diff --git a/cmd/atelet/main.go b/cmd/atelet/main.go
index 1d49f6123..155da1b32 100644
--- a/cmd/atelet/main.go
+++ b/cmd/atelet/main.go
@@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ func (s *AteomHerder) Checkpoint(ctx context.Context, req *ateletpb.CheckpointRe
 	sandboxRec.ActorUID = req.GetActorUid()
 	sandboxRec.ActorTemplateNamespace = req.GetActorTemplateNamespace()
 	sandboxRec.ActorTemplateName = req.GetActorTemplateName()
+	sandboxRec.Scope = ateattr.SnapshotScopeValue(req.GetScope())
 
 	// No earlier pause snapshot can ever be restored again, so remove them
 	// all: the actor's current state was just captured by CheckpointWorkload,
diff --git a/cmd/atelet/main_test.go b/cmd/atelet/main_test.go
index 0e135cee4..beb5be673 100644
--- a/cmd/atelet/main_test.go
+++ b/cmd/atelet/main_test.go
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/agent-substrate/substrate/internal/ateattr"
 	"github.com/agent-substrate/substrate/internal/ateerrors"
 	"github.com/agent-substrate/substrate/internal/ateompath"
 	"github.com/agent-substrate/substrate/internal/proto/ateletpb"
@@ -52,18 +53,41 @@ func TestSnapshotManifestActorMetadata(t *testing.T) {
 		ActorUID:               "actor-uid",
 		ActorTemplateNamespace: "templates",
 		ActorTemplateName:      "agent",
+		Scope:                  ateattr.SnapshotScopeFull,
 	}
 	got, err := json.Marshal(rec)
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
-	for _, want := range []string{`"atespace":"team-a"`, `"actorName":"actor-1"`, `"actorUid":"actor-uid"`, `"actorTemplateNamespace":"templates"`, `"actorTemplateName":"agent"`} {
+	for _, want := range []string{`"atespace":"team-a"`, `"actorName":"actor-1"`, `"actorUid":"actor-uid"`, `"actorTemplateNamespace":"templates"`, `"actorTemplateName":"agent"`, `"scope":"full"`} {
 		if !bytes.Contains(got, []byte(want)) {
 			t.Errorf("manifest %s missing %s", got, want)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
+// TestSnapshotManifestScopeAbsent pins backward compatibility: manifests
+// written before the scope field existed must still parse, reporting an empty
+// scope, and a scope-less record must not serialize a scope key at all.
+func TestSnapshotManifestScopeAbsent(t *testing.T) {
+	legacy := []byte(`{"sandboxClass":"gvisor","snapshotFiles":["checkpoint.img"]}`)
+	rec, err := unmarshalSandboxRecord(legacy)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("unmarshalSandboxRecord(legacy manifest): %v", err)
+	}
+	if rec.Scope != "" {
+		t.Errorf("legacy manifest scope = %q, want empty", rec.Scope)
+	}
+
+	got, err := json.Marshal(sandboxAssetsRecord{SandboxClass: "gvisor"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if bytes.Contains(got, []byte(`"scope"`)) {
+		t.Errorf("scope-less record serialized a scope key: %s", got)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestWriteFileAtomic(t *testing.T) {
 	dir := t.TempDir()
 	target := filepath.Join(dir, "actor-id")
diff --git a/cmd/atelet/sandbox_assets.go b/cmd/atelet/sandbox_assets.go
index 11dac9e4a..ba62d6b0c 100644
--- a/cmd/atelet/sandbox_assets.go
+++ b/cmd/atelet/sandbox_assets.go
@@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ type sandboxAssetsRecord struct {
 	// (gVisor's image files, cloud-hypervisor's snapshot set, ...). Empty in the
 	// on-node record written at Run/Restore; populated at Checkpoint.
 	SnapshotFiles []string `json:"snapshotFiles,omitempty"`
+	// Scope is the snapshot scope the checkpoint captured, as the shared
+	// ateattr label ("full" or "data"), so a snapshot's content is knowable
+	// from the manifest alone. Empty in the on-node record written at
+	// Run/Restore and in snapshot manifests written before this field existed.
+	Scope string `json:"scope,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // recordFromRequest projects a request's per-architecture SandboxAssets onto the