diff --git a/bin/gstack-install-verdict.sh b/bin/gstack-install-verdict.sh
index 23661ed4b..7477dd56d 100644
--- a/bin/gstack-install-verdict.sh
+++ b/bin/gstack-install-verdict.sh
@@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ gstack_install_admission() {
     src=$(gstack_source_root "$bin") || src=""
     project=$(gstack_install_project "$src")
     file=$(gstack_install_verdict_path "${_GH:-$HOME/.gstack}" "$src" "$project")
-    { [ -f "$file" ] && ! gstack_doctor_install_profile "$(gstack_install_verdict_field "$file" for)"; } || [ ! -f "${GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT:-}" ] || file="$GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT"
+    case "$(gstack_install_verdict_field "$file" schema_version 2>/dev/null)" in
+      1|2) if gstack_doctor_install_profile "$(gstack_install_verdict_field "$file" for)" && [ -f "${GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT:-}" ]; then file="$GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT"; fi ;;
+    esac
+    [ -f "$file" ] || [ ! -f "${GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT:-}" ] || file="$GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT"
     [ -f "$file" ] || file=$(gstack_install_verdict_legacy_path "${_GH:-$HOME/.gstack}" "$src")
     code=INSTALL_UNVERIFIED
     fix="run the Capy skill installer (scripts/install.sh --for $skill) on this machine, then launch with the GSTACK_LAUNCH line it prints"
diff --git a/docs/capy-install.md b/docs/capy-install.md
index 1aa27b2dc..53326df6d 100644
--- a/docs/capy-install.md
+++ b/docs/capy-install.md
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ no host profile, so a workflow started there is refused (`INSTALL: fail verdict
 — … (review-voice certifies only the read-only helpers); fix: run
 GSTACK_CAPY_ROOT=<root> bash <root>/capy/skill/gstack/scripts/install.sh --for
 <skill> …`). A review-voice check never replaces an ok verdict that a fuller
-install wrote for the same HEAD and project. The reverse is an in-place
+install wrote for the same HEAD and project. Nor does one run from another
+project shadow the session's own verdict: when the verdict for the current
+project is a review-voice one, admission reads the session's launched
+`GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT` instead (GST-1161). The reverse is an in-place
 upgrade: a reviewer later asked to run a workflow runs the same installer
 `--for <skill>`, which reuses the checkout (`upgrading the review-voice
 install in place to --for <skill> (same checkout ...; no second clone)`),
diff --git a/test/install-verdict.test.ts b/test/install-verdict.test.ts
index efeb1122f..98aa8ed14 100644
--- a/test/install-verdict.test.ts
+++ b/test/install-verdict.test.ts
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ describe('install verdict keyed by (checkout, project): both twins', () => {
     const alone = both('autoplan', proj, { GSTACK_STATE_ROOT: sr });
     expect(alone).toMatchObject({ refuse: true, status: 'verdict', code: 'INSTALL_UNVERIFIED' });
     expect(alone.detail).toContain('certified for=review-voice');
+    const gone = both('autoplan', proj, { GSTACK_STATE_ROOT: sr, GSTACK_INSTALL_VERDICT: path.join(sr, 'gone.json') });
+    expect(gone.detail).toContain('certified for=review-voice');
+    writeVerdict(sr, { project: proj, schema_version: 3, for: 'review-voice' });
+    expect(both('autoplan', proj, env).detail).toContain('unsupported schema_version');
   });
 
   test('a running Bun other than the recorded one refuses with BUN_RESOLUTION_DRIFT and names both', () => {