diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 68f2fd4b02..9fe245284a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ for finer detail.
 ## Unreleased
 
 ### Fixed
+- The doctor's reverse-PRIME warning (#270, a black panel after login on a
+  hybrid-GPU laptop) now also fires when a forced or drifted GPU render pin
+  coexists with a stored hybrid or passthrough choice, which previously
+  silenced the check.
 - Lock, suspend, lid-close and wake now share one fail-closed lifecycle across
   Hyprland and niri. Lockscreen generations change atomically during updates,
   every sleep waits for compositor-secure qylock, and output recovery retries
diff --git a/ryoku/cli/CHANGELOG.md b/ryoku/cli/CHANGELOG.md
index bf638e1db8..a35d546d0c 100644
--- a/ryoku/cli/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/ryoku/cli/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@
   (`internal/doctor/reconcile_boot_rw.go`).
 
 ### Fixed
+- **The doctor's reverse-PRIME guard (#270) now sees the pin the machine
+  actually runs.** The render-pin-vs-panel check resolved the pin through
+  `ryoku-gpu order`, the policy's recommendation, which refuses to speak
+  whenever a stored hybrid or passthrough choice opts out: a RYOKU_GPU_FORCE
+  pin kept under a hybrid stamp, or one drifted in by an older release, hid
+  from the guard while the panel sat on the iGPU under a NVIDIA-first pin.
+  The check now reads `order --effective`, the pin file's own value.
 - **`ryoku update` no longer dies where taking a sleep inhibitor is denied.**
   The transaction runs under `systemd-inhibit --mode=block`, which is
   polkit-gated in sessions with no agent (SSH, a headless run): there it exits
diff --git a/ryoku/cli/internal/doctor/reconcile_gpu_pin_panel.go b/ryoku/cli/internal/doctor/reconcile_gpu_pin_panel.go
index 75db8071c2..500c0a5e27 100644
--- a/ryoku/cli/internal/doctor/reconcile_gpu_pin_panel.go
+++ b/ryoku/cli/internal/doctor/reconcile_gpu_pin_panel.go
@@ -29,9 +29,13 @@ var drmRoot = "/sys/class/drm"
 // pinFirstDriver resolves the leftmost entry of the effective AQ_DRM_DEVICES
 // pin to its kernel driver, "" when there is no pin or it cannot be resolved.
 // The verdict comes from ryoku-gpu itself (the same tool the stale-pin
-// reconciler trusts), so this never re-implements the pin policy.
+// reconciler trusts), so this never re-implements the pin policy. --effective
+// reads the pin the compositor would actually read, straight from the pin
+// file: the plain order is the policy's recommendation and refuses to speak
+// exactly when a stored hybrid/passthrough choice coexists with a pin: the
+// drifted and forced-pin states the #270 guard most needs to see.
 var pinFirstDriver = func() string {
-	out, err := sys.RunOut("ryoku-gpu", "order")
+	out, err := sys.RunOut("ryoku-gpu", "order", "--effective")
 	if err != nil {
 		return ""
 	}
diff --git a/system/CHANGELOG.md b/system/CHANGELOG.md
index 46356cb965..73e52276dd 100644
--- a/system/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/system/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@
   package.
 
 ### Fixed
+- `hardware/gpu/ryoku-gpu`: `order --effective [PATH]` prints the AQ_DRM_DEVICES
+  value the compositor would actually read, straight from the pin file, while
+  the plain `order` keeps reporting the policy's recommendation (and keeps
+  exiting 1 under a stored hybrid/passthrough choice). doctor's reverse-PRIME
+  guard (#270) audits the machine as it is, and previously went blind exactly
+  when a forced or drifted pin coexisted with an opt-out mode stamp.
 - `hardware/power/ryoku-power-cutover`: a killed generation guard releases
   its locks. The hold's keep-alive coprocess inherited the launch and
   generation flock fds, so a holder killed mid-swap left the locks pinned by
diff --git a/system/hardware/gpu/ryoku-gpu b/system/hardware/gpu/ryoku-gpu
index 8e9210df4c..af1554fc8d 100755
--- a/system/hardware/gpu/ryoku-gpu
+++ b/system/hardware/gpu/ryoku-gpu
@@ -223,6 +223,21 @@ cmd_detect() {
 }
 
 cmd_order() {
+  local dest="${1:-}"
+  # --effective: the AQ_DRM_DEVICES value the compositor would actually read
+  # at its next start, straight out of the pin file, or exit 1 when there is
+  # none. Deliberately indifferent to the stored mode choice: a forced pin
+  # kept under a hybrid stamp, or a pin drifted in by an older release, is
+  # exactly what the doctor's render-pin-vs-panel guard (#270) has to see,
+  # and the plain order (the policy's recommendation) refuses to speak in
+  # those states.
+  if [[ $dest == "--effective" ]]; then
+    local conf="${2:-$GPU_CONF_DEFAULT}" value
+    value="$(sed -n 's/^hl\.env("AQ_DRM_DEVICES", *"\([^"]*\)")$/\1/p' "$conf" 2>/dev/null | head -n1)"
+    [[ -n $value ]] || return 1
+    printf '%s\n' "$value"
+    return 0
+  fi
   analyze
   if ! beneficial; then
     echo "ryoku-gpu: no discrete-GPU pin needed on this machine" >&2
@@ -457,7 +472,10 @@ Pin the strongest GPU as Hyprland's primary render device on multi-GPU machines.
 
 Commands:
   detect [--json]  Show detected GPUs (strongest first) and the chosen primary.
-  order           Print the recommended AQ_DRM_DEVICES value (exit 1 if none).
+  order [--effective [PATH]]
+                  Print the recommended AQ_DRM_DEVICES value (exit 1 if none);
+                  with --effective, print the pin file's own value instead
+                  (what the compositor would read), exit 1 when unpinned.
   persist [PATH]  Write the Hyprland pin (Lua) to PATH, to ~/.config/hypr/gpu.lua
                   by default, or to stdout when PATH is '-'.
   disable [PATH]  Reset the pin file to a managed comment-only placeholder.
@@ -475,7 +493,7 @@ case "${1:-status}" in
   detect)
     if [[ "${2:-}" == "--json" ]]; then gpu_records_json; else cmd_detect; fi
     ;;
-  order) cmd_order ;;
+  order) cmd_order "${2:-}" ;;
   persist) cmd_persist "${2:-}" ;;
   install-udev) cmd_install_udev ;;
   status) cmd_status ;;
diff --git a/tests/gpu-pin-policy.sh b/tests/gpu-pin-policy.sh
index cbaf7d3eed..8e7b67599f 100755
--- a/tests/gpu-pin-policy.sh
+++ b/tests/gpu-pin-policy.sh
@@ -133,4 +133,21 @@ egpu() { RYOKU_GPU_DRM_ROOT="$drme" RYOKU_GPU_DRI_DIR="$dri" RYOKU_GPU_CONF="$tm
 egpu persist >/dev/null
 [[ "$(egpu check-pin)" == "ok" ]] || fail "eGPU pin on a laptop must be ok, got $(egpu check-pin)"
 
+# --- 10. order --effective sees a pin the policy order refuses to speak about:
+# a RYOKU_GPU_FORCE pin kept under a stored hybrid choice is the drifted state
+# behind #270, and doctor's render-pin-vs-panel guard must still see it.
+run mode hybrid >/dev/null
+RYOKU_GPU_FORCE=1 run persist >/dev/null   # forced pin, hybrid stamp kept
+grep -Eq '^hl\.env\("AQ_DRM_DEVICES"' "$conf" || fail "force wrote no pin under hybrid"
+if run order >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  fail "plain order must keep refusing under a stored hybrid choice"
+fi
+v="$(run order --effective)" \
+  && [[ "$v" == *"ryoku-gpu-0000-02-00-0:"*"ryoku-gpu-0000-01-00-0" ]] \
+  || fail "order --effective must print the pin file's value, got ${v:-<none>}"
+run disable >/dev/null
+if run order --effective >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  fail "order --effective must exit 1 on an unpinned machine"
+fi
+
 echo "gpu-pin-policy: all cases passed"