diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/src/scaffold.rs b/crates/aura-cli/src/scaffold.rs
index ceb8385..a3dedaf 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/src/scaffold.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/src/scaffold.rs
@@ -283,7 +283,9 @@ pub fn scaffold_project(spec: &ProjectScaffoldSpec) -> Result<(), String> {
         return Ok(());
     }
     match std::process::Command::new("git").arg("init").current_dir(&spec.target_dir).output() {
-        Ok(o) if o.status.success() => {}
+        Ok(o) if o.status.success() => {
+            commit_all(&spec.target_dir, "aura new scaffold");
+        }
         _ => eprintln!("aura: warning: git init failed (project created without a repo)"),
     }
     Ok(())
@@ -322,7 +324,9 @@ pub fn scaffold_node_crate(spec: &ScaffoldSpec) -> Result<(), String> {
         return Ok(());
     }
     match std::process::Command::new("git").arg("init").current_dir(&spec.target_dir).output() {
-        Ok(o) if o.status.success() => {}
+        Ok(o) if o.status.success() => {
+            commit_all(&spec.target_dir, "aura nodes new scaffold");
+        }
         _ => eprintln!("aura: warning: git init failed (node crate created without a repo)"),
     }
     Ok(())
@@ -344,6 +348,41 @@ pub fn append_nodes_pointer(project_root: &Path, pointer: &str) -> Result<(), St
         .map_err(|e| format!("writing `{}`: {e}", path.display()))
 }
 
+/// Stage everything and make the initial commit in a freshly-`git init`ed
+/// scaffold, so `git rev-parse HEAD` resolves from the very first run
+/// (otherwise HEAD stays unborn and provenance stamping sees no commit). A
+/// committer identity is passed inline via `-c` so this works on a box with
+/// no global git config; best-effort — a failure is a warning, never fatal,
+/// and never runs when `git init` itself was skipped or failed.
+fn commit_all(dir: &std::path::Path, message: &str) {
+    let add = std::process::Command::new("git")
+        .args(["add", "-A"])
+        .current_dir(dir)
+        .output();
+    if !matches!(add, Ok(o) if o.status.success()) {
+        eprintln!("aura: warning: git add failed (scaffold created without an initial commit)");
+        return;
+    }
+    let commit = std::process::Command::new("git")
+        .args([
+            "-c",
+            "user.email=aura@localhost",
+            "-c",
+            "user.name=aura",
+            "commit",
+            "-q",
+            "-m",
+            message,
+        ])
+        .current_dir(dir)
+        .output();
+    if !matches!(commit, Ok(o) if o.status.success()) {
+        eprintln!(
+            "aura: warning: git commit failed (scaffold created without an initial commit)"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 /// Whether `dir` already sits inside a git work tree (`git rev-parse`, the
 /// same oracle cargo-new consults). A missing git binary or any failure reads
 /// as "not in a work tree" — the init stays best-effort either way.
diff --git a/crates/aura-cli/tests/project_nodes.rs b/crates/aura-cli/tests/project_nodes.rs
index 1b2a618..cccba91 100644
--- a/crates/aura-cli/tests/project_nodes.rs
+++ b/crates/aura-cli/tests/project_nodes.rs
@@ -37,6 +37,34 @@ fn nodes_new_scaffolds_a_sibling_crate_and_attaches_it() {
     assert!(toml.contains("../lab-nodes"), "{toml}");
 }
 
+/// Property (#243): a freshly scaffolded node crate stamps resolvable
+/// provenance too — `aura nodes new` follows the same `git init` with an
+/// initial commit as `aura new` (`scaffold_node_crate`, `scaffold.rs`), so
+/// `git rev-parse HEAD` resolves from the crate's very first run rather than
+/// leaving HEAD unborn. This half of #243's property runs and is asserted
+/// separately from `new_outside_a_work_tree_leaves_a_resolvable_head`
+/// (`project_new.rs`), which covers the `aura new` project half only.
+#[test]
+fn nodes_new_leaves_a_resolvable_head() {
+    let cwd = temp_cwd("resolvable-head");
+    assert!(aura(&["new", "lab"], &cwd).status.success());
+    let proj = cwd.join("lab");
+    let engine = env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR").to_string() + "/../..";
+    let out = aura(&["nodes", "new", "lab-nodes", "--engine-path", &engine], &proj);
+    assert!(out.status.success(), "stderr: {}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr));
+    let crate_dir = cwd.join("lab-nodes");
+    let head = Command::new("git")
+        .args(["rev-parse", "HEAD"])
+        .current_dir(&crate_dir)
+        .output()
+        .expect("run git rev-parse HEAD");
+    assert!(
+        head.status.success(),
+        "fresh node-crate scaffold has no HEAD (`git rev-parse HEAD` failed): {}",
+        String::from_utf8_lossy(&head.stderr)
+    );
+}
+
 /// Property (#241): `--namespace` sets the vocabulary prefix independently
 /// of the crate's own (directory) name — a crate can be named anything, but
 /// the blueprints that reference its nodes address them under the namespace