diff --git a/packages/chord/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/chord/CHANGELOG.md
index 06157ff48..c36e087f6 100644
--- a/packages/chord/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/chord/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- `nodeLoader` registers every facet's directory before importing any, so a facet that imports a file of a facet listed after it gets the same module copy as that facet; before, the load order could produce duplicates.
 - A link that is already closed when a host accepts or routes to it is no longer kept as a connection: before, a route that returned a dead link (a child process that exited before its link was wrapped) made every later call to that host name fail with `unavailable` until restart, and leaked the connection's ping timer.
 - Fixed `processLock()` failing with `listen EINVAL` on macOS and the BSDs when the temporary directory is too deep for a socket path (sun_path holds 104 bytes); the lock socket then lives in a private per-user directory, `/tmp/chord2-<uid>`
 
diff --git a/packages/chord/src/loader.ts b/packages/chord/src/loader.ts
index c46a70b68..85a0fd879 100644
--- a/packages/chord/src/loader.ts
+++ b/packages/chord/src/loader.ts
@@ -45,11 +45,15 @@ export const nodeLoader: FacetLoader = async (modules) => {
 	hook();
 	const version = String(++generation);
 	const facets: Facet[] = [];
-	for (const module of modules) {
+	const urls = modules.map((module) => {
 		const url = toUrl(module);
 		url.search = "";
+		return url;
+	});
+	// Every root first: a facet importing another facet's directory gets this load's copy, whatever the order.
+	for (const url of urls) roots.add(new URL(".", url).href);
+	for (const url of urls) {
 		const name = url.href;
-		roots.add(new URL(".", url).href);
 		url.searchParams.set(PARAM, version);
 		// Owner-approved exception to the no-dynamic-import rule; see TODO(loader) above.
 		const loaded = (await import(url.href)) as { default?: FacetDefinition };
diff --git a/packages/chord/test/fixtures/loader.ts b/packages/chord/test/fixtures/loader.ts
index 034576231..5393d3cf2 100644
--- a/packages/chord/test/fixtures/loader.ts
+++ b/packages/chord/test/fixtures/loader.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import { nodeLoader } from "../../src/loader.ts";
 
 // Plugin modules live under the package so bare imports (typebox) resolve; removed afterwards.
 const dir = fileURLToPath(new URL(`../.tmp-plugins-${process.pid}/`, import.meta.url));
+// Separate from `dir`, which becomes a reload root once its facet loads.
+const plugins = fileURLToPath(new URL(`../.tmp-plugins-${process.pid}-order/`, import.meta.url));
 const chord = new URL("../../src/index.ts", import.meta.url).href;
 
 // The test's own copy of the plugin's contract: binding is by description, not object identity.
@@ -49,6 +51,31 @@ try {
 	assert.deepEqual(report.changed, ["t.hello"]);
 	assert.equal(await handle.greet("x"), "v2 x");
 	await host.close();
+
+	// A facet listed first that imports a later facet's directory shares that facet's copy of the module.
+	const Shared = local("t.shared", {
+		version: 1,
+		input: Type.Object({}),
+		members: { same: method(Type.Null(), Type.Boolean()) },
+	});
+	mkdirSync(`${plugins}a`, { recursive: true });
+	mkdirSync(`${plugins}b`, { recursive: true });
+	writeFileSync(`${plugins}b/state.ts`, "export const state = {};\n");
+	writeFileSync(
+		`${plugins}b/facet.ts`,
+		`import { defineFacet } from ${JSON.stringify(chord)};\nimport { state } from "./state.ts";\nexport const own = state;\nexport default defineFacet(() => {});\n`,
+	);
+	writeFileSync(
+		`${plugins}a/facet.ts`,
+		`import { Type } from "typebox";\nimport { defineFacet, local, method } from ${JSON.stringify(chord)};\nimport { state } from "../b/state.ts";\n` +
+			`const Shared = local("t.shared", { version: 1, input: Type.Object({}), members: { same: method(Type.Null(), Type.Boolean()) } });\n` +
+			`export default defineFacet((host) => host.serve(Shared, () => ({ same: async () => (await import(new URL("../b/facet.ts", import.meta.url).href)).own === state })));\n`,
+	);
+	const ordered = createHost({ loader: nodeLoader, onError: () => {} });
+	await ordered.load([`${plugins}a/facet.ts`, `${plugins}b/facet.ts`]);
+	assert.equal(await ordered.get(Shared, {}).same(null), true);
+	await ordered.close();
 } finally {
 	rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+	rmSync(plugins, { recursive: true, force: true });
 }