diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index 68cbef4f..98404995 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -108,9 +108,9 @@
     <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Abstractions" Version="0.2.3" />
     <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Ui" Version="0.2.3" />
     <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.Secrets.Replicator.SqlServer" Version="0.2.3" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb" Version="0.1.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb.Replication" Version="0.1.0" />
-    <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb.Contracts" Version="0.1.0" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb" Version="0.1.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb.Replication" Version="0.1.1" />
+    <PackageVersion Include="ZB.MOM.WW.LocalDb.Contracts" Version="0.1.1" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <!--
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteLocalDbDirectory.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteLocalDbDirectory.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index c850ea3b..00000000
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteLocalDbDirectory.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
-
-namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host;
-
-/// <summary>
-/// Ensures the directory holding the consolidated site database (<c>LocalDb:Path</c>)
-/// exists before LocalDb opens the file.
-/// </summary>
-/// <remarks>
-/// <para>
-/// SQLite creates the database file on demand but never its parent directory, and
-/// <c>SqliteLocalDb</c> opens the file eagerly in its constructor — so a missing directory
-/// is a hard boot failure ("SQLite Error 14: unable to open database file"), not a degraded
-/// start. Neither the LocalDb library nor its options validation does this.
-/// </para>
-/// <para>
-/// The guarantee previously lived in <c>StoreAndForwardStorage.EnsureDatabaseDirectoryExists</c>,
-/// which created the directory for the store's own SQLite file. Once that file was folded
-/// into the consolidated database the store stopped owning a path, so the guarantee had to
-/// be re-established at the layer that now configures the path: the site host.
-/// </para>
-/// <para>
-/// It matters because the default site configuration uses the <i>relative</i> path
-/// <c>./data/site-localdb.db</c>. The docker rig never noticed the gap only because its
-/// volume mount happens to create <c>/app/data</c>.
-/// </para>
-/// </remarks>
-public static class SiteLocalDbDirectory
-{
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Creates the directory containing <c>LocalDb:Path</c> when it does not already exist.
-    /// No-op when the key is unset.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <remarks>
-    /// Best-effort by design: if the directory cannot be created (permissions, read-only
-    /// mount) this stays silent and lets LocalDb raise the real error, which names the
-    /// actual path and is a better diagnostic than anything thrown from here.
-    /// </remarks>
-    /// <param name="config">Configuration carrying <c>LocalDb:Path</c>.</param>
-    public static void Ensure(IConfiguration config)
-    {
-        ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(config);
-
-        var path = config["LocalDb:Path"];
-        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(path))
-            return;
-
-        try
-        {
-            var directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(Path.GetFullPath(path));
-            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(directory) && !Directory.Exists(directory))
-                Directory.CreateDirectory(directory);
-        }
-        catch (Exception ex) when (ex is IOException or UnauthorizedAccessException or ArgumentException)
-        {
-            // Deliberately swallowed — see the remarks above.
-        }
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteServiceRegistration.cs b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteServiceRegistration.cs
index 3e696238..f14aac2e 100644
--- a/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteServiceRegistration.cs
+++ b/src/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host/SiteServiceRegistration.cs
@@ -82,17 +82,13 @@ public static class SiteServiceRegistration
         //
         // Design: scadaproj docs/plans/2026-07-19-scadabridge-localdb-design.md
         //
-        // Create the parent directory FIRST. SQLite creates the database file on demand
-        // but not its directory, and neither the LocalDb library nor its options
-        // validation does this — SqliteLocalDb's constructor opens the file eagerly, so a
-        // missing directory is a hard boot failure ("SQLite Error 14: unable to open
-        // database file"), not a degraded start. The default site path is the relative
-        // "./data/site-localdb.db", so this bites any site node whose data directory has
-        // not been pre-created; the docker rig only escapes it because the volume mount
-        // creates /app/data. StoreAndForwardStorage used to do this for its own file
-        // (EnsureDatabaseDirectoryExists) and that guarantee has to keep existing
-        // somewhere now that LocalDb owns the file.
-        SiteLocalDbDirectory.Ensure(config);
+        // The parent directory of LocalDb:Path is created by the library as of 0.1.1.
+        // ScadaBridge carried a SiteLocalDbDirectory shim for it during Phase 2, because
+        // SQLite creates the database file on demand but not its directory and
+        // SqliteLocalDb opens the file eagerly — a missing directory was a hard boot
+        // failure, and the default site path is the relative "./data/site-localdb.db".
+        // The shim is gone; SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests still pins the outcome here, since
+        // what this host needs is the guarantee, not any particular owner of it.
         services.AddZbLocalDb(config, db => SiteLocalDbSetup.OnReady(db, config));
 
         // The replication engine, likewise unconditional but INERT by default: with no
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests.cs
index 74b9c2f2..78d6f1e6 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests/SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests.cs
@@ -10,12 +10,14 @@ namespace ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.Host.Tests;
 /// </summary>
 /// <remarks>
 /// <para>
-/// This guarantee used to live in <c>StoreAndForwardStorage.EnsureDatabaseDirectoryExists</c>,
-/// which created the parent directory for its own SQLite file. LocalDb Phase 2 moved that
-/// file into the consolidated database — but the LocalDb library does <b>not</b> create the
-/// directory, and <c>SqliteLocalDb</c> opens the file eagerly in its constructor, so a
-/// missing directory is a hard boot failure ("SQLite Error 14: unable to open database
-/// file") rather than a degraded start.
+/// The guarantee has now had three owners: <c>StoreAndForwardStorage</c> created the
+/// directory for its own SQLite file, LocalDb Phase 2 folded that file into the
+/// consolidated database and the Host took it over as a <c>SiteLocalDbDirectory</c> shim,
+/// and LocalDb 0.1.1 took it into the library itself. This test survived all three moves
+/// unchanged in intent, because what a site node needs is the OUTCOME — resolving
+/// <c>ILocalDb</c> from the site registration must not fail on a fresh machine — not any
+/// particular implementer of it. It is deliberately written against the registration path
+/// rather than the mechanism, so a future move costs nothing here.
 /// </para>
 /// <para>
 /// This is not hypothetical: the default site configuration points at the <i>relative</i>
@@ -44,9 +46,9 @@ public class SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests
                 .Build();
 
             // The registration path under test. Resolving ILocalDb is what actually opens
-            // the file, so this fails with SQLite Error 14 if the directory step regresses.
+            // the file, so this fails with SQLite Error 14 if the directory step regresses
+            // — wherever it lives.
             var services = new ServiceCollection();
-            SiteLocalDbDirectory.Ensure(config);
             services.AddZbLocalDb(config);
 
             using var provider = services.BuildServiceProvider();
diff --git a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.StoreAndForward.Tests/StoreAndForwardStorageTests.cs b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.StoreAndForward.Tests/StoreAndForwardStorageTests.cs
index 18ce27c2..8a2f725a 100644
--- a/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.StoreAndForward.Tests/StoreAndForwardStorageTests.cs
+++ b/tests/ZB.MOM.WW.ScadaBridge.StoreAndForward.Tests/StoreAndForwardStorageTests.cs
@@ -642,12 +642,12 @@ public class StoreAndForwardStorageTests : IAsyncLifetime, IDisposable
     //   * WAL is genuinely LocalDb's — it sets the journal mode on the database it owns.
     //     The test below still asserts it, now against the LocalDb-backed store.
     //
-    //   * Directory creation is NOT LocalDb's. The library does not create the parent
-    //     directory and opens the file eagerly, so a missing directory is a hard boot
-    //     failure. The guarantee had to be re-established explicitly in the Host
-    //     (SiteServiceRegistration.EnsureLocalDbDirectoryExists), and it is pinned there
-    //     by SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests — the layer that now owns it. Asserting it here
-    //     would be asserting a guarantee this class no longer provides.
+    //   * Directory creation was NOT LocalDb's when Phase 2 landed: the library did not
+    //     create the parent directory yet opened the file eagerly, so a missing directory
+    //     was a hard boot failure, and the Host re-established the guarantee with a
+    //     SiteLocalDbDirectory shim. LocalDb 0.1.1 took the guarantee back into the
+    //     library, so the shim is gone — but either way it is not this class's to assert,
+    //     and SiteLocalDbDirectoryTests pins the outcome for the site host.
 
     [Fact]
     public async Task Initialize_LeavesTheDatabaseInWalJournalMode()