diff --git a/src/features/runtime-provider-management/renderer/ui/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.tsx b/src/features/runtime-provider-management/renderer/ui/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.tsx
index 6b098ed0..c01e5242 100644
--- a/src/features/runtime-provider-management/renderer/ui/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.tsx
+++ b/src/features/runtime-provider-management/renderer/ui/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.tsx
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   getOpenCodeTeamModelRecommendation,
   isOpenCodeTeamModelRecommended,
 } from '@renderer/utils/openCodeModelRecommendations';
+import { isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic } from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
 import {
   AlertTriangle,
   Check,
@@ -785,6 +786,20 @@ function getRuntimeProviderDiagnosticRows(
     .map(([label, value]) => [label, String(value)]);
 }
 
+function isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionError(
+  message: string,
+  diagnostics: RuntimeProviderManagementErrorDiagnosticsDto | null | undefined
+): boolean {
+  const value = [
+    message,
+    diagnostics?.stderrPreview ?? '',
+    diagnostics?.stdoutPreview ?? '',
+    diagnostics?.likelyCause ?? '',
+    ...(diagnostics?.hints ?? []),
+  ].join('\n');
+  return isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic(value);
+}
+
 async function writeRuntimeProviderDiagnosticsToClipboard(text: string): Promise<boolean> {
   if (navigator.clipboard?.writeText) {
     try {
@@ -826,6 +841,10 @@ const RuntimeProviderErrorAlert = ({
   const [headline = message, ...detailLines] = message.trim().split(/\r?\n/);
   const fallbackDetails = detailLines.join('\n').trim();
   const hints = diagnostics?.hints ?? [];
+  const showWindowsSymlinkPermissionHint = isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionError(
+    message,
+    diagnostics
+  );
   const copyText = useMemo(
     () => formatRuntimeProviderDiagnosticsCopyText(message, diagnostics),
     [diagnostics, message]
@@ -859,6 +878,11 @@ const RuntimeProviderErrorAlert = ({
         <div className="flex min-w-0 flex-wrap items-start justify-between gap-2">
           <div className="min-w-0 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words font-medium leading-5">
             {headline || message}
+            {showWindowsSymlinkPermissionHint ? (
+              <span className="ml-2 inline-flex rounded border border-red-200/30 bg-red-500/10 px-1.5 py-0.5 text-[11px] font-semibold leading-4 text-red-50">
+                {t('runtimeProvider.diagnostics.windowsSymlinkAdminHint')}
+              </span>
+            ) : null}
           </div>
           <Button
             type="button"
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.test.ts b/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.test.ts
index b6d36814..600234c3 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
-import { OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE } from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
+import {
+  OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE,
+  OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE,
+} from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
 import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 
 import { getProvisioningFailureHint } from './ProvisioningProviderStatusList';
 
 describe('getProvisioningFailureHint', () => {
+  it('returns the administrator hint for the exact OpenCode node_modules symlink permission failure', () => {
+    expect(
+      getProvisioningFailureHint(null, [
+        {
+          providerId: 'opencode',
+          status: 'failed',
+          details: [OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE],
+        },
+      ])
+    ).toBe('Run Agent Teams AI as Administrator, then retry launch.');
+  });
+
   it('returns the OpenCode Windows permissions hint for OpenCode access-denied details', () => {
     expect(
       getProvisioningFailureHint(null, [
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.tsx b/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.tsx
index 5163256f..c769004c 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/team/dialogs/ProvisioningProviderStatusList.tsx
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ import { formatProviderBackendLabel } from '@renderer/utils/providerBackendIdent
 import { getTeamProviderLabel as getCatalogTeamProviderLabel } from '@renderer/utils/teamModelCatalog';
 import {
   isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic,
+  isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic,
   OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE,
+  OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE,
 } from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
 import { AlertTriangle, Check, CheckCircle2, Copy, Loader2, SlidersHorizontal } from 'lucide-react';
 
@@ -1042,14 +1044,31 @@ export function getProvisioningFailureHint(
   const hasOpenCodeAccessDeniedDetail = failedOpenCodeChecks.some((check) =>
     check.details.some(isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic)
   );
+  const hasOpenCodeNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDetail = failedOpenCodeChecks.some((check) =>
+    check.details.some(isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic)
+  );
   const hasOpenCodeBridgeNoOutputDetail = failedOpenCodeChecks.some((check) =>
     check.details.some(isOpenCodeBridgeNoOutputDiagnostic)
   );
   const normalizedMessage = message?.trim() ?? '';
+  const hasOpenCodeNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionMessage =
+    failedOpenCodeChecks.length > 0 &&
+    (normalizedMessage === OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE ||
+      (!hasFailedNonOpenCodeCheck &&
+        isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic(normalizedMessage)));
   const hasOpenCodeAccessDeniedMessage =
     failedOpenCodeChecks.length > 0 &&
     (normalizedMessage === OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE ||
       (!hasFailedNonOpenCodeCheck && isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(normalizedMessage)));
+  if (
+    hasOpenCodeNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDetail ||
+    hasOpenCodeNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionMessage
+  ) {
+    return (
+      t?.('provisioning.providerStatus.failureHints.openCodeNodeModulesSymlinkPermission') ??
+      'Run Agent Teams AI as Administrator, then retry launch.'
+    );
+  }
   if (hasOpenCodeAccessDeniedDetail || hasOpenCodeAccessDeniedMessage) {
     return (
       t?.('provisioning.providerStatus.failureHints.openCodeAccessDenied') ??
diff --git a/src/shared/utils/__tests__/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.test.ts b/src/shared/utils/__tests__/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.test.ts
index b9f37496..c9378134 100644
--- a/src/shared/utils/__tests__/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.test.ts
+++ b/src/shared/utils/__tests__/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.test.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
 
 import {
   isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic,
+  isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic,
   normalizeOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic,
   OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE,
+  OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE,
 } from '../openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
 
 describe('OpenCode Windows access-denied diagnostics', () => {
@@ -24,4 +26,18 @@ describe('OpenCode Windows access-denied diagnostics', () => {
     expect(isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic('OpenCode app MCP is unreachable')).toBe(false);
     expect(normalizeOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic('OpenCode CLI not found')).toBeNull();
   });
+
+  it('detects the managed OpenCode node_modules symlink permission failure separately', () => {
+    const message = [
+      'Runtime provider management command failed unexpectedly:',
+      "EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Cache\\opencode\\shared-cache\\config-node_modules'",
+      "-> 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Data\\opencode\\profiles\\abc123\\config\\opencode\\node_modules'",
+    ].join(' ');
+
+    expect(isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic(message)).toBe(true);
+    expect(isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(message)).toBe(true);
+    expect(normalizeOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(message)).toBe(
+      OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE
+    );
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.ts b/src/shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.ts
index e5d6a38c..b3c6b6ac 100644
--- a/src/shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.ts
+++ b/src/shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied.ts
@@ -1,15 +1,35 @@
 export const OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE =
   'Windows blocked OpenCode from accessing project or runtime files. Fix folder permissions or move the project to a user-writable folder. Running as administrator is only a temporary workaround.';
 
+export const OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE =
+  'Windows blocked OpenCode from creating the managed node_modules symlink. Run Agent Teams AI as Administrator, then retry launch.';
+
 const OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_PATTERN =
   /\b(?:EPERM|EACCES)\b|access is denied|permission denied|operation not permitted/i;
 
+const OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_PATTERN =
+  /(?=[\s\S]*\bEPERM\b)(?=[\s\S]*operation not permitted)(?=[\s\S]*\bsymlink\b)(?=[\s\S]*opencode)(?=[\s\S]*node_modules)(?=[\s\S]*(?:[A-Z]:\\|AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs))/i;
+
+export function isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic(
+  value: string | null | undefined
+): boolean {
+  const trimmed = value?.trim();
+  if (!trimmed) {
+    return false;
+  }
+  return (
+    trimmed === OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE ||
+    OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_PATTERN.test(trimmed)
+  );
+}
+
 export function isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(value: string | null | undefined): boolean {
   const trimmed = value?.trim();
   if (!trimmed) {
     return false;
   }
   return (
+    isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic(trimmed) ||
     trimmed === OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE ||
     OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_PATTERN.test(trimmed)
   );
@@ -18,6 +38,9 @@ export function isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(value: string | null | u
 export function normalizeOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(
   value: string | null | undefined
 ): string | null {
+  if (isOpenCodeWindowsNodeModulesSymlinkPermissionDiagnostic(value)) {
+    return OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE;
+  }
   return isOpenCodeWindowsAccessDeniedDiagnostic(value)
     ? OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE
     : null;
diff --git a/test/main/services/team/TeamProvisioningServicePrepare.test.ts b/test/main/services/team/TeamProvisioningServicePrepare.test.ts
index 531fac9e..55ec9e58 100644
--- a/test/main/services/team/TeamProvisioningServicePrepare.test.ts
+++ b/test/main/services/team/TeamProvisioningServicePrepare.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import { buildCodexWorkspaceTrustSettingsArgs } from '@features/workspace-trust/core/domain';
-import { OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE } from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
+import {
+  OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE,
+  OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE,
+} from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
 import { DEFAULT_PROVIDER_MODEL_SELECTION } from '@shared/utils/providerModelSelection';
 import { spawn } from 'child_process';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
@@ -1026,6 +1029,42 @@ describe('TeamProvisioningService prepare/auth behavior', () => {
     expect(result.warnings).toEqual([OPENCODE_WINDOWS_ACCESS_DENIED_MESSAGE]);
   });
 
+  it('keeps OpenCode managed node_modules symlink EPERM diagnostics specific during prepareForProvisioning', async () => {
+    const prepare = vi.fn(async () => ({
+      ok: false as const,
+      providerId: 'opencode' as const,
+      reason: 'unknown_error',
+      retryable: false,
+      diagnostics: [],
+      warnings: [
+        [
+          'Runtime provider management command failed unexpectedly:',
+          "EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Cache\\opencode\\shared-cache\\config-node_modules'",
+          "-> 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Data\\opencode\\profiles\\abc123\\config\\opencode\\node_modules'",
+        ].join(' '),
+      ],
+    }));
+    const adapter: TeamLaunchRuntimeAdapter = {
+      providerId: 'opencode',
+      prepare,
+      launch: vi.fn(),
+      reconcile: vi.fn(),
+      stop: vi.fn(),
+    };
+    const registry = new TeamRuntimeAdapterRegistry([adapter]);
+    const svc = new TeamProvisioningService();
+    svc.setRuntimeAdapterRegistry(registry);
+
+    const result = await svc.prepareForProvisioning(tempRoot, {
+      providerId: 'opencode',
+      forceFresh: true,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.ready).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.message).toBe(OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE);
+    expect(result.warnings).toEqual([OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE]);
+  });
+
   it('keeps OpenCode access-denied selected-model failures provider-scoped', async () => {
     const prepare = vi.fn(async () => ({
       ok: false as const,
diff --git a/test/renderer/components/team/dialogs/providerPrepareDiagnostics.test.ts b/test/renderer/components/team/dialogs/providerPrepareDiagnostics.test.ts
index d65bb1d1..5d7da6ba 100644
--- a/test/renderer/components/team/dialogs/providerPrepareDiagnostics.test.ts
+++ b/test/renderer/components/team/dialogs/providerPrepareDiagnostics.test.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import {
   mergeReusableProviderPrepareModelResults,
   runProviderPrepareDiagnostics,
 } from '@renderer/components/team/dialogs/providerPrepareDiagnostics';
+import { OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE } from '@shared/utils/openCodeWindowsAccessDenied';
 import { DEFAULT_PROVIDER_MODEL_SELECTION } from '@shared/utils/providerModelSelection';
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
 
@@ -488,6 +489,43 @@ describe('runProviderPrepareDiagnostics', () => {
     expect(result.modelResultsById).toEqual({});
   });
 
+  it('keeps the OpenCode node_modules symlink EPERM failure on the administrator hint path', async () => {
+    const symlinkError = [
+      'Runtime provider management command failed unexpectedly:',
+      "EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Cache\\opencode\\shared-cache\\config-node_modules'",
+      "-> 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Data\\opencode\\profiles\\abc123\\config\\opencode\\node_modules'",
+    ].join(' ');
+    const prepareProvisioning = vi.fn<
+      (
+        cwd?: string,
+        providerId?: TeamProviderId,
+        providerIds?: TeamProviderId[],
+        selectedModels?: string[],
+        limitContext?: boolean,
+        modelVerificationMode?: 'compatibility' | 'deep'
+      ) => Promise<TeamProvisioningPrepareResult>
+    >(() =>
+      Promise.resolve({
+        ready: false,
+        message: symlinkError,
+        details: [symlinkError],
+        warnings: [symlinkError],
+      })
+    );
+
+    const result = await runProviderPrepareDiagnostics({
+      cwd: '/tmp/project',
+      providerId: 'opencode',
+      selectedModelIds: ['opencode/big-pickle'],
+      prepareProvisioning,
+    });
+
+    expect(result.status).toBe('failed');
+    expect(result.details).toEqual([OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE]);
+    expect(result.warnings).toEqual([OPENCODE_WINDOWS_NODE_MODULES_SYMLINK_PERMISSION_MESSAGE]);
+    expect(result.modelResultsById).toEqual({});
+  });
+
   it('treats OpenCode compatibility verification warnings as blocking when the batch failed', async () => {
     const prepareProvisioning = vi.fn<
       (
diff --git a/test/renderer/features/runtime-provider-management/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.test.ts b/test/renderer/features/runtime-provider-management/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.test.ts
index 3cf24e5f..2a73f1c8 100644
--- a/test/renderer/features/runtime-provider-management/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.test.ts
+++ b/test/renderer/features/runtime-provider-management/RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView.test.ts
@@ -232,6 +232,45 @@ describe('RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView', () => {
     expect(details?.className).toContain('font-mono');
   });
 
+  it('shows the Windows administrator hint only for OpenCode node_modules symlink EPERM errors', async () => {
+    const host = document.createElement('div');
+    document.body.appendChild(host);
+    const root = createRoot(host);
+    const symlinkError = [
+      'Runtime provider management command failed unexpectedly:',
+      "EPERM: operation not permitted, symlink 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Cache\\opencode\\shared-cache\\config-node_modules'",
+      "-> 'C:\\Users\\ben\\AppData\\Local\\claude-multimodel-nodejs\\Data\\opencode\\profiles\\abc123\\config\\opencode\\node_modules'",
+    ].join(' ');
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      root.render(
+        React.createElement(RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView, {
+          state: createState({ error: symlinkError }),
+          actions: createActions(),
+          disabled: false,
+        })
+      );
+      await Promise.resolve();
+    });
+
+    expect(host.textContent).toContain('Windows: run Agent Teams AI as Administrator');
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      root.render(
+        React.createElement(RuntimeProviderManagementPanelView, {
+          state: createState({
+            error: 'EPERM: operation not permitted, mkdir C:\\Program Files\\locked-project',
+          }),
+          actions: createActions(),
+          disabled: false,
+        })
+      );
+      await Promise.resolve();
+    });
+
+    expect(host.textContent).not.toContain('Windows: run Agent Teams AI as Administrator');
+  });
+
   it('copies fallback error text when structured diagnostics are unavailable', async () => {
     const host = document.createElement('div');
     document.body.appendChild(host);