diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/Phase7Composer.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/Phase7Composer.cs
index db7f45f1..b64db8e0 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/Phase7Composer.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer/Phase7Composer.cs
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ public sealed record ScriptedAlarmPlan(string ScriptedAlarmId, string EquipmentI
 ///     mirrors the authored <c>Tag.AccessLevel == ReadWrite</c> so the materialised node is created
 ///     <c>CurrentReadWrite</c> (the prerequisite for the inbound-write pipeline); a <c>Read</c> tag
 ///     stays read-only. This flag is derived identically on the artifact-decode side
-///     (<c>DeploymentArtifact.BuildEquipmentTagPlans</c>) for byte-parity.
+///     (<c>DeploymentArtifact.BuildEquipmentTagPlans</c>) for byte-parity. <see cref="Alarm"/> carries
+///     the optional native-alarm intent parsed from <c>Tag.TagConfig</c>'s <c>alarm</c> object (null ⇒
+///     a plain value variable); it too is parsed identically on the artifact-decode side for byte-parity.
 /// </summary>
 public sealed record EquipmentTagPlan(
     string TagId,
@@ -85,7 +87,13 @@ public sealed record EquipmentTagPlan(
     string Name,
     string DataType,
     string FullName,
-    bool Writable);
+    bool Writable,
+    EquipmentTagAlarmInfo? Alarm);
+
+/// <summary>Native-alarm intent parsed from an equipment tag's <c>TagConfig.alarm</c> object. Null ⇒
+/// the tag is a plain value variable. <see cref="AlarmType"/> is an OPC UA Part 9 subtype string
+/// (OffNormalAlarm/DiscreteAlarm/LimitAlarm/AlarmCondition); <see cref="Severity"/> is the 1..1000 scale.</summary>
+public sealed record EquipmentTagAlarmInfo(string AlarmType, int Severity);
 
 /// <summary>
 ///     One Equipment-namespace VirtualTag from a <see cref="VirtualTag"/> row (joined to its
@@ -328,7 +336,8 @@ public static class Phase7Composer
                 Name: t.Name,
                 DataType: t.DataType,
                 FullName: ExtractTagFullName(t.TagConfig),
-                Writable: t.AccessLevel == TagAccessLevel.ReadWrite))
+                Writable: t.AccessLevel == TagAccessLevel.ReadWrite,
+                Alarm: ExtractTagAlarm(t.TagConfig)))
             .ToList();
 
         // Per-equipment tag base = the shared substring-before-first-dot across each equipment's
@@ -445,4 +454,24 @@ public static class Phase7Composer
         catch (JsonException) { /* fall through to raw blob */ }
         return tagConfig;
     }
+
+    /// <summary>Parses the optional <c>alarm</c> object from a tag's <c>TagConfig</c> JSON. Returns null
+    /// when absent, non-object, or non-JSON (the tag is then a plain variable). Never throws. The
+    /// artifact-decode side (<c>DeploymentArtifact.ExtractTagAlarm</c>) MUST parse identically (byte-parity).</summary>
+    internal static EquipmentTagAlarmInfo? ExtractTagAlarm(string? tagConfig)
+    {
+        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(tagConfig)) return null;
+        try
+        {
+            using var doc = JsonDocument.Parse(tagConfig);
+            if (doc.RootElement.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object) return null;
+            if (!doc.RootElement.TryGetProperty("alarm", out var a) || a.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object) return null;
+            var type = a.TryGetProperty("alarmType", out var tEl) && tEl.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.String
+                ? (tEl.GetString() ?? "AlarmCondition") : "AlarmCondition";
+            var sev = a.TryGetProperty("severity", out var sEl) && sEl.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Number
+                ? sEl.GetInt32() : 500;
+            return new EquipmentTagAlarmInfo(type, sev);
+        }
+        catch (JsonException) { return null; }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DeploymentArtifact.cs b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DeploymentArtifact.cs
index 8b3f89ad..1407bbc0 100644
--- a/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DeploymentArtifact.cs
+++ b/src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime/Drivers/DeploymentArtifact.cs
@@ -445,7 +445,8 @@ public static class DeploymentArtifact
                 Name: name!,
                 DataType: dataType ?? "BaseDataType",
                 FullName: ExtractTagFullName(tagConfig),
-                Writable: writable));
+                Writable: writable,
+                Alarm: ExtractTagAlarm(tagConfig)));
         }
 
         result.Sort((a, b) =>
@@ -651,6 +652,26 @@ public static class DeploymentArtifact
         return tagConfig;
     }
 
+    /// <summary>Parses the optional <c>alarm</c> object from a tag's <c>TagConfig</c> JSON. Returns null
+    /// when absent, non-object, or non-JSON (the tag is then a plain variable). Never throws. The
+    /// live-edit side (<c>Phase7Composer.ExtractTagAlarm</c>) MUST parse identically (byte-parity).</summary>
+    private static EquipmentTagAlarmInfo? ExtractTagAlarm(string? tagConfig)
+    {
+        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(tagConfig)) return null;
+        try
+        {
+            using var doc = JsonDocument.Parse(tagConfig);
+            if (doc.RootElement.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object) return null;
+            if (!doc.RootElement.TryGetProperty("alarm", out var a) || a.ValueKind != JsonValueKind.Object) return null;
+            var type = a.TryGetProperty("alarmType", out var tEl) && tEl.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.String
+                ? (tEl.GetString() ?? "AlarmCondition") : "AlarmCondition";
+            var sev = a.TryGetProperty("severity", out var sEl) && sEl.ValueKind == JsonValueKind.Number
+                ? sEl.GetInt32() : 500;
+            return new EquipmentTagAlarmInfo(type, sev);
+        }
+        catch (JsonException) { return null; }
+    }
+
     private static IReadOnlyList<T> ReadArray<T>(JsonElement root, string propertyName, Func<JsonElement, T?> reader)
         where T : class
     {
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/ExtractTagAlarmTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/ExtractTagAlarmTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e031f6b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/ExtractTagAlarmTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+using Shouldly;
+using Xunit;
+using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer;
+
+namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests;
+
+public class ExtractTagAlarmTests
+{
+    [Theory]
+    [InlineData("{\"FullName\":\"X.Y\"}", false, null, 0)]
+    [InlineData("{\"FullName\":\"X.Y\",\"alarm\":{}}", true, "AlarmCondition", 500)]
+    [InlineData("{\"FullName\":\"X.Y\",\"alarm\":{\"alarmType\":\"OffNormalAlarm\",\"severity\":700}}", true, "OffNormalAlarm", 700)]
+    [InlineData("not json", false, null, 0)]
+    [InlineData("{\"FullName\":\"X.Y\",\"alarm\":\"oops\"}", false, null, 0)]
+    public void ExtractTagAlarm_parses_or_returns_null(string cfg, bool present, string? type, int sev)
+    {
+        var info = Phase7Composer.ExtractTagAlarm(cfg);
+        if (!present) { info.ShouldBeNull(); return; }
+        info!.AlarmType.ShouldBe(type);
+        info.Severity.ShouldBe(sev);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierHierarchyTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierHierarchyTests.cs
index 61885d76..085612c0 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierHierarchyTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierHierarchyTests.cs
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ public sealed class Phase7ApplierHierarchyTests : IDisposable
         {
             EquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
             },
         };
 
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierTests.cs
index 7dd2ad81..4dbb9503 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7ApplierTests.cs
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public sealed class Phase7ApplierTests
         {
             EquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: true),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: true, Alarm: null),
             },
         };
 
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ public sealed class Phase7ApplierTests
         {
             EquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-2", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "Diagnostics", Name: "Temp", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40002", Writable: false),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-2", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "Diagnostics", Name: "Temp", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40002", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
             },
         };
 
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ public sealed class Phase7ApplierTests
         {
             EquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-a", "eq-1", "drv-1", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false),
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-b", "eq-2", "drv-2", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-a", "eq-1", "drv-1", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-b", "eq-2", "drv-2", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
             },
         };
 
@@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ public sealed class Phase7ApplierTests
         {
             EquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-flat", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false),
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-nested", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "Diagnostics", Name: "Temp", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40002", Writable: false),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-flat", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-nested", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "Diagnostics", Name: "Temp", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40002", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
             },
             EquipmentVirtualTags = new[]
             {
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ public sealed class Phase7ApplierTests
         {
             AddedEquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
             },
         };
 
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7PlannerTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7PlannerTests.cs
index 8890d636..cd7d1452 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7PlannerTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.OpcUaServer.Tests/Phase7PlannerTests.cs
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public sealed class Phase7PlannerTests
         {
             EquipmentTags = new[]
             {
-                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false),
+                new EquipmentTagPlan("tag-1", "eq-1", "drv", FolderPath: "", Name: "Speed", DataType: "Float", FullName: "40001", Writable: false, Alarm: null),
             },
         };
 
diff --git a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests.cs b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests.cs
index fbeba6f1..80c0c4d7 100644
--- a/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Runtime.Tests/Drivers/DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests.cs
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ public sealed class DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests
         };
 
         // The Galaxy equipment tag — FullName is the Galaxy ref "tag_name.AttributeName".
+        // It also carries a native-alarm intent in TagConfig.alarm, so this draft proves the
+        // optional Alarm field is parsed byte-identically on both producers (Phase B WS-2).
         var galaxyTag = new Tag
         {
             TagId = "tag-galaxy",
@@ -250,7 +252,7 @@ public sealed class DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests
             Name = "DownloadPath",
             DataType = "String",
             AccessLevel = TagAccessLevel.Read,
-            TagConfig = "{\"FullName\":\"DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath\"}",
+            TagConfig = "{\"FullName\":\"DelmiaReceiver_001.DownloadPath\",\"alarm\":{\"alarmType\":\"OffNormalAlarm\",\"severity\":700}}",
         };
         // A non-Galaxy (Modbus) equipment tag — proves the parity holds across drivers, not just Galaxy.
         var modbusTag = new Tag
@@ -315,6 +317,7 @@ public sealed class DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests
             d.DataType.ShouldBe(x.DataType);
             d.FullName.ShouldBe(x.FullName);
             d.Writable.ShouldBe(x.Writable);
+            d.Alarm.ShouldBe(x.Alarm); // EquipmentTagAlarmInfo is a positional record ⇒ value equality
         }
 
         var galaxyPlan = decoded.EquipmentTags.Single(t => t.TagId == "tag-galaxy");
@@ -323,6 +326,15 @@ public sealed class DeploymentArtifactAliasParityTests
         galaxyPlan.DriverInstanceId.ShouldBe("drv-galaxy");
         galaxyPlan.FolderPath.ShouldBe(string.Empty); // null FolderPath coalesced identically on both sides
 
+        // The native-alarm intent in the Galaxy tag's TagConfig.alarm is parsed byte-identically on both
+        // producers (Phase B WS-2). The Modbus tag has no alarm object ⇒ null Alarm on both sides.
+        galaxyPlan.Alarm.ShouldNotBeNull();
+        galaxyPlan.Alarm!.AlarmType.ShouldBe("OffNormalAlarm");
+        galaxyPlan.Alarm.Severity.ShouldBe(700);
+        composed.EquipmentTags.Single(t => t.TagId == "tag-galaxy").Alarm.ShouldBe(galaxyPlan.Alarm);
+        decoded.EquipmentTags.Single(t => t.TagId == "tag-modbus").Alarm.ShouldBeNull();
+        composed.EquipmentTags.Single(t => t.TagId == "tag-modbus").Alarm.ShouldBeNull();
+
         // Writability flows from Tag.AccessLevel: the Galaxy tag is Read (read-only node), the Modbus
         // tag is ReadWrite (writable node). Both producers must derive the same Writable flag, and the
         // SequenceEqual above already proves they agree element-wise.