diff --git a/src/server/responses/core.ts b/src/server/responses/core.ts
index f9a5c204b9..1466e723aa 100644
--- a/src/server/responses/core.ts
+++ b/src/server/responses/core.ts
@@ -2630,14 +2630,23 @@ async function handleResponsesInner(
                   && recoverySelectionAdmission?.mainProfileDraining === true,
               };
               const recoveryNow = Date.now();
-              subagentFallbackAccountPreview = (modelId, previewNow) => previewCodexAccountForRequest(
+              // Carry the entitlement filter through recovery too (#2509/#2623). The scope was
+              // already re-previewed per candidate here; the ELIGIBLE-ACCOUNT set was not, so a
+              // recovered assignment could select an account that is not entitled to the model
+              // and then fail closed at final auth — the same class of stale-selection bug as
+              // the quota scope, one layer over.
+              subagentFallbackAccountPreview = (modelId, previewNow, modelEligibleAccountIds) => previewCodexAccountForRequest(
                 poolAffinityKey,
                 config,
                 previewNow,
                 codexQuotaScopeForModel(modelId),
-                recoverySelectionOptions,
+                { ...recoverySelectionOptions, modelEligibleAccountIds },
+              );
+              const recoveryPreviewAccountId = subagentFallbackAccountPreview(
+                parsed.modelId,
+                recoveryNow,
+                subagentFallbackModelEligibleAccountIdsForModel?.(parsed.modelId),
               );
-              const recoveryPreviewAccountId = subagentFallbackAccountPreview(parsed.modelId, recoveryNow);
               return applySubagentModelFallback(
                 parsed,
                 req.headers,
@@ -2647,6 +2656,7 @@ async function handleResponsesInner(
                 false,
                 recoverySelectionOptions,
                 subagentFallbackAccountPreview,
+                subagentFallbackModelEligibleAccountIdsForModel,
               );
             } finally {
               recoverySelectionAdmission?.release();
diff --git a/tests/subagent-fallback-handle-responses.test.ts b/tests/subagent-fallback-handle-responses.test.ts
index d9c2e34964..384368eae7 100644
--- a/tests/subagent-fallback-handle-responses.test.ts
+++ b/tests/subagent-fallback-handle-responses.test.ts
@@ -1274,6 +1274,39 @@ describe("native fallback account preview", () => {
     expect(bodyRequests[1]?.auth).toContain("pool-b_token");
   });
 
+  /**
+   * Recovery must carry the ENTITLEMENT filter too, not only the quota scope (#2509).
+   *
+   * The end-to-end case above grants the roster to both pool accounts, so it can only prove the
+   * SCOPE is re-previewed per candidate. The recovery path re-previewed the scope but passed no
+   * eligible-account set, so it could select an account with no entitlement to the recovered
+   * model and fail closed at final auth — the same stale-selection class as the quota scope, one
+   * layer over.
+   *
+   * Asserted structurally on the source, like the route-inventory contract: driving it end to end
+   * needs a recovered encrypted assignment AND an account-gated candidate whose entitlement
+   * differs per account, and the resulting fixture proved more fragile than the thing it checks.
+   * What this does catch is the regression that actually threatens the fix — one of the two
+   * preview sites silently losing the eligibility argument again.
+   */
+  test("both fallback preview sites pass the model-eligible account set (#2509)", async () => {
+    const source = await Bun.file(
+      new URL("../src/server/responses/core.ts", import.meta.url).pathname,
+    ).text();
+
+    const previews = source.match(/subagentFallbackAccountPreview = \([^)]*\)/g) ?? [];
+    // Two assignment sites: the primary selection path and the encrypted-recovery path.
+    expect(previews).toHaveLength(2);
+    // Neither may drop the third parameter — that is exactly how recovery lost it.
+    for (const preview of previews) {
+      expect(preview).toContain("modelEligibleAccountIds");
+    }
+
+    // And both must actually forward it into the preview call, not merely accept it.
+    const forwarded = source.match(/\{ \.\.\.(previewSelectionOptions|recoverySelectionOptions), modelEligibleAccountIds \}/g) ?? [];
+    expect(forwarded).toHaveLength(2);
+  });
+
   test("uses healthier pool account B when active A is above threshold", async () => {
     const now = 1_800_000_000_000;
     Date.now = () => now;