diff --git a/architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go b/architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go
index 0792a0d28..d6c7d468c 100644
--- a/architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go
+++ b/architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go
@@ -122,9 +122,6 @@ var allowlist = []allowance{
 
 	{From: "gateway/sts", To: "handlers/iam", Debt: "IAM implementation consumers in STS, Ochre and ELBv2", Reason: "GetCallerIdentity takes IAMService; needs an IAM capability"},
 
-	{From: "gateway/tagging", To: "domains/ec2/tags", Debt: "close-out: gateway/tagging", Reason: "cross-service GetResources; clears when domains/tagging aggregates through per-domain capabilities"},
-	{From: "gateway/tagging", To: "handlers/elbv2", Debt: "close-out: gateway/tagging", Reason: "cross-service GetResources; clears when domains/tagging aggregates through per-domain capabilities"},
-
 	{From: "handlers/ecs", To: "domains/ec2/ebs/metadata", Debt: "close-out: handlers/ecs (ADR-0004 blocked-dependency list; inventory-ecs boundary imports)", Reason: "legacy ECS calls another domain's implementation as an internal API"},
 	{From: "handlers/ecs", To: "domains/ec2/eip", Debt: "close-out: handlers/ecs (ADR-0004 blocked-dependency list; inventory-ecs boundary imports)", Reason: "legacy ECS calls another domain's implementation as an internal API"},
 	{From: "handlers/ecs", To: "domains/ec2/instancetypes", Debt: "close-out: handlers/ecs (ADR-0004 blocked-dependency list; inventory-ecs boundary imports)", Reason: "legacy ECS calls another domain's implementation as an internal API"},
diff --git a/architecture/layering/layers_test.go b/architecture/layering/layers_test.go
index 060ab5f51..46c0df198 100644
--- a/architecture/layering/layers_test.go
+++ b/architecture/layering/layers_test.go
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ var legacyRoots = map[string]bool{
 // Bedrock is the AWS surface of the Ochre domain.
 var gatewayDomains = map[string]string{
 	"bedrock": "ochre", "ecs": "ecs", "eks": "eks", "elbv2": "elbv2", "iam": "iam",
-	"rds": "rds", "sts": "sts", "tagging": "tagging",
+	"rds": "rds", "sts": "sts",
 }
 
 // runtimeLegacy and operatorLegacy are the legacy roots whose ADR-0001 target
diff --git a/architecture/layering/legacy_test.go b/architecture/layering/legacy_test.go
index b413f386f..04b8d309e 100644
--- a/architecture/layering/legacy_test.go
+++ b/architecture/layering/legacy_test.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ var frozenLegacyPackages = []string{
 	"gateway/rds",
 	"gateway/spx",
 	"gateway/sts",
-	"gateway/tagging",
 	"handlers/ecs",
 	"handlers/eks",
 	"handlers/elbv2",
diff --git a/docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md b/docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md
index 82338cab2..1a5f75c21 100644
--- a/docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md
+++ b/docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md
@@ -337,6 +337,9 @@ while the branch is in flight; they do not describe the umbrella repository's
 | `3fdaa54d9` | `spinifex/admin` (`DefaultAccountID`, `DefaultAccountName`) | `spinifex/foundation/aws/identifiers` | The fixed, platform-reserved bootstrap account identifiers join `GlobalAccountID`: the ID and name of the first human-facing account created during bootstrap, used by `daemon`, `gateway`, `runtime/roles/awsgw`, `accountteardown` and `operator/cli`. Function names and values are unchanged, and they stay fixed rather than configurable. Callers use the existing `awsidentifiers` alias; `daemon`, `gateway`, `runtime/roles/awsgw`, `accountteardown` and the other `operator/cli` files drop their `admin` import, and `operator/cli/admin.go` keeps `legacyadmin` only for the credential generators. The `TestDefaultAccountID` assertion moves with the function, plus a name pin and a check that the ID is valid and distinct from `GlobalAccountID`. `admin` now holds only the IAM credential generators. |
 | `254d898a3` | `spinifex/handlers/sts` (`oidc_jwks.go`: the `handlers_eks.AccountBucketName`/`OIDCJWKSKey` import) | `spinifex/handlers/eks` (`OIDCJWKSReader`, a `ClusterJWKSResolver` implementation), wired by `spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw` | The Q-22 STS-to-EKS dependency is cut by a consumer-owned resolver: `handlers/sts` declares `ClusterJWKSResolver` (raw-bytes lookup, the same found/error split `FetchClusterJWKS` already had), and `handlers/eks` implements it beside `AccountBucketName`/`OIDCJWKSKey` with the same bucket-open-then-get, timeouts and not-found classification `oidc_jwks.go` used. STS still decodes the JWKS, applies the empty-keys rule and maps every outcome to `InvalidIdentityToken`, unchanged. `runtime/roles/awsgw` and `tests/integration/harness.go` construct the resolver and pass it to `NewSTSServiceImpl`, now a required, nil-checked argument; the compile-time interface check lives in `awsgw` because `handlers/eks` must not import `handlers/sts`. The literal bucket/key, KV-dependency-failure and cluster-status-not-consulted characterisation tests move to `handlers/eks`, next to the layout they pin; every remaining `handlers/sts` test, including the web-identity fixtures and `newTestSetup`, is rewritten against a test-owned `fakeJWKSResolver` and imports no EKS package. The one test proving an EKS-minted issuer URL parses through STS's `ParseEKSIssuerURL` moves to `tests/integration` as a composition test. The stale `handlers/sts` → `handlers/eks` allowlist entry is deleted. |
 | `0368e861a` | `spinifex/admin` (`accounts.go`: `GenerateAWSAccessKey`, `GenerateAWSSecretKey`, and their format and uniqueness tests) | `spinifex/foundation/aws/credentials` (`awscredentials`) | A stateless AWS credential-format primitive: it generates an `AKIA` + 16-alphanumeric access key ID and a 40-character base64 secret key, and issues, stores and authorises nothing. It is not IAM issuance and does not implement ADR-0005 S5. Output, randomness source, errors and names are unchanged; only the package line and doc comment changed. It is deliberately not unified with `handlers/iam`'s internal `generateAccessKeyID`, whose IDs are `AKIA` + 20 uppercase hex characters. `handlers/iam` and `operator/cli/admin.go` import `awscredentials`; `operator/cli` no longer imports any `legacyadmin`. The `spinifex/admin` directory is deleted: `admin` leaves the legacy-root, frozen-package and operator-legacy lists, joins the retired roots so it cannot return, and its two allowlist entries (`handlers/iam` → `admin`, `operator/cli` → `admin`) are removed. Operator bootstrap still generates the admin and Northstar credentials directly, recorded as debt below. |
+| `0d830e901` | — | `spinifex/domains/tagging` (`TaggedLister`, `TaggedResource`) | The read-only list capability for the Resource Groups Tagging aggregation, declared by its consumer per ADR-0001. `ListTagged` takes the caller's account and the lower-cased `ResourceTypeFilters` set, where an entry is a full `service:type` or a bare service, and returns ARNs with read-only tag maps. The package imports no domain, handler or contract package and the layering ratchet classifies it with no allowlist row. It carries no mutation, limit or ever-tagged surface. |
+| `f3545e3ea` | `spinifex/gateway/tagging` (`listEC2`, `buildEC2Mappings`, `ec2ARN`, `elbv2Resources`, `matchesType`), copied | `spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw` (`ec2IndexLister`, `elbv2Lister`), `spinifex/domains/tagging` (`MatchesType`) | AWSGW-side NATS client adapters implement `tagging.TaggedLister`, each with its compile-time check beside it in the composition root; no owner package carries one. The EC2 index adapter wraps `ec2.DescribeTags` and builds each ARN in the gateway's region from the stored resource type, including the unresolved-ID shapes today's code produces. The ELBv2 adapter lists load balancers and target groups admitted by the type filter, tagged or not, and reads tags in `DescribeTags` batches of 20. Both reuse existing subjects and clients, so no wire contract is added, and each call builds fresh tag maps. Type matching is exported once from `domains/tagging` so no copy survives the move. Embedded-JetStream tests cover type filters including a bare service, untagged ELBv2 resources, EC2 ARN mapping, account scoping, batch sizes and owner error propagation. |
+| `aedd0b2c4` | `spinifex/gateway/tagging` (`GetResources` parsing, tag filtering, sorting, offset token, authorization, response writing) | `spinifex/domains/tagging` (`Aggregator`, `NewAggregator`, `HasScope`, `ScopedActions`), wired by `spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw` | The aggregation moves unchanged and consumes `[]TaggedLister`: ELBv2 is called before EC2, the non-stable ARN sort is kept, lister errors propagate with the same codes, and tag maps return as key-sorted tag lists with `[]` for untagged resources. AWSGW builds the aggregator with both adapters and sets the new `GatewayConfig.TaggingResources` field; the dispatch in `gateway/tagging.go` stays and still answers `ServerInternal` when NATS or the aggregator is not wired. The `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResources*` tests move to `runtime/roles/awsgw` with unchanged assertions, seeding EC2 tags through the existing EC2 tags client over NATS; pure aggregator tests move to `domains/tagging` against fake listers; the gateway keeps dispatch and error-path tests. The gateway's private copies of the listing helpers and the legacy NATS lister are deleted with their tests, `gateway/tagging` is removed, and its two allowlist rows (`gateway/tagging` → `domains/ec2/tags`, `gateway/tagging` → `handlers/elbv2`) and its frozen-legacy entry go with it. |
 The EC2 contract row is intentionally different from the directory moves: it creates
 a compatibility boundary. `ec2.cmd.*` retains its deployed one-token NATS
 subscription and permission shape, while callers use
@@ -417,6 +420,7 @@ These residuals were recorded by individual slices and must be resolved once the
 - `domains/dns`: imports `runtime/compute/vm` (domain-to-runtime), `domains/network/reconcile` for the reconcile lock and `bootstrap/config` for node configuration.
 - ACM: the IAM AES-GCM helper import (ACM relocation residual).
 - `runtime/roles/awsgw`: the quota reconcile loop belongs to `domains/admission/quota`, and the EKS token-verify responder belongs with STS or EKS identity.
+- `runtime/roles/awsgw` → `handlers/elbv2` (inherited from `gateway/tagging`): this is a new physical import in AWSGW that inherits the former `gateway/tagging` dependency, because the `elbv2Lister` adapter builds its client with `handlers_elbv2.NewNATSELBv2Service` and calls the `ELBv2Service` interface. It is permitted temporarily because AWSGW is the composition root, which may wire legacy packages, so the layering test needs no allowlist row. Removal condition: it must clear when ELBv2 exposes a domain-owned boundary (its NATS client or contract under its domain owner) and the adapter consumes that instead.
 - `runtime/roles/vpcd` (placement): the role still mixes process/role supervision with network-controller responsibilities. `lease_reaper.go` (orphaned external-pool DHCP lease sweep), `ovn_controller_watchdog.go` (OVN controller liveness and restart), `host_eip_loop.go` (host-EIP reconcile loop) and `lease_datapath_reconcile.go` (lease datapath reconcile) are periodic network-control loops, not role wiring; `vpcd.go` itself also carries bridge-mode detection and verification, chassis-list parsing, external-CIDR resolution, DHCP manager startup and lease/IP-change handling, and gateway/host-EIP allocator and neighbour flush/prime construction alongside `Service.Start`. The future placement question is whether these belong in `domains/network`. Removal condition: an accepted decision on network-controller placement, and extraction of those loops and helpers behind the role.
 - ECR control-plane registration: `awsapi.Deps.NATS` is a raw `*nats.Conn`, not a narrow capability. Every NATS-backed `Handler` passes it to `domains/ecr.NewNATSMetaStore`, which calls `natsmsg.NATSRequest`, so narrowing it means changing the exported `Handler` type, every handler and the meta store; it must not be broadened further meanwhile.
 - ACM control-plane registration: `domains/acm/awsapi.Deps.NATS` (`registration.go`) is likewise a raw `*nats.Conn` carried by every `Handler`, for the same reason; it must not be broadened further meanwhile.
@@ -657,7 +661,7 @@ series above; "needs decision" is open.
 | `gateway/bedrock` | The Ochre domain core, its stores and the inference engine, together with the Bedrock action layer, in one package with internal cycles. | Deferred: needs the split plan recorded above — domain core and stores to `domains/ochre/<resource>`, inference to an Ochre-owned package, and only the action layer to `domains/ochre/awsapi`. |
 | `gateway/{ecs,eks,rds,iam,sts,elbv2}` | Each service's AWS action adapters and dispatch, not yet registered through ADR-0002. | Deferred: the ADR-0002 registration contract has only reached ECR and ACM so far; each service needs its own registration slice. |
 | `gateway/spx` | `promote_image.go` and `spx.go` dispatch (`storage.go` already consumes `contracts/operator/v1`). | Needs decision: which package owns operator-plane action dispatch registration — an `ingress/aws`-style seam for the operator plane, or `gateway` stays its home. |
-| `gateway/tagging` | The cross-service tagging API (`GetResources`) and its authorization. | Decided: a new `domains/tagging` boundary owns the cross-resource tagging API and aggregation; individual resource domains keep ownership of their own tag storage and expose narrow tagging capabilities. Stays debt until those per-domain capabilities exist; clears when `domains/tagging` aggregates only through them. |
+| `gateway/tagging` | — | Done. `domains/tagging` owns the read-only cross-resource `GetResources` aggregation and its API semantics (`0d830e901`, `aedd0b2c4`); AWSGW composes the owner listers, the EC2 tag index and ELBv2 (`f3545e3ea`); the root `gateway` keeps only the legacy dispatch in `gateway/tagging.go`. The package is removed, and its two allowlist rows and frozen-legacy entry are gone. Owner tag mutation capabilities remain future direction, so the RDS and ECS tag-writing edges above stay open. |
 | `services/viperblockd` | — | Done. The adapter is `providers/ebs/viperblock` (with the read-only `dirty` reader), the shared vocabulary is `contracts/viperblockd/legacy/v1`, and the role is `runtime/roles/viperblockd`. `services/` is empty. |
 | `utils` | — | Done and deleted. `ec2_subject.go` went to `contracts/ec2/v1`, the vpcd protocol to `contracts/network/v1` with the typed client in `domains/network/projection`, and the master-key loader to `domains/ec2/ebs/encryption`. |
 | `vpcd` | — | Done. The IMDS local-file reader and record-space opener moved to `domains/ec2/instance/state` and are injected through `guestmetadata.LocalStateReader`/`RecordLoader` (recorded above), so `vpcd` no longer imports `daemon` directly; its inter-process boundary now exists (`contracts/network/v1`, with `domains/network/subscribers` as the consumer and `domains/network/projection` as the producer client). The package moved unchanged to `runtime/roles/vpcd` (recorded below), and the legacy directory is removed. |
@@ -677,7 +681,7 @@ ADR-0001 completion is structural, so none of these is cleared by remediating se
 |---|---|---|
 | Explicitly deferred by ADR-0001 | `daemon` (Q-28), `lbagent` (Q-30) | Closed for this refactor; the ADR names the prerequisite. |
 | No missing boundary (candidate moves) | `handlers/ecs/bus` → `contracts/ecs/v1` (`a130f6b8e`); `admin/images_promote.go` → `domains/ec2/image` (`263c58167`); `admin` bootstrap account identifiers → `foundation/aws/identifiers` (`3fdaa54d9`); `admin` credential-format generators → `foundation/aws/credentials` `0368e861a`, retiring `admin` | Done. |
-| One narrow missing boundary | Done: `handlers/sts` EKS JWKS lookup → `handlers/eks` `ClusterJWKSResolver` (`254d898a3`). Open: `gateway/tagging` (per-domain tagging capabilities, owner decided); `gateway/spx` (owner of operator-plane dispatch registration) | Each needs one decision or one capability, then a mechanical move. |
+| One narrow missing boundary | Done: `handlers/sts` EKS JWKS lookup → `handlers/eks` `ClusterJWKSResolver` (`254d898a3`); `gateway/tagging` → `domains/tagging` with AWSGW-composed listers (`0d830e901`, `f3545e3ea`, `aedd0b2c4`). Open: `gateway/spx` (owner of operator-plane dispatch registration) | Each needs one decision or one capability, then a mechanical move. |
 | Broader boundary or follows another package | `handlers/iam` and `handlers/iam/mock` (per-consumer IAM capabilities); `handlers/{ecs,eks,rds}` (ADR-0004 blocked-dependency lists); `handlers/elbv2` (data-plane boundary evidence); `accountteardown` (domain cleanup capabilities); `gateway` root (ADR-0002 auth and request-context phase); `gateway/{iam,sts,ecs,eks,rds,elbv2}` (each follows its `handlers/<svc>`, because a new-path `awsapi` cannot import a legacy handler); `gateway/bedrock` (the recorded Ochre split plan) | Recorded debt with removal conditions above. |
 
 Per-consumer IAM capabilities are the widest unblocker: they gate `handlers/iam` itself, STS's IAM reads, Ochre's IAM reads, the ELBv2 role path and the ECS, EKS and RDS ensurers.
diff --git a/docs/package-boundary/tagging-capabilities-discovery.md b/docs/package-boundary/tagging-capabilities-discovery.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e27e6c619
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/package-boundary/tagging-capabilities-discovery.md
@@ -0,0 +1,516 @@
+# Tagging capabilities discovery
+
+**Status:** Discovery only.
+Nothing here is a decision.
+It records current behaviour at the head of the ADR-0001 checkpoint branch and proposes a capability shape for review.
+The ADR-0001 structural cut in [section 4](#4-proposal-the-adr-0001-structural-cut) has since been implemented; the [future direction](#future-direction-outside-the-adr-0001-structural-cut) has not.
+
+## Scope and method
+
+This covers every Spinifex path that reads or writes resource tags, grouped by the owner of the record the tags live on.
+File references are relative to the repository root at that revision.
+References to `gateway/tagging` describe the code before the structural cut moved `GetResources` to `domains/tagging` and the listers to `runtime/roles/awsgw`.
+
+What was measured:
+
+- Code reading of every tag entry point found by searching for `Tag`/`Untag`/`AddTags`/`RemoveTags`/`ListTags`/`DescribeTags` handlers and the EC2 record-mirror fan-out.
+- Sixteen characterisation tests named `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_*` (listed under [Tests](#tests)), run through real handlers on embedded JetStream.
+- AWS documentation fetched on 2026-10-13 for the pages cited in [AWS parity](#aws-parity).
+
+What was not measured:
+
+- No live cluster run, so multi-node interleavings are shown by injecting a write between a handler's read and its write, not by real concurrent nodes.
+- No test drives the full daemon CreateTags path including record mirrors on a multi-node cluster.
+- Predastore's own S3 bucket tagging was not exercised; Spinifex does not read it.
+
+Related work this does not duplicate:
+
+- `mulga-6maav`: CreateTags accepts unvalidated or nonexistent resource IDs.
+- `mulga-5eh43`: IAM CreatePolicy rejects `aws:RequestTag` condition keys.
+- `mulga-lmq4l`: tag-based ABAC condition keys.
+- `docs/development/bugs/concurrent-createtags-lost-updates.md` (mulga repo): moved the EC2 central index to JetStream KV under CAS (`mulga-tt77o`, closed).
+  That plan's "Not done" list leaves the two-store split in place, which is where the record-mirror finding below sits.
+- `docs/development/bugs/creation-time-tags-describetags.md` (mulga repo): creation-time tags reach the central index only for some EC2 owners.
+
+## 1. Map of tag reads and writes by owner
+
+### EC2 and the VPC family
+
+EC2 has two tag stores.
+
+- **Central index:** JetStream KV bucket `ec2-tags`, key `{accountID}.{resourceID}`, value the whole tag map, owned by `TagsServiceImpl` (`spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tags/service_impl.go:50`).
+  A legacy Predastore object `tags/{accountID}/{resourceID}.json` is read through and deleted on teardown (`service_impl.go:129`, `:156`).
+  `DescribeTags` and `GetResources` read only this store.
+- **Resource record:** each owning service's own KV or metadata record carries a `Tags` map.
+  Each resource's own describe call and its tag filters read only this.
+
+Write paths:
+
+| Path | Package | Writes | Concurrency |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| AWSGW `CreateTags` validation | `domains/ec2/awsapi/tags/CreateTags.go:15` | nothing; refuses empty key and `aws:` prefix | n/a |
+| Daemon `createTags` / `deleteTags` | `daemon/daemon_handlers_tag.go:89`, `:125` | central index for non-instance IDs, then every record mirror, then instance owners | sequential, first error returns |
+| Central index merge | `domains/ec2/tags/service_impl.go:195`, `:377`; `store.go:77` | `ec2-tags` | CAS via `kvutil.Update` |
+| Central index overwrite | `domains/ec2/tags/store.go:102` (`PutResourceTags`) | `ec2-tags` | CAS put |
+| Record mirrors (`ApplyRecordTags`/`RemoveRecordTags`) | vpc `domains/ec2/vpc/service_impl.go:1091`, `:1110`, `:1166`; image `domains/ec2/image/service_impl.go:681`; volume `domains/ec2/volume/service_impl.go:1175`, `:1208`; snapshot `domains/ec2/snapshot/service_impl.go:997`; route table `domains/ec2/routetable/service_impl.go:1588`; igw `domains/ec2/igw/service_impl.go:598`; eigw `domains/ec2/eigw/service_impl.go:277`; eip `domains/ec2/eip/service_impl.go:938`; natgw `domains/ec2/natgw/service_impl.go:538`; key pair `domains/ec2/key/service_impl.go:1032` | each owner's record | plain read then `Put` (`domains/ec2/tagmirror/tagmirror.go:83`), no revision |
+| Instance tags | `daemon/daemon_handlers_tag.go:194` routes to the owning daemon over `ec2.cmd.<id>`, or `TagStoppedInstance` when no responder | instance record and central index together | ownership-gated |
+| Creation-time `TagSpecifications` | each create path | record; central index only for instance, vpc/subnet/sg/eni (`domains/ec2/vpc/service_impl.go`, `projectRecordTags`) and key pair (`domains/ec2/key/service_impl.go:55`) | central write failure is logged and swallowed |
+
+The daemon fan-out (`daemon/daemon_handlers_tag.go:34`) calls every mirror with every non-instance ID, and each mirror skips IDs whose prefix it does not own.
+`launchtemplate` and `placementgroup` are not in the mirror list, so a `CreateTags` on them reaches only the central index.
+That last point is from code and is not tested.
+
+Read paths:
+
+- `DescribeTags` lists every key in the bucket and filters by account prefix (`domains/ec2/tags/service_impl.go:243`, `:290`).
+  An ID with no recognised prefix is reported with resource type `unknown` (`:84`).
+- Resource describes filter on their own record's tags (for example `domains/ec2/instance/service_impl.go:2040`).
+
+Cross-owner reach: the daemon is the composition point that writes the central index and then reaches every record owner; the record mirrors each write only their own record.
+
+### ELBv2
+
+- **Store:** load balancer, target group, listener and rule records, each with a `Tags` map (`spinifex/spinifex/handlers/elbv2/service_impl_tags.go:25`).
+- **Writes:** `AddTags` and `RemoveTags` (`service_impl_tags.go:101`, `:149`).
+  Load balancer, listener and rule tag writes re-put the whole record read earlier (`:41`, `:74`, `:88`).
+  Target group writes go through `UpdateTargetGroupByArn` CAS, but the merged map is computed from the earlier read and assigned inside the CAS closure (`:57`).
+- **Reads:** `DescribeTags` returns one entry per ARN, tagged or not (`handlers/elbv2/service_impl.go:3041`).
+- **Cross-owner reach:** `gateway/tagging` calls `DescribeLoadBalancers`, `DescribeTargetGroups` and `DescribeTags` over NATS (`spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources.go:106`).
+
+### RDS
+
+- **Store:** DB instance, DB snapshot, subnet group and parameter group records in the account bucket (`spinifex/spinifex/handlers/rds/tags.go:56`).
+- **Writes:** `AddTagsToResource`, `RemoveTagsFromResource` (`tags.go:104`, `:141`) through a registry of `TaggedRecord` kinds, with a revision-checked update retried up to 16 times (`tags.go:207`).
+- **Validation:** 50 tags after merge, 128-character key, 256-character value, `aws:` refused (`tags.go:21`, `:236`).
+- **ARN check:** region and account must match the caller (`handlers/rds/arn.go:66`, `:69`).
+- **Cross-owner reach:** `handlers/rds/tags.go` writes `domains/rds/subnetgroup` and `domains/rds/parametergroup` records directly (`tags.go:53`, `:67`, `:72`).
+  These are the `handlers/rds` → `domains/rds/subnetgroup` and `handlers/rds` → `domains/rds/parametergroup` legacy edges in the `docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md` "Dependency-rule debt to clear after the moves" list.
+
+### ECS
+
+- **Store:** cluster, task definition revision, service, task and container instance records in the account bucket (`spinifex/spinifex/handlers/ecs/tags.go:77`).
+- **Writes:** `TagResource`, `UntagResource` (`tags.go:228`, `:255`) via `mutateResourceTags` (`tags.go:141`), which re-puts the whole record with no revision.
+- **ARN check:** `parseResourceARN` keeps only the resource segment (`tags.go:41`); the ARN's account and region are not compared with the caller's.
+- **Validation:** none on count, length or prefix.
+- **Cross-owner reach:** reads and writes `domains/ecs/taskdefinition` records directly (`tags.go:89`, `:154`), the `handlers/ecs` → `domains/ecs/taskdefinition` legacy edge in the `docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md` "Dependency-rule debt to clear after the moves" list.
+
+### EKS
+
+- **Store:** cluster meta and nodegroup records (`spinifex/spinifex/handlers/eks/service_impl.go:1763`).
+- **Writes:** `TagResource`, `UntagResource` (`:1763`, `:1806`) under CAS (`casUpdateMeta`, `casUpdateNodegroupTags`).
+  Other EKS ARNs return NotImplemented.
+- **ARN check:** `clusterNameFromARN` and `nodegroupRefFromARN` discard account and region (`:1925`, `:1940`).
+- **Validation:** none on count, length or prefix.
+
+### ECR
+
+- **Store:** repository meta record (`RepoMeta.Tags`) in the account's ECR KV bucket (`spinifex/spinifex/domains/ecr/meta.go:163`).
+- **Writes:** `TagResource`, `UntagResource` in the AWS adapter (`spinifex/spinifex/domains/ecr/awsapi/tags.go:59`, `:90`), which reads the whole meta over NATS, edits it in the gateway process, and puts it back with a plain `kv.Put`.
+- **ARN check:** `RepositoryNameFromResourceARN` keeps only the repository name (`domains/ecr/awsapi/authz.go:217`).
+- **Validation:** missing or empty key only (`domains/ecr/awsapi/validation.go:64`).
+
+### ACM
+
+- **Store:** certificate record (`CertRecord.Tags`) (`spinifex/spinifex/domains/acm/store.go:223`).
+- **Writes:** `AddTagsToCertificate`, `RemoveTagsFromCertificate` (`spinifex/spinifex/domains/acm/service_impl.go:724`, `:751`), through `Store.UpdateTags` (`store.go:502`).
+  Both check ownership through `lookupOwned`, then change only `Tags` through `Store.UpdateTags`, a revision-checked update of the raw record that leaves the encrypted private key untouched.
+  Before `mulga-ncn9f` was fixed they wrote back the `GetCertMetadata` copy through `PutCert`, which replaced the stored key with an empty one.
+- **Validation:** none on count, length or prefix.
+
+### IAM
+
+- **Store:** role, user, customer-managed policy, instance profile and OIDC provider records in IAM KV buckets.
+- **Writes:** `TagRole`/`UntagRole` (`spinifex/spinifex/handlers/iam/roles.go:521`, `:545`), `TagPolicy`/`UntagPolicy` (`handlers/iam/service_impl.go:1942`, `:1965`) and `TagInstanceProfile`/`UntagInstanceProfile` (`handlers/iam/instance_profiles.go:300`, `:325`) use CAS.
+  `TagUser`/`UntagUser` (`handlers/iam/service_impl.go:1871`, `:1893`, `:1919`) and `TagOpenIDConnectProvider`/`UntagOpenIDConnectProvider` (`handlers/iam/oidc_providers.go:293`, `:311`, `:334`) read and then plain `Put`.
+- **Validation:** count, key and value length, pattern, `aws:` prefix and duplicate keys (`handlers/iam/service_impl.go:279`).
+
+### Resources with no Spinifex tag path
+
+- Lambda and CloudWatch Logs have no package under `spinifex/spinifex/`.
+- Bedrock (`gateway/bedrock*`, `domains/ochre`) has no tag action.
+- S3 bucket tagging is served by Predastore (`predastore/internal/gate/handlers/bucket_tagging.go`); Spinifex's `GetResources` does not list buckets.
+
+### Cross-service tagging API
+
+- `gateway/tagging.go:19` serves only `GetResources`; any other action, including `TagResources`, `UntagResources`, `GetTagKeys` and `GetTagValues`, returns `InvalidAction` (`gateway/tagging.go:41`).
+- Authorization evaluates `tagging:GetResources` against `*` (`spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz.go:28`).
+- `GetResources` aggregates ELBv2 load balancers and target groups plus the EC2 central index (`gateway/tagging/GetResources.go:45`), then filters by tag, sorts by ARN and slices by an integer offset token (`:264`).
+- The layering ratchet records the two cross-owner imports as debt (two `gateway/tagging` rows in `architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go`), and `gateway/tagging` is a frozen legacy package (`architecture/layering/legacy_test.go`).
+
+### Authorization against tags
+
+- The policy evaluator allowlists five condition keys and none read a tag (`bluebottle/pkg/iampolicy/conditions.go`).
+- IAM `CreatePolicy` refuses any unsupported key at write time (`handlers/iam/service_impl.go:2496`), with a specific reason for `aws:RequestTag/` (`:2514`).
+- No code path reads a resource's tags to evaluate a request.
+
+### Summary table
+
+| Owner | Tag store | Service write API | Write concurrency | Limits enforced | ARN account checked | Listed by `GetResources` | Cross-owner reach |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| EC2 central index | `ec2-tags` KV | `CreateTags`/`DeleteTags` | CAS | `aws:` prefix only, at AWSGW | IDs are not ARNs; stored under caller account | yes | daemon fans out to record owners |
+| EC2 record owners (11 services) | own record | via daemon mirror | plain read then put | none | n/a | no (index only) | none |
+| EC2 instance | instance record and index | via owning daemon | ownership-gated | `aws:` at AWSGW | n/a | yes, via index | none |
+| ELBv2 | LB/TG/listener/rule records | `AddTags`/`RemoveTags` | LB, listener, rule plain put; TG CAS over a stale merge | empty key only | owner field compared | LB and TG only | `gateway/tagging` reads over NATS |
+| RDS | four record kinds | `AddTagsToResource`/`RemoveTagsFromResource` | CAS, 16 attempts | 50/128/256, `aws:` | yes, and region | no | writes `domains/rds` subnet and parameter group records |
+| ECS | five record kinds | `TagResource`/`UntagResource` | plain read then put | none | no | no | writes `domains/ecs/taskdefinition` records |
+| EKS | cluster meta, nodegroup | `TagResource`/`UntagResource` | CAS | none | no | no | none |
+| ECR | repo meta | `TagResource`/`UntagResource` | plain read then put, from the gateway process | empty key only | no | no | none |
+| ACM | certificate record | `AddTagsToCertificate`/`RemoveTagsFromCertificate` | revision-checked update of the tag field only | none | owner checked via `lookupOwned` | no | none |
+| IAM | five record kinds | `Tag*`/`Untag*` | CAS for role, policy, instance profile; plain put for user, OIDC provider | full | names, not ARNs, except policy and OIDC | no | none |
+
+## 2. Error and atomicity behaviour
+
+Each line states current behaviour and how it was established.
+"Test" names a `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_*` test listed under [Tests](#tests); "code" means read from source and not tested here; "INFERRED" means a consequence of code that no test demonstrates.
+
+### Read-modify-write and revision checks
+
+- EC2 record mirror: a tag write and a non-tag record change that both land between the mirror's read and its put are reverted, and every call reports success.
+  Test: `RecordMirrorRevertsInterleavedWrites`.
+  Every record owner that routes through `tagmirror.UpdateKVRecordTags` shares this; volume and image use their own read-then-put with the same shape (INFERRED for those two).
+- EC2 central index: CAS, so concurrent merges on one resource keep each other's keys.
+  Code, and the closed plan's tests.
+- ECS: the tag write reverts a record change committed between its read and its put.
+  Test: `ECSTagWriteRevertsInterleavedRecordWrite` (an interleaved `DesiredCount` change is lost).
+- ACM: tag writes are revision-checked and change only the tag field; the stored private key survives (resolved by `mulga-ncn9f`).
+  Test: `ACMTagWritesPreserveStoredPrivateKey`.
+  A certificate that lost its key before the fix can no longer be served by any listener that loads it (INFERRED); recovery is `mulga-o436p`.
+- ELBv2: load balancer, listener and rule tag writes can revert a concurrent record change, and the target group CAS assigns a map merged from an earlier read, so two concurrent `AddTags` on one target group can lose a key.
+  INFERRED from `service_impl_tags.go:41`, `:57`, `:74`, `:88`.
+- ECR, IAM user, IAM OIDC provider: read then plain put; concurrent tag writes can lose a key.
+  INFERRED.
+- RDS, EKS, IAM role, policy and instance profile: revision-checked; code.
+
+### Partial failure across resources in one call
+
+- ELBv2 `AddTags` writes each ARN before resolving the next, so an unknown ARN after a valid one fails the call with the first resource already tagged.
+  Test: `ELBv2AddTagsPartiallyAppliesBeforeUnknownARN`.
+- EC2 `CreateTags`/`DeleteTags`: the central loop stops at the first failing resource after committing earlier ones; the daemon then writes the record mirrors only if the central write succeeded, and a mirror error is returned after the central index is already committed.
+  Code (`daemon/daemon_handlers_tag.go:98`); the resulting index/record divergence is INFERRED.
+- Instance IDs are tagged concurrently and the first error in input order is returned; other instances may already be tagged.
+  Code (`daemon/daemon_handlers_tag.go:172`).
+
+### Validation limits
+
+- EC2: `aws:` refused at AWSGW with `InvalidParameterValue`; no count, key-length or value-length limit.
+  Test: `EC2CreateTagsAppliesNoLengthOrCountLimits` (51 tags, a 129-character key and a 257-character value all stored).
+- ELBv2, ECS, ACM: no count, length or `aws:` rule.
+  Tests: `ELBv2AddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits`, `ECSTagResourceAppliesNoTagLimits`, `ACMAddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits`.
+- ECR: empty key only; EKS: none.
+  Code.
+- RDS and IAM: AWS limits enforced.
+  Code.
+
+### Unknown, nonexistent and cross-account resources
+
+- EC2: a well-formed ID that names nothing, an ID with no recognised prefix, and another account's ID are all accepted and stored under the caller's account.
+  Test: `EC2CreateTagsStoresUnresolvedIDsInCallerNamespace` (extends `mulga-6maav`).
+- `GetResources` then lists those IDs, an unrecognised one as `arn:aws:ec2:<region>:<account>:unknown/<id>`.
+  Test: `GetResourcesListsUnresolvedEC2IDs`.
+- ECS: an ARN naming another account and region resolves to the caller's same-named resource and tags it.
+  Test: `ECSForeignAccountARNTagsCallerResource`.
+- EKS and ECR discard the ARN account the same way.
+  Code; the effect is INFERRED.
+- ELBv2: unknown or foreign ARNs return the per-type not-found code; RDS returns `InvalidParameterValue` for a foreign account or region.
+  Code.
+
+### Error codes
+
+| Owner | Unknown resource | Bad tag | Store failure |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| EC2 | none (accepted) | `ErrorInvalidParameterValue` (`aws:` and empty key only) | `ErrorServerInternal` |
+| ELBv2 | `ErrorELBv2LoadBalancerNotFound`, `ErrorELBv2TargetGroupNotFound`, `ErrorELBv2ListenerNotFound`, `ErrorELBv2RuleNotFound` | `ErrorInvalidParameterValue` (empty key only) | `ErrorServerInternal` |
+| RDS | the kind's not-found fault (`tags.go:60`) | `ErrorInvalidParameterValue` | error passed through |
+| ECS | `ErrorECSClusterNotFound`, `ErrorECSServiceNotFound`, otherwise `ErrorECSInvalidParameter` | none | error passed through |
+| EKS | `ErrorEKSResourceNotFound` for clusters (`service_impl.go:1958`); other ARNs `ErrorNotImplemented` | none | error passed through |
+| ECR | `RepositoryNotFoundError` | `ErrorInvalidTagParameter` (empty key only) | error passed through |
+| ACM | `ErrorACMInvalidArn` or `ErrorResourceNotFound` (`service_impl.go:614`; also when the certificate is deleted between the ownership check and the write) | none | `ErrorInternalError` |
+| IAM | `ErrorIAMNoSuchEntity` | `validationError`, `ErrorIAMInvalidInput`, `ErrorIAMLimitExceeded` | error passed through |
+
+Names are `awserrors` constants or package helpers.
+This table is from code.
+
+### GetResources during and after writes
+
+- A resource whose tags were all removed drops out of the result.
+  Test: `GetResourcesOmitsResourceWhoseTagsWereAllRemoved`.
+- The pagination token is an integer offset into a set recomputed per call, so a resource tagged between page reads that sorts ahead of the offset makes the next page repeat an entry.
+  Test: `GetResourcesOffsetTokenRepeatsAfterInterleavedWrite`.
+  The same mechanism can skip an entry when a resource ahead of the offset is untagged (INFERRED).
+- A non-integer token returns `InvalidParameterValue`, and `ResourcesPerPage` of 500 is accepted.
+  Test: `GetResourcesPaginationValidation`.
+- Only EC2 index entries and ELBv2 load balancers and target groups are aggregated; any other type filter returns an empty list without error.
+  Test: `GetResourcesAggregatesOnlyEC2AndELBv2`.
+- ELBv2 load balancers and target groups with no tags are included, because ELBv2 `DescribeTags` returns one entry per ARN.
+  Code (`handlers/elbv2/service_impl.go:3041`).
+
+### Authorization
+
+- No path supplies resource tags, request tags or tag keys to the policy evaluator.
+  Code.
+- IAM `CreatePolicy` refuses policies conditioned on `aws:ResourceTag/`, `aws:RequestTag/`, `aws:TagKeys` and `ec2:ResourceTag/` with `MalformedPolicyDocument`.
+  Test: `CreatePolicyRefusesTagConditionKeys` (links `mulga-5eh43`, `mulga-lmq4l`).
+
+## 3. AWS parity
+
+Each item states AWS behaviour first, then ours.
+Sources were fetched on 2026-10-13.
+
+- **Tag limits.**
+  AWS: 50 tags per resource, 128-character keys, 256-character values, keys and values case-sensitive, `aws:` reserved ([EC2 tag restrictions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html#tag-restrictions); [ECS TagResource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html); [EKS TagResource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html) gives 50 entries, key 1..128, value up to 256; [ECR TagResource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/APIReference/API_TagResource.html) gives `TooManyTagsException` at 50 and `InvalidTagParameterException`; [ACM AddTagsToCertificate](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/APIReference/API_AddTagsToCertificate.html) gives 1..50 items, `InvalidTagException` for `aws:`, `TooManyTagsException`; [ELBv2 AddTags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/APIReference/API_AddTags.html) lists `TooManyTags` and `DuplicateTagKeys`).
+  Ours: EC2, ELBv2, ECS, EKS, ECR and ACM do not enforce the count or lengths; ELBv2, ECS, EKS, ECR and ACM do not refuse `aws:`.
+  Divergence, verified by the limit tests.
+- **EC2 nonexistent or malformed IDs.**
+  AWS: the error table defines `InvalidID` as "The specified ID for the resource you are trying to tag is not valid" ([EC2 error codes](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/errors-overview.html)).
+  What AWS returns for a well-formed ID naming no resource on `CreateTags` is unverified.
+  Ours: accepted and stored.
+  The malformed-ID case is a divergence, verified by test.
+- **EC2 cross-account IDs.**
+  AWS: "When you tag public or shared resources, the tags you assign are available only to your AWS account" ([EC2 tag restrictions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Using_Tags.html#tag-restrictions)).
+  AWS behaviour for an ID owned by another account and not shared with the caller is unverified.
+  Ours stores under the caller in both cases, which matches the documented shared case and is unverified for the unshared case.
+- **EC2 consistency.**
+  AWS: the EC2 API "follows an eventual consistency model" ([EC2 error codes, Eventual consistency](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/errors-overview.html#api-eventual-consistency)).
+  A lost tag write is not eventual consistency; the record-mirror revert is a defect regardless of this model.
+- **Multi-resource atomicity.**
+  AWS: Resource Groups Tagging `TagResources` reports per-ARN failures in `FailedResourcesMap` ([TagResources](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/resourcegroupstagging/latest/APIReference/API_TagResources.html)), so partial success is part of that contract.
+  Whether ELBv2 `AddTags` or EC2 `CreateTags` is all-or-nothing across resources is unverified.
+  Ours: both apply partially before failing.
+- **GetResources content.**
+  AWS: "`GetResources` does not return untagged resources", and without a tag filter "Resources that were previously tagged, but do not currently have tags, are shown with an empty tag set" ([GetResources](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/resourcegroupstagging/latest/APIReference/API_GetResources.html)).
+  Ours drops previously tagged resources with no tags (test) and includes never-tagged ELBv2 load balancers and target groups (code).
+  Both are divergences.
+- **GetResources coverage.**
+  AWS: "All tagged resources, whether the tagging used the Resource Groups Tagging API or not, are returned" (same page).
+  Ours returns EC2 and two ELBv2 types only.
+  Divergence, verified by test.
+- **GetResources pagination.**
+  AWS: `ResourcesPerPage` "minimum of 1 and a maximum value of 100"; invalid input is `InvalidParameterException`; a token is valid for at most 15 minutes, after which `PaginationTokenExpiredException` (same page).
+  Ours accepts 500 and returns `InvalidParameterValue` for a bad token.
+  Divergence, verified by test.
+  AWS's page consistency under concurrent writes is unverified, so the repeat on interleaved writes is reported as current behaviour, not as a parity gap.
+- **TagResources and UntagResources.**
+  AWS: requires `tag:TagResources` and the owning service's tagging permission, for example `ec2:CreateTags`; at most 20 ARNs and 50 tags per call (TagResources page).
+  Ours: not served (code).
+- **Tag condition keys.**
+  AWS: `aws:ResourceTag/<key>` compares the tag on the resource the request is made against; `aws:RequestTag/<key>` the tag passed in the request; `aws:TagKeys` the list of keys passed ([IAM global condition keys](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_condition-keys.html)).
+  Ours: refused at policy write and never evaluated.
+  Divergence, verified by test; tracked by `mulga-5eh43` and `mulga-lmq4l`.
+- **ECS, EKS and ECR ARN with another account.**
+  AWS error for that case is unverified.
+  Ours acts on the caller's same-named resource (ECS by test, EKS and ECR by code).
+- **ACM private key.**
+  No AWS documentation addresses this; tagging is metadata only on every AWS page fetched.
+  The key-loss defect is resolved (`mulga-ncn9f`).
+
+## 4. Proposal: the ADR-0001 structural cut
+
+**Status:** Done.
+Steps 1 to 4 of the [migration order](#migration-order-and-exit-criteria) are implemented and recorded in `docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md`.
+
+ADR-0001 (accepted 2026-09-28) gives the rule this proposal works within: a consumer declares its own narrow in-process capability interface, an owner owns any versioned process contract under `contracts/<domain>/v1`, and a composition root wires them.
+The ADR's package map row for `tags` sends generic helpers to `foundation/aws/tags` and says each resource owner retains canonical tag state.
+
+### Scope
+
+Decided: `domains/tagging` is a stateless aggregator composed in the AWSGW process, not a new daemon.
+Decided: any owner wire contract belongs under that owner's `contracts/<owner>/v1`, and that there is no shared tagging wire format.
+
+Inside the cut:
+
+- `domains/tagging` owns the current `GetResources` aggregation path and nothing else.
+  Today `gateway/tagging` serves only `GetResources` (`spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging.go:19`), so this is a structural move with no new API.
+- `domains/tagging` declares one read/list capability, enough to reach the EC2 tag index and ELBv2 without importing either owner.
+- The AWSGW composition root supplies one adapter per owner that implements that capability.
+- `GetResources` behaviour is unchanged, including every behaviour recorded in [Findings](#findings).
+
+Outside the cut, listed under [Future direction](#future-direction-outside-the-adr-0001-structural-cut): pagination semantics, supported-resource scope, tag limits, `aws:` handling, ever-tagged tracking, tag-policy evaluation (`ResourceTagReader`), and every mutation API (`TagResources`, `UntagResources` and the per-service tag writes).
+
+### Capability
+
+`domains/tagging` is the consumer, so it declares the interface:
+
+```go
+package tagging
+
+// TaggedLister returns one owner's resources for GetResources aggregation.
+type TaggedLister interface {
+	ListTagged(ctx context.Context, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]TaggedResource, error)
+}
+
+type TaggedResource struct {
+	ARN  string
+	Tags map[string]string
+}
+```
+
+`typeFilters` keeps today's meaning: the lower-cased `ResourceTypeFilters` set, where an entry may be a full `service:type` or a bare service (`gateway/tagging/GetResources.go:206`).
+Each adapter applies it to the types it serves, as `listELBv2` and `listEC2` do now.
+Tag filtering, ARN sorting and the offset token stay in the aggregator unchanged.
+The interface carries no mutation, no limits and no ever-tagged flag; those belong to the future direction.
+
+### Adapters and compile-time checks
+
+The owners run in daemons and the aggregator runs in AWSGW.
+A daemon-side owner cannot satisfy a Go interface declared in the AWSGW process, so the capability is implemented by an AWSGW-side NATS client adapter.
+
+- **EC2 index adapter:** wraps today's `listEC2` path, `ec2tags.NewNATSTagsService(...).DescribeTags` plus `buildEC2Mappings` (`gateway/tagging/GetResources.go:95`).
+  It is constructed with the region, since EC2 IDs become ARNs there.
+- **ELBv2 adapter:** wraps today's `elbv2Resources` path, `DescribeLoadBalancers`, `DescribeTargetGroups` and batched `DescribeTags` through `handlers_elbv2.NewNATSELBv2Service` (`gateway/tagging/GetResources.go:106`).
+- **Placement:** the adapters live under the AWSGW composition root, `runtime/roles/awsgw`, which the ratchet already names as the role allowed to wire domain registrations (`architecture/layering/rules_test.go:17`) and which already imports `handlers/*` and `domains/*` packages (`runtime/roles/awsgw/awsgw.go:28` to `:46`).
+- **Compile-time checks:** `var _ tagging.TaggedLister = (*ec2IndexLister)(nil)` and `var _ tagging.TaggedLister = (*elbv2Lister)(nil)` sit beside the adapters in AWSGW.
+  No owner package carries a check against a `domains/tagging` interface.
+- **Wire contracts:** both adapters reuse subjects and clients that exist today, so the cut defines no new wire contract.
+  The remote owner of each subject owns its request/reply contract and handler; the EC2 `ec2.DescribeTags` and ELBv2 `elbv2.Describe*` subjects are where that contract would be formalised, under `contracts/ec2/v1` and `contracts/elbv2/v1`, if a later step needs it.
+- **Wiring:** `runtime/roles/awsgw` builds the aggregator with both adapters and hands it to the gateway, which today calls `gateway_tagging.GetResources` with its NATS connection (`gateway/tagging.go:21`).
+
+### Ratchet rows removed
+
+- `architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go` row `gateway/tagging` → `domains/ec2/tags`.
+- `architecture/layering/allowlist_test.go` row `gateway/tagging` → `handlers/elbv2`.
+- `architecture/layering/legacy_test.go` entry `gateway/tagging` as a frozen legacy package.
+- The `gateway/tagging` row of the `docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md` "Close-out status" table and the "One narrow missing boundary" row of its "Remaining legacy roots by blocker class" matrix record `gateway/tagging` as open debt; both rows are updated when it clears.
+
+`domains/tagging` starts with no allowlist rows and imports only `foundation` packages and the AWS SDK model types it already uses.
+
+### Migration order and exit criteria
+
+1. **Interfaces in `domains/tagging`, read/list only.**
+   Exit: `TaggedLister` and `TaggedResource` exist, the package imports no domain, handler or contract package, and the ratchet classifies it with zero allowlist rows.
+   Done in `0d830e901`.
+2. **EC2 index and ELBv2 adapters in AWSGW.**
+   Exit: both adapters compile with their `var _ tagging.TaggedLister` checks, each has a test against embedded JetStream equivalent to today's `listEC2` and `elbv2Resources`, and nothing calls them yet.
+   Done in `f3545e3ea`; type matching is exported once as `tagging.MatchesType`.
+3. **Move `GetResources` aggregation from `gateway/tagging` to `domains/tagging`.**
+   The request parsing, type and tag filtering, sorting, offset token and `authz.go` move; the gateway dispatch in `gateway/tagging.go` calls the aggregator wired by AWSGW.
+   Exit: the `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResources*` tests and the existing `gateway/tagging` unit tests pass with unchanged assertions after moving with the code.
+   Done in `aedd0b2c4`: AWSGW sets `GatewayConfig.TaggingResources`, the `GetResources` characterisation tests run in `runtime/roles/awsgw`, and the aggregator unit tests run in `domains/tagging`.
+4. **Remove the ratchet rows.**
+   Exit: the two `gateway/tagging` allowlist rows and its `legacy_test.go` frozen-legacy entry are deleted, the `gateway/tagging` package is gone, `make preflight`'s layering tests pass, and the "Close-out status" `gateway/tagging` row and the "One narrow missing boundary" matrix row record the debt as cleared.
+   Done: the package and ratchet rows went with `aedd0b2c4`, and the migration record now marks `gateway/tagging` cleared.
+
+The RDS and ECS record-writing edges in the `docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md` "Dependency-rule debt to clear after the moves" list are not cleared by this cut.
+They need owner tag mutation capabilities, which are future direction.
+
+## Future direction (outside the ADR-0001 structural cut)
+
+Nothing in this section is part of the ADR-0001 track.
+It records a possible shape for later work so the cut above does not block it.
+
+### Owner tag mutation
+
+A later `domains/tagging` could declare a mutation capability:
+
+```go
+type Tagger interface {
+	ResourceTypes() []string // "service:type", e.g. "ec2:security-group"
+	TagResource(ctx context.Context, accountID, arn string, add map[string]string) error
+	UntagResource(ctx context.Context, accountID, arn string, keys []string) error
+	ListTags(ctx context.Context, accountID, arn string) (map[string]string, error)
+}
+```
+
+For owners in another process, the same model as the cut applies: the owner defines a request/reply contract under `contracts/<owner>/v1` and serves it, and an AWSGW-side adapter implements `Tagger` and carries the `var _ tagging.Tagger` check.
+An owner in the same process as its consumer can implement the interface directly.
+
+Errors would be sentinels declared in `domains/tagging` (`ErrNotFound`, `ErrInvalidARN`, `ErrInvalidTag`, `ErrTooManyTags`, `ErrConflict`), wrapping the owner's own `awserrors` code so per-service APIs keep today's codes.
+
+Guarantees each owner would give:
+
+1. Per-resource atomic: validate first, then one revision-checked write that changes only the tag field, retried on conflict with the mutation re-applied to the fresh record.
+2. Existence and ownership: the ARN's partition, region and account must match the caller, and the resource must exist, before any write.
+3. Limits from `foundation/aws/tags` with the owner's documented variations.
+4. A tag write never rewrites a non-tag field.
+
+No owner would be asked for cross-resource atomicity.
+
+### Work that would use it
+
+- `TagResources` and `UntagResources` in `domains/tagging`, which are an API expansion, reporting per-ARN failures in `FailedResourcesMap`.
+- Clearing the RDS subnet-group and parameter-group edges and the ECS task-definition edge (the `handlers/rds` and `handlers/ecs` legacy edges in the `docs/PACKAGE_BOUNDARY_MIGRATION.md` "Dependency-rule debt to clear after the moves" list) by calling owner mutation capabilities.
+- ACM, EKS, ECR and IAM owners; ACM's key-loss defect is already fixed (`mulga-ncn9f`).
+- EC2 record owners, once the canonical EC2 tag store is decided (`mulga-36wn6`, `mulga-6maav`).
+- `foundation/aws/tags` validation helpers shared by every owner.
+- `GetResources` pagination, supported-resource scope and ever-tagged tracking (`mulga-t6cuv`).
+
+### Tag-policy evaluation
+
+The policy door would declare its own read-only capability:
+
+```go
+type ResourceTagReader interface {
+	ResourceTags(ctx context.Context, accountID, arn string) (map[string]string, bool, error)
+}
+```
+
+`aws:RequestTag` and `aws:TagKeys` come from the parsed request and need no owner call.
+This depends on `mulga-lmq4l` and `mulga-5eh43`.
+
+## Open decisions
+
+These need an owner's decision and are not settled by this document.
+None of them blocks the ADR-0001 cut.
+
+1. **EC2 canonical store.** Whether the `ec2-tags` index becomes the canonical store for every EC2 type, or records stay canonical and the index becomes a projection each owner maintains.
+2. **Pagination token format and lifetime.** Keyset token versus snapshot, and whether to mirror AWS's 15-minute expiry.
+3. **Cross-account ARN behaviour** for ECS, EKS and ECR, given that AWS behaviour for these is unverified here.
+4. **Ever-tagged tracking.** Whether owners must remember that a resource was once tagged, to match `GetResources` returning `"Tags": []`.
+5. **Which `TagResources` permission check runs where.** The gateway door, the aggregator, or each owner.
+6. **Internal callers and `aws:` keys.** EC2 refuses `aws:` only at AWSGW; whether internal writers (system VPC, EKS controllers) may keep writing reserved keys through a mutation capability.
+
+Decided by the user and removed from this list: where `domains/tagging` runs (AWSGW, stateless) and the process contract shape (owner contracts only, no shared format).
+
+## Findings
+
+Current behaviour only; none is fixed except finding 1, marked resolved.
+
+| # | Finding | Evidence | Bead |
+| --- | --- | --- | --- |
+| 1 | Resolved: ACM tag writes erased the stored private key; they now preserve it. Certificates tagged before the fix may have lost their key and need re-import or re-issuance. | Test: `ACMTagWritesPreserveStoredPrivateKey` | `mulga-ncn9f` (P1, closed); remediation `mulga-o436p` (P1, open) |
+| 2 | EC2 record mirrors revert concurrent tag and non-tag writes. | Test: `RecordMirrorRevertsInterleavedWrites` | `mulga-36wn6` (P1) |
+| 3 | ECS tag writes revert concurrent record writes, including a `DesiredCount` change. | Test: `ECSTagWriteRevertsInterleavedRecordWrite` | `mulga-c0d5x` (P1) |
+| 4 | ECS acts on the caller's resource for an ARN naming another account. | Test: `ECSForeignAccountARNTagsCallerResource`; EKS and ECR INFERRED | `mulga-k8d9b` (P2) |
+| 5 | EC2 stores tags for unresolved and other-account IDs. | Test: `EC2CreateTagsStoresUnresolvedIDsInCallerNamespace` | `mulga-6maav` |
+| 6 | EC2, ELBv2, ECS and ACM enforce no tag count or length limits. | Tests: `EC2CreateTagsAppliesNoLengthOrCountLimits`, `ELBv2AddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits`, `ECSTagResourceAppliesNoTagLimits`, `ACMAddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits`; EKS and ECR code | none |
+| 7 | ELBv2 `AddTags` partially applies before an unknown ARN. | Test: `ELBv2AddTagsPartiallyAppliesBeforeUnknownARN` | `mulga-liyz5` (P2) |
+| 8 | `GetResources` lists unresolved EC2 IDs, including type `unknown`. | Test: `GetResourcesListsUnresolvedEC2IDs` | `mulga-t6cuv` (P2), `mulga-6maav` |
+| 9 | `GetResources` drops resources whose tags were all removed. | Test: `GetResourcesOmitsResourceWhoseTagsWereAllRemoved` | `mulga-t6cuv` (P2) |
+| 10 | `GetResources` offset token repeats an entry after an interleaved write. | Test: `GetResourcesOffsetTokenRepeatsAfterInterleavedWrite` | `mulga-t6cuv` (P2) |
+| 11 | `GetResources` accepts page sizes over 100 and returns `InvalidParameterValue` for a bad token. | Test: `GetResourcesPaginationValidation` | `mulga-t6cuv` (P2) |
+| 12 | `GetResources` covers only EC2 and ELBv2 load balancers and target groups. | Test: `GetResourcesAggregatesOnlyEC2AndELBv2` | `mulga-t6cuv` (P2) |
+| 13 | `GetResources` includes untagged ELBv2 load balancers and target groups. | Code | `mulga-t6cuv` (P2) |
+| 14 | `TagResources`, `UntagResources`, `GetTagKeys`, `GetTagValues` are not served. | Code | none |
+| 15 | Tag condition keys are refused at policy write and never evaluated. | Test: `CreatePolicyRefusesTagConditionKeys` | `mulga-5eh43`, `mulga-lmq4l` |
+| 16 | ELBv2 target group tag CAS merges from a stale read; LB, listener and rule tag writes are whole-record puts. | INFERRED | none |
+| 17 | ECR, IAM user and IAM OIDC provider tag writes are read then plain put. | INFERRED | none |
+| 18 | The EC2 daemon writes the central index before record mirrors, and a mirror failure leaves them divergent. | Code; divergence INFERRED | none |
+| 19 | Creation-time tags reach the central index only for instance, vpc/subnet/sg/eni and key pair. | Code; matches `creation-time-tags-describetags.md` | none |
+| 20 | `launchtemplate` and `placementgroup` tag writes reach only the central index. | Code | none |
+
+`mulga-t6cuv` groups the `GetResources` parity gaps; whether it covers findings 8 and 13 is for its owner to confirm.
+
+## Tests
+
+Each asserts current behaviour:
+
+| Test | File |
+| --- | --- |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_RecordMirrorRevertsInterleavedWrites` | `spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tagmirror/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_EC2CreateTagsStoresUnresolvedIDsInCallerNamespace` | `spinifex/spinifex/daemon/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_EC2CreateTagsAppliesNoLengthOrCountLimits` | `spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesListsUnresolvedEC2IDs` | `spinifex/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesOmitsResourceWhoseTagsWereAllRemoved` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesOffsetTokenRepeatsAfterInterleavedWrite` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesPaginationValidation` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesAggregatesOnlyEC2AndELBv2` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ELBv2AddTagsPartiallyAppliesBeforeUnknownARN` | `spinifex/spinifex/handlers/elbv2/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ELBv2AddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ECSTagWriteRevertsInterleavedRecordWrite` | `spinifex/spinifex/handlers/ecs/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ECSForeignAccountARNTagsCallerResource` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ECSTagResourceAppliesNoTagLimits` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ACMTagWritesPreserveStoredPrivateKey` | `spinifex/spinifex/domains/acm/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ACMAddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits` | same |
+| `TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_CreatePolicyRefusesTagConditionKeys` | `spinifex/spinifex/handlers/iam/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go` |
+
+The gateway and AWSGW tests serve the EC2 tag subjects from a real `TagsServiceImpl` without the daemon's record-mirror fan-out, so they cover the central index only.
+The interleaving tests wrap the KV handle to run one write between the handler's read and its write; they show the window exists, not how often real nodes hit it.
diff --git a/spinifex/daemon/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/daemon/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..298f3a86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/daemon/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package daemon
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests pin what the daemon's EC2 tag
+// handlers accept today. They describe current behaviour, not the target
+// design, and a failure means the behaviour changed.
+
+// A non-instance ID is never resolved to a resource before the central write.
+// Another account's ID, a well-formed ID naming nothing, and an ID with no
+// recognised prefix all succeed, and each is stored under the caller's account.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_EC2CreateTagsStoresUnresolvedIDsInCallerNamespace(t *testing.T) {
+	const caller = "999999999999"
+	d := tagTestDaemon(t, "i-tag-cb-unrelated", nil)
+
+	ids := []string{"sg-0a1b2c3d4e5f60718", "vol-00000000000000000", "not-a-real-id"}
+	resources := make([]*string, 0, len(ids))
+	for _, id := range ids {
+		resources = append(resources, aws.String(id))
+	}
+
+	_, err := d.createTags(context.Background(), &ec2.CreateTagsInput{
+		Resources: resources,
+		Tags:      []*ec2.Tag{{Key: aws.String("env"), Value: aws.String("prod")}},
+	}, caller)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	for _, id := range ids {
+		assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"env": "prod"}, centralTags(t, d, caller, id), id)
+		assert.Empty(t, centralTags(t, d, testAccountID, id), id)
+	}
+
+	out, err := d.tagsService.DescribeTags(t.Context(), &ec2.DescribeTagsInput{
+		Filters: []*ec2.Filter{{Name: aws.String("resource-id"), Values: []*string{aws.String("not-a-real-id")}}},
+	}, caller)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, out.Tags, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "unknown", aws.StringValue(out.Tags[0].ResourceType))
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/domains/acm/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/domains/acm/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..04705f197
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/domains/acm/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package acm
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/acm"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests pin what the ACM tag writers do to
+// the certificate record today. They describe current behaviour, not the
+// target design, and a failure means the behaviour changed.
+
+// The tag writers change only the stored tag field, so the private key and
+// certificate body survive a tag or untag unchanged.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ACMTagWritesPreserveStoredPrivateKey(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := map[string]func(svc *ACMServiceImpl, certArn string) error{
+		"AddTagsToCertificate": func(svc *ACMServiceImpl, certArn string) error {
+			_, err := svc.AddTagsToCertificate(context.Background(), &acm.AddTagsToCertificateInput{
+				CertificateArn: aws.String(certArn),
+				Tags:           []*acm.Tag{{Key: aws.String("env"), Value: aws.String("dev")}},
+			}, testAccountID)
+			return err
+		},
+		"RemoveTagsFromCertificate": func(svc *ACMServiceImpl, certArn string) error {
+			_, err := svc.RemoveTagsFromCertificate(context.Background(), &acm.RemoveTagsFromCertificateInput{
+				CertificateArn: aws.String(certArn),
+				Tags:           []*acm.Tag{{Key: aws.String("Name")}},
+			}, testAccountID)
+			return err
+		},
+	}
+	for name, write := range cases {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			svc := setupACMService(t)
+			certArn := importTagged(t, svc, &acm.Tag{Key: aws.String("Name"), Value: aws.String("ingress")})
+
+			before, err := svc.store.GetCert(context.Background(), certArn)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			require.NotEmpty(t, before.PrivateKey, "import must store a usable key")
+
+			require.NoError(t, write(svc, certArn))
+
+			after, err := svc.store.GetCert(context.Background(), certArn)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.Equal(t, before.PrivateKey, after.PrivateKey, "a tag write keeps the stored private key")
+			assert.Equal(t, before.Certificate, after.Certificate, "the certificate body survives")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// Neither tag writer bounds the number of tags, the key or value length, or
+// refuses the reserved aws: prefix; every tag supplied is stored.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ACMAddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := setupACMService(t)
+	certArn := importTagged(t, svc)
+
+	tags := []*acm.Tag{
+		{Key: aws.String("aws:reserved"), Value: aws.String("v")},
+		{Key: aws.String(longString(129)), Value: aws.String(longString(257))},
+	}
+	for i := range 50 {
+		tags = append(tags, &acm.Tag{Key: aws.String("k" + longString(i+1)), Value: aws.String("v")})
+	}
+	_, err := svc.AddTagsToCertificate(context.Background(), &acm.AddTagsToCertificateInput{
+		CertificateArn: aws.String(certArn),
+		Tags:           tags,
+	}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	got := listTagMap(t, svc, certArn)
+	assert.Len(t, got, 52)
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "aws:reserved")
+	assert.Equal(t, longString(257), got[longString(129)])
+}
+
+func longString(n int) string {
+	b := make([]byte, n)
+	for i := range b {
+		b[i] = 'a'
+	}
+	return string(b)
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/domains/ec2/tagmirror/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/domains/ec2/tagmirror/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2312d9b09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/domains/ec2/tagmirror/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+package tagmirror
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/state/kvutil"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests pin how the EC2 record-side tag
+// mirror writes resource records today. They describe current behaviour, not
+// the target design, and a failure means the behaviour changed.
+
+// interleavingKV runs between once, after the first read of key returns and
+// before the caller can write, standing in for a writer on another node.
+type interleavingKV struct {
+	jetstream.KeyValue
+
+	key     string
+	once    sync.Once
+	between func()
+}
+
+func (k *interleavingKV) Get(ctx context.Context, key string) (jetstream.KeyValueEntry, error) {
+	entry, err := k.KeyValue.Get(ctx, key)
+	if key == k.key {
+		k.once.Do(k.between)
+	}
+	return entry, err
+}
+
+// UpdateKVRecordTags reads the record and puts it back without a revision
+// check. A second tag write and a non-tag record change that both commit
+// between that read and that write are reverted, and every call reports success.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_RecordMirrorRevertsInterleavedWrites(t *testing.T) {
+	const acct, id = "123456789012", "sg-0123456789abcdef0"
+	key := kvutil.AccountKey(acct, id)
+	seed, err := json.Marshal(tagMirrorRecord{Name: "original", Tags: map[string]string{}})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	kv := seedKV(t, "tagmirror-cb", map[string][]byte{key: seed})
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	wrapped := &interleavingKV{KeyValue: kv, key: key, between: func() {
+		require.NoError(t, UpdateKVRecordTags(ctx, kv, acct, id, func(r *tagMirrorRecord) {
+			r.Name = "renamed"
+			r.Tags["b"] = "2"
+		}))
+	}}
+
+	require.NoError(t, UpdateKVRecordTags(ctx, wrapped, acct, id, func(r *tagMirrorRecord) {
+		r.Tags["a"] = "1"
+	}))
+
+	entry, err := kv.Get(ctx, key)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	var final tagMirrorRecord
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(entry.Value(), &final))
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"a": "1"}, final.Tags, "the interleaved tag b is lost")
+	assert.Equal(t, "original", final.Name, "the interleaved rename is reverted")
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/authz.go
similarity index 98%
rename from spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz.go
rename to spinifex/domains/tagging/authz.go
index 6a3852e9c..e36462900 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz.go
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/authz.go
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package gateway_tagging
+package tagging
 
 import (
 	"errors"
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz_test.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/authz_test.go
similarity index 65%
rename from spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz_test.go
rename to spinifex/domains/tagging/authz_test.go
index 72a021873..8f65eaad1 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/authz_test.go
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/authz_test.go
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-package gateway_tagging_test
+package tagging_test
 
 import (
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
-	gateway_tagging "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ import (
 // serves is evaluated against "*". Scoping GetResources to the resources it
 // happens to return would deny calls AWS permits.
 func TestResourceARNsAreAccountLevel(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, action := range gateway_tagging.ScopedActions() {
-		resources, err := gateway_tagging.ResourceARNs(action)
+	for _, action := range tagging.ScopedActions() {
+		resources, err := tagging.ResourceARNs(action)
 		require.NoError(t, err, "action %q", action)
 		assert.Equal(t, []string{"*"}, resources, "action %q", action)
 	}
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ func TestResourceARNsAreAccountLevel(t *testing.T) {
 // An action absent from the dispatch table cannot reach the resolver, but if one
 // ever did it fails closed rather than authorizing account-wide.
 func TestResourceARNsUnknownAction(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := gateway_tagging.ResourceARNs("BogusAction")
+	_, err := tagging.ResourceARNs("BogusAction")
 	require.Error(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, awserrors.ErrorInvalidAction, err.Error())
 }
 
 func TestHasScope(t *testing.T) {
-	assert.True(t, gateway_tagging.HasScope("GetResources"))
-	assert.False(t, gateway_tagging.HasScope("TagResources"))
-	assert.Equal(t, []string{"GetResources"}, gateway_tagging.ScopedActions())
+	assert.True(t, tagging.HasScope("GetResources"))
+	assert.False(t, tagging.HasScope("TagResources"))
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"GetResources"}, tagging.ScopedActions())
 }
diff --git a/spinifex/domains/tagging/getresources.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/getresources.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1da613c98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/getresources.go
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+package tagging
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"maps"
+	"slices"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	rgt "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/resourcegroupstaggingapi"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
+)
+
+// defaultResourcesPerPage is used when the caller omits ResourcesPerPage (AWS max is 100).
+const defaultResourcesPerPage = 100
+
+// Aggregator serves GetResources over the owner listers the composition root
+// wires. Listers are called in the order given; it holds no state of its own.
+type Aggregator struct {
+	listers []TaggedLister
+}
+
+// NewAggregator returns an Aggregator that lists from each lister in order.
+func NewAggregator(listers ...TaggedLister) *Aggregator {
+	return &Aggregator{listers: listers}
+}
+
+// GetResources implements the RGT GetResources call, aggregating the account's
+// listed resources with type and tag filtering. Pagination uses an opaque
+// integer offset into a deterministically ARN-sorted result set.
+func (a *Aggregator) GetResources(ctx context.Context, accountID string, body []byte) (any, error) {
+	var input rgt.GetResourcesInput
+	if err := unmarshalIfBody(body, &input); err != nil {
+		return nil, errors.New(awserrors.ErrorInvalidParameterValue)
+	}
+
+	typeFilters := lowerStringSlice(input.ResourceTypeFilters)
+
+	var mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping
+	for _, l := range a.listers {
+		resources, err := l.ListTagged(ctx, accountID, typeFilters)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, r := range resources {
+			mappings = append(mappings, &rgt.ResourceTagMapping{
+				ResourceARN: aws.String(r.ARN),
+				Tags:        tagMapToRGT(r.Tags),
+			})
+		}
+	}
+
+	mappings = filterByTags(mappings, input.TagFilters)
+
+	// Sort by ARN before pagination.
+	sort.Slice(mappings, func(i, j int) bool {
+		return aws.StringValue(mappings[i].ResourceARN) < aws.StringValue(mappings[j].ResourceARN)
+	})
+
+	page, next, err := paginate(mappings, input.PaginationToken, input.ResourcesPerPage)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	out := &rgt.GetResourcesOutput{ResourceTagMappingList: page}
+	out.PaginationToken = aws.String(next) // AWS expects empty string, not nil, on last page
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+// filterByTags keeps resources matching every TagFilter (AND semantics).
+// A non-empty Values list within a filter is an OR; an empty list matches any value.
+func filterByTags(mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, filters []*rgt.TagFilter) []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping {
+	if len(filters) == 0 {
+		return mappings
+	}
+	out := mappings[:0]
+	for _, m := range mappings {
+		if matchesAllTagFilters(m.Tags, filters) {
+			out = append(out, m)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func matchesAllTagFilters(tags []*rgt.Tag, filters []*rgt.TagFilter) bool {
+	tagMap := make(map[string]string, len(tags))
+	for _, t := range tags {
+		tagMap[aws.StringValue(t.Key)] = aws.StringValue(t.Value)
+	}
+	for _, f := range filters {
+		key := aws.StringValue(f.Key)
+		if key == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		val, ok := tagMap[key]
+		if !ok {
+			return false
+		}
+		if len(f.Values) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if !slices.ContainsFunc(f.Values, func(v *string) bool {
+			return aws.StringValue(v) == val
+		}) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// paginate slices a page from the sorted mappings and returns the page and the
+// next token (empty when exhausted).
+func paginate(mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, token *string, perPage *int64) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, string, error) {
+	start := 0
+	if token != nil && *token != "" {
+		n, err := strconv.Atoi(*token)
+		if err != nil || n < 0 {
+			return nil, "", errors.New(awserrors.ErrorInvalidParameterValue)
+		}
+		start = n
+	}
+	if start > len(mappings) {
+		start = len(mappings)
+	}
+
+	size := defaultResourcesPerPage
+	if perPage != nil && *perPage > 0 {
+		size = int(*perPage)
+	}
+
+	end := start + size
+	if end >= len(mappings) {
+		return mappings[start:], "", nil
+	}
+	return mappings[start:end], strconv.Itoa(end), nil
+}
+
+func tagMapToRGT(tags map[string]string) []*rgt.Tag {
+	keys := slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(tags))
+	out := make([]*rgt.Tag, 0, len(keys))
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		out = append(out, &rgt.Tag{Key: aws.String(k), Value: aws.String(tags[k])})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func lowerStringSlice(in []*string) map[string]bool {
+	if len(in) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	out := make(map[string]bool, len(in))
+	for _, s := range in {
+		if s != nil {
+			out[strings.ToLower(*s)] = true
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources_test.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/getresources_test.go
similarity index 59%
rename from spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources_test.go
rename to spinifex/domains/tagging/getresources_test.go
index 2526a1a16..d0d9ed51a 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources_test.go
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/getresources_test.go
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-package gateway_tagging
+//test:in-package — filterByTags, paginate and tagMapToRGT are unexported
+// helpers of the aggregator and are tested directly.
+
+package tagging
 
 import (
 	"context"
@@ -6,29 +9,26 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
 	rgt "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/resourcegroupstaggingapi"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
-// fakeLister returns canned mappings so getResources can be exercised without a
-// NATS backend.
+const testAccountID = "123456789012"
+
+// fakeLister returns canned resources so GetResources can be exercised without
+// a NATS backend.
 type fakeLister struct {
-	elbv2     []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping
-	ec2       []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping
-	elbv2Err  error
-	ec2Err    error
+	out       []TaggedResource
+	err       error
 	gotFilter map[string]bool
 }
 
-func (f *fakeLister) listELBv2(_ context.Context, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error) {
-	f.gotFilter = typeFilters
-	return f.elbv2, f.elbv2Err
-}
+var _ TaggedLister = (*fakeLister)(nil)
 
-func (f *fakeLister) listEC2(_ context.Context, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error) {
-	return f.ec2, f.ec2Err
+func (f *fakeLister) ListTagged(_ context.Context, _ string, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]TaggedResource, error) {
+	f.gotFilter = typeFilters
+	return f.out, f.err
 }
 
 func mustJSON(t *testing.T, v any) []byte {
@@ -38,28 +38,6 @@ func mustJSON(t *testing.T, v any) []byte {
 	return b
 }
 
-func TestMatchesType(t *testing.T) {
-	// Empty filter set admits everything.
-	assert.True(t, matchesType(nil, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"))
-
-	exact := map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer": true}
-	assert.True(t, matchesType(exact, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"))
-	assert.False(t, matchesType(exact, "elasticloadbalancing:targetgroup"))
-	assert.False(t, matchesType(exact, "ec2:subnet"))
-
-	// Service-only filter admits all of that service's types.
-	svcOnly := map[string]bool{"ec2": true}
-	assert.True(t, matchesType(svcOnly, "ec2:subnet"))
-	assert.True(t, matchesType(svcOnly, "ec2:security-group"))
-	assert.False(t, matchesType(svcOnly, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"))
-}
-
-func TestEC2ARN(t *testing.T) {
-	assert.Equal(t,
-		"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:subnet/subnet-abc",
-		ec2ARN("us-east-1", "123456789012", "ec2:subnet", "subnet-abc"))
-}
-
 func mapping(arn string, kv ...string) *rgt.ResourceTagMapping {
 	var tags []*rgt.Tag
 	for i := 0; i+1 < len(kv); i += 2 {
@@ -136,17 +114,15 @@ func TestPaginate(t *testing.T) {
 	_, _, err = paginate(all, aws.String("not-a-number"), nil)
 	require.Error(t, err)
 }
-
 func TestGetResources_MergesFiltersSortsPaginates(t *testing.T) {
-	lister := &fakeLister{
-		elbv2: []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping{
-			mapping("arn:elb:c", "elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster", "prod"),
-			mapping("arn:elb:a", "elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster", "dev"),
-		},
-		ec2: []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping{
-			mapping("arn:ec2:b", "elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster", "prod"),
-		},
-	}
+	elbv2 := &fakeLister{out: []TaggedResource{
+		{ARN: "arn:elb:c", Tags: map[string]string{"elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster": "prod"}},
+		{ARN: "arn:elb:a", Tags: map[string]string{"elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster": "dev"}},
+	}}
+	ec2 := &fakeLister{out: []TaggedResource{
+		{ARN: "arn:ec2:b", Tags: map[string]string{"elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster": "prod"}},
+	}}
+	agg := NewAggregator(elbv2, ec2)
 
 	// Tag-filter to prod + page size 1: two matches (arn:ec2:b, arn:elb:c),
 	// ARN-sorted, first page returns arn:ec2:b with a next token.
@@ -154,7 +130,7 @@ func TestGetResources_MergesFiltersSortsPaginates(t *testing.T) {
 		TagFilters:       []*rgt.TagFilter{tagFilter("elbv2.k8s.aws/cluster", "prod")},
 		ResourcesPerPage: aws.Int64(1),
 	})
-	out, err := getResources(context.Background(), lister, body)
+	out, err := agg.GetResources(context.Background(), testAccountID, body)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	res, ok := out.(*rgt.GetResourcesOutput)
 	require.True(t, ok)
@@ -168,7 +144,7 @@ func TestGetResources_MergesFiltersSortsPaginates(t *testing.T) {
 		ResourcesPerPage: aws.Int64(1),
 		PaginationToken:  aws.String("1"),
 	})
-	out, err = getResources(context.Background(), lister, body)
+	out, err = agg.GetResources(context.Background(), testAccountID, body)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	res, ok = out.(*rgt.GetResourcesOutput)
 	require.True(t, ok)
@@ -182,47 +158,22 @@ func TestGetResources_ResourceTypeFiltersLowercasedAndPassed(t *testing.T) {
 	body := mustJSON(t, rgt.GetResourcesInput{
 		ResourceTypeFilters: aws.StringSlice([]string{"ElasticLoadBalancing:LoadBalancer"}),
 	})
-	_, err := getResources(context.Background(), lister, body)
+	_, err := NewAggregator(lister).GetResources(context.Background(), testAccountID, body)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	assert.True(t, lister.gotFilter["elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"])
 }
 
 func TestGetResources_ListerErrorPropagates(t *testing.T) {
-	lister := &fakeLister{elbv2Err: assert.AnError}
-	_, err := getResources(context.Background(), lister, []byte("{}"))
+	agg := NewAggregator(&fakeLister{err: assert.AnError}, &fakeLister{})
+	_, err := agg.GetResources(context.Background(), testAccountID, []byte("{}"))
 	require.ErrorIs(t, err, assert.AnError)
 }
 
 func TestGetResources_InvalidBody(t *testing.T) {
-	_, err := getResources(context.Background(), &fakeLister{}, []byte("not-json"))
+	_, err := NewAggregator(&fakeLister{}).GetResources(context.Background(), testAccountID, []byte("not-json"))
 	require.Error(t, err)
 }
 
-func TestBuildEC2Mappings(t *testing.T) {
-	tags := []*ec2.TagDescription{
-		{ResourceId: aws.String("subnet-1"), ResourceType: aws.String("subnet"), Key: aws.String("Name"), Value: aws.String("a")},
-		{ResourceId: aws.String("subnet-1"), ResourceType: aws.String("subnet"), Key: aws.String("env"), Value: aws.String("prod")},
-		{ResourceId: aws.String("sg-1"), ResourceType: aws.String("security-group"), Key: aws.String("Name"), Value: aws.String("b")},
-		{ResourceId: aws.String(""), ResourceType: aws.String("subnet"), Key: aws.String("skip"), Value: aws.String("me")},
-	}
-
-	// No type filter: both resources, tags merged per resource.
-	all := buildEC2Mappings(tags, "us-east-1", "123456789012", nil)
-	require.Len(t, all, 2)
-	bySubnet := map[string]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping{}
-	for _, m := range all {
-		bySubnet[aws.StringValue(m.ResourceARN)] = m
-	}
-	subnet := bySubnet["arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:subnet/subnet-1"]
-	require.NotNil(t, subnet)
-	assert.Len(t, subnet.Tags, 2)
-
-	// Type filter narrows to subnets only.
-	onlySubnets := buildEC2Mappings(tags, "us-east-1", "123456789012", map[string]bool{"ec2:subnet": true})
-	require.Len(t, onlySubnets, 1)
-	assert.Equal(t, "arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:subnet/subnet-1", aws.StringValue(onlySubnets[0].ResourceARN))
-}
-
 func TestTagMapToRGT_SortedDeterministic(t *testing.T) {
 	out := tagMapToRGT(map[string]string{"b": "2", "a": "1", "c": "3"})
 	require.Len(t, out, 3)
diff --git a/spinifex/domains/tagging/lister.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/lister.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a6aab1b92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/lister.go
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// Package tagging owns the read-only Resource Groups Tagging aggregation
+// capability, composed into AWSGW. Each resource owner keeps its canonical
+// tags; this package reads them only through the TaggedLister it declares.
+package tagging
+
+import "context"
+
+// TaggedLister returns one owner's resources for GetResources aggregation.
+// typeFilters is the lower-cased ResourceTypeFilters set, each entry a full
+// "service:type" or a bare service; an empty set admits every type served.
+type TaggedLister interface {
+	ListTagged(ctx context.Context, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]TaggedResource, error)
+}
+
+// TaggedResource is one listed resource; Tags may be empty for an untagged
+// resource. Tags is read-only: a lister must not mutate a map it has returned.
+type TaggedResource struct {
+	ARN  string
+	Tags map[string]string
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/handler.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/response.go
similarity index 80%
rename from spinifex/gateway/tagging/handler.go
rename to spinifex/domains/tagging/response.go
index 54684e7bc..4916c5866 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/handler.go
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/response.go
@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-// Package gateway_tagging is the HTTP-side glue between awsgw and the Resource
-// Groups Tagging API. Speaks AWS JSON 1.1; GetResources aggregates the elbv2
-// and ec2 tag stores over NATS. Errors are handled by the shared gateway ErrorHandler.
-package gateway_tagging
+package tagging
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
diff --git a/spinifex/domains/tagging/typefilter.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/typefilter.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e02f5c0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/typefilter.go
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package tagging
+
+import "strings"
+
+// MatchesType reports whether fullType ("service:type") passes typeFilters.
+// An empty filter set admits everything; a service-only filter (e.g. "ec2")
+// admits all of that service's types.
+func MatchesType(typeFilters map[string]bool, fullType string) bool {
+	if len(typeFilters) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+	if typeFilters[fullType] {
+		return true
+	}
+	if svc, _, ok := strings.Cut(fullType, ":"); ok {
+		if typeFilters[svc] {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/domains/tagging/typefilter_test.go b/spinifex/domains/tagging/typefilter_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..66bb92547
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/domains/tagging/typefilter_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+package tagging_test
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
+)
+
+func TestMatchesType(t *testing.T) {
+	// Empty filter set admits everything.
+	assert.True(t, tagging.MatchesType(nil, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"))
+
+	exact := map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer": true}
+	assert.True(t, tagging.MatchesType(exact, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"))
+	assert.False(t, tagging.MatchesType(exact, "elasticloadbalancing:targetgroup"))
+	assert.False(t, tagging.MatchesType(exact, "ec2:subnet"))
+
+	// Service-only filter admits all of that service's types.
+	svcOnly := map[string]bool{"ec2": true}
+	assert.True(t, tagging.MatchesType(svcOnly, "ec2:subnet"))
+	assert.True(t, tagging.MatchesType(svcOnly, "ec2:security-group"))
+	assert.False(t, tagging.MatchesType(svcOnly, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer"))
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/gateway.go b/spinifex/gateway/gateway.go
index 56b0e220f..f53f020aa 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/gateway.go
+++ b/spinifex/gateway/gateway.go
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import (
 	ecrauth "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ecr/auth"
 	ecrregistry "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ecr/registry"
 	ochrevector "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ochre/vector"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/policy"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/telemetry"
@@ -234,6 +235,11 @@ type GatewayConfig struct {
 	// connection.
 	BedrockAgentVector ochrevector.VectorService
 
+	// TaggingResources serves Resource Groups Tagging API GetResources over the
+	// owner listers AWSGW wires. Nil fails Tagging_Request with ServerInternal,
+	// the same as an unconfigured gw.NATSConn.
+	TaggingResources *tagging.Aggregator
+
 	// Services holds the signed AWS services dispatched through the
 	// registration seam. Nil means nothing is registered, so every request
 	// falls through to the legacy switch in Request.
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging.go b/spinifex/gateway/tagging.go
index 93397d554..5070d2071 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging.go
+++ b/spinifex/gateway/tagging.go
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
 
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
-	gateway_tagging "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging"
 )
 
 // taggingHandler invokes a per-action Resource Groups Tagging API function.
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ type taggingHandler func(ctx context.Context, gw *GatewayConfig, accountID strin
 // The action is carried in "X-Amz-Target: ResourceGroupsTaggingAPI_20170126.<Action>".
 var taggingActions = map[string]taggingHandler{
 	"GetResources": func(ctx context.Context, gw *GatewayConfig, acct string, b []byte) (any, error) {
-		return gateway_tagging.GetResources(ctx, gw.NATSConn, gw.Region, acct, b)
+		return gw.TaggingResources.GetResources(ctx, acct, b)
 	},
 }
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ func (gw *GatewayConfig) Tagging_Request(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 		return errors.New(awserrors.ErrorInvalidAction)
 	}
 
-	resources, err := gateway_tagging.ResourceARNs(action)
+	resources, err := tagging.ResourceARNs(action)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func (gw *GatewayConfig) Tagging_Request(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 		return err
 	}
 
-	if gw.NATSConn == nil {
+	if gw.NATSConn == nil || gw.TaggingResources == nil {
 		return errors.New(awserrors.ErrorServerInternal)
 	}
 
@@ -75,6 +75,6 @@ func (gw *GatewayConfig) Tagging_Request(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
 		return err
 	}
 
-	gateway_tagging.WriteJSONResponse(w, output)
+	tagging.WriteJSONResponse(w, output)
 	return nil
 }
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources.go b/spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 474c5fffb..000000000
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging/GetResources.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,317 +0,0 @@
-package gateway_tagging
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
-	"maps"
-	"slices"
-	"sort"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
-	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/elbv2"
-	rgt "github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/resourcegroupstaggingapi"
-	ec2tags "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tags"
-	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/arn"
-	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
-	handlers_elbv2 "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/handlers/elbv2"
-	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
-)
-
-// describeTagsBatchSize is the AWS ceiling on ARNs per ELBv2 DescribeTags call.
-const describeTagsBatchSize = 20
-
-// defaultResourcesPerPage is used when the caller omits ResourcesPerPage (AWS max is 100).
-const defaultResourcesPerPage = 100
-
-// resourceLister fetches an account's tagged resources shaped as RGT mappings,
-// split out so filter/sort/paginate logic can be tested without a live NATS backend.
-type resourceLister interface {
-	listELBv2(ctx context.Context, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error)
-	listEC2(ctx context.Context, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error)
-}
-
-// GetResources implements the RGT GetResources call, aggregating tagged ELBv2
-// and EC2 resources for the account with type and tag filtering. Pagination uses
-// an opaque integer offset into a deterministically ARN-sorted result set.
-func GetResources(ctx context.Context, natsConn *nats.Conn, region, accountID string, body []byte) (any, error) {
-	return getResources(ctx, &natsLister{natsConn: natsConn, region: region, accountID: accountID}, body)
-}
-
-// getResources is the protocol-independent core: parses the request, collects
-// resource families from the lister, then filters, sorts, and paginates.
-func getResources(ctx context.Context, lister resourceLister, body []byte) (any, error) {
-	var input rgt.GetResourcesInput
-	if err := unmarshalIfBody(body, &input); err != nil {
-		return nil, errors.New(awserrors.ErrorInvalidParameterValue)
-	}
-
-	typeFilters := lowerStringSlice(input.ResourceTypeFilters)
-
-	var mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping
-
-	elbMappings, err := lister.listELBv2(ctx, typeFilters)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	mappings = append(mappings, elbMappings...)
-
-	ec2Mappings, err := lister.listEC2(ctx, typeFilters)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	mappings = append(mappings, ec2Mappings...)
-
-	mappings = filterByTags(mappings, input.TagFilters)
-
-	// Stable sort so pagination tokens are consistent across pages.
-	sort.Slice(mappings, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return aws.StringValue(mappings[i].ResourceARN) < aws.StringValue(mappings[j].ResourceARN)
-	})
-
-	page, next, err := paginate(mappings, input.PaginationToken, input.ResourcesPerPage)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	out := &rgt.GetResourcesOutput{ResourceTagMappingList: page}
-	out.PaginationToken = aws.String(next) // AWS expects empty string, not nil, on last page
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-// natsLister fetches tagged resources from the elbv2 and ec2 tag stores via NATS.
-type natsLister struct {
-	natsConn  *nats.Conn
-	region    string
-	accountID string
-}
-
-func (l *natsLister) listELBv2(ctx context.Context, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error) {
-	return elbv2Resources(ctx, l.natsConn, l.accountID, typeFilters)
-}
-
-func (l *natsLister) listEC2(ctx context.Context, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error) {
-	svc := ec2tags.NewNATSTagsService(l.natsConn)
-	tagsOut, err := svc.DescribeTags(ctx, &ec2.DescribeTagsInput{}, l.accountID)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return buildEC2Mappings(tagsOut.Tags, l.region, l.accountID, typeFilters), nil
-}
-
-// elbv2Resources lists load balancers and target groups admitted by typeFilters,
-// attaching tags via batched DescribeTags.
-func elbv2Resources(ctx context.Context, natsConn *nats.Conn, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, error) {
-	wantLB := matchesType(typeFilters, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer")
-	wantTG := matchesType(typeFilters, "elasticloadbalancing:targetgroup")
-	if !wantLB && !wantTG {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-
-	svc := handlers_elbv2.NewNATSELBv2Service(natsConn)
-	var arns []string
-
-	if wantLB {
-		lbs, err := svc.DescribeLoadBalancers(ctx, &elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{}, accountID)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		for _, lb := range lbs.LoadBalancers {
-			if lb.LoadBalancerArn != nil {
-				arns = append(arns, *lb.LoadBalancerArn)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if wantTG {
-		tgs, err := svc.DescribeTargetGroups(ctx, &elbv2.DescribeTargetGroupsInput{}, accountID)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		for _, tg := range tgs.TargetGroups {
-			if tg.TargetGroupArn != nil {
-				arns = append(arns, *tg.TargetGroupArn)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if len(arns) == 0 {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-
-	mappings := make([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, 0, len(arns))
-	for start := 0; start < len(arns); start += describeTagsBatchSize {
-		end := min(start+describeTagsBatchSize, len(arns))
-		tagsOut, err := svc.DescribeTags(ctx, &elbv2.DescribeTagsInput{
-			ResourceArns: aws.StringSlice(arns[start:end]),
-		}, accountID)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		for _, td := range tagsOut.TagDescriptions {
-			mappings = append(mappings, &rgt.ResourceTagMapping{
-				ResourceARN: td.ResourceArn,
-				Tags:        elbv2TagsToRGT(td.Tags),
-			})
-		}
-	}
-	return mappings, nil
-}
-
-// buildEC2Mappings groups EC2 tag descriptions by resource, builds an ARN per
-// resource, and filters by type. EC2 tags use a bare resource ID and type word
-// (e.g. "subnet"); RGT uses "ec2:<type>". Pure function, no NATS dependency.
-func buildEC2Mappings(tagDescriptions []*ec2.TagDescription, region, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping {
-	type resourceTags struct {
-		fullType string
-		tags     map[string]string
-	}
-	byResource := make(map[string]*resourceTags)
-	for _, td := range tagDescriptions {
-		id := aws.StringValue(td.ResourceId)
-		if id == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		fullType := "ec2:" + aws.StringValue(td.ResourceType)
-		rt := byResource[id]
-		if rt == nil {
-			rt = &resourceTags{fullType: fullType, tags: map[string]string{}}
-			byResource[id] = rt
-		}
-		rt.tags[aws.StringValue(td.Key)] = aws.StringValue(td.Value)
-	}
-
-	var mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping
-	for id, rt := range byResource {
-		if !matchesType(typeFilters, rt.fullType) {
-			continue
-		}
-		mappings = append(mappings, &rgt.ResourceTagMapping{
-			ResourceARN: aws.String(ec2ARN(region, accountID, rt.fullType, id)),
-			Tags:        tagMapToRGT(rt.tags),
-		})
-	}
-	return mappings
-}
-
-// ec2ARN builds an arn:aws:ec2 ARN for a resource. fullType is "ec2:<type>",
-// read from the stored tag record rather than from the id.
-func ec2ARN(region, accountID, fullType, id string) string {
-	kind := arn.EC2ResourceType(strings.TrimPrefix(fullType, "ec2:"))
-	return arn.FormatEC2(kind, region, accountID, id)
-}
-
-// matchesType reports whether fullType passes typeFilters. An empty filter set
-// admits everything; a service-only filter (e.g. "ec2") admits all subtypes.
-func matchesType(typeFilters map[string]bool, fullType string) bool {
-	if len(typeFilters) == 0 {
-		return true
-	}
-	if typeFilters[fullType] {
-		return true
-	}
-	if svc, _, ok := strings.Cut(fullType, ":"); ok {
-		if typeFilters[svc] {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// filterByTags keeps resources matching every TagFilter (AND semantics).
-// A non-empty Values list within a filter is an OR; an empty list matches any value.
-func filterByTags(mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, filters []*rgt.TagFilter) []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping {
-	if len(filters) == 0 {
-		return mappings
-	}
-	out := mappings[:0]
-	for _, m := range mappings {
-		if matchesAllTagFilters(m.Tags, filters) {
-			out = append(out, m)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func matchesAllTagFilters(tags []*rgt.Tag, filters []*rgt.TagFilter) bool {
-	tagMap := make(map[string]string, len(tags))
-	for _, t := range tags {
-		tagMap[aws.StringValue(t.Key)] = aws.StringValue(t.Value)
-	}
-	for _, f := range filters {
-		key := aws.StringValue(f.Key)
-		if key == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-		val, ok := tagMap[key]
-		if !ok {
-			return false
-		}
-		if len(f.Values) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-		if !slices.ContainsFunc(f.Values, func(v *string) bool {
-			return aws.StringValue(v) == val
-		}) {
-			return false
-		}
-	}
-	return true
-}
-
-// paginate slices a page from the sorted mappings and returns the page and the
-// next token (empty when exhausted).
-func paginate(mappings []*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, token *string, perPage *int64) ([]*rgt.ResourceTagMapping, string, error) {
-	start := 0
-	if token != nil && *token != "" {
-		n, err := strconv.Atoi(*token)
-		if err != nil || n < 0 {
-			return nil, "", errors.New(awserrors.ErrorInvalidParameterValue)
-		}
-		start = n
-	}
-	if start > len(mappings) {
-		start = len(mappings)
-	}
-
-	size := defaultResourcesPerPage
-	if perPage != nil && *perPage > 0 {
-		size = int(*perPage)
-	}
-
-	end := start + size
-	if end >= len(mappings) {
-		return mappings[start:], "", nil
-	}
-	return mappings[start:end], strconv.Itoa(end), nil
-}
-
-func elbv2TagsToRGT(tags []*elbv2.Tag) []*rgt.Tag {
-	out := make([]*rgt.Tag, 0, len(tags))
-	for _, t := range tags {
-		out = append(out, &rgt.Tag{Key: t.Key, Value: t.Value})
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func tagMapToRGT(tags map[string]string) []*rgt.Tag {
-	keys := slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(tags))
-	out := make([]*rgt.Tag, 0, len(keys))
-	for _, k := range keys {
-		out = append(out, &rgt.Tag{Key: aws.String(k), Value: aws.String(tags[k])})
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func lowerStringSlice(in []*string) map[string]bool {
-	if len(in) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	out := make(map[string]bool, len(in))
-	for _, s := range in {
-		if s != nil {
-			out[strings.ToLower(*s)] = true
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_completeness_test.go b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_completeness_test.go
index 65ad56ea4..5e5f1ce98 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_completeness_test.go
+++ b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_completeness_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ package gateway
 import (
 	"testing"
 
-	gateway_tagging "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 )
 
@@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ import (
 // left behind by a deleted or renamed action fails too.
 func TestTaggingScopeTableIsExhaustive(t *testing.T) {
 	for action := range taggingActions {
-		assert.True(t, gateway_tagging.HasScope(action),
-			"tagging action %q has no resource scope entry: add one to taggingScopes in gateway/tagging/authz.go", action)
+		assert.True(t, tagging.HasScope(action),
+			"tagging action %q has no resource scope entry: add one to taggingScopes in domains/tagging/authz.go", action)
 	}
 
-	for _, action := range gateway_tagging.ScopedActions() {
+	for _, action := range tagging.ScopedActions() {
 		_, ok := taggingActions[action]
 		assert.True(t, ok,
-			"taggingScopes has an entry for %q, which the dispatch table does not serve: remove it from gateway/tagging/authz.go", action)
+			"taggingScopes has an entry for %q, which the dispatch table does not serve: remove it from domains/tagging/authz.go", action)
 	}
 }
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_test.go b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_test.go
index ecf3a879f..7e7b30c79 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_test.go
+++ b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_authz_test.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/mulgadc/bluebottle/pkg/sigv4"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
-	gateway_tagging "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/gateway/tagging"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func TestTaggingRequest_ScopedDenyDoesNotFire(t *testing.T) {
 func TestTaggingRequest_WildcardPolicyStillPermitsEveryAction(t *testing.T) {
 	gw := scopedPolicyGateway(statement("Allow", "tagging:*", "*"))
 
-	for _, action := range gateway_tagging.ScopedActions() {
+	for _, action := range tagging.ScopedActions() {
 		t.Run(action, func(t *testing.T) {
 			assertPermitted(t, dispatchTagging(t, gw, action, `{}`))
 		})
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e5ea44e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+//test:in-package — drives EC2_Request through the gateway's unexported test
+// helper setupEC2Request.
+
+package gateway
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/internal/testkit"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/bootstrap/config"
+	ec2tags "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tags"
+	awserrors "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
+	natsmsg "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/messaging/nats"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests here pin today's EC2 tag-write
+// outcomes at the AWSGW door. They drive the real router over the real EC2 tag
+// service on an embedded JetStream, and describe current behaviour, not the
+// target design. The daemon's record-mirror fan-out is not wired here, so only
+// the central tag index is exercised.
+
+// newTaggingCBGateway serves ec2.CreateTags from a real TagsServiceImpl
+// over a fresh JetStream bucket, with no legacy object store.
+func newTaggingCBGateway(t *testing.T) (*GatewayConfig, *ec2tags.TagsServiceImpl) {
+	t.Helper()
+	_, nc, js := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	kv, err := ec2tags.GetOrCreateTagsBucket(t.Context(), js)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc := ec2tags.NewTagsServiceImplWithStore(&config.Config{}, nil, kv)
+
+	serve := func(subject string, fn func(*nats.Msg)) {
+		sub, err := nc.Subscribe(subject, fn)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		t.Cleanup(func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() })
+	}
+	serve("ec2.CreateTags", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *ec2.CreateTagsInput) (*ec2.CreateTagsOutput, error) {
+			return svc.CreateTags(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+
+	gw := &GatewayConfig{DisableLogging: true, Region: authzRegion, IAMService: allowAllIAMService(), NATSConn: nc}
+	return gw, svc
+}
+
+// ec2TagQuery builds a CreateTags or DeleteTags query body.
+func ec2TagQuery(action string, resources []string, tags map[string]string) string {
+	q := url.Values{"Action": {action}}
+	for i, r := range resources {
+		q.Set(fmt.Sprintf("ResourceId.%d", i+1), r)
+	}
+	i := 0
+	for k, v := range tags {
+		i++
+		q.Set(fmt.Sprintf("Tag.%d.Key", i), k)
+		q.Set(fmt.Sprintf("Tag.%d.Value", i), v)
+	}
+	return q.Encode()
+}
+
+func requireEC2OK(t *testing.T, gw *GatewayConfig, body string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	w := serveEC2(gw, body)
+	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code, w.Body.String())
+}
+
+func centralTagCount(t *testing.T, svc *ec2tags.TagsServiceImpl, resourceID string) int {
+	t.Helper()
+	out, err := svc.DescribeTags(t.Context(), &ec2.DescribeTagsInput{
+		Filters: []*ec2.Filter{{Name: aws.String("resource-id"), Values: []*string{aws.String(resourceID)}}},
+	}, authzAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	return len(out.Tags)
+}
+
+// CreateTags refuses an aws: key but applies no tag-count, key-length or
+// value-length limit: 51 tags, a 129-character key and a 257-character value
+// are all stored.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_EC2CreateTagsAppliesNoLengthOrCountLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	gw, svc := newTaggingCBGateway(t)
+	const sg = "sg-0a1b2c3d4e5f60718"
+
+	tags := map[string]string{strings.Repeat("k", 129): strings.Repeat("v", 257)}
+	for i := range 50 {
+		tags[fmt.Sprintf("key-%02d", i)] = "v"
+	}
+	requireEC2OK(t, gw, ec2TagQuery("CreateTags", []string{sg}, tags))
+	assert.Equal(t, 51, centralTagCount(t, svc, sg))
+
+	w := serveEC2(gw, ec2TagQuery("CreateTags", []string{sg}, map[string]string{"aws:reserved": "v"}))
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, w.Code)
+	assert.Contains(t, w.Body.String(), "<Code>"+awserrors.ErrorInvalidParameterValue+"</Code>")
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_test.go b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_test.go
index ee21fd8cd..041ed77fd 100644
--- a/spinifex/gateway/tagging_test.go
+++ b/spinifex/gateway/tagging_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/internal/testkit"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
 	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -64,3 +66,27 @@ func TestTaggingRequest_KnownActionNoNATS(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Error(t, err)
 	assert.Equal(t, awserrors.ErrorServerInternal, err.Error())
 }
+
+// A connected gateway with no GetResources aggregator wired fails the same way
+// as one with no NATS connection.
+func TestTaggingRequest_KnownActionNoAggregator(t *testing.T) {
+	_, nc, _ := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	gw := &GatewayConfig{DisableLogging: true, IAMService: allowAllIAMService(), NATSConn: nc}
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	err := gw.Tagging_Request(w, setupTaggingRequest("ResourceGroupsTaggingAPI_20170126.GetResources", "{}"))
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, awserrors.ErrorServerInternal, err.Error())
+}
+
+// A wired aggregator is what GetResources dispatches to, and its output is
+// written as an AWS JSON 1.1 response.
+func TestTaggingRequest_WiredAggregatorServesGetResources(t *testing.T) {
+	_, nc, _ := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	gw := &GatewayConfig{DisableLogging: true, IAMService: allowAllIAMService(), NATSConn: nc, TaggingResources: tagging.NewAggregator()}
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	err := gw.Tagging_Request(w, setupTaggingRequest("ResourceGroupsTaggingAPI_20170126.GetResources", "{}"))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+	assert.Equal(t, tagging.JSONContentType, w.Header().Get("Content-Type"))
+	assert.JSONEq(t, `{"PaginationToken":""}`, w.Body.String())
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/handlers/ecs/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/handlers/ecs/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7471598b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/handlers/ecs/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+package handlers_ecs
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ecs"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go/jetstream"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests pin how the ECS tag actions read and
+// write resource records today. They describe current behaviour, not the
+// target design, and a failure means the behaviour changed.
+
+// interleavingKV runs between once, after the first read of key returns and
+// before the caller can write, standing in for a concurrent writer.
+type interleavingKV struct {
+	jetstream.KeyValue
+
+	key     string
+	once    sync.Once
+	between func()
+}
+
+func (k *interleavingKV) Get(ctx context.Context, key string) (jetstream.KeyValueEntry, error) {
+	entry, err := k.KeyValue.Get(ctx, key)
+	if key == k.key {
+		k.once.Do(k.between)
+	}
+	return entry, err
+}
+
+// A tag write re-puts the whole record it read without a revision check, so a
+// record change committed between its read and its write is reverted.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ECSTagWriteRevertsInterleavedRecordWrite(t *testing.T) {
+	svc, _ := newTestService(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	_, err := svc.CreateCluster(ctx, &ecs.CreateClusterInput{ClusterName: aws.String("web")}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	registerTaskDef(t, svc, "nginx", 128, 256)
+	_, err = svc.CreateService(ctx, &ecs.CreateServiceInput{
+		Cluster:        aws.String("web"),
+		ServiceName:    aws.String("api"),
+		TaskDefinition: aws.String("nginx"),
+		DesiredCount:   aws.Int64(0),
+	}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	kv, err := svc.bucket(ctx, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	key := ServiceKey("web", "api")
+	wrapped := &interleavingKV{KeyValue: kv, key: key, between: func() {
+		var rec ServiceRecord
+		found, gerr := getJSON(ctx, kv, key, &rec)
+		require.NoError(t, gerr)
+		require.True(t, found)
+		rec.DesiredCount = 5
+		require.NoError(t, putJSON(ctx, kv, key, &rec))
+	}}
+
+	err = svc.mutateResourceTags(ctx, wrapped, ecsResourceService, "web", "api", func(existing map[string]string) map[string]string {
+		if existing == nil {
+			existing = map[string]string{}
+		}
+		existing["team"] = "infra"
+		return existing
+	})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	var final ServiceRecord
+	found, err := getJSON(ctx, kv, key, &final)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.True(t, found)
+	assert.Equal(t, 0, final.DesiredCount, "the interleaved DesiredCount=5 write is lost")
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"team": "infra"}, final.Tags)
+}
+
+// The ARN's account and region are not compared with the caller's: the
+// resource segment is resolved in the caller's own bucket, so a foreign ARN
+// tags the caller's same-named cluster.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ECSForeignAccountARNTagsCallerResource(t *testing.T) {
+	svc, _ := newTestService(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	_, err := svc.CreateCluster(ctx, &ecs.CreateClusterInput{ClusterName: aws.String("web")}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	foreign := "arn:aws:ecs:eu-west-9:999999999999:cluster/web"
+	_, err = svc.TagResource(ctx, &ecs.TagResourceInput{
+		ResourceArn: aws.String(foreign),
+		Tags:        []*ecs.Tag{{Key: aws.String("via"), Value: aws.String("foreign-arn")}},
+	}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	own := "arn:aws:ecs:" + testRegion + ":" + testAccountID + ":cluster/web"
+	listed, err := svc.ListTagsForResource(ctx, &ecs.ListTagsForResourceInput{ResourceArn: aws.String(own)}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, listed.Tags, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, "foreign-arn", aws.StringValue(listed.Tags[0].Value))
+}
+
+// TagResource applies no tag-count, key-length, value-length or aws: prefix
+// rule: all 52 tags below are stored.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ECSTagResourceAppliesNoTagLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	svc, _ := newTestService(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	created, err := svc.CreateCluster(ctx, &ecs.CreateClusterInput{ClusterName: aws.String("web")}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	arn := aws.StringValue(created.Cluster.ClusterArn)
+
+	tags := []*ecs.Tag{
+		{Key: aws.String("aws:reserved"), Value: aws.String("v")},
+		{Key: aws.String(strings.Repeat("k", 129)), Value: aws.String(strings.Repeat("v", 257))},
+	}
+	for i := range 50 {
+		tags = append(tags, &ecs.Tag{Key: aws.String("k" + strings.Repeat("x", i+1)), Value: aws.String("v")})
+	}
+	_, err = svc.TagResource(ctx, &ecs.TagResourceInput{ResourceArn: aws.String(arn), Tags: tags}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	listed, err := svc.ListTagsForResource(ctx, &ecs.ListTagsForResourceInput{ResourceArn: aws.String(arn)}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, listed.Tags, 52)
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/handlers/elbv2/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/handlers/elbv2/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d74845c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/handlers/elbv2/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package handlers_elbv2
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/elbv2"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests pin how ELBv2 AddTags applies a
+// multi-resource request today. They describe current behaviour, not the
+// target design, and a failure means the behaviour changed.
+
+// AddTags walks ResourceArns in order and writes each before resolving the
+// next, so an unknown ARN after a valid one fails the call with the earlier
+// resource already tagged.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ELBv2AddTagsPartiallyAppliesBeforeUnknownARN(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := setupTestService(t)
+	lbOut, err := svc.CreateLoadBalancer(context.Background(), &elbv2.CreateLoadBalancerInput{Name: aws.String("cb-partial-lb")}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	arn := *lbOut.LoadBalancers[0].LoadBalancerArn
+	missing := "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-east-1:" + testAccountID + ":targetgroup/missing/0123456789abcdef"
+
+	_, err = svc.AddTags(context.Background(), &elbv2.AddTagsInput{
+		ResourceArns: []*string{aws.String(arn), aws.String(missing)},
+		Tags:         []*elbv2.Tag{{Key: aws.String("env"), Value: aws.String("prod")}},
+	}, testAccountID)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, awserrors.ErrorELBv2TargetGroupNotFound, err.Error())
+
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"env": "prod"}, tagsFor(t, svc, arn), "the first resource keeps the tag")
+}
+
+// AddTags refuses only an empty key: 51 tags, a 129-character key, a
+// 257-character value and an aws: key are all stored.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ELBv2AddTagsAppliesNoTagLimits(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := setupTestService(t)
+	lbOut, err := svc.CreateLoadBalancer(context.Background(), &elbv2.CreateLoadBalancerInput{Name: aws.String("cb-limits-lb")}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	arn := *lbOut.LoadBalancers[0].LoadBalancerArn
+
+	tags := []*elbv2.Tag{
+		{Key: aws.String("aws:reserved"), Value: aws.String("v")},
+		{Key: aws.String(strings.Repeat("k", 129)), Value: aws.String(strings.Repeat("v", 257))},
+	}
+	for i := range 49 {
+		tags = append(tags, &elbv2.Tag{Key: aws.String(fmt.Sprintf("key-%02d", i)), Value: aws.String("v")})
+	}
+	_, err = svc.AddTags(context.Background(), &elbv2.AddTagsInput{ResourceArns: []*string{aws.String(arn)}, Tags: tags}, testAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	got := tagsFor(t, svc, arn)
+	assert.Len(t, got, 51)
+	assert.Contains(t, got, "aws:reserved")
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/handlers/iam/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/handlers/iam/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b39544e82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/handlers/iam/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package handlers_iam
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/iam"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_ tests pin how IAM treats tag-based
+// authorization today. They describe current behaviour, not the target design,
+// and a failure means the behaviour changed.
+
+// A customer-managed policy conditioned on any tag key family is refused at
+// write time, so no stored policy can carry a tag condition the evaluator
+// would then have to enforce.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_CreatePolicyRefusesTagConditionKeys(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := setupTestIAMService(t)
+
+	conditions := map[string]struct{ key, condition string }{
+		"ResourceTag": {"aws:ResourceTag/team", `{"StringEquals":{"aws:ResourceTag/team":"infra"}}`},
+		"RequestTag":  {"aws:RequestTag/team", `{"StringEquals":{"aws:RequestTag/team":"infra"}}`},
+		"TagKeys":     {"aws:TagKeys", `{"ForAllValues:StringEquals":{"aws:TagKeys":["team"]}}`},
+		"EC2Resource": {"ec2:ResourceTag/team", `{"StringEquals":{"ec2:ResourceTag/team":"infra"}}`},
+	}
+	for name, tc := range conditions {
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			doc := `{"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[{"Effect":"Allow","Action":"ec2:CreateTags","Resource":"*","Condition":` + tc.condition + `}]}`
+			_, err := svc.CreatePolicy(testAccountID, &iam.CreatePolicyInput{
+				PolicyName:     aws.String("cb-tag-" + name),
+				PolicyDocument: aws.String(doc),
+			})
+			require.Error(t, err)
+			assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), awserrors.ErrorIAMMalformedPolicyDocument)
+			assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), `key "`+tc.key+`" is not supported`)
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/awsgw.go b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/awsgw.go
index 0b4cd04b2..af18c4733 100644
--- a/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/awsgw.go
+++ b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/awsgw.go
@@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ func launchService(config *config.ClusterConfig) error {
 		BedrockAgentKB:          bedrockAgentKB,
 		BedrockAgentDataSources: bedrockAgentDataSources,
 		BedrockAgentVector:      bedrockAgentVector,
+		TaggingResources:        newTaggingAggregator(natsConn, nodeConfig.Region),
 	}
 
 	ecrControlPlane := awsapi.NewRegistration(awsapi.Deps{
diff --git a/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..85ee4e1d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_current_behaviour_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+//test:in-package — drives GetResources through newTaggingAggregator, the
+// composition root's own wiring, which is unexported.
+
+package awsgw
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	testutil "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/internal/testkit"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/bootstrap/config"
+	ec2tags "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tags"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
+	awserrors "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
+	natsmsg "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/messaging/nats"
+)
+
+// The TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResources tests pin today's Resource
+// Groups Tagging API outcomes through the aggregator AWSGW wires. They run the
+// real EC2 tag service on an embedded JetStream, and describe current
+// behaviour, not the target design. The daemon's record-mirror fan-out is not
+// wired here, so only the central tag index is exercised.
+
+const (
+	authzAccountID = "123456789012"
+	authzRegion    = "ap-southeast-2"
+)
+
+// newTaggingCBAggregator serves the EC2 tag subjects from a real
+// TagsServiceImpl over a fresh JetStream bucket, and returns AWSGW's
+// GetResources wiring with the NATS client that writes tags as the gateway does.
+func newTaggingCBAggregator(t *testing.T) (*tagging.Aggregator, ec2tags.TagsService) {
+	t.Helper()
+	_, nc, js := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	kv, err := ec2tags.GetOrCreateTagsBucket(t.Context(), js)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc := ec2tags.NewTagsServiceImplWithStore(&config.Config{}, nil, kv)
+
+	serve := func(subject string, fn func(*nats.Msg)) {
+		sub, err := nc.Subscribe(subject, fn)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		t.Cleanup(func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() })
+	}
+	serve("ec2.CreateTags", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *ec2.CreateTagsInput) (*ec2.CreateTagsOutput, error) {
+			return svc.CreateTags(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+	serve("ec2.DeleteTags", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *ec2.DeleteTagsInput) (*ec2.DeleteTagsOutput, error) {
+			return svc.DeleteTags(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+	serve("ec2.DescribeTags", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *ec2.DescribeTagsInput) (*ec2.DescribeTagsOutput, error) {
+			return svc.DescribeTags(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+
+	return newTaggingAggregator(nc, authzRegion), ec2tags.NewNATSTagsService(nc)
+}
+
+// createTags writes tags over the ec2.CreateTags subject the gateway's EC2
+// CreateTags dispatch uses.
+func createTags(t *testing.T, tags ec2tags.TagsService, resources []string, kv map[string]string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	in := &ec2.CreateTagsInput{Resources: aws.StringSlice(resources)}
+	for k, v := range kv {
+		in.Tags = append(in.Tags, &ec2.Tag{Key: aws.String(k), Value: aws.String(v)})
+	}
+	_, err := tags.CreateTags(t.Context(), in, authzAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
+// deleteAllTags sends DeleteTags with no Tag list, which clears every tag.
+func deleteAllTags(t *testing.T, tags ec2tags.TagsService, resource string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	_, err := tags.DeleteTags(t.Context(), &ec2.DeleteTagsInput{Resources: aws.StringSlice([]string{resource})}, authzAccountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
+type getResourcesPage struct {
+	ResourceTagMappingList []struct {
+		ResourceARN string `json:"ResourceARN"`
+		Tags        []struct {
+			Key   string `json:"Key"`
+			Value string `json:"Value"`
+		} `json:"Tags"`
+	} `json:"ResourceTagMappingList"`
+	PaginationToken string `json:"PaginationToken"`
+}
+
+// getResources runs GetResources for the test account and decodes the body the
+// gateway would write for it.
+func getResources(t *testing.T, agg *tagging.Aggregator, body string) (getResourcesPage, error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	out, err := agg.GetResources(t.Context(), authzAccountID, []byte(body))
+	if err != nil {
+		return getResourcesPage{}, err
+	}
+	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+	tagging.WriteJSONResponse(w, out)
+	var page getResourcesPage
+	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &page))
+	return page, nil
+}
+
+func pageARNs(p getResourcesPage) []string {
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(p.ResourceTagMappingList))
+	for _, m := range p.ResourceTagMappingList {
+		out = append(out, m.ResourceARN)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// GetResources lists whatever the central index holds: an ID with no
+// recognised prefix is reported with resource type "unknown", and a
+// well-formed ID naming no resource is reported as that resource.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesListsUnresolvedEC2IDs(t *testing.T) {
+	agg, tags := newTaggingCBAggregator(t)
+
+	createTags(t, tags, []string{"not-a-real-id", "vol-00000000000000000"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+
+	page, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"]}`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	prefix := "arn:aws:ec2:" + authzRegion + ":" + authzAccountID + ":"
+	assert.ElementsMatch(t, []string{
+		prefix + "unknown/not-a-real-id",
+		prefix + "volume/vol-00000000000000000",
+	}, pageARNs(page))
+}
+
+// DeleteTags with no Tag list clears every tag, and the resource then drops
+// out of GetResources even though it was tagged before.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesOmitsResourceWhoseTagsWereAllRemoved(t *testing.T) {
+	agg, tags := newTaggingCBAggregator(t)
+	const sg = "sg-0a1b2c3d4e5f60718"
+
+	createTags(t, tags, []string{sg}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	page, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"]}`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, page.ResourceTagMappingList, 1)
+
+	deleteAllTags(t, tags, sg)
+	page, err = getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"]}`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Empty(t, page.ResourceTagMappingList)
+}
+
+// The pagination token is an offset into the result set recomputed on every
+// call. A resource tagged between two page reads that sorts ahead of the
+// offset shifts the set, so the second page repeats the first page's resource.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesOffsetTokenRepeatsAfterInterleavedWrite(t *testing.T) {
+	agg, tags := newTaggingCBAggregator(t)
+
+	createTags(t, tags, []string{"sg-0000000000000000b", "sg-0000000000000000c"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+
+	first, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"],"ResourcesPerPage":1}`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, first.ResourceTagMappingList, 1)
+	require.Equal(t, "1", first.PaginationToken)
+
+	createTags(t, tags, []string{"sg-0000000000000000a"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+
+	second, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"],"ResourcesPerPage":1,"PaginationToken":"1"}`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, second.ResourceTagMappingList, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, pageARNs(first), pageARNs(second), "the second page repeats the first")
+}
+
+// A token that is not a non-negative integer is InvalidParameterValue, and a
+// page size above 100 is accepted rather than refused.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesPaginationValidation(t *testing.T) {
+	agg, tags := newTaggingCBAggregator(t)
+	createTags(t, tags, []string{"sg-0000000000000000a"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+
+	_, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"PaginationToken":"not-a-token","ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"]}`)
+	require.Error(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, awserrors.ErrorInvalidParameterValue, err.Error())
+
+	page, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourcesPerPage":500,"ResourceTypeFilters":["ec2"]}`)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Len(t, page.ResourceTagMappingList, 1)
+}
+
+// GetResources aggregates only the EC2 central index and ELBv2 load balancers
+// and target groups. A type filter naming any other service returns an empty
+// list without error, whatever that service holds.
+func TestCurrentBehaviour_Tagging_GetResourcesAggregatesOnlyEC2AndELBv2(t *testing.T) {
+	agg, tags := newTaggingCBAggregator(t)
+	createTags(t, tags, []string{"sg-0000000000000000a"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+
+	for _, filter := range []string{"rds", "ecs:cluster", "eks:cluster", "ecr:repository", "acm:certificate", "iam:role", "elasticloadbalancing:listener"} {
+		t.Run(filter, func(t *testing.T) {
+			page, err := getResources(t, agg, `{"ResourceTypeFilters":["`+filter+`"]}`)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.Empty(t, page.ResourceTagMappingList)
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_listers.go b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_listers.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..632188e92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_listers.go
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+package awsgw
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/elbv2"
+	ec2tags "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tags"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/arn"
+	handlers_elbv2 "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/handlers/elbv2"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+)
+
+// newTaggingAggregator wires GetResources over ELBv2 then the EC2 tag index,
+// the order results have always been gathered in.
+func newTaggingAggregator(nc *nats.Conn, region string) *tagging.Aggregator {
+	return tagging.NewAggregator(newELBv2Lister(nc), newEC2IndexLister(nc, region))
+}
+
+// elbv2DescribeTagsBatchSize is the AWS ceiling on ARNs per ELBv2 DescribeTags call.
+const elbv2DescribeTagsBatchSize = 20
+
+// ec2IndexLister lists EC2 resources from the central tag index over the
+// ec2.DescribeTags subject, building each ARN in the gateway's region.
+type ec2IndexLister struct {
+	svc    ec2tags.TagsService
+	region string
+}
+
+var _ tagging.TaggedLister = (*ec2IndexLister)(nil)
+
+func newEC2IndexLister(nc *nats.Conn, region string) *ec2IndexLister {
+	return &ec2IndexLister{svc: ec2tags.NewNATSTagsService(nc), region: region}
+}
+
+func (l *ec2IndexLister) ListTagged(ctx context.Context, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]tagging.TaggedResource, error) {
+	out, err := l.svc.DescribeTags(ctx, &ec2.DescribeTagsInput{}, accountID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return ec2TaggedResources(out.Tags, l.region, accountID, typeFilters), nil
+}
+
+// ec2TaggedResources groups tag descriptions by resource ID and keeps those
+// whose "ec2:<type>" passes typeFilters. The type comes from the first stored
+// tag record for the ID, and an empty ID is skipped.
+func ec2TaggedResources(tagDescriptions []*ec2.TagDescription, region, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) []tagging.TaggedResource {
+	type resourceTags struct {
+		fullType string
+		tags     map[string]string
+	}
+	byResource := make(map[string]*resourceTags)
+	for _, td := range tagDescriptions {
+		id := aws.StringValue(td.ResourceId)
+		if id == "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		rt := byResource[id]
+		if rt == nil {
+			rt = &resourceTags{fullType: "ec2:" + aws.StringValue(td.ResourceType), tags: map[string]string{}}
+			byResource[id] = rt
+		}
+		rt.tags[aws.StringValue(td.Key)] = aws.StringValue(td.Value)
+	}
+
+	var out []tagging.TaggedResource
+	for id, rt := range byResource {
+		if !tagging.MatchesType(typeFilters, rt.fullType) {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, tagging.TaggedResource{ARN: ec2ARN(region, accountID, rt.fullType, id), Tags: rt.tags})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// ec2ARN builds an arn:aws:ec2 ARN for a resource. fullType is "ec2:<type>",
+// read from the stored tag record rather than from the id.
+func ec2ARN(region, accountID, fullType, id string) string {
+	kind := arn.EC2ResourceType(strings.TrimPrefix(fullType, "ec2:"))
+	return arn.FormatEC2(kind, region, accountID, id)
+}
+
+// elbv2Lister lists ELBv2 load balancers and target groups admitted by the
+// type filters, tagged or not, with tags from batched DescribeTags calls.
+type elbv2Lister struct {
+	svc handlers_elbv2.ELBv2Service
+}
+
+var _ tagging.TaggedLister = (*elbv2Lister)(nil)
+
+func newELBv2Lister(nc *nats.Conn) *elbv2Lister {
+	return &elbv2Lister{svc: handlers_elbv2.NewNATSELBv2Service(nc)}
+}
+
+func (l *elbv2Lister) ListTagged(ctx context.Context, accountID string, typeFilters map[string]bool) ([]tagging.TaggedResource, error) {
+	wantLB := tagging.MatchesType(typeFilters, "elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer")
+	wantTG := tagging.MatchesType(typeFilters, "elasticloadbalancing:targetgroup")
+	if !wantLB && !wantTG {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	var arns []string
+	if wantLB {
+		lbs, err := l.svc.DescribeLoadBalancers(ctx, &elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput{}, accountID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, lb := range lbs.LoadBalancers {
+			if lb.LoadBalancerArn != nil {
+				arns = append(arns, *lb.LoadBalancerArn)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if wantTG {
+		tgs, err := l.svc.DescribeTargetGroups(ctx, &elbv2.DescribeTargetGroupsInput{}, accountID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, tg := range tgs.TargetGroups {
+			if tg.TargetGroupArn != nil {
+				arns = append(arns, *tg.TargetGroupArn)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if len(arns) == 0 {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+
+	out := make([]tagging.TaggedResource, 0, len(arns))
+	for start := 0; start < len(arns); start += elbv2DescribeTagsBatchSize {
+		end := min(start+elbv2DescribeTagsBatchSize, len(arns))
+		tagsOut, err := l.svc.DescribeTags(ctx, &elbv2.DescribeTagsInput{
+			ResourceArns: aws.StringSlice(arns[start:end]),
+		}, accountID)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		for _, td := range tagsOut.TagDescriptions {
+			tags := make(map[string]string, len(td.Tags))
+			for _, t := range td.Tags {
+				tags[aws.StringValue(t.Key)] = aws.StringValue(t.Value)
+			}
+			out = append(out, tagging.TaggedResource{ARN: aws.StringValue(td.ResourceArn), Tags: tags})
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
diff --git a/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_listers_test.go b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_listers_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0a6756e95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spinifex/runtime/roles/awsgw/tagging_listers_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+//test:in-package — the listers are unexported composition-root adapters with
+// no production caller to reach them through yet.
+
+package awsgw
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"strconv"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/ec2"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/elbv2"
+	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+
+	testutil "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/internal/testkit"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/bootstrap/config"
+	ec2tags "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/ec2/tags"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/domains/tagging"
+	"github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/arn"
+	awserrors "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/aws/errors"
+	natsmsg "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/foundation/messaging/nats"
+	handlers_elbv2 "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/handlers/elbv2"
+	handlers_iam "github.com/mulgadc/spinifex/spinifex/handlers/iam"
+)
+
+const (
+	listerRegion   = "ap-southeast-2"
+	listerAccount  = "111122223333"
+	foreignAccount = "444455556666"
+)
+
+func serveSubject(t *testing.T, nc *nats.Conn, subject string, fn func(*nats.Msg)) {
+	t.Helper()
+	sub, err := nc.Subscribe(subject, fn)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() })
+}
+
+// failSubject answers every request on subject with err, as an owner would.
+func failSubject(t *testing.T, nc *nats.Conn, subject string, err error) {
+	t.Helper()
+	serveSubject(t, nc, subject, func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(context.Context, *map[string]any) (*struct{}, error) { return nil, err })
+	})
+}
+
+func byARN(t *testing.T, got []tagging.TaggedResource) map[string]map[string]string {
+	t.Helper()
+	out := make(map[string]map[string]string, len(got))
+	for _, r := range got {
+		_, dup := out[r.ARN]
+		require.False(t, dup, "ARN listed twice: %s", r.ARN)
+		out[r.ARN] = r.Tags
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func sortedARNs(got []tagging.TaggedResource) []string {
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(got))
+	for _, r := range got {
+		out = append(out, r.ARN)
+	}
+	slices.Sort(out)
+	return out
+}
+
+// newEC2IndexFixture serves ec2.DescribeTags from a real tag index on an
+// embedded JetStream and returns the index for seeding.
+func newEC2IndexFixture(t *testing.T) (*nats.Conn, *ec2tags.TagsServiceImpl) {
+	t.Helper()
+	_, nc, js := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	kv, err := ec2tags.GetOrCreateTagsBucket(t.Context(), js)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc := ec2tags.NewTagsServiceImplWithStore(&config.Config{}, nil, kv)
+	serveSubject(t, nc, "ec2.DescribeTags", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *ec2.DescribeTagsInput) (*ec2.DescribeTagsOutput, error) {
+			return svc.DescribeTags(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+	return nc, svc
+}
+
+func seedEC2Tags(t *testing.T, svc *ec2tags.TagsServiceImpl, accountID string, ids []string, tags map[string]string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	in := &ec2.CreateTagsInput{Resources: aws.StringSlice(ids)}
+	for k, v := range tags {
+		in.Tags = append(in.Tags, &ec2.Tag{Key: aws.String(k), Value: aws.String(v)})
+	}
+	_, err := svc.CreateTags(t.Context(), in, accountID)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+}
+
+func TestEC2IndexLister_ListsCallerIndexEntriesAsRegionalARNs(t *testing.T) {
+	nc, svc := newEC2IndexFixture(t)
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, listerAccount, []string{"sg-0000000000000000a"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod", "Name": "web"})
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, listerAccount, []string{"subnet-0000000000000000b"}, map[string]string{"env": "dev"})
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, listerAccount, []string{"not-a-real-id", "vol-00000000000000000"}, map[string]string{"env": "orphan"})
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, foreignAccount, []string{"sg-0000000000000000f"}, map[string]string{"env": "other"})
+
+	got, err := newEC2IndexLister(nc, listerRegion).ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, nil)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	// Unresolved IDs are listed: an unrecognised prefix as type "unknown", a
+	// well-formed ID naming no resource as that resource's type.
+	prefix := "arn:aws:ec2:" + listerRegion + ":" + listerAccount + ":"
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]map[string]string{
+		prefix + "security-group/sg-0000000000000000a": {"env": "prod", "Name": "web"},
+		prefix + "subnet/subnet-0000000000000000b":     {"env": "dev"},
+		prefix + "unknown/not-a-real-id":               {"env": "orphan"},
+		prefix + "volume/vol-00000000000000000":        {"env": "orphan"},
+	}, byARN(t, got))
+}
+
+func TestEC2IndexLister_TypeFilters(t *testing.T) {
+	nc, svc := newEC2IndexFixture(t)
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, listerAccount, []string{"sg-0000000000000000a"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, listerAccount, []string{"subnet-0000000000000000b"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	lister := newEC2IndexLister(nc, listerRegion)
+	prefix := "arn:aws:ec2:" + listerRegion + ":" + listerAccount + ":"
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		filters map[string]bool
+		want    []string
+	}{
+		{map[string]bool{"ec2": true}, []string{prefix + "security-group/sg-0000000000000000a", prefix + "subnet/subnet-0000000000000000b"}},
+		{map[string]bool{"ec2:subnet": true}, []string{prefix + "subnet/subnet-0000000000000000b"}},
+		{map[string]bool{"ec2:subnet": true, "ec2:security-group": true}, []string{prefix + "security-group/sg-0000000000000000a", prefix + "subnet/subnet-0000000000000000b"}},
+		{map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing": true}, []string{}},
+		{map[string]bool{"ec2:instance": true}, []string{}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprint(tc.filters), func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, err := lister.ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, tc.filters)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.Equal(t, tc.want, sortedARNs(got))
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestEC2IndexLister_ReturnsFreshTagMapsPerCall(t *testing.T) {
+	nc, svc := newEC2IndexFixture(t)
+	seedEC2Tags(t, svc, listerAccount, []string{"sg-0000000000000000a"}, map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	lister := newEC2IndexLister(nc, listerRegion)
+
+	first, err := lister.ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, nil)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, first, 1)
+	first[0].Tags["env"] = "mutated"
+
+	second, err := lister.ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, nil)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	require.Len(t, second, 1)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]string{"env": "prod"}, second[0].Tags)
+}
+
+func TestEC2IndexLister_PropagatesOwnerError(t *testing.T) {
+	_, nc, _ := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	failSubject(t, nc, "ec2.DescribeTags", errors.New(awserrors.ErrorServerInternal))
+
+	got, err := newEC2IndexLister(nc, listerRegion).ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, nil)
+	require.EqualError(t, err, awserrors.ErrorServerInternal)
+	assert.Nil(t, got)
+}
+
+func TestEC2TaggedResources(t *testing.T) {
+	tags := []*ec2.TagDescription{
+		{ResourceId: aws.String("subnet-1"), ResourceType: aws.String("subnet"), Key: aws.String("Name"), Value: aws.String("a")},
+		{ResourceId: aws.String("subnet-1"), ResourceType: aws.String("subnet"), Key: aws.String("env"), Value: aws.String("prod")},
+		{ResourceId: aws.String("sg-1"), ResourceType: aws.String("security-group"), Key: aws.String("Name"), Value: aws.String("b")},
+		{ResourceId: aws.String(""), ResourceType: aws.String("subnet"), Key: aws.String("skip"), Value: aws.String("me")},
+	}
+
+	// No type filter: both resources, tags merged per resource, empty ID skipped.
+	all := ec2TaggedResources(tags, "us-east-1", "123456789012", nil)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]map[string]string{
+		"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:subnet/subnet-1":     {"Name": "a", "env": "prod"},
+		"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:security-group/sg-1": {"Name": "b"},
+	}, byARN(t, all))
+
+	// Type filter narrows to subnets only.
+	onlySubnets := ec2TaggedResources(tags, "us-east-1", "123456789012", map[string]bool{"ec2:subnet": true})
+	assert.Equal(t, []string{"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:subnet/subnet-1"}, sortedARNs(onlySubnets))
+}
+
+func TestEC2ARN(t *testing.T) {
+	assert.Equal(t,
+		"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:subnet/subnet-abc",
+		ec2ARN("us-east-1", "123456789012", "ec2:subnet", "subnet-abc"))
+}
+
+// elbv2Fixture serves the ELBv2 read subjects from a real ELBv2 service on an
+// embedded JetStream, recording the ARN count of every DescribeTags request.
+type elbv2Fixture struct {
+	nc    *nats.Conn
+	store *handlers_elbv2.Store
+
+	mu            sync.Mutex
+	describeCalls int
+	tagBatches    []int
+}
+
+func newELBv2Fixture(t *testing.T) *elbv2Fixture {
+	t.Helper()
+	_, nc, _ := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+	masterKey, err := handlers_iam.GenerateMasterKey()
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	svc, err := handlers_elbv2.NewELBv2ServiceImplWithNATS(nil, nc, masterKey)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	t.Cleanup(svc.Close)
+	store, err := handlers_elbv2.NewStore(t.Context(), nc)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	f := &elbv2Fixture{nc: nc, store: store}
+	serveSubject(t, nc, "elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancers", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		f.countDescribe()
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersInput) (*elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersOutput, error) {
+			return svc.DescribeLoadBalancers(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+	serveSubject(t, nc, "elbv2.DescribeTargetGroups", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		f.countDescribe()
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *elbv2.DescribeTargetGroupsInput) (*elbv2.DescribeTargetGroupsOutput, error) {
+			return svc.DescribeTargetGroups(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+	serveSubject(t, nc, "elbv2.DescribeTags", func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+		natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(ctx context.Context, in *elbv2.DescribeTagsInput) (*elbv2.DescribeTagsOutput, error) {
+			f.mu.Lock()
+			f.tagBatches = append(f.tagBatches, len(in.ResourceArns))
+			f.mu.Unlock()
+			return svc.DescribeTags(ctx, in, natsmsg.AccountIDFromMsg(msg))
+		})
+	})
+	return f
+}
+
+func (f *elbv2Fixture) countDescribe() {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+	f.describeCalls++
+}
+
+func (f *elbv2Fixture) calls() (describes int, batches []int) {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+	return f.describeCalls, slices.Clone(f.tagBatches)
+}
+
+func (f *elbv2Fixture) putLB(t *testing.T, accountID, name, id string, tags map[string]string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	lbARN := arn.FormatELBv2LoadBalancer(listerRegion, accountID, name, id, "application")
+	require.NoError(t, f.store.PutLoadBalancer(t.Context(), &handlers_elbv2.LoadBalancerRecord{
+		LoadBalancerArn: lbARN, LoadBalancerID: id, Name: name, Type: "application", AccountID: accountID, Tags: tags,
+	}))
+	return lbARN
+}
+
+func (f *elbv2Fixture) putTG(t *testing.T, accountID, name, id string, tags map[string]string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	tgARN := arn.FormatELBv2TargetGroup(listerRegion, accountID, name, id)
+	require.NoError(t, f.store.PutTargetGroup(t.Context(), &handlers_elbv2.TargetGroupRecord{
+		TargetGroupArn: tgARN, TargetGroupID: id, Name: name, AccountID: accountID, Tags: tags,
+	}))
+	return tgARN
+}
+
+func TestELBv2Lister_ListsCallerLoadBalancersAndTargetGroupsTaggedOrNot(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newELBv2Fixture(t)
+	taggedLB := f.putLB(t, listerAccount, "tagged", "00000000000000a1", map[string]string{"env": "prod", "team": "web"})
+	untaggedLB := f.putLB(t, listerAccount, "untagged", "00000000000000a2", nil)
+	taggedTG := f.putTG(t, listerAccount, "tg", "00000000000000b1", map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	f.putLB(t, foreignAccount, "foreign", "00000000000000c1", map[string]string{"env": "other"})
+	f.putTG(t, foreignAccount, "foreign-tg", "00000000000000c2", nil)
+
+	got, err := newELBv2Lister(f.nc).ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, nil)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, map[string]map[string]string{
+		taggedLB:   {"env": "prod", "team": "web"},
+		untaggedLB: {},
+		taggedTG:   {"env": "prod"},
+	}, byARN(t, got))
+}
+
+func TestELBv2Lister_TypeFilters(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newELBv2Fixture(t)
+	lb := f.putLB(t, listerAccount, "lb", "00000000000000a1", map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	tg := f.putTG(t, listerAccount, "tg", "00000000000000b1", map[string]string{"env": "prod"})
+	lister := newELBv2Lister(f.nc)
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		filters      map[string]bool
+		want         []string
+		wantDescribe int
+	}{
+		{map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing": true}, []string{lb, tg}, 2},
+		{map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer": true}, []string{lb}, 1},
+		{map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing:targetgroup": true}, []string{tg}, 1},
+		// Neither served type admitted: no owner call is made.
+		{map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing:listener": true}, []string{}, 0},
+		{map[string]bool{"ec2": true}, []string{}, 0},
+	} {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprint(tc.filters), func(t *testing.T) {
+			before, _ := f.calls()
+			got, err := lister.ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, tc.filters)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			assert.Equal(t, tc.want, sortedARNs(got))
+			after, _ := f.calls()
+			assert.Equal(t, tc.wantDescribe, after-before)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestELBv2Lister_BatchesDescribeTagsByTwenty(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newELBv2Fixture(t)
+	want := make([]string, 0, 45)
+	for i := range 45 {
+		want = append(want, f.putLB(t, listerAccount, fmt.Sprintf("lb-%02d", i), fmt.Sprintf("%016x", i+1), map[string]string{"n": strconv.Itoa(i)}))
+	}
+	slices.Sort(want)
+
+	got, err := newELBv2Lister(f.nc).ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, map[string]bool{"elasticloadbalancing:loadbalancer": true})
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, want, sortedARNs(got))
+	_, batches := f.calls()
+	assert.Equal(t, []int{20, 20, 5}, batches)
+}
+
+func TestELBv2Lister_PropagatesOwnerErrors(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, subject := range []string{"elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancers", "elbv2.DescribeTargetGroups", "elbv2.DescribeTags"} {
+		t.Run(subject, func(t *testing.T) {
+			_, nc, _ := testutil.StartTestJetStream(t)
+			ok := func(out any) func(*nats.Msg) {
+				return func(msg *nats.Msg) {
+					natsmsg.ServeNATSRequestCtx(msg, func(context.Context, *map[string]any) (*any, error) { return &out, nil })
+				}
+			}
+			lbs := &elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancersOutput{LoadBalancers: []*elbv2.LoadBalancer{{LoadBalancerArn: aws.String(arn.FormatELBv2LoadBalancer(listerRegion, listerAccount, "lb", "00000000000000a1", "application"))}}}
+			handlers := map[string]func(*nats.Msg){
+				"elbv2.DescribeLoadBalancers": ok(lbs),
+				"elbv2.DescribeTargetGroups":  ok(&elbv2.DescribeTargetGroupsOutput{}),
+				"elbv2.DescribeTags":          ok(&elbv2.DescribeTagsOutput{}),
+			}
+			for s, h := range handlers {
+				if s == subject {
+					failSubject(t, nc, s, errors.New(awserrors.ErrorServerInternal))
+					continue
+				}
+				serveSubject(t, nc, s, h)
+			}
+
+			got, err := newELBv2Lister(nc).ListTagged(t.Context(), listerAccount, nil)
+			require.EqualError(t, err, awserrors.ErrorServerInternal)
+			assert.Nil(t, got)
+		})
+	}
+}