diff --git a/src/backend/controllers/auth/AuthController.test.ts b/src/backend/controllers/auth/AuthController.test.ts
index 7cc824661..6d99313a5 100644
--- a/src/backend/controllers/auth/AuthController.test.ts
+++ b/src/backend/controllers/auth/AuthController.test.ts
@@ -5024,6 +5024,64 @@ describe('AuthController.handleCheckPermissions + handleListPermissions', () =>
         ]);
     });
 
+    // What lets a permission request settle without a prompt. The second string
+    // is a consent scope nothing implies, so the first's `true` is the grant.
+    it('check-permissions: an app-under-user actor sees a grant made to that app', async () => {
+        const { user, actor } = await makeUserAndActor();
+        const app = await server.stores.app.create(
+            {
+                name: `cp-${uuidv4()}`,
+                title: 'TestCheckPermsApp',
+                index_url: 'https://check-perms.example.test/index.html',
+            },
+            { ownerUserId: user.id },
+        );
+        const granted = `user:${user.uuid}:email:read`;
+        const ungranted = `apps-of-user:${user.uuid}:read`;
+
+        const appActor = {
+            user: actor.user,
+            app: { id: app.id, uid: app.uid },
+        } as unknown as Actor;
+        const before = makeRes();
+        await inCtx(appActor, () =>
+            controller.handleCheckPermissions(
+                makeReq(
+                    { permissions: [granted, ungranted] },
+                    { actor: appActor },
+                ),
+                before,
+            ),
+        );
+        expect(before.body).toEqual({
+            permissions: { [granted]: false, [ungranted]: false },
+        });
+
+        await inCtx(actor, () =>
+            controller.handleGrantUserApp(
+                makeReq(
+                    { app_uid: app.uid, permission: granted, extra: {} },
+                    { actor },
+                ),
+                makeRes(),
+            ),
+        );
+
+        const after = makeRes();
+        await inCtx(appActor, () =>
+            controller.handleCheckPermissions(
+                makeReq(
+                    { permissions: [granted, ungranted] },
+                    { actor: appActor },
+                ),
+                after,
+            ),
+        );
+        expect(after.body).toEqual({
+            permissions: { [granted]: true, [ungranted]: false },
+        });
+    });
+
     it('list-permissions: returns the shape and includes a user→app grant with its app_uid', async () => {
         const { user, actor } = await makeUserAndActor();
         const app = await server.stores.app.create(
diff --git a/src/gui/src/helpers/holdsPermissions.js b/src/gui/src/helpers/holdsPermissions.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da7139b81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gui/src/helpers/holdsPermissions.js
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2024-present Puter Technologies Inc.
+ *
+ * This file is part of Puter.
+ *
+ * Puter is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
+ * by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+// The dialog waits behind this check, so a stalled read must not hold it up.
+const CHECK_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;
+
+/**
+ * Whether every one of these permissions is already held by whoever `token`
+ * identifies — an app-under-user token, so the answer is about that app's
+ * access and not the user's own.
+ *
+ * Used to skip a permission prompt that has nothing to ask about. A check that
+ * couldn't be made is not an answer: no token, an empty list, a failed read, or
+ * one that times out all report `false`, leaving the prompt to run.
+ *
+ * @param {string[]} permissions
+ * @param {string} token - App-under-user token to check as.
+ * @param {object} [deps] Injectable seams for tests.
+ * @param {typeof fetch} [deps.fetchImpl]
+ * @param {string} [deps.apiOrigin]
+ * @param {number} [deps.timeoutMs]
+ * @returns {Promise<boolean>}
+ */
+export const holdsPermissions = async (
+    permissions,
+    token,
+    {
+        fetchImpl = globalThis.fetch?.bind(globalThis),
+        apiOrigin = window.api_origin,
+        timeoutMs = CHECK_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    } = {},
+) => {
+    if ( ! token || ! Array.isArray(permissions) || permissions.length === 0 ) {
+        return false;
+    }
+    const controller = typeof AbortController !== 'undefined'
+        ? new AbortController()
+        : null;
+    const expiry = setTimeout(() => controller?.abort(), timeoutMs);
+    try {
+        const resp = await fetchImpl(`${apiOrigin}/auth/check-permissions`, {
+            method: 'POST',
+            headers: {
+                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+                Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
+            },
+            body: JSON.stringify({ permissions: [...new Set(permissions)] }),
+            ...(controller ? { signal: controller.signal } : {}),
+        });
+        if ( ! resp.ok ) return false;
+        const held = (await resp.json())?.permissions ?? {};
+        // Every scope: one prompt is one decision, so partly-held is unheld.
+        return permissions.every((p) => held[p] === true);
+    } catch (e) {
+        console.error('Failed to check held permissions', e);
+        return false;
+    } finally {
+        clearTimeout(expiry);
+    }
+};
+
+export default holdsPermissions;
diff --git a/src/gui/src/helpers/holdsPermissions.test.js b/src/gui/src/helpers/holdsPermissions.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..984effc66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gui/src/helpers/holdsPermissions.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2024-present Puter Technologies Inc.
+ *
+ * This file is part of Puter.
+ *
+ * Puter is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
+ * by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { holdsPermissions } from './holdsPermissions.js';
+
+const EMAIL = 'user:u-1:email:read';
+const APPS = 'apps-of-user:u-1:read';
+
+// Minimal fetch double: records calls and answers with what is held.
+const makeFetch = ({ held = {}, ok = true, throws = false } = {}) => {
+    const calls = [];
+    const fetchImpl = async (url, opts = {}) => {
+        calls.push({ url, method: opts.method, headers: opts.headers, body: JSON.parse(opts.body) });
+        if ( throws ) throw new Error('network down');
+        return {
+            ok,
+            status: ok ? 200 : 500,
+            json: async () => ({ permissions: held }),
+        };
+    };
+    return { fetchImpl, calls };
+};
+
+const deps = (fetchImpl) => ({ fetchImpl, apiOrigin: 'https://api.test' });
+
+describe('holdsPermissions', () => {
+    it('reports held only when every permission is held', async () => {
+        const both = makeFetch({ held: { [EMAIL]: true, [APPS]: true } });
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([EMAIL, APPS], 'app-token', deps(both.fetchImpl)))
+            .resolves.toBe(true);
+
+        const partial = makeFetch({ held: { [EMAIL]: true, [APPS]: false } });
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([EMAIL, APPS], 'app-token', deps(partial.fetchImpl)))
+            .resolves.toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('asks as the app whose access is in question, deduped', async () => {
+        const { fetchImpl, calls } = makeFetch({ held: { [EMAIL]: true } });
+
+        await holdsPermissions([EMAIL, EMAIL], 'app-token', deps(fetchImpl));
+
+        expect(calls).toHaveLength(1);
+        expect(calls[0].url).toBe('https://api.test/auth/check-permissions');
+        expect(calls[0].headers.Authorization).toBe('Bearer app-token');
+        expect(calls[0].body).toEqual({ permissions: [EMAIL] });
+    });
+
+    // A check that couldn't be made is not an answer: the caller prompts.
+    it('reports not held when the read fails', async () => {
+        const failed = makeFetch({ ok: false });
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([EMAIL], 'app-token', deps(failed.fetchImpl)))
+            .resolves.toBe(false);
+
+        const broken = makeFetch({ throws: true });
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([EMAIL], 'app-token', deps(broken.fetchImpl)))
+            .resolves.toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    // The prompt waits behind this check.
+    it('gives up on a read that outlasts its timeout', async () => {
+        const calls = [];
+        const fetchImpl = (url, opts = {}) => {
+            calls.push(opts.signal);
+            return new Promise((_resolve, reject) => {
+                opts.signal?.addEventListener('abort', () => reject(new Error('aborted')));
+            });
+        };
+
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([EMAIL], 'app-token', {
+            fetchImpl,
+            apiOrigin: 'https://api.test',
+            timeoutMs: 5,
+        })).resolves.toBe(false);
+        // Aborted rather than left running behind the answer.
+        expect(calls[0]?.aborted).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('does not ask at all without a token or a permission', async () => {
+        const { fetchImpl, calls } = makeFetch({ held: { [EMAIL]: true } });
+
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([EMAIL], '', deps(fetchImpl))).resolves.toBe(false);
+        await expect(holdsPermissions([], 'app-token', deps(fetchImpl))).resolves.toBe(false);
+        await expect(holdsPermissions(null, 'app-token', deps(fetchImpl))).resolves.toBe(false);
+
+        expect(calls).toHaveLength(0);
+    });
+});
diff --git a/src/gui/src/initgui.js b/src/gui/src/initgui.js
index 96dc9cac1..889dc1460 100644
--- a/src/gui/src/initgui.js
+++ b/src/gui/src/initgui.js
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ import {
     wantsFullToken,
 } from './util/authmeGrant.js';
 import init_device_signals from './helpers/deviceSignals.js';
+import { holdsPermissions } from './helpers/holdsPermissions.js';
 import item_icon from './helpers/itemIcon.js';
 import launch_app from './helpers/launchApp.js';
 import { parse_url_paths } from './helpers/urlPaths.js';
@@ -81,6 +82,9 @@ const postAuthActions = async (action) => {
     // bootstraps the app row a permission grant is written against, so an
     // action that depends on it has to report failure rather than prompt.
     let token_exchange_failed = false;
+    // The token the exchange minted for the opener's app, kept only to ask what
+    // that app holds — a question this window's own token cannot answer.
+    let user_app_token = null;
     // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     // Action: AuthMe — redirect to a third-party URL with the user's auth token
     // -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -385,6 +389,7 @@ const postAuthActions = async (action) => {
                 // This is an implicit app and the app_uid is sent back from the server
                 // we cache it here so that we can use it later
                 window.host_app_uid = data.app_uid;
+                user_app_token = data.token;
                 // send token to parent. The opener is unreachable when it is
                 // cross-origin isolated (COOP severs the relationship); those
                 // flows learn the outcome server-side instead.
@@ -688,6 +693,9 @@ const postAuthActions = async (action) => {
             if ( token_exchange_failed ) {
                 throw new Error('token exchange failed; not prompting');
             }
+            // A signed-out opener holds no token to settle this for itself, so
+            // ask here, as the app, with the token the exchange just minted.
+            const already_held = await holdsPermissions(permissions, user_app_token);
             // The requesting app is identified by its origin, and only the
             // server turns that origin into a grant target. No uid is sent
             // from here: a uid from the query string is chosen by whoever
@@ -700,7 +708,7 @@ const postAuthActions = async (action) => {
             // name. Passing the origin instead makes the server resolve the
             // same origin the dialog displayed, and reject it outright
             // unless it names an app that really exists.
-            granted = await UIPermissionDialog({
+            granted = already_held || await UIPermissionDialog({
                 // See IPC.js: both forms, so a single scope still works with a
                 // dialog that only understands the scalar.
                 permissions,
diff --git a/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.js b/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.js
index 653232f37..7a23f8a07 100644
--- a/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.js
+++ b/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.js
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import EventListener from '../lib/EventListener.js';
 import { hasUserActivation, openAuthPopup } from '../lib/auth-popup.js';
 import FSItem from './FSItem.js';
 import PuterDialog from './PuterDialog.js';
+import { checkPermissions } from './perms/lib/holds.js';
 
 
 /**
@@ -278,6 +279,9 @@ const pipError = (name, message) => {
 
 const MAX_REQUESTED_PERMISSIONS = 16;
 
+// Short on purpose: a request usually spends a user gesture while it waits.
+const PERMISSION_CHECK_TIMEOUT_MS = 2000;
+
 /**
  * An interface for interacting with another app. Returned by the UI methods
  * that launch or connect to one; it cannot be constructed directly.
@@ -1707,6 +1711,47 @@ export class UIModule extends EventListener {
         document.body.appendChild(el);
     };
 
+    /**
+     * Whether every permission in a request is already held, read without
+     * prompting and without changing anything.
+     *
+     * A check that couldn't be made is not an answer: no token, an unreadable
+     * request, a failed read, or one that outlasts its timeout all fall through
+     * to the prompt.
+     *
+     * @param {{ permission?: string, permissions?: string[] }} options
+     * @returns {Promise<boolean>}
+     */
+    async #alreadyHeld (options) {
+        if ( ! this.authToken ) return false;
+        const requested = Array.isArray(options?.permissions)
+            ? options.permissions
+            : [options?.permission];
+        // The prompt paths answer false for a shape they can't read themselves.
+        if ( requested.length === 0
+            || requested.length > MAX_REQUESTED_PERMISSIONS
+            || requested.some(p => typeof p !== 'string' || p === '') ) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        let expiry;
+        try {
+            const held = await Promise.race([
+                checkPermissions(this.puter, [...new Set(requested)]),
+                // Waiting out a stalled read would cost the popup its gesture.
+                new Promise((resolve) => {
+                    expiry = setTimeout(() => resolve(null), PERMISSION_CHECK_TIMEOUT_MS);
+                }),
+            ]);
+            if ( held === null ) return false;
+            // Every scope: one prompt is one decision, so partly-held is unheld.
+            return requested.every(p => held[p] === true);
+        } catch (e) {
+            return false;
+        } finally {
+            clearTimeout(expiry);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Asks the user to grant a permission to this app. Inside the Puter GUI
      * the request is relayed to the desktop; on the web the permission
@@ -1715,10 +1760,19 @@ export class UIModule extends EventListener {
      * One prompt may cover several scopes: pass `permissions` instead of
      * `permission` and the user answers for the whole list at once.
      *
+     * Access already granted resolves `true` without prompting.
+     *
      * @param {{ permission?: string, permissions?: string[] }} options
      * @returns {Promise<boolean>} `true` only if the permission was granted.
      */
     async requestPermission (options) {
+        // Only where a prompt would be raised. Elsewhere this answers false
+        // without asking anyone, and a check must not turn that into a grant.
+        if ( ( this.env === 'app' || this.env === 'web' )
+            && await this.#alreadyHeld(options) ) {
+            return true;
+        }
+
         if ( this.env === 'app' ) {
             const result = await this.#postMessageAsync('requestPermission', { options });
             return result.granted === true;
@@ -1954,12 +2008,13 @@ export class UIModule extends EventListener {
                                 'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                                 'Authorization': `Bearer ${puter.authToken}`,
                             },
-                            body: JSON.stringify({ permissions: [permission] }),
+                            body: JSON.stringify({ permissions: requested }),
                             ...(controller ? { signal: controller.signal } : {}),
                         });
                         if ( ! resp.ok ) continue;
                         const data = await resp.json();
-                        if ( data?.permissions?.[permission] === true ) {
+                        // The whole list, since one prompt is one decision.
+                        if ( requested.every(p => data?.permissions?.[p] === true) ) {
                             settle(true);
                         }
                     } catch (e) {
diff --git a/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.requestPermission.test.js b/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.requestPermission.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7121068c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/puter-js/src/modules/UI.requestPermission.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+// The permission check goes through the shared request helper, so mocking it
+// needs no server.
+const mockReq = vi.fn();
+vi.mock('./perms/lib/req.js', () => ({ req: (...args) => mockReq(...args) }));
+
+const { UIModule } = await import('./UI.js');
+
+const CHECK_ROUTE = '/auth/check-permissions';
+
+/** Answer the mocked helper with what is held, and nothing else. */
+const held = (permissions = {}) => {
+    mockReq.mockImplementation(async (_puter, route) => {
+        if ( route === CHECK_ROUTE ) return { permissions };
+        throw new Error(`unexpected route: ${route}`);
+    });
+};
+
+const postMessage = vi.fn();
+
+/** A UI module in one environment, with the GUI it posts to stubbed. */
+const makeUI = ({ env = 'app', authToken = 'token-1' } = {}) =>
+    new UIModule({
+        env,
+        authToken,
+        APIOrigin: 'https://api.test',
+        appID: 'app-1',
+        util: {},
+    }, { appInstanceID: 'instance-1' });
+
+/** The messages sent to the GUI, ignoring the constructor's READY. */
+const promptCalls = () =>
+    postMessage.mock.calls.filter(([msg]) => msg?.msg === 'requestPermission');
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+    globalThis.window = { parent: { postMessage } };
+    mockReq.mockReset();
+    postMessage.mockReset();
+    held();
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+    delete globalThis.window;
+});
+
+describe('ui.requestPermission on access that is already held', () => {
+    it('resolves true without prompting the user', async () => {
+        held({ 'fs:/alice/Documents:read': true });
+        const ui = makeUI();
+
+        await expect(ui.requestPermission({
+            permission: 'fs:/alice/Documents:read',
+        })).resolves.toBe(true);
+
+        expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(0);
+        expect(mockReq).toHaveBeenCalledWith(ui.puter, CHECK_ROUTE, {
+            permissions: ['fs:/alice/Documents:read'],
+        });
+    });
+
+    it('resolves true for a whole multi-scope request', async () => {
+        held({ 'apps-of-user:u-1:read': true, 'user:u-1:email:read': true });
+        const ui = makeUI();
+
+        await expect(ui.requestPermission({
+            permissions: ['apps-of-user:u-1:read', 'user:u-1:email:read'],
+        })).resolves.toBe(true);
+
+        expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(0);
+    });
+
+    it('answers a third-party site the same way, with no popup', async () => {
+        held({ 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate': true });
+        const ui = makeUI({ env: 'web' });
+
+        await expect(ui.requestPermission({
+            permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate',
+        })).resolves.toBe(true);
+    });
+});
+
+describe('ui.requestPermission when the check does not settle it', () => {
+    // One prompt is one decision, so partly-held still has something to ask.
+    it('prompts for a partly-held set', async () => {
+        held({ 'apps-of-user:u-1:read': true });
+        const ui = makeUI();
+
+        ui.requestPermission({
+            permissions: ['apps-of-user:u-1:read', 'user:u-1:email:read'],
+        });
+
+        await vi.waitFor(() => expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(1));
+    });
+
+    it('prompts when nothing is held', async () => {
+        const ui = makeUI();
+
+        ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'user:u-1:email:read' });
+
+        await vi.waitFor(() => expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(1));
+    });
+
+    // Not a grant, and not a refusal either: the prompt is where this went before.
+    it('prompts when the check fails', async () => {
+        mockReq.mockImplementation(async () => ({
+            error: true,
+            code: 'internal_error',
+        }));
+        const ui = makeUI();
+
+        ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'user:u-1:email:read' });
+
+        await vi.waitFor(() => expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(1));
+    });
+
+    // The request is spending a user gesture while it waits.
+    it('prompts rather than waiting out a stalled check', async () => {
+        mockReq.mockImplementation(() => new Promise(() => {}));
+        const ui = makeUI();
+
+        ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'user:u-1:email:read' });
+
+        await vi.waitFor(() => expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(1), { timeout: 10_000 });
+    }, 15_000);
+
+    it('does not ask the server when there is no token to ask with', async () => {
+        const ui = makeUI({ authToken: null });
+
+        ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'user:u-1:email:read' });
+
+        await vi.waitFor(() => expect(promptCalls()).toHaveLength(1));
+        expect(mockReq).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+});
+
+describe('ui.requestPermission where no prompt can be raised', () => {
+    // This environment has always answered false, and a check run as the user —
+    // who holds far more than the app would — must not turn that into a grant.
+    it('keeps answering false in the GUI, without a check', async () => {
+        held({ 'user:u-1:email:read': true });
+        const ui = makeUI({ env: 'gui' });
+
+        await expect(ui.requestPermission({
+            permission: 'user:u-1:email:read',
+        })).resolves.toBe(false);
+
+        expect(mockReq).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+});
diff --git a/src/puter-js/tests/api/suites/perms.suite.ts b/src/puter-js/tests/api/suites/perms.suite.ts
index 3a62a08bb..51ac83ee4 100644
--- a/src/puter-js/tests/api/suites/perms.suite.ts
+++ b/src/puter-js/tests/api/suites/perms.suite.ts
@@ -289,12 +289,13 @@ export default suite('perms', {
         }
     },
 
-    // The one-method-per-task names still ship for apps written against them,
-    // and still prompt without consulting what is already held — which is why
-    // the folder and apps assertions here are the opposite of what `request`
-    // now answers for the same access. `requestPermission` is the exception:
-    // it forwards to `request`, so it picks up the new behaviour (asserted
-    // separately below).
+    // The one-method-per-task names still ship, and go straight to the prompt
+    // without pooling a read of their own — which is why the folder and apps
+    // assertions here are the opposite of what `request` answers. Node and
+    // workerd raise no prompt, so nothing is consulted; in an app or on a
+    // website `ui.requestPermission` checks first and these would answer for
+    // access already held. `requestPermission` forwards to `request`, so it
+    // settles from the pooled read everywhere (asserted separately below).
     'the deprecated request aliases keep delegating': {
         platforms: ['node', 'workerd'],
         fn: async (t) => {
diff --git a/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/fixtures/request-permission.html b/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/fixtures/request-permission.html
index 77f97eeb0..873832876 100644
--- a/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/fixtures/request-permission.html
+++ b/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/fixtures/request-permission.html
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@
     </script>
     <script src="/dist/puter.dev.js"></script>
     <script>
+        // A driver nothing implies: every app implicitly holds the built-in
+        // driver scopes (backend hardcoded-permissions.js), and access already
+        // held resolves without a prompt. Fresh per page load unless `?perm=`
+        // pins it, so one test's Allow can't settle another test's request.
+        window.__driverPermission =
+            new URLSearchParams(location.search).get('perm')
+            || `driver:e2e-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 10)}:generate`;
+
         const logEl = document.getElementById('log');
         const statusEl = document.getElementById('status');
 
@@ -75,7 +83,7 @@
         document.getElementById('req-driver-perm').addEventListener('click', async () => {
             try {
                 const granted = await puter.ui.requestPermission({
-                    permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate',
+                    permission: window.__driverPermission,
                 });
                 log(`perm:driver:${granted}`);
             } catch (e) {
diff --git a/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestAppData.spec.js b/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestAppData.spec.js
index bab408072..3d1385346 100644
--- a/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestAppData.spec.js
+++ b/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestAppData.spec.js
@@ -105,15 +105,11 @@ test.describe('puter.perms.requestAppData (env=app)', () => {
             expect(listed.res).toContain('birthday');
             expect(listed.res).not.toContain('oauthToken');
 
-            // -- a repeat request prompts again --
-            // `requestAppData` does not consult existing grants before
-            // prompting, unlike `requestEmail` (checks whoami) and the folder
-            // helpers (stat first). Pinned as current behaviour: an app calling
-            // this on every launch re-asks the user.
+            // -- a repeat request settles from the grant, with no prompt --
+            // What an app calling this on every launch relies on.
             await ask(appFrame, target.uid, { kv: ['get'] });
-            await expect(dialog).toBeVisible();
-            await dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-allow').click();
             expect(await settle(appFrame)).toEqual({ ok: true, value: true });
+            await expect(dialog).toHaveCount(0);
         } finally {
             await deleteTestApp(page, appName);
             await deleteTestApp(page, target.name);
diff --git a/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestPermission.spec.js b/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestPermission.spec.js
index 766079818..7bd357509 100644
--- a/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestPermission.spec.js
+++ b/src/puter-js/tests/e2e/specs/requestPermission.spec.js
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ const PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL = FIXTURE_URL.replace(
     'request-permission.html',
 );
 
+// A driver nothing implies, for the tests that name a permission themselves:
+// the built-in driver scopes are already held, so asking for one of those would
+// settle before any dialog. Only used by requests that end in a denial, so no
+// row is left behind for the next test.
+const UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION = 'driver:e2e-unheld:generate';
+
 // Playwright's Chromium reports `navigator.userActivation.isActive` as true
 // even with zero interactions, which routes the SDK to the direct-popup path.
 // Stubbing it as inactive forces the consent-dialog (no-gesture) path.
@@ -47,6 +53,28 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
         }
     });
 
+    test('access the app already holds resolves true with no dialog', async ({ page }) => {
+        // Asking again on every launch is what an app has to work around.
+        const appName = await registerTestApp(page, { fixtureURL: PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL });
+        try {
+            const appFrame = await gotoTestApp(page, appName);
+            const dialog = page.locator('dialog.perm-dialog');
+            const granted = appFrame.locator('#log [data-entry="perm:email:true"]');
+
+            await appFrame.locator('#req-email-perm').click();
+            await expect(dialog).toBeVisible();
+            await dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-allow').click();
+            await expect(granted).toHaveCount(1);
+
+            // Asked a second time, the request settles from what is held.
+            await appFrame.locator('#req-email-perm').click();
+            await expect(granted).toHaveCount(2);
+            await expect(dialog).toHaveCount(0);
+        } finally {
+            await deleteTestApp(page, appName);
+        }
+    });
+
     test('duplicate concurrent requests share one dialog and one decision', async ({ page }) => {
         const appName = await registerTestApp(page, { fixtureURL: PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL });
         try {
@@ -136,18 +164,22 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
         // desktop inert — not just the requesting app's window. Several at once
         // would wall the user in behind a pile of prompts.
         const appName = await registerTestApp(page, { fixtureURL: PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL });
+        // Two scopes the app lacks, named so the prompts can be told apart.
+        const alpha = 'driver:e2e-alpha:generate';
+        const beta = 'driver:e2e-beta:generate';
         try {
             const appFrame = await gotoTestApp(page, appName);
 
-            await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate(() => {
-                window.__serialResults = Promise.all([
-                    puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate' }),
-                    puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'driver:puter-chat-completion:complete' }),
-                ]);
-            });
+            await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate((_el, perms) => {
+                window.__serialResults = Promise.all(
+                    perms.map(permission => puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission })),
+                );
+            }, [alpha, beta]);
 
             const dialogs = page.locator('dialog.perm-dialog');
             await expect(dialogs).toHaveCount(1);
+            // Each request reads what is held first, so the order is a race.
+            const deniedAlpha = (await dialogs.first().innerText()).includes('e2e-alpha');
             await dialogs.first().locator('.perm-dialog-deny').click();
             // The queued request gets its own prompt once the first is answered.
             await expect(dialogs).toHaveCount(1);
@@ -155,7 +187,7 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
 
             // Each caller still receives its own decision.
             const results = await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate(() => window.__serialResults);
-            expect(results).toEqual([false, true]);
+            expect(results).toEqual(deniedAlpha ? [false, true] : [true, false]);
         } finally {
             await deleteTestApp(page, appName);
         }
@@ -263,9 +295,8 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
         // has to undo it — otherwise the app is told "denied" while the
         // permission is live in the user's account.
         const appName = await registerTestApp(page, { fixtureURL: PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL });
-        const permission = 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate';
-        // Scoped to this app's uid: other tests grant the same permission to
-        // the fixture origin's app, whose row outlives them.
+        // The fixture picks its own per page load, and this is the row to withdraw.
+        let permission;
         const isGrantedTo = (appUid) => page.evaluate(async ({ perm, uid }) => {
             const res = await fetch(`${puter.APIOrigin}/auth/list-permissions`, {
                 headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${puter.authToken}` },
@@ -278,6 +309,8 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
 
         try {
             const appFrame = await gotoTestApp(page, appName);
+            permission = await appFrame.locator('body')
+                .evaluate(() => window.__driverPermission);
             const appUid = await page.evaluate(
                 async (name) => (await puter.apps.get(name)).uid,
                 appName,
@@ -302,15 +335,22 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
                 await route.continue();
             });
 
-            await appFrame.locator('#req-driver-perm').click();
+            // Alongside a scope the app lacks: a fully-held request never prompts.
+            await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate((_el, perms) => {
+                window.__reGrant = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permissions: perms });
+            }, [permission, 'driver:e2e-lost-response:generate']);
             await expect(dialog).toBeVisible();
             await dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-allow').click();
             // The dialog hands itself back with a retryable error.
             await expect(dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-error')).toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
             await dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-deny').click();
+            expect(await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate(() => window.__reGrant))
+                .toBe(false);
 
             await expect.poll(() => revoked, { timeout: 15_000 }).toBe(true);
-            // "Don't Allow" has to mean the permission is not granted.
+            // "Don't Allow" has to mean the permission is not granted. The
+            // withdrawal covers every scope the prompt listed, earlier grants
+            // included — the dialog's behaviour, not the check's.
             await expect.poll(() => isGrantedTo(appUid), { timeout: 15_000 }).toBe(false);
         } finally {
             await deleteTestApp(page, appName);
@@ -327,7 +367,7 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
         // permission the request may have committed is left behind, granted,
         // with the app told it was refused.
         const appName = await registerTestApp(page, { fixtureURL: PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL });
-        const permission = 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate';
+        let permission;
         const isGrantedTo = (appUid) => page.evaluate(async ({ perm, uid }) => {
             const res = await fetch(`${puter.APIOrigin}/auth/list-permissions`, {
                 headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${puter.authToken}` },
@@ -340,6 +380,8 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
 
         try {
             const appFrame = await gotoTestApp(page, appName);
+            permission = await appFrame.locator('body')
+                .evaluate(() => window.__driverPermission);
             const appUid = await page.evaluate(
                 async (name) => (await puter.apps.get(name)).uid,
                 appName,
@@ -364,7 +406,10 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
                 await route.continue();
             });
 
-            await appFrame.locator('#req-driver-perm').click();
+            // Alongside a scope the app lacks, for the same reason as above.
+            await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate((_el, perms) => {
+                window.__reGrant = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permissions: perms });
+            }, [permission, 'driver:e2e-hanging-grant:generate']);
             await expect(dialog).toBeVisible();
             await dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-allow').click();
             await expect(dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-allow.perm-dialog-busy')).toBeVisible();
@@ -377,8 +422,8 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=app)', () => {
                 document.querySelector('dialog.perm-dialog')?.close();
             });
 
-            await expect(appFrame.locator('#log [data-entry="perm:driver:false"]'))
-                .toBeVisible({ timeout: 30_000 });
+            expect(await appFrame.locator('body').evaluate(() => window.__reGrant))
+                .toBe(false);
             await expect.poll(() => revoked, { timeout: 20_000 }).toBe(true);
             await expect.poll(() => isGrantedTo(appUid), { timeout: 20_000 }).toBe(false);
         } finally {
@@ -408,9 +453,9 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=gui)', () => {
         let popupOpened = false;
         page.on('popup', () => { popupOpened = true; });
 
-        const granted = await page.evaluate(() =>
-            puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate' }),
-        );
+        const granted = await page.evaluate((permission) =>
+            puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission }),
+        UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION);
         expect(granted).toBe(false);
         expect(popupOpened).toBe(false);
         // Neither the consent dialog nor the permission dialog may appear.
@@ -499,11 +544,9 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web popup)', () => {
 
         // Kick off the request from evaluate (no user activation): the SDK
         // must show the PuterDialog consent step instead of a blocked popup.
-        await page.evaluate(() => {
-            window.__permPromise = puter.ui.requestPermission({
-                permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate',
-            });
-        });
+        await page.evaluate((permission) => {
+            window.__permPromise = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission });
+        }, UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION);
         const continueButton = page.locator('puter-dialog #launch-auth-popup');
         await expect(continueButton).toBeVisible();
 
@@ -527,11 +570,9 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web popup)', () => {
         await page.goto(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL);
         await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
 
-        await page.evaluate(() => {
-            window.__permPromise = puter.ui.requestPermission({
-                permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate',
-            });
-        });
+        await page.evaluate((permission) => {
+            window.__permPromise = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission });
+        }, UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION);
         const cancelButton = page.locator('puter-dialog #launch-auth-popup-cancel');
         await expect(cancelButton).toBeVisible();
         await cancelButton.click();
@@ -550,16 +591,15 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web popup)', () => {
         await page.goto(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL);
         await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
 
-        const outcome = await page.evaluate(async () => {
+        const outcome = await page.evaluate(async (permission) => {
             window.open = () => { throw new Error('blocked by policy'); };
-            const settled = puter.ui.requestPermission({
-                permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate',
-            }).then(v => `resolved:${v}`, e => `rejected:${e?.message ?? e}`);
+            const settled = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission })
+                .then(v => `resolved:${v}`, e => `rejected:${e?.message ?? e}`);
             return Promise.race([
                 settled,
                 new Promise(r => setTimeout(() => r('never settled'), 10_000)),
             ]);
-        });
+        }, UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION);
         expect(outcome).toBe('resolved:false');
     });
 
@@ -594,17 +634,6 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web popup)', () => {
             async (origin) => (await window.getUserAppToken(origin))?.token,
             fixtureOrigin,
         );
-        await page.evaluate(async ({ origin, perm }) => {
-            await fetch(`${window.api_origin}/auth/revoke-user-app`, {
-                method: 'POST',
-                headers: {
-                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-                    'Authorization': `Bearer ${window.auth_token}`,
-                },
-                body: JSON.stringify({ origin, permission: perm }),
-            });
-        }, { origin: fixtureOrigin, perm: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate' });
-
         await page.goto(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL);
         await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
         await page.evaluate((t) => puter.setAuthToken(t), appToken);
@@ -633,12 +662,11 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web popup)', () => {
         await page.goto(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL);
         await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
 
-        await page.evaluate(() => {
+        await page.evaluate((permission) => {
             window.__permSettled = 'pending';
-            window.__permPromise = puter.ui.requestPermission({
-                permission: 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate',
-            }).then((v) => { window.__permSettled = `resolved:${v}`; return v; });
-        });
+            window.__permPromise = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permission })
+                .then((v) => { window.__permSettled = `resolved:${v}`; return v; });
+        }, UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION);
         await expect(page.locator('puter-dialog #launch-auth-popup')).toBeVisible();
 
         await page.keyboard.press('Escape');
@@ -715,8 +743,6 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web, COOP-only opener)', () => {
         // denial about a second after the click — before the user had even seen
         // the dialog — and then the Allow they went on to click committed a
         // grant the site had been told it did not get.
-        const permission = 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate';
-
         // Hand the site a token for its *own* app, the way a signed-in
         // third-party site holds one. Without it the poll fallback has nothing
         // to authenticate with and answers false immediately (covered above),
@@ -735,20 +761,7 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web, COOP-only opener)', () => {
         );
         expect(typeof appToken).toBe('string');
 
-        // Earlier tests grant this same permission to the fixture origin's app,
-        // and the row outlives them — clear it so the poll starting out true
-        // can't pass this test on its own.
-        await page.evaluate(async ({ origin, perm }) => {
-            await fetch(`${window.api_origin}/auth/revoke-user-app`, {
-                method: 'POST',
-                headers: {
-                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-                    'Authorization': `Bearer ${window.auth_token}`,
-                },
-                body: JSON.stringify({ origin, permission: perm }),
-            });
-        }, { origin: fixtureOrigin, perm: permission });
-
+        // The fixture's permission is fresh per load, so no poll can start true.
         await context.route(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL, async (route) => {
             const resp = await route.fetch();
             await route.fulfill({
@@ -809,8 +822,6 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web, COOP-only opener)', () => {
         // user had decided anything. What separates the two is whether the popup
         // ever announced itself, which only reaches an opener that is still
         // attached.
-        const permission = 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate';
-
         await page.goto('/');
         await page.waitForFunction(() => !!window.getUserAppToken && !!window.auth_token,
             null, { timeout: 60_000 });
@@ -819,19 +830,6 @@ test.describe('puter.ui.requestPermission (env=web, COOP-only opener)', () => {
             async (origin) => (await window.getUserAppToken(origin))?.token,
             fixtureOrigin,
         );
-        // Earlier tests leave this permission granted to the fixture origin's
-        // app; clear it so a poll that starts out true can't mask a premature
-        // denial.
-        await page.evaluate(async ({ origin, perm }) => {
-            await fetch(`${window.api_origin}/auth/revoke-user-app`, {
-                method: 'POST',
-                headers: {
-                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-                    'Authorization': `Bearer ${window.auth_token}`,
-                },
-                body: JSON.stringify({ origin, permission: perm }),
-            });
-        }, { origin: fixtureOrigin, perm: permission });
 
         await context.route(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL, async (route) => {
             const resp = await route.fetch();
@@ -910,7 +908,9 @@ test.describe('request-permission popup reconciliation', () => {
         // withdrawal request is fired from the closing document, so unless it
         // is sent `keepalive` the browser cancels it with the popup — leaving
         // the user told "denied" while the grant is live in their account.
-        const permission = 'driver:puter-image-generation:generate';
+        // Pinned, not left to the fixture's per-load default: the row must be known.
+        const permission = 'driver:e2e-popup-reconcile:generate';
+        const fixtureURL = `${PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL}?perm=${encodeURIComponent(permission)}`;
         const fixtureOrigin = new URL(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL).origin;
 
         // A GUI-origin page for server-side state checks: the fixture origin
@@ -937,7 +937,20 @@ test.describe('request-permission popup reconciliation', () => {
             );
         }, { perm: permission, uid: appUid });
 
-        await page.goto(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL);
+        // A pinned row outlives a run that dies before the withdrawal below,
+        // and would settle the first request without the dialog this test needs.
+        await checker.evaluate(async ({ origin, perm }) => {
+            await fetch(`${window.api_origin}/auth/revoke-user-app`, {
+                method: 'POST',
+                headers: {
+                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+                    'Authorization': `Bearer ${window.auth_token}`,
+                },
+                body: JSON.stringify({ origin, permission: perm }),
+            });
+        }, { origin: fixtureOrigin, perm: permission });
+
+        await page.goto(fixtureURL);
         await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
 
         // Grant for real first, so there is a live row the withdrawal must
@@ -956,9 +969,12 @@ test.describe('request-permission popup reconciliation', () => {
         await context.route('**/auth/grant-user-app', route =>
             route.fulfill({ status: 502, body: '{}' }));
 
+        // Alongside a scope the site lacks: a fully-held request opens nothing.
         [popup] = await Promise.all([
             page.waitForEvent('popup'),
-            page.locator('#req-driver-perm').click(),
+            page.evaluate((perms) => {
+                window.__reGrant = puter.ui.requestPermission({ permissions: perms });
+            }, [permission, 'driver:e2e-popup-reconcile-2:generate']),
         ]);
         const dialog = popup.locator('dialog.perm-dialog');
         await expect(dialog).toBeVisible({ timeout: 60_000 });
@@ -967,7 +983,7 @@ test.describe('request-permission popup reconciliation', () => {
         await dialog.locator('.perm-dialog-deny').click();
 
         // The popup answers and closes itself; the withdrawal must survive it.
-        await expect(page.locator('#log [data-entry="perm:driver:false"]')).toBeVisible();
+        expect(await page.evaluate(() => window.__reGrant)).toBe(false);
         await expect.poll(() => popup.isClosed(), { timeout: 15_000 }).toBe(true);
         await expect.poll(isGranted, { timeout: 20_000 }).toBe(false);
     });
@@ -1040,7 +1056,7 @@ test.describe('request-permission action hardening', () => {
         // would otherwise prompt for an unnamed requester and grant to an app
         // the dialog never showed the user.
         await page.goto(
-            '/action/request-permission?permission=driver%3Aputer-image-generation%3Agenerate' +
+            `/action/request-permission?permission=${encodeURIComponent(UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION)}` +
                 '&app_uid=app-00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000',
         );
         await page.waitForFunction(() => !!window.puter?.authToken, null, { timeout: 60_000 });
@@ -1123,7 +1139,7 @@ test.describe('request-permission action hardening', () => {
                 window.open(
                     `${puter.defaultGUIOrigin}/action/request-permission?embedded_in_popup=true`
                         + `&cross_origin_isolated=true&signin_session=${s}`
-                        + '&permission=driver%3Aputer-image-generation%3Agenerate&msg_id=77',
+                        + `&permission=${encodeURIComponent(UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION)}&msg_id=77`,
                     'perm-isolated-probe',
                     'width=600,height=700',
                 );
@@ -1155,7 +1171,7 @@ test.describe('request-permission action hardening', () => {
                 window.open(
                     `${puter.defaultGUIOrigin}/action/request-permission?embedded_in_popup=true`
                         + `&opener_origin=${encodeURIComponent(o)}`
-                        + '&permission=driver%3Aputer-image-generation%3Agenerate&msg_id=88',
+                        + `&permission=${encodeURIComponent(UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION)}&msg_id=88`,
                     'perm-opener-origin-probe',
                     'width=600,height=700',
                 );
@@ -1177,7 +1193,7 @@ test.describe('request-permission action hardening', () => {
         // handshake). Believing the query string would let a bare link raise a
         // consent prompt in any app's name and commit the user's grant to it.
         await page.goto(
-            '/action/request-permission?permission=driver%3Aputer-image-generation%3Agenerate' +
+            `/action/request-permission?permission=${encodeURIComponent(UNHELD_DRIVER_PERMISSION)}` +
                 `&origin=${encodeURIComponent('https://not-the-requester.example/')}`,
         );
         await page.waitForFunction(() => !!window.puter?.authToken, null, { timeout: 60_000 });
@@ -1257,3 +1273,62 @@ test.describe('request-permission action hardening', () => {
         expect(info.readsInOrder).toBe(true);
     });
 });
+
+test.describe('request-permission popup on access already granted', () => {
+    test('a signed-out site is answered without a prompt', async ({ page }) => {
+        // A signed-out site holds no token to settle this itself, so the popup
+        // does it once the exchange has run. Answering `true` with nothing
+        // clicked is the assertion: only Allow could produce that otherwise.
+        // Pinned through `?perm=`, since the grant has to name the same scope.
+        const permission = 'driver:e2e-already-granted:generate';
+        const fixtureURL = `${PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL}?perm=${encodeURIComponent(permission)}`;
+        const fixtureOrigin = new URL(PERMISSION_FIXTURE_URL).origin;
+
+        await page.goto('/');
+        await page.waitForFunction(() => !!window.getUserAppToken && !!window.auth_token,
+            null, { timeout: 60_000 });
+        // Bootstraps the app row the grant is written against.
+        const appToken = await page.evaluate(
+            async (origin) => (await window.getUserAppToken(origin))?.token,
+            fixtureOrigin,
+        );
+        expect(typeof appToken).toBe('string');
+
+        // Runs on the GUI page, which is where the user's own token lives.
+        const post = (route) => page.evaluate(async ({ route: r, origin, perm }) => {
+            const res = await fetch(`${window.api_origin}${r}`, {
+                method: 'POST',
+                headers: {
+                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+                    'Authorization': `Bearer ${window.auth_token}`,
+                },
+                body: JSON.stringify({ origin, permission: perm }),
+            });
+            return res.status;
+        }, { route, origin: fixtureOrigin, perm: permission });
+
+        expect(await post('/auth/grant-user-app')).toBe(200);
+        try {
+            await page.goto(fixtureURL);
+            await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
+            await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.clear());
+            await page.reload();
+            await page.locator('body.ready').waitFor({ timeout: 60_000 });
+            expect(await page.evaluate(() => !!puter.authToken)).toBe(false);
+
+            const [popup] = await Promise.all([
+                page.waitForEvent('popup'),
+                page.locator('#req-driver-perm').click(),
+            ]);
+            await expect(page.locator('#log [data-entry="perm:driver:true"]'))
+                .toBeVisible({ timeout: 60_000 });
+            await expect.poll(() => popup.isClosed(), { timeout: 30_000 }).toBe(true);
+        } finally {
+            // The row outlives the test, and a stray grant is one more thing a
+            // later failure could be blamed on.
+            await page.goto('/');
+            await page.waitForFunction(() => !!window.auth_token, null, { timeout: 60_000 });
+            await post('/auth/revoke-user-app');
+        }
+    });
+});