diff --git a/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts b/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts
index e3849f814..78d8cf750 100644
--- a/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts
+++ b/src/artifacts/javascript/JavaScriptArtifactFiles.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ interface ExpectedFile {
 
 interface ExpectedContainer {
   readonly hash_status: ArtifactOccurrence["hash_status"];
+  readonly format: ArtifactOccurrence["artifact_format"];
   readonly inventory: JavaScriptArtifactContainer | null;
 }
 
@@ -219,6 +220,9 @@ const visitReader = async (
             "integrity",
             `Nested ASAR was not integrity-verified: ${path}`,
           );
+        // Inventory expands an ASAR-named file only when its bytes are an
+        // ASAR. One it recorded as ordinary bytes has no members to read.
+        if (container.format !== "asar") continue;
         const inventory = container.inventory;
         if (inventory === null)
           throw new ArtifactReaderFailure(
@@ -395,6 +399,7 @@ const expectedInventory = (
       if (isNestedAsar)
         containers.set(occurrence.logical_path, {
           hash_status: occurrence.hash_status,
+          format: occurrence.artifact_format,
           inventory: null,
         });
       continue;
@@ -412,6 +417,7 @@ const expectedInventory = (
     if (isNestedAsar)
       containers.set(occurrence.logical_path, {
         hash_status: occurrence.hash_status,
+        format: occurrence.artifact_format,
         inventory: {
           path: occurrence.logical_path,
           sha256: node.sha256,
diff --git a/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptIntegrityPolicy.test.ts b/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptIntegrityPolicy.test.ts
index 47b77114a..67b167bdf 100644
--- a/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptIntegrityPolicy.test.ts
+++ b/tests/boundary/filesystem/javascriptIntegrityPolicy.test.ts
@@ -105,6 +105,34 @@ it("keeps a contradicted nested ASAR opaque during JavaScript reconstruction", a
   expect(result.graph.coverage.omitted_count).toBeNull();
 });
 
+it("keeps an ASAR-named file without an ASAR header opaque during JavaScript reconstruction", async () => {
+  const root = await createTestTempDirectory("rea-opaque-asar-name-");
+  await writeFile(join(root, "main.js"), "export const outer = true;\n");
+  // Inventory records this file as ordinary bytes and does not expand it.
+  await writeFile(join(root, "ordinary.asar"), "ordinary bytes");
+
+  const snapshot = await scanCanonicalArtifactInventory(root, {});
+  const reader = createJavaScriptArtifactReader(root, "directory");
+  try {
+    const read = await readJavaScriptArtifactFiles(reader, snapshot);
+    expect(read.files.map(({ path }) => path)).toEqual(["main.js"]);
+    expect(read.containers).toEqual([]);
+  } finally {
+    await reader.close();
+  }
+
+  const analyzed = await analyzeJavaScriptApplication({
+    input_path: root,
+    format: "directory",
+  });
+  if (!analyzed.ok) throw analyzed.error;
+  const result = javascriptApplicationAnalysisResultSchema.parse(
+    analyzed.value.normalized_result,
+  );
+  expect(result.statistics.nested_asar_containers).toBe(0);
+  expect(result.integrity_contradictions).toEqual([]);
+});
+
 it("retains semantic resource limits alongside recorded integrity contradictions", async () => {
   const { archive } = await createStrippedAsarAddon([
     { path: "app.js", contents: primitiveCandidateExpansionSource() },