diff --git a/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-desktop-runtime.ts b/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-desktop-runtime.ts
index 5320928dd6..80e707037d 100644
--- a/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-desktop-runtime.ts
+++ b/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-desktop-runtime.ts
@@ -140,6 +140,53 @@ const buildUniversalMacCli = async (): Promise<void> => {
 	await $`lipo -info ${outfile}`;
 };
 
+// Plugin installs drop their @cline/* dependencies because the host provides
+// them, and the plugin worker resolves those from node_modules beside its
+// bootstrap. Nothing like that exists next to the compiled CLI, so ship
+// self-contained builds there. Splitting keeps one shared copy of the SDK,
+// placed in core so every chunk sits inside a `"type": "module"` package.
+const bundlePluginSdkPackages = async (): Promise<void> => {
+	const outdir = `${BIN_DIR}/extensions/node_modules/@cline`;
+	const packagesRoot = "../../../sdk/packages";
+	const packages = await Promise.all(
+		["sdk", "core", "agents", "llms", "shared"].map(async (name) => {
+			const root = `${packagesRoot}/${name}`;
+			const manifest = (await Bun.file(`${root}/package.json`).json()) as {
+				exports: Record<string, { import: string }>;
+			};
+			// Type-only exports (e.g. @cline/shared/types) have no JS to ship.
+			const exports = Object.fromEntries(
+				Object.entries(manifest.exports)
+					.map(([path, entry]) => [path, entry.import] as const)
+					.filter(([, file]) => existsSync(`${root}/${file}`)),
+			);
+			return { root, name, exports };
+		}),
+	);
+	await $`rm -rf ${outdir}`;
+	const result = await Bun.build({
+		entrypoints: packages.flatMap(({ root, exports }) =>
+			Object.values(exports).map((file) => `${root}/${file}`),
+		),
+		root: packagesRoot,
+		outdir,
+		naming: { chunk: "core/dist/[name]-[hash].[ext]" },
+		target: "node",
+		format: "esm",
+		splitting: true,
+		minify: true,
+	});
+	if (!result.success) {
+		throw new AggregateError(result.logs, "plugin SDK bundle failed");
+	}
+	for (const { name, exports } of packages) {
+		await Bun.write(
+			`${outdir}/${name}/package.json`,
+			JSON.stringify({ name: `@cline/${name}`, type: "module", exports }),
+		);
+	}
+};
+
 const hasOpenTuiNativeVariant = (os: string, arch: string): boolean =>
 	existsSync(`${REPO_ROOT}/node_modules/.bun`) &&
 	[
@@ -158,6 +205,7 @@ const main = async () => {
 	await $`mkdir -p ${BIN_DIR}/desktop-backend ${REMOTE_CLI_DIR} ${BIN_DIR}/extensions`;
 	// Plugin workers load this bootstrap from disk in the backend and Hub.
 	await $`cp ../../../sdk/packages/core/dist/extensions/plugin-sandbox-bootstrap.js ${BIN_DIR}/extensions/plugin-sandbox-bootstrap.js`;
+	await bundlePluginSdkPackages();
 	// Every build cross-compiles the Linux SSH copies (and macOS builds both
 	// architectures), which needs the target platforms' OpenTUI native
 	// packages in addition to the host's.
diff --git a/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json b/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
index 5026fb1c66..09b6f151b8 100644
--- a/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
+++ b/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 			"icons/app/macos/*.png",
 			"bin/remote-helpers/*",
 			"bin/desktop-backend/*",
-			"bin/extensions/*"
+			"bin/extensions/**/*"
 		],
 		"icon": [
 			"icons/32x32.png",