diff --git a/src/plugin.ts b/src/plugin.ts
index 4bd9ba4..f5b0574 100644
--- a/src/plugin.ts
+++ b/src/plugin.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,20 @@ const LutrisConfig = Schema.Struct({
 				"Absolute path to pga.db. Leave empty to find it automatically.",
 		}),
 	),
+	/**
+	 * Publish a tile that opens the Lutris window itself (design D4) alongside the games. On by
+	 * default: it is the one entry that lets someone install or fix a game from the couch, and it
+	 * costs one tile.
+	 */
+	launcher: Schema.Boolean.annotate({
+		title: "Show a Lutris tile",
+		description:
+			"Add a tile that opens Lutris itself, so you can manage games from a client.",
+	}).pipe(
+		Schema.withDecodingDefaultKey(Effect.succeed(true), {
+			encodingStrategy: "omit",
+		}),
+	),
 });
 
 /** Candidate `pga.db` locations: XDG data dir, the classic path, Flatpak. */
@@ -99,6 +113,36 @@ interface GameRow {
 	directory: string | null;
 }
 
+/**
+ * The tile that opens Lutris itself (design D4).
+ *
+ * `launcher_ui` is valued by *store id*, never a command: the host owns turning "lutris" into
+ * the command that opens the window (D1), which is also why a plugin may publish this at all —
+ * the 2026-08-05 review made `launch.kind = "command"` operator-only.
+ *
+ * No art on purpose. Lutris ships a square app icon, and every client cover-crops a 2:3 tile,
+ * so an icon would arrive as a cropped strip. The clients render an art-less launcher entry
+ * deliberately — accent face, the launcher named — which reads as "opens Lutris" rather than as
+ * a game whose poster failed.
+ *
+ * A standalone exported function so it is testable without standing up the whole plugin —
+ * the same reason `artFile` is exported.
+ */
+export const launcherEntries = (cfg: {
+	launcher?: boolean;
+}): ProviderEntry[] =>
+	cfg.launcher === false
+		? []
+		: [
+				{
+					external_id: "launcher",
+					title: "Lutris",
+					role: "launcher",
+					launch: { kind: "launcher_ui", value: "lutris" },
+					platform: "PC",
+				},
+			];
+
 export const plugin = defineLibraryPlugin({
 	// One string: plugin id, provider id, store claim, and the id of the built-in scanner this
 	// replaces. It matches the package name and the repo name too, so there is no mapping to
@@ -160,6 +204,8 @@ export const plugin = defineLibraryPlugin({
 			});
 		}),
 
+	launchers: launcherEntries,
+
 	// Re-scan when Lutris writes: installing a game touches the database, and downloading art
 	// touches the cover directories.
 	watchDirs: (cfg) => {
diff --git a/test/lutris.test.ts b/test/lutris.test.ts
index ef740c3..4e5237a 100644
--- a/test/lutris.test.ts
+++ b/test/lutris.test.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
 import * as fs from "node:fs";
 import * as os from "node:os";
 import * as path from "node:path";
-import { artFile } from "../src/plugin.js";
+import { artFile, launcherEntries } from "../src/plugin.js";
 
 describe("cover-art lookup", () => {
 	test("refuses a slug that could escape the art roots", () => {
@@ -62,3 +62,30 @@ describe("cover-art lookup", () => {
 		}
 	});
 });
+
+describe("the launcher tile", () => {
+	test("is published by default, valued by store id and never by a command", () => {
+		// Design D4 + D1: the plugin names a launcher, the host builds the command. A `command`
+		// kind here would be refused outright — the 2026-08-05 review made that operator-only —
+		// so `launcher_ui` valued "lutris" is the only shape that can work, and the host's
+		// `valid_launcher_ui` allow-list is what validates it inbound.
+		const tiles = launcherEntries({});
+		expect(tiles).toHaveLength(1);
+		expect(tiles[0]).toMatchObject({
+			role: "launcher",
+			launch: { kind: "launcher_ui", value: "lutris" },
+		});
+		// `lutris:launcher` — real Lutris ids are numeric, so this cannot collide with a game.
+		expect(tiles[0]?.external_id).toBe("launcher");
+		expect(tiles[0]?.title).toBe("Lutris");
+		// Deliberately art-less: a square app icon cover-cropped into a 2:3 tile looks broken, and
+		// the clients render an art-less launcher entry as "opens Lutris" on purpose.
+		expect(tiles[0]?.art).toBeUndefined();
+	});
+
+	test("an operator can turn it off", () => {
+		expect(launcherEntries({ launcher: false })).toEqual([]);
+		// Absent means default-on, which is what an untouched config decodes to.
+		expect(launcherEntries({ launcher: true })).toHaveLength(1);
+	});
+});