diff --git a/crates/mind-body/src/self_run.rs b/crates/mind-body/src/self_run.rs
index 88fd4a8..571b715 100644
--- a/crates/mind-body/src/self_run.rs
+++ b/crates/mind-body/src/self_run.rs
@@ -570,8 +570,25 @@ impl std::error::Error for SeedLinkRefused {}
 /// the same target, never followed into the copy. A link is refused with
 /// [`SeedLinkRefused`] unless its target is relative and, resolved through
 /// every link on its way in the source, lands under the canonical seed root.
+/// The source check refuses early; but a link's text resolves from where the
+/// copy sits, so once the copy is whole every reproduced link is resolved again
+/// in `to`, and one that lands outside it is refused the same way.
 fn copy_tree(from: &Path, to: &Path) -> std::io::Result<()> {
-    copy_level(&from.canonicalize()?, from, to)
+    copy_level(&from.canonicalize()?, from, to)?;
+    check_links(&to.canonicalize()?, to)
+}
+
+fn check_links(root: &Path, dir: &Path) -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    for entry in std::fs::read_dir(dir)? {
+        let entry = entry?;
+        let kind = entry.file_type()?;
+        if kind.is_dir() {
+            check_links(root, &entry.path())?;
+        } else if kind.is_symlink() && !entry.path().canonicalize().is_ok_and(|resolved| resolved.starts_with(root)) {
+            return Err(std::io::Error::other(SeedLinkRefused { link: entry.path(), target: std::fs::read_link(entry.path())? }));
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
 }
 
 fn copy_level(root: &Path, from: &Path, to: &Path) -> std::io::Result<()> {
diff --git a/crates/mind-body/src/self_run/tests.rs b/crates/mind-body/src/self_run/tests.rs
index 72686c9..f265d44 100644
--- a/crates/mind-body/src/self_run/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/mind-body/src/self_run/tests.rs
@@ -585,6 +585,41 @@ mod seed_links {
         let refused = error.get_ref().and_then(|inner| inner.downcast_ref::<SeedLinkRefused>());
         assert_eq!(refused.map(|r| r.target.as_path()), Some(Path::new("c/..")), "{error}");
     }
+
+    /// A seed whose parent is not the config dir's parent, and a sibling of the
+    /// config dir named `seed` holding the same file name: the copy's link text
+    /// resolves there, though in the source it lands under the seed root.
+    fn refused_in_the_copy(plant: impl Fn(&Path), expected: &str) {
+        let source = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        let seed = source.path().join("seed");
+        std::fs::create_dir(&seed).unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(seed.join("f"), "seed").unwrap();
+        plant(&seed);
+        let runtime = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
+        std::fs::create_dir(runtime.path().join("seed")).unwrap();
+        std::fs::write(runtime.path().join("seed/f"), "planted").unwrap();
+        let out = runtime.path().join("claude-config");
+        std::fs::create_dir(&out).unwrap();
+        let error = copy_tree(&seed, &out).unwrap_err();
+        let refused = error.get_ref().and_then(|inner| inner.downcast_ref::<SeedLinkRefused>());
+        assert_eq!(refused.map(|r| r.target.as_path()), Some(Path::new(expected)), "{error}");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_link_that_leaves_the_seed_and_returns_by_its_name_is_refused() {
+        refused_in_the_copy(|seed| symlink("../seed/f", seed.join("x")).unwrap(), "../seed/f");
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn a_link_through_a_dot_link_to_the_seeds_name_is_refused() {
+        refused_in_the_copy(
+            |seed| {
+                symlink(".", seed.join("c")).unwrap();
+                symlink("c/../seed/f", seed.join("a")).unwrap();
+            },
+            "c/../seed/f",
+        );
+    }
 }
 
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