diff --git a/.wolf/buglog.json b/.wolf/buglog.json
index afc7f780..e77db779 100644
--- a/.wolf/buglog.json
+++ b/.wolf/buglog.json
@@ -19930,7 +19930,7 @@
       "error_message": "src/tools/xce-build.sh's `worker` component case never builds `xcecd_virtual` (only `xcecd xcecd_worker xrun controller_connector_test`), even though deploy-ha.sh requires xcecd_virtual whenever no real systemd manager is present (the common case in sandboxes) -- `/xce-build worker` alone leaves a deploy unable to auto-detect/generate start-worker.sh for the virtual worker.",
       "file": "src/tools/xce-build.sh (worker component case)",
       "root_cause": "The `worker)` case's explicit meson target list omits `xcecd_virtual`. Confirmed while dispatching a debug-profile build for a bug-1731 live repro: `/xce-build worker debug --incremental` completed successfully but did not produce `xcecd_virtual` in the build dir, requiring a manual `meson compile -C <builddir> xcecd_virtual` before deploy-ha.sh's own worker-binary auto-detection (Step 3, per the xce-deploy-ha skill) would find it and generate start-worker.sh instead of soft-skipping it.",
-      "fix": "NOT FIXED -- minor build-tooling gap, not a functional defect in xcecd_virtual itself. Straightforward fix: add `xcecd_virtual` to the worker case's `meson compile` target list in xce-build.sh alongside the existing 4 targets.",
+      "fix": "FIXED. Added `xcecd_virtual` to the `worker)` case's meson compile target list in src/tools/xce-build.sh (alongside the existing xcecd xcecd_worker xrun controller_connector_test), with a bug-1732-referencing comment. Verified: `xce-build.sh worker asan` now builds xcecd_virtual with a fresh mtime, and the full worker test suite (5/5, including test_uv_ipc_job_exit_severity) still passes with zero regressions.",
       "tags": [
         "build-tooling",
         "xce-build.sh",
@@ -19939,8 +19939,8 @@
         "low-priority"
       ],
       "related_bugs": [],
-      "occurrences": 1,
-      "last_seen": "2026-08-29T05:21:00Z"
+      "occurrences": 2,
+      "last_seen": "2026-08-29T11:33:00Z"
     },
     {
       "id": "bug-1733",
diff --git a/src/tools/xce-build.sh b/src/tools/xce-build.sh
index 3acc8964..0137a12d 100755
--- a/src/tools/xce-build.sh
+++ b/src/tools/xce-build.sh
@@ -225,7 +225,11 @@ case "$COMPONENT" in
     worker)
         setup_build
         echo "=== Building lib + worker + tests ==="
-        meson compile -C "$BUILD_DIR" xcecd xcecd_worker xrun controller_connector_test
+        # bug-1732: xcecd_virtual (the no-root worker deploy-ha.sh/xce-deploy-ha
+        # picks whenever /run/systemd/system is absent, e.g. this sandbox) was
+        # missing from this target list -- /xce-build worker alone left it
+        # unbuilt, so deploy-ha.sh soft-skipped generating start-worker.sh.
+        meson compile -C "$BUILD_DIR" xcecd xcecd_worker xcecd_virtual xrun controller_connector_test
         if [ "$RUN_TESTS" = 1 ]; then
             echo "=== Running worker tests ==="
             meson test -C "$BUILD_DIR" --suite worker --print-errorlogs