diff --git a/src/workspaces/state/src/index.ts b/src/workspaces/state/src/index.ts
index 84669995..83966207 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/state/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/workspaces/state/src/index.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ export { useSettings, DEFAULT_SETTINGS } from './useSettings';
 export type { UseSettingsType, UserSettings, UserState } from './useSettings';
 export { useUserState } from './useUserState';
 export { useDashboardState } from './useDashboardState';
+/*
+  Exported for a workspace nested INSIDE a panel — see plugins/fofos-admin/web/WorkPanel.tsx.
+
+  `useDashboardState` persists the whole tree, which is right for a dashboard somebody arranged and
+  wrong for a layout its author ships: the structure would be frozen at whatever it was the first time
+  a screen was opened. `useAuthoredLayout` keeps the structure in source and persists only sizes and
+  zoom, which is what a nested authored layout wants for the same reason `PluginScreen` does.
+*/
+export { useAuthoredLayout } from './useAuthoredLayout';
 export { useModels, useVisibleModels, useUserVisibleModels, useEnabledModels, modelKey } from './useModels';
 export type { ModelOption } from './useModels';
 export { useAccessPolicy } from './useAccessPolicy';