diff --git a/mobile/lib/shared/me/me_assistants.dart b/mobile/lib/shared/me/me_assistants.dart
index ad36a994cf..b4eaf823fc 100644
--- a/mobile/lib/shared/me/me_assistants.dart
+++ b/mobile/lib/shared/me/me_assistants.dart
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Future<List<String>> _managedAgentPubkeys(
   }
   return [
     for (final MapEntry(key: d, value: event) in heads.entries)
-      if (_agentPubkey.hasMatch(d) && _hasName(event)) d,
+      if (_agentPubkey.hasMatch(d) && _isSupportedPolicy(event)) d,
   ];
 }
 
@@ -171,14 +171,41 @@ bool _newer(NostrEvent a, NostrEvent b) =>
     a.createdAt > b.createdAt ||
     (a.createdAt == b.createdAt && a.id.compareTo(b.id) < 0);
 
-/// Desktop omits managed-agent records without a name; match its inventory.
-bool _hasName(NostrEvent event) {
+/// Whether a managed-agent record holds a policy desktop can apply. This
+/// mirrors desktop's `ManagedAgentEventContent` parse, plus the non-empty name
+/// desktop's agent library requires. An unsupported latest record fails
+/// closed: it excludes the agent rather than falling back to an older one.
+bool _isSupportedPolicy(NostrEvent event) {
+  final Object? decoded;
   try {
-    final body = jsonDecode(event.content);
-    return body is Map &&
-        body['name'] is String &&
-        (body['name'] as String).trim().isNotEmpty;
-  } catch (_) {
+    decoded = jsonDecode(event.content);
+  } on FormatException {
     return false;
   }
+  if (decoded is! Map<String, dynamic>) return false;
+  final body = decoded;
+  final name = body['name'];
+  final parallelism = body['parallelism'];
+  final allowlist = body['respond_to_allowlist'];
+  return name is String &&
+      name.trim().isNotEmpty &&
+      parallelism is int &&
+      parallelism >= 0 &&
+      parallelism <= 0xFFFFFFFF &&
+      _respondTo.contains(body['respond_to']) &&
+      (!body.containsKey('respond_to_allowlist') ||
+          (allowlist is List && allowlist.every((entry) => entry is String))) &&
+      _optionalPolicyText.every((field) {
+        final value = body[field];
+        return value == null || value is String;
+      });
 }
+
+const _respondTo = {'owner-only', 'allowlist', 'anyone'};
+const _optionalPolicyText = [
+  'persona_id',
+  'system_prompt',
+  'model',
+  'provider',
+  'persona_source_version',
+];
diff --git a/mobile/test/features/channels/me/solo_creation_tags_test.dart b/mobile/test/features/channels/me/solo_creation_tags_test.dart
index 80b111398b..46a594bb4a 100644
--- a/mobile/test/features/channels/me/solo_creation_tags_test.dart
+++ b/mobile/test/features/channels/me/solo_creation_tags_test.dart
@@ -114,7 +114,11 @@ void main() {
         final inventory = NostrEvent.fromJson(
           nostr.Event.from(
             kind: 30177,
-            content: jsonEncode({'name': 'Owned agent'}),
+            content: jsonEncode({
+              'name': 'Owned agent',
+              'parallelism': 1,
+              'respond_to': 'owner-only',
+            }),
             secretKey: owner.secret,
             tags: [
               ['d', agent.public],
diff --git a/mobile/test/shared/me/me_assistants_test.dart b/mobile/test/shared/me/me_assistants_test.dart
index 652e1f18fd..4b046769fb 100644
--- a/mobile/test/shared/me/me_assistants_test.dart
+++ b/mobile/test/shared/me/me_assistants_test.dart
@@ -84,12 +84,17 @@ void main() {
 
   var fakeAgents = 0;
   String fakeAgent() => (++fakeAgents).toRadixString(16).padLeft(64, 'a');
+  const policy = {
+    'name': 'Agent',
+    'parallelism': 1,
+    'respond_to': 'owner-only',
+  };
   NostrEvent managed(
     String d, {
     nostr.Keys? by,
     int time = 1,
     int kind = 30177,
-    Object? content = const {'name': 'Agent'},
+    Object? content = policy,
   }) => NostrEvent.fromJson(
     nostr.Event.from(
       kind: kind,
@@ -233,10 +238,10 @@ void main() {
     final relay = _Relay(
       inventory: [
         [
-          managed(renamed.public, time: 3, content: {'name': ' '}),
+          managed(renamed.public, time: 3, content: {...policy, 'name': ' '}),
           managed(agent.public, time: 2),
           managed(renamed.public, time: 2),
-          managed(unnamed.public, content: {'name': 7}),
+          managed(unnamed.public, content: {...policy, 'name': 7}),
           managed(agent.public.toUpperCase()),
           managed('not-a-pubkey'),
         ],
@@ -251,6 +256,74 @@ void main() {
     expect(choices.map((a) => a.pubkey), [agent.public]);
     expect(relay.profileAuthors.single, [agent.public]);
   });
+  for (final (label, content) in [
+    ('unsupported respond_to', {...policy, 'respond_to': 'nobody'}),
+    ('missing respond_to', {'name': 'Agent', 'parallelism': 1}),
+    ('missing parallelism', {'name': 'Agent', 'respond_to': 'anyone'}),
+    ('negative parallelism', {...policy, 'parallelism': -1}),
+    ('fractional parallelism', {...policy, 'parallelism': 1.5}),
+    ('oversized parallelism', {...policy, 'parallelism': 0x100000000}),
+    ('non-list allowlist', {...policy, 'respond_to_allowlist': 'x'}),
+    (
+      'non-string allowlist entry',
+      {
+        ...policy,
+        'respond_to': 'allowlist',
+        'respond_to_allowlist': [7],
+      },
+    ),
+    ('null allowlist', {...policy, 'respond_to_allowlist': null}),
+    ('non-string model', {...policy, 'model': 7}),
+    ('non-object content', ['Agent']),
+  ]) {
+    test('an unsupported latest policy fails closed: $label', () async {
+      final relay = _Relay(
+        inventory: [
+          [
+            managed(agent.public, time: 2, content: content),
+            managed(agent.public),
+          ],
+        ],
+        profiles: [profile(agent, ownedBy: owner)],
+      );
+      final container = setup(relay);
+      expect(await container.read(meAssistantsProvider.future), isEmpty);
+      expect(
+        await isOwnedMeAssistant(container.read(meSyncProvider), agent.public),
+        isFalse,
+      );
+    });
+  }
+  test('accepts every supported policy shape', () async {
+    final shapes = [
+      policy,
+      {...policy, 'respond_to': 'anyone', 'parallelism': 0},
+      {
+        ...policy,
+        'respond_to': 'allowlist',
+        'respond_to_allowlist': [other.public],
+        'persona_id': 'scout',
+        'model': null,
+        'future_field': true,
+      },
+    ];
+    final agents = [for (final _ in shapes) nostr.Keys.generate()];
+    final relay = _Relay(
+      inventory: [
+        [
+          for (var i = 0; i < shapes.length; i++)
+            managed(agents[i].public, content: shapes[i]),
+        ],
+      ],
+      profiles: [for (final key in agents) profile(key, ownedBy: owner)],
+    );
+    expect(
+      (await setup(
+        relay,
+      ).read(meAssistantsProvider.future)).map((a) => a.pubkey),
+      unorderedEquals(agents.map((key) => key.public)),
+    );
+  });
   test('reads beyond the first inventory page with a cursor', () async {
     final first = fullPage;
     final relay = _Relay(
@@ -320,7 +393,11 @@ void main() {
   });
   test('same-second inventory records keep the lowest id', () async {
     final named = managed(agent.public, time: 5);
-    final unnamed = managed(agent.public, time: 5, content: {'name': ''});
+    final unnamed = managed(
+      agent.public,
+      time: 5,
+      content: {...policy, 'name': ''},
+    );
     final relay = _Relay(
       inventory: [
         [named, unnamed],