diff --git a/crates/socket-patch-cli/src/commands/vendor.rs b/crates/socket-patch-cli/src/commands/vendor.rs
index bd85b661f..7b49eb090 100644
--- a/crates/socket-patch-cli/src/commands/vendor.rs
+++ b/crates/socket-patch-cli/src/commands/vendor.rs
@@ -958,6 +958,24 @@ pub async fn run(args: VendorArgs) -> i32 {
     // The raw lockfile inventory does not require VEX eligibility or an
     // installed copy of a patch. Revert needs only the vendor ledger.
     if !args.revert {
+        // A commit journal a killed eject left is replayed (by taking the
+        // apply lock) before the lockfiles are read: the pins must come
+        // off the committed state, or a re-run would eject again from the
+        // hosted lock the replay is about to replace (#1782).
+        if tokio::fs::symlink_metadata(
+            args.common
+                .cwd
+                .join(socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::COMMIT_JOURNAL_REL),
+        )
+        .await
+        .is_ok()
+        {
+            let timeout = Duration::from_secs(args.common.lock_timeout.unwrap_or(0));
+            if let Err(e) = crate::commands::lock_cli::acquire_with_status(&socket_dir, timeout) {
+                let (code, message) = crate::commands::lock_cli::lock_failure(&e, timeout);
+                return emit_eject_refusal(&args.common, code, &message);
+            }
+        }
         let inventory = crate::commands::hosted_inventory(&args.common, &args.common.cwd).await;
         // Contested hosted wiring: the patch set cannot be read off the
         // lockfiles, and a "nothing to vendor" answer would hide it. With
@@ -2026,6 +2044,25 @@ async fn run_eject(args: &VendorArgs, pins: Vec<HostedPin>) -> i32 {
         socket_patch_core::patch::redirect::vlt_heal::lock_targets(&lock, &origins, &pin_purls)
     })
     .unwrap_or_default();
+    // The restore runs inside the group commit the vendored apply commits
+    // (handed to it through the capture), so the registry entries it puts
+    // back land in the same journaled commit as the vendored wiring. An
+    // eject killed before that commit (SIGKILL, Ctrl-C, a CI cancel) leaves
+    // the project hosted, exactly as found; one killed after it rolls
+    // forward on the next locked command (#1782). Only when the overlay
+    // captures every file the restore writes (a Gradle pin's hosted index
+    // and settings script under `.socket/gradle/` go straight to disk, and
+    // a half-captured restore would leave settings.gradle applying a
+    // deleted script) and the vendored apply runs at this same root.
+    let journaled_restore = !socket_patch_core::utils::failpoint::switched_off("group_commit")
+        && common.project_root() == common.cwd
+        && touched
+            .iter()
+            .all(|rel| socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::captures(rel));
+    let mut capture = EjectCapture {
+        group: journaled_restore.then(|| GroupCommit::begin(&common.cwd)),
+        ..EjectCapture::default()
+    };
     let restore = socket_patch_core::patch::redirect::upstream::restore_upstream(
         &common.cwd,
         &pins,
@@ -2042,14 +2079,12 @@ async fn run_eject(args: &VendorArgs, pins: Vec<HostedPin>) -> i32 {
         .map(|(_, why)| why.to_string())
         .next()
         .or_else(|| restore.flush_error.clone());
-    // Every file the vendored apply's group commit wrote, with its bytes
-    // from before (the rollback's scope beyond the restore's own files),
-    // and the flavors it wired for the close printed below.
-    let mut capture = EjectCapture::default();
     // The vendored apply's events start here: a rollback retracts them.
     let events_start = env.events.len();
     let mut exit: i32;
     if let Some(why) = restore_failure {
+        // Discard the captured restore before the rollback below writes.
+        drop(capture.group.take());
         env.mark_error(EnvelopeError::new("redirect_revert_failed", why.clone()));
         if !common.json {
             eprintln!("Error: {}", crate::ui::sentence_case(&why));
@@ -2081,6 +2116,17 @@ async fn run_eject(args: &VendorArgs, pins: Vec<HostedPin>) -> i32 {
             )
             .await;
         exit = i32::from(applied);
+        // A vendored apply that returned before its commit leaves the
+        // group, and with it the captured restore, uncommitted: discard
+        // it, so the rollback below writes to disk, and undo the eject.
+        if capture.group.take().is_some() && exit == 0 {
+            let detail = "the vendored apply did not commit, so the eject is undone";
+            if !common.json {
+                eprintln!("Error: {detail}");
+            }
+            env.mark_error(EnvelopeError::new("eject_incomplete", detail));
+            exit = 1;
+        }
         // Backstop: every ejected pin must now be vendored. A package the
         // backend skipped (a vendored gate condition the pre-pass did not
         // see) would otherwise leave the project neither hosted nor
@@ -2111,9 +2157,28 @@ async fn run_eject(args: &VendorArgs, pins: Vec<HostedPin>) -> i32 {
         }
     }
     let committed = &capture.committed;
+    // A commit that failed part-way and could not put its files back keeps
+    // its journal, and the next locked command rolls it forward: putting
+    // the hosted files back now would match the journal's recorded old
+    // bytes and be replayed over, so the rollback is left to that replay
+    // (the error the vendored apply recorded already says so).
+    let commit_pending = exit != 0
+        && tokio::fs::symlink_metadata(
+            common
+                .cwd
+                .join(socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::COMMIT_JOURNAL_REL),
+        )
+        .await
+        .is_ok();
     if exit != 0 {
-        match snapshot.restore(&restore.reverted_files, committed).await {
-            Ok(()) => {
+        let rollback = if commit_pending {
+            None
+        } else {
+            Some(snapshot.restore(&restore.reverted_files, committed).await)
+        };
+        match rollback {
+            None => {}
+            Some(Ok(())) => {
                 let detail = "the eject did not complete, so every file it touched was \
                               restored: the project is still hosted, exactly as before";
                 // Nothing the vendored apply did survives the rollback: a
@@ -2132,7 +2197,7 @@ async fn run_eject(args: &VendorArgs, pins: Vec<HostedPin>) -> i32 {
                     detail: detail.to_string(),
                 });
             }
-            Err(e) => {
+            Some(Err(e)) => {
                 let detail = format!(
                     "the eject did not complete and restoring the pre-eject files failed ({e}); \
                      restore them from version control (`git checkout -- {}`)",
@@ -3146,9 +3211,17 @@ pub(crate) async fn vendor_records_reusing(
     // over. The replaced uuid dirs of re-vendored packages are swept only
     // after the commit, since until then the committed wiring still names
     // them. Dry runs write nothing and capture nothing.
-    let group = (!common.dry_run
-        && !socket_patch_core::utils::failpoint::switched_off("group_commit"))
-    .then(|| GroupCommit::begin(&common.cwd));
+    // An eject hands over the group its upstream restore already wrote
+    // into, so the restore commits with this run's wiring.
+    let handed = eject
+        .as_deref_mut()
+        .and_then(|capture| capture.group.take())
+        .filter(|_| !common.dry_run);
+    let eject_group = handed.is_some();
+    let group = handed.or_else(|| {
+        (!common.dry_run && !socket_patch_core::utils::failpoint::switched_off("group_commit"))
+            .then(|| GroupCommit::begin(&common.cwd))
+    });
     let mut stale_artifacts: Vec<StaleArtifact> = Vec::new();
     // The source of a superseded install (see [`superseded_install`]).
     let uninstalled = common.cwd.join(".socket/vendor/.uninstalled");
@@ -3826,6 +3899,34 @@ pub(crate) async fn vendor_records_reusing(
     // others failed — a failed package's backend already put back what it
     // had touched, in the captured state — so a completed run ends exactly
     // where committing after every package would have left it.
+    //
+    // Not for an eject: its group also holds every pin's upstream restore,
+    // so committing past a failed or skipped package would land that
+    // package on the plain registry entry, unpatched, and a crash (or a
+    // commit left pending) before the eject's rollback would make it stick.
+    // The eject is all-or-nothing, so it drops the group unless every pin
+    // is vendored in the captured ledger; nothing of it reached the disk
+    // but the artifacts, which are removed here (#1782).
+    let group = match group {
+        Some(group) if eject_group => {
+            let ledger = load_state(&common.cwd).await.ok();
+            let complete = !has_errors
+                && records.keys().all(|purl| {
+                    ledger
+                        .as_ref()
+                        .is_some_and(|l| lookup_entry(&l.entries, purl).is_some())
+                });
+            if complete {
+                Some(group)
+            } else {
+                drop(group);
+                has_errors = true;
+                let _ = remove_new_vendor_dirs(common, vendor_dirs_before.as_ref()).await;
+                None
+            }
+        }
+        group => group,
+    };
     let mut commit_failed = false;
     if let Some(group) = group {
         socket_patch_core::utils::failpoint::hit("vendor_group_commit");
@@ -4153,8 +4254,11 @@ async fn remove_new_vendor_dirs(
 /// printing its own close: every project file its group commit wrote (with
 /// the bytes from before, for the rollback) and the lockfile flavors it
 /// wired (for the "Next steps:" the eject prints only when it completes).
+/// The eject hands its open group commit IN through `group`, holding the
+/// upstream restore; the vendored apply takes it as its own.
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub(crate) struct EjectCapture {
+    pub(crate) group: Option<GroupCommit>,
     pub(crate) committed: Vec<CommittedFile>,
     pub(crate) wired_flavors: HashSet<String>,
 }
diff --git a/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject.rs b/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject.rs
index 77510068d..ade21f42a 100644
--- a/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject.rs
+++ b/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject.rs
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ impl Project {
     /// Run the binary against the mocks in the hermetic `SOCKET_*`
     /// environment.
     fn run(&self, args: &[&str]) -> (i32, String, String) {
+        self.run_with_env(args, &[])
+    }
+
+    /// [`Self::run`] with extra environment variables (a failpoint).
+    fn run_with_env(&self, args: &[&str], extra: &[(&str, &str)]) -> (i32, String, String) {
         let mut cmd = hermetic::binary_command();
         cmd.args(args)
             .arg("--cwd")
@@ -87,6 +92,9 @@ impl Project {
             .env("SOCKET_NPM_REGISTRY", &uri)
             .env("SOCKET_PATCH_SERVER_URL", &uri)
             .env("SOCKET_VENDOR_SOURCE", "service");
+        for (key, value) in extra {
+            cmd.env(key, value);
+        }
         let out = cmd.output().expect("spawn socket-patch");
         (
             out.status.code().unwrap_or(-1),
@@ -270,6 +278,95 @@ async fn eject_vendors_hosted_pins_and_revert_returns_to_upstream() {
     assert!(!p.redirect_state().exists());
 }
 
+/// #1782: an eject that dies before its group commit (a SIGKILL, a Ctrl-C,
+/// a CI cancel) leaves the project hosted, exactly as found: the upstream
+/// restore is captured with the vendored wiring and lands only with the
+/// commit's journal. A re-run then sees the hosted pin and completes the
+/// eject, instead of answering `noManifest` over an unpatched lock.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn eject_killed_before_its_commit_stays_hosted_and_reruns() {
+    let p = hosted_project(true).await;
+    mock_registry(&p).await;
+    mock_view(&p).await;
+    let before = p.lock_bytes();
+
+    let (code, stdout, stderr) = p.run_with_env(
+        &["vendor", "--json"],
+        &[("SOCKET_PATCH_FAILPOINT", "vendor_group_commit")],
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        code, 86,
+        "the failpoint kills the eject\n{stdout}\n{stderr}"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        p.lock_bytes(),
+        before,
+        "nothing reached the lock before the commit: it still pins the hosted tarball"
+    );
+    assert!(!p
+        .root()
+        .join(socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::COMMIT_JOURNAL_REL)
+        .exists());
+    assert!(!p.root().join(".socket/vendor/state.json").exists());
+
+    let (code, env) = p.run_json(&["vendor"]);
+    assert_eq!(code, 0, "the re-run ejects: {env:#}");
+    assert_eq!(find_event(&env, "applied", None)["purl"], PURL, "{env:#}");
+    let lock = p.lock();
+    let resolved = lock["packages"]["node_modules/left-pad"]["resolved"]
+        .as_str()
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+        .to_string();
+    assert!(
+        resolved.contains(&format!(".socket/vendor/npm/{UUID}/left-pad-1.3.0.tgz")),
+        "{lock:#}"
+    );
+}
+
+/// #1782, the other half: an eject killed once its commit journal is
+/// durable is finished by the next command that takes the apply lock, so
+/// the restore and the vendored wiring land together (never a lock back
+/// on the registry with no vendored entry).
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn eject_killed_after_its_journal_rolls_forward() {
+    let p = hosted_project(true).await;
+    mock_registry(&p).await;
+    mock_view(&p).await;
+
+    let (code, stdout, stderr) = p.run_with_env(
+        &["vendor", "--json"],
+        &[("SOCKET_PATCH_FAILPOINT", "group_commit_journal")],
+    );
+    assert_eq!(
+        code, 86,
+        "the failpoint kills the eject\n{stdout}\n{stderr}"
+    );
+    assert!(p
+        .root()
+        .join(socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::COMMIT_JOURNAL_REL)
+        .exists());
+
+    let (code, env) = p.run_json(&["vendor"]);
+    assert_eq!(code, 0, "{env:#}");
+    assert!(!p
+        .root()
+        .join(socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::COMMIT_JOURNAL_REL)
+        .exists());
+    let lock = p.lock();
+    let resolved = lock["packages"]["node_modules/left-pad"]["resolved"]
+        .as_str()
+        .unwrap_or_default()
+        .to_string();
+    assert!(
+        resolved.contains(&format!(".socket/vendor/npm/{UUID}/left-pad-1.3.0.tgz")),
+        "the replay wired the vendored artifact: {lock:#}"
+    );
+    let state: Value =
+        serde_json::from_slice(&std::fs::read(p.root().join(".socket/vendor/state.json")).unwrap())
+            .unwrap();
+    assert!(state["entries"].get(PURL).is_some(), "{state:#}");
+}
+
 /// Hosted pins remain the input when an agent manifest is present. The
 /// manifest does not list this patch and nothing is installed locally.
 #[tokio::test]
diff --git a/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject_fresh_checkout.rs b/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject_fresh_checkout.rs
index 28e0d3244..d80bcd8b4 100644
--- a/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject_fresh_checkout.rs
+++ b/crates/socket-patch-cli/tests/vendor_eject_fresh_checkout.rs
@@ -723,4 +723,22 @@ async fn rolled_back_eject_reports_nothing_vendored() {
         !stdout.contains("Vendored") && !stdout.contains("Next steps"),
         "nothing was vendored: {stdout}\n{stderr}"
     );
+
+    // #1782 review: the eject's group also holds ms's upstream restore, so
+    // it must never be committed past ms's failure. A commit would journal
+    // ms on the plain registry entry, and a kill at that point (here the
+    // journal failpoint) would make the next locked command roll it
+    // forward, unpatched.
+    let root = fresh("killed");
+    let (code, env) = run_json_with(
+        &root,
+        &server,
+        &["vendor"],
+        &[("SOCKET_PATCH_FAILPOINT", "group_commit_journal".to_string())],
+    );
+    assert_eq!(code, 1, "the failed eject never reaches a commit: {env:#}");
+    assert!(!root
+        .join(socket_patch_core::utils::group_commit::COMMIT_JOURNAL_REL)
+        .exists());
+    still_hosted(&root);
 }