diff --git a/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.test.ts b/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.test.ts
index 91b9d24df..ae8afd1e6 100644
--- a/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.test.ts
@@ -219,6 +219,30 @@ test('R9 records zone ceilings and keeps engine files outside the largest compon
   assert.ok(violations.some(({ message }) => /engine file entered/.test(message)));
 });
 
+// #1837: the zone violation used to name the alphabetically-first zone member — a file that had
+// been in the cycle all along — so the +1 was found only by diffing member lists between commits.
+// The ceiling records a count, not a membership, so the message lists every zone member instead.
+test('R10 zone overflow lists the whole zone so the joining member is visible', () => {
+  const zones = DAEMON_MODULARITY_BASELINE.largestTypeCycle.zoneMembers;
+  // Sorts after the daemon-server probes: the old first-member pick could not name it by luck.
+  const joined = 'src/daemon/snapshot-interactor-capture.ts';
+  const members = [...baselineTypeCycleMembers({ commands: zones.commands - 1 }), joined].sort();
+  const daemonMembers = members.filter((member) => member.startsWith('src/daemon/'));
+  assert.notEqual(daemonMembers[0], joined);
+
+  const violations = checkDaemonModularityRatchets(baselineEdges(), members);
+
+  assert.equal(violations.length, 1);
+  const [violation] = violations;
+  assert.equal(violation!.rule, 'R10 daemon-modularity');
+  assert.equal(violation!.file, 'scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.ts');
+  assert.match(violation!.message, /contains 17 daemon-server file\(s\) \(baseline 16\)/);
+  for (const member of daemonMembers) {
+    assert.ok(violation!.message.includes(member), `${member} missing from: ${violation!.message}`);
+  }
+  assert.match(violation!.message, /1 over the ceiling — the member\(s\) that joined are among/);
+});
+
 // Growth was always rejected; a baseline left ABOVE the measured size used to be a suggestion
 // in the success line, which is headroom the next change spends without a number moving.
 test('R9 rejects a baseline left above the measured cycle', () => {
diff --git a/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.ts b/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.ts
index 09e47613e..7d908f497 100644
--- a/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.ts
+++ b/scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.ts
@@ -165,15 +165,26 @@ function checkTypeCycleBaseline(members: readonly string[]): LayeringViolation[]
     });
   }
 
-  const zoneCounts = countBy(members, targetDagZone);
-  for (const [zone, count] of zoneCounts) {
+  const membersByZone = groupBy(members, targetDagZone);
+  for (const [zone, zoneMembers] of membersByZone) {
     const allowed = baseline.zoneMembers[zone] ?? 0;
-    if (count <= allowed) continue;
+    if (zoneMembers.length <= allowed) continue;
+    // The ceiling records a count, not a membership, so the gate cannot name the file that
+    // joined; naming the alphabetically-first member instead sent #1837's diagnosis to a file
+    // that had been in the cycle all along. List the whole zone so the joining edge is one
+    // diff away from the author, who knows which of these files the change touched. The
+    // overflow is net growth (a join and a departure cancel out), so it bounds nothing about
+    // how many members are new — only that at least one of the listed files is.
     violations.push({
       rule: 'R10 daemon-modularity',
-      file: members.find((member) => targetDagZone(member) === zone) ?? 'scripts/layering/check.ts',
+      file: 'scripts/layering/daemon-modularity.ts',
       line: 1,
-      message: `the largest type cycle now contains ${count} ${zone} file(s) (baseline ${allowed}); extraction must not trade one zone's locality for another's.`,
+      message:
+        `the largest type cycle now contains ${zoneMembers.length} ${zone} file(s) (baseline ` +
+        `${allowed}); extraction must not trade one zone's locality for another's. ` +
+        `${zoneMembers.length - allowed} over the ceiling — the member(s) that joined are among ` +
+        `these ${zone} files: ${zoneMembers.join(', ')}. Cut the edge that pulled them in ` +
+        `rather than raising the ceiling.`,
     });
   }
 
@@ -285,13 +296,18 @@ function isInsideInternalTree(file: string, roots: readonly string[]): boolean {
   return roots.some((root) => file.startsWith(path.posix.join(root, 'internal/')));
 }
 
-function countBy(values: readonly string[], keyOf: (value: string) => string): Map<string, number> {
-  const counts = new Map<string, number>();
+function groupBy(
+  values: readonly string[],
+  keyOf: (value: string) => string,
+): Map<string, string[]> {
+  const groups = new Map<string, string[]>();
   for (const value of values) {
     const key = keyOf(value);
-    counts.set(key, (counts.get(key) ?? 0) + 1);
+    const group = groups.get(key) ?? [];
+    group.push(value);
+    groups.set(key, group);
   }
-  return counts;
+  return groups;
 }
 
 export function daemonModularitySummary(): string {