diff --git a/docs/eve-migration-roadmap.md b/docs/eve-migration-roadmap.md
index 98c1707..b0c1285 100644
--- a/docs/eve-migration-roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/eve-migration-roadmap.md
@@ -249,8 +249,8 @@ Work:
 
 - Repixelizer owns job/session/artifact/operator fixtures once they carry real
   product state or receipts.
-- Aetheria owns RTS/ARPG world surfaces, assets, generated level state, command
-  receipts, and scenario conformance.
+- Aetheria owns RTS/ARPG world surfaces, daemon-published asset manifest
+  records, generated level state, command receipts, and scenario conformance.
 - Huginn owns `.cc` and Persona-state inspection fixture packs when they depend
   on runtime stewardship details.
 - Mimir owns sensor/media/control surfaces that depend on live stream timing or
@@ -679,11 +679,16 @@ Recently cut:
   document needs: surface kind, projection kind, command boundary, receipt
   schema, ownership, lowering targets, state schemas, and record pointer. The
   Aetheria Unity bridge now selects that provider-owned advertisement instead of
-  fabricating the Unity scene metadata locally. The next blocker is concrete
-  CultMesh/CultCache live reading: provider surface and asset manifest documents
-  must be consumed through real live record readers, then provider receipts plus
-  daemon snapshots must drive rendered Unity frames rather than renderer-local
-  simulation.
+  fabricating the Unity scene metadata locally. The asset manifest leg is now a
+  first-class live transport proof rather than a local catalog projection:
+  Aetheria client state exposes `AssetManifest`, the provider bridge reads
+  `runtimeState.AssetManifest.Latest()`, and the Unity manifest document points
+  at `AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest`. EveUnity still
+  consumes only the generic provider/plugin contracts and sidecar transport
+  ports; Aetheria keeps the gameplay and asset authority. The remaining blocker
+  is rendered-frame proof from the future EveUnity owner repo, with provider
+  receipts plus daemon snapshots driving Unity frames rather than
+  renderer-local simulation.
 - EveElectron capture lifecycle now carries the same kind of structured pending
   capture contract. `captureContract` names the Electron shell runtime, capture
   kind, PNG artifact pattern, conformance attachment point, required Aetheria
@@ -1007,10 +1012,11 @@ Recently cut:
 - Aetheria now also carries the real provider-side proof for the target shape:
   a generic `EveUnityPlayableWorldRuntime` lowers the daemon-published 3D ARPG
   world surface through the Aetheria Eve provider bridge, resolves
-  provider-owned playable-world asset refs, submits movement through the
-  advertised `gamecult.eve.command.v1` boundary, observes provider-owned
-  receipts, and refreshes from daemon snapshots without importing Aetheria
-  product authority into EveUnity. Eve records this as the
+  provider-owned playable-world asset refs through the daemon-published
+  `AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest` record, submits movement
+  through the advertised `gamecult.eve.command.v1` boundary, observes
+  provider-owned receipts, and refreshes from daemon snapshots without
+  importing Aetheria product authority into EveUnity. Eve records this as the
   `aetheria-playable-world-consumer-proof` observed-provider move set in
   `runtimes/incubating/eve-unity-scene/eveunity-scene-split-handoff.json`, and
   the split-target plus Aetheria consumer smokes assert it from the conformance
@@ -1018,10 +1024,13 @@ Recently cut:
   the future EveUnity owner repo, not whether the Unity client is generic.
 - Aetheria now has repeatable Unity package consumer-build evidence for the
   Eve UI Toolkit runtime. `scripts/run-aetheria-unity-package-smoke.ps1`
-  verifies Aetheria's Unity `Packages/manifest.json` consumes Eve's surface and
-  UI Toolkit packages by file reference, checks the generated
-  `GameCult.Eve.UnityUIToolkit.csproj` includes all current runtime files, and
-  builds the package through Aetheria's Unity-generated project.
+  verifies Aetheria's Unity `Packages/manifest.json` consumes Eve's surface,
+  Unity scene, and UI Toolkit packages by file reference, checks the generated
+  Unity projects include all current runtime files, asserts the Aetheria Unity
+  bridge reads `runtimeState.AssetManifest.Latest()` from client state
+  `AssetManifest` and publishes the
+  `AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest` pointer, then builds the
+  packages through Aetheria's Unity-generated projects.
 - The EveUnity UI Toolkit split handoff now records Aetheria's Unity consumer
   boundary as `observed-provider` evidence. The handoff names Aetheria's
   package manifest, generated Unity project, assets root, daemon catalog
diff --git a/scripts/run-aetheria-unity-package-smoke.ps1 b/scripts/run-aetheria-unity-package-smoke.ps1
index b6ed95c..60c95b2 100644
--- a/scripts/run-aetheria-unity-package-smoke.ps1
+++ b/scripts/run-aetheria-unity-package-smoke.ps1
@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ $aetheriaEveRuntimePackage = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aeth
 $aetheriaEveRuntimeAsmdef = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.eve-runtime\Runtime\GameCult.Aetheria.EveRuntime.asmdef"
 $aetheriaSceneBridge = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.eve-runtime\Runtime\AetheriaEveUnitySceneProviderBridge.cs"
 $aetheriaSceneProviderComponent = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.eve-runtime\Runtime\AetheriaEveUnitySceneProviderComponent.cs"
+$aetheriaClientState = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaClientState.cs"
 $aetheriaSurfaceCatalog = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaRuntimeEveSurfaceCatalog.cs"
 $aetheriaGameSurfaceBuilder = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaRuntimeDaemonGameSurfaceBuilder.cs"
 $aetheriaDaemonOperationsClient = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaRuntimeDaemonOperationsClient.cs"
+$aetheriaDaemonDocuments = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaRuntimeDaemonDocuments.cs"
+$aetheriaRuntimeVerseClient = Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaRuntimeVerseClient.cs"
 if (-not (Test-Path $manifestPath)) {
   throw "Aetheria Unity package manifest not found: $manifestPath"
 }
@@ -44,6 +47,9 @@ if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaSceneBridge)) {
 if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaSceneProviderComponent)) {
   throw "Aetheria Eve Unity scene provider component not found: $aetheriaSceneProviderComponent"
 }
+if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaClientState)) {
+  throw "Aetheria client state not found: $aetheriaClientState"
+}
 if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaSurfaceCatalog)) {
   throw "Aetheria Eve surface catalog not found: $aetheriaSurfaceCatalog"
 }
@@ -53,6 +59,12 @@ if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaGameSurfaceBuilder)) {
 if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaDaemonOperationsClient)) {
   throw "Aetheria daemon operations client not found: $aetheriaDaemonOperationsClient"
 }
+if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaDaemonDocuments)) {
+  throw "Aetheria daemon documents not found: $aetheriaDaemonDocuments"
+}
+if (-not (Test-Path $aetheriaRuntimeVerseClient)) {
+  throw "Aetheria runtime Verse client not found: $aetheriaRuntimeVerseClient"
+}
 
 $manifest = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath $manifestPath | ConvertFrom-Json
 $requiredDependencies = @{
@@ -136,7 +148,11 @@ foreach ($symbol in @(
   "Disconnect",
   "SubmitCommand",
   "ReadAdvertisedSurface",
+  "ReadAssetManifest",
   "runtimeState.ProviderAdvertisement.Latest",
+  "runtimeState.AssetManifest.Latest",
+  "AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest",
+  "ToUnityPlayableWorldAssetManifest",
   "WorldInteraction",
   "AetheriaEveRuntimeUnityHooks.RequireControl",
   "ToReceipt(request, daemonEnvelope)",
@@ -198,6 +214,7 @@ foreach ($symbol in @(
   '"world.entity3d"',
   '"movementCommand"',
   '"assetManifest"',
+  '["assetManifest"] = AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest.ToString()',
   '"arpg.pointer-keyboard.v1"',
   '"arpg.orbital-follow.v1"',
   'SetMoveVector',
@@ -227,16 +244,37 @@ foreach ($symbol in @(
   }
 }
 
-$aetheriaAssets = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath (Join-Path $AetheriaRoot "Packages\org.gamecult.aetheria.state\Runtime\AetheriaRuntimeAssets.cs")
+$clientState = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath $aetheriaClientState
 foreach ($symbol in @(
-  '"prefab.entity.player"',
-  '"Prefabs/Ships/Djinni"',
-  '"prefab.entity.station"',
-  '"Prefabs/Stations/AsteroidOutpost"',
-  '"resourcesPath"'
+  "CultMeshDocumentHandle<AetheriaRuntimeAssetManifestDocument> assetManifest",
+  "AssetManifest = assetManifest",
+  "public CultMeshDocumentHandle<AetheriaRuntimeAssetManifestDocument> AssetManifest"
 )) {
-  if (-not $aetheriaAssets.Contains($symbol)) {
-    throw "Aetheria asset manifest is not publishing Unity playable world asset symbol: $symbol"
+  if (-not $clientState.Contains($symbol)) {
+    throw "Aetheria client state is not exposing provider-published asset manifest state: $symbol"
+  }
+}
+
+$daemonDocuments = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath $aetheriaDaemonDocuments
+foreach ($symbol in @(
+  "AssetManifestRecordRef",
+  "AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest.ToString()",
+  "AetheriaRuntimeDaemonSchemas.AssetManifest"
+)) {
+  if (-not $daemonDocuments.Contains($symbol)) {
+    throw "Aetheria daemon documents are not advertising the asset manifest record: $symbol"
+  }
+}
+
+$runtimeVerseClient = Get-Content -Raw -LiteralPath $aetheriaRuntimeVerseClient
+foreach ($symbol in @(
+  "DaemonAssetManifest",
+  'new CultRecordKey("daemon:aetheria.asset_manifest.latest.v1")',
+  "Document<AetheriaRuntimeAssetManifestDocument>",
+  "AetheriaRuntimeVerseRecordKeys.DaemonAssetManifest"
+)) {
+  if (-not $runtimeVerseClient.Contains($symbol)) {
+    throw "Aetheria runtime Verse client is not publishing the daemon asset manifest record: $symbol"
   }
 }