diff --git a/hermes_cli/auth.py b/hermes_cli/auth.py
index f4af3cc7dd..2e462772c5 100644
--- a/hermes_cli/auth.py
+++ b/hermes_cli/auth.py
@@ -1424,7 +1424,8 @@ def _save_auth_store(auth_store: Dict[str, Any], target_path: Optional[Path] = N
     auth_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     # Tighten parent dir to 0o700 so siblings can't traverse to creds.
     # No-op on Windows (POSIX mode bits not enforced); ignore failures.
-    # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod / or top-level dirs (#25821).
+    # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod /, top-level dirs, or the
+    # hermes-agent install tree (#25821, #93050).
     secure_parent_dir(auth_file)
     auth_store["version"] = AUTH_STORE_VERSION
     auth_store["updated_at"] = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
@@ -2812,7 +2813,8 @@ def _read_qwen_cli_tokens() -> Dict[str, Any]:
 def _save_qwen_cli_tokens(tokens: Dict[str, Any]) -> Path:
     auth_path = _qwen_cli_auth_path()
     auth_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod / or top-level dirs (#25821).
+    # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod /, top-level dirs, or the
+    # hermes-agent install tree (#25821, #93050).
     secure_parent_dir(auth_path)
     # Per-process random temp suffix avoids collisions between concurrent
     # writers and stale leftovers from a crashed prior write.
@@ -5628,7 +5630,8 @@ def _write_shared_nous_state(state: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
         with _nous_shared_store_lock():
             path = _nous_shared_store_path()
             path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-            # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod / or top-level dirs (#25821).
+            # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod /, top-level dirs, or the
+            # hermes-agent install tree (#25821, #93050).
             secure_parent_dir(path)
             tmp = path.with_name(f"{path.name}.tmp.{os.getpid()}.{uuid.uuid4().hex}")
             # Create with 0o600 atomically via os.open(O_EXCL) — closes the TOCTOU
diff --git a/hermes_constants.py b/hermes_constants.py
index 6c45ba5825..34cc6f8e87 100644
--- a/hermes_constants.py
+++ b/hermes_constants.py
@@ -1022,7 +1022,13 @@ def secure_parent_dir(path: Path) -> None:
     prevent catastrophic host bricking when ``HERMES_HOME`` or other path
     env vars resolve to an unexpected location.
 
-    See https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/25821.
+    Also refuses to chmod the hermes-agent install tree (the directory this
+    module lives in, and anything below it): restricting the install dir to
+    0700 locks the runtime user out of traversing it when it does not own
+    the dir, as in the Docker image. A warning is logged when this happens.
+
+    See https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/issues/25821 and
+    https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/pull/93050.
     """
     parent = path.parent.resolve()
     # Refuse root and its direct children (/usr, /home, /var, /tmp, …).
diff --git a/tools/mcp_oauth.py b/tools/mcp_oauth.py
index 1eb6f57051..134b260a26 100644
--- a/tools/mcp_oauth.py
+++ b/tools/mcp_oauth.py
@@ -424,7 +424,8 @@ def _write_json(path: Path, data: dict) -> None:
     path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     # Tighten parent dir to 0o700 so siblings can't traverse to the creds.
     # No-op on Windows (POSIX mode bits aren't enforced); ignore failures.
-    # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod / or top-level dirs (#25821).
+    # secure_parent_dir refuses to chmod /, top-level dirs, or the
+    # hermes-agent install tree (#25821, #93050).
     secure_parent_dir(path)
     # Per-process random suffix avoids collisions between concurrent
     # writers and stale leftovers from a prior crashed write.