diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CodeEditor/FileTree.tsx b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CodeEditor/FileTree.tsx
index 31b1d57c..d76b9ce6 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CodeEditor/FileTree.tsx
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/apps/CodeEditor/FileTree.tsx
@@ -21,6 +21,14 @@ type FileTreeProps = {
    * an agent had just written to showing the listing from before its turn.
    */
   refreshToken?: number;
+  /**
+   * A file to reveal: every directory on the way to it opens, loading as it goes.
+   *
+   * For a tree whose selection is driven from OUTSIDE — a nav beside it, a URL — where a folder left
+   * shut around the open file hides the one thing being looked at. Expanding is still disclosure and
+   * still remembered, so anything opened by hand stays open.
+   */
+  revealPath?: string | null;
 };
 
 type TreeNodeProps = {
@@ -31,6 +39,7 @@ type TreeNodeProps = {
   searchForFile?: ((path: string) => string) | null;
   depth: number;
   refreshToken?: number;
+  revealPath?: string | null;
 };
 
 const FileIcon = ({ name }: { name: string }) => {
@@ -44,7 +53,16 @@ const sortEntries = (entries: DirEntry[]) => {
   return [...dirs, ...files];
 };
 
-const TreeNode = ({ entry, parentPath, root, onOpenFile, searchForFile, depth, refreshToken }: TreeNodeProps) => {
+const TreeNode = ({
+  entry,
+  parentPath,
+  root,
+  onOpenFile,
+  searchForFile,
+  depth,
+  refreshToken,
+  revealPath,
+}: TreeNodeProps) => {
   const [expanded, setExpanded] = useState(false);
   const [children, setChildren] = useState<DirEntry[] | null>(null);
   const [loading, setLoading] = useState(false);
@@ -73,6 +91,32 @@ const TreeNode = ({ entry, parentPath, root, onOpenFile, searchForFile, depth, r
     };
   }, [refreshToken]);
 
+  /*
+    On the way to the revealed file: open, and load if this is the first time.
+
+    Only ever opens. A node that closes itself when the selection moves elsewhere would collapse the
+    tree under somebody as they clicked around it.
+  */
+  const onTheWay = !!revealPath && isDir && revealPath.startsWith(`${fullPath}/`);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!onTheWay) return;
+    setExpanded(true);
+    if (children !== null) return;
+
+    let alive = true;
+    listDirRef
+      .current(fullPath)
+      .then((res) => alive && setChildren(sortEntries(res.entries)))
+      .catch(() => alive && setChildren([]));
+    return () => {
+      alive = false;
+    };
+    // `children` is deliberately absent: this must run when the PATH changes, not when the load it
+    // started completes.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line react-hooks/exhaustive-deps
+  }, [onTheWay, fullPath]);
+
   const handleClick = async () => {
     if (!isDir) {
       onOpenFile(fullPath, entry.name);
@@ -140,6 +184,7 @@ const TreeNode = ({ entry, parentPath, root, onOpenFile, searchForFile, depth, r
               searchForFile={searchForFile}
               depth={depth + 1}
               refreshToken={refreshToken}
+              revealPath={revealPath}
             />
           ))}
         </div>
@@ -148,7 +193,7 @@ const TreeNode = ({ entry, parentPath, root, onOpenFile, searchForFile, depth, r
   );
 };
 
-export const FileTree = ({ root, basePath, onOpenFile, searchForFile, refreshToken }: FileTreeProps) => {
+export const FileTree = ({ root, basePath, onOpenFile, searchForFile, refreshToken, revealPath }: FileTreeProps) => {
   const { t } = useTranslation();
   const { listDir } = useFilesAPI(root);
   const [entries, setEntries] = useState<DirEntry[] | null>(null);
@@ -208,6 +253,7 @@ export const FileTree = ({ root, basePath, onOpenFile, searchForFile, refreshTok
           searchForFile={searchForFile}
           depth={0}
           refreshToken={refreshToken}
+          revealPath={revealPath}
         />
       ))}
     </div>