 ): LoadResult & { disposeAll: () => void } {
   const config = adoptProjectConfig7(host, entryPath);
+  // resolveProjectImport (resolve.ts) needs the same paths map handed to
+  // tsgo above — see setTsconfigPaths's doc comment. One program load, one
+  // registry write; a later load (a second entry point in the same
+  // process) overwrites it, matching how tsgo itself is reconfigured per
+  // program.
+  const configPaths = config.options["paths"];
+  setTsconfigPaths(
+    configPaths && typeof configPaths === "object" ? (configPaths as Record<string, string[]>) : null,
+  );
   const nodeTypes = config.configFile ? resolveNodeTypes7(entryPath) : null;
   // skipLibCheck is FORCED with @types/node in the program: checking a
   // third-party lib's internals against OUR lib choice (es2025, no dyn) is
diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/resolve.ts b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/resolve.ts
index 68958a95..1a5534ca 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/frontend/resolve.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/frontend/resolve.ts
@@ -232,6 +232,55 @@ function loadAsDirectory(base: string): string | null {
   return null;
 }
 
+/* tsconfig `paths` registry — populated once per program load (program.ts's
+ * adoptProjectConfig7, which already parses the real tsconfig for the
+ * checker) with the SAME absolutized map handed to tsgo. tsgo resolves
+ * `paths` natively; this module's own resolveProjectImport only understands
+ * package.json self-name "exports" and the "#alias" imports field, so an
+ * alias with no package.json counterpart at all (a project's `@/*` pointing
+ * at its own src tree, distinct from its package name) previously had no
+ * project-internal resolver to answer it — SC1010 "package not installed"
+ * even though the checker resolved the same specifier fine. Values are
+ * already absolute (the same targets tsgo's synthesized tsconfig uses), so
+ * candidates need only the ordinary bundler extension-substitution pass. */
+let tsconfigPaths: Record<string, string[]> | null = null;
+
+export function setTsconfigPaths(paths: Record<string, string[]> | null): void {
+  tsconfigPaths = paths;
+}
+
+/** Longest-prefix `paths` match, mirroring package.json "exports" pattern
+ * precedence (resolveExportsTypes below) rather than tsconfig's declared
+ * first-match-wins order — the two are equivalent for well-formed configs
+ * (a project should never declare two `paths` keys where a shorter one is
+ * also a prefix of the specifier and a real ambiguity would result), and
+ * longest-prefix avoids depending on object key enumeration order. */
+function resolveViaTsconfigPaths(specifier: string): string | null {
+  if (tsconfigPaths === null) return null;
+  let best: { targets: string[]; prefix: string; suffix: string } | null = null;
+  for (const [key, targets] of Object.entries(tsconfigPaths)) {
+    const star = key.indexOf("*");
+    const prefix = star < 0 ? key : key.slice(0, star);
+    const suffix = star < 0 ? "" : key.slice(star + 1);
+    if (
+      specifier.startsWith(prefix) &&
+      specifier.length >= prefix.length + suffix.length &&
+      specifier.endsWith(suffix) &&
+      (best === null || prefix.length > best.prefix.length)
+    ) {
+      best = { targets, prefix, suffix };
+    }
+  }
+  if (best === null) return null;
+  const wildcard = specifier.slice(best.prefix.length, specifier.length - best.suffix.length);
+  for (const target of best.targets) {
+    const path = target.includes("*") ? target.split("*").join(wildcard) : target;
+    const answer = loadAsFile(path) ?? loadAsDirectory(path) ?? (isFile(path) ? path : null);
+    if (answer !== null) return answer;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
 /** The RUNTIME sibling of a PROJECT declaration twin — "src/index.js" for
  * "src/index.d.ts" when both exist OUTSIDE node_modules — or null. Node
  * loads the JS (declaration files do not exist in its world), and a
@@ -504,6 +553,15 @@ export function nearestInvalidPackageJsonPath(fromFile: string): string | null {
  * Relative specifiers, real node_modules packages, and builtins are other
  * resolvers' business; callers try those first. */
 export function resolveProjectImport(fromFile: string, specifier: string): string | null {
+  const answer = resolveProjectImportViaPackageJson(fromFile, specifier);
+  // tsconfig `paths` fallback: an alias with no package.json counterpart at
+  // all (see resolveViaTsconfigPaths above) — never consulted for "#alias"
+  // specifiers, which are exclusively package.json's own imports-field
+  // business and must not silently pick up an unrelated `paths` entry.
+  return answer ?? (specifier.startsWith("#") ? null : resolveViaTsconfigPaths(specifier));
+}
+
+function resolveProjectImportViaPackageJson(fromFile: string, specifier: string): string | null {
   // --provenance-sources (flag-gated; the registry is empty otherwise): a
   // registered bare specifier answers its attested SOURCE entry — the one
   // chokepoint that makes preflight's user-module edges, the module
@@ -542,7 +600,14 @@ export function resolveProjectImport(fromFile: string, specifier: string): strin
   }
   if (target === null) return null;
   const path = join(pkgDir, target);
-  return loadAsFile(path) ?? (isFile(path) ? path : null);
+  // Mirrors resolveRelativeModule below: a package.json "exports"/"imports"
+  // target can itself be a DIRECTORY (a wildcard subpath landing on
+  // "./src/foo", answered by "./src/foo/index.ts") — this resolver was
+  // missing that fallback entirely, unlike every other resolver in this
+  // module, so a self-name specifier landing on a directory answered null
+  // (SC1010 "package not installed") even though the exact same directory
+  // resolves fine as a relative import one character away.
+  return loadAsFile(path) ?? loadAsDirectory(path) ?? (isFile(path) ? path : null);
 }
 
 /* 5.9.3 with allowJs resolves node_modules in TWO FULL PASSES (probed): the