diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 98e0a3215b..71539f9c9a 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -65,11 +65,25 @@ RUN test -f package-lock.json \
 # node-gyp comes from npm's own bundled copy (deterministic, already in the image)
 # instead of `npx --yes`, which would install an arbitrary registry version
 # on-demand and run its lifecycle scripts (Sonar docker:S6505).
+#
+# tls-client-node (chatgpt-web/claude-web/grok-web/lmarena/perplexity-web TLS
+# impersonation) hits the same --ignore-scripts wall: its own postinstall.js
+# fetches a platform .so/.dylib/.dll from the bogdanfinn/tls-client GitHub
+# Releases API and is never invoked when npm ci skips lifecycle scripts. Unlike
+# better-sqlite3 above, that script never throws on failure — it only
+# `console.warn`s and exits 0 — so a rate-limited or offline build would
+# otherwise succeed silently with an empty bin/ and only fail at first request
+# in production (TlsClientUnavailableError, #7802). Run it explicitly here so
+# a broken/rate-limited fetch fails the BUILD loudly instead of shipping a
+# broken image.
 RUN --mount=type=cache,id=npm-cache,target=/root/.npm \
   npm ci --no-audit --no-fund --legacy-peer-deps --ignore-scripts \
   && (cd node_modules/better-sqlite3 \
       && node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js rebuild) \
-  && node -e "require('better-sqlite3')(':memory:').close()"
+  && node -e "require('better-sqlite3')(':memory:').close()" \
+  && node node_modules/tls-client-node/scripts/postinstall.js \
+  && (test -n "$(find node_modules/tls-client-node/bin -mindepth 1 -print -quit 2>/dev/null)" \
+      || (echo "tls-client-node native binary missing after postinstall — GitHub API fetch likely rate-limited or failed (#7802)" >&2 && exit 1))
 
 # Build with Turbopack (stable in Next 16, the repo default). The v3.8.27-era
 # TurbopackInternalError panic ("entered unreachable code: there must be a path to a
diff --git a/changelog.d/fixes/7802-tls-client-native-lib.md b/changelog.d/fixes/7802-tls-client-native-lib.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c67d6078a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/fixes/7802-tls-client-native-lib.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+- fix(docker): repair tls-client-node native binary after --ignore-scripts, retry rate-limited GitHub fetches (#7802)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4890100535..b44a78e63f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
     "src/types/",
     ".env.example",
     "scripts/build/postinstall.mjs",
+    "scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs",
     "bin/cli/runtime/",
     "scripts/postinstall.mjs",
     "scripts/build/postinstallSupport.mjs",
diff --git a/scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs b/scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9db5f4bbb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+/**
+ * tls-client-node postinstall repair (#7802).
+ *
+ * tls-client-node's own postinstall.js fetches a platform-specific native
+ * binary (.so/.dylib/.dll) from the bogdanfinn/tls-client GitHub Releases
+ * API. That script is blocked by `npm ci --ignore-scripts` (the Dockerfile
+ * builder stage runs with scripts disabled for supply-chain hygiene) and,
+ * even when it does run, silently no-ops on a rate-limited/failed GitHub API
+ * call instead of raising — so `node_modules/tls-client-node/bin/` can end
+ * up empty with no visible signal until the first live request throws
+ * TlsClientUnavailableError (chatgpt-web/claude-web/grok-web/lmarena/
+ * perplexity-web all share this transport).
+ *
+ * This module:
+ *   1. Copies an already-fetched root `bin/` into the standalone
+ *      `dist/node_modules/tls-client-node/bin/` bundle (same pattern as
+ *      fixWreqJsBinary), so the published npm package works even though its
+ *      own `files` allowlist never ships the binary.
+ *   2. When the root `bin/` is empty (--ignore-scripts blocked it, or a
+ *      transient GitHub rate-limit ate the first attempt), retries the
+ *      module's own postinstall.js with exponential backoff instead of
+ *      giving up on the first failure.
+ *
+ * Best-effort throughout: a failure here never throws out of postinstall.mjs
+ * — it only warns, matching the other fix*Binary() steps. The runtime layer
+ * (perplexityTlsClient.ts and its 4 siblings) already surfaces a clear
+ * TlsClientUnavailableError pointing at the missing binary, so an operator
+ * who hits a still-empty bin/ after this repair gets an actionable message
+ * rather than an opaque crash.
+ */
+
+import { copyFileSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+const DEFAULT_RETRY_DELAYS_MS = [1_000, 3_000, 8_000];
+
+function hasAnyFile(dir) {
+  if (!existsSync(dir)) return false;
+  try {
+    return readdirSync(dir).length > 0;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+function copyBinDir(sourceDir, destDir) {
+  mkdirSync(destDir, { recursive: true });
+  for (const file of readdirSync(sourceDir)) {
+    copyFileSync(join(sourceDir, file), join(destDir, file));
+  }
+}
+
+async function sleep(ms) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Re-run tls-client-node's own postinstall.js in-process, retrying with
+ * backoff when the attempt leaves `bin/` empty (covers transient GitHub API
+ * rate-limiting — the upstream script itself never throws on failure, it
+ * only warns, so "still empty after running it" is the only failure signal
+ * available).
+ */
+async function downloadWithRetry(rootTlsClientDir, retryDelaysMs, log) {
+  const postinstallScript = join(rootTlsClientDir, "scripts", "postinstall.js");
+  const binDir = join(rootTlsClientDir, "bin");
+  if (!existsSync(postinstallScript)) return false;
+
+  for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= retryDelaysMs.length; attempt++) {
+    if (attempt > 0) {
+      log(
+        `  ⏳ tls-client-node native binary still missing — retrying download ` +
+          `(attempt ${attempt + 1}/${retryDelaysMs.length + 1}) after rate-limit/backoff...`
+      );
+      await sleep(retryDelaysMs[attempt - 1]);
+    }
+
+    try {
+      const { execFileSync } = await import("node:child_process");
+      execFileSync(process.execPath, [postinstallScript], {
+        cwd: rootTlsClientDir,
+        stdio: "pipe",
+        timeout: 30_000,
+      });
+    } catch (err) {
+      log(`  ⚠️  tls-client-node postinstall attempt failed: ${err.message.split("\n")[0]}`);
+    }
+
+    if (hasAnyFile(binDir)) return true;
+  }
+
+  return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {object} opts
+ * @param {string} opts.rootDir - repo root
+ * @param {(msg: string) => void} [opts.log]
+ * @param {number[]} [opts.retryDelaysMs] - override for tests (avoid real sleeps)
+ */
+export async function fixTlsClientNodeBinary({
+  rootDir,
+  log = (m) => console.log(m),
+  retryDelaysMs = DEFAULT_RETRY_DELAYS_MS,
+} = {}) {
+  const rootTlsClientDir = join(rootDir, "node_modules", "tls-client-node");
+  const rootBinDir = join(rootTlsClientDir, "bin");
+  const distTlsClientDir = join(rootDir, "dist", "node_modules", "tls-client-node");
+
+  if (!existsSync(rootTlsClientDir)) return;
+
+  if (!hasAnyFile(rootBinDir)) {
+    log(
+      "\n  🔧 tls-client-node native binary missing (blocked by --ignore-scripts or a " +
+        "failed fetch) — attempting repair...\n"
+    );
+    const recovered = await downloadWithRetry(rootTlsClientDir, retryDelaysMs, log);
+    if (!recovered) {
+      console.warn(
+        "\n  ⚠️  Could not fetch tls-client-node's native binary " +
+          "(GitHub API rate-limited or unreachable after retries)."
+      );
+      console.warn(
+        "     chatgpt-web/claude-web/grok-web/lmarena/perplexity-web will raise a clear " +
+          "TlsClientUnavailableError on first use until this is resolved."
+      );
+      console.warn(
+        `     Manual fix: node ${join(rootTlsClientDir, "scripts", "postinstall.js")}\n`
+      );
+      return;
+    }
+    log("  ✅ tls-client-node native binary fetched successfully!\n");
+  }
+
+  if (!existsSync(distTlsClientDir) || !hasAnyFile(rootBinDir)) return;
+
+  const distBinDir = join(distTlsClientDir, "bin");
+  if (hasAnyFile(distBinDir)) return;
+
+  try {
+    copyBinDir(rootBinDir, distBinDir);
+    log("  ✅ tls-client-node native binary copied to standalone dist/node_modules.\n");
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.warn(`  ⚠️  Could not copy tls-client-node binary into dist/: ${err.message}`);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/build/pack-artifact-policy.ts b/scripts/build/pack-artifact-policy.ts
index 90e9216dd2..aa1bc03318 100644
--- a/scripts/build/pack-artifact-policy.ts
+++ b/scripts/build/pack-artifact-policy.ts
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ export const PACK_ARTIFACT_ROOT_ALLOWED_EXACT_PATHS: string[] = [
   "scripts/build/postinstall.mjs",
   "scripts/build/postinstallSupport.mjs",
   "scripts/build/colocateOptionals.mjs",
+  // #7802: imported by scripts/build/postinstall.mjs to repair tls-client-node's
+  // native binary (chatgpt-web/claude-web/grok-web/lmarena/perplexity-web transport).
+  "scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs",
   // #5227: imported at runtime by bin/cli/commands/serve.mjs (heap auto-calibration).
   "scripts/build/runtime-env.mjs",
   "scripts/build/sync-env.mjs",
@@ -177,6 +180,7 @@ export const PACK_ARTIFACT_REQUIRED_PATHS: string[] = [
   "scripts/build/postinstall.mjs",
   "scripts/build/postinstallSupport.mjs",
   "scripts/build/colocateOptionals.mjs",
+  "scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs",
   "scripts/build/runtime-env.mjs",
   "src/shared/utils/nodeRuntimeSupport.ts",
 ];
diff --git a/scripts/build/postinstall.mjs b/scripts/build/postinstall.mjs
index 9ce512643a..9972e4771e 100644
--- a/scripts/build/postinstall.mjs
+++ b/scripts/build/postinstall.mjs
@@ -15,11 +15,13 @@
  * Modules repaired:
  *   - better-sqlite3 (SQLite bindings)
  *   - wreq-js (TLS client for OAuth providers)
+ *   - tls-client-node (TLS client for chatgpt-web/claude-web/grok-web/lmarena/perplexity-web)
  *
  * Fixes: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/129
  * Fixes: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/321
  * Fixes: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/426
  * Fixes: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/1634
+ * Fixes: https://github.com/diegosouzapw/OmniRoute/issues/7802
  */
 
 import { copyFileSync, cpSync, existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync } from "node:fs";
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { PUBLISHED_BUILD_ARCH, PUBLISHED_BUILD_PLATFORM } from "./native-binary-compat.mjs";
 import { hasStandaloneAppBundle, isTermux } from "./postinstallSupport.mjs";
 import { colocateLlmlinguaOptionals } from "./colocateOptionals.mjs";
+import { fixTlsClientNodeBinary } from "./fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs";
 
 const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
 const __dirname = dirname(__filename);
@@ -344,6 +347,7 @@ async function ensureLlmlinguaOptionals() {
 
 await fixBetterSqliteBinary();
 await fixWreqJsBinary();
+await fixTlsClientNodeBinary({ rootDir: ROOT });
 await ensureSwcHelpers();
 await ensureLlmlinguaOptionals();
 await syncProjectEnv();
diff --git a/tests/unit/fix-tls-client-node-binary-7802.test.ts b/tests/unit/fix-tls-client-node-binary-7802.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c4c1209949
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/fix-tls-client-node-binary-7802.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { mkdtempSync, mkdirSync, writeFileSync, existsSync, readdirSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { fixTlsClientNodeBinary } from "../../scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs";
+
+function makeRoot() {
+  return mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "fix-tls-client-node-binary-7802-"));
+}
+
+function collectLogs() {
+  const logs: string[] = [];
+  return { logs, log: (m: string) => logs.push(m) };
+}
+
+test("no-ops when node_modules/tls-client-node is absent (module not installed)", async () => {
+  const rootDir = makeRoot();
+  try {
+    const { logs, log } = collectLogs();
+    await fixTlsClientNodeBinary({ rootDir, log });
+    assert.deepEqual(logs, []);
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
+
+test("copies an already-populated root bin/ into the standalone dist bundle (#7802 item 2)", async () => {
+  const rootDir = makeRoot();
+  try {
+    const rootBin = join(rootDir, "node_modules", "tls-client-node", "bin");
+    mkdirSync(rootBin, { recursive: true });
+    writeFileSync(join(rootBin, "tls-client-linux-ubuntu-amd64-1.0.0.so"), "fake-binary");
+
+    const distTlsClientDir = join(rootDir, "dist", "node_modules", "tls-client-node");
+    mkdirSync(distTlsClientDir, { recursive: true });
+
+    const { log } = collectLogs();
+    await fixTlsClientNodeBinary({ rootDir, log });
+
+    const distBin = join(distTlsClientDir, "bin");
+    assert.ok(existsSync(distBin), "dist bin/ should have been created");
+    assert.deepEqual(readdirSync(distBin), ["tls-client-linux-ubuntu-amd64-1.0.0.so"]);
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
+
+test("retries the download when root bin/ is empty, and stops once a file appears (#7802 item 3)", async () => {
+  const rootDir = makeRoot();
+  try {
+    const tlsClientDir = join(rootDir, "node_modules", "tls-client-node");
+    const rootBin = join(tlsClientDir, "bin");
+    mkdirSync(rootBin, { recursive: true });
+
+    const scriptsDir = join(tlsClientDir, "scripts");
+    mkdirSync(scriptsDir, { recursive: true });
+    // A postinstall.js stand-in that drops a file into bin/ on its 2nd invocation —
+    // simulating a first attempt eaten by a GitHub rate-limit and a 2nd that recovers.
+    writeFileSync(
+      join(scriptsDir, "postinstall.js"),
+      `const fs = require("fs");
+       const path = require("path");
+       const marker = path.join(__dirname, "..", ".attempts");
+       const attempts = fs.existsSync(marker) ? Number(fs.readFileSync(marker, "utf8")) : 0;
+       fs.writeFileSync(marker, String(attempts + 1));
+       if (attempts + 1 >= 2) {
+         fs.writeFileSync(path.join(__dirname, "..", "bin", "tls-client-linux-ubuntu-amd64-1.0.0.so"), "ok");
+       }`
+    );
+
+    const { logs, log } = collectLogs();
+    await fixTlsClientNodeBinary({ rootDir, log, retryDelaysMs: [1, 1, 1] });
+
+    assert.ok(existsSync(join(rootBin, "tls-client-linux-ubuntu-amd64-1.0.0.so")));
+    assert.ok(
+      logs.some((m) => m.includes("fetched successfully")),
+      "expected a success log once the retry recovered"
+    );
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
+
+test("warns without throwing when every retry leaves bin/ empty (still rate-limited)", async () => {
+  const rootDir = makeRoot();
+  try {
+    const tlsClientDir = join(rootDir, "node_modules", "tls-client-node");
+    mkdirSync(join(tlsClientDir, "bin"), { recursive: true });
+    const scriptsDir = join(tlsClientDir, "scripts");
+    mkdirSync(scriptsDir, { recursive: true });
+    // A postinstall.js stand-in that always fails to produce a binary (persistent rate-limit).
+    writeFileSync(join(scriptsDir, "postinstall.js"), `process.exitCode = 0;`);
+
+    const originalWarn = console.warn;
+    const warnings: string[] = [];
+    console.warn = (m: string) => warnings.push(m);
+    try {
+      const { log } = collectLogs();
+      await assert.doesNotReject(
+        fixTlsClientNodeBinary({ rootDir, log, retryDelaysMs: [1, 1] })
+      );
+    } finally {
+      console.warn = originalWarn;
+    }
+
+    assert.ok(
+      warnings.some((m) => m.includes("Could not fetch tls-client-node")),
+      "expected a clear warning pointing at the manual fix, not a silent no-op"
+    );
+  } finally {
+    rmSync(rootDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  }
+});
diff --git a/tests/unit/pack-artifact-policy.test.ts b/tests/unit/pack-artifact-policy.test.ts
index 27a486e4f9..978b0474d0 100644
--- a/tests/unit/pack-artifact-policy.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/pack-artifact-policy.test.ts
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ test("findMissingArtifactPaths flags missing root runtime files in the tarball",
     "dist/tls-options.mjs",
     "dist/webdav-handler.mjs",
     "scripts/build/colocateOptionals.mjs",
+    "scripts/build/fixTlsClientNodeBinary.mjs",
     "scripts/build/native-binary-compat.mjs",
     "scripts/build/runtime-env.mjs",
     "src/shared/utils/nodeRuntimeSupport.ts",
diff --git a/tests/unit/tls-client-node-docker-binary-7802.test.ts b/tests/unit/tls-client-node-docker-binary-7802.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..45fb106f79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/tls-client-node-docker-binary-7802.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+import { test } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const ROOT = join(__dirname, "..", "..");
+
+test("Dockerfile's --ignore-scripts npm ci is compensated for tls-client-node's native binary, same as it is for wreq-js and better-sqlite3 (#7802)", () => {
+  const dockerfile = readFileSync(join(ROOT, "Dockerfile"), "utf8");
+  const postinstall = readFileSync(join(ROOT, "scripts/build/postinstall.mjs"), "utf8");
+
+  assert.match(
+    dockerfile,
+    /npm ci --no-audit --no-fund --legacy-peer-deps --ignore-scripts/,
+    "expected the builder stage to install with --ignore-scripts (precondition of #7802)"
+  );
+
+  assert.match(
+    dockerfile,
+    /better-sqlite3[\s\S]*node-gyp\.js rebuild/,
+    "expected an explicit better-sqlite3 rebuild step after --ignore-scripts"
+  );
+
+  assert.match(
+    postinstall,
+    /fixWreqJsBinary/,
+    "expected postinstall.mjs to repair wreq-js's native binary"
+  );
+
+  const dockerfileHandlesIt = /tls-client-node[\s\S]{0,200}(postinstall|rebuild|download)/i.test(
+    dockerfile
+  );
+  const postinstallHandlesIt = /tls-client-node/i.test(postinstall);
+
+  assert.ok(
+    dockerfileHandlesIt || postinstallHandlesIt,
+    "tls-client-node has no --ignore-scripts compensation in Dockerfile or " +
+      "scripts/build/postinstall.mjs (unlike better-sqlite3 and wreq-js) — " +
+      "node_modules/tls-client-node/bin/ is never populated in the official " +
+      "Docker image, so chatgpt-web/claude-web/grok-web/lmarena/perplexity-web " +
+      "all fail with TlsClientUnavailableError at first request (#7802)"
+  );
+});