diff --git a/packages/plugin/src/agent-registration-drift.test.ts b/packages/plugin/src/agent-registration-drift.test.ts
index ebde6911aa..5faa7edfac 100644
--- a/packages/plugin/src/agent-registration-drift.test.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin/src/agent-registration-drift.test.ts
@@ -275,6 +275,48 @@ describe("hidden-agent registration drift guard", () => {
         expect(permissionDisabled("task", taskRules(merged.task))).toBe(true);
     });
 
+    test("named task allows survive an ambient wildcard deny (#777)", () => {
+        const internalAgentIds = [DREAMER_REVIEWER_AGENT, HISTORIAN_AGENT];
+        const merged = denyTaskRoutingToAgents(
+            { task: { "*": "deny", "my-scout": "allow" } },
+            internalAgentIds,
+        ) as { task: Record<string, string> };
+
+        // The agent's own ordering is kept: the wildcard stays where the user
+        // put it, so the named allow after it still wins under OpenCode's
+        // last-matching-rule evaluation instead of being overridden by a
+        // re-appended wildcard.
+        expect(merged.task).toEqual({
+            "*": "deny",
+            "my-scout": "allow",
+            [DREAMER_REVIEWER_AGENT]: "deny",
+            [HISTORIAN_AGENT]: "deny",
+        });
+
+        const rules = taskRules(merged.task);
+        const lastMatching = (target: string) =>
+            [...rules].reverse().find((rule) => rule.pattern === target || rule.pattern === "*");
+        expect(lastMatching("my-scout")?.action).toBe("allow");
+        expect(lastMatching("other-agent")?.action).toBe("deny");
+
+        // A mixed map must not hide the whole Task tool: the last rule is a
+        // named deny, not the wildcard.
+        expect(permissionDisabled("task", rules)).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    test("mixed wildcard-deny task maps re-merge idempotently (#777)", () => {
+        const internalAgentIds = [DREAMER_REVIEWER_AGENT, HISTORIAN_AGENT];
+        const first = denyTaskRoutingToAgents(
+            { task: { "*": "deny", "my-scout": "allow" } },
+            internalAgentIds,
+        );
+        const second = denyTaskRoutingToAgents(first, internalAgentIds);
+
+        expect(second).toEqual(first);
+        const task = (second as { task: Record<string, string> }).task;
+        expect(Object.keys(task).filter((pattern) => pattern === "*")).toHaveLength(1);
+    });
+
     test("Task wildcard re-emission is idempotent across repeated registration", () => {
         const internalAgentIds = [DREAMER_REVIEWER_AGENT, HISTORIAN_AGENT];
         const first = denyTaskRoutingToAgents({ task: { "*": "deny" } }, internalAgentIds);
diff --git a/packages/plugin/src/agents/permissions.ts b/packages/plugin/src/agents/permissions.ts
index de212f88eb..d2e10a5251 100644
--- a/packages/plugin/src/agents/permissions.ts
+++ b/packages/plugin/src/agents/permissions.ts
@@ -112,9 +112,14 @@ function isPermissionMap(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
  * OpenCode accepts either a whole-permission action or a pattern map for
  * `permission.task`; its visibility evaluator uses the last matching rule.
  * Normalize the whole-permission form, retain unrelated user rules, then append
- * our exact agent-id denies. When the ambient task policy has a wildcard deny,
- * re-emit that wildcard after the named denies so the Task tool is hidden rather
- * than shown as a callable-but-refused tool.
+ * our exact agent-id denies. When the ambient task policy is a wildcard deny
+ * whose only companions are our own appended agent-id denies, re-emit that
+ * wildcard after the named denies so the Task tool is hidden rather than shown
+ * as a callable-but-refused tool. When the wildcard deny sits next to any of
+ * the agent's own rules (the deny-by-default-with-exceptions shape), keep the
+ * agent's own ordering untouched: OpenCode resolves with the last matching
+ * rule, so moving the wildcard to the end there would override every named
+ * allow and empty the Task tool (#777).
  */
 export function denyTaskRoutingToAgents(
     permission: unknown,
@@ -133,10 +138,19 @@ export function denyTaskRoutingToAgents(
           : {};
     const internalAgentIdSet = new Set(internalAgentIds);
     const hasAmbientWildcardDeny = configuredTask["*"] === "deny";
+    // Only our own appended agent-id denies may accompany the wildcard for the
+    // move to stay correct — a user's named allow next to it must keep winning.
+    // Excluding internal ids here also keeps re-merging our own output
+    // idempotent: that output is exactly internal denies plus the wildcard.
+    const movesAmbientWildcardDeny =
+        hasAmbientWildcardDeny &&
+        Object.keys(configuredTask).every(
+            (agentId) => agentId === "*" || internalAgentIdSet.has(agentId),
+        );
     const retainedTask = Object.fromEntries(
         Object.entries(configuredTask).filter(
             ([agentId]) =>
-                !internalAgentIdSet.has(agentId) && (agentId !== "*" || !hasAmbientWildcardDeny),
+                !internalAgentIdSet.has(agentId) && (agentId !== "*" || !movesAmbientWildcardDeny),
         ),
     );
 
@@ -147,8 +161,10 @@ export function denyTaskRoutingToAgents(
             ...Object.fromEntries(internalAgentIds.map((agentId) => [agentId, "deny"])),
             // OpenCode's Permission.disabled uses findLast. Re-inserting the
             // ambient wildcard after our named routing denies keeps its whole-tool
-            // deny as the final match and makes the Task tool invisible.
-            ...(hasAmbientWildcardDeny ? { "*": "deny" } : {}),
+            // deny as the final match and makes the Task tool invisible — but
+            // only when it stood alone; with named rules the agent's own
+            // ordering must win (#777).
+            ...(movesAmbientWildcardDeny ? { "*": "deny" } : {}),
         },
     };
 }