diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-introspection.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-introspection.ts
index b0a23bbdccd..966f40caf77 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-introspection.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver-introspection.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,15 @@
  * `schema-drift.ts`, where they live; `sql-driver.ts` no longer reads the two
  * functions and dropped them from its import.
  *
+ * [#25521 cut 7] `resolveHashShadowKeys` moved here too, beside its only
+ * caller. `introspectIndexes`' body still reaches it through the host
+ * closure above, which calls the class method on the driver, which hands this
+ * body its host; so a subclass override or a test spy on the instance is
+ * still the one reached. It reads only `knex`. `isHashShadowCarrier` and
+ * `parseHashShadowKeyParts` are imported from `schema-drift.ts`, where they
+ * live; `sql-driver.ts` still reads `parseHashShadowKeyParts` and dropped
+ * `isHashShadowCarrier` from its import.
+ *
  * A MOVE, not a redesign. Each function below is the body of the `SqlDriver`
  * method of the same name as it stood, re-indented one level and otherwise
  * unedited: the same catalog statements, the same dialect arms, the same
@@ -81,7 +90,13 @@ import type {
   UniqueConstraintMember,
 } from './sql-driver.js';
 import { postgresTableNameCollisionError, singleColumnUniqueColumns } from './sql-driver.js';
-import { applyIndexKeyParts, parseIndexDdl, type PhysicalIndex } from './schema-drift.js';
+import {
+  applyIndexKeyParts,
+  isHashShadowCarrier,
+  parseHashShadowKeyParts,
+  parseIndexDdl,
+  type PhysicalIndex,
+} from './schema-drift.js';
 
 /**
  * The `SqlDriver` members the functions below read — every one of them, and
@@ -925,3 +940,36 @@ export async function introspectIndexes(
   }
   return [...byName.values()];
 }
+
+/** The body of `SqlDriver#resolveHashShadowKeys`; the method's docblock there is its contract. */
+export async function resolveHashShadowKeys(
+  this: Pick<IntrospectionHost, 'knex'>,
+  tableName: string,
+  indexes: PhysicalIndex[],
+): Promise<void> {
+  const carriers = indexes.filter((i) => isHashShadowCarrier(i));
+  if (carriers.length === 0) return;
+  try {
+    const rows: Array<Record<string, unknown>> = await this.knex
+      .select('COLUMN_NAME', 'GENERATION_EXPRESSION')
+      .from('information_schema.COLUMNS')
+      .where({ TABLE_SCHEMA: this.knex.client.database(), TABLE_NAME: tableName })
+      .whereIn(
+        'COLUMN_NAME',
+        carriers.map((i) => i.columns[0]!),
+      );
+    const exprByColumn = new Map<string, string>();
+    for (const r of rows) {
+      const column = String(r.COLUMN_NAME ?? r.column_name ?? '');
+      if (column) {
+        exprByColumn.set(column, String(r.GENERATION_EXPRESSION ?? r.generation_expression ?? ''));
+      }
+    }
+    for (const i of carriers) {
+      const parts = parseHashShadowKeyParts(exprByColumn.get(i.columns[0]!) ?? '');
+      if (parts.length > 0) i.shadowKey = parts;
+    }
+  } catch {
+    /* see the head note: an unresolved carrier degrades to "no finding". */
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts
index 3b6025862ac..1c74db86746 100644
--- a/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts
+++ b/packages/drivers/driver-sql/src/sql-driver.ts
@@ -123,7 +123,6 @@ import {
   ceremonyOwnedDropFinding,
   isCeremonyOwnedColumnDrop,
   hashShadowColumnFor,
-  isHashShadowCarrier,
   parseHashShadowKeyParts,
   indexedKeyColumns,
   isIndexDriftOp,
@@ -161,8 +160,9 @@ import { withUpsertConflictClause } from './upsert-conflict-clause.js';
 // [#25521 cut 1] The catalog-introspection helpers (`introspectColumnOrder`,
 // `introspectColumns` and the foreign-key, primary-key and unique-constraint reads),
 // [cut 4] `introspectSchema`, the whole-schema read built on them, and [cut 5]
-// `introspectIndexes`, the per-table index read schema sync is built on; the methods
-// of the same names below hand each body the members it reads (`IntrospectionHost`).
+// `introspectIndexes`, the per-table index read schema sync is built on, and [cut 7]
+// `resolveHashShadowKeys`, its MySQL hash-shadow enrichment; the methods of the
+// same names below hand each body the members it reads (`IntrospectionHost`).
 import {
   introspectColumnOrder,
   introspectColumns,
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ import {
   introspectPrimaryKeys,
   introspectSchema,
   introspectUniqueConstraints,
+  resolveHashShadowKeys,
 } from './sql-driver-introspection.js';
 // [#25521 cut 2] The raw-execution path (`execute`, its refusal terminal
 // `rawStatementFault`, and `noteRuntimeIndexDdl`, which keeps the ledger of the
@@ -15131,35 +15132,16 @@ export class SqlDriver implements IDataDriver {
    * rather than proposing a rebuild it cannot reason about. The degraded
    * outcome is a missing finding, never a dropped constraint.
    */
-  protected async resolveHashShadowKeys(
+  protected resolveHashShadowKeys(
     tableName: string,
     indexes: PhysicalIndex[],
   ): Promise<void> {
-    const carriers = indexes.filter((i) => isHashShadowCarrier(i));
-    if (carriers.length === 0) return;
-    try {
-      const rows: Array<Record<string, unknown>> = await this.knex
-        .select('COLUMN_NAME', 'GENERATION_EXPRESSION')
-        .from('information_schema.COLUMNS')
-        .where({ TABLE_SCHEMA: this.knex.client.database(), TABLE_NAME: tableName })
-        .whereIn(
-          'COLUMN_NAME',
-          carriers.map((i) => i.columns[0]!),
-        );
-      const exprByColumn = new Map<string, string>();
-      for (const r of rows) {
-        const column = String(r.COLUMN_NAME ?? r.column_name ?? '');
-        if (column) {
-          exprByColumn.set(column, String(r.GENERATION_EXPRESSION ?? r.generation_expression ?? ''));
-        }
-      }
-      for (const i of carriers) {
-        const parts = parseHashShadowKeyParts(exprByColumn.get(i.columns[0]!) ?? '');
-        if (parts.length > 0) i.shadowKey = parts;
-      }
-    } catch {
-      /* see the head note: an unresolved carrier degrades to "no finding". */
-    }
+    // [#25521 cut 7] The body moved to `sql-driver-introspection.ts` (see `IntrospectionHost`).
+    const readKnex = () => this.knex;
+    const host: ThisParameterType<typeof resolveHashShadowKeys> = {
+      get knex() { return readKnex(); },
+    };
+    return resolveHashShadowKeys.call(host, tableName, indexes);
   }
 
   /**