diff --git a/manifest-beta.json b/manifest-beta.json
index 523fe02..93483f7 100644
--- a/manifest-beta.json
+++ b/manifest-beta.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "remote-ssh",
   "name": "Remote SSH",
-  "version": "1.1.6",
+  "version": "1.1.7-beta.0",
   "minAppVersion": "1.5.0",
   "description": "Edit remote vaults over SSH/SFTP — VS Code Remote-SSH style.",
   "author": "souta shimozono",
diff --git a/plugin/manifest.json b/plugin/manifest.json
index 523fe02..93483f7 100644
--- a/plugin/manifest.json
+++ b/plugin/manifest.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "id": "remote-ssh",
   "name": "Remote SSH",
-  "version": "1.1.6",
+  "version": "1.1.7-beta.0",
   "minAppVersion": "1.5.0",
   "description": "Edit remote vaults over SSH/SFTP — VS Code Remote-SSH style.",
   "author": "souta shimozono",
diff --git a/plugin/package-lock.json b/plugin/package-lock.json
index 4e9311c..20d9390 100644
--- a/plugin/package-lock.json
+++ b/plugin/package-lock.json
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "obsidian-remote-ssh",
-  "version": "1.1.6",
+  "version": "1.1.7-beta.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "obsidian-remote-ssh",
-      "version": "1.1.6",
+      "version": "1.1.7-beta.0",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@xterm/addon-fit": "^0.11.0",
diff --git a/plugin/package.json b/plugin/package.json
index a61d765..3df3378 100644
--- a/plugin/package.json
+++ b/plugin/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "obsidian-remote-ssh",
-  "version": "1.1.6",
+  "version": "1.1.7-beta.0",
   "description": "VS Code Remote SSH-like experience for Obsidian",
   "main": "main.js",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/plugin/src/main.ts b/plugin/src/main.ts
index 267ba2c..3789dbd 100644
--- a/plugin/src/main.ts
+++ b/plugin/src/main.ts
@@ -1043,6 +1043,18 @@ export default class RemoteSshPlugin extends Plugin {
    * shadow window (Phase 4).
    */
   async openShadowVaultFor(profile: SshProfile): Promise<void> {
+    // Connect clicked from INSIDE the shadow window for this same
+    // profile (Settings row button / connect modal). This vault IS the
+    // shadow — there is no second window to spawn, and re-running the
+    // bootstrap from here would make installPlugin's rm+symlink cycle
+    // target its own files (src == dst), turning main.js/manifest.json
+    // into self-referential symlinks that brick the install on the
+    // next start. Reconnect in place instead.
+    if (this.settings.autoConnectProfileId === profile.id) {
+      await this.runAutoConnect('reconnect');
+      return;
+    }
+
     // Source dir: where this running plugin lives, so the shadow
     // vault's plugin install symlinks the same bundle.
     const sourcePluginDir = this.pluginDir();
diff --git a/plugin/src/shadow/ShadowVaultBootstrap.ts b/plugin/src/shadow/ShadowVaultBootstrap.ts
index f60d969..e03ba8a 100644
--- a/plugin/src/shadow/ShadowVaultBootstrap.ts
+++ b/plugin/src/shadow/ShadowVaultBootstrap.ts
@@ -60,8 +60,12 @@ export interface BootstrapResult {
    * surfaces the one-time "restart Obsidian" notice.
    */
   migrated: boolean;
-  /** How the plugin source landed in the shadow vault. */
-  pluginInstallMethod: 'symlink' | 'copy';
+  /**
+   * How the plugin source landed in the shadow vault. `in-place` means
+   * source and target were the same directory (bootstrap re-run from
+   * inside the shadow window) so nothing needed installing.
+   */
+  pluginInstallMethod: 'symlink' | 'copy' | 'in-place';
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1164,7 +1168,7 @@ export class ShadowVaultBootstrap {
    * writes the per-vault data.json into pluginDir as a real file,
    * leaving the source vault's data.json untouched.
    */
-  private installPlugin(pluginDir: string): 'symlink' | 'copy' {
+  private installPlugin(pluginDir: string): 'symlink' | 'copy' | 'in-place' {
     // If pluginDir is a stale whole-dir symlink from an older build
     // (or a previous run of this same code on an older version),
     // unlink it — DO NOT rmSync, that would follow the link and
@@ -1178,6 +1182,23 @@ export class ShadowVaultBootstrap {
       // Doesn't exist yet, fine.
     }
 
+    // Self-install guard: when the bootstrap runs from INSIDE the
+    // shadow window it targets, sourcePluginDir IS pluginDir. The
+    // rm+symlink cycle below would then delete each real plugin file
+    // and replace it with a symlink pointing at its own path — a
+    // self-referential link Obsidian can't resolve, so the plugin
+    // "disappears" on the next start. The bundle is already here;
+    // there is nothing to install.
+    try {
+      if (fs.realpathSync(this.sourcePluginDir) === fs.realpathSync(pluginDir)) {
+        return 'in-place';
+      }
+    } catch {
+      // Either side unresolvable (e.g. pluginDir doesn't exist yet, or
+      // the stale whole-dir symlink was just unlinked) → not the same
+      // dir; proceed with a normal install.
+    }
+
     fs.mkdirSync(pluginDir, { recursive: true });
 
     const sharedFiles = ['main.js', 'manifest.json', 'styles.css'];
diff --git a/plugin/tests/ShadowVaultBootstrap.test.ts b/plugin/tests/ShadowVaultBootstrap.test.ts
index a260e52..9ba2f76 100644
--- a/plugin/tests/ShadowVaultBootstrap.test.ts
+++ b/plugin/tests/ShadowVaultBootstrap.test.ts
@@ -438,6 +438,28 @@ describe('ShadowVaultBootstrap.bootstrap', () => {
     expect(stat.isDirectory()).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  it('regression: re-bootstrap from INSIDE the shadow window (source == target plugin dir) must not self-symlink the plugin files', async () => {
+    // First bootstrap from a normal source vault.
+    const r1 = new ShadowVaultBootstrap(scratch.baseDir, scratch.sourceDir, new ObsidianRegistry(scratch.configPath));
+    const profile = makeProfile({ id: 'p1', name: 'P', remotePath: '/p1' });
+    const first = await r1.bootstrap(profile, [profile]);
+
+    // Simulate the plugin now RUNNING inside that shadow window with
+    // the user clicking Connect again: the running plugin's own dir
+    // (the bootstrap source) IS the shadow's plugin dir. Before the
+    // self-install guard, installPlugin rm'd each real file and left a
+    // symlink pointing at its own path — the plugin then failed to
+    // load ("disappeared") on the next Obsidian start.
+    const r2 = new ShadowVaultBootstrap(scratch.baseDir, first.layout.pluginDir, new ObsidianRegistry(scratch.configPath));
+    const second = await r2.bootstrap(profile, [profile]);
+
+    expect(second.layout.pluginDir).toBe(first.layout.pluginDir);
+    expect(second.pluginInstallMethod).toBe('in-place');
+    // main.js must still resolve to the staged bundle content.
+    const mainJs = path.join(second.layout.pluginDir, 'main.js');
+    expect(fs.readFileSync(mainJs, 'utf-8')).toContain('fake bundled plugin');
+  });
+
   it('writes [remote-ssh] only into shadow community-plugins.json on first bootstrap (does not auto-install source plugins)', async () => {
     fs.writeFileSync(
       path.join(scratch.sourceConfigDir, 'community-plugins.json'),