diff --git a/packages/cli/src/index.ts b/packages/cli/src/index.ts
index 18a8081..b8f1218 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/index.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import {
 } from "@git-agentic/sentinel-core";
 import { createSandbox, runLifecycleScripts, scrubEnv } from "@git-agentic/sentinel-sandbox";
 import { formatReport, formatManifest, verdictExitCode, formatTree, treeExitCode, formatViolations, formatStats, formatHistory, formatExplain, formatLint, formatPreview, type Manifest, type ViolationRow, type ExplainResult, type PreviewResult } from "./format.js";
+import { packageCoordinateFromTarball } from "./scan-coordinate.js";
 
 const DEFAULT_PROXY = process.env.SENTINEL_PROXY ?? "http://localhost:4873";
 
@@ -55,10 +56,10 @@ program
   .option("--json", "emit the raw JSON report", false)
   .action(async (tarballPath: string, opts: { json: boolean }) => {
     const tarball = readFileSync(tarballPath) as Buffer;
-    const name = tarballPath.split("/").pop()?.replace(/\.tgz$/, "") ?? "local";
+    const { name, version } = await packageCoordinateFromTarball(tarball);
     const report = await auditTarball({
       meta: {
-        name, version: "local", author: null, maintainers: [], license: null,
+        name, version, author: null, maintainers: [], license: null,
         hasInstallScripts: false,
       },
       tarball,
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/scan-coordinate.ts b/packages/cli/src/scan-coordinate.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4b0eae4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/src/scan-coordinate.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+import { Buffer } from "node:buffer";
+import { extractTarball, readPackageManifest, type PackageCoordinate } from "@git-agentic/sentinel-core";
+
+export type { PackageCoordinate };
+
+/**
+ * The package coordinate as the tarball itself states it.
+ *
+ * COD2-1058: `scan` used to derive this from the tarball's filename, which
+ * `npm pack` writes as `<name>-<version>.tgz` — so the "name" carried the
+ * version and never matched a real package name. That value fed typosquat
+ * detection, policy.deny, waiver matching and the exit code.
+ *
+ * Extraction and manifest reading both already exist in
+ * `@git-agentic/sentinel-core` for `runAudit`'s own publish-time identity
+ * check — this calls the same `extractTarball` + `readPackageManifest`
+ * rather than re-deriving either, so the two callers can't drift again.
+ */
+export async function packageCoordinateFromTarball(
+  tarball: Buffer,
+): Promise<PackageCoordinate> {
+  const extracted = await extractTarball(tarball);
+  return readPackageManifest(extracted);
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/helpers/make-tarball.ts b/packages/cli/test/helpers/make-tarball.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5790f9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/test/helpers/make-tarball.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join, dirname } from "node:path";
+import { create } from "tar";
+
+export interface MakeTarballOptions {
+  /** Package name to write into package/package.json. Ignored when omitManifest is set. */
+  name?: string;
+  /** Package version to write into package/package.json. Ignored when omitManifest is set. */
+  version?: string;
+  /**
+   * Build a tarball with no package/package.json at all — the "no readable
+   * manifest" case the coordinate reader must refuse rather than guess past.
+   */
+  omitManifest?: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Build a real in-memory npm-style .tgz (gzip+tar, `package/` prefix), the
+ * same shape `npm pack` produces. Used to test that the scan coordinate is
+ * read from the manifest inside the tarball, not from its filename.
+ */
+export async function makeTarball(opts: MakeTarballOptions = {}): Promise<Buffer> {
+  const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "sentinel-make-tarball-"));
+  try {
+    const files: Record<string, string> = opts.omitManifest
+      ? { "package/README.md": "no manifest here\n" }
+      : {
+          "package/package.json": JSON.stringify(
+            { name: opts.name ?? "example", version: opts.version ?? "0.0.0" },
+            null,
+            2,
+          ),
+        };
+    for (const [path, contents] of Object.entries(files)) {
+      const full = join(dir, path);
+      mkdirSync(dirname(full), { recursive: true });
+      writeFileSync(full, contents);
+    }
+    const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
+    const stream = create({ cwd: dir, gzip: true }, Object.keys(files));
+    for await (const chunk of stream) chunks.push(Buffer.from(chunk));
+    return Buffer.concat(chunks);
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/cli/test/scan.test.ts b/packages/cli/test/scan.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..052a5aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/cli/test/scan.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { describe, test } from "node:test";
+import { readFileSync, writeFileSync, mkdtempSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+import { packageCoordinateFromTarball } from "../src/scan-coordinate.js";
+import { makeTarball } from "./helpers/make-tarball.js";
+
+describe("sentinel scan coordinate", () => {
+  test("reads the name and version from the manifest, not the filename", async () => {
+    // npm pack names tarballs <name>-<version>.tgz, so a filename-derived
+    // name is version-suffixed and never equals the real package name.
+    const tarball = await makeTarball({ name: "lodash", version: "4.17.21" });
+    const dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "scan-"));
+    try {
+      const path = join(dir, "lodash-4.17.21.tgz");
+      writeFileSync(path, tarball);
+
+      const coordinate = await packageCoordinateFromTarball(readFileSync(path));
+
+      assert.equal(coordinate.name, "lodash");
+      assert.equal(coordinate.version, "4.17.21");
+    } finally {
+      rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("refuses a tarball with no readable manifest rather than guessing", async () => {
+    const tarball = await makeTarball({ omitManifest: true });
+
+    await assert.rejects(
+      () => packageCoordinateFromTarball(tarball),
+      /missing readable package\/package\.json/,
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/core/src/audit.ts b/packages/core/src/audit.ts
index fc153d5..7c9df87 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/audit.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/audit.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Buffer } from "node:buffer";
 import { baselineFrom, extractTarball, integrityOf } from "./extract.js";
+import { readPackageManifest } from "./manifest.js";
 import { extractCapabilities, diffCapabilities } from "./capabilities.js";
 import { RULES } from "./rules/index.js";
 import { capabilityNoveltyFindings } from "./rules/capability-novelty.js";
@@ -118,17 +119,7 @@ export async function runAudit(input: AuditTarballInput): Promise<Audit> {
   // not replace that complete report with a secondary "missing manifest" parse
   // error caused by the intentionally-truncated extraction.
   if (input.requirePackageManifest && !extracted.truncated) {
-    if (extracted.packageManifestEntryCount > 1) {
-      throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: duplicate package/package.json entries");
-    }
-    const file = extracted.files.find((f) => f.path === "package/package.json");
-    if (!file) throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: missing readable package/package.json");
-    let manifest: { name?: unknown; version?: unknown };
-    try { manifest = JSON.parse(file.content) as { name?: unknown; version?: unknown }; }
-    catch { throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: package/package.json is not valid JSON"); }
-    if (typeof manifest.name !== "string" || typeof manifest.version !== "string") {
-      throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: package/package.json requires string name and version");
-    }
+    const manifest = readPackageManifest(extracted);
     if (manifest.name !== input.requirePackageManifest.name || manifest.version !== input.requirePackageManifest.version) {
       throw new Error(
         `malformed npm tarball: package/package.json identity ${manifest.name}@${manifest.version} does not match publish target ${input.requirePackageManifest.name}@${input.requirePackageManifest.version}`,
diff --git a/packages/core/src/index.ts b/packages/core/src/index.ts
index 3937426..96d98e3 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/index.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export {
   type SriAlgorithm,
   type ExtractResult,
 } from "./extract.js";
+export { readPackageManifest, type PackageCoordinate } from "./manifest.js";
 export { RULES } from "./rules/index.js";
 export { SENSITIVE_PATHS, sensitivePathsFor, type SensitivePath } from "./sensitive-paths.js";
 export { extractCapabilities, diffCapabilities } from "./capabilities.js";
diff --git a/packages/core/src/manifest.ts b/packages/core/src/manifest.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4e084e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/src/manifest.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import type { ExtractResult } from "./extract.js";
+
+export interface PackageCoordinate {
+  name: string;
+  version: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Locate, parse, and minimally validate `package/package.json` from an
+ * already-extracted tarball, returning the name/version it declares.
+ *
+ * COD2-1058: this used to be written twice — once inline in `runAudit`'s
+ * `requirePackageManifest` branch (the publish-gate identity check) and once
+ * in the CLI's `scan` coordinate reader — and the two copies had already
+ * drifted on error wording. This is the one place that owns "how do we read
+ * the coordinate a tarball itself declares." A caller that additionally needs
+ * to check that coordinate against something else (a known publish target, a
+ * filename, …) does that check on top of this result; it does not re-derive
+ * name/version itself.
+ *
+ * Refuses rather than falls back on any ambiguity — a manifest that cannot be
+ * read unambiguously is a coordinate that is unknown, not one to guess at.
+ */
+export function readPackageManifest(extracted: ExtractResult): PackageCoordinate {
+  if (extracted.packageManifestEntryCount > 1) {
+    throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: duplicate package/package.json entries");
+  }
+  const file = extracted.files.find((f) => f.path === "package/package.json");
+  if (!file) {
+    throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: missing readable package/package.json");
+  }
+  let manifest: { name?: unknown; version?: unknown };
+  try {
+    manifest = JSON.parse(file.content) as { name?: unknown; version?: unknown };
+  } catch {
+    throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: package/package.json is not valid JSON");
+  }
+  if (typeof manifest.name !== "string" || manifest.name.length === 0) {
+    throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: package/package.json declares no name");
+  }
+  if (typeof manifest.version !== "string" || manifest.version.length === 0) {
+    throw new Error("malformed npm tarball: package/package.json declares no version");
+  }
+  return { name: manifest.name, version: manifest.version };
+}
diff --git a/packages/core/test/manifest.test.ts b/packages/core/test/manifest.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0949623
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/test/manifest.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { describe, test } from "node:test";
+import { readPackageManifest } from "../src/manifest.js";
+import type { ExtractResult } from "../src/extract.js";
+import type { PackageFile } from "../src/types.js";
+
+/**
+ * Build a minimal, well-formed ExtractResult around a set of files —
+ * readPackageManifest only reads `files` and `packageManifestEntryCount`, so
+ * every other field is a fixed, unexercised default.
+ */
+function fakeExtracted(files: PackageFile[], packageManifestEntryCount: number): ExtractResult {
+  return {
+    files,
+    packageManifestEntryCount,
+    unpackedSize: 0,
+    fileCount: files.length,
+    truncated: false,
+    unscanned: [],
+    unscannedTotals: { count: 0, native: 0, bytes: 0 },
+    contentMismatch: [],
+    contentMismatchTotals: { count: 0, byKind: {} },
+  };
+}
+
+function manifestFile(content: string): PackageFile {
+  return { path: "package/package.json", content, size: content.length, changed: true };
+}
+
+describe("readPackageManifest", () => {
+  test("reads name and version from a well-formed manifest", () => {
+    const extracted = fakeExtracted(
+      [manifestFile(JSON.stringify({ name: "lodash", version: "4.17.21" }))],
+      1,
+    );
+    const coordinate = readPackageManifest(extracted);
+    assert.deepEqual(coordinate, { name: "lodash", version: "4.17.21" });
+  });
+
+  test("rejects duplicate package/package.json entries", () => {
+    // packageManifestEntryCount is the tar-entry count, tracked independently
+    // of the deduplicated `files` list — this is the shape a tarball with two
+    // manifest entries produces.
+    const extracted = fakeExtracted(
+      [manifestFile(JSON.stringify({ name: "lodash", version: "4.17.21" }))],
+      2,
+    );
+    assert.throws(
+      () => readPackageManifest(extracted),
+      /malformed npm tarball: duplicate package\/package\.json entries/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test("rejects a tarball with no readable manifest", () => {
+    const extracted = fakeExtracted([], 0);
+    assert.throws(
+      () => readPackageManifest(extracted),
+      /malformed npm tarball: missing readable package\/package\.json/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test("rejects a manifest that is not valid JSON", () => {
+    const extracted = fakeExtracted([manifestFile("{ not json")], 1);
+    assert.throws(
+      () => readPackageManifest(extracted),
+      /malformed npm tarball: package\/package\.json is not valid JSON/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test("rejects a manifest with no name", () => {
+    const extracted = fakeExtracted([manifestFile(JSON.stringify({ version: "1.0.0" }))], 1);
+    assert.throws(
+      () => readPackageManifest(extracted),
+      /malformed npm tarball: package\/package\.json declares no name/,
+    );
+  });
+
+  test("rejects a manifest with no version", () => {
+    const extracted = fakeExtracted([manifestFile(JSON.stringify({ name: "lodash" }))], 1);
+    assert.throws(
+      () => readPackageManifest(extracted),
+      /malformed npm tarball: package\/package\.json declares no version/,
+    );
+  });
+});