diff --git a/src/resources/extensions/gsd/auto.ts b/src/resources/extensions/gsd/auto.ts
index 79b7fdc37..92ea79435 100644
--- a/src/resources/extensions/gsd/auto.ts
+++ b/src/resources/extensions/gsd/auto.ts
@@ -125,8 +125,9 @@ import {
 } from "./metrics.js";
 import { setLogBasePath, logWarning, logError } from "./workflow-logger.js";
 import { homedir } from "node:os";
-import { join } from "node:path";
+import { join, dirname } from "node:path";
 import { readFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, unlinkSync } from "node:fs";
+import { createRequire } from "node:module";
 import { atomicWriteSync } from "./atomic-write.js";
 import {
   autoCommitCurrentBranch,
@@ -1334,7 +1335,12 @@ export async function startAuto(
     // Re-sync managed resources on resume so long-lived auto sessions pick up
     // bundled extension updates before resume-time verification/state logic runs.
     const agentDir = process.env.GSD_CODING_AGENT_DIR || join(process.env.GSD_HOME || homedir(), ".gsd", "agent");
-    const { initResources } = await import("../../../" + "resource-loader.js");
+    // Resolve resource-loader from the gsd-pi package root — the relative
+    // "../../../resource-loader.js" path only works from the source tree but
+    // breaks when extensions are deployed to ~/.gsd/agent/extensions/gsd/.
+    const _req = createRequire(import.meta.url);
+    const pkgRoot = dirname(_req.resolve("gsd-pi/package.json"));
+    const { initResources } = await import(join(pkgRoot, "dist", "resource-loader.js"));
     initResources(agentDir);
     // Open the project DB before rebuild/derive so resume uses DB-backed
     // state instead of falling back to stale markdown parsing (#2940).