diff --git a/src/TicketingServiceProvider.php b/src/TicketingServiceProvider.php
index c50c6e6..1673d34 100644
--- a/src/TicketingServiceProvider.php
+++ b/src/TicketingServiceProvider.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace Dashboard\Ticketing;
 
+use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
 use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
 
 class TicketingServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
@@ -29,5 +30,46 @@ class TicketingServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
                 \Dashboard\Ticketing\Console\Commands\RepairMergedTickets::class,
             ]);
         }
+
+        $this->scheduleAutoClose();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * THE NIGHTLY AUTO-CLOSE IS SCHEDULED HERE, BESIDE THE COMMAND IT NAMES
+     * ([central-ticketing] #2980, a spawn of [dashboard-shell] #2965).
+     *
+     * It used to be one line in the shell's routes/console.php — a file that
+     * names commands other repositories define. On 2026-09-26 01:10 PDT that
+     * arrangement cost production a php process a day whose entire output was
+     * *Command "admissions:remind-unconfirmed-links" is not defined*, exit 1: a
+     * schedule had reached a box nine and a half hours ahead of the code it
+     * scheduled, and nothing an operator could press would have fixed it,
+     * because the code was not there to fix.
+     *
+     * Registered from this provider, that is not expressible. The event exists
+     * on exactly the boxes where `AutoCloseTickets` is registered above,
+     * because the same `boot()` does both and both arrive in the same commit.
+     * A shell without central-ticketing simply has no such row in
+     * `schedule:list`, rather than a nightly failure about one.
+     *
+     * ── THE MINUTE IS STILL THE SHELL'S TO DECIDE ──────────────────────────
+     *
+     * `ScheduleStagger` is the one place a start time is chosen, and that is
+     * the whole point of it: a bare `->daily()` is 00:00:00, where every hourly
+     * and every quarter-hourly task on the platform already boots its own PHP
+     * inside the scheduler's one cgroup ([dashboard-shell] #1910). A time typed
+     * in this repository could not know that. Asking `dailyAt()` keeps this job
+     * at 00:12 — exactly where routes/console.php had it — and keeps the shell's
+     * map the single account of the night even for a job it no longer schedules.
+     *
+     * No `withoutOverlapping()`, and deliberately not added here: the shell's
+     * line carried none, and a lock is a behaviour change rather than a move.
+     */
+    private function scheduleAutoClose(): void
+    {
+        $this->callAfterResolving(Schedule::class, function (Schedule $schedule) {
+            $schedule->command('ticketing:auto-close')
+                ->dailyAt(\App\Support\Ops\ScheduleStagger::dailyAt('ticketing:auto-close'));
+        });
     }
 }